cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Numerics and optimal control of phase-field models for multiphase flow
Creators: name: Lunari, Andrea
Publisher: name: Universität Bielefeld
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 510

description: The thesis is organized in two main parts. In the first part, the distributed optimal control problem of the non-smooth Cahn-Hilliard-Stokes system is considered, assuming that the homogeneous free energy density in the Cahn-Hilliard equations corresponds to the double-obstacle potential. The analysis is performed at continuous level and by a finite dimensional approach. Numerical experiments are displayed. In the second part, the distributed optimal control problem of the smooth Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system is studied. In this case the homogeneous free energy density is equal to the double-well potential. This problem is analyzed considering infinite dimensional settings and a discrete approach. Significant numerical experiments are proposed.
Critical symplectic connections on surfaces
Creators: name: Fox, Daniel J. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The space of symplectic connections on a symplectic manifold is a symplectic affine space. M. Cahen and S. Gutt showed that the action of the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms on this space is Hamiltonian and calculated the moment map. This is analogous to, but distinct from, the action of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms on the space of compatible almost complex structures that motivates study of extremal Kähler metrics. In particular, moment constant connections are critical, where a symplectic connection is \textit{critical} if it is critical, with respect to arbitrary variations, for the $L^{2}$-norm of the Cahen-Gutt moment map. This occurs if and only if the Hamiltonian vector field generated by its moment map image is an infinitesimal automorphism of the symplectic connection. This paper develops the study of moment constant and critical symplectic connections, following, to the extent possible, the analogy with the similar, but different, setting of constant scalar curvature and extremal Kähler metrics. It focuses on the special context of critical symplectic connections on surfaces, for which general structural results are obtained, although some results about the higher-dimensional case are included as well. For surfaces, projectively flat and preferred symplectic connections are critical, and the relations between these and other related conditions are examined in detail. The relation between the Cahen-Gutt moment map and the Goldman moment map for projective structures is explained.
description: v5: Corrected typos. Final version
Protocol for the use of clozapine in the San Lázaro Specialized Ambulatory Care Center.pdf
Creators: name: Zúñiga Carrasco, Danny Raúl
name: Chávez Ledesma, Claudia Estefanía
name: Palacios Salazar, Jaime Armando
name: Macas González, Doris Verónica
name: Ruiz Álvarez, Mercedes de los Ángeles
name: Jumbo Jima, Diana Rosario
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health management
Patient safety

description: Atypical antipsychotic medication clozapine is used to treat schizophrenia that is resistant to therapy. Due to its link to major adverse effects such neutropenia, agranulocytosis, seizures, myocarditis, and cardiomyopathy, the medication is subject to tight monitoring requirements. Patients using clozapine have a 2% incidence of neutropenia and a 0.8% incidence of agranulocytosis.

 Clozapine will work in about 30–60% of patients with schizophrenia who are resistant to other medications. Clozapine is often only prescribed to individuals who have tried at least two other antipsychotic medications without success 1,2. (one of which is another atypical antipsychotic). According to a recent Cochrane analysis, the number needed to treat for clozapine to avoid recurrence was 21 as opposed to the usual antipsychotics.Without receiving antipsychotic medication, almost 80% of schizophrenia patients will experience a relapse.
title: Sonderpädagogik und Exklusion
Creators: name: Dos Santos Gomes, Luiz André
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: Freire (2005, S.7) erklärt: In Gesellschaften, deren strukturelle Dynamik zur Beherrschung des Bewusstseins führt, „ist die herrschende Pädagogik die Pädagogik der herrschenden Klassen“. Die Methoden der Unterdrücker können nicht der Befreiung der Unterdrückten dienen. Freire betont in seinem gesamten Werk die Ethik unter den Fachleuten des Bildungswesens und reflektiert über die Naivität, an die von denselben "neoliberalen Unterdrückern" verkündete Politik der Integration zu glauben. Dieser Zynismus drückt sich in der proklamierten inklusiven Bildung aus, deren Praxis die Unmöglichkeit ihrer effektiven Umsetzung zeigt. Dieselben Institutionen, die den Diskurs idealisiert haben, sind auch die Urheber einer Bildungspolitik, die die Schulen einer externen Kontrolle unterwerfen, was zu einem konsequenten Verlust ihrer Autonomie führt, wodurch ein starres und unflexibles Bildungssystem entsteht, in dem die Inklusion nur zu einer neuen Form der Ausgrenzung von Schüler*innen mit sonderpädagogischem Förderbedarf führt. Welche Aufgabe hat oder welche Rolle spielt die Universität bzw. Sonderpädagogik in dieser Spaltung unseres Schulsystems? Welche Ergebnisse zeigen die sondergeförderten Schüler*innen in den Letzen Jahren? Was können wir besser machen, um eine wirkliche Inklusion zu erreichen? Für diese Diskussion ist es wichtig, die (politischen) Bedingungen und integrativen Bildungsstrategien unserer Bildungssysteme eingehend kritisch zu analysieren.
Risk Parity als Ansatz zur Portfoliokonstruktion: Eine unterschätzte Anlagevariante
Creators: name: Hummel, Patrick (Autor/in)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Risk Parity
Asset Management
risikobasierte Anlagestrategie
Risikokonzentrationen
Diversifikation
Schweizer Pensionskassen
risikoadustiert
risk based Asset Management

description: Schweizer Pensionskassen gehen hohe Aktienrisiken ein. Mit dem Risk-Parity-Ansatz werden die Risiken in einem Anlageportfolio paritätisch auf die Assetklassen verteilt. So wären Pensionskassen in den letzten 17 Jahren für das eingegangene Risiko besser entschädigt worden.
description: + ID der Publikation: hslu_57391 + Art des Beitrages: Wissenschaftliche Medien + Jahrgang: 12/18 + Sprache: Deutsch + Letzte Aktualisierung: 2018-12-18 09:39:47
Additional file 7 of H3K18 lactylation marks tissue-specific active enhancers
Creators: name: Galle, Eva
name: Wong, Chee-Wai
name: Ghosh, Adhideb
name: Desgeorges, Thibaut
name: Melrose, Kate
name: Hinte, Laura C.
name: Castellano-Castillo, Daniel
name: Engl, Magdalena
name: de Sousa, Joao Agostinho
name: Ruiz-Ojeda, Francisco Javier
name: De Bock, Katrien
name: Ruiz, Jonatan R.
name: von Meyenn, Ferdinand
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7. Review history.
Gene-Mating Dynamic Evolution Theory I: Fundamental assumptions, exactly solvable models and analytic solutions
Creators: name: Wang, Juven
name: Chen, Jiunn-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fundamental properties of macroscopic gene-mating dynamic evolutionary systems are investigated. We focus on a single locus, any number of alleles in a two-gender dioecious population, for a large class of systems within population genetics. Our governing equations are time-dependent differential equations labeled by a set of genotype frequencies. Our equations are uniquely derived from 4 assumptions within any population: (1) a closed system; (2) average-and-random mating process (mean-field behavior); (3) Mendelian inheritance; (4) exponential growth/death. Although our equations are nonlinear with time-evolutionary dynamics, we have obtained an exact analytic time-dependent solution and an exactly solvable model. From the phenomenological viewpoint, any initial parameter of genotype frequencies of a closed system will eventually approach a stable fixed point. Under time evolution, we show (1) the monotonic behavior of genotype frequencies, (2) any genotype or allele that appears in the population will never become extinct, (3) the Hardy-Weinberg law, and (4) the global stability without chaos in the parameter space. To demonstrate the experimental evidence for our theory, as an example, we show a mapping from the data of blood type genotype frequencies of world ethnic groups to our stable fixed-point solutions. This fixed-point Hardy-Weinberg manifold, attracting any initial point in any Euclidean fiber bounded within the genotype frequency space to the fixed point where this fiber is attached. The stable base manifold and its attached fibers form a fiber bundle, which fills in the whole genotype frequency space completely. We can define the genetic distance of two populations as their geodesic distance on the equilibrium manifold. The modification of our theory under the process of natural selection and mutation is addressed.
description: 32 pages, 15 figures, 6 tables. (Work completed in 2006 and reported in 2014.) See Tables and Figures for a summary of key results, sequel arXiv:1502.07741. Blood type data of world ethnic groups from: http://www.bloodbook.com/world-abo.html and https://www.human-abo.org/. v3: Refinement, to appear on Theory in Biosciences - Springer
A Systematic Review of Psychological Treatments for Combat-Related PTSD
Creators: name: Munyan, Benson G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: With ongoing military operations spanning the globe, a new population of combat veterans is emerging. Posttraumatic stress disorder is an enormous issue for veterans, and knowing the status of psychosocial treatments for it seems necessary. The current study seeks to provide a more comprehensive description of the current status of outcome research for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder, including treatments being utilized, attrition rates, percent responders/nonresponder, and population conflict (i.e., OIF, OEF, Vietnam). The literature was systematically reviewed and 10 randomized controlled trials were identified that focused solely on veteran populations with posttraumatic stress disorder. Treatments utilized in these studies included Trauma Maintenance Therapy, Exposure Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, as well as others. The average dropout rate of the studies examined was 21 %, with rates up to 38%. Furthermore, 50% of the studies reviewed utilized "completer" data, instead of the Intent-to-Treat (ITT) model which has notable implications for the generalizability of the findings. Non-responders at post ranged from 19% to 94%, with similar results at follow-up. The implications of these results are discussed and recommendations for future directions are provided.
title: Логистика
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Саратовский государственный технический университет имени Ю.А. Гагарина, ЭБС АСВ
Year: 2019

description: В учебном пособии представлены материалы по деятельности экс-педиторов и агентов с учетом видов транспорта, уровней их взаимодействия, принципов и специфики работы в организации и функционировании транспортных систем. Предназначается для студентов по курсам «Основы логистики», «Транспортная логистика», «Интегрированная логистика», для слушателей, обучающихся по направлению 23.03.01 (бакалавриат) и 23.04.01 (магистратура) «Технология транспортных процессов», профиль «Организация перевозок и управление на автомобильном транспорте», а также для специалистов в области управления логистическими системами и технологии транспортных процессов.
Spaced Repetition and Mnemonics Enable Recall of Multiple Strong Passwords
Creators: name: Blocki, Jeremiah
name: Komanduri, Saranga
name: Cranor, Lorrie
name: Datta, Anupam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We report on a user study that provides evidence that spaced repetition and a specific mnemonic technique enable users to successfully recall multiple strong passwords over time. Remote research participants were asked to memorize 4 Person-Action-Object (PAO) stories where they chose a famous person from a drop-down list and were given machine-generated random action-object pairs. Users were also shown a photo of a scene and asked to imagine the PAO story taking place in the scene (e.g., Bill Gates---swallowing---bike on a beach). Subsequently, they were asked to recall the action-object pairs when prompted with the associated scene-person pairs following a spaced repetition schedule over a period of 127+ days. While we evaluated several spaced repetition schedules, the best results were obtained when users initially returned after 12 hours and then in $1.5\times$ increasing intervals: 77% of the participants successfully recalled all 4 stories in 10 tests over a period of 158 days. Much of the forgetting happened in the first test period (12 hours): 89% of participants who remembered their stories during the first test period successfully remembered them in every subsequent round. These findings, coupled with recent results on naturally rehearsing password schemes, suggest that 4 PAO stories could be used to create usable and strong passwords for 14 sensitive accounts following this spaced repetition schedule, possibly with a few extra upfront rehearsals. In addition, we find that there is an interference effect across multiple PAO stories: the recall rate of 100% (resp. 90%) for participants who were asked to memorize 1 PAO story (resp. 2 PAO stories) is significantly better than the recall rate for participants who were asked to memorize 4 PAO stories. These findings yield concrete advice for improving constructions of password management schemes and future user studies.
Additional file 1 of Native T1 mapping detects both acute clinical rejection and graft dysfunction in pediatric heart transplant patients
Creators: name: Richmann, Devika P.
name: Gurijala, Nyshidha
name: Mandell, Jason G.
name: Doshi, Ashish
name: Hamman, Karin
name: Rossi, Christopher
name: Rosenberg, Avi Z.
name: Cross, Russell
name: Kanter, Joshua
name: Berger, John T.
name: Olivieri, Laura
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Definition and calculations of gray-level co-occurrence matrix texture features [30, 40–42].
Dual immaculate creation operators and a dendriform algebra structure on the quasisymmetric functions
Creators: name: Grinberg, Darij
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E05

description: The dual immaculate functions are a basis of the ring QSym of quasisymmetric functions, and form one of the most natural analogues of the Schur functions. The dual immaculate function corresponding to a composition is a weighted generating function for immaculate tableaux in the same way as a Schur function is for semistandard Young tableaux; an "immaculate tableau" is defined similarly to a semistandard Young tableau, but the shape is a composition rather than a partition, and only the first column is required to strictly increase (whereas the other columns can be arbitrary; but each row has to weakly increase). Dual immaculate functions have been introduced by Berg, Bergeron, Saliola, Serrano and Zabrocki in arXiv:1208.5191, and have since been found to possess numerous nontrivial properties. In this note, we prove a conjecture of Mike Zabrocki which provides an alternative construction for the dual immaculate functions in terms of certain "vertex operators". The proof uses a dendriform structure on the ring QSym; we discuss the relation of this structure to known dendriform structures on the combinatorial Hopf algebras FQSym and WQSym.
description: 41 pages. See also the ancillary PDF file (compiled from the same source) for more details and a proof of Proposition 5.7. Only sections 2--5 pertain to Zabrocki's conjecture. Comments are welcome! Version 7: Updated references and fixed formatting and typos. Version 5 has been accepted in the Canadian J. of Math., so this is an updated postprint
Improving Financial and Personnel Management At PetsFirst! Wellness Center
Creators: name: Arveseth, Andrew
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: A part of my coursework in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, I was able to participate in a management internship at PetsFirst! Wellness Center. This internship provided me with the opportunity to really evaluate and understand multiple elements of a management position. I specifically focused on client incentives, cost management, and human resources during the course of my internship project at this veterinary clinic. My responsibilities in each of these business functions helped me develop the skills necessary to effectively hold a management position after graduation.
The ‘Responsibility while protecting’: a pivotal step in the road towards the universal acceptance of humanitarian intervention? : with particular attention on the ongoing Syrian crisis
Creators: name: Hauquier, Vincent
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: humanitarian intervention
Syria
responsibility to protect

description: Second semester University: University of Vilnius
description: At the time of writing the Syrian crisis is waging for over three years, while human lives are being threatened on a daily base. This study examines whether the proposal of Brazil on the ‘Responsibility while Protecting’ can serve as an outcome for the debacle within the United Nations around Syria. After assessing the main features of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ concept and how this notion was put into practice during the Libyan intervention, this study will address the lessons to be learned. Next it will be analysed whether Brazil’s proposal can indeed be a contribution. The thesis will therefore pay attention to its focal characteristics, the reasoning behind the proposal and its perception by the international community. It will be deduced that, although there are still some shortcomings and the concept can hardly be seen as adding something new, its main contribution lies in the fact that it can resuscitate some previously held debates and should not be disregarded. However, it is argued that the lack of political will is the main obstacle to overcome for humanitarian intervent ion. Therefore, this work concludes that the opportunity is missed to take the debate a step further by adopting a people-centred approach.
The Larrison Group (TLG) Political Consulting and Fundraising Internship: Lessons Learned
Creators: name: Crabb, Sadelle
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: The Larrison Group (TLG) is a boutique political consulting firm located in Georgetown in the District of Columbia. The firm was founded by the current president, Ms. Heather Larrison. TLG fundraises for various clients including several current Senators and Congressional candidates. Some past and present clients include: Governor Hailey Barbour of Mississippi, Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, and Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. TLG also provides political consulting and event planning services for multiple CEO' s in the New York City area. The internship is a paid position of two $600 stipends per month. Overall, I spent roughly 1,050 hours working over a 21 week period. I intended to only stay 15 weeks, but was asked to stay an additional month to train the incoming intern that was also a student from Utah State.
Connecting to the Community: Service-Learning Methods in an ESL Classroom
Creators: name: Funk, Chelsey Sara
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: High school English as a Second Language (ESL) students often feel separated from their schools and communities. These feelings of separation can lead to low engagement and low achievement despite the students' desire to do well in school. One method used to counter low engagement in mainstream classes is service learning, but there is little research on service learning with ESL students. In this study, an existing group of 9th grade ESL students was taught and observed to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of using service-learning methods. The project endeavored to tie academic work to community involvement and therefore increase student engagement and academic confidence. Throughout the implementation of the service-learning project, students displayed increased classroom involvement and reported improvements in attitudes and self-assurance. The methods and procedures described in this paper can be adapted to larger class sizes and a variety of projects in order to increase engagement and academic confidence in ESL students.
Engaging Wisdom: A Comparison of Cognitive and Interpersonal Interventions on Elderly Mental Health
Creators: name: Downs, Kade
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: In the United States the population of individuals over the age of 60 is large and expected to increase (Administration on Aging, 2009). Mental disorders (e.g., dementia) are especially prevalent in elderly populations (WHO, 2012). Considering the relatively small amount of research examining elderly populations in the United States, this prevalence highlights the potential and necessity for intervention research specifically designed for elderly individuals. This study examines the effectiveness of a cognitive as well as an interpersonal intervention on the mental health of a sample of individuals over the age of 60 at residential eldercare facilities. Results showed no significant differences between intervention groups. Data does highlight a promising future for cognitive and interpersonal interventions for elderly samples.
Additional file 1 of Comparing the effectiveness of Family Support for Health Action (FAM-ACT) with traditional community health worker-led interventions to improve adult diabetes management and outcomes: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Deverts, Denise J.
name: Heisler, Michele
name: Kieffer, Edith C.
name: Piatt, Gretchen A.
name: Valbuena, Felix
name: Yabes, Jonathan G.
name: Guajardo, Claudia
name: Ilarraza-Montalvo, Deliana
name: Palmisano, Gloria
name: Koerbel, Glory
name: Rosland, Ann-Marie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Fidelity Checklists. FAM-ACT Fidelity Checklists. This file contains the checklists used by the PI, co-investigators and CHW manager assessing structured contacts between study staff and participants for fidelity to the protocol. There is one checklist for each type of contact.
Dissociation of the Effects of Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Fluoxetine in Prelimbic Cortex on Disruption of Timing and Working Memory for Time by Neutral and Negative Emotional Events
Creators: name: Christensen, Chance
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Learning and memory abilities are altered in disorders of the serotonergic system, in disorders such as such as depression, phobias, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Among the processes impaired by emotional distracters, and whose dysregulation is documented in affective disorders, is the ability to time in the seconds-to-minutes range, i.e., interval timing. Presentation of distracters during timing tasks result in delays in responding suggesting a failure to maintain subjective time in working memory, as proposed by the Relative Time-Sharing (RTS) model. We investigated the role of the prelimbic cortex in the detrimental effect of anxiety-inducing distracters on the cognitive ability to interval time, using local infusions of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) fluoxetine in a modified peak-interval procedure with neutral and anxiety-inducing distracters. Given that fluoxetine has beneficial effects on decreasing emotional responses to negative events, we hypothesized that fluoxetine would improve working memory in trials with distracters. Our results revealed a dissociation of the effects of fluoxetine infusion in the pre limbic cortex on interval timing and resource allocation (working memory for time), when neutral and anxiety-inducing distractions occurred. Fluoxetine was effective only during trials with distracters, but not during trials without distracters. Moreover, fluoxetine reduced the harmful effect of the distracters not only when the distracters were anxiety-inducing, but in fact exacerbated their detrimental effects on working memory when they were neutral. Results are discussed in relation to the brain circuits involved in RTS of resources, and the pharmacological management of affective disorders.
Symmetric operads in abstract symmetric spectra
Creators: name: Pavlov, Dmitri
name: Scholbach, Jakob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55P43, 55P48, 18D50 (Primary) 55P42, 55U35, 18G55, 18D20, 14F42, 14F35, 14A20, 14F43 (Secondary)

description: This paper sets up the foundations for derived algebraic geometry, Goerss--Hopkins obstruction theory, and the construction of commutative ring spectra in the abstract setting of operadic algebras in symmetric spectra in an (essentially) arbitrary model category. We show that one can do derived algebraic geometry a la Toën--Vezzosi in an abstract category of spectra. We also answer in the affirmative a question of Goerss and Hopkins by showing that the obstruction theory for operadic algebras in spectra can be done in the generality of spectra in an (essentially) arbitrary model category. We construct strictly commutative simplicial ring spectra representing a given cohomology theory and illustrate this with a strictly commutative motivic ring spectrum representing higher order products on Deligne cohomology. These results are obtained by first establishing Smith's stable positive model structure for abstract spectra and then showing that this category of spectra possesses excellent model-theoretic properties: we show that all colored symmetric operads in symmetric spectra valued in a symmetric monoidal model category are admissible, i.e., algebras over such operads carry a model structure. This generalizes the known model structures on commutative ring spectra and E-infinity ring spectra in simplicial sets or motivic spaces. We also show that any weak equivalence of operads in spectra gives rise to a Quillen equivalence of their categories of algebras. For example, this extends the familiar strictification of E-infinity rings to commutative rings in a broad class of spectra, including motivic spectra. We finally show that operadic algebras in Quillen equivalent categories of spectra are again Quillen equivalent.
description: 34 pages. Comments and questions are very welcome. v2: Identical to the journal version except for formatting and style
Educating Wonder Away: Charles Dickens' and Lewis Carroll's Attack on Victorian Education
Creators: name: Astle, Kolbie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Charles Dickens lived during a time when great change was occurring for both the lower and upper classes in Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution brought on new technologies that made it possible to mass-produce products of all kinds, effectively eliminating the need for great amounts of independent workers and farmers. Children's education, too, was a controversial topic that underwent much consideration in Parliament, especially because many of the country's children were working alongside the adults in the factories. Beginning in 1833, new legislation gave government-funded grants to schools and allowed children breaks during work hours specifically for their education, and that eventually led to the "reconstruction and expansion" in the Elementary Education Act of 1870 (Altick 157, Marcham 180). Dickens wrote Hard Times before the government fully funded public education in 1870, but he could already see how having an education based on the "figures and averages" that would get the school more funding from the government was slowly eliminating the need to nurture creativity (Dickens 284). As a political activist, he had plenty to say about the controversies regarding these reforms. Speaking for himself, Dickens affirmed he had "no fear of being misunderstood" because he always communicated exactly what he wanted to say (278). For him, the "powers and purposes of Fiction" were to "stimulate and rouse the public soul to a compassionate or indignant feeling"-not confuse them (284). Author G.K. Chesterton said it best in his biography of Dickens: "...the Dickens novel was popular, not because it was an unreal world, but because it was a real world; a world in which the soul could live" (Chesterton 100). While his novel, Hard Times, does address the conditions of the working class, its most blatant attack is on the pragmatic education of both lower and middle class children. When reading Hard Times, it would be very difficult to ignore Dickens' belief that "a nation without fancy ... never did, never can, never will, hold a great place under the sun," which he visibly portrays using the fictitious members of Coketown and the Gradgrind family (Dickens 277).
Supplementary document for High-fidelity continuous-variable quantum key distribution via the proper combination of zero-photon catalysis and quantum scissor - 6219340.pdf
Creators: name: Jafari, Khatereh
name: Golshani, Mojtaba
name: Bahrampour, A. R.
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
AN ANALYSIS OF BENTHIC MEIOFAUNA KNOWLEDGE IN LATIN AMERICAN OCEANS: FigureS3 and FigureS4
Creators: name: Baldeija, Bernardo
name: Lercari, Diego
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: meiobenthos
meiofauna
Latin America
Bibliometric
map science

description: Map science figures to be opened in VOSviewer online https://app.vosviewer.com/
Evaluation of Pro-Inflammatory Biomarkers as Potential Early Indicators of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
Creators: name: Gebre, Makda Solomon
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Infections with the 2009 pandemic influenza A(HlNl) virus often leads to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in high-risk patients. In these patients, ARDS has a mortality rate of 40-50 % [1]. Patients may die before any intervention is possible since there are few if any early biomarkers that are indicative of ARDS and can be used for diagnosis. In a search for biomarkers that signal early disease progression in mice, multiple acute phase proteins involved with inflammatory responses to infectious stimuli were proposed. Three biomarkers were evaluated for this project. These included C-reactive protein (CRP), Serum Amyloid A (SAA) and Transferrin. To validate these biomarkers as predictors of ARDS, mice were infected with the influenza A Califomia/04/2009 (H 1 N 1 )pdm09 virus and serum was collected from infected mice at different time points (0 - 72 hours post infection). Serum samples were tested for amounts of CRP, SAA and Transferrin using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Control mice were mock-infected and tested alongside for comparison. Our results indicate that of the three biomarkers tested, SAA shows strong potential as an early indicator of ARDS with a peak at 72 hours post infection in infected mice serum. Further investigation is in progress to observe the levels of SAA past day 3 (72 hours post infection).
Age-Related Changes in Attention During Motor Learning
Creators: name: Gardner, James E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Theories of motor learning predict that humans require high levels of attention to perform new motor tasks, but little to no attention for those that are well-learned. Thus, practicing a task may decrease the amount of attention required to perform it. To test this theoretical relationship between attention and task practice, we used a physiological proxy for attention known as electrodermal activity (EDA). We hypothesized that 1) EDA (proxy for attention) would decrease over the course of training and that 2) attention would be higher overall in older adults than in younger adults when performing the same task. This second hypothesis was based on the tendency for older adults to require more attention than younger adults during a given motor task. Two groups of participants (young adult- n=S; mean± SD age=22.4 ± 2.1 yrs vs. older adult- n=S; age=75.8 ± 5.2 yrs) practiced 150 trials of a novel upper extremity task over three days. During each trial, we measured 1) task performance, defined as movement time (seconds, ors) and 2) EDA (μSiemens, or μS) using wrist-worn sensors. Contrary to our first hypothesis, EDA increased with practice, suggesting that additional training may be necessary to reduce the task' s attentional requirements. Results did, however, support our second hypothesis, with higher EDA in older adults compared to younger adults throughout practice. This suggests that older adults may use more attention than younger adults to perform a given task in order to compensate for other age-related declines in sensorimotor function.
Conformal theory of gravitation and cosmology
Creators: name: Nesbet, R. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The postulate of universal local Weyl scaling (conformal) symmetry modifies both general relativity and the Higgs scalar field model. Conformal gravity (CG) has recently been fitted to rotation data for 138 galaxies. The conformal Higgs model (CHM) acquires a gravitational effect that fits observed Hubble expansion for redshifts $z\leq 1$ (7.33 Gyr) accurately with only one free constant parameter. The astrophysical data fitted by these two conformal models is shown here to account for both arbitrary parameters $w^2$ and $λ$ of postulated Higgs potential $V=-(w^2-λΦ^\daggerΦ)Φ^\daggerΦ$, responsible for symmetry-breaking finite $Φ^\daggerΦ$ in electroweak particle theory. The present analysis resolves recent criticism of CG. CG and CHM are shown here to be interdependent but compatible. Nonclassical CG acceleration $γ$ is shown to be determined by the CHM. Conformal theory explains dark energy and does not require dark matter, a viable alternative to the $Λ$CDM standard model. A recently established empirical relationship between classical and nonclassical galactic radial acceleration requires parameter $γ$ to be independent of galactic mass. Conformal theory is shown here to be consistent with this and with the $v^4$ baryonic Tully-Fisher relation for galactic rotation velocities. Vanishing of centripetal acceleration outside a halo boundary is a unique implication of the theory.
description: 7 pages accepted for publication by EuroPhysLett
Classroom Amplification: The Necessity of Sound-Amplification in the Classroom
Creators: name: Ellis, Kalley
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: In a classroom, the optimal signal-to-noise ratio, as is recommended by the American Nation Standards Institute (ANSI), is 35 dBA, with the reverberation reaching a maximum of 0.6s (Lewis, 2008); yet, in classrooms today, the typical signal-to-noise ratio ranges from 40-73 dBA (Lewis, 2008). With at least 75% of the school day being spent in listening activities (e.g. reading, instructions, lecture, etc.), this noise level in the classroom has great impact on what a child hears and, thus, learns (Blazer, 2008). Unfortunately, with each new year, classroom sizes are increasing and creating an even more detrimental noise level and signal-to-noise ratio. As of October 2013, 14.9% of children ages 6-19 have been diagnosed with a hearing impairment, ultimately meaning that these children are unable to hear as well as the child sitting next to them in the classroom, and the further away the child sits from the teacher, the less of the teacher he/she will hear (Hearing Loss in Children, 2013). For instance, word recognition was shown to decrease from 95% correct at 6 feet when 24 feet from the teacher, to 75% correct at 12 feet from the teacher, and results are even further decreased to 60% correct when the child is 24 feet away from the teacher. Thus, it is not surprising that hard-of-hearing children are typically 3 years behind their peers academically.
Geometry, dynamics, and arithmetic of $S$-adic shifts
Creators: name: Berthé, Valérie
name: Steiner, Wolfgang
name: Thuswaldner, Jörg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37B10, 37A30, 11K50, 28A80

description: This paper studies geometric and spectral properties of $S$-adic shifts and their relation to continued fraction algorithms. These shifts are symbolic dynamical systems obtained by iterating infinitely many substitutions. Pure discrete spectrum for $S$-adic shifts and tiling properties of associated Rauzy fractals are established under a generalized Pisot assumption together with a geometric coincidence condition. These general results extend the scope of the Pisot substitution conjecture to the $S$-adic framework. They are applied to families of $S$-adic shifts generated by Arnoux-Rauzy as well as Brun substitutions. It is shown that almost all of these shifts have pure discrete spectrum. Using $S$-adic words related to Brun's continued fraction algorithm, we exhibit bounded remainder sets and natural codings for almost all translations on the two-dimensional torus. Due to the lack of self-similarity properties present for substitutive systems we have to develop new proofs to obtain our results in the $S$-adic setting.
description: After this paper was published in Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) (2019), we observed that Theorem 3.3 holds in a more general setting. The present manuscript contains this more general version of Theorem 3.3. To prove it we needed to change the last part of its proof (see p.32)
Project management handbook
Creators: name: Naia Merino
name: Serrano, Leire
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: project management

description: This Project Management Handbook is written in the framework of WP9 – Project Management (Task 9.1 Project Management) of TANGENT project under Grant Agreement No. 955273.
 D9.1 intends to provide useful information to all partners about the procedures of the project, its management structure, main roles, working procedures, internal communication and decision-making procedures, reporting procedures, documents and deliverables quality management process.
 The terms and provisions of the EU Grant Agreement (and its annexes) and the TANGENT Consortium Agreement will prevail in the event of any inconsistency with recommendation and guidelines defined in the present Project Management Handbook.
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Additional file 2 of Comparing the effectiveness of Family Support for Health Action (FAM-ACT) with traditional community health worker-led interventions to improve adult diabetes management and outcomes: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Deverts, Denise J.
name: Heisler, Michele
name: Kieffer, Edith C.
name: Piatt, Gretchen A.
name: Valbuena, Felix
name: Yabes, Jonathan G.
name: Guajardo, Claudia
name: Ilarraza-Montalvo, Deliana
name: Palmisano, Gloria
name: Koerbel, Glory
name: Rosland, Ann-Marie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Fidelity-Monitoring-Schedule. Intervention component fidelity monitoring schedule. The table located in the file displays the fidelity monitoring schedules by study contact, staff member and participant type.
Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory
Creators: name: Becher, Thomas
name: Broggio, Alessandro
name: Ferroglia, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These lectures provide an introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. After discussing the expansion of Feynman diagrams around the high-energy limit, the effective Lagrangian is constructed, first for a scalar theory, then for QCD. The underlying concepts are illustrated with the Sudakov form factor, i.e. the quark vector form factor at large momentum transfer. We then apply the formalism in two examples: We perform soft gluon resummation as well as transverse-momentum resummation for the Drell-Yan process using renormalization group evolution in SCET, and we derive the infrared structure of n-point gauge theory amplitudes by relating them to effective theory operators. We conclude with an overview of the different applications of the effective theory.
description: 172 pages, 28 figures, 1 table. v3: corrected typos found by readers over the years
Internship at Metalwest as a Market Researcher
Creators: name: Carr, Jolynn Marie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: I was accepted and worked as an intern for the company Metalwest. (They have since merged with another company and are now called O'Neal Industries.) My internship title was Market Researcher. As a market researcher, I was in charge of discovering vital information for future growth of the company. I participated in research in order to expand Metalwest's business into government agencies as well as discover possible customers outside of the government. I researched using the internet, books, and phone calls.
Towards free reproductive futures: mapping geographies of race, gender, and reproduction
Creators: name: Wolfe, Taida
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: For this dissertation I use geography as a lens to explore how history, reproductive health politics, medical practice, human experience, and sensation (which I define here as both our visual and affective understandings and experiences of the world) merge to produce and reproduce Blackness and the abortion clinic as dangerous and in need of state control. This process of mapping Blackness and clinic spaces as dangerous promotes a number of intimate collisions that I argue will help us understand the abortion clinic as a site of reproductive struggle—a site that demonstrates clinic actors’ investments in normative ideologies of motherhood, sexuality, and fertility. I use both human geographical frameworks and feminist anthropological methods to examine the social-spatial workings of abortion clinics in order to understand how a particular place, the abortion clinic, helps us theorize about reproductive subjectivity. I explore how different actors—including patients, clinic staff, and myself as an abortion provider—experience the abortion clinic as a place. The collisions that happened in the three scenes of friction of the clinic demonstrate many clinic actors’ investments in normative ideologies of womanhood. These investments in normative womanhood point to the endurance of heteronormative racialized gender hierarchies despite liberal racial, gender, and reproductive movements that have sought to contest its prescriptions. I use my ethnographic research alongside, and in conversation with, the work of Black studies scholars, human geographers, and feminist thinkers to argue for the need to dismantle the racialized gender order ushered in with the overrepresentation of Western Man with the Human. I argue, that this overrepresentation, which produces the modern colonial gender system, is the origin of our reproductive unfreedom. As such, the abolition of the racialized gender order is necessary for us to realize free reproductive futures. While total abolition is not immediately around the corner, I look towards those resistance acts which help place us on the path towards reproductive liberation. I believe by investing in a politics of the deviant and by building wayward geographies, we can move towards free reproductive futures.
Bergman kernel and projection on the unbounded worm domain
Creators: name: Krantz, Steven G.
name: Peloso, Marco M.
name: Stoppato, Caterina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32A25, 32A36, 32T20

description: In this paper we study the Bergman kernel and projection on the unbounded worm domain $$ \mathcal{W}_\infty = \big\{(z_1,z_2)\in\mathbb{C}^2 : \big|z_1-e^{i\log|z_2|^2}\big|^2<1, z_2\neq0\big\}. $$ We first show that the Bergman space of $\mathcal{W}_\infty$ is infinite dimensional. Then we study Bergman kernel $K$ and Bergman projection $\mathcal{P}$ for $\mathcal{W}_\infty$. We prove that $K(z,w)$ extends holomorphically in $z$ (and antiholomorphically in $w$) near each point of the boundary except for a specific subset that we study in detail. By means of an appropriate asymptotic expansion for $K$, we prove that the Bergman projection $\mathcal{P}:W^s\not\to W^s$ if $s>0$ and $\mathcal{P}:L^p\not\to L^p$ if $p\neq2$, where $W^s$ denotes the classic Sobolev space, and $L^p$ the Lebesgue space, respectively, on $\mathcal{W}_\infty$.
description: 23 pages, 3 figures, Author Accepted Manuscript
DNA Methylation Analysis of LIN28A & HAND1 in Electrostimulated Genetically Unmodified Porcine Fibroblast Cells Grown In Vitro
Creators: name: Calicchia, Sara E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Pluripotent (undifferentiated) cells are important for their applications in regenerative medicine. However, gene-based nuclear reprogramming of adult somatic cells is a slow and inefficient process, and poses some risk to recipient patients. Therefore, a major goal within the field of stem cell biology is to find a way to accomplish adult somatic cell de-differentiation using small chemical modulators of gene expression or other non-genomic mechanisms. Pilot studies in our laboratory have suggested that cells exposed to silver ions generated by the passage of a weak electrical current through a silver wire show morphological and gene expression changes reminiscent of de-differentiation. To better understand the changes reported, this study will analyze the DNA methylation (using Sodium Bisulfite Conversion) of CpG sites in the promoters of two genes important in development: LIN28 and HAND]. The results suggest that a statistically significant change occurs through the electrostimulation treatment of porcine fetal fibroblast (PFF) cells.