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Term Limits: A Message To Congress, Robert Karlinsey

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

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The Origins Of Groundwater Laws In Arizona, Colorado, And Utah, Richard T. Probst

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

Water is a limited resource that cannot be replaced, and alternate sources for water are not available. In the western United States, groundwater laws vary in each state. Until recent years, these laws were often vague or non-existent. According to Sax, groundwater laws did not exist because little was known about the contribution of groundwater flow to the hydrologic cycle (1990, 372). When technology allowed man to tap underground water resources effectively, laws were written for groundwater. However, the laws governing surface water are related to groundwater laws. It was not until after World War II that most states began …

Hugh W. Nibley, Teachings Of The Book Of Mormon: Semester 3., David Rolph Seely

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Teachings of the Book of Mormon: Sememster 3 (1992), by Hugh W. Nibley.

Sheltering The Homeless: Hospitals In Medieval Catalonia, James W. Brodman

Quidditas

Shelter for the temporarily homeless, whether or not they were needy in the modern sense, was as typical a charity in the tons and villages of medieval Europe as was providing food for the hungry. The Rule of St Benedict, as well as local Hispanic customs, imposed the obligation of hospitality upon monasteries, and likewise the growing towns of the eleventh and twelfth centuries saw the need to provide beds for those who were not householders. Those served were a diverse lot: pilgrims wending their way to shrine like Santiago, clergy and others in town on business, wandering beggars and …

Inventing The Middle Ages, Glenn W. Olsen

Quidditas

Norman Cantor seems to have decided, as a kind of perpetual outsider (in spite of his Princeton and Oxford education), that he has nothing to lose by telling it all. Of his Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century (William Morrow and Company, New York 1991), Lee Patterson says accurately on the dust jacket: 'Intriguing, informative, irritating, and vastly entertaining, Inventing the Middle Ages will rattle lots of cages'. I am not sure that this book has raised Cantor's status in the eyes of very many practicing medievalists, and indeed …

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Quidditas

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Measuring Press Release Placement From Brigham Young University's Public Communications Office To Utah's Newspapers, Gregory T. Kunde

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a replication of a study conducted at Oklahoma State University in 1986. This study measures the percentage of Brigham Young University press releases published in Utah newspapers during a four month period in 1989. The results of the two studies are analyzed and compared.

Additionally, personal interviews were conducted with thirty Utah newspaper editors to help determine any additional factors that may affect publishing decisions among Utah's newspaper editors.

The Iosepa Origin Of Joseph F. Smith's “Laie Prophecy”, Harold S. Davis

BYU Studies

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Chattanooga Cheapshot, Or The Gall Of Bitterness, Daniel C. Peterson

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Book of Mormon (1992), by John Ankerberg and John Weldon.

"If Men Were Angels": The Normative Role Of Schools In Fostering Civic Virtue, William Bryner

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

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Finding Your Proper Niche In The Bibliotheca Academiae: Or, The Study Of Elephant Hunting Behavior, Richard Hacken

Faculty Publications

Finding your proper place in academic libraries by an analysis of how you interact with elephants.

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Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

No abstract provided.

Review Essay: Ashley, Kathleen, And Pamela Sheingorn, Edd. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne In Late Medieval Society, Susan Stakel

Quidditas

Ashley, Kathleen, and Pamela Sheingorn, edd. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Society. University of Georgia Press, Athens 1990. 243 pp. $30.00 / $15.00.

Blumenfeld-Kozinski, Renate, ed. Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1991. 315 pp. $41.50 / $15.95.

Two Towns Where There Was Once One: The Aldea In Medieval Aragon, Donald J. Kagay

Quidditas

No medieval era was more significant for the creation of royal, clerical, and urban institutions than the thirteenth century as sovereign and pope alike began to form the political structures of western European society in a way that closed many avenues of power to the trustees of societal authority of an earlier period, the nobility. Baronial resistance to the monarchical 'innovations' of the era would eventually direct the course of such state — building towards a fuller partnership between sovereign and subject. Though the best-known examples of such conflicts between custom and law occurred in England with the royal issuance …

Japan, Rice And Super 301, Randall Allen

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

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Resident Utah Deer Hunters' Preferences For Management Options, Dennis D. Austin, Philip J. Urness, Wes Shields

Great Basin Naturalist

A total of 3291 resident deer hunters returned questionnaires distributed at checking stations in fall 1989 and 1990 providing opinions and management data concerning the Utah rifle hunt. Hunters reported hunter crowding and too few big bucks as critical reasons for possibly choosing to quit deer hunting in Utah. Indeed, hunter age structure and measured satisfaction suggested a negative future trend in hunter participation. Results suggested the adoption of several hunter-preferred management options would increase satisfaction, motivation, and success.

Vascular Flora Of Kane Lake Cirque, Pioneer Mountains, Idaho, Robert K. Moseley, Susan Bernatas

Great Basin Naturalist

Kane Lake Cirque lies in the western Pioneer Mountains of south central Idaho. An inventory of the high elevation flora of the cirque revealed the presence of 180 vascular taxa representing 95 genera and 30 families. Five alpine taxa are here documented from Idaho for the first time: Carex incurviformis Mack., Draba fladnizensis Wilfen., Potentilla nivea L., Ranunculus gelidus Kar. & Kir., and Ranunculus pygmaeus Wahlenb. Kane Lake Cirque also contains populations of four additional alpine taxa considered to be of conservation concern in Idaho: Erigeron humilis Graham, Parnassia kotzebuei Cham., Saxifraga adscendens L., and Saxifraga cernua L.

Can Townsend's Ground Squirrels Survive On A Diet Of Exotic Annuals?, Eric Yensen, Dana L. Quinney

Great Basin Naturalist

Southwestern Idaho desert shrub-bunchgrass rangeland is being invaded by fire-prone exotic annuals that permanently dominate the landscape following wildfires. This study was undertaken to describe diets of Townsend's ground squirrels (Spermophilus townsendii idahoensis) at four study sites with varying degrees of exotic annual invasion to determine if the squirrels could utilize high proportions of exotic annuals in their diets. Townsend's ground squirrels were collected in March and May of 1987 and 1988, and stomach contents were analyzed using a microhistological technique. Grasses comprised 37–87% of Townsend's ground squirrel diets at the four sites. Native species, especially Sandberg's bluegrass …

Ecology And Management Of Medusahead (Taeniatherum Caput-Medusae Ssp. Asperum Melderis), James A. Young

Great Basin Naturalist

Medusahead is another in the extensive list of annual herbaceous species to invade the temperate desert rangelands of the Great Basin. Medusahead is not preferred by large herbivores and apparently is not preferred by granivores. Herbage of this annual grass enhances ignition and spread of wildfires. Medusahead is highly competitive with the seedlings of native species and is probably the greatest threat to the biodiversity of the natural vegetation that has yet been accidentally introduced into the Great Basin. Despite the obvious biological disruptions that are associated with medusahead invasion, the species offers a wealth of opportunities for students to …

Vol. 10, Pi Sigma Alpha Review, Pi Sigma Alpha Review

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

The Advantages Of Incumbency, Candidate Image, And The Vote, Jonathan Mott

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

The Effectiveness Of Judicial Activism: Desegregation And Racial Attitudes, Steven E. Hugie

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

The Dynamics Of Negative Political Advertising: History, Thematic Designs, And Effectiveness, Erik J. Bolinder

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Photopolymer-Based Stratified Volume Holographic Optical Elements, Gregory P. Nordin, A. R. Tanguay

Faculty Publications

We report the implementation of stratified volume holographic optical elements (SVHOE's) using DuPont's Omnidex holographic photopolymer material and an in situ exposure technique for simultaneous multilayer grating recording. Experimental measurement of the +1-order angular sensitivity of a seven-layer SVHOE structure shows remarkable agreement with both theory and numerical simulation for incidence angles near the Bragg angle. For SVHOE's having modulation layers that individually operate in the Bragg or transition diffraction regimes, the envelope of the SVHOE angular sensitivity is experimentally shown to approximate closely that of a single modulation layer.

Diffraction Properties Of Stratified Volume Holographic Optical Elements, Gregory P. Nordin, R. V. Johnson, A. R. Tanguay

Faculty Publications

We present a unified treatment of the diffraction properties of stratified volume holographic optical elements (SVHOE's). We show that the relative phasing of the diffraction orders as they propagate from layer to layer gives rise to a unique notched diffraction response of the +1 order (for the case of Bragg incidence) as a function of the normalized buffer-layer thickness, the grating spatial frequency, and the readout wavelength. For certain combinations of these parameters Bragg diffraction behavior characteristic of volume holographic optical elements (VHOE's) is observed, whereas for other combinations pure Raman-Nath behavior periodically recurs. By using these same relative-phasing arguments, …

Publications, C. F. Lee, Frank Joseph Shulman, Tai-Loi Ma, Edward Martinique, Maureen H. Donovan

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Conceptualizations Of Contemporary Global Culture, Frederick Buell

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Cities, Civilizations And Oikumenes: I, David Wilkinson

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Victims: The Lds Church And The Mark Hoffman Case By Richard E. Turley, Jr., Edward L. Kimball

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

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Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

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