cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Parent Training Programs in Changing Parent Behavior
Creators: name: Janiak, Betty Payne
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1975

description: The effectiveness of two types of parent training were evaluated and compared with a control group that received training. A child Management Inventory was constructed for this purpose.
Parent Effectiveness Training was significantly superior to a training program developed by the Utah State Department of Education as measured by pre- and post-test criterion measure. There were no significant differences between the Utah State Department of Education group and the control group. This was determined by applying an analysis of covariance to the pre- and post-test data from all three groups. However, on a follow-up critical incidents test the Utah State Department of Education group showed more persistance of the desired behaviors than the Parent Effectiveness Training group or the control group three months after the completion of the initial study.
No clear-cut conclusions were made as to the effectiveness of one program over the other based on the data. Both programs, however, showed changed over the control group. Further research in the area of the effectiveness of parent training groups was recommended.
The secondary eclipse of CoRoT-1b
Creators: name: Alonso, R.
name: Alapini, A.
name: Aigrain, S.
name: Auvergne, M.
name: Baglin, A.
name: Barbieri, M.
name: Barge, P.
name: Bonomo, A. S.
name: Borde, P.
name: Bouchy, F.
name: Chaintreuil, S.
name: De la Reza, R.
name: Deeg, H. J.
name: Deleuil, M.
name: Dvorak, R.
name: Erikson, A.
name: Fridlund, M.
name: Fialho, F.
name: Gondoin, P.
name: Guillot, T.
name: Hatzes, A.
name: Jorda, L.
name: Lammer, H.
name: Leger, A.
name: Llebaria, A.
name: Magain, P.
name: Mazeh, T.
name: Moutou, C.
name: Ollivier, M.
name: Patzold, M.
name: Pont, F.
name: Queloz, D.
name: Rauer, H.
name: Rouan, D.
name: Schneider, J.
name: Wuchterl, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transiting planet CoRoT-1b is thought to belong to the pM-class of planets, in which the thermal emission dominates in the optical wavelengths. We present a detection of its secondary eclipse in the CoRoT white channel data, whose response function goes from ~400 to ~1000 nm. We used two different filtering approaches, and several methods to evaluate the significance of a detection of the secondary eclipse. We detect a secondary eclipse centered within 20 min at the expected times for a circular orbit, with a depth of 0.016+/-0.006%. The center of the eclipse is translated in a 1-sigma upper limit to the planet's eccentricity of ecosomega<0.014. Under the assumption of a zero Bond Albedo and blackbody emission from the planet, it corresponds to a T_{CoRoT}=2330 +120-140 K. We provide the equilibrium temperatures of the planet as a function of the amount of reflected light. If the planet is in thermal equilibrium with the incident flux from the star, our results imply an inefficient transport mechanism of the flux from the day to the night sides.
description: 6 pages, to appear in A&A, submitted 18 march 2009, accepted 7 July 2009
The Neogene: Part 2: Neogene geochronology and chronostratigraphy
Creators: name: Berggren, William A.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Van Couvering, John A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Paleontology

description: We present a revised Neogene geochronology based upon a best fit to selected high temperature radiometric dates on a number of identified magnetic polarity chrons (within the late Cretaceous, Paleogene, and Neogene) which minimizes apparent accelerations in sea-floor spreading. An assessment of first order correlations of calcareous plankton biostratigraphic datum events to magnetic polarity stratigraphy yields the following estimated magnetobiochronology of major chronostratigraphic boundaries: Oligocene/Miocene (Chron C6CN): 23.7 Ma; Miocene/Pliocene (slightly younger than Gilbert/Chron 5 boundary): 5.3 Ma; Pliocene/Pleistocene (slightly younger than Olduvai Subchron): 1.6 Ma. Changes to the marine time-scale are relatively minor in terms of recent and current usage except in the interval of the middle Miocene where new DSDP data reveal that previous correlations of magnetic anomalies 5 and 5A to magnetic polarity Chrons 9 and 11, respectively, are incorrect. Our revized magnetobiostratigraphic correlations result in a 1.5-2 m.y. shift towards younger magnetobiochronologic age estimate in the middle Miocene. Radiometric dates correlated to bio- and magnetostratigraphy in continental section generally support the revized marine magnetobiochronology presented here. Major changes, however, are made in marine-non-marine correlations in the Miocene in Eurasia which indicate African-Eurasian migrations through the Persian Gulf as early as 20 Ma. The 12.5 Ma estimate of the Hipparion datum is supported by recent taxonomic revisions of the hipparions and magnetobiostratigraphic correlations which show that primitive hipparions first arrived in Eurasia and North Africa at c. 12.5 Ma and a second wave in the tropics (i.e. Indian and central Africa) at c. 10 Ma.
title: A Comparison of Second Grade Children's Learning Curves on School Tasks with Their Respective Performances on the "Black Box Test of Learning Ability"
Creators: name: Knox, Robert Stephen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1975

description: This study investigated the usefulness of the Black Box Test of Learning Ability as an indicator of children's performance on math and writing tasks. Twelve second grade students, seven to eight years of age, demonstrated naivete on both tasks and were subsequently individually administered the learning test. The subjects were divided into two groups, and each group received a different task presentation order. Composite scores were derived for all subjects and tasks, and individual learning curves were compared.
The combined Black Test score produced a significantly high correlate to math (rho = .733) and writing (rho = .841) than either the paired associate or sequential learning tasks alone. Although the length of the learning curve of the BBT was indicative of the learning curve lengths for each school task, trial by trial learning curve comparisons were less reliable. Analysis of these data suggested that the method of instruction (i.e., the amount of attempted practice and appropriate feedback) was the major factor correlating the Black Box Test to each school task. It was suggested that the most useful assessment of "learning ability" would employ a behavioral sample of the task itself, rather than utilize a correlated activity.
title: Self-Imposed Delays of Reinforcement in Conjunctive Schedules
Creators: name: McCarthy, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1972

description: This experiment examined the role of delays of reinforcement in producing the response pattern generated by fixed interval (FI) schedules. Conjunctive schedules which required one response and maintained a 100 sec interreinforcement interval were used. These schedules permitted a variable delay of reinforcement to separate the last response in each interval from reinforcement. The maximum delay was specified, however, by specifying the percentage of the interval which must elapse before responses counted toward reinforcement. Maximum delays of 100, 95, 75, 50, 25, 5 and O seconds were examined and their effects on response rate, response distribution, and post-reinforcement pause were measured.
The study generated the following results: (1) Although the maximum delay possible was specified, this delay was seldom taken; interim responses were emitted and the delay was shortened. Longer median delay of reinforcement produced lower response rates. (2) Fixed interval schedules produced the shortest postreinforcement pauses. When the schedule allowed longer delays the pause became longer. These changes are seen in overall distributions and only slightly affect the mean pause length. (3) When no delays were possible, e.g. on FI 100 sec, the distribution of pauses within the interval was positively accelerated. With schedules which permitted delays the distributions became less positively accelerated. Generally, the longer the delay of reinforcement, the more negatively accelerated the response distribution within the interval.
These data indicate that the delay of reinforcement disrupts the FI schedule performance. Longer delays lower the rate, lengthen the pause and eliminate the pause. Dews, in "The effects of multiple SΔ periods on responding on a fixed-interval schedule," Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1962, 5, 369-374, suggests that the cumulation of delays of reinforcement produces the scalloped pattern. This experiment suggests that this is not the case. Even short delays, e.g. less than 8 sec, disrupt the scalloped pattern. These data suggest that the behavior occurring at the moment of reinforcement, rather than merely the delay of reinforcement per se, determines FI schedule performance.
A simplified statistical model for the geomagnetic field and the detection of shallow bias in paleomagnetic inclinations: Was the ancient magnetic field dipolar?
Creators: name: Tauxe, Lisa
name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Paleontology

description: The assumption that the time-averaged geomagnetic field closely approximates that of a geocentric axial dipole (GAD) is valid for at least the last 5 million years and most paleomagnetic studies make this implicit assumption. Inclination anomalies observed in several recent studies have called the essential GAD nature of the ancient geomagnetic field into question, calling on large (up to 20%) contributions of the axial octupolar term to the geocentric axial dipole in the spherical harmonic expansion to explain shallow inclinations for even the Miocene. In this paper, we develop a simplified statistical model for paleosecular variation (PSV) of the geomagnetic field that can be used to predict paleomagnetic observables. The model predicts that virtual geomagnetic pole (VGP) distributions are circularly symmetric, implying that the associated directions are not, particularly at lower latitudes. Elongation of directions is North-South and varies smoothly as a function of latitude (and inclination). We use the model to characterize distributions expected from PSV to distinguish between directional anomalies resulting from sedimentary inclination error and from non-zero non-dipole terms, in particular a persistent axial octupole term. We develop methodologies to correct the shallow bias resulting from sedimentary inclination error. Application to a study of Oligo-Miocene redbeds in central Asia confirms that the reported discrepancies from a GAD field in this region are most probably due to sedimentary inclination error rather than a non-GAD field geometry or undetected crustal shortening. Although non-GAD fields can be imagined that explain the data equally well, the principle of least astonishment requires us to consider plausible mechanisms such as sedimentary inclination error as the cause of persistent shallow bias before resorting to the very "expensive" option of throwing out the GAD hypothesis.
title: The Effects of Training Designed to Accelerate Piagetian Conservation in Children on WISC Subtest Scores
Creators: name: Winger, Leland J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1973

description: The purpose of this study was to test experimentally for generalization effects to certain WISC subtests from training designed to accelerate Piagetian conservation in children.
Forty-five subjects were randomly selected for participation in this study, which involved a pretest-posttest control group design. All subjects were pretested on a Conservation Test and on the Information, Arithmetic, Picture Arrangement, and Object Assembly subtests from the WISC. Subjects found to be conservers on the Conservation pretest were excluded from the study. Subjects from the experimental group found to be non-conservers on the Conservation pretest were taught conservation principles using sever al different tasks adapted from Piaget's experiments. Following the instructional periods, all subjects were posttested using the same measures used for pretesting.
The results indicated that Piagetian conservation can be experimentally induced in previously non-conserving children, but there was no significant generalization from the induced conservation to the WISC subtests.
Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy
Creators: name: Bossewitch, Jonah S.
name: Preston, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Educational technology

description: This chapter is concerned with the development of tools and activities to help students attend to video-based materials with increased focus and heightened awareness of their own intellectual project. Specifically, we are interested in facilitating deeper and more critical explorations of video and encouraging students to marshal video-based primary sources as evidence to support their thinking. We hope to demonstrate that when video is introduced into a curriculum, these activities produce a deeper level of engagement, better understanding of the content, or even an improvement in students' cognitive capacities for learning from video.
Different classes of quantum gates entanglers
Creators: name: Heydari, Hoshang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct quantum gates entanglers for different classes of multipartite states. In particular we construct entangler operators for W and GHZ classes of multipartite states based on the construction of the concurrence classes. We also in detail discuss these two classes of the quantum gates entanglers for three-partite states.
description: 6 pages
Seals, salmon farms and politics : the institutional culture of seal relocation and other measures to counter seal-fish farm interactions in South-eastern Tasmania
Creators: name: Barraclough, JM
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Qualitative and observational techniques and a hermeneutic methodology were employed in this project. The primary focus was to explore the institutional culture surrounding the development of the Seal Relocation programme and attendant techniques for the mitigation of seal interactions with salmon farms in south-eastern Tasmania. The methodology relied on an inductive, inquiring logic, and produced a broad picture of bureaucratic and political culture in Tasmania that reflected currents of thinking surrounding the nature of late modernity. Foucault and Pusey proved useful in understanding power and resistance and Bauman was valuable for his insight into the fractured identity of the modern organisational actor. Four sub-themes emerged: history, efficacy, ethics and politics, providing four vantage points from which to view the multiple rationalities of the actors involved. It was found that the dominant ideology of development colours environmental management in a disciplined Public Service and polity captured by the technologies of governmentality. There are, however, pockets of resistance.
Cross-disciplinary perspective and multi-simulations embedded in VR (D1.3)
Creators: name: Kinzler, Helmut
name: Zolotareva, Daria
name: Tadauchi, Risa
name: Mnich-Spraiter, Aleksandra
name: Dudley, Jeg
name: Nikolopoulos, Spyridon
name: Brösamle, Martin
name: Hölscher, Christoph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cross-disciplinary platform
multidisciplinary
unified data space
operational scenarios
architecture
structural engineering
MEP engineering
user interface
operational mock-ups

description: Deliverable D1.3 builds upon the cross-disciplinary perspectives of the AEC industry discussed in D1.1and D1.2, by providing a more detailed description of the prerequisites for multidisciplinaryinformation exchange and collaborative design platform functionalities that must be implemented toachieve PrismArch.The topics cover the general usability guidelines (Section 1), technical requirements for howmultidisciplinary data should be managed inside PrismArch (Sections 2), and user-orientedrequirements for data should be managed, visualised and interacted with inside PrismArch (Sections3-6).Section 2 begins by outlining the core data management requirements for multidisciplinary designand simulation. Various PrismArch-specific requirements that both enable and regulate the unifieddesign space are then described in detail.Section 3 describes the core functionality of the data management system inside PrismArch andoffers an analysis of information display methodologies aimed at arriving at the most efficient meansof representing metadata inside PrismArch.Section 4 looks holistically as the user scenarios established in D6.1 and the requirements for the VRexperience set out in Section 3 of D1.2, to arrive at the core functionality necessary to prove thePrismArch concept. The fundamental tasks and actions described in this section informs thePrismArch VR interface proposals in Section 5 and operational mock-ups in Section 6.
Supplementary material: Supplementary File 1, Case 1 vignette, information for teaching facilitator
Creators: name: Chong, Sebastian
name: West, Luke Christopher
name: Khera, Goldie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Supplementary material for: Implementation of novel simulation scenarios to improve multidisciplinary care teaching to medical students, Journal of Surgical Simulation, 2023; 10: 54-58.

Supplementary File 1: Case 1 vignette, information for teaching facilitator
Tracers of physical and biogeochemical processes, past changes and ongoing anthropogenic impacts: the 43rd International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics, Liege, Belgium, May 2-6, 2011
Creators: name: Grégoire, Marilaure
name: Anderson, Robert F.
name: Delille, Bruno
name: Jeandel, Catherine
name: Speich, Sabrina
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biogeochemistry
Chemical oceanography
Hydrology

description: The 43rd International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics (http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/colloquium/) gathered a hundred scientists from around the world to discuss new developments and insights related to tracers and proxies (from temperature and salinity to gases and isotopes) with a particular attention on the use of Trace Elements and Isotopes (TEI) as tracers. The colloquium was organized in connection with the Geotraces program (an ongoing international study of the global marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes, http://www.geotraces.org/) and was the occasion to present the wealth of data collected during large oceanographic expeditions that occurred in connection with the International Polar year. In this framework, particular emphasis was given to the BONUS-GoodHope project, a multi-disciplinary oceanographic cruise that coupled full-depth ocean and atmosphere physical and biogeochemical observations, including trace metals and isotopes (Speich et al. 2013; Speich et al. 2008). The special issue presents a collection of papers dealing with these different thematics.
Summary of palaeomagnetic results from West Antarctica: implications for the tectonic evolution of the Pacific margin of Gondwana during the Mesozoic
Creators: name: DiVenere, Victor J.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Dalziel, Ian W. D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Plate tectonics

description: Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is the western keystone of West Antarctica. Recent palaeomagnetic results from Lower Cretaceous (c. 117 Ma) plutonic and volcanic rocks from MBL in conjunction with a previous palaeomagnetic result from New Zealand suggest that eastern MBL and the Eastern Province of New Zealand originated in a position adjacent to Weddellia (Antarctic Peninsula, Thurston Island, and Ellsworth-Whitmore Mountains blocks) as part of a continuous Pacific convergent margin. This is far from their previously assumed position adjacent to the Western Province of New Zealand and North Victoria Land. The 117 Ma palaeomagnetic pole for eastern MBL constrains the last movements of the Weddellia blocks related to spreading in the Weddell Sea to postdate the initial opening phase of the Weddell Sea. A c. 100 Ma pole for the amalgamated mid-Cretaceous MBL is consistent with like age poles from the Thurston Island and Antarctic Peninsula blocks but all are significantly offset from a newly constructed apparent polar wander path for East Antarctica. From this it is concluded that there has been palaeomagnetically resolvable post-100 Ma motion between East Antarctica and the Pacific-bordering blocks of West Antarctica as a result of extension in the Ross Sea, Ross embayment, and Byrd Subglacial Basin.
Dissipative electromagnetism from a nonequilibrium thermodynamics perspective
Creators: name: Jelic, Asja
name: Hütter, Markus
name: Öttinger, Hans Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dissipative effects in electromagnetism on macroscopic scales are examined by coarse graining the microscopic Maxwell equations with respect to time. We illustrate a procedure to derive the dissipative effects on the macroscopic scale by using a Green-Kubo type expression in terms of the microscopic fluctuations and the correlations between them. The resulting macroscopic Maxwell equations are formulated within the General Equation for the Non-Equilibrium Reversible-Irreversible Coupling (GENERIC) framework, accounting also for inhomogeneous temperature.
description: 19 pages
Experiences of early motherhood following successful reproductive procedures
Creators: name: Hull, Emma
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2023
Subjects: motherhood
parenthood
infertility
assisted reproductive procedures
assisted reproductive technologies

description: Background: 
The current research aimed to explore how women, who have conceived via assisted reproductive procedures after experiencing infertility, describe their experiences of the first year of motherhood, as well as, what psychosocial and contextual factors impacted on their experiences.

Methods:
A qualitative methodology was employed, with Reflexive Thematic Analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006, 2021a, 2021b, 2022) as the chosen method of data analysis. Data was collected by interviewing 12 women who had become parents after successful reproductive procedures.

Results: 
Four key themes were derived from the data analysis process, representing women’s account of how their prior infertility and IVF journeys impacted on their experiences of early motherhood: 1) “It is a big adjustment”: Feeling unprepared for the realities of motherhood; 2) “We’ve got what we wanted”: Navigating early motherhood with a highly sought after and longed for child; 3) “You’ve gone through this physically and mentally draining thing”: Experiencing exhaustion and painful emotions associated with the difficult journey to motherhood; and 4) “That sense of support and sense of community, was really helpful”: The importance of community, connections, normalisation and support. Implications and conclusions: For many women, the psychological impact of infertility and infertility treatment influenced their experiences of early motherhood. To minimise difficult feelings experienced by women post-natally, healthcare professionals should normalise different experiences of early motherhood after infertility, as well as, giving women the chance to reflect on and process the “trauma” of infertility and infertility treatment during and after pregnancy. What is more, protective factors, such as greater partner support and self-compassion, could be increased through policy changes or therapeutic support.
Circum-Mediterranean Neogene (Miocene and Pliocene) marine-continental chronologic correlations of European mammal units
Creators: name: Steininger, F. F.
name: Berggren, William A.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Bernor, Raymond L.
name: Sen, S.
name: Agusti, J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Paleontology
subject: Zoology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper is an update of Steininger et al. 1989. It is mainly concerned with the chronologic correlation of the Miocene and Pliocene European Mammal Biozonations, the "European Neogene Mammal Faunal Zones" (MN zones, for discussion see Steininger et al. 1989) and the "European Mammal Faunal Units" (Agenic, Orleanic, etc., of Fahlbusch 1975; for discussion see Steininger et al. 1989), with the new Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale (Cande and Kent 1992; in press) and the revised Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale, Cenozoic Geochronology, Chronostratigraphy, and Planktonic Foraminifera Zonation (Berggren et al., in press). Within the last years rapid progress has been made in dating mammal-bearing Miocene and Pliocene sediments, either by radioisotopic dating (see also Swisher et al., this volume) and/or by geomagnetic dating (see also the following articles in this volume: Bernor et al.; Kappelman et al.: Sen; and Woodburne et al.). These recent results have been incorporated into this new data base. For a more recent compilation of the Pleistocene record see Agusti 1991 and Agusti et al. 1987.
One-Loop Renormalization of the Electroweak Sector with Lorentz Violation
Creators: name: Colladay, Don
name: McDonald, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The one-loop renormalizability of the electroweak sector of the Standard Model Extension with Lorentz violation is studied. Functional determinants are used to calculate the one-loop contributions of the higgs, gauge bosons and fermions to the one-loop effective action. The results are consistent with multiplicative renormalization of the SME coupling constants. Conventional Electroweak symmetry breaking is effectively unaltered relative to the standard case as the renormalized SME parameters are sufficient to absorb all infinite contributions.
description: 5 pages
title: A Comparative Study of GPA Predictability Using the JAPQ and the SVIB
Creators: name: Peterson, Kathleen A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1974

description: The purpose of this thesis was to compare the results from two vocational interest blanks, the Job Activity Preference Questionnaire (JAPQ) and the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) in the prediction of grade point averages (GPA) for university students. An investigation was also made to determine if the variable vocational interest would contribute to a multiple r composed of American College Test (ACT) scores and GPA.
One hundred students were administered both instruments and predictions made of their GPA's after the completion of two quarters of classroom study and after the completion of the most recent quarter of classroom study. It was found that the predictions from the JAPO were as good as or better than predictions based on SVIB achievement scores. For the 36 males in the sample a corrected multiple correlation coefficient of .48 resulted between Undergraduate Cumulative grade Point Average (UCGPA) and the JAPQ Job Dimension Score whereas the SVIB Achievement Scale secured a correlation of .21. The JAPQ correlation is significant at the .005 level, but the SVIB correlation is insignificant. When the 64 females in the sample were tested the JAPQ secured a corrected multiple correlation coefficient of .40, while the SVIB secured a cross-validation coefficient of .31 between interest and UCGPA. The JAPO correlation is significant at the .005 level and the SVIB correlation is significant at the .OS level.
It was found that for the 22 males in the sample, for which ACT scores were available, when the variable vocational interest, as measured by the JAPQ or the SVIB, is added to the ACT it increases the correlation with GPA from .13 to .63 with the JAPQ and from .13 to .23 with the SVIB. However, for the 46 females in the sample, who had available ACT scores, the gain in adding the variable vocational interest to the combined prediction of ACT and GPA is negligible.
The results were discussed in respect to vocational interest and academic achievement, and for the implications of these results for vocational counselors.
Dusty Structure Around Type-I Active Galactic Nuclei: Clumpy Torus Narrow Line Region and Near-Nucleus Hot Dust
Creators: name: Mor, Rivay
name: Netzer, Hagai
name: Elitzur, Moshe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We fitted Spitzer/IRS ~2-35 um spectra of 26 luminous QSOs in attempt to define the main emission components. Our model has three major components: a clumpy torus, dusty narrow line region (NLR) clouds and a blackbody-like dust. The models utilize the clumpy torus of Nenkova et al. (2008) and are the first to allow its consistent check in type-I AGNs. Single torus models and combined torus-NLR models fail to fit the spectra of most sources but three component models adequately fit the spectra of all sources. We present torus inclination, cloud distribution, covering factor and torus mass for all sources and compare them with bolometric luminosity, black hole mass and accretion rate. The torus covering factor and mass are found to be correlated with the bolometric luminosity of the sources. We find that a substantial amount of the ~2-7 um radiation originates from a hot dust component, which likely situated in the innermost part of the torus. The luminosity radiated by this component and its covering factor are comparable to those of the torus. We quantify the emission by the NLR clouds and estimate their distance from the center. The distances are ~700 times larger than the dust sublimation radius and the NLR covering factor is about 0.07. The total covering factor by all components is in good agreement with the known AGN type-I:type-II ratio.
description: 14 pages, including 11 figures, submitted to ApJ and revised following the referee's report
title: The Production and Prevention of Stomach Ulcers in Rodents
Creators: name: Rudrud, Eric H.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1974

description: Rats given L-Ascorbic Acid in their drinking water prior to and during starvation did not develop severe ulceration in the glandular portion of their stomachs. Control rats which were either nontreated or given deactivated L-Ascorbic Acid developed severe stomach pathology on the starvation regimen.
The present study was based on the finding that food deprivation results in severe rumenal ulceration in rats. Given that L-AA is essential in maintaining tissue integrity and that ulcers are examples of tissue degeneration, the L-AA in large amounts could retard, or prevent, the formation of starvation induced stomach ulcers in rats.
The results show that large amounts of active L-AA were beneficial in maintaining the integrity of rat gastrointestinal tissue exposed to starvation conditions which, in the vitaimin's absence, induces deterioration.
Continental Triassic-Jurassic Boundary in Central Pangea: Recent Progress and Discussion of an Ir Anomaly
Creators: name: Olsen, Paul E.
name: Koeberl, Christian
name: Huber, Heinz
name: Montanari, Alessandro
name: Fowell, Sarah J.
name: Et-Touhami, Mohammed
name: Kent, Dennis V.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Geomorphology

description: The Triassic-Jurassic (Tr-J) boundary marks one of the five largest mass extinctions in the past 0.5 b.y. In many of the exposed rift basins of the Atlantic passive margin of eastern North America and Morocco, the boundary is identified as an interval of stratigraphically abrupt floral and faunal change within cyclical lacustrine sequences. A comparatively thin interval of Jurassic strata separates the boundary from extensive overlying basalt flows, the best dates of which (ca. 202 Ma) are practically indistinguishable from recent dates on tuffs from marine Tr-J boundary sequences. The pattern and magnitude of the Tr-J boundary at many sections spanning more than 10° of paleolatitude in eastern North America and Morocco are remarkably similar to those at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, sparking much debate on the cause of the end-Triassic extinctions, hypotheses focusing on bolide impacts and climatic changes associated with flood basalt volcanism. Four prior attempts at finding evidence of impacts at the Tr-J boundary in these rift basin localities were unsuccessful. However, after more detailed sampling, a modest Ir anomaly has been reported (up to 285 ppt, 0.29 ng/g) in the Newark rift basin (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, United States), and this anomaly is directly associated with a fern spike. A search for shocked quartz in these rift basins has thus far been fruitless. Although both the microstratigraphy and the biotic pattern of the boundary are very similar to continental Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary sections in the western United States, we cannot completely rule out a volcanic, or other nonimpact, hypothesis using data currently available.
Visualizing the Structure of Large Trees
Creators: name: Aydin, Burcu
name: Pataki, Gabor
name: Wang, Haonan
name: Ladha, Alim
name: Bullitt, Elizabeth
name: Marron, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study introduces a new method of visualizing complex tree structured objects. The usefulness of this method is illustrated in the context of detecting unexpected features in a data set of very large trees. The major contribution is a novel two-dimensional graphical representation of each tree, with a covariate coded by color. The motivating data set contains three dimensional representations of brain artery systems of 105 subjects. Due to inaccuracies inherent in the medical imaging techniques, issues with the reconstruction algo- rithms and inconsistencies introduced by manual adjustment, various discrepancies are present in the data. The proposed representation enables quick visual detection of the most common discrepancies. For our driving example, this tool led to the modification of 10% of the artery trees and deletion of 6.7%. The benefits of our cleaning method are demonstrated through a statistical hypothesis test on the effects of aging on vessel structure. The data cleaning resulted in improved significance levels.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures
Jurassic to Paleogene: Part 2: Paleogene geochronology and chronostratigraphy
Creators: name: Berggren, William A.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Flynn, John J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1985
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Paleontology

description: We present a revised Paleogene geochronology based upon a best fit to selected high temperature radiometric dates on a number of identified magnetic polarity chrons (within the late Cretaceous, Paleogene and Neogene) which minimizes apparent accelerations in sea-floor spreading. An assessment of first order correlations of calcareous plankton biostratigraphic datum events to magnetic polarity stratigraphy yields the following estimated magnetobiochronology of major chronostratigraphic boundaries: Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (Chron C29R), 66.4 Ma; Paleocene-Eocene (Chron C24R), 57.8 Ma; Eocene-Oligocene (Chron C13R), 36.6 Ma; Oligocene-Miocene (Chron C6CN), 23.7 Ma. The Eocene is seen to have expanded chronologically (~ 21 m.y.) at the expense of the Paleocene (~ 9 m.y.) and is indeed the longest of the Cenozoic epochs. In addition, magnetobiostratigraphic correlations require adjustments in apparent correlations with standard marine stage boundaries in some cases (particularly in the Oligocene). Finally, we present a correlation between standard Paleogene marine and terrestrial stratigraphies.
Alignment of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker during stand-alone Commissioning
Creators: name: Adam, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The results of the CMS tracker alignment analysis are presented using the data from cosmic tracks, optical survey information, and the laser alignment system at the Tracker Integration Facility at CERN. During several months of operation in the spring and summer of 2007, about five million cosmic track events were collected with a partially active CMS Tracker. This allowed us to perform first alignment of the active silicon modules with the cosmic tracks using three different statistical approaches; validate the survey and laser alignment system performance; and test the stability of Tracker structures under various stresses and temperatures ranging from +15C to -15C. Comparison with simulation shows that the achieved alignment precision in the barrel part of the tracker leads to residual distributions similar to those obtained with a random misalignment of 50 (80) microns in the outer (inner) part of the barrel.
description: 41 pages, 63 postscript figures, submitted to JINST
title: A History of the Constitutional Conventions of the Territory of Utah from 1849 to 1895
Creators: name: Bernstein, Jerome
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1961

description: Of all the States in the Union, certainly no other underwent the trials and tribulations that Utah experienced in her quest for admission. Faced with controversy dealing with geopolitical and theological problems, the struggle occupied the second half of the Nineteenth Century.
Utah's initial quest for statehood suffered from that dilemma of almost all the Western territories, insufficient population. When Utah numbers increased sufficiently, the official pronouncment of "polygamy" as a basic tenet of the Mormon Church, the dominant religion in the Territory, alienated many, the East especially, as being contrary to our western Anglo-Saxon heritage. Utah, looked upon with suspicion by the rest of the nation, was doomed in the early seeking of admission.
The problem of entering the Union was further complicated by the tug-of-war that each new area experienced as the North and the South struggled over the "free or slave" issue.
From the middle 1850's, Utah's denial of recognition centered around the problem of "polygamy," the refusal of the leaders of the predominantly Mormon population to consider at any great length any revision of their theological beliefs, which they coupled to Constitutional protection, together with the firm insistence of the Federal legislators that the practice be abolished made the struggle bitter and drawn out, as each refused to yield.
The territorial constitutional conventions were of "rubber-stamp" nature until the 1870's, when the general influx of non-Mormons forced a small but continuing change of attitude. The sentiment of the 1850's and 1860's was such as to refuse to even voice the issue of "polygamy," seeming to mask the problem with the air that it is our own personal business, and no concern of theirs. The refusal to face the political actualities of the times extended over innumerable memorials, and five statehood conventions, concluding in a surrender to the ever-rising trend of Federal supremacy over local issues with the final achievement of Statehood in 1896.
Utah's first steps towards civil government, the organization of the "State of Deseret," have been examined by Mr. Dale Morgan in his thorough "History of the Stat of Deseret," as well as in several Master's theses and Ph.D. dissertations. The history of Utah's territorial statehood conventions have just been mentioned in passing. It is my purpose to examine each territorial convention beginning with a summary of the initial stage in 1849 and to examine in detail the territorial stages starting in 1856 and ending in 1895, to compare the resultant constitutions that emerged from each, and to show the influence that forced the gradual surrender of a people to Federal supremacy and "popular" insistence.
GRMHD prediction of coronal variability in accreting black holes
Creators: name: Noble, Scott C.
name: Krolik, Julian H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On the basis of data from an energy-conserving 3D general relativistic MHD simulation, we predict the statistical character of variability in the coronal luminosity from accreting black holes. When the inner boundary of the corona is defined to be the electron scattering photosphere, its location depends only on the mass accretion rate in Eddington units (\dot{M}). Nearly independent of viewing angle and \dot{M}, the power spectrum over the range of frequencies from approximately the orbital frequency at the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) to ~100 times lower is well approximated by a power-law with index -2, crudely consistent with the observed power spectra of hard X-ray fluctuations in AGN and the hard states of Galactic binary black holes. The underlying physical driver for variability in the light curve is variations in the accretion rate caused by the chaotic character of MHD turbulence, but the power spectrum of the coronal light output is significantly steeper. Part of this contrast is due to the fact that the mass accretion rate can be significantly modulated by radial epicyclic motions that do not result in dissipation, and therefore do not drive luminosity fluctuations. The other part of this contrast is due to the inward decrease of the characteristic inflow time, which leads to decreasing radial coherence length with increasing fluctuation frequency.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 35 pages, 11 figures (8 color and 3 greyscale), AASTEX. High-resolution versions can be found at the following links: [PS] http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~scn/papers/grmhd_var.ps [PDF] http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~scn/papers/grmhd_var.pdf
A Jurassic to recent chronology
Creators: name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Gradstein, Felix M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geophysics

description: We present an integrated geomagnetic polarity and geologic time scale for the Jurassic to Recent interval, encompassing the age range of the modern ocean floor. The time scale is based on the most recent bio-, magneto-, and radiochronologic data available.
title: The Magic of the Magic Kingdom: Folklore and Fan Culture in Disneyland
Creators: name: Giles, David
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: As fandom studies are becoming more popular and important, one fandom yet remains largely unstudied: the fandom surrounding Disneyland. The Disneyland fandom is unique in a number of ways, chief among them the fans’ relationship to the content creators: unlike many other companies in similar positions, Disney seeks to put boundaries on fan participation and to discourage or stamp out behaviors it deems unacceptable. And yet, in spite of this official meddling, the fandom continues to thrive.
I propose that the reason for this unique dynamic is the Disney “Magic”—that is, fans’ recognition of a unique emotional experience inherent in visiting the park, composed of a mix of nostalgia, immersion in the park experience, and the unique Disney atmosphere, all of which is often described using quasi-spiritual language. I posit that the Magic is what keeps fans coming back: they feel that something is special about the park, and seek to engage with it more deeply through various fan activities—activities which, paradoxically, seem to threaten that same Magic that inspires such dedication in the first place.
In this thesis, I look at three specific fan activities, both to explore this concept of Magic further, and to learn more about this understudied fandom. The first topic is urban legends of ash scatterings in the Haunted Mansion ride, which appear to simultaneously be a commentary on harsh working conditions inside the park, and, more importantly, a perhaps-misguided attempt to pay respect to the deep connections fans have to Disneyland. The second is pin trading, which functions both as a folk activity guests can use to build their public identities, and also as a market for cheap fakes that tarnishe the Magic. The third is Disneybounding, a costuming activity that expresses fans’ love of the park, while carefully stepping around Disney’s regulations preventing such activities.
Even in the diverse and fascinating array of fandoms, the Disneyland fandom deserves some additional attention. Disney Magic, and its resultant fan behavior, has no clear parallel elsewhere. Understanding what makes Disneyland fans tick will lead to a better understanding of how fandoms work in general.
title: Understanding the Mechanisms of Insecticide Resistance in Phlebotomus papatasi and Lutzoymia longipalpis Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae)
Creators: name: Denlinger, David
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: The prevalence of insecticide resistance in vector species around the world is a continuous threat for any success at mitigating the spread of vector-borne diseases. With a limited arsenal of new insecticides, it is crucial for public health programs to understand the geographic range and the genetic mechanisms of resistance to best approach controlling insect vectors. Insecticide resistance is being increasingly observed in phlebotomine sand fly (Diptera: Psychodidae) populations in both the Old World and New World. Sand flies transmit the protozoans that cause leishmaniasis, a disfiguring disease that kills tens of thousands of people each year. The goal of this dissertation was to have both an applied and basic research focus towards understanding resistance in phlebotomines. I began by comparing in vivo and in vitro methods for blood-feeding two species of sand flies, Phlebotomus papatasi and Lutzomyia longipalpis, in the laboratory, both of which are important leishmaniasis vectors. I investigated the susceptibility of both species to ten different insecticides by calculating lethal concentrations that caused varying levels of mortality. Based on these results, I determined diagnostic doses and diagnostic times for both species to the same ten insecticides using an accepted, but novel, assay for sand flies. Finally, I tested for known mechanisms of insecticide resistance in four artificially resistant-selected colonies of sand flies, as well as tested for novel resistance mechanisms. Through applied research, I developed methods for efficient sand fly rearing and for determination of population resistance to insecticides, tools that have worldwide applicability.
Through basic research, I determined that laboratory populations of sand flies have sufficient standing genetic variation needed to survive sublethal doses of insecticides; however, I was unable to develop artificially-selected colonies resistant to these insecticides. My research has generated information to provide new insights into the evolution of insecticide resistance in natural sand fly populations. My results support that resistance development may be possible, but evolutionary challenging, an encouraging finding that may be exploited by vector biologists and public health officials to prevent or slow the development of resistance in sand flies to insecticides