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Journey Of Faith: The New World Screened In Hawaii

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On November 9, 2007, the new Willes Center-sponsored DVD, Journey of Faith: The New World, was shown to a large audience in the IMAX Theater of the Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie, Hawaii, adjacent to the campus of BYU–Hawaii. The screening was offered in connection with a three-day international business conference cosponsored by the University. The founder of the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies, Mark H. Willes, opened the screening by explaining how the film came about, its significance as a study aid to help all better understand the cultural and geo-graphical setting of events leading …

Byu And Oxford Brookes University Collaborate On Transcription Of Syriac Texts

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Following the success of the BYU Dead Seas Scrolls Electronic Library (2nd ed., Brill, 2006), the Maxwell Institute’s Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts (CPART) has initiated a project to produce an electronic library of ancient Syriac literature. Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic, the language of Jesus and his disciples. Syriac was the language spoken by ancient Christians throughout the Middle East, from Syria to India, and a large and important body of early Christian literature is preserved in it. Electronic libraries have been produced for Greek, Latin and other ancient literatures, but this will be the …

Dss Library Wins Ala Choice Award

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Each year in January, Choice magazine recognizes a short list of the best academic titles from among the 7,000 or so reviewed in the previous year. Among the winners of the January 2008 awards is BYU’s Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library, which was produced by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and published by Brill Academic Press. This electronic database contains searchable texts of all of the published non-biblical scrolls. High resolution images of the scrolls and a complete English translation accompany the texts. The latest version of the database, published at the end of 2006, is the …

Scripture Update: El Niño And Lehi’S Voyage Revisited, Warren P. Aston

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In recent years several scholars have drawn the attention of Latter-day Saints to the phenomenon popularly known as “El Niño.”1 In 1990 David L. Clark highlighted the fact that a mechanism was now known to science that would permit, periodically, easterly sea travel across the Pacific, the direction Lehi’s party is understood to have traveled.2 ENSO, the more formal acronym for this phenomenon, comes from El Niño (the Christ child) and Southern Oscillation, referring to the fact that the changes commence in the southern Pacific Ocean. The intermittent ENSO effect creates an easterly equatorial current running counter to the prevailing …

Documentary Exploring The Life Of Jesus Christ Planned

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With the full backing of the BYU administration, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship—in partnership with Religious Education, BYU Broadcasting and the department of Theatre and Media Arts—is laying plans to begin filming a seven-part documentary series on the ministry and life of Jesus Christ, beginning with his role as premortal Deity, continuing through his mortality, and ending with his role as judge of all. The series is provisionally titled Messiah: Behold the Lamb of God. The project envisions a high definition series that presents the views of Brigham Young University scholars. Each of the twenty-six minute episodes …

Occasional Papers Spotlights The Book Of Mormon

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The latest issue of the Maxwell Institute’s Occasional Papers (number 5 in the series) focuses exclusively on what Joseph Smith called “the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion”—the Book of Mormon. As M. Gerald Bradford, editor of the series and associate executive director of the Maxwell Institute notes, “the papers in this volume show that the Book of Mormon can be studied and understood from a wide variety of scholarly disciplines.”

Memory And Attention While Scuba Diving At Shallow And Deep Depths: An Open Water Study, Leanne Boucher, Joshua Feingold, Kelly Concannon, Stephanie Talavera, Jaime Tartar, W. Matthew Collins

Journal for Sports Neuroscience

SCUBA diving requires a high level of cognitive functioning, however, many divers anecdotally report poor memory and attentional skills while underwater. Few studies have documented cognitive deficits resulting from an open-water dive. Here, 23 divers completed both shallow (8 m) and deep (28 m) dives over two days in the open-water. The order of the dives was counterbalanced across participants. While at depth, they completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory to assess anxiety levels, learned and were tested on a list of 36 words, and completed the trail making task (TMT) to assess executive functioning. They also gave saliva samples to …

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Featured Publications

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The Encyclopedia of Mormonism, published in 1992, is now available online at www.lib.byu.edu/spc/Macmillan/, or search Google for Encyclopedia of Mormonism. This valuable resource answers many questions about Church doctrine and history and is useful in any teaching situation. BYU Studies will be assisting the Harold B. Lee Library to add links and update content in coming months.

Research At The Shrine Of The Book Continues

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Irene Lewitt, assistant director of the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem, visited Brigham Young University on June 20, 2007. Donald W. Parry, professor of Hebrew Bible studies, and Steven Booras from the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, hosted Ms. Lewitt during her visit. A portion of her tour included a demonstration of multispectral imaging. A luncheon sponsored by the Maxwell Institute was also held in her honor. The Shrine of the Book is a museum that houses many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the Great Isaiah Scroll and the Temple Scroll, and other significant archaeological findings. …

Worth Repeating: “The Book Of Mormon As A Mesoamerican Record”, John L. Sorenson

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The Nephite account is a record that resembles in form, nature, and functions—in scores of characteristics, in fact—what we would expect in an ancient Mesoamerican codex, a type of document that was utterly unknown to Joseph Smith.

Syriac Studies Reference Library Now Completed, Carl Griffin

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On June 20, 2001, representatives of BYU’s Maxwell Institute, The Catholic University of America (CUA), and Beth Mardutho, a Syriac studies institute, met together to discuss the digital imaging of key holdings in the Semitics/ICOR Library of CUA’s Mullen Library. CUA’s Semitics/ICOR Library houses one of the largest collections in the world of early and rare books on the Christian East. All parties shared a particular interest in early Syriac printed works, both for their continuing value to contemporary Syriac Christian communities as well as to Syriac scholars. Many early printed catalogs, text editions, grammars, lexica, and other instrumenta and …

Maxwell Institute Well Represented At Fair Conference

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Four scholars from the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship spoke at the FAIR conference held in Sandy, Utah, in August. FAIR, the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research, is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of Latter-day Saint doctrine, belief, and practice.

The Prophet Like Moses, John A. Tvedtnes, E. Jan Wilson

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One of the most frequently quoted Old Testament passages in scripture is Moses’s prophecy as re corded in Deuteronomy 18:15–19:

The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. And the Lord said unto me, They have …

Peterson Awarded For Scholastic Excellence

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The Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters held its annual awards banquet on Friday, October 12, at Weber State University. The academy awarded Daniel C. Peterson, professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic at Brigham Young University and director of the Maxwell Institute’s Middle Eastern Texts Initiative (METI), the highest award of the evening, naming him a Utah Academy Fellow and lifetime member of the organization.

New Documentary Focuses On New World

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Journey of Faith: The New World premiered to large audiences at BYU Education Week in a sneak preview. S. Kent Brown, director of the newly formed Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies and one of the lead historical consultants on the documentary, and Peter N. Johnson, director, hosted the premier. A number of people returned for a second viewing because of the sweep of information in the film. “Packing a long history into 80 or 90 minutes of film presented a huge challenge to the filmmakers,” Johnson said. The new film enjoys the sponsorship of the Neal …

Impact Of Neighborhood Quality And Recent Life Stressors On Sleep Problems: A Longitudinal Study Of Adolescents At Risk For Maltreatment, Krithika Prakash, Joseph Tu, Angela Staples

Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk

It is estimated that around 70% of adolescents are not getting sufficient sleep. The impact of poor sleep during adolescence is related to both increased psychopathology and poorer academic and social functioning. While studies have established a link at the community level between earlier school start times and poorer sleep, there remain open questions about other aspects of community such as neighborhood factors and stressful life events. In this study, we investigated the impact of three neighborhood factors (chaos, stability, and efficacy) and recent life stressors on adolescent (n = 1354) sleep habits at ages 12, 14, and 16 …

Selective And Effective Strategic Collection Development Approach In Universities Libraries, Dr. Muhammad Tufail Khan, Sadaf Rafiq, Awais Rafiq

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose: University libraries playing pivotal role in developing and delivering education among university community by providing authentic information resources in terms of books, magazines, academic research journals etc. Collection development policies adopted to select and purchase the library print and electronic resources which worked as a guide for decision making. The purpose of this study is to propose the collection development policy which will help the acquisition librarians in selecting, evaluating and purchasing the materials for academic/universities libraries.

Methodology: The trends of collection development practices were identified through the intensive literature review. Then, the university libraries of Lahore were personally …

Litigation Over Public Procurement In Light Of Algerian Legislation And Judicial Precedents, Dr. Ahcene Rabhi

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The flexibility and dynamism of the substantive dimensions of public tenders have been reflected by the large legal provisions enacted by the Algerian legislature in order to control disputes concerning this type of administrative contracts. This has been initially divided according to a threefold approach, which takes into account the adaptation of administrative proceedings and their types, and finally the legal solutions applied to adjudicating them. However, despite the considerable attraction of this legislative position, it was quickly and widely criticized for the large gaps it left, resulting in the "embarrassment" of the administrative judiciary in many legal problems. This …

The Issue Of Intent In The Saudi Capital Financial Market Law, Dr. Ramy Abdulaziz Saleh Alshebl

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This study tries to analyze the issue of intention required to constitute a criminal offense in the Saudi Capital Market from the Legislative stand of point and from the way the court, which is a committee for resolution on securities disputes, construes the law. Capital Market crimes are a type of economic crime, which have distinct features than ordinary crimes in the way they are conducted, tools used, residues it keeps after the crime ending by the court procedure. The study tried to define the intention element, which might be referred to as Men’s Rea, in economic crimes from scientific …

Foreclosure In English Law: A Comparative Analytical Study Of Islamic Jurisprudence And Comparative Law, Younis Salah Eddin Ali Dr.

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The Foreclosure is considered as the most drastic or draconian remedy, which leads to the extinction of the equitable right of redemption and restoration or recovery of the mortgaged property enjoyed by mortgagor, due to his or her default from repaying the debt secured by mortgaged Property. Which allows the mortgagee to acquire the ownership of the mortgaged Property, after being transferred to him or her. It is also worth-bearing in mind that the foreclosure is considered as an equitable system, imposed by the rules of justice and equity, in order to eliminate the mortgagor's procrastination or default from repaying …

Review Of Tax Incentive Legislations Conducive To Investments In Jordan, Dr. Abdelrauof A. Al Kasasbeh

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Generally, all countries will try and encourage economic growth by providing the right economic environment for investor. Tax incentives legislations are considered one of the most used tools that can encourage foreign and local investors to bring in and inject the required cash to any economy.

Jordan, like any country, has its own set of tax incentives legislation to help grow its own economy. In this article these tax incentives legislations will be looked at and scrutinised, as some of these legislations do contradicts others within the Jordanian law. These contradictions within the Jordanian tax legislations come from the following …

The Supervisory Jurisdiction Of The Palestinian Constitutional Court Over Legislative Abstention: Acomparative Analytical Study, عمر ح. التركماني Dr.

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judiciary of refrain legislative refrain to treatment vacuity result of it, where i started from the main question, which is the extent of the limits of the Palestinian Constitutional Court in overseeing legislative refrain in case of lack an explicit provision authorizing it of this jurisdiction, in order to understand all aspects related this topic, we divided study into three sections.

In first section, we discussed what's nature of legislative refrain and motives of confronting it, as for the second section, we devoted it to talking about the limits of the Constitutional Court's authority to supervision legislative refrain, in third …

Subjecting Armed Groups To International Law: A Study On The Rules Of International Humanitarian Law And The Extent Of Their Development, Salwa Elekyabi Dr.

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While current core rules governing armed conflicts has remained almost the same since the adoption of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and its two additional protocols of 1977, the nature of non-international armed conflicts has gone under a tremendous development. This poses a question on whether there is a need to develop the rules of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) applicable to Armed Groups in times of non-international armed conflicts to cope with the changes in the armed conflicts layout. Accordingly, this article is addressing this question and examining ways to improve armed groups’ compliance to the provisions of the IHL.

This …

An Analytical Study Of Family Ownership According To Law No. (9) Of 2020 Regulating Family Ownership In The Emirate Of Dubai, Dr. Nasr Aboul Fotouh Farid Hassan

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In this research, we discussed the Family ownership, which is a type of common property that regulates the rights of the same family members who work together. This family ownership aims to save the money by figuring out the perfect way to invest it. Furthermore, we explained the family ownership contract and the rules that regulate it. We also addressed how to transfer the common ownership, and how to manage the family ownership. We have concluded that, there is a difference in the “family concept” between the “Family Planning Law” in the Emirate of Dubai and that stated in the …

Good Faith In Contract Drafting Stage: A Study In Light Of French, Emirati, And Moroccan Laws, Dr. Ahmed Ed-Drari

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This study deals with discussing the general duty of good faith as it establishes the criteria for practicing a reasonable manner of freedom within a framework that does not override the legality of what is imposed by the social system.

There is no doubt that the position of the French legislator who codified what was settled by the French judiciary under the civil law of 1804, so that it stipulated the validity of goodwill in all four stages of the contract, starting from its negotiation, conclusion, implementation, and after its end, as it is considered a restriction on behavior that …

The Novelty In Terms Of Jurisdiction And Procedural System For The Enforcement Of Foreign Arbitration Awards In The United Arab Emirates, Prof. Sayed Mahmoud Ahmed, Mudhafar Al Rawi

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The voluntary and forced execution embodies the purpose of the request for arbitration for anyone who obtains an award that achieves the purpose of the arbitration proceeding. In the context of foreign arbitration awards, permitting without national conditions or restrictions for the enforcement of foreign arbitration awards prejudices the sovereignty of the State over its territory, so the order of enforcement has become the judicial regulatory instrument imposed by the national legislator on the will of the parties, which is subsequent control over the issuance of the arbitration judgement - national, international or foreign - when it is to be …

African-Specific Alleles Modify Risk For Asthma At The 17q12-Q21 Locus In African Americans, Charles Washington, Matthew Dapas, Arjun Biddanda, Kevin M. Magnaye, Ivy Aneas, Britney A. Helling, Brooke Szczesny, Meher Preethi Boorgula, Margaret A. Taub, Eimear Kenny, Rasika A. Mathias, Kathleen C. Barnes, Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, Carolyn M. Kercsmar, Jessica D. Gereige, Melanie Makhija, Rebecca S. Gruchalla, Michelle A. Gill, Andrew H. Liu, Deepa Rastogi, William Busse, Peter J. Gergen, Cynthia M. Visness, Diane R. Gold, Tina Hartert, Christine C. Johnson, Robert F. Lemanske, Fernando D. Martinez, Rachel L. Miller, Dennis Ownby, Christine M. Seroogy, Anne L. Wright, Edward M. Zoratti, Leonard B. Bacharier, Meyer Kattan, George T. O'Connor, Robert A. Wood, Marcelo A. Nobrega, Matthew C. Altman, Daniel J. Jackson, James E. Gern, Christopher G. Mckennan, Carole Ober

Allergy & Immunology Articles

BACKGROUND: Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children, occurring at higher frequencies and with more severe disease in children with African ancestry.

METHODS: We tested for association with haplotypes at the most replicated and significant childhood-onset asthma locus at 17q12-q21 and asthma in European American and African American children. Following this, we used whole-genome sequencing data from 1060 African American and 100 European American individuals to identify novel variants on a high-risk African American-specific haplotype. We characterized these variants in silico using gene expression and ATAC-seq data from airway epithelial cells, functional annotations from ENCODE, and promoter capture …

An Evening With Dolores Huerta, Center For Identity And Inclusion

Student Life Events & Recordings

“An Evening with Dolores Huerta” was Latino Heritage Month's signature event. The American labor leader and activist spoke on Thursday, Sept. 29 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the DeRosa University Center ballroom.

Huerta has spent decades championing the rights of farm workers and women. She founded the Agricultural Workers Association and later launched the National Farm Workers Association with Cesar Chavez, which became the United Farm Workers of America. Huerta has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2012. A Stockton-native, Huerta attended Delta College (then part of Pacific) in the …

Teacher Leadership: A Delphi Study, Critical Leadership Skills And Personal Dispositions Necessary For Teacher Leaders To Effectively Lead Educational Change Initiatives In Tk–12 Public Schools, Jennifer E. Larson

Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this mixed-method Delphi study was to identify and rate the most important leadership skills and personal dispositions that effective teacher leaders use in leading educational change initiatives based on the Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession (CSTP) Teacher Leadership Skills Framework. Additionally, this study explored how effective teacher leaders describe the leadership skills and personal dispositions that are most important in leading education change initiatives.

Methodology: This mixed method Delphi study identified and described the most critical leadership skills and personal dispositions used by expert teacher leaders in public schools in Sonoma and Marin County. Round …