cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Techno-Economic Assessment of Micro-Algae Production Systems
Creators: name: Hoffman, Justin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Global oil consumption is rising at an unprecedented rate renewing interest in alternative fuels. Micro-algae represents a promising feedstock due to inherent advantages such as high solar energy efficiencies, large lipid fractions, and utilization of various waste streams including industrial flue gas. Current technological challenges have limited the commercial viability of microalgae based biofuel production systems. This study directly evaluates and compares the economic viability of biomass production from two different open cultivation platforms, 1) algal turf scrubbers and 2) open raceway ponds. Modular sub-process models were developed and leveraged for the economic comparison of the systems on the metrics of harvested biomass. The system boundary was expanded to include downstream processing for the production of renewable diesel through thermochemical conversion (HTL) for a comparison of the production platforms on a cost per gallon of fuel. Economic results of the two production pathways show a biomass production cost for the algal turf scrubber of $510 tonne-1 and $8.34 per gallon for fuel. Open raceway pond results give a biomass cost of $673 tonne-1 and a fuel cost of $6.27 per gallon. Sensitivity analysis show productivity and culture stability to be critical factors in the economic viability. Multiple scenarios are presented with baseline results directly compared to literature and highlight the need for robust growth modelling.
New Kochen-Specker Sets in Four Dimensions
Creators: name: Pavicic, Mladen
name: Megill, Norman D.
name: Merlet, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that all possible 388 4-dim Kochen-Specker (KS) (vector) sets (of yes-no questions) with 18 through 23 vectors and 844 sets with 24 vectors all with component values from \{-1,0,1\} can be obtained by stripping vectors off a single system provided by Peres 20 years ago. In addition to them, we have found a number of other KS sets with 22 through 24 vectors. We present the algorithms we used and features we found, such as, for instance, that Peres' 24-24 KS set has altogether six critical KS subsets.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2010.03.019
title: The Slash Between
Creators: name: Fica, Tori Winslow
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: In this Plan B thesis, I wrote a braided essay accompanied by a critical introduction. The essay moves between three different topics: Salt Lake Comic Con; the journal of James Holmes, the shooter in the Aurora theatre massacre; and my father’s incarceration. Through the interaction among these three topics, or strands, I explore the lines we construct as human beings as a way of defining and controlling our world. I investigate such dichotomies as normal/abnormal, inside/outside, good/bad, and fantasy/reality. By the end, the strands reveal the fragility of the lines we draw and the futility of attempting to construct them. As much as we try to sort and categorize, life falls into the area between lines—both normal and abnormal, inside and outside, good and bad, fantasy and reality. Rather than trying to reestablish my own lines and boundaries after the trauma of my father’s incarceration, I conclude that he falls in the space between categories, hovering the border. And ultimately, so do we all.
Chern-Simons action and the Carrollian Cotton tensors
Creators: name: Miskovic, Olivera
name: Olea, Rodrigo
name: Petropoulos, P. Marios
name: Rivera-Betancour, David
name: Siampos, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In three-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, the Cotton tensor arises as the variation of the gravitational Chern-Simons action with respect to the metric. It is Weyl-covariant, symmetric, traceless and covariantly conserved. Performing a reduction of the Cotton tensor with respect to Carrollian diffeomorphisms in a suitable frame, one discloses four sets of Cotton Carrollian relatives, which are conformal and obey Carrollian conservation equations. Each set of Carrollian Cotton tensors is alternatively obtained as the variation of a distinct Carroll-Chern-Simons action with respect to the degenerate metric and the clock form of a strong Carroll structure. The four Carroll-Chern-Simons actions emerge in the Carrollian reduction of the original Chern-Simons ascendant. They inherit its anomalous behaviour under diffeomorphisms and Weyl transformations. The extremums of these Carrollian actions are commented and illustrated.
description: v1: 1+21 pages, Latex, v2: JHEP version
ИНКЛЮЗИВНОЕ ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ
Creators: name: Абдурахманова Зубдохон Асадуллаевна Cтудентка 3-го курса Ташкентского университета прикладных наук факультета педагогики По направлению начальное образование. Преподаватель начальных классов в средней школе №15 г.Ташкента Алмазарского района
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Инклюзивное образование представляет собой важную задачу современной системы образования, ориентированную на создание равных условий для всех обучающихся, независимо от их индивидуальных особенностей и специфических потребностей. В этой статье обсуждаются основы концепции инклюзивного образования, его ключевые принципы, цели и задачи. Также проводится анализ успешных примеров внедрения инклюзивного образования в разных странах.

Ключевые слова: инклюзивное образование, равные возможности, специфические потребности, принципы, образовательные учреждения
Comparison of mode estimation methods and application in molecular clock analysis
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Ascomycota
Basidiomycota
Biological Clocks
Bryophyta
Chlorophyta
Computational Biology
Computer Simulation
Evolution, Molecular
Models, Statistical
Normal Distribution
Plants

description: Background: Distributions of time estimates in molecular clock studies are sometimes skewed or contain outliers. In those cases, the mode is a better estimator of the overall time of divergence than the mean or median. However, different methods are available for estimating the mode. We compared these methods in simulations to determine their strengths and weaknesses and further assessed their performance when applied to real data sets from a molecular clock study. Results: We found that the half-range mode and robust parametric mode methods have a lower bias than other mode methods under a diversity of conditions. However, the half-range mode suffers from a relatively high variance and the robust parametric mode is more susceptible to bias by outliers. We determined that bootstrapping reduces the variance of both mode estimators. Application of the different methods to real data sets yielded results that were concordant with the simulations. Conclusion: Because the half-range mode is a simple and fast method, and produced less bias overall in our simulations, we recommend the bootstrapped version of it as a general-purpose mode estimator and suggest a bootstrap method for obtaining the standard error and 95% confidence interval of the mode. © 2003 Hedges and Shah; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
title: The Eyes Have It: Eye Tracking Data Visualizations of Viewing Patterns of Statistical Graphics
Creators: name: Fawcett, Trent
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: As statistical graphics continue to expand to manage an ever growing amount of diverse data, a need to evaluate the effectiveness of graphics, both basic and complex, has arisen. Technological advancements have given a means to evaluate the effectiveness of graphs and graphical components through eye tracking systems. Eye tracking systems are likewise in need of software that will enable easy evaluation and exploration of data. The focus of this Master's Report is to evaluate the dual solution. An exploration of an eye tracker setup is made, with extensive consideration of testing statistical graphics providing a basis for continued research in these areas. Also, R code is developed to provide researchers with further tools for the management and display techniques for data from eye tracking systems.
Quasi-Hermitian quantum mechanics and a new class of user-friendly matrix Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Lechtenfeld, Olaf
name: Znojil, Miloslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the conventional Schrödinger's formulation of quantum mechanics the unitary evolution of a state $ψ$ is controlled, in Hilbert space ${\cal L}$, by a Hamiltonian $\mathfrak{h}$ which must be self-adjoint. In the recent, ``quasi-Hermitian'' reformulation of the theory one replaces $\mathfrak{h}$ by its isospectral but non-Hermitian avatar $H = Ω^{-1}\mathfrak{h}Ω$ with $Ω^\daggerΩ= Θ\neq I$. Although acting in another, manifestly unphysical Hilbert space ${\cal H}$, the amended Hamiltonian $H \neq H^\dagger$ can be perceived as self-adjoint with respect to the amended inner-product metric $Θ$. In our paper motivated by a generic technical ``user-unfriendliness'' of the non-Hermiticity of $H$ we introduce and describe a specific new family of Hamiltonians $H$ for which the metrics $Θ$ become available in closed form.
description: 12 pp
A Sidelink-Aided Approach for Secure Multicast Service Delivery: from Human-Oriented Multimedia Traffic to Machine Type Communications
Creators: name: Pizzi, S.
name: Suraci, C.
name: Iera, A.
name: Molinaro, A.
name: Araniti, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To date, group-oriented communications have been mainly exploited for delivering multimedia services in human-oriented communications while, in future fifth generation (5G) cellular networks, objects will be the main target. Internet of Things (IoT) will undoubtedly play a key role in 5G networks, wherein massive machine-type communications (mMTC) feature a use case as crucial as challenging since cellular IoT connections are predicted to grow heavily in the next future. To boost capacity and energy efficiency, the 5G network can leverage device-to-device (D2D) communications which are recognized as an effective offloading technique. This is achieved thanks to the fact that, in legacy D2D communications, data are directly sent from one device to another, avoiding the crossing of the network. Obviously, the distributed nature of such a communication paradigm and the inherent broadcast nature of the wireless channel make it necessary to think how to secure the so called "sidelink" transmissions. This work proposes a protocol for the efficient and reliable management of multicast services in a 5G-oriented IoT scenario, in which security is a crucial requirement to be met. The proposed protocol is tailored to Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and makes use of D2D communications with the aim of improving network efficiency and optimizing network resource utilization. In addition, cyber security and social trustworthiness mechanisms are exploited to secure D2D communications.
The Extragalactic Distance Scale without Cepheids
Creators: name: Mould, Jeremy
name: Sakai, Shoko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Distances of galaxies in the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project are based on the Cepheid period-luminosity relation. An alternative basis is the tip of the red giant branch. Using archival HST data, we calibrate the infrared Tully-Fisher relation using 14 galaxies with tip of the red giant branch measurements. Compared with the Key Project, a higher value of the Hubble Constant by 10% +/- 7% is inferred. Within the errors the two distance scales are therefore consistent. We describe the additional data required for a conclusive tip of the red giant branch measurement of H_0.
description: Accepted by ApJ Letters
title: Sufficient for Herself: Women & Silence in Wilkie Collins's Novels
Creators: name: Branfield, Shannon
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Wilkie Collins is a major sensation author of the Victorian period, known for introducing the form of the novel to detective fiction. His novels contain biting social critique and dynamic, multidimensional characters, the majority of whom are women, making his novels rich material for an examination of gender norms, power dynamics, and difference in Victorian society. His major works include The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868), the two novels on which I focus. Previous critics have focused on the anxious male narrators in these novels and their attempts to establish positions of authority by taking control of the narrative. A necessary result of this seizure is the oppressive silencing of the women of the text, as their voices are ignored or rewritten. While it is certainly true that women often have trouble being heard within a patriarchal society that dismisses their experiences and perspectives, the uses of silence within Wilkie Collins’s novels are more complex. In these novels, women do not necessarily have silence imposed upon them; they often choose silence as a means of exerting control over their lives. In contrast to elusive narrative control, elective silence enables women to establish their own distinct power within, but separate from, the patriarchal system. They can then use this power to protect those who are excluded from the patriarchy and provide justice that the legal system cannot.
Quantum Mechanics from Periodic Dynamics: the bosonic case
Creators: name: Dolce, Donatello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Enforcing the periodicity hypothesis of the "old" formulation of Quantum Mechanics we show the possibility for a new scenario where Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are unified in a Deterministic Field Theory [arXiv:0903.3680]. A novel interpretation of the AdS/CFT conjecture is discussed.
description: 6 pages. Talk given at QTRF5, Vaxjo, Sweden. Updated references
title: The Art of Subjectivity: Understanding Unreliable Narration in Fiction
Creators: name: Dyer, Terysa
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: In this thesis, I seek to use what I learn from the theory of, craft guides to, and examples of unreliable narration in fiction to write two original short stories that are narrated unreliably. In the first section of the critical introduction to the stories, I discuss theories of unreliable narration, tracing the term from its 1961 origin through the various theoretical approaches critics have taken to its functions in fiction and its significance in stories. In the second section of my introduction, I sample the common ways craft guides advise writers to create unreliable narration. In the third section, I analyze examples of unreliable narration in fiction, focusing primarily on unreliability in short stories, since that is the form of the original writing I have done for this project. The fourth and final section of my critical introduction is a reflection on the process of writing my own unreliably narrated stories, included after the introduction.
The two stories that I have written for this thesis project respond to the theories and the craft advice I explore in my critical introduction. The unreliable narration in my first story, “Like it’s Dyed That Way,” closely follows a man with a thought disorder as he tries to remember what happened to a missing child who was in his care. My second story, “What I’m Left With,” is narrated by an elderly woman whose unreliability results equally from the desperate, sometimes dubitable messages she leaves to get her family to call her and from the growing threat of an infirm memory that might leave her with no reliable knowledge even of her own life. My goal in writing these stories is to use the concepts I have learned from reading theory, craft guides, and examples of unreliable narration in fiction, emphasizing the effects that unreliability can have on stories.
Tromino Tiling Deficient Cubes of Any Side Length
Creators: name: Starr, Norton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05B45, 52C22

description: We show that three dimensional cubes of any size can be tiled with trominoes and, when necessary, one or two singletons in any positions. Cubes of side length a multiple of three can always be tiled with trominoes (known), cubes of side length congruent to 1 mod 3 can always be tiled with an arbitrary single cube and trominoes, and cubes of side length congruent to 2 mod 3 can always be tiled with two single cubes in arbitrary locations and trominoes.
description: 15 pages, 27 figures
Phygadeuon exiguus GRAVENHORST 1829
Creators: name: Riedel
name: Pénigot
name: Schwarz
name: Diller
name: Johansson
name: Japoshvili, G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Phygadeuon
Phygadeuon exiguus

description: Phygadeuon exiguus GRAVENHORST, 1829, det. Schwarz
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Trap4: 1♀ 10-24.viii.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Western Palaearctic, new record for Georgia and the Caucasus region.
description: Published as part of Riedel, Pénigot, Schwarz, Diller, Johansson & Japoshvili, G., 2023, Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) of the Kintrishi National Park, Sakartvelo (Georgia), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 61-153 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 55 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10415120
Additional file 1 of Haemostatic and thrombo-embolic complications in pregnant women with COVID-19: a systematic review and critical analysis
Creators: name: Servante, Juliette
name: Swallow, Gill
name: Thornton, Jim G.
name: Myers, Bethan
name: Munireddy, Sandhya
name: Malinowski, A. Kinga
name: Othman, Maha
name: Li, Wentao
name: O’Donoghue, Keelin
name: Walker, Kate F.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Magnetic Frustration in a Zeolite
Creators: name: Ni, Danrui
name: Hu, Zhiwei
name: Cheng, Guangming
name: Gui, Xin
name: Yu, Wenzhu
name: Jia, Chunjiang
name: Wang, Xiao
name: Herrero-Martín, Javier
name: Yao, Nan
name: Tjeng, Liu Hao
name: Cava, Robert J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Zeolites are so well known in real world applications and after decades of scientific study that they hardly need any intro-duction: their importance in chemistry cannot be overemphasized. Here we add to the remarkable properties that they dis-play by reporting our discovery that the simplest zeolite, sodalite, when doped with Cr3+ in the \b{eta}-cage, is a frustrated magnet. Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy and magnetic measurements reveal that the Cr present is Cr(III). Cr(III), with its isotropic 3d3 valence electron configuration, is well-known as the basis for many geometrically frustrated magnets, but it is especially surprising that a material like the Ca8Al12Cr2O29 zeolite is a frustrated magnet. This finding illustrates the value of exploring the properties of even well-known materials families.
Fortress: Securing IoT Peripherals with Trusted Execution Environments
Creators: name: Yuhala, Peterson
name: Ménétrey, Jämes
name: Felber, Pascal
name: Pasin, Marcelo
name: Schiavoni, Valerio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the increasing popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, securing sensitive user data has emerged as a major challenge. These devices often collect confidential information, such as audio and visual data, through peripheral inputs like microphones and cameras. Such sensitive information is then exposed to potential threats, either from malicious software with high-level access rights or transmitted (sometimes inadvertently) to untrusted cloud services. In this paper, we propose a generic design to enhance the privacy in IoT-based systems by isolating peripheral I/O memory regions in a secure kernel space of a trusted execution environment (TEE). Only a minimal set of peripheral driver code, resident within the secure kernel, can access this protected memory area.
 This design effectively restricts any unauthorised access by system software, including the operating system and hypervisor. The sensitive peripheral data is then securely transferred to a user-space TEE, where obfuscation mechanisms can be applied before it is relayed to third parties, e.g., the cloud. To validate our architectural approach, we provide a proof-of-concept implementation of our design by securing an audio peripheral based on inter-IC sound (I2S), a serial bus to interconnect audio devices. The experimental results show that our design offers a robust security solution with an acceptable computational overhead.
description: 8 pages
Development of a GPU-based Monte Carlo dose calculation code for coupled electron-photon transport
Creators: name: Jia, Xun
name: Gu, Xuejun
name: Sempau, Josep
name: Choi, Dongju
name: Majumdar, Amitava
name: Jiang, Steve B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monte Carlo simulation is the most accurate method for absorbed dose calculations in radiotherapy. Its efficiency still requires improvement for routine clinical applications, especially for online adaptive radiotherapy. In this paper, we report our recent development on a GPU-based Monte Carlo dose calculation code for coupled electron-photon transport. We have implemented the Dose Planning Method (DPM) Monte Carlo dose calculation package (Sempau et al, Phys. Med. Biol., 45(2000)2263-2291) on GPU architecture under CUDA platform. The implementation has been tested with respect to the original sequential DPM code on CPU in phantoms with water-lung-water or water-bone-water slab geometry. A 20 MeV mono-energetic electron point source or a 6 MV photon point source is used in our validation. The results demonstrate adequate accuracy of our GPU implementation for both electron and photon beams in radiotherapy energy range. Speed up factors of about 5.0 ~ 6.6 times have been observed, using an NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU card against a 2.27GHz Intel Xeon CPU processor.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, and 1 table. Paper revised. Figures updated
Additional file 15: of Comparative analysis of plant MKK gene family reveals novel expansion mechanism of the members and sheds new light on functional conservation
Creators: name: Jiang, Min
name: Chu, Zhaoqing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Fig. S8. Maximum Likelihood phylogenetic trees of plant group B MAPKKs. (PDF 1039 kb)
3D seismic survey design by maximizing the spectral gap
Creators: name: Zhang, Yijun
name: Yin, Ziyi
name: López, Oscar
name: Siahkoohi, Ali
name: Louboutin, Mathias
name: Herrmann, Felix J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The massive cost of 3D acquisition calls for methods to reduce the number of receivers by designing optimal receiver sampling masks. Recent studies on 2D seismic showed that maximizing the spectral gap of the subsampling mask leads to better wavefield reconstruction results. We enrich the current study by proposing a simulation-free method to generate optimal 3D acquisition by maximizing the spectral gap of the subsampling mask via a simulated annealing algorithm. Numerical experiments confirm improvement of the proposed method over receiver sampling locations obtained by jittered sampling.
Unravelling Coordination and Cooperation in International Tax Law.pdf
Creators: name: Kumar, Ajay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 180125 Taxation Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The literature on international tax and 1aw is replete with references to the use of the word coordination between nations in the division of international taxes. However this literature is plentiful with two other cognate words also -harmonization’ and ‘cooperation’. But by reading this literature one cannot easily understand the meaning of these terms. Especially in the legal literature on international taxation these words are used interchangeably, pointing to the understanding exhibited by those with a legal training. In fact, in the literature on Game theory, these words are used to convey specific meanings about interactions. In coordination games since salience (Nash Equilibrium) could be with differing payoffs and this could be the result of framing effects. Therefore when one looks at these words, the history of the rules for tax division and efforts to change them, it becomes clear that lawyers need to be more cautious when using these words to describe the international tax interactions.
Enhancement of Superconducting Properties of Polycrystalline CaKFe4As4 by High-Pressure Growth
Creators: name: Manasa, Manasa
name: Azam, Mohammad
name: Zajarniuk, Tatiana
name: Diduszko, Ryszard
name: Cetner, Tomasz
name: Morawski, Andrzej
name: Wisniewski, Andrzej
name: Singh, Shiv J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-pressure growth is a unique method to improve the sample quality and size. Here, we have used the high gas pressure and high-temperature synthesis (HP-HTS) method to grow CaKFe4As4 (1144) bulks and investigated their superconducting properties using structural, microstructural, transport, and magnetic studies. The microstructural analysis demonstrates that 1144 samples prepared by HP-HTS have improved the sample density and grain connectivity. The transition temperature (Tconset) of 1144 bulks prepared by HP-HTS is increased up to 35.2 K with a transition width (ΔT) of 1 K, which is remarkably comparable to the reported 1144 single crystal. Additionally, the critical current density (Jc) is enhanced by almost one order of magnitude compared with the parent compound prepared by the conventional synthesis process at ambient pressure (CSP), which could be attributed to the improved sample density and effective pinning centers. Our study demonstrates that the sample quality and superconducting properties of various iron-based superconductors can be enhanced by applying the HP-HTS approach, and further research is demanded in this direction.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures
title: Object-Oriented Programming: A Method for Pricing Options
Creators: name: Higham, Leonard Stewart
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: In the world of finance, it’s becoming necessary to obtain computer programming knowledge and experience, a marketable skill that prepares one conduct quantitative analysis. The objective of this thesis is to utilize concepts in finance and computer science together to form a pricing library for financial derivatives, thus, develop a strong skillset in a specific area of financial computational methods. Through implementation of object-oriented programming and specific design patterns in Python, I develop a pricing engine for many types of options, from plain vanilla to unique and complex options, with the focus on the ability to reuse and extend various pieces of code without ruining the interface for the end user. The modules implemented range from analytical Black Scholes models to binomial option trees to help improve computational speed, power, and accuracy. I also utilize a beneficial platform called Github to facilitate the storage and application of the pricing engines and related files. The results of this project will show a dynamic, yet simple, interface for the end-user, and they will show tangible benefits of object oriented programming.
title: MeCP2 heterochromatin organization is modulated by arginine methylation and serine phosphorylation
Creators: name: Schmidt, Annika
name: Frei, Jana
name: Poetsch, Ansgar
name: Chittka, Alexandra
name: Zhang, Hui
name: Aßmann, Chris
name: Lehmkuhl, Anne
name: Bauer, Uta-Maria
name: Nuber, Ulrike A.
name: Cardoso, M. Cristina
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2022

description: Rett syndrome is a human intellectual disability disorder that is associated with mutations in the X-linked MECP2 gene. The epigenetic reader MeCP2 binds to methylated cytosines on the DNA and regulates chromatin organization. We have shown previously that MECP2 Rett syndrome missense mutations are impaired in chromatin binding and heterochromatin reorganization. Here, we performed a proteomics analysis of post-translational modifications of MeCP2 isolated from adult mouse brain. We show that MeCP2 carries various post-translational modifications, among them phosphorylation on S80 and S421, which lead to minor changes in either heterochromatin binding kinetics or clustering. We found that MeCP2 is (di)methylated on several arginines and that this modification alters heterochromatin organization. Interestingly, we identified the Rett syndrome mutation site R106 as a dimethylation site. In addition, co-expression of protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMT)1 and PRMT6 lead to a decrease of heterochromatin clustering. Altogether, we identified and validated novel modifications of MeCP2 in the brain and show that these can modulate its ability to bind as well as reorganize heterochromatin, which may play a role in the pathology of Rett syndrome.
Universality of slow decorrelation in KPZ growth
Creators: name: Corwin, Ivan
name: Ferrari, P. L.
name: Peche, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There has been much success in describing the limiting spatial fluctuations of growth models in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. A proper rescaling of time should introduce a non-trivial temporal dimension to these limiting fluctuations. In one-dimension, the KPZ class has the dynamical scaling exponent $z=3/2$, that means one should find a universal space-time limiting process under the scaling of time as $t\,T$, space like $t^{2/3} X$ and fluctuations like $t^{1/3}$ as $t\to\infty$. In this paper we provide evidence for this belief. We prove that under certain hypotheses, growth models display temporal slow decorrelation. That is to say that in the scalings above, the limiting spatial process for times $t\, T$ and $t\, T+t^ν$ are identical, for any $ν<1$. The hypotheses are known to be satisfied for certain last passage percolation models, the polynuclear growth model, and the totally / partially asymmetric simple exclusion process. Using slow decorrelation we may extend known fluctuation limit results to space-time regions where correlation functions are unknown. The approach we develop requires the minimal expected hypotheses for slow decorrelation to hold and provides a simple and intuitive proof which applied to a wide variety of models.
description: Exposition improved, typos corrected
A novel approach for MBSFN Area Formation aided by D2D Communications for eMBB Service Delivery in 5G NR Systems
Creators: name: Rinaldi, Federica
name: Pizzi, Sara
name: Orsino, Antonino
name: Iera, Antonio
name: Molinaro, Antonella
name: Araniti, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Forthcoming 5G New Radio (NR) systems will be asked to handle a huge number of devices accessing or delivering "resource-hungry" and high-quality services. In view of this, the new 5G Radio Access Technology (RAT) aims to support, in next releases, Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) to enable the simultaneous delivery of the same content to a set of users covered by different cells. According to MBSFN, all cells belonging to the same MBSFN Area are synchronized in time and the MBSFN transmission occurs over the same radio resources. In such a way, the same content flow is delivered by several cells to all the receivers in the MBSFN Area. A further means to enhance the network coverage and provide high data rate and low latency in future 5G-enabled MBSFN networks is Device-to-Device (D2D) connectivity. Along these lines, in this paper we propose a D2D-aided MBSFN Area Formation (D2D-MAF) algorithm to dynamically create MBSFN Areas with the aim to improve the system aggregate data rate while satisfying all user requests. The proposed D2D-MAF foresees that users could receive the service through either MBSFN, or D2D, or unicast transmissions. Performance evaluation results, carried out under a wide range of conditions, testify to the high effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
BUXORO HUKMDORI AMIR MUZAFFARNING ADABIY MAJLISLARI (Ahmad Donishning "Risola yoxud Mang'itlar xonadoni saltanatining qisqacha tarixi" kitobi ma'lumotlari asosida)
Creators: name: Sherxon QORAYEV, Qarshi shahridagi Xalqaro innovatsion universiteti dotsenti, filologiya fanlari bo'yicha falsafa doktori(PhD).
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Buxoro hukmdori amir Muzaffar she’riyatni sevgan, adabiyotni qadrlagan, hayoti davomida doimo ziyoli, ilm – fan namoyandalari va nazm ahlini atrofiga to‘plagan. Buxoro va Karmanadagi saroy va chorbog‘larida adabiy bazmlar tashkil etgan. Mushoiralar va she’riy bahslar uyushtirgan. Ahmad Donish amirning adabiy bazmlarini “ashula va raqs” yig‘inlari deb atagan.[1] Unga ko‘ra, amir butunlay ichkilik, bazmu jamshid, buzuqlik va shahvoniy nafsga berilib ketgan.[2] Amir Muzaffar ayshu ishrat va bazmu jamshid bilan mashg‘ul bo‘lgan: “Kech kirgach bir jamoa erkak va ayol raqqosalar, amir xizmatidagi erkagu ayollar o‘rda sahniga raqs va ashula bilan kirib kelardi. Shahar aholisi eshitsin deb qo‘shiq naqoratiga baland ovoz bilan “Hazrati oliylari salomat bo‘lsinlar” deb kuylardilar. Bu majlisning boshlanishi xufton namoziga azon aytilish vaqtiga to‘g‘ri kelardi”.[3] Amir Muzaffar davrida Ahmad Donish iborasi bilan aytganda, saroyga musiqachiyu ashulachi, g‘azalxonu ertak aytuvchi, shuningdek raqqoslar va masxarabozlar olib kelingan:[4] «Ushbu qalang‘i – qasang‘ilar suhbatlar, majlislarda, dasturxon atrofida o‘tirishgan».[5]

[1]Ahmad Donish. Risola yoxud mang‘itlar xonadoni saltanatining qisqacha tarixi. Tarjima, izohlar va kirish so‘zi muallifi Q.Yo‘ldoshev. T.: O‘zbekiston milliy ensiklopediyasi DIN, 2014.-B.124.

[2] Ko‘rsatilgan asar.-B.81.

[3] Ahmad Donish. Risola yoxud mang‘itlar xonadoni saltanatining qisqacha tarixi. Tarjima, izohlar va kirish so‘zi muallifi Q.Yo‘ldoshev. T.: O‘zbekiston milliy ensiklopediyasi DIN, 2014.-B.87.

[4] Ko‘rsatilgan asar.-B.77.

[5] Ko‘rsatilgan asar.-B.78.
title: Pyrosynthesis
Creators: name: Fiske, Matthew Allen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Daily life plays an important role in what I make and why. The needs of the kitchen and home are for me, like many potters, a useful starting point for conceiving specific utilitarian forms. I make a lot of cups, bottles, and drinking vessels. Lately I’ve been interested in the idea of designing and making these vessels in sets. For me, there’s nothing better than gathering with a group of friends, eating, drinking, and using handmade ceramics. I’m motivated to make objects that enhance these experiences and enliven domestic spaces.
title: The Role of Man's Best Friend: Assessing the Cultural Liminality of the Canis Lupus Familiars and Its Influence on Human Societies
Creators: name: D'Amico, Julianne L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: This project combines history and folklore to illuminate the concept of liminality and the human-dog relationship as it has evolved since the species domestication. The lore highlights the permanent liminality of the dog, the use of the species as remedies in Folk Medicine, and the dog's shift from secondary participant to active agent in contemporary medical fields. The informant data and the context of the lore provide the basis for a historical analysis on how the human-dog relationship has evolved, from the past to the present, and inform how this relationship will progress into the future. Furthermore, the lore supports the argument that the culturalliminality of the dog enabled the species to adopt the role of therapy animal and actively initiate and continue to engage in the healing process.
title: Single Stock Futures and Stock Options: Complement or Substitutes
Creators: name: Strong, Cuyler
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Are single stock futures and stock options complement or substitute goods? In this study, I test this research question by examining option trading activity (option volume and open interest) surrounding an arguably exogenous introduction of single stock futures. This event study provides a natural experiment that allows us to make causal inferences about how the presence of single stock futures affects the options market. While it is commonly thought that single stock futures and options are substitute goods, my evidence instead suggests that they are complements. While I observe very little change in option volume surrounding the introduction of single stock futures, I find that total open interest increases by 9%, on average, after the introduction of single stock futures. The most plausible explanation is that the introduction of single stock futures makes it easier to hedge the risk of writing on option.
The Impact of Temporal Light Modulation on Psychological Responses Assessed by the Stroboscopic Visibility Measure
Creators: name: Zhao, Xiaojie
name: Li, Mengxin
name: Hou, Dandan
name: Lin, Yandan
name: Xu, Wei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: With the advent of LED lighting systems, short-term psychological responses to temporal light modulation (TLM) in offices have attracted considerable research attention in recent years. The stroboscopic visibility measure (SVM) is a leading metric for predicting the visibility of stroboscopic effects, one of visual perception effects of  TLM. However, research is lacking to link TLM with potential psychological responses using the SVM metric. In this study, 10 participants joined in the experiments under 6 SVM levels (SVM: ~0.060; ~0.500; ~1.000; ~1.500; ~2.500; ~3.868) finishing tasks of subjective general rating, moving objects observation, sustained attention visual task, visual fatigue scale and PANAS (Positive and Negative Affect Scales). This study found that the SVM metric significantly evaluated the impact of TLM on psychological responses related to lighting ambiance and the moving objects observation. As expected, the stroboscopic visibility and motion dispersion scores increased with increasing SVM levels in the observation of rotating disc, and detectable stroboscopic effects were found to have negative effects on visual and work performances. However, the results of sustained attention visual task indicated that the SVM metric performed poorly in predicting the effects of TLM related to the eye saccades. High SVM levels were associated with negative experiences of lighting coziness, cognition performance and stroboscopic perception during moving objects observation. The scores were close to the expected at ~ 1.000 but exhibited a non-linearly increase with higher SVM levels. This study contributes valuable data to the ongoing discussions on setting limits for allowable modulation in practical lighting applications.
Superconductivity in correlated carbon nanotubes under pressure: A Bogoliubov-de Gennes study
Creators: name: López, Germán E.
name: Wang, Chumin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In contrast to most microscopic theories of superconductivity based on the reciprocal space, the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) formalism provides a real-space alternative for addressing inhomogeneous systems. In this article, we study the superconducting states in correlated single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with curvature and spin-orbit corrections, as well as the inter-tube interaction through a connecting molecule using an attractive Hubbard model. The results reveal a close relationship between the on-site superconducting gap and the single-electron local density of states. For the limiting case of independent large-diameter nanotubes, the BdG equations can be reduced to the standard Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer one with analytical solutions. Moreover, an optimal separation between nanotubes is found, which leads to a maximal superconducting critical temperature. This finding has a remarkable accordance with the experimental data obtained from Buckypapers built of boron doped SWNTs under external pressure.
description: Accepted in Physica B: Condensed Matter
title: Effectiveness of Traditional Land-Based Therapy vs Aquatic-Based Therapy after ACL Reconstruction
Creators: name: Boozer, Philip M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: The most common knee injury is a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) which occurs to 1 in 3,000 people annually, making an ACL reconstruction (ACLR) surgery the sixth most common orthopedic procedure (Cohen, Yucha, Ciccotti, Goldstein, Ciccotti, & Ciccotti, 2009 Edgar, Zimmer, Kakar, Jones, Schepsis, 2008 Zamarioli., Pezolato, Mieli, Shimano. 2008). Over the past 20 years, there has been considerable growing attention to rehabilitation programs for post ACL reconstruction, but still no optimal rehabilitation program has been found. (Momberg, Louw, Crous. 2008 Zamarioli, Pezolato, Mieli, Shimano. 2008 Tovin, Wolf, Greenfield, Crouse, Woodfin. 1994). Though there have been improvements to rehabilitation protocols, there are still concepts that have limited research. A lack of comparison of traditional land-based therapy vs aquatic-based therapy is one of the main areas that is lagging in research. (Momberg, Louw, Crous 2008 Tovin, Wolf, Greenfield, Crouse, Woodfin. 1994) There should be a further evaluation of the benefits between traditional land-based therapy vs aquatic-based therapy after ACLR.
title: Minimum Velocities for the Suspension of Fine Sediment in the Green River Canal
Creators: name: Stoeber, Michael W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: This paper focuses on a canal in the Gunnison Valley, located in central Utah, which diverts water from the sediment-laden Green River. Grain size analyses were performed on sediment samples taken from the canal. These grain size analyses were used to determine the grain size distribution of the fine sediment, classify the fine sediment, and compare the fine sediment to a sediment deposit in the Green River. The critical incipient velocity for the D50 and D100 and the critical grain entrainment velocity corresponding to the D95 were determined through flume experimentation. Two methods, developed by prior researchers, were chosen by the author to calculate the critical incipient velocity for the D50 and D100 of the fine sediment in the Green River Canal. The calculated critical incipient velocity for the D50 and D100 was compared to the critical incipient velocity for the D50 and D100 as determined from flume experimentation. Using flume data and one of the previously mentioned methods, the critical grain entrainment velocity was calculated and compared to the critical grain entrainment velocity as determined by flume experimentation. This study concluded that a minimum required average velocity of 1.14 feet per second will retain in suspension the fine sediment sampled from the Green River Canal. This minimum average critical grain entrainment velocity corresponds to the D95 of the fine sediment deposited in the Green River Canal. However, it is recommended that further research be conducted to determine if critical incipient velocity formulae accurately estimates the critical grain entrainment velocity. If so, the further research should address the grain diameter that should be used in the calculations.
title: Fine Mapping of a Major-Effect QTL Controlling Rhizomatous Growth in Perennial Wildrye Hyrbrids
Creators: name: Clements, Jenny L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis is the science of discovering genes or chromosome regions that influence the expression of quantitative traits. Statistical methods for doing this have evolved from single marker analysis of variance (ANOVA) to more complex approaches such as interval mapping and multiple QTL mapping. The goal of this project was to refine a previously identified QTL chromosome region responsible for rhizome growth in grass hybrids developed from two species of the Triticeae tribe by categorically progeny testing seven recombinant genotypes containing cross overs in a major-effect rhizome QTL. In addition, the analysis addressed physical concerns with the field plot, assessing statistical power, multiple comparison testing and linkage segregation assessment.
Critical properties of Sudden Quench Dynamics in the anisotropic XY Model
Creators: name: Guo, Hongli
name: Liu, Zhao
name: Fan, Heng
name: Chen, Shu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the zero temperature quantum dynamical critical behavior of the anisotropic XY chain under a sudden quench in a transverse field. We demonstrate theoretically that both quench magnetic susceptibility and two-particle quench correlation can be used to describe the dynamical quantum phase transition (QPT) properties. Either the quench magnetic susceptibility or the derivative of correlation functions as a function of initial magnetic field $a$ exhibits a divergence at the critical points when final magnetic field $b$ is fixed. A special case that final magnetic field $b$ is just at the critical point is discussed separately. Some of the critical exponents of the dynamical QPT are obtained and the long-range correlation of the quench system is analyzed. We also compare our result with that of the static QPT.
description: published on EPJB