cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Video-based Facial Micro-Expression Analysis: A Survey of Datasets, Features and Algorithms
Creators: name: Ben, Xianye
name: Ren, Yi
name: Zhang, Junping
name: Wang, Su-Jing
name: Kpalma, Kidiyo
name: Meng, Weixiao
name: Liu, Yong-Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Unlike the conventional facial expressions, micro-expressions are involuntary and transient facial expressions capable of revealing the genuine emotions that people attempt to hide. Therefore, they can provide important information in a broad range of applications such as lie detection, criminal detection, etc. Since micro-expressions are transient and of low intensity, however, their detection and recognition is difficult and relies heavily on expert experiences. Due to its intrinsic particularity and complexity, video-based micro-expression analysis is attractive but challenging, and has recently become an active area of research. Although there have been numerous developments in this area, thus far there has been no comprehensive survey that provides researchers with a systematic overview of these developments with a unified evaluation. Accordingly, in this survey paper, we first highlight the key differences between macro- and micro-expressions, then use these differences to guide our research survey of video-based micro-expression analysis in a cascaded structure, encompassing the neuropsychological basis, datasets, features, spotting algorithms, recognition algorithms, applications and evaluation of state-of-the-art approaches. For each aspect, the basic techniques, advanced developments and major challenges are addressed and discussed. Furthermore, after considering the limitations of existing micro-expression datasets, we present and release a new dataset - called micro-and-macro expression warehouse (MMEW) - containing more video samples and more labeled emotion types. We then perform a unified comparison of representative methods on CAS(ME)2 for spotting, and on MMEW and SAMM for recognition, respectively. Finally, some potential future research directions are explored and outlined.
Developing Workable Calf Management Programs
Creators: name: Waltner-Toews, David
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1983

description: The rearing of dairy calves, like the rearing of children, or like global politics or religion, is a subject which has been debated for many years, usually on the basis of strong opinions and not much evidence. Dairy farmers have been subjected to alternate waves of euphoria, as some new product or program is thrown out at them, and then despair, as yet another panacea fails. Some of the confusion with regard to the value of different calf rearing systems arises because not everyone is using the same standard for evaluation. Calf morbidity, mortality and welfare, economic efficiency and farmer satisfaction are all valid, and different, endpoints to consider. The idea, of course, is to optimize all of these. At the least, we need to be aware of all of these in our evaluations.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1983
title: The Influence of Various Factors on Nitrogen Balance and Protein Quality Measured in Adult Human Beings
Creators: name: Wittwer, Arthur John
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1977

description: The effect of nitrogen intake, nitrogen source, calorie intake, body weight, adaptation time, research group and sex on the nitrogen balance of human adults was investigated. Data from studies reported in the literature were combined and analyzed statistically by multiple regression techniques. Analyses were made separately for six sources of nitrogen: egg, beef, rice, corn, wheat and wheat gluten.
Nitrogen intake, caloric intake and body weight exerted significant effects on nitrogen balance (5% level of confidence) for six, three and two of the six nitrogen sources, respectively. Other variables were not significant at the 5% level. Although differences were not significant (5% level), the correlation between nitrogen intake and nitrogen balance was greatest for four of the six nitrogen sources when data were expressed as grams per square meter of body surface area (g/m2) as opposed to when they were expressed per kilogram body weight or per kilogram raised to the 0.73 power.
Curvilinear relationships between intake and balance in the submaintenance range of intakes were evident for all protein sources except corn. The regression lines for several protein sources tended to converge at both lower and higher levels of intake . At levels of nitrogen intake below 1 g/m2, protein appeared to be utilized with near 100% efficiency, regardless of source. At levels of intake above 4.4 g/m2 , all nitrogen sources except wheat gluten gave nitrogen balances which did not differ significantly (5% level). In general, caloric intake exerted a positive but diminishing effect on nitrogen balance when nitrogen intake was held constant and caloric intake increased from maintenance to excessive levels. The mean amount of egg nitrogen required to achieve zero nitrogen balance decreased from 3. l g/m2 to 2.2 g/m2 as caloric intake increased from 1475 kilocalories per square meter of body surface area (kcal/m2) to 1760 kcal/m2.
The findings are discussed in terms of present energy and protein requirements, the traditional concepts of the biological value of proteins, and the prediction of protein quality from amino acid composition.
Exploring Non-Supersymmetric New Physics in Polarized Møller Scattering
Creators: name: Chang, We-Fu
name: Ng, John N.
name: Wu, Jackson M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study in an effective operator approach how the effects of new physics from various scenarios that contain an extra $Z'$ neutral gauge boson or doubly charged scalars, can affect and thus be tested by the precision polarized Møller scattering experiments. We give Wilson coefficients for various classes of generic models, and we deduce constraints on the parameter space of the relevant coupling constants or mixing angles from the results of the SLAC E158 experiment where applicable. We give also constraints projected from the upcoming 1 ppb JLAB experiment. In the scenario where the extra $Z'$ is light ($M_{Z'} \ll M_W$), we obtain further constraints on the parameter space using the BNL $g-2$ result where it is useful. We find that the BNL deviation from the Standard Model cannot be attributed to a light extra $Z'$ neutral gauge boson.
description: v2: 25 pages, 7 figures. Typos fixed, clarifications added, presentation of plots improved, title slightly changed. To be published in PRD
title: The Effect of High Protein, Low Pyridoxine Diet on Calcium Retention in Rats
Creators: name: Bottom, Julia S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1978

description: The effect of increasing the dietary protein and pyridoxine level on calcium balance and bone strength was studied in growing and adult rats. The loss of calcium due to urinary excretion of o-phosphoryl-ethanolamine on a high protein diet was also examined.
Three studies were conducted. In the first adult male rats were fed 40% protein diets with high or low pyridoxine or a low protein, low pyridoxine diet. Calcium balance and femur bending stress were determined. In the second study male weanling rats were given either 10 or 63% protein with 0.40 or 0.73% pyridoxine. Calcium and phosphorous balances were determined. Calcium, phosphorous, and ash content of the ulna, scapula, and caudal vertebrae were evaluated. Stress tests were carried out on the femur, tibia, humerus, and caudal vertebrae. Adult female rats were given 63% protein diets with or without pyridoxine in the third study. Calcium and phosphorous balances were determined. Urinary o-phosphorylethanolamine was checked.
The high protein diets caused a more positive calcium balance than the lower protein diets in all studies. The phosphorous balance became increasingly negative as the calcium balance became more positive. Pyridoxine level had no effect on the balance of either mineral. Diet had no effect on the mineral content of weight bearing bones. The high protein diet resulted in higher mineral values in the vertebrae than the lower protein diet. Diet did not effect resistance to stress in the bones of the adult rats. In the young rats, the stress results were not consistent. Pyridoxine had no effect on mineralization regardless of dietary protein level. No urinary excretion of o-phosphorylethan-olamine was found in a pyridoxine deficiency.
Il diritto di ripubblicare in accesso aperto, l'uso pubblico della ragione e la libertà accademica
Creators: name: Caso, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: La presentazione mira a sintetizzare lo stato dell'arte del Secondary Publication Right (diritto di ripubblicazione in ambito scientitico) nell'Unione Europea e si conclude con alcune proposte per rendere tale strumento giuridico un vero e proprio dirito di aprire le pubblicazioni scientifiche.
The best person for the job : an investigation into the principal selection process in Tasmanian government schools
Creators: name: Milbourne, SA
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Despite the crucial role that principals play, numbers of applicants for principalship vacancies are said to be declining, and one of the reasons for this is the process used to select principals. There is a small, but increasing body of research into people's perceptions of principal selection processes, but almost none in the Tasmanian context. This study aims to fill this void in the research. This research investigates the perceptions of a group of people involved in the selection process for principals in the state of Tasmania, Australia. In particular, it examines those factors that were considered to be positive about the process and those that were considered to be negative. It seeks to answer three questions: - what are the views on those factors of participants in the principal selection process that exists in the Tasmania Department of Education? - what effects does participation in the process have on participants themselves? - what are the implications for the system (Department of Education)? In its use of semi-structured interviews as the data-gathering instrument, this study facilitates an in-depth exploration of the issue with participants. In doing so, it is anticipated that the study will add to the existing knowledge of peoples' perceptions of principalship selection, with its links to declining number of principalship applicants. This study goes further, in that it specifically investigates the Tasmanian context, adding to the very limited information that exists on the current situation. It provides data that could help to shape future principal selection processes, which in turn may address the issue of declining numbers of people applying for principalship positions. Finally, it offers information to guide further research into making the selection process more effective.
A study of the requirements of p-11B fusion reactor by tokamak system code
Creators: name: Cai, Jianqing
name: Xie, Huasheng
name: Li, Yang
name: Tuszewski, Michel
name: Zhou, Hongbin
name: Chen, Peipei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most tokamak devices including ITER exploit the D-T reaction due to its high reactivity, but the wall loading caused by the associated 14MeV neutrons will limit the further development of fusion performance at high beta. To explore p-11B fusion cycle, a tokamak system code is extended to incorporate the relativistic bremsstrahlung since the temperature of electrons is approaching the rest energy of electron. By choosing an optimum p-11B mix and ion temperature, some representative sets of parameters of p-11B tokamak reactor, whose fusion gain exceeds 1, have been found under the thermal wall loading limit and beta limit when synchrotron radiation loss is neglected. However, the fusion gain greatly decreases when the effect of synchrotron radiation loss is considered. Helium ash also plays an important role in the fusion performance, and we have found that the helium confinement time must be below the energy confinement time to keep the helium concentration ratio in an acceptable range.
description: 9 figures, 2 tables
Deep-IDS: A Real-Time Intrusion Detector for IoT Nodes Using Deep Learning
Creators: name: Whaiduzzaman, Wahid
name: Racherla, Sandeepkumar
name: Sripathi, Prathyusha
name: Faruqui, Nuruzzaman
name: Kabir, Md Alamgir
name: Shah, Syed Aziz
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461103
subject: Deep learning

description: The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a swiftly expanding sector that is pivotal in driving the innovation of today's smart services. However, the inherent resource-constrained nature of IoT nodes poses significant challenges in embedding advanced algorithms for cybersecurity, leading to an escalation in cyberattacks against these nodes. Contemporary research in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) predominantly focuses on enhancing IDS performance through sophisticated algorithms, often overlooking their practical applicability. This paper introduces Deep-IDS, an innovative and practically deployable Deep Learning (DL)-based IDS. It employs a Long-Short-Term-Memory (LSTM) network comprising 64 LSTM units and is trained on the CIC-IDS2017 dataset. Its streamlined architecture renders Deep-IDS an ideal candidate for edge-server deployment, acting as a guardian between IoT nodes and the Internet against Denial of Service, Distributed Denial of Service, Brute Force, Man-in-the-Middle, and Replay Attacks. A distinctive aspect of this research is the trade-off analysis between the intrusion Detection Rate (DR) and the False Alarm Rate (FAR), facilitating the real-time performance of the Deep-IDS. The system demonstrates an exemplary detection rate of 96.8% at the 70% threshold of DR-FAR trade-off and an overall classification accuracy of 97.67%. Furthermore, Deep-IDS achieves precision, recall, and F1-scores of 97.67%, 98.17%, and 97.91%, respectively. On average, Deep-IDS requires 1.49 seconds to identify and mitigate intrusion attempts, effectively blocking malicious traffic sources. The remarkable efficacy, swift response time, innovative design, and novel defense strategy of Deep-IDS not only secure IoT nodes but also their interconnected sub-networks, thereby positioning Deep-IDS as a leading IDS for IoT-enhanced computer networks.
Productivity Studies with lvermectin in Beef Cattle
Creators: name: Holste, J.E.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1983

description: The broad spectrum antiparasitic agent, ivermectin, has been shown to be safe and effective in cattle, sheep, horses, and swine. Ivermectin has been used successfully in many millions of cattle around the world. To assist bovine practitioners and livestock producers in determining the most cost effective usage of this product and to enable them to fully utilize its broad-spectrum activity, productivity trials under many different conditions have been and currently arebeing conducted. As demonstrated, ivermectin is an effective tool for increasing liveweight gains for cattle under a wide variety of usage conditions.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1983
Asteroseismic Investigation of Known Planet Hosts in the Kepler Field
Creators: name: Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.
name: Kjeldsen, H.
name: Brown, T. M.
name: Gilliland, R. L.
name: Arentoft, T.
name: Frandsen, S.
name: Quirion, P. -O.
name: Borucki, W. J.
name: Koch, D.
name: Jenkins, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In addition to its great potential for characterizing extra-solar planetary systems the Kepler mission is providing unique data on stellar oscillations. A key aspect of Kepler asteroseismology is the application to solar-like oscillations of main-sequence stars. As an example we here consider an initial analysis of data for three stars in the Kepler field for which planetary transits were known from ground-based observations. For one of these, HAT-P-7, we obtain a detailed frequency spectrum and hence strong constraints on the stellar properties. The remaining two stars show definite evidence for solar-like oscillations, yielding a preliminary estimate of their mean densities.
description: Astrophysical Journal Letters, in the press
Self-similarity degree of deformed statistical ensembles
Creators: name: Olemskoi, A. I.
name: Vaylenko, A. S.
name: Shuda, I. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider self-similar statistical ensembles with the phase space whose volume is invariant under the deformation that squeezes (expands) the coordinate and expands (squeezes) the momentum. Related probability distribution function is shown to possess a discrete symmetry with respect to manifold action of the Jackson derivative to be a homogeneous function with a self-similarity degree $q$ fixed by the condition of invariance under $(n+1)$-fold action of the dilatation operator related. In slightly deformed phase space, we find the homogeneous function is defined with the linear dependence at $n=0$, whereas the self-similarity degree equals the gold mean at $n=1$, and $q\to n$ in the limit $n\to\infty$. Dilatation of the homogeneous function is shown to decrease the self-similarity degree $q$ at $n>0$.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure
Solvent-mediated interactions between nanoparticles at fluid interfaces
Creators: name: Bresme, F.
name: Lehle, H.
name: Oettel, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the solvent mediated interactions between nanoparticles adsorbed at a liquid-vapor interface in comparison to the solvent mediated interactions in the bulk liquid and vapor phases of a Lennard-Jones solvent. Molecular dynamics simulation data for the latter are in good agreement with results from integral equations in the reference functional approximation and a simple geometric approximation. Simulation results for the solvent mediated interactions at the interface differ markedly from the interactions of the particles in the corresponding bulk phases. We find that at short interparticle distances the interactions are considerably more repulsive than those in either bulk phase. At long interparticle distances we find evidence for a long-ranged attraction. We discuss these observations in terms of interfacial interactions, namely, the three-phase line tension that would operate at short distances, and capillary wave interactions for longer interparticle distances.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures
On finite amplitude planetary waves
Creators: name: Clarke, Richard Allyn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Finite amplitude planetary waves are studied on a homogeneous fluid on both the rotating sphere and on a mid-latitude β-plane. The integrated equations of motion are rederived both on the rotating sphere, in a spherical polar co-ordinate system whose axis is tilted relative to the rotation axis, and on a mid-latitude β-plane. The linear solutions are re-examined and the errors associated with the non-divergent and the β-plane approximations are each shown to be about 10 to 15% for waves of a few thousand kilometers wavelength. Using the integrated equations of motion both on the sphere and on the β-plane, the linear non-divergent Rossby wave solutions are shown to be exact finite amplitude solutions. An exact topographic wave solution is also given for the case of an exponential depth profile. Such behaviour is not found for the divergent waves. Using a Stokes-type expansion in terms of an amplitude parameter, the second order solution for divergent Rossby waves is obtained, and it is found that, as in surface gravity wave theory, the first order correction to the phase velocity is zero. It is also shown that the linear non-divergent Rossby wave solution on a uniformly sheared zonal current is not a finite amplitude solution, and the second order solution is then calculated. Once again, the phase speed is correct to the first order. A class of long waves of permanent form analogous to the solitary and cnoidal waves of surface wave theory is obtained for a β-plane channel of either constant or exponentially varying depth. Such waves are found to exist in the divergent case in the absence of any zonal current; however, if the divergence is weak, or if the non-divergent approximation is made , then it is found, as it was by Larsen (1965), that these waves will exist only in the presence of a weakly sheared zonal current. On the exponential depth profile, such waves exist in the absence of a sheared zonal current, even if the non-divergent approximation is made. It is suggested that such waves may also exist trapped along long ocean ridges or scarps.
On Secure Network Coding with Nonuniform or Restricted Wiretap Sets
Creators: name: Cui, Tao
name: Ho, Tracey
name: Kliewer, Joerg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The secrecy capacity of a network, for a given collection of permissible wiretap sets, is the maximum rate of communication such that observing links in any permissible wiretap set reveals no information about the message. This paper considers secure network coding with nonuniform or restricted wiretap sets, for example, networks with unequal link capacities where a wiretapper can wiretap any subset of $k$ links, or networks where only a subset of links can be wiretapped. Existing results show that for the case of uniform wiretap sets (networks with equal capacity links/packets where any $k$ can be wiretapped), the secrecy capacity is given by the cut-set bound, and can be achieved by injecting $k$ random keys at the source which are decoded at the sink along with the message. This is the case whether or not the communicating users have information about the choice of wiretap set. In contrast, we show that for the nonuniform case, the cut-set bound is not achievable in general when the wiretap set is unknown, whereas it is achievable when the wiretap set is made known. We give achievable strategies where random keys are canceled at intermediate non-sink nodes, or injected at intermediate non-source nodes. Finally, we show that determining the secrecy capacity is a NP-hard problem.
description: 24 pages, revision submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
The Effects of Cold Exposure on Neonatal Calves
Creators: name: Olson, David P.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1983

description: Cold stress is an environmental hazard that potentially can produce life-threatening changes in susceptible young calves. Calves may die either directly or indirectly as a result of cold exposure. A combination of adequate case history, clinical signs, and laboratory data often provide enough information necessary to make a correct diagnosis. Several methods of treatment are available to effectively and rapidly assist hypothermia calves during recovery. The fluid and electrolyte balances in hypothermic calves should also be taken into account when considering the most effective treatment regimen. It is important to realize the resilience and fortitude of young calves even though they have been severely cold stressed. These natural qualities, coupled with prompt and vigorous treatment, greatly enhance their chances for uneventful and complete recovery.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1983
Physiological responses to stress by wild mammals.
Creators: name: Monamy, Vaughan
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The biological interactions that enable wild mammals to maintain homeostasis when confronted with stressors depend on precise regulation by the CNS of neural and endocrine systems. Immediate physiological responses to acute stressors are characterised by the activation of the sympathetic nervous system with release of epinephrine and norepinephrine from the adrenal medulla. Persistent stressors are countered by ACTH release and consequent adrenocortical activation. Whether a stress response is produced by psychological perceptions, environmental factors or latent infections, stimulation of the PA axis and increased levels of total corticosteroids will result. Selye's GAS partitions these responses into an initial 'alarm' reaction and a prolonged 'resistance' stage. The intensification of the stimulus, or the superimposition of further stressors, leads to the 'exhaustion' stage. This was initially thought to be characterised by adrenal exhaustion and a depletion of glucocorticoids. It is now known that depressed immune functions occur due to increased adrenal activity and high levels of biologically-active glucocorticoids. Social stressors that initiate endocrine responses have been proposed as being capable of regulating animal numbers in captivity. Such a regulatory role for stress in natural populations has not been adequately tested. However, studies that have correlated individual behaviour and social structure with physiological data offer some insights into possible mechanisms of population regulation.
Cosmicflows-4: The Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation Providing ~10,000 Distances
Creators: name: Kourkchi, Ehsan
name: Tully, R. Brent
name: Courtois, Helene M.
name: Dupuy, Alexandra
name: Guinet, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interstellar gas in spiral galaxies can constitute a significant fraction of the baryon mass and it has been demonstrated that the sum of stellar and gas components correlates well with the kinematic signature of the total mass content, the widths of HI line profiles. The correlation of baryonic mass with HI line widths is used here to obtain distances for 9984 galaxies extending to ~0.05c. The sample is HI flux limited and a correction is required to account for an HI selection bias. The absolute scale is established by 64 galaxies with known distances from studies of Cepheid variables and/or the magnitudes of stars at the tip of the red giant branch. The calibration of the baryonic relationship results in a determination of the Hubble constant of H_0=75.5+-2.5 km/s/Mpc. The error estimate is statistical. This material will be combined with contributions from other methodologies in a subsequent article where systematic uncertainties will be investigated.
description: 20 pages, 21 Figures, 3 Tables. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal. The complete version of the distance catalog (Table 3) would be available within the public domain of Extragalactic Distance Database (EDD: https://edd.ifa.hawaii.edu/dfirst.php) under the title of "CF4 BTF-distances"
An Innovative Dispensing Pharmacy
Creators: name: Meyer, Daryl G.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1983

description: I believe the veterinary profession has been and always will be a "service profession." I also believe that services rendered will always be the main income producing channel for all of our practices. I also feel that drug dispensing is a very vital service to our clients. What is more ethical, letting our clients go to the feedstore, the drug store, or the pickup truck that pulls into our client's yard for veterinary supplies and advice or encourage him to come to see us as professionals for this service?
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1983
title: Production of Quick-Cooking Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.): Investigations on Antinutrients and Quality
Creators: name: Iyer, Vishalakshi G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: Three bean varieties, namely, great northern, kidney, and pinto (Phaseolus vulgaris L. ), were subjected to several physico-chemical treatments to reduce their cooking time. Soaking in a combination of salt solutions (sodium chloride, 2.5 percent+ sodium bicarbonate, 1.5 percent+ sodium tripolyphosphate, 1.0 percent + sodium carbonate, 0.5 percent) resulted in 80-85 percent reduction in cooking time. Irradiation (Γ-rays) at 500 Krads of soaked and dehydrated beans caused nearly 50 percent reduction in cooking time. High temperatures (37 and 45°C) and pH (9.0) caused greater water imbibation and total solids loss than room temperature (22°C) and pH 7.0. Organoleptic evaluation of beans revealed that quick-cooking cooked great northern beans were more acceptable than kidney and pinto beans.
Effects of treatments on phytate-P, trypsin and chymotrypsin inhibitors, flatulence factors, proteins, phenolic compounds, and in vitro digestibility of proteins in quick-cooking beans were evaluated and compared with their conventionally processed counterparts. Beans soaked in distilled water had lower amounts of phytate-P than those soaked in salt solutions . Leaching losses of oligosaccharides were nearly the same in the different treatments for all the beans except kidney beans. Stachyose was found to be the major contributor to flatulence in these beans. The treated beans had significantly reduced trypsin and chymotrypsin inhibiting activities. Quick-cooking cooked beans had higher in vitro protein digestibility than conventionally cooked beans. Phenolic contents were found to be inversely related to in vitro digestibility.
The Use of Microcomputers for Consultation
Creators: name: Leverett, Gene
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1983

description: Microcomputer programs are real great tools for storing, tabulation, and analysing information. The proper use of this tool requires a well developed rational philosophy of livestock production to benefit the producer, which I hope I have given a good idea of in my explanation of the cow-calf program. The other problem with the computer is the inadequacy of available software. There is a lot of junk software available that just isn't worth the powder to blow it up. To make your own software is a very time consuming project that most people will not be able to accomplish to their satisfaction.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1983
Stellar spindown: From the ONC to the Sun
Creators: name: Scholz, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rotation is a key parameter in the evolution of stars. From 1 Myr (the age of the ONC) to 4.5 Gyr (the age of the Sun), solar-like stars lose about 1-2 orders of specific angular momentum. The main agents for this rotational braking are believed to be star-disk interaction and magnetically powered stellar winds. Over the last decade, the observational fundament to probe the stellar spindown has dramatically improved. Significant progress has been made in exploring the underlying physical causes of the rotational braking. Parameterized models combining the effects of star-disk interaction, winds, and pre-main sequence contraction are able to reproduce the main features of the rotational data for stars spanning more than 3 orders of magnitude in age. This has allowed us to constrain stellar ages based on the rotation rates ('gyrochronology'). One main challenge for future work is to extend this type of analysis to the substellar mass range, where the rotational database is still sparse. More theoretical and observational work is required to explore the physics of the braking processes, aiming to explain rotational evolution from first principles. In this review for Cool Stars 15, I will summarize the status quo and the recent developments in the field.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, proceedings for a review talk given at Cool Stars 15
Thermodynamics on Fuzzy Spacetime
Creators: name: Huang, Wung-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the thermodynamics of non-relativistic and relativistic ideal gases on the spacetime with noncommutative fuzzy geometry. We first find that the heat capacities of the non-relativistic ideal boson and fermion on the fuzzy two-sphere have different values, contrast to that on the commutative geometry. We calculate the "statistical interparticle potential" therein and interprete this property as a result that the non-commutativity of the fuzzy sphere has an inclination to enhance the statistical "attraction (repulsion) interparticle potential" between boson (fermion). We also see that at high temperature the heat capacity approaches to zero. We next evaluate the heat capacities of the non-relativistic ideal boson and fermion on the product of the 1+D (with D=2,3) Minkowski spacetime by a fuzzy two-sphere and see that the fermion capacity could be a decreasing function of temperature in high-temperature limit, contrast to that always being an increasing function on the commutative geometry. Also, the boson and fermion heat capacities both approach to that on the 1+D Minkowski spacetime in high-temperature limit. We discuss these results and mention that the properties may be traced to the mechanism of "thermal reduction of the fuzzy space". We also investigate the same problems in the relativistic system with free Klein-Gordon field and Dirac field and find the similar properties.
description: Latex 18 pages
Hold the presses : the vision unsplendid for Australian newspapers
Creators: name: Montgomery, BJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The destiny of Australian newspapers and the journalists who work for them came into sharp focus in August 2008 when Fairfax Media announced it was cutting five per cent of its Australian and New Zealand workforce. At the same time it flagged it would be outsourcing some editorial production, notably the sub-editing of non-news pages, to private contractors. Fairfax's cost-cutting measures illustrate the extent to which the survival of some of our biggest newspapers is threatened by the modem medium of the Internet. This thesis synthesises and assesses the views of notable players in the news industry on the future of Australian newspapers. Its concern is the future of the print platform per se, not the likely structure and future output of today's newspaper companies. It draws on interviews with practitioners and publishers, public statements, documents and academic literature. It also seeks to determine the status of newspaper circulation and readership in Australia relative to the increasing size of the potential market. It examines available data on readership and circulation and benchmarks that data against Australian population growth to indicate audience-share and market penetration in a different light to that provided by the conventional publications of the Audit Bureau of Circulations and Roy Morgan Research, which report actual sales and estimated readership in absolute rather than terms relative to the potential market. The thesis establishes that newspapers are losing their patronage across the population at large. In developed nations, online news and advertising that are delivered on computer screens at home, in the workplace and on mobile devices challenge the viability and utility of daily newspapers in their traditional form. The embrace of digitised news in its various formats heralds a third wave of technological challenges to newspapers and to those practitioners for whom journalism is still a form of higher calling. Part of the response by newspapers to the challenge to their dominance has been to create their own news websites. This thesis confirms that a successful business model for these websites has yet to emerge, certainly not one that provides pre internet advertising share and revenue. This thesis breaks new ground in two areas: the real terms decline of Australian newspaper circulation and readership; and it finds consensus, notably between current and former Fairfax executives, that the future of Australian newspapers is a complex equation, primarily determined by the market in which each operates and its primary source of revenue.
Veal Calf Consultation
Creators: name: Blease, Robert R.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1983

description: The veal industry has been maligned and criticized by the press, vegetarians, and animal welfarists. The veal industry has looked to the veterinary profession and in particular to the bovine practitioner for guidance. The public also looks to the veterinary profession to guarantee a wholesome meat product which is raised in an ethical and humane manner. To date, the veal industry has only had itself to provide this guidance. It is trying hard to organize, be competitive, and at the same time be humane. Most all veal raisers recognize the fact that animals do have rights. These rights include: good housing, management, nutrition and care. The veal industry invites the veterinary profession to get involved and supply the guidance and leadership that they provide in all other facets of meat production.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1983
title: Family and Center Childcare Providers: Correlates Among Mathematics Anxiety/Attitudes toward Mathematics, Teacher Self-Efficacy, and Other Factors
Creators: name: Hendershot, Shawnee M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Previous experiences with mathematics, particularly negative ones, can influence an individual’s attitudes toward mathematics. Children’s first experiences with mathematics are often in their childcare settings. Elementary teachers appear to have more mathematics anxiety than other professionals, but the level of mathematics anxiety among childcare providers is not known. The presence of mathematics anxiety correlates with lower teacher self-efficacy or the teacher’s belief of how effective he/she is in influencing a student’s learning. Grounded in Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy, this study examined the level of mathematics anxiety and teacher self-efficacy among 122 licensed Utah childcare providers in center and family home childcare. Providers responded to a survey assessing their attitudes about mathematics, feelings of teacher self-efficacy, frequency of developmentally appropriate mathematics and reading activities in the childcare program, and demographic information. Descriptive statistics, correlations, and one-way ANOVAs were calculated. Results indicate that the participants reported more favorable than anxious attitudes toward mathematics as well as moderately high feelings of teacher self-efficacy. There were no statistically significant differences in mathematics anxiety or teacher self-efficacy by the type of childcare provided, provider’s level of education, or years of experience. Results of the ANOVAs revealed that the best predictors of mathematics anxiety were provider attitudes toward reading/literacy as well as the number of developmentally appropriate mathematics and reading activities provided. As providers showed an increase in favorable attitudes toward reading/literacy, they also expressed less mathematics anxiety. This is the first study of its kind to assess these variables among childcare providers.
Environments of Nearby Quasars in Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Creators: name: Lietzen, H.
name: Heinamaki, P.
name: Nurmi, P.
name: Tago, E.
name: Saar, E.
name: Liivamagi, J.
name: Tempel, E.
name: Einasto, M.
name: Einasto, J.
name: Gramann, M.
name: Takalo, L. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the first time spectroscopic galaxy redshift surveys are reaching the scales where galaxies can be studied together with the nearest quasars. This gives an opportunity to study the dependence between the activity of a quasar and its environment in a more extensive way than before. We study the spatial distribution of galaxies and groups of galaxies in the environments of low redshift quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our aim is to understand how the nearby quasars are embedded in the local and global density field of galaxies and how the environment affects quasar activity. We analyse the environments of nearby quasars using number counts of galaxies. We also study the dependence of group properties to their distance to the nearest quasar. The large scale environments are studied by analysing the locations of quasars in the luminosity density field. Our study of the number counts of galaxies in quasar environments shows an underdensity of bright galaxies at a few Mpc from quasars. Also, the groups of galaxies that have a quasar closer than 2Mpc are poorer and less luminous than in average. Our analysis on the luminosity density field shows that quasars clearly avoid rich superclusters. Nearby quasars seem to be located in outskirts of superclusters or in filaments connecting them. Our results suggest that quasar evolution may be affected by density variations both on supercluster scales and in the local environment.
description: Accepted to A&A
Powering Stellar Magnetism: Energy Transfers in Cyclic Dynamos of Sun-like Stars
Creators: name: Brun, Allan Sacha
name: Strugarek, Antoine
name: Noraz, Quentin
name: Perri, Barbara
name: Varela, Jacobo
name: Augsutson, Kyle
name: Charbonneau, Paul
name: Toomre, Juri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the ASH code to model the convective dynamo of solar-type stars. Based on a series of 15 3-D MHD simulations spanning 4 bins in rotation and mass, we show what mechanisms are at work in these stellar dynamos with and without magnetic cycles and how global stellar parameters affect the outcome. We also derive scaling laws for the differential rotation and magnetic field based on these simulations. We find a weaker trend between differential rotation and stellar rotation rate, ($ΔΩ\sim (|Ω|/Ω_{\odot})^{0.46}$) in the MHD solutions than in their HD counterpart $(|Ω|/Ω_{\odot})^{0.66})$, yielding a better agreement with the observational trends based on power laws. We find that for a fluid Rossby number between $0.15 \lesssim Ro_f \lesssim 0.65$ the solutions possess long magnetic cycle, if $Ro_f \lesssim 0.42$ a short cycle and if $Ro_f \gtrsim 1$ (anti-solar-like differential rotation) a statistically steady state. We show that short-cycle dynamos follow the classical Parker-Yoshimura rule whereas the long-cycle period ones do not. We further demonstrate that the Rossby number dependency of the large-scale surface magnetic field in the simulation ($B_{L,surf} \sim Ro_{f}^{-1.26}$) agrees better with observations ($B_{V} \sim Ro_{s}^{-1.4 \pm 0.1}$) and differs from dynamo scaling based on the global magnetic energy ($B_{bulk} \sim Ro_{f}^{-0.5}$). We also show that up to few percents of the stellar luminosity can be channelled into the star's magnetism, hence providing a large energy reservoir for possible surface eruptive events.
description: 45 pages, 24 figures, 7 tables, 3 appendices, accepted by ApJ on 12/23/21, published on 02/03/22. (1) DAp/AIM, CEA/IRFU, CNRS/INSU, Univ. Paris-Saclay \& Univ. de Paris, France, (2) CMPA, KU Leuven, Belgium, (3) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, (4) Dept. de physique, Univ. de Montr\'eal, Canada, (5) JILA and Dept. of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, USA
title: Making Statistics Matter: Using Self-data to Improve Statistics Learning
Creators: name: Thayne, Jeffrey L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Research has demonstrated that well into their undergraduate and even graduate education, learners often struggle to understand basic statistical concepts, fail to see their relevance in their personal and professional lives, and often treat them as little more than mere mathematics exercises. This study explored ways help learners in an undergraduate learning context to treat statistical inquiry as mattering in a practical research context, by inviting them to ask questions about and analyze large, real, messy datasets that they have collected about their own personal lives (i.e., self-data). This study examined the conditions under which such an intervention might (and might not) successfully lead to a greater sense of the relevance of statistics to undergraduate learners.
A Livestock Producers Fair
Creators: name: James, Harry
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1983

description: Our Livestock Producers Fair is an educational day. It serves as a client appreciation day. It is a day to promote veterinary medicine. It is a trade or marketing show. This event provides our practice an opportunity for recognition and advertising. This day is an excellent opportunity to make this a very good income producing day. We can add up the dollars of income that are produced that single day but there is no way to measure the dollars that are produced in the weeks and months that follow.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1983
title: Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher Needs Assessment of a STEM-Enhanced Food and Nutrition Sciences Curriculum
Creators: name: Merrill, Cathy A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education concepts are naturally contextualized in the study of food and nutrition. In 2014 a pilot group of Utah high school Career and Technical Education Family and Consumer Sciences teachers rewrote the Food and Nutrition Sciences curriculum to add and enhance the STEM-related content. This study is an online needs assessment by Utah Food and Nutrition 1 teachers on the implementation of the STEM-enhanced curriculum after its first year of use in 2015-2016. A Borich needs assessment model was used to create mean weighted discrepancy scores between teacher-perceived levels of importance and teacher-perceived competence for each objective in the new curriculum in order to prioritize professional development needs felt by the teachers. The survey also gathered data on educational backgrounds, teaching experience, demographics, and recommendations from the teachers about barriers and aids to implementation. While it was found that teachers felt moderately competent to teach the new curriculum, the most needed areas of professional development were in the objectives with the highest concentration of STEM-related concepts. In order bring teacher feelings of competence up to the levels of teacher perceptions of the importance of these STEM-related objectives, teachers need to deepen their own knowledge of STEM education concepts through substantive, on-going professional development. Focused webinars and facilitated online collaborations for the teachers would call attention to new and previously missed resources and help the teachers apply them in the classroom.