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A Tree Ring Analysis Comparing Tree Rings At Two Elevations To Precipitation And Temperature To Find The Dominant Limiting Factor, At Snowbird Utah, Brian Latta, Dr. Matthew F. Bekker Oct 2013

A Tree Ring Analysis Comparing Tree Rings At Two Elevations To Precipitation And Temperature To Find The Dominant Limiting Factor, At Snowbird Utah, Brian Latta, Dr. Matthew F. Bekker

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The objective of this case study is to determine which limiting factor is most dominant in controlling tree growth at Snowbird, Utah. Trees typically respond and grow to a variety of factors. Some of these factors are precipitation, temperature, competition, soil moisture, soil depth, and disturbances. The two most dominant factors found in previous studies are temperature and precipitation. This case study found that neither of these factors is the most dominant limiting factor for tree growth.

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Spatial Manifestations Of Christian-Muslim Relations In Damascus And Aleppo, Syria, Joey Leavitt, Dr. Chad Emmett Oct 2013

Spatial Manifestations Of Christian-Muslim Relations In Damascus And Aleppo, Syria, Joey Leavitt, Dr. Chad Emmett

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Syria’s unique geographic location places it at both the epicenter of ancient Christianity’s advent and the heart of the modern Islamic Middle East. This rich and diverse religious history is evident today in Syria’s population. Although the majority of Syrians are Muslim, a sizable minority of between 10% and 20% profess Christianity.

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Interview With Susan Howe Oct 2013

Interview With Susan Howe

Inscape

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Editor's Note: The Struggles Of Civilization, Joseph Drew Oct 2013

Editor's Note: The Struggles Of Civilization, Joseph Drew

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Saharasia: Geographical Comparisons Of World Cultures And Civilizations, James Demeo Oct 2013

Saharasia: Geographical Comparisons Of World Cultures And Civilizations, James Demeo

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Megacities: A Survey And Prognosis, Laina Farhat-Holzman Oct 2013

Megacities: A Survey And Prognosis, Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

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David J. Rosner, Conservatism And Crisi, The Anti-Modernist Perspective In Twentieth-Century German Philosophy., Laina Farhat-Holzman Oct 2013

David J. Rosner, Conservatism And Crisi, The Anti-Modernist Perspective In Twentieth-Century German Philosophy., Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Laina Farhat-Holzman: Worldchangers: Ten Inventions That Changed Everything., George Von Der Muhll Oct 2013

Laina Farhat-Holzman: Worldchangers: Ten Inventions That Changed Everything., George Von Der Muhll

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Dynamic Definition? A Response To Abbey Perumpanani's Article, "Civilization Defined.", Wallace Gray Oct 2013

Dynamic Definition? A Response To Abbey Perumpanani's Article, "Civilization Defined.", Wallace Gray

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Full Issue, Comparative Civilizations Review Oct 2013

Full Issue, Comparative Civilizations Review

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Latter-Day Saint Missionaries Encounter The London Missionary Society In The South Pacific, 1844–1852, Fred E. Woods Oct 2013

Latter-Day Saint Missionaries Encounter The London Missionary Society In The South Pacific, 1844–1852, Fred E. Woods

BYU Studies

In fall 1843, four Latter-day Saints were called as the first missionaries to the South Pacific. One, Knowlton Hanks, died on the voyage. In May 1844, Addison Pratt began proselytizing on the island of Tubuai, 350 miles south of Tahiti. Benjamin Grouard and Noah Rogers went on to Tahiti, but after a few months they were forced to leave by the French colonizers and went to other islands. Rogers returned to the US in 1845, but Pratt and Grouard remained. On these various islands they encountered missionaries of the London Missionary Society, who had already been preaching in the South …

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Preservation Of Mexican Harvest Mice, Daniel Hardy, Dr. Duke Rogers Sep 2013

Preservation Of Mexican Harvest Mice, Daniel Hardy, Dr. Duke Rogers

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The preservation of wildlife has been a growing concern in Mexico. Specifically, the natural habitat of many Mexican mice has been rapidly diminishing over the past few decades. A more extensive understanding of these types of animals will help contribute to increasing the awareness of the rich diversity of Mexican biota and augment the conservation efforts in this area of the world.

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Population Structure Of The Cuttlefish Sepia Officinalis From The North Atlantic-Mediterranean Region, Mark Joseph Nolte, Dr. Keith Crandall, Marcos Pérez-Losada Sep 2013

Population Structure Of The Cuttlefish Sepia Officinalis From The North Atlantic-Mediterranean Region, Mark Joseph Nolte, Dr. Keith Crandall, Marcos Pérez-Losada

Journal of Undergraduate Research

An understanding of the relatedness of a population of organisms, or their phylogeny, combined with knowledge of that population’s geographical distribution, can illuminate which geographic forces and events may have played a role in forming the “family tree” of that organism. Therefore past speciation events and the incipient stages of speciation can be discerned when phylogenetic and geographic information is merged. This process, broadly known as the practice of phylogeography or biogeography, is important because it permits researchers to visualize the evolutionary interplay between environment and organism. Additionally, an understanding of an organism’s population structure, or family tree, enables scientists …

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Population Structure Of The Cuttlefish Sepia Officinalis From The North Atlantic-Mediterranean Region, Mark Joseph Nolte, Dr. Keith Crandall, Marcos Pérez-Losada Sep 2013

Population Structure Of The Cuttlefish Sepia Officinalis From The North Atlantic-Mediterranean Region, Mark Joseph Nolte, Dr. Keith Crandall, Marcos Pérez-Losada

Journal of Undergraduate Research

An understanding of the relatedness of a population of organisms, or their phylogeny, combined with knowledge of that population’s geographical distribution, can illuminate which geographic forces and events may have played a role in forming the “family tree” of that organism. Therefore past speciation events and the incipient stages of speciation can be discerned when phylogenetic and geographic information is merged. This process, broadly known as the practice of phylogeography or biogeography, is important because it permits researchers to visualize the evolutionary interplay between environment and organism. Additionally, an understanding of an organism’s population structure, or family tree, enables scientists …

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Creating A Geographic Information System For Nematology, Levi Hilton, Dr. Byron Adams Sep 2013

Creating A Geographic Information System For Nematology, Levi Hilton, Dr. Byron Adams

Journal of Undergraduate Research

A geographic information system (GIS) is a powerful tool for correlating information that has a spatial component. This technique has been used in many different ways from organizing major corporations and services to building intricate maps. We used a GIS to help determine if there was a certain type of soil that can be correlated to specific nematode species which are used as organic pesticides in agriculture.

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Gathering Media For A Turkish Language Course, Laura Ann Knight, Dr. Michael Bush Sep 2013

Gathering Media For A Turkish Language Course, Laura Ann Knight, Dr. Michael Bush

Journal of Undergraduate Research

When a person visits another country with which they are unfamiliar, it can be hard to understand both the language and the culture of the people. It can be very useful to learn a bit about a country, its people, and language before visiting it. In this project we developed a multimedia computer based program that could be used by business people, tourists, exchange students, or any person interested in being introduced to life in another country. The specific focus of this project was on Turkey.

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Emily Dickinson’S Place Names, Malina Nielson, Dr. Cynthia L. Hallen Sep 2013

Emily Dickinson’S Place Names, Malina Nielson, Dr. Cynthia L. Hallen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

During her prolific writing career, nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson produced 1,789 poems. Dr. Cynthia Hallen of the English Language and Linguistics Department has been researching and defining all of Emily Dickinson’s words according to the way Dickinson used them for the forthcoming Emily Dickinson Lexicon.

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Heimatfilme 1945-55: Austrian Identity Reconstructed Through The Alpine Image, Shane D. Peterson, Dr. James K. Lyon Sep 2013

Heimatfilme 1945-55: Austrian Identity Reconstructed Through The Alpine Image, Shane D. Peterson, Dr. James K. Lyon

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Approximately one-third of Austrian cinema during the mid-1950s was composed of the genre of Heimatfilme (Homeland films) which depicted country landscapes, especially the alpine terrain, in a mythical and nostalgic light. Though often dismissed as trivial and therefore largely unexamined on their own visual terms, these films depict “an intact, guiltless, eternal Austria” through the prolific imagery of natural settings. Indeed, so significant is the role of the Austrian landscape that it is listed alongside the actors in the credits of the 1954 film Echo der Berge (Echo of the Mountains) , a film whose lead actor, Rudolf Lenz, said …

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K’Iche’ Kinship Terms And Social Identity, Kristine Kinship Whipple, Dr. John Hawkins Sep 2013

K’Iche’ Kinship Terms And Social Identity, Kristine Kinship Whipple, Dr. John Hawkins

Journal of Undergraduate Research

During the summer of 2005, I lived and worked among the indigenous Maya-K’iche’ of the Guatemalan highlands. Prior to leaving, I had anticipated examining kinship terms in a bilingual country and whether the use of K’iche’ terms vs. Spanish terms would indicate a difference in the type of kinship relationship created. Upon arrival, I learned that I would spend the season in a rural, monolingual K’iche’ hamlet. Without my informants knowing any Spanish, I abandoned my bilingual project altogether and studied, instead, the native conceptions of communication and how these conceptions interplayed with their models of kinship and family. Having …

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Minority Group Awareness In Tamil Nadu, India, Matt Shurtleff, Dr. Chad Emmett Sep 2013

Minority Group Awareness In Tamil Nadu, India, Matt Shurtleff, Dr. Chad Emmett

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Most political situations have an interesting background. They are the stuff that spy movies are made of. The involvement of India in the Sri Lankan civil war is no exception.

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Changing Agricultural Land Use In Suzhou, China, Emily J. Long, Dr. Richard H. Jackson Sep 2013

Changing Agricultural Land Use In Suzhou, China, Emily J. Long, Dr. Richard H. Jackson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

China’s recent economic boom has brought many changes to its urban and rural landscape. Urban communities are growing larger and are often encroaching upon important agricultural land. The city of Suzhou provides a prime case study of the effects that development can have on once fertile agricultural land in China. Suzhou is located in the fertile Yangtze River delta in the Jiangsu Province bordering Shanghai on the east. The city of Suzhou is over 2,500 years old and is famous for its beautiful scenery, classical gardens, and rich cultural heritage. This fertile delta provided good farming soil for thousands of …

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Suzhou Urban Developments And Economic Growth The Impact Of Special Economic Zones And The Light Rail System, Songjie Li, Dr. Richard Jackson Sep 2013

Suzhou Urban Developments And Economic Growth The Impact Of Special Economic Zones And The Light Rail System, Songjie Li, Dr. Richard Jackson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Suzhou, China is an ancient Chinese city facing rapid and wrenching changes. Located in the Delta of the Yangtze River some fifty miles northwest of Shanghai, it is famous for its classical gardens and numerous canals that connect to the famous Grand Canal and Tai Lake. Suzhou is frequently mislabeled as the “Venice of the East”, but Chinese people more likely to call it the “Paradise on Earth”. Written historical records indicate that people started to live in Suzhou area over 4000 years ago, it is one of the oldest settlements in Yangtze River basin.

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Principles Of Family-Centered City Planning Achieving True Mixed-Income Housing In New Urbanist Developments, David Gay, Dr. Richard Jackson Sep 2013

Principles Of Family-Centered City Planning Achieving True Mixed-Income Housing In New Urbanist Developments, David Gay, Dr. Richard Jackson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

New Urbanism, or traditional neighborhood design (TND), is a growing trend in American real estate development. It is characterized by mixed-uses, a variety of housing sizes, and pedestrian-oriented streetscapes. It often encourages more efficient land uses, which, in turn, makes way for better transportation planning and less congested traffic patterns. These designs are more akin to pre-WWII development than to the typical contemporary subdivisions. New Urbanism aims to be more family friendly, especially in terms of affordability, but due to several underlying factors, these developments often demand an artificially large cost from homebuyers, excluding many potential residents who would most …

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A Climate Reconstruction And Drought Assessment Of The Wasatch Front, Daniel F. Bently, Dr. Matthew F. Bekker Sep 2013

A Climate Reconstruction And Drought Assessment Of The Wasatch Front, Daniel F. Bently, Dr. Matthew F. Bekker

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The purpose of this study was to extend the climate record of the Wasatch Front Area in order to assess drought along the Wasatch Front. In order to accomplish this, tree-ring analysis was done using Limber Pine (Pinus flexilus) trees from the rocky, north face of Mount Olympus, Wasatch Mountains.

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Vietnamese Migration To Cambodia, Kyle Larsen, Dr. Chad Emmett Sep 2013

Vietnamese Migration To Cambodia, Kyle Larsen, Dr. Chad Emmett

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Vietnamese migration to Cambodia is unique because, unlike most immigrants who seek sanctuary in a nation more economically and socially stable countries, the Vietnamese in Cambodia face many worse conditions than in Vietnam. In many ways, Cambodia is much less-developed than Vietnam in terms of GDP, literacy, poverty rates, and more. The traditional rivalry between Cambodia and Vietnam exacerbates the situation, which results in violence and social ostracism to the immigrants. According to the 2005 CIA Factbook, the Vietnamese make up five percent of the Cambodian national population of more than 13 million. Virtually all of them have migrated since …

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The Kingdom Of Tonga And The Unwritten Order, Doug Farr Sep 2013

The Kingdom Of Tonga And The Unwritten Order, Doug Farr

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In this paper I will address the unwritten order that exists in the highly stratified society of the Kingdom of Tonga. The relationship between power and rank in Tonga has created informal laws that govern the people. These informal laws, as well as a struggle for power, have created a division between the elite class and the powerless class, and this division is generating an uprising of the powerless class. I argue that the powerless class may win independent battles against the informal laws, however they will not defeat it completely, as this system has proven to be a testing …

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Shack Settlement Planning And Public Participation: Duncan Village, South Africa, David Kay, Dr. Richard Jackson Sep 2013

Shack Settlement Planning And Public Participation: Duncan Village, South Africa, David Kay, Dr. Richard Jackson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Over the last ten years, government programs have facilitated the redevelopment of many South African communities; however, for many the promise of redevelopment has been elusive. In 2002, there were an estimated 8 million people living in shack settlements in South Africa. From 1994 to 2004, the government had built over a million houses in order to provide adequate shelter for its citizens, but there are many more still in need of assistance.

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The Kingdom Of Tonga And The Unwritten Order, Doug Farr Sep 2013

The Kingdom Of Tonga And The Unwritten Order, Doug Farr

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In this paper I will address the unwritten order that exists in the highly stratified society of the Kingdom of Tonga. The relationship between power and rank in Tonga has created informal laws that govern the people. These informal laws, as well as a struggle for power, have created a division between the elite class and the powerless class, and this division is generating an uprising of the powerless class. I argue that the powerless class may win independent battles against the informal laws, however they will not defeat it completely, as this system has proven to be a testing …

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Russian Orthodox Churches In The Century Of Change: How The Soviets Affected National Identity, Jennifer Johnson, Dr. Richard Jackson Sep 2013

Russian Orthodox Churches In The Century Of Change: How The Soviets Affected National Identity, Jennifer Johnson, Dr. Richard Jackson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

As a missionary in Russia, I was always told: To be Russian is to be Orthodox. What does it mean to be Russian after seventy years of Soviet rule, when atheism was religiously enforced? Walking down the streets and passing Orthodox churches in dilapidated condition, I could not help but ask myself what had happened to the church buildings during communism and what was becoming of these buildings today. If the Soviets were so intent on atheism, then it would seem that Russian national identity should also change. But despite the way the Soviets destroyed the churches, the Orthodox Church …

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City Of Zion Masterplan, Stephen H. Alfandre, Dr. Richard Jackson Sep 2013

City Of Zion Masterplan, Stephen H. Alfandre, Dr. Richard Jackson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The City of Zion is something that is commonly discussed but rarely conceptualized. The only information we have pertaining to the spatial characteristics of Zion is a plat created by Joseph Smith in 1833. And although the plat revolutionized city settlement in the western United States, there are still many unanswered questions about the design relating to the overall masterplan for the City of Zion. It does not address the regional plan, open space, parks, or transportation, which are all vital to the planning and building of any city or town.

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