cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Fire Occurrence, Behavior and the Effect of Fire on Deer Mouse Density in Oakbrush at Camp Williams National Guard Base, Utah
Creators: name: Godfrey, Joel E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1995

description: Fire occurrence and behavior were determined by collecting and analyzing fuel, weather, and fire history ii data. Fuel plots were used to measure average fuel loading by vegetation type and integrated with weather to make worst - case fire behavior predictions. A fire history was developed using oakbrush (Quercus qaffibelli Nutt.) sprouts to determine age and the Global Positioning System (GPS) for mapping the burned areas. Average fuel loading was highest in the oakbrush fuel type with 16.8 t/ha, then juniper (Juniperus ost eosoerma Torrey) with 6.72 t/ha, and the lowest was in sagebrush (Artemisia triden~at a Nutt. ) with 4.93 t/ha. Fire behavior predictions were similar for all fuel types. The fire rotation for the study area was calculated to be 30 years. The fire history showed the most hectares burned were in the oakbrush fuel type due to fuel loading and horizontal continuity. Prescribed burns and negative fuel breaks were suggested as management alternatives.
The effect of fire on deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) density in oakbrush was determined by using a trapping web design with distance sampling techniques. Webs were set in four pairs with one web of each pair being in 7-year-old burned oakbrush and the other web in unburned oakbrush. Variables such as shrub height and litter depth were recorded in order to reduce variance. Trapping occurred in June 1994 with each web set for two consecutive nights using 80 Museum Special snap traps spaced 6 m apart on eight lines. Density estimates were determined by using a computer program called DISTANCE and then analyzed using analysis of variance with a randomized block design. No significant differences between deer mouse densities were detected between burned and unburned oakbrush. Although litter depth and shrub height were both significantly less in burned sites, it did not affect deer mouse density. The conclusion from these result s was that after 7 years oakbrush had recovered to a point that the effect of fire on deer mouse density was negligible.
title: An Evaluation of Teaching Practice in the Minimum Essentials of English Through Grades Six to Twelve in the Schools of Cache County, Utah 1931-1932
Creators: name: Perkins, W. Wendell
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1934

description: National English Committees insist that composition content is of first importance; organization of ideas, second; and form third. The writer agrees with this point of view, but believes that a large proportion of class time in English, all through the grades, is spent in trying to establish knowledge and skill in the use of grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and mechanics generally.
Crystal structure of μ-oxo-bis(σ- 1,2-bis(trimethylsilyl) vinylhafnocene) benzene solvate, [C2H{Si(CH3) 3}2Hf(C5H5)2] 2O ·C6H6
Creators: name: Spannenberg, A.
name: Beweries, T.
name: Bach, M.A.
name: Rosenthal, U.
Publisher: name: Berlin : de Gruyter
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crystal structure
subject: Chemistry
subject: Crystallography
subject: 540

description: C42H64Hf2OSi4, monoclinic, P121/c1 (no. 14), a = 11.442(1) Å = 9.7998(6) Å, c = 19.827(2) Å, β = 95.229(7)°, V = 2213.9 Å, Z = 2, R gt(F) = 0.017, wRref(F2)=0.037, T=200K. © by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag,.
Confinement-Induced Resonances in Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems
Creators: name: Haller, Elmar
name: Mark, Manfred J.
name: Hart, Russell
name: Danzl, Johann G.
name: Reichsöllner, Lukas
name: Melezhik, Vladimir
name: Schmelcher, Peter
name: Nägerl, Hanns-Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the observation of confinement-induced resonances in strongly interacting quantum-gas systems with tunable interactions for one- and two-dimensional geometry. Atom-atom scattering is substantially modified when the s-wave scattering length approaches the length scale associated with the tight transversal confinement, leading to characteristic loss and heating signatures. Upon introducing an anisotropy for the transversal confinement we observe a splitting of the confinement-induced resonance. With increasing anisotropy additional resonances appear. In the limit of a two-dimensional system we find that one resonance persists.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
title: Empirical Investigation of Efficacy in Home-Based Mental Health Care
Creators: name: Athorp, Ann L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1997

description: The current study consisted of two experiments to examine the impact of home-based therapy on mental illness in multiproblem families. Review of the literature focused on the interplay between poverty and mental illness in defining multiproblem families and the utilization of home-based therapy with this population and others. Experiment 1 focused on delineating the type and severity of psychological distress in families characterized as multiproblem. Subjects were 58 participants in the Community-Family Partnership, a Comprehensive Child Development Program located at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. In this sample, serious psychological distress was evident with depression in both women and men as a primary symptom. Female participants in Experiment 1 showed psychological distress across more subscales and higher standardized mean difference effect sizes on the global subscales of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised than male participants. Significant distress was also evident on the Somatization and Obsessive-Compulsive subscales for female participants and on the Hostility subscale for male participants. In a corollary to Experiment 1, participants in this study also fit the description of multiproblem based on their demographic characteristics.
Experiment 2 implemented a home-based therapy program based on Sherman's Action Counseling model and evaluated its effectiveness in terms of reduction of psychological distress. Six individuals drawn from the Experiment 1 sample participated in Experiment 2. At pretest, they were not demographically different from the Experiment 1 sample, and they exhibited severe psychological symptoms such that their score profiles on the Symptom Checklist 90-Revised met both definitions of caseness for that instrument. These subjects participated in nine weekly sessions of home-based therapy based on the Action Counseling model. Therapy was very successful for one subject, moderately successful for four subjects, and not successful for one subject using reduction of psychological distress as the measure of effectiveness. Additionally, Experiment 2 examined elements of the therapy that contributed to effectiveness. Mastery of and implementation of the 10 Action Counseling steps appeared to contribute to therapy success.
Limitations were discussed with respect to internal and external validity in the current study. Recommendations for future work were provided.
title: Cost and Efficiency in Producing Sugar Beets in Utah County, Utah, 1951
Creators: name: Larsen, Randolph LaMar
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1957

description: Man has always included some form of sugar in his diet. Only in the past two centuries has sugar been developed as an individual food. During that time vast amounts of money and time have gone into the development and improvement of sugar. In 1747, a German chemist by the name of Andreas Marggraf proved that sugar beets contained sugar. One of his pupils, Franz Karl Achard, in 1799 gave further evidence of this fact by his experiments.
Lolita : atemporal Class-Play With tea and cakes
Creators: name: Staite, SA
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: When Tokyopop released the first volume of its English language version of the Japanese collectable magazine Gothic & Lolita Bible in 2008, I predicted that it would not be widely accepted by Australian Lolitas. This thesis began as a media reception study in which I intended to explain why the magazine would fail to capture the imaginations of Lolitas. I assumed that the appeal of Lolita lay largely in an Orientalist fantasy of Japan and that Lolita was a subset of the Australian cosplay1 community. I anticipated the magazine failing to attract a substantial following because its localisation techniques would jar against the prioritisation of 'authentic' Japanese exoticism within the community. I was interested by Arjun Appadurai's (1986: 56) observation that as commodities travel greater distances (institutional, special, temporal), knowledge about them tends to become partial, contradictory, and differentiated. But such differentiation may itself ... lead to the intensification of demand.‚ÄövÑvp I conducted a number of interviews with Lolitas about their media usage (both production and consumption). Over the course of these interviews it became apparent that the questions I was asking were wrong; they were neither as interesting nor as important as the aspects Lolitas themselves emphasised in answering my more open-ended questions. Japan and Orientalism barely featured in their responses. Some were fans of Japanese animation and cosplayed, but they firmly articulated a separation between Lolita and cosplay. Some Lolitas were musicians who had discovered Lolita through Japanese bands like Malice Mizer. Other Lolitas had no interest in Japan whatsoever. As I talked with Lolitas, read the novels and websites they recommended and looked more closely at what has been written about Lolita communities, I saw an as-yet-unexplored but fascinating aspect of Lolita: playing with an identity of leisure. Roger Silverstone (1999: 60) writes that to step into a space and a time to play is to move across a threshold, to leave something behind ‚Äö- one kind of order ‚Äö- and to grasp a different reality and a rationality defined by its own rules and terms or trade and action.‚ÄövÑvp Lolita is the expression of a desire for indulgence untempered by the un-aristocratic concerns of earning income.
Mottness in High-Temperature Copper-Oxide Superconductors
Creators: name: Phillips, Philip
name: Choy, Ting-Pong
name: Leigh, Robert G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The standard theory of metals, Fermi liquid theory, hinges on the key assumption that although the electrons interact, the low-energy excitation spectrum stands in a one-to-one correspondence with that of a non-interacting system. In the normal state of the copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors, drastic deviations from the Fermi liquid picture obtain, highlighted by a pseudogap, broad spectral features and $T-$ linear resistivity. This article focuses on the series of experiments on the copper-oxide superconductors which reveal that the number of low-energy addition states per electron per spin exceeds unity, in direct violation of the key Fermi liquid tenet. These experiments point to new degrees of freedom, not made out of the elemental excitations, as the key mechanism by which Fermi liquid theory breaks down in the cuprates. A recent theoretical advance which permits an explicit integration of the high energy scale in the standard model for the cuprates reveals the source of the new dynamical degrees of freedom at low energies, a charge 2e bosonic field which has nothing to do with pairing but rather represents the mixing with the high energy scales. We demonstrate explicitly that at half-filling, this new degree of freedom provides a dynamical mechanism for the generation of the charge gap, antiferromagnetism in the insulating phase and explains many of the anomalies in the normal state of the cuprates.
description: Key Issues essay prepared for Rep. Prog. Phys
The Electromagnetic Lorentz Condition Problem and Symplectic Properties of Maxwell and Yang-Mills Type Dynamical Systems
Creators: name: Bogolubov, N. N.
name: Prykarpatsky, A. K.
name: Taneri, U.
name: Prykarpatsky, Y. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Symplectic structures associated to connection forms on certain types of principal fiber bundles are constructed via analysis of reduced geometric structures on fibered manifolds invariant under naturally related symmetry groups. This approach is then applied to nonstandard Hamiltonian analysis of of dynamical systems of Maxwell and Yang-Mills type. A symplectic reduction theory of the classical Maxwell equations is formulated so as to naturally include the Lorentz condition (ensuring the existence of electromagnetic waves), thereby solving the well known Dirac -Fock - Podolsky problem. Symplectically reduced Poissonian structures and the related classical minimal interaction principle for the Yang-Mills equations are also considered. 1.
Investigation of Laser Surface Treatment on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of AlSiMn Alloy
Creators: name: Gutu, Moera
name: Tufa, Habtamu Beri
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2020

description: This work investigates high-temperature properties of AlSiMn alloy after laser remelting by continuous mode CO2 laser energy. Substrate materials were prepared after solutionized heat- treated at 510oC for 5 h followed by artificially aged at 160oC for six hours. The result of the finding showed high improvement in mechanical properties by 80% of heat-treated samples. The formation of fine dendrite microstructure, rode like larger secondary dendrite and sound metallurgical bonded morphology played a great role. The maximum laser modified thickness of 2.23 mm was achieved.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 7 No 1 (2020): EJSSD
title: Relationship of Bicarbonate Concentration of Plant Tissue to that of the Growth Media as a Factor in Chlorosis
Creators: name: Carlsen, Gary H.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1957

description: Throughout the years lime-induced chlorosis has contributed to untold economic losses. Although this disease has challenged the technical ingenuity of outstanding plant and soil scientists, the exact cause has never been determined; consequently, no preventative measures or permanent cures can, as yet, be recommended. This physiological malady, unchecked, continues its rampage in regions where the disease is prevalent.
Consecutive bright pulses in the Vela pulsar
Creators: name: Palfreyman, JL
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: We report on the discovery of consecutive bright radio pulses from the Vela pulsar, a new phenomenon that may lead to a greater understanding of the pulsar emission mechanism. This results from a total of 345 hours worth of observations of the Vela pulsar using the University of Tasmania's 26 m radio telescope to study the frequency and statistics of abnormally bright pulses and sub-pulses. The bright pulses show a tendency to appear consecutively. The observations found two groups of six consecutive bright pulses and many groups of two to five bright pulses in a row. The strong radio emission process that produces the six bright pulses lasts between 0.4 and 0.6 seconds. The numbers of bright pulses in sequence far exceed what would be expected if individual bright pulses were independent random events. Consecutive bright pulses must be generated by an emission process that is long-lived relative to the rotation period of the neutron star. We also confirm the existence of giant micro pulses previously observed in Vela, and also the apparent change in bright pulse occurrences after a glitch.
Magnetic breakdown in ortho-II high-temperature cuprates
Creators: name: Carter, Jean-Michel
name: Podolsky, Daniel
name: Kee, Hae-Young
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent confirmation of closed Fermi surface in the high temperature cuprates via de Haas-van Alphen and Shubnikov-de haas oscillations calls for a theoretical investigation of the origin of such oscillations. We study de Haas-van Alphen oscillations and magnetic breakdown in the context of ortho-II high temperature cuprates to understand the origin of the multiple frequencies. We find that the magnetic breakdown is highly sensitive not only to the ortho-II potential, but also to the Fermi surface topology, and is thus useful to distinguish between various theoretical proposals related to quantum oscillations.
description: 8 pages, 10 figures v2: Major changes in emphasis and in the organization of the paper
Teatro Danzabile
Creators: name: Zenari, Cristiana
name: Arnese, Uma
Publisher: name: DARIAH-DE
Year: 2023
Subjects: Switzerland
Theatre Group
Lugano

description: Teatro Danzabile is a professional theatre-dance company created in 2005 by Uma Arnese (actor, director, dancer, and dance therapist) and Cristiana Zenari (dancer, choreographer, performer, and teacher of African dance). Since 2010, the artistic director has been Emanuel Rosenberg, a dance-actor from the Teatro Dimitri School in Verscio. The company’s objective is to integrate different realities by individuals with or without physical disabilities, leading to research based on theatrical language and dance. In combination, these elements give voice and body to the experiences of everyone.
Every two years, the company produces a significant project comprising theatre, dance, and text, while also conducting smaller projects for diverse and inclusive audiences. Simultaneously, they offer workshops for people of all ages. However, the theatre does not have its rehearsal room or stage, so it typically utilizes the community centre of Bidogno.
Since 2010, the company has been led by an inclusive double-direction, with one of the co-directors using a wheelchair. The core team of the inclusive group consists of three actors with different disabilities. All participants work with the same professional standards and receive equal salaries.
Despite creative activities, especially in groups, having beneficial effects in any case and context, therapy or rehabilitation is not the primary focus of the company’s work. Instead, the company aims to ensure that every participant is given value in their opportunities, allowing each member to develop their expressive or creative talent.
The result of the company’s work is an artistic product that provides visibility to integration, promotes collectiveness, and is socially relevant. Their work is inspired by the idea that a person with disabilities can contribute personally to the society in which they live.
Productions:
• Io Pinocchio (2019)
• Talenti Imprevedibili (2019)
• Disability on Stage (2016/2017)
• Identità in Viaggio (2016)
• 3 Soldi (2014/2015)
• Granelli (2013)
• Noi Amiamo (2011)
• Il Diverso Quotidiano (2011)
• Saggio Selvaggio (2010)
• Alice nel mondo dei Quanti (2007)
• Attraversami (2006)
Teatro Dimitri
Creators: name: Teatro Dimitri
Publisher: name: DARIAH-DE
Year: 2023
Subjects: Theatre Group
Verscio
Switzerland

description: Teatro Dimitri was founded in 1971 by “Clown” Dimitri and his wife, Gunda. It traditionally dedicates itself to the art of the Clown figure, as well as nonverbal and burlesque theatre. Nowadays, it unites the cultural tradition of its development with a modern and dynamic cultural offering.
The focus of Teatro Dimitri’s work is the authenticity of a naturally grown place, excellence, and uniqueness, leading to the development of new perspectives. These aspects are represented in diverse shows featuring extraordinary regional and international artists. The program includes contemporary theatre, dance, music, theatre for families and children, as well as specifically themed festivals. All of these are complemented and supported by students and alumni of the Accademia Dimitri, one of Switzerland’s four theatre universities. The theatre aims not only to be a place for performing arts but also an inspiring space for encounters, allowing for the sharing of experiences and discussions. Teatro Dimitri also includes a restaurant.
The summer of 1977 was crucial for the theatre’s founding: the director of the Berliner Festwochen asked Dimitri to create a piece for the following year, centered on the theme of the circus. Each graduate of the Scuola Teatro Dimitri’s first year participated in the play “Il clown è morto, evviva il clown,” resulting in great success, enabling the organization of an international tour. This way, the company was born.
Recent Projects:
• La Famiglia Dimitri 3 – Questo e Quello
• Omaggio a Dimitri
• CuiTémpChéTira!InDiesenKomischenZeiten!
• Il Disastro
• Der Tanz der Zuckerpflaumenfähre
• Compagnia DUE – OH!
• Duo Loco – Jan Laurenz & Moreno Fontana – Musica muy alegre y para bailar
Subtransversality and Strong CHIP of Closed Sets in Asplund Spaces
Creators: name: Wei, Zhou
name: Théra, Michel
name: Yao, Jen-Chih
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we mainly study subtransversality and two types of strong CHIP (given via Fréchet and limiting normal cones) for a collection of finitely many closed sets. We first prove characterizations of Asplund spaces in terms of subtransversality and intersection formulae of Fréchet normal cones. Several necessary conditions for subtransversality of closed sets are obtained via Fréchet/limiting normal cones in Asplund spaces. Then, we consider subtransversality for some special closed sets in convex-composite optimization. In this frame we prove an equivalence result on subtransversality, strong Fréchet CHIP and property (G) so as to extend a duality characterization of subtransversality of finitely many closed convex sets via strong CHIP and property (G) to the possibly non-convex case. As applications, we use these results on subtransversality and strong CHIP to study error bounds of inequality systems and give several dual criteria for error bounds via Fréchet normal cones and subdifferentials.
title: The Alkali Tolerance of Tall Wheatgrass
Creators: name: Carter, David L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1957

description: Alkali land occurs adjacent to nearly every extensively irrigated area. Much of this land is too alkaline to produce profitable crops. Each year thousands of acres or land are going out of production because or increasing alkalinity. This presents one or the most acute problem which confronts irrigation agriculture today.
Lost or gone : nature's remnants : mysteries and threats of human and native species interactions, past and present
Creators: name: Parish, JS
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This exegesis explores, through an art practice, the environmental issues of species decline and loss. It asks the question 'what can artists do to elevate public awareness of destructive environmental practices that are upsetting the ecological balance?' References are made to historical searches for species on the brink of extinction, and present day fears of further decline in environmental diversity are examined. The design and construction of movement sensing cameras and the results of using unusual methods of detecting species type and abundance at several study sites will be presented in the final exhibition, alongside conventional drawings, paintings and sculptures, demonstrating that the potential for works generated directly from the natural environment and its creatures can be a genuine art form. The current practice of clear felling native forest has fragmented and isolated remnant forests, leading to an actual or perceived decline in resident native animals and birds. In Tasmania, some species of birds have been lost forever, while the marsupial wolf or thylacine maintains a slender chance for discovery and possibly, recovery. I have developed and employed specific equipment in an attempt to establish what animals are active in a land area at Golden Valley on the slopes of the Western Tiers in Tasmania. This site has been the base for explorations into the surrounding bush land, where three other specific sites with different landforms have been chosen for more detailed study of the area's flora and fauna. On my own property in the area, the construction of extended wetland earthworks has given me the opportunity to study the effects of human intervention in the landscape and how this has affected the local resident creatures. These animals and birds have been drawn into a creative process to produce art works that are an assimilation of their input and my own.
Antibacterial steroids from roots of Bersama abyssinica
Creators: name: Lemilemu, Fitsum
name: Girmay, Solomon
name: Shenkute, Kebede
name: Endale, Milkyas
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development
Year: 2020

description: Bersama abyssinica is one of the medicinal plants used traditionally to treat various diseases such as leprosy, wound, diarrhea, fever, eye disease, rabies and tumor/cancer. Phytochemical screening test of dichloromethane/methanol (1:1) and methanol extracts revealed the presence of glycosides, alkaloids, tannins, flavanoids, saponins, terpenoids, steroids and phytosterols. Silica gel column chromatography separation of dichloromethane/methanol (1:1) root extracts afforded β-sitosterol (1), 7-hydroxysitosterol (2) and 2-methylamino-butyric acid (3) of which the latter is isolated for the first time from natural source. The crude extracts and isolated compounds were screened for in vitro antibacterial activity against strains of Salmonella thphimurium, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus. Dichloromethane/methanol (1:1) extract, methanol extract and β-sitosterol (1) showed moderate activity against E. coli and S. aureus (zone of inhibition 13±0, 13±2 and 12.6±0.48, respectively) and (zone of inhibition 13.6±0.55, 12±2, and 12.5±0.5 mm, respectively) compared to ciprofloxacin (28.6±1.25 and 26±5.1 mm) at 0.5 mg/mL. The structures of compounds were determined by spectroscopic techniques (IR and NMR) and comparison with literature report.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Vol 7 No 1 (2020): EJSSD
Additional file 1 of Efficacy and safety of Yi Shen Fang granules in elderly people with MCI: study protocol for a multicentre, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, controlled trial
Creators: name: Sha, Zhongwei
name: Zhao, Zhenghao
name: Li, Nana
name: Xiao, Shuyun
name: Li, Ou
name: Zhang, Jie
name: Li, Zhimin
name: Xu, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT 2013 Checklist.
title: The Cost of Producing Eggs and the Egg Feed Ratio in Utah 1929-'46
Creators: name: Broadbent, Emer E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1947

description: Commercial egg production in Utah has developed largely since 1920. Prior to that time most farms had some chickens but the eggs were either used at home or consumed on the local markets. What few commercial poultry farms there were also supplied local markets. It has been estimated that the total egg production in the stat was just about equal to the consumption within the state. Soon after1920 however, egg production on a commercial basis began and thereafter expanded rapidly for a time.
Using the flextable package to create graphical summaries of study characteristics in systematic reviews. Presented at ESAMRConf2021
Creators: name: Conway, Aaron
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: It is very common in systematic reviews for a summary of the characteristics of each study included in the systematic review to be presented in the form of a table consisting entirely of text. This presentation demonstrates how the flextable package can be used to replace some of the text with graphical features for a study characteristics table. The printing of the table in landscape format in a knitted word document along with the remainder of the report can be achieved using the officedown package. Some features from the flextable package used in the table include: - Use of coloured inline ‘minibar’ images to show the male:female ratio in included studies using flextable::minibar; - Images of flags to indicate the country using flextable::asimage (in addition to being aesthetically more pleasing than presenting this information in text, this feature also reduced the amount of horizontal space required for this column, which is useful for static-print tables that need to be incorporated into Word documents); - Use of inline images so the reader can more quickly and clearly distinguish between studies that included higher numbers of participants (flextable::minibar) and measurements (flextable::lollipop) than if the information was presented in text format. Importantly, using the flextable package to create this table meets the requirements for most journals, which stipulate that tables must be submitted in a word document form.
One more step toward the noncommutative brane inflation
Creators: name: Nozari, Kourosh
name: Akhshabi, Siamak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently a new approach to inflation proposal has been constructed via the smeared coherent state picture of spacetime noncommutativity. Here we generalize this viewpoint to a Randall-Sundrum II braneworld scenario. This model realizes an inflationary, bouncing solution without recourse to any axillary scalar or vector fields. There is no initial singularity and the model has the potential to produce scale invariant spectrum of scalar perturbations.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, Accepted by PLB
title: A Taxonomic Study of the Scolytidae (Coleoptera) of the Logan Canyon Area of Utah
Creators: name: Wood, Stephen L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1947

description: In spite of the great economic importance of north American Scolytidae, many taxonomic descriptions remain inadequate for the identification of species, and existing keys have been made obsolete by the recent description of new species. To bring these keys up to date and make them useful to students and practical foresters, detailed studies of the morphological structure of the various species are necessary. The purpose of the present investigation has been to clarify and revise existing keys and to describe briefly the species of Scolytidae occurring in the Logan Canyon area of Utah. The following keys and descriptions will be of value to students, foresters, and taxonomists in identifying the species of Scolytidae occurring in northern Utah. Information secured in this investigation also contributes toward the geographic and host distributional knowledge of the Scolytidae in Utah.
High fidelity macroscopic superposition states via shortcut to adiabaticity
Creators: name: Aslani, Mehdi
name: Salari, Vahid
name: Abdi, Mehdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A shortcut to an adiabatic scheme is proposed for preparing a massive object in a macroscopic spatial superposition state. In this scheme we propose to employ counterdiabatic driving to maintain the system in the ground state of its instantaneous Hamiltonian while the trap potential is tuned from a parabola to a double well. This, in turn, is performed by properly ramping a control parameter. We show that a few counterdiabatic drives are enough for most practical cases. A hybrid electromechanical setup in superconducting circuits is proposed for the implementation. The efficiency of our scheme is benchmarked by numerically solving the system dynamics in the presence of noises and imperfections. The results show that a mechanical resonator with very-high-fidelity spatially distinguishable cat states can be prepared with our protocol. Furthermore, the protocol is robust against noises and imperfections. We also discuss a method for verifying the final state via spectroscopy of a coupled circuit electrodynamical cavity mode. Our work can serve as the ground work to feasibly realize and verify macroscopic superposition states in future experiments.
title: Inventory of Attitudes and Opinions of Utah Educators on Social and Educational Issues
Creators: name: Gowans, Max L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1945

description: From the earliest beginnings of man, ideas and ideals have been issues of controversy and conflict which have added to or detracted from his social wellbeing. Individuals, groups and nations have set up ideologies of living which differ from each other and form the social structure upon which society progresses or declines.
Delay propagation patterns in Japan's domestic air transport network
Creators: name: Sugishita, Kashin
name: Arisawa, Kazuki
name: Hanaoka, Shinya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experience air traffic delays every day, but are there any recurrent patterns in these delays? In this study, we investigate the recurrence of delay propagation patterns in Japan's domestic air transport network in 2019 by integrating delay causality networks and temporal network analysis. Additionally, we examine characteristics unique to delay propagation by comparing delay causality networks with corresponding randomized networks generated by a directed configuration model. As a result, we found that the structure of the delay propagation patterns can be classified into several groups. The identified groups exhibit statistically significant differences in total delay time and average out-degree, with different airports playing central roles in spreading delays. The results also suggest that some delay propagation patterns are particularly prominent during specific times of the year, which could be influenced by Japan's seasonal and geographical factors. Moreover, we discovered that specific network motifs appear significantly more (or less) frequently in delay causality networks than their corresponding randomized counterparts. This characteristic is particularly pronounced in groups with more significant delays. These results suggest that delays propagate following specific directional patterns, which could significantly contribute to predicting air traffic delays. We expect the present study to trigger further research on recurrent and non-recurrent natures of air traffic delay propagation.
description: 21 pages, 15 figures, 1 table
title: Uptake and Transformation of Trichloroethylene by Hybrid Poplar: Laboratory Studies
Creators: name: Chard, Julie K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1999

description: Trichloroethylene (TCE) was widely used as an industrial solvent and degreasing agent for most of the twentieth century. It is now a widespread groundwater contaminant. Phytoremediation may be a cost-effective cleanup method for TCE-contaminated soils and groundwater. Studies of environmental TCE fate are complicated by its volatility. The literature reports both significant and insignificant plant uptake of TCE. Conflicting findings may be due to differences in exposure level, conditions, and duration of the studies, or to experimental artifacts from laboratory systems.
This research quantified plant uptake and volatilization of TCE using a unique laboratory system. Hybrid poplar trees were exposed to 1 or 10 ppm TCE over a 43-d period. [14C]TCE was added to four high-flow, aerated, hydroponic plant growth chamber systems designed to provide high mass recoveries, an optimal plant environment and complete separation between foliar and root uptake.
Transpiration stream concentration factors (TSCFs) for TCE, calculated from total [14C]TCE in shoot tissues plus phytovolatilized 14C, were 0.11 for two 1 ppm treatments and 0.15 for a 10 ppm treatment with roughly 25% attributed to phytovolatilization. Though extending study duration from 26 to 43 d resulted in accumulation of more mass of 14C in plant tissues, it had no effect on TSCF. These TSCF values are much lower than other published experimental values and values predicted by a theoretical relationship between TSCF and octanol-water partition coefficient. The TCE metabolites trichloroethanol (TCEt), trichloroacetic acid (TCAA), and dichloroacetic acid (DCAA)were identified in plant tissues of the 10-mg/L treatment.
Hybrid poplar uptake ofTCAA and TCEt was quantified using a simpler aerated hydroponic system. TSCF values were calculated based on extractable parent compound in shoot tissues. TSCF for TCEt was < 0.01. Presence of TCAA in hydroponic solution and in leaf and root tissues indicated transformation of TCEt to TCAA. TSCF for TCAA was < 0.03 and decreased with increasing exposure concentration. TSCF also decreased under oxygen-limited root-zone conditions. Presence of DCAA in leaf and root tissues indicated transformation ofTCAA to DCAA. Transformation of parent compound, coupled with low extractability, may contribute to low TSCFs.
Strong Wet and Dry Adhesion by Cupped Microstructures
Creators: name: Wang, Y.
name: Kang, V.
name: Arzt, E.
name: Federle, W.
name: Hensel, R.
Publisher: name: Washington, DC : American Chemical Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: cupped microstructures
subject: polyurethane
subject: self-sealing
subject: two-photon lithography
subject: wet adhesion
subject: 620

description: Recent advances in bio-inspired microfibrillar adhesives have resulted in technologies that allow reliable attachment to a variety of surfaces. Because capillary and van der Waals forces are considerably weakened underwater, fibrillar adhesives are however far less effective in wet environments. Although various strategies have been proposed to achieve strong reversible underwater adhesion, strong adhesives that work both in air and underwater without additional surface treatments have yet to be developed. In this study, we report a novel design - cupped microstructures (CM) - that generates strong controllable adhesion in air and underwater. We measured the adhesive performance of cupped polyurethane microstructures with three different cup angles (15, 30, and 45°) and the same cup diameter of 100 μm in dry and wet conditions in comparison to standard mushroom-shaped microstructures (MSMs) of the same dimensions. In air, 15°CM performed comparably to the flat MSM of the same size with an adhesion strength (force per real contact area) of up to 1.3 MPa, but underwater, 15°CM achieved 20 times stronger adhesion than MSM (∼1 MPa versus ∼0.05 MPa). Furthermore, the cupped microstructures exhibit self-sealing properties, whereby stronger pulls lead to longer stable attachment and much higher adhesion through the formation of a better seal. © 2019 American Chemical Society.
H-band thermal emission from the 19-hour period planet WASP-19b
Creators: name: Anderson, D. R.
name: Gillon, M.
name: Maxted, P. F. L.
name: Barman, T. S.
name: Cameron, A. Collier
name: Hellier, C.
name: Queloz, D.
name: Smalley, B.
name: Triaud, A. H. M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first ground-based detection of thermal emission from an exoplanet in the H-band. Using HAWK-I on the VLT, we observed an occultation of WASP-19b by its G8V-type host star. WASP-19b is a Jupiter-mass planet with an orbital period of only 19 h, and thus, being highly irradiated, is expected to be hot. We measure an H-band occultation depth of (0.259 +0.046 -0.044) %, which corresponds to an H-band brightness temperature of T_H = 2580 +/- 125 K. A cloud-free model of the planet's atmosphere, with no redistribution of energy from day-side to night-side, under predicts the planet/star flux density ratio by a factor of two. As the stellar parameters, and thus the level of planetary irradiation, are well-constrained by measurement, it is likely that our model of the planet's atmosphere is too simple.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, as accepted for publication in A&A
Listening for echo from the stimulated axion decay with the 21 CentiMeter Array
Creators: name: Arza, Ariel
name: Guo, Quan
name: Wu, Lei
name: Yang, Qiaoli
name: Yang, Xiaolong
name: Yuan, Qiang
name: Zhu, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle that could solve the long-standing strong CP problem in particle physics and the dark matter mystery in the cosmos. Due to the stimulation of the ambient photons, the axion dark matter decay into photons is significantly enhanced so that its echo signal could be detected by terrestrial telescopes. As a pathfinder, we study the expected sensitivity of searching for the axion dark matter in the mass range between $0.41$ and $1.6μ\text{eV}$ with the 21 CentiMeter Array (21CMA). We aim to cover the whole 21CMA frequency range in two years by using a 1MW emitter. We find that the resulting sensitivity on the axion-photon coupling could surpass other existing limits by about one order of magnitude.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
"On the shoulders of giants": advantages and challenges to building on established evidence synthesis packages, using the {robvis} package as a case study. Presented at ESMARConf2021
Creators: name: McGuinness, Luke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: {robvis} is an established R package which allows users to create publication-quality risk-of-bias plots. Recently, it has expanded its scope to allow for new functionality, focusing in particular on better integration with the {metafor} package for meta-analysis. Following a public discussion of the proposed functionality run through GitHub and Twitter, in addition to consultation with the maintainer of the {metafor} package, two new functions were added to {robvis}. The first creates paired risk-of-bias plots, where a ""traffic light""-style risk-of-bias plot is appended onto a standard forest plot so that the risk of bias for each result in the meta-analysis is readily available to the reader. This function builds on the output of the {metafor} forest plot function to create these graphs. In addition, as users frequently wish to stratify their analysis by the level of bias in each included study, a new function which automatically subsets the data by this variable and presents a subgroup meta-analysis for each subgroup has also been developed. This presentation will use the {robvis} package as a case study to demonstrate how collaboration between packages in the evidence synthesis landscape can result in new functionality and increased ease-of-use for end users. It will also highlight the benefit of thinking of the evidence synthesis workflow as a whole when developing and expanding new functionality, rather than seeing packages as standalone silos.
An Interactive forest plot for visualizing risk of bias assessment. Presented at ESMARConf2021
Creators: name: Martinez, Alexander Fonseca
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A forest plot is the most common way that research synthesizers use to combine the results of multiple evaluations. As part of a living systematic review, a web application was built using Shiny. As part of this web-app, we developed an interactive forest plot with three novel functionalities: 1) Users can hover over the point estimate square on any study in the forest plot, and the text is displayed of the point estimate and confidence interval for the measure of association. 2) Users can click on the point estimate square on any study, and the risk‐of‐bias judgment is displayed in an interactive table alongside the forest plot. The risk‐of‐bias judgment is displayed as a colored-coded system indicating the level of bias. 3) In the risk of bias table, the user can click on the risk-of-bias judgment for a study, and a pop-up appears which contains the written risk of bias rationale for each domain evaluated. It is possible to visualize multiple associations at once by clicking on multiple point estimate squares. This interactive forest plot relies on the R packages ggplot2, ggiraph and formattable. We will aim to implement a R package to allow users to upload their data, integrate it into projects covering different aspects of the systematic review and meta-analysis such as metaverse, and develop a web app to make the tool accessible even to those without previous knowledge of R.
title: Classification of Vegetation and Analysis of its Recent Trends at Camp Williams, Utah Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System Techniques
Creators: name: Van Niel, Thomas G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1995

description: Current vegetation classes were generated from remotely sensed data to provide coarse-level information for an ecosystem management plan developed at Camp Williams, Utah. Vegetation trend from 1973 - 1993 was also examined via satellite imagery. The data set consisted of Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) and Thematic Mapper (TM) images from July or August of 1973, 1975, 1980, 1988, and 1993.
Two approaches were used to detect vegetation change. The first approach determined overall and cover type trend from standard digital image differencing of soil-adjusted vegetation index (SAVI) images. The second approach used an unsupervised classification of a composite SAVI image of all dates.
The first approach defined areas of increase, decrease, and no significant change in SAVI and differences in trend for tree versus shrub cover types. The second approach resulted in an ecological classification that defined new environmental patterns based on vegetation trend.
2.5-dimensional solution of the advective accretion disk: A self-similar approach
Creators: name: Ghosh, Shubhrangshu
name: Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a 2.5-dimensional solution to a complete set of viscous hydrodynamical equations describing accretion-induced outflow and then plausible jet around black holes/compact objects. We prescribe a self-consistent advective disk-outflow coupling model, which explicitly includes the information of vertical flux. Inter-connecting dynamics of inflow-outflow system essentially upholds the conservation laws. We provide a set of analytical family of solutions through the self-similar approach. The flow parameters of the disk-outflow system depend strongly on viscosity parameter αand cooling factor f.
description: 12 pages including 3 figures; to appear in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Untersuchung zum präventiven Verhalten schwangerer Frauen im Großraum Rostock
Creators: name: Schultek, Gesche
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Primäres Studienziel war die Frage, was Schwangere über Präventionsmaßnahmen mittels Lifestyle-Faktoren (Ernährung, Sport, Alkohol, Nikotin) wissen. Sekundäres Studienziel war die Evaluation, welche dieser Maßnahmen umgesetzt werden. Zudem wird die Beeinflussung der Umsetzung präventiver Faktoren durch das Bildungsniveau untersucht. Es wurde mittels einer Befragung im Wochenbett evaluiert. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass das Wissen um die Präventionsmaßnahmen unter Schwangeren im Großraum Rostock gering ist. Bildung stellt einen Einflussfaktor auf das Verhalten während der Schwangerschaft dar.