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Early Latter-Day Saint Martyrs: The Jesse Woods And Armela Shanks Berry Family, Shauna Timpson Johnson

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

On 10 August 1884, three Mormon missionaries, Elders William S. Berry, Henry B. Thompson, and John H. Gibbs, met at the house of James Condor in Cane Creek, Tennessee, for Sunday worship services. They had just finished singing a hymn when a mob rushed up to Condor’s front gate. Historian B. H. Roberts described the dramatic scene:

Elder Gibbs had just taken up his Bible . . . when a man disguised—which afterward proved to be David Hinson—came in at the front door, crossed the room, took down a shotgun suspended on hooks over the back door, and then took …

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An Analysis Of The Joseph Smith Translation Of 1 Corinthians 15:40, Jared T. Parker, Todd B. Parker

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

The Joseph Smith Translation ( JST) of 1 Corinthians 15:40 is significant for the Latter-day Saint (LDS) community because the King James Version (KJV) is closely associated with the LDS doctrine of three degrees of glory in the Resurrection. Of particular interest is that JST 1 Corinthians 15:40 adds two phrases to the KJV,1 in bold below:

Dealing With Difficulty In Scripture: Divine Violence In The Book Of Mormon, Andrew C. Smith

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

Latter-day prophets have implored and continually encouraged members of the Church to make daily and habitual study of the scriptures a priority in their lives. One of the most important reasons for this is the fact that it is through the scriptures that one learns the most about the life and teachings of the Savior and how to follow him. “What manner of men had ye ought to be? Verily I say unto you, even as I am” is Jesus’s scriptural call to each of us (3 Nephi 27:27).1 When we consider our relationship with Jesus, especially as our exemplar …

Getting To Know Saints: The Story Of The Church Of Jesus Christ In The Latter Days, Steven C. Harper, Scott Hales, Casey Paul Griffiths

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

Griffiths: The purpose of this meeting is to explain a little bit about what Saints is and how teachers can use it. Scott, can I start with you? Can you tell us a little bit about Saints and what it is intended to do?

Hales: Saints is a new four-volume narrative history of the Church. It covers Church history from 1815 to the present. Each volume culminates in the completion of a temple and shows Latter-day Saints making and keeping sacred covenants. The first volume covers the organization of the Church and the early years of the Restoration. It begins …

The Diversity Found Among Carbapenem-Resistant Bacteria, Galen Edward Card

Theses and Dissertations

This work will look at two factors that add to the diversity of carbapenem resistant bacteria. First, it focuses on the diversity of carbapenemase resistance plasmids. 446 plasmids were characterized by size, gene content and replicon groups. We identified that on average, over 30% of the encoded proteins on each plasmid have an unknown function. Plasmid sizes ranged from 1.6kb to 500kb, with an average of around 100kb and median of 80kb. Additionally, six replicon groups account for 80% of all the carbapenemase resistance plasmids. We also highlight the lack of data available for carbapenemase carrying plasmids from bacterial genera …

"I Will Pour Out My Spirit Upon All Flesh": A Study On Joseph Smith's Reception Of Joel 2:28–32, Jared Heaton Davis

Theses and Dissertations

In 2001, President Gordon B. Hinckley, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–day Saints announced in an opening statement at General Conference, "The vision of Joel has been fulfilled wherein he declared," he then quoted the KJV of Joel 2:28–32. Throughout the remaining six and a half years of his life, he provided no commentary on the fulfillment of this passage. Fulfillment of the passage is also referenced in the standard works for The LDS Church in Joseph Smith—History (JS—H 1:41) and in the New Testament (Acts 2:17–21). An array of publications before and after President Hinckley's statement, …

Article 1- "God Will Glorify Your Marriage": Marital Satisfaction And Relational Spirituality In Religious Black Couples Article 2- "A Godly Man": A Qualitative Exploration Of The Influence Of Religion On Black Masculinity And Fatherhood, Travis James Moore

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Research suggest that Black couples tend to marry later, with less frequency, have marriages that do not last as long, and are more prone to divorce than other racial categories. However, religion may play an important role to counteract the negative marriage trends among Black heterosexual couples. As a growing subfield of family psychology this study examines the influence of religion on marital sanctification and relational spirituality among 33 Black married couples (N = 66). In-depth qualitative interviews with Black married couples were analyzed to see how religion informed and shaped perceptions of marital sanctification as well as unique relational …

The Role Of T Cells In Muscle Damage Protective Adaptation, Michael Roger Deyhle

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Skeletal muscle is prone to damage from a range of stimuli. The muscle repair process that ensues is complex, involving several phases and requiring the participation of many different cell types. Among the cells involved are various immune cells including neutrophils, macrophages, monocytes, and eosinophils. More recently, T cells were added to this list of immune cells known to participate in effective muscle repair from traumatic injuries in mice. We recently published data showing that T cells also accumulate in human muscle following contraction-induced damage. These data suggested that T cells might be involved an adaptation known as the repeated …

Deep-Tissue Heating As A Therapeutic Intervention To Prevent Skeletal Muscle Atrophy In Humans, Paul S. Hafen

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Skeletal muscle is a highly adaptable tissue that comprises approximately 40% of total body weight while accounting for up to 90% of whole-body oxygen consumption and energy expenditure during exercise. The loss of skeletal muscle protein and subsequent decrease in muscle mass (atrophy) that accompanies disuse results primarily from a decrease in intracellular protein synthesis combined with an increase in proteolytic activity. Interestingly, these processes of skeletal muscle atrophy are amplified by changes in mitochondrial capacity, with evidence suggesting that the maintenance of mitochondria during periods of disuse protects skeletal muscle against atrophy. Remarkably, rodents with denervated muscle are protected …

Cognition And Behavioral Outcome In Children And Adolescents With Previous Ecmo Treatment: A Case Series With Neuroimaging Correlates, Juliann Thompson

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Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a life-saving procedure for patients in respiratory or cardiac distress. Prior studies have demonstrated several known risks to the procedure, such as hypoxia, stroke, and other neurological complications (Cheng et al., 2014) that can lead to temporary or permanent deficits in motor abilities, developmental trajectory, academic abilities, and cognition (Glass et al., 1995). Although several studies have investigated morbidity and mortality rates of pediatric ECMO patients, few have looked at cognitive deficits, and even fewer at magnetic resonance imaging in relation to neuropsychological outcome and behavioral, emotional, or social functioning. The aims of this study …

Bacteriophages For Treating American Foulbrood And The Neutralization Of Paenibacillus Larvae Spores, Thomas Scott Brady

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The causative agent of the most devastating honeybee disease, American foulbrood (AFB), is the spore-forming bacterium Paenibacillus larvae. To prevent AFB outbreaks beekeepers prophylactically treat their hives with antibiotics even though it decreases the overall health of uninfected hives. A new treatment for AFB is needed due to recent legislation against using antibiotics, antibiotic resistance developing in P. larvae, and the resilience of P. larvae spores. Bacteriophages, or phages, are an attractive alternative to traditional antibiotics because of their specificity and ability to evolve alongside their target bacterium. In this study, two phage cocktails were developed for the …

Ecomorph Convergence In Stick Insects (Phasmatodea) With Emphasis On The Lonchodinae Of Papua New Guinea, Yelena Marlese Pacheco

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Phasmatodea exhibit a variety of cryptic ecomorphs associated with various microhabitats. Multiple ecomorphs are present in the stick insect fauna from Papua New Guinea, including the tree lobster, spiny, and long slender forms. While ecomorphs have long been recognized in phasmids, there has yet to be an attempt to objectively define and study the evolution of these ecomorphs. Using principal component analysis, PERMANOVA, ANOVA, and phylogenetic reconstructions, we examined the evolution of ecomorphs in the Lonchodinae stick insects of Papua New Guinea. Phylogenetic reconstructions were performed via maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods and ecomorphs were mapped onto recovered topologies to …

“This Shall Be Our Covenant”: Brigham Young And D&C 136, Chad M. Orton

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

Two and one-half years after Brigham Young assumed the primary leadership role for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and nearly a year after the first Saints left Nauvoo, Illinois, to begin the journey west, the responsibility of leading the Church had taken a physical toll on him. By January 1847 he had lost so much weight that his clothes no longer fit. The reason was that the Latter-day Saints had literally and figuratively become stuck in the mud. Worn out and needing wisdom on how to extricate the Church and move the work forward, Brigham received the …

The Ability Of Novel Phage To Infect Virulent Bacillus Anthracis Isolates, Hyrum Smith Shumway

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Bacillus anthracis is a soil dwelling microbe with pronounced pathogenic potential. Historically, anthrax has infected livestock and man. In the modern-age, anthrax is a bioterrorism concern with major incidents every decade. While the threat of large scale attacks is currently viewed as unlikely, the threat is consistent and constant. Current methods to defend against such an attack focus on antibiotics and containment of public panic. Antibiotic resistance, while not currently an issue for anthrax, could easily become so with genetically engineered weaponized strains created by rogue states or independent actors. This project evolved from collaborations between the Grose lab and …

Nonprofit Public Relationships On Social Media: The Public's Perspective, Brooke Lauren Smith

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This work explores the effect of social media on expectations held by nonprofit publics as they seek to build and maintain relationships with nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in the context of expectancy violation theory, social capital, and the situational theory of publics. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 individuals who follow a nonprofit on social media to understand the public perspective on nonprofit organizations' relationship building and maintaining behaviors on social media. The study found that nonprofit publics do have specific expectations for how NPOs should build and maintain relationships on social media (i.e., high-quality posts, level of interaction being limited …

Video-Based Interventions For Teaching Calendar Skills To Individuals With Autism, Malinda Glasgow

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Video-Based Instruction (VBI) is an evidence-based practice that has been used for teaching new skills to individuals with disabilities for over two decades. VBI involves the use of pre-recorded videos to teach new skills. Benefits of VBI include flexibility in when the instruction is provided to students and allows students to receive instruction while the teacher is working with another person. A multiple baseline across participants design was used to evaluate the impact of the independent variable of VBI, upon the dependent variables of (a) the percentage of steps completed correctly to make novel calendar entries; (b) the timeliness of …

Global Streamflow Prediction And Dynamic Hand Flood Maps, Corey Krewson, Michael A. Souffront Alcantara, Jim Nelson

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Streamflow prediction provides direct insight to water availability and related risks. Global models are important in regions of the world that lack this critical insight from the local models or historical records. Some of the challenges regarding global models are their accuracy at a relatively low resolution, big data management, communication, and local acceptance. Using the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS), and the Routing Application for Parallel Computation of Discharge (RAPID) we have developed a high-density streamflow prediction system for Africa, North America, South Asia, and South America. An all-around structure has been developed on the cloud to automatically compute, …

Integrating Public/Local And Scientific Knowledge In Model Development For Food-Energy-Water Systems, Grace B. Villamor, David L. Griffith, Andrew Kliskey, Lilian Alessa

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Conceptual and mental models are useful platforms for communicating and understanding how systems work. However, models or frameworks that are not aligned with the perceptions and understanding of the local stakeholders can propagate model output errors and uncertainties. This paper focuses on two sources of epistemic uncertainty in building food-energy-water systems (FEWS) models: (1) context and framing; and (2) model structure uncertainty. To address these uncertainties, we co-construct the FEWS conceptual model with key stakeholders using the Actor-Resources-Dynamics-Interaction (ARDI) method. The method was adopted to specifically integrate public (and local) knowledge of stakeholders in the Magic Valley region of Southern …

Comparative Assessment Of Carbon Footprint Of Four Dairy Farms In Australia Using Dairyghg Model, Veerasamy Sejian Dr, V P. Rashamol Ms, Angela M. Lees Dr, Jarrod C. Lees Dr, John B. Gaghan Dr

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

DairyGHG model is a cost effective and efficient method of estimating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from dairy farms and analyzing how management strategies affect these emissions. Therefore, the DairyGHG model was used in this study to predict the GHG emission and assess the carbon footprints of four different dairy farms at Australia. The study was conducted in four different dairy farms distributed in different locality of Queensland, Australia. The details of the farms are: Farm 1 (220 cows; Jersey), Farm 2 (460 cows; Holstein Friesian), Farm 3 (850 cows; Holstein Friesian) and Farm 4 (434 cows; Holstein Friesian). In all …

Moving From Eco-Forecasts To Eco-Projections, Brian W. Miller, Jeffrey T. Morisette, Gregor W. Schuurman, Jamie K. Reaser

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Ecological models can provide estimates of future conditions that are useful for decision-making, including long-term planning and resource prioritization. However, these models often rely on assumptions about ecological relationships and trajectories, forcings (e.g., biophysical conditions), and management approaches that may not be explicitly considered. To make assumptions more transparent, disciplines such as economics, demographics, climatology, and national intelligence make a fairly clear and consistent distinction between “forecasts” and “projections”. Forecasts are typically more near-term and rely on extending existing relationships and trends to estimate the most likely future conditions; whereas projections evaluate conditions under multiple scenarios that are based on …

Integrating Socio-Environmental Models: Vegetation, Agriculture, And Landform Dynamics, Miguel Acevedo, William Boyd, Hessam Sarjoughian, Isaac Ullah, Michael Barton

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

How did landscapes evolve as agriculture emerged thousands of year ago? How do we ensure sustainable food production and still maintain environmental quality? Integrated socio-environmental models help provide answers to these two seemingly distant, yet related questions. For practical purposes, in this paper we use the terms socio-ecological and socio-environmental systems, with acronym SES as synonyms. The Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics (MedLand) project aims to develop experimental SES models made possible by recent advances in computation while exercising interdisciplinary collaboration. In this paper, we exemplify one aspect of this integration by discussing the development of a vegetation model, which at the …

How Many Cats (Or “Cat-Equivalents”) Does It Take To Cause An Extinction? And How Simple Can You Make A Model Before It Becomes Useless?, Kate O'Brien, Michaela Plein, Matthew Holden, Nigel Bean, Christopher Baker, Eve Mcdonald-Madden

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Managers make decisions on how to protect and restore environmental systems, along with associated ecosystem services. Ideally, these decisions are made with the support of predictive models, built on a sound understanding of how the system works, validated with data and accompanied by credible estimates of uncertainty. However, in many cases data are scarce or non-existent, understanding of key processes is limited, and disturbances such as land-use change or invasive species may be fundamentally altering the way the system functions. If there are insufficient data available for meaningful parameterization or validation, and no prospect of more data becoming available, how …

Eliciting Stakeholder Representations Of A Marine Socio-Ecosystem: Participatory Modelling Of Shellfish Aquaculture In The Normand-Breton Gulf, France, Sophie Gourguet, Léa Monnier, Jeffrey M. Dambacher, Martin P. Marzloff, Cédric Bacher, Pierre Boudry, Philippe Cugier, Nicolas Desroy, Aline Gangnery, Sophie Girard, Patrick Le Mao, Jose A. Pérez, Olivier Thébaud

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

In data-poor situations, qualitative modelling (Puccia and Levins’ “loop analysis”) combined with participatory involvement of stakeholders is well suited to holistically represent the complexity of socio-ecosystems and to assess system stability and its responses to long-term perturbations. This paper presents the results of a qualitative modelling project that involved an interdisciplinary team across natural sciences, social sciences, and modelling. The project focused on analysing the sustainability of a socio-ecosystem with an intense activity of shellfish aquaculture in the Normand-Breton gulf, France. Our primary objective was to involve stakeholders into the participatory development of qualitative models describing the structure and functioning …

An Experience With Data Analysis And Modeling Of Desert Ecosystems, Peter A. Khaiter, Marina G. Erechtchoukova, Christopher J. Lortie, Stanley Ukah

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Deserts are characterized by extreme environmental conditions which require specialized adaptive mechanisms for both plants and animals to survive. Some of these important ecological mechanisms utilize indirect interactions involving non-consumptive synergy between species at distant trophic levels. For example, desert shrubs are known to mitigate extreme climate conditions and create a more favourable microclimate, thus providing thermal shelter for lizards. It is observed that changing climate may lead to more frequent and intense extreme weather events in deserts, such as prolonged drought and shorter intensive rainfall. It is, therefore, important to predict possible ecosystem dynamics under different scenarios of climatic …

Generalisable Methods For Vegetation Classification Using Computer-Generated Pseudoquadrats, Liam Butler, Roy A. Sanderson Dr

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Many countries have developed phytosociological classifications of their vegetation to describe semi-natural and natural vegetation communities. Can methods be developed for any classification system to allocate newly surveyed quadrats, i.e. data gathered from new field surveys, into the most likely vegetation community? Algorithms or software already exist to allocate quadrats for some classifications, but these are not generalisable to any system. We test the robustness of several generalisable approaches to allocate quadrats to an existing phytosociological classification, using the British National Vegetation Classification (NVC) as a case study. Vegetation from 167 quadrats was classified using two-way indicator species analysis (TWINSPAN) …

A Computational Framework For Interoperating Uncertainty Quantified Social System Models, Charles R. Ehlschlaeger, Olaf David, James D. Westervelt, Yanfeng Ouyang, Jeffrey A. Burkhalter, Natalie R. Myers, Francesco Serafin, David A. Patterson, Yizhao Gao, Liqun Lu

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Accurate uncertainty modelling of social activities is impossible using available geographic information data and typical geographic information system algorithms due to the Uncertain Geographic Context Problem (UGCoP). UGCoP worsens when data as vague or obsolete, competing social models are available, and parameter values are not fully known. This research reduces UGCoP by explicitly representing uncertainty in input data, algorithms, and visualization tools using Monte Carlo methods. Rich contextual social information is retained by storing dozens of demographic attributes from surveys and censuses of all people in the study area. To include this detail requires large-scale modeling involving demographic and land …

Density And Pond Habitat Affect Survival And Growth Rates In Larval Columbia Spotted Frogs (Rana Luteiventris), Sidney A. Patchett, Allystair D. Jones, Mark C. Belk

Western North American Naturalist

Juvenile survival and growth are critical determinants of evolutionary fitness in most organisms. However, specific effects of population density and habitat quality on survival and growth of larvae vary widely among amphibian species. The Columbia spotted frog (Rana luteiventris), like many amphibians in the arid western United States, is a species of conservation concern, especially in the southern part of its range. To determine how density and habitat affect vital rates of Columbia spotted frog during the larval period, we performed a controlled experiment. Larval growth and survival in the Columbia spotted frog are determined by density of …

Selenium Fate And Transport Module For The Swat Watershed Model, Ryan T. Bailey, Pratikshya Neupane

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Selenium (Se) is an essential micro-nutrient for humans and animals, but can be harmful at elevated concentrations. Se species are present in most soils worldwide, with many regions experiencing toxic Se levels in associated groundwater and surface water. Several groundwater models have been developed in recent years to simulate the fate and transport of Se species in soil-aquifer systems in an effort to investigate best management practices for controlling Se contamination of aquifers and streams. However, none have the ability to simulate the suite of surface and subsurface transport processes that occur in a watershed. In this study, we present …

Impact Of Bioplastic Co-Product Production On Algal Biorefinery Sustainability, Braden Dale Beckstrom, Jason C. Quinn Dr.

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Algae biomass has the potential to replace significant amounts fossil fuels through the production of biofuels. One major hurdle to the implementation of biofuels produced from algae has been the high price of these fuels. Hence, a major topic in the algae research sector has been the increased utilization of co-products. These additional value co-products such as animal feed, specialty chemicals, and nutraceuticals greatly increase the value of the algae biomass, reducing the cost of the produced fuel. One co-product sector that has been under explored is bioplastics. Since bioplastic production requires only the protein content of the algae, a …