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Introduction To Library Automation Systems In The People's Republic Of China, Zongying Yang

Journal of East Asian Libraries

The paper is a brief introduction to computer applications in libraries in the People's Republic of China. In the past thirteen years there have been two stages of development. Systems testing took place from 1978 to 1987. Since 1988 the focus has shifted to practical applications. Four models of computer systems are presently in use in the whole country: minicomputers, microcomputers with multi-users, Ethernet plus three, and mainframe computers. Since October 1990 CNMARC Chinese data records on floppies or on tapes have been published by the Tuxin Company. USMARC on CD-ROM optical disk has been used for the catalog of …

Libraries And Institutions, William Wong

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Professional Vacancies, Committee On East Asian Libraries

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Committee Activities, Chi Wang, Mihoko Miki, Karl Kahler, Warren M. Tsuneishi, Robert R. Britt

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Special Reports, Amy Vladeck Heinrich

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Sound Symbolic Involvement, Janis B. Nuckolls

Faculty Publications

This article examines an iconic form of communication, sound symbolism, which has been associated with oral cultures and implicated in paradigms of primitive mentality, I argue that Lowland Ecuadorean Quechua speakers use sound symbolic iconicity to create interlocutionary involvement. A speaker's performative foregrounding of a sound symbolic form simuhtes the salient qualities of an action, event, or process, and thereby invites a listener to project into an experience. This projected involvement, in turn, points the listener to deeper kinds of imaginative, intellectual, and emotional engagement with the narrative. The argument is based on an analysis of the formal and semantic …

Relating Soil Chemistry And Plant Relationship In Wooded Draws Of The Northern Great Plains, Marguerite E. Voorhees, Daniel W. Uresk

Great Basin Naturalist

Soils of the green ash/chokecherry habitat type in northwestern South Dakota were evaluated for 22 properties to determine whether any could be correlated with density of chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) and snowberry (Symphoricarpos occidentalis). Surface soils were moderately fertile, with high levels of all elements except phosphorus and nitrogen. Soils were fine textured with moderately high cation exchange capacity and saturation percentages. However, soils were nonsaline-nonalkaline with low amounts of exchangeable sodium. None of the soil properties showed good correlation with chokecherry and snowberry densities. Greatest correlations were found between each of the shrub species and grass.

End Matter, Vol. 52 No. 1

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Late Quaternary Arthropods From The Colorado Plateau, Arizona And Utah, Scott A. Elias, Jim I. Mead, Larry D. Agenbroad

Great Basin Naturalist

Late Quaternary-age arthropods were recovered from dry cave deposits and packrat middens located in the Grand Canyon, Canyonlands, and Glen Canyon region of the Colorado Plateau. This Quaternary data resource has not been analyzed before from the Colorado Plateau national parks. Radiocarbon dates on the various deposits containing arthropods range from 1510 to 30,660 yr B.P. The fossil assemblages yielded 57 identified taxa of insects, arachnids, and millipedes, including 15 taxa taken to the species level. The information from the fossil insect record of the Colorado Plateau is not yet sufficiently detailed to permit precise paleoenvironmental reconstructions. However, preliminary conclusions …

Dna Extraction From Preserved Trout Tissues, D. K. Shiozawa, J. Kudo, R. P. Evans, S. R. Woodward, R. N. Williams

Great Basin Naturalist

We have adapted techniques developed for the extraction of DNA from formalin-fixed, paraffin-imbedded human tissues for use on preserved fish tissues. DNA was successfully extracted and the d-loop region of mitochondrial DNA was amplified with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The sequences of the amplified DNA from preserved and modern samples were identical. These techniques were also applied to fin tissue treated with a variety of preservatives. Extraction of DNA from ethyl alcohol and air-dried fin tissues gave yields equivalent to those from frozen tissues. Extraction of DNA from preserved museum specimens of rare or extinct taxa could significantly increase …

No. 13 Mormon Pacific Historical Society, Proceedings, Thirteenth Annual Conference, Mormon History In The Pacific, Mormon Pacific Historical Society

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

No abstract provided.

Mormons And Lepers: The Saints At Kalaupapa, Lance Chase

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

No abstract provided.

Beyond The Bottom Line, Greg Forbush, Jonathan M. Chamberlain

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

Hiding, Health, And Love: Some Interrelationships, Burton C. Kelly

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

A General Three Dimensional All Quadrilateral Surface Mesh Generation Algorithm, Roger Cass

Theses and Dissertations

Among the available all-quadrilateral mesh generation algorithms progressive-front offers the best quality and robustness. The paving algorithm is a progressive-front technique that generates a two dimensional mesh of all quadrilaterals on planar surfaces. The technique is particularly suited to meshing irregular boundaries with interior holes. This thesis presents an extension of the paving algorithm to generalized three dimensional surfaces. The major problems in three-dimensional surface mesh generation are projection of nodes, calculation of interior angles, and connection of mesh fronts. The solutions to these problems are presented. This work is part of the ongoing CUBIT project at Sandia Labs. The …

Bibliography Of Recent Publications By Amcap Members, Amcap Journal

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

Proposed Agenda For A Spiritual Strategy In Personality And Psychotherapy, Allen E. Bergin, I. Reed Payne

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

This essay argues that spiritual approaches in personality and psychotherapy are currently not coherent and that a rational strategy is not being pursued to develop an authentic spiritual orientation that can take its place alongside the other major orientations to personality and psychotherapy. It is suggested that a systematic spiritual approach needs to be developed that contributes uniquely to (a) a conception of human nature, (b) a moral frame of reference, and (c) specific techniques of change. In addition, a spiritual approach, if it is to be a viable option in the mental health field needs to be (d) empirical, …

European Chivalry In The 1490s, Jennifer R. Goodman

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Roger Williams Wescott. Getting It Together: Linking The Humanities To One Another And To The Sciences, William Eckhardt

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

World Studies At Queens College, Frederick Buell

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Professional Vacancies, Committee On East Asian Libraries

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

The Web, James Stanger

Inscape

No abstract provided.

Editor's Introduction: Questions To Legal Answers, Daniel C. Peterson

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Peterson relates his understanding of a dispute between FARMS and Signature Books about matters of free inquiry and intellectual (dis)honesty.

Weldon Langfield, The Truth About Mormonism: A Former Adherent Analyzes The Lds Faith, Matthew Roper

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of The Truth about Mormonism: A Former Adherent Analyzes the LDS Faith (1991), by Weldon Langfield.

Out Of Darkness Into Light: A Novel Approach, Richard H. Cracroft

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Out of Darkness (1991), by Keith C. Terry (with Maurice R. Tanner).

Vol. 4 Farms Review Of Books On The Book Of Mormon, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.

A Tragedy Of Errors, John Gee

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of . . . By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri (1992), by Charles M. Larson.

Offenders For A Word: How Anti-Mormons Play Word Games To Attack The Latter-Day Saints, Daniel C. Peterson, Stephen D. Ricks

Maxwell Institute Publications

This book reveals the tactics many anti-Mormons employ in attacking the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In clear, straightforward terms, the authors explain the true beliefs of the church and how to see through the word games that critics use to attack it.

Offenders for a Word answers critics’ objections to Latter-day Saint beliefs regarding the Godhead, polygamy, salvation by grace and works, eternal progression, the premortal existence, the role of the Prophet Joseph Smith, the nature of the Holy Ghost, and much more.

Glottal Airflow And Electroglottographic Measures Of Vocal Function At Multiple Intensities, Christopher Dromey, Elaine T. Stathopouloss, Christine M. Sapienza

Faculty Publications

Summary: Ten normal female subjects produced syllables at 5 dB increments from soft to loud. The differentiated electroglottogram (dEGG) open and speed quotients were compared to similar quotients from the inverse-filtered airflow waveform. The latter were measured according to objective and subjective criteria. The data indicate that the open quotient from the airflow waveform decreased as the intensity increased. The dEGG open quotient did not demonstrate this trend. The speed quotient from airflow increased initially with vocal intensity and decreased again as the intensity ceiling was approached. The ratio of closing to opening slopes calculated from peaks in the dEGG …

Aberrant Mormon Settlers: The Homesteaders Of Highland, Utah, David T. Durfey

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a history of the original thirty-seven homesteaders of Highland, Utah. It covers a period of about twenty-five years, 1875-1900. The study provides an example of a aberrant community which was not established in the same, distinctive style of settlement as the typical Mormon village. In addition it describes the relationship between the original residents and non-residents of Highland with the surrounding villages of Lehi, American Fork, and Alpine.