cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
การส่งเสริมความสามารถในการสะท้อนคิดของนิสิตครูที่มีระดับความรู้พื้นฐานในการออกแบบ การเรียนรู้ที่แตกต่างกันโดยใช้แนวทางการศึกษาผ่านบทเรียน
Creators: name: กัญญารัตน์ โคจร
Publisher: name: ศูนย์สนับสนุนและพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2566
Subjects: การศึกษาผ่านบทเรียน
การสะท้อนคิดตนเอง
การให้ข้อมูลย้อนกลับเพื่อน
การสะท้อนคิดแบบร่วมมือร่วมใจ

description: วารสารพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน, 17, 1, ม.ค.-16
title: Multi-Objective Water Management in Idaho's Henrys Fork Watershed: Leveraging Reservoir Operation and Groundwater Pathways to Benefit Aquatic Habitat
Creators: name: Morrisett, Christina N.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: Multi-user water management is a challenging arena further complicated by climate change. This research is based in the Henrys Fork, Snake River, Idaho—an agricultural watershed that exemplifies those throughout the semi-arid American West. This dissertation uses an integrated approach that considers groundwater-river relationships, farm-scale decisions and basin-scale outcomes, upstream reservoir operation for downstream aquatic habitat, water rights, and collaborative stakeholder management to identify drought adaptation strategies accordingly.
Chapter 2 uses an interdisciplinary approach to quantify how improvements to irrigation efficiency at the farm-scale (i.e., converting from flood to sprinkler irrigation) can add up to affect hydrology at the landscape-scale and alter groundwater-surface water relationships. Motivated to improve economic efficiency, irrigators began converting from surface to center-pivot sprinkler irrigation in the 1950s, with rapid adoption of center-pivot sprinklers through 2000. Between 1978–2000 and 2001–2022, annual surface-water diversion decreased by 2,521 acre-ft (23%) and annual return flow to the river decreased by 2,431 acre-ft.
Chapter 3 uses streamflow predictions, local reservoir operation standards, and the relationship between groundwater and river flows to quantify 1) the potential to conduct aquifer recharge in the lower watershed under a warming climate and 2) resulting streamflow response from groundwater. Water for recharge was largely available in April and October, reducing peak springtime streamflow at the watershed outlet by 10–14% after accounting for groundwater return. Streamflow contribution from recharge peaked in July and November, increasing July–August streamflow by 6–14% and November–March streamflow by 9–14%. I demonstrate recharge can recover groundwater return flows when applied as flood irrigation on agricultural land with senior water rights.
Chapter 4 developed relationships between streamflow and habitat for three fish species in a reach where irrigation-season flows are managed by releases from an upstream reservoir. I used these relationships to 1) quantify aquatic habitat at different streamflows and 2) assess the differences in aquatic habitat across two different streamflow management histories. Using these relationships, I demonstrated that moving the management target's location and flow amount will contribute to more consistently suitable fish habitat in the reach while continuing to meet upstream management objectives.
Integrating empowerment evaluation and quality improvement to achieve healthcare improvement outcomes
Creators: name: Wandersman, Abraham
name: Ramaswamy, Rohit
name: Cook, Brittany
name: Alia, Kassandra Ann
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: While the body of evidence-based healthcare interventions grows, the ability of health systems to deliver these interventions effectively and efficiently lags behind. Quality improvement approaches, such as the model for improvement, have demonstrated some success in healthcare but their impact has been lessened by implementation challenges. To help address these challenges, we describe the empowerment evaluation approach that has been developed by programme evaluators and a method for its application (Getting To Outcomes (GTO)). We then describe how GTO can be used to implement healthcare interventions. An illustrative healthcare quality improvement example that compares the model for improvement and the GTO method for reducing hospital admissions through improved diabetes care is described. We conclude with suggestions for integrating GTO and the model for improvement.
title: RABRs for Use in Biologically Enhanced Precipitation of Struvite in Anaerobic Digester Effluent (Municipal Wastewater)
Creators: name: Goldsberry, Parker R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: Rotating Algae Biofilm Reactor (RABR) technology has been researched in studies over the past decade directed at nutrient management for water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs). This study investigated the growth of slow-release fertilizer crystals, referred to as struvite, in the algae biofilms of Rotating Algae Biofilm Reactors (RABRs) at the Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility, the largest water resource recovery facility in the State of Utah. RABRs used anaerobic digester (AD) filtrate as their nutrient source. AD effluent is high in nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. The levels of both phosphorus and nitrogen (in the form of ammonia) are regulated by the State of Utah, and WRRFs must limit the amounts deposited into receiving waters including rivers, streams, and lakes. Struvite, being partially composed of both ammonia nitrogen and phosphorus, can help remove both elements from the water when it is formed by natural chemical precipitation. Because struvite is also an effective slow-release fertilizer, struvite formation helps treat wastewater, recycle phosphorus and ammonia nitrogen, and provide economic value from wastewater.
RABRs were built as laboratory scale, bench scale, and pilot scale. AD effluent filtrate was analyzed to determine ion concentration data and this data was then used to calculate and predict struvite solubility over a range of pH values and used in computer modeling to predict likely precipitates. Chemical instrumentation including Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Electromagnetic X-Ray Dispersion Spectroscopy (EDS) technologies were used to identify crystals in RABR biofilms and to determine their composition.
Results of this research showed that struvite could precipitate at the pH values of the AD effluent filtrate. Further, high light intensity representative of sunlight increased the pH inside of the biofilms which enhanced struvite formation. Chemical instrumentation analysis by SEM/EDS showed that struvite had formed in the pilot RABR biofilm. It was also observed that the pilot scale RABR produced struvite within the biofilm when the biofilm was exposed to the atmosphere for a sufficient time to allow evaporation of water (at least 2 minutes). This research has demonstrated that struvite precipitation using RABRs can provide an innovative technology for nutrient management by WRRFs.
Racial/ethnic differences in Body Mass Index: The roles of beliefs about thinness and dietary restriction
Creators: name: Sacco, William P.
name: Beckstead, Jason W.
name: Vaughan, Christine A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The greater BMI of African American relative to Caucasian women is implicated in racial/ethnic disparities in health outcomes. The principal aim of the current study was to evaluate a theoretical account of racial/ethnic differences in BMI. Thin-ideal internalization, the perceived romantic appeal of thinness, dietary restriction, weight, and height were assessed via self-report measures on a sample of female undergraduates of African American (n = 140) and Caucasian (n = 676) race/ethnicity. Using structural equation modeling, support was obtained for the primary hypothesis that racial/ethnic differences in BMI are explained by Caucasian women’s greater thin-ideal internalization and perceived romantic appeal of thinness, thereby resulting in greater levels of dietary restriction. Current findings illustrate the potential for racial/ethnic differences in sociocultural standards of appearance to influence racial/ethnic disparities in physical health, of which BMI is a marker, via effects on weight control behavior.
Organisation Schemes of History Websites: A Quantitative Assessment
Creators: name: Holden, Chris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this report is to provide a review on the types of organisation schemes employed
 within history websites across a number of subject areas.
 Emergent digital communication technologies has seen the digital historian focus on the tools
 available to them when presenting a narrative, neglecting how information may best be organised
 within a website. Information Architects meanwhile have focused their organisation skills and energies
 upon projects that have overlooked the role of organisation schemes within history websites. The
 current research project aims to fill this gap.
 A quantitative research approach was conducted employing purposive nonprobability sampling for
 website selection through a website portal, besthistorysites.net, a closed-ended questionnaire for
 data collection and bivariate descriptive analysis for data analysis to answer the question: Do
 organisational scheme(s) employed within history websites change dependent upon the subject
 matter involved?
 Findings show that while different types of organisation schemes are employed within history
 websites, their use is not related to either the subject matter, the creator of the website or when the
 website was built as to the use of any particular organisation scheme. Instead, a consistent pattern
 emerges across all fields of history subjects that were reviewed. Additionally, the research determined
 that a high level use of hybrid schemes were employed within all subject matters reviewed in a
 consistent pattern.
 The report finds that while different types of organisation are employed within history websites, their
 use is not related to the subject matter. Instead, factors associated with the type of content, audience
 needs and the overall goal of the project are likely to influence which organisation scheme is
 employed.
 Recommendations for future research includes examining the potential for primary sources to act as
 a standalone organisation scheme for history websites; a review of audience-specific schemes within
 history websites to determine how this scheme may impact upon historical understand; and
 conducting the same questionnaire on contemporary history websites that are purposively built by
 digital historians.
 Research was limited due to the categorisation of history websites within besthistorysites.net, the age
 of the websites that were selected for assessment and a lack of access to statistical software required
 for data analysis.
การพัฒนาทักษะการคิดเชิงคำนวณเรื่องวงจรไฟฟ้าด้วย CICP model ร่วมกับการเขียนโปรแกรมแบบบล็อกคำสั่ง สำหรับนักเรียนชั้นประถมศึกษาปีที่ 6
Creators: name: ดำรงฤทธิ์ คุณสิน
Publisher: name: ศูนย์สนับสนุนและพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2566
Subjects: ทักษะการคิดเชิงคำนวณ
การจัดการเรียนรู้โดยใช้ CICP model
การเขียนโปรแกรมแบบบล็อคคำสั่ง
วงจรไฟฟ้า

description: วารสารพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน, 17, 1, 17-33
การพัฒนารูปแบบการเรียนรู้ตลอดชีวิตที่ส่งเสริมคุณลักษณะคนไทยที่พึงประสงค์ ของบุคลากรทางการศึกษาและเยาวชนในเขตพื้นที่การศึกษาจังหวัดนนทบุรี
Creators: name: เจนศึก โพธิศาสตร์
Publisher: name: ศูนย์สนับสนุนและพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2566
Subjects: คุณลักษณะคนไทยที่พึงประสงค์
รูปแบบการเรียนรู้ตลอดชีวิต
บุคลากรทางการศึกษา
เยาวชน

description: วารสารพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน, 17, 1, 34-54
Stages of destruction and elastic compression of granular nanoporous carbon medium at high pressures
Creators: name: Neklyudov, I. M.
name: Ledenyov, O. P.
name: Bobrova, N. B.
name: Chupikov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The granular nanoporous carbon medium, made of the cylindrical coal granules of the adsorbent of SKT 3, at an influence by the high pressures from 1MPa to 3GPa has been researched. The eight consecutive stages of the materials specific volume change, which is characterized by a certain dependence of the volume change on the pressure change, have been registered. It is shown that there is a linear dependence on the double log log plot of the materials specific volume change on the pressure for an every stage of considered process. The two stages are clearly distinguished such as a stage of materials mechanical destruction, and a stage of elastic compression of material without the disintegration of structure at a nanscale. The hysteresis dependence of the materials specific volume change on the pressure change at the pressure decrease is observed. The small disperse coal dust particles jettisoning between the high pressure cell and the base plate was observed, resulting in the elastic stress reduction in relation to the small disperse coal dust particles volume. The obtained research data can be used to improve the designs of air filters for the radioactive chemical elements absorption at the NPP with the aims to protect the environment.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures http://vant.kipt.kharkov.ua/ARTICLE/VANT_2015_2/article_2015_2_182.pdf. Series: Physics of radiation damages and radiation materials. ISSN 1562-6016 (2015)
MPEC 2024-R205 : 2024 RU8
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RU8

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: ДИНАМИКА ИЗМЕНЕНИЯ МАССЫ ТЕЛА БЕЛЫХ КРЫС ПОД ВЛИЯНИЕМ СЕМАКСА В УСЛОВИЯХ ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТАЛЬНОГО САХАРНОГО ДИАБЕТА
Creators: name: Орусханова, Диана Ахматхановна
name: Цибизова, Александра Александровна
name: Сергалиева, Мариям Утежановна
Publisher: name: Астраханский государственный медицинский университет
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Цель исследования – изучение влияния нейропептидного лекарственного препарата «Семакс» на массу тела белых крыс в условиях экспериментального сахарного диабета. Материалы и методы. Экспериментальные исследования проводились на 30 особях белых крысах (самцы 8-месячного возраста). Животные были разделены на 3 группы (n = 10): контрольные особи (контроль); животные с экспериментальным сахарным диабетом (сахарный диабет); особи с сахарным диабетом, получавшие внутрибрюшинно Семакс (сахарный диабет + Семакс). Сахарный диабет моделировали путем однократного введения аллоксана в дозе 100 мкг/кг/сут. Семакс вводили в дозе 100 мкг/кг/сут на протяжении 30 дней, начиная с 21 дня после введения аллоксана. Массу крыс определяли перед введением аллоксана, на 7, 14, 21 сутки и перед выведением животных из эксперимента. Ре- зультаты исследования. Через неделю после введения аллоксана было отмечено снижением в массы тела животных в группах «сахарный диабет» и «аллоксан» снижение на 15%; через две недели – на 19% и через три недели – на 26% в сравнении с контролем. В конце эксперимента было отмечено уменьшение масс животных на в группе «сахарный диабет» на 31% и в группе «сахарный диабет + Семакс» – на 18% по отношению к контролю; в группе «сахарный диабет + Семакс» – увеличение массы на 16% в сравнении с группой «сахарный диабет». Заключение. Полученные результаты показали, что введение нейропептидного препарата «Семакс» способствует увеличению массы тела животных на фоне экспериментального сахарного диабета, что свидетельствует о корригировании процессов распада белка, а именно увеличении биосинтеза белка.
Balancing Between Internet Use Risks and Opportunities: A Multimodal Perspective
Creators: name: Zarate, Daniel
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 520302
subject: Clinical psychology

description: Abstract

Background: The technological advancement experienced in recent years accelerated the transition from offline to online environments, resulting in a significant Internet use uptake and thus redefining the social fabric. Considering the recency and significance of such an event, new risks and opportunities related to online activity have emerged. In this context, risks associated with excessive and disordered online activity may result in interpersonal conflict and undesired mental states. Alternatively, the systematic examination of online behavior may present the opportunity to identify phenotypical expressions of undesired mental health conditions. Aims: This project aims to understand the risks associated with Internet use by elucidating the conceptualization and measurement of excessive and disordered online activity. Additionally, it aims to assess potential opportunities of studying online activity, by detecting and predicting mental conditions, such as anxiety and depression, via the measurement and quantification of online behavior. Method: To address these aims, this project includes eight studies using a range of methodological designs and approaches to help improve the conceptualization, measurement and interventions related to risks and opportunities of Internet use. Results: Results provide evidence of uniquely different problematic behaviors related to disordered online activity. These involve disordered online gaming, disordered Internet use, problematic social media use, problematic online shopping, problematic online sexualized behavior, and compulsive online gambling, among others. Moreover, the results reported here identified the appropriate psychometric properties of selected measures for assessing disordered online activity. Finally, considering the opportunities related to online activity, these results illustrate the possibility of accurately detecting and predicting mental health presentations via digital means. Conclusions: These results suggest the need to move towards a formal recognition of diagnoses related to disordered online activity. Considering these disorders’ high prevalence and negative consequences, addressing and acknowledging the problematic nature of the disordered online activity may mitigate a potentially ill-favoured restructuring of our current social fabric. Similarly, recognizing the unique nature of these problematic behaviors can help mental health professionals devise tailored interventions to address these presentations effectively. Finally, findings suggest links between a person’s digital records and mental health presentations, enabling early detection and timely interventions and thus significantly minimizing undesired consequences.
Bayesian evidence and predictivity of the inflationary paradigm
Creators: name: Gubitosi, Giulia
name: Lagos, Macarena
name: Magueijo, Joao
name: Allison, Rupert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider the issue of paradigm evaluation by applying Bayes' theorem along the following nested hierarchy of progressively more complex structures: i) parameter estimation (within a model), ii) model selection and comparison (within a paradigm), iii) paradigm evaluation. In such a hierarchy the Bayesian evidence works both as the posterior's normalization at a given level and as the likelihood function at the next level up. Whilst raising no objections to the standard application of the procedure at the two lowest levels, we argue that it should receive a considerable modification when evaluating paradigms, when testability and fitting data are equally important. By considering toy models we illustrate how models and paradigms that are difficult to falsify are always favoured by the Bayes factor. We argue that the evidence for a paradigm should not only be high for a given dataset, but exceptional with respect to what it would have been, had the data been different. With this motivation we propose a measure which we term predictivity, as well as a prior to be incorporated into the Bayesian framework, penalising unpredictivity as much as not fitting data. We apply this measure to inflation seen as a whole, and to a scenario where a specific inflationary model is hypothetically deemed as the only one viable as a result of information alien to cosmology (e.g. Solar System gravity experiments, or particle physics input). We conclude that cosmic inflation is currently hard to falsify, but that this could change were external/additional information to cosmology to select one of its many models. We also compare this state of affairs to bimetric varying speed of light cosmology.
description: Final version with corrections added
Barjols, près de l'abattoir, des garçonnets déguisés en cuisiniers posent devant le char décoré et chargé du boeuf embroché
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Effectiveness of Project-based Learning Implementation to Enhance Rangsit University Students 4Cs of 21st Century Skills in Learning English
Creators: name: Supachanin Duangchinda
Publisher: name: ศูนย์สนับสนุนและพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2023
Subjects: Project-based Learning
the 4Cs of 21st Century Skills
Learning English

description: วารสารพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน, 17, 1, 55-71
title: Three Essays on Energy Markets Using Dynamic Time Series
Creators: name: Wang, Zuyi
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation investigates energy markets using dynamic time series and rolling panel approaches, aiming to enhance our understanding of their dynamics and interrelationships. The first essay focuses on the transfer of price bubbles between oil and gas markets. The findings indicate that price bubbles in the oil market have the potential to transfer to the gas market, with the probability of transfer depending on the gas price mechanism. The second essay delves into China’s natural gas market and specifically explores the dynamic relationship between imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) and pipeline prices. This analysis utilizes a price discovery framework to examine the market dynamics. The empirical results reveal that prior to the market reforms in 2014, the two markets exhibited some degree of independence. However, post-2014, both markets have started moving together, with the LNG market leading the imported natural gas markets in China. In the third essay, the focus shifts to examining the relationship between CO2 emissions and income growth in the U.S. This analysis employs the Environmental Kuznets curves (EKCs) framework to assess the decoupling between these two variables. The results indicate that the U.S. is currently experiencing decoupling, meaning that income growth is no longer tightly linked to CO2 emissions. However, caution is warranted as the findings also suggest that CO2 emissions are expected to increase in the near future, highlighting the need to take appropriate measures to avoid such a scenario.
title: ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТЬ ЛЕЧЕНИЯ ЗАБОЛЕВАНИЙ ПАРОДОНТА С ПРИМЕНЕНИЕМ ПРЕПАРАТА «ЛИЗОБАКТ» У ПАЦИЕНТОВ С БРОНХИАЛЬНОЙ АСТМОЙ
Creators: name: Исамулаева, Альфия Зинулгабделовна
name: Медведицков, Денис Александрович
name: Карачкин, Антон Аркадьевич
Publisher: name: Астраханский государственный медицинский университет
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: В исследовании приняли участие 48 пациентов в возрасте от 21 до 42 лет с диагнозом бронхиальная астма. Пациенты Основной группы получали курс препарата «Лизобакт» помимо стандартной терапии, а пациентам Контрольной группы проводилось лечение заболеваний пародонта по стандартной схеме. Полученные результаты исследования интерпретировались согласно стоматологическим индексам и иммунологическим исследованиям. Доказано благоприятное действие препарата «Лизобакт» в лечении заболеваний пародонта.
Ethnic and racial differences in body size perception and satisfaction
Creators: name: Von Holle, Ann
name: Reyes, Mae Lynn
name: Reba-Harrelson, Lauren
name: Kronenfeld, Lauren W.
name: Bulik, Cynthia M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Body dissatisfaction in women in the United States is common. We explored how women from various racial and ethnic groups used figural stimuli by exploring differences in current and preferred silhouette, and their discrepancy. We surveyed 4,023 women ages 25-45 in an on-line investigation. Participants were identified using a national quota-sampling procedure. Asian women chose a smaller silhouette to represent their current body size, which did not remain significant after adjusting for self-reported BMI. After controlling for BMI, African American women selected a smaller silhouette than White women to represent their current size. Both African American and women reporting “Other” race preferred larger silhouettes than White women even after controlling for BMI. The discrepancy score revealed lower body dissatisfaction among African American than White women. Understanding factors that promote body satisfaction differentially across racial and ethnic groups could become a tool in appropriately tailored interventions designed to prevent eating disorders.
การพัฒนาหลักสูตรออนไลน์แบบเปิดตามรูปแบบความสัมพันธ์เชิงสาเหตุของปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อคุณลักษณะของความเป็นผู้ประกอบการเพื่อเสริมสร้างคุณลักษณะของความเป็นผู้ประกอบการ ของนักศึกษาในวิทยาลัยอาชีวศึกษาเอกชนขนาดใหญ่ในจังหวัดกรุงเทพมหานคร
Creators: name: พัชรา วาณิชวศิน
Publisher: name: ศูนย์สนับสนุนและพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2566
Subjects: หลักสูตรออนไลน์แบบเปิด
รูปแบบความสัมพันธ์เชิงสาเหตุ
ปัจจัยที่ส่งผล
คุณลักษณะของความเป็นผู้ประกอบการ

description: วารสารพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน, 17, 1, 72-89
MPEC 2024-R206 : 2024 RW8
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RW8

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Analyzing the Impacts of Beaver Dam and Beaver Dam Analog Complexes to Stream Ecology Within the Intermountain West
Creators: name: Wolf, J. Marshall
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: Streams, rivers, and their floodplains throughout the world are impaired due to human modifications. Recent research has demonstrated that restoration projects prioritizing the proper functioning of ecosystems have better restoration outcomes than projects which focus on restoring form alone. Throughout North America, beaver-mediated restoration is becoming a leading method for improving the functioning of stream ecosystems that are in a degraded state. In areas where beaver are absent or the habitat is too degraded to currently permit their dam building, man-made beaver dam analogs (BDAs) are being used to restore stream habitat with an eye to future beaver recolonization. However, few studies have been published on BDAs. We do not currently understand how BDAs may impact threated or endangered species, no studies have investigated how close BDAs maintained by humans come to emulating natural beaver complexes, and no published works have examined BDAs’ impacts within an urban or semi-urban landscape. My research goal was to aid in filling these knowledge gaps. I determined that beaver dams influence the spawning locations of threatened Bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) using microchips implanted into fish and redd counts in two streams. While Bull trout spawned below beaver dams more often than random chance, they continued using the same habitat that was below that dams once they were experimentally breached to allow for fish to swim past them. Next, I examined the likelihood that amphibians would breed within natural beaver complexes versus BDA complexes. I determined natural beaver complexes had a higher chance of being used for breeding, due in large part to their lower relative abundance of fishes, older age, and position within the watershed. Finally, I examined the impacts of BDA restoration to a stream ecosystem within a rapidly urbanizing watershed. I determined that BDAs were providing increased rates of sediment deposition, deeper pools, better habitat for juvenile fishes, improved growth rates in trout, and enhanced productivity within the riparian zone relative to their control reaches. However, the “positive control” of a natural beaver dam complex outperformed the beaver dam analogs in several of these metrics.
title: Combined contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion weighted imaging in differentiating malignant from benign breast lesions
Creators: name: Yadav, Pratiksha
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Efficacy studies
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction: Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed type of cancer in women and is the third leading cause of death. The high prevalence and need for an early treatment of breast malignancy emphasizes the need for early and accurate...
The Ricci-Bourguignon Flow
Creators: name: Catino, Giovanni
name: Cremaschi, Laura
name: Djadli, Zindine
name: Mantegazza, Carlo
name: Mazzieri, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we present some results on a family of geometric flows introduced by Bourguignon that generalize the Ricci flow. For suitable values of the scalar parameter involved in these flows, we prove short time existence and provide curvature estimates. We also state some results on the associated solitons.
description: Minor corrections
An exploration of body dissatisfaction and perceptions of Black and White girls enrolled in an intervention for overweight children
Creators: name: Bulik, C. M.
name: Mazzeo, S. E.
name: Kelly, N. R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Silhouette measures are one approach to assessing body dissatisfaction in children, although little is known about their use among racially diverse, overweight girls seeking weight-loss treatment. This study assessed racial differences in body dissatisfaction and body size perceptions of 58 girls (ages 6–11, 66% Black, 34% White) participating in a randomized trial for pediatric overweight. Body dissatisfaction did not differ between races; 99% of girls reported an ideal figure smaller than their current one. Black girls selected a larger silhouette to represent their ideal body size, and most girls in both racial groups underestimated their actual size. Outcomes strengthen the argument that, despite an overall preference for a larger body size, obesity might mitigate cultural factors that protect Black girls from body dissatisfaction. Additional research is needed to enhance understanding of children’s body size perceptions and dissatisfaction to inform assessment and treatment of pediatric obesity and associated disordered eating symptoms.
title: Constraining Silicate Weathering During the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) Using Radiolarian Ge/Si
Creators: name: Laub, Olivia R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: Silicate weathering has long been considered a fundamental component of the earth system and has been cited as one of, if not the primary stabilizing feedback for climate. However, recent work has shown that the role of silicate weathering in the climate system is more complicated and dynamic than previously assumed. In this study I examine the role of weathering in the enigmatic warming event, the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) that occurred approximately 40 Ma. This event works as a good case study as there are multiple features of the MECO that differentiate it from other warming events that occur around the same time. Using a relatively neglected proxy, the ratio of germanium to silicon (Ge/Si) of siliceous microfossils, I show that silicate weathering does not always correlate with temperature. I suggest that weathering may have instead been the driver of the observed warming during the MECO. This study will increase our understanding of not only the Earth’s response to a singular warming event, but also provide context for how the Earth is and will continue to respond to rising temperatures due to current carbon emissions.
Mitigating Earthquake Pounding of Adjacent Buildings
Creators: name: Bartolini, Franco
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400510
subject: Structural engineering

description: During strong earthquakes, buildings sway. If these buildings are adjacent and have insufficient space between them, the sway will bring about multiple collisions. These collisions can cause structural damage and possible building collapse. These collisions are referred to as structural pounding. This pounding is a function of the strength and depth of the earthquake, distance from the earthquake epicentre and geology of the building site. To investigate potential pounding mitigation, historic data from previous earthquakes is used as a guide. The data is only partially relevant because each earthquake event has its own unique features. Taking this into account, an active feedback system; made up of a brake and stepper motor, was designed to investigate pounding mitigation. The design focuses on the presence of adjacent buildings and their proximity.
The experiments performed have shown that an active system is viable, and that pounding can be reduced. Building accelerations are comparable with those recorded in full-sized buildings, albeit marginally higher due to model flexibility. Earthquake amplification through the building is within acceptable standards and deceleration spikes have been controlled by a deceleration mechanism. The deceleration mechanism is to reduce the braking spikes during feedback control. The measured power requirements of the model were compared with calculated power requirements with the aid of distance-measuring lasers and an analytical method using the equations of motion. (E.O.M). The laser measuring power was within 0.2%, and the E.O.M. within 0.9% of the measured power.
These figures are acceptable considering the assumptions upon which the study is based.
A real-size analysis of the power requirements for three- and four- storey buildings was calculated. The calculation was based on the model analysis. The analysis showed that a large peak of electrical power is required for the active system during braking and motor movements. The calculated power requirement is in the vicinity 46kW, this figure is high but not insurmountable considering such powers being used in the automotive industry. This large power requirement can be distributed across the building using two or more systems, which also reduces the stress on the building. Since the energy requirements are high, the total power for the active system is minimal because of the active time of the earthquake. The power and peak requirements are the specifications needed for designing the active system.
A parametric study on changes in building natural frequency and distance apart, has shown a linear relationship with possible power changes of up to 2.8%. To obtain more accurate results further studies are required. Such studies will need to use scaled models and a more substantial shake table. These improvements will allow for fewer assumptions and more accurate results.
Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey Data Release 3
Creators: name: Vázquez Ramió, H.
name: Varela, J.
name: Ederoclite, A.
name: Hernán-Caballero, A.
name: López-Sanjuan, C.
name: Civera, T.
name: Hernández-Fuertes, J.
name: Moreno-Signes, A.
name: Muniesa, D. J.
name: López-Sainz, Á.
name: Castillo-Ramírez, J.
name: Akhlaghi, M.
name: Hernández-Monteagudo, C.
name: Cenarro, A. J.
name: Marín-Franch, A.
name: Yanes-Díaz, A.
name: Díaz-Martín, M. C.
name: Iglesias-Marzoa, R.
name: Lamadrid, J. L.
name: Maícas, N.
name: López-Martínez, F.
name: Lacruz, E.
name: Galindo-Guil, F. J.
name: Pyrzas, S.
name: Infante-Sainz, R.
name: Hernández-Pérez, F. C.
name: Kuutma, T.
name: López-Alegre, G.
name: Rueda-Teruel, S.
name: Rueda-Teruel, F.
name: Íñiguez, C.
name: Chueca, S.
name: Bello-Ferrer, R.
name: Royo-Navarro, M.
name: Bielsa de Toledo, S.
name: Muñoz-Maudos, J.
name: Lozano-Pérez, D.
name: Domínguez-Martínez, M.
name: Martínez-Olivar, N.
name: Muñoz-Teruel, A.
name: Rueda-Asensio, H.
name: Soriano-Laguía, I.
name: Garcés-Cubel, D.
name: Almarcegui-García, M.
name: del Pino Molina, A.
name: Fernández-Ontiveros, J. A.
name: Pintos-Castro, I.
name: Lumbreras-Calle, A.
name: Arizo-Borillo, F.
name: Domínguez-Fernández, A. J.
name: Eskandarlou, S.
name: Valdivielso, L.
name: Aguilar-Martín, M. I.
name: Cristóbal-Hornillos, D.
name: Moles, M.
name: J-PLUS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: "Galaxias" session, J-PLUS, multi-band surveys, stellar physics, stellar populations, photo-z

description: We present the third data release of the Javalambre Local Universe Photometric Survey (J-PLUS) covering more than 3200 square degrees of the northern sky. J-PLUS is an ongoing photometric survey with 12 optical bands observing thousands of square degrees of the sky from the JAST80 telescope at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ). T80Cam is a 2 deg² field-of-view (FoV) camera mounted on JAST80, and is equipped with a unique system of filters spanning the entire optical range (3500 − 10000 Å), optimally designed to extract the rest-frame spectral features that are key to both characterize stellar types and to deliver a low-resolution photo-spectrum for each observed object. With a typical depth (5σ in 3 arcsec aperture) of AB ∼ 20.7 mag per band, data containing about 15 million stars and 10 million galaxies at r < 21 mag are going to be released by the end of 2022. We also present announce some relevant scientific results obtained with J-PLUS.
description: Missing links to J-PLUS e-posters added
Cosmological models with running cosmological term and decaying dark matter
Creators: name: Szydlowski, Marek
name: Stachowski, Aleksander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dynamics of the generalized $Λ$CDM model, which the $Λ$ term is running with the cosmological time. The $Λ(t)$ term emerges from the covariant theory of the scalar field $ϕ$ with the self-interacting potential $V(ϕ)$. On the example of the model $Λ(t)=Λ_{\text{bare}}+\frac{α^2}{t^2}$ we show the existence of a mechanism of the modification of the scaling law for energy density of dark matter: $ρ_{\text{dm}}\propto a^{-3+λ(t)}$. We discuss the evolution of $Λ(t)$ term and pointed out that during the cosmic evolution there is a long phase in which this term is approximately constant. This effect justifies Alcaniz and Lima's approach to $Λ(H)$ cosmologies. We also present the statistical analysis of both the $Λ(t)$CDM model with dark energy and decaying dark matter and the $Λ$CDM standard cosmological model. We divide the observational data into two groups: low $z$ data (SNIa, BAO, $H(z)$ and AP test) and high $z$ data (Planck, WP and lensing). While for the former we find the best fit value of the parameter $λ$ is positive ($λ=0.0338$, energy transfer is from the dark energy to dark matter sector), for the latter we find that $λ$ is $-0.0199$ which is an evidence that the energy transfer is from decaying dark matter. This disagreement correlates with estimated values of $H_0$ ($67.77$ km/(s Mpc) and $65.62$ km/(s Mpc) respectively). The decaying dark matter causes to lowering a mass of dark matter particles which are lighter than CDM particles and remain relativistic. The rate of the process of decaying matter is estimated. We show that in the models of decaying dark matter, the cosmological constant problem disappears naturally. The model with decaying dark matter possesses one parameter more but in light of the AIC it is better than the $Λ$CDM standard cosmological model.
description: RevTeX4-1, 13 pages, 10 figures; new estimation, figures, reference and discuss of a switch mechanism
ผลการบูรณาการองค์ความรู้แบบสะเต็มศึกษาในสถานศึกษา
Creators: name: ศศิธร กาญจนสุวรรณ
Publisher: name: ศูนย์สนับสนุนและพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2566
Subjects: สะเต็มศึกษา
การบูรณาการองค์ความรู้
ข้อเสนอแนะเชิงนโยบาย

description: วารสารพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน, 17, 1, 90-104
Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey Data Release 3
Creators: name: Vázquez Ramió, H.
name: Varela, J.
name: Ederoclite, A.
name: Hernán-Caballero, A.
name: López-Sanjuan, C.
name: Civera, T.
name: Hernández-Fuertes, J.
name: Moreno-Signes, A.
name: Muniesa, D. J.
name: López-Sainz, Á.
name: Castillo-Ramírez, J.
name: Akhlaghi, M.
name: Hernández-Monteagudo, C.
name: Cenarro, A. J.
name: Marín-Franch, A.
name: Yanes-Díaz, A.
name: Díaz-Martín, M. C.
name: Iglesias-Marzoa, R.
name: Lamadrid, J. L.
name: Maícas, N.
name: López-Martínez, F.
name: Lacruz, E.
name: Galindo-Guil, F. J.
name: Pyrzas, S.
name: Infante-Sainz, R.
name: Hernández-Pérez, F. C.
name: Kuutma, T.
name: López-Alegre, G.
name: Rueda-Teruel, S.
name: Rueda-Teruel, F.
name: Íñiguez, C.
name: Chueca, S.
name: Bello-Ferrer, R.
name: Royo-Navarro, M.
name: Bielsa de Toledo, S.
name: Muñoz-Maudos, J.
name: Lozano-Pérez, D.
name: Domínguez-Martínez, M.
name: Martínez-Olivar, N.
name: Muñoz-Teruel, A.
name: Rueda-Asensio, H.
name: Soriano-Laguía, I.
name: Garcés-Cubel, D.
name: Almarcegui-García, M.
name: del Pino Molina, A.
name: Fernández-Ontiveros, J. A.
name: Pintos-Castro, I.
name: Lumbreras-Calle, A.
name: Arizo-Borillo, F.
name: Domínguez-Fernández, A. J.
name: Eskandarlou, S.
name: Valdivielso, L.
name: Aguilar-Martín, M. I.
name: Cristóbal-Hornillos, D.
name: Moles, M.
name: J-PLUS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: "Galaxias" session, J-PLUS, multi-band surveys, stellar physics, stellar populations, photo-z

description: We present the third data release of the Javalambre Local Universe Photometric Survey (J-PLUS) covering more than 3200 square degrees of the northern sky. J-PLUS is an ongoing photometric survey with 12 optical bands observing thousands of square degrees of the sky from the JAST80 telescope at the Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre (OAJ). T80Cam is a 2 deg² field-of-view (FoV) camera mounted on JAST80, and is equipped with a unique system of filters spanning the entire optical range (3500 − 10000 Å), optimally designed to extract the rest-frame spectral features that are key to both characterize stellar types and to deliver a low-resolution photo-spectrum for each observed object. With a typical depth (5σ in 3 arcsec aperture) of AB ∼ 20.7 mag per band, data containing about 15 million stars and 10 million galaxies at r < 21 mag are going to be released by the end of 2022. We also present announce some relevant scientific results obtained with J-PLUS.
Examining an elaborated sociocultural model of disordered eating among college women: The roles of social comparison and body surveillance
Creators: name: Bardone-Cone, Anna M.
name: Engel, Scott G.
name: Wonderlich, Stephen A.
name: Fitzsimmons-Craft, Ellen E.
name: Bulik, Cynthia M.
name: Crosby, Ross D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Social comparison (i.e., body, eating, exercise) and body surveillance were tested as mediators of the thin-ideal internalization-body dissatisfaction relationship in the context of an elaborated sociocultural model of disordered eating. Participants were 219 college women who completed two questionnaire sessions 3 months apart. The cross-sectional elaborated sociocultural model (i.e., including social comparison and body surveillance as mediators of the thin-ideal internalization-body dissatisfaction relation) provided a good fit to the data, and the total indirect effect from thin-ideal internalization to body dissatisfaction through the mediators was significant. Social comparison emerged as a significant specific mediator while body surveillance did not. The mediation model did not hold prospectively; however, social comparison accounted for unique variance in body dissatisfaction and disordered eating 3 months later. Results suggest that thin-ideal internalization may not be “automatically” associated with body dissatisfaction and that it may be especially important to target comparison in prevention and intervention efforts.
On a new theoretical framework for RR Lyrae stars I: the metallicity dependence
Creators: name: Marconi, M.
name: Coppola, G.
name: Bono, G.
name: Braga, V.
name: Pietrinferni, A.
name: Buonanno, R.
name: Castellani, M.
name: Musella, I.
name: Ripepi, V.
name: Stellingwerf, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new nonlinear, time-dependent convective hydrodynamical models of RR Lyrae stars computed assuming a constant helium-to-metal enrichment ratio and a broad range in metal abundances (Z=0.0001--0.02). The stellar masses and luminosities adopted to construct the pulsation models were fixed according to detailed central He burning Horizontal Branch evolutionary models. The pulsation models cover a broad range in stellar luminosity and effective temperatures and the modal stability is investigated for both fundamental and first overtones. We predict the topology of the instability strip as a function of the metal content and new analytical relations for the edges of the instability strip in the observational plane. Moreover, a new analytical relation to constrain the pulsation mass of double pulsators as a function of the period ratio and the metal content is provided. We derive new Period-Radius-Metallicity relations for fundamental and first-overtone pulsators. They agree quite well with similar empirical and theoretical relations in the literature. From the predicted bolometric light curves, transformed into optical (UBVRI) and near-infrared (JHK) bands, we compute the intensity-averaged mean magnitudes along the entire pulsation cycle and, in turn, new and homogenous metal-dependent (RIJHK) Period-Luminosity relations. Moreover, we compute new dual and triple band optical, optical--NIR and NIR Period-Wesenheit-Metallicity relations. Interestingly, we find that the optical Period-W(V,B-V) is independent of the metal content and that the accuracy of individual distances is a balance between the adopted diagnostics and the precision of photometric and spectroscopic datasets.
description: 51 pages, 20 figures, 9 tables, accepted for publication on ApJ