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Rediscovering Zoram: The Chief NaʿAr Of The Commander Of The Fortress, Kelly N. Schaeffer-Bullock

BYU Studies

There are several prominent figures in the opening chapters of the Book of Mormon whose roles, responsibilities, and titles may have eluded the modern reader. As more is learned about ancient Israelite laws, customs, and culture through archaeological successes and academic research, previous biblical scholarship is reworked, refined, or totally redesigned. So too with academic scholarship on the Book of Mormon. The way readers understand the central figures in the opening chapters of the Book of Mormon must be regularly reassessed as additional information is obtained. There is still a great deal more to discover about the people who played …

Decoding The Self-Tracking Symbols Of Wilford Woodruff’S Journals, Joshua M. Matson

BYU Studies

Wilford Woodruff’s journals have been celebrated as one of the greatest textual records of the Restoration. A prominent, yet almost entirely unexplored, component of Woodruff’s journals is his creating, implementing, and consistently drawing symbols and pictures alongside his near-daily autobiographical record. Within his fifteen-volume journal spanning more than a sixty-year period, Woodruff drew approximately nine thousand images. The first of these symbols appears in an entry dated March 23, 1837, and the final image is drawn on March 19, 1897. These images can be divided into two groups. The first are unique illustrations that appear erratically throughout the journals and …

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BYU Studies

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A Forensic And Historical Look At John Taylor’S Watch: Evidence Of Divine Mercy, Brian A. Warburton

BYU Studies

In June 2023, the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the public availability of forensic and historical research recently completed on the pocket watch of John Taylor. Taylor, an Apostle of the Church at the time, was present when Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by a mob in the Hancock County Jail in Carthage, Illinois, on June 27, 1844. During the attack, Taylor was shot four times, and his watch was damaged. This artifact has long held a special place in the hearts of many members of the Church as …

The Semantic Complexity Of Financial Disclosures, Abhinav Anand, Sankarshan Basu, Xing Huan, Jalaj Pathak

Working Papers

We quantify the semantic complexity of firms’ financial disclosures by capturing the connotation-altering impact of ‘valence shifters,’ which include adjectives (e.g., ‘tiny’), ad verbs (e.g., ‘barely’), negators (e.g., ‘cannot’), and adversative conjunctions (e.g., ‘but,’ ‘although’) that significantly modify the interpretation of sentences. The semantic complex ity index (SCI) of a disclosure is defined as the proportion of sentences in the text containing at least one valence shifter. We show that an increase in disclosures’ semantic complexity corresponds to significantly higher post-filing return volatility, indicating increased uncer tainty among market participants. Our metric also renders most other competing measures insignificant in …

Pope Calixtus And The Madonna Della Clemenza, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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The Unique And The Universal In International Studies Theories From The Global South, Michael H. Allen

Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

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On "Beginning" In Analysis, Jeremy Elkins

Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

While we speak casually about the beginning of an analysis, we are also aware that there are different senses of beginning in the context of an analysis. Certain differences surrounding the nature of beginning reflect technical-theoretical debates within the field. But in addition and more broadly, the various senses of beginning represent different dimensions of our understanding and experience of analysis. In this essay, I explore some of these dimensions and consider the significance and challenges of “beginnings” throughout the course of analytic work.

Larisa Shepitko, Aleksei German, And The Trials And Tribulations Of Post-Thaw Soviet Filmmaking, Timothy Harte

Russian Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Parental Resilience In Contexts Of Political Violence: A Systematic Scoping Review Of 45 Years Of Research, Cindy Sousa, Bree Akesson, Manahil Siddiqi

Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship

Families suffer in particular ways during the violence and targeted deprivation of freedom and resources within wars, armed conflicts, and military occupations - all part of political violence (PV). While evidence is accumulating about the disproportionate impacts of PV on parents and children, we lack clear, globally-integrated understandings of how families suffer – and survive – PV. There is an urgent need to synthesize existing work to refine our understandings about parental experiences within PV – with particular attention to both how PV creates suffering for parents, and how parents strategize, caring for their families within the most horrendous of …

Cataloguing Minerals, Part Two: Re-Imagining Mineral Catalogue Descriptions To Address Colonial Legacies, Carrie Robbins, Selby Hearth, Marianne Weldon, Aha Anderson, Rosa Bieber-Stanley, April Chernila, Helen Christ, Hannah Cosgrove, Morgan Hanson-Rosenberg, Carly Hill, Maya Hofstetter, Emily Lazo, Izzie Ludlow, Samantha Lyster, Rachel Myers, Jasper Nash, Georgia Reed, Julia Saint- Amour

Geology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Minerals are uniquely tied to colonialism, labour, and environment; however, those relationships have traditionally not been described in mineral catalogues – an omission that limits curators’ ability to account for mineral histories. This paper re-imagines mineral cataloguing practices to restore historical, cultural, and environmental contexts that were stripped away. We describe the roles of citations; linked data; provenience and provenance histories; non-standardized and ‘unapproved’ nomenclatures; positionality; and the need to label archival silences. We examine the risks and practical limitations that arise in attempting to turn this colonial tool against itself. In discussing these issues, we contribute to ongoing dialogues …

In Search Of Border Sanctuaries: Religion, Landscape, And Territory In The Peloponnese, Shannon Mailhouse Dunn

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

Despite the impact of scholarly models for the distribution of Greek sanctuaries, this is the first comprehensive and critical study of “border sanctuaries,” a type of sacred site that has been strongly associated with territorial borders of poleis in ancient Greece. When used as a distinct site type, it correlates location in a border zone with specific functions related to that border, such as community definition or territorial control. Focusing on the Archaic and Classical periods, and building on scholarship of borders, religion, and landscape, this study presents four border zones throughout the Peloponnese, and treats each sanctuary within it …

“Trying Your Best In That Moment With That Person”: Maintaining Feelings Of Efficacy And Relevance In The Therapeutic Relationship With Community Mental Health Clients Experiencing Psychosis, Carolyn Solo

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

Community mental health clients who experience psychosis, particularly Black and Latinx clients, are subject to numerous barriers to competent clinical care. The fundamental challenges of community mental health settings can be detrimental to clinicians’ belief that they can be effective while providing care to clients with psychosis in alignment with the common factors of therapeutic treatment and the principles of trauma-informed care. This dissertation proposes a grounded theory based on 16 participant interviews with community mental health clinicians in Philadelphia who have worked in outpatient settings with clients with psychosis. Using the frameworks of self-efficacy theory (Bandura, 1977), the common …

Development Of A Ni-Catalyzed Enantioselective Intramolecular Mizoroki- Heck Reaction For The Synthesis Of Phenanthridinone Derivatives, Diana Rachii

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

The Birch reduction-alkylation coupled to the desymmetrizing Mizoroki-Heck reaction is a novel synthetic tool to form potentially bioactive phenanthridinone analogs from inexpensive and easily available starting materials. This work describes a rare example of the direct replacement of palladium for nickel in our previously reported enantioselective intramolecular Heck reaction. A Ni-catalyzed enantioselective intramolecular Mizoroki-Heck reaction has been developed to transform symmetrical 1,4- cyclohexadienes with attached aryl halides to phenanthridinone analogs containing quaternary stereocenters. Moreover, this approach provides direct access to six-member ring heterocyclic systems bearing all-carbon quaternary stereocenters, which have been much more challenging to form enantioselectively with nickel-catalyzed Heck …

“Enacting Something I Didn’T Believe In”: Clinician Experiences Of Dissonance Related To Power And Oppression In Community Mental Health, Maisy T. Hughes

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

Systems of Community Mental Health (CMH) care often operate as apparatuses of oppression and social control over marginalized groups. Rooted in colonialism and racial capitalism, these systems have a history of causing harm in particular to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) (Metzl, 2009; Wade, 1993; Szasz, 2009). Pressured to comply within neoliberal practice environments, clinicians are limited in their ability to resist enacting oppression, and experience dissonance—a state of tension arising from psychologically inconsistent cognitions (Harmon-Jones & Mills, 2019)—as they find themselves caught between anti-oppressive practice ideals, and what is required of them by their agencies. In this …

The Meta/Meso Narratives And Bibliodiversity, Ninotchka Rosca

Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia

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From Sea To Shining Sea: A Survey Of Intellectual Freedom Practices In The United States, Amanda K. Izenstark, Jo Knapp, David Bernardo

Public Services Faculty Presentations

The American Library Association provides a form for librarians to share challenges to library materials for the purposes of gathering data and providing support. In the face of increasing challenges to library materials, some states have also developed local procedures for gathering information and providing local support. In 2023, the presenters distributed a survey to gather information from states, territories, and tribal nations that do not publicly share their procedures to document efforts. This presentation will share the preliminary survey results showing differences across entities, lessons learned, and areas for future research.

Why Would Anybody Self-Harm?, Alina M. Baltazar

Lake Union Herald

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13 C-Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics Uncovers Dynamic Biochemical Landscape Of Gut Microbiome-Host Organ Communications In Mice, Xia Xiao, Yixuan Zhou, Xinwei Li, Jing Jin, Jerika Durham, Zifan Ye, Yipeng Wang, Bernhard Hennig, Pan Deng

Animal and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

ackground Gut microbiome metabolites are important modulators of host health and disease. However, the overall metabolic potential of the gut microbiome and interactions with the host organs have been underexplored. Results Using stable isotope resolved metabolomics (SIRM) in mice orally gavaged with 13 C-inulin (a tracer), we first observed dynamic enrichment of 13 C-metabolites in cecum contents in the amino acids and short-chain fatty acid metabolism pathways. 13 C labeled metabolites were subsequently profiled comparatively in plasma, liver, brain, and skeletal muscle collected at 6, 12, and 24 h after the tracer administration. Organ-specific and time-dependent 13 C metabolite enrichments …

Speculative Enquiries: The Third Annual Conference Of The European Culture And Technology Laboratory., Connell Vaughan, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Noel Fitzpatrick

Conference Proceedings

The third annual conference of the ECT Lab+ was held over three days in November 2023 in Limassol at the Media Arts & Design Research Lab (MADLab), Cyprus University of Technology. The conference brought together experts from the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Technology, and other fields to explore ways of enquiry that enrich (non-)positivist ways of knowing as well as post-structuralist critique towards them. Given the political, representative and epistemic crises of the current times, there is a need for transdisciplinary responses to overcome siloed thinking of academic fields of study and offer solutions by revisiting questions of speculation as …

An Explainable Approach To Understanding Gender Stereotype Text, Manuela Nayantara Jeyaraj, Sarah Jane Delany

Conference Papers

Gender Stereotypes refer to the widely held beliefs and assumptions about the typical traits, behaviours, and roles associated with a collective group of individuals of a particular gender in society. These typical beliefs about how people of a particular gender are described in text can cause harmful effects to individuals leading to unfair treatment. In this research, the aim is to identify the words and language constructs that can influence a text to be considered a gender stereotype. To do so, a transformer model with attention is fine-tuned for gender stereotype detection. Thereafter, words/language constructs used for the model's decision …

Social Impact Lab: Impact Report Ay 2023-2024, Lynn University

Karen S. Lynch Center for Leadership and Social Impact: Impact Reports

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Standard 303 And The Development Of Student Professional Identity: A Framework For The Intentional Exploration Of The Profession's Core Values, Neil Hamilton, Jerome M. Organ, David Grenardo, Louis D. Bilionis, Barbara Glesner Fines, Kendall L. Kerew

Faculty Works

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Assessing Teachers’ Dispositions Towards Culturally Responsive Pedagogy In Northwest Arkansas High Schools, Rylie Ford

Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal

Culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP) entails the use of cultural knowledge, prior experiences, and learning styles of ethnically and culturally diverse students to make instruction more relevant and effective for them. Furthermore, practices within this pedagogy are validating, inclusive, emancipatory, and ethical, and help diverse students succeed academically while maintaining their cultural identity. Numerous studies have indicated that using culturally responsive pedagogy increases student academic achievement, sense of self, and emotional well-being (Ladson-Billings, 1995a; Gay, 2018). Considering the varying degrees of cultural and linguistic diversity in Northwest Arkansas (NWA) schools and the lack of reported professional development relating to CRP, this …

Trademarks On The Blockchain: Nft Domains And Collisions, Jelena Laketić

Michigan Technology Law Review

Blockchain technology supporting cryptocurrency transactions is one of the most critical innovations of this decade. Establishing a legal identity on blockchain, however, is fraught with uncertainty. In the 1990s, the internet faced a similar set of issues, which were resolved through the ICANN dispute resolution system. This Article asserts that blockchain technology urgently needs a similar cohesive approach to NFT domains.

This Article will explore trademark issues with non-fungible tokens (NFTs), specifically NFT domains. It begins by exploring the fundamental structure of NFTs by demystifying the technology and showing how NFTs contrast with other currency regimes. Increased usage of NFTs …

Innovation Originators, Tabrez Y. Ebrahim, Rafeel Wasif

Michigan Technology Law Review

Asian Americans are one of the most striking and undertheorized ethnic groups in the field of innovation. While a prolific ethnic group when it comes to being named as inventors on U.S. patents, very little has been written on this observation, perhaps because of previously limited datasets and unwieldy data analysis on ethnic backgrounds about patenting at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). Research on inventor diversity and ethnicity in innovation has begun to explore some ethnic groups, but a more holistic account should focus on one particular overlooked group. Recently, entrepreneurship studies concerning ethnicity have shown that …

Pwatem: An Anthology Of Literature And Art (2024)

Pwatem (Poictesme), 2006-

Pwatem is an anthology of literature and art from undergraduate students at Virginia Commonwealth University. Pwatem publishes poetry, prose and art of all kinds from talented undergraduate students of all majors.

The Genetic Diversity Of An Endangered Buttercup, Ranunculus Triternatus, Ryan Garcia

All Graduate Projects

Ranunculus triternatus, a rare endemic species of the Columbia River Gorge, faces conservation challenges due to its limited range and fragmented populations. This study assesses the genetic diversity of R. triternatus and compares it with its widespread congener, Ranunculus glaberrimus, using inter-primer binding site (iPBS) markers. Genetic data from 80 individuals across eight populations were analyzed using Nei’s genetic diversity, Shannon’s diversity index, and AMOVA. Results showed R. triternatus had higher genetic diversity than western populations of R. glaberrimus, with eastern populations of R. glaberrimus displaying greater diversity than western ones. PCA, UPGMA, and STRUCTURE analysis revealed …

Direction Of The Play: "A Wrinkle In Time", Kaitlin Webster

All Graduate Projects

This paper details the research, process, and production of a theatrical work in fulfillment of the requirements of the Master in Theater Production. The production central to this piece is a high school performance of the play A Wrinkle In Time by Morgan Gould. Section 1 outlines the pre-production parameters and play selection. Section 2 deeply analyzes the story, setting, and production design. Beyond script analysis, this section contains a lot of research connected to the original book by Madeleine L’Engle, initially published in 1962. This production was set in 1960. Much research is focused on the historical context and …

Insulin For Icu Non-Dka Patients -Qi Project, Carlos Botero Suarez

North Florida Division GME Research Day 2024

No abstract provided.