Shaunalei Boyer Andersen, Department of Humanities The Project From January to May 1995, for my honors thesis project, I studied the text of Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey. My intent was to unravel the mystery behind her at times conflicting allusions to nov· els and literature in the work-to try to decipher the connection between […]
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COMPUTER SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH NEURAL NETWORKS
Roger Scott Twede, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Introduction While attempts to create speech recognition systems have surfaced over several decades, obstacles limit the capabilities and performance of current systems. Nonetheless, the promise of incredible benefits and myriads of applications drive the technical world to continue the attempts. Applications of Speech Recognition While some […]
Work Towards Building an Extreme Ultraviolet Ellipsometer
Cort N. Johnson and Dr. David D. Allred, Physics and Astronomy The extreme ultraviolet (EUV) optics group at Brigham Young University uses thin film technology to develop multiplayer mirrors and designed to reflect well at certain EUV wavelengths. We need methods of measuring layer thickness on the order of a few angstroms. One method often […]
LDS Missionary Work in the Basque Language: How the Work Began, and Why It Was Discontinued
Devin Caywood and Dr. Bruce VanOrden, Religion Basque Country is a relatively small region composed of three (arguably four) provinces in North Central Spain and two in Southern France. Statistics state that there are two million people in Spanish and French Basque provinces that claim Basque as their first language. 70-80 percent of those people […]
Image Tile Compression for Interactive Terrain Visualization with a Slow Network Connection
Brandon Lloyd and Dr. Parris K Egbert, Computer Science In the 3D graphics lab at BYU we have developed a terrain visualization program called DVIEW capable of handling extremely large datasets. Our largest model is a piece of the Wasatch front nearly 100 miles long and 50 miles wide. The original vision for DVIEW was […]
Uniting Men’s Work as Husbands and Fathers: How Men’s Marital Intimacy Influences Their Generative Development
Erin Kramer and Dr. Alan J. Hawkins, Family Sciences I conducted this qualitative analysis to better understand how men care for their wives, how this care influences men’s relationships with their wives, how this care may also influence men’s relationships with their children, and how this care influences men’s personal generative development. My research was […]
Was Welfare Ended as We Know it? A Study of the Effectiveness of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
Kristen Edwards and Dr. Mark Showalter, Economics In 1996 the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) entitlement program, where all who met certain requirements received benefits, was changed to the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) block grant. This grant is given to states to use at their own discretion as long as they […]
Integration of the Life and Works of “O Aleijadinho” into Brazilian Culture Courses
Ryan T. Miller and Dr. Willis Fails, Spanish and Portuguese More commonly known as O Aleijadinho, Portuguese for “Little Cripple,” Antônio Francisco Lisboa is remembered as Brazil’s greatest artist of the colonial period. Born in 1730 to the son of a Portuguese craftsman and a black slave, Aleijadinho developed a degenerative condition—probably leprosy—that left him […]
Review of Literature and Research of Informal and Social Networks
Dustin Stucki and Dr. Julie Hite, Educational Leadership and Foundations Background The overall goal of the proposed research is to synthesize the current state of research and literature on organizational networks—specifically informal and social networks. Internally, informal networks consist of the relationships between people within the organization; these networks may not align with the formal […]
Reactivation and Retention in Missionary Work for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1830-1844
Hollie J. Pollan and Dr. John Livingstone, Church History Reactivation and retention of members and converts plays an enormous role in the duties of LDS missionaries today. Modern prophets have stressed the need to retain new members through a calling, a friend, and hearing the good word of God. Dozens of hours a week are […]
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