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Full Issue, Various Reviewers Apr 2022

Full Issue, Various Reviewers

Children's Book and Media Review

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Tidal Translations: Thinking-With Untranslatability In Craig Santos Perez's From Unincorporated Territory, Maryn Gardner Apr 2022

Tidal Translations: Thinking-With Untranslatability In Craig Santos Perez's From Unincorporated Territory, Maryn Gardner

Theses and Dissertations

Craig Santos Perez's poetic series from Unincorporated Territory describes and decries the U.S. militarization, colonization, and environmental degradation of Guam in the Western Pacific through multilingual, excerpted, and series-long poems. Perez's writing style requires slow, careful reading with translations sometimes appearing on the same page, various pages later, or not at all. I describe this kind of elongated translation as slow translation, recalling translation theorist Michael Cronin's "Slow Language" movement. This thesis invites readers, especially multispecies ethnographers, to slow down the translation of nonhuman species and their stories by paying attention to moments of untranslatability in multispecies literature and interactions. …

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Pinyin Facilitation Or Hindrance Of Character Acquisition For Beginning Chinese Learners, Yung-Wei Wang Apr 2022

Pinyin Facilitation Or Hindrance Of Character Acquisition For Beginning Chinese Learners, Yung-Wei Wang

Theses and Dissertations

The current research built on Yan, Miller, Li, and Shu’s (2008) eye-tracking study, which examined how second grade native Chinese speakers focused on Pinyin and Chinese characters while reading sentences. This research also used eye-tracking to examine how Chinese foreign Language learners (CFL) fixated on Pinyin and Chinese characters to determine if Pinyin facilitated or distracted from character learning. Two groups participated in this research: first semester university students enrolled in a beginning level Chinese class, and third, fourth, and fifth grade students enrolled in Chinese dual language immersion (DLI). All participants were asked to read eight sentences in Chinese …

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Promoção Da Conscientização Da Proficiência Em Língua Portuguesa Entre Falantes Avançados, Diomar Carvalho Da Cruz Teixeira Apr 2022

Promoção Da Conscientização Da Proficiência Em Língua Portuguesa Entre Falantes Avançados, Diomar Carvalho Da Cruz Teixeira

Theses and Dissertations

Nesta pesquisa do tipo qualitativa será caracterizada a consciência da proficiência linguística dos estudantes da disciplina PORT 321 na Brigham Young University. Os professores do departamento de Espanhol e Português identificaram a limitação dos MRs (missionários retornados) em falar fluentemente para além de temas religiosos. Objetivando discernir os pontos fortes e os fracos do aprendizado, foi investigada a eficácia do conteúdo e da didática em PORT 321, sondando a consciência da proficiência linguística e possíveis meios de promover uma diretriz de ensino para o professor. Os dados coletados deram origem aos temas: (1) a consciência linguística e sociolinguística; (2) as …

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How Brazilians Used Media To Cope With The Issues Brought By The Covid-19 Pandemic, Vivian De Melo Campos Apr 2022

How Brazilians Used Media To Cope With The Issues Brought By The Covid-19 Pandemic, Vivian De Melo Campos

Theses and Dissertations

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world faced lockdown and quarantine restrictions that encouraged or forced people to stay home. Along with the rest of the world, Brazil faced many difficulties during this period and it became one of the countries that lost more lives due to the Coronavirus infection worldwide. This study focuses on showing how people in Brazil coped with the challenges brought by the pandemic. It also focuses on showing if and how participants used media as a coping mechanism. The research was done through qualitative methods with semi-structured interviews with 25 adults who were living in …

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Technology In The Early Childhood Classroom: An Instructional Class For Pre-Service Teachers, Meagan Nielsen Apr 2022

Technology In The Early Childhood Classroom: An Instructional Class For Pre-Service Teachers, Meagan Nielsen

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

The purpose of this project was to create a new Instructional Psychology and Technology (IP&T) course for Early Childhood Education (ECE) majors at Brigham Young University. Currently, ECE students take three 1-credit IP&T classes that focus on the following disciplines: integrating technology into the classroom, using coding and computational thinking in the classroom, and teaching in online and blended learning environments. These classes are geared towards K-12 education majors and are taught to a broader group of preservice teachers. ECE majors have a very defined set of grades and ages that they can teach, all of which have unique and …

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Food Security: A Study Of The History Of Nutritional Insecurity And Implications Of Development In The Rural Sierra And Selva Regions Of Peru, Jane Morrissey Apr 2022

Food Security: A Study Of The History Of Nutritional Insecurity And Implications Of Development In The Rural Sierra And Selva Regions Of Peru, Jane Morrissey

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This study looks at the history of food insecurity in Peru, ranging from 1969 to 2021. The main contribution this paper seeks to make is to create a holistic approach at viewing the historical causes and consequences of food insecurity in Peru, particularly in the rural mountainous regions of the country. These areas range from the southeastern, eastern, and northeastern towns near Lima, with case studies from towns such as Ayacucho, San Martin, Huaycan, Socos, Banda de Shilcayo, and Sapote. Different levels of effective food security can be observed from the oppressive political overthrow of agriculture production in the 1960s …

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Communities Of Water: An Examination Of Cooperation And Conflict In Water Management Practices In The Central Peruvian Andes, Sylvie D. Littledale Apr 2022

Communities Of Water: An Examination Of Cooperation And Conflict In Water Management Practices In The Central Peruvian Andes, Sylvie D. Littledale

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores two examples of water management in the highland Peruvian villages, San Pedro de Llancha and San Antonio de Chinchina. One example is of cooperation and union between the two communities. The other is of conflict between the same two villages just 40 years prior. I examine ethnographic and ethnohistorical data from both the collaborative period and the conflictive period of these two communities’ relations over water. The data suggest that, while the outcomes of these two periods were drastically different, the processes through which these communities came into relation with one another were quite similar. Their communal …

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Measuring The Effect Of Translator Training And Language Education On Translation Competence, Calvin J. Westfall Apr 2022

Measuring The Effect Of Translator Training And Language Education On Translation Competence, Calvin J. Westfall

Theses and Dissertations

This study reviews concepts of bilingualism, summarizes various models of translation competency, and quantifies the difference of translation competency among students and graduates of Brigham Young University. By means of a survey about language history and a translation test from Spanish to English, data from 57 participants was collected and analyzed to measure the effect of formal language education and translation training. Despite numerous proposed models of translation competency (Wilss 1976, 1989; Koller, 1979; Krings, 1986; Lörscher, 1991; Toury, 1991; Pym, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2013; Kiraly, 1995; Fraser, 1996; Neubert, 2000; Kelly, 2005; Hague et al., 2011; Pietrzrak, 2015), few …

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Improving Predictions Of Vapor Pressure, Liquid Heat Capacity, And Heat Of Vaporization In Associating Fluids, Joseph C. Bloxham Apr 2022

Improving Predictions Of Vapor Pressure, Liquid Heat Capacity, And Heat Of Vaporization In Associating Fluids, Joseph C. Bloxham

Theses and Dissertations

Vapor pressure, heat of vaporization, and liquid heat capacity are linked through fundamental thermodynamic relationships. These related properties are essential for the safe design of many industrial processes, and measurement and prediction of these properties remains an essential part of modern thermodynamics research. DIPPR uses the fundamental relationships connecting these properties as a prediction method for all three, referred to as "the derivative method." DIPPR regards values predicted using the derivative method as highly accurate, even when compared to more traditional predictions. Despite the widespread interest in improving understanding of these properties, many questions remain regarding their prediction. Foremost among …

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In Memoriam Apr 2022

In Memoriam

Russian Language Journal

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Evaluating Ramp Meter Wait Time In Utah, Tanner Jeffrey Daines Apr 2022

Evaluating Ramp Meter Wait Time In Utah, Tanner Jeffrey Daines

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to develop an algorithm that could predict ramp meter wait time at metered freeway on-ramps throughout the state of Utah using existing loop detector systems on the ramps. The loop detectors provided data in 60-second increments that include volume, occupancy, and the metering rate. Using these data sources, several ramp meter queue length algorithms were applied; these predicted queue lengths were then converted into wait times by using the metering rate provided by the detector data. A conservation model and several variations of a Kalman filter model generated predicted queue lengths and wait times …

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Assessing Augmented Reality Instruction In Manufacturing Engineering Education, Janine Draper Price Apr 2022

Assessing Augmented Reality Instruction In Manufacturing Engineering Education, Janine Draper Price

Theses and Dissertations

Augmented Reality (AR) is fast-growing technology that has proved itself in many applications, including manufacturing environments. Manufacturing engineers benefit in an industrial environment by harnessing this technology in the workplace to guide workers through a variety of tasks. It is no longer a question on whether it is useful, but what are the best ways of applying the technology. Currently there are no published studies on ways to use augmented reality in a Manufacturing Engineering Educational Environment (MEEE). This study examines various ways that AR can be used in an MEEE setting and assesses the value of such applications. This …

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Outdoor Air Pollution And Psychological Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis, Jeremy Stanley Bekker Apr 2022

Outdoor Air Pollution And Psychological Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis, Jeremy Stanley Bekker

Theses and Dissertations

Human life takes place as part of a global ecosystem, meaning that human mental health is at least partially tied to the health of the planet. Health experts who seek to promote psychological well-being should consider how changes to the broad ecological system may impact their efforts. Given the potential impact of the environment on human well-being, we conducted a meta-analysis to assess the impact of air pollution on subjective well-being. The goal of this project was to outline the current state of the research on these constructs and provide a clear framework for what research is still needed. Nonsignificant …

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Integrative Biodiversity Inventories: Characterizing Lichen-Forming Fungal Diversity In Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Using Dna Barcoding And Vouchered Specimens, Isaac A. Munger, Mikele Baugh, Jacob R. Henrie, Jason Holllinger, Robin Crepeau, Steven D. Leavitt Apr 2022

Integrative Biodiversity Inventories: Characterizing Lichen-Forming Fungal Diversity In Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Using Dna Barcoding And Vouchered Specimens, Isaac A. Munger, Mikele Baugh, Jacob R. Henrie, Jason Holllinger, Robin Crepeau, Steven D. Leavitt

Western North American Naturalist

The Colorado River and its tributaries on the Colorado Plateau are home to unique desert river ecosystems and changing environmental conditions. Within this region, the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (GCNRA) is composed of rugged, high desert terrain and is managed by the United States National Park Service as both a recreational and conservation area. Despite the ecological and economic importance of GCNRA, significant components of the ecological communities therein remain poorly characterized, including lichens. Accurately characterizing lichen-forming fungal diversity is challenging due to poorly known taxonomic groups, underexplored regions/habitats, and varying interpretations of morphological differences, including the recognition of …

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Prediction Of Springback In Aa6016-T4 Sheets Using Isotropic Finite Element And Epsc Modeling Approaches, Dane Roger Sargeant Apr 2022

Prediction Of Springback In Aa6016-T4 Sheets Using Isotropic Finite Element And Epsc Modeling Approaches, Dane Roger Sargeant

Theses and Dissertations

Strain path changes are common in complex automotive stampings, where sheet materials undergo a combination of drawing, stretching, and bending to achieve a desired part shape. Aluminum sheet alloys are increasingly used in vehicle structure light-weighting efforts, but limited formability and high levels of springback present challenges to the manufacturing and assembly processes. The current work explores springback levels in AA6016-T4 sheet after various pure bending operations, where sheets were first pre-strained in uniaxial, plane-strain, and biaxial tension. Finite element modeling of the pre-straining and subsequent bending operations will be performed using both isotropic and elasto-plastic self-consistent (EPSC) crystal plasticity …

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Efficacy Of Social Media Analysis As A Service (Smas) For Crisis Events, Rohit Kumar Khattar Apr 2022

Efficacy Of Social Media Analysis As A Service (Smas) For Crisis Events, Rohit Kumar Khattar

Theses and Dissertations

Social media data can be collected and analyzed during and after crisis events to aid in disaster relief efforts. Setting up a system to perform this analysis is associated with various technical challenges. This thesis presents the design and implementation of a social media analysis as a service system. This system is hosted on cloud infrastructure and allows for on demand collection, processing, and delivery of social media data via an intuitive web interface. The service model and cloud infrastructure allow the system to be highly scalable and produce near real time analysis data. A cost evaluation of the system …

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Mindfulness And Observational Drawing, Corinne Christopherson Sonderegger Apr 2022

Mindfulness And Observational Drawing, Corinne Christopherson Sonderegger

Theses and Dissertations

Observational drawing has many benefits, yet it can be a difficult and frustrating curriculum for students and teachers alike. As I was teaching elementary and college art classes simultaneously, I noticed a significant discrepancy between my younger and older students. Students in my elementary art classes loved to draw and often expressed how excited they were to make art. However, students in my college art classes were more hesitant and self-conscious about drawing and did not believe they could progress artistically. Many of these students had abandoned drawing in elementary or middle school. This pattern evokes the U curve of …

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Switchback, Amanda Morgan Apr 2022

Switchback, Amanda Morgan

Children's Book and Media Review

Ash and Vale have to go on an overnight hike with their PE classmates in order to pass the class. Ash hates the outdoors and he’s never been hiking. Vale hates the bullying she receives from her classmates. Naturally, neither of them are excited about the hike to begin with, but it turns out to be worse than they expected. On the first day, Ash and Vale get separated from the rest of the group. Their absence isn’t noticed until nightfall, and the town begins a frantic search for them. By that time the two friends are further from the …

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Snakes On A Train, Hannah Webb Apr 2022

Snakes On A Train, Hannah Webb

Children's Book and Media Review

All aboard! Snakes on a Train by Kathryn Dennis takes you on a playful railway journey with everyone’s favorite slithering reptile. Upon boarding the train, the passengers find themselves encountering things like a runaway pig on the track, a dark tunnel, and a tall bridge overseeing swimming fish. As the train pulls into the station and retires for the night, the snakes all curl up to sleep.

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Something Rotten: A Fresh Look At Roadkill, Rebecca Lambert Apr 2022

Something Rotten: A Fresh Look At Roadkill, Rebecca Lambert

Children's Book and Media Review

Have you ever wondered what happens to those animals that meet an unfortunate end on the highway? Heather Montgomery, a writer and biologist from Alabama, answers every question you never knew you had about roadkill. Did you know that Tasmanian Devils are endangered, in part because of a contagious cancer? Scientists learned that from roadkill. Did you know that an invasive species of python has brought parasites to the native snakes of Florida? Scientists learned that from roadkill, too. This book explains how flattened animals are used for all sorts of bizarre purposes. Scientists study roadkill to learn more about …

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Pope Francis: Builder Of Bridges, Amanda Morgan Apr 2022

Pope Francis: Builder Of Bridges, Amanda Morgan

Children's Book and Media Review

Before he was Pope Francis, Jorge Bergolio lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a young boy he loved playing soccer and praying with his grandmother. Eventually, Jorge became a priest and hosted movies and soccer games for the poor children in his city. After becoming a bishop, he was chosen to be the next pope. He took on the name of Pope Francis and immediately began serving the people. Another word for pope is “pontiff” which means someone who builds bridges between people. Pope Francis strives to do just that! He wants to serve people of every religion and social …

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Ptsd, Emma Patton Apr 2022

Ptsd, Emma Patton

Children's Book and Media Review

Jun is an outcast, in every sense of the word. She used to be a soldier and, now that she has returned home, her life will never be the same. She is homeless and terrified. Though she has a community of veterans who are in similarly desperate situations, she is too guarded to really connect to anyone. Her only companion is a stray dog, who is with her in her loneliest moments. Jun and her fellow vets struggle with addiction, and the search for her next supply of prescription drugs is what keeps her going most days. But then she …

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Pick A Pumpkin, Krista Alletto Apr 2022

Pick A Pumpkin, Krista Alletto

Children's Book and Media Review

Pick a Pumpkin is a celebration of the age-old tradition of carving pumpkins for Halloween. Readers take a journey with a brother and sister to the pumpkin patch to pick the perfect pumpkin. Then we see the pumpkin transformation take place. From cleaning the pumpkin to scooping out the insides to carving a funny or scary face, the pumpkin becomes a glowing jack-o-lantern! After some decorations are put up and costumes put on, the family is ready to set out their festive jack-o-lanterns and go trick-or-treating!

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One True Way, Amanda Morgan Apr 2022

One True Way, Amanda Morgan

Children's Book and Media Review

After moving to a new school for seventh grade, Allison meets Sam, and they become best friends. Before that, Allie’s life had been falling apart. Her brother passed away and her Dad left, and now her Mom is overly protective of her. Sam makes all of that better. Allie’s nothing but happy when she thinks of her, and when they touch, her heart beats fast. She would call it a crush, but living in a small town in the mid-1970s, most people Allie knows would tell her it’s wrong for her to like girls. Especially Sam’s parents. With the help …

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Pig The Pug, Emily Peery Apr 2022

Pig The Pug, Emily Peery

Children's Book and Media Review

Pig, a very selfish and enthusiastic pug, thinks he rules the world (and the apartment for that matter). He is greedy, rude, and oblivious to his materialistic actions. Pig lives with his Dachshund friend, Trevor, who has a much milder temperament. Trevor is kind, thoughtful, and very patient with Pig. The two dogs try to get along and play nicely, but it’s very difficult to do so when Pig hordes all of the toys and refuses to share. When an accident takes place, Pig must learn the hard way what it means to share and be a good friend.

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Nevermoor #1: The Trials Of Morrigan Crow, Rebecca Lambert Apr 2022

Nevermoor #1: The Trials Of Morrigan Crow, Rebecca Lambert

Children's Book and Media Review

Morrigan Crow is cursed to die on her eleventh birthday. Normally, on one's eleventh birthday, patrons can present their bids to have a specific child as an apprentice or as a student. The day arrives, and two mysterious men present their bids for Morrigan: Mr. Jones to claim her as an apprentice for Ezra Squall, and Jupiter North to claim her as a candidate for the Wundrous Society. Jupiter comes to her home and offers to save her from her untimely death. Morrigan chooses Jupiter, and she gets whisked away to the free realm of Nevermoor. While there, she undergoes …

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Olympic Biographies: Usain Bolt, Krista Alletto Apr 2022

Olympic Biographies: Usain Bolt, Krista Alletto

Children's Book and Media Review

Usain Bolt, Olympic gold medalist and world record-breaking sprinter, was born in Jamaica and began running and racing as a child. Despite injury and through hard work, he went on to beat the Jamaican 200-meter record in 2007. Later, he participated in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympic games and won three gold medals in each. He also broke the world record in the 100- and 200-meter sprints at the 2009 World Championship meet. Because of these amazing athletic achievements, the world now knows him as “Lightning Bolt.”

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Mike & Riel #2: Truth And Lies, Amanda Morgan Apr 2022

Mike & Riel #2: Truth And Lies, Amanda Morgan

Children's Book and Media Review

Robbie Ducharme has been murdered. It’s sad, but none of his classmates, including Mike, knew him very well. So, the incident starts to blow over and become forgotten, until suddenly, Mike is the lead suspect in the investigation. He was already struggling to get over a difficult breakup and reconnect with his best friend. Now he can add proving his innocence to the cops to his list of stressful things to do. None of his alibis are airtight, and new information continues to arise, placing the blame on him. Mike’s own foster dad doesn't even seem certain of his innocence …

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Monkey Time, Lindsey Smith Apr 2022

Monkey Time, Lindsey Smith

Children's Book and Media Review

Is it possible to make time concrete? In his book Monkey Time, author Michael Hall attempts to do just that. When Monkey wakes up, sixty small minute dots are waiting to play with him. Monkey sits in the middle of a clock and chases each one as it races around it. Pretty soon sixty minutes have gone by, and then the minutes fly away.

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