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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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Enhanced Capabilities For Investigating Local Structure And Magnetism: Three Dimensional Magnetic Pair Distribution Function And Symmetry Mode Analysis, Parker Hamilton Aug 2023

Enhanced Capabilities For Investigating Local Structure And Magnetism: Three Dimensional Magnetic Pair Distribution Function And Symmetry Mode Analysis, Parker Hamilton

Theses and Dissertations

The local structure, atomic and magnetic structure correlated over a small length scale, of a material has a strong impact on material properties. Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis is a strong tool to investigate local structure and magnetism of this nature. This work outlines extensions to current one dimensional magnetic pair distribution functions (1D-mPDF) and the fitting of structures with symmetry breaking local atomic distortions. 1DmPDF analysis has been used to study local magnetic structure, but requires a rotational averaging of the correlations so directional information is lost, as in powder diffraction experiments. Three dimensional difference magnetic pair distribution function …

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A Colorfully Natural Twin Higgs Model, Logan Coleman Page Aug 2023

A Colorfully Natural Twin Higgs Model, Logan Coleman Page

Theses and Dissertations

Twin Higgs models have the potential to explain phenomena outside of the Standard Model and provide an natural explanation of the Higgs mass. Here I explore a new realization of the twin Higgs concept with an SU(4)c symmetry that is spontaneously broken in the Standard Model sector, but remains unbroken in the Twin sector. I detail the phenomenological results produced by this model. I show that this construction leads to a qualitatively new behavior regarding the fine-tuning of the Higgs mass due to the top-quark sector.

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Constructing Stellar Mass Models For Early-Type Galaxies With Circumnuclear Disks, Jared R. Davidson Aug 2023

Constructing Stellar Mass Models For Early-Type Galaxies With Circumnuclear Disks, Jared R. Davidson

Theses and Dissertations

Dusty circumnuclear disks (CNDs) in luminous early-type galaxies (ETGs) show regular, dynamically cold molecular gas kinematics. For a growing number of these ETGs, Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) CO imaging and detailed gas-dynamical modeling have yielded moderate to high precision black hole (BH) mass (M_BH) determinations. To date, however, few studies have explored the effects of dust attenuation, or uncertainties in dust corrections, on recovered stellar luminosity models from high angular resolution optical/near-IR observations and M_BH measurements. Recent kinematic studies that modeled ALMA CO data sets have found that uncertainties in the intrinsic central stellar surface brightness slope due to …

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"The Trees Act Not As Individuals"--Learning To See The Whole Picture In Biology Education And Remote Sensing Research, Rebeka A.F. Greenall Aug 2023

"The Trees Act Not As Individuals"--Learning To See The Whole Picture In Biology Education And Remote Sensing Research, Rebeka A.F. Greenall

Theses and Dissertations

To increase equity and inclusion for underserved and excluded Indigenous students, we must make efforts to mitigate the unique barriers they face. As their knowledge systems have been historically excluded and erased in Western science, we begin by reviewing the literature on the inclusion of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in biology education and describe best practices. Next, to better understand how Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (NHPI) students integrate into the scientific community, we used Social Influence Theory as a framework to measure NHPI student science identity, self-efficacy, alignment with science values, and belonging. We also investigated how students …

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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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Phosphorus Sorption And Kinetics Across The Sediment-Water Interface Of Utah Lake, A Shallow Eutrophic Lake, Forrest Fielding Stretch Jarvis Jarvis Aug 2023

Phosphorus Sorption And Kinetics Across The Sediment-Water Interface Of Utah Lake, A Shallow Eutrophic Lake, Forrest Fielding Stretch Jarvis Jarvis

Theses and Dissertations

Internal sediment phosphorus (P) cycling may regulate harmful algal blooms (HABs) in shallow eutrophic lakes. Utah Lake frequently experiences HABs despite its high alkalinity and P-rich sediment. Phosphorus cycling between the lakebed and the water column is dependent upon stable P-sorption with organic matter (OM) and mineral species, which can vary with substrate availability, P-concentrations, temperature, redox, pH, and microbial activity. A full biogeochemical analysis of the water and sediment across seven sites shows Utah Lake to be spatially well-mixed in terms of composition and sorption, with few exceptions. Sediment P-concentrations (avg. 677 mg-P kg-1) primarily correlate with redox-sensitive iron …

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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

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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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Food Web Of Icy Strait, Alaska: Comparison Of Position, Size, And Overlap Of Trophic Niche Among Fish Species, Andrew D. Suchomel Aug 2023

Food Web Of Icy Strait, Alaska: Comparison Of Position, Size, And Overlap Of Trophic Niche Among Fish Species, Andrew D. Suchomel

Theses and Dissertations

The Icy Strait of southeast Alaska, USA is an ideal system to study how ecological diversity is maintained. This area has historical ecological significance and supports diverse assemblages of fish species that are easily sampled. We used stable isotope analysis using δ13C and δ15N stable isotope ratios. Using these isotope ratios, we quantified trophic niche position, size, and overlap and compared how those trophic niche metrics varied using ecological and evolutionary perspectives. For ecological variation, mean total length, and δ13C trophic niche position has positive relationships with trophic niche size while total percent trophic niche overlap had a strong negative …

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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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Insights Binder Keeps Back Issues Safe Aug 2023

Insights Binder Keeps Back Issues Safe

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

The new format of Insights that we introduced in the April 1995 issue allows us to punch the paper so that you may put the newsletter into a binder for storage if you wish. While any binder will do, some readers have requested a binder with the FARMS name and logo. After obtaining a supply of nice binders at a reasonable price, we are happy to make them available to you on this order form for an introductory price of only $2.50. They will sell for the regular price of $4.50 in the future.

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Byu Religion Prof Traces History Of Book Of Abraham Aug 2023

Byu Religion Prof Traces History Of Book Of Abraham

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

For nearly thirty years, H. Donl Peterson, a member of the Religious Education faculty at BYU, pursued solutions to the puzzles surrounding the papyri from which the book of Abraham was translated. His final book, The Story of the Book of Abraham: Mummies, Manuscripts, and Mormonism, completed just before his death in March 1994, aims to answer some of the questions surrounding the second and perhaps most controversial book of the Pearl of Great Price.

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Critical Text Project Reported In California Aug 2023

Critical Text Project Reported In California

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

The American Biblical Manuscript Center in Claremont, California, and the University of Judaism in West Los Angeles invited Royal Skousen, professor of English at BYU, to present a lecture in March on the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. Skousen's lecture, entitled "Fragments from the American Dead Sea: Reconstructing the Original Text of the Book of Mormon," addressed recent findings from the Wilford Wood fragments of the original Book of Mormon manuscript, non-English Hebraisms in the English language Book of Mormon text, and implications for New Testament textual criticism based on these and other recent findings. Skousen's lecture was one …

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Journal To Honor Sperry Aug 2023

Journal To Honor Sperry

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

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sidney B. Sperry, one of the foremost LDS scholars of this century. In honor of that occasion, the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies will devote its next issue to Sperry's writings on the Book of Mormon.

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Farms Creates New Position: Director Of Research Aug 2023

Farms Creates New Position: Director Of Research

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

FARMS is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. M. Gerald Bradford to the FARMS staff as Director of Research, a new position for FARMS. Brother Bradford will provide supervision and support for all FARMS research and related activities.

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Major Endowment Will Support New Farms Projects Aug 2023

Major Endowment Will Support New Farms Projects

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

Karen and Alan Ashton of Orem, Utah, have established a significant FARMS endowment to support the timely implementation of new projects. Their generous gift will ensure that important new research opportunities are not missed while waiting for funding to become available--the endowment will support scholars in pursuing these research opportunities until normal sources of funding are established. This new funding and the increased amount of research it will support both necessitate and make possible the creation of a new position of Director of Research to help in the development of new projects and the supervision of ongoing projects.

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Dean Of Engineering Joins Farms Board Aug 2023

Dean Of Engineering Joins Farms Board

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

Douglas M. Chabries, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering and Technology at BYU, has accepted an invitation to become a member of the board of directors of FARMS. He brings to the board some new research perspectives and a wealth of university administrative experience.

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Preliminary Study Identifies Possible Sources For Nephi's Ore Aug 2023

Preliminary Study Identifies Possible Sources For Nephi's Ore

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

The efforts begun by Warren and Michaela Aston to identify important sites along the Lehi trail eventually evolved into a FARMS project and exploration to Southern Oman's Dhofar region in 1992. The remote area of Wadi Sayq in that region has been identified as a location that appears to meet all of the criteria one can infer from the text of the Book of Mormon for the coastal site named Bountiful by Lehi and his family, where they lived while building a ship for their ocean crossing.

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Figure 6 Of Facsimile 2 The Focus Of Lecture By Nibley Aug 2023

Figure 6 Of Facsimile 2 The Focus Of Lecture By Nibley

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

On 15 March, Hugh W. Nibley, professor emeritus of Ancient Scripture at BYU, presented a lecture in the FARMS Brown Bag series entitled "Figure 6 of Facsimile 2." The lecture, held in the Joseph Smith Building's conference room, was well attended--indeed, it was "standing room only." Professors, students, and other friends of FARMS gathered to hear Brother Nibley's insights on the meanings of Egyptian symbols in the facsimiles purchased by Joseph Smith and included in the Pearl of Great Price. Brother Nibley discussed the Lord's comment that explanations of the facsimiles "will be given in the own due time of …

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Brown Bags Keep Participants Up To Date On Ongoing Research Aug 2023

Brown Bags Keep Participants Up To Date On Ongoing Research

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

In the FARMS brown bag lecture series during the last two months Hugh Nibley spoke about figure 6 from Facsimile 2 of the book of Abraham (a transcript is available; see the accompanying article on this page), Steve Booras and Don Parry demonstrated the Dead Sea Scroll Electronic Database that we have reported on in previous issues of Insights, Gene Clark reported on his preliminary research on metals near the probable site of Old World Bountiful (see the article on page 5), Noel Reynolds explored the ways that 1 Nephi gives political support to Nephi' s prophetic role, and …

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Provo Cable Picks Up Farms Materials Aug 2023

Provo Cable Picks Up Farms Materials

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

FARMS programs are now available to Provo residents on KBYU Community Cable. KBYU operates through TCI cable, and the programs will be shown every Saturday between 9:00 and 10:00 A.M. on channel 40 in Provo and on channel 8 on the BYU campus. Starting in June, KBYU Community Cable will begin broadcasting the Book of Mormon Lecture Series. Videos of these classes, as well as audiotapes and transcripts, are available for purchase through FARMS.

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Eldin Ricks's Concordance Aids Scripture Study Aug 2023

Eldin Ricks's Concordance Aids Scripture Study

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

Eldin Ricks devoted his career to a study of the scriptures. In addition to spending thirty-six years teaching and inspiring students at BYU, he wrote many books and articles about the scriptures--especially materials intended to help others study the scriptures, such as his Combination Reference, often known as the "Ricks Ready Reference," and editions of the Book of Mormon intended to make reading and studying the book easier (his Fireside Editions and Wide Margin Edition). But one project that he worked on for much of the last twenty years of his life was uncompleted at his death in …

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Old World People In The New? (Part 2), John L. Sorenson Aug 2023

Old World People In The New? (Part 2), John L. Sorenson

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

The Quiche Indian tradition of "Toltec" migrants from the Near East reaching Mesoamerica (see Insights, April 1995) may be of interest in relation to new linguistic research reported by a senior linguist at one of this country's most prestigious universities. Copies of two papers outlining her findings have become available; however she insists that their contents not be attributed to her until they have been formally published.

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Review Begins New Features: Picks And Index Aug 2023

Review Begins New Features: Picks And Index

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

In the latest Review of Books on the Book of Mormon, editor Daniel Peterson selects the books he would most recommend to his readers from among those published in 1994. The book by Warren and Michaela Aston is the most highly recommended in this issue: In the Footsteps of Lehi: New Evidence for Lehi's Journey across Arabia to Bountiful (reviewed by Ara Norwood). Peterson recommends the book enthusiastically for its "brief and rather personal summary of the authors' extremely important research into the Arabian geography" that might correspond to 1 Nephi.

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Data Base Impresses Scholars At Farms-Sponsored Scroll Conference In Jerusalem Aug 2023

Data Base Impresses Scholars At Farms-Sponsored Scroll Conference In Jerusalem

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

Several BYU professors and FARMS staff and board members recently returned from a successful conference in Jerusalem. On April 30, BYU and FARMS cosponsored the Judaean Desert Scrolls Conference at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies. The primary purpose of the conference was to present the first working version of the Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Database, the latest technology using computer images and text search features to aid research on the Dead Sea Scrolls (described in recent issues of Insights).

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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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Format Changes Aug 2023

Format Changes

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

We have made some changes that we hope will make Insights even more useful. We have organized the news into departments to make it easier to find. We have restructured the page format somewhat so we could punch the paper to fit in a binder for storage-for those who wish to use a binder with the FARMS name and logo, we are negotiating with manufacturers to obtain nicelooking binders for a reasonable price; we should be able to offer these by the next issue.

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Ricks's Thorough Concordance Aug 2023

Ricks's Thorough Concordance

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

In 1971, Eldin Ricks initiated the first project to put the scriptures into computer form. The database that resulted has been used as the basis for the Topical Guide and other scriptural references and was the original database for the Church's distribution of the scriptures in computer form (LDS View) and for most other recent concordances, both computer and printed. But Brother Ricks always had in mind a printed concordance of the LDS scriptures comparable to the James Strong Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, which lists all occurrences of all words in the scripture text, shown with a meaningful …

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What Puts A City On The Map? A Book Of Mormon Brain Teaser Aug 2023

What Puts A City On The Map? A Book Of Mormon Brain Teaser

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

Each of the cities on the left was important in Book of Mormon history. Match each one with the correct situation or event on the right. See the answers on page 8--or better yet, open the Book of Mormon and get the full story.

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Bibliography Nears Completion Aug 2023

Bibliography Nears Completion

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

Don Parry reports that the Annotated Bibliography of the Book of Mormon that he and others have been working on for many months is in the final stages. When the indexing is completed (in the next two months), it will be ready to be presented to a publisher for consideration. Several publishers are being considered. Watch future issues of Insights for more details.

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