cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): Identification of AGN through SED Fitting and the Evolution of the Bolometric AGN Luminosity Function
Creators: name: Thorne, Jessica E.
name: Robotham, Aaron S. G.
name: Davies, Luke J. M.
name: Bellstedt, Sabine
name: Brown, Michael J. I.
name: Croom, Scott M.
name: Delvecchio, Ivan
name: Groves, Brent
name: Jarvis, Matt J.
name: Shabala, Stanislav S.
name: Seymour, Nick
name: Whittam, Imogen H.
name: Bravo, Matias
name: Cook, Robin H. W.
name: Driver, Simon P.
name: Holwerda, Benne
name: Phillipps, Steven
name: Siudek, Malgorzata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are typically identified through radio, mid-infrared, or X-ray emission or through the presence of broad and/or narrow emission lines. AGN can also leave an imprint on a galaxy's spectral energy distribution (SED) through the re-processing of photons by the dusty torus. Using the SED fitting code ProSpect with an incorporated AGN component, we fit the far ultraviolet to far-infrared SEDs of $\sim$494,00 galaxies in the D10-COSMOS field and $\sim$230,000 galaxies from the GAMA survey. By combining an AGN component with a flexible star formation and metallicity implementation, we obtain estimates for the AGN luminosities, stellar masses, star formation histories, and metallicity histories for each of our galaxies. We find that ProSpect can identify AGN components in 91 per cent of galaxies pre-selected as containing AGN through narrow-emission line ratios and the presence of broad lines. Our ProSpect-derived AGN luminosities show close agreement with luminosities derived for X-ray selected AGN using both the X-ray flux and previous SED fitting results. We show that incorporating the flexibility of an AGN component when fitting the SEDs of galaxies with no AGN has no significant impact on the derived galaxy properties. However, in order to obtain accurate estimates of the stellar properties of AGN host galaxies, it is crucial to include an AGN component in the SED fitting process. We use our derived AGN luminosities to map the evolution of the AGN luminosity function for $0
description: Published in MNRAS
Effect of interfacial damping on high-frequency surface wave resonance on a nanostrip-bonded substrate
Creators: name: Yuan, Wenlou
name: Nagakubo, Akira
name: Ogi, Hirotsugu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since surface acoustic waves (SAW) are often generated on substrates to which nanostrips are periodically attached, it is very important to consider the effect of interface between the deposited strip and the substrate surface, which is an unavoidable issue in manufacturing. In this paper, we propose a theoretical model that takes into account the interface damping and calculate the dispersion relationships both for frequency and attenuation of SAW resonance. This results show that the interface damping has an insignificant effect on resonance frequency, but, interestingly, attenuation of the SAW can decrease significantly in the high frequency region as the interface damping increases. Using picosecond ultrasound spectroscopy, we confirm the validity of our theory; the experimental results show similar trends both for resonant frequency and attenuation in the SAW resonance. Furthermore, the resonant behavior of the SAW is simulated using the finite element method, and the intrinsic cause of interface damping on the vibrating system is discussed. These findings strongly indicate the necessity of considering interfacial damping in the design of SAW devices.
title: Voices of Dissent: The History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Utah, 1863-1900
Creators: name: Shipley, Richard Lyle
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints began missionary activities in Utah in 1863. Missionaries were active throughout the territory. Over three thousand members of the Utah Mormon Church were brought into the ranks of the Reorganization during the nineteenth century.
Dissatisfied Mormons found the message of the Reorganization attractive. The "new church" denied polygamy and was led by Joseph Smith III, the oldest son of the mormon Prophet Joseph Smith. Its anti-Brigham Young attitude encouraged many dissatisfied Utah Mormons to join the Reorganization. Outstanding Josephite missionaries, often ex-Utah Mormons, were very successful in spreading their new found faith among their friends and relatives. Very few of the converts remained in Utah; each spring from 1863-1875 a migration of Josephites left the Great Basin.
Small temporary branches of the Reorganized Church were established in most of the larger communities in Utah. Many of these fell apart as migration deplete numbers, but the branches at Ogden, Provo, Union Fort, Salt Lake City in Utah, and Malad, Idaho, survived into the twentieth century.
The Reorganized missionaries and converts in Utah made a significant impact upon federal government anti-Mormon legislation of the late nineteenth century. The Josephites also acted as a safety valve for dissatisfied Latter-day Saints. No other religious group was so successful in proselyting among Mormons in Utah as the Reorganized Church during the nineteenth century.
title: Unbalanced Analysis of Variance Comparing Standard and Proposed Approximation Techniques for Estimating the Variance Components
Creators: name: Pugsley, James P.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1984

description: This paper considers the estimation of the components of variation for a two-factor unbalanced nested design and compares standard techniques with proposed approximation procedures. Current procedures are complicated and assume the unbalanced sample size to be fixed. This paper tests some simpler techniques, assuming sample sizes are random variables. Monte Carlo techniques were used to generate data for testing of these new procedures.
Numerical Analysis of Quasiholes of the Moore-Read Wavefunction
Creators: name: Baraban, M.
name: Zikos, G.
name: Bonesteel, N.
name: Simon, S. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate numerically that non-Abelian quasihole excitations of the $ν= 5/2$ fractional quantum Hall state have some of the key properties necessary to support quantum computation. We find that as the quasihole spacing is increased, the unitary transformation which describes winding two quasiholes around each other converges exponentially to its asymptotic limit and that the two orthogonal wavefunctions describing a system with four quasiholes become exponentially degenerate. We calculate the length scales for these two decays to be $ξ_{U} \approx 2.7 \ell_0$ and $ξ_{E} \approx 2.3 \ell_0$ respectively. Additionally we determine which fusion channel is lower in energy when two quasiholes are brought close together.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Galathea barbellata Macpherson 2012
Creators: name: Macpherson, Enrique
name: Robainas-Barcia, Aymee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Galatheidae
Galathea
Galathea barbellata

description: Galathea barbellata Macpherson, 2012
 Galathea barbellata Macpherson, 2012: 410, fig. 1 (New Caledonia, Vanuatu, 182–262 m).
 Material examined. New Caledonia. SMIB 5, Stn DW101, 23°21.20'S, 168°04.90'E, 270 m, 14 September 1989: 1 ov. F 3.9 mm (MNHN-IU-2013-8293). SMIB 8, Stn DW155, 24°45.7'S, 168°08.2'E, 257–262 m, 28 January 1993: 1 ov. F 3.1 mm (MNHN-IU-2013-8294).
 Remarks. The genetic divergence between G. barbellata and other species is always greater than 14.5% (COI) and 6.2% (16S rRNA) (Tab. 3).
 Distribution. New Caledonia, Vanuatu, 182– 270 m.
description: Published as part of Macpherson, Enrique & Robainas-Barcia, Aymee, 2015, Species of the genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with descriptions of 92 new species, pp. 1-335 in Zootaxa 3913 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/239230
title: Phenology of a Southern Population of Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae)
Creators: name: McManis, Anne Elise
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae, Hopkins) is a major disturbance agent in pine ecosystems of western North America. Adaptation to local climates has resulted in primarily univoltine (one generation per year) generation timing across a thermally diverse latitudinal gradient. We hypothesized that this pattern in total development time is shaped by selection for slower developmental rates, altered developmental thresholds, or oviposition rates in southern populations inhabiting warmer climates. To investigate traits responsible for latitudinal differences we measured lifestage-specific development of southern mountain pine beetle eggs, larvae and pupae across a range of temperatures. We also describe and model oviposition of southern US MPB. Using a novel technique that included frequent X-ray imaging, oviposition rate and fecundity were estimated separately and shown to both be significant and independent sources of variation. When compared with previously collected data for a northern MPB population, total oviposition time predicted for southern MPB at a constant 20°C was slightly longer than that of northern MPB, but the delay was too small to account for significant differences between the populations in total development time.
Developmental rate curves for eggs, larvae, and pupae were fit using maximum posterior likelihood estimation with a Bayesian prior to improve fit stability. When compared to previously published data for a northern population (Régnière et al. 2012), observed developmental rates of the southern and northern populations were similar across all studied lifestages at 20 and 25°C, although southern individuals were generally faster at temperature extremes (10 and 27°C). These findings were inconsistent with our hypothesis that southern individuals would have consistently slower rates. Optimal development of southern individuals occurred at higher temperatures, with higher development thresholds, as compared with northern individuals. Our results suggest that evolved traits in the remaining unstudied lifestage, teneral (i.e., pre-emergent) adult, likely influence latitudinal differences in mountain pine beetle generation time.
Product measurements and fully symmetric measurements in qubit-pair tomography: A numerical study
Creators: name: Teo, Yong Siah
name: Zhu, Huangjun
name: Englert, Berthold-Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: State tomography on qubit pairs is routinely carried out by measuring the two qubits separately, while one expects a higher efficiency from tomography with highly symmetric joint measurements of both qubits. Our numerical study of simulated experiments does not support such expectations.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
Self-Financing of Traditional and R&D Investments: Evidence from Italian SMEs
Creators: name: Brighi, Paola
name: Patuelli, Roberto
name: Torluccio, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: SECS-P/02 Politica economica

description: Self-financing has often been seen as an important source for research-and-development (R&D) funding. However, an in-depth comparison between the determinants of self-financing in the case of traditional investments versus those in R&D has not been provided yet. We use a comprehensive data set of Italian manufacturing firms to investigate this issue. We analyse the role of a wide number of financial variables in driving the rate of self-financing of firms, in both traditional and R&D investments, and we focus on public subsidies and firm size as critical factors explaining heterogeneity. First, we perform logit and logistic regressions separately for traditional and R&D self-financing, finding that they are positively correlated, and that the availability of public subsidies reduces self-financing. Subsequent poolability tests show that public subsidies and firm size are crucial discriminating factors for self-financing behaviour. Our main finding is that, in the absence of public subsidies, no internal or external market variable is able to explain the firms’ financing decisions. Furthermore, our analyses generally show that credit constraints and banking relationship variables are relevant in determining traditional investment self-financing, while no clear statistical evidence is found in the R&D case. Credit rationing is not significant for R&D selffinancing, which may be explained by rationed firms being left out of our sample.
Poor Institutions, Rich Mines: Resource Curse and the Origins of the Sicilian Mafia
Creators: name: Buonanno, Paolo
name: Durante, Ruben
name: Prarolo, Giovanni
name: Vanin, Paolo
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: This study explains the emergence of the Sicilian mafia in the XIX century as the product of the interaction between natural resource abundance and weak institutions. We advance the hypothesis that the mafia emerged after the collapse of the Bourbon Kingdom in a context characterized by a severe lack of state property-right enforcement in response to the rising demand for the protection of sulfur - Sicily's most valuable export commodity - whose demand in the international markets was soaring at the time. We test this hypothesis combining data on the early presence of the mafia and on the distribution of sulfur reserves across Sicilian municipalities and find evidence of a positive and significant effect of sulphur availability on mafia's diffusion. These results remain unchanged when including department fixed-effects and various geographical and historical controls, when controlling for spatial correlation, and when comparing pairs of neighboring municipalities with and without sulfur.
Display system for computer graphics
Creators: name: Hamilton, Frank Robert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: A display system for computer graphics is described in this thesis. The requirements of the display system are defined, with the emphasis on use in computer-aided network design. Several basic design alternatives are examined, and a basic approach is chosen toward development of a prototype system. A detailed description of the graphics display system architecture and operation is provided. Details relating to the implementation of the prototype system are provided, and the performance of the system is examined.
Galathea bidens Baba 1988
Creators: name: Macpherson, Enrique
name: Robainas-Barcia, Aymee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Galatheidae
Galathea
Galathea bidens

description: Galathea bidens Baba, 1988
 Galathea bidens Baba, 1988: 71, figs 28, 29 (between Cebu and Bohol, 265 m).— Baba, 2005: 243 (key, synonymies).—Baba et al., 2008: 66 (compilation).— Poore et al., 2011: 332, pl. 10D–E (color photo, Philippines).
 Material examined. Mariana Islands: Guam Island, Agat Bay, 9 March 2000: 1 M 4.3 mm (UF3170).
Solomon Islands. SALOMON 1, Stn CP1802, 9°31.1'S, 160°35.0'E, 245–269 m, 2 October 2001: 1 M 4.0 mm (MNHN-IU-2013-8302).
 Remarks. The specimens examined agree quite well with the original description, but the flexor margin of the Mxp3 merus has three spines (two in the types). No genetic data are available.
 Distribution. Philippines, Mariana Islands, Solomon Islands, 245– 269 m.
description: Published as part of Macpherson, Enrique & Robainas-Barcia, Aymee, 2015, Species of the genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with descriptions of 92 new species, pp. 1-335 in Zootaxa 3913 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3913.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/239230
La percezione di sé: coscienza, autocoscienza ed emozioni
Creators: name: Cimmino, Luigi
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Firenze
Year: 2013

description: Through a critical assessment of various concepts of self-consciousness and explaining the idea of con- sciousness as a property, the essay advances a conception of subjective self-reference basing on the peculiar temporality of intentional acts. By coming to that conclusion, topics typical of the philosophy of mind are enquired as the concept of intentionality, of sensory qualities and of the essence of emotion.
description: SocietàMutamentoPolitica, Vol 4, N° 8 (2013): L’identità e i suoi confini
Additional file 5 of Identification of priority pathogens for aetiological diagnosis in adults with community-acquired pneumonia in China: a multicentre prospective study
Creators: name: Zhang, Lulu
name: Xiao, Yan
name: Zhang, Guoliang
name: Li, Hongru
name: Zhao, Jianping
name: Chen, Mingwei
name: Chen, Fuhui
name: Liu, Ling
name: Li, Yalun
name: Peng, Liping
name: Zhao, Feng
name: Yang, Donghong
name: Wen, Zhongmei
name: Wu, Lei
name: Wu, Shuo
name: Sun, Yajiao
name: Wang, Ying
name: Chen, Lan
name: Wang, Xinming
name: Wang, Lihui
name: Li, Weimin
name: Qiu, Haibo
name: Chen, Yusheng
name: Gao, Zhancheng
name: Ren, Lili
name: Wang, Jianwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 5
title: Novel Treatments for Native Forb Restoration in The Great Basin
Creators: name: Fund, Adam J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Public land management agencies, conservation organizations, and landowners are interested in expanding the diversity of plant species used in rangeland restoration seedings. While the restoration of native grasses and shrubs in the Great Basin has become increasingly successful, restoration of native forbs continues to be problematic. In the Great Basin, soil water availability and soil fungal pathogens are thought to limit to restoration success. During the course of two years, we conducted two field experiments at three sites in the Great Basin that spanned a latitudinal gradient encompassing different precipitation and temperature patterns.
In the first experiment, we evaluated two treatments for enhancing native forb restoration – snow fences and N-sulate fabric. In addition, we tested whether multiple fungicide and hydrophobic seed coatings could reduce seed and seedling mortality from soil fungal pathogens. To quantify the effectiveness of treatments, we tracked the fate of sown seeds over four life stages: germination, seedling emergence, establishment, and second-year survival. We found that snow fences and N-sulate fabric had varying degrees of success for increasing seedling emergence or establishment but ultimately did not increase second-year survival. Seed coatings increased seedling emergence but did not increase establishment or second-year survival.
In the second experiment, we replicated the first experiment and also measured soil water availability to better understand how snow fences and N-sulate fabric alter soil water availability, and if differences in soil water availability can explain restoration outcomes. While we found that our treatments can increase soil water availability, increased soil water did not consistently result in better restoration outcomes. Snow fences did not benefit any life stage at any site while N-sulate fabric had positive and negative effects on forb restoration depending on the site. Seed coatings increased seedling emergence and establishment at all sites, warranting further research with other forb species. Results from both experiments provide insights for developing new treatments and techniques that can improve native forb restoration in the Great Basin and similar semiarid systems.
Additional file 1 of A temperature-responsive PLA-based nanosponge as a novel nanoadjuvant and efficient delivery carrier of Ag85B for effective vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Creators: name: Yun, Jin-Seung
name: Kim, Soo-Min
name: Lee, Jin Sil
name: Jeong, Su Hyun
name: Oh, Hyeryeon
name: Son, Panmo
name: Kim, Sunghyun
name: Lee, Young-Ran
name: Shin, Eunkyung
name: Ha, Sang-Jun
name: Jung, Yong-Woo
name: Kim, Dokeun
name: Jeong, Hye-Sook
name: Choi, Won Il
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 1
Recent progress on isospin breaking corrections and their impact on the muon g-2 value
Creators: name: Castro, G. Lopez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe some recent results on isospin breaking corrections which are of relevance for predictions of the leading order hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment (amuhadLO) when using tau lepton data. When these corrections are applied to the new combined data on the pi^+pi^0 spectral function, the prediction for amuhadLO based on tau lepton data gets closer to the one obtained using e^+e^- data.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the PhiPsi09 Workshop, Oct. 13-16, 2009, Beijing, China. Some typos corrected, and the FSR correction used in a previous work is added to Table 1
Cool White Dwarfs Identified in the Second Data Release of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey
Creators: name: Lodieu, N.
name: Leggett, S. K.
name: Bergeron, P.
name: Nitta, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have paired the Second Data Release of the Large Area Survey of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey with the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to identify ten cool white dwarf candidates, from their photometry and astrometry. Of these ten, one was previously known to be a very cool white dwarf. We have obtained optical spectroscopy for seven of the candidates using the GMOS-N spectrograph on Gemini North, and have confirmed all seven as white dwarfs. Our photometry and astrometry indicates that the remaining two objects are also white dwarfs. Model analysis of the photometry and available spectroscopy shows that the seven confirmed new white dwarfs, and the two new likely white dwarfs, have effective temperatures in the range Teff = 5400-6600 K. Our analysis of the previously known white dwarf confirms that it is cool, with Teff = 3800 K. The cooling age for this dwarf is 8.7 Gyr, while that of the nine ~6000 K white dwarfs is 1.8-3.6 Gyr. We are unable to determine the masses of the white dwarfs from the existing data, and therefore we cannot constrain the total ages of the white dwarfs. The large cooling age for the coolest white dwarf in the sample, combined with its low estimated tangential velocity, suggests that it is an old member of the thin disk, or a member of the thick disk of the Galaxy, with an age 10-11 Gyr. The warmer white dwarfs appear to have velocities typical of the thick disk or even halo; these may be very old remnants of low-mass stars, or they may be relatively young thin disk objects with unusually high space motion.
description: 37 pages (referee format), 4 tables, 7 figures, accepted to ApJ
Hausdorff measure of arcs and Brownian motion on Brownian spatial trees
Creators: name: Croydon, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G57 (Primary) 60J80, 60K35, 60K37 (Secondary)

description: A Brownian spatial tree is defined to be a pair $(\mathcal{T},ϕ)$, where $\mathcal{T}$ is the rooted real tree naturally associated with a Brownian excursion and $ϕ$ is a random continuous function from $\mathcal{T}$ into $\mathbb{R}^d$ such that, conditional on $\mathcal{T}$, $ϕ$ maps each arc of $\mathcal{T}$ to the image of a Brownian motion path in $\mathbb{R}^d$ run for a time equal to the arc length. It is shown that, in high dimensions, the Hausdorff measure of arcs can be used to define an intrinsic metric $d_{\mathcal{S}}$ on the set $\mathcal{S}:=ϕ(\mathcal{T})$. Applications of this result include the recovery of the spatial tree $(\mathcal{T},ϕ)$ from the set $\mathcal{S}$ alone, which implies in turn that a Dawson--Watanabe super-process can be recovered from its range. Furthermore, $d_{\mathcal{S}}$ can be used to construct a Brownian motion on $\mathcal{S}$, which is proved to be the scaling limit of simple random walks on related discrete structures. In particular, a limiting result for the simple random walk on the branching random walk is obtained.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOP425 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Detection and Characterization of Planets in Binary and Multiple Systems
Creators: name: Eggenberger, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Moderately close binaries are a special class of targets for planet searches. From a theoretical standpoint, their hospitality to giant planets is uncertain and debated. From an observational standpoint, many of these systems present technical difficulties for precise radial-velocity measurements and classical Doppler surveys avoid them accordingly. In spite of these adverse factors, present data support the idea that giant planets residing in binary and hierarchical systems provide unique observational constraints on the processes of planet formation and evolution. The interest and the importance of including various types of binary stars in extrasolar planet studies have thus grown over time and significant efforts have recently been put into: (i) searching for stellar companions to the known planet-host stars using direct imaging, and (ii) extending Doppler planet searches to spectroscopic and moderately close visual binaries. In this contribution we review the observational progresses made over the past years to detect and study extrasolar planets in binary systems, putting special emphasis on the two developments mentioned above.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures, review to appear in Extrasolar Planets in Multi-Body Systems: Theory and Observations, ed. K. Gozdziewski, A. Niedzielski, and J. Schneider, EAS Publications Series
title: Learning Logic: A Mixed Methods Study to Examine the Effects of Context Ordering on Reasoning About Conditionals
Creators: name: Lommatsch, Christina W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Logical statements are prevalent in mathematics, the sciences, law, and many areas of everyday life. The most common logical statements are conditionals, which have the form “If H..., then C...,” where “H” is a hypothesis (or condition) to be satisfied and “C” is a conclusion to follow. Reasoning about conditionals is a skill that is only superficially understood by most individuals and depends on four main conditional contexts (e.g., intuitive, abstract, symbolic, or counterintuitive). The purpose of this study was to test a theory about the effects of context ordering on reasoning about conditionals. To test the theory, the researcher developed, tested, and revised a virtual manipulative educational mathematics application, called the Learning Logic App.
This study employed a convergent parallel mixed methods design to answer an overarching research question and two subquestions. The overarching research question was “How does the order of teaching four conditional contexts influence reasoning about conditionals?” The two subquestions examined this influence on reasoning in terms of performance and perceptions. This study involved two phases. During Phase I, 10 participants interacted with the Learning Logic App in a clinical setting. The researcher used information gathered in Phase I to revise the Learning Logic App for Phase II. During Phase II, 154 participants interacted with the Learning Logic App in a randomly assigned context ordering in an online setting. In both phases, the researcher collected quantitative and qualitative data. After independent analyses, the researcher made meta- inferences from the two data strands. The results of this study suggest that context ordering does influence learners’ reasoning. The most beneficial context ordering for learners’ performance was symbolic-intuitive-abstract-counterintuitive. The most beneficial context ordering for learners’ perceptions was intuitive-abstract-counterintuitive-symbolic. Based on these results, the researcher proposed a new context ordering: symbolic-intuitive-abstract-counterintuitive-symbolic. This progression incorporates a catalyst at the beginning (symbolic context) which aids the learner in reassessing their prior knowledge. Then, the difficulty of the contexts progresses from easiest to hardest (intuitive-abstract-counterintuitive-symbolic). These findings are important because they provide an instructional sequence for teaching and learning to reason about conditionals that is beneficial to both learners’ performance and their perceptions.
title: An Evaluation of Conservation Reserve Lands in Relation to Pheasant Production and Survival
Creators: name: Bartmann, Richard M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1966

description: The ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is one of the most important upland game species over much of the nation. It is also one of the most difficult to effectively manage for the increasing hunter population. The high value of agricultural lands renders habitat improvement programs by state agencies a financial impossibility except on an extremely localized basis. Therefore, the primary pheasant management tool largely remains hunting season manipulation.
The federal government through various agricultural programs may have an influence upon pheasant habitat. Public Law 540 entitled "Agricultural Act of 1956," more commonly referred to as the "Soil Bank Act" (Congress, 84th, 2d Session 1956, 1957), seemed quite promising in this respect. This act provided for two programs, the Acreage Reserve and the Conservation Reserve. The first was a short term program and of negligible value for pheasants. The second was of longer duration and is the one under which remaining Soil Bank lands are included.
Under the Conservation Reserve, cropland was taken out of production and a sound conservation practice established in an attempt to balance the total production and demand of surplus crops. Farmers signed contracts for periods of three to ten years. The federal government then shared the cost of establishing conservation practices and made annual payments for maintaining them during the contract periods. The Conservation Reserve program has not been extended since 1960. Consequently, all remaining contracts will have expired by the end of 1971.
Relatively little Conservation Reserve land has been put into "G" practices specifically designed for wildlife. These include such things as wildlife food and cover plantings, development or restoration of shallow water areas, and construction of ponds and wildlife watering facilities. Instead, the bulk of wildlife benefits will have to be derived from the "A-2" practice, the establishment of permanent vegetative cover, since this is the one most widely employed. Any appraisal of the Conservation Reserve then is, in actuality, an evaluation of habitat provided by the "A-2" practice.
Emarginazione e integrazione sociale: considerazioni cliniche
Creators: name: Fratini, Tommaso
Publisher: name: Studi sulla Formazione
Year: 2012

description: Drawing on the psychoanalytic theory of object-relations, in particular according to the post-Kleinian model, the foundation of social integration is taken in relation to the ability to share authentic relationships with others, alongside the individual task of building a sufficient integration of personality. The marginalization is attributed instead to a failure in the ability to share, which is associated with schizoid withdrawal and operated processes of social exclusion by the social community and by the affiliated group.
description: Studi sulla Formazione, Anno XIV, II-2011
title: Some Effects of the Under Snow Environment on Growth and Carbohydrate Content of Claytonia Lanceolata Pursh
Creators: name: Bennett, Bryce D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: Studies were conducted in a mountain habitat to determine the effects of altered light and temperature upon the natural growth and/or carbohydrate cycles of Claytonia lanceolata during the period of winter snow cover. Treatments included natural control, light exclusion, and temperature alteration by insulation and by heating for a brief period. Monthly measurements were made of soil temperature (upper 12 cm), shoot development, soluble sugar, and soluble starch. The quantity and quality of light penetrating the snow cover was also determined.
About 0.0052% of the available visible light (400-750 nm) penetrated 70 cm of snow and 0.02% penetrated 50 cm of snow. The under snow spectral curve remained constant with a peak at 575 nm, while absolute energy increased 35 times from January to April.
Soil temperatures were unchanged by treatments averaging 0.0 to 0.3 C at the surface and slightly warmer at each successive depth.
Shoot development and carbohydrate cycles were the same for all treatments. Carbohydrate depletion was generally correlated with increased shoot development. The cycles are traced and discussed. The starch/sugar ratio remained almost constant at one.
“Dolore, nascita e morte” in una prospettiva multiculturale. Considerazioni formative su alcuni concetti chiave inerenti l’identità professionale degli infermieri
Creators: name: Orefice, Carlo
Publisher: name: Studi sulla Formazione
Year: 2013

description: Despite nursing knowledge requires solid expertise in a wide range of fields (e.g. from clinical practice to the language of healthcare organizations, from different healthcare provision models to diverse ways of knowing the disease, up to a series of highly topical issues, such as medical errors, inormed consent, aggressive treatment, etc.), in this essay the author reflects, starting from his own ex- perience of university teacher and researcher in nursing, on three key-concepts (pain, birth, death) on which and through nurses have structured, not without contradictions, their professional identity.
description: Studi sulla Formazione, Anno XV, II-2012
Additional file 1 of Identification of priority pathogens for aetiological diagnosis in adults with community-acquired pneumonia in China: a multicentre prospective study
Creators: name: Zhang, Lulu
name: Xiao, Yan
name: Zhang, Guoliang
name: Li, Hongru
name: Zhao, Jianping
name: Chen, Mingwei
name: Chen, Fuhui
name: Liu, Ling
name: Li, Yalun
name: Peng, Liping
name: Zhao, Feng
name: Yang, Donghong
name: Wen, Zhongmei
name: Wu, Lei
name: Wu, Shuo
name: Sun, Yajiao
name: Wang, Ying
name: Chen, Lan
name: Wang, Xinming
name: Wang, Lihui
name: Li, Weimin
name: Qiu, Haibo
name: Chen, Yusheng
name: Gao, Zhancheng
name: Ren, Lili
name: Wang, Jianwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Parallax-based Distances to Galactic Hii Regions: Nearby Spiral Structure
Creators: name: Shen, X. J.
name: Hou, L. G.
name: Liu, H. L.
name: Gao, X. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spiral structure of the Milky Way is not conclusive, even for the disc regions in the solar neighbourhood. Especially, the arm-like structures uncovered from the over-density maps of evolved stars are inconsistent with the commonly adopted spiral arm models based on young objects. We aim to re-examine the arm segments traced by young objects and better understand the nearby spiral structure. We identify the exciting stars of 459 hii regions and calculate their parallax-based distances according to the Gaia DR3. Together with other hii regions with spectrophotometric or parallax-based distances in literature, the largest ever sample of 572 hii regions with accurate distances is used to reveal the features shown in their distributions projected onto the Galactic disc. The results are then compared to the features traced by other young objects (high-mass star-forming region masers, O-type stars, and young open clusters) and evolved stars. The structures outlined by different kinds of young objects do not exhibit significant deviation from each other. The distributions of young objects are in agreement with three arm-like features emerging in the over-density map of evolved stars. Especially, the Local Arm outlined by young objects follows an arm-like feature delineated by evolved stars and probably spirals outwards towards the direction of $\ell \sim 240^\circ$ in the third Galactic quadrant. We conclude that the arm segments traced by young objects and evolved stars are consistent with each other at least in the solar neighbourhood. In particular, the Local Arm delineated by young objects is reinterpreted as an arm segment with a large pitch angle of $25.2^\circ \pm 2.0^\circ$, whose inner edge is in good agreement with the recently discovered Radcliffe Wave.
description: accepted for publication in A&A
Galactic Spiral Structure
Creators: name: Francis, Charles
name: Anderson, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the structure and composition of six major stellar streams in a population of 20 574 local stars in the New Hipparcos Reduction with known radial velocities. We find that, once fast moving stars are excluded, almost all stars belong to one of these streams. The results of our investigation have lead us to re-examine the hydrogen maps of the Milky Way, from which we identify the possibility of a symmetric two-armed spiral with half the conventionally accepted pitch angle. We describe a model of spiral arm motions which matches the observed velocities and composition of the six major streams, as well as the observed velocities of the Hyades and Praesepe clusters at the extreme of the Hyades stream. We model stellar orbits as perturbed ellipses aligned at a focus in coordinates rotating at the rate of precession of apocentre. Stars join a spiral arm just before apocentre, follow the arm for more than half an orbit, and leave the arm soon after pericentre. Spiral pattern speed equals the mean rate of precession of apocentre. Spiral arms are shown to be stable configurations of stellar orbits, up to the formation of a bar and/or ring. Pitch angle is directly related to the distribution of orbital eccentricities in a given spiral galaxy. We show how spiral galaxies can evolve to form bars and rings. We show that orbits of gas clouds are stable only in bisymmetric spirals. We conclude that spiral galaxies evolve toward grand design two-armed spirals. We infer from the velocity distributions that the Milky Way evolved into this form about 9 Gyrs ago.
description: Published in Proc Roy Soc A. A high resolution version of this file can be downloaded from http://papers.rqgravity.net/SpiralStructure.pdf. A simplified account with animations begins at http://rqgravity.net/SpiralStructure
Global Existence and Large-Time Behavior of Solutions to the Three-Dimensional Equations of Compressible Magnetohydrodynamic Flows
Creators: name: Hu, Xianpeng
name: Wang, Dehua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q36, 35D05, 76W05

description: The three-dimensional equations of compressible magnetohydrodynamic isentropic flows are considered. An initial-boundary value problem is studied in a bounded domain with large data. The existence and large-time behavior of global weak solutions are established through a three-level approximation, energy estimates, and weak convergence for the adiabatic exponent $γ>\frac32$ and constant viscosity coefficients.
Additional file 3 of Identification of priority pathogens for aetiological diagnosis in adults with community-acquired pneumonia in China: a multicentre prospective study
Creators: name: Zhang, Lulu
name: Xiao, Yan
name: Zhang, Guoliang
name: Li, Hongru
name: Zhao, Jianping
name: Chen, Mingwei
name: Chen, Fuhui
name: Liu, Ling
name: Li, Yalun
name: Peng, Liping
name: Zhao, Feng
name: Yang, Donghong
name: Wen, Zhongmei
name: Wu, Lei
name: Wu, Shuo
name: Sun, Yajiao
name: Wang, Ying
name: Chen, Lan
name: Wang, Xinming
name: Wang, Lihui
name: Li, Weimin
name: Qiu, Haibo
name: Chen, Yusheng
name: Gao, Zhancheng
name: Ren, Lili
name: Wang, Jianwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 3
Speech amplitude and zero crossing for automated identification of human speakers
Creators: name: Wasson, Douglas Arnold
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis involves an investigation of the usefulness of speech amplitude, low pass zero crossing rate (ZCR) and high pass zero crossing rate for speaker recognition. Speech samples were recorded from ten speakers and preprocessed to yield time quantized preprocessed waveforms of SPEECH AMPLITUDE, LOW PASS ZCR and HIGH PASS ZCR. These preprocessed waveforms were then averaged for each speaker to form three sets of averaged waveforms. These waveforms were then expanded in an n-dimensional feature space, where n is the number of speakers used in testing the system. The orthogonal functions describing the feature space were derived from the average preprocessed waveforms by using the Gram Schmidt orthogonalization technique. The average preprocessed waveforms were expanded in the feature space to provide a reference feature vector for each speaker. The recognition procedure was based on measuring the Euclidean distance between the feature vector derived from a sample preprocessed waveform for the unknown speaker and the reference feature vectors. The speaker whose reference vector was closest to the test vector was chosen as the speaker of that utterance. A variety of combinations of the preprocessed waveforms were tested. The best results showed an average percentage of incorrect decisions of 3.4% when one of ten speakers was identified on the basis of a single spoken sentence. The results indicate that speech amplitude and zero crossing rate are useful for speaker identification.
An 18-25 GHz spectroscopic survey of dense cores in the Chamaeleon I molecular cloud
Creators: name: Lis, Dariusz C.
name: Langer, William D.
name: Pineda, Jorge L.
name: Gandhi, Kahaan
name: Willacy, Karen
name: Goldsmith, Paul F.
name: Weaver, Susanna Widicus
name: Majumdar, Liton
name: Seo, Youngmin
name: Horiuchi, Shinji
name: Bop, Cheikh
name: Lique, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the survey for organics in the southern hemisphere by observing two cores in the Chamaeleon complex using NASA's Deep Space Network 70-m antenna in Canberra, Australia, over the frequency range of 18 to 25 GHz. We surveyed the class 0 protostar Cha-MMS1 and the prestellar core Cha-C2, which represent two stages in the evolution of dense cores. We detect several molecules including HC$_3$N, HC$_5$N, C$_4$H, CCS, C$_3$S, NH$_3$, and c-C$_3$H$_2$. A longer cyanopolyyne, HC$_7$N, is detected with high confidence via spectral stacking analysis. While molecular column densities in the two Chamaeleon cores are typically an order of magnitude lower compared to the cynaopolyyne peak in TMC-1, the molecular abundance ratios are in general agreement with the TMC-1 values. The two exceptions are c-C$_3$H$_2$, which is enhanced by a factor of \about 25 with respect to cyanopolyynes in the Chamaeleon cores, and ammonia, which is enhanced by a factor of ~ 125. The deuterated species c-C$_3$HD is detected in both cores, with a high D/H ratio of ~0.23 in c-C$_3$H$_2$. A rare isotopologue of ammonia, $^{15}$NH$_3$, is also detected in Cha-MMS1 suggesting a high $^{14}$N/$^{15}$N ratio of ~ 690 in ammonia. However, this ratio may be artificially enhanced due to the high optical depth of the $^{14}$NH$_3$ (1,1) line, which increases the effective source size. We use the detections of ammonia, cyanopolyynes, and far-infrared dust continuum to characterize the density and temperature in the Chamaeleon cores and calculate the molecular column densities and their relative ratios. The ring molecule benzonitrile is not detected in either Chamaeleon core. The $3 σ$ upper limits for its column density are a factor of 2 higher than the value derived for TMC-1 and the upper limits for its relative abundance with respect to HC$_5$N are a factor of 3 higher than the TMC-1 value.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 15 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 1 of Barriers and facilitators to anal cancer screening among men who have sex with men: a systematic review with narrative synthesis
Creators: name: Sam, IatTou
name: Dang, Wen
name: Iu, NgaTeng
name: Luo, ZiYue
name: Xiang, Yu-Tao
name: Smith, Robert David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Nota biobibliográfica + poética + creaciones («Homenaje al poeta Gabriel Aresti», «Huts», «Itxas», «Homenaje a Miguel Hernández», «Homenaje a San Juan de la Cruz» y «Guggenheim») + cuestionario (Victoria Pineda)
Creators: name: Ugarte, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: Nota biobibliográfica + poética + creaciones + cuestionario (Victoria Pineda)
description: Tintas: Quaderni di Letterature iberiche e iberoamericane, Experimental (ed. y coord. de Raúl Díaz Rosales)
Theoretical study of nuclear spin polarization and depolarization in self-assembled quantum dots
Creators: name: Huang, Chia-Wei
name: Hu, Xuedong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate how the strain-induced nuclear quadrupole interaction influences the degree of nuclear spin polarization in self-assembled quantum dots. Our calculation shows that the achievable nuclear spin polarization in In_{x}Ga_{1-x}As quantum dots is related to the concentration of indium and the resulting strain distribution in the dots. The interplay between the nuclear quadrupole interaction and Zeeman splitting leads to interesting features in the magnetic field dependence of the nuclear spin polarization. Our results are in qualitative agreement with measured nuclear spin polarization by various experimental groups.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Physical Review B