cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Legislative regulatory mechanisms for reducing the negative effects of pesticides on public health
Creators: name: Nikolova, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: pesticides/plant protection products; EU legal framework; public health; risk; maximum residue levels

description: The wide use of pesticides to control pests on crops had driven the public attention in the recent years towards the potential risks, arising from their application. The various groups of plant protection products, depending on their main activity, have been constantly improved in order to ensure they are inexpensive, highly effective and with limited risk to the environment and public health. In Europe, like in other countries worldwide (for example in North America) there have been implemented certain legislative basis and control measures for the purpose of regulation the use of pesticides and the hazards for humans and natural resources. With the present work we tried to analyze the existing legal framework in EU, concerning the evaluation, authorization, placing on the market and the communication on the PPPs (Plant Protection Products). We also tried to point out the effects of implementation of the coordinated multi-national programme for control of pesticides.
Design, synthesis and evaluation of doxorubicin based anti-cancer drug conjugates
Creators: name: Sha, Jiang
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Pharmacology

description: The efficacy of chemotherapy is limited by the lack of selectivity and multi-drug resistance (MDR); many patients eventually succumb to their tumors or recurring metastatic disease.  Improved anticancer drugs that can selectively destroy cancer cells and overcome MDR are needed.  A series of doxorubicin drug conjugates were designed and synthesized.  The widely used tumor chemotherapy agent doxorubicin was covalently conjugated to a synthetic ?-v?-3 integrin binding ligand and a polyarginine at the 14-carbon position.  The -v?-3 integrin is over expressed on a number of tumor cells and is necessary for metastatic development.  By targeting the drug conjugates to this integrin, the selectivity of the drug to caner cells can be improved.  Polyarginie is capable to delivering molecules into mammalian cells.  Rapid uptake of the drug by neoplastic cells was expected by incorporating a polyarginine in the conjugate structure.  Cytotoxicity of these drug conjugates was evaluated using the invasive human breast cancer cell lime MDA-MD-231 and breast cancer cell line MCF-7.  The modified drug conjugates showed decreased cytotoxic activity compared with the free drug.  Some of the drug conjugates had selective cytotoxicity toward different cell lines.  The cellular internalization and distribution to the drug conjugates was investigative using confocal fluorescence microscope. The drug conjugates with a polyarginine moiety were found to enter cell much faster than free drug.  The drug conjugates concentrated first in the cytoplasm and then in the nucleus of living cells.  By testing the drug conjugates in a MDR cell line, some of the conjugates were demonstrated to be promising drug candidates to overcome multi-drug resistance.
The effect of two disability-awareness training models on stigmatizing attitudes among future healthcare professionals
Creators: name: Barney, Keith Wayne
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Awareness workshop
Contact theory
Disability
Social model of disability
Stigma
Wheelchair sports

description: Stigmatizing attitudes about disability are a major problem for people who have disabilities, those who interact with them in healthcare settings, and society at large. Past efforts to decrease the negative attitudes surrounding disability have used interaction and exposure activities as mechanisms of change. Research involving Contact Theory shows that casual, unstructured contact often results in stereotype confirmation and a worsening of attitudes between groups of people. Although Contact Theory was developed and tested in the arena of race and ethnicity, recent research has indicated that racial prejudice and disability stigma are essentially the same processes, which promotes the use of Contact Theory in disability research. Using the principles of Contact Theory for program design, this research compared two different workshops intended to decrease negative attitudes about disability among future healthcare professionals. Students from three college majors (Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Recreation) were recruited and randomly assigned to an experiential workshop or a didactic workshop. Participants were administered the Multidimensional Attitudes Scale (MAS) towards persons with disabilities following the workshops. These data were compared with a control group of students from the same majors to determine the efficacy of the workshops in promoting attitude change. Results indicate that neither workshop decreased negative attitudes compared to the baseline results for students from these college majors. The measurement of attitudes using the MAS is a central issue identified in this research. Identifying personal levels of stigma versus awareness of social patterns of stigma is an area needing further research prior to renewed comparisons of workshop curricula.
Einfluss der Rückgrat-Liganden auf das Verhalten α-P,P und α-P,S-substituierter Wolfram-Alkinkomplexe
Creators: name: Ludwig, Stephan
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemistry & allied sciences

description: Es wurden in Komplexen des Typs [(Tp*)W(CO)(X)(Ph2PC2PPh2)] und [(Tp‘)W(CO)(X)(Ph2PC2SBn)] als X diverse Liganden zum Einsatz gebracht und die dadurch erhaltenen Verbindungen hinsichtlich des X-Einflusses charakterisiert. An den Diphosphankomplexen konnte auf diese Weise ein Redoxfenster für den WII/WIII-Übergang von 0,83 V aufgespannt werden, wobei andere Eigenschaften der Verbindungen klare Korrelationen mit dem Elektronenreichtum des Metalls zeigen. Die Komplexe mit P,S-Liganden liegen als Diastereomerenpaare vor, welche ein regioselektives Redoxverhalten zeigen.
Brief an [Johann] Bernoulli
Creators: name: Toaldo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1785

description: von [Giuseppe] Toaldo
description: Mit roter Oblate
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Italienisch
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Optical and Surface Analysis of DNA Microarrays to Assess Printed Spot Heterogeneity
Creators: name: Rao, Archana Nagaraja
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014

description: DNA microarrays have been plagued with analytical problems with quantitation, metrics, figures of merit, and reliability and reproducibility issues, hindering their acceptance in clinical and diagnostic settings. The main deficiency in the printed DNA format is the microspot heterogeneity occurring during array fabrication and further amplified during target hybridization. Work described in this dissertation focuses on assessment of DNA microarray spots generated with conventional pin-type contact printing of fluorescently labeled DNA probes, on industry-standard commercial polymer-coated array slides and their hybridization with complementary oligomer DNA target. Printing of probe DNA microspots shares many features of commonly reported droplet evaporation dynamics that lead to different drying patterns and spot morphologies. This study directly identifies and analyzes different DNA probe chemical and spatial microenvironments within spots, analyzed with high-resolution time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) chemical imaging, confocal epifluorescence, and probe microscopy force imaging methods. Drying of DNA probe spots shows Marangoni flow effects with high densities of probe DNA-Cy3 located in spot centers and nonhomogeneous DNA distributed radially within printed spots with both TOF-SIMS imaging and epifluorescence microscopy. Target hybridization kinetics and duplex formation were assessed using real-time in situ confocal imaging, and confirmed radial hemispherical diffusion-mediated distribution of target capture from spot edge to its interior. Kinetic modeling indicates pseudo-first order kinetics due to transport limitations and local density-dependent probe interactions with diffusing target. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and photobleaching results show that the high- density probe overcrowding in spots facilitates a broad range of target binding interactions regardless of dye orientations. Moreover, lateral probe density heterogeneity observed with high-resolution imaging techniques confirmed with confocal microscopy produces equally iv heterogeneous target capture under normal assay conditions, showing how spot drying produces signal variability. These methods are the first to interrogate single printed array spots providing new support that microspot signal heterogeneity is not purely a result of target hybridization but is initially sourced during immobilization of probes with droplet printing techniques. This will guide new thinking on immobilized density influence on assay performance and how to approach assay endpoints, either kinetically or at equilibrium binding, by modifying spot molecular environments to reliably capture their signal.
Feasibility study of the usefulness of the outcome questionnaire-45;1 for patients diagnosed with schizophrenia
Creators: name: Earnshaw, Dallas Lane
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Questionnaire Evaluation
Mental Health System
Psychotic Illness

description: Outcome measures are an essential part of the mental health system. Self-report data have been debated as to their significance in providing valid information, especially with patients diagnosed with a psychotic illness. This study focused on the feasibility of using the Outcome Questionnaire-45.1 (OQ-45.1), a self-report instrument, with an inpatient population diagnosed with schizophrenia. Scores were compared with ratings on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), a clinician assessment tool. Patient characteristics were noted to identify problems and barriers that might exist for participants and nonparticipants. Results indicated that patients had a difficult time completing the questionnaire without assistance. Length of the instrument was considered a major barrier. Agreement between patient and clinician ratings was not strong (45.8%). Recommendations included modifying the questionnaire to be shorter and more applicable to this population in an inpatient population. Self-report data are not conclusively eliminated as important to program evaluation. The value of obtaining 'subjective well-being' information should be studied further.
Transpiration performance in bioretention systems designed for semiarid climates
Creators: name: Orr, Austin M.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014
Subjects: Bioinfiltration
Bioretention
Low-impact development
Native plants
Transpiration
Urban hydrology

description: Bioretention systems have become an increasingly well accepted element of low impact development within stormwater management plans, but much of the research on these systems has taken place in mesic climates. This study examined the effect of vegetative cover on the performance of three 10 m2 bioretention gardens designed to receive the average annual runoff from a 220 m2 impervious surface in Salt Lake City, UT for one year beginning January, 2012. Three vegetation options were assessed: no vegetation, wetland vegetation that received irrigation, and an upland plant community that received no irrigation. Each garden was lined and runoff inflow and outflow were measured directly. Gas exchange measurements were taken before and after simulated runoff events and used to quantify transpiration volume. In the upland plant community, shrubs were shown to have higher overall transpiration rates and contributed 60% of the total annual transpiration volume. Grass species demonstrated strong transpiration rate increases in response to simulated runoff events in the summer, especially during the driest months. Total annual transpiration from the upland garden was estimated to be 7% of the inflow volume. The wetland plants were able to transpire a greater volume than the upland plants, roughly 15% of the inflow, but this came at the cost of irrigation demand. ET runoff reductions were measured at 15%, 29% and 39% for the unvegetated, wetland, and upland bioretention gardens, respectively. The high reduction determined for the upland garden may be due to a tear in the liner that resulted in unmeasured outflow. Maximum ET for the upland bioretention garden was deduced using transpiration measurements and data from the unvegetated plot to be 22% of annual runoff inflow. Soil moisture content data demonstrated localized reduction in soil conductivity in the upland garden throughout the summer, potentially indicating water stress on the plants imposed by the bioretention system design used for this study. It was shown that regionally native plant communities used in bioretention systems can help improve site hydrology while remaining resilient to seasonal runoff inflow fluctuations without requiring supplemental irrigation. This study examined upland shrubs and grasses spaced at native density. However, future research that explores higher plant density and alternative plant communities may yield improvements to bioretention designs that achieve site specific goals for nutrient removal, ET volume reductions, and infiltration.
Outgrowing your identity: three empirical essays on innovation, identity constraints and product proliferation in specialist organizations
Creators: name: Verhaal, Jeffrey Cameron
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation investigates the competitive environment of craft based specialist organizations. These are often characterized as entrepreneurial, craft based firms that leverage a collective identity of authenticity (and include, but are not restricted to: microbreweries and microdistilleries, artisan cheese producers, custom snowboard, surfboard and bicycle manufacturers, farm to table restaurants, and organic food producers). In this context, I investigate how these entrepreneurial firms leverage reputation, identity, and legitimacy to compete with much larger organizations, despite their inability to garner competitive advantages based on scope and scale economies. The findings are consistent with the notion that craft based organizations operate much differently than mainstream markets.
Brief an Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
Creators: name: Toaldo, Giuseppe
name: Bernoulli, Johann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1776

description: von [Giuseppe] Toaldo
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
description: Druck: Astronomisches Jahrbuch oder Ephemeriden für das Jahr ... : nebst einer Sammlung der neuesten in die astronomischen Wissenschaften einschlagenden Beobachtungen, Nachrichten, Bemerkungen und Abhandlungen. - Berlin : Lange, 1779, II, S.38-39
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description: Bl.143: Daten zur Mondfinsternis vom 30. Juli 1776
Dans le Cabinet de Mrs. Deluc à Genève
Creators: name: Luc, Guillaume Antoine de
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1777

description: [Guillaume Antoine Deluc]
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Druck: Bernoulli, Johann 1744-1807. - Lettres sur différens sujets : écrites pendant le cours d'un voyage par l'Allemagne, la Suisse, la France méridionale et l'Italie en 1774 et 1775 .... - Berlin, 1777, 2, S.28-31
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Januar 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Vollständige Rekatalogisierung nach Standortverzeichnis und Briefkatalog
On the mutual interactions between convective storms and their enviornments during the midlatitude continental convective clouds experiment (MC3E) field campaign in Oklahoma
Creators: name: Bang, Sarah Doherty
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014
Subjects: MC3E
Organized convection
Severe convection
Thunderstorm

description: This work examines in detail the lifecycles of the convection on 20, 23, and 24 May 2011 during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) field experiment in Oklahoma. Furthermore, specific attention is given to the environmental mechanisms that affect the propagation, maintenance, strength, and morphology of organized convection for the duration of the three cases. This study was conducted using the MC3E field campaign observational database, with particular emphasis on ground and airborne radar, radiosonde, and Oklahoma Mesonet data. This work was motivated by the goals of the MC3E field campaign, including improved understanding of convective evolution, organized convection, microphysics, ultimately leading to improvement of parameterization of convection and mesoscale processes in weather and climate models, and improvement of retrievals of precipitation by remote sensing. The three cases examined exhibited leading line/trailing stratiform mesoscale convective system, supercell, and back-building convective structures, each with a complex evolution. From the data analyzed for these cases, we suggest that given certain initial conditions, the vertical wind shear profile is the dominant factor in the determination of storm morphology. If the source of the buoyant updraft is renewed throughout a system's lifetime, then a convective system's propagation and longevity is tied strongly to the strength of the cold pool produced by convective downdrafts, and formation of new convection along the boundaries of the pool.
Schreiben betreffend Tausch von Naturalien mit italienischen Gelehrten
Creators: name: Berlinische Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1776

description: von der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
description: Druck: Berlinische Sammlungen zur Beförderung der Arzneywissenschaft, der Naturgeschichte, der Haushaltungskunst, Cameralwissenschaft .... - Berlin, 1776, 8, S.312
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Comparison of family factors influencing children and adolescents' mental health in Chinese American, Asian and non-Asian families
Creators: name: Xie, Jing
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Chinese American children
Chinese American teenagers

description: Because of the influence of Western culture and differential generational acculturation that leads to increased family conflict, Chinese and Chinese American  youth were targeted as a potential high risk population affected by mental health problems. To address children and adolescents' mental diseases, this study seeks to  identify the risk and protective family factors contributing to these mental health and behavioral problems among youth in Chinese and Chinese American families, and the  necessity of applying evidence-based family programs as an intervention strategy to prevent youth mental disorders. A Phase 1 needs assessment survey was conducted to determine if there were high levels of family conflict and mental health problems in Chinese children in the USA compared to other Asian and non-Asian families (n = 155). In Phase 2, a  quasiexperimental, repeated measures design was used to compare the results of Asian and non-Asian families to see if the Strengthening Families Program (SFP) would likely be effective for Chinese families because of being effective for Asian families in the USA similarly xperiencing differential generational acculturation. Self-report data on 21 parenting, child, and family outcomes were collected from parent's self report using a  standardize questionnaire. One hundred fifty-five participants were from three sources-Chinese families in Salt Lake City (50), a normative comparison group of 56 Asian intervention families group, and 49 non-Asian matched families from the SFP database. The analysis of the pretest data for the three groups revealed there were fewer mental health and behavior problems reported by the convenience sample of Chinese families  compared to the Asian and non-Asian families. Also it revealed that the family intervention was very effective in reducing mental health risk factors for the Asian families and youth compared with the non-Asian Americans group. The limitation of this study is that the  participating Chinese families were not as high risk at baseline in this study as the other two groups. However, this study does suggest that there are areas of mental health problems that can be improved in Chinese families. Areas of similarities between the outcomes from Asian American families and Chinese families include parental, family protective factors, and children behavioral and emotional outcomes.
Effects of chronic amphetamine on central serotonergic and dopaminergic systems in rats of various ages,
Creators: name: Snowhill, Elaine Wyne
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Toxicity

description: The central neurochemical effects of chronic low doses (0.5 or 5 mg/kg s.c., every 12 h for 2 wk) if d-amphetamine (AMPH) were studied in rats of varying ages.  Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH) activities in neostriata of male offspring of dams exposed to 5 mg/kg AMPH during gestation showed significant depressions at 3 weeks of age, while corresponding neurotransmitters were at control levels.  In contrast, the striatal enzyme activities in the dams were normal, but significant depressions were observed in the levels of striatal 5-hydroxytryptamin (5-HT), 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid 5-HIAA, dopamine (DA) 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC), and homovanillic acid (HVA).  All parameters returned to normal by 7 weeks.  Neurochemical changes were minimal in juvenile and adult males subjected to the same AMPH dosing regimen.  The hypothalamic concentrations of 5-HT, 5-HIAA, and DA in adult males were reduced at 16 h, but these parameters were unaffected in the juveniles.  Recovery in the adults was complete by 3 wks post dosing.  Not effects were seen with the lower dose of AMPH (0.5 mg/kg) in any age group. The chronic doses of AMPH used in this study are not as toxic to the central serotonergic or dopaminergic systems of the rat as higher doses that have previously been studied in acute and subacute dosing regimens.  Under these condition, the age of the animal at the time of drug exposure did not significantly alter the severity of the toxicity that was observed.  Further, our data suggest that that Neurotoxicity of AMPH is highly depend on dose and duration of exposure.
Spectroscopy techniques for human disease diagnosis
Creators: name: Navas-Moreno, Maria
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Myeloproliferative disorders
Optical diagnosis
Optical spectroscopy
SERS applications
Surface enhanced Raman scattering

description: Modern medicine would benefi t from the pursuit of new, more speci fic and easier to implement diagnosis tools. In recent years, Raman scattering, surface-enhanced  Raman scattering and fluorescence spectroscopy have proven to be successful diagnostic techniques for a wide range of diseases including atherosclerosis, kidney stones, bone diseases, diabetes, and a wide collection of neoplasms. Optical spectroscopy has several advantages over more traditional diagnostic methods (i.e.,  histopathology, quantitative PCR, etc.) such as faster data analysis, nonspecifi c sample preparation,  nonspecifi c labels/reagents/antibodies usage requirements, and immediate on-site implementation.  In the present work, label-free in vitro fluorescence and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)  spectroscopy have been used to di fferentiate between blood cells of patients aff ected with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) and those of healthy subjects. The SERS technique has also been applied to hemoglobin variants as well as to serum obtained from patients  affected with chronic heart failure who positively  or negatively responded to the seasonal influenza vaccine.  We found that spectral ratios of the background   fluorescence intensity that accompanies the SERS spectra of granulocytes serve as excellent markers for the presence of MPNs. In addition, we also found expression dysregulation of two hypoxia induced factor regulated genes, which correlates with our results obtained by SERS spectroscopy assay in MPN patients and supports the presence of the Warburg e ffect in MPNs. We hypothesize that SERS measures metabolic change in granulocytes through two possible mechanisms: (i) Changes in dielectric properties  of the environment surrounding the silver-cell interface; and (ii) changes in flavinadenine dinucleotide concentrations, which in turn changes the relative contribution of the auto uorescence to the emission spectrum. These hypotheses are supported by SERS measurement of 2-deoxy-D-glucose incubated granulocytes, where the emission spectra show a similar behavior as observed in the SERS spectra of controls and  patients.  Using SERS spectroscopy in combination with multivariate analysis (e.g., principal component analysis) and classi fication algorithms (e.g., support vector machines), we are able to distinguish among hemoglobin variants S, C and E and traits FS and FE, as well as seasonal infuenza vaccine responders and nonresponders within a population of patients su ffering from chronic heart failure.  The results presented here may have an extraordinary impact on the diagnostics of patients having Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, as well as on the health care management of patients aff ected with hemoglobinopathies and chronic heart failure.
By now it should sound like music
Creators: name: Sheets, Nicole Taylor
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012

description: In my dissertation, By Now It Should Sound Like Music, I explore connections between inheritance and writing, and how we experience different kinds of inheritance in  our bodies, families, and spiritual lives. Although my primary genre for this project is the essay, many of these pieces have a story to tell. My look at inheritance is as personal as my immediate family, especially my father's adoption, and the turbulence following my  grandmother's spiral into Alzheimer's. But I also follow stories and figures far outside of my own experience, such as composer Olivier Messiaen and Mother Teresa. The self is unpredictable, exciting quarry to track. And the self, by itself, is rarely enough. I investigate my Evangelical upbringing, especially the stories, songs, and cultural products like the sinner's prayer and the altar call that were part of my early spiritual formation and embedded in family relationships. In part two of the manuscript, I reach beyond the Evangelical culture of my youth to Catholic and Orthodox expressions of Christianity. In search of wisdom, transcendence, or healing, I look to spiritual places like the rocks of southern Utah, the painted monasteries of Romania, and the dehydrated carnival of Burning Man. By Now It Should Sound Like Music includes many different types of writing, from the protein scripts of our DNA to the lakes and canyons inscribed by glaciers. In these essays, the material shape and heft of words as objects, and not just meanings, are items for study in their own right. Music is one of the most important kinds of "writing" in the collection. Musical notation aims at precision but, like writing, allows room for interpretation in the birdseye of a fermata, or the suggestiveness of a metaphor. Music's other side, silence, is the backdrop of this project. Many of the essays are a reaction to silence: a silence imposed because of illness, death, physical distance, or a severed relationship. A priest I like once explained that the Bible is not the revelation but  is a record of the revelation. This manuscript is no Bible, but these essays record. They function like afterimages of things seen and unseen. They function like echoes.
Issue education & Saturday service project handbook
Creators: name: Lloyd, Stanley
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012

description: The Issue Education and Saturday Service Project Handbook will act as a lasting component of future event planning within the Lowell Bennion Community Service Center at the University of Utah. In recent years, the Bennion Center has struggled to maintain a consistent form of issue education and quality/themes within its Saturday Service Projects. One of the main culprits of this is the high turnover of both staff and student leaders alike. This resulted in volunteers within the Bennion Center not always having a full understanding of the social, political, economic, or systemic issues behind much of the service they were performing. The mission statement of the Bennion Center reads, "The Bennion Center fosters lifelong service and civic participation by engaging the University with the greater community in action, change, and learning." The lack of consistent issue education has in some ways inhibited the Bennion Center from fulfilling its mission statement. This is due to the fact that education is necessary to specifically affect, "action, change, and learning." As such, the primary purpose of this Handbook is to help the Bennion Center better fulfill its mission statement. With its roots in the Issue Education Coordinator position, the Issue Education and Saturday Service Project Handbook has developed into a resource available to all Bennion Center students to learn about various methods of researching, planning and executing a Saturday Service Project or issue education piece. Within its covers lie examples of social issues, learning modules, academic resources, suggested timelines and lists of helpful contacts. After working extensively with Bennion Center staff, it has been confirmed that this will become the primary resource for the Bennion Student Board when planning any of the six to eight Saturday Service Projects throughout the academic year. In addition, the handbook will be available in a digital format on the Bennion Center's server to allow for updating and constant revision.
Profile of Navajo nursing graduates: identification of factors affecting academic success
Creators: name: Savage, Nancy G.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Navajo Community College
Arizona
Navajo Indians

description: A descriptive study of graduates of Navajo Community College (NCC) was conducted to obtain a profile of Navajo nursing graduates and to explore factors that affected success in nursing. The great shortage of Navajo nurses available to care for the Navajo people was the problem which prompted this study. Interviews were conducted with 16 of the 22 Navajos who graduated from NCC's nursing program. A traditionality questionnaire was utilized to assess acculturation level of the graduates. Subjects were also asked to identify factors they perceived as affecting success or failure in completing the nursing program and passing state board examinations. Opinions as to why there are so few Navajo nurses were also elicited. Findings revealed that the majority of Navajo nurses in this study demonstrated adherence to many traditional beliefs and practices. Level of acculturation was not a definitive factor of success or failure. Family responsibilities and family support were major factors affecting graduates' abilities to pass state board examinations. Pregnancy during the nursing program and marital problems were more frequent among graduates who failed state boards. Poor English skills were noted as a problem. Psychiatric-mental health nursing was a difficult area for many graduates because of conflict with traditional beliefs. Factors related to the nursing program that were of concern to graduates were high faculty turnover, distances to clinical agencies and inadequate clinical experiences. Positive factors identified were small class size, individual attention and dedicated faculty. Reasons identified for lack of Navajo nurses included inadequate recruitment, expectations for Navajo women to marry early, financial difficulties, fear of violating traditional taboos, lack of family encouragement and fear of failure. Recommendations included provision of family support services such as family counseling and child day care for students, remedial classes to assure English language competency, teaching psychiatric-mental health nursing within the context of Navajo thought, and recruitment and retention of qualified faculty who are knowledgeable of Navajo culture. Major limitations of the study were the small number of subjects, possible response bias because of the investigator's prior contact with graduates and threats to privacy and confidentiality of study participants.
Brief an Daniel I Bernoulli
Creators: name: Trembley, Jean
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1775
Subjects: Euler, Leonhard1707-1783
Frisi, Paolo1728-1784
Mallet, Jacques-André1740-1790
Saussure, Horace Bénédict de1740-1799

description: von Jean Trembley
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Datenimport aus LIDOS / Bernoulli (2004-07-02)
Brief an [Johann I Bernoulli]
Creators: name: Colas de la Treille, Jacques
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1703

description: von [Jacques Colas] de la Treille
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Druck: Johann I Bernoulli Briefe 1, pp.469-471
description: Datenimport aus LIDOS / Bernoulli (2004-07-02)
Brief an [Johann I Bernoulli]
Creators: name: Colas de la Treille, Jacques
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1703

description: von [Jacques Colas] de la Treille
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Druck: Johann I Bernoulli Briefe 1, S.445
description: Datenimport aus LIDOS / Bernoulli (2004-07-02)
Brief an [Johann I Bernoulli]
Creators: name: Colas de la Treille, Jacques
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1703

description: von [Jacques Colas] de la Treille
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Druck: Johann I Bernoulli Briefe 1, S.451-453
description: Datenimport aus LIDOS / Bernoulli (2004-07-02)
Brief an [Johann I Bernoulli]
Creators: name: Barbaud, Henri-Alexandre
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1719
Subjects: Falkner, Dorothea1673-1764
Cassini, Giovanni Domenico1625-1712
Descartes, René1596-1650
Iselin, Jakob Christoph1681-1737
La Hire, Philippe de1677-1719

description: Henri-Alexandre Barbaud (de Thiancourt) teilt Joh. B. seine rein arithmetische Methode zur Herleitung einer allgemeinen Formel für die Summe der Potenzen der natürlichen Zahlen mit. Er bittet Joh. B. um Stellungnahme auch zu seinen Schwierigkeit beim Umgang mit der Zentralbewegung fester und flüssiger Körper. Bewegen diese sich zentrifugal oder tangential?
description: von [Henri-Alexandre Barbaud] de Thiancourt
description: Beim Verfasser handelt es sich um Henri-Alexandre Barbaud (1686-ca. 1739), der in der Korrespondenz unter dem Namen "de Thiancourt" bekannt ist. Er gehörte einer adligen Familie an, deren Anspruch auf den Adelstitel inzwischen erloschen war. Die Bezeichnung "de Thiancourt" verweist darauf. Der Brief enthält Barbaud de Thiancourts Essai "Expressions generales des sommes des six premières Puissances reduites à une même denomination".
description: Bl. 101: leer
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Datenimport aus LIDOS / Bernoulli (2004-07-02)
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Reliability of arrhythmia detection by coronary care unit nurses utilizing telemetry
Creators: name: Iiams, Cindy Kim
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Holter Monitoring System

description: The efficacy of arrhythmia detection by Coronary Care (CCU) nurses monitoring patients for 24 hours via telemetry was determined utilizing simultaneous Holter monitoring as a baseline.  The medical records of 45 male patients were retrospectively reviewed.  A total of 247 significant arrhythmias occurred as documented by Holter Monitoring of which 127 were documented by CCU nurses via telemetry, a 49.4% detection rate.  Significant arrythmias were categorized as 1) Sinus (87.8% detected), b) Atrial (26.9& detected), c) Ventricular (38.1% detected), and d) Atrioventricular Block (33.3% detected).  A comparison of arrhythmias detected between Holter monitoring and telemetry using paired t-test indicated a p value less than or equal to 0.001.  Within the 45 records there were 141 physician requests for arrhythmia detection.  Thirty arrhythmias actually occurred and CCU nurses documented 13 of them (43.3% detected).  CCU nurses documented 114 arrhythmias which hand not been requested by physician order (50.2% detected),  The sample (N=45) was divided into two groups:  Group A, subjects who had never been in the CCU (N=23); and Group B subjects who had been admitted in the CCU (N=22) prior to monitoring by telemetry and Holter monitoring.   The arrhythmia detection rate for Group A was 50.4% with a detection rate of 48.4% for Group B.  These arrhythmias were associated with symptoms recorded by subjects in their log books.  CCU nurses documented two of the symptomatic arrhythmias with strip recordings but no symptoms were narrated in the patient record.  A total of 275 rhythm strips was representative of 127 significant arrhythmias:  17.5% (N-48) gad the rate narratively documented, 9.1% (N-25) had the rhythm identified in writing, and 0.4% (N=1) had the lead placement identified.
Brief an [Johann I Bernoulli]
Creators: name: Colas de la Treille, Jacques
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1703

description: von [Jacques Colas] de La Treille
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Druck: Johann I Bernoulli Briefe 1, S.437-439
description: Datenimport aus LIDOS / Bernoulli (2004-07-02)
Development of direct electron transfer (DET)-based enzymatic biofuel cells
Creators: name: Xu, Shuai
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014
Subjects: Bioanode
Bioelectrocatalysis
Biofuel cell

description: Research on biofuel cells is the interdisciplinary combination of fuel cells and biotechnology. Like conversional fuel cells, biofuel cells convert chemical energy into electrical energy by catalyzing redox reactions at the cathode and anode and manage the flow of electrons and charge-compensating positive ions to form a complete electric circuit. Unlike conventional fuel cells, biofuel cells utilize living organisms, organelles, enzymes, or DNA as catalysts to facilitate the charge transfer. Most of the current biofuel cell technology utilizes mediated enzymatic system at the anode. It is of interest to employ enzymes that can act as "electron transducers" and directly convert the chemical signal to an electrical one through internal charge transfer without any electron shuttling mediator which could result in poor electrochemistry, limited lifetimes, and complicated fabrication methods. The goal is to utilize direct electron transfer (DET) capable pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ)-dependent enzymes to fabricate mediatorless bioanode, which will add versatility and simplicity to biofuel cell technology. There are two approaches to optimize DET biofuel cell performance: (1) to use enzymes in a series to perform multiple-step oxidation of fuel to release the maximum amount of chemical energy stored in each fuel molecule, which allows for enhanced fuel utilization and higher energy density of the fuel cell and (2) to modify enzyme immobilization techniques in order to increase the electron transfer efficiency of each enzyme molecule. In this thesis, a novel bioanode design to perform complete oxidation of glucose will be described. A six-enzyme cascade is immobilized on a carbon fiber paper electrode to stepwise oxidize glucose to carbon dioxide. A further study of the impact of DET enzyme orientation on direct bioelectrocatalysis is carried out by isotropic immobilization of DET enzymes on flat surface gold electrode. A modern method to facilitate electron transfer is also studied by utilizing conducting polyaniline film to covalently bond the PQQ-dependent enzymes to the high surface area polymer matrix.
Brief an [Johann I Bernoulli]
Creators: name: Colas de la Treille, Jacques
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1703

description: von [Jacques Colas] de la Treille
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Druck: Johann I Bernoulli Briefe 1, S.459-460
description: Datenimport aus LIDOS / Bernoulli (2004-07-02)
Brief an [Johann I] Bernoulli
Creators: name: Colas de la Treille, Jacques
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1704

description: von [Jacques Colas] de la Treille
description: Mit rotem Siegel
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Druck: Johann I Bernoulli Briefe 1, S.472-473
description: Datenimport aus LIDOS / Bernoulli (2004-07-02)
Identifying pulsar candidates in interferometric radio images using scintillation
Creators: name: Salal, Jitendra
name: Tendulkar, Shriharsh P.
name: Marthi, Visweshwar Ram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pulsars have been primarily detected by their narrow pulses or periodicity in time domain data. Interferometric surveys for pulsars are challenging due to the trade-off between beam sensitivity and beam size and the corresponding tradeoff between survey sensitivity (depth), sky coverage, and computational efforts. The detection sensitivity of time-domain searches for pulsars is affected by dispersion smearing, scattering, and rapid orbital motion of pulsars in binaries. We have developed a new technique to select pulsar candidates in interferometric radio images by identifying scintillating sources and measuring their scintillation bandwidth and timescale. Identifying likely candidates allows sensitive, focused time-domain searches, saving computational effort. Pulsar scintillation is independent of its timing properties and hence offers a different selection of pulsars compared to time-domain searches. Candidates identified from this method could allow us to find hard-to-detect pulsars, such as sub-millisecond pulsars and pulsars in very compact, highly-accelerated binary orbits. We use uGMRT observations in the fields of PSR\,B1508+55, PSR\,J0437$-$4715, and PSR\,B0031$-$07 as test cases for our technique. We demonstrate that the technique correctly differentiates between the pulsar and other non-scintillating point sources and show that the extracted dynamic spectrum of the pulsar is equivalent to that extracted from the uGMRT phased array beam. We show the results from our analysis of known pulsar fields and discuss challenges in dealing with interference and instrumental effects.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures
Brief an [Johann I Bernoulli]
Creators: name: Colas de la Treille, Jacques
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1703

description: von [Jacques Colas] de la Treille
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Druck: Johann I Bernoulli Briefe 1, S.440
description: Datenimport aus LIDOS / Bernoulli (2004-07-02)
Residence and childcare assistance among the Twe
Creators: name: Vashro, Layne J.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2015
Subjects: Behavioral ecology
Childcare
Residence

description: This document includes three papers from my research on residence among the Twe people of the Lower Kunene Region. The first paper gives an ethnographic account of the Twe. I discuss the Twe's mysterious and potentially unique ethnic history, their complex subsistence, and the ways in which their social organization differs from that of neighboring tribes. The second paper presents a simulation model that shows how we might expect the role of secondary childcare provider to shift from a woman's mother to her older daughters as she moves through her reproductive career. This dynamic might explain why women would want to remain in their natal camp until later in life. This is a common pattern among many traditional populations that is particularly relevant to the study of hunter-gatherers and other groups with limited heritable wealth. The final paper offers an empirical test of the relationship between childcare assistance and residence. Using genealogical and residence history data, I investigate whether women with young dependent children are more likely to live with their mothers. I also test whether women move away from home when they have babysitting daughters as predicted in the preceding simulation model. The findings in the third paper are consistent with both of these expectations.
Brief an Johann II Bernoulli
Creators: name: Teleki von Szek, Samuel
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1770
Subjects: Bernoulli, Daniel1700-1782
Bernoulli, Johann1744-1807
Teleki-Bethlen, SusannaGräfin?-1797

description: Dankt für das Wohlwollen hinsichtlich seiner Empfehlungsschreiben und für Nachrichten über Joh. III Bernoulli. Gratuliert zu dessen Hochzeit. S. Teleki hat selbst eine Gräfin Bethlen de Iktar geheiratet. Grüsse und Dank an Daniel Bernoulli.
description: von Sam[uel] Graf Teleki
description: Mit schwarzem Siegel
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Druck: Szántay, Antal. - Die Teleki-Korrespondenz in Basel / Antal Szántay. - In: Miscellanea Fontium Historiae Europaeae. - Budapest : Elte Bölcsészettudonmányi Kar, 1997, S.182-183, Nr.17
description: Datenimport aus LIDOS / Bernoulli (2004-07-02)
Climatological characteristics and orographic enhancement of lake-effect precipitation over eastern Lake ONtario and the Tug Hill Plateau
Creators: name: Veals, Peter Gregory
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2015

description: The Tug Hill Plateau of upstate New York rises approximately 500 m above Lake Ontario, observes frequent (often heavy) lake-effect snowfall, and is one of the snowiest regions in the eastern United States. This work presents a climatology of lake-effect precipitation created using data from the KTYX WSR-88D radar situated atop the plateau. Base reflectivity imagery was manually examined to identify lake-effect periods (LEPs) during each cool season (16 Sep - 15 May) from 16 Sep 2001 - 15 May 2014. The most active months for lake effect in this region are December and January. There is a tendency for LEPs to begin within a few hours before and after sunset in the spring and fall, with no such diurnal signal observed in the winter. Correspondingly, lake effect is slightly more frequent at night than during the day. Overall, the diurnal variability is weaker than found over smaller bodies of water such as the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Classification of events by morphological type revealed that broad coverage and long-lake-axis-parallel (LLAP) account for ~72% and ~24% of lake-effect hours, respectively. The diurnal signal for broad coverage (LLAP) events was less (more) pronounced than for LEPs in general. The near-shore areas south and east of Lake Ontario receive the most frequent lake-effect precipitation. The Tug Hill Plateau produces a strong orographic signal, with an echo frequency maximum on the western (typically windward) slope. Data from cooperative observer (COOP) sites and the Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) corroborate these radar-derived results. The ‘broadening' of high echo frequency over the Tug Hill Plateau, as well as the existence of the lake-orographic morphology, may point to inland/orographic intensification and generation of precipitation during some LEPs.