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Maintaining Routine By Co-Authoring Repair And Reinforcement, Lyndon Garrett, Dr. Curtis Lebaron Apr 2014

Maintaining Routine By Co-Authoring Repair And Reinforcement, Lyndon Garrett, Dr. Curtis Lebaron

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Routines within organizations enable members to execute their work plans and achieve their strategic objectives. Because routines involve replication and repetition, some researchers have regarded them as rather mindless patterns of action, but recently scholars have begun to view routines as “mindful” accomplishments—especially routines that are changeable and open to variation1. Although there has been widespread attention to evolution and variation in routines, few studies have specified how routines actually stay the same, or how they are maintained2. Empirical studies increasingly conclude that routines are not objectively given, but are constantly in the process of being accomplished in a particular …


Freedom Of Information: What Can We Learn From Our Mother Country?, Whitney Evans Apr 2014

Freedom Of Information: What Can We Learn From Our Mother Country?, Whitney Evans

Journal of Undergraduate Research

American newspapers and journalists seem to be trending toward less investigative journalism, including stories that involve the use of freedom of information requests. This can be attributed to public demand for instant information, limited budgets and non-compliance of those who respond to freedom of information requests.


The Failure Of The Kirtland Safety Society And Its Effect On The Faith Of The Latter-Day Saints, Jordan Bell, Dr. Richard Bennett Apr 2014

The Failure Of The Kirtland Safety Society And Its Effect On The Faith Of The Latter-Day Saints, Jordan Bell, Dr. Richard Bennett

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Our research suggests that though the late Kirtland period was very difficult for the faith of the Latter-Day Saints, a large majority continued to identify with the Church through the Nauvoo period. Significant numbers eventually gathered with the Saints in Utah.1


The March Of Dimes Teddy Bear Den: Promoting Prenatal Healthcare Among Hispanic Women, Maureen Goates Merrell, Lynn Clark Callister Apr 2014

The March Of Dimes Teddy Bear Den: Promoting Prenatal Healthcare Among Hispanic Women, Maureen Goates Merrell, Lynn Clark Callister

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The March of Dimes’ Teddy Bear Den (TBD) program aims to promote effective maternal health care among socially disadvantaged Hispanic women. The program has benefitted many women since its inception in 2004, yet there was no research to support the program’s effectiveness or to better understand the women’s needs. The purpose of this project is to (a) to meet the March of Dimes Utah Chapter goal to support an evidence-based chapter driven community program, (b) to improve the quality of the program to more effectively meet the needs of the women, and (c) to generate data that can be provided …


Pas Kinase: A Target For Metabolic Disease, Jordan Mackay, Dr. Julianne Grose Apr 2014

Pas Kinase: A Target For Metabolic Disease, Jordan Mackay, Dr. Julianne Grose

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Many diseases that affect humankind are poorly understood. The medical and scientific communities alike rely heavily on basic scientific research to fuel dissemination of knowledge to said communities for further applied research, including clinical and pharmaceutical efforts. Diabetes is still poorly understood despite its prevalence in today’s society. In lieu of the research that has been done so far, PAS kinase is becoming an increasingly promising subject for research as a possible therapeutic target for diabetes. Studies have shown that PAS kinase is involved in metabolic regulation and mouse experiments have been done which show these results.1 As we learn …


Leveraging The Collective Intelligence Of A Large Group In Managerial Decision-Making, James Carlson, Dr. Teppo Felin Apr 2014

Leveraging The Collective Intelligence Of A Large Group In Managerial Decision-Making, James Carlson, Dr. Teppo Felin

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Crowdsourcing is a term used to describe an emerging new set of activities that organizations engage in to leverage the power of the Internet in bringing people together. Crowdsourcing generally consists of placing some type of “open call” on the internet. People around the globe with internet access then respond to the call. Some collaborate and/or compete to create new ideas, services, or products on behalf of an existing company. Others refine existing work or data, such as through feedback, data entry, or proof-reading.


Does Money Matter? A Case Study Of The Effect Of Economic Disparity On Support For Separatist Political Parties, Paul Russell, Dr. Wade Jacoby Apr 2014

Does Money Matter? A Case Study Of The Effect Of Economic Disparity On Support For Separatist Political Parties, Paul Russell, Dr. Wade Jacoby

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I was awarded an ORCA grant to study the causes of support for separatist political parties in Belgium. In January of 2011, I had the opportunity to travel to Belgium as an intern for a political party at the European Parliament in Brussels. The grant that I received helped to make this possible and gave me the chance to see the conflict between northern Belgium (Flanders) and southern Belgium (Wallonia) first hand. During my time in Belgium – and for months afterwards – the country had no viable central government. Political parties from the two main regions were unable to …


On Modality In Parmenides’S “Way Of Truth”, Michael Hansen, Dr. Daniel Graham Apr 2014

On Modality In Parmenides’S “Way Of Truth”, Michael Hansen, Dr. Daniel Graham

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Parmenides is the most popular Presocratic philosopher among modern interpreters. His difficult poem has inspired volumes of interpretive work from scholars intent on understanding him. These authors have exhibited surprising industry and ingenuity to produce a large and diverse set of Parmenides interpretations for today’s reader to enjoy.


Ensemble Methods For Historical Machine-Printed Document Recognition, William B. Lund Apr 2014

Ensemble Methods For Historical Machine-Printed Document Recognition, William B. Lund

Theses and Dissertations

The usefulness of digitized documents is directly related to the quality of the extracted text. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has reached a point where well-formatted and clean machine- printed documents are easily recognizable by current commercial OCR products; however, older or degraded machine-printed documents present problems to OCR engines resulting in word error rates (WER) that severely limit either automated or manual use of the extracted text. Major archives of historical machine-printed documents are being assembled around the globe, requiring an accurate transcription of the text for the automated creation of descriptive metadata, full-text searching, and information extraction. Given document …


Engineering Cell-Free Systems For Vaccine Development, Self-Assembling Nanoparticles And Codon Reassignment Applications, Mark T. Smith Apr 2014

Engineering Cell-Free Systems For Vaccine Development, Self-Assembling Nanoparticles And Codon Reassignment Applications, Mark T. Smith

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation reports on the technology of cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) including 1) stabilized lyophilized cell-free systems and 2) enhanced heterogeneous cell extracts. This work further considers applications of CFPS systems in 1) rapid vaccine development, 2) functional virus-based nanoparticles, 3) site-specific protein immobilization, and 4) expanding the language of biology using unnatural amino acids. CFPS technology is a versatile protein production platform that has many features unavailable in in vivo expression systems. The primary benefit cell-free systems provide is the direct access to the reaction environment, which is no longer hindered by the presence of a cell-wall. The “openness" …


Southeast Asian Identities: The Case Of Cambodia, J. Randall Groves Apr 2014

Southeast Asian Identities: The Case Of Cambodia, J. Randall Groves

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


The Paradox Of Thinking And The Unthinkable, Walter Benesch Apr 2014

The Paradox Of Thinking And The Unthinkable, Walter Benesch

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Robert D. Kaplan, The Revenge Of Geography: What The Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts And The Battle Against Fate, Laina Farhat-Holzman Apr 2014

Robert D. Kaplan, The Revenge Of Geography: What The Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts And The Battle Against Fate, Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


William F. Mccants, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest And Culture Myth From Antiquity To Islam, Tseggai Isaac Apr 2014

William F. Mccants, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest And Culture Myth From Antiquity To Islam, Tseggai Isaac

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Call For Papers, Comparative Civilizations Review Apr 2014

Call For Papers, Comparative Civilizations Review

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


The Roles Of Phosducin-Like Protein 1 And Programmed Cell Death Protein 5 As Molecular Co-Chaperones Of The Cytosolic Chaperonin Complex, Christopher M. Tracy Apr 2014

The Roles Of Phosducin-Like Protein 1 And Programmed Cell Death Protein 5 As Molecular Co-Chaperones Of The Cytosolic Chaperonin Complex, Christopher M. Tracy

Theses and Dissertations

A fundamental question in biology is how proteins, which are synthesized by the ribosome as a linear sequence of amino acids, fold into their native functional state. Many proteins require the assistance of molecular chaperones to maneuver through the folding process to protect them from aggregation and to help them reach their native state in the very concentrated protein environment of the cell. This study focuses on the roles of Phosducin-like Protein 1 (PhLP1) and Programmed Cell Death Protein 5 (PDCD5) as molecular co-chaperones of the Cytosolic Chaperonin Complex (CCT).Signaling in retinal photoreceptors is mediated by canonical G protein pathways. …


In Thanksgiving And Praise: Prayer, Rhetoric, And Congressional Thanksgiving Proclamations, Samuel Wells, Dr. Christopher Hodson Apr 2014

In Thanksgiving And Praise: Prayer, Rhetoric, And Congressional Thanksgiving Proclamations, Samuel Wells, Dr. Christopher Hodson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

With my grant I analyzed how early congressional Thanksgiving proclamations textually moved away from overtly Christian wording while simultaneously retaining a rhetorical Christian foundation. To illustrate my point I chose to analyze said declarations as textual examples of prayer. In order to do so, I first examined Congress’s original declaration of 1777. Second, by building upon a 1739 tract by Isaac Watts entitled “A Guide to Prayer,” I employed later proclamations to illustrate the genre’s continued reliance upon the rhetoric of prayer in the face of shifting ideological norms.


Editor's Note, Joseph Drew Apr 2014

Editor's Note, Joseph Drew

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Improving Patent Quality: Evaluating The Pto's Jurisdiction For Patent Reexamination To Compensate For Changing Validity Standards, Adam Aquino Apr 2014

Improving Patent Quality: Evaluating The Pto's Jurisdiction For Patent Reexamination To Compensate For Changing Validity Standards, Adam Aquino

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

No abstract provided.


A Legal Defense Of Counter-Hacking, Ben Richards Apr 2014

A Legal Defense Of Counter-Hacking, Ben Richards

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

No abstract provided.


Strengthening The Efficacy Of Acquisitive Prescription In International Law: Implications For The Senkaku-Diaoyu Islands Dispute, Richard Stubbs Apr 2014

Strengthening The Efficacy Of Acquisitive Prescription In International Law: Implications For The Senkaku-Diaoyu Islands Dispute, Richard Stubbs

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

No abstract provided.


Social Media Mistakes And The California Eraser Bill, Theron Christensen, Chad Marler Apr 2014

Social Media Mistakes And The California Eraser Bill, Theron Christensen, Chad Marler

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

No abstract provided.


The Legality Of State Regulation And Enforcement Of Federal Immigration Law, Andy Hoffman Apr 2014

The Legality Of State Regulation And Enforcement Of Federal Immigration Law, Andy Hoffman

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

No abstract provided.


Full Issue, Prelaw Review Apr 2014

Full Issue, Prelaw Review

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

No abstract provided.


An Analysis Of Strict Liability As Applied To Hydraulic Fracturing, Casey Ball Apr 2014

An Analysis Of Strict Liability As Applied To Hydraulic Fracturing, Casey Ball

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

No abstract provided.


Working Towards Justice For All: Strengthing The Apprehension Mechanism Of The International Criminal Court, John Griffith Apr 2014

Working Towards Justice For All: Strengthing The Apprehension Mechanism Of The International Criminal Court, John Griffith

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Comparative Civilizations Review Apr 2014

Front Matter, Comparative Civilizations Review

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Full Issue, Comparative Civilizations Review Apr 2014

Full Issue, Comparative Civilizations Review

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Civilizations: Which Constitutes Africa's Most Effective Choice?, Tseggai Isaac Apr 2014

Civilizations: Which Constitutes Africa's Most Effective Choice?, Tseggai Isaac

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Karl Renner On Stability, Change, And Service In Entire Legal Systems, Joseph Drew Apr 2014

Karl Renner On Stability, Change, And Service In Entire Legal Systems, Joseph Drew

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.