cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pseudo-ataxia due to Osteoid Osteoma
Creators: name: McKenzie, Juanette
name: Oettel-Flaherty, Curtis
name: Noel, Douglas
name: Walker, Ruth H.
name: Sobering, Andrew K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ataxia
subject: Bones--Tumors
subject: Gait disorders
subject: Social status
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Neurology

description: Background: Ataxia is diagnosed by typical features on examination suggestive of a cerebellar etiology and can invoke extensive diagnostic testing. Osteoid osteomas (OOs) are benign bone tumors of the lower limbs that occasionally present with focal neurological signs.

Case Report: A 3-year-old male presented with apparent progressive gait ataxia and non-specific leg pain. Initial imaging was unremarkable. However, 12 months later, a lesion was identified in the distal right femur, which was found to be an OO. The gait disorder and pain resolved after surgery.

Discussion: This case highlights the challenges of diagnosing a gait disorder in young children.
Interactive Random Forests Plots
Creators: name: Quach, Anna T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Random Forests is a useful data mining tool that is quite popular in finding variable importance. However, many people don’t make use of the Random Forests results in interactive graphs. Partly, this is because software packages that can do interactive graphs can’t handle large data sets and those that use Random Forests have large data sets or many variables. A new software package in R, known as iPlots eXtreme, that is still in development makes it simple to explore large data sets interactively. I have created a function, called irfplot (interactive random forests plot) that specifically uses Random Forests to produce interactive graphs that are more informative than using raw values. I will use the interactive Random Forests plot that I’ve created to explore the nutrition data set from the Cache County Memory Study.
Recource Limited Testing Center Scheduling for a Web-Based Testing Application
Creators: name: Graham, Adam J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Testing centers are a useful tool to help instructors deliver computer-based tests, but computers resources are expensive and therefore limited. This paper describes a method by which testing center(s) may use iNetTest, a web-based computer aided testing system, to house and administer exams. The algorithm discussed in this paper makes it possible for instructors to schedule tests for a given time frame while ensuring that enough computer resources will be available to all of the students. The algorithm prevents the testing center from getting overwhelmed with students while attempting to maximize the usage of the valuable computer resources.
The Prevalence and Correlation of Non-motor Symptoms in Adult Patients with Idiopathic Focal or Segmental Dystonia
Creators: name: Novaretti, Nathália
name: Cunha, Ana Luiza N.
name: Bezerra, Torben C.
name: Pereira, Marcio Alexandre P.
name: De Oliveira, Daniel S.
name: Macruz Brito, Manuelina Mariana C.
name: Pimentel, Angela V.
name: Brozinga, Tamara R.
name: Foss, Maria Paula
name: Tumas, Vitor
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Dystonia
Depression, Mental
Apathy
Sleep--Health aspects
Mental health

description: Background: Idiopathic focal dystonia is a motor syndrome associated with dysfunction of basal ganglia circuits. Observations have suggested that many other non-motor symptoms may also be part of the clinical picture. The aim was to assess the prevalence and correlation of non-motor symptoms in patients with common idiopathic focal or segmental dystonia.

Methods: In a single-center cross-sectional case–control study, we evaluated the presence of pain, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and sleep alterations in 28 patients with blepharospasm, 28 patients with cervical dystonia, 24 patients with writer’s cramp, and 80 control subjects matched for sex, age, and schooling. We obtained clinical and demographic data, and evaluated patients using the Fahn–Marsden Dystonia Rating Scale and other specific scales for dystonia. All subjects completed the following questionnaires: Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Social Phobia Inventory, Apathy Scale, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Brief Pain Scale, and the World Health Organization Quality of Life brief scale.

Results: The patients presented more symptoms of depression, anxiety, and apathy than the control subjects. They also reported worse quality of sleep and more pain complaints. Patients with blepharospasm were the most symptomatic subgroup. The patients had worse quality of life, and the presence of pain and symptoms of apathy and depression were the main influences for these findings, but not the severity of motor symptoms.

Discussion: Patients with dystonia, especially those with blepharospasm, showed higher prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, apathy, worse quality of sleep, and pain. These symptoms had a negative impact on their quality of life.
On transverse asymmetries in B --> K* l+l-
Creators: name: Becirevic, Damir
name: Schneider, Elia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the three independent asymmetries, AT(2)(q2), AT(im)(q2) and AT(re)(q2), that one can build from the amplitudes A_perp(q2) and A_par(q2). These quantities are expected to be accessible from the new B-physics experiments, they are sensitive to the presence of new physics, and they are not significantly sensitive to hadronic uncertainties. Studying their low q2-dependence can be helpful in discerning among various possible new physics scenarios. All three asymmetries can be extracted from the full angular analysis of B-->K* l+l-. Our formulas apply to both the massless and the massive lepton case.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures (png) - version published in NPB
Using Short-Term Environmental Education Programs To Increase Student Learning and Elicit Positive Attitude Change
Creators: name: Kinder, Tiffany
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Short-term environmental education programs such as water festivals and field days are a common outreach tool for watershed programs, yet little is known about their effectiveness at increasing knowledge and environmental awareness. To address this question, I conducted a formal assessment by pre- and post-testing 1400 fourth-grade students who participated in a field day at a Forest Service campground in northern Utah. During the day, each child spent approximately one hour engaged in water-related activities, with an emphasis on aquatic macroinvertebrates and water quality. My research focused on whether this single hour was sufficient to change both knowledge and interest in protecting water and aquatic organisms.
The study also compared student learning in those classes that participated only in the single event with classes that had additional water-related lessons and activities prior to and after the field day. I also examined how well variables such as teacher knowledge and attitude, socio-demographics and type of outdoor activities enjoyed by students were correlated with student knowledge and attitude.
Results demonstrated that short-term events, especially those that include additional classroom experiences, can result in knowledge gain and changes in attitudes in young children. Teacher knowledge and attitude were not correlated with student knowledge and attitude; however, school district and type of outdoor activities enjoyed by students were both good predictors of knowledge and attitude scores.
Additional file 1 of Combinatorial strategies for production improvement of anti-tuberculosis antibiotics ilamycins E1/E2 from deep sea-derived Streptomyces atratus SCSIO ZH16 ΔilaR
Creators: name: Zhu, Yunfei
name: Zheng, Gaofan
name: Xin, Xiujuan
name: Ma, Junying
name: Ju, Jianhua
name: An, Faliang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Seven kinds of fermentation medium. Table S2. Factors and levels used in Plackett–Burman design. Table S3. Design and results of Plackett–Burman experiments. Table S4. Factors and levels used in Central Composite Design. Table S5. Design and results of Central Composite Design. Table S6. Sequences of primer pairs for qRT-PCR.
Randomizing world trade. II. A weighted network analysis
Creators: name: Squartini, Tiziano
name: Fagiolo, Giorgio
name: Garlaschelli, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Based on the misleading expectation that weighted network properties always offer a more complete description than purely topological ones, current economic models of the International Trade Network (ITN) generally aim at explaining local weighted properties, not local binary ones. Here we complement our analysis of the binary projections of the ITN by considering its weighted representations. We show that, unlike the binary case, all possible weighted representations of the ITN (directed/undirected, aggregated/disaggregated) cannot be traced back to local country-specific properties, which are therefore of limited informativeness. Our two papers show that traditional macroeconomic approaches systematically fail to capture the key properties of the ITN. In the binary case, they do not focus on the degree sequence and hence cannot characterize or replicate higher-order properties. In the weighted case, they generally focus on the strength sequence, but the knowledge of the latter is not enough in order to understand or reproduce indirect effects.
description: See also the companion paper (Part I): arXiv:1103.1243 [physics.soc-ph], published as Phys. Rev. E 84, 046117 (2011)
Field electron emission characteristic of graphene
Creators: name: Wang, Weiliang
name: Qin, Xizhou
name: Xu, Ningsheng
name: Li, Zhibing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The field electron emission current from graphene is calculated analytically on a semiclassical model. The unique electronic energy band structure of graphene and the field penetration in the edge from which the electrons emit have been taken into account. The relation between the effective vacuum barrier height and the applied field is obtained. The calculated slope of the Fowler-Nordheim plot of the current-field characteristic is in consistent with existing experiments.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures Copyright (2011) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. This article appeared in (J. Appl. Phys. 109 (2011) 044304) and may be found at (http://link.aip.org/link/?JAP/109/044304)
The Effectiveness of an Adapted SNAP-Ed (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education) Curriculum for Adults with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
Creators: name: Panting, Amanda
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Rates of overweight and obese adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities in the United States are high and associated with increased risk of chronic diseases. Many of these adults are trying to become more independent in the community and live in group homes where care is managed by a paid employee. Group home managers assist clients with daily living such as shopping and meal preparation and play an important role in their care. Nutrition and healthy behavior choices are important to help keep this population independent and decrease risks of excess weight and related diseases. Many group home managers and clients have limited nutrition knowledge. Few nutrition education programs are available to either group home managers or their clients.
This study adapted a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed) curriculum to teach adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities living in group homes. SNAP-Ed is a government food assistance program targeted at providing basic nutrition education to low-income persons. The study’s objectives were to develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of the adapted SNAP-Ed curriculum by measuring nutrition knowledge among group home managers and clients and managers’ intent for behavior change. Extension paraprofessionals taught the original SNAP-Ed lessons to group home managers and trained them on the adapted curriculum (n=33). The trained managers then taught the adapted SNAP-Ed lessons to their clients (n=83).
Results from the study showed both group home managers and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities improved nutrition knowledge from pre to post tests. Group home managers reported intent to change behavior for 12 of 18 behaviors examined. The curriculum was seen to be adaptable to fit various needs of group homes in different teaching settings, learning levels, and interests for participants.
Overall, the adapted SNAP-Ed curriculum for managers and clients living in group homes appears to increase knowledge of nutrition and may improve food behavior. Increased nutritional knowledge among group home managers and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities may help decrease risk of nutritional related diseases.
Ethnic Disparities in Prenatal Care Utilization in Vietnam
Creators: name: Trinh, Ha Ngoc
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Prenatal care is credited with reducing neonatal, perinatal, and maternal mortality and morbidity. The main purpose of the thesis is to examine the ethnic disparities between majority and ethnic minority women in prenatal care usage. The thesis also analyzes the effects of age, education attainment, female employment, and region on prenatal care utilization in Vietnam. I employ the Demographic and Health Survey 2002 in Vietnam. Descriptive statistic and logistic regression are the two statistical tests employed in this research. Results exhibit evidence of ethnic disparities in type of prenatal care utilization. Although ethnic minority women are likely to enter prenatal checkups at the same time as ethnic majority women, they are less likely to receive three or more prenatal checkups. Ethnic minority women are also less likely to receive prenatal checkups from professionals. When giving birth, minority women are less likely to deliver with a professional birth attendant, in a hospital or health facility. When controlling for other independent variables, education attainment and region show significant effects on prenatal care usage. Uneducated women, or women with less than secondary education, and women residing outside the Red River Delta consumed less professional prenatal care usage.
Effect of Orifice Shape on Synthetic Jet Efficiency
Creators: name: Nani, David J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: A synthetic jet is formed by periodic oscillation of a fluid through an orifice. The oscillatory motion is driven by diaphragm or other driver. Previous studies have demonstrated that synthetic jet formation and time-averaged cavity pressure are a function of the orifice shape. Traditionally, the performance of the jet is evaluated with varying configurations of fixed driver input voltage or fixed driver displacement. Neither of these measures accurately reflect the efficiency of the actuator. Defining efficiency as "desired output divided by required input," these traditional measures may not account for increase in required driving current or force.
A sharp inside edge of a synthetic jet orifice can result in separated flow and increased momentum flux (due to the decreased flow area) for a fixed driver displacement. This can lead one to believe that efficiency has been improved, when, in reality, much more power was required for the driver. Acoustic power, which is the time-average of volume flow rate through the orifice multiplied by the driving pressure, or in terms of electrical power, it is the driver power times the efficiency of the driver, accurately accounts for the amount of power required to drive the actuator. This study investigates the efficiency of a round (axisymmetric) synthetic jet actuator as a function of the radius of curvature of the interior edge of the orifice. Simultaneous particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements at the jet exit and cavity pressure measurements are used to measure the acoustic power required to drive the jet. The resultant momentum flux of the jet is used as a measure of output of the jet. Results are obtained for a range of displacement amplitudes (or stroke lengths) and radii of curvature, while Reynolds number is held fixed.
Preschool Nutrition Education and Influences On Food Neophobia
Creators: name: Eller, Kelsey
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Food neophobia, the fear of new foods, has been identified as a significant barrier to the intake of healthy foods, including fruits and vegetables in young children. Food neophobia can hinder dietary quality as well as dietary variety by limiting the development of food preferences. It has also been suggested that neophobia is linked to the development of childhood obesity, and due to the escalating epidemic of childhood obesity that is known to be associated with serious health complications, interventions that target food neophobia in preschool aged children may be successful in improving healthy eating habits and potentially reversing the obesity trend.
This thesis includes data collected from the testing of an interactive nutrition education curriculum, Food $ense Kids, that specifically targeted neophobia in 3 to 5-year-old children. It was implemented at two child care facilities using baseline and post-intervention surveys and included 51 participants. The curriculum was evaluated on its ability to engage children, be effective across multiple settings, and be easily implemented into a variety of preschool programs. The curriculum was also examined to determine its influence on food neophobia, food knowledge, and food preferences when implemented in its entirety.
Results indicate that the curriculum was engaging, equally effective across multiple settings, and easily implemented into a variety of programs. In addition, teachers were positive about the program and its effect on their students. Food knowledge increased significantly as a result of participation in the program at both facilities. Overall, no significant changes in neophobia or food preferences occurred as a result of participation in the curriculum. This lack of impact may be explained by not including multiple exposures to each food. Future application of the Food $ense Kids curriculum could include selecting a smaller number of lessons from the overall curriculum to implement over time in order to include multiple exposures to each food, which may lead to beneficial effects on food neophobia and food preferences.
On the multiplicity of non-iterated periodic billiard trajectories
Creators: name: Mazzucchelli, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37J45, 55R80

description: We introduce the iteration theory for periodic billiard trajectories in a compact and convex domain of the Euclidean space, and we apply it to establish a multiplicity result for non-iterated trajectories.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures; v3: final version, as published
Randomizing world trade. I. A binary network analysis
Creators: name: Squartini, Tiziano
name: Fagiolo, Giorgio
name: Garlaschelli, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The international trade network (ITN) has received renewed multidisciplinary interest due to recent advances in network theory. However, it is still unclear whether a network approach conveys additional, nontrivial information with respect to traditional international-economics analyses that describe world trade only in terms of local (first-order) properties. In this and in a companion paper, we employ a recently proposed randomization method to assess in detail the role that local properties have in shaping higher-order patterns of the ITN in all its possible representations (binary/weighted, directed/undirected, aggregated/disaggregated by commodity) and across several years. Here we show that, remarkably, the properties of all binary projections of the network can be completely traced back to the degree sequence, which is therefore maximally informative. Our results imply that explaining the observed degree sequence of the ITN, which has not received particular attention in economic theory, should instead become one the main focuses of models of trade.
description: See also the companion paper (part II): arXiv:1103.1249 [physics.soc-ph], published as Phys. Rev. E 84, 046118 (2011)
Monmouth University National Poll: July 2015
Creators: name: Monmouth University Polling Institute
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Presidential election (1); registered to vote (1); likely to vote (1); presidential campaign (1); presidential candidate preferences (8); candidate qualities and characteristics (4); Democratic nomination for president (8); Vice President Joe Biden (3); Republican nomination for president (8); presidential election campaign finance rules (4); Iran's nuclear program (4); President Barack Obama job performance (1); voter locations (1); voting frequency (1); political party preference (1).
Theoretical Aspects of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
Creators: name: Goerbig, M. O.
name: Regnault, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the theoretical basis and understanding of electronic interactions in graphene Landau levels, in the limit of strong correlations. This limit occurs when inter-Landau-level excitations may be omitted because they belong to a high-energy sector, whereas the low-energy excitations only involve the same level, such that the kinetic energy (of the Landau level) is an unimportant constant. Two prominent effects emerge in this limit of strong electronic correlations: generalised quantum Hall ferromagnetic states that profit from the approximate four-fold spin-valley degeneracy of graphene's Landau levels and the fractional quantum Hall effect. Here, we discuss these effects in the framework of an SU(4)-symmetric theory, in comparison with available experimental observations.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures; review for the proceedings of the Nobel Symposium on Graphene and Quantum Matter
Development of Methods for Assessing the Effect of Moisture and Aging On Sliceability of Cheese
Creators: name: Perrie, Jess
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Sliceability is a cheese’s ability to cut cleanly into thin slices, resist breakage or fracture at slices edges, and undergo a high level of bending before breaking. Intuitively, sliceability depends on the chemistry, microstructural, and rheological properties of the casein network. Currently there is no reported scientific research investigating evaluation methods of cheese slice quality, as well as properties that influence a cheese’s ability to slice.
In this study, a method for slice quality evaluation was developed on purchased cheese and performed on commercial cheeses and experimental cheeses manufactured at three different moisture contents (40.6%, 37.0%, and 33.9%). In addition, tack force, tack energy, flexibility force, G’, G”, and G* were examined to determine whether or not moisture content influences cheese sliceability. Overall, slice quality at all three moisture contents improved as storage time increased, and the high moisture cheeses produced the worst quality slices and the low moisture cheeses produced the best. Both tack energy and tack force increased with increasing moisture content, and G’, G”, and G* decreased with increasing moisture and did not change over time. Tack energy and G” were found to be slightly correlated with cheese slice quality. Flexibility force was not correlated with cheese slice quality.
Moisture and storage time, as well their interaction, had significant effects on dependent variables, potentially indicating that a higher moisture cheese texture changes differently compared to medium and low moisture cheeses during storage. Correlation tests did not express a strong connection between moisture content, age, and cheese slice quality, overall. This research lays the foundation for future slice quality evaluation, and is a starting point upon which other companies and scientists can build.
Finite Element Modeling of Full Depth Precast Concrete Bridge Deck Connections in Bending and Shear
Creators: name: James, Patrick H.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: The need for reduced construction times of highway bridges has become more important recently. Precast concrete panels used for the bridge deck replacements are being used more frequently in order to achieve this reduced construction time and to also reduce the cost of the construction. Bridges can also be repaired quickly and with less cost if individual panels can be replaced when needed instead of replacing the entire bridge deck. The problem at hand is the structural integrity of these individual precast bridge deck panels. The joints in-between these panels often crack due to service stresses. These cracks expose the steel in the deck and lead to corrosion of the girders. Various transverse connections have been tested at Utah State University to address this problem. These tested connections supply post-tensioning of the panels along the joints to reduce cracking and increase flexural and shear capacity. Among these tested connections include the standard Utah Department of Transportation connections. Also several variations of a curved bolt connection have been tested. To further analyze these connections and compare with the laboratory test results, finite element models were created using the finite element software ANSYS.
The finite element models were used to create load-deflection curves and figures to show failure. These were compared with the results from the laboratory testing. The finite element analyses and laboratory testing produced similar results. The new curved strand method tested in this research was found to be more satisfactory than the old curved bolt method.
Risk Factor Genes in Patients with Dystonia: A Comprehensive Review
Creators: name: Siokas, Vasileios
name: Aloizou, Athina-Maria
name: Tsouris, Zisis
name: Michalopoulou, Amalia
name: Mentis, Alexios-Fotios A.
name: Dardiotis, Efthimios
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Dystonia
Genetic polymorphisms
Single nucleotide polymorphisms
Eyelids--Diseases
Movement disorders
Neurology

description: Background: Dystonia is a movement disorder with high heterogeneity regarding phenotypic appearance and etiology that occurs in both sporadic and familial forms. The etiology of the disease remains unknown. However, there is increasing evidence suggesting that a small number of gene alterations may lead to dystonia. Although pathogenic variants to the familial type of dystonia have been extensively reviewed and discussed, relatively little is known about the contribution of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to dystonia. This review focuses on the potential role of SNPs and other variants in dystonia susceptibility.

Methods: We searched the PubMed database for peer-reviewed articles published in English, from its inception through January 2018, that concerned human studies of dystonia and genetic variants. The following search terms were included: “dystonia” in combination with the following terms: 1) “polymorphisms” and 2) “SNPs” as free words.

Results: A total of 43 published studies regarding TOR1A, BDNF, DRD5, APOE, ARSG, NALC, OR4X2, COL4A1, TH, DDC, DBH, MAO, COMT, DAT, GCH1, PRKRA, MR-1, SGCE, ATP1A3, TAF1, THAP1, GNAL, DRD2, HLA-DRB, CBS, MTHFR, and MS genes, were included in the current review.

Discussion: To date, a few variants, which are possibly involved in several molecular pathways, have been related to dystonia. Large cohort studies are needed to determine robust associations between variants and dystonia with adjustment for other potential cofounders, in order to elucidate the pathogenic mechanisms of dystonia and the net effect of the genes.
Functional Rehabilitation of Low Back Pain With Core Stabilization Exercises: Suggestions for Exercises and Progressions in Athletes
Creators: name: Johnson, Joshua
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Introduction: Low back pain is very common in the adult population and accounts for more time lost from work than other diagnoses. It also affects athlete's at all different levels of competition and results in missed practice and game time. Diagnosing and treating a specific pathology is often difficult because clinical evaluation and radiologic studies are often unable to find a root cause. A popular treatment approach with a high volume of anecdotal evidence is the use of core stabilization exercise in the treatment of low back pain.
Purpose: To evaluate exercise as a treatment for a low back pain with a specific emphasis on core stabilization and provide an outline of exercises and progression to help guide clinicians in treating the athlete with low back pain.
Methods: A search of electronic databases was performed including; PubMed, SPORTDiscus, Google Scholar, and Cochrane Databased. Key words used: Lumbar stabilization, core stabilization, low back pain, athletes, exercise, and core strengthening and any combination of these words.
Exercises and Progressions: Based on the search of electronic databases their does appear to be some efficacy established in the general population of core stabilization exercises. However, at this time does not appear to be superior to other exercise interventions. There are no specific studies involving athletes so evidence based treatment of athletes so evidence based treatment of athletes using core stabilization is limited. The literature seems to establish a need to total core muscles recruitment to stabilize the spine and does not identify one specific muscle as being critical for spinal stability. The program designed is based on firing of the entire core muscular to stabilize the spine with an emphasis to functional movements that imitate sport-like situations. The Exercises chosen were based on how effectively they challenge the muscle groups without causing loads that may be detrimental to recovery and pain free movement.
Conclusion: Due to the demands placed on the athlete's lumbar vertebrae, spinal instability may be a significant source of pain in athlete not diagnosed with other pathologies. While at this time there is insufficient evidence to support or refute the use of stabilization exercise in the treatment of low back pain in athlete's, this paper hopefully gives insight into some exercises that may be used to reestablish core muscle strength and endurance.
title: Advancing Knowledge Together: DataCite’s Strategic Initiatives and Collaborations
Creators: name: Cousijn, Helena
Publisher: name: DataCite
Year: 2023

description: As an open infrastructure organization committed to advancing knowledge, there are always many actions you can take. The key is to decide which initiatives and collaborations are of particular relevance at a given time. Based on our mission and vision, DataCite actively engages in a variety of initiatives, collaborating with different community stakeholders to advance open science and knowledge sharing. Following earlier blog posts outlining DataCite’s updated messaging, we explore some of our strategic priorities and initiatives within the open infrastructure landscape.
Income Inequality, Welfare Spending, and Globalization
Creators: name: Foster, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: This paper examines the relationship between government redistributive spending, globalization, and inequality measures. Does government social spending help to maintain equality within nations? Does this social spending affect less developed nations differently than developed nations? What role does globalization play in this relationship? This paper will examine these questions. The study will be investigated using a cross-­‐sectional panel data set for 12 advanced industrialized and 35 less developed nations. The study finds that in industrialized nations, trade can benefit an economy, while portfolio flows may hurt it. All aspects of governmental spending in OECD nations, including health care spending, education spending, and social security spending, seem to be redistributive and benefit the nation’s development. In less developed nations, the effect of globalization does not seem to have a consistent pattern. Trade and portfolio flows seem to be beneficial in some areas, while harmful in others. Also, government spending is redistributive in some areas and counterproductive in others.
The level set method for the two-sided eigenproblem
Creators: name: Gaubert, Stephane
name: Sergeev, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A80, 15A22, 91A46, 93C65

description: We consider the max-plus analogue of the eigenproblem for matrix pencils Ax=lambda Bx. We show that the spectrum of (A,B) (i.e., the set of possible values of lambda), which is a finite union of intervals, can be computed in pseudo-polynomial number of operations, by a (pseudo-polynomial) number of calls to an oracle that computes the value of a mean payoff game. The proof relies on the introduction of a spectral function, which we interpret in terms of the least Chebyshev distance between Ax and lambda Bx. The spectrum is obtained as the zero level set of this function.
description: 34 pages, 4 figures. Changes with respect to the previous version: we explain relation to mean-payoff games and discrete event systems, and show that the reconstruction of spectrum is pseudopolynomial
Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s Disease: Exploring the Relationship
Creators: name: Tarakad, Arjun
name: Jankovic, Joseph
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Tremor
Parkinson's disease
Neurology
Movement disorders

description: Background: There is longstanding controversy surrounding the possible link between essential tremor (ET) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Inconsistent and unreliable diagnostic criteria may in part account for some of the difficulties in defining the relationship between these two common movement disorders.

Methods: References for this systematic review were identified using PubMed with the search terms “essential tremor” AND “Parkinson’s disease” with articles published in English between 1960 and September 2018 included.

Results: In this review we provide evidence that some patients diagnosed with ET have an increased risk of developing PD years or decades after onset of action tremor. There are several still unresolved questions about the link between the two disorders including lack of verifiable diagnostic criteria for the two disorders and marked overlap in phenomenology. Here we review clinical, epidemiologic, imaging, pathologic, and genetic studies that address the ET–PD relationship. Several lines of evidence support the association between ET and PD, including overlapping motor and non-motor features, relatively high prevalence of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (26–43%) in ET patients, increased prevalence of PD in patients with longstanding antecedent ET, increased prevalence of ET in family members of patients with PD, and the presence of Lewy bodies in the brains of some ET patients (15–24%).

Discussion: There is a substantial body of evidence supporting the association between ET and PD within at least a subset of patients, although the nature and possible pathogenic mechanisms of the relationship are not well understood.
Counterterrorism in Afghanistan: Aligning Resources and Goals
Creators: name: Willis, Jeremy R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: After US Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] and Special Operations Forces [SOF] counterterrorism [CT] operations routed al Qaeda and the Taliban regime, planning for the next phase was underway. It was determined that security and stability operations or counterinsurgency [COIN] operations would be necessary to stabilize the country. Soon after transitioning from CT to COIN operations, COIN operations stalled. Several factors have played a part in the unsuccessful attempts at COIN. First, the Global War on Terror [GWOT] campaign was designed to address a narrow set of goals including destroying, dismantling, and disrupting al Qaeda and its affiliates. Second, US leaders have consistently undermanned the effort with a light military footprint. Next, the various forces continuing CT operations have remained uncoordinated from Joint Forces pursuing the COIN operation. Presently, US financial and political support for the conflict is rapidly declining. With US leaders already beginning troop withdrawals, it is imperative that the US adjust its strategy. Narrowing the focus back to a CT campaign will maximize the available resources and cut back on associated costs. Finally, a CT strategy will keep terror networks off balance, buying time to allow US forces to build Afghan security forces necessary for long-term stability.
Monte Carlo simulations of a diffusive shock with multiple scattering angular distributions
Creators: name: Wang, Xin
name: Yan, Yihua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We independently develop a simulation code following the previous dynamical Monte Carlo simulation of the diffusive shock acceleration under the isotropic scattering law during the scattering process, and the same results are obtained. Since the same results test the validity of the dynamical Monte Carlo method for simulating a collisionless shock, we extend the simulation toward including an anisotropic scattering law for further developing this dynamical Monte Carlo simulation. Under this extended anisotropic scattering law, a Gaussian distribution function is used to describe the variation of scattering angles in the particle's local frame. As a result, we obtain a series of different shock structures and evolutions in terms of the standard deviation values of the given Gaussian scattering angular distributions. We find that the total energy spectral index increases as the standard deviation value of the scattering angular distribution increases, but the subshock's energy spectral index decreases as the standard deviation value of the scattering angular distribution increases.
description: This article include 10 pages, 8 figures, and accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics
Exploring Second Language Learning: Communicative Competence, Pragmatics, and Second Language Literacy
Creators: name: Mecham, Timothy M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: This portfolio is a compilation of the author’s teaching philosophy and three artifacts that explore elements of second language teaching. The teaching philosophy contains the author’s strategies of second language teaching including instructional practice, communicative language teaching theory, and application. This portfolio also contains artifacts of second language teaching that explore communicative competence, formal address pragmatics, and second language literacy. An annotated bibliography of books and articles that have impacted the author’s teaching beliefs and practices is also included.
Donor-Side Determinants of Disaggregated Foreign Assistance: A Sur Approach to Understanding U.S. Economic, Military, and Food Aid Commitments
Creators: name: Hugie, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: This study addresses whether the absolute and relative impact of economic, political, and humanitarian variables that restrain or boost U.S. foreign assistance varies for different types of aid, from a strictly domestic decision-making framework. Using a SUR analysis for U.S. economic, military, and food aid obligations, the various aid budgets indeed behave differently with respect to the explanatory variables. GDP growth, the military budget, and Congressional orientation are more suitable predictors for economic assistance than for food or military assistance. Food aid is less likely to be correlated with the ideological orientation of the Congress and President, and is not significantly related with the military budget and GDP growth. It is, however, positively related with U.S. agricultural subsidies, and is the only variable with any significant (albeit weakly) relationship with U.S. FDI. Military assistance budgets prove to be more difficult to model in contrast to food and economic aid. Domestic poverty appears to enhance economic and food aid budgets, while restricting military assistance granted to strategic U.S. allies. In the aggregate, natural disasters, the ideological orientation of the President, and commercial interests embodied via trade-to-GDP do not appear to significantly influence any of the aid budgets.
Log-Data Visualization Tool for Analyzing and Improving Performance of Data De-Duplication Tool in Charm-II
Creators: name: Erickson, Daniel
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: A de-duplication tool used in CHARM-II, called the CHARM Matcher, produces log files that record why it decides two records are or are not a match. This data, if properly analyzed, could help CHARM developers improve the Matcher over time by tuning its configuration. However, the log data is complex and recorded chronologically in the log files instead of in a way that would aid analysis. Further, visually studying the raw log data is a laborious and difficult task. This report describes a tool that parses and organizes the raw log data, and then produces graphical reports that summarize key performance indicators. The performance indicators give CHARM developers exactly what they need to know to improve the Matcher’s specificity and sensitivity [1] for any particular data source. A significant contribution of this report and prerequisite to creating a meaningful tool was the investigation into possible performance indicators and determination which would be best suited for the existing CHARM matcher. In anticipation of further evolution of the CHARM matcher, the proposed tool is designed to be extensible, so additional indicators and reports could be added later, as the need arises.
Patient-reported exacerbating factors for hidradenitis suppurativa: A cross sectional study
Creators: name: Shams, Rayad B
name: Sayed, Christopher J
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2024

description: To the Editor: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a
debilitating condition characterized by nodules,
abscesses, and tunnels with a predilection for
intertriginous areas.1 Exacerbating factors like sweating,
friction, shaving, and pregnancy have been
previously reported.2,3 This study explores patientreported
triggers for HS in a large cohort with
comparisons by Hurley stage, race, sex, body mass
index (BMI), and smoking status.
Merging the Pathophysiology and Pharmacotherapy of Tics
Creators: name: Augustine, Farhan
name: Singer, Harvey S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Neurology
Tourette syndrome
Physiology, Pathological
Neurotransmitters
Chemotherapy

description: Background: Anatomically, cortical-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical (CBGTC) circuits have an essential role in the expression of tics. At the biochemical level, the proper conveyance of messages through these circuits requires several functionally integrated neurotransmitter systems. In this manuscript, evidence supporting proposed pathophysiological abnormalities, both anatomical and chemical is reviewed. In addition, the results of standard and emerging tic-suppressing therapies affecting nine separate neurotransmitter systems are discussed. The goal of this review is to integrate our current understanding of the pathophysiology of Tourette syndrome (TS) with present and proposed pharmacotherapies for tic suppression.

Methods: For this manuscript, literature searches were conducted for both current basic science and clinical information in PubMed, Google-Scholar, and other scholarly journals to September 2018.

Results: The precise primary site of abnormality for tics remains undetermined. Although many pathophysiologic hypotheses favor a specific abnormality of the cortex, striatum, or globus pallidus, others recognize essential influences from regions such as the thalamus, cerebellum, brainstem, and ventral striatum. Some prefer an alteration within direct and indirect pathways, whereas others believe this fails to recognize the multiple interactions within and between CBGTC circuits. Although research and clinical evidence supports involvement of the dopaminergic system, additional data emphasizes the potential roles for several other neurotransmitter systems.

Discussion: A greater understanding of the primary neurochemical defect in TS would be extremely valuable for the development of new tic-suppressing therapies. Nevertheless, recognizing the varied and complex interactions that exist in a multi-neurotransmitter system, successful therapy may not require direct targeting of the primary abnormality.