cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions of Eighth-Grade Students Toward Figures of Varying Body Weight
Creators: name: McLeary, Erin L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: This study examined attitudes and behavioral intentions of eight-grade students toward figures (representing hypothetical peers) of varying body weight (average, overweight, and obese). The primary aim of this study was to investigate how weight impacts students’ attitudes toward and interactions with peers. Second, impact of the rater’s gender was explored. It was hypothesized that girls would rate average-weight figures more positively than overweight figures and overweight figures more positively than obese figures. It was also hypothesized that boys would rate average-weight figures more positively than overweight and obese figures, with less discrepancy between their ratings of overweight and obese figures. One-hundred seventy primarily Caucasian, eight-grade students (72 male, 98 female; mean age = 13.61, SD = .49) were identified as part of a convenience sample from a public elementary school and were randomly assigned to view a target photo of their same gender in one of three conditions: average-weight, overweight, obese. Participants rated attitudes toward the figures on the Adjective Checklist and behavioral intentions on the Shared Activity Questionnaire-B (SAQ-B). Results showed the hypotheses to be partially supported. Students’ responses on the SAQ-B showed they were statistically significantly more willing to interact with an overweight peer (M = 16.33, SD = 4.19) than an obese peer (M = 14.30, SD = 3.83) for active-recreational activities. The overall effect size (males and females combined) was moderate (.51), with a small effect size for females (.42) and a moderate effect size for males (.64). There were no other statistically significant differences on the SAQ-B subscales of active-recreational, academic, and social, or on the Adjective Checklist. Although differences were not significant, effect sizes for social domain for average versus obese and overweight versus obese were mostly small to medium. Conversely, almost all effect sizes for academic were nonmeaningful. Therefore, it appears weight has less impact in academic interactions than the other two areas. Effect sizes were larger for males than females for overweight versus obese on the Adjective Checklist and SAQ-B social and active recreational, showing that males tended to hold more negative views of obesity than females in these areas.
Non-symmetric discrete Toda systems from quad-graphs
Creators: name: Boll, Raphael
name: Suris, Yuri B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For all non-symmetric discrete relativistic Toda type equations we establish a relation to 3D consistent systems of quad-equations. Unlike the more simple and better understood symmetric case, here the three coordinate planes of $\mathbb Z^3$ carry different equations. Our construction allows for an algorithmic derivation of the zero curvature representations and yields analogous results also for the continuous time case.
description: 24 pp
INFN GRID DATAGRID Prototype 1
Creators: name: F.Donno
name: L.Gaido
name: A.Ghiselli
name: M.Mazzucato
name: F.Prelz
name: M.Sgaravatto
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2002

description: Introduction: Computing and networking technology evolution leads to more powerful computers and to high speed networks as low-cost commodity components. In parallel there is a growth of large-scale computing needs with high number of users widely distributed. This scenario is changing the way to think about-and use-computing resources. One of the most interesting and challenging approaches is the "computational grid" concept. DataGrid (www.eu-datagrid.org) is a European project (EDG) aiming to build a computational grid prototype on the basis of requirements coming from users in the application fields of the High Energy Physics[1], Earth Observations (EO) [2], and Bio-Informatics [3]. The first prototype of DataGrid is in place, since December 2001, with the functionalities foreseen in the release 1 of the project. The purpose of this document is to describe the most important characteristics of the grid proposal, the services of the first prototype and some of the problems emerged from the experience of the first steps of the project.
De Tocqueville, Alexis, Memoir on Pauperism, introduced by Gertrude Himmelfarb (Chicago, 1997); and Humphreys, Robert. Sin, Organized Charity, and the Poor Law in Victorian England (New York, 1995).
Creators: name: Haggard, Robert
Publisher: name: Essays in History
Year: 1998

description: N/A
description: Essays in History, Vol. 40 (1998)
The 5 MeV Electron Linac for Radiation Processing in Messina
Creators: name: L. Auditore
name: R.C. Barnà
name: D. De Pasquale
name: A. Italiano
name: A. Trifirò
name: M. Trimarchi
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2003

description: Several modern applications of radiation processing require compact and self-contained electron accelerators. To match these requirements, a 5 MeV, 1 kW electron linac has been developed at the Dipartimento di Fisica (Università di Messina), and will be described in this paper. This standing wave accelerator, driven by a 3 GHz, 2.5 MW Magnetron generator, has an autofocusing structure, and will be used to study several applications of radiation processing.
FCNC in the 3-3-1 model with right-handed neutrinos
Creators: name: Benavides, Richard H.
name: Giraldo, Yithsbey
name: Ponce, William A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flavor changing neutral currents coming from a new non-universal neutral Gauge-Boson and from the non-unitary quark mixing matrix for the $SU(3)_c\otimes SU(3)_L\otimes U(1)_X$ model with right handed neutrinos are studied. By imposing as experimental constraints the measured values of the 3x3 quark mixing matrix, the neutral meson mixing, and the bounds measured values for direct flavor changing neutral current processes, the largest mixing of the known quarks with the exotic ones can be established, with new sources of flavor changing neutral currents being identified. Our main result is that for a $|V_{tb}|$ value smaller than one, large rates of rare top decays such as $t\to cγ$, $t\to cZ$, and $t\to cg$ (where g stands for the gluon field) are obtained; but if $|V_{tb}|\approx 1$ the model can survive present experimental limits only if the mass of the new neutral Gauge Boson becomes larger that 10 TeV.
description: 30 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Novel High Flux X-Ray Source: A Laboratory Synchrotron
Creators: name: O.V. Mikhin
name: S.B. Dabagov
name: V.D. Gelver
name: A.V. Priladyshev
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2003

description: A novel x-ray laboratory system optimized for diffraction studies of protein crystals and macromolecules as well as for phase contrast analysis and other applications is described. The system is based on a micro-focus X-ray source of 10W power and provides the minimum focal spot size of  ~ 10 μm and the flux of  ~ 4.5x1012 ph/sec at the Cu K_α-line.
title: Global Evaluation of Biofuel Potential from Microalgae
Creators: name: Moody, Jeffrey W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Traditional terrestrial crops are currently being utilized as a feedstock for biofuels but resource requirements and low yields limit the sustainability and scalability. Comparatively, next generation feedstocks, such as microalgae, have inherent advantages such as higher solar energy efficiencies, larger lipid fractions, utilization of waste carbon dioxide, and cultivation on poor quality land. The assessment of microalgae-based biofuel production systems through lifecycle, technoeconomic, and scalability assessments has been forced to extrapolate laboratory-scale data due to the immaturity of the technology. This type of scaling leads to large uncertainty in the current near-term productivity potential and ultimately the results from modeling work that rely on this type of modeling. This study integrated a large-scale validated outdoor microalgae growth model that utilizes 21 species and reactor-specific inputs that accurately account for biological effects such as nutrient uptake, respiration, and temperature with hourly historical meteorological data from around the world to determine the current global productivity potential. A global map of the microalgae lipid and biomass productivity has been generated based on the results of annual simulations at 4,388 global locations spread over the seven continents. Maximum annual average yields between 24-27 m3·ha-1·yr-1 are found in Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, and Saudi Arabia with the monthly variability (minimum and maximum) yields of these locations ranging between 14 and 33 m3·ha-1·yr-1. A scalability assessment that leverages geographic information systems data to evaluate geographically realized microalgae productivity, energy consumption, and land availability has been performed highlighting the promising potential of microalgae-based biofuels compared to traditional terrestrial feedstocks. Results show many regions can meet their energy requirements through microalgae production without land resource restriction. Discussion focuses on sensitivity of monthly variability in lipid production compared to annual average yields, biomass productivity potential, effects of temperature on lipid production, and a comparison of results to previous published modeling assumptions.
The accretion disc in the quasar SDSS J0924+0219
Creators: name: Floyd, D. J. E.
name: Bate, N. F.
name: Webster, R. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present single-epoch multi-wavelength optical-NIR observations of the "anomalous" lensed quasar SDSS J0924+0219, made using the Magellan 6.5-metre Baade telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. The data clearly resolve the anomalous bright image pair in the lensed system, and exhibit a strong decrease in the anomalous flux ratio with decreasing wavelength. This is interpreted as a result of microlensing of a source of decreasing size in the core of the lensed quasar. We model the radius of the continuum emission region, sigma, as a power-law in wavelength, sigma lambda^zeta. We place an upper limit on the Gaussian radius of the u'-band emission region of 3.04E16 h70^{-1/2} (/M_sun)^{1/2} cm, and constrain the size-wavelength power-law index to zeta<1.34 at 95% confidence. These observations rule out an alpha-disc prescription for the accretion disc in SDSS J0924+0219 with 94% confidence.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
A 32 Channels Charge Integrating ADC Based on Digital Signal Integration
Creators: name: A. Balla
name: M. Beretta
name: P. Branchini
name: P. Ciambrone
name: G. Corradi
name: E. De Lucia
name: P. De Simone
name: G. Felici
name: M. Gatta
name: V. Patera
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2005

description: A digital charge integrator with programmable gate width and range has been designed for use in the KLOE drift chamber front-end chain.  The system has a resolution of 9 bits ranging from 600fC/count up to ≈ 76 pC and integration time ranging from 100 ns to about 13 μsec.  Thirty two channels have been packaged in a single VME 9U board.
Storage Management in the GRID
Creators: name: Donno, Flavia
name: Vaglini, Gigliola
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2005

description: An application running on a Grid infrastructure needs to be able to transparently access distributed data available at some storage centers. The Grid middleware and infrastructure are responsible to reserve the necessary space, enforce local authorization policies, privacy and security, allow for transparent access to the underlying local storage system, etc. The goal and main contribution of this paper is to give an overview of the state of the art of storage management technologies in the Grid. Clear overviews are important in order to better drive the research evolution and for general guidance.  We present a summary of hardware and software storage solutions adopted in various research centers part of the LHC Computing Grid infrastructure and the open problems to establish standards for "f"ile sharing" and a "master namespace server".  Then we analyze the requirements for a Grid application, we present the Grid solutions proposed and the prototypes currently under test
title: The Evolution of History: Changing Narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah's Public School Curricula
Creators: name: Olson, Casey W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: The Mountain Meadows Massacre is widely considered to be the most violent and controversial event in Utah’s history. This qualitative study investigates how the massacre has been portrayed to Utah’s schoolchildren through the state’s history and social studies curricula, and why curricular narratives of the massacre have changed with time. The study presents a content analysis documenting changes in curricular narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre from the years 1908-2011. The content analysis also compares these narratives with four concurrent sources providing narratives of the massacre: (a) public monuments commemorating the massacre, (b) curricular narratives published by Utah’s dominant religious and cultural institution—The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church), (c) Paiute Indian narratives of the massacre, and (d) scholarly histories. Using a continuum of Mormon/Paiute culpability as a frame of reference, this research employs literatures from the theory of ideology in curriculum, multicultural education theory, postcolonial theory, and Mormon historiography to provide critical analysis of changes in narratives of the massacre. Data drawn from this analysis are used to answer the following question: What factors have contributed to changes over time in how the Mountain Meadows Massacre has been portrayed in Utah’s public school curricula? The response to this question provides a basis for discussing and understanding the relationship between hegemony and curriculum in Utah society.
Distributions of the Signals from Gravitational Antennas Versus Nautilus Local Sidereal Hours (NALSH) and Correlations Between the Signals and X-Ray Signatures  in Close Binary Systems and SGR
Creators: name: Murtas, Gian Paolo
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2007

description: I have considered coincidences between signals detected by resonant detectors of Gravitational Wave NAUTILUS and EXPLORER located in  LNF Frascati and CERN Geneva SW. Time coincidences acceptance is  ±10 s. In this way the coincidences are accidentals and have a physical meaning if they are due to projectiles hitting independently the two distant detectors. In order to understand the phenomena I have performed correlations with X-ray detected by satellites and found that 4U1820-30, XTEJ1550-564, SGR1627-41, SGR1900+14, SGR1806-20, during the 1997, 1998 ware the responsible Sources. Studying the energy distribution of the projectiles versus NAUTILUS Local Sidereal hours I found that these projectiles have a quadrupolar structure i.e. transport polarization and the simplest interpretation is t hat they are GRAVITONS.
Lightlike Brane as a Gravitational Source of Misner-Wheeler-Type Wormhole
Creators: name: Guendelman, Eduardo
name: Kaganovich, Alexander
name: Nissimov, Emil
name: Pacheva, Svetlana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Consistent Lagrangian description of lightlike p-branes (LL-branes) is presented in two equivalent forms - a Polyakov-type formulation and a dual to it Nambu-Goto-type formulation. An important characteristic feature of the LL-branes is that the brane tension appears as a non-trivial additional dynamical degree of freedom. Next, properties of p=2 LL-brane dynamics (as a test brane) in D=4 Kerr or Kerr-Newman gravitational backgrounds are discussed in some detail. It is shown that the LL-brane automatically positions itself on the horizon and rotates along with the same angular velocity. Finally, a Misner-Wheeler-type of Reissner-Nordstroem wormhole is constructed in a self-consistent electrically sourceless Einstein-Maxwell system in the D=4 bulk interacting with a LL-brane. The pertinent wormhole throat is located precisely at the LL-brane sitting on the outer Reissner-Nordstroem horizon with the Reissner-Nordstroem mass and charge being functions of the dynamical LL-brane tension.
description: improved derivation in section 4; additional comment in conclusions; results unchanged
Modeling Three and Four Coupled Phase Qubits
Creators: name: Thrailkill, Zechariah E.
name: Kennerly, S. T.
name: Ramos, R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Josephson junction phase qubit has been shown to be a viable candidate for quantum computation. In recent years, the two coupled phase system has been extensively studied theoretically and experimentally. We have analyzed the quantum behavior of three and four capacitively-coupled phase qubits with different possible configurations, using a two-level system model. Energy levels and eigenstates have been calculated as a function of bias current and detuning. The properties of these simple networks are discussed.
title: Rock Strength of Caprock Seal Lithologies: Evidence for Past Seal Failure, Migration of Fluids and the Analysis of the Reservoir Seal Interface in Outcrop and the Subsurface
Creators: name: Petrie, Elizabeth Sandra
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: This research characterizes the nature of fractures in Paleozoic and Mesozoic caprock seal analogs exposed in central and south-eastern Utah. The results of this research show evidence for fluid flow and mineralization in the subsurface as well as reactivation of fractures suggesting that the fractures act as a loci for fluid flow through time. The heterolithic nature of the caprock seals and meso-scale (cm to m) variability in fracture distributions and morphology highlight the strong link between the variation in material properties and the response to changing stress conditions. The variable connectivity of fractures and the changes in fracture density at the meso-scale plays a critical role in subsurface fluid flow. The presence or formation of new fractures can result in seal bypass systems, which can cause failure of hydrocarbon traps, CO2 geosequestration sites, waste and subsurface fluid repositories. An integrated approach of field, borehole geophysical, burial and stress history modeling, rock strength testing, and numerical modeling are used to understand the effects changing material properties, rock strength, and stress history have on sealing capacity. Simplified stress history models derived from burial history curves are combined with laboratory derived rock properties to understand the importance variations in rock properties and differential and effective mean stress have on the mechanical failure of fine-grained clastic sedimentary rocks. Burial history and rock strength data show that in units that experience similar burial depths and changing mechanical property exert a control on deformation type. Geomechanical models reveal changes in local strain magnitudes at locked mechanical interfaces, suggesting that elastic mismatch between layers results in differential strain distribution. Characterization of fracture patterns, rock strength variability and the modeled changes in subsurface strain distribution is especially important for understanding the response of low-­‐permeability rocks to changing stress in the subsurface, and is applicable to multiple geo-engineering scenarios such as exploitation of natural resources, waste disposal, and management of fluids in the subsurface. The analyses presented in this dissertation provide analog fracture data for fine-grained clastic rocks and a dataset for better understanding the importance of heterogeneity in low permeability rocks.
title: Novel Aminoglycosides: Bioactive Properties and Mechanism of Action
Creators: name: Shrestha, Sanjib K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: Fungicide discovery is relatively neglected when compared to the investment in the development of antibacterial, antiviral, and anti-cancer therapeutics. Due to extensive use of currently available fungicides in agriculture and medicine, resistance is emerging among plant and animal pathogenic fungi. This necessitates the search for novel antifungal agents that are effective and less toxic and that do not promote resistance.
FG08 and K20 are novel aminoglycoside analogs synthesized from kanamycin B and A, respectively. The antimicrobial properties of these analogs were tested in vitro against a wide range of agriculturally and clinically important fungal pathogens. Both compounds showed broad-spectrum antifungal properties, but they did not inhibit bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The hemolytic activities and cytotoxicities of FG08 and K20 were also evaluated. They showed no toxicity or lowered toxicity against animal cells at their antifungal minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs).
The fungicidal mechanisms of action of FG08 and K20 were examined using intact cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cryptococcus neoformans, hyphae of Fusarium graminearum. FG08 and K20 caused SYTOX Green dye uptake and potassium efflux by intact cells, indicating that they increase plasma membrane permeability. FG08 and K20 also caused leakage of pre-loaded calcein from small unilamellar vesicles (SUVs) composed of lipids that mimic the lipid composition of fungal membranes, further suggesting increased membrane permeability as their mechanism of action.
The synergistic interactions of K20 with six azoles (such as itraconazole, and fluconazole) were investigated against a wide array of fungal pathogens. The in vitro results revealed strong synergy between K20 and azoles against plant and human pathogenic fungi. Their synergies were furthered confirmed by time kill curves and disk diffusion methods.
In conclusion, FG08 and K20 are broad-spectrum antifungal agents that do not inhibit bacteria. At their antifungal MICs, they are not toxic to animal cells, but they inhibit fungi by interacting with the fungal plasma membrane, leading to pore formation. These novel aminoglycoside analogs appear attractive for applications as fungicides in agriculture and medicine.
The Relation between Morphology and Dynamics of Poor Groups of Galaxies
Creators: name: Tovmassian, H.
name: Plionis, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the relation between the projected morphology (b/a) and the velocity dispersion (sigma_v) of groups of galaxies using two recently compiled group catalogs, one based on the 2MASS redshift survey and the other on the SDSS Data Release 5 galaxy catalog. We find that the sigma_v of groups is strongly correlated with the group projected b/a and size, with elongated and larger groups having a lower sigma_v. Such a correlation could be attributed to the dynamical evolution of groups, with groups in the initial stages of formation, having small sigma_v, a large size and an elongated shape that reflects the anisotropic accretion of galaxies along filamentary structures. The same sort of correlations, however, could also be reproduced in prolate-like groups, if the net galaxy motion is preferentially along the group elongation, since then the groups oriented close to the line of sight will appear more spherical, will have a small projected size and large sigma_v, while groups oriented close to the sky-plane will appear larger in projection, more elongated, and will have smaller sigma_v. We perform tests that relate only to the dynamical evolution of groups (eg., calculating the fraction of early type galaxies in groups) and indeed we find a strong positive (negative) correlation between the group sigma_v (projected major axis) with the fraction of early type galaxies. We conclude that (a) the observed dependencies of the group sigma_v on the group projected size and b/a, should be attributed mostly to the dynamical state of groups and (b) groups in the local universe do not constitute a family of objects in dynamical equilibrium, but rather a family of cosmic structures that are presently at various stages of their virialization process.
description: ApJ accepted, 8 pages, 8 figures
title: The Spatial Relationship Between Crime and Public Transportation: A Geospatial Analysis of Salt Lake City's Trax System
Creators: name: Warren, Joel W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: It is well-known that, when it comes to crime, some neighborhoods are safer than others. Researchers who make maps of crime have observed that some areas of cities have more crime than others. These areas of high crime are often called hot spots. Crime pattern theory explained why some neighborhoods have more crime than others by looking at criminal events as a meeting between a motivated criminal and a target. Social scientists, geographers, and city planners have shown that criminals generally choose targets from places they see every day, for example on their ride to work or the grocery store. This means that when the daily routine of a criminal changes, the location of that person's criminal behavior could change too. When trends in the daily routine of a whole city change, the location of crimes in that city could change because criminals, in general, will choose targets from different places in the city. In fact, some researchers have suggested that crimes will become clustered around transportation nodes, such as street car stations, after new lines are opened. But so far only a few studies have tried to demonstrate the pattern hot spots follow in the years following major transportation changes. The answer to this question is important to urban designers and police because it would allow them to respond to changes in the location of hot spots when new public transportation projects occur.
De-Sitter nonlinear sigma model and accelerating universe
Creators: name: Lee, Joohan
name: Lee, Tae Hoon
name: Moon, Taeyoon
name: Oh, Phillial
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a cosmology with a non-compact nonlinear sigma model.The target space is of de-Sitter type and four scalar fields are introduced.The potential is absent but cosmological constant term $Λ$ is added. One of the scalar fields is time dependent and the remaining three fields have no time dependence but only spatial dependence. We show that a very simple ansatz for the scalar fields results in the accelerating universe with an exponential expansion at late times. It is pointed out that the presence of the energy density and pressure coming from the spatial variation of the three scalar fields plays an essential role in our analysis which includes $Λ=0$ as a special case and it discriminate from the standard $Λ$-dominated acceleration. We perform a stability analysis of the solutions and find that some solutions are classically stable and attractor. We also present a non-perturbative solution which asymptotically approaches an exponential acceleration and discusspossible cosmological implications in relation with dark energy. It turns out that the equation of state approaches asymptotically $ω=-1$ both from above and below, but the crossing does not occur. It predicts present value of $ω\sim -1\mp 0.07$, which is within the region allowed by the oservational data. This solution also exhibits a power law expansion at early times, and the energy density of the scalar fields mimics that of the stiff matter.
description: 9 pages
title: Improving Surrogate Monitoring Techniques for Suspended Sediment
Creators: name: Whiting, Brant R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: The quality of water of our nation’s rivers and streams is important to many vital uses including drinking water treatment, recreation, and the natural environment. Water quality can be severely impacted by the quantity and type of suspended sediment found therein. Because suspended sediment can be associated with many other contaminants that degrade water quality, it is noted as the most common impairment to water quality in the United States. Suspended sediment can cause significant ecological impacts to the chemical and biological characteristics of surface waters. The ability to accurately quantify suspended sediment concentrations at the appropriate time(s) and location(s) is critical in assessing whether streams are meeting their designated beneficial uses and in implementing and evaluating watershed management and mitigation plans and restoration efforts. Currently, new methods for quantifying suspended sediment concentrations use mathematical and statistical techniques to relate turbidity and suspended sediment and have been shown to be affected by several factors, including the size and characteristics of suspended sediment particles. In this research we used turbidity as a surrogate (substitute) for suspended sediment at six locations in the Little Bear River, Utah, U.S.A. We also examined the differences between single-point and width and depth integrated suspended sediment sampling at two sites. This was used to develop a method to account for the differences and improve the resulting estimates of suspended sediment concentrations. Statistical techniques were used to assess—in probabilistic terms—the duration and magnitude of potential water quality criteria exceedance. Findings highlight that among some monitoring locations with wide geographic distances, turbiditysuspended sediment relationships are not site-specific for the more frequent (90th percentile) but lower (NTU) turbidity values. Comparisons of point measures of turbidity and width and depth integrated suspended sediment samples revealed that suspended sediment is homogenous at their respective stream cross sections for 90% and 99% of the time at sites 2 and 6, respectively. The results are applicable to water managers who are charged with the determination of attainment or exceedance of water quality standards.
Exotic few-body bound states in a lattice
Creators: name: Petrosyan, David
name: Valiente, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strongly-interacting ultra-cold atoms in tight-binding optical lattice potentials provide an ideal platform to realize the fundamental Hubbard model. Here, after outlining the elementary single particle solution, we review and expand our recent work on complete characterization of the bound and scattering states of two and three bosonic atoms in a one-dimensional optical lattice. In the case of two atoms, there is a family of interaction-bound "dimer" states of co-localized particles that exists invariantly for either attractive or repulsive on-site interaction, with the energy below or above the two-particle scattering continuum, respectively. Adding then the third particle -- "monomer" -- we find that, apart from the simple strongly-bound "trimer" corresponding to all three particles occupying the same lattice site, there are two peculiar families of weakly-bound trimers with energies below and above the monomer-dimer scattering continuum, the corresponding binding mechanism being an effective particle exchange interaction.
title: Inferred Values of Clothing related to Adjustment Among Pregnant Women
Creators: name: Dowdeswell, Violet Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1972

description: The first objective of this study was to investigate the adjustment of women during pregnancy through various indices, namely: level of anxiety, attitudes to pregnancy, and perception of body-image boundaries, and to investigate the relationship among these indices. A second objective was to determine if a significant rank order of values inferred through clothing exists among pregnant women, and to relate these values to the measures of adjustment. The comparison of women by trimester and gravidity on the measures of adjustment and the inferred values, was a third objective. The theoretical framework proposed that adjustment to the stress of pregnancy has important implications for the mental health and welfare of mother and child. It was also based on research findings that the subconscious evaluation of body boundaries is an index of adjustment, as is level of anxiety and attitudes to pregnancy_ The interdisciplinary approach to the study of clothing postulates that clothing can facilitate adjustment by serving as an extension of self, as reinforcement of boundaries, and as a communicative factor. Value analysis is central to understanding and predicting behavior, therefore, the values pregnant women seek to reinforce through clothing should provide insight into the function of clothing in adjustive behavior. The sample of 56 pregnant women was selected on a non-random basis from prenatal clinics in southwest. Saskatchewan. The instruments administered were: Cattell's IPAT Anxiety Scale, Grimm's Hel.P. pregnancy Questionnaire, Holtzman Inkblot Protocols, Kernaleguen's Inferred Values of Clothing Inventory, and a General Information Questionnaire. The analyses revealed: (1) significant association among anxiety and factors in attitudes and adjustment to pregnancy, and some of the inferred values of clothing; (2) relationships among factors in attitudes and adjustment to pregnancy and the four inferred values of clothing; (3) positive correlation between Barrier and Penetration, but no significant relationships among Barrier or Penetration and the other indices of adjustment or the inferred values; (4) significant difference in Penetration among subjects in each trimester of pregnancy; (5) no significant difference between primigravidae and multigravidae on any of the variables; (6) significant rank order of inferred values among all subjects, by trimester and gravidity, with value for physical comfort ranked highest. and the social values ranked loweste The theoretical framework received some support. High level of anxiety was related to negative attitudes to pregnancy. The relationship of the measures of adjustment with the more subconscious concept of body-image was not clearly establishede A number of recommendations are included.
MPEC 2025-C149 : 2025 CS3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 CS3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The Philosophy of History
Creators: name: Jones, Bernie D.
Publisher: name: Essays in History
Year: 1997

description: Review of Frykenberg, Robert Eric. History and Belief: The Foundations of Historical Understanding. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996; and Southgate, Beverly. History: What and Why?: Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 1996.
description: Essays in History, Vol. 39 (1997)
Bandwidth Enhancement for Parametric AmplifiersOperated in Chirped Multi-Beam Mode
Creators: name: F. Terranova
name: H. Kiriyama
name: F. Pegoraro
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2008

description: Abstract: In this paper we discuss the bandwidth enhancement that can be achieved in multi-Joule optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) systems exploiting the tunability of parametric amplification. In particular, we consider a pair of single pass amplifiers based on potassium dideuterium phosphate (DKDP), pumped by the second harmonic of Nd:glass and tuned to amplify adjacent regions of the signal spectrum. We demonstrate that a bandwidth enhancement up to 50% is possible in two configurations; in the first case, one of the two amplifiers is operated near its non-collinear broadband limit; to allow for effective recombination and recompression of the outgoing signals this configuration requires filtering and phase manipulation of the spectral tail of the amplified pulses. In the second case, effective recombination can be achieved simply by spectral filtering: in this configuration, the optimization of the parameters of the amplifiers (pulse, crystal orientation and crystal length) does not follow the recipes of non-collinear OPCPA.
Numerical simulation of the magnetization of high-temperature superconductors: 3D finite element method using a single time-step iteration
Creators: name: Lousberg, Gregory P.
name: Ausloos, Marcel
name: Geuzaine, Christophe
name: Dular, Patrick
name: Vanderbemden, Philippe
name: Vanderheyden, Benoit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We make progress towards a 3D finite-element model for the magnetization of a high temperature superconductor (HTS): We suggest a method that takes into account demagnetisation effects and flux creep, while it neglects the effects associated with currents that are not perpendicular to the local magnetic induction. We consider samples that are subjected to a uniform magnetic field varying linearly with time. Their magnetization is calculated by means of a weak formulation in the magnetostatic approximation of the Maxwell equations (A-phi formulation). An implicit method is used for the temporal resolution (Backward Euler scheme) and is solved in the open source solver GetDP. Picard iterations are used to deal with the power law conductivity of HTS. The finite element formulation is validated for an HTS tube with large pinning strength through the comparison with results obtained with other well-established methods. We show that carrying the calculations with a single time-step (as opposed to many small time-steps) produce results with excellent accuracy in a drastically reduced simulation time. The numerical method is extended to the study of the trapped magnetization of cylinders that are drilled with different arrays of columnar holes arranged parallel to the cylinder axis.
title: Evapotranspiration Modeling and Forecasting for Efficient Management of Irrigation Command Areas
Creators: name: Bachour, Roula
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: It has become very crucial to manage water resources to meet the needs of the growing population. In irrigation command areas, and in order to build a better plan to manage service delivery from canals and reservoirs, it is important to build appropriate knowledge of water needs on a field basis. There is often a lag between the order and delivery of water to the field. Knowledge of the crop water requirement at the field level helps the decision maker to make the right choices leading to more efficient handling of the available water. The purpose of this study was to develop methodologies and tools that allow better management of irrigation water and water delivery systems, such as machine learning models that can be used as tools for decision support systems of water management. To achieve better modeling and prediction, wavelet decompositions were explored for their ability to give information about time and frequency changes in the data. Remote sensing approaches were also used for their ability to quantify water requirements at the spatial level. Therefore, this dissertation explored the use of the above-mentioned data tools and techniques to address water management problems. The framework of this dissertation consisted of three components that provide tools to support irrigation system operational decisions. In general, the results for each of the methods developed were satisfactory, relevant, and encouraging. They provided significant potential for improving decision making for real-time applications in irrigation command areas and better management of the water resources.
BURSA INNOVATION STEAM CENTER - BURSA İL MİLLİ EĞİTİM MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ ASSOCIATED SCHOOLS
Creators: name: CreaSTEAM
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: BURSA INNOVATION STEAM CENTER - BURSA İL MİLLİ EĞİTİM MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ ASSOCIATED SCHOOLS
title: Modeling to Improve Vegetation-Based Wetland Biological Assessment
Creators: name: Jones, Robin C
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: To meet the requirements of the Clean Water Act (1972), natural resource managers need to be able to detect biological degradation in wetland ecosystems. Biological indices are commonly used by managers to assess wetland biological condition. The accuracy and precision of wetland condition assessments are directly related to the performance of these indices, and biological index performance is thought to be related to how well an index controls for the effects of environmental attributes on biological assemblages. Many plant-based biological indices control for environmental and biological variation through the use of classification schemes that are based on geographic location and dominant vegetation type. However, the use of classification schemes tends to produce indices with limited applicability and may not adequately control for natural variation. The goal of my research was to use modeling techniques, as an alternative to classification, to account for biological variation associated with natural environmental gradients and to improve the performance of previously developed indices.
I developed two types of model-based biological indices to quantify the biological condition of Ohio wetlands: a vegetation-based index of biological integrity (MVIBI) based on several attributes of wetland plant assemblages, and several indices of plant assemblage taxonomic completeness. I evaluated the accuracy and precision of the MVIBI relative to previously developed indices, and determined that the use of modeling techniques can significantly improve the performance of plant-based indices of biological integrity. Due to increases in accuracy and precision, use of the MVIBI should improve manager’s confidence in wetland biological condition assessments. The indices of taxonomic completeness exhibited poor performance relative to similar indices developed for other types of biological assemblages (i.e. aquatic insects, fish). I attribute poor index performance to my inability to accurately predict individual species occurrence, which is likely a result of plant communities being heavily structured by random disturbance events and biotic interactions that are difficult to account for. My results should help inform index developers of ways to potentially improve wetland condition assessment indices.
Study of Jet Production in p-N Interactions at √s=500 GeV in EAS Multicore Events
Creators: name: EAS-TOP Collaboration
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 1999

description: The cross section for large PT jet production for transverse momentum 10 ≤ PT ≤ 30 GeV/c and rapidity interval 1.6 ≤ η ≤ 2.6 in p-N (“Air”) interactions is studied from the analysis of multicore Extensive Air Showers at √s500 GeV, the projectiles being the leading particles interacting at atmospheric depth between 250 and 390 gcm−2. The obtained jet production cross section in p — N interactions with respect to p — p interactions is σp−NJET = σp−pJET. Aα with α = 1.53 ± 0.07 for A ≈ 14. The result agrees with p-nucleus accelerator measurements at √s30 GeV in the same range of transverse momentum and rapidity interval.
Quantum Energy Teleportation with Trapped Ions
Creators: name: Hotta, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse a protocol of quantum energy teleportation that transports energy from the left edge of a linear ion crystal to the right edge by local operations and classical communication at a speed considerably greater than the speed of a phonon in the crystal. A probe qubit is strongly coupled with phonon fluctuation in the ground state for a short time, and it is projectively measured in order to obtain information about this phonon fluctuation. During the measurement process, phonons are excited by the time-dependent measurement interaction, and the energy of the excited phonons must be infused from outside the system. The obtained information is transferred to the right edge of the crystal through a classical channel. Even though the phonons excited at the left edge do not arrive at the right edge at the same time as when the information arrives at the right edge, we are able to soon extract energy from the ions at the right edge by using the transferred information. Because the intermediate ions of the crystal are not excited during the execution of the protocol, energy is transmitted in the energy transfer channel without heat generation.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures. To be published in Phys. Rev. A
Trace Element Monitoring in Total Air Particulate and in Inhalable Fractions Investigated by Neutron Activation Analysis
Creators: name: D. Arginelli
name: C. Birattari
name: M. Gallorini
name: L. Gini
name: F. Groppi
name: E. Rizzio
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 1999

description: The concentration of 27 trace elements have been determined in the total air particulate matter as well as in its inhalable size segregated fractions collected in urban, industrialised and rural-residential areas in the North of Italy. By means of multistage inertial impactors trace element granulometric distribution has been measured in the PM10 (particles with an Equivalent Aerodynamic Diameter -AED- of less than 10 μm) and in its subsequent 'respirable' fractions (alveolar, bronchial and tracheo-pharynx), which contain particles with nominal diameter from 0 to less than 9 μm. All of the measurements have been carried out by Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA). For all investigated elements the granulometric distribution trends found in different locations are reported and compared.