cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
College Prescription Opioid Misuse: An Exploration of Social Learning, Social Control, and Strain Theories
Creators: name: Murray, Julie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Prescription opioids, when used as medically intended, can be effective in pain management. However, the consequences and costs of widespread misuse of prescription opioids in the United States are cause for concern. Prescription opioids are related to increased risk of death and injury. Young adults, between the ages of 18 and 25, have the highest rates of misuse nationally and within this age group, college students may be particularly at risk. In order to effectively curb the growing misuse of prescription opioids within college populations, we must have a better understanding of the factors that potentially lead to misuse.
This study used an online survey, distributed to a sample of 616 undergraduate students at four-year universities nationally to collect information about prescription opioid misuse and potential predictors of misuse. Results showed that 17% of undergraduates in the study had misused opioids at least once in their lifetime. Results also showed the being older, male, living in Greek housing, having friends that use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs, and experiencing moderate to severe depression were risk factors for misuse. Students who believed their parents/guardians held negative views of prescription opioid misuse were less likely to misuse. The implications of these findings as well as limitations and future directions are discussed.
Cellular and Molecular Analysis of Axon Development in Zebrafish
Creators: name: Xing, Lingyan
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016

description: Brain wiring is critical for normal brain function, and brain connection defects have been described in many neurodevelopmental disorders. Accurate central nervous system connectivity relies on precise axon navigation. The cellular and molecular mechanisms governing axon guidance during development are important but not well understood. In this dissertation, I utilize zebrafish, a powerful vertebrate model in developmental and genetic studies, to determine the molecular mechanisms regulating axon guidance in vivo. We specifically determine the role of the two molecules FoxP2 and serotonin (5-HT) in axon guidance. We demonstrate that FoxP2, a forkhead-domain transcription factor, is not required for axon guidance, but it reduces the expression levels of a synaptic protein Cntnap2. We also establish that 5-HT and its receptor Htr2a are important for axon guidance. The regulation of 5-HT on axon guidance is mediated by the tyrosine kinase Ephrinb2a. Moreover, we discover that axon guidance defects induced by environmental hypoxia can be rescued by serotonin reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine. I have also developed and implemented a PCR-based high resolution melting analysis (HRMA) for large-scale genotype screening and characterization of genes involved in axon development. Taken together, this work identifies a novel mechanism involved in central nervous system connectivity, and indicates raphe 5-HT neurons act as a sensor to alterations in the developmental environment.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16657.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 23.07.1947, erstellt von Helmut Müller
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Early Adolescent Gifted and Talented Students and Their Experience with Bullying
Creators: name: Allen, William T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Bullying, in all its forms (e.g., verbal, physical, cyber, social ostracism), is a continual problem in public schools. It exacerbates the painfully high suicide rate among early adolescent students, especially in the western U.S., with some evidence showing distinctions within the academically advanced gifted and talented (GT) cohort. Research shows GT students (GTs) are bullied at nearly double the rate of the mainstream population. Yet, quantitative statistics indicate GTs and non-GTs suffer comparable rates of trauma internalization, suicide ideation, and suicide. Some quantitative differences do start to appear with further personality distinctions. This points to a possibility that qualitative dissimilarities may best explain why GTs either respond similarly or differently to ill treatment.
Using case studies, the findings of this investigation suggested how and why six distinctive GTs coped with bullying behaviors. The results indicated the potential need for more nuanced antibullying approaches that focus on the unique needs of each student, not the typical one-size-fits-all consequence-oriented school-wide program. Past research has shown such programs having limited effectiveness in their attempts to ameliorate bullying behaviors. Essentially, it may be time to try a more student-centered personality approach to the bullying problem in U.S. public schools.
Educational impacts of discipline policies on Chicano students in Utah: a mixed-method critical race theory and latcrit analysis
Creators: name: Valles, Brenda Guadalupe
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: Chicano Education
Critical Race Theory
LatCrit
Mixed-Method
School-to-prison Pipeline
Zero-Tolerance

description: For many years public school discipline policies have been critiqued for their disproportionate racial/ethnic distribution. This study examines zero tolerance discipline policies including suspensions, expulsions, and related practices in two Utah school districts. This research expands on previous research by focusing on the impact discipline policies have on Chicano students and their college readiness. Using a mixed method approach combining hierarchical linear modeling and interviews framed by critical race theory, this study substantiates and contextualizes the findings that Chicano students have a lower college attendance rate than their White counterparts in Utah and by contrast their representation is disproportionately high in state juvenile justice detention centers.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16584.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 08.05.1947, erstellt von Helmut Müller
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Trinodini Casey 1900
Creators: name: Zahradník, Petr
name: Háva, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dermestidae

description: Trinodini Casey, 1900
Apsectus LeConte, 1854: 107. Type species Syncalypta hispidus Melsheimer, 1844 (N, Nt).
Evorinea Beal, 1961: 118. Type species Apsectus iota Arrow, 1915 (E, I, P, F).
Oisenodes Kirejtshuk, Háva et Nel, 2010: 55. Type species Oisenodes gallicus Kirejtshuk, Háva & Nel, 2010 (E, F).
Trinodes Dejean, 1821: 47. Type species Nitidula hirta Fabricius, 1781 (E, I, P, F). Trinodus Gistl, 1856: 363. Type species Nitidula hirta Fabricius, 1781. Syn. nov.
description: Published as part of Zahradník, Petr & Háva, Jiří, 2014, Catalogue of the world genera and subgenera of the superfamilies Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea (Coleoptera: Derodontiformia, Bostrichiformia), pp. 301-352 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on page 318, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/224794
A case study of community cultural wealth among ""mountain west"" chicana/o college students
Creators: name: Valdez, Trina Marisa
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: Chicana and Chicano
Community cultural wealth
Critical race theory
Cultural capital
Cultural wealth
Latina/o critical race theory

description: The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify some of the cultural wealth and resources that Chicano/Latino college students, families, and communities hold and share.  By using Latino critical race theory (LatCrit) to conceptualize cultural wealth, it was possible to focus this study on an ethnic/racial group that has been marginalized in higher education.  The study results showed how assets and cultural wealth exist and are enacted by students to enhance their academic achievement in college.  Drawing from the epistemological and methodological strengths of LatCrit, this study extended the concepts of cultural wealth and funds of knowledge by Gonzlez et al., Valencia, Villalpando and Solrzano, and Yosso by presenting an exploration of their application to the cultural peculiarities of Utah Chicana/os.  Using the concept of marginality as both oppression and transformation allowed for the study participants to be seen as active participants in their education rather than as people conforming to dominant cultural expectations.  Through the findings of this study, valuable skills were identified that Utah Chicana/o college students use to successfully move through higher education.  In addition, this study yielded policy and practical implications for how colleges and universities might create greater culturally appropriate programs and initiatives for Chicana/o students that do not attempt to ""fix"" them, but rather build upon the cultural wealth and resources they already possess.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung unnummeriert, einen Zürcher Lückentag ergänzend.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 05.05.1947, erstellt am Skalnate Pleso Observatorium
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Zeichnung nach eigener Vorlage am Skalnate Pleso Observatorium. Es sind zudem statistische Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert. Instrument: unbekannt, Sonnenbild D = 25 cm
Improving solid oxide cell performance and durability by optimizing ionic and electronic transport in electrolyte
Creators: name: Zhang, Lei
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: Electrocatalyst
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
Embedded Probe
Fuel Cell
Permeation Cell
Space Charge

description: The current status of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) development is reviewed. A parametric model based on real cell materials and components was developed. Current cathode material and structure are sufficient, and the limiting factors are gas diffusion through the supporting layer and ohmic loss through the whole cell. Once the latter two losses can be minimized, SOFC can offer the best performance. Most of the ohmic loss can be attributed to ionic resistance in the electrolyte, of which more than 50% is due to grain boundary resistance. A quantitative space charge theory is developed for YSZ by considering all the possible defect species and defect complex. Both oxygen vacancy depletion and yttrium segregation near the grain boundary contribute to the very high grain boundary resistivity. A nonequilibrium analysis suggests that quenching at higher temperature can improve both grain bulk and grain boundary conductivity. Nowadays, reversible solid oxide cells (SOC) can be used in both fuel cell mode to generate energy and in electrolyser mode (SOEC) to store energy. However, a SOC degrades much faster when working in the SOEC mode. Oxygen chemical potential in the solid electrolyte near the oxygen electrode could be very high and leads to crack growth. Introducing finite electronic conductivity by doping can prohibit such crack growth. A novel oxygen permeation technique has been developed to measure electronic partial conductivities in solid electrolyte materials. Oxygen can be pumped into the sample by applying DC bias. As excess oxygen is stored in the cavity, the generated Nernst potential drives permeation current. At steady state, oxygen pumped into the cavity equals that which permeates out. When DC bias is turn off, Nernst potential follows a slow decay with time. Analysis of both steady state data and transient process data gives electronic resistance. Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is now used in electrical cars. The wide application of PEMFC is currently limited by its cost and degradation. Even with a trace amount of carbon monoxide, Pt catalyst will be poisoned. A novel technique is developed to study CO adsorption and desorption kinetics by monitoring the resistance variation.
A Data-Driven Regional Model of Stomatal Conductance for Kruger National Park
Creators: name: Tobin, Rebecca L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Stomata are the gateway between the lithosphere, the biosphere, and the atmosphere. Because of photosynthesis, plants inevitably lose water through their stomata. The rate at which water moves through stomata is stomatal conductance. As stomatal conductance increases, the rate of CO2 assimilation increases, therefore, plants must reach a balance between acquiring CO2 and losing H2O. Plants achieve this balance by adjusting stomatal aperture. Therefore, modeling stomatal conductance is important to global circulation models and land surface models, as well as for predicting how changing climate conditions affect water use efficiency and plant productivity, and has implications for agriculture and natural resource management.
Here a large dataset of field measurements was used to describe stomatal conductance for Kruger National Park, South Africa and develop statistical models of landscape-level stomatal conductance. Then models were used to estimate stomatal conductance across the region over several growing seasons. Over 8,000 measurements of stomatal conductance were made in four sites that represented a range of precipitation regimes and soil types within Kruger National Park from 2007-2012. Known environmental drivers of stomatal conductance, such as soil moisture, temperature, and shortwave radiation, were also measured during this period.
Observed mean daytime stomatal conductance for the park was 75 ± 1 and 155 ± 2 mmol m-2 sec1 for grasses and woody plants, respectively. When statistical models were used to produce three years of continuous estimates of gs from environmental data, average daytime stomatal conductance was estimated as 67 and 158 mmol m-2 sec-1 for grasses and woody plants, respectively. The Random Forest statistical models that were used to produce continuous estimates of gs indicated that soil moisture, particularly at shallow depths, and plant species identity are primary drivers of landscape-scale stomatal conductance for Kruger National Park. However, results indicate that there is still a large amount of landscape-scale variability in stomatal conductance that the environmental drivers investigated here were unable to explain.
Results provide a rare example of landscape-level estimates of stomatal conductance based on direct measurements. The models give insight into the relative importance of environmental drivers and the nature of their effect on stomatal conductance in savanna ecosystems. Because the measurements were collected over a range of species and soil conditions, the models should provide inference for many deciduous, sub-tropical savannas of southern Africa.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16603.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 30.05.1947, erstellt von Bernhard Beck
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16637.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 03.07.1947, erstellt von Helmut Müller
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Alvarenganiellinae
Creators: name: Zahradník, Petr
name: Háva, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anobiidae

description: ALVARENGANIELLINAE Viana et Martinez, 1971
Dasytanobium Pic, 1902a: 23. Type species Dasytanobium inaequale Pic, 1902 (A, Nt).
Alvarenganiella Viana et Martinez, 1971: 121. Type species Alvarenganiella seabrai Viana et Martinez, 1971.
description: Published as part of Zahradník, Petr & Háva, Jiří, 2014, Catalogue of the world genera and subgenera of the superfamilies Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea (Coleoptera: Derodontiformia, Bostrichiformia), pp. 301-352 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on page 319, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/224794
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16653.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 19.07.1947, erstellt von Helmut Müller
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung unnummeriert, einen Zürcher Lückentag ergänzend.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 22.05.1947, erstellt am Skalnate Pleso Observatorium
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Zeichnung nach eigener Vorlage am Skalnate Pleso Observatorium.  Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund weiterer Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Es sind zudem statistische Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert. Instrument: unbekannt, Sonnenbild D = 25 cm
Espoused and Enacted Beliefs of High School English Language Arts Teachers in Writing Instruction
Creators: name: Schoepf, Sydnie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: The purpose of the current study is to explore the espoused beliefs and enacted practices of secondary English Language Arts teachers with regards to writing instruction and how these beliefs correlate with teacher self-efficacy beliefs. The study worked to build upon the literature mainly in the fields of mathematics and science in order to explore what the perceived and enacted beliefs are and how they affect the self-efficacy belief of teachers within the field of writing instruction in the high school classroom. The study used a collective case study design in order to better understand what espoused and enacted pedagogical beliefs different teachers have and their levels of self-efficacy as teachers of writing. Findings indicate that teachers rely heavily on mentor teachers, colleagues, and their own classroom experiences as sources of teaching knowledge. Teacher espoused beliefs, when examined holistically, show alignment with their enacted practices. With regards to instructional scaffolding and student comprehension, English teachers in the same school tend to hold strongly similar beliefs.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16625.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 21.06.1947, erstellt von Helmut Müller
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Protecting Crops from Abiotic Stress: Copper Oxide Nanoparticle Effects on Wheat and a Beneficial Rhizobacterium
Creators: name: Potter, Matthew
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Nanoparticles (NPs) are defined as particles less than 100 nm in at least one dimension. CuO NPs have possible applications in agriculture as micronutrient sources, pesticides, and enhancers of crop stress tolerance. Here, three aspects of CuO NP agricultural applications are studied: 1) the potential of CuO NPs to prevent wheat lodging-when crops irreversibly fall over; 2) CuO NP-induced drought tolerance in wheat seedlings; and 3) the effects of CuO NPs on outer membrane vesicle (OMV) production by Pseudomonas chlororaphis O6 (PcO6), a plant-health promoting bacterium.
Wheat grown 7 d exposed to CuO NPs in the growth matrix exhibited increased lignification, or formation of the plant structural polymer lignin, in wheat sclerenchyma cells which are considered the strengthening cells of the plant. This increased lignification also corresponded with stronger wheat shoots. These results, though conducted on wheat seedlings, show promise for use of CuO NPs in preventing lodging in mature wheat.
Wheat drought tolerance was measured with chlorophyll fluorescence, a method that quantifies the photochemical reactions in a plant. This method showed that these low CuO NPs dosages had no effect on drought tolerance of wheat grown 14 d then exposed to simulated drought for 8 d. However, CuO NPs did not exhibit phytotoxic effects at these controlled dosages showing that these NPs may be used for other agricultural purposes including pesticides and micronutrient sources.
The effects of CuO NPs, an agriculturally relevant NP, and H2O2, a metabolite involved in plant stress responses, on PcO6 and subsequent OMV production were studied with Raman spectroscopy. This spectroscopy method gives a “chemical fingerprint” and with subsequent analysis, Raman spectra can then be used to identify unknown samples. Raman spectroscopy with linear discriminant analysis was able to identify PcO6 cells and isolated OMVs according to the cellular stressor with an 83.3% accuracy and a 71.1% accuracy respectively. OMVs showed unique Raman spectrapeaks compared to PcO6 cells, indicating that PcO6 cell components are selectively enriched or excluded from OMVs. These results show the power of Raman spectroscopy in characterizing OMVs according to cell stressor and thus understanding OMV roles in cell stress responses.
Ernobiinae Pic 1912
Creators: name: Zahradník, Petr
name: Háva, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptinidae

description: ERNOBIINAE Pic, 1912
= Cosmoceroidae Solier, 1849. = Cerocosminae Pic, 1912.
description: Published as part of Zahradník, Petr & Háva, Jiří, 2014, Catalogue of the world genera and subgenera of the superfamilies Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea (Coleoptera: Derodontiformia, Bostrichiformia), pp. 301-352 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on page 325, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/224794
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung, unnummeriert.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 20.07.1947, erstellt am Skalnate Pleso Observatorium
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Zeichnung nach eigener Vorlage am Skalnate Pleso Observatorium. Es sind zudem statistische Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert. Instrument: unbekannt, Sonnenbild D = 25 cm
Supporting Adolescent Mental Health Within School Culture and Curricula: Inviting Adolescents to Utah’s Mental Health Conversation
Creators: name: West, Diana
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Utah is facing a mental health crisis. Between 2011 and 2017, teen suicides nearly tripled in Utah and had become the leading cause of death for children ages 10-17. Educators and policymakers are scrambling to provide students with mental health supports in schools, but an incomplete understanding of the challenges that students face can make it difficult to meet their needs. Each year state agencies ratchet up awareness, funding, and the determination to support mental health initiatives, but each year adolescent mental health in Utah becomes more precarious. The purpose of this study is to change the conversation by inviting adolescents to join Utah’s mental health conversation. The stories and insights these students share suggest the need for the development of a more comprehensive model of mental health support in schools—one that includes consideration of their needs for safety, respect, inclusion, connection, empowerment and transforming purpose.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung, unnummeriert.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 06.06.1947, erstellt von Dr. Manfred Lang, Sonnenobservatorium Kanzelhöhe, Kärnten
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Bleistift, erstellt als Zeichnung auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich im Sonnenobservatorium Kanzelhöhe in Sattendorf, Österreich. Instrument: Heliostat mit Refraktor Eigenbau (Öffnung 110mm, f = 1650mm, projiziertes Sonnenbild D = 25cm)
The Cinnamon Teal (Anas cyanoptera Vieillot): Its Life History, Ecology, and Management
Creators: name: Spencer, Howard E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1953

description: It takes but a perusal of literature pertaining to waterfowl to realize the paucity of information regarding the Cinnamon Teal. The Redhead, Blue-winged Teal, and Canvasback have all been exhaustively studied by Low (1941). Bennett (1938), and Hochbaum (1944), respectively; and other species are now receiving attention from other workers. In order to help round out these studies of particular species, the writer undertook the project of a detailed study of the life history, ecology, and management of the Cinnamon Teal.
Methods in Modeling Wildlife Disease from Model Selection to Parameterization With Multi-Scale Data
Creators: name: McGahan, Ian
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: The effects of emerging wildlife diseases are global and profound, resulting in loss of human life, economic and agricultural impacts, declines in wildlife populations, and ecological disturbance. The spread of wildlife diseases can be viewed as the result of two simultaneous processes: spatial spread of wildlife populations and disease spread through a population. For many diseases these processes happen at different timescales, which is reflected in available data. These data come in two flavors: high-frequency, high-resolution telemetry data (e.g. GPS collar) and low-frequency, low-resolution presence-absence disease data. The multi-scale nature of these data makes analysis of such systems challenging. Mathematical models serve as valuable tools for forecasting disease spread. To produce meaningful predictions a model must include appropriate mechanisms for both transmission and animal movement and be parameterized with data. Herein, a framework is developed for modeling wildlife disease spread. Model competition is used to select and parameterize appropriate transmission mechanisms given time-series prevalence data. For animal movement a parameterization method for a mechanistic, population-scale wildlife movement model is derived for use with individual telemetry data. Throughout, special attention is payed to computational complexity. Homogenization and other asymptotic methods are used to maintain feasibility of parameterization. In tandem, these two methods determine and parameterize the movement and transmission mechanisms that play a role in wildlife disease spread, taking into account the types of available data and inherent separation of scales between the two processes.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16635.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 01.07.1947, erstellt von Helmut Müller
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Eucradini LeConte 1861
Creators: name: Zahradník, Petr
name: Háva, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptinidae

description: Eucradini LeConte, 1861
Eucrada LeConte, 1861: 202. Type species Hedobia humeralis Melsheimer, 1845 (N, F).
Crichtonia Abdullah et Abdullah, 1967: 26. Type species Crichtonia macleani Abdullah et Abdullah, 1967.
description: Published as part of Zahradník, Petr & Háva, Jiří, 2014, Catalogue of the world genera and subgenera of the superfamilies Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea (Coleoptera: Derodontiformia, Bostrichiformia), pp. 301-352 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on page 327, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/224794
Icelandic quirky agreement restrictions: evidence for phi-defective t in quirky subject constructions
Creators: name: Zupon, Andrew Lee
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: Agreement
Case
Icelandic
Quirky case

description: This thesis proposes a novel defective T analysis for explaining two facts about Icelandic quirky subject sentences. First, in Icelandic quirky subject sentences, the verb agrees with the nominative object rather than with the subject (1). Second, 1st and 2nd person nominative objects are blocked completely in Icelandic quirky subject sentences (2). 1. Henni leiddust strakarnir. her.dat.3sg bored.3pl the boys.nom.3pl 'She found the boys boring.' 2. * Henni leidd-umst/-ust/-ist vi. her.dat.3sg bored.1pl/3pl/dft we.nom.1pl 'She found us boring.' Based in a Minimalist Program framework, I argue that T in quirky subject sentences is ?-defective, lacking [Person]. I also describe three potential alternative Minimalist analyses of Icelandic: (i) a ?-stacking analysis based on Richards" case-stacking; (ii) a complex dependency analysis from Lopez; and (iii) a split ? probe analysis supported by Sigursson and Holmberg. All of these alternatives come with additional theoretical baggage that m
Transient Thermal Modeling of Bioprocessing Equipment
Creators: name: Cummings, Cody M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Bioprocessing is leveraging cells to produce high value, lifesaving products. Precise environmental control is needed to maintain integrity of the bioprocessing production process. Temperature control requires both appropriate equipment choice and correct control parameter selection. To aid in the equipment selection process, enable better understanding of equipment capacity, and enable optimization of control parameters, a transient thermal model of both heat transfer characteristics and control systems was created in silico.
Spectrum measurement with the telescope array low energy extension (tale) fluorescence detector
Creators: name: Zundel, Zachary James
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: Cosmic
Ray
Spectrum
TALE

description: The Telescope Array (TA) experiment is the largest Ultra High Energy cosmic ray observatory in the northern hemisphere and is designed to be sensitive to cosmic ray air showers above 1018eV. Despite the substantial measurements made by TA and AUGER (the largest cosmic ray observatory in the southern hemisphere), there remains uncertainty about whether the highest energy cosmic rays are galactic or extragalactic in origin. Locating features in the cosmic ray energy spectrum below 1018eV that indicate a transi- tion from galactic to extragalactic sources would clarify the interpretation of measurements made at the highest energies. The Telescope Array Low Energy Extension (TALE) is designed to extend the energy threshold of the TA observatory down to 1016.5eV in order to make such measurements. This dissertation details the construction, calibration, and operation of the TALE flu- orescence detector. A measurement of the flux of cosmic rays in the energy range of 1016.5  1018.5eV is made using the monocular data set taken between September 2013 and January 2014. The TALE fluorescence detector observes evidence for a softening of the cosmic spectrum at 1017.25±0.5eV. The evidence of a change in the spectrum motivates continued study of 1016.5  1018.5eV cosmic rays.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16618.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 14.06.1947, erstellt von Helmut Müller
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Integrated modeling of mixed surfactants distribution and corrosion inhibition performance in oil pipelines
Creators: name: Zhu, Yakun
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: Petroleum pipelines - Corrosion - Prevention

description: Among the existing corrosion control methods, surfactant inhibitors have widely been used for corrosion inhibition of pipelines in water-oil-steel pipe (WOS) environments. This dissertation includes a systemic review of the causes of pipeline corrosion in WOS environments containing carbon dioxide (CO2), general corrosion control using surfactant inhibitors and associated concerns, and commonly used classes of surfactants and their properties, various processes and phenomena that affect overall surfactant performance. This dissertation also provides a review of experimental evaluation techniques and various developed models (semi-empirical model, mechanistic model, and multiphysics model) in evaluation of surfactant inhibition efficiency. An integrated corrosion inhibition (ICI) model is proposed, developed, and validated based on the current understanding of the inhibition of CO2 corrosion in WOS environments using surfactants.         The developed ICI model for the modeling and prediction of corrosion inhibition efficiency of mixed surfactant inhibitors is a multiphysics model, based on the fundamentals from many areas of corrosion science, electrochemistry, metallurgical engineering, and chemical and analytical engineering, etc., and the integration of several submodels, including a water-oil surfactant distribution submodel, the aqueous cmc prediction submodel, and the modified Langmuir adsorption (MLA)/ modified quantitative structure activity relation (MQSAR) submodel. Software is developed based on the ICI model and the use of computational and programming resources.        The phenomena and processes integrated into the ICI model include surfactant partitioning between oil and water, micellization and precipitation, adsorption/desorption at surfaces and interfaces, surfactant-solvent interactions, surfactant-counterion pairing, lateral interactions between surfactant molecules, and fluid flow. These phenomena are incorporated into three main processes and associated modeling: partitioning between oil and water, micellization/precipitation, and effective adsorption on metal substrate and water/oil interface.       The framework of multiphysics ICI model is intended to serve as a basic framework in the understanding of mixed surfactant inhibitor performance with a focus on the application in salt-containing WOS environments. Beyond this, other potential applications may be extended to the design of surfactants, selection of optimal surfactants for specific applications, experimental validation of developed models, simulation of conceivable processes and phenomena, and the integration into more comprehensive lifetime prediction models in which all the surfactant efficiency-affecting factors may be evaluated.
Filterbank multicarrier techniques for radio frequency and underwater channels
Creators: name: Yuen, Chung him
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: Broadband communication systems
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
Filterbank multicarrier techniques
Underwater channels

description: The use of multicarrier techniques has allowed the rapid expansion of broadband wireless communications. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been the most dominant technology in the past decade. It has been deployed in both indoor Wi-Fi and cellular environments, and has been researched for use in underwater acoustic channels. Recent works in wireless communications include the extension of OFDM to multiple access applications. Multiple access OFDM, or orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), has been implemented in the third generation partnership project (3GPP) long- term evolution (LTE) downlink. In order to reduce the intercarrier interference (ICI) when user's synchronization is relaxed, filterbank multicarrier communication (FBMC) systems have been proposed. The first contribution made in this dissertation is a novel study of the classical FBMC systems that were presented in 1960s. We note that two distinct methods were presented then. We show that these methods are closely related through a modulation and a time/frequency scaling step. For cellular channels, OFDM also has the weakness of relatively large peak-to-average power ratios (PAPR). A special form of OFDM for the uplink of multiple access networks, called single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA), has been developed to mitigate this issue. In this regard, this dissertation makes two contributions. First, we develop an optimization method for designing an effective precoding method for SC-FDMA systems. Second, we show how an equivalent to SC-FDMA can be developed for systems that are based on FBMC. In underwater acoustic communications applications, researchers are investigating the use of multicarrier communication systems like OFDM in underwater channels. The movement of the communicating vehicles scales the received signal along the time axis, which is often referred to as Doppler scaling. To undo the signal degradation, researchers have investigated methods to estimate the Doppler scaling factor and restore the original signal using resampling. We investigate a method called nonuniform fast Fourier transform (NUFFT) and apply that to increase the precision in the detection and correction of the Doppler scaling factor. NUFFT is applied to both OFDM and FBMC and its performance over the experimental data obtained from at sea experiments is investigated.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16606.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 02.06.1947, erstellt von Bernhard Beck
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16581.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 03.05.1947, erstellt von Helmut Müller
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16583.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 07.05.1947, erstellt von Helmut Müller
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16643.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 09.07.1947, erstellt von Bernhard Beck
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Kim Il Sung's language policy as a vehicle of juche and a performance of cultural superiority over South Korea
Creators: name: Zwick, Michael Jeffrey
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Juche
subject: Kim Il Sung
subject: Korea
subject: Language Policy
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: North Korea

description: Kim Il Sung's language purification policy, calling for the elimination of all loanwords, was born out of the juche (self-reliance) ideology. Promoting language purity was a way to unite the North Korean people in a feeling of cultural superiority over the traitors in the South whose relationship with the US, the North's enemy, showed no signs of weakening and whose relationship with Japan, the former colonizer, was being reestablished. What might have been the nonlinguistic function of Kim Il Sung's language purification policy - calling for the elimination of all Chinese loanwords, which constitute approximately 50% of the Korean language? Could it have been a performance to promote nationalism, rather than a plan to purify the Korean language, and what might have been the significance of such a performance? In relation to this main line of inquiry, how are Kim's language policies similar to the language policies of other communist states, particularly the USSR and China? What was the significance of events in South Korea in the 1960s that might have influenced Kim to make these pronouncements on language policy? How are Kim's language policies holding up today? I examine two speeches by Kim Il Sung in 1964 and 1966 that contain the extreme language policies. In the 1980s, Kim's successor, Kim Jong Il, approved the reinstatement of many loanwords that had been removed from the language under the purification policy. The fact that Kim Il Sung's loyal son recognized the impracticality of applying his father's policies suggests that one aim of these policies, if not their exclusive goal, was something other than their actual application. Kim Il Sung's focus on the purging of loanwords was a reflection of his desire for North Korea to prove its cultural purity and its cultural superiority over the South. I argue that the language policy speeches of the 1960s served as a platform for Kim Il Sung to carry the ideology of juche to his people and to unify them in the feeling that North Korea's language and culture was superior to, what he regarded as, the tarnished language and culture of South Korea.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung, unnummeriert.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität nach einer Projektion vom 15.05.1947, erstellt am Observatory der Cheloo University in Tsinan (Jinan) Shandong, beobachtet von: Ching, kopiert in Zürich
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Kopie einer 25cm-Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen am Observatory in Tsinan (Jinan) Shandong auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: unbekannt
Parental dissatisfaction, offspring's filial discrepancy, and health and wellbeing among  older Chinese adults
Creators: name: Yang, Yiqing
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: depression
filial piety
mediation analysis
mixed-methods
parent-adult child relationships
self-esteem

description: This dissertation is comprised of three empirical studies that provide a complementary understanding regarding parental dissatisfaction, offspring's filial discrepancy, and their effects on parental health and wellbeing in late life. Data were collected in 2014 from a sample of 432 community-dwelling respondents (not couples) aged 60 to 79 in Linxi County of northern China with a total number of 1,223 offspring.  The first study investigates whether parental dissatisfaction is linked to four health and wellbeing outcomes and explores potential psychological mechanisms that may underlie this proposed linkage. Findings indicate that parental dissatisfaction is significantly associated with the four outcomes, net of sociodemographic covariates. Findings also demonstrate that self-esteem and feeling useless mediate this association separately and simultaneously; suggesting both may function as individual and parallel psychological pathways underlying this linkage.  The second study identifies the correlates of parental dissatisfaction in old age by testing five blocks of potential correlates. Financial strain, poor health, dissatisfaction with any child's marital status, and having more child-raising problems than other parents are associated with parental dissatisfaction. Parentally dissatisfied parents also reported failing to get along with at least one child, having at least one child with filial discrepancy, and believing in weaker filial obligation from offspring.  The third one is a mixed-methods study using both quantitative and qualitative data. It examines the association between offspring's filial discrepancy and parental depression and explores the personal meaning of filial piety from the perspective of the older generation. Results from logistic regression indicate that filial discrepancy is significantly associated with parental depression, net of age, gender, financial strain, social support, and health status. Qualitative findings reveal that traditional filial piety values are fading even in one of the least developed Chinese counties, identifying six broad themes that reflect the coexistence of traditional and modern filial values regarding participants' definition of a filial child. These themes represent traditional filial piety values in a much-diluted form, filial piety values that converge with filial obligations in Western culture, and traditional filial piety beliefs in the absolute form, highlighting the complexity and evolution of the concept of filial piety.