cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Ecology of Spring Fed Salt-Marshes
Creators: name: Bolen, Eric George
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1962

description: Any marsh is a distinctive land-form of varied interest. To the agriculturist it is wasteland to be reclaimed; to the naturalist, a habitat of aesthetic value. To the ecologist, however, a marsh represents a complexity of vegetation under the influences of many and often inseparable factors. It becomes a place of challenging study.
There exists a notable lack of information treating the ecology of inland salt-marshes. Still less known are the ecological conditions imposed upon plant life in marshes arising from saline springs. The presence of such a wetland in western Utah afforded the opportunity to study salt-marsh vegetation in a highly specialized habitat.
The study had two phases. First was a study of the vegetation. Data were secured from collections and study plots within each of the major marsh communities. General descriptions of other plant life were additionally compiled.
It is not within the scope of this paper to discuss or rigidly define the requirements embraced in the use of "community" as a unit of vegetation. Sufficient references are available for those who wish to pursue the point. In this study, a community is a congregation of plants exhibiting differences in appearance and species composition from other plant congregations.
Secondly, studies were directed to the influences of soil and water on the ecology of each community. Transects were used to investigate many of these relationships. Transition zones between communities were narrow and usually sharply delineated. Transects intersected ecotones of this sort; environmental differences which may have occurred in the few broader ecotones were assumed to be of equal magnitude but of more gradual rate of change . Relatively short transects thus adequately represented each community yet allowed collection of intensive data.
Information and data were collected during a 5-week period in August and September 1959 and a 6-month period beginning in March 1960.
Additional file 2 of The spatial relationship between leishmaniases and sand flies in Europe and neighboring countries
Creators: name: Berriatua, Eduardo
name: Pérez-Cutillas, Pedro
name: Vidal, Aurora González
name: Briët, Olivier J. T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2.
Engineering of Intrinsic Chiral Torques in Magnetic Thin Films Based on the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction
Creators: name: Liu, Zhentao
name: Luo, Zhaochu
name: Rohart, Stanislas
name: Heyderman, Laura J.
name: Gambardella, Pietro
name: Hrabec, Aleš
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The establishment of chiral coupling in thin magnetic films with inhomogeneous anisotropy has led to the development of artificial systems of fundamental and technological interest. The chiral coupling itself is enabled by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) enforced by the patterned noncollinear magnetization. Here, we create a domain wall track with out-of-plane magnetization coupled on each side to a narrow parallel strip with in-plane magnetization. With this we show that the chiral torques emerging from the DMI at the boundary between the regions of noncollinear magnetization in a single magnetic layer can be used to bias the domain wall velocity. To tune the chiral torques, the design of the magnetic racetracks can be modified by varying the width of the tracks or the width of the transition region between noncollinear magnetizations, reaching effective chiral magnetic fields of up to 7.8 mT. Furthermore, we show how the magnitude of the chiral torques can be estimated by measuring asymmetric domain wall velocities, and demonstrate spontaneous domain wall motion propelled by intrinsic torques even in the absence of any external driving force.
Modellierung und Generierung von Benutzeroberflächen für interaktive Softwaresysteme unter der Nutzung von Mustern
Creators: name: Engel, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 004 Data processing Computer sciences

description: Die Dissertation umfasst den Entwurf einer Entwicklungsumgebung für Benutzeroberflächen, der modell- und musterbasierte UI-Entwicklung zu einem integrierten Entwicklungs- und Generierungsansatz kombiniert. Die Grundlagen der modell- und musterbasierten Entwicklung werden dargestellt und existierende Implementierungen analysiert. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchungen fließen in den Entwurf der kombinierten Entwicklungsumgebung, der detailliert beschrieben wird, ein. Die Arbeit beinhaltet eine Fallstudie, die die praktische Bedeutung der theoretischen Ausführungen verdeutlicht.
Sampling and analysis of asymptomatic Citrus fruits and leaf litter to detect the infection of Phyllosticta citricarpa (CBS-DETECT)
Creators: name: Riccioni, Luca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Euphresco, plant health, Phyllosticta citricarpa, Citrus black spot, monitoring, diagnostics, ethephon, mycology

description: Slide of the Euphresco project 2019-A-318 'Sampling and analysis of asymptomatic Citrus fruits and leaf litter to detect the infection of Phyllosticta citricarpa (CBS-DETECT)'
description: Project funded through the Euphresco network
Ennismore : a study of a female correctional institution
Creators: name: Sanderson, Margo Ruth Joy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Most studies done on the female offender have centred on problems of homosexuality. This study is concerned with female drug addicts who have been interned in a treatment-oriented correctional institution. In doing this investigation, the focus was on two aspects: the temporal routine of the inmates and the matrons, and the attitudes of both groups towards: rehabilitation goals, the institution as a treatment centre, and institutional practices. The data collection was based primarily on participation in and observation of the interaction between the inmates and the matrons, supplemented with interviews of the members of both groups. It was through the participant-observation that I was able to penetrate the elements of the core culture. In this sense, the core culture refers to the complex of attitudes and practices of matrons and inmates centering around parole. Several institutional constraints seemed to be influencing the effectiveness of therapy programmes. Among these constraints, attention was given to an examination of: the treatment-versus-custody roles of the staff, the structure and composition of therapy groups, and the extent of inmate participation in therapy programmes.
title: Lethal Concentrations and Detoxification Time of Toxaphene For Goldfish, Gambusia and Rainbow Trout
Creators: name: Workman, Gar W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1959

description: In the past few years the Utah Fish and Game Department, as well as the fish and game departments of other states, has been spending fisheries money for fish eradication on both lakes and streams. The Utah Fish and Game Department recently suggested to the University that research be initiated on the subject of toxaphene as a fish poison. Consequently, a better insight into conditions that exist for a given water type could be developed. To date there is a very small amount of material written on toxaphene. This is due primarily to the fact that toxaphene was not developed until the 19hO's. Toxaphene is used mainly as an insecticide. Such crops as tomatoes, beans, alfalfa, clover and cotton are protected by the use of toxaphene (Hudd and Genelly, 1956).
Multi-scale interactions in turbulent mixed convection drive efficient transport of Lagrangian particles
Creators: name: Grace, Andrew P.
name: Richter, David H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When turbulent convection interacts with a turbulent shear flow, the cores of convective cells become aligned with the mean current, and these cells (which span the height of the domain) may interact with motions closer to the solid boundary. In this work, we use coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian direct numerical simulations of a turbulent channel flow to demonstrate that under conditions of turbulent mixed convection, interactions between motions associated with ejections and low-speed streaks near the solid boundary, and coherent superstructures in the interior of the flow interact and lead to significant vertical transport of strongly settling Lagrangian particles. We show that the primary suspension mechanism is associated with strong ejection events (canonical low-speed streaks and hairpin vortices characterized by $u'<0$ and $w'>0$), whereas secondary suspension is strongly associated with large scale plume structures aligned with the mean shear (characterized by $w'>0$ and $θ'>0$). This coupling, which is absent in the limiting cases (pure channel flow or free convection) is shown to lead to a sudden increase in the interior concentration profiles as $\mathrm{Ri}_τ$ increases, resulting in concentrations that are larger by roughly an order of magnitude at the channel midplane.
The role of geochemistry in organic carbon stabilization in tropical rainforest soils
Creators: name: Reichenbach, Mario
name: Fiener, Peter
name: Garland, Gina
name: Griepentrog, Marco
name: Six, Johan
name: Doetterl, Sebastian
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021

description: Stabilization of organic carbon in soils (SOC) depends on several soil properties, including the soil weathering stage and the mineralogy of parent material. As such, tropical SOC stabilization mechanisms likely differ from those in temperate soils due to contrasting soil development. To better understand these mechanisms, we investigated SOC dynamics at three soil depths under pristine tropical african mountain forest along a geochemical gradient from mafic to felsic and a topographic gradient covering plateau, slope and valley positions. To do so we conducted a series of soil C fractionation experiments in combination with an analysis of the geochemical composition of soil and a sequential extraction of pedogenic oxides. Relationships between our target and predicting variables were investigated using a combination of regression analyses and dimension reduction. Here, we show that reactive secondary mineral phases drive SOC properties and stabilization mechanisms together with, and sometimes more strongly than, other mechanisms such as aggregation or C stabilization by clay content. Key mineral stabilization mechanisms for SOC were strongly related to soil geochemistry, differing across the study regions. These findings were independent of topography in the absence of detectable erosion processes. Instead, fluvial dynamics and changed hydrological conditions had a secondary control on SOC dynamics in valley positions, leading to higher SOC stocks there than at the non-valley positions. We also detected fossil organic carbon (FOC) at several sites, constituting up to 52.0 ± 13.2 % of total SOC stock in the C depleted subsoil. Interestingly, total SOC stocks for these soils did not exceed those of sites without FOC. Additionally, FOC decreased strongly towards more shallow soil depths, indicating decomposability of FOC by microbial communities under more fertile conditions. Regression analysis showed that variables affiliated with soil weathering, parent material geochemistry and soil fertility, together with soil depth, explained up to 75 % of the variability of SOC stocks and Δ14C. Furthermore the same variables explain 44 % of the variability in the relative abundance of C associated with microaggregates versus free silt and clay associated C fractions However, geochemical variables gained or retained importance for explaining SOC target variables when controlling for soil depth. We conclude that despite long-lasting weathering, geochemical properties of soil parent material leave a footprint in tropical soils that affects SOC stocks and mineral related C stabilization mechanisms. While identified stabilization mechanisms and controls are similar to less weathered soils in other climate zones, their relative importance is markedly different in the investigated tropical soils.
description: Soil Discussions
Navigating stellar wobbles for imaging with the solar gravitational lens
Creators: name: Turyshev, Slava G.
name: Toth, Viktor T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The solar gravitational lens (SGL) offers unique capabilities for high-resolution imaging of faint, distant objects, such as exoplanets. In the near future, a spacecraft carrying a meter-class telescope with a solar coronagraph would be placed in the focal region of the SGL. That region begins at ~547 astronomical units from the Sun and occupies the vicinity of the target-specific primary optical axis - the line that connects the center of the target and that of the Sun. This axis undergoes complex motion as the exoplanet orbits its host star, as that star moves with respect to the Sun, and even as the Sun itself moves with respect to the solar system's barycenter due to the gravitational pull of planets in our solar system. An image of an extended object is projected by the SGL into an image plane and moves within that plane, responding to the motion of the optical axis. To sample the image, a telescope must follow the projection with precise knowledge of its own position with respect to the image. We consider the dominant motions that determine the position of the focal line as a function of time. We evaluate the needed navigational capability for the telescope to conduct a multiyear exoplanet imaging mission. We show that even in a rather conservative case, when an Earth-like exoplanet is in our stellar neighborhood at $\sim10$ light years, the motion of the image is characterized by a small total acceleration $\sim 6.1\,μ{\rm m/s}^2$ that is driven primarily by the orbital motion of the exoplanet and by the reflex motion of our Sun. We discuss how the amplified light of the host star allows establishing a local reference frame thus relaxing navigational requirements. We conclude that the required navigation in the SGL's focal region, although complex, can be accurately modeled and a $\sim 10$-year imaging mission is achievable with the already available propulsion technology.
description: 28 pages, 16 figures
title: The Opercular Bone As An Indicator of Age and Growth of the Carp Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus
Creators: name: McConell, William J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1951

description: As part of an investigation of the non-game fish resources of Utah, a study of the age and growth rate of the carp was instituted. A preliminary investigation indicated that the opercular method was superior to several other methods of determining age and growth in the carp. Age and growth were calculated from the opercular bones of 330 carp collected at Ogden Bay Refuge in 1950-51. Distances to annuli were measured directly. The relationship between the posterior radius of the opercular bone and the standard length of the carp was curvilinear. Past growth was calculated with a logarithmic nomograph. Expected number of annuli on opercular bones of known age carp, agreement of ages assessed by length frequency modes and those assessed from opercular bones of the same fish agreement of empirical and calculated lengths for the first three years of life, agreement between ages assessed by scales and opercular bones, and increase in age with increase in size were accepted as evidence of the validity of the opercular method. Decrease in growth rate at any year of life for successive age groups is attributed to a gradual change of the environment.
Wetting gradient induced separation of emulsions: A combined experimental and lattice Boltzmann computer simulation study
Creators: name: Varnik, Fathollah
name: Truman, Pagra
name: Wu, Bin
name: Uhlmann, Petra
name: Raabe, Dierk
name: Stamm, Manfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Guided motion of emulsions is studied via combined experimental and theoretical investigations. The focus of the work is on basic issues related to driving forces generated via a step-wise (abrupt) change in wetting properties of the substrate along a given spatial direction. Experiments on binary emulsions unambiguously show that selective wettability of the one of the fluid components (water in our experiments) with respect to the two different parts of the substrate is sufficient in order to drive the separation process. These studies are accompanied by approximate analytic arguments as well as lattice Boltzmann computer simulations, focusing on effects of a wetting gradient on internal droplet dynamics as well as its relative strength compared to volumetric forces driving the fluid flow. These theoretical investigations show qualitatively different dependence of wetting gradient induced forces on contact angle and liquid volume in the case of an open substrate as opposed to a planar channel. In particular, for the parameter range of our experiments, slit geometry is found to give rise to considerably higher separation forces as compared to open substrate.
description: 34 pages, 12 figures
title: Database Auto Awesome: Enhancing Database-Centric Web Applications through Informed Code Generation
Creators: name: Adams, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: Database Auto Awesome is an approach to enhancing web applications comprised of forms used to interact with stored information. It was inspired by Google's Auto Awesome tool, which provides automatic enhancements for photos. Database Auto Awesome aims to automatically or semi-automatically provide improvements to an application by expanding the functionality of the application and improving the existing code.
This thesis describes a tool that gathers information from the application and provides details on how the parts of the application work together. This information provides the details necessary to generate new portions of an application.
These enhancements are directed by the web application administrator through specifying what they would like to have generated, in terms of functionality. Once the administrator has provided this direction, the new application code is generated and put in updated or new files. Using this approach, Database Auto Awesome provides a viable solution for semi-automatically generating enhancements to an existing web application.
Filling a key gap: a soil infrared library for central Africa
Creators: name: Summerauer, Laura
name: Baumann, Philipp
name: Ramirez-Lopez, Leonardo
name: Barthel, Matti
name: Bauters, Marijn
name: Bukombe, Benjamin
name: Reichenbach, Marion
name: Boeckx, Pascal
name: Kearsley, Elizabeth
name: Van Oost, Kristof
name: Vanlauwe, Bernard
name: Chiragaga, Dieudonné
name: Bisimwa Heri-Kazi, Aimé
name: Moonen, Pieter
name: Sila, Andrew
name: Shepherd, Keith
name: Bazirake Mujinya, Basile
name: Van Ranst, Eric
name: Baert, Geert
name: Doetterl, Sebastian
name: Six, Johan
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2021

description: Information on soil properties is crucial for soil preservation, improving food security, and the provision of ecosystem services. Especially, for the African continent, spatially explicit information on soils and their ability to sustain these services is still scarce. To address data gaps, infrared spectroscopy has gained great success as a cost-effective solution to quantify soil properties in recent decades. Here, we present a mid-infrared soil spectral library (SSL) for central Africa (CSSL) that can predict key soil properties allowing for future soil estimates with a minimal need for expensive and time-consuming wet chemistry. Currently, our CSSL contains over 1,800 soils from ten distinct geo-climatic regions throughout the Congo Basin and wider African Great Lakes region. We selected six hold-out core regions from our SSL, augmented them with the continental AfSIS SSL, which does not cover central African soils. We present three levels of geographical extrapolation, deploying Memory-based learning (MBL) to accurately predict carbon (TC) and nitrogen (TN) contents in the selected regions. The Root Mean Square Error of the predictions (RMSEpred) values were between 0.38–0.86 % and 0.04–0.17 % for TC and TN, respectively, when using the AfSIS SSL only to predict the six regions. Prediction accuracy could be improved for four out of six regions when adding central African soils to the AfSIS SSL. This reduction of extrapolation resulted in RMSEpred ranges of 0.41–0.89 % for TC and 0.03–0.12 % for TN. In general, MBL leveraged spectral similarity and thereby predicted the soils in each of the six regions accurately; the effect of avoiding geographical extrapolation and forcing regional samples in the local neighborhood (MBL-spiking) was small. We conclude that our CSSL adds valuable soil diversity that can improve predictions for the regions compared to using the continental scale AfSIS SSL alone; thus, analyses of other soils in central Africa will be able to profit from a more diverse spectral feature space. Given these promising results, the library comprises an important tool to facilitate economical soil analyses and predict soil properties in an understudied yet critical region of Africa. Our SSL is openly available for application and for enlargement with more spectral and reference data to further improve soil diagnostic accuracy and cost-effectiveness.
description: Soil Discussions
Patterns of microbial processes shaped by parent material and soil depth in tropical rainforest soils
Creators: name: Kidinda, Laurent
name: Olagoke, Folasade K.
name: Vogel, Cordula
name: Kalbitz, Karsten
name: Doetterl, Sebastian
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020
Subjects: Extracellular enzymes
Microbial biomass
Carbon limitation
Nutrient limitation

description: Microbial processes are one of the key factors driving carbon (C) and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems, and are strongly driven by the equilibrium between resource availability and demand. In deeply weathered tropical rainforest soils of Africa, it remains unclear whether patterns of microbial processes differ between soils developed from geochemically contrasting parent materials. Here we show that resource availability across soil depths and regions from mafic to felsic geochemistry shape patterns of soil microbial processes. During a 120-day incubation experiment, we found that microbial biomass C and extracellular enzyme activity were highest in the mafic region. Microbial C limitation was highest in the mixed sedimentary region and lowest in the felsic region, which we propose is related to the strength of contrasting C stabilization mechanisms and varying C quality. None of the investigated regions and soil depths showed signs of nitrogen (N) limitation for microbial processes. Microbial phosphorus (P) limitation increased with soil depth but was similar across geochemical regions, indicating that subsoils in the investigated soils were depleted in rock-derived nutrients and are therefore dependent on efficient biological recycling of nutrients. Microbial C limitation was lowest in subsoils, indicating that subsoil microbes can significantly participate in C cycling and limit C storage if increased oxygen availability is prevalent. Using multivariable regressions, we demonstrate that microbial biomass C normalized to soil organic C content (MBCSOC) is controlled by soil geochemistry and substrate quality, while microbial biomass C normalized to soil weight (MBCSoil) is predominantly driven by resource distribution. We conclude that due to differences in resource availability, microbial processes in deeply weathered tropical rainforest soils greatly vary across geochemical regions which must be considered when assessing soil microbial processes in organic matter turnover models.
description: Soil Discussions
Lead-dominated hyperfine interaction impacting the carrier spin dynamics in halide perovskites
Creators: name: Kirstein, Erik
name: Yakovlev, Dmitri R.
name: Glazov, Mikhail M.
name: Evers, Eiko
name: Zhukov, Evgeny A.
name: Belykh, Vasilii V.
name: Kopteva, Nataliia E.
name: Kudlacik, Dennis
name: Nazarenko, Olga
name: Dirin, Dmitry N.
name: Kovalenko, Maksym V.
name: Bayer, Manfred
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: ABX3
subject: Carrier spin coherence
subject: Dynamic nuclear polarization
subject: Hyperfine interaction
subject: Perovskites
subject: Spintronics
subject: 530

description: The outstanding optical quality of lead halide perovskites inspires studies of their potential for the optical control of carrier spins as pursued in other materials. Entering largely uncharted territory, time-resolved pump–probe Kerr rotation is used to explore the coherent spin dynamics of electrons and holes in bulk formamidinium caesium lead iodine bromide (FA0.9Cs0.1PbI2.8Br0.2) and to determine key parameters characterizing interactions of their spins, such as the g-factors and relaxation times. The demonstrated long spin dynamics and narrow g-factor distribution prove the perovskites as promising competitors for conventional semiconductors in spintronics. The dynamic nuclear polarization via spin-oriented holes is realized and the identification of the lead (207Pb) isotope in optically detected nuclear magnetic resonance proves that the hole–nuclei interaction is dominated by the lead ions. A detailed theoretical analysis accounting for the specifics of the lead halide perovskite materials allows the evaluation of the underlying hyperfine interaction constants, both for electrons and holes. Recombination and spin dynamics evidence that at low temperatures, photogenerated electrons and holes are localized at different regions of the perovskite crystal, resulting in their long lifetimes up to 44 μs. The findings form the base for the tailored development of spin-optoelectronic applications for the large family of lead halide perovskites and their nanostructures.
description: Advanced materials;34(1)
title: Resolving Spatial and Temporal Variability in Dissolved Organic Matter Characteristics within Combined Agricultural and Stormwater Conveyances
Creators: name: Mihalevich, Bryce A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: In many urban areas, stormwater runoff can threaten the ecological health of streams and downstream water bodies. Due to the increased impervious nature of urban landscapes, runoff is more “flashy” and as a result, high concentrations of pollutants can be transported in shorter periods of time than in more natural environments. One pollutant of concern is dissolved organic matter (DOM). DOM is important within aquatic ecosystems, but excess amounts can cause depletion in dissolved oxygen concentrations and can negatively affect aquatic organisms. This study investigated changes in DOM quantity and sources within the Northwest Field Canal (NWFC), an urban water conveyance located in Logan, Utah, USA that receives runoff during storm events. DOM was monitored at upstream and downstream locations within the canal and at selected stormwater outfalls within the study reach. During storm events, DOM concentrations were rapidly elevated to values orders of magnitude greater than in baseflow measurements, and were greater at the downstream site than at the upstream site, triggered by contributions from outfalls discharging into the canal. Changes in DOM composition during storm events confirmed that DOM is more terrestrially derived, whereas it is normally more microbially derived during baseflow conditions in the canal. These results provide better understanding of the composition of DOM in the canal system and may provide crucial information for future management of stormwater runoff that can potentially lead to the improvements of water quality in downstream water bodies.
title: Examining the Effects of a Strength-Based Therapeutic Assessment Process on Students’ Perceptions of Teacher-Student Relationship, Hope, and Academic Competence
Creators: name: Duszlak, Teresa A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: One major purpose of school-based assessment approaches is to identify ways to intervene to promote positive school academic, social and well-being outcomes for all students. Although schools traditionally use assessment tools to identify students’ weaknesses and needs, they can also use strength-based assessment tools to guide intervention planning and to validate students’ and teachers’ positive views of student skills and characteristics. Sharing these strengths and how to use them may enhance a student’s perception of the teacher-student relationship, hope and academic competence. Likewise, a second approach to assessment, called Therapeutic Assessment (TA), has yielded similar child outcomes for youth in clinical settings. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a strength-based therapeutic assessment process on teacher-student relationship, hope, and academic competency beliefs of students as compared to students receiving assessment as usual in school settings.
Student participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups: the treatment group, which received a strength-based therapeutic assessment approach, or the control group, which received assessment as usual in school settings. Student-teacher relationship quality, student hope levels, and students’ academic competency beliefs were measured before and after experimental conditions were enacted.
Although no statistically significant differences were found between students in the treatment and control groups on any of the dependent variables (teacher-student relationship quality, student hope levels, and student-reported academic competency beliefs), a medium strength effect size (d = 0.55) was found for the Children’s Hope Scale (CHS). This indicates that the treatment condition may have moderate practical significance in increasing student hope levels. Additionally, a small, but meaningful effect size (d = -0.38) was found for the Competence Beliefs and Subjective Task Values Questionnaire (CBSTVQ) average math variable. This indicates that the treatment condition is moderately associated with students experiencing a decrease in perceived math competence. Future research on this topic should use a larger sample size in order to better determine whether or not the treatment condition has statistically significant effects on the dependent variables of teacher-student relationship quality, student hope levels, and academic competency beliefs.
Additional file 1 of Blood-based DNA methylation and exposure risk scores predict PTSD with high accuracy in military and civilian cohorts
Creators: name: Wani, Agaz H.
name: Katrinli, Seyma
name: Zhao, Xiang
name: Daskalakis, Nikolaos P.
name: Zannas, Anthony S.
name: Aiello, Allison E.
name: Baker, Dewleen G.
name: Boks, Marco P.
name: Brick, Leslie A.
name: Chen, Chia-Yen
name: Dalvie, Shareefa
name: Fortier, Catherine
name: Geuze, Elbert
name: Hayes, Jasmeet P.
name: Kessler, Ronald C.
name: King, Anthony P.
name: Koen, Nastassja
name: Liberzon, Israel
name: Lori, Adriana
name: Luykx, Jurjen J.
name: Maihofer, Adam X.
name: Milberg, William
name: Miller, Mark W.
name: Mufford, Mary S.
name: Nugent, Nicole R.
name: Rauch, Sheila
name: Ressler, Kerry J.
name: Risbrough, Victoria B.
name: Rutten, Bart P. F.
name: Stein, Dan J.
name: Stein, Murray B.
name: Ursano, Robert J.
name: Verfaellie, Mieke H.
name: Vermetten, Eric
name: Vinkers, Christiaan H.
name: Ware, Erin B.
name: Wildman, Derek E.
name: Wolf, Erika J.
name: Nievergelt, Caroline M.
name: Logue, Mark W.
name: Smith, Alicia K.
name: Uddin, Monica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Hybrid Medical Image Classification Using Association Rule Mining with Decision Tree Algorithm
Creators: name: Rajendran, P.
name: Madheswaran, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The main focus of image mining in the proposed method is concerned with the classification of brain tumor in the CT scan brain images. The major steps involved in the system are: pre-processing, feature extraction, association rule mining and hybrid classifier. The pre-processing step has been done using the median filtering process and edge features have been extracted using canny edge detection technique. The two image mining approaches with a hybrid manner have been proposed in this paper. The frequent patterns from the CT scan images are generated by frequent pattern tree (FP-Tree) algorithm that mines the association rules. The decision tree method has been used to classify the medical images for diagnosis. This system enhances the classification process to be more accurate. The hybrid method improves the efficiency of the proposed method than the traditional image mining methods. The experimental result on prediagnosed database of brain images showed 97% sensitivity and 95% accuracy respectively. The physicians can make use of this accurate decision tree classification phase for classifying the brain images into normal, benign and malignant for effective medical diagnosis.
title: Foraging Ecology of Mountain Lions in the Sierra National Forest, California
Creators: name: Nichols, Bradley C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: Studies of predator-prey and predator-predator interactions are needed to provide information for decision-making processes in land management agencies. Mountain lions (Puma concolor) are opportunistic carnivores that prey on a wide variety of species. In the Sierra National Forest, CA, they have not been studied since 1987 and their current interactions with their prey and other predators are unknown. Forest managers in this region are concerned with declines of fishers (Pekania pennanti) and studies have shown intraguild predation to be a leading cause of fisher mortality in this area. Managers are interested in learning more about mountain lion predation patterns with regard to prey preference, but also how lions traverse and use the landscape and how anthropogenic activities may be increasing lion predation risk on fishers.
Using GPS radio-collar technology, we examined mountain lion kill rates and prey composition at 250 kill sites. We found mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) to be their main source of prey (81%) with gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) comprising 13.2% of prey composition. We did not detect any fisher predation during our 2-year study; however, during our study, the Kings River Fisher Project experienced extremely low juvenile fisher survival.
To gain a better understanding of seasonal resource selection by mountain lions, we developed resource selection functions (RSF) while they were moving through the landscape and when killing prey. We developed RSF models for all data across the study area, as well as, for a subset of data encompassing an area where LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data had been collected. Within the LiDAR study area, we digitized unmapped roads and skid trails using a Bare Earth data set. We found mountain lion ‘moving’ locations showed selection for close proximity to streams during summer months and selection for ruggedness and steeper slopes during both summer and winter. With 3 of the 4 RSF models at kill sites showing high risk of predation within close proximity to either digitized roads/skid trails or mapped roads, we recommend managers map all anthropogenically created linear landscape features and consider restoring these linear features to pre-treatment landscape conditions following timber harvest.
title: Understanding How Emergent Bilinguals Bridge Belonging and Languages in Dual Language Immersion Settings
Creators: name: Di Stefano, Marialuisa
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this study was to understand how young children bridge belonging and language in a dual language immersion (DLI) setting. I developed a 10-week ethnographic study in a Spanish-English third-grade class in the Northeast of the U.S. where data was collected in the form of field notes, interviews, and artifacts. Here I explored the way language instruction and student participation influenced the development of the teacher and students’ multiple identities. The findings of this study suggest that emergent bilinguals’ identity development derives from the process built through multiple dialogic classroom instruction and practices. The products of this process emphasize the sense of belonging and language practices as main components of students’ hybrid and fluid identities. This research contributes to the field of identity development and DLI studies in terms of knowledge, policy, and practices. In particular, the findings of this study: (a) increase our knowledge of students’ multiple identities development in DLI settings; (b) impact policy implementation in elementary schools; and (c) reveal classroom strategies and successful instructions in elementary education.
title: Life History Notes on the Walleye, Stizostedion Vitreum Vitreum (Mitchill) in a Turbid Water, Utah Lake, Utah
Creators: name: Arnold, Billy B.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1960

description: Early in 1952, walleye fry were stocked for the first time in Utah Lake. Subsequent plants were made in 1954, 1955 and 1956. Altogether, over two million fry have been stocked. By January, 1958, it was felt sufficient time had elapsed for the species to establish patterns of growth, reproduction, food habits and consequent relationships to the new environment . Thus, on January 1, 1958, a Federal Aid to Fisheries project, number DJ F-4-R-5, job T, was initiated. This project was entitled "investigations of Yellow Pikeperch and Channel Catfish of Utah Lake, Utah County." Although the closing date was December 31, 1958, dat a were collected until October, 1959. Funds were allocated by the Utah Fish and Ga.me Department after December 31, 1958, for the continued study. Collection of data on the walleye was taken entirely from March, 19 58, to April, 1960, and all the work included herein is from that period.
title: Территориальная система образования: административно-маркетинговое управление
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2024

description: В монографии рассматриваются закономерности и принципы управления территориальной системой образования, при котором система должна сохранять устойчивость, но гибко реагировать на изменения внешней среды. Обосновывается необходимость синтеза методов административного регулирования, классического маркетинга и некоммерческого маркетинга в управлении образованием. Предлагается новый, административно-маркетинговый метод управления территориальной системой образования. Описана авторская методика анализа социального влияния образовательного учреждения. Монография предназначена для специалистов в области управления образованием, научных работников и практиков, интересующихся проблемами экономики образования.
A Guide to the Treatment of Pensions on Divorce (Second Edition) 2024
Creators: name: Hitchings, Emma
name: Baxter, Jo
name: Brown, Susan
name: Caine, Tamsin
name: Cobley, Paul
name: Copson, James
name: Dovaston, Karen
name: Fowler, Pauline
name: Francis, Nicholas
name: Galbraith, Jonathan
name: Hawkins, Ian
name: Hay, Fiona
name: Hess, Edward
name: Hoskinson, Sarah
name: Hunter, Rosemary
name: Jehu, Jaimie
name: Kirkland, Beth
name: Lazarus, Grant
name: Morris, Beverley
name: Nobbs, Richard
name: Price, Debora
name: Rainer, Joe
name: Scant, Bryan
name: Sharpe, Ian
name: Tait, Fiona
name: Taylor, Rhys
name: Tyler, Simon
name: Way, Philip
name: Webb, Claire
name: Windle, Paul
name: Woodward, Hilary
name: Lockett, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 480402
subject: Family law

description: The Pensions Advisory Group have developed essential guides to help practitioners and couples navigate the complex issue of pensions on divorce. This has included the 2019 Guide to the Treatment of Pensions on Divorce, and the 2021 Survival Guide to Pensions on Divorce, published by AdviceNow. This updated free practitioner guide offers clear, step-by-step advice to family judges, lawyers and pension experts, to make sure couples receive the settlements they deserve and provide practitioners with the tools they need to deal with pensions on divorce. The Guide has been updated with various changes which have occurred since 2019, including, for example, developments in case law and changes to terminology introduced by the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act.
Unsupervised Law Article Mining based on Deep Pre-Trained Language Representation Models with Application to the Italian Civil Code
Creators: name: Tagarelli, Andrea
name: Simeri, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modeling law search and retrieval as prediction problems has recently emerged as a predominant approach in law intelligence. Focusing on the law article retrieval task, we present a deep learning framework named LamBERTa, which is designed for civil-law codes, and specifically trained on the Italian civil code. To our knowledge, this is the first study proposing an advanced approach to law article prediction for the Italian legal system based on a BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) learning framework, which has recently attracted increased attention among deep learning approaches, showing outstanding effectiveness in several natural language processing and learning tasks. We define LamBERTa models by fine-tuning an Italian pre-trained BERT on the Italian civil code or its portions, for law article retrieval as a classification task. One key aspect of our LamBERTa framework is that we conceived it to address an extreme classification scenario, which is characterized by a high number of classes, the few-shot learning problem, and the lack of test query benchmarks for Italian legal prediction tasks. To solve such issues, we define different methods for the unsupervised labeling of the law articles, which can in principle be applied to any law article code system. We provide insights into the explainability and interpretability of our LamBERTa models, and we present an extensive experimental analysis over query sets of different type, for single-label as well as multi-label evaluation tasks. Empirical evidence has shown the effectiveness of LamBERTa, and also its superiority against widely used deep-learning text classifiers and a few-shot learner conceived for an attribute-aware prediction task.
title: The Use of Branchiostegal Rays to Determine Age of Lake Trout Salvelinus Namaycush Walbaum
Creators: name: Bulkley, Ross Vivian
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1957

description: Any method used in aging fish must fulfill certain requirements to be satisfactory. If the method is inaccurate, naturally little reliance can be placed upon its use. If considerable study of the method and much practice are required before accurate readings can be obtained, the method will not come into widespread us ~. The requirements of an aging method, then are that . it must be accurate and comparatively easy. The scale method for aging lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush Walbaum) unfortunately does not fulfill these requirements.
The growth and assembly of a massive galaxy at z ~ 2
Creators: name: Hatch, N. A.
name: Overzier, R. A.
name: Kurk, J. D.
name: Miley, G. K.
name: Röttgering, H. J. A.
name: Zirm, A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the stellar mass assembly of the Spiderweb Galaxy (MRC 1138-262), a massive z = 2.2 radio galaxy in a protocluster and the probable progenitor of a brightest cluster galaxy. Nearby protocluster galaxies are identified and their properties are determined by fitting stellar population models to their rest-frame ultraviolet to optical spectral energy distributions. We find that within 150 kpc of the radio galaxy the stellar mass is centrally concentrated in the radio galaxy, yet most of the dust-uncorrected, instantaneous star formation occurs in the surrounding low-mass satellite galaxies. We predict that most of the galaxies within 150 kpc of the radio galaxy will merge with the central radio galaxy by z = 0, increasing its stellar mass by up to a factor of ~ 2. However, it will take several hundred Myr for the first mergers to occur, by which time the large star formation rates are likely to have exhausted the gas reservoirs in the satellite galaxies. The tidal radii of the satellite galaxies are small, suggesting that stars and gas are being stripped and deposited at distances of tens of kpc from the central radio galaxy. These stripped stars may become intracluster stars or form an extended stellar halo around the radio galaxy, such as those observed around cD galaxies in cluster cores.
description: 12 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Quantum canonical transformations in Weyl-Wigner-Groenewold-Moyal formalism
Creators: name: Dereli, T.
name: Hakioglu, T.
name: Tegmen, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A conjecture in quantum mechanics states that any quantum canonical transformation can decompose into a sequence of three basic canonical transformations; gauge, point and interchange of coordinates and momenta. It is shown that if one attempts to construct the three basic transformations in star-product form, while gauge and point transformations are immediate in star-exponential form, interchange has no correspondent, but it is possible in an ordinary exponential form. As an alternative approach, it is shown that all three basic transformations can be constructed in the ordinary exponential form and that in some cases this approach provides more useful tools than the star-exponential form in finding the generating function for given canonical transformation or vice versa. It is also shown that transforms of c-number phase space functions under linear-nonlinear canonical transformations and intertwining method can be treated within this argument.
description: 15 pages, no figures. Accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys. A