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Taxonomy Of The Genus Chloris (Gramineae), Dennis E. Anderson Mar 1974

Taxonomy Of The Genus Chloris (Gramineae), Dennis E. Anderson

Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, Biological Series

This study is a worldwide taxonomic treatment utilizing endomorphic characters such as cytology, histology, and embryology, in addition to the traditional exomorphic features. New chromosome numbers and histological information are reported. Relationships between Chloris and other genera in the Chlorideae are discussed. A total of 56 species is recognized in the genus; each is described and illustrated. Complete synonymies are included as well as a list of unidentified or rejected names. Distributions and maps are given for each species, along with lists of specimens examined during studies at various herbaria. Reports of field studies involving introgression among certain species are …


The Tradition Of Isaiah In The Book Of Mormon, Gary L. Bishop Jan 1974

The Tradition Of Isaiah In The Book Of Mormon, Gary L. Bishop

Theses and Dissertations

This study presents a textual and grammatical analysis of 52 passages of Isaiah as they are found in Cave IV of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Masoretic Text, the Septuagint, the King James version, and the Book of Mormon. The objective was to determine the relationship, if any, of those verses in the Book of Mormon with the other textual traditions. Based on the differences between the Book of Mormon text and the King James version, and upon the confirmation of those Book of Mormon differences by the other traditions, it was concluded that The Book of Mormon follows its …


A Q-Sort Comparison Between Cultural Expectations Of Chinese And Cultural Perceptions Of Returned Latter-Day Saint Missionaries From The United States Who Had Been Assigned To Chinese Missions, Gary G. Y. Chu Jan 1974

A Q-Sort Comparison Between Cultural Expectations Of Chinese And Cultural Perceptions Of Returned Latter-Day Saint Missionaries From The United States Who Had Been Assigned To Chinese Missions, Gary G. Y. Chu

Theses and Dissertations

This project was designed to generate information relative to a specific intercultural communication situation, especially directed toward diversity between cultural expectation and performance in the following areas: first, Chinese expectation of American Latter-day Saint missionaries' performance in Chinese contexts; and second, performance of the missionaries, as reflected by their knowledge of proper conduct in Chinese contexts at the end of their missions.

Using Q-card sorting procedures and t-test analysis, an analytically developed instrument consisting of seventy statements grouped in six behavior categories was applied in the specific areas. Twenty-nine of the seventy statements showed significant diversity. Four of the hypothesized …


The Church In Japan, Seiji Katanuma Jan 1974

The Church In Japan, Seiji Katanuma

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.


Personal Faith And Public Policy: Some Timely Observations On The League Of Nations Controversy In Utah, James B. Allen Jan 1974

Personal Faith And Public Policy: Some Timely Observations On The League Of Nations Controversy In Utah, James B. Allen

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.


The Flag Of The Kingdom Of God, D. Michael Quinn Jan 1974

The Flag Of The Kingdom Of God, D. Michael Quinn

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.


The Relevance And Effectiveness Of Four Book Of Mormon Prophets And Their Teachings, David Earl Perry Jan 1974

The Relevance And Effectiveness Of Four Book Of Mormon Prophets And Their Teachings, David Earl Perry

Theses and Dissertations

This study sought answers to two major questions regarding the Book of Mormon prophets: first, did a prophet's unique personality cause him to be significantly qualified and effective in coping with the problems of his ministry; and second, were a prophet's teachings directly relevant to his problems, assisting him to be effective in fulfilling his assignments. Six minor hypotheses were used to gather data regarding the four representative prophets chosen: Lehi, Nephi, Alma the Younger, and Mormon. The teachings studied were limited to those which reached the ears of a prophet's contemporaries, and were further limited to those which were …


A Documentary History Of The Lord's Way Of Watching Over The Church By The Priesthood Through The Ages, Rex A. Anderson Jan 1974

A Documentary History Of The Lord's Way Of Watching Over The Church By The Priesthood Through The Ages, Rex A. Anderson

Theses and Dissertations

Since the days of Adam the Lord has called upon the priesthood to watch over the families: To see that fathers are doing their duty as patriarchs over their families, and to assist and encourage the fathers in this responsibility. Thus thwarting the efforts of Satan to lead the children of men astray. The principle has always been for the priesthood to watch over the families. But the process of how this is done has changed from time to time according to the needs of the people. This treatise covers the history of these changes in documentary form.

In the …


A Geographic Sketch Of Early Utah Settlement, John Thomas Blake Jan 1974

A Geographic Sketch Of Early Utah Settlement, John Thomas Blake

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis depicts in a visual format the settlement geography of early Utah.

Several topics in Utah's historical geography were mapped by conventional cartographic techniques to give an overview of processes and patterns of settlement.

This thesis points to the utility of maps in portraying information concerning settlement activity. It indicates that visual correlations enable the student to better understand settlement through spatial relationships.

Of special interest are the use of color maps, and the creation of physical relief impressions by photographically screening a raised relief map of Utah.


Transcendental Meditation And Mormonism, Gregory C. Cherry Jan 1974

Transcendental Meditation And Mormonism, Gregory C. Cherry

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis cites many of the parallels and differences between Mormonism and Transcendental Meditation (TM) philosophy as it is expounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Areas explored include the following: (1) the technique of Transcendental Meditation as compared with notions of meditation within the Mormon tradition; (2) the issue of whether Transcendental Meditation is a religion; (3) reports of physical transformation as a result of TM and Mormonism; (4) a comparison of L.D.S. Church leaders' and Maharishi's views of America, the laws of the land, social order, modesty, drugs, and strict morality; (5) the ideas of inner and outer morality; (6) …


The Mormon Role In Irrigation Beginnings And Diffusions In The Western States: An Historical Geography, Kelly C. Harper Jan 1974

The Mormon Role In Irrigation Beginnings And Diffusions In The Western States: An Historical Geography, Kelly C. Harper

Theses and Dissertations

Irrigation has played an important part in the development of the Western States. Its beginnings have often been associated with the Mormon settlement in Utah. However, irrigation had its inception in the West long before the Mormons came to the Great Basin in 1847. The spatial extent of irrigation before this date included limited acreage in nearly every Western State.

Before their arrival in the Great Basin the Mormons had become acquainted with irrigation methods. Knowledge of irrigation had diffused to them primarily from the Spanish in the Southwest. Thus, they were well prepared to begin their irrigation enterprises in …


A Study Of Some Textual Variations In The Book Of Mormon Comparing The Original And The Printer's Manuscripts And The 1830, The 1837, And The 1840 Editions, Stanley R. Larson Jan 1974

A Study Of Some Textual Variations In The Book Of Mormon Comparing The Original And The Printer's Manuscripts And The 1830, The 1837, And The 1840 Editions, Stanley R. Larson

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a study of textual variations in the two manuscripts and the first three editions of the Book of Mormon. Successive collations of each of these were made against the text of the first edition. From these collations some 427 specific textual variations were selected for inclusion in the thesis.

The research disclosed that some genuine corrections as well as editorial revisions were made by Joseph Smith in 1837 and 1840. However, it was also concluded that some alterations of the text arose from accidental causes.

The most significant contribution of this study was that both the Original …


An Analysis Of Visual Religious Symbols Appearing In The Improvement Era, Ensign, And New Era Published By The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints From 1952-1972, Carl Landus Christensen Jan 1974

An Analysis Of Visual Religious Symbols Appearing In The Improvement Era, Ensign, And New Era Published By The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints From 1952-1972, Carl Landus Christensen

Theses and Dissertations

This study analyzes the appearance of eighty visual religious symbols in the Improvement Era, Ensign, and New Era, published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1952-1972. The study notes their frequency and distribution as well as noting their size, the medium used to render them and the correlation of their religious meanings to the articles they illustrate.

The findings of this study indicate that visual religious symbols are used and that many of them have a high degree of correlation to the articles they illustrate.

This study gives suggestions to those artists who …


History Of Mormon Exhibits In World Expositions, Gerald Joseph Peterson Jan 1974

History Of Mormon Exhibits In World Expositions, Gerald Joseph Peterson

Theses and Dissertations

The history of Mormon Exhibits in world expositions is an important chapter in the over-all accounting of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints total missionary program. In seeking more proficient means for accomplishing this task, involvement in world expositions offered a fresh opportunity to which the Church quickly responded. Finances, inexperience, non-acceptance by the world religious community and struggle for security appeared to be significant obstacles to extensive activity in early world's fairs.

Eventually as the Church strengthened, it became less the national spectacle and significantly was given its first real world's fair opportunity in an exhibit sponsored …


Andrew Jenson, Latter-Day Saint Historian, Louis Reinwand Jan 1974

Andrew Jenson, Latter-Day Saint Historian, Louis Reinwand

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.


Power In Washington: Congress Versus The White House, Stan A. Taylor Jan 1974

Power In Washington: Congress Versus The White House, Stan A. Taylor

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.


Proselyting Techniques Of Mormon Missionaries, Jay E. Jensen Jan 1974

Proselyting Techniques Of Mormon Missionaries, Jay E. Jensen

Theses and Dissertations

This study is a review of proselyting techniques in the full-time missionary program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1830 to 1974. Official handbooks as well as Mormon mission publications were the major sources. The writer's experience as a full-time missionary gave additional perspective.

Missionary techniques involved personal contacting on the streets and door to door. Group contacting came through public meetings and the mass media. Church members played a vital role in contacting and fellowshipping nonmembers. Early proselyting lesson plans written in outline form emphasized logic and reason. Later ones were in dialogue form and …


Proposal: Pioneer Venus Orbiter Mission Magnetic Field Investigation, Edward J. Smith, Leverett Davis Jr., Douglas E. Jones, Bruce T. Tsurutani Dec 1973

Proposal: Pioneer Venus Orbiter Mission Magnetic Field Investigation, Edward J. Smith, Leverett Davis Jr., Douglas E. Jones, Bruce T. Tsurutani

Faculty Publications

The magnetic field investigation on the Venus Orbiter Mission must provide sensitive, accurate measurements of the magnetic field at all locations along the spacecraft orbit. In addition to being able to search for and measure any weak global magnetic field that may exist, the magnetometer must have the capability of measuring fields at frequencies high enough to permit a comprehensive study of the bow shock, the region between the shock and the ionopause, the expansion fan and the wake. Accurate measurements outside the interaction region must be made in order to provide necessary information concerning the configuration of the perturbing …


History Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Heinz K. Meier Nov 1973

History Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The man elected as president of the Swiss American Historical Society in the spring of 1940 was Emil J. Schaefer. Born in 18 92 in Zurich- Hongg, he came to the United States as a 19 year old youth who just had finished the Gymnasium n Winterthur. He attended several colleges in the Midwest and earned a master 's degree in education from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. As a trained educator he worked his way up through teaching at different high schools. On the side he taught part-time at colleges and the University of Wisconsin on the subject …


Full Issue Nov 1973

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.


The Voice Of One Crying In The Wilderness: Sidney Rigdon, Religious Reformer, 1793-1876 F. Mark Mckiernan, William D. Russell Oct 1973

The Voice Of One Crying In The Wilderness: Sidney Rigdon, Religious Reformer, 1793-1876 F. Mark Mckiernan, William D. Russell

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.


Notes And Comments, Byu Studies Oct 1973

Notes And Comments, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.


Eliza R. Snow Letter From Missouri, Eliza R. Snow Oct 1973

Eliza R. Snow Letter From Missouri, Eliza R. Snow

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.


Missouri Persecutions: Petitions For Redress, Paul C. Richards Oct 1973

Missouri Persecutions: Petitions For Redress, Paul C. Richards

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.


Undescribed Species Of Nearctic Tipulidae (Diptera), Xi, Charles P. Alexander Sep 1973

Undescribed Species Of Nearctic Tipulidae (Diptera), Xi, Charles P. Alexander

Great Basin Naturalist

New species and subspecies of Tipulidae from California and Alaska are described, including Tipula (Trichotipula) frommeri, Tipula (Trichotipula) sanctaecruzae, and Tipula (Lunatipula) hastingsae diperona, from California, and Tipula (Pterelachisus) macleani and Limnophila byersi from Alaska.


New Synonymy In American Bark Beetles (Scolytidae: Coleoptera). Part Iii, Stephen L. Wood Sep 1973

New Synonymy In American Bark Beetles (Scolytidae: Coleoptera). Part Iii, Stephen L. Wood

Great Basin Naturalist

New synonymy affecting North and Central American Scolytidae is proposed as follows: Araptus Eichhoff (= Neodryocoetes Eggers, Thamnophthorus Schedl, Sphenoceros Schedl), Coccotrypes Eichhoff (= Poecilips Schaufuss), Gnathotrichus Eichhoff (= Ancyloderes Blackman, Prognathotrichus Bright), Gnathotrupes Schedl (= Gnathotrypanus Wood), Araptus hymenaeae (Eggers), n. comb., (= Neodryocoetes insularis Eggers, Neodryocoetes caribaeus Blackman, Neodryocoetes guianae Blackman, Neodryocoetes hoodi Blackman), Araptus laevigatus (Eggers), n. comb. (= Neopityophthorus insularis Eggers, Neodryocoetes guadeloupensis Schedl), Araptus macer Bright, n. comb. (= Neodryocoetes tuberculatus Bright), Araptus politus (Blandford), n. comb. (= Neodryocoetes hubbardi Blackman), Araptus tabogae (Blackman), n. comb. (= Neodryocoetes vinealis Bright), Cnesinus elegantis Wood (= …


The Effect Of Haloxon And Thiabendazole On The Free-Living Stages Of Haemonchus Contortus, Gary Mccallister Aug 1973

The Effect Of Haloxon And Thiabendazole On The Free-Living Stages Of Haemonchus Contortus, Gary Mccallister

Theses and Dissertations

This study was undertaken to determine the effect of thiabendazole and haloxon on the free-living stages of Haemonchus contortus and to determine the suitability of the free-living stages for their use in primary drug evaluation for chemotherapy or for chemical control of free-living stages. Cleaned unembryonated ova, embryonated ova, first-, second-, third-, and exsheathed third-stage larvae were exposed to suspensions of 5.0%, 1.0%, 0.5%, 0.25%, 0.12%, 0.05%, and water soluble concentrations of each drug for exposure times of 0.25, 0.50, 1.0, 2.0, 4.0, 8.0, and 16.0 hours at pH 7.0 and 25° C. Survival was assessed by observing any subsequent …


Light And Electron Microscopy Investigation Of Developing Wheat Caryopses Infected By Tilletia, Melvin Douglas Grove Aug 1973

Light And Electron Microscopy Investigation Of Developing Wheat Caryopses Infected By Tilletia, Melvin Douglas Grove

Theses and Dissertations

Caryopses of wheat were studied during infection by Tilletia caries and T. controversa. Initially the pathogens penetrated embryos of the host. After the embryo tissue was consumed by the fungi, endosperm tissue was penetrated and consumed. Initial penetration of endosperm tissue was in localized areas. During infection the fungus mycelium spread intercellularly, but occasionally was seen intracellularly. As the host tissue was consumed teliospores were formed. At maturity a host cell layer 4-6 cells thick remained which retained the mature teliospores. Histochemical studies indicated that carbohydrates and lipids of the host disappeared soon after invasion by the pathogens. Nuclei and …


The Effect Of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Infection On The Activity Of Ribulose-1,5-Diphosphate Carboxylase From Three Varieties Of Lycopersicon Esculentum Miller, Yu-Sun-Kitty Chang Aug 1973

The Effect Of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Infection On The Activity Of Ribulose-1,5-Diphosphate Carboxylase From Three Varieties Of Lycopersicon Esculentum Miller, Yu-Sun-Kitty Chang

Theses and Dissertations

Control and TMV-infected leaf tissues of three varieties of tomatoes, Marglobe, Moscow and Delicious, were analyzed for Ribulose Diphosphate Carboxylase (RuDPCase). The specific activity of RuDPCase based on protein concentration determined by peak area obtained with the Model E Ultracentrifuge, specific activity of RuDPCase based on protein concentration determined by Lowry's method, total amount of RuDPCase per gram fresh weight, total protein of plant leaves, total chlorophyll, and ratio of Chlorophyll a to Chlorophyll b were determined. Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) infection resulted in an increase in specific activity of RuDPCase and the amount of total protein (at 2 days …


I. An Isothermal Titration Microcalorimeter. Ii. Importance Of Micronutrients In Nutrition. Iii. Zinc Bibliography, John Willard Gardner Aug 1973

I. An Isothermal Titration Microcalorimeter. Ii. Importance Of Micronutrients In Nutrition. Iii. Zinc Bibliography, John Willard Gardner

Theses and Dissertations

I. An isothermal titration microcalorimeter having a colume of 4 ml and capable of temerature control to ±2 x 10-5°C is described. Major components include a constant temperature water bath controlled to ±3 x 10-4°C, a platinum reation vessel, and an isothermal control circuit consisting of constant Peltier thermoelectric cooling and variable Joule heating controlled by a thermistor in an AC Wheatstone bridge circuit. The calorimeter was tested by measuring the heat of ionization of water and was found to produce data accurate to ± 0.1% where small samples are used such as in the investigation of many biological systems.