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Full Issue, Various Reviewers Apr 2022

Full Issue, Various Reviewers

Children's Book and Media Review

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Geology Rocks! Investigate Gems, Jennifer Haltli Apr 2022

Geology Rocks! Investigate Gems, Jennifer Haltli

Children's Book and Media Review

Gems are found in the apparel of the richest, most prominent people. From the Southwest elder’s turquoise bolo to the London starlet’s diamond necklace, gems communicate prowess. Discover how gems become a part of grand clothes and jewelry by learning what the world’s gems are, where they are found, and how they are made and transformed into wearables. Diamonds, with their different cuts and historical significance, pearls, with their living complexity, and ten other gems are explored with their definitions, environmental origins, and chemical classifications. If money is an issue, discover the power of beautiful imitations, synthetics, and cultured gems.

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Full Issue, Various Reviewers Apr 2022

Full Issue, Various Reviewers

Children's Book and Media Review

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The Brain Is Kind Of A Big Deal, Kimberly Reynolds Apr 2022

The Brain Is Kind Of A Big Deal, Kimberly Reynolds

Children's Book and Media Review

Come along on a journey through the brain, and learn about the different functions it performs as it controls everything that we do. The five different lobes of the brain send messages to the body, back and forth like cars on a road, to communicate pain, taste, smell, and danger. Without the brain, our bodies would not be able to perform all the involuntary functions that keep us alive. The brain is the most important part of the body’s control center, as it keeps everything else in the body working together to keep us alive and to give us the …

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Husky, Taylor Bitton Apr 2022

Husky, Taylor Bitton

Children's Book and Media Review

Davis is worried about starting high school this fall. He's heard that everyone gets one adjective that people at school will know him by, and while he knows he has some good and interesting qualities, he's pretty sure his adjective is going to be related to his weight. On top of this, Davis' best friend Sophie started growing away from him when she became best friends with the most popular girl in school. Davis' mom is busy working at her bakery, so his only company this summer has been his grandmother, who criticizes his every move. It feels like everything …

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Full Issue, Various Reviewers Apr 2022

Full Issue, Various Reviewers

Children's Book and Media Review

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The Tragical Tale Of Birdie Bloom, Danielle Dallas Apr 2022

The Tragical Tale Of Birdie Bloom, Danielle Dallas

Children's Book and Media Review

Lovable, kind, ordinary Birdie Bloom is doomed to the gloomiest of existences in the prison of Ms. Foulweather’s Home for the Tragical. In Birdie’s world, wicked witches may use evil spells, fairy godmothers are permitted good magic, and ordinary citizens may be the beneficiaries of either. But because the best possible outcomes are reserved for the Triumphants, Tragicals naturally get the cruelest endings. It’s not that Birdie chose a tragical existence, but in the land of Wanderly, no one dares, or even imagines, to leave their assigned role. That is, until a mysterious wind delivers a cryptic letter to Birdie …

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Full Issue, Various Reviewers Apr 2022

Full Issue, Various Reviewers

Children's Book and Media Review

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Writing!, Katherine Cooper Apr 2022

Writing!, Katherine Cooper

Children's Book and Media Review

People use language to communicate, to share what is in their mind or heart. Writing is the symbol of language. With just 26 letters rearranged in different ways, an endless possibility of words can be formed. In order for writing to be understood by others, it needs to be done well. Otherwise it’s henscratching and not even a hen can understand it. Without writing, people couldn’t send messages in a bottle, write stories, or send a letter. Our words, our stories, belong to us.

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Telegraph, Lisa Winkler Apr 2022

Telegraph, Lisa Winkler

Children's Book and Media Review

In a world where technology changes quickly, it’s hard to overlook the history of how messages have been sent. Telegraph presents these methods of communication, from smoke signals to Morse code, to explain the history of telegraphs and telegrams.

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Full Issue, Various Reviewers Apr 2022

Full Issue, Various Reviewers

Children's Book and Media Review

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Tidal Translations: Thinking-With Untranslatability In Craig Santos Perez's From Unincorporated Territory, Maryn Gardner Apr 2022

Tidal Translations: Thinking-With Untranslatability In Craig Santos Perez's From Unincorporated Territory, Maryn Gardner

Theses and Dissertations

Craig Santos Perez's poetic series from Unincorporated Territory describes and decries the U.S. militarization, colonization, and environmental degradation of Guam in the Western Pacific through multilingual, excerpted, and series-long poems. Perez's writing style requires slow, careful reading with translations sometimes appearing on the same page, various pages later, or not at all. I describe this kind of elongated translation as slow translation, recalling translation theorist Michael Cronin's "Slow Language" movement. This thesis invites readers, especially multispecies ethnographers, to slow down the translation of nonhuman species and their stories by paying attention to moments of untranslatability in multispecies literature and interactions. …

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Technology In The Early Childhood Classroom: An Instructional Class For Pre-Service Teachers, Meagan Nielsen Apr 2022

Technology In The Early Childhood Classroom: An Instructional Class For Pre-Service Teachers, Meagan Nielsen

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

The purpose of this project was to create a new Instructional Psychology and Technology (IP&T) course for Early Childhood Education (ECE) majors at Brigham Young University. Currently, ECE students take three 1-credit IP&T classes that focus on the following disciplines: integrating technology into the classroom, using coding and computational thinking in the classroom, and teaching in online and blended learning environments. These classes are geared towards K-12 education majors and are taught to a broader group of preservice teachers. ECE majors have a very defined set of grades and ages that they can teach, all of which have unique and …

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How Brazilians Used Media To Cope With The Issues Brought By The Covid-19 Pandemic, Vivian De Melo Campos Apr 2022

How Brazilians Used Media To Cope With The Issues Brought By The Covid-19 Pandemic, Vivian De Melo Campos

Theses and Dissertations

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world faced lockdown and quarantine restrictions that encouraged or forced people to stay home. Along with the rest of the world, Brazil faced many difficulties during this period and it became one of the countries that lost more lives due to the Coronavirus infection worldwide. This study focuses on showing how people in Brazil coped with the challenges brought by the pandemic. It also focuses on showing if and how participants used media as a coping mechanism. The research was done through qualitative methods with semi-structured interviews with 25 adults who were living in …

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Communities Of Water: An Examination Of Cooperation And Conflict In Water Management Practices In The Central Peruvian Andes, Sylvie D. Littledale Apr 2022

Communities Of Water: An Examination Of Cooperation And Conflict In Water Management Practices In The Central Peruvian Andes, Sylvie D. Littledale

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores two examples of water management in the highland Peruvian villages, San Pedro de Llancha and San Antonio de Chinchina. One example is of cooperation and union between the two communities. The other is of conflict between the same two villages just 40 years prior. I examine ethnographic and ethnohistorical data from both the collaborative period and the conflictive period of these two communities’ relations over water. The data suggest that, while the outcomes of these two periods were drastically different, the processes through which these communities came into relation with one another were quite similar. Their communal …

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Measuring The Effect Of Translator Training And Language Education On Translation Competence, Calvin J. Westfall Apr 2022

Measuring The Effect Of Translator Training And Language Education On Translation Competence, Calvin J. Westfall

Theses and Dissertations

This study reviews concepts of bilingualism, summarizes various models of translation competency, and quantifies the difference of translation competency among students and graduates of Brigham Young University. By means of a survey about language history and a translation test from Spanish to English, data from 57 participants was collected and analyzed to measure the effect of formal language education and translation training. Despite numerous proposed models of translation competency (Wilss 1976, 1989; Koller, 1979; Krings, 1986; Lörscher, 1991; Toury, 1991; Pym, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2013; Kiraly, 1995; Fraser, 1996; Neubert, 2000; Kelly, 2005; Hague et al., 2011; Pietrzrak, 2015), few …

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Evaluating Ramp Meter Wait Time In Utah, Tanner Jeffrey Daines Apr 2022

Evaluating Ramp Meter Wait Time In Utah, Tanner Jeffrey Daines

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to develop an algorithm that could predict ramp meter wait time at metered freeway on-ramps throughout the state of Utah using existing loop detector systems on the ramps. The loop detectors provided data in 60-second increments that include volume, occupancy, and the metering rate. Using these data sources, several ramp meter queue length algorithms were applied; these predicted queue lengths were then converted into wait times by using the metering rate provided by the detector data. A conservation model and several variations of a Kalman filter model generated predicted queue lengths and wait times …

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Efficacy Of Social Media Analysis As A Service (Smas) For Crisis Events, Rohit Kumar Khattar Apr 2022

Efficacy Of Social Media Analysis As A Service (Smas) For Crisis Events, Rohit Kumar Khattar

Theses and Dissertations

Social media data can be collected and analyzed during and after crisis events to aid in disaster relief efforts. Setting up a system to perform this analysis is associated with various technical challenges. This thesis presents the design and implementation of a social media analysis as a service system. This system is hosted on cloud infrastructure and allows for on demand collection, processing, and delivery of social media data via an intuitive web interface. The service model and cloud infrastructure allow the system to be highly scalable and produce near real time analysis data. A cost evaluation of the system …

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Mindfulness And Observational Drawing, Corinne Christopherson Sonderegger Apr 2022

Mindfulness And Observational Drawing, Corinne Christopherson Sonderegger

Theses and Dissertations

Observational drawing has many benefits, yet it can be a difficult and frustrating curriculum for students and teachers alike. As I was teaching elementary and college art classes simultaneously, I noticed a significant discrepancy between my younger and older students. Students in my elementary art classes loved to draw and often expressed how excited they were to make art. However, students in my college art classes were more hesitant and self-conscious about drawing and did not believe they could progress artistically. Many of these students had abandoned drawing in elementary or middle school. This pattern evokes the U curve of …

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Kiss Number 8, Emma Patton Apr 2022

Kiss Number 8, Emma Patton

Children's Book and Media Review

Kisses number 1 through 7 were predictable, but kiss number 8 changed everything. Amanda, also called Mads, has a secret. Her best friend Cat wants her to date Adam. He’s a little younger but starting to get attractive, and he has a big thing for Mads. The trouble is, Mads is starting to realize that the person she really wants to kiss is Cat. How could that be possible, though? She couldn’t be gay--she’s only kissed boys. There’s also something mysterious happening in her family. It turns out that the person she has always thought of as her grandma is …

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Full Issue, Various Reviewers Apr 2022

Full Issue, Various Reviewers

Children's Book and Media Review

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Defining And Evaluating Design Patterns To Increase "This Is Not A Game" (Tinag), Lucia A. Mata Apr 2022

Defining And Evaluating Design Patterns To Increase "This Is Not A Game" (Tinag), Lucia A. Mata

Theses and Dissertations

TINAG, which stands for This is Not a Game, can be defined as "the concept that there are pervasive games, often ARGs, that are designed to immerse players in such a way that they suspend their disbelief in a fictional narrative and act like the world they have entered is real during their play time" (Pohjola 2004). Many designers and educators want to create games that appear real, but they are unsure of how to accomplish this. Increasing TINAG allows designers to create more realistic games while taking advantage of the many benefits that TINAG experiences offer. The purpose of …

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Principles Of Coaching For Coaching Of Principals: A Self-Directed Approach, Suzanne M. Kimball Apr 2022

Principles Of Coaching For Coaching Of Principals: A Self-Directed Approach, Suzanne M. Kimball

Theses and Dissertations

Research on school districts has repeatedly found that focusing on student learning and instructional leadership is a key component to effectiveness (Murphy & Hallinger, 1988; Leithwood, 2010; Anderson & Young, 2018). Districts are currently undergoing a redefinition of roles in order to specifically support principals as instructional leaders in their schools. This qualitative case study describes how one district began to develop a system for supporting principals through incorporating leadership coaching. This study shares the perspectives of principal supervisors and other district specialists as they built their own capacities to be effective coaches. The complexity of simultaneously developing skills in …

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Accurate Band Energies Of Metals With Quadratic Integration, Jeremy John Jorgensen Apr 2022

Accurate Band Energies Of Metals With Quadratic Integration, Jeremy John Jorgensen

Theses and Dissertations

Materials play an important role in society. Historically, and even at present, materials have been discovered by trial and error, and many of the most useful materials have been discovered by chance. The high-throughput approach aims to remove (as much as possible) chance and guesswork at the experimental level by filtering out materials candidates that are not predicted to exist. Many successes have been recorded. In the high-throughput approach to materials discovery, machined-learned models of materials are created from databases of theoretical materials. These databases are the result of millions of density-functional-theory (DFT) simulations. The size and accuracy of the …

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Witches, Victims, And Villains: #Metoo And The Political Polarization Of Sexual Violence, Hannah Shoaf Apr 2022

Witches, Victims, And Villains: #Metoo And The Political Polarization Of Sexual Violence, Hannah Shoaf

Theses and Dissertations

The MeToo movement, which sought to combat sexual violence, evolved into a partisan problem, where support for or against the movement fell across party lines. This polarization negatively impacted the progress of the MeToo movement, fitting the larger pattern of increasing polarization in the United States. My thesis seeks to understand the politicized nature of sexual violence and to explore what language and themes are drawn on to politicize conversations around sexual violence by using the MeToo movement as a case study. My thesis found that the political polarization of sexual violence increased during the MeToo movement (and especially during …

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How Failures Cascade In Software Systems, Barbara W. Chamberlin Apr 2022

How Failures Cascade In Software Systems, Barbara W. Chamberlin

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Cascading failures involve a failure in one system component that triggers failures in successive system components, potentially leading to system wide failures. While frequently used fault tolerant techniques can reduce the severity and the frequency of such failures, they continue to occur in practice. To better understand how failures cascade, we have conducted a qualitative analysis of 55 cascading failures, described in 26 publicly available incident reports. Through this analysis we have identified 16 types of cascading mechanisms (organized into eight categories) that capture the nature of the system interactions that contribute to cascading failures. We also discuss three themes …

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Playable Case Study Content Management System, Mitchell Stevenson Cross Apr 2022

Playable Case Study Content Management System, Mitchell Stevenson Cross

Theses and Dissertations

Educational simulations can help mitigate the natural gap between traditional education styles and the current professional world. Researchers at BYU have developed an educational simulation solution called Playable Case Studies (PCSs). PCSs are simulations that expose the user to real world scenarios and problems within a pre-built environment. With rising demand and use of these educational simulations, there is a need for easy and inexpensive ways to develop these simulations or Playable Case Studies (PCSs). We propose a content management system (CMS) that is tied to a system that utilizes dynamic modules that make up these simulations. We present a …

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Student Perspectives On Feedback In A Spanish Medical Interpreting Course, Allison Rebecca Brimhall Apr 2022

Student Perspectives On Feedback In A Spanish Medical Interpreting Course, Allison Rebecca Brimhall

Theses and Dissertations

Medical interpreter education is a fast-growing field in which learners sometimes receive inadequate feedback to help them improve their interpreting skills (Sultanić, 2021). This qualitative study focused on students’ perspectives on the different types of feedback given in a university Spanish medical interpreting course. Interviews and written reflections were analyzed to investigate what students personally considered to be the outcomes of the class and how feedback given in the course was associated with their development of interpreting skills and self-efficacy. Students reported that they found the most meaningful improvement through (1) guided self-assessment to discover gaps in their abilities, (2) …

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The Perception Of At-Risk Students On Caring Student-Teacher Relationships And Its Impact On Their Productive Disposition, Brittany Hopper Apr 2022

The Perception Of At-Risk Students On Caring Student-Teacher Relationships And Its Impact On Their Productive Disposition, Brittany Hopper

Theses and Dissertations

The importance of a positive, caring relationship with students in the classroom is under-researched in mathematics education. Research shows that a positive student-teacher relationship can have many long-term positive results for the student. Many of these results directly impact a student's productive disposition towards mathematics. At-risk students are in greater need of positive relationships and an increase in productive disposition. Using Joan Tronto's (1993) elements of care, I examine the student perspective of these kinds of relationships and how the student sees development of their own productive disposition.

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Using Movement To Infer Critical Life History Events In Mule Deer: Parturition And Natal Dispersal, Tabitha A. Hughes Apr 2022

Using Movement To Infer Critical Life History Events In Mule Deer: Parturition And Natal Dispersal, Tabitha A. Hughes

Theses and Dissertations

The advent of GPS tracking technology has revolutionized the field of wildlife research. The ability to obtain fine-scale location data from collared animals allows for increased understanding of life-history events that have previously been difficult to research. An excellent candidate species for telemetry-based research is mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus). Mule deer are an important species economically due to their position as a harvested species. Additionally, they play an important role in the ecosystems they occupy; therefore information regarding important life history events would improve conservation and management efforts for this species. Our objectives were to use GPS tracking technology to …

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