cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect of two dosage levels of doramectin on health, growth performance and carcass characteristics of finishing beef steers
Creators: name: Rogers, Karen C.
name: DuBois, William R.
name: Portillo, Thomas A.
name: Miles, Delbert G.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2004

description: A total of 3446 crossbred Mexican-origin steers (average 625 lbs/284 kg) were utilized to determine the effect of administering doramectin at label-dose (full-dose, 200 mcg/kg body weight; 1 ml/110 lbs) vs. half-label dose (half-dose, 100 mcg/kg body weight; 1 ml/220 lbs) on health, growth performance and carcass characteristics of finishing beef steers. Health parameters, growth performance and carcass quality grade did not differ between treatments. However, there was a significant difference in the proportion of carcasses classified as USDA yield grades (YG) 2, 3 and 4. A higher proportion of carcasses in the full-dose treatment were scored YG 2 (P<0.0001), and a higher proportion of carcasses in the half-dose treatment were scored YG 3 (P=0.0014) and YG 4 (P=0.0112), suggesting steers treated with the full-dose treatment were leaner. These results indicate that there is no economic advantage to using the full dose (200 mcg/kg body weight) of doramectin in beef cattle.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 38, No. 2 (2004 June)
Understanding the Marginal Utilities of Commute Time, Work Time, Travel Cost, and Income Using Stated Preferences Surveys
Creators: name: Poudel, Niranjan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: In transportation economics, measuring the willingness to pay (WTP) for a reduction in travel time–the monetary value of travel time savings (VTTS) –plays an important role in understanding the social benefits of various transportation projects. These monetary appraisals (WTP, VTTS) are better understood either through expensive daily activity-travel-expenditure diaries or using discrete choice experiments (DCEs). This study made use of data collected from two different stated preference surveys – a type of DCEs - (one from Portland, Oregon, US, and one from all over the US) to understand the marginal utilities of work, commute, income, and travel cost. The marginal utility of an activity or good is defined as the satisfaction/utility gained from a unit change in that activity or good. The findings from our results suggest that, on average, people have negative marginal utilities for both working and commuting. Also, on average, the marginal disutility of commute time was greater than the marginal disutility of work time. For walk and bicycle commuters, auto passengers, and people with flexible work hours, the marginal disutility of commute time was relatively lower compared to other modes and inflexible work hours. Based on the findings, we suggest changes to the labor market, improving safety and comfortability for active mode users rather than much focus on reducing travel time for such users, and opportunities for future studies in understanding the components of VTTS.
Solution Monolayer Epitaxy for Tunable Atomically Sharp Oxide Interfaces
Creators: name: Ron, A.
name: Hevroni, A.
name: Maniv, E.
name: Mograbi, M.
name: Jin, L.
name: Jia, C. -L.
name: Urban, K. W.
name: Markovich, G.
name: Dagan, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Epitaxial growth of atomically-sharp interfaces serves as one of the main building blocks of nanofabrication. Such interfaces are crucial for the operation of various devices including transistors, photo-voltaic cells, and memory components. In order to avoid charge traps that may hamper the operation of such devices, it is critical for the layers to be atomically-sharp. Fabrication of atomically sharp interfaces normally requires ultra-high vacuum techniques and high substrate temperatures. We present here a new self-limiting wet chemical process for deposition of epitaxial layers from alkoxide precursors. This method is fast, cheap, and yields perfect interfaces as we validate by various analysis techniques. It allows the design of heterostructures with half-unit cell resolution. We demonstrate our method by designing hole-type oxide interfaces SrTiO3/BaO/LaAlO3. We show that transport through this interface exhibits properties of mixed electron-hole contributions with hole mobility exceeding that of electrons. Our method and results are an important step forward towards a controllable design of a p-type oxide interface.
description: 5 figures 5 pages
Community and Cultural Reentry: Exploring Reverse Culture Shock Among Returning Missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Creators: name: Pond, Sydney
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Considerable research asserts that individuals who have immersive experiences in foreign cultures may experience mental and emotional challenges upon returning home, a phenomenon known as reverse culture shock. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints annually sends tens of thousands of proselytizing missionaries to various locations around the globe, and the nature of their missionary service places them at risk of experiencing problems during reentry. Despite this risk, reverse culture shock among returning Latter-day Saint missionaries remains relatively unexplored. The aim of this study was to examine how former Latter-day Saint missionaries made sense of their experiences returning to the Mountain West region of the United States and the social support that they received during reentry. Findings revealed that within the Mountain West community there are culturally-specific ways of speaking about returning missionaries. These ways of speaking influenced how returning missionaries went through identity-shaping processes linked to reverse culture shock, as well as how they experienced social support. These findings have implications for better understanding the role of family and friends’ expectations for the returnee, as well as the importance of social roles, in reverse culture shock. The findings also provide specific direction regarding how to benefit returning Latter-day Saint missionaries.
Challenges of reducing methane emissions from mines in terms of climate protection - alternative methods of methane capture
Creators: name: Plonka, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This research was funded by the European Union, Research Fund for Coal and Steel under the project DD-MET “Advanced methane drainage strategy-technology employing underground directional drilling technology for major risk prevention and greenhouse gases emission mitigation” (Grant Agreement No. 847338-DD-MET-RFCS-2018).
The Effects of an Active Learning Intervention on Increasing Parental Efficacy Regarding Sexual Communication with Toddlers and Young Children
Creators: name: Ferguson, Melissa M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: In the United States, it is estimated that 1 in 5 children will experience sexual abuse before the age of 18. To reduce child sexual abuse more effectively and to increase positive sex attitudes and behaviors, a change is needed in how individuals and society view and discuss sexual health and sex education. Parents are in a powerful and readily available role to teach sexual topics in a positive way, but many are lacking sexual knowledge and confidence in their ability to address sexual topics with their children. This study looked at how personal and contextual factors relate to confidence in parental sexual communication and tested the effects of an active learning intervention to increase parental confidence regarding sexual communication with young children aged one- to five-years-old.
Parents in the study were recruited mainly from social media, local non-profit agencies, and connections with USU Extension. Parents who took the pretest assessment were assigned into one of three groups: a control group (55 participants who received no additional information), a factsheet only group (58 participants who received a two-page factsheet of information on child sexual development), or an active learning group (56 participants who received a one-hour long interactive online presentation with information on child sexual development). Those who completed the pre- and post-test assessments were compared between assigned groups to examine increases in parental confidence regarding sexual communication, parental knowledge of child sexual development, and frequency of sexual communication with their children.
Results from the pretest (n = 279) showed that parents’ experience of sexual trauma was related to greater sexual communication confidence. Pretest results also showed that parents who reported more general sexual knowledge and more child sexual development knowledge also reported greater parental confidence in sexual communication. Post-test mixed-design analysis of variance (n = 117) showed the information provided to the fact sheet and active learning group was not effective at increasing parental sexual communication confidence, however both groups showed gains in knowledge of child sexual development. This study was largely exploratory and should be built upon to attain the goals of promoting lifelong sexual health and healthy positive attitudes.
SPINMATE: D9.1 Plan for Dissemination and Exploitation of Results - PDER
Creators: name: Duarte, Marco
name: Leal, Ana Solange
Publisher: name: SPINMATE Project
Year: 2023

description: This document is the first version (M6) of the Plan for Dissemination and Exploitation of Results (PDER) of SPINMANTE project, to be updated by the end of the project (M48). The contents of the first release include an overview of the Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation (CDE) concepts, and the strategies and action plans followed to promote the project results, as well as to ensure their acceptance within future business opportunities.
Acute trichomoniasis and sub-optimal bull fertility in a cow/calf herd
Creators: name: Barling, K. S.
name: Field, R. W.
name: Snowden, K. F.
name: Hoevers, J.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2005

description: A beef cow/calf ranch contacted the veterinary teaching hospital concerning low pregnancy rates. The 600-cow herd consisted of three breeding groups of females, with each group being exposed to multiple-sire bull batteries for 90 days (April-June). Each breeding group was palpated for pregnancy approximately 60 days following bull removal from the cows. Pregnancy rates in the groups were 60, 25 and 41%. No abortions had been observed by management during or following the breeding season. Initial work-up found that each group of cows was in adequate body condition for reproduction. A high percentage of the ranch's bull population was positive for culture and polymerase chain reaction for Tritrichomonas foetus. In addition, a high percentage of the bull population failed to pass a breeding soundness examination. Treatment recommendations included culling the entire bull population and replacing it solely with virgin bulls that had passed a breeding soundness examination. Simultaneously, we recommended administration of a T. foetus vaccine to all females, followed by a vaccine booster dose 30 days later. All non-pregnant females were to be placed in separate breeding groups and exposed to the new bull population for 60 days (Dec-Jan). Palpation of non-pregnant females was to be performed 60 days following bull removal. The ranch followed these treatment recommendations. Following bull removal 60-day pregnancy rates were 95%. All replacement bulls passed a breeding soundness examination and were negative for T. foetus by polymerase chain reaction following exposure to the non-pregnant females. Ninety-eight percent of pregnant cows from the original bull exposure (April-June) delivered term calves.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 39, No. 1 (2005 February)
A Hierarchical Adaptive Probabilistic Approach for Zero Hour Phish Detection
Creators: name: Xiang, Guang
name: Pendleton, Bryan A.
name: Hong, Jason
name: Rose, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Phishing attacks are a significant threat to users of the Internet, causing tremendous economic loss every year. In combating phish, industry relies heavily on manual verification to achieve a low false positive rate, which, however, tends to be slow in responding to the huge volume of unique phishing URLs created by toolkits. Our goal here is to combine the best aspects of human verified blacklists and heuristic-based methods, i.e., the low false positive rate of the former and the broad and fast coverage of the latter. To this end, we present the design and evaluation of a hierarchical blacklist-enhanced phish detection framework. The key insight behind our detection algorithm is to leverage existing human-verified blacklists and apply the shingling technique, a popular near-duplicate detection algorithm used by search engines, to detect phish in a probabilistic fashion with very high accuracy. To achieve an extremely low false positive rate, we use a filtering module in our layered system, harnessing the power of search engines via information retrieval techniques to correct false positives. Comprehensive experiments over a diverse spectrum of data sources show that our method achieves 0% false positive rate (FP) with a true positive rate (TP) of 67.15% using search-oriented filtering, and 0.03% FP and 73.53% TP without the filtering module. With incremental model building capability via a sliding window mechanism, our approach is able to adapt quickly to new phishing variants, and is thus more responsive to the evolving attacks.
A First Evaluation of the Instructional Value of Negotiable Problem Solving Goals on the Exploratory Learning Continuum
Creators: name: Rose, Carolyn
name: Aleven, Vincent
name: Carey, Regan
name: Robinson, Allen
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: We evaluate the effectiveness of a tutorial-dialogue based approach to guided exploratory learning involving problem solving goals that are negotiated between tutor and student rather than dictated by the tutor or freely chosen by the student. This approach, referred to as Negotiable Problem Solving Goals (NPSG), is located on a previously untested space on what we call The Exploratory Learning Continuum. The results of our empirical classroom investigation provide design recommendations for a new type of tutorial dialogue system and strong evidence in favor of tutorial dialogue support in exploratory learning environments.
Efficacy of mid-summer doramectin pour-on application for parasite control in spring calving cow-calf herds in the Northern Great Plains
Creators: name: Lardy, G. P.
name: Stoltenow, C. S.
name: Baumann, T. A.
name: Leupp, J. L.
name: Seeger, J. T.
name: Odde, K. G.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2005

description: One-hundred-twenty cow-calf pairs grazing native pasture in southcentral North Dakota were used in a prospective study to evaluate efficacy of mid-summer topical doramectin application for control of lice compared to non-treated controls. Pairs were allocated to one of two treatment groups and placed on eight separate pastures. On day -40, cows were weighed and body condition score (BCS) evaluated. On day 0 (day of treatment) pairs allotted to the treatment group were treated topically with 227 mcg/lb of doramectin in mid-July. Cows were examined for lice monthly from day 134 through day 238. Fecal samples collected from cows and calves were examined for parasite eggs, and horn fly counts were taken on selected cows in each replicate. Weights and BCS (cows only) were taken for cows and calves. Steer calves were committed to a finishing program to evaluate effect of doramectin on feedlot performance and carcass characteristics. Percentage of cows positive for lice in the doramectin-treated group was lower on days 161-162, 184-185, 210-211 and 238-239 than non-treated cows. Doramectin-treated cows and calves had lower fecal egg counts on days 21 and 42 than non-treated controls. Mid-summer application had no effect on cow BCS, cow body weight, calf average daily gain or steer carcass characteristics. Mid-summer application of doramectin was effective for control of lice through the winter. Internal parasite load in this study may not have been high enough to detect a difference in performance in spring calving cow-calf pairs.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 39, No. 1 (2005 February)
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VIII, Cart. 192 (11 H 77), 295 folios, f. 0029v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VIII, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 192 (11 H 77), 295 folios, f. 0029v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VIII, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 192 (11 H 77), 295 folios, f. 0029v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Additional file 10 of Characterization of the human skin resistome and identification of two microbiota cutotypes
Creators: name: Li, Zhiming
name: Xia, Jingjing
name: Jiang, Liuyiqi
name: Tan, Yimei
name: An, Yitai
name: Zhu, Xingyu
name: Ruan, Jie
name: Chen, Zhihua
name: Zhen, Hefu
name: Ma, Yanyun
name: Jie, Zhuye
name: Xiao, Liang
name: Yang, Huanming
name: Wang, Jian
name: Kristiansen, Karsten
name: Xu, Xun
name: Jin, Li
name: Nie, Chao
name: Krutmann, Jean
name: Liu, Xiao
name: Wang, Jiucun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 9: Figure S8. Microbial composition of the cutotypes and further validation. a, Heat map depicting the species differentially abundant within the two cutotypes (Wilcoxon rank-sum test, p < 0.01). Each lattice represents the relative abundance of the microbe in a sample, yellow indicates high abundance and blue indicates lower abundance. b-d, PCoA using Jensen-Shannon distance presenting the clustering of (b) samples from the Singaporean dataset (NCBI No. PRJEB26427), (c) Samples from the Italian (NCBI No. PRJNA281366) and (d) Samples from the HMP (SRA bio-project 46333). e-f, PCoA using Jensen-Shannon distance and Bray-Cutis dissimilarity presenting the clustering of samples from the cheek (e) and the back of the nose (f) of Han Chinese. Box plots in the top right show the mean distance within the corresponding groups in red or in blue. The red horizontal line indicates the average between-clusters distance. The PERMANOVA test was used to determine the significance between two clusters and is shown in the top left.
SUSY breaking mediation by throat fields
Creators: name: Bruemmer, F.
name: Hebecker, A.
name: Trapletti, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate, in the general framework of KKLT, the mediation of supersymmetry breaking by fields propagating in the strongly warped region of the compactification manifold ('throat fields'). Such fields can couple both to the supersymmetry breaking sector at the IR end of the throat and to the visible sector at the UV end. We model the supersymmetry breaking sector by a chiral superfield which develops an F-term vacuum expectation value. It turns out that the mediation effect of vector multiplets propagating in the throat can compete with modulus-anomaly mediation. Moreover, such vector fields are naturally present as the gauge fields arising from isometries of the throat (most notably the SO(4) isometry of the Klebanov-Strassler solution). Their mediation effect is important in spite of their large 4d mass. The latter is due to the breaking of the throat isometry by the compact manifold at the UV end of the throat. The contribution from heavy chiral superfields is found to be subdominant.
description: 15 pages; v2: typos corrected, references added; v3: comments added
title: 03_0449
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Physical Aspects of Axonemal Beating and Swimming
Creators: name: Camalet, Sebastien
name: Julicher, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a two-dimensional model for the dynamics of axonemal deformations driven by internally generated forces of molecular motors. Our model consists of an elastic filament pair connected by active elements. We derive the dynamic equations for this system in presence of internal forces. In the limit of small deformations, a perturbative approach allows us to calculate filament shapes and the tension profile. We demonstrate that periodic filament motion can be generated via a self-organization of elastic filaments and molecular motors. Oscillatory motion and the propagation of bending waves can occur for an initially non-moving state via an instability termed Hopf bifurcation. Close to this instability, the behavior of the system is shown to be independent of microscopic details of the axoneme and the force-generating mechanism. The oscillation frequency however does depend on properties of the molecular motors. We calculate the oscillation frequency at the bifurcation point and show that a large frequency range is accessible by varying the axonemal length between 1 and 50$μ$m. We calculate the velocity of swimming of a flagellum and discuss the effects of boundary conditions and externally applied forces on the axonemal oscillations.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, REVTEX
Computational Techniques for Elucidating Plant-Pathogen Interactions: A Case Study on Citrus-HLB Interactome
Creators: name: Loaiza, Cristian D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: The Citrus fruit industry in the United States has been affected during the last two decades because of the outbreak of the citrus greening disease, also known as Huanglongbing (HLB). Many people and organizations are working in therapeutics to help mitigate the impact of this disease, unfortunately there is not a cure yet. There are many mechanisms that needs to be understood about this disease, especially at the molecular level. Not only HLB, but many other infectious diseases are controlled by the interaction of proteins from the host (Citrus in this case) and from the pathogen that causes the disease. When these interactions occur, the normal activity of the plant host is altered and then the plant start to develop more and more ill severe symptoms.
The purpose of this research was to implement diverse computational methods to predict those interactions accurately. We applied several methods successfully used in other infectious diseases, and developed novel techniques including the Artificial Intelligence models. After a comprehensive analysis of our results, we identified some candidate genes that we believe are key HLB players which could be genetically modified to enhance resistance in Citrus plants.
The models developed from this study were implemented as web-based tools for real time use by the biologists and other stakeholders. The knowledge gained from this study can further be used to understand plant-pathogen interactions in other agricultural systems of economic importance.
Circular Polarization Induced by Scintillation in a Magnetized Medium
Creators: name: Macquart, J. -P.
name: Melrose, D. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new theory is presented for the development of circular polarization as radio waves propagate through the turbulent, birefringent interstellar medium. The fourth order moments of the wavefield are calculated and it is shown that unpolarized incident radiation develops a nonzero variance in circular polarization. A magnetized turbulent medium causes the Stokes parameters to scintillate in a non-identical manner. A specific model for this effect is developed for the case of density fluctuations in a uniform magnetic field.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure, Phys. Rev. E, accepted
A Multilevel Meta-Analysis of Paired Oral Reading Methods in Elementary Classrooms
Creators: name: Downs, Jacob D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: For decades, researchers and practitioners have supported developing readers via synchronous oral reader with a stronger peer or adult tutor. These methods–collectively known as Paired Oral Reading—are purported to promote reading achievement for tutee readers. However, despite nearly 60 years of investigation, no known research has adequately reviewed and synthesized the effects of similar practices commonly known as Paired Oral Reading. This dissertation systematically reviewed the published literature on the various methods of Paired Oral Reading with elementary-age students then meta-analyzed the quantitative studies that met pre-established inclusion criteria. The meta-analysis calculated the effect of Paired Oral Reading outcomes on tutee reading achievement and subsequently investigated differential outcomes for various factors such as tutor type, time variables, and reading outcome (fluency/comprehension). The results indicate that tutees receiving Paired Oral Reading support experience greater achievement with adult tutors over peer tutors and in reading comprehension versus oral reading fluency. The systematic review and meta-analysis of these data demonstrate that strategic use of these methods can support weak or developing elementary readers. Further, it is proposed that future research and application of these techniques are framed as a single family of methods; Synchronous Partnered Oral Reading Techniques (SPORT). Other implications for future research and classroom application of SPORT are discussed.
Monitoring return to cyclicity following removal of a granulosa cell tumor associated with precocious lactation in an 11-month-old Holstein heifer
Creators: name: Palmer, Colin W.
name: Clark, Edward G.
name: Carruthers, Terry D.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2005

description: An 11-month-old Holstein heifer was presented to the Western College of Veterinary Medicine for evaluation of precocious lactation associated with a palpably enlarged right ovary. Ultrasound examination of the ovaries revealed a 6 inch (15 cm) diameter right ovary with a multilobulated appearance, and a small left ovary measuring 0.6 inches (1.6 cm) long by 0.3 inches (0.8 cm) wide. The mammary secretion was consistent with milk: fat-3.07%, protein-4.78%, and lactose-1.07% with a somatic cell count of 4.8?106/mL. Prior to removal of the right ovary by right flank laparotomy, serum hormone levels were measured: testosterone (0.01 ng/mL), estradiol-17? (9.1 pg/mL), progesterone (0.2 ng/mL), prolactin (5.8 ng/mL), luteinizing hormone (0.14 ng/mL) and follicle stimulating hormone (0.32 ng/mL). Gross examination revealed that the right ovary weighed 7.34 oz (208 g) and was composed of numerous cysts (0.2-1.6 inches [0.5-4 cm] in diameter) containing fluid or blood. Microscopically, foci of cells of a follicular or luteal nature were noted. The definitive diagnosis was a right ovarian granulosa cell tumor, and milk secretion declined rapidly following tumor removal. The left ovary was monitored ultrasonographically at weekly intervals to determine onset of cyclicity. Follicular activity resumed between three and four weeks post-surgery, followed by detection of a corpus luteum at day 32. The heifer became pregnant five months post-surgery, and has since delivered a live calf. This case represents only the second reported case of precocious lactation associated with a granulosa cell tumor, and suggests that cyclicity is likely to return to the contralateral ovary less than a month after tumor removal.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 39, No. 1 (2005 February)
Active Stability Monitoring and Stability Control of DC Microgrids Using Incremental Continuous Injection
Creators: name: Hassan, Rohail
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Electrified transportation and integration of renewable energy in the electric power grid requires the use of power electronic converters for integrating different forms of power; from ac to dc, dc to ac, dc to dc, etc. Recent trend towards electrifying automobiles, aircraft and ships, and increasing penetration of renewable energy has increased the required power levels and number of the power electronics converters connected together in a dc microgrid system. Stable operation of these interfacing converters for all operating conditions has been a topic of renewed interest in the last couple of decades. Traditionally, dc microgrids have been designed conservatively to handle the worst case conditions. However, increasing power capacity of emerging dc microgrids causes this conservative design to become cost and size prohibitive, and over-designing causes the system to become slow and unable to handle fast loads such as pulsed power loads, radars etc. To reduce the dependency on passives components and to increase system response speed, recent literature proposed techniques using control so that the system may be designed with smaller filters and guaranteed with system stability. Traditional design of dc microgrids extend the existing stability analysis techniques originally developed to analyze stability of cascaded power converters. This proved to be useful in the design stages for systems with duplicated power sources/loads like in solar systems. However, the existing stability analysis methods are not applicable for online evaluation of stability and for control-based stabilization in a dynamic system with reconfiguration and addition/removal of various kinds of sources and loads.
This dissertation first develops a general stability criterion which is easily applicable to complex dc microgrids, and highly suitable for online evaluation of stability. Next, an online stability monitoring system is developed based on the new criterion which uses incremental continuous injection by an existing converter interfacing energy storage in the system and continuously evaluates system stability margin. Furthermore, this dissertation develops an active stability control for dc microgrids which utilizes the evaluation of the continuous monitor and provides additional damping without adding any passive filters. The theory and techniques developed in this dissertation are demonstrated on a lab scale 2 kW dc microgrid.
Local and Systemic Effects of Flavonoid Intake with Submaximal Cycling Exercise: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Creators: name: Kung, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Moderate to high intensity endurance exercise is a known cause of exercise-induced gastrointestinal syndrome, a condition often associated with intestinal complaints such as discomfort, cramps, and diarrhea. Oftentimes, elevated intestinal inflammation and permeability (a “leaky gut”) are also observed. Previous research has shown that flavonoids, natural compounds found in many fruits and vegetables, may mitigate these exercise-induced effects. In particular, certain cocoa powders contain high levels of flavonoids, and chocolate milk is a good source of protein and sugars for sustaining intense activity. Thus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a dairy pre-workout beverage, with flavonoids from cocoa, blueberries, and green tea. We hypothesized that regular consumption of these flavonoids would alleviate exercise-induced gastrointestinal syndrome. A clinical trial was conducted with twelve subjects, who consumed the pre-workout once per day. After 14 days, subjects completed a one-hour cycling test to determine the effects of the beverage on performance and gastrointestinal health. Each participant underwent both the treatment and control in a randomized order, serving as his or her own control for comparison.
Our results showed that the cycling trial was strenuous and caused measurable changes in biomarkers of inflammation and intestinal injury, but ultimately, the flavonoid pre-workout did not differ from the control. These findings suggest that short-term flavonoid supplementation from processed food ingredients (cocoa powder, freeze-dried blueberries, and powdered green tea) may not have protective effects on the gut during exercise-induced stress. However, the product was well-liked by the subjects and no negative effects were observed. Nutritional strategies for reducing incidence of exercise-induced gastrointestinal syndrome is a relatively new area of research, and these results can help shape future recommendations in sports nutrition for endurance athletes and coaches. This project contributes to current scientific knowledge regarding the interaction between flavonoid consumption and intestinal health. Furthermore, similar mechanisms are thought to drive related conditions such as exertional heat stress, ulcerative colitis, and inflammatory bowel disease. Due to the prevalence of a leaky gut and inflammation in not only endurance exercise but also these other conditions, more research—especially well-controlled human clinical trials—is warranted.
Acoustic coupling between two air bubbles in water
Creators: name: Hsiao, Pai-Yi
name: Devaud, Martin
name: Bacri, Jean-Claude
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The acoustic coupling between two air bubbles immersed in water is clearly demonstrated. The system is acoustically forced, and its response is detected. The experimental results confirm that both theoretically predicted eigenmodes, respectively symmetrical and antisymmetrical, do exist. Their frequencies, measured as a function of the bubbles spacing, follow theoretical estimations within a 10% accuracy.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, submitted to European Physical Journal E (2nd version)
A Demonstration of the RADAR Personal Assistant
Creators: name: Faulring, Andrew
name: Myers, Brad
name: Mohnkern, Ken
name: Freed, Michael
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Email clients were not designed to serve as a task management tools, but a high volume of task-relevant information in email leads many people to use email clients for this purpose. Such usage aggravates a user’s experience of email overload and reduces productivity. Prior research systems have sought to address this problem by experimentally adding task management capabilities to email client software. RADAR (Reflective Agents with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning) takes a different approach in which a software agent acts like a trusted human assistant. Many RADAR components employ machine learning to improve their performance. Human participant studies showed a clear impact of learning on user performance metrics.
180 x 120: Designing Alternate Location Systems
Creators: name: Paulos, Eric
name: Jenkins, Tom
name: Burke, Anthony
name: Marcelo, Karen
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Using 180 RFID tags to track and plot locations over time, guests to an event at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) collectively constructed a public visualization of the individual and group activities by building a history of movement throughout the space over 120 minutes. The projected histogram builds over time, revealing crowd intelligence, patterns of group distribution, zones of intensity, and preferred locations. The real-time data is projected atop a geometrically constructed, three-dimensional tessellated screen whose texture and shape have been previously calculated using a model of expected user clustering and activity. The juxtaposition of real and expected data manifest itself in this group created visual artifact. This paper presents a structured design approach to location systems that ignores quality and reliability, celebrates the loss of privacy, integrates physical architecture into the output, and explores crowd generation of public digest artifacts. A resulting deployed system is described.
X-rays from the mode-switching PSR B0943+10
Creators: name: Mereghetti, S.
name: Kuiper, L.
name: Tiengo, A.
name: Hessels, J.
name: Hermsen, W.
name: Stovall, K.
name: Possenti, A.
name: Rankin, J.
name: Esposito, P.
name: Turolla, R.
name: Mitra, D.
name: Wright, G.
name: Stappers, B.
name: Horneffer, A.
name: Oslowski, S.
name: Serylak, M.
name: Griessmeier, J. -M.
name: Rigoselli, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New simultaneous X-ray and radio observations of the archetypal mode-switching pulsar PSR B0943+10 have been carried out with XMM-Newton and the LOFAR, LWA and Arecibo radio telescopes in November 2014. They allowed us to better constrain the X-ray spectral and variability properties of this pulsar and to detect, for the first time, the X-ray pulsations also during the X-ray-fainter mode. The combined timing and spectral analysis indicates that unpulsed non-thermal emission, likely of magnetospheric origin, and pulsed thermal emission from a small polar cap are present during both radio modes and vary in a correlated way.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, 1 table - To appear in the proceedings of "IAUS 337: Pulsar Astrophysics - The Next 50 Years" eds: P. Weltevrede, B.B.P. Perera, L. Levin Preston & S. Sanidas
Fractional Shot Noise in the Kondo Regime
Creators: name: Sela, Eran
name: Oreg, Yuval
name: von Oppen, Felix
name: Koch, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low temperature transport through a quantum dot in the Kondo regime proceeds by a universal combination of elastic and inelastic processes, as dictated by the low-energy Fermi-liquid fixed point. We show that as a result of inelastic processes, the charge detected by a shot-noise experiment is enhanced relative to the noninteracting situation to a universal fractional value, $e^*=5/3 e$. Thus, shot noise reveals that the Kondo effect involves many-body features even at low energies, despite its Fermi-liquid nature. We discuss the influence of symmetry breaking perturbations.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
8d gauge anomalies and the topological Green-Schwarz mechanism
Creators: name: García-Etxebarria, Iñaki
name: Hayashi, Hirotaka
name: Ohmori, Kantaro
name: Tachikawa, Yuji
name: Yonekura, Kazuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: String theory provides us with 8d supersymmetric gauge theory with gauge algebras $\mathfrak{su}(N)$, $\mathfrak{so}(2N)$, $\mathfrak{sp}(N)$, $\mathfrak{e}_{6}$, $\mathfrak{e}_{7}$ and $\mathfrak{e}_{8}$, but no construction for $\mathfrak{so}(2N{+}1)$, $\mathfrak{f}_4$ and $\mathfrak{g}_2$ is known. In this paper, we show that the theories for $\mathfrak{f}_4$ and $\mathfrak{so}(2N{+}1)$ have a global gauge anomaly associated to $π_{d=8}$, while $\mathfrak{g}_2$ does not have it. We argue that the anomaly associated to $π_d$ in $d$-dimensional gauge theories cannot be canceled by topological degrees of freedom in general. We also show that the theories for $\mathfrak{sp}(N)$ have a subtler gauge anomaly, which we suggest should be canceled by a topological analogue of the Green-Schwarz mechanism.
description: 27 pages
Relationships Between High School Students' Performance in ALEKS Placement, Preparation, and Learning (PPL) Modules and Performance on the ALEKS College Mathematics Placement Exam
Creators: name: Nehring, Jenny V.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: The misalignment between the mathematics taught in high school and the mathematics expected at colleges and universities has created a difficult transition for high school students in the U.S. from high school to college level mathematics. Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) have been used to help high school students transition from the mathematics taught in high school to the mathematics expected at colleges and universities across the country. The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between high school students’ performance in Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS) Placement, Preparation, and Learning (PPL) Modules and performance on the ALEKS College Mathematics Placement Exam.
This study used a quasi-experimental nonequivalent research design. The participants in this study were 100 students from five high schools in a single school district. Students were in two groups: the ALEKS Group, who completed the ALEKS PreCalculus Learning Modules, and the Non-ALEKS Group, who did not complete the modules. The analysis included a 2x2 mixed ANOVA to measure how assignment of the modules affected exam scores. A logistic regression was used to assess differences between the two groups in placing into college algebra. A multiple linear regression was used to identify factors that influenced growth on the ALEKS Mathematics Placement Exam.
There was a statistically significant difference in exam scores between the ALEKS Group and the Non-ALEKS Group which indicated that assignment to the ALEKS PPL PreCalculus Learning Modules did increase performance on the ALEKS College Mathematics Placement Exam. Conversely, assignment to the ALEKS PPL PreCalculus Modules did not increase students’ likelihood of placing into College Algebra.
The factors that influenced student outcomes on the ALEKS Mathematics Placement exam for those students assigned to the ALEKS Group included the amount of time spent taking the exam in May and the number of modules mastered. These results show that schools could implement ITS into their current mathematics classrooms and help students increase their scores on the ALEKS Mathematics Placement Exam, which has the potential to decrease the number of remedial courses students need to take in college.
Additional file 11 of Characterization of the human skin resistome and identification of two microbiota cutotypes
Creators: name: Li, Zhiming
name: Xia, Jingjing
name: Jiang, Liuyiqi
name: Tan, Yimei
name: An, Yitai
name: Zhu, Xingyu
name: Ruan, Jie
name: Chen, Zhihua
name: Zhen, Hefu
name: Ma, Yanyun
name: Jie, Zhuye
name: Xiao, Liang
name: Yang, Huanming
name: Wang, Jian
name: Kristiansen, Karsten
name: Xu, Xun
name: Jin, Li
name: Nie, Chao
name: Krutmann, Jean
name: Liu, Xiao
name: Wang, Jiucun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 10: Figure S9. Microbial functional differences between the two cutotypes. Using log10 (FDR adjusted p-value) bar-plot comparing the abundance of module (amino acid metabolism, lipopolysaccharide metabolism, cofactor biosynthesis, sulfur metabolism, glycan metabolism, sterol biosynthesis, and fatty acid metabolism) KOs of the two cutotypes present in the forehead areas. Green color indicates KO enrichment in the M-cutotype and blue means the enrichment in the C-cutotype. The color shade indicates the level of significance, i.e. dark green or dark blue equal the FDR adjusted p-value < 0.05, which is the threshold for a significant difference.
Novel approach for spin-flipping a stored polarized beam
Creators: name: Derbenev, Ya. S.
name: Anferov, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The traditional method of spin-flipping a stored polarized beam is based on slowly crossing an rf induced depolarizing resonance. This paper discusses a novel approach where the polarization reversal is achieved by trapping the beam polarization into a stable spin-flipping motion on top of the rf induced resonance at a half-revolution frequency.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. S.T.- Accel. & Beams