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The King Follett Discourse: A Newly Amalgamated Text, Stan Larson Apr 1978

The King Follett Discourse: A Newly Amalgamated Text, Stan Larson

BYU Studies

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Plants Of Navajo National Monument, J. D. Brotherson, G. Nebeker, M. Skougard, J. Fairchild Mar 1978

Plants Of Navajo National Monument, J. D. Brotherson, G. Nebeker, M. Skougard, J. Fairchild

Great Basin Naturalist

The floristic composition of Navajo National Monument is presented. The flora of the monument consists of 293 species of vascular plants, representing 177 genera and 66 families. The species are scattered throughout 12 plant communities found within the monument. The flora is dominated by forbs (60 percent), followed by shrubs (16 percent), grasses (12 percent) and trees (5 percent). Betatakin canyon exhibits the greatest floristic richness with 223 species being represented and 123 species found only in that area. This is due primarily to two factors: (1) the greater variety of habitats available in the area, and (2) the much …

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Fluctuation Of A Marsh Habitat And The Reproductive Strategy Of The Yellow-Headed Blackbird, Roger J. Lederer Mar 1978

Fluctuation Of A Marsh Habitat And The Reproductive Strategy Of The Yellow-Headed Blackbird, Roger J. Lederer

Great Basin Naturalist

The Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) nests in marshes and is dependent on emergent vegetation for nest sites. Fluctuating water levels from year to year cause an increase or decrease in the amount of emergent vegetation and affect the time required for the vegetation to become suitable for nesting. Nests built in marshes are very susceptible to wind, rainfall, vegetation growth, and predation. Many nests are abandoned before being used and the mortality of eggs and young is high. The reproductive strategy of the Yellow-headed Blackbird has been selected for flexibility and opportunism to compensate for the unpredictability of …

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An Introduction To Communication Theory: A Description Of The Teaching Act, Mary Ann Christison Mar 1978

An Introduction To Communication Theory: A Description Of The Teaching Act, Mary Ann Christison

Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium

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Light From The Low Performance Language Learner, Robert W. Blair Mar 1978

Light From The Low Performance Language Learner, Robert W. Blair

Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium

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Enhancing Intercultural Communication: A Languetic Model, V. Lynn Tyler Mar 1978

Enhancing Intercultural Communication: A Languetic Model, V. Lynn Tyler

Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium

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Full Issue, Deseret Language And Linguistics Society Mar 1978

Full Issue, Deseret Language And Linguistics Society

Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium

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Wh- Words From A Jokobsonian Point Of View, Robert Fugal Mar 1978

Wh- Words From A Jokobsonian Point Of View, Robert Fugal

Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium

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In Memoriam: Alfred Kaiming Chiu (1898-1977), Glen W. Baxter, Edwin G. Beal, Kenneth K. S. Chen, John King Fairbank, Elizabeth Huff, Choh-Ming Li, Richard B. Mather, Edwin O. Reischauer, S. Y. Teng, Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien, Shigang Tong Mar 1978

In Memoriam: Alfred Kaiming Chiu (1898-1977), Glen W. Baxter, Edwin G. Beal, Kenneth K. S. Chen, John King Fairbank, Elizabeth Huff, Choh-Ming Li, Richard B. Mather, Edwin O. Reischauer, S. Y. Teng, Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien, Shigang Tong

Journal of East Asian Libraries

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Phytogeographical Variation Within Juniper-Pinyon Woodlands Of The Great Basin, Neil E. West, Robin J. Tausch, Kenneth H. Rea, Paul T. Tueller Mar 1978

Phytogeographical Variation Within Juniper-Pinyon Woodlands Of The Great Basin, Neil E. West, Robin J. Tausch, Kenneth H. Rea, Paul T. Tueller

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

About 22 percent of the pigmy conifer woodlands of the United States occur within the Great Basin. Only a very few reports of these woodlands exist in the literature. Available reports are either of general descriptive nature or specific analysis of vegetation-environmental relationships on one mountain range. In order to better understand basin-wide synecological patterns, a cooperative study was carried out by personnel at Utah State University and the University of Nevada-Reno between 1972 and 1975. Vegetation, landform, geology, and soils data obtained from 463 systematically placed stands on a randomly chosen set of 66 mountain ranges have been used …

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Avian Biogeography Of The Great Basin And Intermountain Region, William H. Behle Mar 1978

Avian Biogeography Of The Great Basin And Intermountain Region, William H. Behle

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

There are no endemic species of birds in the Great Basin. Nevertheless, a distinctive Great Basin avifauna exists which contains components of the Mojave Desert, Rocky Mountain, and Great Plains avifaunas as well as species obligate to sagebrush and the pinyon-juniper forest. Seemingly there has been little spread of California and Sierra Nevada species eastward, but a westward extension from the Rocky Mountains of several species is indicated. While several Rocky Mountain species reach their western limits on the eastern edge of the Great Basin, others have extended into the eastern portion. Two Great Plains representatives are late arrivals, namely …

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The Flora Of Great Basin Mountain Ranges: Diversity, Sources, And Dispersal Ecology, K. T. Harper, D. Carl Freeman, W. Kent Ostler, Lionel G. Klikoff Mar 1978

The Flora Of Great Basin Mountain Ranges: Diversity, Sources, And Dispersal Ecology, K. T. Harper, D. Carl Freeman, W. Kent Ostler, Lionel G. Klikoff

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

The high elevation floras of 9 mountainous "mainlands" (3 in the Sierra-Cascade system and 6 in the High Plateau-Wasatch-Teton system) and 15 isolated mountain "islands" in the Intermountain Region have been analyzed. Mainland floras support more species per unit area and show a smaller increase in diversity as area is increased than islands (never exceeding 5 percent of any flora), however; and the island floras are overwhelmingly dominated by species with no apparent modifications for long-range dispersal. Furthermore, the eastern mainland has exerted a far greater influence on the flora and the vegetation of the islands than has the western …

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Alpine Phytogeography Across The Great Basin, W. D. Billings Mar 1978

Alpine Phytogeography Across The Great Basin, W. D. Billings

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

Alpine vegetations and floras are compared in two transects across the Intermountain Region. The first extends from the Beartooth Mountains in the central Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nevada some 1200 Km to the southwest. It includes six mountain ranges. The second transect crosses the Mohave Desert from Olancha Peak in the southern Sierra Nevada to Charleston Peak and thence to San Francisco Peaks in northern Arizona. The largest numbers of arctic-alpine species are in the Beartooth and Ruby mountains, indicating migrations of these species along the Rocky Mountain cordillera. The lowest numbers of arctic-alpine species are in the central …

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Patterns Of Avian Geography And Speciation In The Intermountain Region, Ned K. Johnson Mar 1978

Patterns Of Avian Geography And Speciation In The Intermountain Region, Ned K. Johnson

Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs

The Intermountain Region comprises a huge arena where major avifaunas more highly developed beyond the Great Basin come into contact. For this reason the distribution and composition of avifaunas in riparian and pinyon-juniper woodlands and in coniferous forests in this region are understood most clearly if considered as part of a broader system of patterns evident in western North America. Riparian woodland samples point to a complex meeting ground in the Intermountain Region of two major avifaunas of equivalent size, but from opposite distributional backgrounds. These northern and southern avifaunas do not mix among the samples represented except in western …

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Full Issue Feb 1978

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

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Biography Of J. J. Von Grueningen, John Paul Von Grueningen Feb 1978

Biography Of J. J. Von Grueningen, John Paul Von Grueningen

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

My father, Johann Jakob von Grueningen, who for thirty-four years served as pastor of the Reformed Church at Sauk City, Wisconsin, was born in Gstaad, Saanen Parish, Canton Bern, Switzerland, November 23, 1845, and died at Sauk City, May 23, 1911. From the time of his college days at St. Chrischona he used the older spelling of his family name. In explaining the variant spellings of the name, he writes in his memoirs:

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General Authority Address, Elder Marvin Ashton Jan 1978

General Authority Address, Elder Marvin Ashton

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

This address was given at the AMCAP Convention, Salt Lake City, October, 1977.

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In Behalf Of A Revealed Approach To Counseling, Allen E. Bergin Jan 1978

In Behalf Of A Revealed Approach To Counseling, Allen E. Bergin

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

Address given at the AMCAP Convention, Salt Lake City, October, 1977.

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The Comet, Leona Holbrook Jan 1978

The Comet, Leona Holbrook

BYU Studies

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A Survey Of Mormon Literary Criticism, Colin B. Douglas Jan 1978

A Survey Of Mormon Literary Criticism, Colin B. Douglas

Theses and Dissertations

Three general questions concerning literature have been addressed by the writers considered in this thesis: What constitutes a work of literary art? What ought to be valued by Latter-day Saints in a literary work? How should criticism be conducted by Latter-day Saints? To the first question, five basic answers have been proposed: significant form, uplifting thought content clothed in decorative form, typological symbol, ikon (as the word is used by C S lewis in An Experiment in Criticism), and capacity for helping the reader achieve a kind of "negative capability." These definitions also tend to be statements of value, …

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“…Of Countries And Of Kingdoms”, Jeffrey R. Holland Jan 1978

“…Of Countries And Of Kingdoms”, Jeffrey R. Holland

BYU Studies

Jeffrey R. Holland, at that time the commissioner of education for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, gave a luncheon address in connection with a Brigham Young University comparative religion symposium. The symposium was entitled “Deity, Ways of Worship, and Death” and was sponsored by the BYU Religious Studies Center in 1977. In this address, Holland emphasizes that Mormons should embrace light and truth no matter where it may come from. One example he focuses on is the Eastern tradition of meditation; there are numerous scriptural examples of prophets pondering and meditating before they received important revelations. He …

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The Founding Of The Samoan Mission, R. Lanier Britsch Jan 1978

The Founding Of The Samoan Mission, R. Lanier Britsch

BYU Studies

The establishment of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Samoan Islands has an interesting and unusual history. Two Mormon missionaries, Kimo Belio and Samuela Manoa, were sent to Samoa from Hawaii and arrived there in 1863. They baptized about fifty people, but the Church struggled, in part because the Samoan Mission was not officially sanctioned by leaders in Salt Lake City. In 1887, Elder Joseph H. Dean sailed to Samoa to revive missionary work. He faced many obstacles, such as tribal warfare and a rumor that it was illegal to join the Mamona (Mormon) Church, but …

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The Dufour Effect. Ii. Experimental Confirmation Of The Onsager Heat-Mass Reciprocal Relation For A Binary Liquid Mixture, Richard L. Rowley, Frederick H. Horne Jan 1978

The Dufour Effect. Ii. Experimental Confirmation Of The Onsager Heat-Mass Reciprocal Relation For A Binary Liquid Mixture, Richard L. Rowley, Frederick H. Horne

Faculty Publications

Although experimental verification of Onsager's reciprocal relations has been achieved in a variety of cases, no quantitative test of the heat-mass reciprocal relation for a binary liquid system has previously been reported. We present in this communication experimental proof of the equality of the mass-heat reciprocal relation for the system carbon tetrachloride - cyclohezane.

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Stratigraphy Of The Lower Tertiary And Upper Cretaceous (?) Continental Strata In The Canyon Range, Juab County, Utah, James M. Stolle Jan 1978

Stratigraphy Of The Lower Tertiary And Upper Cretaceous (?) Continental Strata In The Canyon Range, Juab County, Utah, James M. Stolle

Theses and Dissertations

The Canyon Range Formation (informal new name), formerly mapped as the Indianola Group within the Canyon Range, is divisible into two distinct, mappable units, A and B. Unit A is nearly all conglomerate strata, and conglomerate texture and sedimentary structures suggest an alluvial fan depositional environment. Precambrian and basal Cambrian quartzite clasts represent the erosional debris from the allochthonous Canyon Range thrust. Unit B is composed of interbedded fluvial sandstone and conglomerates with lacustrine limestones, commonly micritic and/or oncolitic. Conglomerate clasts indicate a Paleozoic carbonate provenance. Unit A, previously mapped as the Indianola, underlies Unit B and correlates with the …

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Parental Control Of Children's Television: An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Control And Family Home Evening, Marion Wixom Mccardell Jan 1978

Parental Control Of Children's Television: An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Control And Family Home Evening, Marion Wixom Mccardell

Theses and Dissertations

This study was designed to examine the relationship between a secular behavior—television control—and a religious one—Family Home Evening. The findings show that there is a relationship, with those having favorable attitudes toward Family Home Evening and those who hold casual FHE's being most inclined to exercise positive control over their children's television viewing.

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Mormon Poor Relief: A Social Welfare Interlude, Betty L. Barton Jan 1978

Mormon Poor Relief: A Social Welfare Interlude, Betty L. Barton

BYU Studies

There has been considerable scholarship about the law of consecration in the early days of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and about the more recent Church welfare plan, but there has been relatively little written about Mormon welfare in the period roughly between 1850 and 1930. Many of the early pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley faced starvation, so President Brigham Young created public works projects in order to give people jobs, acting under the belief that it is better to help people help themselves than to simply give them handouts. Unlike much of American society of …

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The Mormon Heritage Of Vardis Fisher, Leonard J. Arrington, Jon Haupt Jan 1978

The Mormon Heritage Of Vardis Fisher, Leonard J. Arrington, Jon Haupt

BYU Studies

Twentieth-century novelist Vardis Fisher is often regarded as a Mormon apostate and critic, most notably for his 1939 book Children of God. However, Fisher was never excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and despite his skeptical and sometimes critical portrayals of Mormonism, religion played an important role in his lifestyle and writings. Having studied the Bible as a youth, he had a preoccupation with the moral earnestness of the Judeo-Christian tradition. He also took a psychological approach to Mormonism in many of his novels, particularly regarding issues of religion and sexuality. Fisher had a Mormon …

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Amcap Journal Volume 4 Issue 1 1978, Issues In Religion And Psycotherapy Jan 1978

Amcap Journal Volume 4 Issue 1 1978, Issues In Religion And Psycotherapy

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

No abstract provided.

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A Physician Looks At Treatment Strategies For Troubled Lds Marriages, Mclaren Reusch Jan 1978

A Physician Looks At Treatment Strategies For Troubled Lds Marriages, Mclaren Reusch

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy

A presentation made at the AMCAP Convention, Salt Lake City, October 1977.

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Heritage, Johannes Knudsen Jan 1978

Heritage, Johannes Knudsen

The Bridge

The term "heritage" brings up associations of "heredity" and this again reminds us of genes and the genetic code. Heritage in this sense is terribly important. We are programmed by our genes. Our appearance and condition are pre-determined in many ways, ranging from the color of our eyes to the state of our health and the potential of our mind, and including negative as well as positive features. Genetic heritage can be a blessing and it can be a burden. It has the greatest significance for the individual, but is also an important corporate factor. Ethnic groups have genetic features …

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