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The World After Modernity, John J. Reilly Oct 2003

The World After Modernity, John J. Reilly

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Prehistoric Timberline Adaptations In The Eastern Uinta Mountains, Utah, Michelle Knoll Sep 2003

Prehistoric Timberline Adaptations In The Eastern Uinta Mountains, Utah, Michelle Knoll

Theses and Dissertations

Excavations at a high altitude archaeological site (3350 m) in the eastern Uinta Mountains, Utah, uncovered at least three ephemeral brush structures. These temporary timberline dwellings are the highest structures excavated in Utah to date. The periods of occupation range from the early Fremont period to the post-contact era. It is believed that the Fremont occupations are logistical in nature, possibly representing male hunting parties. Logistical camps imply a departure from, and return to, a residential camp. Ethnographic studies show that most residential camps are located within proximity to culinary plants to facilitate collection by women. In the Uinta Mountains, …

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Irony In The Book Of Mormon, Robert A. Rees Jul 2003

Irony In The Book Of Mormon, Robert A. Rees

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

The Book of Mormon appears replete with examples of verbal and dramatic irony, something unlikely to have been produced intentionally by Joseph Smith with his level of rhetorical and expressive skills. Dramatic irony occurs when an exceeding young Nephi, who is large in stature, admires the exquisite sword of Laban and then grapples with the distasteful command to kill Laban with that sword. Having passed the test, Nephi has matured into a man large in stature. Dramatic irony also occurs in Abinadi’s experience with King Noah and in the similar experiences of Alma and Korihor with the power of speech …

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Real-Time Adaptive Cancellation Of Satellite Interference In Radio Astronomy, Andrew Joseph Poulsen Jul 2003

Real-Time Adaptive Cancellation Of Satellite Interference In Radio Astronomy, Andrew Joseph Poulsen

Theses and Dissertations

Radio astronomy is the science of observing the heavens at radio frequencies, from a few kHz to approximately 300 GHz. In recent years, radio astronomy has faced a growing interference problem as radio frequency (RF) bandwidth has become an increasingly scarce commodity. A programmable real-time DSP least-mean-square interference canceller was developed and demonstrated as a successful method of excising satellite down-link signals from both an experimental platform at BYU, and the Green Bank Telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia. A performance analysis of this cancellation system in the radio astronomy radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation regime …

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Front Matter, Farms Review Jun 2003

Front Matter, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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Editor's Introduction: Of “Galileo Events,” Hype, And Suppression: Or, Abusing Science And Its History, Daniel C. Peterson Jun 2003

Editor's Introduction: Of “Galileo Events,” Hype, And Suppression: Or, Abusing Science And Its History, Daniel C. Peterson

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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Nephi’S Neighbors: Book Of Mormon Peoples And Pre-Columbian Populations, Matthew Roper Jun 2003

Nephi’S Neighbors: Book Of Mormon Peoples And Pre-Columbian Populations, Matthew Roper

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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The Charge Of A Man With A Broken Lance (But Look What He Doesn’T Tell Us), Davis Bitton Jun 2003

The Charge Of A Man With A Broken Lance (But Look What He Doesn’T Tell Us), Davis Bitton

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Grant H. Palmer. An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins.

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2002 Book Of Mormon Bibliography, Farms Review Jun 2003

2002 Book Of Mormon Bibliography, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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Confusion Of Tongues And A Map, Brant Gardner Jun 2003

Confusion Of Tongues And A Map, Brant Gardner

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Robert A. Pate. Mapping the Book of Mormon: A Comprehensive Geography of Nephite America.

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Vol. 15 Num. 2 The Farms Review, Farms Review Jun 2003

Vol. 15 Num. 2 The Farms Review, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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Macroinvertebrate Community Structure And Related Environmental Variables In Two Forks Of The Virgin River, Utah, Terence P. Boyle, Matthew J. Strand Apr 2003

Macroinvertebrate Community Structure And Related Environmental Variables In Two Forks Of The Virgin River, Utah, Terence P. Boyle, Matthew J. Strand

Western North American Naturalist

Using multivariate analysis techniques, we analyzed variation in the structure of the benthic macroinvertebrate community in the North Fork and East Fork of the Virgin River in and above Zion National Park in concert with a number of naturally occurring and anthropogenic environmental variables. Correspondence analysis revealed that the community structure in the 2 streams was markedly different despite occurring in areas similar in topography, elevation, and terrestrial vegetation cover. Subsequent analyses of the 2 streams separately using canonical correspondence analysis to test for strength of association of environmental variables with variations in benthic macroinvertebrate community structure revealed that communities …

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Evidence For Survival Of Pleistocene Climatic Changes In Northern Refugia By The Land Snail Trochoidea Geyeri, David Posada, Markus Pfenninger, Frederic Magnin Apr 2003

Evidence For Survival Of Pleistocene Climatic Changes In Northern Refugia By The Land Snail Trochoidea Geyeri, David Posada, Markus Pfenninger, Frederic Magnin

Faculty Publications

The study of organisms with restricted dispersal abilities and presence in the fossil record is particularly adequate to understand the impact of climate changes on the distribution and genetic structure of species. Trochoidea geyeri (Soos 1926) is a land snail restricted to a patchy, insular distribution in Germany and France. Fossil evidence suggests that current populations of T. geyeri are relicts of a much more widespread distribution during more favourable climatic periods in the Pleistocene. Results: Phylogeographic analysis of the mitochondrial 16S rDNA and nuclear ITS-1 sequence variation was used to infer the history of the remnant populations of T. …

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Family And Career Decision-Making Among Lds Women At Brigham Young University, Jennifer M. Vigil, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Rebecca R. Nichols Apr 2003

Family And Career Decision-Making Among Lds Women At Brigham Young University, Jennifer M. Vigil, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Rebecca R. Nichols

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

This study explores how college-aged women who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) make decisions about choosing a career or staying home full-time. It examines how committed they are to multiple role planning, what influence their mothers have on their decision-making process, how much they know about the roles they will assume in the future, how certain they are about choosing these roles, and how involved they are in the decision-making process itself. The LDS Decision-Making (LDSDM) scale was answered by 149 junior and senior women at Brigham Young University. Four factors were found …

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Vol. 04 No. 1 Religious Educator, Religious Educator Apr 2003

Vol. 04 No. 1 Religious Educator, Religious Educator

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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Revisiting Golgotha And The Garden Tomb, Jeffrey R. Chadwick Apr 2003

Revisiting Golgotha And The Garden Tomb, Jeffrey R. Chadwick

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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Book Reviews, Timothy Man-Kong Wong Feb 2003

Book Reviews, Timothy Man-Kong Wong

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Writing A Web Library User's Guide To The East Asian Languages Collection Of The University Of California-Davis, Mei-Yun (Annie) Lin Feb 2003

Writing A Web Library User's Guide To The East Asian Languages Collection Of The University Of California-Davis, Mei-Yun (Annie) Lin

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Enhancing Bibliographical Records By Adding Amazon Url Links - Lingnan University Library's Experience, Patrick Lo, Joe Chow Feb 2003

Enhancing Bibliographical Records By Adding Amazon Url Links - Lingnan University Library's Experience, Patrick Lo, Joe Chow

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Who Are The Children Of Lehi?, D. Jeffrey Meldrum, Trent D. Stephens Jan 2003

Who Are The Children Of Lehi?, D. Jeffrey Meldrum, Trent D. Stephens

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

By covenanting with Abraham, God promised him that through his seed all the families of the earth would be blessed—his seed would be as leaven within bread. This metaphor can likewise be applied to the children of Lehi, who introduced the Abrahamic covenant to the much larger indigenous Mesoamerican population. The larger gene pool with which the children of Lehi assimilated makes it very likely that no genetic evidence will ever substantiate an American–Middle Eastern link, although Native American populations show a strong affinity with Asian populations. The assumption that all modern-day Native Americans are descended exclusively from Book of …

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Before Dna, John L. Sorenson, Matthew Roper Jan 2003

Before Dna, John L. Sorenson, Matthew Roper

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Critics of the Book of Mormon often cite genetic evidence in their attacks on the historicity of the text, saying that the lack of any Near Eastern–American Indian DNA links conclusively proves that no emigration ever occurred from the Near East to the Americas. Their simplistic approach—that the Book of Mormon purports to be a history of the entire American Indian race—is not supported by archaeological or Book of Mormon evidence. The authors pose and respond to questions about the geographical scene, the spread of Book of Mormon peoples, Latter-day Saint traditions about the scenes and peoples of the Book …

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Dna And The Book Of Mormon: A Phylogenetic Perspective, Michael F. Whiting Jan 2003

Dna And The Book Of Mormon: A Phylogenetic Perspective, Michael F. Whiting

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

This paper debunks the myth that the Book of Mormon has been proved false by modern DNA evidence. Critics have tried to apply American Indian DNA-based research to the Book of Mormon without designing a study specifically for that purpose. It is extraordinarily difficult to use DNA sequence information to track the lineage of any group with such a complex lineage history as the Nephites and Lamanites. Possible hypotheses about the populations from the Book of Mormon include the global colonization hypothesis (in which the three colonizing groups came to a land void of humans) and the local colonization hypothesis …

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Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies Volume 12 Issue 1, Neal A. Maxwell Institute For Religious Scholarship Jan 2003

Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies Volume 12 Issue 1, Neal A. Maxwell Institute For Religious Scholarship

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

The Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting understanding of the history, meaning, and significance of the scriptures and other sacred texts revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith.

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The Book Of Mormon Today, Noel B. Reynolds Jan 2003

The Book Of Mormon Today, Noel B. Reynolds

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Terryl L Given. By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture That Launched a New World Religion.

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Interpreting Book Of Mormon Geography, Randall P. Spackman Jan 2003

Interpreting Book Of Mormon Geography, Randall P. Spackman

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of John L. Sorenson. Mormon's Map.

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Vol. 15 Num. 1 Farms Review Of Books, Farms Review Jan 2003

Vol. 15 Num. 1 Farms Review Of Books, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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Who Controls The Water? Yahweh Vs. Baal, Fred E. Woods Jan 2003

Who Controls The Water? Yahweh Vs. Baal, Fred E. Woods

Faculty Publications

As the Israelites settled in the land of Canaan, clashes over religious beliefs and practices developed with other inhabitants of the land. Baalism, the belief in the Canaanite god of water and storm, became a threat to the true belief in Yahweh (Jehovah). This paper is an investigation of the implicit polemical usage of water and storm language in the Deuteronomic History (hereafter referred to as DH). The DH consists of the book of Deuteronomy as well as what is referred to in the Hebrew Bible as the Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings). Many passages in the Deuteronomic …

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The "Unidentified Pioneers": An Analysis Of Staffordshire Mormons, 1837 To 1870, Stephen G. Arrowsmith Jan 2003

The "Unidentified Pioneers": An Analysis Of Staffordshire Mormons, 1837 To 1870, Stephen G. Arrowsmith

Theses and Dissertations

The evidence presented in this thesis advocates an increased level of scholarly interest in English working-class Mormon converts. To illustrate who these people were, and what their roles were as part of Mormon story, this regional study introduces and makes available over twelve hundred Staffordshire Mormons, and asks questions of the collected statistical information. The conservative Staffordshire Mormons clearly assisted the establishment, and continuation, off a Zion in the American West. Much of the data confirms previous scholarship; however, those with “differing visions” of Mormonism (for example, the RLDS Church) attracted Staffordshire converts in larger numbers than previously suggested. The …

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The Forgotten Voice Of The Oneida Stake Academy, Fred E. Woods Jan 2003

The Forgotten Voice Of The Oneida Stake Academy, Fred E. Woods

Faculty Publications

The Physiography class invited me to their Comet Party. We all got up at 3 o'clock a.m. and went to the academy building and there watched Halley's comet and indulged in outdoor games, wrote H. Oswald Christensen, a devoted faculty member of the Oneida Stake Academy in Preston, Idaho. His voice, along with those of many other Academy faculty members and students, must not be forgotten.

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Improving Overland Flow Routing By Incorporating Ancillary Road Data Into Digital Elevation Models Jan 2003

Improving Overland Flow Routing By Incorporating Ancillary Road Data Into Digital Elevation Models

Journal of Spatial Hydrology

Roads, ditches, and culverts influence hydrological and geomorphological processes significantly. However, most hydrological models continue to rely solely on regional digital elevation models (DEMs) to derive overland flow directions even though these DEMs have been shown to contain inadequate topographical information to effectively represent linear landscape features. This paper introduces a methodology that improves the accuracy of grid-based overland flow routing through the use of ancillary road, ditch, and culvert data. The road enforcement algorithm (REA) that was developed re-routes overland flow on either side of a road independently, thereby enforcing linear landscape features within the flow direction matrix. The …

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