cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Error in outdoor education : the risk to learning
Creators: name: Cure, S
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: In contemporary outdoor education (OE) literature, the role of risk is being critically examined. The critical examinations recommend a shift in focus from high-risk adventure activities to investigating the use of a wider range of pedagogical practices to create engaging learning opportunities for students. The purpose of this research was to investigate the perceptions of OE teachers in Tasmania related to the practices of quality teaching and learning in the outdoor learning process. Specifically there was a desire to examine John Hattie's suggestion that mistakes are the essence of learning‚ÄövÑvp (2012, p. 26) and discover how OE teachers are able to create a learning environment welcoming of student error and use appropriate feedback to create valuable learning opportunities. Seven participants were interviewed in this research and the findings in this study were presented in five key themes. They are (1) goals of OE; (2) learning environments, trust and the temporal nature of OE programs; (3) relationship between error and feedback in the teaching and learning process; (4) the relationship between teacher belief and pedagogical practice; and (5) impact of risk. Participants in this research were clear and unanimous in their beliefs that mistakes, when accompanied by appropriate feedback, are essential aspects of teaching and learning processes. There was some hesitancy, however, as to how this belief can be applied in practice when the outdoor learning environment is deliberately structured to include high-risk activities. This inconsistency between the teacher belief and pedagogical practice with respect to the role of error underpinned the major findings of this research. This research project was a small and localised study examining how teachers perceive the role of error within the outdoor teaching and learning process. It appears from this small sample size that the creation of a learning environment welcoming of student error requires more time than what many of our participants programs allow. The findings of this research are consistent with the shifting nature of contemporary OE literature suggesting that high-risk activities could be relied upon less in OE programs allowing opportunities for alternative principles of teaching and learning, such as welcoming error.
Complexity in a spatially uniform continuum fault model
Creators: name: Shaw, Bruce E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: Plate tectonics

description: Recently, Rice [1993] pointed out that, up to now, the self-organizing models which have produced complex nonperiodic sequences of events have all been sensitive to the spatial discretization used, and thus did not have a well defined continuum limit. He went on the suggest that spatial nonuniformity or “inherent discreteness” may be a necessary ingredient in allowing the complexity to develop in these systems. In this paper, I present a counterexample to this suggestion: a spatially uniform model with a well defined continuum limit is shown to give rise to complex nonperiodic sequences. The complexity arises in the deterministic model from inertial dynamics with a velocity-weakening frictional instability, with the instability being stabilized at short lengthscales by a viscous term. The numerical results are shown to be independent of the spatial discretization for discretizations small compared to the viscous lengthscale. Furthermore, the qualitative features of the complexity produced are seen to be invariant with respect to two very different types of small scale cutoffs, implying a universality of the results with respect to the details of the small scale cutoff.
Is the Sevier Desert Reflection of West-Central Utah a Normal Fault?: Comment and Reply
Creators: name: Allmendinger, Richard W.
name: Royse, Frank
name: Anders, Mark H.
name: Christie-Blick, Nicholas
name: Wills, Stewart
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Plate tectonics
subject: Physical geography

description: Forum discussion on an article originally by Anders et al. Allmendinger and Royse critique Anders et al.'s argument, to which Anders et al. responds. Critique abstract: The continuing discussion of the Sevier Desert region, almost 20 years after MacDonald’s (1976) classic paper, provides a measure of the significance of the region as well as the non-uniqueness of seismic reflection data interpretation. The article by Anders and Christie-Blick (1994) and the nearly simultaneous publication of similar ideas by Hamilton (1994) raise important questions. The interpretation of a Sevier Desert detachment has always been a hypothesis to be tested rather than a fact. In our opinion, however, Anders and Christie-Blick and Hamilton have ignored a variety of basic geologic data requiring the presence of a major low-angle normal fault on the east side of the Sevier Desert basin. Response abstract: We concur with Allmendinger and Royse’s assessment of the detachment interpretation for the Sevier Desert reflection as a ‘‘hypothesis to be tested.’’ We reported on an attempt to do just that: to look for evidence for fault-related deformation in samples from two boreholes that intersect this feature. The absence of evidence for cataclasis in the inferred hanging-wall block or ductile deformation in the footwall naturally raises some interesting issues for the tectonic interpretation of the Sevier Desert. In drawing attention to these issues, we have not ‘‘ignored’’ any basic geologic data, nor are we aware of any data that ‘‘require’’ the presence of a major low-angle normal fault.
title: Modifying Lamb/Mutton Flavors in Processed Meat Products by Smoking, Curing, Spicing, Starter Cultures and Fat Modifications. Investigating the Use of the Technicon InfraAlyzer 400R as a Rapid Method for Proximate Analysis
Creators: name: Osuala, Chima I.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1985

description: Mutton meat was tested in different products in order to obtain prototype products in which mutton can effectively be used without the objectionable mutton off flavor. Mutton flavor reduction was achieved in the processed meat products by: (a) lowering mutton fat to a level of 10% or less, (b) using spices, smoking and/or curing, (c) substituting fat from beef or pork for mutton fat, and (d) the action of microbial starter cultures. Four taste panel sessions were set up to rate these products against an all beef or all pork control for consumer acceptability. Taste panel results indicate that flavor had the greatest effect on overall acceptability of these products, compared to texture and appearance. Proximate meat analysis for fat, protein, moisture and ash were performed using the Technicon InfraAlyzer 400R and the results were compared with values obtained by reference AOAC methods. Correlation coefficients of 0.992, 0.867, 0.992 and 0.511 were obtained for fat, protein, moisture and ash respectively. The two methods were not significantly different (p = .05). These results indicate that the InfraAlyzer may be used as a rapid method for proximate analysis of fat, protein and moisture.
Technology and supervision
Creators: name: Merner, Gerald Blane
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis undertakes to assess the effects of technology on foreman behavior. The data were gathered by observation in a number of industrial settings in the lower mainland of British Columbia. The observer accompanied the foremen, noting the relevant technological characteristics of the foreman's area of responsibility and the time spent by him on various activities. The concept of production technology is first analyzed in terms of its two dimensions—conversion and transfer mechanization. An order for each is established. The term foreman is also considered, and some restrictions are placed on its meaning in this study. Other technological dimensions, considered relevant to foreman behavior, are then outlined. These include the existence and size of buffers, communication aids, complexity, spatial dispersion and supervisory aids. The second part of the paper is devoted to a description of the relation between the machine technologies and other technological variables. The amount of time foremen, as a group, spend on various activities is then detailed, and this is then broken down by technology. Considerable variations across technologies are found. The variation in spans of control across technologies is then described. A series of hypotheses concerning such things as spans of control, time spent on interaction of various types with subordinates, superior and other foremen, and time spent on other activities such as slack, social interaction, production and paper work are then drawn and tested. It is concluded that much of the variation that appears with technology can be explained in terms of the differential occurrence of the other technological dimensions with technology.
Electronic structure of BiMeO3 multiferroics and related oxides
Creators: name: McLeod, J. A.
name: Pchelkina, Z. V.
name: Finkelstein, L. D.
name: Kurmaev, E. Z.
name: Wilks, R. G.
name: Moewes, A.
name: Solovyev, I. V.
name: Belik, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed a systematic study of the electronic structures of BiMeO3 (Me = Sc, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) series by soft X-ray emission (XES) and absorption (XAS) spectroscopy. The band gap values were estimated for all compounds in the series. For BiFeO3 a band gap of ~0.9 eV was obtained from the alignment of the O Ka XES and O 1s XAS. The O 1s XAS spectrum of BiNiO3 indicates that the formation of holes is due to a Ni2+ valency rather than a Ni3+ valency. We have found that the O Ka XES and O 1s XAS of BiMeO3 probing partially occupied and vacant O 2p states, respectively, are in agreement with the O 2p densities of states obtained from spin-polarized band structure calculations. The O Ka XES spectra show the same degree of Bi 6s--O 2p hybridization for all compounds in the series. We argue herein that the stereochemical activity of Bi 6s lone pairs must be supplemented with inversion symmetry breaking to allow electric polarization. For BiMnO3 and BiFeO3, two cases of multiferroic materials in this series, the former breaks the inversion symmetry due to the antiferromagnetic order induced by particular orbital ordering in the highly distorted perovskite structure and the latter has rhombohedral crystal structure without inversion symmetry.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures
Diachronic analysis of the settlement structure in areas of hydraulic hazard: the case study of the municipality of L’Aquila
Creators: name: Zullo, Francesco
Publisher: name: UPLanD - Journal of Urban Planning, Landscape & environmental Design
Year: 2019

description: The themes of risk mitigation regardless of its nature, together with that of increased urban resilience and adaptation to climate change, now define crucial issues in the political agendas of public administrations. While on the one hand the extreme fragility of the Italian territory represents the invariant aspect of the problem, however on the other hand, the lack of an integrated and organic approach to the theme has sharpened over time the effects on the anthropization of environments. The potentially calamitous events, which follow one another with a reoccurrence within a few years, denounce the weaknesses of the Italian settlement each time, often with dramatic consequences in economic terms and with the loss of many lives. The current national settlement structure derives from a poor cogency of the vast area planning, which has given the municipalities more and more decision-making powers on the territorial transformations. Adding to this is the lack of a full awareness and perception of the risk on the part of the social component, which therefore has generated a substantial indifference towards the multiplicity of natural hazards and increasing their exposure to risk. The objective of the work is to therefore reconstruct the evolution of the settlement in the areas characterized by a high hydraulic hazard in the municipality of L’Aquila, before and after the approval of the F.D.E.P. (Flood Defense Excerpt Plan) that occurred in 2008, also in light of the transformative dynamics induced by the earthquake of the following year. The punctual analysis of the structural and functional characteristics of urban fabrics and of the environmental context also makes it possible to provide targeted indications aimed at mitigating risk in such areas.
description: UPLanD - Journal of Urban Planning, Landscape & environmental Design, Vol 4 No 1: Urban Water Management 2.0
Conformally flat tangent bundles with general natural lifted metrics
Creators: name: Druta, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C55, 53C15, 53C05

description: We study the conditions under which the tangent bundle $(TM,G)$ of an $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ is conformally flat, where $G$ is a general natural lifted metric of $g$. We prove that the base manifold must have constant sectional curvature and we find some expressions for the natural lifted metric $G$, such that the tangent bundle $(TM,G)$ become conformally flat.
description: 12 pages, contribution to The Eight International Workshop on Differential Geomerty and Its Applications, August 19 25, 2007, "Babes Bolyai" University, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Uncovering genomic regions associated with trypanosoma infections in wild populations of the tsetse fly Glossina fuscipes
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Trypanosoma
gene–phenotype association in tsetse flies
population genomics
sleeping sickness
Animals
Chromosome Mapping
Computational Biology
Gene Expression Profiling
Genes, Insect
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Genetic Variation
Genome, Insect
Genomics
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
Host-Pathogen Interactions
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Transcriptome
Tsetse Flies

description: © 2018 Andrea et al. Vector-borne diseases are responsible for > 1 million deaths every year but genomic resources for most species responsible for their transmission are limited. This is true for neglected diseases such as sleeping sickness (Human African Trypanosomiasis), a disease caused by Trypanosoma parasites vectored by several species of tseste flies within the genus Glossina. We describe an integrative approach that identifies statistical associations between trypanosome infection status of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes (Gff ) flies from Uganda, for which functional studies are complicated because the species cannot be easily maintained in laboratory colonies, and ~73,000 polymorphic sites distributed across the genome. Then, we identify candidate genes involved in Gff trypanosome susceptibility by taking advantage of genomic resources from a closely related species, G. morsitans morsitans (Gmm). We compiled a comprehensive transcript library from 72 published and unpublished RNAseq experiments of trypanosome-infected and uninfected Gmm flies, and improved the current Gmm transcriptome assembly. This new assembly was then used to enhance the functional annotations on the Gff genome. As a consequence, we identified 56 candidate genes in the vicinity of the 18 regions associated with Trypanosoma infection status in Gff. Twenty-nine of these genes were differentially expressed (DE) among parasite-infected and uninfected Gmm, suggesting that their orthologs in Gff may correlate with disease transmission. These genes were involved in DNA regulation, neurophysiological functions, and immune responses. We highlight the power of integrating population and functional genomics from related species to enhance our understanding of the genetic basis of physiological traits, particularly in nonmodel organisms.
Design of Three electrode systems (Laser Induced Graphene) in CorelDraw
Creators: name: Torres, Maria J
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Design of a 9 and 3 Laser-Induced Graphene electrode system in CorelDraw for printing using Universal Laser Systems.

Design based on the specifications provided by:

Moreira, G., Qian, H., Datta, S. P. A., Bliznyuk, N., Carpenter, J., Dean, D., McLamore, E., & Vanegas, D. (2023). A capacitive laser-induced graphene-based aptasensor for SARS-CoV-2 detection in human saliva. PLOS ONE, 18(8), e0290256. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290256

Specifications: a circle with a working electrode area of 3.0 mm, connected to a stem of 14.3 x 2 mm.
ERBL and DGLAP kernels for transversity distributions. Two-loop calculations in covariant gauge
Creators: name: Mikhailov, S. V.
name: Vladimirov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The results of a two-loop calculation in the Feynman gauge of both the DGLAP and the ERBL evolution kernels for transversely polarized distributions are presented. The structure of these evolution kernels is discussed in detail. In addition, the effect of the two-loop evolution on the distribution amplitude of a twist-2 transversely polarized meson is explored.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure and 2 tables
Caregiving, intellectual disability, and dementia: Report of the Summit Workgroup on Caregiving and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease
Caregiving
Dementia
Intellectual disability
Public policy

description: © 2018 Introduction: A specially commissioned working group produced a report on caregiving, intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), and dementia for the National Institutes of Health–located National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers. Methods: Experts in caregiving, dementia, and IDDs examined the current state of research, policy, and practice related to caregiving and supports; identified the similarities and dissimilarities between IDD-related care and services and the general population affected by dementia; and considered how these findings might contribute to the conversation on developing a dementia care research and services development agenda. Results: Five major areas related to programs and caregiving were assessed: (1) challenges of dementia; (2) family caregiving interventions; (3) supportive care settings; (4) effects of diversity; and (5) bridging service networks of aging and disability. Discussion: Recommendations included increasing supports for caregivers of adults with IDDs and dementia; increasing research on community living settings and including caregivers of persons with IDDs in dementia research; acknowledging cultural values and practice diversity in caregiving; increasing screening for dementia and raising awareness; and leveraging integration of aging and disability networks.
title: The Relationship Between Milk Composition and Swiss Cheese Yields
Creators: name: Ba-Jaber, Adnan S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1984

description: From Cache Valley Dairy Association in Smithfield, Utah, milk from two to three cheese vats plus the corresponding Swiss cheese trimmings, salted cheese, and whey were sampled each week from October 1981 to October 1982. The weights of the Swiss Cheese were recorded. Milk samples were analyzed for fat and protein; cheese samples were analyzed for fat, protein, and moisture; whey samples were analyzed for fat.
By using Gauss-Newton nonlinear Least Squares method of iteration, the data was analyzed. Two formulas for predicting Swiss cheese yield were derived. A good relationship was found to exist between Swiss cheese yield and fat and protein.
In this study it was found that the season affected the percentage of fat and protein in the milk and thereby the cheese yield.
The highest cheese yields corresponded with the months with highest protein and fat percentage in the milk.
title: Comparison of Several Forms of Equations for Predicting Cheddar Cheese Yield from Milk Composition
Creators: name: Moore, Craig A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1984

description: This study was conducted to evaluate several forms of equations for predicting Cheddar cheese yields based on the fat and protein content of milk and moisture content of cheese. Production and quality control data from a Cheddar cheese plant for one entire year was used. This included the pounds of milk that went into each vat of cheese, yield of cheese from each vat, cheese moisture from each vat, and fat and protein percentages of the milk.
Seven models were derived to predict the yield of Cheddar cheese. The seven models were statistically fitted to the data by applying the Marquardt non-linear least squares method of iteration. These were compared with the commonly used Van Slyke and Price formula, with casein estimated as a percentage of total protein. The differences among the eight models were small.
Consistent Deformed Bosonic Algebra in Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Zhang, Jian-Zu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In two-dimensional noncommutive space for the case of both position - position and momentum - momentum noncommuting, the consistent deformed bosonic algebra at the non-perturbation level described by the deformed annihilation and creation operators is investigated. A general relation between noncommutative parameters is fixed from the consistency of the deformed Heisenberg - Weyl algebra with the deformed bosonic algebra. A Fock space is found, in which all calculations can be similarly developed as if in commutative space and all effects of spatial noncommutativity are simply represented by parameters.
description: 14 pages
Evolution of gag and gp41 in Patients Receiving Ritonavir-Boosted Protease Inhibitors
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Adult
Evolution, Molecular
Female
Genotype
HIV Envelope Protein gp41
HIV Infections
HIV Protease Inhibitors
HIV-1
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Mutation
Ritonavir
Selection, Genetic
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Young Adult
gag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus

description: © 2017 The Author(s). Several groups have proposed that genotypic determinants in gag and the gp41 cytoplasmic domain (gp41-CD) reduce protease inhibitor (PI) susceptibility without PI-resistance mutations in protease. However, no gag and gp41-CD mutations definitively responsible for reduced PI susceptibility have been identified in individuals with virological failure (VF) while receiving a boosted PI (PI/r)-containing regimen. To identify gag and gp41 mutations under selective PI pressure, we sequenced gag and/or gp41 in 61 individuals with VF on a PI/r (n = 40) or NNRTI (n = 20) containing regimen. We quantified nonsynonymous and synonymous changes in both genes and identified sites exhibiting signal for directional or diversifying selection. We also used published gag and gp41 polymorphism data to highlight mutations displaying a high selection index, defined as changing from a conserved to an uncommon amino acid. Many amino acid mutations developed in gag and in gp41-CD in both the PI-A nd NNRTI-treated groups. However, in neither gene, were there discernable differences between the two groups in overall numbers of mutations, mutations displaying evidence of diversifying or directional selection, or mutations with a high selection index. If gag and/or gp41 encode PI-resistance mutations, they may not be confined to consistent mutations at a few sites.
title: Evaluation of Wildlife Depredation at Fish Hatcheries in the Intermountain West
Creators: name: Pitt, William C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1995

description: During 1993- 1994, I investigated wildlife depredation at Intermountain West fish hatcheries to quantify losses, determined the reliability of bioenergetics models and hatchery manager perceptions to predict losses, and investigated the effectiveness of simple control measures. I observed predators and surveyed managers to quantify the extent of depredation losses and to identify the species responsible. Great blue herons (Ardea herodias), black-crowned night herons (Nycticorax nycticorax), ospreys (Pandion haliaetus), and California gulls (Larus californicus) were the most significant predators of hatchery fish in the field study, and were perceived as such by hatchery managers. Losses to avian predators at two hatcheries were 7.0% and 0.6% of annual production based on my observational data, but hatchery managers believed depredation losses were 15% at each hatchery.
I estimated the consumption of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) by great blue herons using bioenergetics models of existence metabolism, existence metabolism plus reproductive costs, and field metabolic rate. compared the model-based predictions to observed consumption rates of free-ranging herons foraging at a fish hatchery. The fish consumption predicted by the existence metabolism model and observed consumption were similar from October- June. During the breeding season, observed consumption was higher than consumption predicted by the existence metabolism model but lower than that expected from the energy requirements for breeding individuals. This result was expected given that only a portion of the bird population was breeding. Although consumption predicted by the field metabolic rate differed significantly from observed consumption for more months than the existence metabolism models, predicted annual consumption from field metabolic rate and observed annual consumption were not signliJcantly different (.E < 0.05). Peak observed consumption occurred during August and September and was predicted by the model. Performance of the three models may be improved with estimates of population structure and more reliable population estimates.
I evaluated the effectiveness of perimeter fencing in reducing heron depredation on fish raised in concrete raceways at a trout hatchery in Midway, Utah. Fences were constructed of single-strand monofilament line placed 20 cm above raceway walls. Fences had no impact on the number of birds foraging or their fish consumption rate.
Embodied cognition and STEM learning: overview of a topical collection in CR:PI
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Action
Analogy
Education
Embodied cognition
Gesture
STEM learning

description: © 2017, The Author(s). Embodied learning approaches emphasize the use of action to support pedagogical goals. A specific version of embodied learning posits an action-to-abstraction transition supported by gesture, sketching, and analogical mapping. These tools seem to have special promise for bolstering learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, but existing efforts need further theoretical and empirical development. The topical collection in Cognitive Research: Principles includes articles aiming to formalize and test the effectiveness of embodied learning in STEM. The collection provides guideposts, staking out the terrain that should be surveyed before larger-scale efforts are undertaken. This introduction provides a broader context concerning mechanisms that can support embodied learning and make it especially well suited to the STEM disciplines.
title: Anthropometry, Metabolic Control and Dietary Intake of Youth with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
Creators: name: Follaco Clark, Rochelle A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1985

description: The purpose of this study was to describe a sample of insulin-dependent diabetic youth in terms of selected anthropometric measurements, level of metabolic control and dietary intake. The 22 subjects (10 males and 12 females) were between the ages of seven to 16 years and, except for one female, regularly attended a multidisciplinary outpatient diabetes clinic.
The study involved cross-sectional observation of height, weight, triceps and subscapular skinfold measurements, mid-arm muscle circumference and weight:height ratios, and comparison of these measurements to national norms derived from non-diabetic controls. Levels of metabolic control were observed using glycosylated hemoglobin values, and examined for effect on anthropometric parameters. It was found that the group generally fell within normal distribution patterns for all growth parameters when compared to control data. Level of metabolic control, duration of diabetes and age at onset of disease had no significant effect on the anthropometric parameters studied. Duration of diabetes had no effect on level of metabolic control.
The study group consumed most nutrients in amounts consistent with the 1980 Recommended Dietary Allowances, with the exception of vitamin B6 , folacin, iron and zinc. Consumption of total fat, saturated fat and cholesterol were in excess of the current recommendations for diet in diabetes, and proportion of total energy from carbohydrate tended to be lower than recommended. Mean intakes of vitamins A, C, B 6 and s12 , thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, calcium, phosphorous, iron, magnesium and protein appeared to be higher than mean intakes of the same nutrients reported from the Nationwide Food Consumption Survey (1977-78) and the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1976-80) for corresponding age groups. It was suggested that since young diabetic individuals usually have close supervision of their dietary intake, their intakes are somewhat superior nutritionally than those of non-diabetic individuals.
The study sample reported use of a number of special dietetic foods other than dietetic soda and sucrose-substitutes. Foods used for treatment of hypoglycemic reactions included candy, fruit and juices, regular pop, frosting and special glucose preparations designed specifically for use with insulin-dependent diabetes.
How accurately can we age-date solar-type dwarfs using activity/rotation diagnostics?
Creators: name: Mamajek, Eric E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well established that activity and rotation diminishes during the life of sun-like main sequence (~F7-K2V) stars. Indeed, the evolution of rotation and activity among these stars appears to be so deterministic that their rotation/activity diagnostics are often utilized as estimators of stellar age. A primary motivation for the recent interest in improving the ages of solar-type field dwarfs is in understanding the evolution of debris disks and planetary systems. Reliable isochronal age-dating for field, solar-type main sequence stars is very difficult given the observational uncertainties and multi-Gyr timescales for significant structural evolution. Observationally, significant databases of activity/rotation diagnostics exist for field solar-type field dwarfs (mainly from chromospheric and X-ray activity surveys). But how well can we empirically age-date solar-type field stars using activity/rotation diagnostics? Here I summarize some recent results for F7-K2 dwarfs from an analysis by Mamajek & Hillenbrand (2008), including an improved "gyrochronology" [Period(color, age)] calibration, improved chromospheric (R'_HK and X-ray (log Lx/Lbol) activity vs. rotation (via Rossby number) relations, and a chromospheric vs. X-ray activity relation that spans four orders of magnitude in log Lx/Lbol. Combining these relations, one can produce predicted chromospheric and X-ray activity isochrones as a function of color and age for solar type dwarfs.
description: 8 pgs, to appear in proc. of 258th IAU Symposium "The Ages of Stars", eds. E.E. Mamajek, D.R. Soderblom, & R.F.G. Wyse (in press)
Eocene Calibration of Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale Reevaluated: Evidence from the Green River Formation of Wyoming
Creators: name: Machlus, Malka L.
name: Hemming, Sidney R.
name: Olsen, Paul E.
name: Christie-Blick, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Paleoclimatology
subject: Geochemistry

description: We reevaluate the Eocene geomagnetic polarity time scale on the basis of single-crystal 40Ar/39Ar ages for air-fall tuffs from the Wilkins Peak Member of the Green River Formation of Wyoming. Tuff 6 is dated as 49.1 ± 0.2 Ma, and tuff 3 is dated as 50.4 ± 0.3 Ma (maximum estimate). When combined with published magnetostratigraphic constraints, these age determinations suggest that the currently accepted age of chron C22r is 1.5–2.5 m.y. too old, which supports a significantly longer duration for the early Eocene, for the early Eocene climatic optimum, and the Wasatchian North American Land Mammal Age.
title: Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice, Vol. 24 (2020): Pre-prints
title: Pre-prints
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Cultural Logic: A Journal Of Marxist Theory & Practice
Publisher: name: Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice
Year: 2020

description: Pre-prints of Cultural Logic 24 (2020), additional articles will be added to the issue in the coming weeks.
description: Capitalism and Planetary Destruction...1-29 No Pasaran!
Fasting glucose and body mass index as predictors of activity in breast cancer patients treated with everolimus-exemestane: The EverExt study
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Aged
Androstadienes
Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
Biomarkers
Blood Glucose
Body Mass Index
Breast Neoplasms
Everolimus
Fasting
Female
Humans
Kaplan-Meier Estimate
Middle Aged
Prognosis
Treatment Outcome

description: © 2017 The Author(s). Evidence on everolimus in breast cancer has placed hyperglycemia among the most common high grade adverse events. Anthropometrics and biomarkers of glucose metabolism were investigated in a observational study of 102 postmenopausal, HR + HER2- metastatic breast cancer patients treated with everolimus-exemestane in first and subsequent lines. Best overall response (BR) and clinical benefit rate (CBR) were assessed across subgroups defined upon fasting glucose (FG) and body mass index (BMI). Survival was estimated by Kaplan-Meier method and log-rank test. Survival predictors were tested in Cox models. Median follow up was 12.4 months (1.0-41.0). The overall cohort showed increasing levels of FG and decreasing BMI (p < 0.001). Lower FG fasting glucose at BR was more commonly associated with C/PR or SD compared with PD (p < 0.001). We also observed a somewhat higher BMI associated with better response (p = 0.052). More patients in the lowest FG category achieved clinical benefit compared to the highest (p < 0.001), while no relevant differences emerged for BMI. Fasting glucose at re-assessment was also predictive of PFS (p = 0.037), as confirmed in models including BMI and line of therapy (p = 0.049). Treatment discontinuation was significantly associated with changes in FG (p = 0.014). Further research is warranted to corroborate these findings and clarify the underlying mechanisms.
Edge-induced spin polarization in two-dimensional electron gas
Creators: name: Bokes, Peter
name: Horvath, Frantisek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We characterize the role of the spin-orbit coupling between electrons and the confining potential of the edge in nonequilibrium 2D homogeneous electronic gas. We derive a simple analytical result for the magnitude of the current induced spin polarization at the edge and prove that it is independent of the details of the confinement edge potential and the electronic density within realistic values of the parameters of the considered models. While the amplitude of the spin accumulation is comparable to the experimental values of extrinsic spin Hall effect in similar samples, the spatial extent of edge induced effect is restricted to the distances of the order of Fermi wavelength ($\sim$ 10nm).
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
title: Donating Behavior in Children: The Effects of the Model's Similarity to the Observer, the Observer's Familiarity With the Model and Parental Models
Creators: name: Owens, Charles Ray
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1985

description: Model similarity and familiarity were investigated for adult and similar aged models demonstrating prosocial behavior. Third, fourth and fifth graders (75 male and 75 female) participated. Subjects were given questionnaires regarding their most and least preferred peers and their most preferred parent. The models were described as similar to the subject for some groups.
Subjects were given instructions concerning a sorting task and cash certificates they would earn.
Fifty control subjects viewed a video that contained neither prosocial nor antisocial behavior. For the remaining subjects, a 2 (sex of subject) X 2 (similar age model versus adult model) X 5 (treatment) factorial design was employed. The 5 treatment factors were: unfamiliar models described as a) similar, b) dissimilar, c) with no similarity mentioned, and familiar models who were d) preferred (either a best friend or preferred parent), and e) least preferred (either a least preferred peer or parent).
Subjects (except the control group) saw a video taped model who demonstrated a sorting task and collected 20 certificates. All models shared 10 certificates by placing them in a canister marked "for the poor children". Subjects completed the task and had an opportunity to share while alone.
Significantly more sharing occurred in the similar age than in the adult model group. Both of which imitated more than the control group.
There was no difference in the imitation of males and females overall. There was no difference between the groups that saw unfamiliar models who were described as similar and the groups that saw unfamiliar models with no similarity mentioned. Each of these produced more imitative donating than the control, the familiar preferred model, and the unfamiliar model described as dissimilar groups. The familiar least preferred model group shared more than the control group. There were significant interaction effects between sex and treatment and between sex, treatment, and age of model. Unfamiliar models with no similarity mentioned and peer models each produced more sharing than parent models. Subjects who observed an unfamiliar model described as similar donated more than those seeing an unfamiliar model described as dissimilar. An unfamiliar age-mate model produced more sharing than a familiar and preferred friend. Donations were greater when the subject observed a least preferred peer rather than a best friend. This difference was due to the female subjects' performance.
ШОЛИНИНГ БОШЛАНҒИЧ УРУҒЧИЛИГИНИ ТАШКИЛ ЭТИШ ВА ЯККА ТАНЛАБ ОЛИНГАН ОИЛАЛАРНИ ЛАБОРАТОРИЯ ШАРОИТИДАГИ БИОМЕТРИК ТАХЛИЛИ
Creators: name: Базарбаев, Нодирбек
name: Қодиров, Бахтиёр
name: Рўзимов, Бекзод
name: Комилов, Шиҳназар
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ушбу мақолада Шоличилик илмий тадқиқот институти Хоразм филиали шоли селекция ва уругчилиги  лабораториясидаги якка танлаш йўли билан олинган 500 та оилаларни биометрик тахлили натижаларига кўра ҳар бир навнинг ҳар бир оиласи ўртача 4 донадан рўваклар ва рўвакларнинг узунлиги эса 20,5 см. дан то 25,4 см. гача бўлиши, рўвакларнинг оғирлиги бўйича энг вазмини NZ-2022.2.2.3(Йўлдш) ва КС-2022.2.3 (Манзур) навлари 6.-6,7 гр, рўвак вазни энг ками эса LD-2022.2.3 (Лидер)  ва Лазурный навларида 4.22-4,9 гр бўлганлиги, шунингдек, 1000 дона уруғ вазни борасида энг юқори кўрсаткич GG-2022,2,3 (Гигант)  навларида 44.9 грамм бўлганлиги келтирилган.
Trends over time in enrollment in non-group health insurance plans by tobacco use in the United States
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Health insurance
Healthcare.gov
Individual marketplace
Nongroup health insurance
Tobacco products
Tobacco use

description: © 2017 The Authors Healthcare.gov was created to facilitate the market for non-group insurance in states that did not establish their own marketplaces. In Healthcare.gov, families are asked to report their tobacco use status, and tobacco use surcharges of up to 50% may result. We tabulate enrollment information for 35 states offering insurance plans through Healthcare.gov in both 2014 and 2016. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provided counts of enrollees indicating tobacco use, by state, year, and risk level. The number of enrollees increased from 5.0 million in 2014 to 9.4 million in 2016. From 2014 to 2016, the number of enrollees rose 39% for tobacco users and 90% for non-tobacco users. Reported non-tobacco user enrollment rose faster than reported tobacco user enrollment in 30 out of 35 states. Reported tobacco users are enrolling in marketplace plans at a lower rate and are more likely to enroll in less generous plans. The decline in smoking as reported when purchasing insurance on Healthcare.gov surpasses declines in smoking observed in other data sources, which suggests that tobacco users may be decreasingly likely to report their tobacco use status accurately to avoid surcharges. Finally, we find no evidence of the surcharges being associated with lower enrollment among self-reported tobacco users, or in rates of smoking.
The tobacco industry and the health controversy in Canada : a study in interest group politics
Creators: name: Wattenberg, Mark Henry
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis is an account of the response of the cigarette manufacturers to threats to their interests arising from the smoking and health issue. The purpose of the paper is to provide a case study of a Canadian interest group, and specifically, of a Canadian business group. The tobacco industry offers advantages as a subject because of the availability of published material on numerous facets of the smoking and health controversy, including a year of legislative hearings. As a case study, the paper is essentially descriptive rather than theoretical. It is divided into four chapters. The first chapter deals with the characteristics and strategic position of the industry, including the nature of the forces in opposition. The second chapter describes the government institutions concerned with the smoking and health issue and the access of the industry to these institutions. The third chapter describes the evolution of governmental policy and evaluates the effectiveness of the pressures, direct and indirect, brought to bear by the industry. The concluding chapter places the pattern of interaction between the industry and the government in a comparative perspective and suggests a categorization of the Canadian experience. It is hoped by this approach, rather than a chronological description, to describe with some thoroughness the forms of pressure or influence exerted by the industry on the policy-makers concerned with the issue in question. Three conclusions derive from the account. First, the main focus of activity was at the departmental level, though the Commons played a substantial role. Second, the industry operated from a position of strength by virtue of its economic position and the dependence of other groups on its welfare. Pressures from this position were a major force in preventing abrupt governmental interference with its commercial activities, despite the seriousness of the health issue. Third, the success and setbacks of the American tobacco industry influenced the course of events in Canada. It is suggested that these conclusions may have some general application to Canadian interest group theory, though their main reference is to the case study conducted. The study draws heavily on the hearings of the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Social Affairs, publications of the Department of National Health and Welfare, publications of the industry, and Hansard. Officials in Ottawa provided information on a number of developments. Reports in the Globe and Mail and the Financial Post also proved valuable. Where appropriate, reference is made to studies of other Canadian interest groups and observations from interest group theory in general. The structure of the paper is to be a large extent inspired by the introductory chapter in Harry Eckstein's Pressure Group Politics, which emphasizes the manifold nature of pressure and the variety of factors determining its form and direction.
U-Pb Sensitive High-Resolution Ion Microprobe Ages from the Doushantuo Formation in South China: Constraints on Late Neoproterozoic Glaciations
Creators: name: Zhang, Shihong
name: Jiang, Ganqing
name: Zhang, Junming
name: Song, Biao
name: Kennedy, Martin J.
name: Christie-Blick, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Chemical oceanography
subject: Paleoclimatology

description: Two distinctive volcanic ash beds were found in the terminal Proterozoic Doushantuo Formation in south China. The lower ash bed, ∼2.5 m above the cap carbonate at the base of the Doushantuo, yields a U-Pb zircon age of 621 ± 7 Ma, providing the closest upper limit for a correlative of the Marinoan glaciation. The upper ash bed, near the Doushantuo-Dengying boundary, yields a U-Pb zircon age of 555.2 ± 6.1 Ma, providing for the first time a direct age determination for a prominent negative δ13C excursion (≤−5‰) above the Marinoan glacial level. This excursion, if interpreted to be of glacial origin, is much younger than the Gaskiers Formation (ca. 580 Ma) in Newfoundland, and perhaps the fifth or sixth such level in the Neoproterozoic. That interpretation, however, is not supported by the proliferation of organisms within strata encompassing the negative δ13C excursion in south China and globally, by the lack of a ca. 555 Ma glacial record, and by the absence of stratigraphic evidence for sea-level change. The data call for alternative paleoceanographic models for the origin of Neoproterozoic δ13C excursions not clearly related to glaciation.
On measuring surface wave phase velocity from station–station cross-correlation of ambient signal
Creators: name: Boschi, Lapo
name: Weemstra, Cornelis
name: Verbeke, Julie
name: Ekström, Göran
name: Zunino, Andrea
name: Giardini, Domenico
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Plate tectonics
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: We apply two different algorithms to measure surface wave phase velocity, as a function of frequency, from seismic ambient noise recorded at pairs of stations from a large European network. The two methods are based on consistent theoretical formulations, but differ in the implementation: one method involves the time-domain cross-correlation of signal recorded at different stations; the other is based on frequency-domain cross-correlation, and requires finding the zero-crossings of the real part of the cross-correlation spectrum. Furthermore, the time-domain method, as implemented here and in the literature, practically involves the important approximation that interstation distance be large compared to seismic wavelength. In both cases, cross-correlations are ensemble-averaged over a relatively long period of time (1 yr). We verify that the two algorithms give consistent results, and infer that phase velocity can be successfully measured through ensemble-averaging of seismic ambient noise, further validating earlier studies that had followed either approach. The description of our experiment and its results is accompanied by a detailed though simplifed derivation of ambient-noise theory, writing out explicitly the relationships between the surface wave Green’s function, ambient-noise cross-correlation and phase and group velocities.