cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lie algebroid Fibrations
Creators: name: Brahic, O.
name: Zhu, Chenchang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53D17 (Primary), 22A22, 14F35 (Secondary)

description: A degree 1 non-negative graded super manifold equipped with a degree 1 vector field Q satisfying [Q, Q]=1, namely a so-called NQ-1 manifold is, in plain differential geometry language, a Lie algebroid. We introduce a notion of fibration for such super manifols, that essentially involves a complete Ehresmann connection. As it is the case for Lie algebras, such fibrations turn out not to be just locally trivial products. We also define homotopy groups and prove the expected long exact sequence associated to a fibration. In particular, Crainic and Fernandes's obstruction to the integrability of Lie algebroids is interpreted as the image of a transgression map in this long exact sequence.
description: 28 pages, 1 figure
Variable Power Functional Dilution Adjustment of Spot Urine
Creators: name: Carmine, Thomas Clemens
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 410599
subject: Pollution and contamination not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Spot-urinary biomarkers are crucial in medical, epidemiological, and environmental studies, but their variability due to hydration levels requires precise dilution adjustments. Traditional methods, like conventional creatinine correction (CCRC), are limited in compensating for variations in urine concentration, causing substantial inconsistencies, particularly at the extremes of the diuresis spectrum. While the WHO recommendation of restricting the creatinine (CRN) range to 0.3–3 g/L aims to ensure result stability, this attempt not only necessitates the exclusion of a large proportion of samples but still allows for significant result fluctuations within the accepted range.This study introduces a novel variable power functional creatinine correction method (V-PFCRC) to normalize analytes to 1 g/L CRN by utilizing uncorrected analyte levels and two analyte-specific coefficients, c and d. Based on extensive urinary total weight arsenic data (n = 5553), the mathematical derivation of these coefficients is detailed in this paper and forms the foundation of the corrective V-PFCRC formulas. The generalizability of V-PFCRC was evaluated using large spot-urinary datasets for four additional metals and an extensive dataset of urinary iodine levels (n > 58000) and blood iodine. Validation against conventional methods—assessing vital statistical data, residual CRN bias, and correlations with concurrently detected blood levels of total arsenic and iodine— demonstrated the superior performance of V-PFCRC in reducing residual CRN bias and enhancing blood-urine correlations.The V-PFCRC method effectively addresses non-linear hydration bias and the exposure-dependent variability of this bias, providing a more accurate representation of exposure and supply levels. The adaptability and efficiency of V-PFCRC suggest its broad applicability across various scientific disciplines, potentially transforming the precision and reliability of urinary biomarker assessments.
Lyman alpha absorbers in motion: consequences of gravitational lensing for the cosmological redshift drift experiment
Creators: name: Killedar, Madhura
name: Lewis, Geraint F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution of the expansion rate of the Universe results in a drift in the redshift of distant sources over time. A measurement of this drift would provide us with a direct probe of expansion history. The Lyman alpha forest has been recognized as the best candidate for this experiment, but the signal would be weak and it will take next generation large telescopes coupled with ultra-stable high resolution spectrographs to reach the cm/s resolution required. One source of noise that has not yet been assessed is the transverse motion of Lyman alpha absorbers, which varies the gravitational potential in the line of sight and subsequently shifts the positions of background absorption lines. We examine the relationship between the pure cosmic signal and the observed redshift drift in the presence of moving Lyman alpha clouds, particularly the collapsed structures associated with Lyman limit systems (LLSs) and damped Lyman alpha systems (DLAs). Surprisingly, the peculiar velocities and peculiar accelerations both enter the expression, although the acceleration term stands alone as an absolute error, whilst the velocity term appears as a fractional noise component. An estimate of the magnitude of the noise reassures us that the motion of the Lyman alpha absorbers will not pose a threat to the detection of the signal.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure. Accepted by MNRAS
IDENTIFICATION OF PROBLEMS IN IMPLEMENTING SMART CRITERIA IN LOCAL BUDGETING SYSTEM
Creators: name: Rosa Nikmatul Fajri
name: Nor Azah Abdul Aziz
name: Siti Norbaya Yahaya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Abstract

The budgeting system of local governments in Indonesia has referred to the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) of SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timebound) criteria with a review of the suitability of goals and objectives. The purpose of this study is to identify problems during the adoption of the SMART Criteria KPI into the budgeting system. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method to answer several questions, namely: Has the Government implemented a specific budgeting plan? (Q.1); Has the government planned budgeting in a measured manner? (Q.2); Has the government used the budget fairly and achieved the targets written in the budget system? (Q3); Is the budget system planning relevant to its implementation? (Q4); Has the government done it in a timely manner? (Q.5). The results of the implementation of the SMART Criteria KPI were 68%, categorized as good but not perfect. The conclusion drawn is that this is because the budget system has not optimally integrated cost standards and minimum service standards in fund allocation.
Universality of the Pearcey process
Creators: name: Adler, Mark
name: Orantin, Nicolas
name: van Moerbeke, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Consider non-intersecting Brownian motions on the line leaving from the origin and forced to two arbitrary points. Letting the number of Brownian particles tend to infinity, and upon rescaling, there is a point of bifurcation, where the support of the density of particles goes from one interval to two intervals. In this paper, we show that at that very point of bifurcation a cusp appears, near which the Brownian paths fluctuate like the Pearcey process. This is a universality result within this class of problems. Tracy and Widom obtained such a result in the symmetric case, when the two target points are symmetric with regard to the origin. This asymmetry enabled us to improve considerably a result concerning the non-linear partial differential equations governing the transition probabilities for the Pearcey process, obtained by Adler and van Moerbeke.
Adversarial sampling of unknown and high-dimensional conditional distributions
Creators: name: Hassanaly, Malik
name: Glaws, Andrew
name: Stengel, Karen
name: King, Ryan N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many engineering problems require the prediction of realization-to-realization variability or a refined description of modeled quantities. In that case, it is necessary to sample elements from unknown high-dimensional spaces with possibly millions of degrees of freedom. While there exist methods able to sample elements from probability density functions (PDF) with known shapes, several approximations need to be made when the distribution is unknown. In this paper the sampling method, as well as the inference of the underlying distribution, are both handled with a data-driven method known as generative adversarial networks (GAN), which trains two competing neural networks to produce a network that can effectively generate samples from the training set distribution. In practice, it is often necessary to draw samples from conditional distributions. When the conditional variables are continuous, only one (if any) data point corresponding to a particular value of a conditioning variable may be available, which is not sufficient to estimate the conditional distribution. This work handles this problem using an a priori estimation of the conditional moments of a PDF. Two approaches, stochastic estimation, and an external neural network are compared here for computing these moments; however, any preferred method can be used. The algorithm is demonstrated in the case of the deconvolution of a filtered turbulent flow field. It is shown that all the versions of the proposed algorithm effectively sample the target conditional distribution with minimal impact on the quality of the samples compared to state-of-the-art methods. Additionally, the procedure can be used as a metric for the diversity of samples generated by a conditional GAN (cGAN) conditioned with continuous variables.
description: 26 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables
Dionysus and the Acrobat Study, Conservation and Promotion of the Lipari Necropolis Kalyx-krater
Creators: name: Lazzarini, Lorenzo; Mannuccia, Francesco; Spigo, Umberto
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2017
Subjects: Dionysus
Archeology
Iconography
Conservation Methods
Museo Archeologico Lipari

description: Il saggio affronta i diversi risvolti che il cratere fliacico con Dioniso e l'acrobata del Museo Archeologico Eoliano incontra nel suo interfacciarsi con la contemporaneità: dalla comunicazione alla fruizione, dalla diagnostica alla conservazione, dallo studio della tecnica ceramografa a quello della iconografia teatrale. Si vuole offrire un contributo alla crescita delle conoscenze e alla loro condivisione, foriero di approfondimenti che potrebbero restituire identità al nutrito repertorio vascolare attribuito al così detto ‘gruppo del pittore di Louvre K240’, la cui bottega non ha ancora sicura collocazione geografica.
Altinópolis, una utopia brasiliana.
Analisi di una esperienza di educazione alla pace e non violenza come pratica alternativa dell'educazione popolare
Creators: name: Dos Reis Marino, Mara Lucia <1966>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: M-PED/01 Pedagogia generale e sociale

description: The present thesis has as its object of study a project called “Education towards Peace and No
Violence”, developed in the town of Altinópolis, in the inner part of the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Based on the analysis and the studies that were carried out, it was possible to identify the
difficulties in the implementation of the project, as well as the positive results evidenced by the
reduction of the reports of violence in the town.
Through a careful research of the historical facts, it shall be demonstrated the progress of
education, particularly in Brazil, throughout the years. In addition, a panoramic view of the studies
and programs for peace developed in North America and Occidental Europe will be presented.
The education for peace based in the holistic concept of human development appeared as a
new educational paradigm that works as a crucial instrument in the construction process towards a
peaceful and more human society based in social justice.
Gravitational lensing of Continuous Gravitational Waves
Creators: name: Biesiada, Marek
name: Harikumar, Sreekanth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuous gravitational waves are analogous to monochromatic light and therefore could be used to detect wave effects like interference or diffraction. This would be possible with strongly lensed gravitational waves. This article reviews and summaries the theory of gravitational lensing in the context of gravitational waves in two different regimes: geometric optics and wave optics, for two widely used lens models such as point mass lens and Singular Isothermal Sphere (SIS). Observable effects due to wave nature of gravitational waves are discussed. As a consequence of interference GWs produce beat patterns which might be observable with the next generation detectors like ground based Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer or space-borne LISA, DECIGO. This will provide us a opportunity to estimate the properties of lensing system and other cosmological parameters with alternative techniques. Diffractive microlensing could become a valuable method to search for intermediate mass black holes formed in the centers of globular clusters. We also point to an interesting idea of detecting the Poisson-Arago spot proposed in the literature.
description: 10 pages,1 figure
La questione percettiva in semiotica.
Linee fondamentali e sviluppi della ricerca
Creators: name: De Bernardis, Mattia <1977>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: M-FIL/05 Filosofia e teoria dei linguaggi

description: This dissertation deals with the problems and the opportunities of a semiotic approach to
perception. Is perception, seen as the ability to detect and articulate an coherent picture of the
surrounding environment, describable in semiotic terms? Is it possibile, for a discipline wary of any
attempt to reduce semiotic meaning to a psychological and naturalized issue, to come to terms with
the cognitive, automatic and genetically hard-wired specifics of our perceptive systems? In order to
deal with perceptive signs, is it necessary to modify basic assumptions in semiotics, or can we
simply extend the range of our conceptual instruments and definitions? And what if perception is a
wholly different semiotic machinery, to be considered as sui generis, but nonetheless interesting for
a general theory of semiotics?
By exposing the major ideas put forward by the main thinkers in the semiotic field, Mattia de
Bernardis gives a comprehensive picture of the theoretical situation, adding to the classical
dichotomy between structuralist and interpretative semiotics another distinction, that between
homogeneist and etherogeneist theories of perception. Homogeneist semioticians see perception as
one of many semiotic means of sign production, totally similar to the other ones, while
heterogeneist semioticians consider perceptive meaning as essentially different from normal
semiotic meaning, so much so that it requires new methods and ideas to be analyzed.
The main example of etherogeneist approach to perception in semiotic literature, Umberto Eco’s
“primary semiosis” is then presented, critically examined and eventually rejected and the
homogeneist stance is affirmed as the most promising path towards a semiotic theory of perception.
Negotiating What It Means to be a "Good" Man in Contemporary Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Lusby, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2018

description: In this seminar, PhD Candidate Stephanie Lusby provides an overview of her thesis research, undertaken in urban, semi-rural and rural-remote field sites in 2012-13, and presents key findings from it. Her thesis research takes the transnational campaign framing of good masculinity as a starting point and investigates the ambivalences and tensions in the ways that men and their communities frame what it means to be a raitman, a real man or good man, in contemporary East New Britain, Papua New Guinea (PNG). The research also examines how collective and individual aspirations and experiences of navigating social, political and economic precarity, shape interpretations of good masculinity, and how men position themselves against those aspirations.
TRUE FRIENDS IN DIFFICULT TIMES, CHINA AND ZIMBABWE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL RELATIONS DURING COVID-19 PERIOD, (2020-2022)
Creators: name: MIMINA CHINAMHORA
name: Dr. MUHAMMAD FUAD BIN OTHMAN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: All-Weather Friends; Covid-19 Pandemic; Look East Foreign Policy; Difficult Times.

description: Abstract

The aim of the study was to examine the relations between Zimbabwe and China during the Covid-19 out break between 2020 and 2022 based on the claim that the two countries are “all weather friends”. The ties between Zimbabwe and China can be traced back to the days of war for the independence of Zimbabwe and the Look East Foreign Policy of 2003, which signaled Harare’s shift from its Western allies to the Chinese, after a fallout and accusations of human rights abuses. The research sought to understand how the relationship between Zimbabwe and China unfolded during the pandemic. The research used secondary research meaning that desktop research was conducted by going through journal articles, newspapers, and other credible sources of information, such as official government statements from both governments. The findings revealed that China and Zimbabwe helped each other during the pandemic by increasing frequency of praise rhetoric on international platforms and this helped China a lot due to Covid-19 backlash it faced at the time. China increased support for mining and agriculture in Zimbabwe during the period under review and also invested heavily in power generation projects in Zimbabwe thereby demonstrating the closeness of the ties between Harare and Beijing during the uncertain phase of global history. However, Chinese companies devastated the environment in Zimbabwe and were accused of gross worker rights violations and the government of Zimbabwe was powerless to stop such actions. Furthermore, Chinese companies benefitted a lot from contracts worth billions of dollars (USD) as they were awarded tenders for jobs that came from the Chinese loans, meaning China left Zimbabwe with debts but improved its economic output. Therefore, whilst Beijing and Harare demonstrated to the world that they are indeed “all-weather friends”, there was nothing friendly about the conduct of Chinese organisations in Zimbabwe.
Markets Matter: Market Vendor Views on Security and Social Inclusion in Honiara, Solomon Islands
Creators: name: Keen, Meg
name: Ride, Anouk
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2018

description: This In Brief examines governance and security issues in three of Honiara’s community markets at Henderson, Fishing Village and White River. They are located on roadsides and unregulated by authorities, in contrast to the Honiara Central Market (HCM) which is housed in a market building and run by the Honiara City Council. This is the third In Brief in the Markets matter series that provide short overviews of key findings from a research project on the socio-economic value, opportunities and challenges facing community markets.
title: Studies in Peptide Synthesis Towards the Lanthionine Analog of Des-N-Tetramethyl Triostin A
Creators: name: Kini, Ganesh Devdas
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1983

description: Studies have been carried out towards the synthesis of bicyclic octadidepsipeptide lanthionine 4, an analog of des-N-tetramethyl triostin A. Starting with a symmetrical lanthionine unit 5 (R1, R3 = Me; R2, R4 = t-butyloxycarbonyl), synthesized from the corresponding cystine by contraction with hexaethylphosphorus triamide, linear octadidepsipeptides 29 and 32 were synthesized.
Attempted cyclizations of 29 and 32 to the bicyclic octapeptide were unsuccessful.
The failure of the symmetrical approach to 4 prompted the synthesis of an unsymmetrical lanthionine unit with appropriate compatible protecting groups. Attempts to synthesize unsymmetrical lanthionines by nucleophilic displacement on N-benzyloxycarbonyl-B-chloro-L-alanine and appropriate O-activated serine derivatives with the thiol function of L-cysteine were unsuccessful. L-valine as the C-terminal amino acid of the O-activated serine was found to sterically hinder the nucleophilic displacement with the thiol, since the displacement could be effected when glycine was present in lieu of valine.
The reaction of thiolsulfinate with cysteine led to an unsymmetrical cystine which was then contracted with hexaethylphosphorus triamide to yield the corresponding lanthionines. The synthesis of unsymmetrical lanthionines cystine which was then contracted with hexaethylphosphorus triamide to yield the corresponding lanthionines. The synthesis of unsymmetrical lanthionines 76 (R1 = t-butyl, R2 = t-butyloxycarbonyl, R3 = ethyl, R4 = benzyloxycarbonyl) and 80 (R1 = t-butyl, R2 2,2,2-trichloroethyloxycarbonyl, ethyl, benzyloxycarbonyl) has been accomplished. Lanthionines 76 and 80 each have four different protectings on the amino and carboxyl functions. These can be selectively removed in the right sequence for a proposed synthesis of 4. further studies towards the synthesis of 4, as proposed, were not pursued.
Growing Academic Interest in the Pacific — Pacific Research Centres in China
Creators: name: Zhang, Denghua
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: China’s diplomatic activities in the Pacific, which include President Xi Jinping’s visit to Papua New Guinea (PNG) in November 2018 and the third China–Pacific Islands Countries (PICs) Economic Development and Cooperation Forum held in Samoa in October 2019, have received substantial attention in Australia. In stark contrast, China’s fast-growing academic interest in the Pacific is scarcely discussed. This In Brief introduces the main Pacific research centres in China and offers a new angle to understand China’s diplomacy towards the region.
Assessing China's Climate Change Aid to the Pacific
Creators: name: Zhang, Denghua
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2020

description: Climate change is the single greatest challenge faced by Pacific Island countries (PICs) (PIF Secretariat 2018:10). Unsurprisingly, the battle against climate change has been placed at the heart of PICs’ national policies. As Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Dame Meg Taylor stated, ‘the highest priority for our region is climate change mitigation and adaptation’. Climate change has become a thorny issue in Australia-Pacific relations as PICs accuse their largest donor of falling short of the region’s expectations on addressing climate change. In contrast, the Pacific’s second largest donor — China — has seemingly been under less pressure, although it remains the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Given these circumstances, this In Brief discusses China’s climate change aid to the Pacific and highlights that China’s various forms of commitments are set to continue, although they are not the highest priority for the government.
title: Cow Brain Glutaminase: Purification, Characterization, and Mechanism of Action
Creators: name: Chiu, Fulung John
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: A simple, quick, and sensitive radiometric assay for glutaminase has been established. This assay uses L-(U-14C)-glutamine as the substrate and measures the 14co2 produced when the reaction is coupled to glutamate decarboxylase. An efficient purification procedure for cow brain glutaminase has also been developed; the yield is 12%. Steps include acetone extraction, ammonium sulfate fractionation, calcium phosphate gel treatment, and differential gel filtration on Sepharose 4B. The final preparation has a specific activity of 385 Mmole/min/mg and shows a single protein band on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate; this band corresponds to a subunit molecular weight of 82,000. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis studies did not reveal any impurities; the enzyme activity coincided with the protein staining. This enzyme is stable between pH 7.5 and 9.2 and has maximal activity around 8.8. The activity of glutaminase appears to be independent of the nature of the buffer with which it was equilibrated before it was assayed. The enzyme absolutely requires phosphate for activity; the dependence is sigmoidal and has a Hill coefficient of 2.2. The phosphate concentration that gives half maximal velocity is 50 mM. At 0.2 M potassium phosphate (pH 8.8), the dependence of activity on glutamine is hyperbolic; the observed Kgln is 17 mM. Neither amnonium ion (0.1 M) nor citrate, succinate, or glutarate (57 mM) inhibit the enzyme activity. Glutamate inhibits competitively with respect to glutamine. Phosphate affects both Kgln and Kglu the same way. A radioactivity exchange study was not able to detect incorporation of 14C-glutamate into 14 c-glutamine. The results are consistent with a model in which ammonia is released irreversibly from the enzyme-substrate complex and is the first product to be released.
Cyclic alternating pattern in sleep and its relationship to creativity
Creators: name: Drago, Valeria <1977>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: MED/26 Neurologia

description: Background/Objectives: Sleep has been shown to enhance creativity, but the reason for this enhancement is not entirely known. There are several different physiological states associated with sleep. In addition to rapid (REM) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, NREM sleep can be broken down into Stages (1-4) that are characterized by the degree of EEG slow wave activity.  In addition, during NREM sleep there are transient but cyclic alternating patterns (CAP) of EEG activity and these CAPs can also be divided into three subtypes (A1-A3) according to speed of the EEG waves. Differences in CAP ratios have been previously linked to cognitive performances. The purpose of this study was to learn the relationship CAP activity during sleep and creativity. Methods: The participants were 8 healthy young adults (4 women), who underwent 3 consecutive nights of polysomnographic recording and took the Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults (ATTA) on the 2 and 3rd mornings after the recordings. Results:  There were positive correlations between Stage 1 of NREM sleep and some measures of creativity such as fluency (R= .797; p=.029) and flexibility ( R=.43; p=.002), between Stage 4 of Non-REM sleep and originality (R= .779; p=.034) and a global measure of figural creativity (R= .758; p=.040). There was also a negative correlation between REM sleep and originality (R= -.827; p= .042) .  During NREM sleep the CAP rate, which in young people is primarily the A1 subtype, also correlated with originality (R= .765; p =.038). Conclusions:  NREM sleep is associated with low levels of cortical arousal and low cortical arousal may enhance the ability of people to  access to the remote associations that are critical for creative innovations. In addition, A1 CAP activity reflects frontal activity and the frontal lobes are important for divergent thinking, also a critical aspect of creativity.
title: Epistemic justice is both a legitimate and an integral goal of psychiatry: a reply to Kious, Lewis and Kim (2023) (accepted)
Creators: name: Radoilska, Lubomira V.
name: Foreman, David
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023

description: In a recent Editorial, Kious et al. (2023) put forward the claim that psychiatrists should resist calls to integrate concerns about epistemic injustice into their practice as this concept not only fails to add significantly to the current professional standards but would also lead to deleterious clinical outcomes. We believe their claim is mistaken, as it arises from several misconceptions about both the nature of epistemic injustice, and its clinical relevance. First, epistemic justice is conflated with what the authors term ‘a quest for social justice’ that could ‘sideline principles of good clinical reasoning’ (Kious at al 2023: 4). Second, the claim about the impracticality and/or counterproductivity of epistemic injustice as a critical tool within psychiatric practice reflects a series of misconceptions about the normative framework from which this concept derives, so the standards they evaluate it against are ill-chosen. Pace Kious at al., fostering epistemic justice in any area of knowledge and inquiry could not – unwittingly or otherwise – inhibit the consideration of relevant evidence, restrict sound argument or facilitate the casual treatment of testimonies at face value. Third and final, this claim obfuscates some immediate ways in which a focus on epistemic justice as an integral goal will strengthen psychiatric practice according to its own internal standards.
description: Author's Accepted Manuscript
title: Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure and Redox Potential Studies of Heme-Substituted Horseradish Peroxidase and Myoglobin
Creators: name: He, Bing
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1995

description: Heme-substituted horseradish peroxidases and myoglobins were reconstituted from the apoenzyme using mesoheme and diacetyldeuteroheme. X-ray absorption spectroscopy was used to determine the dimensions of the active sites of these heme-substituted proteins, and were compared with those of the proto-hemeproteins. The change in the active-site structure corresponded with the electron withdrawing and donating effects of the different side chains. The oxidation-reduction potentials of Fe4+/Fe3+ couples of the heme-substituted proteins were measured at pH 7 with K2IrC16. The oxidation-reduction potential sequence for compound I/compound II was diacetyldeutero-> proto-> meso-in horseradish peroxidase. The oxidation-reduction potential sequence for compound II /ferric was meso-> proto-> diacetyldeutero-in both HRP and myoglobin. These results indicate that the oxidation of ferric to ferryl form may be related to a radical mechanism. A net charge theory was also proposed to explain these results.
Soft Sensing Transformer: Hundreds of Sensors are Worth a Single Word
Creators: name: Zhang, Chao
name: Yella, Jaswanth
name: Huang, Yu
name: Qian, Xiaoye
name: Petrov, Sergei
name: Rzhetsky, Andrey
name: Bom, Sthitie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the rapid development of AI technology in recent years, there have been many studies with deep learning models in soft sensing area. However, the models have become more complex, yet, the data sets remain limited: researchers are fitting million-parameter models with hundreds of data samples, which is insufficient to exercise the effectiveness of their models and thus often fail to perform when implemented in industrial applications. To solve this long-lasting problem, we are providing large scale, high dimensional time series manufacturing sensor data from Seagate Technology to the public. We demonstrate the challenges and effectiveness of modeling industrial big data by a Soft Sensing Transformer model on these data sets. Transformer is used because, it has outperformed state-of-the-art techniques in Natural Language Processing, and since then has also performed well in the direct application to computer vision without introduction of image-specific inductive biases. We observe the similarity of a sentence structure to the sensor readings and process the multi-variable sensor readings in a time series in a similar manner of sentences in natural language. The high-dimensional time-series data is formatted into the same shape of embedded sentences and fed into the transformer model. The results show that transformer model outperforms the benchmark models in soft sensing field based on auto-encoder and long short-term memory (LSTM) models. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first team in academia or industry to benchmark the performance of original transformer model with large-scale numerical soft sensing data.
title: Incentivizing Fruit, Vegetable, and Physical Activity Level Change: Expansion and Evaluation of the Fit Game Program for Healthy Behavior Change in Elementary Schools
Creators: name: Joyner, Damon L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Researchers in the Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Science department and Psychology department sought to improve healthy behaviors in elementary schools such as fruit and vegetable consumption (FV) and daily physical activity (PA). We chose to use a healthy behavior program called the “FIT Game” that has successfully increased FV consumption among elementary-aged children over short periods of time. Our aim was to improve the program by lowering operating costs, adjusting its materials to target PA and see if it could maintain healthy eating improvements over a longer period of time. Our series of research shows encouraging results: short term improvements in healthy eating using the low-cost FIT Game; improvements in PA; and maintained improvements in FV consumption over longer durations.
Improving healthy behaviors such as FV consumption and daily PA are important goals that can improve future health. Using the FIT Game intervention represents a low-cost and sustainable way to work toward these goals.
title: Personal Growth Following the Challenge of Becoming a New Parent While  Working as a Mental Health Clinician: A Narrative Study
Creators: name: Smith, Amie L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Becoming a new parent can cause both immense joy and immense stress that leads to increases and decreases in a new parent’s feeling of life satisfaction. In addition, working as a mental health clinician is a frequently challenging career. Given that many clinicians also become parents while working during the course of their careers, it is surprising that there is not more research on the experience of clinicians who become new parents. More research is needed to find out how people balance the stresses of new parenthood and their emotionally challenging jobs. There is some research on “stress-related growth” that suggests that people can experience stressful or traumatic events and emerge on the other side feeling like they have achieved positive personal growth. This study attempted to find out if this occurs when clinicians become parents.
This was a narrative study aimed to add to the research literature on parent clinician’s (clinicians who were also parents) lives by presenting their stories of becoming new parents. Five parent clinicians were interviewed on two separate occasions and those interviews were transcribed; the transcriptions were edited into five individual stories that detail the parent clinician’s unique challenges, how they navigated their challenges, and how they reflected on their experiences and their personal growth.
The five parent clinicians recounted many positive and negative experiences that new parenthood had on both their clinical work and personal lives. In addition, they described how their families and identities helped them to make meaning out of the challenges they faced. The parent clinicians all talked about how either the presence or absence of social support, or their personal and professional relationships, impacted their lives when they became new parents. Social support included institutional support such as their employers or graduate departments and personal support such as their co-parents, families, and friends. This support either helped or hindered the parent clinician’s ability to balance the demands of parenthood and work. Furthermore, the findings supported previous research on stress-related growth that suggest that cognitive processing (thinking about an event after it occurred) and social support predict the perception of positive personal growth.
This was the first known narrative study on the impacts of new parenthood on mental health clinicians and the study adds to the research literature on clinician’s lived experiences. In addition, the findings from the study can help training directors, clinical supervisors, and agency directors to develop new policies that increase new parents’ social support which may help them weather the storms of becoming a new parent while working as a clinician.
VITALISE D2.3 Standard Version 2
Creators: name: Petsani Despoina
name: Petronikolou Silia
name: Santonen Teemu
name: Dimitriadis Sarantis
name: Enriquez Leidy
name: Konstantinidis Evdokimos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Although Living Labs have emerged as resilient research and innovation infrastructures and have proved to be a “key” to the integration of research and innovation processes in real-life settings, they still fail to provide and function according to unified and harmonized processes that are easily accessible and exploitable by academic and industry researchers. Towards this end, VITALISE aims to create the first Harmonization guidelines for Living Labs that will facilitate the access of researchers to the provided infrastructures. This document presents the work performed for the Harmonization of the way Living Labs work for the second semester of VITALISE. Taking as a starting point the Standard v0.1, VITALISE performed Harmonization activities with consortium partners and external stakeholders in order to create the Standard v0.2 presented in this document. Standard v0.1 included the state of the art information about Living Labs in the VITALISE consortium and was the first deliverable that set up the structure of the VITALISE Standards. The performed activities for this deliverable included the production and dissemination of a wiki page that included the Standard v0.1 and gives the ability to readers to make comments and suggest adjustments. The Harmonization Board was established and met throughout this second semester. The Harmonization Board consists of experts from the consortium and beyond and is the main Board taking decisions about the Standard Versions. A meeting with the Harmonization Body took place as well, in which participants discussed mainly the Harmonization methodology, the Living Lab management system and the wiki page. The consortium worked also towards updating the parts of the Standard that describe the data and technologies used in living labs, using a Delphi study method and collected the first set of terms for the living lab lexicon. The final Section of this document presents the Standard v0.2 that will be also published in the living lab harmonization wiki page.
title: Engelmann Spruce Survival and Regeneration After an Epidemic Spruce Beetle Outbreak on the Markagunt Plateau in Southern Utah
Creators: name: Pettit, Jessika M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Bark beetle outbreaks are becoming more intense and severe when coupled with the effects of climate change. Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) is one such species facing large-scale, epidemic spruce beetle outbreaks. Large-scale disturbances, such as beetle outbreaks, have major consequences for the future success of the ecosystem, thus highlighting the importance of understanding what promotes amplified outbreaks as well as their effects on future seedling establishment. Our research focused on two parts of a large-scale beetle outbreak: the mortality of spruce trees and the subsequent regeneration of seedlings. Our first study examined the timing of spruce mortality during an outbreak in order to identify the extent to which drought promotes host species mortality. Trees that are drought stressed have less resources to defend themselves against beetle attacks, however, the warmer temperatures associated with droughts also promote a more rapid population expansion of spruce beetles. We were specifically interested in determining the contribution that host drought stress plays during an epidemic outbreak. Our second study analyzed the patterns of regenerating seedlings with an aim to identify changes associated with the outbreak. Specifically, we were interested in how an epidemic outbreak changes the drivers of seedling establishment.
title: A Comparison of the Effects of Enhanced Hands-On Intervention Versus Textbook Interventions to Understand Student Misconceptions in Particle Dynamics
Creators: name: Liu, Gang
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: The present dissertation research examined the effects of applying the enhanced hands-on intervention to reveal and correct student misunderstandings of the concepts in engineering dynamics, especially particle dynamics. We involved 36 student volunteers for three different research topics. The student participants were divided into two groups in each research topic: enhanced hands-on intervention and pure textbook groups. An interview and intervention was conducted with each participant individually.
The author introduced the “Think-Aloud” method with two kinds of interventions mentioned above. The participants were required to speak out their thought process loud as they worked on the two sets of assessment questions with intervention between them, and the entire process was audio and video recorded. The audio records were transcribed into text files and segmented with meaningful codes. In all of the codes, the relationship between misconceptions found and potential reasons for these misconceptions were revealed.
The effects were assessed by qualitative and quantitative research methods. Statistical analysis of the coding results verified the efficacy of the coding process. The qualitative research focused on the reasoning progress of the participants and the quantitative research focused on the score increase rates and normalized learning gains of the participants in both intervention groups.
It was found that the groups who utilized the enhanced hands-on intervention achieved a better performance than those who accepted only textbook interventions in score increase rates, normalized learning gains, and code reduction rates, for all three research topics. In addition, the enhanced hands-on intervention showed a higher effectiveness than the textbook intervention for lower-level concepts, but it was harder to correct those misconceptions related to applications with higher abstraction of the concept itself. From the results of the normalized learning gains, the enhanced hands-on intervention benefitted the top students more than the struggled students.
The research results suggested that the enhanced hands-on intervention should be added to the current engineering curricula in order to help students to improve their academic performance.
title: U.S. Consumers’ Perception, Intention, and Purchase Behavior of Grass-Fed Beef
Creators: name: Crandall, Elizabeth K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: The purpose of this research study was to compile regional profiles of the consumers who intend to consume grass-fed beef in the U.S. and to create marketing strategies that would assist producers in marketing their product to consumers. The researcher sent an online survey to a panel of 484 consumers across the U.S. to learn about their perceptions of and intention to purchase grass-fed beef.
Respondents had a weak, positive attitude toward purchasing grass-fed beef but had low knowledge of production practices. These consumers had a desire to eat healthier; however, they wanted meat that was priced right and had a desirable leanness. Consumers were divided based on U.S. regions (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West) to determine any differences in their knowledge, attitudes, subjective norm, importance of quality cues, meat and beef consumption habits, beef consumption habits, and meal preparations. The information gathered from respondents was used to create a marketing plan for each region of the U.S.
Recommendations for future research included exploring how the processing of meat, environmental attitudes, and eating habits influence consumers’ intention to purchase grass-fed beef. Information about consumer willingness to pay would also be helpful for grass-fed beef producers who are creating a marketing plan.
title: Pharmacologically Induced Meiosis Apomeiosis Interconversions in Boechera, Arabidopsis and Vigna
Creators: name: Gao, Lei
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Apomixis is a clonal propagation method that produces offspring identical to the mother plant. With this feature, superior traits could be maintained over generations. However, our knowledge about apomixis is limited. In this study, we analyzed several apomictic Boechera embryologically to learn the details of apomixis. Meanwhile, we designed chemical treatments to successfully induce sex in apomictic plants and apomixis in sexual plants. Our experiments suggest that sex and apomixis coexist in plants and that sexual and apomictic reproduction are switchable by treating with specific chemicals.
title: Quantifying Dominant Heat Fluxes in an Arctic Alaskan River with Mechanistic River Temperature Modeling
Creators: name: King, Tyler V.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Temperatures strongly affect physical, chemical, and biological processes in rivers and streams. The processes that influence river temperatures are known across most geographic regions, but the relative importance varies significantly. Little is known about what controls water temperature Arctic rivers, limiting our ability to understand the impacts of climate change. This dissertation addresses this knowledge gap by incorporating field measurements with river temperature modeling to estimate the relative importance of key factors that affect Arctic river temperatures. Results indicate that shortwave radiation (e.g., sunlight) and net longwave radiation are significant throughout an Arctic watershed in all flow conditions. In areas where the river is smaller, however, exchange of water with the riverbed and inputs of water from the landscape become significant under low-flow and high-flow conditions, respectively. Additional field observations and modeling were used to quantify the water and heat exchanges between the river and the riverbed. These heat exchanges were found to cool the river and reduce the daily range of temperatures. To better estimate the flow of water from the landscape to the river, a new method for estimating river flow was developed using high-resolution aerial imagery. This method allows us to estimate river flow without depending on field measurements, and presents a potential solution to barriers in performing river temperature modeling in other parts of the Arctic.
title: Enfermedad valvular cardíaca. Valoración de la tomografía computerizada multidetector
Creators: name: Gomez Campos, Daniella
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
La enfermedad valvular cardíaca origina un elevado número de muertes en los países occidentales. La aproximación diagnóstica a la enfermedad valvular por imagen incluye la ecocardiografía transtorácica y transesofágica como técnicas de...