Humanity has received divine guidance through two channels: the word of Allah and the prophets who were chosen by Him to communicate His will to humanity These channels have always functioned together, and if one is ignored or neglected, the will of Allah cannot be known with any degree of accuracy. The Hindus neglected their prophets and focused all of their attention on their books, which pro...

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS To my Lord and savior Jesus Christ for providing guidance and strength for me when I was in a time of need. To my adviser, Rachel Griffin, for always being honest and encouraging during my writing process and keeping me focused when I struggled the most. To my committee member, Nil Bardhan, for always being understanding and supportive during my writing progression. To my fa...

Paul Tournier has found a definite and sure answer to the many case problems he presents to us in his book. He is firmly convinced that the solution to all these problems can be found in only one way. He affirms the necessity of adopting a Christian philosophy of life and of giving oneself with full trust into the hands of God. The author avoids the use of technical phraseology and brings his p...

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to make special thanks to my advisor Elsa Reichmanis who gave me remarkable opportunities by allowing research in the group. I will remember her as a person with deep patience and understanding. Her optimism and support were great cheers to me. Also I share thanks to my committee, Prof. and Yulin Deng, whom I am very proud to be associated with. I will remember...

Indexing of historical records is a process that uses human effort to read text images and convert them into a machine readable format that facilitates search. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been using volunteers to index millions of microfilm images of genealogy records collected throughout the world. This indexing process is time-consuming. We adapt a technique for holist...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints undertook an extensive effort at the beginning of this year to deploy machine translation (MT) in the translation workflow for the content on its principal website, www.lds.org. The objective of this effort is to reduce by at least 50% the time required by human translators to translate English content into nine other languages and publish it on t...

BACKGROUND Compliant members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS, Mormons) have a low incidence of heart and lung disease that may relate to their healthy life style. We wished to determine whether multiple sclerosis (MS) was less frequent in this religious body. METHODS To ascertain this, diagnostic and treatment coding records were accessed from the Deseret Mutual Benefi...