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Rfra, State Rfras, And Religious Minorities, Christopher C. Lund

Law Faculty Research Publications

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Truth And Legitimacy (In Courts), Kenneth S. Klein

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

This Article seeks to comprehensively articulate the meaning, role, and importance of truth in courts by drawing upon empirical and theoretical scholarship from philosophy, economics, social science, psychology, political science, ethics, and jurisprudence, in addition to more traditional legal sources such as United States Supreme Court decisions. It is frequently said that trials are a search for truth. But as insiders to the judicial system know, if this is so, then it is a meaning of truth that differs from what truth means in any other context. And exposing this definitional dissonance, in turn exposes that the legitimacy of the …

Righting America At The Creation Museum, Susan L. Trollinger, William Vance Trollinger

English Faculty Publications

On May 28, 2007, the Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky. Aimed at scientifically demonstrating that the universe was created less than ten thousand years ago by a Judeo-Christian god, the museum is hugely popular, attracting millions of visitors over the past eight years. Surrounded by themed topiary gardens and a petting zoo with camel rides, the site conjures up images of a religious Disneyland. Inside, visitors are met by dinosaurs at every turn and by a replica of the Garden of Eden that features the Tree of Life, the serpent, and Adam and Eve.

In Righting America at the …

Who’S Exercising What Power: Toward A Judicially-Manageable Nondelegation Doctrine, Martin Edwards

Journal Articles

This Article argues that the traditional, "intelligible principle" nondelegation analysis is incomplete and that an examination of the delegate, rather than just the delegation, more effectively animates the doctrine. This is true not only as a practical matter; early Supreme Court cases, as well as later ones, have taken a keen interest in the recipient of the alleged delegation. In other words, a realistic and judicially enforceable nondelegation doctrine must include more than a mere tip of the juridical cap.

“Becoming Ioway: Using Auto-Ethnography To Understand The Fourteen Ioways’ Journey Of Colonization, Spirituality And Traditions Through Tribal Dance Exhibitions, Sarita R. Mc Gowan

Pitzer Senior Theses

This thesis analyzes the colonization and traditional spiritual practices of the Ioway people to show that their traditions have survived the effects of colonization also known as white settlers. I focus on issues of cultural traditional exhibition dance and that complicates the question of the nation-state’s exclusively trying to dissemble the Native Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska of colonization and the effects on the Ioway people past and present. I use personal experience of being a tribal member to discuss how the tribes’ oral history allows for the preservation of Ioway cultural identity and religious traditions.

Seer Stones, Salamanders, And Early Mormon "Folk Magic" In The Light Of Folklore Studies And Bible Scholarship, Eric A. Eliason

BYU Studies

The 2015 publication of an Ensign article on, and especially photos of, one of Joseph Smith’s seer stones still owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints caused quite a sensation in the blogosphere. Many responses focused on the “weirdness” of the stone and its use, the ostensibly alien nature of this odd relic from the past, so out of place in modern religion, and posited it as a troubling problem in need of explanation. Mormon studies as a discipline has struggled to make sense of seer stones too. These responses are understandable, considering how often communities tend …

The Mormon Missionary: Who Is That Knocking At My Door?, Robert L. Lively Jr.

BYU Studies

Robert L. Lively Jr. is dean emeritus at the University of Maine at Farmington and holds a master’s degree from Yale University Divinity School and a doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Oxford. The following are excerpts from his 2015 book The Mormon Missionary: Who Is That Knocking at My Door?, conceived after inviting missionaries to visit his religion classes and realizing that a non-Mormon had never written a book that tells the story of LDS missionaries. His research for this book involved over 275 interviews with past, present, and future missionaries, including individuals who served in every …

Visualizing Apostolic Succession, Meilan Jin, Iliesa S. K. Delai, Geoffrey M. Draper

BYU Studies

For years, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has published pictures and other illustrative diagrams to communicate its message. For example, the children's book Book of Mormon Stories includes an illustrative map indicating the possible route of Lehi's family from the Arabian peninsula to the Americas. Seminary students receive bookmarks showing a timeline of peoples and events in the Book of Mormon. More recently, the Church has published a series of "information graphics" (known more commonly as infographics) on its website. Infographics in a visually pleasing manner. The Church's infographics cover a range of topics such as …

To Live, Wendy M. Payne

BYU Studies

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”

Emily Dickinson

Salt; Genius Loci, Tyler Chadwick

BYU Studies

Susan Elizabeth Howe. Salt.

Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2013.

Lance Larsen. Genius Loci.

Tampa, Fla.: University of Tampa Press, 2013.

A Branch Point Of Streptomyces Sulfur Amino Acid Metabolism Controls The Production Of Albomycin, Aditya Kulkarni, Yu Zeng, Wei Zhou, Steven Van Lanen, Weiwen Zhang, Shawn Chen

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

Albomycin (ABM), also known as grisein, is a sulfur-containing metabolite produced by Streptomyces griseus ATCC 700974. Genes predicted to be involved in the biosynthesis of ABM and ABM-like molecules are found in the genomes of other actinomycetes. ABM has potent antibacterial activity, and as a result, many attempts have been made to develop ABM into a drug since the last century. Although the productivity of S. griseus can be increased with random mutagenesis methods, understanding of Streptomyces sulfur amino acid (SAA) metabolism, which supplies a precursor for ABM biosynthesis, could lead to improved and stable production. We previously characterized the …

Purin-6-One Derivatives As Phosphodiesterase-2 Inhibitors, Wei Yuan, Xin-Yun Zhao, Xi Chen, Chang-Guo Zhan

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications

A series of purin-6-one derivatives were synthesized, and their in vitro inhibitory activity against phosphodiesterase-2 (PDE2) was evaluated by using a fluorescence polarization assay. Three compounds, that are, 2j, 2p, and 2q, showed significant inhibitory activity against PDE2 with IC₅₀ values of 1.73, 0.18, and 3.43 μM, respectively. Structure-activity relationship (SAR) analysis was performed to explore the relationship between the chemical structures of these compounds and their inhibitory activity. Compounds 2j, 2p, and 2q were further selected for molecular docking study. The docking results suggested that these ligands bind with hydrophobic pockets of …

Seedling Survival Responses To Conspecific Density, Soil Nutrients, And Irradiance Vary With Age In A Tropical Forest, Sydne Record, Richard K. Kobe, Corine F. Vriesendorp, Andrew O. Finley

Biology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Predicting long-term trends in forest growth requires accurate characterisation of how the relationship between forest productivity and climatic stress varies across climatic regimes. Using a network of over two million tree-ring observations spanning North America and a space-for-time substitution methodology, we forecast climate impacts on future forest growth. We explored differing scenarios of increased water-use efficiency (WUE) due to CO2-fertilisation, which we simulated as increased effective precipitation. In our forecasts: (1) climate change negatively impacted forest growth rates in the interior west and positively impacted forest growth along the western, southeastern and northeastern coasts; (2) shifting climate sensitivities offset positive …

Investigation Of A Ubiquitous Spore Surface Protein, Justyna Kordzikowska

Master's Theses

All bacterial spores are comprised of concentric shells. All spores are encased in a layer called the coat. Some spores have an additional layer outside of the coat called the exosporium. Presumably, this morphological variation is an adaptation to variation in the environments in which these species can be found. However, spores from species with and without exosporia can often be found in the same niche. We hypothesize, therefore, that spores with and without exosporia share a common surface protein. Bacillus anthracis possess a well characterized surface protein called BclA. A BclA homologue is also present on the surface of …

Dickkopf-Related Protein 1 (Dkk1) Regulates The Accumulation And Function Of Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells In Cancer, Lucia D'Amico, Sahil Mahajan, Aude-Helene Capietto, Zhengfeng Yang, Ali Zamani, Biancamaria Ricci, David B. Bumpass, Melissa Meyer, Xinming Su, Andrea Wang-Gillam, Katherine Weilbaecher, Sheila A. Stewart, David G. Denardo, Roberta Faccio

Open Access Publications

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Analysis Of A Four Generation Family Reveals The Widespread Sequence-Dependent Maintenance Of Allelic Dna Methylation In Somatic And Germ Cells, Yi Huang, Song Wu, Et Al

Open Access Publications

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Il-1-Induced Bhlhe40 Identifies Pathogenic T Helper Cells In A Model Of Autoimmune Neuroinflammation, Chih-Chung Lin, Tara R. Bradstreet, Elizabeth A. Schwarzkopf, Nicholas N. Jarjour, Chun Chou, Angela S. Archambault, Julia Sim, Bernd H. Zinselmeyer, Javier A. Carrero, Gregory F. Wu, Reshma Taneja, Maxim N. Artyomov, John H. Russell, Brian T. Edelson

Open Access Publications

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Cancer Stem Cell Signaling During Repopulation In Head And Neck Cancer, George D. Wilson, Bryan J. Thibodeau, Laura E. Fortier, Barbara L. Pruetz, Sandra Galoforo, Brian Marples, Andrew M. Baschnagel, Jan Akervall, Jiayi Huang

Open Access Publications

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Neuroimaging Evidence Of Deficient Axon Myelination In Wolfram Syndrome, Heather M. Lugar, Jonathan M. Koller, Jerrel Rutlin, Bess A. Marshall, Kohsuke Kanekura, Fumihiko Urano, Allison N. Bischoff, Joshua S. Shimony, Tamara Hershey, Washington University Wolfram Syndrome Research Study Group

Open Access Publications

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Aerobic Glycolysis In The Frontal Cortex Correlates With Memory Performance In Wild-Type Mice But Not The App/Ps1 Mouse Model Of Cerebral Amyloidosis, Richard A. Harris, Lauren Tindale, Asad Lone, Olivia Singh, Shannon L. Macauley, Molly Stanley, David M. Holtzman, Robert Bartha, Robert C. Cumming

Open Access Publications

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Lithium Protects Against Anaesthesia Neurotoxicity In The Infant Primate Brain, Kevin K. Noguchi, Stephen A. Johnson, Lauren E. Kristich, Lauren D. Martin, Gregory A. Dissen, Emily A. Olsen, John W. Olney, Ansgar M. Brambrink

Open Access Publications

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Using Propensity Score Methods To Assess Causal Effects Of Mothers' Dieting Behavior On Daughters' Early Dieting Behavior, Donna L. Coffman, Katherine N. Balantekin, Jennifer S. Savage

Open Access Publications

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Town Of Hill, N.H. Incorporated As New Chester, 1753, Annual Reports 2015., Hill Town Representatives

Hill, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Sterilization Of Lung Matrices By Supercritical Carbon Dioxide, Jenna L. Balestrini, Angela Liu, Ashley L. Gard, Janet Huie, Kelly M S Blatt, Jonas Schwan, Liping Zhao, Tom J. Broekelmann, Robert P. Mecham, Elise C. Wilcox, Laura E. Niklason

Open Access Publications

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Enhanced Zone Ii Flexor Tendon Repair Through A New Half Hitch Loop Suture Configuration, Ioannis Kormpakis, Stephen W. Linderman, Stavros Thomopoulos, Richard H. Gelberman

Open Access Publications

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Rhodopsin Kinase And Arrestin Binding Control The Decay Of Photoactivated Rhodopsin And Dark Adaptation Of Mouse Rods, Rikard Frederiksen, Soile Nymark, Alexander V. Kolesnikov, Justin D. Berry, Leopold Adler Iv, Yiannis Koutalos, Vladimir J. Kefalov, M. Carter Cornwall

Open Access Publications

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Modeling Zika Virus Infection In Pregnancy, Indira U. Mysorekar, Michael S. Diamond

Open Access Publications

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Resistance Pattern And Molecular Characterization Of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia Coli (Etec) Strains Isolated In Bangladesh, Yasmin A. Begum, K. A. Talukder, Ishrat J. Azmi, Mohammad Shahnaij, A. Sheikh, Salma Sharmin, A.-M. Svennerholm, Firdausi Qadri

Open Access Publications

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The Interferon-Stimulated Gene Ifitm3 Restricts West Nile Virus Infection And Pathogenesis, Matthew J. Gorman, Subhajit Poddar, Michael Farzan, Michael S. Diamond

Open Access Publications

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A Genome-Integrated Massively Parallel Reporter Assay Reveals Dna Sequence Determinants Of Cis-Regulatory Activity In Neural Cells, Brett B. Maricque, Joseph D. Dougherty, Barak A. Cohen

Open Access Publications

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