cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Two approaches to solve a nonconvex vectorial variational problem: revised translation method and Young measures
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuan
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Bounds for effective properties
Multimaterial optimal design
Nonconvex vectorial variational problems
Structural optimization
Young measures

description: In this dissertation, several problems are solved using different approaches.  The first problem is the two-dimensional three-material G-closure problem: finding all possible effective tensors from given conductivities of three materials and  volume fractions. We solve this problem by establishing lower bounds on effective tensors, and finding the (sequences of) microstructures that attain the lower bounds.  The lower bound is a piece wise analytic function that depends on the conductivity and volume fraction of each component. They are derived using a combination of the  translation method, and additional constraints on the field in the materials. The found bound extend their results to the anisotropic case. Furthermore, the lower  bound obtained in this dissertation is also the improvement of the Hashin-Shtrikman and translation bounds, in the sense that it is optimal in a range of parameters where previously known bounds are not; and in the region where both the new bound and  previously known bounds are not optimal, the bound derived here is tighter.  In the case when the established bound is optimal, structures that attain the bound are presented. All structures are laminates of finite rank. While the bound  cannot be obtained by laminate structures, we estimate the bound by comparing it with some particular structure. The numerical experiment shows that the gap  between the two is rather small, hence the bound is very close to the optimal bound.  The next two problems are typical problems in optimal design, and are solved using the variational method in the frame of Young measures developed by Pedregal.  The key idea of this approach is to find the quasiconvex envelope of sets and functions. Those ideas have been used before for optimal design problems with two materials at disposal. Our goal here is to explore how those ideas can be extended to three or more materials situations. In particular, we focus on two paradigmatic cases, where we consider a linear-in-the-gradient cost functional and a typical quadratic situation. In both cases, we are able to formulate, quite explicitly, a full relaxation of the problem problem through which optimal microstructures for the original nonconvex problem can be understood.  In principle, this approach can be also used to find the G-closure problem as long as one can find the quasiconvex hull of the set, composed of the gradient fields and their associated divergence free fields determined by the governing equations in the  G-closure problem.
Pelidnota osculatii Guerin-Meneville 1855
Creators: name: Hielkema, Auke J.
name: Hielkema, Meindert A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Pelidnota
Pelidnota osculatii

description: § Pelidnota osculatii Guérin-Méneville, 1855
Pelidnota osculatii Guérin-Méneville 1855: 585 (Peru - NEOTYPE)
Distribution. Venezuela (EO): Kirmse and Ratcliffe 2019: 153 (EO). “Amazon Basin”: Guérin- Méneville 1855: 585. Other: Ohaus 1912: 300 (Colombia, Ecuador), 1934: 85 (Ecuador - as Pelidnota (Chalcoplethis) osculatii); Blackwelder 1944: 237 (Ecuador); Machatschke 1972: 31 (Ecuador - as Pelidnota (Chalcoplethis) osculatii); Soula 2006: 68 (Colombia - as Strigidia osculatii), 2010: 33 (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru - designation NEOTYPE Pelidnota osculatii); Moore et al. 2017: 229 (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru).
Note. Soula (2010b: 33) designates a neotype for Pelidnota osculatii, which he states is deposited in the MNHN. Moore et al. (2017: 229) mention they found a neotype in the Soula collection in the Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France (CCECL), but invalidate this neotype because according to them it has never been published. Given that the neotype data mentioned by Soula (2010b) are identical to those mentioned by Moore et al. (2017), it seems that it has been published but that the specimen ended up in the wrong collection. This may have been caused by Soula’s sudden death in 2012, as this could have kept him from intended actions such as sending the specimen to the MNHN.
description: Published as part of Hielkema, Auke J. & Hielkema, Meindert A., 2019, An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas, pp. 1-306 in Insecta Mundi 732 (732) on pages 149-150, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3678492
Microbial Quality of Orri (A Fermented Maize Product)
Creators: name: Ifeoma Enweani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Orri, a Nigerian Food made from maize wasprepared in the laboratory employingtraditional methods. The basic processesinvolved steeping, wet milling, wet sieving, precooking,wrapping with leaves and cooking. Two stage fermentative processes were employed. Microorganisms involved in the fermentative processes were determined. These included:Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterobacter cloacae, Staphylococcus saprophyticus, Fusarium oxysporium and Penicillium digitatum. Nutritional composition of Orri was also assessed giving carbohydrate60.3%; protein 1.2%; lipid 7.1%; vitamin C 0.064% and fiber 30.8%.
Responsive mentor, transformative mentorship
Creators: name: Hinsdale, Mary Jo
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Higher education
Intersubjectivity
Levinas
Mentoring
Relational pedagogy
Underrepresented

description: Low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented undergraduates often have tense relationships with institutions of higher education. They enter college after  squeezing through an academic pipeline that has weeded out many of their peers. If they persist into higher education, students must learn to be comfortable in classrooms and academic spaces that do not, as a general rule, welcome their perspectives or their bodies.  Instead, they are required to learn how to negotiate mainstream curricula and bureaucratic processes that deny their ways of knowing and cultural foundations. Mentors are often vital to this process.  Traditional concepts of mentoring do not recognize the deep and abiding tensions that underrepresented students might feel in the university. Neither do they encompass the problematic context; of higher education itself, which can present a mine field of obstacles and threats to underrepresented students who confront the status quo with new ideas. Higher education is at odds with itself: academic discovery thrives on challenging  received wisdom with new perspectives. Yet, the system rewards those students and researchers who are best assimilated into its norms and expectations. To do otherwise risks remaining on the margins of one's chosen academic discourse.  A mentor's tasks, as well as her relationship with the student, are deeply complicated by several factors, especially when mentorship occurs across differences of  race, class, gender, sexuality and/or ability. Among the concerns that might trouble a mentor's relationship with a protégé1 are: the student's personal experiences of  educational barriers and negative academic interactions; the exclusionary history of higher education that is alive in an institution's campus climate; the mentor's unexamined academic and social expectations regarding her field of inquiry and her own socialization into the field; and the mentor's assumptions about underrepresented or first-generation students and relationships with them. Negotiating this terrain can be extremely difficult for the mentor and risky for the protégé. In an effort to find a way through the tangles of  mentor/ protégé relationships across difference, this work braids together history, sociology, and philosophy of education to reconceptualize mentorship through a  Lévinasian theory of relations.
Cardiac Arrest Post Voluntary Intoxication with Propafenone
Creators: name: Matos, Eugénia Martins De
name: Dionísio, Teresa
name: Dinis, Alexandra
name: Milet, Igor
name: Pires, António
name: Carvalho, Leonor
Publisher: name: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics
Year: 2019

description: We report the case of a 17-year-old girl, observed in the emergency room 1.5 hours after voluntary ingestion of 6 grams of propafenone and 1.5 grams of ibuprofen. On arrival, she was conscious and without arrhythmias noted in the electrocardiogram. Gastric lavage was performed and activated charcoal administered. Fifteen minutes later, a convulsive episode was followed by sudden asystole, from which she recovered after 4 minutes of advanced life support. Subsequently, she had 2 episodes of asystole. She was then placed on inotropic support, but due to persistent haemodynamically significant bradycardia she required a transvenous temporary pacemaker. She was then admitted to Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, where for 72 hours post admission she remained haemodynamically unstable pacemaker-dependent. She was discharged on D8, fully recovered and without neurological deficits. The favourable outcome was due swift institution of cardiorespiratory resuscitation measures as well as inotrope support and transvenous temporary cardiac pacing.
description: Portuguese Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 50 No. 3 (2019)
Impact spectra in grinding mills
Creators: name: Duriseti, Vishal
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Ball mills, grinding media
Size reduction of materials

description: Monitoring of grinding operations in tumbling mills has been the focus of research for several decades. Charge motion and the breakage field that determine the efficiency of grinding are determined indirectly.  An instrumented load cell package that can measure the force of impacts inside the grinding chamber of a mill is developed here. The signal from the instrumented load cell package is interpreted in terms of a histogram termed as an impact spectrum which is a plot of the number of impacts at a specific energy level against the energy. It reflects on the average force regime of the mill.  The instrumented load cell package was calibrated against the ultra fast load cell which has been unanimously accepted as a standard to measure single breakage events. The load cell package was successfully used to produce impact spectra in an 8.5 inch lab scale mill. The mill speed and the ball size were varied to study their effect on the impact spectra. A good correlation was found between the process variables and the impact spectra.  The load cell package was then used in a 16 inch pilot scale mill. The mill speed, ball size, and mill filling were varied here and a consistent trend between these variables and impact spectra was observed. With a better understanding developed from the initial tests, the design of the load cell package was significantly changed to  eliminate noise. With the new design, the impact spectra were re-determined in the 16 inch pilot mill varying the process variables - ball size, mill speed, and mill filling.  Finally, it is successfully shown that a change in the operating variables of a mill can be seen in the impact spectra and that this concept can be successfully developed to monitor the grinding operation of industrial mills.  The current connections of the load cell package are all hard wired. To adapt it to industrial level it is mandatory to make the load cell package wireless. An initial design of a wireless circuit that is capable of transferring data at the required speed of 1000 kbps was also developed and tested at Cortez Gold Mines (CGM), Nevada.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 23581.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 27.02.1971, erstellt von Werner Scheidegger
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1971

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 23611.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 31.03.1971, erstellt von Fritz Riesen
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1971

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel. Es sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Relationships, caregiving and multiple sclerosis: gender and perceptions of care
Creators: name: Hughes, Jennifer Christine
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Care
Caregiving
Gender
Multiple sclerosis
Perceptions
Relationships

description: This qualitative research study attempted to understand and unpack the caregiving experience in the illness of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Ten couples were interviewed separately and later as a dyad to discuss care, care responsibilities and support systems to see how gender influenced either the caregiving or care receiving experience. The purpose of this research was to explore, develop, and understand perceptions of care between care providers and caregivers of MS under the lens of feminist care theory/ethics of care within a social model of disability. Caregivers and those diagnosed with MS experience the caregiving relationship in a variety of ways where gender does indeed influence the experience of care. Gender provides a dimension for understanding the social construction of the disease including daily responsibilities of both the care giver and care receiver. Participants were acutely aware of gender when required to complete a care event or task outside of traditional gender roles. The social construction of gender provided a point of awareness for participants to examine care roles. Those tasks falling outside traditional gender roles were frequently brought to consciousness and provided an area of potential provocation. Additionally, this research examined care needs and the role of social support in the care experience. Care needs differed among participants depending on the availability of resources. Resources include: financial, time and social support. Access to these various resources affected the outcome of the care situation. Gender in turn influenced the understanding and use of resources as a dynamic in the experience. The social construction of gender also affected participants' ability to clarify and understand their experience in terms of accessing resources.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 23606.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 26.03.1971, erstellt von Fritz Riesen
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1971

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Transmission lines on integrated circuits for high speed communication
Creators: name: Lee, William Scott
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Electric power transmission
Microelectronics
Integrated circuits

description: As microelectronics continue to scale, the transistor delay decreases while the  wire delay remains relatively constant or even increases. The wire or interconnect  delay is quickly becoming the key performance limiting factor in integrated circuit  design. This thesis is designed to determine the feasibility of replacing conventional  diffusive wires with transmission lines and to compare the tradeoffs of the two  systems. The transmission lines propagate signals at the speed of light in the  medium and are much less dependent on repeaters than comparable diffusive wires.  Therefore, the transmission line system has potentially large power and performance  benefits. To compare the tradeoffs, five important design metrics are used:  propagation delay, power consumption, maximum throughput, area requirements,  and noise tolerance. The transmission lines prove to be an excellent replacement  for diffusive wires especially as the length passes 500 /im. For a 1 cm interconnect,  the transmission line shows more than a 90% improvement in delay and more  than an 80% improvement in energy per bit transmitted. In practice, fabricating  transmission lines on real integrated circuits is a difficult process because they  require precise resistance, inductance, and capacitance parameter extraction. Using  tools specially developed by Mentor Graphics for this thesis, the necessary wire  dimensions to produce various transmission lines are calculated for in IBM's 65 nm  process.
A relational approach to the moral value of privacy
Creators: name: Hudgins, Charles Gordon
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2013
Subjects: Autonomy
Internet
Privacy
Relational autonomy

description: This dissertation constructs a theoretical approach to understanding the moral value of personal privacy. In its current state, the philosophical literature on the moral value of privacy is fractured in that there are several differing approaches, each emphasizing different aspects of the problem. Some approaches, referred to as "functionalist," consider the value of privacy as being based on the goods that it brings about. Others emphasize respect for the autonomy of the individual in question, referred to as "autonomy-based." The view developed in this dissertation combines the central intuitions behind both of these approaches by basing the moral value of privacy on the notion of relational autonomy. Relational autonomy is a conception of autonomy that emphasizes the interpersonal and social embeddedness of individuals, instead of treating autonomy as a singular ideal of independence from such influences. By understanding the value of privacy as a kind of respect for relational autonomy, the relational approach is technically a kind of autonomy-based approach, but one that manages to incorporate consideration of the socially oriented goods emphasized by functionalist accounts. The examples of social media (such as Facebook) and lifelogging are used to explain this approach to the value of privacy.
Comparison of magnetic resonance imaging abdominal adiposity and body composition in preterm and term infants
Creators: name: Browning, Sara Kate
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2013
Subjects: Adiposity
Body fat
MRI
Nutrition
Peapod
Preterm infants

description: Recent neonatal research suggests a causal pathway between premature birth, altered fat deposition, and metabolic disease later in life. Specifically, one study reported that preterm infants display altered adiposity with greater visceral adiposity at term-corrected age than term infants. In adults, increased visceral adiposity is associated with glucose intolerance independent of obesity. Therefore, identification of clinical measures of visceral adiposity may improve identification of at-risk infants. We measured anthropometrics, air displacement plethysmography, and visceral and subcutaneous tissue volumes using magnetic resonance imaging in preterm infants (n=12) born at <34 weeks gestational age at hospital discharge, and in term-born infants (n=12). Our data provide evidence of increased total and visceral adiposity by magnetic resonance imaging in preterm infants. Preterm infants had significantly greater percent body fat by air displacement plethysmography (p < 0.001) with higher total (p < 0.001) and visceral adiposity (p = 0.01) by magnetic resonance imaging at hospital discharge, as compared to term infants. Preterm infant visceral adiposity, when measured by magnetic resonance imaging, was correlated with weight (r = 0.70, p = 0.04), length (r = 0.77, p = 0.02), head circumference (r = 0.75, p = 0.02), mid-arm circumference (r = 0.72, p = 0.03), subscapular skinfold thickness (r = 0.86, p = 0.003), and suprailiac skinfold thickness (r = 0.73, p = 0.03). Overall, the study results indicate that low-cost anthropometric measures correlate with total, visceral, and subcutaneous adipose tissue by magnetic resonance imaging in preterm infants. Furthermore, these data provide preliminary findings to support the development of regression equations to identify preterm infants at risk of metabolic complications later in life.
Pelidnota parvasedmagnifica in Soula 2006
Creators: name: Hielkema, Auke J.
name: Hielkema, Meindert A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Pelidnota
Pelidnota parvasedmagnifica

description: Pelidnota parvasedmagnifica (Soula and Moragues, 2006) (in Soula 2006)
Strigidia parvasedmagnifica Soula and Moragues 2006: 74 (in Soula 2006) (French Guiana)
Distribution. Suriname: MHCN - NEW COUNTRY RECORD (Suriname, Brokopondo, Brownsberg NP, (4°56′55″N, 55°10′55″W), ± 500m. 13/ 20-VIII-2015. M. A. Hielkema. On HPL.). French Guiana: Soula and Moragues 2006: 74 (in Soula 2006) (as Strigidia parvasedmagnifica); Soula 2010a: 55; Moore et al. 2017: 231.
description: Published as part of Hielkema, Auke J. & Hielkema, Meindert A., 2019, An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas, pp. 1-306 in Insecta Mundi 732 (732) on page 150, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3678492
Regulatory benefits of emotional processing and self-control in adolescents with type 1 diabetes
Creators: name: Hughes, Amy E.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Adherence
Adolescents
Emotional processing
Metabolic control
Self-regulation
Type 1 diabetes

description: The objective of this study was to examine how emotional processing (i.e., understanding, acknowledging, and accepting emotions) moderated self-control (i.e., regulation of thoughts, emotion, and behavior) in explaining diabetes-specific self-regulation  and metabolic control in adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Strong emotional processing was expected to confer regulatory benefit and promote adaptive outcomes, especially so for adolescents with poor self-control. General self-control capacity, and  particularly self-control combined with emotional processing, may also underlie the relation of diabetes-specific management self-competence, negative affect, and adherence, and metabolic control. Self-report measures of self-control, emotional processing, diabetes management self-competence, diabetes-specific negative affect, adherence, and measured HbA1c were obtained from 137 adolescents with type 1 diabetes (M age = 13.48 years). Emotional processing significantly moderated the relation of self-control and metabolic control. Adolescents with high emotional processing were buffered from the effects of poor self-control. Adolescents with low self-control and low emotional  processing had the poorest metabolic control. This interaction predicted metabolic control better than diabetes-specific self-regulatory constructs, and mediated the relations between those constructs and metabolic control. These findings suggest the importance of considering strength of emotional processing and self-control in the study of diabetes-specific self-regulation and health outcomes in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 23624.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 13.04.1971, erstellt von Fritz Riesen
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1971

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel. Es sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 23563.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 05.02.1971, erstellt von Werner Scheidegger
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1971

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel. Es sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Poverty Cycles in Utah: how teen mothers hurt themselves, their children, and society
Creators: name: Bryner, Karly Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2013
Subjects: Female poverty
Sex education
Teen motherhood
Teen pregnancy
Utah

description: In the current economic climate, reducing poverty and the number of persons on public assistance is a paramount issue. There are millions of Americans who are impoverished and whose children are likely to stay that way. Teenage motherhood is a huge risk factor for women and their families for entering into poverty. Teen births cost the public $86 million a year in Utah alone. By reducing the number of adolescents who become pregnant, health care, welfare, and education costs would decrease while tax revenue and education completion rates would increase. This paper analyzes the relationships between teenage pregnancies and poverty. There is a profile of women in poverty in both the United States and Utah, focusing on female-headed households and children. Second, an analysis of the current sex education system on the national and state levels will provided insight into the gap of what teenagers learn in school and what they do not. Thirdly, the causes and consequences of teenage pregnancies are scrutinized. Finally, recommendations are made for the sex education system to increase knowledge and decrease risk factors of teen births. There are also proposals for how to help the students, parents, and the teachers increase communication and continuity in the sex education process. Reducing the amount of children born to mothers who themselves are still children in many ways would benefit society as whole. There are economic and moral incentives for decreasing teenage birth rates across the state, as well as the nation.
Cirrus particle size distribution bimodality derived from ground-based radar-lidar retrievals
Creators: name: Zhao, Yang
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Cirrus cloud
Remote sensing
Cirrus particle size
Bimodality
Radar
Lidar

description: To better understand the role of small particles in the microphysical processes and the radiative properties of cirrus, the reliability of the historical in situ measurement database must be understood. A means of establishing this validity is to assume that the in situ measurements are at least consistent, in a broad sense, with the remote sensing data, and vice versa. In this study, an algorithm using Doppler radar moments and Raman lidar  extinction is developed to retrieve a bimodal particle size distribution and its uncertainty. Case studies and statistics compiled over an entire year show that the existence of high concentrations in excess of 1 cm-3 of small particles in cirrus is not consistent with any  reasonable interpretation of remote sensing data and is therefore likely from an artifact of the in situ measurement process. This study shows that while the particle concentrations from the Two-Dimensional Cloud Probe generally agree well with the retrieval results,  simultaneous concentrations from the Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe are much higher than the concentrations of small particles implied by the remote sensing measurements. The one-year statistics of the cirrus microphysical properties, including the ice water content, the effective radius and the total particle concentration, show that the occurrence frequency of the concentrations larger than 1 cm-3 is below 1%, and, given the possibility of errors in retrieved concentration as large as 100%, this study concludes that the existence of particle concentrations in cirrus in excess of 1 cm-3 is extraordinarily rare instead of common as suggested by uncritical acceptance of in situ data.
Phytochemical and antifungal activities of Uvaria. chamae leaves and roots, Spondias mombin leaves and bark and Combretum racemosum leaves
Creators: name: Ifeoma Enweani
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The effects of crude and dilutions of aqueous methanolic and n-hexane extracts of Uvaria chamae (roots and leaves), Spondias mombin (leaves and bark) and Combretum racemosun (Leaves) on pathogenic Candida albicans and Aspergilus niger was studied. The aim was to contribute to the search for a cheaper, conventional cure for both fungi. Phytochemical analysis revealed varying degrees of alkaloids, glycosides, saponin, lipid and oil, tannins, flavonoids, terpenoids and acids. Agar diffusion method was used for antifungal assay. Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) used was 10mg/ml of extract and dilutions of the non polar solvents of 10-1 and 10-2 was used.
Pelidnota pennata Ohaus 1912
Creators: name: Hielkema, Auke J.
name: Hielkema, Meindert A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Pelidnota
Pelidnota pennata

description: § Pelidnota pennata Ohaus, 1912
Pelidnota pennata Ohaus 1912: 299 (Brazil (NA))
Distribution. Brazil (NA): Ohaus 1912: 299 (NA), 1934: 85 (as P. (Chalcoplethis) pennata) (NA); Blackwelder 1944: 237; Machatschke 1972: 32 (as P. (Chalcoplethis) pennata) (NA); Soula 2006: 69 (as Strigidia pennata), 2010b: 36; Moore et al. 2017: 232. Other: Soula 2006: 69 (Brazil–Nicaragua - as Strigidia pennata); Moore et al. 2017: 232 (Nicaragua, Panama).
Note. Soula (2009: 115) synonymizes the genus Strigidia with the genus Pelidnota and gives a list of the new combinations which are thus created. The species Pelidnota pennata is apparently accidentally omitted from that list.
description: Published as part of Hielkema, Auke J. & Hielkema, Meindert A., 2019, An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas, pp. 1-306 in Insecta Mundi 732 (732) on page 150, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3678492
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 23596.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 15.03.1971, erstellt von Fritz Riesen
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Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1971

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Political and constitutional overrides: the case of the Court of Justice of European Union
Creators: name: Larsson, Olof
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Overrides are acts by politicians which undo or modify the impact of court decisions. In the field of judicial politics in general, and in studies of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s role in European integration in particular, the existence and effects of overrides have been intensely debated. This article argues that much of this disagreement is driven by a lack of a common definition of the term at issue. It distinguishes between ‘political’ and ‘constitutional’ overrides, and defines the conditions under which either matters for judicial independence in the European Union and the Court's impact on European integration. This is followed by an investigation into the occurrence of overrides in the European Union. It is concluded that while political overrides, where the policy impact of court decisions are affected by subsequent EU legislation, have occurred, constitutional overrides, which challenge or revise the Court’s mandate, have not.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 23625.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 14.04.1971, erstellt von Fritz Riesen
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Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1971

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel. Es sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Pelidnota quadripunctata F. Bates 1904
Creators: name: Hielkema, Auke J.
name: Hielkema, Meindert A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Pelidnota
Pelidnota quadripunctata

description: Pelidnota quadripunctata F. Bates, 1904
Pelidnota quadripunctata F. Bates 1904: 260 (French Guiana)
Distribution. Suriname: MHCN - NEW COUNTRY RECORD (Suriname, Para, 5 km S of Powakka, (5°24′20″N, 55°05′25″W). 29/ 30-V-2014. A. J. Hielkema. Reared from pupa in wood of lying dead tree, imago 20-VI-2014.); RMNH. French Guiana: F. Bates 1904: 260; Ohaus 1934: 83 (as P. (Ganonota) quadripunctata); Blackwelder 1944: 238; Machatschke 1972: 29 (as P. (Strigidia) quadripunctata); Soula 2006: 84 (as Strigidia quadripunctata), 2010a: 55, 2010b: 63; Brûlé et al. 2011a: 192 (as P. quadripunctata; as Strigidia quadripunctata), 2014: 182; Moore et al. 2017: 248.
description: Published as part of Hielkema, Auke J. & Hielkema, Meindert A., 2019, An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas, pp. 1-306 in Insecta Mundi 732 (732) on page 150, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3678492
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 23619.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 08.04.1971, erstellt von Fritz Riesen
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Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1971

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel. Es sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 23618.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 07.04.1971, erstellt von Fritz Riesen
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1971

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel. Es sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
The effect of home country characteristics on female immigrants in the U.S.
Creators: name: Huh, Yunsun
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Cultural and institutional effect
Earning capacity
GEM
GDI
Gender inequality
Labor market success of immigrants
Self-selection of immigrants

description: Considering immigration processes and home country characteristics together from a gendered perspective, this dissertation examines the effect of home country  characteristics on the labor market success of migrants and the decision to migrate to the U.S., focusing on female immigrants. In order to reflect cultural and institutional conditions that shape gender inequalities in the immigrants' home country, two gender related indices, GDI (Gender Development Index) and GEM (Gender Empowerment Measure), are included in the analysis. The GEM reflects women's access to leadership positions and economic wealth, while the GDI indicates the basic living standard of women.  Utilizing the one percent sample of the 2006 American Community Survey (ACS), I find the substantial effect of cultural based gender status on the earning capacity of  immigrants in the U.S. across 42 countries of origin. The GEM and the GDI show different effects on women and men. The GEM has a positive effect on wages of both  female and male immigrants, but it has greater effect on women than men. The GDI has a positive effect on male immigrants' wages but it has a small negative effect on female immigrants' wages.  Selectivity is determined by calculating the Net Different Index (NDI) which compares differences in educational attainment between immigrants in the U.S. and nonmigrants in the home country using the 2006 ACS and the Barro-Lee Educational Attainment Measure. By modeling this selectivity measures as a function of home  country characteristics, such as GDI, and GEM, the systematic relations between interaction of these conditions and the pattern of self-selection of immigrants are tested.  U.S. immigrants from 42 source countries are positively selected. The results indicate that GEM does not affect the degree of positive selectivity when distance and Gini coefficient measures, reflecting migration cost and income distribution of source countries, are taken into account. In general, the level of positive selectivity is mostly determined by the migration costs and income inequality in the home country. This provides the evidence of the home country conditions on the selectivity of immigrants, which follows conventional income maximizer hypothesis in self-selection.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 23648.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 11.05.1971, erstellt von Fritz Riesen
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Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1971

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Efforts towards the total synthesis of brevenal and development of olefinic amide and olefinic lactam cyclizations using a reduced titanium alkylidene
Creators: name: Zhou, Jie
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Brevenal
Olefinic amide
Olefinic lactam
Cyclization
Reduced titanium alkylidene
Karenia brevis
Brevetoxins

description: Brevenal and its dimethyl acetal were isolated from laboratory cultures of the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis by Barden and co-workers in 2005. Brevenal has the  potential to serve as therapeutic agents for the treatment of brevetoxins poisoning because of their low toxicity and ability to block the effect of brevetoxins in vivo. This dissertation describes our efforts towards the total synthesis of brevenal. A Cglycoside/metathesis approach is used in our synthesis. Of note is the generation of ?-C-glycosides in one pot by using a DMDO oxidation and zinc mediated C-C bond formation sequence. Lewis acid TBSOTf is very important in these reactions. Nucleophiles prefer to add from the axial position regardless of the epoxides. Cyclic enamides are valuable in their own and interesting precursors to a variety of natural products containing nitrogen. Although the olefinic-amide cyclizations would be synthetically useful, there are few reports of related cyclization that employ amides. Described here is the use of a reduced Titanium alkylidene reagent to effect one-step olefinic-amide and olefinic-lactam cyclizations.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 23623.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 12.04.1971, erstellt von Fritz Riesen
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Year: 1971

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 23655.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 19.05.1971, erstellt von Fritz Riesen
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1971

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Pelidnota sumptuosa
Creators: name: Hielkema, Auke J.
name: Hielkema, Meindert A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Pelidnota
Pelidnota sumptuosa

description: Pelidnota sumptuosa (Vigors, 1825)
Rutela sumptuosa Vigors 1825: 542 (Brazil)
Distribution. Suriname: NZCS - NEW COUNTRY RECORD (Suriname, [Para], Zanderij 8-I-1947. D. C. Geijskes. Savanne.); RMNH. Brazil: Vigors 1825: 542 (as Rutela sumptuosa); Ohaus 1934: 82; Blackwelder 1944: 238; Machatschke 1972: 25 (treated as a new synonym of P. (Pelidnota) ludovici); Moore et al. 2017: 264. Venezuela: Blackwelder 1944: 238 (?). Other: Soula 2009: 41 (Colombia–Para-guay); Moore et al. 2017: 264 (Colombia, Paraguay).
Note 1. According to Soula (2009: 41), Pelidnota sumptuosa and P. ludovici Ohaus, 1905 (1905b: p. 317) are not synonyms but separate species; his drawings of the genitalia show a clear difference. In Moore et al. (2017: 170), P. ludovici is synonymized with P. burmeisteri tricolor Nonfried, 1894 (1894a: 123), which is only known from Brazil well south of the research area.
Note 2. Blackwelder (1944: 238) is uncertain about the occurrence of Pelidnota sumptuosa in Venezuela. Although the species is now known to occur both west (in Colombia) and east (in Suriname) of Venezuela, its presence in Venezuela itself remains to be confirmed.
description: Published as part of Hielkema, Auke J. & Hielkema, Meindert A., 2019, An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas, pp. 1-306 in Insecta Mundi 732 (732) on page 150, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3678492