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Patere Legem, Quam Ipse Talisti: Nietzsche And The End Of Christianity, Matthew Faulconer, Van Tongeren, Dr. Travis Anderson Aug 2013

Patere Legem, Quam Ipse Talisti: Nietzsche And The End Of Christianity, Matthew Faulconer, Van Tongeren, Dr. Travis Anderson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In On the Genealogy of Morals Nietzsche says that every lawgiver eventually receives the call “patere legem, quam ipse tulistr” which means, “submit to the law you yourself proposed.” Nietzsche believes this call is being made to Christianity and that because of this, Christianity’s moral code will condemn Christianity. He calls this the self-overcoming of Christianity which is “the great spectacle in a hundred acts reserved for the next two centuries in Europe.”

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Why Be Moral: The Rational Basis For Morality, Michael Durham, Dr. C. Terry Warner Aug 2013

Why Be Moral: The Rational Basis For Morality, Michael Durham, Dr. C. Terry Warner

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Of the many questions in modern meta-ethical debates, the question, “Why be moral?” immediately stands out as one of the most provocative. It seems to embody the moral skepticism notoriously rampant in contemporary society, insolently questioning not just particular moral demands, but the power and validity of any moral demands whatsoever.

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Mobility Patterns As Seen Through Lithic Technologies, Aaron Fergusson, Dr. Joel C. Janetski Aug 2013

Mobility Patterns As Seen Through Lithic Technologies, Aaron Fergusson, Dr. Joel C. Janetski

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During BYU’s 1995 field school many artifacts were brought back to BYU for analysis, including the important data set of toolstone artifacts and debris. At Fish Lake the sites excavated date from the Archaic (F7 area), Fremont (Mickeys Place), and Late Prehistoric (F14 area) time periods, each representing a different way of life. The Archaic and the Late Prehistoric time periods in the Great Basin are defined as representing a hunter/gatherer way of life. These were highly mobile, or residentially mobile groups and occupied a series of residential camps seasonally. The Fremont period 1 represents a horticultural way of life. …

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Teaching Kindness To Parents Of School Children In Paraguay, Mark L. Elliott, Wesley R. Burr Aug 2013

Teaching Kindness To Parents Of School Children In Paraguay, Mark L. Elliott, Wesley R. Burr

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In May of 1996, I traveled to South America to teach a family life education course to parents in Paraguay. In the months preceding the trip, I sent packets of information to various public secondary schools in the area around the capital of Asuncion, offering a family enrichment course at no cost. After selecting a school, arrangements were made for school administrators to provide a classroom and needed materials for instruction.

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Constructing A Stemma For The Lds Book Of Mormon, 1879-1911, Adam Neilan Davis, Dr. Royal Skousen Aug 2013

Constructing A Stemma For The Lds Book Of Mormon, 1879-1911, Adam Neilan Davis, Dr. Royal Skousen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

During the period 1879-1911, seven editions of the Book of Mormon were published by or for the LDS Church. Each contains a significant number of variants which aid the researcher in establishing a history of relationships between various texts, otherwise known as a stemma. My research established the stemma beginning with the 1879 Liverpool edition and concluding with the 1911 Chicago large-type edition.

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Longitudinal Effects Of Family Structure Changes On The Academic Performance Of High School Students, Varden E. Hadfield, Dr. Joseph A. Olsen Aug 2013

Longitudinal Effects Of Family Structure Changes On The Academic Performance Of High School Students, Varden E. Hadfield, Dr. Joseph A. Olsen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Extensive cross-sectional research has examined marital status and family composition and their effects on academic performance. Many cross-sectional studies have found moderate correlations between family structure and both grades and test scores. A few studies have found when race and socioeconomic status are controlled, correlations remain for only certain family types. However, after a thorough library computer index search and Internet National Educational Longitudinal Study index search, ill studies located were cross-sectional and focused on specific aspects of family structure, without time order data to provide evidence for causation.

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The Effect Of Self-Monitoring And Manipulated States Of Self-Awareness On Attitude Change In A Dissonance Paradigm, Rachel E. Crook, Dr. Robert D. Ridge Aug 2013

The Effect Of Self-Monitoring And Manipulated States Of Self-Awareness On Attitude Change In A Dissonance Paradigm, Rachel E. Crook, Dr. Robert D. Ridge

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Personality and situational forces can affect the self-awareness necessary for cognitive dissonance to occur. Festinger’s cognitive dissonance theory assumes that people are motivated to maintain a consistency between their thoughts and their actions1. For example, if a person is not in favor of a tuition increase and chooses to write an essay against raising tuition, then, according to dissonance theory, she would experience consonance, because her attitude and behavior are consistent.

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Dialogue As Character Revelation In Wuthering Heights, Jennifer E. Shakespear, Dr. Cynthia L. Hallen Aug 2013

Dialogue As Character Revelation In Wuthering Heights, Jennifer E. Shakespear, Dr. Cynthia L. Hallen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In her novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Brönte uses the dialogue of her characters to disclose their inner-most workings. Like real humans, characters in novels share a part of themselves every time they speak. Their personalities, moods, demeanor, affections, dispositions, and affinities are revealed through language. By conducting a detailed linguistic analysis of the dialogue of both Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, I hoped to discover language patterns reflecting their temperament, emotions, and relationships with other characters. I believe my study was very successful in achieving this goal.

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Progress Summary Of Translation Of The Parson’S Family, Owen F. Witesman, Ralph V. Larson Aug 2013

Progress Summary Of Translation Of The Parson’S Family, Owen F. Witesman, Ralph V. Larson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My first-draft translation of Finnish dramatist Minna Canth’s Papin Perhe [The Parson’s Family] is currently twenty pages (of one hundred thirty) from completion. This draft will be further proofed and refined by a number of character readings using individuals experienced in editing and dramatic interpretation. This final version will be submitted as my honors thesis in April of 2001. I will then publish the text online and seek print publication. The project as a whole has progressed somewhat more slowly than I had anticipated, owing mostly to an overestimation on my part as to how much text I would effectively …

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Hebrew Language Tutorial, David R. Coughanour, Chuck Bush Aug 2013

Hebrew Language Tutorial, David R. Coughanour, Chuck Bush

Journal of Undergraduate Research

When I proposed to undertake this project it was to provide a computer-aided language instruction tutorial for Hebrew 101 students. I was taking Hebrew 101 at the time that the opportunity to apply for an ORCA award came along and I remembered my Hebrew 101 instructor commenting that less than half of those who enroll in the class are able to make it to the end. Most of those who drop out do so after they encounter the first exam. My proposal was to develop a Hypercard-based computer program that would make that first exam more manageable and then to …

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The Ethnophysiologocial Janus: Changing Perceptions Of Illness And Curing In The Guatemalan Mayan Highlands, Steven Shem Rode, Dr. John P. Hawkins Aug 2013

The Ethnophysiologocial Janus: Changing Perceptions Of Illness And Curing In The Guatemalan Mayan Highlands, Steven Shem Rode, Dr. John P. Hawkins

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Ethnomedical literature rarely addresses the problem of how illness is recognized and understood among Nahualenos in southwest Guatemala. In that area of the world, mother/infant mortality rates remain high, and local perceptions of illness continue to bewilder western biomedical caregivers. This study investigates data collected from doctor-patient communication, linguistics, and traditional medicine to explain how ethnophysiological understandings of illness exemplify effective and ineffective teaching methods about bacteriology and prevention within the liminal Nahualeno society.

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Odocoileus Hemionus Mortality Profiles And The Cultural Predatory Adaptations At Aspen Shelter, Utah, James T. Anderson, Dr. Joel C. Janetskik Aug 2013

Odocoileus Hemionus Mortality Profiles And The Cultural Predatory Adaptations At Aspen Shelter, Utah, James T. Anderson, Dr. Joel C. Janetskik

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Mortality profiles (ages at death) constructed from the faunal analysis of archaeological sites offer unique insights into specific cultural predatory patterns and lifeways of the sites former inhabitants. The products of prey age selection or mortality profiles allow archaeologists to understand strategies of hunting, land use, and “habitual techniques of procurement” . A mortality profile of 4 mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) was created from the thousands of identified bones excavated at Aspen Shelter, Utah in an attempt to understand such cultural adaptations.

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Capital Gains Tax And Stock Market Volume, Robert Couch, Dr. Mark Showalter Aug 2013

Capital Gains Tax And Stock Market Volume, Robert Couch, Dr. Mark Showalter

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I completed my research project concerning the capital gains tax and stock market volume. I spent approximately one hundred hours uncovering previous research on this topic, gathering my own data, performing statistical regressions on this data, drawing conclusions from this data, and writing up my results with prose, charts, and tables.

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Analysis Of The Strength And Influence Of Demographic Factors In Determining Convert Baptism Rates In Lds Missions, Darin G. Clay, Dr. Mark Showalter Aug 2013

Analysis Of The Strength And Influence Of Demographic Factors In Determining Convert Baptism Rates In Lds Missions, Darin G. Clay, Dr. Mark Showalter

Journal of Undergraduate Research

It is a well-known fact that the success of the missionary effort of the Church is highly correlated with economic prosperity. Specifically, the convert baptism rates are higher in less prosperous nations than in relatively wealthy nations. Opponents of the Church have cited this fact in support of the claim that the church appeals to potential members because of its relatively wealthy membership rather than because of any spiritual experiences or “House-of-Israel” arguments. Church adherents assert that poor nations more readily accept the church because of “unmeasurables” such as humility and heritage (i.e. descendants of the Nephite/Lamanite populations). This study …

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Siblings Of Children With Special Needs: Uplifts, Coping, And Stressors, Jesse A. Bingham, Melinda Buchanan, Dr. Susanne F. Olsen, Elaine S. Sorensen Aug 2013

Siblings Of Children With Special Needs: Uplifts, Coping, And Stressors, Jesse A. Bingham, Melinda Buchanan, Dr. Susanne F. Olsen, Elaine S. Sorensen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

When a family includes one or more children with special needs every family member is affected by the challenges related to that chronic disability. In the past, research has focused on the child and his or her disability as pathological, whereas today it is acknowledged that many families are able to function positively and adapt well to daily life with a child with special needs. 1

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Building An Access Database For Cookstove Research, Margaret L. Weddle Aug 2013

Building An Access Database For Cookstove Research, Margaret L. Weddle

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This paper takes the reader through the thought process and actual instructions to create your own Microsoft Access database, or how to use the one provided with this paper. Also, instructions to use the HBLL resources of Compendex and RefWorks are covered. While this work was built specifically for Cookstoves research, it could be adapted to any research where you would need to maintain a record of the journal articles that you are using. It has been discovered that building a database is a time consuming and difficult work, but once done, Access provides an easy way to work with …

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Semantic Class Disambiguation In Natural Language Soar, Anton Rytting, Dr. Deryle Lonsdale Aug 2013

Semantic Class Disambiguation In Natural Language Soar, Anton Rytting, Dr. Deryle Lonsdale

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Soar1 is a unified theory of human cognition implemented as a computer program. It posits that the interaction of a few fundamental mechanisms can account for any aspect of cognition. The theory’s computer implementation allows the creation of testable computer simulations of various cognitive tasks.

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Children And Their Federal Government: Political Socialization In Utah And Alberta, David E. Campbell, Dr. David Magleby, Stan A. Taylor Aug 2013

Children And Their Federal Government: Political Socialization In Utah And Alberta, David E. Campbell, Dr. David Magleby, Stan A. Taylor

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In the 1960s and 1950s, there was a flurry of research into children’s political socialization6what children know, and feel, about their political system and leaders and when they come to know, and feel, it. At the time, political scientists and developmental psychologists concluded that pre-adolescent children have a very positive view of things political. There was a mild resurgence of political socialization research following Watergate as political scientists sought to find out if children’s view of government could be affected by such a high profile scandal. While surveys of children found them with less positive feelings than recorded previously, generally …

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A Comparison Of Outlier Resistant Estimators Of Linear Regression Models, Brian H. Boyer, Dr. James B. Mcdonald Aug 2013

A Comparison Of Outlier Resistant Estimators Of Linear Regression Models, Brian H. Boyer, Dr. James B. Mcdonald

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Regression analysis is a technique routinely used by researchers in many disciplines to fit some type of mathematical model to observed data. A basic two dimensional linear regression model is mathematically expressed as yi = + xi + Ji for i = 1, n, where y1 … Yn is an observed sample of n data points on the dependent variable y, x1 . . . xn is an observed sample of n data points on an explanatory variable, x, and the parameters and define the true linear relationship between x and Y. The variable J represents a random disturbance term …

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Mountain West It Economies: Similar But Disparate? A Multi-Faceted Comparison Of Utah And Colorado Public It Markets, Michael Murff, Dr. Jay Goodliffe Aug 2013

Mountain West It Economies: Similar But Disparate? A Multi-Faceted Comparison Of Utah And Colorado Public It Markets, Michael Murff, Dr. Jay Goodliffe

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Escalating in the mid-1970s, two very similar Mountain West economies augmented a dramatic shift from mining and agriculture toward information technology (IT). Both Utah and Colorado took steps to attract computer and software firms in an effort to diversify and develop IT industries. At first glance, Colorado IT markets appear superior in scale and scope due in part to a more sophisticated professional services infrastructure and far more equity finance. Notwithstanding these apparent disadvantages, public IT firms in Utah consistently demonstrate greater profitability and faster growth rates during the last 10 years. While Colorado tends to specialize in birthing new …

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Maternalism Vs. Militarism: Women’S Nonviolent Resistance To Military Rule, Anne Miner, Dr. Valerie Hudson Aug 2013

Maternalism Vs. Militarism: Women’S Nonviolent Resistance To Military Rule, Anne Miner, Dr. Valerie Hudson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My analysis of women’s nonviolent resistance focused on two historical case studies. The first was the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo who opposed the military regime of 1977 in Argentina. Their nonviolent resistance began in opposition to the disappearance of family members, particularly their children. These desaparecidos were among approximately 30,000 Argentinians kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in a governmental effort to induce fear and maintain power. The second case was women’s involvement in the nonviolent Philippine Revolution of 1986 opposing the dictatorial rule of President Ferdinand Marcos. Marcos had imposed martial law since 1972. Nonviolent resistance began in response …

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Mormonism And The Concept Of A Temporal Deity: The Beckwith- Parrish Dilemma, Jeremy B. Pettit, Dr. David L. Paulsen Aug 2013

Mormonism And The Concept Of A Temporal Deity: The Beckwith- Parrish Dilemma, Jeremy B. Pettit, Dr. David L. Paulsen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In their book The Mormon Concept of God1, evangelical scholars Francis Beckwith and Stephen Parrish (hereafter referred to as BP) present several critiques of what they understand to be the Latterday Saint (LDS) concept of God which they claim is philosophically implausible. The majority of their arguments against the incoherency of the LDS concept of God stem from two dilemmas. My paper focused on the second dilemma which can be formally outlined as:

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The Effects Of Race And Gender In The Hiring Practicies Of Elite Management Consulting Firms, Christopher L. Pitzak, Lynn England Aug 2013

The Effects Of Race And Gender In The Hiring Practicies Of Elite Management Consulting Firms, Christopher L. Pitzak, Lynn England

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The purpose of my research was essentially to evaluate the effects that race and gender have in the hiring practices of elite management consulting firms. I chose this industry because of the effect it has in today’s business world. Given the fact that management consuting is predominantly white male, I thought that an analysis of their hiring practices would offer an explanation as to its composition. Having studied race and gender related issues in the classroom, I was anxious to evaluate a real world industry and see how what I had learned in the classroom related to the real world.

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Folk Medicine In Communist Cuba, Eric Peterson, Lynn England Aug 2013

Folk Medicine In Communist Cuba, Eric Peterson, Lynn England

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I went to Cuba to do an ethnographic study of common folk medicine. My original intent was to focus on the traditional, home-remedies used by Cubans and the possible discovery of new homeopathic treatments for use in our society. What I discovered, along with a short list of herbal medicines, was a unique integration of folk medicine into the socialist health care system due to the existing political and economic situation.

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Do Perceptive People Have More Satisfied Spouses?, Kurt L. Olsson, Dr. James M. Harper Aug 2013

Do Perceptive People Have More Satisfied Spouses?, Kurt L. Olsson, Dr. James M. Harper

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The main objective of this research was to determine if there is a relationship between the level of satisfaction in a marriage and the accuracy with which the individuals could predict their spouses= perceptions. Attributional styles, or patterns, are those perceptual sets that tell us how to interpret events, especially their causes.1 For example, if a husband attributes the cause of a car accident to poor road conditions instead of feeling that his wife was driving recklessly, he has made an external attribution, assigning the cause to an external influence rather than an internal one. Many comparisons have been made …

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Factors That Influence A Woman’S Choice To Breast-Feed, Emily Lippincott, Dr. Renata Forste Aug 2013

Factors That Influence A Woman’S Choice To Breast-Feed, Emily Lippincott, Dr. Renata Forste

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Breast-feeding is the healthiest way for a mother to ensure that her newborn child gets the best nutrition possible; in addition, breast milk provides maternal antibodies to the child that are highly effective in preventing disease (2). Hence the slogan “Breast is Best” was created to encourage mothers to breastfeed their children; unfortunately, there are still a larger number of women who have resisted this message and continue to choose other methods of feeding. For instance, white women are two times more likely to breast-feed than their black counterparts, and college educated women are three times more likely to breast-feed …

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The Evolution Of *-E:R In Mayan Languages, Christy Barber, Dr. John Robertson Aug 2013

The Evolution Of *-E:R In Mayan Languages, Christy Barber, Dr. John Robertson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Common Mayan had a suffix, *-e:r, which was an adverbial deictic clitic indicating past tense. (1) Its form and function remained fairly regular throughout the evolution of Common Mayan into more than 30 distinct languages. This study focuses on its evolution in the construction #-TIME-e:r, a Mayan phrase meaning “# days ago,” and that of its complementary phrase #-TIME, meaning “# days from now.” The most frequently occurring construction uses a form of the morpheme *-e:j “day,” as in Colonial Kaqchikel coh-eh-er “four days ago.”

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Politics Of Successful Development: Women And Panchayats In India, Anne Clayton, Dr. Donna Lee Bowen Aug 2013

Politics Of Successful Development: Women And Panchayats In India, Anne Clayton, Dr. Donna Lee Bowen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

All over the world women tend to suffer disproportionately in terms of poverty and the lack of access to education in comparison to men.1 Extensive development efforts have been put forth throughout the world to eradicate these problems. Some of them have been successful, while many have not. Identifying the factors that lead to successful development is crucial, so that those methods which are effective may be replicated in other areas. In recent years, women=s role in development has increasingly become recognized as vital to successful development.2 Focusing resources on women for development often yields greater levels of success due …

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The Test Re-Test Reliability And Criterion Validity For The Yoq Self-Report Version, Stephen Thomas Ewing, Dr. Gawain Wells Aug 2013

The Test Re-Test Reliability And Criterion Validity For The Yoq Self-Report Version, Stephen Thomas Ewing, Dr. Gawain Wells

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Youth Outcome Questionnaire Self Report (YOQ S-R) is a new psychological measure for adolescents. It is designed to track how an adolescent feels that he or she may be changing in mental health treatment. In order to do that, we took a sample of adolescents from Provo High School who had never been in treatment. They completed a questionnaire at two different times about two weeks apart. In doing so, we are able to compare our “normal” data base with those who are receiving therapy. Therefore, we can establish norms for the psychometric characteristics of the instrument. The self-report …

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Combining The Tripartite And Cognitive-Specificity Models Of Anxiety And Depression, Scott A. Baldwin, Dr. Diane L. Spangler Aug 2013

Combining The Tripartite And Cognitive-Specificity Models Of Anxiety And Depression, Scott A. Baldwin, Dr. Diane L. Spangler

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Depression and anxiety are often comorbid and several theories have been proposed to account for their co-occurrence. The tripartite model accounts for the comorbidity between anxiety and depression in terms of the underlying symptoms that are associated with the two disorders. According to the tripartite model, low positive affect (PA) is unique to depression, while autonomic arousal (AA) is unique to anxiety. Negative affect (NA) is common to both disorders; therefore, the relationship between the disorders in due to a common set of symptoms—NA.

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