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Sociocultural Identification With The United States And English Pronunciation Comprehensibility And Accent Among International Esl Students, Christinah Paige Mulder Mar 2019

Sociocultural Identification With The United States And English Pronunciation Comprehensibility And Accent Among International Esl Students, Christinah Paige Mulder

Theses and Dissertations

Sociocultural identity is defined for this study as the element of identity affixed to a social or cultural group. Previous research on sociocultural identity has recognized the need for further study of its effect on second language performance, particularly pronunciation. Previous studies have found contradictory results when studying the relationships between sociocultural identity and various measures of second language pronunciation. This thesis takes a quantitative correlational approach to the study of sociocultural identification with the United States and English pronunciation comprehensibility and accent in a group of 68 international students learning English in the United States. Participants completed a survey …

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The Uncanny Mind: Perpetrator Trauma In Poe’S “The Black Cat”, Bethanie Allyson Sonnefeld Mar 2019

The Uncanny Mind: Perpetrator Trauma In Poe’S “The Black Cat”, Bethanie Allyson Sonnefeld

Theses and Dissertations

Among the psychological interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat,” trauma theory has yet to make an appearance. However, the confessional nature of the story shifts—via a trauma reading—from an attempt by the narrator to ease his guilt to his attempt to understand what happened to him. The narrator’s murder of his wife traumatized him, causing erasures in the timeline and several forms of dissociation. These erasures and dissociations cause an uncanny effect within the story, which occurs as the past, present, and future are conflated and as the narrator’s mind is both known and hidden. The narrator’s tale …

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Applications Of Pattern Recognition Entropy (Pre) And Informatics To Data Analysis, Shiladitya Chatterjee Mar 2019

Applications Of Pattern Recognition Entropy (Pre) And Informatics To Data Analysis, Shiladitya Chatterjee

Theses and Dissertations

The primary focus of my work is the application of informatics methods to the fields of materials science and analytical chemistry. The statistical analysis of data has become increasingly important in understanding the properties of materials and analytes. Statistical methods like principal component analysis (PCA) and multivariate curve resolution (MCR) are widely used for analysis in chemistry and other fields given their ability to categorize spectra in an unsupervised way. PCA is relatively easy to apply and has appealing mathematical properties. However, the results can be challenging to interpret, even for experienced users. In contrast, MCR results can be more …

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Ribosomally Synthesized And Post-Translationally Modified Peptides As Potential Scaffolds For Peptide Engineering, Devan Bursey Mar 2019

Ribosomally Synthesized And Post-Translationally Modified Peptides As Potential Scaffolds For Peptide Engineering, Devan Bursey

Theses and Dissertations

Peptides are small proteins that are crucial in many biological pathways such as antimicrobial defense, hormone signaling, and virulence. They often exhibit tight specificity for their targets and therefore have great therapeutic potential. Many peptide-based therapeutics are currently available, and the demand for this type of drug is expected to continue to increase. In order to satisfy the growing demand for peptide-based therapeutics, new engineering approaches to generate novel peptides should be developed. Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs) are a group of peptides that have the potential to be effective scaffolds for in vivo peptide engineering projects. These …

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A Qualitative Study Of Ramadan: A Month Of Fasting, Family, And Faith, Zahra Alghafli, Trevan Hatch, Andrew H. Rose, Mona M. Abo-Zena, Loren Dean Marks Feb 2019

A Qualitative Study Of Ramadan: A Month Of Fasting, Family, And Faith, Zahra Alghafli, Trevan Hatch, Andrew H. Rose, Mona M. Abo-Zena, Loren Dean Marks

Faculty Publications

Islam is a major world religion and the Muslim population is one of the fastest growing religious populations in the Western world, including in the United States. However, few research studies have examined the lived religious experience of U.S. Muslim families. Much of the attention on Islam among researchers and the media tends to be on controversial aspects of the religion. The purpose of this paper is to examine the unique religious practice of the month-long fast of Ramadan, especially its perceived role on marital and familial relationships from an insider’s perspective. Content analysis of in-depth, qualitative interviews of twenty …

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Beyond Religious Rigidities: Religious Firmness And Religious Flexibility As Complementary Loyalties In Faith Transmission, David C. Dollahite, Loren D. Marks, Kate P. Babcock, Betsy H. Barrow, Andrew H. Rose Feb 2019

Beyond Religious Rigidities: Religious Firmness And Religious Flexibility As Complementary Loyalties In Faith Transmission, David C. Dollahite, Loren D. Marks, Kate P. Babcock, Betsy H. Barrow, Andrew H. Rose

Faculty Publications

Research has found that intergenerational transmission of religiosity results in higher family functioning and improved family relationships. Yet the Pew Research Center found that 44% of Americans reported that they had left the religious affiliation of their childhood. And 78% of the expanding group of those who identify as religiously unaffiliated (“Nones”) reported that they were raised in “highly religious families.” We suggest that this may be, in part, associated with religious parents exercising excessive firmness with inadequate flexibility (rigidity). We used a multiphase, systematic, team-based process to code 8000+ pages of in-depth interviews from 198 Christian, Jewish, and Muslim …

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Education For Civic Life, Daniel N. Robinson Feb 2019

Education For Civic Life, Daniel N. Robinson

Brigham Young University-Public School Partnership Occasional Papers

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Recording Chinese Grassroots Ngos: A Web Archiving Project, Zhaohui Xue, Jidong Yang, Yan Long Feb 2019

Recording Chinese Grassroots Ngos: A Web Archiving Project, Zhaohui Xue, Jidong Yang, Yan Long

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Jeal No. 168 Full Issue Feb 2019

Jeal No. 168 Full Issue

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Making A Case For Local Relevance: Strategic Exhibition Planning For The Gordon W. Prange Collection, Yukako Tatsumi Feb 2019

Making A Case For Local Relevance: Strategic Exhibition Planning For The Gordon W. Prange Collection, Yukako Tatsumi

Journal of East Asian Libraries

In the changing academic libraries environment, area studies and special collections, marked by a high level of expertise in a specialized area, are faced with the challenge of articulating their value and becoming connected with a broad range of local users. This article shows that exhibitions can be a powerful instrument for making a convincing case for the relevance of these specialized collections to local users. It discusses a model case of strategic exhibition development for the Gordon W. Prange Collection, which archives Japanese-language print publications issued during the first four years of the U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1945-1949. Making …

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Removing Racism Or Erasing History? The Modern Confederate Conversation, Grant Baldwin Feb 2019

Removing Racism Or Erasing History? The Modern Confederate Conversation, Grant Baldwin

Student Works

Should Americans continue to honor the symbols and leaders of a group who rebelled against their country and fought to preserve the enslavement of African Americans on the basis of preserving heritage? In this paper, I look through American history and identify how the Confederate symbols in question have been connected with racism throughout the past. I then debunk some of the misconceptions commonly associated with Southern history and the Confederate symbols. I conclude with the outcomes of the recent removals in New Orleans and Dallas and address how this debate connects to the issue of racial injustice.

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A Brief Response To “Between Identity And Truth”, Terryl Givens Jan 2019

A Brief Response To “Between Identity And Truth”, Terryl Givens

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

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Teaching Children Democratic Citizenship, Sarah A. Smith, Stephen F. Duncan Jan 2019

Teaching Children Democratic Citizenship, Sarah A. Smith, Stephen F. Duncan

Forever Families

Citizenship is simply legal status in a country, but democratic citizenship involves much more. It demands becoming informed about issues that affect you and participating with others in determining how society will resolve those issues (p. 12).8

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H.M. Tomlinson’S “Barbarism” As Post-War Ptsd, Jessica Hogge Jan 2019

H.M. Tomlinson’S “Barbarism” As Post-War Ptsd, Jessica Hogge

Modernist Short Story Project

On its surface, “Barbarism” by H.M. Tomlinson describes an English adventurer in the jungles of Malaysia. He returns to England to find it more barbaric than the uncivilized jungles he just left. However, by examining the story in light of H.M. Tomlinson’s history of anti-war sentiment, I see “Barbarism” as commentary on World War I. Specifically, I believe that the short story describes the consequences of war that a soldier experiences personally—PTSD (or “shell-shock”), guilt, and isolation. In “Barbarism” Tomlinson creates a tone of anxiety through his word choice, brings to light the complications of differentiating between cowardice and shell-shock, …

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The Invisible Bluestocking: Naganuma Chieko’S Organic Cover Art Jan 2019

The Invisible Bluestocking: Naganuma Chieko’S Organic Cover Art

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

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Hydrologic Responses To Land Use/Land Cover Change In The Kesem Watershed, Awash Basin, Ethiopia Jan 2019

Hydrologic Responses To Land Use/Land Cover Change In The Kesem Watershed, Awash Basin, Ethiopia

Journal of Spatial Hydrology

The main objective of this study was to investigate the impacts of land use/Land cover change impacts on streamflow availability in The Kesem Watershed, Awash basin, Ethiopia. Two methodological approaches were employed to achive the objective. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model was used to quantify the changes using two time period land use maps. Moreover, Mann-Kendall (MK) statistical test was used to detect the monotonic trends if exists in the time series of the measured and simulated streamflow. Land use change detection was done using remote sensing techniques and the maps were processed using ERDAS Imagine 2014 …

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Elder William Mark Waddoups: Called And Served With Aloha, Carol Helekunihi Jan 2019

Elder William Mark Waddoups: Called And Served With Aloha, Carol Helekunihi

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

In the Laie, Hawaii Temple dedication from the Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, January, 1920, a report by President Rudgar Clawson, we read, “We thank thee, O Father , this day that the promise made in a dream to thy servant William W. Cluff, by the Prophet Brigham Young, that a day would come that a temple should be erected in this land, is fulfilled before our eyes”. p.4

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A Comparative Look At The Dedication And Rededication Prays Of The Laie Hawaii Temple, J. Perry Christensen Jan 2019

A Comparative Look At The Dedication And Rededication Prays Of The Laie Hawaii Temple, J. Perry Christensen

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

This paper looks at the original dedicatory prayer and the two subsequent rededicatory prayers of the Laie Hawaii Temple in terms of historical settings, linguistic features, and content similarities and comparisons. The 1919 dedication and the 1978 rededication prayers are essentially the same in organization and very similar in content—almost word for word with parts of the 1919 pray either updated or deleted in the 1978 prayer. The 2010 rededication prayer is vastly different in organization and content, though an effort has been made to rearrange this prayer so that the content which is similar is presented next to the …

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An Everyday Story, Thomasine Gyllembourg, Troy Wellington Smith Jan 2019

An Everyday Story, Thomasine Gyllembourg, Troy Wellington Smith

The Bridge

Translator’s Note: For most readers outside of Denmark, the Danish Golden Age begins and ends with Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard. At the time, however, both Andersen and Kierkegaard were outsiders in respect to the dominant cultural circle, that of the actress Johanne Luise Heiberg, her husband Johan Ludvig Heiberg, and his mother Thomasine Gyllembourg. Gyllembourg, along with Steen Steensen Blicher and Bernhard Severin Ingemann, is credited with giving Denmark its first canonical prose fiction. Despite her importance to Danish Golden Age literature and the history of European women’s literature, Gyllembourg is virtually unknown outside of Denmark, except among …

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Mass Incarceration In The United States, Alex Resney Jan 2019

Mass Incarceration In The United States, Alex Resney

Ballard Brief

In both per capita and absolute terms, the United States criminal justice system is the largest in the world, housing almost 2.3 million people. Some of the challenges facing this system are policies regarding drug offenses that date back to the war on Drugs, a lack of rehabilitation of convicts, and the ·tough on crime· narrative that dominates American media. This mass incarceration impacts society at all levels, from the community to the individual. It places an economic burden on the American public, affects the health and wellbeing of the families of incarcerated individuals, leaves those in the criminal justice …

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Assessment Of Hydromorphological Conditions Of Upper And Lower Dams Of River Teesta In Sikkim Jan 2019

Assessment Of Hydromorphological Conditions Of Upper And Lower Dams Of River Teesta In Sikkim

Journal of Spatial Hydrology

River is a main source of fresh water. Although since past river water and basin morphology both have affected and changed by some natural and human induced activities. Human civilization since time immemorial has been rooted close to river basin. Changing morphology of a river channel has done also by natural causes. The hydromorphological state of a river system replicates its habitat quality and relies on a variety of both physical and human features. The area of study is located in the Teesta river system in Sikkim Himalaya, which comprises of Teesta and its major tributary the Rangit, situated in …

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Comparison Of Different Base Flow Separation Methods And Drought Vulnerability In A Rift Valley Area Jan 2019

Comparison Of Different Base Flow Separation Methods And Drought Vulnerability In A Rift Valley Area

Journal of Spatial Hydrology

Estimation of groundwater recharge and drought vulnerability assessment was done by comparing Recursive Digital Filtering (TIMESPLOT) and Graphical Hydrograph Separation (HYSEP) methods. In both methods, long term daily stream flow data (1991 - 2003) was used from seven river discharge gauging stations in three physiographic settings (rift, escarpment and highland) and corresponding variable climatic conditions. The results from both methods have similar trend and show general agreement on annual basis with a correlation coefficient of 0.994. Moreover, long-term rainfall-discharge relationship of the sub-basin shows 0.75 correlation. The long term annual weighted catchment recharges are 94.9 mm and 111.9 mm for …

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The Use Of Hydrochemical And Environmental Isotopes In Analysis Of Hydrogeological Systems Of Abaya - Chamo Lakes Basin Jan 2019

The Use Of Hydrochemical And Environmental Isotopes In Analysis Of Hydrogeological Systems Of Abaya - Chamo Lakes Basin

Journal of Spatial Hydrology

Hydrochemical and environmental isotope (2H,18O) data of different waters in relation to geologic units and tectonics are used to characterize the different hydrogeological systems, spatial variation of water types, sources and mechanism of recharge and groundwater flow systems in aquifers. The area is tectonically active volcanic terrain of three physiographic regions (rift, escarpment and highland) having large topographic differences ranging in elevation form 1,180 to over 4,000masl. In the rift valley, there are geothermal fields. There is strong spatial hydrochemical variation between the rift and highlands in identifying four major groups of water types evolving from Ca-HCO3 at highlands to …

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Joseph Smith: The World’S Greatest Guesser (A Bayesian Statistical Analysis Of Positive And Negative Correspondences Between The Book Of Mormon And The Maya), Bruce E. Dale, Brian M. Dale Jan 2019

Joseph Smith: The World’S Greatest Guesser (A Bayesian Statistical Analysis Of Positive And Negative Correspondences Between The Book Of Mormon And The Maya), Bruce E. Dale, Brian M. Dale

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Dr. Michael Coe is a prominent Mesoamerican scholar and author of a synthesis and review of ancient Mesoamerican Indian cultures entitled The Maya.1 Dr. Coe is also a prominent skeptic of the Book of Mormon. However, there is in his book strong evidence that favors the Book of Mormon, which Dr. Coe has not taken into account. This article analyzes that evidence, using Bayesian statistics. We apply a strongly skeptical prior assumption that the Book of Mormon “has little to do with early Indian cultures,” as Dr. Coe claims. We then compare 131 separate positive correspondences or points of evidence …

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“Yes, It’S True, But I Don’T Think They Like To Hear It Quite That Way”: What Spencer W. Kimball Told Elaine Cannon, Duane Boyce Jan 2019

“Yes, It’S True, But I Don’T Think They Like To Hear It Quite That Way”: What Spencer W. Kimball Told Elaine Cannon, Duane Boyce

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Elaine Cannon, who was general president of the Young Women some four decades ago, had an interesting conversation with President Spencer W. Kimball in 1978. According to Sister Cannon’s firsthand account, President Kimball revealed important insight into how he thought about himself as the prophet as well as how he thought leaders should talk to the general membership about that topic. Sister Cannon’s report is thus a valuable part of the historical record regarding both Spencer W. Kimball and prophets generally.

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Full Issue Jan 2019

Full Issue

Mormon Studies Review

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Reviews Of Two Books Of Robert E. Bieder, Roger L. Nichols, Juliet Clutton-Brock Jan 2019

Reviews Of Two Books Of Robert E. Bieder, Roger L. Nichols, Juliet Clutton-Brock

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Full Issue Jan 2019

Full Issue

Journal of Response to Writing

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“Come Unto Me” As A Technical Gospel Term, Noel B. Reynolds Jan 2019

“Come Unto Me” As A Technical Gospel Term, Noel B. Reynolds

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

The Book of Mormon repeatedly outlines a six-part definition of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but most writers within the book refer to only two or three of them at a time in a biblical rhetorical device called merismus. Throughout the scriptures, the term “come unto Christ” in its many forms is used as part of these merisms to represent enduring to the end. This article examines the many abbreviations of the gospel, connects the phrase “come unto Christ” with enduring to the end, and discusses some of the alternate uses of these types of phrases.

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Assessing The Criticisms Of Early-Age Latter-Day Saint Marriages, Craig L. Foster Jan 2019

Assessing The Criticisms Of Early-Age Latter-Day Saint Marriages, Craig L. Foster

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Critics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have accused Joseph Smith and other early Latter-day Saint men of pedophilia because they married teenaged women. Indeed, they have emphatically declared that such marriages were against 19th-century societal norms. However, historians and other experts have repeatedly stated that young people married throughout the 19th-century, and such marriages have been relatively common throughout all of US history. This article examines some of the accusations of early Latter-day Saint pedophilia and places such marriages within the greater historical and social context, illustrating that such marriages were normal and acceptable for their …

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