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Volunteer Creates Index Of Titles And Contents For Collected Works Aug 2023

Volunteer Creates Index Of Titles And Contents For Collected Works

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Frederick M. Huchel, a longtime FARMS volunteer and fan of the writings of Hugh Nibley, has compiled a combined table of contents for all volumes (1-13) of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley and an alphabetical index of the section and chapter titles included in those volumes. This handy 24-page pamphlet, donated to FARMS by Huchel, can be ordered at the cost of printing, using the enclosed order form. It should prove useful to readers who wish to find a particular essay or who want to know what essays have been published in the Collected Works so far.

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Research Staff Adds Senior Project Manager Aug 2023

Research Staff Adds Senior Project Manager

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The FARMS research s ta££ has been strengthened by the addition of John A. Tvedtnes as Senior Project Manager. He will assist M. Gerald Bradford, Director of Research, taking responsibility for the management of specific research projects.

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Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies Publishes Second Issue For 1995 Aug 2023

Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies Publishes Second Issue For 1995

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Final editorial work is being completed on the Fall 1995 issue of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies (volume 4, number 2), which should be ready to mail soon after you receive this issue of Insights. This issue has a decidedly literary bent. Of the five major articles, three consider the topics of narrative criticism, poetic diction and parallel word pairs, and chiasmus. A fourth takes a literary view of the book of Mosiah.

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Nibley Fellowships Support The Education Of Six Promising Young Scholars Aug 2023

Nibley Fellowships Support The Education Of Six Promising Young Scholars

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Hugh W. Nibley Fellowships for the 1995-1996 academic year have been announced by FARMS. Awards have been made to continue support for the two recipients of the fellowship for 1994-1995, Gaye Strathearn and John Gee, and to assist four new Nibley Fellows: Anthony Rivera Jr., Allen J. Christenson, Carl Griffin, and Frank F. Judd Jr.

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Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

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Make 1996 A Book Of Mormon Year For Someone Special With An Insights Gift Subscription Aug 2023

Make 1996 A Book Of Mormon Year For Someone Special With An Insights Gift Subscription

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The Insights newsletter is the best source for solid, reliable information about Book of Mormon research. Since the LDS Church course of study for 1996 will be the Book of Mormon, you can make the year a Book of Mormon year for your friends and family by giving them an Insights gift subscription to enrich their study.

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To Help With The Farms Building Fund Aug 2023

To Help With The Farms Building Fund

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

If you would like to make a tax-free contribution to the construction of our new FARMS building, you may indicate on the order form the way in which you wish to donate: either a cash donation or the pledge of a monthly amount. If these alternatives do not meet your needs but you wish to contribute in another way, you may discuss other options with Brent Hall at the FARMS office, by calling our toll-free number, 800-327-6715.

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A New Home For Farms, Noel B. Reynolds Aug 2023

A New Home For Farms, Noel B. Reynolds

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

About a year ago, Richard Winwood, recently returned mission president and strong FARMS supporter, was visiting the FARMS office to discuss some future projects. After an hour or so discussing a long list of proposed projects, he bluntly announced that FARMS's ability to fulfill its mission was being compromised by the limitations of its physical facilities.

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Lavish Photo Book Documents Lds Life Aug 2023

Lavish Photo Book Documents Lds Life

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Time Warner has just published a beautiful book of photographs that gives the world a glimpse into the lives and beliefs of Latter-day Saints. The Mission contains the work of fifty world-class photographers who traveled extensively around the world in the course of a year, documenting the people, history, culture, rituals, and beliefs of the global Church. It was produced with considerable cooperation from the Church and includes a preface written by President Gordon B. Hinckley. It is remarkably accurate for a work by outsiders and its tone is sympathetic to the beliefs and life-styles of members, reflecting no doubt …

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Brown Bags Continue Aug 2023

Brown Bags Continue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Rocks, radar, and writers--these have been the topics of the most recent presentations at the FARMS brown bag seminar at BYU. John L. Sorenson, professor emeritus of Anthropology at BYU, spoke about writers, or more accurately, about the authorship of the Book of Mormon. He pointed out that Joseph Smith apparently thought that the Book of Mormon applied to all of North and South America, yet the book fits only a limited Mesoamerican setting. If Joseph had made up the setting or used what he knew about the world, it would not have matched so well a part of the …

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New Catalog Ready For You And Your Friends Aug 2023

New Catalog Ready For You And Your Friends

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Enclosed in this mailing is the newest FARMS catalog, which we hope will be of use as you plan your Christmas giving. We are happy to make extra copies of the catalog available free for you to give to your friends. Just let us know how many you need--you are our best ambassadors.

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Videos Down Under Aug 2023

Videos Down Under

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Dennis Curyer of Australia reports that the effort to put FARMS videos into the format used there (see Insights, Sept. 1994) is going well and attracting attention from as far away as Germany, England, and Malaysia. New videos are being reformatted all the time. He can be reached through a new fax number - (03) 9739-5415 - or by mail at P.O. Box 770, Lilydale, Vic., Australia 3140.

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Book Of Mormon Series Offers Five New Lectures Aug 2023

Book Of Mormon Series Offers Five New Lectures

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The following lectures, recently filmed and broadcast as part of the FARMS Book of Mormon Lecture Series, are now available for you to enjoy (videos, audiocassettes, or transcripts- see the order form).

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Review Continues Picks And Pans, Larry K. Smith Aug 2023

Review Continues Picks And Pans, Larry K. Smith

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The most highly recommended item in the latest Review of Books on the Book of Mormon (volume 7, number 2) is not a single book but a resource library of books on CD-ROM, the LDS Collectors Edition from Infobases. Editor Daniel Peterson gives it three stars (out of a possible four stars) for its usefulness to the student of the scriptures, and reviewer Larry K. Smith calls it a "quantum leap forward" for study and research on the scriptures and related topics because it brings together such a large quantity of good books at such a low price (less than …

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Elder L. Tom Perry Examines The Personalities Involved In The Translation Of The Book Of Mormon And In The Restoration Of The Church Aug 2023

Elder L. Tom Perry Examines The Personalities Involved In The Translation Of The Book Of Mormon And In The Restoration Of The Church

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

In his address to the friends and supporters of FARMS at the Foundation's 1995 annual banquet, Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve expressed his interest in the human chemistry found in organizations and examined the early history of the Church from this perspective. He spoke of the challenges that Joseph Smith faced as a young husband with a skeptical father-in-law who thought Joseph should be doing something more productive than sitting around the house translating golden plates. He reflected on the challenges that Martin Harris faced in helping to finance the work on the Book of …

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Undergraduate Students' Conceptions Of Ngss Science And Engineering Practices, Jessie Webb Aug 2023

Undergraduate Students' Conceptions Of Ngss Science And Engineering Practices, Jessie Webb

Theses and Dissertations

In 2013, a new set of science standards was introduced for K-12 science education, called the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), which focused on three dimensions of science learning that work together: disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science and engineering practices. These standards are novel in their emphasis on students needing more than only content knowledge to learn science and engineering. The NGSS science and engineering practices (SEPs) stress the importance of students engaging in the authentic practices of scientists and engineers to help them think like a scientist, practice science themselves, and overcome the misconception that science is …

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Estimating Hemispheric Specialization In Autistic And Neurotypical Individuals, Madeline Peterson Aug 2023

Estimating Hemispheric Specialization In Autistic And Neurotypical Individuals, Madeline Peterson

Theses and Dissertations

While the brain appears to be symmetrical, macroscopic differences or asymmetries between the two hemispheres emerge through careful quantitative study. Functional asymmetries can accompany these structural asymmetries, and these can be a reflection of hemispheric specialization, or the predominant hosting of macroscale functional network and its accompanying functional properties by a given hemisphere. Prior work has identified the specialization of language to the left hemisphere, visuospatial attention to the right hemisphere, and a dual specialization of executive control to both hemispheres. However, it is largely unknown how specialization is characterized at an individual level, particularly in terms of identifying the …

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Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Mineral Survey Completed Aug 2023

Mineral Survey Completed

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Eugene E. Clark has just returned from a month-long, FARMS-sponsored field survey in Oman, looking for sources of iron ore that could have been used by Nephi to make shipbuilding tools.

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Farms Broadcasts On Tv And Radio Aug 2023

Farms Broadcasts On Tv And Radio

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The following broadcasts of FARMS material may be of interest.

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Upgrading The Farms-Byu Connection Aug 2023

Upgrading The Farms-Byu Connection

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The unique and productive relationship that Brigham Young University and the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies have enjoyed for nearly fifteen years has recently been elevated to a new level of cooperation. While FARMS continues to be an independently managed and independently funded foundation, the BYU Board of Trustees has now endorsed a protocol between BYU and FARMS that expands the range of opportunities for cooperation on scholarly work on the Book of Mormon and related topics.

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Farms Board Expands With Two New Members Aug 2023

Farms Board Expands With Two New Members

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

M. Gerald Bradford, Director of Research for FARMS (who was highlighted in the June issue of Insights), and David Rolph Seely, assistant professor of Ancient Scripture at BYU, have joined the FARMS board of directors.

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Journal Features Sperry's Book Of Mormon Scholarship Aug 2023

Journal Features Sperry's Book Of Mormon Scholarship

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sidney B. Sperry, an individual who did much ground-breaking work in the study of the scriptures, especially the Book of Mormon. In honor of that occasion, and to make Sperry's writing more available to a new generation of Book of Mormon students, the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies has devoted its Spring issue to printing some of his essays that are out of print, hard to find, or never before published.

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Annual Symposium Examines The Role And Influence Of The Writings Of Isaiah In The Book Of Mormon Aug 2023

Annual Symposium Examines The Role And Influence Of The Writings Of Isaiah In The Book Of Mormon

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Approximately 600 students of the scriptures from throughout Utah and from other parts of the United States gathered in Provo on May 20 for the Eighth Annual FARMS Symposium. This year's theme, "Isaiah in the Book of Mormon," inspired presentations in areas as diverse as textual analysis, doctrinal exposition, manuscript transmission, imagery and poetics, word print studies, and intellectual history.

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Pop Gugak And E-Sang: Negotiating Traditional And Pop Genre Categories In Expressions Of Identity, Jessica Ellis Aug 2023

Pop Gugak And E-Sang: Negotiating Traditional And Pop Genre Categories In Expressions Of Identity, Jessica Ellis

Theses and Dissertations

Korean traditional music has a popularity problem among Korea's contemporary audiences; given the choice of what to listen to, few South Koreans choose to listen to gugak. To address and overcome this popularity problem, traditional Korean musicians are negotiating and reconstructing traditional Korean music by adopting, appropriating, and altering elements of Korean and international pop music. To this end, Gugak groups recently have been incorporating western musical practices and aesthetics in their performances in digital platforms (YouTube and reality television programs) and in concerts to contemporize the genre and develop a more positive relationship between Koreans and their national music. …

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Gene Dive: Assessing The Diversity Of Perchlorate Reducing Genes In Mars Analog Environments, Colin Michael Robinson Aug 2023

Gene Dive: Assessing The Diversity Of Perchlorate Reducing Genes In Mars Analog Environments, Colin Michael Robinson

Theses and Dissertations

Biotic perchlorate reduction, a metabolic process that potentially occurs on Mars, has long been the subject of speculation in astrobiology. To determine whether it could be a viable metabolic strategy on the Red Planet, we sought to determine whether biotic perchlorate reduction could evolve and persist in Mars-analog environments on Earth. In this study, we introduce Gene Dive, a novel computational methodology that leverages profile hidden Markov models, sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree construction, and Faith's phylogenetic diversity to probe the prevalence and diversity of perchlorate reducing genes in metagenomes. To determine whether biotic perchlorate reduction persists in a wide range …

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So You Want To Teach Abroad?: A Guide For Prospective English Language Teachers, Michelle Mcmurray Aug 2023

So You Want To Teach Abroad?: A Guide For Prospective English Language Teachers, Michelle Mcmurray

TESOL MA Projects

Teaching English abroad has been one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life. There are so many benefits to teaching English abroad, such as the opportunity to travel around the world and engage with other cultures, learn new languages, and develop both personal and professional skills. I have been fortunate to teach in China, Kenya, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic. My teaching responsibilities varied greatly in each country, and while these experiences were incredibly positive overall, each brought its own set of unique challenges. I often felt underqualified or too inexperienced for my roles, found myself in …

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Parental Roles In K-12 Online Education, Barbara Tanner Sandberg Aug 2023

Parental Roles In K-12 Online Education, Barbara Tanner Sandberg

Theses and Dissertations

Parental support roles in K-12 online learning differ from traditional schools. Since K-12 students typically have not developed the self-regulation skills necessary for academic engagement, parents partner with schools to provide the affective, behavioral, and cognitive engagement support necessary for academic success. Through 21 semistructured interviews with parents supporting K-12 students in varied online contexts, this study delineates how parents provided support in each of these dimensions of engagement. The participants felt that in online education, parents should take the primary responsibility for behavioral engagement support, and that teachers were primarily responsible for cognitive support. Parents believed they shared affective …

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Don't Fear The Artificial Intelligence: A Systematic Review Of Machine Learning For Prostate Cancer Detection In Pathology, Aaryn Frewing, Alexander B. Gibson, Richard Robertson, Paul Urie, Dennis Della Corte Aug 2023

Don't Fear The Artificial Intelligence: A Systematic Review Of Machine Learning For Prostate Cancer Detection In Pathology, Aaryn Frewing, Alexander B. Gibson, Richard Robertson, Paul Urie, Dennis Della Corte

Faculty Publications

The adoption of whole slide image (WSI) scanners in clinical practice was accelerated by US Food and Drug Administration approval in 2017, which allowed primary pathologic diagnoses to be made on scanned images. Images in the digital domain allow the application of pathology artificial intelligence (AI), including clinical decision support with algorithms performing specific diagnoses.1,2 These algorithms, if trained properly, could go beyond the ability of human observation to detect and quantify features that are not recognizable by human perception.1,3,4

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Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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