cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Forgotten Fruitway: Folk Perspectives on Fruit Farming on the Providence Bench, 1940-1980
Creators: name: Maxwell, Amy C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: At one time, Providence, Utah, was well-known for its fruit production, especially on the north and south benches, but changes in population growth patterns, technology, and local economy have dramatically reduced reliance on agriculture and have completely eliminated fruit farming on the benches. In order to capture a slice of Providence history which is quickly disappearing from public memory, this thesis relies on a series of interviews I conducted with former workers on the fruit farms in the Providence bench area. Through their memories of their work and childhoods, I set out a folk history which focuses on family and worker relationships, gender roles, and work techniques. Throughout the entire body of work, I pull from a variety of genres and themes within the field of folklore to answer my research question of what fruit farming entailed and the importance it played in the lives of the farmers, their families, the workers, and the community.
I begin with sections of historical ethnography in order to transport the reader into a time past and to convey the nature of these farmers’ and workers’ lives and occupations. The voices of my informants have a large role in shaping the history through their commentaries and personal narratives about this period. I continue with further textual analysis of the informants’ personal narratives about work and childhood, using theories of children’s folklore and oral narrative to discuss trickster tales and their role in my informants’ lives and their life histories. This analysis further focuses on power relationships and gender roles, while acting as a collection of occupational and children’s folklore as revealed through my informants’ interviews. I also draw on psychoanalytic interpretations of gender roles within work. I also discuss teenage relationships, flirting, and jokes about sexuality during this time period through this theoretical lens. My analysis concludes where it started: with the stories and their nostalgic themes, drawing the body of this thesis back to a discussion of life, land, and family and the nature of the stories told about these themes now. Throughout, this folk history relies on the present to understand the past, and by way of the nostalgic quality of all of the stories told by my informants, the past defines the present.
Follow up study of patients discharged from Lion's Gate Hospital
Creators: name: Ghaed, Sylvia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that patients improved by undergoing treatment in the Activation Unit at Lion's Gate Hospital, North Vancouver, B.C. It was carried out under the auspices of that hospital and the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia. Data on two hundred eighty-four patients discharged from the Unit between August 1, 1965 and June 30, 1967 was collected from medical and social service files and from questionnaires returned to the unit by physicians three months after patients' discharge. This data was prepared for the computer (MVTAB program), which was used to develop univariate and bivariate frequency and percentage tables. Findings were interpreted to show characteristics of the patient population and to test the hypothesis. Two subhypotheses supporting the main one that patients do improve were the following: 1) that most patients show improvement between admission to and discharge from the Activation Unit; and 2) that diagnosis is an important factor in determining which patients improve in the program. Improvement was found in 63.8% of the 235 patients for whom the level of functioning was reported at admission and discharge to the unit. Arthritic patients tended to improve less than neurological, surgical, or cerebral-vascular patients. The overall conclusion supported the hypothesis that patients do benefit in terms of a higher rate of independent functioning from their stay in the Activation Unit. Recommendations were made on two levels: 1) for further research, both descriptive and exploratory, and 2) for centralization and standardization of information and records.
Additional file 4 of Male obesity impacts DNA methylation reprogramming in sperm
Creators: name: Keyhan, Sanaz
name: Burke, Emily
name: Schrott, Rose
name: Zhiqing Huang
name: Grenier, Carole
name: Price, Thomas
name: Raburn, Doug
name: Corcoran, David L.
name: Soubry, Adelheid
name: Hoyo, Catherine
name: Murphy, Susan K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4. Table S3. Primer sequences and PCR conditions for bisulfite pyrosequencing analysis.
TALABALARNING KASBIY ETNOMADANIY KOMPETENTLIGINI RIVOJLANTIRISH MEXANIZMLARI NAZARIYASI
Creators: name: Gubenova, Gozzal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Har bir fan dastlab fakt va raqamlarni to'playdi, keyin ularning mohiyatini tushunib olib, nazariy xulosalar chiqaradi. Talabalarning kasbiy etnomadaniyat bilimlarning o'ziga xos xususiyati shundaki, ularning paydo bo'lishi, zarur ma'lumotlar to'planishi, faktlar anglab olinishi bir vaqtda sodir bo'ladi. Masalan, ayrim qo'shni qabila, xalq va elatlarning maishiy turmushi, madaniyati, urf-odatlari, etnik xususiyatlarini o'rganish, ularni aniq tushunish amaliy ehtiyojlarni qondirish taqozosi bilan vujudga kelgan.  Ushbu tezisda, talabalarning kasbiy etnomadaniy kompetentlikni rivojlantirish mexanizmlari nazariyasi haqida fikr va mulohazalar yuritiladi.
The population ecology of the brush-tailed possum, Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr) in Tasmania
Creators: name: Hocking, GJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Selected characteristics of possum populations occuring in different habitats were examined in a live-trapping study conducted in the commercial hardwood forests of southern Tasmania between August 1976 and September 1979. All habitats originated following the destruction of mature forest by fire. They were selected so as to represent the different stages of regeneration in the post-fire succession from bare ground to forest of Eucalyptus spp. with a rainforest understorey at 60 to 80 years after the fire. Three aspects of the populations were considered: breeding, population dynamics, and growth in body size.
How can CP violation in the neutrino sector be large in a $2\leftrightarrow 3$ symmetric model?
Creators: name: Koide, Yoshio
name: Nishiura, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a neutrino mass matrix model in which a 2-3 symmetry is only broken by a phase parameter, it is investigated how the lepton mixing matrix can deviate from the so-called tribimaximal mixing under a condition that CP is maximally violated.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Gender, queer imagery and queer visibility in the German Democratic Republic
Creators: name: Osborn, Sam
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: GDR
subject: Queer theory
subject: Cultural production
subject: Visibility
subject: Gender
subject: Futurities
subject: Surveillance
subject: Representation
subject: Socialist Germany
subject: German literature
subject: German film
subject: Trans studies
subject: Gay and lesbian studies
subject: HQ76.96O8
subject: Gay culture--Germany (East)--History
subject: Queer theory

description: In this thesis, I explore the concept of queer visibility in the German Democratic Republic. I analyse a broad selection of literary and film texts, to ascertain how sexual and gender identities were conceptualised in the GDR. I apply key principles from queer theory, to gain an understanding of lived experience of queer people in the GDR. The chapters are divided thematically, including gender, social control, reproductive futurity, representation, and normativity. In Chapter One, I discuss gender roles and gendered imagery in the film, Alle meine Mädchen (1981); a collection of archive materials, and the short story by Detlef Opitz in 1990, 'LUST/IG. eine landschaft'. I show that the understanding of gender in the GDR was flexible; in the broadest sense, gender non-conformity includes many lesbians and gay men in its definition, positioning them on a spectrum between conventional gender roles. In Chapter Two, the discussion progresses to investigate the role of the family and the concepts of futurity. I come to understand futurity not as a unified influence, but as multiple forms of futurity, including socialist and alternative queer forms of futurity. Family structure leads to a wider discussion of social norms in Chapter Three where I position queer visibility as something to which individuals might strive but simultaneously as a quotidian, non-institutional form of surveillance. In Chapter Four, I engage with the question of representation and its differentiation from visibility. Often, representation leads to generalisation, tending towards greater normativity for queer representations, to avoid offending the sensibilities of cisheteronormative society. However, many queer sources were radical in their respective contexts and accepted by the queer community in the GDR. I make a significant contribution to the field of GDR studies, by bringing to light texts and other source material, the queer elements of which have previously been overlooked.
title: Influence of Stand Composition on Soil Organic Carbon Stabilization and Biochemistry in Aspen and Conifer Forests of Utah
Creators: name: Román Dobarco, Mercedes
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Quacking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) is an iconic species in western United States that offers multiple ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration. A shift in forest cover towards coniferous species due to natural succession, land management practices, or climate change may modify soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics and CO2 emissions. The objectives of this study were to: (i) assess the effects of overstory composition on SOC storage and stability across the aspen-conifer ecotone, (ii) use Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy attenuated total reflectance (FTIR-ATR) to assess whether SOC storage is associated with preferential adsorption of certain organic molecules to the mineral surfaces, and (iii) develop models using near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) to predict aspen- and conifer-derived SOC concentration. Mineral soils (0 – 15 cm) were sampled in pure and mixed aspen and conifer stands in Utah and subjected to physical fractionation to characterize SOC stability (i.e., SOC protected against microbial decomposition), long term laboratory incubations (i.e., SOC decomposability), and hot water extractions (i.e., SOC solubility). Vegetation cover had no effect on SOC storage (47.0 ± 16.5 Mg C ha−1), SOC decomposability (cumulative released CO2-C of 93.2 ± 65.4 g C g−1 C), SOC solubility (9.8 ± 7.2 mg C g−1 C). Mineral-associated SOC (MoM) content was higher under aspen (31.2 ± 15.1 Mg C ha-1) than under mixed (25.7 ± 8.8 Mg C ha−1) and conifer cover (22.8 ± 9.0 Mg C ha−1), indicating that aspen favors long-term SOC storage. FTIR-ATR spectral analysis indicated that higher MoM content under aspen is not due to higher concentration of recalcitrant compounds (e.g., aliphatic and aromatic C), but rather to stabilization of simple molecules (e.g., polysaccharides) of plant or microbial origin. NIRS models performed well during calibration-validation stage (ratio of standard deviation of reference values to standard error of prediction (RPD) ≥ 2). However, model performance decreased during independent validation (RPD = 1.2 – 1.6), probably due to the influence of soil texture, mineralogy, understory vegetation, and land history on SOC spectra. Further improvement of NIRS models could provide insight on SOC dynamics under potential conifer encroachment in semiarid montane forests.
Additional file 3 of A novel microdeletion of 517 kb downstream of the PAX6 gene in a Chinese family with congenital aniridia
Creators: name: Li, Yinwen
name: Chen, Jieqiong
name: Zheng, Ying
name: Chen, Zhixuan
name: Wang, Tao
name: Sun, Qian
name: Wan, Xiaoling
name: Liu, Haiyun
name: Sun, Xiaodong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table 1. Detailed information of WES coverage and sequencing depth.
Additional file 5 of Male obesity impacts DNA methylation reprogramming in sperm
Creators: name: Keyhan, Sanaz
name: Burke, Emily
name: Schrott, Rose
name: Zhiqing Huang
name: Grenier, Carole
name: Price, Thomas
name: Raburn, Doug
name: Corcoran, David L.
name: Soubry, Adelheid
name: Hoyo, Catherine
name: Murphy, Susan K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Table S4. Primer sequences and PCR conditions for cloned allele analysis.
Social class and the pre-hospitalization and post-hospitalization experience of the mentally ill
Creators: name: Cox, Michael C.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This research project was undertaken to determine if there are social class differences in the pre-hospitalization and post-hospitalization experiences of individuals defined as mentally ill. Social class was defined through the application of educational level and occupational status. The data obtained from the Riverview Hospital covered a two year period from April 1, 1965 through March 31, 1967. Three main hypotheses were formulated to deal with the following topics: (1) The relationship between social class and employment. (2) The relationship between social class and duration of illness prior to admission to hospital. (3) The relationship between social class and contact with family or relatives. Significant trends were found to exist. Representative of these were: (1) Relating social class and employment before admission to hospital and following discharge from hospital, more higher class subjects than lower class subjects were employed before admission to and following discharge from hospital. (2) Relating social class and the period of mental illness prior to hospitalization, the results show more higher class subjects than lower class hospitalized within a one year period for psychotic mental illness. The findings of this research project support the stated hypotheses, confirm the results shown by other studies, opened new areas for further research, and indicated possible application of findings for social work practice.
Phase diagram of the non-uniform chiral condensate in different regularization schemes at T=0
Creators: name: Partyka, Tomasz L.
name: Sadzikowski, Mariusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the qualitative picture of the phase diagram which includes the non-uniform chiral phase and 2SC superconducting phase is independent of the considered regularization schemes. We also demonstrate that the quantitative results agree with each other reasonably for the set of so called "relativistic" regularization schemes. On the other hand the "non-relativistic" momentum cut-off is clearly differ from the others.
title: Uncertainty Quantification of Photothermal Radiometry Measurements Using Monte Carlo Simulation and Experimental Repeatability
Creators: name: Fleming, Austin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Photothermal Radiometry is a common thermal property measurement technique which is used to measure the properties of layered materials. Photothermal Radiometry uses a modulated laser to heat a sample, in which the thermal response can be used to determine the thermal properties of layers in the sample. The motivation for this work is to provide a better understanding of the accuracy and the repeatability of the Photothermal Radiometry measurement technique. Through this work the sensitivity of results to input uncertainties will be determined. Additionally, using numerical simulations the overall uncertainty on a theoretical measurement will be determined.
The repeatability of Photothermal Radiometry measurements is tested with the use of a proton irradiated zirconium carbide sample. Due to the proton irradiation this sample contains two layers with a thermal resistance between the layers. This sample has been independently measured by three different researchers, in three different countries and the results are compared to determine the repeatability of Photothermal Radiometry measurements. Finally, from sensitivity and uncertainty analysis experimental procedures and suggestions are provided to reduce the uncertainty in experimentally measured results.
Microscopic gauge-invariant theory of the c-axis infrared response of bilayer cuprate superconductors and the origin of the superconductivity induced absorption bands
Creators: name: Chaloupka, J.
name: Bernhard, C.
name: Munzar, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on results of our theoretical study of the c-axis infrared conductivity of bilayer high-Tc cuprate superconductors using a microscopic model involving the bilayer-split (bonding and antibonding) bands. An emphasis is on the gauge-invariance of the theory, which turns out to be essential for the physical understanding of the electrodynamics of these compounds. The description of the optical response involves local (intra-bilayer and inter-bilayer) current densities and local conductivities. The local conductivities are obtained using a microscopic theory, where the quasiparticles of the two bands are coupled to spin fluctuations. The coupling leads to superconductivity and is described at the level of generalized Eliashberg theory. Also addressed is the simpler case of quasiparticles coupled by a separable and nonretarded interaction. The gauge invariance of the theory is achieved by including a suitable class of vertex corrections. The resulting response of the model is studied in detail and an interpretation of two superconductivity-induced peaks in the experimental data of the real part of the c-axis conductivity is proposed. The peak around 400/cm is attributed to a collective mode of the intra-bilayer regions, that is an analogue of the Bogolyubov-Anderson mode playing a crucial role in the theory of the longitudinal response of superconductors. For small values of the bilayer splitting, its nature is similar to that of the transverse plasmon of the phenomenological Josephson superlattice model. The peak around 1000/cm is interpreted as a pair breaking-feature that is related to the electronic coupling through the spacing layers separating the bilayers.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
A Survey of Security Concerns and Countermeasures in Modern Micro-architectures with Transient Execution
Creators: name: Singh, Nikhilesh
name: Ganesan, Vinod
name: Rebeiro, Chester
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the last two decades, the evolving cyber-threat landscape has brought to center stage the contentious tradeoffs between the security and performance of modern microprocessors. The guarantees provided by the hardware to ensure no violation of process boundaries have been shown to be breached in several real-world scenarios. While modern CPU features such as superscalar, out-of-order, simultaneous multi-threading, and speculative execution play a critical role in boosting system performance, they are central for a potent class of security attacks termed transient micro-architectural attacks. These attacks leverage shared hardware resources in the CPU that are used during speculative and out-of-order execution to steal sensitive information. Researchers have used these attacks to read data from the Operating Systems (OS) and Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) and to even break hardware-enforced isolation. Over the years, several variants of transient micro-architectural attacks have been developed. While each variant differs in the shared hardware resource used, the underlying attack follows a similar strategy. This paper presents a panoramic view of security concerns in modern CPUs, focusing on the mechanisms of these attacks and providing a classification of the variants. Further, we discuss state-of-the-art defense mechanisms towards mitigating these attacks.
A note on the Plebanski action with cosmological constant and an Immirzi parameter
Creators: name: Smolin, Lee
name: Speziale, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the field equations of the Plebanski action for general relativity when both the cosmological constant and an Immirzi parameter are present. We show that the Lagrange multiplier, which usually gets identified with the Weyl curvature, now acquires a trace part. Some consequences of this for a class of modified gravity theories recently proposed in the literature are briefly discussed.
description: 14 pages. v2: factor 2 corrected, updated references
title: Untersuchung des Nutzens haptischer Technologie zur Unterstützung von Virtual Reality Psychotherapie
title: Research on the benefits of haptic technology to enhance virtual reality reality psychotherapy
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Schmücker, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin, Gesundheit
subject: Behavior therapy
subject: Virtual Reality
subject: Haptik
subject: Immersion
subject: Verhaltenstherapie
subject: Habituationstraining
subject: Ernste Spiele

description: In den letzten Jahren hat die Idee der Virtual Reality (VR)-Psychotherapie immer mehr an Bedeutung gewonnen, da sie immersive Umgebungen bereitstellen kann, die für unterschiedlichste Therapieansätze genutzt werden kann. Diese Innovationen werden benötigt, um den steigenden Zahlen an psychisch erkrankten Menschen gerecht zu werden sowie die Therapeuten zu unterstützen. Eine zentrale Herausforderung bei der Umsetzung von effektiven VR-Therapien ist die Schaffung einer immersiven und glaubwürdigen Umgebung, welche die Patienten dabei unterstützt, die gelernten Verfahren aus den virtuellen Umgebungen in die reale Welt zu transferieren. Die Steigerung der Immersion und die Verbesserung der allgemeinen Präsenz könnten durch haptische Technologien unterstützt werden, die derzeit auf dem Markt erscheinen und somit für Therapiepraxen zugänglich werden. Diese Dissertation befasst sich umfassend mit haptischen Technologien zur Einbindung in therapeutisch sinnvolle VR-Anwendungen. Dazu wird ein Überblick über die Grundlagen der Haptik, Psychotherapien und Virtual Reality gegeben. Auf Basis dieser Grundlagen folgt eine ausführliche Betrachtung des aktuellen Forschungsstandes hinsichtlich haptischer Technologien und VR-Therapien. Dieses methodische Vorgehen wird dann durch ein eigenes Konzept erweitert, welches die Integration von beispielhafter, auf dem Markt verfügbarer haptischer Technologie in verschiedensten therapeutischen Szenarien aufzeigt und unterschiedliche Arten an haptischer Technologie miteinander vergleicht. Dazu werden die Therapiefelder des kognitiven Trainings, der Suchtentwöhnung sowie der Spinnenphobie im Detail betrachtet und durch haptische Technologie ergänzt. Durch die Durchführung empirische Studien werden dann verschiedenste Aspekte, wie die Präsenzbewertung, Akzeptanz und Wirkung auf Testprobanden erhoben, um mögliche Schlüsse zu einer sinnvollen Nutzung der Technologie zu ziehen. Insgesamt zeigt diese Dissertation eine gelungene Integration haptischer Technologien in die virtuellen Therapieanwendungen auf, die zur Weiterentwicklung von haptischer Technologie und VR-Therapieanwendungen gleichermaßen beitragen kann. So wird erkennbar, dass die unterschiedlichen haptischen Technologien verschiedenste positive Wirkungen auf die Nutzer haben, wobei der Eindruck der Technologie maßgeblich von der VR-Umgebung beeinflusst wird.
title: Old Roots: Place-Making and Hybrid Landscapes of Refugee Urban Farmers
Creators: name: Ward-Lambert, Missy
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: This research project was designed to analyze the relevance of place and the physical environment to the adjustment processes of refugees. This dissertation contains the results of qualitative research with a group of 30 refugee urban farmers living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Seventeen of these individuals—from Burundi, Sudan, Bhutan, the Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, and Cuba—participated in interviews and a photography project focused on their experiences with agriculture in their home countries and since their arrival in Utah. The results of the research show the connection between the refugees’ work as farmers and their sense of place since arriving in the United States. Participants reported material and emotional benefits from their farming work, as well as challenges. The research results also provide insight into the process of cultural hybridization and cross-cultural exchange experienced by the participants. A discussion of some challenges inherent in doing research with refugees is included, and policy implications and suggestions for further research are discussed.
title: Woman's Exponent: Cradle of Literary Culture Among Early Mormon Women
Creators: name: Page, Alfene
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1988

description: The purpose of this paper was to define and discuss the early Mormon women's newspaper, Woman's Exponent, and its editors in developing a literary culture among Mormon women. Woman's Exponent served as the primary source of research to show through its literature that the women of Utah were encouraged to express themselves freely, and present their way of life to a world that held a grossly distorted view of them. The Exponent provided the forum for skilled writers to polish their craft, and new writers to develop their talents. The literary influence of the Exponent encouraged the women writers to publish individual volumes of poetry, biography, and histories. The writers acknowledged the Woman's Exponent as their platform for expression, their window-on-the-world. It faithfully recorded their history and served as the cradle for literary culture among the mormon women.
title: Habitat Characteristics of Mexican Spotted Owls (Strix occidentalis lucida) in the Canyonlands of Southern Utah
Creators: name: Lewis, Leah R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: I studied the habitat characteristics of Mexican Spotted Owls (Strix occidentalis lucida), a federally threatened species, in the canyonlands region of southern Utah. Vegetative and geologic features were measured within 10m wide belt plots at each current or historic nest/roost site. Based on our findings, past research, and species life history characteristics, I constructed a species distribution model (SDM) predicting Mexican Spotted Owl distribution in Utah for the Colorado Plateau region. The SDM was generated using the following inputs as important habitat variables: elevation, aspect, surface ratio, curvature, slope, geology, and vegetation. Program R was used for model development and generation. The SDM was generated using an ensemble model approach by combining three modeling techniques: random forest, logistic regression, and maximum entropy. This study combines measured habitat characteristics, with sophisticated geographic information system (GIS) tools and SDMs to provide managers with an informative and useful toolkit for Mexican Spotted Owl conservation.
Chapter 2 discusses modeling techniques and SDM development. I detail how individual models were constructed using random forest, logistic regression, and maximum entropy and how these were combined into an ensemble model. Final models indicated that several vegetative and geologic characteristics were considered important habitat characteristics for predicting Mexican Spotted Owl presence within the Colorado Plateau. The SDMs produced eight distribution maps predicting Mexican Spotted Owl presence and probability of occurrence in Utah for the Colorado Plateau region.
Chapter 3 explains the use of SDMs by managers and synthesizes findings of measured habitat characteristics for southern Utah. For habitat characteristics I measured a combination of vegetative and geologic features within 10m wide belts at current and historic Mexican Spotted Owl sites. Vegetative features measured included: height and species of all trees and shrubs, position of tree or shrub within plot, presence of canopy cover, and tree diameter at breast height (DBH). Geologic features measured included: geologic formation type, wall height, structure type, number of caves, and number of solution cavities. I found that canyon width and density of vegetation > 2.5 m tall were significantly correlated with Mexican Spotted Owl presence.
title: Channel Adjustment and Channel-Floodplain Sediment Exchange in the Root River, Southeastern Minnesota
Creators: name: Souffront Alcántara, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: A better understanding of transport and deposition of fine sediment in alluvial rivers, including their floodplains, is essential for improved understanding of sediment budgets and prediction of river morphological changes. Previous work in the Root River indicates that channel-floodplain sediment exchange exerts strong control on the sediment flux of this system. In addition, improvements in agricultural practices and increases in high and low flows during the past five decades have led us to believe that sediment sources in the Root River may be shifting from uplands to near-channel sources. This thesis estimated the total amount of fine sediment contributed to the channel from near-channel sources due to the processes of lateral channel adjustment (channel migration and channel widening) using a quantitative approach based on the use of multiple epochs of aerial photographs (1930s-2010s), lidar data available for the entire watershed from 2008, and other GIS analysis. The results obtained in this thesis serve as another line of evidence to constrain a sediment budget for the Root River watershed and to improve our understanding of the sediment dynamics within the watershed. In addition, we found that the Root River presents a marked division between its lateral channel adjustment trends before and after the 1970s. We also found that while increases in flows have affected lateral channel adjustment rates throughout the entire channel network, other factors like sediment supply and riparian vegetation may be playing an equally important role.
title: The Unemployment and Reemployment Experiences of Displaced Workers Resulting From the Shutdown of Two Utah Mines: the Park City Ventures and the Burgin Mine
Creators: name: Davidson, Richard A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1980

description: The purpose of this paper is to study the unemployment and reemployment experiences of displaced workers. Two mines were shut down in 1978 in Utah: the Park City Ventures Mine located in Park City and the Burgin Mine located in Eureka. Data were collected from questionnaires mailed to all the displaced workers of both mines and from personal interviews conducted with mine officials, officials of formal job-search agencies, and union representatives.
The shutdown at Park City Ventures affected 350 workers, and the shutdown at the Burgin Mine affected 153. Both mines qualified for and were certified for Trade Readjustment Act benefits.
The paper is divided into four major parts: personal characteristics, job-search activities, financial status and public assistance programs, and workers' subjective feelings, in that order.
Additional file 3 of Male obesity impacts DNA methylation reprogramming in sperm
Creators: name: Keyhan, Sanaz
name: Burke, Emily
name: Schrott, Rose
name: Zhiqing Huang
name: Grenier, Carole
name: Price, Thomas
name: Raburn, Doug
name: Corcoran, David L.
name: Soubry, Adelheid
name: Hoyo, Catherine
name: Murphy, Susan K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S2. Comparisons between Illumina HumanMethylation450 Beadchip probe and pyrosequencing data.
Breaking the Mold: Nonlinear Ranking Function Synthesis Without Templates
Creators: name: Zhu, Shaowei
name: Kincaid, Zachary
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper studies the problem of synthesizing (lexicographic) polynomial ranking functions for loops that can be described in polynomial arithmetic over integers and reals. While the analogous ranking function synthesis problem for linear arithmetic is decidable, even checking whether a given function ranks an integer loop is undecidable in the nonlinear setting. We side-step the decidability barrier by working within the theory of linear integer/real rings (LIRR) rather than the standard model of arithmetic. We develop a termination analysis that is guaranteed to succeed if a loop (expressed as a formula) admits a (lexicographic) polynomial ranking function. In contrast to template-based ranking function synthesis in real arithmetic, our completeness result holds for lexicographic ranking functions of unbounded dimension and degree, and effectively subsumes linear lexicographic ranking function synthesis for linear integer loops.
description: The arXiv version corrects some errors in the published version of the paper in the proceedings of CAV 2024
Biaxially Textured Titanium Thin Films by Oblique Angle Deposition: Conditions and Growth Mechanisms
Creators: name: Liedtke-Grüner, Susann
name: Grüner, Christoph
name: Lotnyk, Andriy
name: Gerlach, Juergen W.
name: Rauschenbach, Bernd
Publisher: name: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: biaxial textures
subject: nanostructured surfaces
subject: oblique angle deposition
subject: single crystallines
subject: tilt angles
subject: titanium nanowires
subject: 530

description: Growing highly crystalline nanowires over large substrate areas remains an ambiguous task nowadays. Herein, a time-efficient and easy-to-handle bottom-up approach is demonstrated that enables the self-assembled growth of biaxially textured Ti thin films composed of single-crystalline nanowires in a single-deposition step. Ti thin films are deposited under highly oblique incidence angles by electron beam evaporation on amorphous substrates. Substrate temperature, angle of the incoming particle flux, and working pressure are varied to optimize the crystallinity in those films. Height-resolved structure information of individual nanowires is provided by a transmission electron microscopy (TEM) nanobeam, high-resolution TEM, and electron diffraction. Ti nanowires are polycrystalline at 77 K, whereas for ≥300 K, single-crystalline nanowires are tendentially found. The Ti crystals grow along the thermodynamically favored c-direction, but the nanowires’ tilt angle is determined by shadowing. Biaxially textured Ti thin films require a certain temperature range combined with highly oblique deposition angles, which is proved by X-ray in-plane pole figures. A general correlation between average activation energy for surface self-diffusion and melting point of metals is given to estimate the significant influence of surface self-diffusion on the evolution of obliquely deposited metal thin films.
Additional file 1 of Characterization of the Gh4CL gene family reveals a role of Gh4CL7 in drought tolerance
Creators: name: Sun, Shi-Chao
name: Xian-Peng Xiong
name: Zhang, Xiao-Li
name: Feng, Hong-Jie
name: Qian-Hao Zhu
name: Sun, Jie
name: Li, Yan-Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Gene structure and motif pattern of the Gh4CL genes. a Structural analysis. The left panel shows the neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree based on the amino acid sequences of the Gh4CLs. The classes I, II and III were marked correspondingly. The right panel shows the exon-intron structure of each Gh4CL gene with exons showing in orange boxes, introns in black lines between exons, and upstream/downstream UTRs in blue boxes. The number indicates the phase of the corresponding introns. The length of the Gh4CL genes is indicted by the scale line at the bottom. b Motif analysis. The motif analysis was performed by the MEME suite. Twenty motifs were detected and are displayed in color coded boxes. The length of proteins is indicted by the scale line at the bottom. Figure S2. Alignment of multiple Gh4CL and selected At4CL domain amino acid sequences. Multiple sequence alignment was performed using Clustal X. Box I and Box II represent the two conserved domains of the Gh4CL proteins. Figure S3. Analysis of cis-elements in the promoter of the Gh4CL genes. The numbers of different cis-elements are presented in the form of bar graphs. Figure S4. Relative expression levels of Gh4CL7 in plants infiltrated with TRV:00 and TRV:Gh4CL7 (n = 5). Total RNA was extracted from leaves at 2 weeks post-infiltration. Transcript levels were determined by qRT-PCR using GhUBQ7 as control. Figure S5. Silencing of the endogenous magnesium chelatase subunit I gene (GhCHLI) in cotton through VIGS. The leaf bleaching phenotype was observed 2 weeks after infiltration in TRV: GhCHLI plants. Figure S6. Transcription levels of stress responsive genes in CK and Gh4CL7-siliencing cotton plants. The normal condition plants were used as controls. GhUBQ7 gene was used as an internal control. All the gene expressions were normalized to the corresponding transcript levels in CK plants at normal condition. All the data represent mean ± SE for three biological replications. Figure S7. Transcription levels of stress responsive genes in transgenic and WT Arabidopsis plants. The normal condition plants were used as controls. AtEF-Lα gene was used as an internal control. All the gene expressions were normalized to the corresponding transcript levels in WT plants at normal condition. All the data represent mean ± SE for three biological replications.
title: Stem Development, Seeding Rate, and Establishment of Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) for Organic, Grazing-Based Dairies
Creators: name: Hunt, Sara
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Three studies applicable to organic management and cultivation of birdsfoot trefoil (BFT, Lotus corniculatus L.) are presented here. The first is a histological analysis of lignification in BFT stems that supports recommendations to harvest BFT at approximately 6 weeks of regrowth, or early bloom. Lignification decreases digestibility and is correlated with high shear force required to break BFT stems. The sixth internodes from the base of 10 BFT and two alfalfa plants were sampled during 15 weeks of midsummer regrowth. The lignified xylary ring reached its maximum radial width by 7.5 weeks of regrowth, and full bloom was reached by 6.5 weeks of regrowth.
The second study evaluated establishment of BFT, which competes poorly with weeds and produces low yields during establishment. At an organic, irrigated site in northern Utah the effects of autumn vs. spring seeding, seeding rates of 3, 7 20, and 34 kg pure live seed (PLS) ha-1 and use of a companion crop on 3 years of annual yields and foliar cover of mature stands were determined. First year yields increased linearly with seeding rate (P≤0.05). Use of a companion crop reduced first year yields, and did not reduce weed cover. Autumn seeding of BFT alone, following harvest of a summer crop, is recommended for irrigated production.
The final study evaluated BFT establishment on five organic dairy farms in souther Idaho and northern Utah. Participating producers broadcast seeded 4-ha BFT pastures in the fall at a rate of 25 kg PLS ha-1. All farms achieved high BFT density, but only two farms had higher BFT than weed density. These two farms also had high BFT cover the spring following autumn seeding, and their pastures produced 6000 to 7600 kg of dry matter ha-1 by 20 June 2012 and supported grazing for the remainder of the summer. Establishment was enhanced by crop rotation and sprinkler irrigation.
title: Landscape Architecture History: A Critical Review of its Curriculum and Teaching Methodology
Creators: name: Marshall, Robert L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1980

description: The purpose of this thesis is to develop criteria for establishing an effective course in teaching history of landscape architecture. Believing that professors, students and practicing landscape architects all have justifiable concerns and comments as to the way history of landscape architecture should be taught, questionnaires were sent to each of these groups across the country. Based on the responses to the questionnaires, coupled with information gleaned from a review of literature and the author's personal teaching experiences, the course criteria is established.
The research showed that it is important that the instructor be able to select historic periods and projects which he can effectively express in designer ' s terms. Thus, rather than outlining a detailed course curriculum, the thesis presents guide-lines for selecting course material, as well as suggestions for effective teaching methods.
Quantum state engineering, purification, and number resolved photon detection with high finesse optical cavities
Creators: name: Nielsen, Anne E. B.
name: Muschik, Christine A.
name: Giedke, Geza
name: Vollbrecht, K. G. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and analyze a multi-functional setup consisting of high finesse optical cavities, beam splitters, and phase shifters. The basic scheme projects arbitrary photonic two-mode input states onto the subspace spanned by the product of Fock states |n>|n> with n=0,1,2,.... This protocol does not only provide the possibility to conditionally generate highly entangled photon number states as resource for quantum information protocols but also allows one to test and hence purify this type of quantum states in a communication scenario, which is of great practical importance. The scheme is especially attractive as a generalization to many modes allows for distribution and purification of entanglement in networks. In an alternative working mode, the setup allows of quantum non demolition number resolved photodetection in the optical domain.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Home services for the aged : an experience survey to assess the need for Home Care Services in the West End Area of Vancouver, 1966-1967
Creators: name: Meiners, Dieter Johann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: As medical advances make possible the increase of the individual's life span, the needs of older people become a greater concern in our society. This study is based on the assumption that home care services are a desirable alternative to prevailing methods of institutionalisation, and on the premise that the services needed to retain the elderly person in his own familiar environment can be assessed. The district chosen for the project is the West End area of Vancouver, which comprises a high proportion of persons over the age of sixty-five years. It is the primary aim of the study to develop a research interview schedule, which will enable subsequent investigators to explore the present topic more extensively. In this sense the project can be seen as a preliminary survey based on a limited sample, which has as its aim not so much the collection of data based on the design of a research instrument, but an exploration of the literature in regard to home services elsewhere and the construction of a research instrument. A critical analysis of the research methods used here is part of the research project. The thesis is an initial attempt to assess the extent of the need and to identify the types of need for home services as part of an ongoing programme in the research for such needed services which is undertaken by the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia.
title: The Human Dimensions of Climate Change: Smallholder Perception and Adaptation in the Loess Plateau Region of China
Creators: name: Burnham, Morey
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Climate change poses problems for agriculture in the Global South. Smallholders in the Global South are often considered highly vulnerable to climate change as a result of their farms being located in marginal environments, their insecure land tenure and lack of technology, and their participation in unpredictable regional and world markets. Analyzing how smallholders perceive climate change and attendant risk, the factors that enable and constrain their adaptive capacity, and the social impacts of state led projects designed to mitigate the impacts of climate change may provide crucial insights for developing effective climate adaption projects and policies. This research examined smallholder perceptions of climate change and their ability to adapt to it in the Loess Plateau region of China. The study also investigated the outcomes of the introduction of a drip irrigation project designed to address water scarcity problems in Gansu, China, as well as smallholder farmer perceptions and knowledge of water saving irrigation technologies in general. Data were collected through interviews and a household survey of smallholders in the region. Smallholders were found to have low levels of perceived ability to adapt to climate change without government assistance. Further, it was found that smallholder perceptions of climate change are structured through their observations of and interactions with dynamic, networked socio-natural assemblages. The labor demands of drip irrigation technology are shown to contradict extant irrigation and livelihood practices and the social institutions that underlie them, both creating new vulnerabilities for farmers and causing system abandonment. The dissertation results suggest that adaptation interventions designed to mitigate the impacts of climate change on smallholders in the Loess Plateau region of China should be holistic and address the day-to-day problems and risks that smallholders face if the interventions are to successfully adapt smallholders to future climate change without causing unintended consequences.