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Publications Review Board Now Operative Dec 2023

Publications Review Board Now Operative

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

The instituting of a formalized system of reviewing articles considered for possible F.A.R.M.S. publication was mentioned in the Fall 1987 Newsletter. The procedure operates under the aegis of the Evaluation Committee, whose members are Wilford Hess (BYU, microbiology), Douglas Phillips (BYU, classics), Harold Miller (BYU psychology), and Jay Todd (The Ensign). Committee chairman John Sorenson, the acting Evaluation Editor, is assisted by members of a new Publications Review Board, including Gerald Bradford (UC-Irvine, religious studies), John Clark (BYU-NWAF, anthropology), James Faulconer (BYU, philosophy), Stanley Kimball (So. Illin., history), Dan Peterson (BYU, Near Eastern languages), John Robertson (BYU, linguistics), Kent Robson …

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Two More Audio Tapes Available Dec 2023

Two More Audio Tapes Available

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

All year, Russell Peek has been organizing the F.A.R.M.S. Hugh Nibley tape archive. Several hundred recordings of firesides, Sunday School lessons, and talks have been gathered. Many of these recordings have been transferred to archive quality master, thanks especially to Gordon H. Peck in Las Vegas and Michael K. Jensen in Provo. The tapes are now being cataloged.

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Audio Tapes Of Nibley Book Of Mormon Class Available, Russell Peek Dec 2023

Audio Tapes Of Nibley Book Of Mormon Class Available, Russell Peek

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

Those interested in an additional resource for study of the Book of Mormon in 1988 will be rewarded by the audio tapes of Dr. Hugh Nibley's upper division Book of Mormon class at BYU. Russell Peek and a team of recording technicians have captured on cassette tape more than 50 hours of lectures from fall semester 1987 and winter semester 1988, one hour of lecture per cassette.

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The Book Of Mormon As Literature Dec 2023

The Book Of Mormon As Literature

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

Three interpretive essays on the Book of Mormon from a literary point of view are now available.

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Massive Bibliography On Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Contacts Now Available Dec 2023

Massive Bibliography On Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Contacts Now Available

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

A working edition of John Sorenson and Martin Raish's 900-page bibliography, Transoceanic Culture Contacts Between the Old and New Worlds in Pre-Columbian Times: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography, is now available. Funded by a F.A.R.M.S. grant, the work ultimately will include accurate bibliographical information on all serious published works on transoceanic cultural transmissions before 1492, each with an abstract of relevant contents.

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An Approach To The Book Of Mormon Dec 2023

An Approach To The Book Of Mormon

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

An Approach to the Book of Mormon was first published by the Council of the Twelve Apostles to be used as the course of study for the Melchizedek Priesthood quorums in 1957. The Foreword assured that "everyone who reads this manual will find new material in it," information "of vital importance" and "important vision." Joseph Fielding Smith stated, "It will appeal to every sincere student and should be studied by every member of the church."

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Hosts: Relic, Gesture, Site, And Connection In An Art Installation, Gabriella Warnick Dec 2023

Hosts: Relic, Gesture, Site, And Connection In An Art Installation, Gabriella Warnick

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This project is meant to contextualize the art installation Hosts within research regarding ritual, relics, and the concepts of gesture and sites which accumulate in human connection and wonderment. It investigates the historical and philosophical significance of Catholic relics regarding their ability to conjure connection between an audience and their divinity as well as play host to a sense of awe. Additionally, this essay will explore the terms gesture and site as they relate to the ability to create moments of interaction between spans of time, context, and intention. The work will also examine the particular experiences encountered in Rome, …

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The Dark Is Not My Enemy: The Personal Essay As A Form To Explore Trauma And Memory, Raistlyn Camphuysen Dec 2023

The Dark Is Not My Enemy: The Personal Essay As A Form To Explore Trauma And Memory, Raistlyn Camphuysen

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The Dark Is Not My Enemy is a collection of personal essays exploring the connection between trauma and memory, as well as how different forms of the personal essay respond to the challenges of memory in the meaning-making process. This thesis includes three essays—a scenic flash essay, a lyric essay, and a memoir essay—and a critical introduction that explores the theories that inform the formal choices made in the essays and explains how these choices help confront, understand, and heal from sexual trauma.

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Using Jtag For External Scrubbing On The Amd Versal Acap, Michael L. Bjerregaard Dec 2023

Using Jtag For External Scrubbing On The Amd Versal Acap, Michael L. Bjerregaard

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The Versal Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (Versal ACAP) is a system-on-chip (SoC) developed by AMD Xilinx. To help protect the programmable logic from soft errors, the configuration needs to be constantly checked and repaired through a process called scrubbing. This thesis provides a methodology for scrubbing the configuration over JTAG. The scrubber uses two platform device image (PDI) files, one to read the configuration and one to send corrected frames. The methodology is characterized to determine the time it takes to completely scrub the configuration. The designed scrubber was able to scrub the VM1802 in 11.5 seconds, or 41.6 Mbits/second, …

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Coarsening Dynamics Of Ternary Polymer Solutions With Mobility And Viscosity Contrasts, Jan Ulric Garcia, Douglas R. Tree, Alyssa Bagoyo, Tatsuhiro Iwama, Kris T. Delaney, Glenn H. Fredrickson Dec 2023

Coarsening Dynamics Of Ternary Polymer Solutions With Mobility And Viscosity Contrasts, Jan Ulric Garcia, Douglas R. Tree, Alyssa Bagoyo, Tatsuhiro Iwama, Kris T. Delaney, Glenn H. Fredrickson

Faculty Publications

Using phase-field simulations, we investigate the bulk coarsening dynamics of ternary polymer solutions undergoing a glass transition for two models of phase separation: diffusion only and with hydrodynamics. The glass transition is incorporated in both models by imposing mobility and viscosity contrasts between the polymer-rich and polymer-poor phases of the evolving microstructure. For microstructures composed of polymer-poor clusters in a polymer-rich matrix, the mobility and viscosity contrasts significantly hinder coarsening, effectively leading to structural arrest. For microstructures composed of polymer-rich clusters in a polymer-poor matrix, the mobility and viscosity contrasts do not impede domain growth; rather, they change the transient …

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Women And Gender In Mountaineering And Climbing, Natalie Gunn Dec 2023

Women And Gender In Mountaineering And Climbing, Natalie Gunn

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis examines how gender and ideas about gender affected early female mountaineers and rock climbers. The study focuses on female dress standards in the Victorian era, the relative equity of accomplishment between male and female mountaineers and climbers, the portrayal of female climbers in the media, and the misrepresentation of female motivations for climbing. By analyzing primary sources from female climbers and mountaineers, this paper uncovers how women challenged traditional gender roles and navigated the complexities of the male-dominated climbing community.

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An Inexpensive, 3d Printable, Arduino And Bluray-Based, Confocal Laser And Fluorescent Scanning Thermal Microscope, Justin Loose Dec 2023

An Inexpensive, 3d Printable, Arduino And Bluray-Based, Confocal Laser And Fluorescent Scanning Thermal Microscope, Justin Loose

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The Fluorescence Scanning Thermal Microscope (FSTM v3.0), was designed to create an inexpensive, and easily manufactured, device for measuring the diffusivity of samples with microscopic locational precision. This was accomplished by using a Blu-ray device known as a PHR-803T, referred to in this work as a PHR. The optics in the PHR are nearly identical in function to conventional devices used in thermoreflectance microscopy, making the PHR extremely useful to integrate into the FSTM design. The focus of this thesis is the application of the FSTM as a confocal microscope using 3D printed components and various low-cost devices to operate …

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Modeling The Influence Of Vibration On Flow Through Embedded Microchannels, Joseph S. Seamons Dec 2023

Modeling The Influence Of Vibration On Flow Through Embedded Microchannels, Joseph S. Seamons

Theses and Dissertations

The influence of vocal fold (VF) vibration on perfused flow through VF vasculature is an area of research that has previously received limited attention. The aim of the research presented in this thesis was to contribute towards an improved understanding of the effects vibration on perfusion through vasculature within the VFs. This was done using a series of computational simulations of geometric changes to, and perfusion through, microchannels embedded in VF models. A computational structural model based on synthetic VF models used in previous experimental studies was first developed. The model and its embedded microchannel were initially studied under static …

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Using Quantitative And Kinetic Proteomics To Explore Proteostasis, Nathan Raul Zuniga Pina Dec 2023

Using Quantitative And Kinetic Proteomics To Explore Proteostasis, Nathan Raul Zuniga Pina

Theses and Dissertations

Every cell consists of carefully orchestrated biomolecules such as lipids, carbohydrates, and proteins. To maintain internal stability (homeostasis), cells maintain the right amount of these molecules at the right time and at the right place. This process is especially true for proteins since they are the foundation functional units within the cell. Proteins form structures and perform chemistry that bestows cells overarching functional roles. Cells maintain protein homeostasis (proteostasis) by modulating synthesis, folding, and degradation processes (turnover) to maintain the abundance levels for all proteins. This is the foundational kinetic model of proteostasis that is covered in this work, and …

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Novel Fire And Herbivory Regime Impacts On Forest Regeneration And Plant Community Assembly, Devri A. Tanner Dec 2023

Novel Fire And Herbivory Regime Impacts On Forest Regeneration And Plant Community Assembly, Devri A. Tanner

Theses and Dissertations

Human activities are increasing the occurrence of megafires that have the potential to alter the ecology of forest ecosystems. The objective of this study was to understand the impact of a 610 km2 megafire on patterns of forest regeneration and herbivory of three forest types (aspen/fir, oak/maple, and pinyon/juniper) within the burn scar. Sapling density, meristem removal, and height were measured across a transect network spanning the area of the burn scar over three years from 2019-2021. The network consisted of 17 burned/unburned transect pairs in adjacent burned/unburned forest stands (6 aspen/fir, 5 oak/maple, and 6 pinyon/juniper). Species that regenerated …

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Appendices For Designing Authentic Language Learning Simulations To Support Student Engagement, Cherice Montgomery, Jon Balzotti, Derek L. Hansen Dec 2023

Appendices For Designing Authentic Language Learning Simulations To Support Student Engagement, Cherice Montgomery, Jon Balzotti, Derek L. Hansen

Faculty Publications

Appendices for article titled "Designing Authentic Language Learning Simulations to Support Student Engagement."

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Understanding The Experiences And Perceptions Of Subject Librarians And Faculty At Brigham Young University, Duane E. Wilson Dec 2023

Understanding The Experiences And Perceptions Of Subject Librarians And Faculty At Brigham Young University, Duane E. Wilson

Theses and Dissertations

This study used a qualitative case study method to explore the position of a subject librarian in a large academic library in the United States using the subject librarians at Brigham Young University as the case. In the first phase of the study, all Brigham Young University subject librarians were given the opportunity to participate in a semi-structured interview. Subject librarians considered their main purpose to be connecting the people at the university with library resources. Their duties of collection development, reference, instruction, liaison, citizenship, professional development, and scholarship are interrelated and work together in important ways. Subject librarians are …

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Tidygeo Preparing Analysis-Ready Datasets From Gene Expression Omnibus, Avery Mecham, Ashlie Stephenson, Badi I. Quinteros, Grace S. Brown, Stephen R. Piccolo Dec 2023

Tidygeo Preparing Analysis-Ready Datasets From Gene Expression Omnibus, Avery Mecham, Ashlie Stephenson, Badi I. Quinteros, Grace S. Brown, Stephen R. Piccolo

Faculty Publications

TidyGEO is a Web-based tool for downloading, tidying, and reformatting data series from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). As a freely accessible repository with data from over 6 million biological samples across more than 4000 organisms, GEO provides diverse opportunities for secondary research. Although scientists may find assay data relevant to a given research question, most analyses require sample-level annotations. In GEO, such annotations are stored alongside assay data in delimited, text-based files. However, the structure and semantics of the annotations vary widely from one series to another, and many annotations are not useful for analysis purposes. Thus, every GEO series …

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Full Issue Dec 2023

Full Issue

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

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Your Support Is Appreciated! Dec 2023

Your Support Is Appreciated!

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

F.A.R.M.S. expresses its deep-felt gratitude to the many substantial donors whose support this year has made it possible for the Foundation to continue research and service operations.

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President's Message Dec 2023

President's Message

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

New procedures have been introduced to standardize the review process for FARMS' publications. The Evaluation Committee, one of three standing units directing the Foundation's activities, has instituted a more formal system of judging each paper submitted for issuance under FARMS auspices. An evaluation editor, currently John Sorenson, and a dozen respected researchers constitute an evaluation board. Where necessary, they will be aided by the special knowledge of a panel of more than 100 others.

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New Version Of Scripture Index Announced Dec 2023

New Version Of Scripture Index Announced

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

Last summer, a Scripture Index of F.A.R.M.S. Reprints and Preliminary Reports (CAM-87) was introduced. It lists every scripture by chapter and verse that is mentioned In F.A.R.M.S. materials. The Index is now available In a second format.

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Bibliography Of Chiasmus Completed Dec 2023

Bibliography Of Chiasmus Completed

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

John W. Welch, aided by Don Parry and DeeAnn Hofer, has compiled an extensive bibliography of scholarly books and articles dealing with the literary form of chiasmus. Listed are several hundred works from a broad range of sources, most scholarly. Collectively they demonstrate the widespread use of chiasmus in modern biblical studies. Anyone interested in thorough research into this distinctive form of parallel composition will find this bibliography indispensable.

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A Service To Lds Gospel Doctrine Teachers And Students Dec 2023

A Service To Lds Gospel Doctrine Teachers And Students

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

The 1988 adult Sunday School curriculum will be the Book of Mormon. Free upon request are two lists of resources recommended as helpful background reading for the new curriculum.

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Interest In Book Of Mormon Warfare Spurs Research Dec 2023

Interest In Book Of Mormon Warfare Spurs Research

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

Although It Is a prominent Book of Mormon theme, Nephite warfare has yet to be comprehensively examined. To promote such research, F.A.R.M.S. sponsored a working conference Aug. 21-22. Papers dealing with military technology, strategies, fortifications, rituals, and other Issues were presented and critiqued. Other topics were Identified. Two new papers on war and the Book of Mormon are now available; others will be forth-coming soon.

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Collected Biographies Of Book Of Mormon Scholars Available Dec 2023

Collected Biographies Of Book Of Mormon Scholars Available

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

In 1986, the Ensign magazine Issued a series of articles about prominent LDS Book of Mormon scholars, Including B. H. Roberts, George Reynolds, Francis W. Kirkham, Sidney B. Sperry, and Hugh W. Nibley. These articles, which have been available separately, are now combined Into a single reprint, together with the final article In that series.

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Lehi's Vision In 1 Nephi 1 Analyzed Dec 2023

Lehi's Vision In 1 Nephi 1 Analyzed

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

The Book of Mormon begins with an account of the vision in which Lehi beheld God seated in the midst of a heavenly congregation. In this experience, Lehi learned of the judgments of God that were about to befall the arrogant and unrighteous city of Jerusalem. Comparing this vision of Lehi's with similar so-called Council Visions had by other prophets near the time of Lehi is the aim of a new paper.

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Cost To Receive Updates Cut In Half Dec 2023

Cost To Receive Updates Cut In Half

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

For the past three years, new discoveries and advances In Book of Mormon research have been reported In the F.A.R.M.S. monthly Updates. These scholarly, documented, quickly readable reports have been mailed exclusively to researchers, active volunteers, and annual donors of $100.00 or more. Because increasing the number who receive this service will but marginally Increase our costs, we can now offer the Updates to all annual donors of as little as $50.00.

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Mormonism And Early Christianity Dec 2023

Mormonism And Early Christianity

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

This is the best volume yet to appear in the Hugh Nibley Collected Works," say those who have worked on this massive publishing effort. Mormonism and Early Christianity continues many of the themes introduced in Volume 3, The World and the Prophets, but the subjects here are treated in greater depth and breadth.

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Full Issue Dec 2023

Full Issue

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

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