cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Noble Savage and Ecological Indian: Cultural Dissonance and Representations of Native Americans in Literature
Creators: name: McNaughton, Brooke D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2010

description: This thesis provides a unique approach to understanding the historical origins and contemporary social ramifications of the use of the concepts of the Noble Savage and the Ecological Indian within literature. I first examine the history of the Noble Savage concept in literature by examining relevant social movements, and then its eventual transition into its modern counterpart, the Ecological Indian. Authors who employ the use of these concepts typically portray Natives in a way which provides an idealized alternative for white cultural woes. Consequently, this idealization creates problems with modern Native identity. In the second half of this project I evaluate two modern novels which address these Native identity issues—Ceremony (1977) by Leslie Marmon Silko and Wolfsong (1995) by Louis Owens. These novels incorporate aspects of the Ecological Indian concept and each offers a different interpretation of the concept‟s effect on Native culture; one is optimistic and forward-thinking while the other is more pessimistic and critical of the current social environment. Understanding these two opposing responses, in conjunction with the critical history, allows for a more constructive acknowledgement of the problematic divide between American ideals and Native experiences and concerns. I submit my research in hopes that it may offer potential solutions to the cultural woes caused by the long-standing stereotypes associated with the Noble Savage and Ecological Indian concepts.
Quantum Decoherence of Two Qubits
Creators: name: Helm, Julius
name: Strunz, Walter T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is commonly stated that decoherence in open quantum systems is due to growing entanglement with an environment. In practice, however, surprisingly often decoherence may equally well be described by random unitary dynamics without invoking a quantum environment at all. For a single qubit, for instance, pure decoherence (or phase damping) is always of random unitary type. Here, we construct a simple example of true quantum decoherence of two qubits: we present a feasible phase damping channel of which we show that it cannot be understood in terms of random unitary dynamics. We give a very intuitive geometrical measure for the positive distance of our channel to the convex set of random unitary channels and find remarkable agreement with the so-called Birkhoff defect based on the norm of complete boundedness.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Organigramme de la Bibliothèque impériale de 1804-1805
Creators: name: JACQUOT, Olivier
Publisher: name: BnF Comité d'histoire
Year: 2024
Subjects: Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bibliothèque nationale (France)
Organigrammes (organisation)

description: Organigramme de la Bibliothèque impériale de 1804-1805.
title: A Comparison of Muscle Activity Responses of Adults and Children during Whole Body Vibration
Creators: name: Nash, Dustin Blair
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2010

description: Results of recent studies have suggested that attenuation and transmissibility of WBV in adults
and children are similar, but due to anatomical differences, it is hypothesized that children employ
different strategies. One suggested strategy is that of muscle tuning, whereby muscle
activity levels are adjusted to control potentially dangerous accelerations produced by vibration
resonance. The purpose of the study was to compare muscle activity responses between children
and adults exposed to whole body vibration. It was hypothesized that the muscle activity in
children would be greater than that in adults due to muscle tuning strategies. Eleven adults and
fourteen children were exposed to WBV at three different frequencies while the EMG at the VL,
TA, BF and GC were recorded. The results of this study suggest that muscle activity levels of
children are greater than that of adults who are exposed to standing WBV. This suggests that
children may be utilizing muscle tuning in order to attenuate standing WBV. This is important to
understand before the application of therapeutic WBV to children so as to avoid its application in
cases where harm could occur.
title: Vertical Take-off with Artificial Airflow
Creators: name: Adams, Rachel J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: Vertical take-off has been a capability available only to military aircraft due to the design utilized. However, if the design incorporated artificial airflow over the aircraft wings, then vertical take-off becomes a possibility for aircraft varying from general aviation to small jets. In order to determine the most efficient wing for vertical take-off, multiple airfoils with different characteristics and airflow configurations were designed and tested. For each airfoil, the coefficient of lift was to be calculated and recorded in order to determine which airfoil had the greatest capability for vertical take-off. However, the airfoil/airflow design utilized in the tests did not create enough lift to measure. Although the tests appear to have ended in failure, there was one important trait that was effectively proven. This trait was the fact that there was a pressure drop over the top of the airfoil, which meant that the airfoil was generating lift. This trait has lead to plans for future designs and testing.
Discover how fintech is transforming bank performance: insights from an emerging economy
Creators: name: Ovenc, Gokhan
name: Nabiyev, Abdul Baghi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Fintech startups are using new technologies to force traditional banks to change their business models, which could potentially threaten their position in the financial industry. Banks collaborate with fintech startups to enhance their technological infrastructure and gain a competitive advantage. This paper investigates the impact of collaborations between banks and fintech companies on commercial banks’ performance using a panel dataset from 2013 to 2021 in Türkiye. The One-Step System GMM model results vary by the size of banks and bank performance indicators. First, findings indicate that the collaborations between commercial banks and fintech companies have a positive impact only on banks’ ROE for large-scale traditional banks, which indicates a potential complementary effect. Another significant outcome implies that fintech development has a negative influence on banks’ ROA and ROE for large-scale banks, which reveals that specific fintech services and goods can be substituted for traditional banks. This study analyzes how collaborations between commercial banks and fintech firms influence bank performance, using data from Türkiye between 2013 and 2021. The findings reveal a nuanced picture. For large-scale traditional banks, partnering with fintech firms tends to improve return on equity (ROE), suggesting that these collaborations can complement existing business models. However, the broader development of fintech across the industry appears to have a negative impact on both return on assets (ROA) and ROE for large banks. This suggests that some fintech products and services may be substituting traditional banking functions, thereby reducing profitability. The work is significant because it offers empirical evidence on the mixed impacts of fintech integration. It helps clarify that while collaborations with fintech firms can drive improvements in certain performance metrics, they can also disrupt traditional revenue streams. This insight is valuable for banks as they look to strike a balance between embracing technological innovation and safeguarding their core operations.
Reconnection Dynamics for Quantized Vortices
Creators: name: Paoletti, M. S.
name: Fisher, Michael E.
name: Lathrop, D. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By analyzing trajectories of solid hydrogen tracers in superfluid $^4$He, we identify tens of thousands of individual reconnection events between quantized vortices. We characterize the dynamics by the minimum separation distance $δ(t)$ between the two reconnecting vortices both before and after the events. Applying dimensional arguments, this separation has been predicted to behave asymptotically as $δ(t) \approx A(κ|t-t_0|)^{1/2}$, where $κ=h/m$ is the quantum of circulation. The major finding of the experiments and their analysis is strong support for this asymptotic form with $κ$ as the dominant controlling feature, although there are significant event to event fluctuations. At the three-parameter level the dynamics may be about equally well-fit by two modified expressions: (a) an arbitrary power-law expression of the form $δ(t)=B|t-t_0|^α$ and (b) a correction-factor expression $δ(t)=A(κ|t-t_0|)^{1/2}(1+c|t-t_0|)$. In light of possible physical interpretations we regard the correction-factor expression (b), which attributes the observed deviations from the predicted asymptotic form to fluctuations in the local environment and in boundary conditions, as best describing our experimental data. The observed dynamics appear statistically time-reversible, which suggests that an effective equilibrium has been established in quantum turbulence on the time scales investigated. We discuss the impact of reconnection on velocity statistics in quantum turbulence and, as regards classical turbulence, we argue that forms analogous to (b) could well provide an alternative interpretation of the observed deviations from Kolmogorov scaling exponents of the longitudinal structure functions.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Physica D special topics: Fluid Science and Turbulence
title: Divertículo de Meckel en el adulto. Hallazgos en tomografía computarizada.
Creators: name: Unzue Garcia-Falces, Guillermo
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Small bowel
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: CT
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Complications
subject: Diverticula
subject: Inflammation
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
Determinar el porcentaje de complicaciones del divertículo de Meckel en el servicio de urgencias de nuestro centro hospitalario desde el año 2002 hasta la actualidad. Mostrar los hallazgos en tomografía computarizada (TC) del divertículo de...
An investigation of chromospheric activity spanning the Vaughan--Preston gap: impact on stellar ages
Creators: name: Pace, G.
name: Melendez, J.
name: Pasquini, L.
name: Carraro, G.
name: Danziger, J.
name: Francois, P.
name: Matteucci, F.
name: Santos, N. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chromospheric activity is widely used as an age indicator for solar-type stars based on the early evidence that there is a smooth evolution from young and active to old and inactive stars. We analysed chromospheric activity in five solar-type stars in two open clusters, in order to study how chromospheric activity evolves with time. We took UVES high-resolution, high S/N ratio spectra of 3 stars in IC 4756 and 2 in NGC 5822, which were combined with a previously studied data-set and reanalysed here. The emission core of the deep, photospheric Ca II K line was used as a probe of the chromospheric activity. All of the 5 stars in the new sample, including those in the 1.2 Gyr-old NGC 5822, have activity levels comparable to those of Hyades and Praesepe. A likely interpretation of our data is that solar-type-star chromospheric activity, from the age of the Hyades until that of the Sun, does not evolve smoothly. Stars change from active to inactive on a short timescale. Evolution before and after such a transition is much less significant than cyclical and long-term variations. We show that data presented in the literature to support a correlation between age and activity could be also interpreted differently in the light of our results.
description: 5 pages, 2 Figures, 1 Table, published in A&A.
title: RM prostática prebiopsia: nuestra experiencia
Creators: name: Arrillaga Hermoso, Amaia
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: MR
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Neoplasia

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
Evaluar los resultados de las RMmultiparamétricas realizadas previas a nueva biopsia en pacientes con riesgo de cáncer prostático con biopsias previas...
title: Enfermedad por depósito de Ig G4.
Creators: name: Martin Martin, Beatriz
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Education
subject: Metabolic disorders
subject: Endocrine disorders

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
- Conocer el amplio espectro de entidades que forman parte de esta enfermedad. - Describir sus principales características hitológicas,
clínicas y...
Nanoflows through disordered media: a joint Lattice Boltzmann and Molecular Dynamics investigation
Creators: name: Russo, J.
name: Horbach, J.
name: Sciortino, F.
name: Succi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate nanoflows through dilute disordered media by means of joint lattice Boltzmann (LB) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations -- when the size of the obstacles is comparable to the size of the flowing particles -- for randomly located spheres and for a correlated particle-gel. In both cases at sufficiently low solid fraction, $Φ<0.01$, LB and MD provide similar values of the permeability. However, for $Φ> 0.01$, MD shows that molecular size effects lead to a decrease of the permeability, as compared to the Navier-Stokes predictions. For gels, the simulations highlights a surplus of permeability, which can be accommodated within a rescaling of the effective radius of the gel monomers.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
LeADS CR2 Board Game: Jury Trials (Green v Blue)
Creators: name: Doan, Xengie
name: El Mestari, Soumia Zohra
name: Poe, Robert Lee
name: SAHI, Louis Fortuné Tia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: LeADS Crossroad 2 board game: Jury Trials (Green vs. Blue)

Included are instructions and supplementary materials in word with all cards in the pdf.
title: The High Cost of Cheap Coal; Why Can't We Move to Renewable Energy
Creators: name: Bartlett, Cameron Dale
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: This article addresses the historic and current use of coal as the main source of electric power throughout the United States. Coal powered power plants remain an important part of the history and industrialization of the United States, even though there are many detrimental health and environmental impacts associated with its use. A slowly growing trend has been emerging with research on and use of renewable energy to replace fossil fuels, such as coal. Greater public awareness and involvement will help drive the slowly emerging use of renewable energy. This article looks at the current barriers that are prohibiting the implementation of renewable energy, and shows that there are technical and non-technical barriers. A public survey demonstrates the understanding, as well as the willingness the public has to move towards renewable energy sources.
Thermal fluctuations in viscous cosmology
Creators: name: Li, Wei-Jia
name: Ling, Yi
name: Wu, Jian-Pin
name: Kuang, Xiao-Mei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the power spectrum of thermal fluctuations in very early stage of viscous cosmology. When the state parameter as well as the viscous coefficient of a barotropic fluid is properly chosen, a scale invariant spectrum with large non-Gaussianity can be obtained. In contrast to the results previously obtained in string gas cosmology and holographic cosmology, we find the non-Gaussianity in this context can be k-independent such that it is not suppressed at large scale, which is expected to be testified in future observation.
description: 13 pages, no figure, typos corrected, references added
From rule to ruin: the Conservative Party of British Columbia, 1928-1954
Creators: name: Alper, Donald K
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In 1928 the Conservative Party of British Columbia won an impressive electoral victory, taking 35 of the 48 seats in the legislature. The victory was a comeback for Conservatives since after forming consecutive governments during the years 1903-1916, they remained in opposition from 1916-1928. The comeback, however, was not to be permanent. Five years later, in the 1933 election, the Conservative Party met disaster. Not a single candidate running with the Conservative label was elected. Although their fortunes improved in the 1937 and 1941 elections, Conservatives would not again form a government on their own in British Columbia. Throughout the 1940s they shared power in a coalition government, but in so doing the forces were set in motion which culminated in the party's collapse in the early 1950s. The party suffered a massive defeat in the 1953 election, an event which marked the end of the Conservative Party as a serious contender in the province's electoral politics since Conservatives have been unable to make a showing in provincial elections in the 21 years since. What happened to the provincial Conservatives is the question addressed in this study. How did a party which has enjoyed a history of success in both the province's federal and provincial arenas lose, almost entirely, its support base in the early 1950s? The general approach of this study is historical-interpretative. An account and interpretation of the Conservatives' fate is given through a detailed analysis of the party's internal politics. The focus is on politicians (party leaders) and their efforts to build and maintain a party clientele, their definition of goals and the strategies devised to attain them. The major theme which emerges is that the party's ultimate failure to survive as a contender in provincial politics is inextricably bound up with the internal fractionalization that continued to plague it. This study begins by examining the period when the Conservative Party was one of two major parties in British Columbia. The background of this early period is important in understanding the principal actors and political conflicts which set the context for later events. The main body of the study examines the personalities and conflicts in the party during the years 1933-1954. The years of coalition government (1941-1952) are singled out for special treatment because the chain of events precipitated by the coalition ultimately led to the party's disintegration and collapse.
Searching for Multijet Resonances at the LHC
Creators: name: Kilic, Can
name: Schumann, Steffen
name: Son, Minho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently it was shown that there is a class of models in which colored vector and scalar resonances can be copiously produced at the Tevatron with decays to multijet final states, consistent with all experimental constraints and having strong discovery potential. We investigate the collider phenomenology of TeV scale colored resonances at the LHC and demonstrate a strong discovery potential for the scalars with early data as well as the vectors with additional statistics. We argue that the signal can be self-calibrating and using this fact we propose a search strategy which we show to be robust to systematic errors typically expected from Monte Carlo background estimates. We model the resonances with a phenomenological Lagrangian that describes them as bound states of colored vectorlike fermions due to new confining gauge interactions. However, the phenomenological Lagrangian treatment is quite general and can represent other scenarios of microscopic physics as well.
description: 28 pages, 13 figures, pdflatex. Discussion of background expanded, minor modifications made. Version to appear in JHEP
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay March 2000
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Total population: purchasing appliances and furniture; family economic situation; Uruguay economy; rate kindness of political figures; Uruguay competition with the world; approval of various political figures and groups; formality of Julio María Sanguinetti vs. Jorge Battle; emergency law with economic measures; where do you buy your groceries; closeness to political party; democracy in Uruguay; international trade; unions; 1999 voting history (October); 2000 voting preferences (mayor). Canelones: rate kindness of political figures; 2000 voting preferences (Canalones mayor). Paysandú: rate kindness of political figures; 2000 voting preferences (Paysandú mayor). Montevideo: rate kindness of political figures; zonal community centers; Autoparque parking system; wheel clamps on cars that “pass the hour”; 2000 voting preferences (Montevideo mayor). National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection.
title: Síndromes de Hipotensión e Hipertensión Intracraneal. Hallazgos Radiológicos
Creators: name: Schuller Arteaga, Miguel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Hypertension
subject: Cerebrospinal fluid

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Conocer las diversas formas de manifestación en TC y RM tanto de la Hipotensión Intracraneal Espontánea (HIE) como de la Hipertensión Intracraneal Idiopática (HII). Hacer una revisión de las características clínicas y etiopatogenia de ambas...
Doped graphene/carbon black hybrid catalyst giving enhanced oxygen reduction reaction activity with high resistance to corrosion in proton exchange membrane fuel cells
Creators: name: Ji, Zhaoqi
name: Chen, Jianuo
name: Pérez-Page, María
name: Guo, Zunmin
name: Zhao, Ziyu
name: Cai, Rongsheng
name: Rigby, Maxwell T. P.
name: Haigh, Sarah J.
name: Homes, Stuart M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nitrogen doping of the carbon is an important method to improve the performance and durability of catalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells by platinum-nitrogen and carbon-nitrogen bonds. This study shows that p-phenyl groups and graphitic N acting bridges linking platinum and the graphene/carbon black (the ratio graphene/carbon black=2/3) hybrid support materials achieved the average size of platinum nanoparticles with (4.88 +/- 1.79) nm. It improved the performance of the lower-temperature hydrogen fuel cell up to 0.934 W cm-2 at 0.60 V, which is 1.55 times greater than that of commercial Pt/C. Doping also enhanced the interaction between Pt and the support materials, and the resistance to corrosion, thus improving the durability of the low-temperature hydrogen fuel cell with a much lower decay of 10 mV at 0.80 A cm-2 after 30k cycles of an in-situ accelerated stress test of catalyst degradation than that of 92 mV in Pt/C, which achieves the target of Department of Energy (<30 mV). Meanwhile, Pt/NrEGO2-CB3 remains 78% of initial power density at 1.5 A cm-2 after 5k cycles of in-situ accelerated stress test of carbon corrosion, which is more stable than the power density of commercial Pt/C, keeping only 54% after accelerated stress test.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures and supplementary information
Effects of feed particle size, calcium concentration and phytase supplementation on InsP6 degradation in broiler chickens fed pelleted diets
Creators: name: Wolfrum, S.
name: Siegert, W.
name: Rubio-Cervantes, I.
name: Feuerstein, D.
name: Camarinha-Silva, A.
name: Rodehutscord, M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: 1. The objective of the trial was to study the single and interactive effects of feed particle size in pelleted feed, dietary calcium (Ca) concentration and microbial phytase supplementation in broiler chickens. The studied traits were myo-inositol (1,2,3,4,5,6) hexakis (dihydrogen phosphate) (InsP6) degradation, pre-caecal digestibility of phosphorus (P), Ca and amino acids (AA) and retention of P, Ca and nitrogen (N). 2. Male Ross 308 broiler chickens were housed in metabolism units in groups of 10 and allocated to one of eight diets with seven pen replicates per diet. The 2 × 2 × 2-factorial arrangement included coarse and fine feed particle size (309 or 222 µm), low and high Ca concentration (4.9 and 7.2 g/kg) and without or with phytase supplementation (1,000 FTU/kg). 3. Pre-caecal InsP6 disappearance was higher with coarse than fine feed particle size when no phytase was added (54 vs. 48%) but not when phytase was added (74%; p = 0.046). High dietary Ca feeds decreased pre-caecal InsP6 disappearance (67 to 59%) and P digestibility (65 to 55%; p < 0.001). Gizzard pH was lower with coarse than fine feed particle size and higher with high Ca than low Ca (p < 0.001). Pre-caecal digestibility of most AA was approximately 3.5%-points lower with high Ca without phytase compared to the other treatments (p ≤ 0.047). Coarse feed particle size caused higher pre-caecal AA digestibility than fine particle size (~2%-points; p ≤ 0.031). InsP6 disappearance in the crop increased at high Ca concentration when phytase was added (22 vs. 37%; p = 0.011). 4. Coarser feed particle size in pellets increased gastrointestinal InsP6 degradation and nutrient digestibility, likely owing to effects on the gizzard functions. Additional Ca supply exerted antinutritive effects that was not compensated for by using coarser feed particles.
title: Open Space Changes: A Formal Analysis in Cache Valley, Utah
Creators: name: Bodine, Cameron Scott
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: Open spaces are a valuable amenity that people often overlook. Open spaces allow for a system of water treatment, wildlife habitat, agricultural production, and recreation destinations. Too often, however, open space systems are systematically devoured by development with little regard of what that can mean for the future of a community. This thesis suggests that when open space systems are analyzed as having structure, shape, and a dynamic nature, interconnected with development, then an explanation of how it transforms and evolves can emerge. This thesis seeks to present a new method of describing open space change through understanding development trends through time in Cache Valley, Utah. Utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and parcel data, this thesis presents and analyzes various methods of describing open space change. Through developing a method of describing open space, then trends, development pressures, and potential areas for open space recovery can be identified and informed decisions can be made about development patterns in the future.
title: Carbon Nanotube Growth Via Spray Pyrolysis
Creators: name: Call, Robert Welch
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: Spray pyrolysis is a promising method to create carbon nanotube forests (CNFs) on various surfaces. By injecting metallocene-hydrocarbon solutions into a heated quartz reactor, catalyst particles and carbon nanotubes can be formed simultaneously. Factors that affect CNF growth include the precursor concentration, injection rate and duration, carrier gas flow rate, substrate surface, growth temperature, and the composition of gases inside the reactor. The CNF morphologies affected by these factors will be presented and, hopefully, an optimum condition will be found.
An efficient method for the Quantum Monte Carlo evaluation of the static density-response function of a many-electron system
Creators: name: Gaudoin, R.
name: Pitarke, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent Letter we introduced Hellmann-Feynman operator sampling in diffusion Monte Carlo calculations. Here we derive, by evaluating the second derivative of the total energy, an efficient method for the calculation of the static density-response function of a many-electron system. Our analysis of the effect of the nodes suggests that correlation is described correctly and we find that the effect of the nodes can be dealt with.
title: White Blues: Can Eric Clapton Embody Du Bois' Double Consciousness?
Creators: name: Gabriel, Ryan Patrick
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: In this article I explore if Black consciousness, as described by W.E.B. Du Bois' theory of double consciousness, can be taken on by those who are White. I analyze songs both written and covered by Eric Clapton, to examine if elements of double consciousness are in his music. Furthermore, I analyze album covers that have Clapton's image on them, looking for characteristics of physical Blackness. My findings reveal that Eric Clapton does take on aspects of double consciousness, through his music, and facets of physical Blackness. Thus, I discover it is possible for Whites to experience elements of double consciousness.
Association of keel bone morphometry with keel bone damage and skeletal quality in the laying hen
Creators: name: Maidin, M. B. M.
name: McCormack, H. A.
name: Wilson, P. W.
name: Liang, I. J.
name: Andersson, B.
name: Schmutz, M.
name: Dunn, I. C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: 1. The aim of this work was to identify a heritable keel bone phenotype with a correlation to keel bone damage and/or skeletal bone strength that could be easily measured in the living hen to aid selection to prevent welfare issues. 2. The scoring system used reflected the observed damage, keel bone dimensions and shape compared to traditional measurements of bone quality. 3. Increased keel bone damage was associated with poor humerus and tibia breaking strengths (p < 0.01). Bone damage was associated with higher whole keel density (p < 0.01) due to the effect of callus formation. 4. Keel bone depth and area was moderately heritable at indices of 0.32 and 0.40, respectively. Keel bone depth was genetically correlated with tibia (0.36) and humerus density (0.68) and keel bone area was correlated with humerus density (0.59). Deeper keel bones and those with larger areas had small, negative phenotypic correlations with keel bone damage (−0.07 and −0.11, respectively). The second principal component of keel bone shape represented the caudal section of the keel bone and cranial edge concavity. The third principal component represented the differences in the caudal tip of the keel bone, the concavity of the dorsal edge and convexity of the ventral edge. Heritability estimates were 0.44 and 0.39, respectively. 5. The results suggested that genetics contribute to morphometric traits. Hens with poorer skeletal quality are likely to accumulate more damage. Some of the traits may be a predictor of damage, although mid keel depth or concavity may simply reflect the effect of damage or deviation.
Genome-wide methylation and transcriptome differential analysis of skeletal muscle in broilers with valgus-varus deformity
Creators: name: Cai, C.
name: Ma, Y.
name: Zhang, L.
name: An, Z.
name: Zhou, E.
name: Liu, X.
name: Li, H.
name: Li, W.
name: Li, Z.
name: Li, G.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Han, R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: 1. Valgus-varus deformity (VVD) is a disease that severely affects leg function in broilers and for which there is no effective control method current available. Although DNA methylation has an important impact on most physiological and pathological processes, its involvement in skeletal muscle growth and development in VVD broilers is unknown. In this study, genome-wide DNA methylation was analysed in VVD-affected and normal broilers using whole genome resulphite sequencing. 2. The results showed that in the cytosine-phosphoric acid-guanine (CG) sequence environment there was a methylation rate of about 55% and 4,265 differentially methylated regions (DMRs) were found in the CG. Of these, 550 were located in the promoter, 547 in the exon region, and 1,718 in the intron region. 3. All differentially methylated genes (DMGs) were analysed for enrichment of Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways. The GO was enriched in pathways related to protein degradation such as proteasome complex, endopeptidase complex and extracellular region. The KEGG pathways were enriched in signalling pathways related to protein degradation and catabolism such as proteasome, nitrogen metabolism, adherens junction and alanine. 4. Protein interactions analysis revealed that FOS, MYL9, and FRAS1 had a high degree of interactions, in which the DNA methylation level of the MYL9 promoter region was negatively correlated with mRNA expression level. Further studies showed that 5-azacytidine (5-AzaC) inhibited DNMT1 and DNMT3A gene expression and promoted MYL9 expression. 5. This study systematically investigated overall DNA methylation patterns in the leg muscle of VVD and normal broilers. It screened common differential genes in conjunction with transcriptomic data to further identify genes associated with muscle growth and development. This study provides new insights to better understand the pathogenesis of VVD from an epigenetic perspective.
Study of two mothers’ verbal interaction with their language-delayed and normal language-learning children
Creators: name: Fleming, Amy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This paper reports the findings of an observational study of two family groups consisting of a mother and her two young sons. In each family, the older sons aged 4-5 and 4-9, were language-delayed despite a lack of apparent intellectual or physiological deficit, and the younger sons, aged 2-6 and 2-11, appeared to be acquiring language normally. Over a one month period, data collection took place in three free play contexts in the following order: 1. The mother interacting with her normal child. 2. The mother interacting with her language-delayed child. 3. The mother interacting with both children together. For each family the thirty minutes of audio-taped data collected in each of the three contexts were analyzed in terms of a number of physical performance, structural, and functional parameters. In all contexts the mothers' speech styles were characteristically differentiated from each other. Some evidence supports the hypothesis that mothers make differential assumptions about the verbal input needs of their language-delayed versus their normal language-learning children.
title: An Empirical Study of Student Programming Bugs
Creators: name: Hansen, Amy
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: Students in introductory computer science courses often have difficulty with coding and problem solving, which results in bugs. These bugs cause both student frustration and attrition of many of our CS majors. In this work, we seek to understand the bugs that students encounter. We have two sources of data. First, we collect and analyze 450 bugs that were brought to our tutor lab by our CS 1 and CS2 students. Second, we analyze bugs in CS I homework assignments. The results show that the majority of the problems are due to problem solving skills, while the remaining problems involve a combination of logic and syntax problems for specific topics in the courses.
Ranking of different of investment risk in high-tech projects using TOPSIS method in fuzzy environment based on linguistic variables
Creators: name: Sadeghi, Mohammad Ebrahim
name: Nozari, Hamed
name: Dezfoli, Hadi Khajezadeh
name: Khajezadeh, Mehdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Examining the trend of the global economy shows that global trade is moving towards high-tech products. Given that these products generate very high added value, countries that can produce and export these products will have high growth in the industrial sector. The importance of investing in advanced technologies for economic and social growth and development is so great that it is mentioned as one of the strong levers to achieve development. It should be noted that the policy of developing advanced technologies requires consideration of various performance aspects, risks and future risks in the investment phase. Risk related to high-tech investment projects has a meaning other than financial concepts only. In recent years, researchers have focused on identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing risk. There are two important components in measuring investment risk in high-tech industries, which include identifying the characteristics and criteria for measuring system risk and how to measure them. This study tries to evaluate and rank the investment risks in advanced industries using fuzzy TOPSIS technique based on verbal variables.
title: Combating Antibiotic Resistance Through Development of a Novel Antimicrobial Delivery Vehicle
Creators: name: Hatch, Alex
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: A thermoreversible gel for antimicrobial agent delivery would provide a novel platform suitable for medical applications from persistent infections arising from localized biofilms. Thermoreversible gels could be used to coat medical implants, to inject for subdermal treatments, or to implement in topical applications. FDA approved Pluronics® form thermoreversible gels and certain Pluronics® display inherent varying degrees of antimicrobial activity. Pluronics® have been shown to affect efflux pumps, and reduce ATP levels within the bacterial cell. In combination with antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals, Pluronics® have been used to sequester drugs and act as a delivery vehicle. With advances in nanomedicine, nanoparticles offer alternatives to traditional antibiotics. Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) have been shown to inhibit enzymes, bind to DNA, and induce structural changes in bacterial membranes. These properties make Ag NPs a good candidate for overcoming antibiotic resistant bacteria. We designed a thermoreversible gel combining Pluronic® F-127 and Ag NPs that can be applied as a liquid to conform to the site, followed by gelation and sustained release of antimicrobials or other therapeutics.
title: Legal Positivism: An Analysis
Creators: name: Chambers, Jonathan Brett
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: Having taken some constitution and government courses during my undergraduate studies, I was comfortable with my understanding of justice and morality. An independent research seminar into the philosophy of law with Dr. Huenemann changed that. Taking Brian Leiter's book Naluralizing Jurilprudence as our guide, we dived into the vast question of "what is the law?" This seemingly simple question has shaped western society in too many ways to account. for instance, Legal Realists - one group that believes all rights "are the creations of government and the legal rules it lays down,,1 - dramatically changed labor laws in the early 20th century by changing the long-held belief that property rights were static. If their philosophy hadn't become popular, would courts have continued to side with factory owners in postindustrial America? Consequently, if resulting labor laws such as the Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932 hadn't been enacted, what would our society look like today? I began to understand that justice. morality, and the law are intricately tied, and how we understand anyone of them will affect the others. More, I realized that legal philosophy is in constant motion, adapting to vogue ideas. Society, built upon the principle of law, likewise sways in harmony with legal philosophy. The following is one perspective of what the law is. Though no theory is completely dominant today. Legal Positivism as formulated by 1-l.L.A. Hart, has arguably had the greatest impact on legal philosophy since the 20th century.
Effect of grinding method and extent of pelleting of broiler diets on performance, feeding behaviour and digestive tract functionality
Creators: name: Dhakal, S.
name: Hetland, H.
name: Svihus, B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: 1. An experiment was carried out to examine if a heterogeneous diet consisting of pellets and coarse cereal particles would result in a similar feed intake to pelleted-only diets. It also considered whether coarser particles entering the gizzard would encourage the development of the gizzard and thus improve digestive tract functionality. Maize and wheat were hammer milled through a 3 mm screen after coarse grinding using either one of the two screens with a novel pattern. Three pellet-only diets were produced based on three grinding sizes. Additionally, four diets were produced by separating coarse cereal particles from moderately coarse particles by sieving either once or twice, pelleting the remainder and finally mixing these into a complete heterogeneous diet. 2. No difference in performance between birds fed the three pelleted-only diets was observed. However, heterogeneous diets resulted in a lower feed intake (FI) and weight gain (WG) than pelleted-only diets (p < 0.05). The dietary treatments neither affected the feed conversion ratio nor ileal digestibility of starch and protein (p > 0.05). As expected, feeding a heterogeneous diets increased (p < 0.05) the relative weight of the gizzard and its contents. Approximately 50% of the particles in the small intestine were between 0.15 mm and 0.36 mm in diameter, with more fine particles observed when the pelleted-only diets containing coarsely ground cereals were fed, confirming the capacity of the gizzard to finely grind feed. 3. Sieving of the diet remaining in the feeder during 4 h of feeding two of the heterogeneous diets showed that the particles > 2.8 mm disappeared first (p < 0.05), showing the birds’ preference for larger particles when offered heterogeneous diets. Although the birds were able to handle the coarse microstructure of the diets without any negative effects, the reduced performance in the case of heterogeneous diets might have been related to feed intake issues and particle selection, resulting in an imbalance in nutrient intake.
title: Rising Metaphors: Bread and Christianity in Contemporary Short Fiction
Creators: name: Jacobson, Marleah Callie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2011

description: Although my thesis centers on the use of bread metaphors to represent Christian themes in fiction, it became important that my thesis explored and examined a variety of food writing. Broadly defined, food writing has existed since the beginnings of literature. Because food encompasses all five senses, writing about food is a rich metaphorical tool. Bread is an excellent example of a prevalent food metaphor that largely involves all five senses. Early examples using this metaphor are found frequently in the Bible. My thesis also examines how this metaphor is present and used in contemporary fiction. Consideration is given to the effect bread references have on the reader. My thesis is divided into two components: a critical introduction that centers the second part which is a creative component, reflecting what I have learned about bread metaphors, Christian themes and the art of food writing.
ClimART: A Benchmark Dataset for Emulating Atmospheric Radiative Transfer in Weather and Climate Models
Creators: name: Cachay, Salva Rühling
name: Ramesh, Venkatesh
name: Cole, Jason N. S.
name: Barker, Howard
name: Rolnick, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical simulations of Earth's weather and climate require substantial amounts of computation. This has led to a growing interest in replacing subroutines that explicitly compute physical processes with approximate machine learning (ML) methods that are fast at inference time. Within weather and climate models, atmospheric radiative transfer (RT) calculations are especially expensive. This has made them a popular target for neural network-based emulators. However, prior work is hard to compare due to the lack of a comprehensive dataset and standardized best practices for ML benchmarking. To fill this gap, we build a large dataset, ClimART, with more than \emph{10 million samples from present, pre-industrial, and future climate conditions}, based on the Canadian Earth System Model. ClimART poses several methodological challenges for the ML community, such as multiple out-of-distribution test sets, underlying domain physics, and a trade-off between accuracy and inference speed. We also present several novel baselines that indicate shortcomings of datasets and network architectures used in prior work. Download instructions, baselines, and code are available at: https://github.com/RolnickLab/climart