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Good Government Begins With Self-Government, Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye Jan 2022

Good Government Begins With Self-Government, Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

BYU Studies Quarterly

For nearly a thousand years (from around 960 to 1905 CE), becoming a government official in imperial China required passing a battery of multiday, multisubject, anonymously graded written exams requiring decades of intensive preparation. Eighteenth-century European politi- cal thinkers, including Voltaire, admired China’s system for using meritocratic criteria, as opposed to aristocratic birth, to select government officials. The exams tested not only scholars’ abilities in history, philosophy, government, and literature, but also—in theory at least—their personal cultivation of moral virtues such as benevolence and integrity. Good government required goodness.


Full Issue Jan 2022

Full Issue

BYU Studies Quarterly

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Colonialism And Indigenous Peoples Of Taiwan, Sabrina Wong Jan 2022

Colonialism And Indigenous Peoples Of Taiwan, Sabrina Wong

BYU Asian Studies Journal

Taiwan can be found about 100 miles off the southeastern coast of China in the Pacific Ocean. It consists of a main island and many smaller surrounding islands. Before the arrival of the Dutch, the only inhabitants of the island were the Taiwanese indigenous peoples, also known as the Formosan people, Austronesian Taiwanese people, or Gaoshan people, who had been there for thousands of years. For consistency, throughout this paper, I will refer to them as Taiwanese indigenous peoples. The Taiwanese indigenous peoples are made up of different tribes, traditionally with over 26, 16 of which are recognized today by …


An Alternative Method Of Title Authority Control: The Shifted-Authority Control Model For Chinese Classics, Maiko Kimura Oct 2019

An Alternative Method Of Title Authority Control: The Shifted-Authority Control Model For Chinese Classics, Maiko Kimura

Journal of East Asian Libraries

This study investigates the effectiveness of a library-cataloging model developed by the author, namely, the shifted-authority control (SAC) model, for retrievals with fewer omissions in the field of Chinese classics. Since there is almost no title authority data for Chinese classics in Japan, the normal authority control model is unsuitable. To determine whether the SAC model can address this problem, a prototype authority database for searching the titles of Chinese classics was constructed. Then, three bibliographic databases were searched using work/item titles from the prototype database; this facilitated comparisons of the recall performance and the precision of the following three …


Family Therapy: An Early Intervention In Mitigating Pas Oct 2017

Family Therapy: An Early Intervention In Mitigating Pas

Intuition: The BYU Undergraduate Journal of Psychology

Children with Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) potentially suffer from negative indoctrination from at least one parent. This results in damaging the bond between the targeted parent and child and in the creation of an emotionally taxing environment for the child. This clinical challenge calls for a review on the dynamics of PAS and the child caught in the crossfire between parents. PAS is difficult to treat because alienated parents don’t realize the harm they are causing to their child. Hence, it is difficult for the alienating parent to change their approach and negative feeding of the rival parent. Thus, court-ordered …


"Language Attitudes In Alcalá De Henares Towards Immigrants" And "Adverbial Adjectives: A Usage-Based Approach", Lauren Elaine Truman Apr 2017

"Language Attitudes In Alcalá De Henares Towards Immigrants" And "Adverbial Adjectives: A Usage-Based Approach", Lauren Elaine Truman

Theses and Dissertations

This study is part of the IN.MIGRA-2 CM project, which studies the sociolinguistic integration of the immigrant population of Madrid. The present study focuses on the language attitudes of 16 residents of Alcalá de Henares, a community of Madrid. The participants were asked to rate their level of agreement with the following affirmations: (1) The Spanish of Madrid is more correct than the forms of speech of Latin American immigrants; (2) Mastery of the Spanish language is the principal demonstration of the integration of immigrants; (3) Immigrants of Latin American origin are integrated because they speak the same language. The …


Barriers To Initiation Of Open Source Software Projects In Research Libraries, Jason Curtis Thacker May 2016

Barriers To Initiation Of Open Source Software Projects In Research Libraries, Jason Curtis Thacker

Theses and Dissertations

Libraries share a number of core values with the Open Source Software (OSS) movement, suggesting there should be a natural tendency toward library participation in OSS projects. However, Dale Askey's 2008 Code4Lib column entitled We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can't Have Our Code, claims that while libraries are strong proponents of OSS, they are unlikely to actually contribute to OSS projects. He identifies, but does not empirically substantiate, six barriers that he believes contribute to this apparent inconsistency. The goal of this thesis is to empirically investigate not only Askey's central claim but also the six barriers he …


A Biosystematic View Of Civilizations: Western Europe And Japan Before And After The Industrial Revolution, Kunio Kawamura Sep 2015

A Biosystematic View Of Civilizations: Western Europe And Japan Before And After The Industrial Revolution, Kunio Kawamura

Comparative Civilizations Review

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The Plateau Giant Tiger Beetle, Amblycheila Picolominii Reiche, 1839, In Utah: New State Record (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae), Frank-Thorsten Krell, Jack O. Brookhart Apr 2012

The Plateau Giant Tiger Beetle, Amblycheila Picolominii Reiche, 1839, In Utah: New State Record (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae), Frank-Thorsten Krell, Jack O. Brookhart

Western North American Naturalist

The plateau giant tiger beetle, Amblycheila picolominii, Reiche, 1839, is recorded from Utah for the first time. This is the northernmost record of the species.


Se documenta por primera vez en el estado de Utah el descubrimiento del escarabajo tigre gigante de meseta, Amblycheila picolominii, Reiche, 1839. Este es el registro más boreal de esta especie.


Local Civilization And Political Decency: Equilibrium And The Position Of The Sultanate In Java, Hisanori Kato Apr 2012

Local Civilization And Political Decency: Equilibrium And The Position Of The Sultanate In Java, Hisanori Kato

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Students Studying Students: An Assessment Of Using Undergraduate Student Researchers In An Ethnographic Study Of Library Use, Allyson Washburn, Sheila C. Bibb Feb 2011

Students Studying Students: An Assessment Of Using Undergraduate Student Researchers In An Ethnographic Study Of Library Use, Allyson Washburn, Sheila C. Bibb

Faculty Publications

This paper reports on the use of undergraduate students enrolled in an Applied Anthropology course as researcher for a library use study at Brigham Young University's (BYU) Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL). This is a common practice at BYU, but has not been reported extensively in the literature. The study was carried out by the authors with the assistance of undergraduate students, the students being the researchers and was conducted in order that the HBLL could determine student ideas for reconfiguring some newly opened space in the Periodicals room. Using students assisted the library as well as met a curricular …


Ojs At Byu, C. Jeffrey Belliston Sep 2009

Ojs At Byu, C. Jeffrey Belliston

Faculty Publications

A number of years ago, the library began hosting the digitized back files of several campus-based journal publications in CONTENTdm. A little over two years ago, Mark Belk, the editor of the Western North American Naturalist whose backfile we were hosting, approached Randy Olsen, our University Librarian with a problem. Mark explained that in his role as editor he was drowning in e-mails and things were falling through the cracks. Randy tasked me to investigate options. This investigation was made considerably easier by work done by Mark Czyzk from Johns Hopkins. The investigation led to the selection of OJS as …


A Functional Framework For Content Management, Robert Emer Broadbent Jun 2009

A Functional Framework For Content Management, Robert Emer Broadbent

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis proposes a functional framework for content management. This framework provides concepts and vocabulary for analysis and description of content management systems. The framework is derived from an analysis of eight content management systems. It describes forty-five conceptual functions organized into five functional groups. The functionality derived from the analysis of the content management systems is described using the vocabulary provided by the functional framework. Coverage of the concepts in the existing systems is verified. The utility of the framework is validated through the creation of a prototype that implements sufficient functionality to support a set of specific use …


Tapping Utah's Scholarly Works, C. Jeffrey Belliston, Allyson Mower, Cheryl Walters Apr 2009

Tapping Utah's Scholarly Works, C. Jeffrey Belliston, Allyson Mower, Cheryl Walters

Faculty Publications

Librarians from academic institutions in Utah talked about the institutional repositories (IRs) they have created to provide open access to the intellectual output of their faculty, staff, and students. Panelists provided an introduction to institutional repositories, considerations in choosing an IR software, workflow and copyright issues. They also highlighted some of the variety of materials in their respective IRs. 38 slides.


A Low-Cost Open-Hardware Wideband Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (Mimo) Wireless Channel Sounder, Michael A. Jensen, Jon W. Wallace, B. T. Maharaj, Louis P. Linde Oct 2008

A Low-Cost Open-Hardware Wideband Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (Mimo) Wireless Channel Sounder, Michael A. Jensen, Jon W. Wallace, B. T. Maharaj, Louis P. Linde

Faculty Publications

Due to the complexity of multiple-input-multiple- output (MIMO) wireless channels, direct measurement is the main viable option for accurate characterization. Details on a new low-cost wideband channel sounder are presented, which was mainly constructed from conventional instruments and components. This switched architecture system is similar to commercial channel sounders and has modest cost (< US$ 50000). The sounder operates in the 2- to 8-GHz range with up to 100 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth and supports eight transmitters and receivers, which are sufficient to support the development and assessment of current and future MIMO wireless systems. In this "open-hardware" project, the hardware design and software components are openly available to other researchers interested in developing or enhancing the MIMO measurement capability. The actual systems built at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, and Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, are presented, as are some example studies.


With Memories Of Karl Lo: A Report On The 9Th International Conference On Asian Digital Libraries, Maureen H. Donovan Jun 2007

With Memories Of Karl Lo: A Report On The 9Th International Conference On Asian Digital Libraries, Maureen H. Donovan

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.


No. 142 Journal Of East Asian Libraries, Journal Of East Asian Libraries Jun 2007

No. 142 Journal Of East Asian Libraries, Journal Of East Asian Libraries

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.


Reducing Energy In Fpga Multipliers Through Glitch Reduction - Clock Power And Digit-Serial Addendum, Nathaniel Rollins, Michael J. Wirthlin Jan 2006

Reducing Energy In Fpga Multipliers Through Glitch Reduction - Clock Power And Digit-Serial Addendum, Nathaniel Rollins, Michael J. Wirthlin

Faculty Publications

Sponsorship: NASA. In a previous paper it was shown that reducing the amount of glitches in digital designs can significantly reduce the amount of dynamic power consumption. Pipelined multipliers and a bit-serial multiplier design were used to show this. The paper failed to mention how much of the dynamic power consumption was due to the clock distribution. Also the only digit- serial multiplier digit size investigated was a digit size of 1. This paper addresses the issue of dynamic clocking power and includes results of digit-serial multipliers with larger digit sizes.