cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Maximally Radio-Disjoint Multipath Routing for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Maimour, Moufida
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In wireless sensor networks, bandwidth is one of precious resources to multimedia applications. To get more bandwidth, multipath routing is one appropriate solution provided that inter-path interferences are minimized. In this paper, we address the problem of interfering paths in the context of wireless multimedia sensor networks and consider both intra-session as well as inter-session interferences. Our main objective is to provide necessary bandwidth to multimedia applications through non-interfering paths while increasing the network lifetime. To do so, we adopt an incremental approach where for a given session, only one path is built at once. Additional paths are built when required, typically in case of congestion or bandwidth shortage. Interference awareness and energy saving are achieved by switching a subset of sensor nodes in a {\em passive state} in which they do not take part in the routing process. Despite the routing overhead introduced by the incremental approach we adopt, our simulations show that this can be compensated by the overall achieved throughput and the amount of consumed energy per correctly received packet especially for relatively long sessions such as multimedia ones. This is mainly due to the fact that a small number of non-interfering paths allows for better performances than a large number of interfering ones.
Decreasing door-to-needle time and improving stroke patient outcomes, a retrospective program evaluation of the transition from alteplase to tenecteplase
Creators: name: Stewart, Sharae A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2025

description: Purpose of Project: At a primary stroke center in New Jersey, patients diagnosed with acute ischemic stroke and meeting the criteria for thrombolytic treatment received the newly integrated therapy, TNK. This initiative aimed to evaluate the impact of TNK on key quality metrics including door-to-needle time. TNK has been shown to improve patient outcomes by decreasing rates of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage, increasing reperfusion to affected vessels, and efficient rapid administration.Methods: A retrospective program evaluation was done to compare stroke patient outcomes based on which thrombolytic therapy they received during the transition to TNK from tPA. Stroke patients were examined over a 2-year period, with 12 months dedicated to each thrombolytic medication by reviewing medical records. Stroke metric of door-to needle (DTN) time was collected in addition to data on six key patient outcomes and their relationship to DTN times.Results: The data analysis consisted of a total sample of 65 patients, (n = 65); 40 tPA and 25 TNK patients. The transition to TNK did not lead to a statistical improvement in DTN metrics. The data also revealed no statistically significant differences in patient outcomes. However, there were results that demonstrated a positive direction. For example, length of stay (LOS) was slightly lower in the TNK group. Implications: In an emergency room setting, stroke management could be optimized by identifying modifiable delays to reach the recommended goal time of 60 minutes or less. TNK has had a significant impact on stroke thrombolysis and improved patient’s prognosis may be better recognized with timely administration.Keywords: acute ischemic stroke, AIS, door-to-needle time, DTN, tPA, Alteplase, modified Rankin score, mRS, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, NIHSS, reperfusion, symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage, sICH, Thrombolysis in cerebral infarction, TICI, thrombolytic, thrombectomy, TNK, Tenecteplase
Scaling agroecology and place-based collective processes through a nationwide educational program in participatory action research
Creators: name: Heinze, Alan
name: Gschaedler, Anne C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Agroecology
Participatory action research
Mexico
PIES AGILES

description: Presentation slides for a contributed talk (CT4: Navigating Change) at the 2024 PECS-III Meeting "Pathways to Sustainability: Social-ecological resilience and transformation across multiple scales", in Montreal, Canada.
title: Interference Mitigation in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with Advanced Physical-Layer Techniques
Creators: name: Hou, Yantian
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: In my dissertation, we focus on the wireless network coexistence problem with advanced physical-layer techniques. For the first part, we study the problem of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN)s coexisting with cross-technology interference (CTI). WBANs face the RF cross-technology interference (CTI) from non-protocol-compliant wireless devices. Werst experimentally characterize the adverse effect on BAN caused by the CTI sources. Then we formulate a joint routing and power control (JRPC) problem, which aims at minimizing energy consumption while satisfying node reachability and delay constraints. We reformulate our problem into a mixed integer linear programing problem (MILP) and then derive the optimal results. A practical JRPC protocol is then proposed. For the second part, we study the coexistence of heterogeneous multi-hop networks with wireless MIMO. We propose a new paradigm, called cooperative interference mitigation (CIM), which makes it possible for disparate networks to cooperatively mitigate the interference to/from each other to enhance everyone's performance. We establish two tractable models to characterize the CIM behaviors of both networks by using full IC (FIC) and receiver-side IC (RIC) only. We propose two bi-criteria optimization problems aiming at maximizing both networks' throughput, while cooperatively canceling the interference between them based on our two models. In the third and fourth parts, we study the coexistence problem with MIMO from a different point of view: the incentive of cooperation. We propose a novel two-round game framework, based on which we derive two networks' equilibrium strategies and the corresponding closed-form utilities. We then extend our game-theoretical analysis to a general multi-hop case, specifically the coexistence problem between primary network and multi-hop secondary network in the cognitive radio networks domain. In the final part, we study the benefits brought by reconfigurable antennas (RA). We systematically exploit the pattern diversity and fast reconfigurability of RAs to enhance the throughput of MWNs. Werst propose a novel link-layer model that captures the dynamic relations between antenna pattern, link coverage and interference. Based on our model, a throughput optimization framework is proposed by jointly considering pattern selection and link scheduling, which is formulated as a mixed integer non-linear programming problem.
Additional file 5 of LncRNA IMFlnc1 promotes porcine intramuscular adipocyte adipogenesis by sponging miR-199a-5p to up-regulate CAV-1
Creators: name: Wang, Jing
name: Chen, Ming-yue
name: Chen, Jun-feng
name: Ren, Qiao-ling
name: Zhang, Jia-qing
name: Cao, Hai
name: Xing, Bao-song
name: Pan, Chuan-ying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5 : Figure S1. Correlation analysis of lncRNA expression in different samples.
The NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey: Filter Definitions and First Results
Creators: name: van Dokkum, Pieter G.
name: Labbe, Ivo
name: Marchesini, Danilo
name: Quadri, Ryan
name: Brammer, Gabriel
name: Whitaker, Katherine E.
name: Kriek, Mariska
name: Franx, Marijn
name: Rudnick, Gregory
name: Illingworth, Garth
name: Lee, Kyoung-Soo
name: Muzzin, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deep near-infrared imaging surveys allow us to select and study distant galaxies in the rest-frame optical, and have transformed our understanding of the early Universe. As the vast majority of K- or IRAC-selected galaxies is too faint for spectroscopy, the interpretation of these surveys relies almost exclusively on photometric redshifts determined from fitting templates to the broad-band photometry. The best-achieved accuracy of these redshifts Delta(z)/(1+z) ~ 0.06 at z>1.5, which is sufficient for determining the broad characteristics of the galaxy population but not for measuring accurate rest-frame colors, stellar population parameters, or the local galaxy density. We have started a near-infrared imaging survey with the NEWFIRM camera on the Kitt Peak 4m telescope to greatly improve the accuracy of photometric redshifts in the range 1.51.5 in the COSMOS and AEGIS fields. The filter set also enables efficient selection of exotic objects such as high redshift quasars, galaxies dominated by emission lines, and very cool brown dwarfs; we show that late T and candidate "Y" dwarfs could be identified using only two of the filters.
description: Accepted for publication in PASP. 9 pages, 5 figures
Gazella marica Thomas 1897
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Bovidae
Gazella
Gazella marica

description: 97. Sand Gazelle (Reem), Gazella marica Thomas, 1897
(Fig. 106)
(IUCN Red List: VU)
Distribution: Status uncertain, probably common but in low numbers; confined to a narrow geographical range of arid plains west of Palmyra and in the southern of Al-Badia (Fig. 107).
Previous records: as-Sukhnah (Maydon 1930), Palmyra (Dollman & Burlace 1935), Palmyra, Jabal Al-Bilaas and Sabkhat al-Jabbul (Evans 1994), Jazal, Gleighim and az-Zelif (Habibi 1998), Jazal and Jabal Abu Rejmein (Serra et al. 2009b), Jabal Al-Bilaas, and Jabal Al-Bishri (Masseti 2000).
Recent records: Southern of Al-Badia, east and south of Sweida but in low numbers as they have been heavily persecuted by local poachers; az-Zelif (2011–2021); Al Muttaitah, Gleighim, Abu Sharshuh, Tell ad-Dab’e, and az-Zelif (2020–2021).
Remarks: The Sand Gazelle was first described as a full species (Gazella marica Thomas 1897), but placed later as a subspecies of the Goitered Gazelle G. subgutturosa marica (Groves and Harrison 1967; Harrison and Bates 1991). More recently, it has been split into distinct species again (G. marica) based on skull morphometrics and mitochondrial DNA analyses (Wacher et al. 2011; Groves & Grubb 2011; Bärmann et al. 2013). The gazelle populations in Syria are geographically separated by the Euphrates River, where G. marica occurs to the west of the Euphrates River while G. subgutturosa to the east (Habibi 1998). Genetic analysis of two specimens originated from west Palmyra and southwest of Al-Badia proved they were G. marica.
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on pages 97-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Philosophical foundations and conceptual bases of administrative procedures of multiple use management of natural resources
Creators: name: Smith, David Anthony
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In attempting to determine the background to the controversial term "multiple use," it was deemed necessary to briefly examine preceding social behaviour and legislation. A brief study of early European agricultural practices, through to the Industrial Revolution, allows an insight into the rural background of the early immigrants to North America. The Conservation Movement of the early 1900s was a result of socially unacceptable exploitation of natural resources and dissatisfaction with the American governments' methods of land disposal in the name of "progress." The rapid demise of the Movement is attributed to its failure to produce practical guidelines for resource management. Subsequent resource development in North America has been fragmentary; a major cause of inefficiency and a disregard for social implications. The definition of "multiple use" that appeared in the 1960 Act, like the principles of the Conservation Movement, relied on platitudes rather than practicalities. The goals of multiple use are examined, and a new definition is proposed, as is the substitution of "integrated resource management" for the shibboleth of "multiple use." The history of the development of Canada's resources parallels that of the United States. Yet because of the smallness of the population in relation to the size of the country, the exhaustibility of natural resources has been barely contemplated. Serious public concern for the manner in which Canadian resources are being managed is only of recent occurrence. The responsibility for integrated resource management lies with provincial governments. Except for the United States Forest Service, the case studies conclusively show that the biggest obstacles to the implementation of integrated resource management, are of a political nature. Some techniques of economics that pertain to the allocation and distribution of wealth generated by natural resources are examined. While none of these are entirely satisfactory, Benefit-Cost Analysis is proposed as a possible first step toward better control of resource development. In including man and his social structures within its deliberations, the discipline of ecology gains sounder foundations for analyzing the effects of resource management on society. The application of systems analysis to such complex ecological problems has great potential in allowing management strategies to be explored before being implemented. A hypothetical model is developed in which systems analysis is used to effect integrated resource management. Such a form of management presently remains as an ideal because of existing governmental, and industrial relations. Since voluntary cooperation for the public welfare appears unlikely in the near future, research will be needed to determine at which level of government to establish a department, whose function will be that of integrating resource management.
KORXONALAR BOSHQARUVIDA KONTSEPTSIYASI DOIRASIDA INTEGRATSIYALASHGAN MARKETING KOMMUNIKATSIYALARI SAMARADORLIGINI ANIQLASHNING USLUBIY YONDASHUVLARI
Creators: name: Buxoro muhadislik-texnologiya instituti "Iqtisodiyot" kafedrasi katta o'qituvchisi Muxsinov Bekzod Toxirovich
name: Biznes va tadbirkorlik oliy maktabidagi "70411202-Loyixa boshqaruvi" mutaxsisligi RM-22-B01 gurux  magistranti Mattiyev Nasimjon Baxtiyorovich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Maqolada integratsiyalashgan marketing kommunikatsiyalarining samaradorligini aniqlash yondashuvlari o`rganiladi, korxonaning barqaror rivojlanishini ta`minlaydigan va foydalaniladigan boshqaruv turlari va darajalari bo`yicha marketing kommunikatsiyalarini tasniflash sintezidan foydalangan holda rentgenologik tahlil metodologiyasini o`zgartirish taklif etiladi.

Kalit so`zlar: integratsiyalashgan marketing kommunikatsiyalari, samaradorlik, yondashuvlar, rentgen tahlili, sinergiya effekti.
title: The Role of Sexual Communication in Committed Relationships
Creators: name: Jones, Adam C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: In this Master’s thesis, I describe a study to understand the role that sexual communication plays within committed couple relationships. I collected data from 142 couples who completed an online survey consisting of a battery of quantitative assessments measuring relationship satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, communication processes, and sexual communication. Using dyadic data analysis within path analysis, I observed the significant paths of influence that different types of sexual communication has within couple relationships. Findings revealed that couples who discussed sex more were more likely to be relationally and sexually satisfied. I also observed the differences in sexual communication and general communication due to the differences in their associations with sexual and relationship satisfaction, respectively. With these analyses I expand the current literature to broaden and deepen our understanding of the role that sexual communication plays in committed relationships.
Additional file 3 of Dihydromyricetin inhibits African swine fever virus replication by downregulating toll-like receptor 4-dependent pyroptosis in vitro
Creators: name: Chen, Yang
name: Song, Zebu
name: Chang, Hao
name: Guo, Yanchen
name: Wei, Zhi
name: Sun, Yankuo
name: Gong, Lang
name: Zheng, Zezhong
name: Zhang, Guihong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 3. Cytotoxicity of resatorvid, EUK-134, disulfiram, polyphyllin,and RS 09 TFA toward PAMs. The effects of resatorvid, EUK-134, disulfiram, polyphyllin, and RS 09 TFA on the cellular viability of PAMs were examined using the cell-counting kit (CCK)-8 kit after incubation for 48 h. **p < 0.01 and ***p < 0.001 compared to the respective virus control.
A remark on asymptotic enumeration of highest weights in tensor powers of a representation
Creators: name: Kaveh, Kiumars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E10, 20G05

description: We consider the semigroup S of highest weights appearing in tensor powers V^k of a finite dimensional representation V of a connected reductive group. We describe the cone generated by S as the cone over the weight polytope of V intersected with the positive Weyl chamber. From this we get a description for the asymptotic of the number of highest weights appearing in V^k in terms of the volume of this polytope.
description: Minor corrections, title slightly changed, an example added. 7 pages
Particle Acceleration and the Formation of Relativistic Outflows in Viscous Accretion Disks with Shocks
Creators: name: Becker, Peter A.
name: Das, Santabrata
name: Le, Truong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Letter, we present a new self-consistent theory for the production of the relativistic outflows observed from radio-loud black hole candidates and active galaxies as a result of particle acceleration in hot, viscous accretion disks containing standing, centrifugally-supported isothermal shocks. This is the first work to obtain the structure of such disks for a relatively large value of the Shakura-Sunyaev viscosity parameter ($α=0.1$), and to consider the implications of the shock for the acceleration of relativistic particles in viscous disks. In our approach, the hydrodynamics and the particle acceleration are coupled and the solutions are obtained self-consistently based on a rigorous mathematical method. We find that particle acceleration in the vicinity of the shock can provide enough energy to power the observed relativistic jet in M87.
description: published in ApJL
Gazella subgutturosa
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Bovidae
Gazella
Gazella subgutturosa

description: 98. Goitered Gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa (Güldenstädt, 1778)
(IUCN Red List: VU)
Subspecies: G. s. subgutturosa (Güldenstaedt, 1778).
Distribution: Confined to a narrow geographical range of arid plains and steppes near Jabal Abd Al-Aziz and Mesopotamia (Fig. 107).
Previous records: ar-Raqqa (Dollman & Burlace 1935), vicinity of Tell Abiad (Misonne 1957), Ras Al-Ayn (Kumerloeve 1975), Buhayrat Al-Khatuniyah, Jabal Abd Al-Aziz, and Ras Al-Ayn (Evans 1994), and Jabal Abd Al-Aziz (Masseti 2000).
Recent records: Southwest steppes of Jabal Abd al-Aziz (2019–2021).
Remarks: Distribution may be extended into Mesopotamia based on photographic evidence obtained from steppes near Jabal Abd al-Aziz which proved to be G. subgutturosa.
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Couples coping with breast or gynaecological cancers : are there differences in their supportive communication patterns and how do these relate to their psychosexual adjustment?
Creators: name: Morse, AJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: There is a paucity of observational studies that examine the supportive communication patterns of couples coping with early stage breast or gynaecological cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate both diagnostic groups within the one study in terms of the impact of the cancer, the differences in supportive communication patterns, and how these differences relate to couples' psychological outcomes and psychosexual adjustment, in regard to body image and sexual functioning. Sixty four couples (32 breast and 32 gynaecological) were recorded discussing the effects of the cancer on them. The videotaped conversations were coded and classified in terms of the presence or absence of process behaviours and content. As expected, couples coping with gynaecological cancers were less likely to have engaged in a prior supportive discussion about their cancer experience, and reported lower communication self-efficacy and communication helpfulness than couples coping with breast cancer. Contrary to predictions, couples coping with gynaecological cancer did not experience greater psychosexual adjustment difficulties or engage in more discussions about sexual issues and body image than couples coping with breast cancer. While the Current research was restricted in sample size it still provides a springboard for further research into couples coping with breast or gynaecological cancers and their supportive communication patterns. Implications regarding clinical intervention in the form of couples' therapy and psycho-education are discussed.
title: Urban Agriculture and Small Farm Irrigation: Case Studies from Cache Valley, Utah
Creators: name: Pratt, Tyler
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: The landscape of water in Utah is changing due to population growth, conversion of agricultural land to urban development, and increasing awareness of water scarcity. The Utah Division of Water Resources forecasts that the currently developed water supplies will not be enough to provide for Utah’s future population, and is pursuing conservation and new development to meet the state’s anticipated needs.
Along with the urban growth Utah is experiencing a growing urban and small farm agricultural sector, but knowledge of water use in these operations is limited. Further research in this area aids in understanding the impact of land use change on the state’s hydrology, aids the state water authorities in water use estimates, assists farmers in moving towards wiser water management, and helps Utah State University Extension better meet the needs of small irrigators.
My research creates a clearer picture of urban and small farm agricultural irrigation in Utah. For the 2015 growing season I performed irrigation evaluations for 24 urban and small farms in Cache Valley, and I explore the results from both case study and statistical perspectives. My results show a great degree of heterogeneity with irrigation efficiencies ranging from 6% to 100%. In general, small fields had greater irrigation depths than large fields, and surface irrigated fields applied higher depths than sprinkle and drip irrigated fields. Yet a big influence on efficiency was management, as fields relying on a set schedule had higher depths than fields that were irrigated inconsistently due to other factors. Therefore, water conservation programs focused on reducing irrigated area or providing technological alternatives may not result in true water savings if the effect of management is ignored. In particular, urban and small farmers need increased awareness of how management can result in savings of time and money, and improved knowledge of how to measure application rates, improve application uniformity, and scheduling techniques. With improvements in these areas, water management on urban and small farms can be improved, therein helping the urban and small farm irrigators themselves as well as the state in meeting its future water needs.
title: Amelioration of Chikungunya through Inhibition of the Inflammatory Response
Creators: name: Dagley, Ashley L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Chikungunya (CHIK) is an emerging viral disease, which causes significant morbidity and mortality throughout tropical/subtropical areas of the world, including a recent outbreak in the Americas. Disease typically includes fever, rash, and arthritis. Joint involvement is generally self-limiting, but infection with Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) can lead to chronic debilitating arthritis that can last for months to years. With no vaccine and no licensed treatment, suitable animal models of CHIKV are needed to test intervention strategies. We developed a model of CHIK in DBA1/J mice that develop joint swelling, increase in inflammatory cytokines and splenomegaly in mice, which include important symptoms of disease seen in infected humans. We used this model to test the hypothesis that treatment with immune-modulatory compounds would ameliorate disease. GP1681, which suppresses TNF-α, IL-1β, and IL-6, exacerbated CHIK as indicated by increased footpad swelling and viral load. Prophylactic treatment with mDEF201, an adenovirus-vectored interferon, reduced disease, including joint swelling, virus titers at the site of virus challenge and inflammatory cytokines (IL-6, MCP-1, MIP-1α, and RANTES), although efficacy waned as treatment initiation was extended beyond virus challenge. Methotrexate treatment was also effective at ameliorating joint swelling and other disease parameters. Actemra (ACT), an anti-IL-6 antibody, reduced IL-6 levels to baseline, although the resulting improvement in footpad swelling was not significant. Combination therapy with methotrexate and ACT resulted in reduced footpad swelling. Based on our results, immune modulators have potential for the treatment of CHIKV and some of the compounds tested might have potential for clinical developmental.
title: Quadrotor UAV Path Following using Trajectory Shaping
Creators: name: Mehrok, Parwinder Singh
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: This research proposes to adapt the concept of trajectory shaping guidance law on a quadrotor to follow several different predefined, compact paths. Keeping the real world nonlinearities, sensor and process noise in mind, the technique is simulated using MATLAB-Simulink. This guidance concept is implemented on a real, custom built quadrotor for which a new testing platform was developed from the ground up. Also, the results obtained from the trajectory shaping concept are compared to the performance characteristics of another path following concept called differential flatness. In addition to this, root mean square of position error data is used to compare the vehicle convergence to the desired trajectory.
title: A Risk-Based Assessment of Agricultural Water Scarcity Under Climate Change in a Semi-Arid and Snowmelt-Dominated River Basin
Creators: name: Moursi, Hossam
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Water scarcity is the major challenge that water managers face in semi-arid areas, especially in regions that depend on agriculture for rural livelihood. Climate change is one of the major stresses that is expected to exacerbate water scarcity problems in semi-arid regions. In this study, a risk-based approach was used to assess the climate change impacts on the risk of agricultural water scarcity in semi-arid and snowmelt-dominated river basins that are dependent on agriculture. The Sevier River Basin, located in south central Utah, was used as the case study for this work. An agricultural water deficit index was proposed to represent the basin performance in terms of water supply and agricultural water demand. The basin's natural water supply was estimated using a semi-distributed tank model. FAO AquaCrop model was used to estimate the crop water requirements for major crops in the basin. The risk-based methodology begins using a vulnerability analysis to identify the system sensitivity to climate change. Sensitivity of system response to climatic variability was identified by establishing the climate response function, which is the relationship between basin agricultural water shortage and climate variables (i.e., precipitation and temperatures). The climate response function was then used to predict the basin agricultural water shortage in this century across four time slices using the projections of precipitation and temperature from downscaled and bias corrected GCMs outputs from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) for RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios.
The results of this study suggested that more natural water supply is expected in the Sevier River Basin due to the expected increase in precipitation during the future off seasons. However, projected temperature increases in the future may increase crop water requirements. It is also found that there is a high risk of unacceptable climate change impacts on agricultural water scarcity in the basin in the period 2025-2049 under RCP4.5 and for 2075-2099 under the RCP8.5 scenario, indicating climate change adaptation actions may be needed.
title: Forage Yield and Quality of Binary Grass-Legume Mixtures of Tall Fescue, Orchardgrass, Meadow Brome, Alfalfa, Birdsfoot Trefoil, and Cicer Milkvetch
Creators: name: Cox, Steven R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: Rising fertilizer prices have led a return to the use of grass-legume mixtures to reduce N costs and improve pasture productivity. The objective of this study was to determine optimal species combinations of binary grass-legume mixtures to improve forage production and pasture nutritive value in irrigated pastures of the Intermountain West. The study was conducted at the Utah State University Intermountain Pature Research Facility near Lewiston, UT. Tall Fescue (TF), Orchardgrass (OG), and meadow brome (MB) were grown with alfalfa (ALF), birdsfoot trefoil (BFTF), and cicer milkvetch (CMV) in legume-grass mixes and monocultures at planting ratios of 25:75, 50:50, 75:25. Grass monocultures were fertilized with 0 (0 N), 67 (67 N), or 134 kg N ha-1 (134 N). Forage was harvested four times each season during 2011-2012. Forage of the mixtures and monocultures from the first and third harvests was analyzed for crude protein (CP) and neutral-detergent fiber (NDF). Average forage production of the unfertilized TF, MB, and OG monocultures was 11.03, 9.76, and 8.10 Mg ha-1, respectively. TF-ALF, OG-ALF, and MB-ALF grass-legume mixes averaged 24.0, 35.0, and 41.0% higher forage production than their respective unfertilized grass monocultures. The grass-legume mixtures with the highest CP were MB-ALF 159, TF-ALF 159, and TF-OG-159 g kg-1 and average 59, 43 and 51% higher than their respective unfertilized grass monocultures. Likewise, the mixtures with the lowest NDF were OG-ALF 453 g kg-1, OG-BFTF 469 g kg-1, and MB-ALF 480 g kg-1. These mixtures had 10, 7, and 18% lower NDF than their respective unfertilized grass monocultures. Individual harvests had similarly higher yields and CP, with lower NDF for the mixtures than the unfertilized grass monocultures. The grass-legume mixture with the 50:50 planting ratio were most productive and had high forage quality. The grass-legume mixtures had similar forage production as the grass monocultures at 134 kg N ha-1. The grass-legume mixtures also had higher CP and lower NDF than the grass monocultures. Cicer milkvetch did not perform well in irrigated pastures. Grass-legume mixtures with ALF and BFTF can be used to replace commercial N while increasing forage nutritive value.
What mother knows
Creators: name: Nettlefold, GD
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis examines the experience of maternity as a lens through which to refract questions concerning women's knowledge and the relationship between embodied experience and knowledge. Much work in recent and contemporary feminist epistemology is devoted to showing that there is something special about women's knowledge, either because of a unique female social standpoint or because of the nature of women's bodies and the kinds of experiences they engender. Much of this work, I argue, essentialises women, fails to recognise the generality of women's epistemic powers, and involves a commitment to the view that mere sensory experience constitutes knowledge. This latter view, I argue, is the core error in this body of work: In the guise of allowing women a special kind of knowledge, it reinforces the idea that what is distinctive about women's knowledge is its primitive, sensory character. This in turn lends comfort to the disenfranchismement of women in pregnancy and childbirth and the assumption of an expert position by the medical profession. I argue that there is no unique feature of maternity that could issue in any epistemically distinctive feature of women. While this means that simply experiencing pregnancy and maternity does not give women any special privilege in these domains, it is liberative in that it restores the epistemic equity between the sexes. I investigate accounts of maternal experience which promise to establish the special epistemic authority of mothers. I show that the Hegelian vision of experience as knowledge seeps into many contemporary feminist texts, through the work of theorists like Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jacques Lacan. In particular, I show in chapter two that Iris Young's account of 'pregnant embodiment' inherits a private knowledge claim from Hegel through Merleau-Ponty. In chapters three and four I show how Lacan's work carries private knowledge claims into our understanding of maternal experience. In chapter three I show how this occurs in Kristeva and, in chapter four, in Hartsock's 'feminist standpoint epistemology'. In chapter five I draw on Bataille's revision of Hegel to put right a feminist generalisation about masculine knowledge based in sexual perversity. Finally, in chapter six I show that when we dismantle the Hegelian 'myth of the given' through a Sellarsian analysis of the relation between experience and knowledge, we regain a coherent vision of the nature of our epistemic authority about experience, one that explains why pregnant women are in an especially good position to know about pregnancy, but also why they are in just as good a position to know about a lot of other things besides.
The evolution of star formation in quasar host galaxies
Creators: name: Serjeant, Stephen
name: Hatziminaoglou, Evanthia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used far-infrared data from IRAS, ISO, SWIRE, SCUBA and MAMBO to constrain statistically the mean far-infrared luminosities of quasars. Our quasar compilation at redshifts 0
description: MNRAS, accepted on 22 Dec 2008. Uses BoxedEPS (included)
title: An Evaluation of an iPad-Based Activity Schedule
Creators: name: Reinert, Kassidy Stuart
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Children with autism often engage in repetitive behaviors and may not engage appropriately with leisure activities. Visual activity schedules are an effective way to promote independence and teach appropriate task engagement. Previous researchers have found that activity schedules are not only effective in teaching a range of skills, but also have been shown to reduce problem behavior. Paper-based activity schedules, while inexpensive and fairly easy to prepare, can be cumbersome. Socially, activity schedule books may also be stigmatizing. This study investigated the effectiveness of using an iPad to teach visual activity schedule following with preschoolers with autism. Findings from the current study add to previous research showing that technology-based activity schedules are an effective way to teach young children to engage in leisure activities independently. We also evaluated participants’ preferences for the iPad-based schedule versus the binder-based schedule and found that the iPad-based schedule was preferred for two of three participants.
Unusual ferrimagnetic ground state in rhenium ferrite
Creators: name: Assadi, M Hussein N
name: Fronzi, Marco
name: Hanaor, Dorian AH
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through comprehensive density functional calculations, we predict the stability of a rhenium-based ferrite
Stabilities for Euler-Poisson Equations in Some Special Dimensions
Creators: name: Yuen, Manwai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q35; 35B35; 76N99

description: We study the stabilities and classical solutions of Euler-Poisson equations of describing the evolution of the gaseous star in astrophysics. In fact, we extend the study the stabilities of Euler-Poisson equations with or without frictional damping term to some special dimensional spaces. Besides, by using the second inertia function in 2 dimension of Euler-Poisson equations, we prove the non-global existence of classical solutions with $2\int_Ω(ρ| u| ^{2}+2P)dx
description: 15 pages
Inservice education of teachers in secondary schools in Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Neuendorf, Laevai I M
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study examines the in-service education of teachers in Papua New Guinea with specific reference to secondary teachers. The purpose of the study was to investigate the nature, objectives, operation and perceived outcomes of inservice education in Papua New Guinea in relation to current theories on ISE and to suggest fruitful directions for the future. The research methodology adopted was that of descriptive and analytical research using the questionnaire and interview as the principal data gathering devices. This was supported by archival data obtained from National Department of Education records, Provincial Education Office records and University and College records. The survey population consisted of 236 teachers in 13 provincial high schools in three selected provinces, educational administrators in key policy making and policy implementation levels, and teacher educators in pre-service and in-service education. The research framework was derived from the literature on inservice education in which theoretical perceptions and assumptions relevant to in-service education were reviewed. This was followed by an examination of assumptions and underlying issues relevant to developing countries. The main findings are: that the purposes and aims of inservice education need to be. clarified and its roles made clear within the context of secondary education and education in general in PNG; that a greater emphasis heeds to be made of group-oriented and whole staff-oriented strategies and procedures and to encourage schools to try out the problem-solving approach to ISE; that ISE content shoulcl equally take into account the needs of individual teachers, groups and whole staff and the needs of the system; that a mixture of strategies and procedures should be used in ISE; that school and provincial ISE structures need to be reassessed if ISE is to be effective and efficient at the school and provincial levels; that the scope of externally-directed course-based programs of ISE needs to be widened to include more group-oriented perspectives; that ISE should enable teachers to reflect more on the tasks of teaching and its consequences upon student learning; that universities and colleges of education need to take More responsibility for inservice education; that more financial resources are required to support SBISE and SFISE; that increased attention is needed to monitor the effectiveness of ISE activities and programs and the efficiency of schools, the province and the system in the management and support of ISE.
Capra nubiana F. Cuvier 1825
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Bovidae
Capra
Capra nubiana

description: 99. Nubian Ibex, Capra nubiana F. Cuvier, 1825
(IUCN Red List: VU)
Distribution: Confined to Golan Heights (Fig. 108).
Previous records: Labter Hills (Jabal Al-Abtar) southwest of Palmyra (Maydon 1930), a specimen obtained from east of Al-Qaryatein in the collection of the British Museum of Natural History (Harrison 1968). It was also reported in the Jabal ash-Sharqi mountain ranges north of Damascus which run southwest-northeast, as far as Halab (Aleppo) and to just south of Tadmur (Palmyra), presumably in the Jabal al Khunayzir by Shackleton (1997) based on (Harrison 1968). However, the latter didn’t mention these sites where the species records remain unsubstainational.
Remarks: Nubian Ibex was considered as a subspecies of the (Capra ibex nubiana Linnaeus, 1758) but is now considered as a distinct species (Grubb 2005). The species might be extinct in Syria by the end of the 1950s; however, it was reintroduced into the Golan Heights in 1970 (Shackleton 1997).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Initial/boundary-value problems of tumor growth within a host tissue
Creators: name: Tosin, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 35B45, 35Q92, 92B05

description: This paper concerns multiphase models of tumor growth in interaction with a surrounding tissue, taking into account also the interplay with diffusible nutrients feeding the cells. Models specialize in nonlinear systems of possibly degenerate parabolic equations, which include phenomenological terms related to specific cell functions. The paper discusses general modeling guidelines for such terms, as well as for initial and boundary conditions, aiming at both biological consistency and mathematical robustness of the resulting problems. Particularly, it addresses some qualitative properties such as a priori nonnegativity, boundedness, and uniqueness of the solutions. Existence of the solutions is studied in the one-dimensional time-independent case.
description: 30 pages, 5 figures
title: Global Thermospheric Response to Geomagnetic Storms
Creators: name: Suresh, Padmashri
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Geomagnetic storms deposit energy and momentum into the Earth’s magnetosphere which in turn energizes the terrestrial atmosphere through Joule heating and particle precipitation. This storm energy predominantly converges at altitudes of 100 to 150 km, corresponding to the lower thermospheric region, which is then globally redistributed throughout the thermosphere. It is essential that we understand the times and magnitudes of this energy to understand the terrestrial atmospheric response to geomagnetic storms. However, our current knowledge is mostly limited to the studies of orbital altitudes of the thermosphere. We aim to fill this gap by conducting a statistical study of lower thermospheric response to geomagnetic storms. We use neutral temperature data from SABER (Sounding of the Atmosphere Using Broadband Emission Radiometry) instrument onboard the TIMED (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, and Mesosphere Energy Dynamics) satellite for this study.
We devise a procedure to extract the storm response from SABER temperature measurements and deduce the magnitudes and times of the global storm energy redistribution in the 100 to 120 km altitude of the thermosphere. We use methods of inferential and descriptive statistics to investigate the lower thermospheric response for 145 storm intervals that occurred between 2002 and 2010. We also investigate the performance of the state-ofart physics and empirical models in replicating the lower thermosphere during geomagnetic storms.
Precise dispersive data analysis of the f0(600) pole
Creators: name: Garcia-Martin, R.
name: Kaminski, R.
name: Pelaez, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review how the use of recent precise data on kaon decays together with forward dispersion relations (FDR) and Roy's equations allow us to determine the sigma resonance pole position very precisely, by using only experimental input. In addition, we present preliminary results for a modified set of Roy-like equations with only one subtraction, that show a remarkable improvement in the precision around the sigma region. We also improve the matching between the parametrizations at low and intermediate energy of the S0 wave, and show that the effect of this on the sigma pole position is negligible.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the proceedings of the Meson 2008 conference, June 6-10, Cracow, Poland