Dr. Mark Clement, Department of Computer Science Many of the most serious medical problems that plague humanity are caused by problems in the genetic regulatory network. Heart disease, cancer and many other maladies could be cured if we understood how genes interact with each other in order to produce different symptoms. Many of these problems […]
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Solar Powered Airplane: Student Design/Build/Fly Project
Dr. Jerry Bowman, Department of Mechanical Engineering Project Objective Involve a significant number of students in a multi-semester project with intense technical challenges and a well-defined objective: The creation of a solar powered airplane with the goal of indefinite flight. Meeting the Academic Objective This mentored education project engaged 61 undergraduate students to contribute to […]
Changes in Membrane Physical Properties during Chemotherapy
Dr. John Bell, Department of Physiology & Developmental Biology Abstract of original proposal Many chemotherapeutic agents treat cancer by inducing programmed cell death (apoptosis) in the tumor. One of the consequences of apoptosis is changes in the physical properties of the cell membrane. Some of these changes are important for other phagocytic cells to recognize […]
Evaluation of Evaluation in Development Organizations
Dr. Tim Heaton, Department of Sociology Meeting the objectives In some respects, we did not achieve all of the goals of the proposed work, but in other ways this project lead to the development of a new program that has been a success. The first objective was to review the literature on evaluation. This phase […]
Assistive Robotics for Children with Learning Disabilities
Drs. Michael Goodrich, Mark Colton, Bonnie Brinton, and Martin Fujiki, Department of Computer Science Evaluation of Academic Objective Completion The primary goal of the research was to produce robotic tools that can help children with learning disabilities become higher functioning. We accomplished this goal by creating two humanoid robots and a user interface for programming […]
Three-Dimensional Seismic Study of Pluton Emplacement
Drs. Eric H. Christiansen and William Keach, Department of Geological Sciences Introduction The origin of Earth’s continents, many of our most important ore deposits and the largest and most damaging volcanic eruptions are all related to the emplacement of silicic plutons–large masses of once molten magma. Understanding the details of the mechanism by which these […]
Student Electrochemical Research
Dr. Dean Wheeler, Department of Chemical Engineering Abstract of Work The work allowed additional students to join in electrochemical engineering research here at BYU. The mentored students worked on one of several possible projects with the broad theme of understanding and mitigating internal resistances in fuel cells and lithium batteries. Additional work was done on […]
Finding Plagiarizing and Undesirable Web Documents by Utilizing Word Similarity in the Fuzzy Set Information Retrieval Model
Dr. Yiu-Kai Dennis Ng, Department of Computer Science Evaluation of the Academic Objects In the 2007 MEG proposal, I specified the following Internet problems to be solved using a Fuzzy set information retrieval (IR) model: (i) detecting plagiarism, which is the act of using another’s words or ideas as one’s own, (ii) filtering junk emails, […]
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