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Reconsidering Solidarity In The Mormon Village, Todd L. Goodsell Dec 1998

Reconsidering Solidarity In The Mormon Village, Todd L. Goodsell

Theses and Dissertations

In what became a classic rural community study, Lowry Nelson concluded in his first Mormon village series in the 1920's that the Mormon village is characterized by an extraordinary sense of solidarity. He claimed that this strong solidarity can be primarily explained by four factors of the social group: leadership, conflict, cooperation, and ideology. After resurveying the Mormon village in 1950, he concluded that solidarity had declined. However, a few problems become apparent to the present researcher looking back upon Nelson's findings. One of them is that Nelson never had a clear definition of solidarity to begin with. Another is …

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What Can Humor And Advertising Teach Us About Legal Drafting?, Dallin D. Oaks, Jeremy Lewis Dec 1998

What Can Humor And Advertising Teach Us About Legal Drafting?, Dallin D. Oaks, Jeremy Lewis

Faculty Publications

In his book Legal Drafting in a Nutshell, Haggard includes a useful chapter of nearly 50 pages in which he lists various lexical and structural elements and explains how these can lead to ambiguous writing. The kind of inventory approach that he presents is helpful and reveals that ambiguity doesn't just happen but often results from the careless use of identifiable structures or particular words.

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A Recursive Green's Function Method For Boundary Integral Analysis Of Inhomogeneous Domains, Jim D. Freeze, Michael A. Jensen Dec 1998

A Recursive Green's Function Method For Boundary Integral Analysis Of Inhomogeneous Domains, Jim D. Freeze, Michael A. Jensen

Faculty Publications

The recursive Green's function method (RGFM) for computation of fields scattered by two-dimensional (2-D) inhomogeneous dielectric bodies is presented. The algorithm efficiently constructs the Green's function for the inhomogeneous region by recursively combining known Green's functions from smaller subdomains. The fields on the scatterer surface are then computed using a boundary integral formulation. Proper implementation of the RGFM results in computational and storage complexities which scale as N1.5 and N, respectively, where N is the total number of discrete cells in a domain. Comparisons of results obtained using the RGFM with those computed from moment method and exact solutions show …

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Full Issue Nov 1998

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

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New Bisexual Form Of Cavernocypris Subterranea (Wolf, 1920) (Crustacea, Ostracoda) From Idaho, Okan Külköylüoğlu, Gary L. Vinyard Oct 1998

New Bisexual Form Of Cavernocypris Subterranea (Wolf, 1920) (Crustacea, Ostracoda) From Idaho, Okan Külköylüoğlu, Gary L. Vinyard

Great Basin Naturalist

Males of Cavernocypris subterranea were found for the first time in an Idaho spring. The bisexual form is described based on soft body parts and valves. The genus Cavernocypris now includes 2 bisexual and 1 parthenogenetic species.

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End Matter, Vol. 58 No. 4 Oct 1998

End Matter, Vol. 58 No. 4

Great Basin Naturalist

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Soil-Vegetation Relations Of Recovering Subalpine Range Of The Wasatch Plateau, James O. Klemmedson, Arthur R. Tiedemann Oct 1998

Soil-Vegetation Relations Of Recovering Subalpine Range Of The Wasatch Plateau, James O. Klemmedson, Arthur R. Tiedemann

Great Basin Naturalist

On degraded subalpine range of the Wasatch Plateau, we examined the hypothesis that recovery of vegetation, as manifested by its composition and biomass yield, was related to soil phosphorus (P) and sulfur (S) status. We sampled 6 topographic locations to determine the relationship among composition and yield of grasses and forbs, litter cover, and soil characteristics including rock cover, organic carbon (Co), total N (Nt), available nitrogen (Nav), total phosphorus (Pt), organic P (Po), inorganic P (Pi), total potassium (K), total S (St), and element ratios. …

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Use And Selection Of Brood-Rearing Habitat By Sage Grouse In South Central Washington, Colin M. Sveum, John A. Crawford, W. Daniel Edge Oct 1998

Use And Selection Of Brood-Rearing Habitat By Sage Grouse In South Central Washington, Colin M. Sveum, John A. Crawford, W. Daniel Edge

Great Basin Naturalist

Sage Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) brood-habitat use was examined during 1992 and 1993 at the Yakima Training Center in Yakima and Kittitas counties, Washington. During the 2 yr we followed 38 broods, of which 12 persisted to 1 August (x̄ = approximately 1.5 chicks/brood). Food forb cover was greater at all brood locations than at random locations. Hens with broods in big sagebrush/bunchgrass habitat (Artemisia tridentata/Agropyron spicatum) selected for greater food forb cover, total forb cover, and lower shrub heights; broods in altered big sagebrush/bunchgrass habitats selected greater tall grass cover and vertical cover height; broods …

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Professional Vacancies, Journal Of East Asian Libraries Oct 1998

Professional Vacancies, Journal Of East Asian Libraries

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Tribute To Eugene Wu, Weiying Wan, Eugene Wu Oct 1998

Tribute To Eugene Wu, Weiying Wan, Eugene Wu

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

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1997-1998 Multi-Volume Set Project Report, Frederic Kotas Oct 1998

1997-1998 Multi-Volume Set Project Report, Frederic Kotas

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

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Sally Thompson. Women Religious: The Founding Of English Nunneries After The Norman Conquest., H. Loring White Oct 1998

Sally Thompson. Women Religious: The Founding Of English Nunneries After The Norman Conquest., H. Loring White

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Carroll Quigley On The Matrix Of Civilizations: A Dialectic, Arthur S. Iberall Oct 1998

Carroll Quigley On The Matrix Of Civilizations: A Dialectic, Arthur S. Iberall

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Civilizations Galore, Roger Williams Wescott Oct 1998

Civilizations Galore, Roger Williams Wescott

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

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Images Of Foreigners In Edo Period Maps And Prints, Tsuneharu Gonnami Oct 1998

Images Of Foreigners In Edo Period Maps And Prints, Tsuneharu Gonnami

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Analysis Of The Interpolation Error Between Multiresolution Images, Bryan S. Morse Oct 1998

Analysis Of The Interpolation Error Between Multiresolution Images, Bryan S. Morse

Faculty Publications

Many rendering or image-analysis systems require calculation of versions of an image at lesser resolutions than the original. Because the filtering required to perform such calculations accurately cannot typically be done in real time, many systems use interpolation between images at precalculated resolutions. This discrete sampling of the scale component of multiresolution image spaces is analogous to spatial sampling in discrete images. This paper quantifies and bounds the error that can be introduced during such interpolation as a function of the scale-space sampling rate used. A method is presented that uses the diffusion equation to relate spatial derivatives to scale …

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Java Applets Enhance Learning In A Freshman Ece Course, Charles R. Graham, Timothy N. Trick Oct 1998

Java Applets Enhance Learning In A Freshman Ece Course, Charles R. Graham, Timothy N. Trick

Faculty Publications

The goals of our work have been to enhance the learning environment of our students and to increase the productivity of faculty by freeing them from the drudgery of grading homework and quizzes, as well as the time required to record and compute grades. We have achieved these goals by means of the highly interactive World Wide Web (WWW)-based learning environment provided by MallardTM, 1,2 and by the development of several java applets within the Mallard environment to enhance the learning process. These Java applets are the subject of this paper. They include the ability to draw timing diagrams and …

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An Analysis Of Temperature Dependent Photoluminescence Line Shapes In Ingan, John S. Colton, K. L. Teo, P. Y. Yu, E. R. Weber, M. F. Li, W. Lui, K. Uchida, H. Tokunaga, N. Akutsu, K. Matsumoto Sep 1998

An Analysis Of Temperature Dependent Photoluminescence Line Shapes In Ingan, John S. Colton, K. L. Teo, P. Y. Yu, E. R. Weber, M. F. Li, W. Lui, K. Uchida, H. Tokunaga, N. Akutsu, K. Matsumoto

Faculty Publications

Photoluminescence (PL) line shapes in InGaN multiple quantum well structures have been studied experimentally and theoretically between 10 and 300 K. The higher temperature PL spectra can be fitted qualitatively with a thermalized carrier distribution and a broadened joint-density-of-states. The low temperature PL line shapes suggest that carriers are not thermalized, as a result of localization by band-gap fluctuations. We deduce a localization energy of ~7 meV as compared with an activation energy of ~63 meV from thermal quenching of the PL intensity. We thus conclude that this activation energy and the band-gap fluctuation most likely have different origins.

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The Access Of Religious Groups To Public Fora: Lamb's Chapel V. Center Moriches Union Free School District, Benjamin N. Davis Sep 1998

The Access Of Religious Groups To Public Fora: Lamb's Chapel V. Center Moriches Union Free School District, Benjamin N. Davis

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

No abstract provided.

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Coming Of Age: Female Attorneys In Politics, Bret Bryce Sep 1998

Coming Of Age: Female Attorneys In Politics, Bret Bryce

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

No abstract provided.

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Evaluation Of Personal Communications Dual-Antenna Handset Diversity Performance, Michael A. Jensen, Joseph S. Colburn, Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Gregory J. Pottie Aug 1998

Evaluation Of Personal Communications Dual-Antenna Handset Diversity Performance, Michael A. Jensen, Joseph S. Colburn, Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Gregory J. Pottie

Faculty Publications

In personal wireless communications systems, multipath propagation has a significant effect on system design and performance. Signal strength fading caused by destructive interference between multiple replicas of the signal of interest arriving at the receiver over different paths often is the limiting factor in system range/fidelity. Antenna diversity is one technique that can be used to help overcome multipath fading. This paper presents a description of experiments, data processing, and results used to evaluate the diversity performance of three candidate dual-antenna handset configurations: two side-mounted planar-inverted F antennas (PIFAs), a back-mounted PIFA with a top-mounted helix, a top-mounted PIFA, and …

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Since Joseph Smith's Time: Lexical Semantic Shifts In The Book Of Mormon, Renee Bangerter Aug 1998

Since Joseph Smith's Time: Lexical Semantic Shifts In The Book Of Mormon, Renee Bangerter

Theses and Dissertations

In the years since Joseph Smith completed the translation of the Book of Mormon, the English language has changed; some common phraseologies and word meanings are dissimilar to today's. Often, in reading the Book of Mormon, we impose our current definitions onto terms that in 1830 had a different meaning. Our interpretation of these words, as well as the passages in which they are found, is skewed by our modern definitions. These words, when they occur in the Book of Mormon, demonstrate dialectal and obsolete senses. In the case of some words, the dialectal or obsolete sense is so far …

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Meaning In Family Mealtime, Ardyth Gunnell Cannon Aug 1998

Meaning In Family Mealtime, Ardyth Gunnell Cannon

Theses and Dissertations

This project asks families what mealtime together means to them. The topic of family mealtime appears comparatively infrequently in academic literature, and any meaning that families associate with mealtime has seldom been studied directly. This particular research investigates meanings of the understudied mealtime event by interviewing three or four generations of family members from five different families. Attention is paid to emerging standards of rigor for qualitative research, namely applicability through the selection of families who have a history of practicing a family mealtime tradition, truth value in faithfully representing the interviewees perceptions, and auditability by including detail of the …

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The Editor's Notebook, John L. Sorenson Jul 1998

The Editor's Notebook, John L. Sorenson

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Introduction to this issue.

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Range Of The Brown-Headed Cowbird In Colorado: Past And Present, Jameson F. Chace, Alexander Cruz Jul 1998

Range Of The Brown-Headed Cowbird In Colorado: Past And Present, Jameson F. Chace, Alexander Cruz

Great Basin Naturalist

The historic range of the bison (Bison bison) on the Great Plains has been well documented. In Colorado the range of bison included both the eastern grasslands and higher-elevation ridges and mountain parks, up to an elevation of 3900 m. Based on the commensal relationship of the brood-parasitic Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) with the bison, we suggest that the cowbird had a larger historical elevational range in Colorado than previously known and consequently has had a long-term host-parasite relationship with high-elevation breeding songbirds.

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Gap Analysis Of The Vegetation Of The Intermountain Semi-Desert Ecoregion, David M. Stoms, Frank W. Davis, Kenneth L. Driese, Kelly M. Cassidy, Michael P. Murray Jul 1998

Gap Analysis Of The Vegetation Of The Intermountain Semi-Desert Ecoregion, David M. Stoms, Frank W. Davis, Kenneth L. Driese, Kelly M. Cassidy, Michael P. Murray

Great Basin Naturalist

A conservation gap analysis was conducted for the Intermountain Semi-Desert ecoregion to assess the representation of land-cover types within areas managed primarily for biodiversity objectives. Mapped distributions of plant communities were summarized by land-management status categories. The total amount of land permanently protected in the ecoregion is

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Full Issue, Vol. 58 No. 3 Jul 1998

Full Issue, Vol. 58 No. 3

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

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Professional Vacancy, Journal Of East Asian Libraries Jun 1998

Professional Vacancy, Journal Of East Asian Libraries

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

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Report Of The Ncc Open Meeting, Dorothy D. Gregor Jun 1998

Report Of The Ncc Open Meeting, Dorothy D. Gregor

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

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English Loanwords In Chicano Spanish: Characterization And Rationale, Robert N. Smead May 1998

English Loanwords In Chicano Spanish: Characterization And Rationale, Robert N. Smead

Faculty Publications

One highly visible, often stigmatized feature of Chicano Spanish is lexical innovation due to intimate contact with English and the mainstream culture. As noted in table 1, these Anglicisms are the result of varying degrees of host language adaptation and integration and include at least three distinct types of innovations: the lexical switch, the loanword, and the calque.

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