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Quetzalcoatl, The Maya Maize God, And Jesus Christ, Diane E. Wirth

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Many scholars suggest that Quetzalcoatl of Mesoamerica (also known as the Feathered Serpent), the Maya Maize God, and Jesus Christ could all be the same being. By looking at ancient Mayan writings such as the Popol Vuh, this theory is further explored and developed. These ancient writings include several stories that coincide with the stories of Jesus Christ in the Bible, such as the creation and the resurrection. The role that both Quetzalcoatl and the Maize God played in bringing maize to humankind is comparable to Christ’s role in bringing the bread of life to humankind. Furthermore, Quetzalcoatl is said …

Journal Of Book Of Mormon Studies Volume 11 Issue 1, Neal A. Maxwell Institute For Religious Scholarship

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

The Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting understanding of the history, meaning, and significance of the scriptures and other sacred texts revealed through the Prophet Joseph Smith.

Painting Out The Messiah: The Theologies Of Dissidents, John L. Clark

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

Despite the establishment of Christ’s church in the New World by the Book of Mormon prophet Nephi, many dissenters during its thousand-year history attempted to thwart the church and preach alternative theologies. This article first discusses the doctrine that Nephi taught to his people concerning Jesus Christ. Historical context then provides further understanding of the society in which Nephi and his descendants lived. Having come from Jerusalem in the Old World, the Nephites were still accustomed to the law of Moses, which certainly would have influenced their view of a Messiah. This, along with the political circumstances of the Nephite …

The Bg News July 31, 2002, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. July 31, 2002. Volume 90-Issue 11.

July 31, 2002, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Context Building Information-Centric Decision-Support Systems, Steven J. Gollery, Jens G. Pohl

Collaborative Agent Design (CAD) Research Center

As the volume of data and human-centered information available to decision-makers continues to increase at an ever-accelerating rate, the need to represent information in software-processable formats becomes more apparent. At the same time, the availability of information from diverse sources through the World Wide Web provides the opportunity to widen the scope of input to decision-support systems, if this information can be made accessible through automated means. Past approaches to information-centric interoperability have been based on the use of a shared static object model, but this becomes impractical when we consider the loosely-coupled decentralized nature of the Web.

This paper …

The Murray Ledger And Times, July 30, 2002, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Soy Products Having Improved Odor And Flavor And Methods Related Thereto, William L. Boatright

Animal and Food Sciences Faculty Patents

The present invention provides improved soy protein products, soy plants and seeds, and methods to produce the soy protein products.

Interview With Joe Cardwell, Joe Thomas Cardwell

CHARM Oral History Transcript Collection

Oral history; Interview conducted with Joe Thomas Cardwell, conducted on July 30, 2002 at Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University. Cardwell, an MSU dairy chemist and dairy foods processing technologist, was born in Vernon, Texas in 1922 and grew up on a cotton farm. He graduated from Odell High School and then went to work for Texas Tech University, where he also received his B.S. and M.S. degrees. He completed PhD in Animal Science and Food Science and Techology at North Carolina State University. He came to Mississippi State University in 1952 where he was involved in teaching, research and …

The Short Song Of Brewer's Sparrow: Individual And Geographic Variation In Southern Idaho, Terrell D. Rich

Western North American Naturalist

Brewer's Sparrows (Spizella breweri) have two song types—a "short" song that has 1 to 3 trill types and a "long" song that has 5 to 10 or more trill types. I describe the short song and examine patterns of individual and geographic song variation from 15 sites on the Snake River Plain in southern Idaho. Territorial males sang the short song regularly during the breeding season. Two-trill song types comprised 72.9% of all song types, with 3-trill types (18.8%) and 1-trill types (8.2%) less frequent. Over 90% of the males sang their song type(s) essentially without variation. Many …

Kanab Ambersnail And Other Terrestrial Snails In South Central Utah, Vicky J. Meretsky, Eric G. North, Lawrence E. Stevens

Western North American Naturalist

Surveys for succineid snails were conducted to improve genetic and geographical information for the endangered Kanab ambersnail (Oxyloma haydeni kanabensis Pilsbry) and related taxa within the Succineidae. Surveys were carried out in the Bureau of Land Management Kanab District, at the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, on 3 private holdings, and along Highways 89, 12, and 14, all in south central Utah. A population of Kanab ambersnails was known to exist in the region; other populations of Oxyloma were discovered in primarily seep-fed wetlands in Kanab Creek and in tributaries of and wetlands along the Virgin, Sevier, and Escalante …

Diet And Food-Niche Breadth Of Burrowing Owls (Athene Cunicularia) In The Imperial Valley, California, Melissa M. York, Daniel K. Rosenberg, Ken K. Sturm

Western North American Naturalist

Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia) occupy intensively managed agricultural areas within the Imperial Valley of California, where they occur at high densities relative to other areas in the state, and yet reproductive rates are often low. Understanding diet and food-niche breadth may lead to insights into factors contributing to their poor reproductive performance. We tested the relative contribution of sex, year, and season on diet composition and food-niche breadth from analyses of stomach contents of adult Burrowing Owls (n = 53). Orthoptera dominated the diet; it accounted for 58.9% of the total number of prey items in all …

Arbuscular Mycorrhizae Of Mojave Desert Plants, Jonathan H. Titus, Priscilla J. Titus, Robert S. Nowak, Stanley D. Smith

Western North American Naturalist

Roots of 15 Mojave Desert plant species were assessed for arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) colonization in spring and autumn 1999. Another 19 species were assessed in autumn only. Perennial species were AM colonized, whereas annual species contained very low levels of AM hyphae or were nonmycorrhizal. The nonnative tree Tamarix ramosissima was also nonmycorrhizal. Levels of hyphae changed over the season in 2 species, arbuscle levels increased in 1 species, and vesicles decreased in 7 species. Mycorrhizal inoculum potential (MIP) was assessed in the soils associated with spring-collected plants. All soils were found to contain MIP. MIP values were not correlated …

The Effect Of Roads And Trails On Movement Of The Ogden Rocky Mountain Snail (Oreohelix Peripherica Wasatchnesis), Dwayne W. Meadows

Western North American Naturalist

No abstract provided.

July 30, 2002, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Soil Depth Effects On Chihuahuan Desert Vegetation, Francisco Molinar, Jerry Holechek, Dee Galt, Milton Thomas

Western North American Naturalist

We evaluated relationships between soil depth and vegetation standing crop components over a 3-year period on 3 adjoining pastures with similar size, vegetation, and soils on the Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center in south central New Mexico. Soils on our study pastures are primarily light sandy loams varying from a few centimeters to 1 m or more in depth underlain by a calcium carbonate layer. Study pastures were ungrazed in 1995 and 1996 and conservatively grazed in 1997. Linear regression equations using perennial grass standing crop (kg ha⁻¹) and honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa Torr.) cover (%) as …

Abundance And Condition Indices Of Coyotes On Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge, Oregon, Mike R. Dunbar, Mark R. Giordano

Western North American Naturalist

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff at Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge (HMNAR), southeastern Oregon, documented high pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) fawn mortality, subsequent low fawn recruitment, and declining pronghorn numbers from 1996 to 1999. Coyote (Canis latrans) predation was the primary cause, accounting for 60–85% of fawn mortalities each year, and fawns were not physiologically predisposed to predation. Therefore, we investigated certain coyote population parameters (age structure, survival, density, physiology) to evaluate how or if these factors influence coyote predation rates on pronghorn fawns. We captured 11 coyotes (5 male and 6 female) in December 1998. …

Orientation And Vertical Distribution Of Red-Naped Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus Nuchalis) Nest Cavities, Laurence R. Butcher, Scott A. Fleury, J. Michael Reed

Western North American Naturalist

It has been hypothesized (1) that the compass direction in which woodpeckers excavate breeding cavities depends on nest thermoregulatory needs, and (2) that when multiple cavities are placed in the same tree across years, each new cavity is placed above previous cavities. We tested these hypotheses for Red-naped Sapsuckers (Sphyrapicus nuchalis) in central Nevada and found some evidence that cavities are oriented for thermoregulatory advantage, but we rejected the hypothesis that active cavities are always the highest.

Bird Populations In Riparian Areas Of Southeastern Arizona In 1985–86 And 1994–95, Linnea S. Hall, Michael L. Morrison, Laurel L. Christoferson, John Martin, Carl E. Bock, Thomas R. Strong

Western North American Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Mythcon 33 - A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare And Fantasy, The Mythopoeic Society

Mythcon Programs

Mythcon 33's primary conference theme focuses on William Shakespeare both as an influence on modern fantasy literature and as a fantasist himself. A secondary theme for this thirty-third conference is "Coming of Age."

Some Thoughts On Human Nature: A Discussion Of Human Strenghts And Weaknesses, Jens G. Pohl

Collaborative Agent Design (CAD) Research Center

This paper attempts to explore the behavioral characteristics of human beings from a point of view that is not based on inter-human comparisons, but on an examination of the intrinsic physical, biological, intellectual, emotional, and social characteristics of this species. It is argued that the experience-based nature of the human cognitive system greatly reduces our ability to adapt to changes in our environment, exploit opportunities, and create new knowledge. A fundamental biological survival instinct drives the human being to seek a level of certainty and security that is irreconcilable with a continuously changing and largely unpredictable environment. The symptoms of …

The Murray Ledger And Times, July 29, 2002, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: July 29, 2002, Eastern Illinois University

July

No abstract provided.

Illinois Wesleyan Professor's Essay Included In Baseball Anthology, University Communications, Illinois Wesleyan University

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

July 29, 2002, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

44th Rocky Mountain Conference On Analytical Chemistry

Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance

Final program, abstracts, and information about the 44th annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry, co-endorsed by the Colorado Section of the American Chemical Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. Held in Denver, Colorado, July 28 - August 1, 2002.

Survey Of Hydrogen Sulfide Concentrations In Vicinity Of Beef Cattle Feedlots, Richard K. Koelsch, Bryan L. Woodbury, David E. Stenberg, Daniel N. Miller, Dennis D. Schulte

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Presentations and White Papers

A field survey of Total Reduced Sulfur (TRS) concentrations in the vicinity of beef cattle feedlots was conducted to compare field observations against current regulatory thresholds. In addition, environmental factors that may contribute to increased TRS emissions were evaluated. It was observed that TRS levels in the vicinity of beef cattle feedlots are not likely to exceed current regulatory thresholds used by mid-western states. It was further noted that concentration of TRS varies with air temperature and time of day. However, wet feedlot surface conditions and wind speed had almost no impact upon observed concentrations.

July 27, 2002 (Pages 3623-3686), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 32 (2002)

No abstract provided.

The Murray Ledger And Times, July 27, 2002, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

2002 Summer Commencement, Harding University

Commencement Programs

Program for the Commencement on July 27.

Commencement Speaker: Chuck Monan