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The Gentics Of Civilization: An Empirical Classification Of Civilizations Based On Writing Systems, Bosworth, Andrew Bosworth

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Editor's Note, Drew, Joseph Drew

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

End Matter, Religious Educator

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

Word Pairs And Distinctive Combinations In The Book Of Mormon, James T. Duke

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

The literary richness of the Book of Mormon is attested by the appearance of word pairs, in both parallel and conjoined pairs. On occasion, combinations of three, four, or even more words appear together more than once. Possible reasons for the scriptural use of word pairs include literary functions, echoes of the law of Moses, theological terms, universals (or merisms), repetition, and mnemonic function. Duke builds on previous studies of word pairs in the Book of Mormon by Kevin Barney and John Tvedtnes. The frequency of word pairs and other combinations of words witnesses to the Hebrew roots of the …

Contributors, Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

No abstract provided.

Had For Good And Evil: 19th-Century Literary Treatments Of The Book Of Mormon, Richard H. Cracroft

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Moroni prophesied on 21 September 1823 that Joseph’s name, and by implication the book he would eventually translate and publish, should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues. Many current criticisms of the Book of Mormon trace their roots to the antagonistic critiques by 19th-century authors, beginning with Abner Cole, Alexander Campbell, and E. D. Howe. Campbell in particular was responsible for introducing the environmental theory: that Joseph Smith introduced 19th-century elements into his story. Travelers to Salt Lake City published their exposés, which were mostly critical of the Latter-day Saints and their book of …

Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies Volume 12 Issue 2, 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.

Straightening Things Out: The Use Of Strait And Straight In The Book Of Mormon, Paul Y. Hoskisson

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Confusion between the use of strait and straight existed in Joseph Smith’s day and continues to persist today. This confusion is manifest in the spelling of the term in the original manuscript (strait preserved in 10 of 11 existing occurrences), the printer’s manuscript (all 27 instances spelled strait), and the 1830 edition (in which the compositor changed all 27 instances to straight). Through close examination of meanings, comparison to Hebrew words and usage, and analysis of poetic form, Hoskisson examines each instance of strai(gh)t in the Book of Mormon and recommends a spelling for each one.

Types Of Digital Library Cooperation In German Studies, Richard Hacken

Faculty Publications

A paper delivered at the ACRL/WESS Program in Toronto on June 23, 2003. A small sampling of the types of cooperative work being done in German studies, especially of retrospective digitization (as opposed to ongoing electronic publications).

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

No abstract provided.

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

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.

Elusive Israel And The Numerical Dynamics Of Population Mixing, Brian D. Stubbs

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.

A One-Sided View Of Mormon Origins, Mark Ashurst-Mcgee

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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

Japan Foundation-National Diet Library Training Program For Information Specialists For Japanese Studies Dec. 1-21, 2002, In Tokyo And Kansai: A Report, Hideyuki Morimoto

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

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.

About The Reviewers, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.

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

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.

Nl-Soar Update, Deryle W. Lonsdale

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Problems? What Problems? We Have None At All: Qualitative Data Collection For Impact Assessment, Katie Wright

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

Increasing interest in impact assessment of microfinance and other development interventions highlights the need to understand links between activities and outcomes in order that programs and services can be improved. This paper draws out the complexities of using prompting and open-ended questions in semistructured interviews and also considers entry points for field research. This is done with reference to a study of the impact of microfinance on women in poor areas of Cajamarca, Peru. Drawing on findings from over eighteen months of fieldwork, it examines the trials and pitfalls in question design and suggests guidelines for better practice.

End Matter, Religious Educator

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

Frank Salomon And Stuart B. Schwartz, Eds. The Cambridge History Of The Native Peoples Of The Americas: Volume Iii, Wallace Gray

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Patrick Vinton Kirch. On The Road Of The Winds: An Archaeological History Of The Pacific Islands Before European Contact, George Von-Der-Muhll

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Scripture Note: Doctrine And Covenants 125, Fred E. Woods

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

Religious Nationalism In The Modernization Process State Shinto And Nichirenism In Meiji Japan, Michiaki Okuyama

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Freedom Of Choice And Hypnotic Communication In Psychotherapy And Public Address, Richard German Ellsworth

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Historical, theoretical and methodological aspects of clinical hypnosis relevant to free agency are reviewed, including therapeutic hypnotic communication techniques used by effective public speakers. Hypnosis is defined as specific techniques to capture and hold someone's attention, and is herein considered as simply a more sophisticated method of communication " which some effective public speakers and therapists do naturally, but which with study of these effective communication forms, therapists and speakers may learn to do with greater facility. Methods of applying specific hynotic techniques to enhance the efficacy of psychotherapy and public address are demonstrated, including indirect suggestion, rapport, presupposition, embedded …

Light-Mindedness Versus Lightheartedness: Conflicting Conceptions Of Laughter Among Latter-Day Saints, Diana L. Mahony, Marla D. Corson

BYU Studies

Therefore, cease form all your light speeches, from all laughter... and light-mindedness, and from all your wicked doings.

—D&C 88:121

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

—Prov. 17:22

To Be Or Not To Be Ideophonically Impoverished, Janis B. Nuckolls

Faculty Publications

This paper addresses a current debate over the universality of ideophones, a class of expressions that are used to simulate, through performative foregrounding, the salient processes and perceptions of everyday life experience. Using data from Quechua-speaking Runa in Amazonian Ecuador, I argue for a view of ideophones as a type of cultural discourse through which speakers align themselves with nonhuman life forms and forces of nature. This alignment is suggested by the special performative properties of ideophones, which collapse the distinction between a speech event and a narrated event, thus compelling a speaker to become an action, event, or process, …

Ontology-Based Extraction Of Rdf Data From The World Wide Web, Timothy Adam Chartrand

Theses and Dissertations

The simplicity and proliferation of the World Wide Web (WWW) has taken the availability of information to an unprecedented level. The next generation of the Web, the Semantic Web, seeks to make information more usable by machines by introducing a more rigorous structure based on ontologies. One hinderance to the Semantic Web is the lack of existing semantically marked-up data. Until there is a critical mass of Semantic Web data, few people will develop and use Semantic Web applications. This project helps promote the Semantic Web by providing content. We apply existing information-extraction techniques, in particular, the BYU ontologybased data-extraction …

Memory-Based Tone Recognition Of Cantonese Syllables, Michael William Emonts

Theses and Dissertations

Speech recognition has only recently been applied to Cantonese. Considerable effort, however, has been spent in recognizing Mandarin, the standard dialect of Chinese. Prior to this thesis, the only published work on monosyllabic Cantonese tone recognition is from Tan Lee et al. (1993,1995). This thesis is the first of its kind in that it explores memory-based learning as a viable approach for Cantonese tone recognition. The memory-based learning algorithm employed in this thesis outperforms the highly respected and widely used neural network approach. Various numbers of tones and features are modeled to find the best method for feature selection and …

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

No abstract provided.