cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nonlocality with less Complementarity
Creators: name: Fritz, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In quantum mechanics, nonlocality (a violation of a Bell inequality) is intimately linked to complementarity, by which we mean that consistently assigning values to different observables at the same time is not possible. Nonlocality can only occur when some of the relevant observables do not commute, and this noncommutativity makes the observables complementary. Beyond quantum mechanics, the concept of complementarity can be formalized in several distinct ways. Here we describe some of these possible formalizations and ask how they relate to nonlocality. We partially answer this question by describing two toy theories which display nonlocality and obey the no-signaling principle, although each of them does not display a certain kind of complementarity. The first toy theory has the property that it maximally violates the CHSH inequality, although the corresponding local observables are pairwise jointly measurable. The second toy theory also maximally violates the CHSH inequality, although its state space is classical and all measurements are mutually nondisturbing: if a measurement sequence contains some measurement twice with any number of other measurements in between, then these two measurements give the same outcome with certainty.
description: 6 pages, published version
Synthetic Aperture Radar Tool and Libraries: A Framework for Geo-Referenced Data Processing and Algorithm Prototyping
Creators: name: Crookston, Nathan R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Creating a system for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image formation can be a huge undertaking as it requires knowledge of several disparate domains. Researchers may be prevented from applying interesting techniques in a particular domain due to hurdles in working with those areas outside their area of interest. This paper presents the SyntheTic Aperture Radar Tool and Libraries (STARTAL) framework for SAR processing that simplifies adding new data formats and prototyping algorithms.
STARTAL provides a user interface for viewing the full data region on ground geometry, selecting sub-regions to process, and viewing processed results. Many common, difficult tasks are provided as libraries for general use. To validate the STARTAL framework, this paper also shows imagery which has been processed with algorithms developed at Utah State University (USU) which are derived from a model-based expression of the relationship between collected SAR data and ground geometry.
Convergence
Creators: name: Mitchell, Megan R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Fences, doors and windows indicate a point of intersection between inside and outside, public and private. These porous boundaries provide enclosure while also allowing access to an outside world. I am drawn to these divisions in space both as aesthetic and metaphorical objects. They are the point of departure for an exploration of the intersection between real and imagined worlds.
I am fascinated by the ways that my brain filters and interprets the outside world, which then takes root in dreams and the imagination. Certain structures and landscapes hold a specific symbolic power; while completely inanimate, they seem to mirror a part of my inner self. The two dimensional imagery in this exhibition is inspired by objects which spark this resonance. By combining this imagery with tangible, three dimensional objects, I intend to juxtapose imagined and actual space.
While many of the pieces in this exhibition have a functional nature, utility is not my primary concern. Rather, I am drawn to the formal and symbolic qualities of these objects. The forms are derived from shapes in architecture and furniture, and altered to imply movement and instability. It is my intention to communicate an impression of both containment and spaciousness.
Parallaxis
Creators: name: Wilson, Carl Ray
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Parallaxis first began with an observation in my hometown. At nighttime, like a moth attracted to a flame, I would notice empty buildings that were closed or never opened for various reasons and relate them to my own inner vacancy. Seeing the lights on in these empty places motivated my curiosity and kept me studiously coming back.
I continued my exploration of empty buildings in Utah. Taking note of how capturing reflections transformed my images from documentary photography to internal forms of expression. It was at this time that reflections became the driving force within my image making. I became enthralled with the idea of reflection because it gave a new element to my photographs -- through the use of threshold, objects exist simultaneously, and the inside and outside world combine into one of their own reality. Lines blurred, and objects typically identifiable turn into a simulation of imagination, a (parallaxis).
“At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect -- a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known.”
—Photographer, Robert Adams
Suspicion, Uprooting, and Politicization
Creators: name: Montaldo, Graciela Raquel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Archives
Learning and scholarship
Latin American literature
History

description: In this paper, I would like to reflect on the particularities of building and using the archive in the field of Latin American studies. As a material reservoir, the archive preserves and organizes documents, objects, and memories of practices and experiences in different media and formats. But as Jacques Derrida showed, the archive also plays a central role in constructing temporalities. The materiality of the archive is important, but its symbolic weight far more so in our culture. The archive conserves what is “important” to a community and thereby also delineates what is outside of the archive, which Boris Groys has called the “plebian.” As a result, the constitution of the archive—how it was built, by what agents, and using what criteria—must be examined (Farge) as a relevant aspect of the study.
	In the field of Latin American studies, these considerations are particularly relevant, for two reasons. First, Latin American archives tend to be unstable and, second and more importantly, many zones of modern culture are not registered in the Latin American archives. Or at least not the conventional archives. Many archives were assembled too late and/or discontinued by the host institution; other archives have been robbed, damaged, or vandalized. For these reasons, much research necessarily begins from a place of distrust and suspicion that makes the archive itself the primary object of study. While other fields surely have similar problems, in Latin American cultural studies, there is the additional fact that the archive was based on a historiographical model that takes the printed document as its model of preservation. The critic Ángel Rama studied this phenomenon as the weight of the “lettered city,” that is, the hegemony of intellectuals in the Latin American symbolic world. All non-textual materials, including visual materials, aural materials, and objects, were “unimportant,” “plebeian” by definition. As such, Latin American cultural studies face the double challenge of reconstructing the archives and questioning the hegemonies that traditional disciplines have imposed on their materials. At the same time, the reasons behind the absences and emptiness must be explored.
After this introduction, I will focus on two study cases. The Rubén Darío´s (in)completed archive and the archive of the rise of mass culture in Argentina. I will explore how we can politicize the uses of the archives.
Calibration Using Matrix Completion with Application to Ultrasound Tomography
Creators: name: Parhizkar, Reza
name: Karbasi, Amin
name: Oh, Sewoong
name: Vetterli, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the calibration process in circular ultrasound tomography devices where the sensor positions deviate from the circumference of a perfect circle. This problem arises in a variety of applications in signal processing ranging from breast imaging to sensor network localization. We introduce a novel method of calibration/localization based on the time-of-flight (ToF) measurements between sensors when the enclosed medium is homogeneous. In the presence of all the pairwise ToFs, one can easily estimate the sensor positions using multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) method. In practice however, due to the transitional behaviour of the sensors and the beam form of the transducers, the ToF measurements for close-by sensors are unavailable. Further, random malfunctioning of the sensors leads to random missing ToF measurements. On top of the missing entries, in practice an unknown time delay is also added to the measurements. In this work, we incorporate the fact that a matrix defined from all the ToF measurements is of rank at most four. In order to estimate the missing ToFs, we apply a state-of-the-art low-rank matrix completion algorithm, OPTSPACE . To find the correct positions of the sensors (our ultimate goal) we then apply MDS. We show analytic bounds on the overall error of the whole process in the presence of noise and hence deduce its robustness. Finally, we confirm the functionality of our method in practice by simulations mimicking the measurements of a circular ultrasound tomography device.
description: submitted to IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing
The Blackwood Creek Reach 6 Restoration Project's Influence on Reach Scale Sediment Scour and Storage Characteristics
Creators: name: Immeker, David Raymond
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Stream restoration activities in Reach 6 of Blackwood Creek involved constructing a new stream channel in a reach that had been eroding and adjusting to historic land uses since the 1960s. In 2010, the spring after restoration work was completed, the project had a 2.3-year recurrence peak flow of 12.3 m3/s. This post-project assessment looks at the impacts of restoration work in Reach 6 in the short time since the project was completed. Project objectives for restoration work were to: increase the extent of floodplain inundation for seasonal flooding, reduce the rate of bank erosion, and to encourage sediment deposition, particularly fine sediment, on the floodplain. Using HEC-RAS, a one dimensional hydrologic model, I predict that the extent of flooding over a wide range of recurrences will increase as a result of restoration work, with the largest proportional increase for small magnitude, high recurrence floods. To assess the impact restoration activities will have on stream channel erosion, the average predicted shear stress was compared between pre-restoration and post-restoration conditions. This work indicates that there will be a decrease in average shear stress for all floods, with a 39% decrease for the 1.5-year recurrence flow and a 48% decrease for a 20-year recurrence flow. In 2010, areas of deposition iii and scour were mapped in Reach 6 to assess whether the project reach was accumulating sediment on the floodplain. I found that 1,129 m3 of sediment had been deposited and 142 m3 of sediment has been scoured. Of the 1,541 Mg of sediment deposited within Reach 6, 40% was gravel and coarser sizes, 50% was sand, 7% was silt, and 2% was clay.
A GAIA HR-Diagram of ~1600 High Proper Motion M dwarfs and M subdwarfs with Spectroscopic Metallicity Measurements
Creators: name: Hejazi, Neda
name: Lepine, Sebastien
name: Homeier, Derek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: M dwarfs and M subdwarfs
Fundamental Properties
H-R Diagram

description: We present a spectroscopic catalog of around 1600 high proper motion ( > 0.4"/yr) M dwarfs and M subdwarfs, collected from medium-resolution observations at the MDM observatory. Since a high proper motion sample is over-represented with high-velocity stars which are sampled over a larger volume as compared to low-velocity stars, our catalog includes a significant number of stars belonging to old Galactic populations, i.e., thick disk and halo. Using synthetic-model fitting, we have obtained the metallicity, alpha-element abundances, effective temperature and surface gravity of our stars. We have also been able to construct the H-R diagram of these stars, based on the accurate parallaxes from Gaia DR2. This diagram shows stars with different metallicity ranges fall into clearly distinct loci which can be used to develop photometric metallicity calibrations, in particular, for metal-poor M subdwarfs. In addition, we have identified co-moving pairs in our catalog which can provide excellent targets for future high-resolution surveys of M dwarfs.
Exotic Universal Solutions in Cubic Superstring Field Theory
Creators: name: Erler, Theodore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a class of analytic solutions of cubic superstring field theory in the universal sector on a non-BPS D-brane. Computation of the action and gauge invariant overlap reveal that the solutions carry half the tension of a non-BPS D-brane. However, the solutions do not satisfy the reality condition. In fact, they display an intriguing topological structure: We find evidence that conjugation of the solutions is equivalent to a gauge transformation that cannot be continuously deformed to the identity.
description: 53 pages, 6 figures. Added appendix on splitting charges and midpoint insertions. Improved presentation of the topological structure of the solutions. Version accepted at JHEP
Civic Engagement and Internet Use in Cache Valley
Creators: name: Wind, Dave
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Internet technology has provided tools for communication only dreamed of decades ago. This technology, coupled with civic engagement, has the power to influence local legislation in powerful ways. In this project, I conducted interviews and focus groups to find out how citizens of Cache County, Utah, are using the Internet to engage in civic affairs affecting local legislation. Interviewees were also asked what aspects of a community website would likely enhance their civic activity. It was found that people primarily use the Internet to access information and send email. Suggestions for enhancing engagement included more creative, and interactive ways of using the Internet. The project culminated in a rudimentary website implementing the information gleaned from interviews.
Finding the Soul in the Soil: How Welfare Farms of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Create Spiritual Communities
Creators: name: Maughan, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830, but its connection with agrarian themes is found in all of LDS canonized scripture, implying a sense of antiquity from the time of Adam in the Garden of Eden. Scriptural examples and teachings of LDS leaders build the foundation of the Latter-day Saint agrarian theology. Valuing this connection to the land remained constant during the Church’s early development, but diminished in theological focus years before the Great Depression. During the Depression, the Church proactively created a Church Security Plan (later renamed the Church Welfare Plan) to aid Church members’ temporal and spiritual needs. Welfare projects provided relief through Mormonism’s concepts of independence, self-reliance, stewardship, and welfare. The application of the Church Welfare Program encouraged the development of these doctrinal principles, and resulted in the creation of spiritual communities on Church welfare farms as the needs of the community were met, both LDS and non-LDS. Welfare farms, created during the Great Depression, establish an environment for the application of the agrarian theology that has existed within Mormonism since its beginnings, and acts as an ideal setting for the creation of spiritual communities.
Generalized Geologic Map for Land-Use Planning: Lee County, Kentucky
Creators: name: Carey, Daniel I.
name: Eclov, Peter
Publisher: name: Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky
Year: 2007

description: Abstract:
This map is not intended to be used for selecting individual sites. Its purpose is to inform land-use planners, government officials, and the public in a general way about geologic bedrock conditions that affect the selection of sites for various purposes. The properties of thick soils may supercede those of the underlying bedrock and should be considered on a site-to-site basis. At any site, it is important to understand the characteristics of both the soils and the underlying rock.
Determining the Effect of One-On-One Education in Addition to Written Material on Breastfeeding Initiation Rates in the Hospital Setting
Creators: name: Grace, Carly Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: The objective of this research was to determine the breastfeeding initiation rate among healthy, term infants at a select hospital, the effect of one-on-one breastfeeding education, in addition to written material on breastfeeding initiation rates in the hospital setting, and if other factors from available data are associated with differences in breastfeeding initiation. This was a quasi-experimental convenience sample study with subjects assigned to a control group (written education) or intervention group (written and one-on-one education). The setting was the obstetrics unit at Siloam Springs Memorial Hospital (Benton County, Arkansas). Subjects were women delivering infants without complication between March and August 2011. 120 charts were reviewed (60 control and 60 experimental). The experimental group n=60 participants were mothers who received one-on-one instruction about breastfeeding iv topics from a certified breastfeeding educator in addition to a written education booklet. The education was completed within 24 hours either before or after delivery in the patient’s hospital room. The control group mothers n=60 received a written education booklet only. Each infant’s logged intake data was recorded from reviewed medical records for ever breastfed, formula fed or both. Other infant and maternal criteria collected in the chart review included demographics, insurance status, smoking status, obstetric physician, as well as infant birth order, birth type, and weight. Logistical regression analysis was used to determine the effect of certain maternal factors on breastfeeding initiation. Statistical significance was determined at a p-value of
The Equine Distress Monitor Project
Creators: name: Peacock, Luke B.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Colic is a very common symptom that effects many horses. Sometimes colic is an indicator of some very serous medical conditions that, if left untreated, could result in the death of the horse. A cast horse is a horse trapped in a prone position Cast horses are also at risk of serous injury or even death. The causes of these two conditions are so numerous that a horse's risk of being affected, while preventable, is significant. This illustrates a need for constant monitoring of high-risk, high-sentimnet, or high-cost horses.
The Equine Distress Monitor (EDM) system is non-evasive electronic long-term monitoring system that senses horse movements and analyzes them for indicators of colic and casting conditions. When colic or casting events are sensed, messages are sent through a mesh network to a base station computer where notification of the event can be sent to appropriate personnel. The EDM thesis project included the hardware and software development of mesh network devices and applications that accomplish the above mentioned monitoring and notification.
The Role of Collective Neutrino Flavor Oscillations in Core-Collapse Supernova Shock Revival
Creators: name: Dasgupta, Basudeb
name: O'Connor, Evan P.
name: Ott, Christian D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the effects of collective neutrino flavor oscillations due to neutrino-neutrino interactions on the neutrino heating behind a stalled core-collapse supernova shock. We carry out axisymmetric (2D) radiation-hydrodynamic core-collapse supernova simulations, tracking the first 400 ms of the post-core-bounce evolution in 11.2 solar mass and 15 solar mass progenitor stars. Using inputs from these 2D simulations, we perform neutrino flavor oscillation calculations in multi-energy single-angle and multi-angle single-energy approximations. Our results show that flavor conversions do not set in until close to or outside the stalled shock, enhancing heating by not more than a few percent in the most optimistic case. Consequently, we conclude that the postbounce pre-explosion dynamics of standard core-collapse supernovae remains unaffected by neutrino oscillations. Multi-angle effects in regions of high electron density can further inhibit collective oscillations, strengthening our conclusion.
description: v2: Added multi-angle calculations. Conclusions unchanged. 16 pages, 7 figures. Accepted to Phys. Rev. D after revisions: 15 Sept 2011 (major), 24 Jan 2012 (minor)
Experiences of aging and the role of personal relationships in Chilean society : personal communities, social capital and policy context
Creators: name: Torrejón Carvacho, María-José
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The rapid process of population aging and the effect of an induced process of modernization since the early 1980’s in Chile have prompted questions about the quantity and quality of older people’s formal and informal networks of support. Socio-cultural changes reflecting values of an individualized society put into question the mandatory character of traditional family support. Using a conceptual framework that combines a focus on bonding and bridging social capital, on personal communities and that employs a narrative approach to policy analysis, this thesis investigates to what extent and under which circumstances older people living in an urban area exchange help and complement family resources with other types of personal ties (e.g. friends, neighbours, and/or state organizations). Paying particular attention to the composition, function and meaning of personal ties in later life, I draw on 40 in-depth interviews with people between 60 and 74 years old living in the city of Santiago and analyze the Chilean “Integral Policy for Positive Aging 2012-2025” to answer this research question. The findings show how older people become integrated in society through the management of a network of diverse personal ties. They highlight the nuances in the meaning and function of these ties in a context of low institutional trust and neoliberal social policies. The research contributes to existing literature by: a) clearly differentiating bonding from strong ties, and bridging from weak ties, while stressing the role of bonding ties acting as bridging social capital to connect the older person to key symbolic and practical resources in a context of low trust; b) offering a conceptual and methodological framework to recognize the normative and cultural aspects of social policies on aging; c) explicitly considering the role of the socio-cultural context of a country of the global south in the creation of personal communities.
Historic Channel Change and Post-Project Analysis of a Habitat Restoration Project on the Upper Strawberry River, Utah
Creators: name: Baillie, Marshall Bruce
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: Restoration of the upper Strawberry River included bank stabilization techniques because it was assumed that excessive bank erosion was degrading spawning habitat for Bonneville cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki Utah)(BCT). Using a long-term aerial photograph record, we determined the historic range of variability in bank erosion rates and channel geometry, and used this information to assess present-day conditions and the rationale for restoration. Relative to historic variability, bank erosion rates were low and channel morphology was stable in the decade prior to restoration. Although a historic loss of riparian vegetation coincided with a shift to a wider and more sinuous channel, lateral migration rates declined to lowest levels in the period-of-record and the channel narrowed as riparian cover increased in the decades prior to restoration. Additionally, the percentage of fine sediment in the streambed prior to restoration was insufficient to impact BCT spawning success. Furthermore, using a 1-D hydraulic model we examined pre- and post-restoration channel morphology and hydraulic variables related to habitat conditions for BCT. The results of the historical analysis suggest that bank erosion and fine sediment did not affect the quality of spawning habitat or the abundance of BCT on the upper Strawberry River. Furthermore, the 1-D hydraulic model shows that the physical in-channel manipulations made little improvements in achieving marketed changes in habitat and as such may have little effect on BCT spawning and resident population success. Our results highlight how a historic analysis can be used to identify the sources of habitat degradation and inform the selection of restoration goals and strategies as well as how surveyed cross-sections coupled with a 1-D hydraulic model can examine initial success of in-stream manipulation for habitat enrichment of a restoration project.
Lens differentiation is controlled by the balance between PDGF and FGF signaling
Creators: name: Li, Hongge
name: Mao, Yingyu
name: Bouaziz, Michael
name: Yu, Honglian
name: Qu, Xiuxia
name: Wang, Fen
name: Feng, Gen-Sheng
name: Shawber, Carrie
name: Zhang, Xin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fibroblast growth factors
subject: Platelet-derived growth factor
subject: Protein-tyrosine kinase
subject: Cell differentiation
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: How multiple receptor tyrosine kinases coordinate cell fate determination is yet to be elucidated. We show here that the receptor for platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) signaling recruits the p85 subunit of Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) to regulate mammalian lens development. Activation of PI3K signaling not only prevents B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL2)-Associated X (Bax)- and BCL2 Antagonist/Killer (Bak)-mediated apoptosis but also promotes Notch signaling to prevent premature cell differentiation. Reducing PI3K activity destabilizes the Notch intracellular domain, while the constitutive activation of Notch reverses the PI3K deficiency phenotype. In contrast, fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) recruit Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor Substrate 2 (Frs2) and Rous sarcoma oncogene (Src) Homology Phosphatase 2 (Shp2) to activate Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase (MAPK) signaling, which induces the Notch ligand Jagged 1 (Jag1) and promotes cell differentiation. Inactivation of Shp2 restored the proper timing of differentiation in the p85 mutant lens, demonstrating the antagonistic interaction between FGF-induced MAPK and PDGF-induced PI3K signaling. By selective activation of PI3K and MAPK, PDGF and FGF cooperate with and oppose each other to balance progenitor cell maintenance and differentiation.
Bulk Scale Factor at Very Early Universe
Creators: name: Mohsenzadeh, M.
name: Yusofi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we propose a higher dimensional Cosmology based on FRW model and brane-world scenario. We consider the warp factor in the brane-world scenario as a scale factor in 5-dimensional generalized FRW metric, which is called as bulk scale factor, and obtain the evolution of it with space-like and time-like extra dimensions. It is then showed that, additional space-like dimensions can produce exponentially bulk scale factor under repulsive strong gravitational force in the empty universe at a very early stage.
description: 7 pages, October 2011
Legend-Tripping at St. Anne's Retreat and Hecate in Logan Canyon: Origin, Belief, and Contemporary Oral Tradition
Creators: name: Arnljóts, Anna-María Snæbjörnsdóttir
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2000

description: What is now referred to as St. Anne's Retreat was initially a summer home eight miles up Logan Canyon, east of Logan, Utah. It was built in the 1930s by the Boyd Hatch family from New York, and Mrs. Hortense Odlum. The property was donated in the 1950s to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, and it was used occasionally as a retreat and a vacation place for Sisters of the Holy Cross. Because it was not in continuous use, there was ample opportunity for vandals to visit, even on nights when the sisters were present. This prompted the nuns to get watch dogs to alert them to the presence of intruders. The sisters felt unsafe with the increase of the sometimes intoxicated young trespassers and vandals, and stopped coming to the retreat. In 1992, Mark Epstein, together with some other investors, bought the property with plans of turning it into vacation homes (Herald Journal, October 15, 1997. Pg. 16). What these investors may not have anticipated was the long standing cultural gap between local Mormons and Catholics, and how fear, belief, prejudice, and a generally accepted folk tradition of legend-tripping would interfere with their hopes of vacationing peacefully in the beautiful mountains of Logan Canyon.
Saucers and the Sacred: The Folklore of UFO Narratives
Creators: name: Copeland, Preston C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: In 1973, nineteen year old Calvin Parker and forty two year old Charles Hickson, both of Gauter, Mississippi were fishing in the Pascagoula river when they heard a buzzing noise behind them. Both turned and were terrified to see a ten-foot wide, eight-foot- high, glowing egg-shaped object with blue lights at its front hovering just above the ground about forty feet from the riverbank. As the men, frozen with fright, watched, a door appeared in the object, and three strange Beings floated just above the river toward them. The beings had legs but did not use them. They were about five feet tall, had bullet-shaped heads without necks, slits for mouths; and where their noses or ears should be, they had thin, conical objects sticking out, like carrots from a snowman’s head. They had no eyes, gray, wrinkled skin, round feet, and claw-like hands. Two of the Beings seized Hickson; when the third grabbed Parker, the teenager fainted with fright. Hickson claimed that when the Beings placed their hands under his arms, his body became numb, and that then they floated him into a brightly lit room in the UFO’s interior, where he was subjected to a medical examination with an eyelike device which, like Hickson himself, was floating in midair. At the end of the examination, the Beings simply left Hickson floating, paralyzed but for his eyes, and went to examine Parker, who, Hickson believed, was in another room. Twenty minutes after Hickson had first observed the UFO, he was floated back outside and released. He found Parker weeping and praying on the ground near him. Moments later, the object rose straight up and shot out of sight.
Spectral metric spaces for Gibbs measures
Creators: name: Kesseböhmer, Marc
name: Samuel, Tony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58B34

description: We construct spectral metric spaces for Gibbs measures on a one-sided topologically exact subshift of finite type. That is, for a given Gibbs measure we construct a spectral triple and show that Connes' corresponding pseudo-metric is a metric and that its metric topology agrees with the weak-*-topology on the state space over the set of continuous functions defined on the subshift. Moreover, we show that each Gibbs measure can be fully recovered from the noncommutative integration theory and that the noncommutative volume constant of the associated spectral triple is equal to the reciprocal of the measure theoretical entropy of the shift invariant Gibbs measure.
description: 25 pages
Additional file 1 of Leptospira seroprevalence and associated risk factors in healthy Swedish dogs
Creators: name: Scahill, Karolina
name: Windahl, Ulrika
name: Boqvist, Sofia
name: Pelander, Lena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1. Shows number of reported dogs to the Swedish Board of Agriculture (2010-2020) [42]. All laboratory positive samples (antibodies (>1:100) and PCR) are reported regardless of clinical suspicion of disease. Travel and vaccination history is not known in tested dogs.
Parent Evaluation of a Parent Training Program of Positive Behavior Interventions
Creators: name: Washburn, Jeana
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Parent training programs have been shown to be helpful to parents in regards to implementing behavior intervention strategies with their children. Parent satisfaction with a parent-training program is an important variable in that, if parents like a program, it is more likely to be successful. The purpose of this project was to provide a brief parent training program using Dr. Glenn I. Latham’s website, Parenting Prescriptions, and examine parent evaluations of the program. The participants were four mothers of preschool age children. Each child had an educational classification of speech and language impairment. The project evaluated the parent training program using the following measures: (a) increase in parent knowledge of terms and strategies as measured by a pre and post assessment, (b) accuracy of parent application of the steps taught on a parent implementation plan, (c) successful implementation of the strategies at home as measured by parent self-report, and (d) parent satisfaction of the training program as measured by a questionnaire using a Likert scale. Participants reported overall satisfaction with the training and behavior change in their children. Accuracy of implementation varied among the participants.
Increasing Parental Involvement of Special Education Students: The Creation of Smartphone-Friendly, Web-Based Legal and Procedural Resources
Creators: name: Thatcher, Steven Brown
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: More than one out of every eight students in America is classified as having a disability under the provisions of IDEA (National Center for Education Statistics, 2010). Yet nearly every metric used to measure post-high school success (employment, independent living, post-high school education/training) shows the majority of students with disabilities do not succeed (NCES, 2010). The chief safeguard for special education students are their parents, who are explicitly written into nearly every aspect of the special education process. Research shows as parents become more involved and empowered in the special education process outcomes for students improve (Stoner et al., 2005), which underscores the importance of collaboration between parents and educators (Fish, 2006). Goodall and Bruder (1986) emphasized that educators seek and use parental knowledge because no one knows a child better than his or her parent. Unfortunately, parents in many cases do not possess the confidence with legal and procedural knowledge they need to assert their role in the special education process. The result of this creative project was the creation and evaluation of a smartphone-friendly, special education law and procedure website for the parents of special education students. The text of the website outlines the broad aspects of Utah special education law and procedure (i.e. child find, referral for evaluation, testing and eligibility process, the 13 disability classes, the IEP process, and manifestation determination) and has an 8.2 readability level as measured by the Flesch-Kincaid readability measure. First round feedback was provided by three special education evaluators on the text’s clarity, accuracy, and completeness. Revisions were made and a second round of three special education evaluators reviewed the text and found it to be clear, accurate, and complete. Six parent evaluators found the website easy to use and the text to be clear.
Parent-To-Parent Interactive Transition Information Session: Sharing Information on Transition Services From High School to Post-Secondary Experiences
Creators: name: Pead, Timothy J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Parents of high school aged children with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities sometimes experience fear and anxiety associated with transition of children to post-­‐secondary programs. Most information is disseminated to these parents from local education agency staff, including: special education teachers, transition specialists and administrators. This project examined the effects of a parent-­‐to-­‐parent interactive session on knowledge and perspectives of parents in transition. Parents of youth (ages 14-­‐20) who are diagnosed as having moderate to severe intellectual disabilities who live in the school boundaries of the high school within which the researcher teaches were part of this study. A group of four parents who have recently experienced the transition process (post-­‐transition group) shared information on transition and post-­‐secondary programs to a group of 16 parents who will soon be going through the transition process (pre-­‐transition group). The pre-­‐transition parent group served as the participants in this study. The knowledge of the participants was measured using a survey given before and after the parent-­‐to-­‐parent interactive transition information session. Results showed that all of the participants recorded an increase in knowledge gained on transition items and a clearer understanding of specific programs and transition information based on analysis of post-­‐test responses. The results of this study showcased a potentially effective way to share post-­‐secondary transition information from the parent perspective.
Eradicating Women’s Surnames: Law, Tradition, and the Politics of Memory
Creators: name: Anthony, Deborah
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Names, Personal
subject: Married women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Names
subject: Memory--Political aspects

description: English surname usage prior to the 17th century was quite variable, bearing little resemblance to the typical practices seen in modern-day England and the United States. Women at one time held individualized surnames reflecting their specific traits, occupations, or family relations; they often retained their names after marriage and passed them on to their husbands, children, and grandchildren. But these diverse surname practices eventually disappeared. The modern gendered practices became so entrenched and political that not only social forces but also legal ones sprang up to enforce them, with justifications referencing a naturally-ordered “tradition” so fundamental and absolute that it merited legal compulsion despite nearly a millennium of common law and empirical evidence to the contrary. The history of women’s surnames was entirely discarded and replaced with an alternate false tradition in the service of cultural and political ends that rooted itself so deeply it still remains one of the most commonly accepted gender-specific practices of modern times.
Reproductive characteristics modify the association between global DNA methylation and breast cancer risk in a population-based sample of women
Creators: name: Collin, Lindsay J.
name: McCullough, Lauren E.
name: Conway, Kathleen
name: White, Alexandra J.
name: Xu, Xinran
name: Cho, Yoon Hee
name: Shantakumar, Sumitra
name: Teitelbaum, Susan L.
name: Neugut, Alfred I.
name: Santella, Regina M.
name: Chen, Jia
name: Gammon, Marilie D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Human reproduction
DNA--Methylation
Breast--Cancer--Risk factors
Breast--Cancer--Etiology
Women--Health and hygiene

description: DNA methylation has been implicated in breast cancer aetiology, but little is known about whether reproductive history and DNA methylation interact to influence carcinogenesis. This study examined modification of the association between global DNA methylation and breast cancer risk by reproductive characteristics. A population-based case-control study assessed reproductive history in an interviewer-administered questionnaire. Global DNA methylation was measured from white blood cell DNA using luminometric methylation assay (LUMA) and pyrosequencing assay (long interspersed elements-1 (LINE-1). We estimated adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) among 1 070 breast cancer cases and 1 110 population-based controls. Effect modification was assessed on additive and multiplicative scales. LUMA methylation was associated with elevated breast cancer risk across all strata (comparing the highest to the lowest quartile), but estimates were higher among women with age at menarche ≤12 years (OR = 2.87, 95%CI = 1.96–4.21) compared to >12 years (OR = 1.66, 95%CI = 1.20–2.29). We observed a 2-fold increase in the LUMA methylation-breast cancer association among women with age at first birth >23 years (OR = 2.62, 95%CI = 1.90–3.62) versus ≤23 years (OR = 1.32, 95% CI = 0.84–2.05). No modification was evident for parity or lactation. Age at menarche and age at first birth may be modifiers of the association between global DNA methylation and breast cancer risk.
Additional file 2 of Leptospira seroprevalence and associated risk factors in healthy Swedish dogs
Creators: name: Scahill, Karolina
name: Windahl, Ulrika
name: Boqvist, Sofia
name: Pelander, Lena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Appendix 2. Shows risk factors, number and percentage of exposed individuals for both seronegative and seropositive dogs. A Fischer’s exact test with a confidence level of 95% has been used to calculate the p-value in the right columns. Logistic regression was applied in the multivariable model.
Measurability in C(2^k) and Kunen cardinals
Creators: name: Avilés, Antonio
name: Plebanek, Grzegorz
name: Rodríguez, José
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A05, 28B05

description: A cardinal k is called a Kunen cardinal if the sigma-algebra on k x k generated by all products AxB, coincides with the power set of k x k. For any cardinal k, let C(2^k) be the Banach space of all continuous real-valued functions on the Cantor cube 2^k. We prove that k is a Kunen cardinal if and only if the Baire sigma-algebra on C(2^k) for the pointwise convergence topology coincides with the Borel sigma-algebra on C(2^k) for the norm topology. Some other links between Kunen cardinals and measurability in Banach spaces are also given.
description: version accepted in Israel J. Math
Investigation of Relative Importance of Some Error Sources in Particle Image Velocimetry
Creators: name: Harris, Jeff R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Particle image velocimetry (PIV) is an optical technique used to measure fluid velocity. PIV measurements have many sources that create uncertainty in the velocity results. The objective of this report is to investigate some commonly cited uncertainty sources and to show methods than can be used to find the value of the uncertainty sources. These sources are: magnification, calibration, perspective, resolution and the computation scheme. Experiments were conducted to find the impact that sources have on the velocity measurements. Several methods are presented to demonstrate how to measure the uncertainty of error for a PIV experiment. Some error quantities are computed and found experimentally. Several error sources were found to be small. Some sources depend on the setup of the experiment and should be computed for every experiment. One method that has been presented for finding the uncertainty in the computation scheme was found to be unreliable for small particles.
Solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation on manifolds with variable geometry including dimensional reduction
Creators: name: Fiziev, P. P.
name: Shirkov, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the recent proposal to use dimensional reduction from the four-dimensional space-time D=(1+3) to the variant with a smaller number of space dimensions D=(1+d), d < 3, at sufficiently small distances to construct a renormalizable quantum field theory. We study the Klein-Gordon equation on a few toy examples ("educational toys") of a space-time with variable special geometry, including a transition to a dimensional reduction. The examples considered contain a combination of two regions with a simple geometry (two-dimensional cylindrical surfaces with different radii) connected by a transition region. The new technique of transforming the study of solutions of the Klein-Gordon problem on a space with variable geometry into solution of a one-dimensional stationary Schrödinger-type equation with potential generated by this variation is useful. We draw the following conclusions: (1) The signal related to the degree of freedom specific to the higher-dimensional part does not penetrate into the smaller-dimensional part because of an inertial force inevitably arising in the transition region (this is the centrifugal force in our models). (2) The specific spectrum of scalar excitations resembles the spectrum of the real particles; it reflects the geometry of the transition region and represents its "fingerprints". (3) The parity violation due to the asymmetric character of the construction of our models could be related to violation of the CP symmetry.
description: laTeX file, 9 pages, 8 figures. Significant corrections in the title, abstract, text. Corrected formulas and figures. Added new references, amendments in English. Acceptred for publication in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. To appear in vol. 167, may 2011