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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"BYU"”.
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BYU Students' Beliefs About Language Learning and Communicative Language Teaching Activities
<p>Learner beliefs, which contribute to attitude and motivation, may affect language learning. It is therefore valuable to investigate the malleability of learner beliefs, and to determine whether potentially detrimental beliefs can be ameliorated. This study examines how instruction of the …
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Evaluating the Feasibility of a Performance Improvement Initiative at BYU Broadcasting
… performance gaps in the program stream between BYU Broadcasting's post production and master control environments by implementing a technical infrastructure that supports a file-based workflow. The system that was evaluated was an Apple Xsan running specialized software, called FORK. Performance …
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BYU micro-SAR: A very small, low-power LFM-CW Synthetic Aperture Radar
… algorithms used for the uSAR developed at BYU. A data simulator for the BYU LFM-CW SAR is detailed and results are provided for the case when the simulated data are processed using the uSAR algorithms. Data processing schemes are discussed, including compression, receive signal phase …
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The Use of an Interactive Online Tutorial for Camera Operators at BYU Broadcasting
… to train student television camera operators for BYU Broadcasting at Brigham Young University. The report includes the results from audience and needs analyses, the rationale for the instructional approach, reviews of existing instructional materials, and reviews of instructional theory and …
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Advances in Student Self-Authorship: A Program Evaluation of the Community Standards Model
… of the Community Standards Model at BYU-Provo. The Student Developmental Task and Lifestyle Inventory was used to evaluate student development across three general developmental tasks. Two populations were sampled: students at BYU-Provo residence halls, where the Model was practiced, …
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Longitudinal Course of Eating Disorder Risk Among Undergraduate Females at Brigham Young University
… disorder risk among undergraduate females at BYU, and compared the identified prevalence rates at BYU with identified rates at other colleges and universities. Almost 2,000 undergraduate females, in three cohort groups, filled out the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) once a semester for four to …
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Pressurized Hot Water: An Alternative Method of Nutrient Extraction and Subsequent Analysis for Use in Small-Scale Agriculture
… tests performed in the Brigham Young University (BYU) laboratory found sodium tetraphenylborate to be unsatisfactory and sodium cobaltinitrite to be simple, inexpensive and consistent. Test results on 38 arid-zone soils from the Western United States encourage adoption of sodium cobaltinitrite as …
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Longitudinal Course of Body Dissatisfaction in Undergraduate Females at Brigham Young University
… females at Brigham Young University (BYU) using the Body Satisfaction Questionnaire (BSQ).The research also examined what percentage of undergraduate females have BSQ ratings in the clinically significant range and whether body dissatisfaction ratings varied based on the environment in …
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A Team-based Approach to the Design and Development of a Customer Service Training Program for Deseret Mutual Benefit Administrators
… students from Brigham Young University (the BYU design team). This paper reviews both the product and the process of developing the product. It also contains a formative evaluation of the product and provides a summative evaluation plan to be utilized by DMBA trainers once the product is …
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An Evaluation of Compatibility, Effectiveness, Utility, and Implementation of Plagiarism-Detection Software Operating in the Honor Code Environment at Brigham Young University
… in Winter 2007 on the Brigham Young University (BYU) campus. A sample of 6 instructors and 79 student users participated in this evaluation. The evaluation findings show that Turnitin is compatible with the academic honesty environment created by BYU's Honor Code. Turnitin has been effective at …
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Mexico Engineering Study Abroad: Assessing the Effectiveness of International Experiences on Teaching Global Engineering Skills
… (MESA), is taught at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, UT. MESA is a project-based extended field trip format class that couples hydrologic modeling with cultural awareness as students work together with Mexican students on water resources modeling projects in Mexico. The aforementioned …
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The Development of a Small Scale Radio Astronomy Image Synthesis Array for Research in Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation
… research group at Brigham Young University (BYU) is investigating methods to mitigate the effects of RFI in radio astronomy synthesis imaging. Though real-time RFI mitigation has been demonstrated for a large single dish telescope, for synthesis imaging arrays our prior work has consisted …
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Motion Compensation of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
… motion compensation algorithm created for the BYU inteferometric synthetic aperture radar, YINSAR. The existing BYU SAR processing algorithm produces improved radar imagery but does not fully account for variations in attitude (roll, pitch, yaw) and does not function well with large position …
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Real-time Adaptive Cancellation of Satellite Interference in Radio Astronomy
… signals from both an experimental platform at BYU, and the Green Bank Telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia. A performance analysis of this cancellation system in the radio astronomy radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation regime constitutes the main …
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Marcel Schwob Digital Collection
… me to the presence of Marcel Schwob materials at BYU. I found that former BYU Professor John Green established a Marcel Schwob Memorial Collection and successfully published two books using the materials he gathered: Chroniques and Correspondance Inédite. After thoroughly researching the …
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From Womanhood to Sisterhood: The Evolution of the Brigham Young University Women's Conference
… by the Church through the Relief Society. The BYU Women's Conference began in response to the needs of female students at BYU and quickly expanded beyond the BYU community. Early conferences concentrated on identifying the various roles of LDS women. The event expanded to include issues like …
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Performance of MIMO Space-Time Coding Algorithms on a Parallel DSP Test Platform
… with a linear increase in antennas. The BYU Electrical Engineering wireless lab has designed and built an eight processor transmitter and a twenty processor receiver to research and develop MIMO wireless communication. The Alamouti, 2 x 2 and 4 x 4 differential space-time MIMO algorithms …
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Skill Evaluation in Women's Volleyball
… etc.) and recorded rally outcomes (point for BYU, rally continues, point for opponent) for the entire 2006 home volleyball season. Only sequences of events occurring on BYU's side of the net were considered. Events followed one of these general patterns: serve-outcome, pass-set-attack-outcome, …
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The Correlation Between the Eating Attitudes Test and Body Shape Questionnaire
… years, depending upon their year of entrance to BYU. The data collected were analyzed using correlational statistics. Results indicated that a high positive correlation between the EAT and BSQ existed across semesters and cohorts.
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An Evaluation of a Student Response System Used at Brigham Young University
… system (SRS) used at Brigham Young University (BYU) and (b) to evaluate which instructional methods being used with the SRS students' feel are most helpful. In the past, the student response systems supported by BYU have not fully met the needs of professors and problems with the systems have …
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