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Things Are In People, People Are In Things: A Phenomenological Approach To H.D.'S Hermione And The Modernist Prosthetic Body, Alison Stone Roberg Jun 2011

Things Are In People, People Are In Things: A Phenomenological Approach To H.D.'S Hermione And The Modernist Prosthetic Body, Alison Stone Roberg

Theses and Dissertations

H.D.'s autobiographical novel HERmione is phenomenological in texture. It portrays both sides of a dynamic process: the individual "creates" the world by adjusting a "psychic lens," projecting a mental space in which objects can appear; yet at the same time, the world imposes itself on the sensing subject. The framework within which this dynamic process occurs is the body; as the novel portrays, the body is the site of juxtapositions and transformations as it comes into contact with the world. In this article, I discuss the ways in which H.D. explores the boundaries and intersections between the human body and …

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Adaptive Threat Detector Testing Using Bayesian Gaussian Process Models, Bradley Thomas Ferguson May 2011

Adaptive Threat Detector Testing Using Bayesian Gaussian Process Models, Bradley Thomas Ferguson

Theses and Dissertations

Detection of biological and chemical threats is an important consideration in the modern national defense policy. Much of the testing and evaluation of threat detection technologies is performed without appropriate uncertainty quantification. This paper proposes an approach to analyzing the effect of threat concentration on the probability of detecting chemical and biological threats. The approach uses a probit semi-parametric formulation between threat concentration level and the probability of instrument detection. It also utilizes a bayesian adaptive design to determine at which threat concentrations the tests should be performed. The approach offers unique advantages, namely, the flexibility to model non-monotone curves …

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Coherent Turbulence: Synthesizing Tree Motion In The Wind Using Cfd And Noise, Anthony Frank Selino May 2011

Coherent Turbulence: Synthesizing Tree Motion In The Wind Using Cfd And Noise, Anthony Frank Selino

Theses and Dissertations

Animating trees in wind has long been a problem in computer graphics. Progress on this problem is important for both visual effects and biomechanics and may inform future work on two-way coupling between turbulent flows and deformable objects. Synthetic turbulence added to a coarse fluid simulation has been used to produce convincing animations of turbulent flows, but only considers one-way coupling between fluid and solid. We produce accurate animations of tree motion by creating a two-way coupling between synthetic turbulence and semipermeable proxy geometry. The resulting animations exhibit global wind sheltering effects and branch tips have motion paths which match …

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A Speculative Approach To Parallelization In Particle Swarm Optimization, Matthew J. Gardner Apr 2011

A Speculative Approach To Parallelization In Particle Swarm Optimization, Matthew J. Gardner

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Particle swarm optimization (PSO) has previously been parallelized primarily by distributing the computation corresponding to particles across multiple processors. In this thesis we present a speculative approach to the parallelization of PSO that we refer to as SEPSO. In our approach, we refactor PSO such that the computation needed for iteration t+1 can be done concurrently with the computation needed for iteration t. Thus we can perform two iterations of PSO at once. Even with some amount of wasted computation, we show that this approach to parallelization in PSO often outperforms the standard parallelization of simply adding particles to the …

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Listeners' Ability To Identify The Gender Of Preadolescent Children Across Multiple Linguistic Contexts, Sharalee Ann Blunck Apr 2011

Listeners' Ability To Identify The Gender Of Preadolescent Children Across Multiple Linguistic Contexts, Sharalee Ann Blunck

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine whether 20 listeners could identify the gender of 10 preadolescent children from speech samples. An additional aim was to evaluate whether listeners identified children more accurately when listening to speech samples when more linguistic context was available. The listeners were presented with a total of 190 speech samples in four different categories of linguistic context: segments, words, sentences, and discourse. The listeners were instructed to listen to each speech sample and decide whether the speaker was a male or female. In addition, the listeners were instructed to rate their level of confidence …

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Composition Of Forest Stands Used By White-Headed Woodpeckers For Nesting In Washington, Jeffrey M. Kozma Apr 2011

Composition Of Forest Stands Used By White-Headed Woodpeckers For Nesting In Washington, Jeffrey M. Kozma

Western North American Naturalist

In this study, I examined the composition of managed ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests used by nesting White-headed Woodpeckers (Picoides albolarvatus) along the eastern slope of the Cascade Range in Washington. I sampled trees and snags using the point-centered quarter method to assess species composition, tree and snag density, and stand basal area in 16 forest stands containing White-headed Woodpecker nests. All stands had a history of timber management and 2 had been burned and salvage-logged. Mean live-tree density (≥10.16 cm dbh) was 182.3 trees · ha–1 (SE = 13.52), mean snag density (≥10.16 cm …

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Conservation Status Of The Threatened, Insular San Jose Brush Rabbit (Sylvilagus Mansuetus), Consuelo Lorenzo, Sergio Ticul Álvarez-Castañeda, Jorge Vázquez Apr 2011

Conservation Status Of The Threatened, Insular San Jose Brush Rabbit (Sylvilagus Mansuetus), Consuelo Lorenzo, Sergio Ticul Álvarez-Castañeda, Jorge Vázquez

Western North American Naturalist

The conservation status and distribution of the insular endemic San Jose brush rabbit (Sylvilagus mansuetus), as well as threats to its population viability, were determined through surveys undertaken since 1995 on San José Island in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Sylvilagus mansuetus is restricted to a specific desert habitat found in the southwestern coastal plains of the island. Vegetation in this habitat is composed primarily of 7 plant species. The extent of rabbit occurrence is only 20 km2, and the population density estimate in the most optimal habitat is 25–35 individuals · km–2. To …

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Minibiotus Acadianus (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae), A New Species Of Tardigrada From Southern Louisiana, U.S.A., Harry A. Meyer, Megan N. Domingue Apr 2011

Minibiotus Acadianus (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae), A New Species Of Tardigrada From Southern Louisiana, U.S.A., Harry A. Meyer, Megan N. Domingue

Western North American Naturalist

Over 200 species of freshwater and terrestrial water bears (phylum Tardigrada) are known to occur in North America. Of these, 16 species have been collected in Louisiana. Foliose and fruticose lichens collected on 18 April 2010 in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, were stored in paper envelopes and later soaked in tap water overnight. Tardigrade specimens and eggs were extracted and mounted in polyvinyl lactophenol. The samples contained a new species of tardigrade. Minibiotus acadianus sp. n. has a buccal tube with single anterior curvature, 2 macroplacoids and 1 microplacoid. Small gibbosities are present on the fourth pair of legs, in 3 …

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Ungulate Herbivory On Alpine Willow In The Sangre De Cristo Mountains Of Colorado, Linda C. Zeigenfuss, Kathryn A. Schoenecker, Lisa K. Van Amburg Apr 2011

Ungulate Herbivory On Alpine Willow In The Sangre De Cristo Mountains Of Colorado, Linda C. Zeigenfuss, Kathryn A. Schoenecker, Lisa K. Van Amburg

Western North American Naturalist

In many areas of the Rocky Mountains, elk (Cervus elaphus) migrate from low-elevation mountain valleys during spring to high-elevation subalpine and alpine areas for the summer. Research has focused on the impacts of elk herbivory on winter-range plant communities, particularly on woody species such as willow and aspen; however, little information is available on the effects of elk herbivory on alpine willows. In the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of south central Colorado, select alpine areas appear to receive high levels of summer elk herbivory, while other areas are nearly unbrowsed. In 2005 and 2008, we measured willow height, …

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Canyon Grassland Vegetation Changes Following Fire In Northern Idaho, Corey L. Gucker, Stephen C. Bunting Apr 2011

Canyon Grassland Vegetation Changes Following Fire In Northern Idaho, Corey L. Gucker, Stephen C. Bunting

Western North American Naturalist

Native and nonnative vegetation mosaics are common in western rangelands. If land managers could better predict changes in the abundance of native and nonnative species following disturbances, maintenance of native plant cover and diversity may be improved. In August 2000, during suppression of a wildfire near Lewiston, Idaho, a backing fire burned canyon grassland plots. A previous study had recorded species composition and cover prior to the fire, so we were able to evaluate changes in species composition and abundance on established plots before and after the fire. Overall, summer burning had little effect on the grassland communities. Pseudoroegneria spicata …

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Occurrence Of Ord's Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys Ordii) Along Its Eastern Distributional Limit In Nebraska, Greg D. Wright, Keith Geluso Apr 2011

Occurrence Of Ord's Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys Ordii) Along Its Eastern Distributional Limit In Nebraska, Greg D. Wright, Keith Geluso

Western North American Naturalist

Changes in land use continue to alter habitats throughout Nebraska, and few studies have examined how such changes affect distributional limits of mammals. The distribution of Ord’s kangaroo rat (Dipodomys ordii) was last examined in eastern Nebraska about 4 decades ago. We examined the current eastern distributional limits ofD. ordii to see whether its range had expanded, contracted, or remained constant in the state since the 1960s. Based on our study, kangaroo rats have experienced little change in distribution during recent decades. Herein, we report on data for 8 counties without prior records and a marginal range …

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Melanism In Endangered Mohave Tui Chub Siphateles Bicolor Mohavensis Snyder 1918 (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), Sujan M. Henkanaththegedara, Craig A. Stockwell Apr 2011

Melanism In Endangered Mohave Tui Chub Siphateles Bicolor Mohavensis Snyder 1918 (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), Sujan M. Henkanaththegedara, Craig A. Stockwell

Western North American Naturalist

Although melanism has been reported in a wide variety of taxa, the presence of melanic individuals is relatively rare in fishes. Melanism in Mohave tui chub (Siphateles bicolor mohavensis), an endangered endemic of the Mojave Desert in California, is reported from 2 of 4 surveyed populations. The typical body color varies from dark brown to olive brown dorsally and is whitish ventrally; sides are silvery or golden, and fins are pale yellow to dusky red. While conducting population censuses in 2007–2008, we found 4 melanic Mohave tui chubs from 2 of 4 surveyed habitats. Two of 1049 fish …

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The Relationships Among Plant Cover, Density, Seed Rain, And Dispersal Of Bromus Tectorum In High-Elevation Populations, Andrew R. Kanarek, Rebecca Hufft Kao Apr 2011

The Relationships Among Plant Cover, Density, Seed Rain, And Dispersal Of Bromus Tectorum In High-Elevation Populations, Andrew R. Kanarek, Rebecca Hufft Kao

Western North American Naturalist

The invasive species Bromus tectorum L. is recognized as one of the most ecologically and economically devastating weeds in the western United States. Although B. tectorumhas been studied extensively, few studies have examined its dispersal and spread. We collected data from sites with B. tectorum in and around Rocky Mountain National Park to quantify the relationships between plant cover/density and seed rain and dispersal distance. Results suggest that there is a positive relationship between density within a patch and local seed rain and that B. tectorum exhibits relatively limited short-distance dispersal (where seeds fell in close proximity to plants …

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Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves In Nature By Ian Mccallum, Howard O. Clark Jr. Apr 2011

Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves In Nature By Ian Mccallum, Howard O. Clark Jr.

Western North American Naturalist

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Geochemical Analysis Of Ancient Fremont Activity Areas At Wolf Village, Utah, Laura Morrison Pyper Apr 2011

Geochemical Analysis Of Ancient Fremont Activity Areas At Wolf Village, Utah, Laura Morrison Pyper

Theses and Dissertations

There is growing interest in the use of geochemical analyses for the evaluation of anthropogenically altered soils and other archaeological deposits. Areas of human habitation and activity tend to accumulate greater levels of soil phosphorus and trace metals. These elevated concentrations leave permanent signatures that can only be removed by erosion of the soil itself, and so phosphorus and trace metal mapping have become popular field procedures to identify areas of habitation and activity. Gridded soil samples were collected and soil phosphate and trace metal ions were extracted to identify these activity areas at the ancient Fremont site Wolf Village …

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Spatial Organization Of Northern Flying Squirrels, Glaucomys Sabrinus: Territoriality In Females?, Jaya R. Smith, Dirk H. Van Vuren, Douglas A. Kelt, Michael L. Johnson Apr 2011

Spatial Organization Of Northern Flying Squirrels, Glaucomys Sabrinus: Territoriality In Females?, Jaya R. Smith, Dirk H. Van Vuren, Douglas A. Kelt, Michael L. Johnson

Western North American Naturalist

We determined home-range overlap among northern flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus) to assess their spatial organization. We found extensive home-range overlap among females, and though this overlap could reflect social behavior, we found no evidence of attraction among females, with only one instance of den-sharing. Instead, our results suggest that females share foraging areas but may be territorial in portions of the home range, especially around den trees and during young-rearing. Home-range overlap could also result from the extrinsic effect of forest fragmentation due to timber harvest, which might impede dispersal and force squirrels to cluster on remaining fragments …

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Breeding And Parental Care In The Endangered Tehuantepec Jackrabbit (Lepus Flavigularis), Tamara Rioja, Consuelo Lorenzo, Eduardo Naranjo, Laura Scott, Arturo Carrillo-Reyes Apr 2011

Breeding And Parental Care In The Endangered Tehuantepec Jackrabbit (Lepus Flavigularis), Tamara Rioja, Consuelo Lorenzo, Eduardo Naranjo, Laura Scott, Arturo Carrillo-Reyes

Western North American Naturalist

We documented date and duration of each breeding phase, breeding rate, nursing behavior, parental care, and leveret survival of the Tehuantepec jackrabbit (Lepus flavigularis), a critically endangered lagomorph. Between June 2006 and May 2008, we observed 60 adult radio-collared jackrabbits in Oaxaca, México. Tehuantepec jackrabbits exhibit breeding behaviors 250 days out of the year, with a high-intensity period during the rainy season (May–October). Females give birth to 2 leverets 32 days after copulation. Directly after birth, leverets are put into “beds” or “nests,” which are depressions in the ground covered by prairie grass (Jouvea pilosa). Females …

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Exercise Conditioning Decreases Downstream Movement Of Pond-Reared Razorback Suckers Released Into A Stream Environment, Luke A. Avery, David L. Ward, Jane C. Marks Apr 2011

Exercise Conditioning Decreases Downstream Movement Of Pond-Reared Razorback Suckers Released Into A Stream Environment, Luke A. Avery, David L. Ward, Jane C. Marks

Western North American Naturalist

Despite augmentation stocking efforts, wild populations of razorback suckers (Xyrauchen texanus) continue to decline. Endangered razorback suckers are commonly raised in off-channel ponds until maturity (approximately 300 mm TL) and then stocked into the Colorado River or its tributaries. After fish are stocked, they commonly move large distances downstream. We conducted an experiment to determine if downstream dispersal could be reduced through exercise conditioning. Two groups of razorback suckers, exercised and nonexercised, were released into Fossil Creek, Arizona. Prior to release, a subsample from each treatment group was tested in a laboratory flow chamber. Razorback suckers that had …

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Software Integration For Flood Management, V. Moya, I. Popescu, D. P. Solomatine Apr 2011

Software Integration For Flood Management, V. Moya, I. Popescu, D. P. Solomatine

Open Water Journal

The following article describes a file based integration used to integrate the hydrological (0D) HEC-HMS, the 1D hydraulic HEC-RAS and 2D hydraulic Sobek. Such integration allowed to run the models one after the other as a single one, taking the output from one model as the input for the next one. Furthermore, such integration not only allowed to overcome model limitations, but also opened new opportunities such as an online application where the user is able to execute the models inside a website and get the results. File based integration was easily coupled with new application as Google Earth in …

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Environmental Implications Of Polymer Coated Urea, Joshua James Lemonte Apr 2011

Environmental Implications Of Polymer Coated Urea, Joshua James Lemonte

Theses and Dissertations

Nitrogen is an essential plant nutrient in the biosphere. Although N is necessary and beneficial for life, it is also a common pollutant in the atmosphere and hydrosphere as it may be lost to the atmosphere as ammonia (NH3) or nitrous oxide (N2O) gases or to groundwater as nitrate (NO3-) following fertilization. Polymer coated urea (PCU) is one type of N fertilizer which uses temperature-controlled diffusion to control N release to better match plant demand and mitigate environmental losses of N. The objectives of this project were to simultaneously compare the effects of PCU on gaseous (as N2O and NH3) …

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Nanocomposite High Displacement Strain Gauges For Use In Human-Machine Interfaces: Applications In Hand Pose Determination, Thomas B. Calkins Apr 2011

Nanocomposite High Displacement Strain Gauges For Use In Human-Machine Interfaces: Applications In Hand Pose Determination, Thomas B. Calkins

Theses and Dissertations

Conductive nanocomposites are finding many uses as multi-functional materials. One recent development involves the creation of high displacement strain gauges, which have potential applications in a variety of engineering roles. The piezoresistive nature of the gauges makes possible their strain sensing capability. The intent of this research is to show that specific High Displacement Strain Gauges can successfully be used in one human-machine interface application that will demonstrate their potential for a range of other human-machine interface applications. This will be shown in the development of these sensors to accomplish hand pose determination. The flexible and inexpensive gauges are attached …

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Field Algae Measurements Using Empirical Correlations At Deer Creek Reservoir, Ryan A. Stephens Apr 2011

Field Algae Measurements Using Empirical Correlations At Deer Creek Reservoir, Ryan A. Stephens

Theses and Dissertations

Deer Creek Reservoir in Utah has a history of high algae concentrations. Despite recent nutrient reduction efforts, seasonal algae continue to present problems. Cost effective, accurate, and comprehensive monitoring is important to understand the reservoir processes driving this problem and characterizing the algae spatial and temporal distributions are an important part of this effort. Current laboratory methods for accurately measuring algae are expensive and time consuming and are based on water samples taken in the field and transported to the laboratory. This approach only provides data for relatively few point samples because of the time and expense of sample collection …

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Gesamtkunstwerk And Other Trifles: Poems, Derk A. Olthof Apr 2011

Gesamtkunstwerk And Other Trifles: Poems, Derk A. Olthof

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In all their various categories, the arts serve as the dominant subject matter of Gesamtkunstwerk and Other Trifles. The title itself begins with a German word-meld—gesamt (total) + kunstwerk (work of art). Thus a primary aim of these poems is to bring as many elements of art together as possible and to use their various forms (self-portraits, nocturnes, odes, etc.) as metaphorical frameworks that inform abstractions such as regret ("How to Draw Regret"), psychological disorders ("Insomnia Nocturnes") and confusion in how one should feel about living realities as opposed to inanimate objects ("Dead Starling"). Most of the poems …

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Reviving The Latent Content Of Alchemy In William Shakespeare's Othello, Sarita Clara Rich Apr 2011

Reviving The Latent Content Of Alchemy In William Shakespeare's Othello, Sarita Clara Rich

Theses and Dissertations

While many of Shakespeare's alchemical allusions are noted for their language of positive regeneration and healing, the playwright's departures from these conventional uses of alchemy deserve further attention. This essay presents an examination of inversions in the redemptive alchemical paradigm of Othello, a play whose connections to alchemy are not announced by obvious references to gold making, the philosopher's stone, or other key terms relating to the discourse of the opus that a modern audience is likely to recognize. I argue that in Othello, alchemical allusions are more subtly deployed in the language that describes Othello and Desdemona's …

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A Typology For Fremont Figurines, Adreanne Potts Apr 2011

A Typology For Fremont Figurines, Adreanne Potts

Student Works

Many scholars and observes have noted the similarities between Fremont-attributed rock art and Fremont anthropomorphic clay figurines. An established Fremont rock art typology has been recognized yet no typology has been created to categorize and describe Fremont figurines. Although some of the characteristics utilized to describe Fremont rock art apply to Fremont anthropomorphic clay figurines, the limits of unfired clay as a medium to represent the human figure, give the figurines unique characteristics distinct from the rock art types.

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Between The Camera And The Gun: The Problem Of Epistemic Violence In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Katherine Ann Rich Apr 2011

Between The Camera And The Gun: The Problem Of Epistemic Violence In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Katherine Ann Rich

Theses and Dissertations

Since the 75th anniversary of the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane in 2003, a growing number of journalists and historians writing about the disaster have incorporated Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God as part of the official historical record of the hurricane. These writers often border on depicting Their Eyes as the authentic experience of black migrant workers impacted by the hurricane and subsequent flood. Within the novel itself, however, Hurston theorizes on the potential epistemic violence that occurs when a piece of evidence—a photograph, fallen body, or verbal artifact—is used to judge a person. Without a person's …

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Longitudinal Changes In The Corpus Callosum Following Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury As Assessed By Volumetric Mri And Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Trevor Chuang Kuo Wu Apr 2011

Longitudinal Changes In The Corpus Callosum Following Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury As Assessed By Volumetric Mri And Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Trevor Chuang Kuo Wu

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Atrophy of the corpus callosum (CC) is a documented consequence of moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), which has been expressed as volume loss using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Other advanced imaging modalities such as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) have also detected white matter microstructural alteration following TBI in the CC. The manner and degree to which macrostructural changes such as volume and microstructural changes develop over time following pediatric TBI and their relation to a measure of processing speed is the focus of this longitudinal investigation. As such, DTI and volumetric changes of the CC in participants with TBI …

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The Divine Nature And Destiny Of Women, Glenn L. Pace Apr 2011

The Divine Nature And Destiny Of Women, Glenn L. Pace

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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The Jerusalem Conference: The First Council Of The Christian Church, Frank F. Judd Jr. Apr 2011

The Jerusalem Conference: The First Council Of The Christian Church, Frank F. Judd Jr.

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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Vol. 12 No. 1 Religious Educator, Religious Educator Apr 2011

Vol. 12 No. 1 Religious Educator, Religious Educator

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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