cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
High school involvement and student engagement as protective factors for at-risk students
Creators: name: Ruebeck, Chloe
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: At-Risk
dropout
Early Warning System
High School
Student Engagement
Students

description: There continue to be a large number of at-risk students who do not complete high school every year. There are a number of identifiable risk factors that can contribute to an increased likelihood of students dropping out of high school. With advances in data collection, schools are now better able to identify and track students' progress towards graduation with detection systems, called Early Warning Systems (EWS). EWS utilize data on grades, behavior referrals, and attendance gathered from school records to identify students at increased risk for dropout. Students identified by schools as "at-risk" or "off-track" can then be provided with effective interventions designed to prevent dropout.  Student engagement is one variable that schools have the ability to measure and potentially increase through interventions. EWS can be used to help facilitate linking "at-risk" and "off-track" students, who potentially report low school engagement, to a school's preexisting intervention programs in order to prevent dropout. Furthermore, participation in extracurricular activities provided by the school may help make students feel more connected and engaged at school. This can be particularly important for students transitioning from middle school to high school. These transition programs, set up to help connect the incoming class with upper classmates, are a great way for students to acclimate to the high school setting.  With the different programs in place within a high school, it is important that   students are connected with the programs and services that are right for them to help facilitate engagement and connectedness to school. Ensuring engagement and connectedness to school can positively impact grades, attendance, and behavior, and also decrease the likelihood of dropping out. The current study aimed to confirm the model that participation in at-risk programs has a positive impact on student engagement, which in turn, positively impacts student outcomes, such as grades, attendance, and behavior. The study found that participation in at-risk programs did not necessarily improve school outcomes or student engagement; however, students within these programs who reported higher school engagement had better school outcomes.
Kudos and K.O.M.’s: The Effect of Strava Use on Evaluations of Social and Managerial Conditions, Perceptions of Ecological Impacts, and Mountain Bike Spatial Behavior
Creators: name: Creany, Noah E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Smartphone based self-tracking fitness applications (apps) like Strava are increasingly becoming a part of recreation experiences in parks and protected areas (PPAs). Recreation research has employed smartphone GPS tracking (SGT) and volunteered geographic information (VGI) to study visitor behavior in PPAs, but little is understood about how smartphones or fitness apps affect visitor perceptions and behavior during their experience.
The first chapter of this thesis is a literature review of recreation survey and behavior research, social-psychology and technology use theory, gamification, and mountain bike social science and recreation-ecology research. The second chapter is formatted for submission to the Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism and presents results from a survey and global positioning system (GPS) tracking study of visitors to PPAs in Orange County, CA to explore the effect of Strava use on visitors’ evaluations of trail, management, and social conditions, ecological knowledge and perceptions of ecological impacts of recreation and differences in spatial behavior of mountain bikers who use Strava and those who do not.
Xyletinini Gistl 1848
Creators: name: Zahradník, Petr
name: Háva, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptinidae

description: Xyletinini Gistl, 1848
= Vrilettini Böving, 1927.
Euvrilletta Fall, 1905: 192, 196. Type species Euvrilletta xyletinoides Fall, 1905 (N, Nt). Oligomerodes Fall, 1905: 154, 161. Type species Oligomerodes catalinae Fall, 1905.
Neoxyletinus Español, 1983: 83. Type species Xyletinus angustatus Pic, 1907 (I, P).
Paraxyletinus Español, 1972a: 60. Type species Paraxyletinus israelsoni Español, 1972 (E, P).
Pseudoptilinus Leiler, 1969: 57. Type species Ptilinus fissicollis Reitter in Reitter, Saulcy et Weise, 1877 (P).
Pseudoptilinus Leiler, 1963: 112. Ptilinus banatensis Pic, 1912. Nomen nudum
Trachelobrachys Gemminger, 1870: 124. Type species Brachytrachelus kiesenwetteri Morawitz, 1861 (P). Replacement name.
Brachytrachelus Morawitz, 1861: 290. Type species Brachytrachelus kiesenwetteri Morawitz, 1861. Homonym.
Vrilletta LeConte, 1874: 64. Type species Vrilletta murrayi LeConte, 1874 (N, F).
Pseudoxyletinus Pic, 1903b: 182. Type species Pseudoxyletinus fulvolineatus Pic, 1903.
Xyletinodes Español, 1983: 87. Type species Xyletinus hiekei Español, 1972 (E, I).
Xyletinomorphus Pic, 1923a: 6. Type species Xyletinomorphus (Xyletinomorphus) chilensis Pic, 1923.
subg. Macroxyletinus Pic, 1923a: 6. Type species Xyletinomorphus (Macroxyletinus) longipennis Pic, 1923 (Nt). subg. Xyletinomorphus Pic, 1923a: 6. Type species Xyletinomorphus (Xyletinomorphus) chilensis Pic, 1923 (Nt).
Xyletinus Latreille, 1809: 376. Type species Ptilinus ater Creutzer in Panzer, 1796 (E, I, N, Nt, P). subg. Calypterus Mulsant et Godart, 1859: 181. Type species Xyletinus sericans Mulsant et Godart, 1859 (E, P). Notiomimus Wollaston, 1861: 15. Type species Notiomimus fimicola Wollaston, 1861.
subg. Evaniocerius Gottwald, 1983: 136. Type species Xyletinus semilimbatus Pic, 1899 (P).
sbg. Pseudocalypterus Gottwald, 1977: 159. Type species Xyletinus pectiniferus Fairmaire, 1879 (P). subg. Xeronthobius Morawitz, 1863: 164. Type species Ptilinus pallens Germar, 1824 (P).
subg. Xyletinus Latreille, 1809: 376. Type species Ptilinus ater Creutzer in Panzer, 1796 (E, N, P). Sternoplus Mulsant et Rey, 1864b: 263. Type species Xyletinus ater Creutzer in Panzer, 1796.
subg. Xyletomimus Reitter, 1901: 28. Type species Xyletinus sanguineocinctus Fairmaire, 1859 (P).
Xyletomerus Fall, 1905: 192, 197. Type species Xyletomerus histricus Fall, 1905 (E, N, Nt).
subg. Xyletomeridius Español, 1968b: 9. Type species Xyletomerus (Xyletomeridius) longitarsis Español, 1968 (E). subg. Xyletomerus Fall, 1905: 192, 197. Type species Xyletomerus histricus Fall, 1905 (N, Nt).
description: Published as part of Zahradník, Petr & Háva, Jiří, 2014, Catalogue of the world genera and subgenera of the superfamilies Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea (Coleoptera: Derodontiformia, Bostrichiformia), pp. 301-352 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on pages 333-334, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/224794
Brief an [Johann III Bernoulli]
Creators: name: Lexell, Anders Johan
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1780

description: von A[nders] J[ohan] Lexell
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Druck t[eil]w., dt. Üb[ers].: Astronomisches Jahrbuch für das Jahr ... - Berlin : Lange. - 1784, [S.] 187-189
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Juli 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Vollständige Rekatalogisierung nach Standortverzeichnis, Briefkatalog und Originalbrief
Improving Aquatic Habitat Representation in Utah Using Large Spatial Scale Environmental Datasets
Creators: name: Goodrum, Gregory C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Rivers provide habitat for aquatic species, but widespread human water development degrades aquatic habitat, fragments stream networks, and threatens native fish populations. Habitat suitability models are commonly used to identify current instream habitat conditions, but are often species-specific, data-intensive, and rarely suitable to the large spatial scales required in conservation and water resources management. Thus, there is need to develop and validate habitat suitability models that provide ecologically-meaningful estimations of aquatic habitat, but are simple enough to apply at large geographic areas and flexible to incorporate different species. I tested the accuracy of 15 habitat suitability models estimating Bonneville Cutthroat Trout and Bluehead Sucker monthly habitat suitability in Utah perennial streams using unique combinations of four modeled environmental variables; percent mean annual discharge, velocity, gradient, and stream temperature. Modeled discharge and stream temperature matched observed values well, explaining 78-89% of variability in the observed data. Habitat suitability model accuracy varied considerably, but simple models including fewer variables than considered in this study most accurately predicted Bonneville Cutthroat Trout and Bluehead Sucker habitat suitability. Temperature best predicted Bonneville Cutthroat Trout habitat suitability, while gradient and percent mean annual discharge best predicted Bluehead Sucker habitat suitability. Utah stream networks were highly fragmented by instream barriers, but connectivity decreased significantly in May and June when habitat suitability was considered. This work demonstrates that habitat suitability models can accurately estimate habitat suitability when generalized for multiple species and large spatial scales, and that additional variables do not necessarily improve model accuracy. The modeling approach expands current methods for quantifying aquatic habitat conditions for use in conservation and water resources planning.
Pitched Baseballs and the Seam Shifted Wake
Creators: name: Smith, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect that seams have on the way a baseball moves through the air. An examination of the airflow around a baseball led to the understanding that when seams are in certain areas on the baseball's surface the airflow changes. A subsequent experiment was performed which showed that when these changes in airflow were on one side of the baseball more than the other, the ball moved away from the side with the seams. This movement is in a different direction than the movement direction caused by a ball's spin. These experiments were done using balls moving at 90 mph and spinning at 1200 RPM, a baseball tracking system, and a highspeed camera.
UM DESTAQUE TEÓRICO PARA A EMERGÊNCIA PSIQUIÁTRICA
Creators: name: Suellen Nóbrega de Andrade PINHO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: emergência psiquiátrica
abuso sexual
uso de drogas

description: RESUMO

 

A emergência psiquiátrica (EP), pode ser definida com qualquer tipo de situação cuja natureza psiquiátrica na qual existe um risco considerável (seja de um dano grave ou até de morte), e que também requer uma intervenção por meio de terapia imediatamente. Emergências psiquiátricas são geralmente, mas nem sempre causadas por algum tipo de doença mental. Sobretudo nos dias atuais há registros de diversos casos, com destaque para os adolescentes, que buscam cometer suicídio, isso pode ser um reflexo de doenças psicológicas mais profundas. Espera-se, portanto que adquirindo informações básicas sobre as condições e fatores que ocasionam emergências psiquiátricas oriundas dos mais diversos distúrbios, possamos cada vez mais identificar no nosso dia, trabalho, escola ou família eventuais sintomas de possíveis distúrbios psiquiátricos. Em última instância, cuidar de problemas (uma vez que sejam identificados na infância) poderá representar uma vida adulta normal, com comportamentos sociais, relacionamentos, profissão e amor próprios sem as marcas de traumas psiquiátricos ocasionados no passado, sejam esses traumas recentes ou não.
Cultural Ecosystem Services of Agroecosystems Along the Wasatch Front, Utah
Creators: name: Woods, Tiffany K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Agroecosystems, including peri-urban systems, are important providers of a range of services. However, management of these systems has generally been based on the market value of crops, neglecting to capture the broader public goods that ecosystem services provide to stakeholders. While the ecosystem service framework (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment [MEA], 2005) has been adopted to measure the market and non-market values associated with these services, knowledge gaps persist, particularly with respect to the quantification and valuation of cultural ecosystem services (CES). In this paper, the determination of CES values assigned to agroecosystems by residents of two communities along the Wasatch Front, Utah are explored through a randomly administrated survey designed to characterize and quantify CES. Descriptive statistics indicate that participants are motivated to visit farmland or rangeland because of their associated CES values. A principal component analysis is used to categorize specific CES values into factors representing ‘multifunctional’ cultural amenities and ‘traditional’ rural amenities. The clustering of CES values corroborates findings from other studies concerning multifunctional and traditional agricultural land-use preferences. OLS regression models subsequently reveal statistically significant relationships between multifunctional cultural amenities and religious affiliation and farming history. The regression models also uncover statistically significant relationships between traditional rural amenities and household income and community classification. Finally, our survey instrument demonstrates that while we are able to evaluate the range of commonly recognized CES categories, additional research is needed on lesser-studied CES (e.g. spiritual and inspirational values) and synergies among different CES (e.g. interconnected relationship between aesthetics and recreation) before their quantification can be standardized. However, this research demonstrates that CES values are ever-present in agroecosystems and can be integrated in peri-urban and agricultural land management and planning with existing CES knowledge.
Greening-Induced Runoff Loss in the Western United States
Creators: name: Zhang, Xueyan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This study assessed how vegetation will influence long-term runoff trends across the western United States (western US) in the future. I used a land surface model with improved dynamic vegetation root processes to better quantify regional runoff trends across five regions (Upper and Lower Colorado, Great Basin, Pacific Northwest, and California). The model was driven by statistically downscaled and bias-corrected outputs from three global climate models under the Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5 and 8.5 scenarios. Vegetation greening dominated significant transpiration increases that contributed most to increasing evapotranspiration across the western US, especially during spring and summer. Consistent with these trends, runoff exhibited drastic reductions over these five regions, especially during summer. Annual runoff was reduced by up to -79%, -100%, -71%, -16%, and -35% across these regions, respectively. Overall, this study provides reliable fine-scale future projections of water resources for the western US and suggests that vegetation will aggravate the water crisis the western US is currently facing.
Estimating earth pressure exerted by the backfill on the vertical pillars in underground mine stopes
Creators: name: Lévesque, Yan
name: Saeidi, Ali
name: Rouleau, Alain
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90501 Civil Geotechnical Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 91402 Geomechanics and Resources Geotechnical Engineering
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: 91405 Mining Engineering

description: Backfilling of underground stopes and galleries in mines has become a common practice in the mining industry. Backfill increases the stability of mine excavations, and using mine tailings as backfill material yields environmental benefits in that it reduces the amount of waste requiring disposal at the surface. Stresses exerted by backfill on the walls of excavations must be accurately determined. The earth pressure coefficient (K) is the ratio of the horizontal stress to the vertical stress and depends on the material properties. Determining an accurate value of this coefficient in backfills is key to evaluating mine pillar stability. That determination must take into account the geomechanical parameters, which inevitably vary from one backfill site to another. A predetermined standard K value is generally used to determine the stresses on the walls of a backfilled stope. This standard K value is often inappropriate, because important parameter variations ultimately lead to significant errors in stress estimates. This study demonstrates the variability of K in various situations. A method is proposed, using two graphs for adjusting the Marston analytical method to evaluate proper earth pressure values, based on various geomechanical and geometrical parameters. These graphs can be used as charts to estimate K values with a better accuracy based on the characteristics of the stope backfill.
Massive Graviton Spectra in Supergravity
Creators: name: Dimmitt, Kevin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Development of a unified theory of physics would pave the way for new research and technology development for many years to come. Unfortunately, the two best current theories explaining nature, the Standard Model of particle physics and general relativity, do not seem to be compatible, requiring the development of more complicated models which contains both of these at their respective limits. Supergravities are one set of theories which may, at least in part, provide hints as to how it may be possible to unify physics into a single model.
This research project follows from a line of investigation which the primary investigator and collaborators have been pursuing for the past several years exploring the properties of supergravity. The main goal of this project was attempting to confirm whether or not the mass spectra of gravitons are common among different theories of supergravity, and if not to find any properties which are universal, in order to improve understanding of super-gravities as a whole. Our research group examined 8 sectors of symmetry within 3 different supergravity theories and found that these mass spectra are not universal, but that there do exist relations which are. We then found a way to write all the mass spectra we investigated and these relations we found in a universal way using the language of general relativity.
Framing Climate Change in Local Context: Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change In Three Mountain Towns in the Intermountain West Compared to National Coverage
Creators: name: Spradlin, Tyler J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Past research has focused on how journalists cover and frame the issue of climate change or global warming in mainly nationally circulated newspapers. This study compares and contrasts the framing of climate change between two nationally circulated newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post, and three intermountain west community newspapers, Jackson Hole News & Guide in Jackson Hole, WY, Summit Daily in Summit County, CO, and Park Record in Park City, UT. This research incorporates the five generic frames, responsibility, conflict, human-interest, economic consequences, and morality frames defined by Semetko and Valkenburg (2000) when analyzing the newspapers. In addition to comparing between both national and community papers, our research also attempts to analyze the frequency of frame distribution among all five newspapers, whether the use of the frames differs between the years 2011 and 2016, as well as among the three community newspapers themselves. We attempt to answer these questions by first conducting a descriptive analysis that shows the prevalence of the five frames among the newspapers. A chi-square test is used to examine differences between the national and community scales and between the two years and among the three community newspapers. Our findings indicate that there is a statistically significant difference when comparing between national and community as well as between the three community papers, indicating the importance of local context, specifically in media coverage of climate change and in frame analysis more generally. The national newspapers most frequently employed the responsibility frame, followed by the conflict frame, the human-interest frame, and then the economic consequence frame, while the community newspapers most frequently employed the human-interest frame, followed by the responsibility frame. Both the national and community newspapers used the morality frame the least often. This study design allows me to compare newspaper framing of climate change at different scales, over time, and in different contexts. We know that media coverage of climate change is a partisan issue, but community newspapers may be less partisan, so analyzing newspaper coverage at various scales adds to our understanding of media coverage of climate change and how different contexts shape this coverage, which in turn may shape views on climate change.
It's not all about the erection: examining sexual functioning and patterns of sexual activity after radical prostatectomy
Creators: name: Sewell, Kelsey K.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Oncology
subject: Health and Environmental Sciences
subject: Prostate Cancer
subject: Quality of Life
subject: Sexual Activity

description: This study examined the process of sexual recovery after surgical treatment for prostate cancer in a sample of 527 men in relationships, both in the context of their broadly measured Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite (EPIC) sexual functioning summary scores (Aim 1) and in frequencies of sexual activity (Aim 2). Across a period of 5 years, men submitted data up to 10 times about a variety of factors related to sexual quality of life (e.g., levels of sexual desire). Hierarchical linear growth modeling was used to estimate individual growth trajectories for each outcome, allowing for simultaneous examination of intraindividual and interindividual variability. Although everyone experienced a decrement to both outcomes immediately after surgery, results suggested that younger age, higher pretreatment sexual functioning and frequencies of sexual activity, and receiving nerve-sparing procedures were associated with better sexual functioning and higher frequency of sexual activity several months after surgery. Most men's levels of sexual functioning improved over time, though those with higher pretreatment sexual functioning increased at a faster rate. Although on average there was a slight, steady improvement over time in frequencies of sexual activity, individual men also varied from month-to-month around their own average levels of sexual activity depending on changes in sexual desire, confidence in satisfying a partner, perceived erectile ability, perceived orgasm ability, and whether or not they used sexual aids that month. These findings are discussed in the context of methodological and clinical implications in order to guide future research targets and improve clinical interventions.
Irenäus als Christusprediger.
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1760
Subjects: Irenaeus, LugdunensisdpcAbgebildet

description: Radierung, Blatt beschnitten, mit schwarzem und grünem Rahmen umgeben und mit Textfeld versehen. Dargestellt ist der vor Zuhörenden predigende Irenäus von Lyon (140-202).
description: Gregor. Turon. H. Franc. t.i.c. 29 / P.F. Giffart sculp.
[Szene aus der Kreuztragung mit Schlange]
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1780

description: Radierung, Blatt beschnitten, mit schwarzem Rahmen umgeben und mit Textfeld versehen.
description: C.P. Marillier, Inv. ; J.B. Dambrun sculp.
Developing and applying a surface integrity framework to metal cutting on 2024-t351 aluminum with wiper cutting tools
Creators: name: Shoemaker, Trevor Kealoha
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: Aluminum
Machining
Residual Stress
Surface Integrity
Surface Roughness
Wiper

description: Manufacture of a component typically involves a long sequence of manufacturing processes. At the end of that sequence is the finishing process, which defines the surface state of a component. It is well known that the surface of a manufactured component has an effect on its structural integrity, hence the term surface integrity. This research systematically investigates surface integrity with a focus on the metal cutting process. Specifically, this research investigates the effects of the wiper tool nose radius on the surface integrity of the 2024-T351 aluminum alloy with facing and turning machining processes. The research is broken into two phases. Phase 1 involves a detailed investigation of the surface state through examination of metal chips, surface texture, residual stress, and machining forces. Phase 2 involves constant amplitude fatigue loading of surfaces equivalent to those from Phase 1.  Phase 1 of the study showed that the wiper tools yielded a generally lower surface roughness than standard geometry cutting tools. However, the surface profiles yielded by the wiper tools showed additional plastic deformation that was not predicted by geometrical models for the surface profiles. This was attributed to a chip side flow phenomenon that was found to be unique to the chips yielded by the wiper tools. As part of the surface texture study, a normalized kurtosis parameter was developed to describe the deviation from theoretical, geometry-derived surface profiles. Residual stresses measured as part of Phase 1 showed a tensile residual stress profile for 2024-T351 aluminum for all studied cutting tool, cutting fluid, and machining conditions. However, the wiper tool generally yielded less tensile surface residual stresses than a standard cutting tool. It was also found that varying the cutting fluid conditions had no significant effect on the residual stress profile yielded by the cutting process. Phase 2 of this study was marred by undesirable fretting failures at the fatigue specimen grip interface, so relevant fatigue lifetimes of the surface states in Phase 1 were not captured. Potential solutions to this issue have been provided along with the details necessary to perform Phase 2 as part of a future study. In response to the lack of Phase 2 fatigue data, much of this thesis is devoted to providing detailed frameworks and guidance to aid in the future study of metal cutting and other finishing processes as they relate to surface integrity.
[Zwei Frauen und ein Mann]
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1760

description: Radierung. Blatt beschnitten, mit schwarzem und hellgrauem Rahmen umgeben und mit Textfeld versehen. Dargestellt ist eine Szene aus dem Theaterstück "Die Indianer in England" von August von Kotzebue
Harmonic Delay Reduction
Creators: name: Hinnenkamp, Jay E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Stimuli which, during the life of an organism, acquire the ability to increase the probability of behavior that they follow are called conditioned reinforcers. The concurrent-chains procedure has been used to study conditioned reinforcement for over 60 years. During this time several different models have been developed to explain how stimuli become conditioned reinforcers. The three experiments of this dissertation introduced a new quantitative model of conditioned reinforcement (DRTH) and tested its predictions against four existing models. The results of Experiment 1 indicated that DRTH improves upon the accuracy of its predecessor, delay reduction theory (Fantino, 1969), when predicting choice between fixed and variable delays in the concurrent-chains procedure. The results of Experiment 2 indicated that a competing model of concurrent-chains choice, the hyperbolic value-added model, requires unique assumptions to account for choice when long initial links, a component of the concurrent-chains procedure, are studied. The results of Experiment 3 provided mixed evidence that the distribution of delays used in all components of the concurrent-chains procedure is important. While all models were able to account for some of the findings across the three experiments, DRTH made the most consistent predictions across all three experiments.
Additional file 3 of Rapid divergence of a gamete recognition gene promoted macroevolution of Eutheria
Creators: name: Roberts, Emma K.
name: Tardif, Steve
name: Wright, Emily A.
name: Platt, Roy N.
name: Bradley, Robert D.
name: Hardy, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. Presents full results narratives for topological comparisons of the Adam2, Zp2, Prm1, Tecta, and Cytb gene trees, as well as the DRYAD DOI and URL for shared data, including accession numbers for all database sequence files.
Load Forecasting Analysis Using Contextual Data and Integration With Microgrids Used For Off Grid EV Charging Stations
Creators: name: Neema, Ashit
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Electricity is an essential component of the smooth working of every sector. If a successful prediction of how much electricity will be required for say the next 24 hours or 48 hours can be made, it will not only help in efficiently planning the activities and operations but also help in minimizing the cost incurred. In this thesis the same is being attempted, first, a model is created that can predict the energy consumption of households using various tools available. To achieve this, historical data of the past 5 years that has been recorded in London has been used. Secondly, a model is created that can forecast future energy requirements of EV charging stations, which will help in optimizing their working in off-grid areas. To achieve this, data that has been recorded for more than 100 charging stations across the Salt Lake area for around 4 years has been used.
The second part of this thesis involves integrating the load forecasting model with the solar energy forecasting model and microgrid optimization. Since microgrid can disconnect from the energy source and work autonomously, solar energy can be used to generate power that can be used instead of the energy that is bought from the grid. This will help in building an efficient model that maximizes the profit by making sure energy is bought at a minimum price and the same energy is being utilized when the demand is high.
Brief an [Johann III Bernoulli]
Creators: name: Lexell, Anders Johan
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1773

description: von And[ers] J[ohan] Lexell
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Druck t[eil]w., dt. Üb[ers].: Astronomisches Jahrbuch oder Ephemeriden für das Jahr ... - Berlin : Lange. - 1776, II, [S.] 174-184
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Juli 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Vollständige Rekatalogisierung nach Standortverzeichnis, Briefkatalog und Originalbrief
Trisiloxane Surfactant Adjuvants in Pollen
Creators: name: Slade, Autumn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Chemicals are often added to agricultural pesticide mixes to help increase the efficiency of the field spray solution, and one of the main groups of chemicals used for this purpose are trisiloxane surfactants (TSSs). Normally TSSs are considered non-toxic, but recent studies have shown TSSs to have negative impacts on organisms like honey bees. Though TSSs have recently been found in environmental sources like water, pollen, and beeswax, little is known about how TSSs behave in the environment or affects active ingredients, like pesticides.
To help determine the environmental prevalence and fate of TSSs, several studies were performed. Pollen was collected from across the United States and analyzed for TSS-H, TSS-COCH3, and TSS-CH3, where TSS-H and a TSS-COCH3 like compound were found, along with nine pesticides. The likelihood for TSSs to be found in the air, water, roots, and plants was looked at as well. TSSs were determined to not be of a great concern in the air and were rapidly degradable in water in basic or acidic conditions with half of the compound disappearing in less than two days. TSSs were also found to sorb to many different surfaces, including pollen and polypropylene, a type of commonly used plastic. Lastly, TSSs were not found to readily travel from plant root solution to the leaves and flowers. This means that overall, TSSs are not stable in the environment and are not likely to travel into pollen at significant concentrations except potentially through direct contact onto the pollen or repeat exposures to the roots or leaves.
Effect of Long Pasteurization Run Times on Bacterial Numbers in Milk
Creators: name: Tattersall, Brynli
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This project was funded by the Western Dairy Center to understand how long a milk pasteurizer can be operated before increases in bacterial numbers are observed in the pasteurized milk. While pasteurization kills pathogenic bacteria there are some non-pathogenic bacteria that can survive and have the ability to become attached to the surfaces in the cooling sections of the pasteurizer. Some bacteria can also produce spores that survive pasteurization even if the bacterial cells are killed. Temperatures in the cooling section remain in a range suitable for growth of these heat-tolerant bacteria and can allow germination of bacterial spores. While this is not a health issue, it can affect the quality of the milk and other dairy foods if spoilage bacterial numbers become high.
We constructed a laboratory-scale heat exchanger for pasteurizing milk and monitored the number and type of bacteria contained in the milk. The system was operated for 18 hours with a continuous flow of milk being heated (to 72°C (161°F) for 15 seconds) followed by cooling. Sample of milk were collected every hour and then analysed for the number of bacteria and the number of bacterial spores.
Bacteria that would have survived pasteurization (thermophilic bacteria) of the milk stayed at the baseline level for the first 7 hours of processing. There was a 10 to 20 fold higher level of bacteria in the milk after 8 hours processing, followed by another 10 fold increase after 14 hours of processing. Operating a pasteurizer for extended times will lead to increased bacterial load in pasteurized milk which can cause quality problems.
Additional file 2 of Conceptualization, detection, and management of psychological distress and mental health conditions among people with tuberculosis in Zambia: a qualitative study with stakeholders’ and TB health workers
Creators: name: Mainga, T.
name: Gondwe, M.
name: Stewart, R. C.
name: Mactaggart, I.
name: Shanaube, K.
name: Ayles, H.
name: Bond, V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. TB health worker in-depth interview guide.
Recombinant Piriform Spider Silk Production
Creators: name: Peterson, Cole R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Spider silks are remarkable biomaterials, possessing a variety of desirable mechanical and material properties. Humans have long-sought to utilize these materials. Spiders produce a range of different types of silks for different purposes, such as web-building, egg casing, and prey swathing. Because spiders are difficult to farm, a synthetic biological approach must be used to produce silk-like proteins. This research is intended to improve the production of piriform, a specific type of spider silk. This was done with targeted-improvements to microbial metabolism and recovery methodologies. The methods developed in this research are useful for other types of silk production and generally contribute to a body of knowledge on the commercialization of spider silk products.
Water, Fish, and Fire: Interdisciplinary Research on Ecosystem Services and Climate Adaptation
Creators: name: Prudencio, Liana
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Ecosystem services, or benefits from the environment, are plentiful and vary from place to place. Human activities and climate change have impacted these services in every region of the world. This dissertation explores multiple ecosystem services, from water quality improvement to provisioning of fish and habitat, in multiple and international contexts. The first chapter synthesizes the literature on stormwater management and ecosystem services, finding that research at this intersection has provided many parcel-level studies and frameworks for implementing green infrastructure. The second chapter extends the stormwater management literature by quantifying the impacts of green infrastructure on water quantity and quality at the watershed scale, showing that various amounts of green stormwater infrastructure lead to reduction in peak flow and water quality improvements via reductions in total phosphorus loadings. The third chapter contributes to our understanding of fire trends in the Intermountain West, the economic impacts of fire, and how fire managers are adapting their actions and policies.The final chapter extends this dissertation to the Lower Mekong Basin, which is experiencing heavy fishing pressure that threatens the livelihoods and food security for millions in the Tonle Sap system of Cambodia. The results show that changes in timing, duration, and magnitude of flows from hydropower development pose risks for many migratory fish in this region. With interdisciplinary approaches, these chapters have led to a multi-faceted study of ecosystem services.
Novel Polymorphisms of ZRSR2 and GPM6B Gene Homologs and Their Use in Sex Identification of Bovine and Porcine Species
Creators: name: Peterson, Evan K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Accurate and cost-effective PCR based sex identification is important in animal production because it gives producers the ability to determine the sex of embryos prior to transfer, saving time and money. The most efficient PCR sex identification assays work by using a single primer pair to amplify a specific target region located on the Y-chromosome and a second, separate target region on the X-chromosome.
This thesis reports the design of two novel assays. The first assay was designed to target the Zinc finger CCCH-type, RNA binding motif and serine/arginine rich 2 (ZRSR2) gene found on the X-chromosome and its Y-chromosome homolog, ZRSR2Y, in European domestic cattle (Bos taurus). It creates X- and Y-specific amplicons of 149 bp and 116 bp long respectively and is effective for sex identification of Bos taurus, African domestic cattle (Bos indicus), bison (Bison bison), domestic goat (Capra hircus), domestic sheep (Ovis aries), and domestic yak (Bos grunniens).
The second assay was designed to target the glycoprotein M6B (GPM6B) gene found on the X-chromosome in domestic pigs (Sus scrofa) and a homologous pseudogene on the Y-chromosome. It creates X- and Y-specific amplicons of 244 bp and 201 bp long, respectively. The presence of a 16 bp intron deletion variant (rs1111696537) on the X-specific amplicon in a subset of the population was confirmed. Despite the variant, the primer pair is effective for sex identification of domestic pigs.
Dissecting the Neural Circuitry Underlying Aversion to Ethanol
Creators: name: Sheth, Chandni
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016

description: Drugs of abuse, including ethanol, have rewarding and aversive effects, and the balance between them determines drug intake. Although the role of rewarding effects in drug intake has been characterized from a behavioral, neuroanatomical and neurobiological standpoint, the neural mechanisms and neural circuitry underlying aversion to drugs of abuse has not been investigated. The purpose of my dissertation was to dissect the neural circuitry underlying aversion to ethanol. The lateral habenula (LHb) plays an important role in learning driven by aversive outcomes, likely due to the negative modulation of midbrain monoaminergic systems. However, the role of the LHb in regulating ethanol intake is not known. To begin characterizing the role of the LHb in ethanol-directed behaviors, I studied voluntary ethanol consumption, operant self-administration, yohimbine-induced reinstatement of ethanol-seeking, and conditioned taste aversion (CTA) in sham- and LHb-lesioned rats. I found that lesions of the LHb increase the rate of escalation of ethanol intake, increase operant ethanol-seeking, block yohimbine-induced reinstatement of ethanol-seeking, and attenuate ethanol-induced conditioned aversion. My results suggest that the LHb contributes to multiple facets of ethanol-directed behaviors, likely by mediating learning driven by the aversive effects of ethanol. I further investigated the afferents and efferents of the LHb that may be critical for ethanol-associated iv behaviors. I found that the lesions of the rostromedial tegmental nucleus (RMTg), a major efferent target of the LHb, increased voluntary ethanol consumption and accelerated extinction of ethanol-induced CTA. Thus, the LHb and RMTg play complementary roles in regulation of voluntary ethanol intake, most likely by mediating persistence of ethanol-induced aversive effects. With regard to the afferents of the LHb, my results show that the projection from the lateral hypothalamus (LH) to the LHb is critical for regulation of voluntary ethanol intake. Thus, I propose that the LH-LHb-RMTg circuit may be critical in regulation of ethanol intake.
Mittlere Camperdun Alp 1771 mt
Creators: name: Müller, Johann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1876

description: Blick auf die Gamperdun Mittelstafel nordöstlich über Elm
description: IM
description: Aus der Sammlung Johann Müller-Wegmann; Depositum der SAC Sektion Uto in der Zentralbibliothek des SAC
Qualitative data sharing and re-use for  socio-environmental systems research:  A synthesis of opportunities, challenges, resources and approaches
Creators: name: Jones, Kristal
name: Alexander, Steven M.
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2018
Subjects: qualitative data
socio-environmental systems
data sharing
data re-use
data management

description: Researchers in many disciplines, both social and natural sciences, have a long history of collecting and analyzing qualitative data to answer questions that have many dimensions, to interpret other research findings, and to characterize processes that are not easily quantified. Qualitative data is increasingly being used in socio-environmental systems research and related interdisciplinary efforts to address complex sustainability challenges. There are many scientific, descriptive and material benefits to be gained from sharing and re-using qualitative data, some of which reflect the broader push toward open science, and some of which are unique to qualitative research traditions. However, although open data availability is increasingly becoming an expectation in many fields and methodological approaches that work on socio-environmental topics, there remain many challenges associated the sharing and re-use of qualitative data in particular.

This white paper discusses opportunities, challenges, resources and approaches for qualitative data sharing and re-use for socio-environmental research. The content and findings of the paper are a synthesis and extension of discussions that began during a workshop funded by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) and held at the Center Feb. 28-March 2, 2017. The structure of the paper reflects the starting point for the workshop, which focused on opportunities, challenges and resources for qualitative data sharing, and presents as well the workshop outputs focused on developing a novel approach to qualitative data sharing considerations and creating recommendations for how a variety of actors can further support and facilitate qualitative data sharing and re-use.

The white paper is organized into five sections to address the following objectives: 
(1) Define qualitative data and discuss the benefits of sharing it along with its role in socio-environmental synthesis;
(2) Review the practical, epistemological, and ethical challenges regarding sharing such data;
(3) Identify the landscape of resources available for sharing qualitative data including repositories and communities of practice 
(4) Develop a novel framework for identifying levels of processing and access to qualitative data; and 
(5) Suggest roles and responsibilities for key actors in the research ecosystem that can improve the longevity and use of qualitative data in the future.
description: This work was supported by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) under funding received from the National Science Foundation DBI-1052875.
Apéndice. Revisión de la literatura sobre el análisis de factibilidad del despliegue de sistemas de software
Creators: name: Panizzi, Marisa Daniela
name: Moreno, Leandro
name: Bertone, Rodolfo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Material adicional del artículo: Revisión de la literatura sobre el análisis de factibilidad del despliegue de sistemas de software
Embedded-Atom-Method Modeling of Alkali-Metal/Transition-Metal Interfaces
Creators: name: Christensen, Jake D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Understanding the thermal properties of materials is essential to using those materials for technological advancement which can benefit civilization. For example, it has been proposed that essential components of tokamaks, devices which perform fusion, be made out of tungsten with a thin layer of lithium on the surface. To that end, this thesis seeks to calculate the thermal properties of a layer of alkali atoms, like lithium and sodium, on tungsten and molybdenum substrates. We use an Embedded Atom Method (EAM) model to perform our calculations. This type of model has been widely used to describe the interaction between atoms of the same type (i.e., how two lithium atoms interact). There is also a standard prescription for building the interaction between two atoms of different types (i.e., how a lithium atom and a tungsten atom interact). However, we have discovered that the prescription fails when trying to describe the interaction of atoms with much different sizes. To remedy this, we explore several different types of models and compare their results.
Die  Scheibe und der Sauren : gez von d. Mittleren Camperdunalp 1771
Creators: name: Müller, Johann
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1876

description: Blick zum Piz Sardona, Surenstock und Schiben
description: IM
description: Aus der Sammlung Johann Müller-Wegmann; Depositum der SAC Sektion Uto in der Zentralbibliothek des SAC