cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Thermodynamics of vesicle growth and instability
Creators: name: Fanelli, Duccio
name: McKane, Alan J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the growth of vesicles, due to the accretion of lipid molecules to their surface, in terms of linear irreversible thermodynamics. Our treatment differs from those previously put forward by consistently including the energy of the membrane in the thermodynamic description. We calculate the critical radius at which the spherical vesicle becomes unstable to a change of shape in terms of the parameters of the model. The analysis is carried out both for the case when the increase in volume is due to the absorption of water and when a solute is also absorbed through the walls of the vesicle.
description: To be published in Phys. Rev. E
title: Exploring the Possibilities of a Cellular Automata in Minecraft
Creators: name: Saunders, Stephen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Complex systems are not always generated by complex individuals. Simple, cell-like individuals can produce sophisticated outcomes. Structures implementing this nature are called cellular automaton. In this paper, we discuss the difficulties associated with the creation of one such automaton in a pre-existing environment, in this case the game MineCraft. A subsequent study of the behavior of this automaton is presented, using an objective information measure called set complexity.
The Contribution of the Textile and Clothing Industry to Economic Growth of Ethiopia: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL Bounds) Testing Approach
Creators: name: Dea, Alemu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Political Economy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: TCI sector contributes
subject: ARDL estimation
subject: fixed capital formation
subject: GDP
subject: government effectiveness indicator
subject: short-run ECM

description: In Ethiopia, there is a notable scarcity of national research on the topic. Because of this, further in-depth scientific investigation was needed to ascertain how the TCI industry fits into the country's overall economy. Thus, the main objective of this study was to better understand how the TCI sector contributes to Ethiopia's economic growth by examining the relationships between real GDP growth and the sector's employment opportunities measured in terms of pay adjusted for the annual inflation rate, fixed capital formation adjusted for constant prices in 2015, the net exports of TCI, and control variables: the size of the working-age population (aged 15 to 64), total exports (percentage of GDP), and the nation's government effectiveness indicator. Using annual time series data from the period 1996 to 2021, the ARDL estimation method was used to determine how the long-run and short-run correlations among the variables interacted. The empirical findings indicated that, in the existence of a long-run relationship between the variables, fixed capital formation and employment opportunities have both a significant and positive relationship to real GDP growth, while net exports have a significant but negative relationship. The size of working-age population (aged 15 to 64), the total export of the country (percentage of GDP), and the government effectiveness indicator have a significant and positive relationship with the real GDP. In the short-run ECM, only the net export and government effectiveness index have significant contribution to economic growth. The study suggests that the government should seek to attract significant inflows of FDI to progress in fixed capital formation, and implement export-oriented development policies to improve the sector's export performance, and implement realistic employment regulations in order to increase the number of jobs available in the industry that pay well.
On the role of ground state correlations in hypernuclear non-mesonic weak decay
Creators: name: Bauer, E.
name: Garbarino, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The contribution of ground state correlations (GSC) to the non--mesonic weak decay of $^{12}_Λ$C and other medium to heavy hypernuclei is studied within a nuclear matter formalism implemented in a local density approximation. We adopt a weak transition potential including the exchange of the complete octets of pseudoscalar and vector mesons as well as a residual strong interaction modeled on the Bonn potential. Leading GSC contributions, at first order in the residual strong interaction, are introduced on the same footing for all isospin channels of one-- and two--nucleon induced decays. Together with fermion antisymmetrization, GSC turn out to be important for an accurate determination of the decay widths. Besides opening the two--nucleon stimulated decay channels, for $^{12}_Λ$C GSC are responsible for 14% of the rate $Γ_1$ while increasing the $Γ_{n}/Γ_{p}$ ratio by 4%. Our final results for $^{12}_Λ$C are: $Γ_{\rm NM}=0.98$, $Γ_{n}/Γ_{p}=0.34$ and $Γ_2/Γ_{\rm NM}=0.26$. The saturation property of $Γ_{\rm NM}$ with increasing hypernuclear mass number is clearly observed. The agreement with data of our predictions for $Γ_{\rm NM}$, $Γ_n/Γ_p$ and $Γ_2$ is rather good.
description: 32 pages, 9 figures
CHARTER: heatmap-based multi-type chart data extraction
Creators: name: Shtok, Joseph
name: Harary, Sivan
name: Azulai, Ophir
name: Goldfarb, Adi Raz
name: Arbelle, Assaf
name: Karlinsky, Leonid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The digital conversion of information stored in documents is a great source of knowledge. In contrast to the documents text, the conversion of the embedded documents graphics, such as charts and plots, has been much less explored. We present a method and a system for end-to-end conversion of document charts into machine readable tabular data format, which can be easily stored and analyzed in the digital domain. Our approach extracts and analyses charts along with their graphical elements and supporting structures such as legends, axes, titles, and captions. Our detection system is based on neural networks, trained solely on synthetic data, eliminating the limiting factor of data collection. As opposed to previous methods, which detect graphical elements using bounding-boxes, our networks feature auxiliary domain specific heatmaps prediction enabling the precise detection of pie charts, line and scatter plots which do not fit the rectangular bounding-box presumption. Qualitative and quantitative results show high robustness and precision, improving upon previous works on popular benchmarks
description: Joseph Shtok, Sivan Harary and Leonid Karlinsky had equal contribution
Power-Controlled Feedback and Training for Two-way MIMO Channels
Creators: name: Aggarwal, Vaneet
name: Sabharwal, Ashutosh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most communication systems use some form of feedback, often related to channel state information. The common models used in analyses either assume perfect channel state information at the receiver and/or noiseless state feedback links. However, in practical systems, neither is the channel estimate known perfectly at the receiver and nor is the feedback link perfect. In this paper, we study the achievable diversity multiplexing tradeoff using i.i.d. Gaussian codebooks, considering the errors in training the receiver and the errors in the feedback link for FDD systems, where the forward and the feedback are independent MIMO channels. Our key result is that the maximum diversity order with one-bit of feedback information is identical to systems with more feedback bits. Thus, asymptotically in $\mathsf{SNR}$, more than one bit of feedback does not improve the system performance at constant rates. Furthermore, the one-bit diversity-multiplexing performance is identical to the system which has perfect channel state information at the receiver along with noiseless feedback link. This achievability uses novel concepts of power controlled feedback and training, which naturally surface when we consider imperfect channel estimation and noisy feedback links. In the process of evaluating the proposed training and feedback protocols, we find an asymptotic expression for the joint probability of the $\mathsf{SNR}$ exponents of eigenvalues of the actual channel and the estimated channel which may be of independent interest.
description: in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2010
Kaluza-Klein Theory with Torsion confined to the Extra-dimension
Creators: name: Shankar, Karthik H.
name: Wali, Kameshwar C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we consider a variant of the 5 dimensional Kaluza-Klein theory within the framework of Einstein-Cartan formalism that includes torsion. By imposing a set of constraints on torsion and Ricci rotation coefficients, we show that the torsion components are completely expressed in terms of the metric. Moreover, the Ricci tensor in 5D corresponds exactly to what one would obtain from torsion-free general relativity on a 4D hypersurface. The contributions of the scalar and vector fields of the standard K-K theory to the Ricci tensor and the affine connections are completely nullified by the contributions from torsion. As a consequence, geodesic motions do not distinguish the torsion free 4D space-time from a hypersurface of 5D space-time with torsion satisfying the constraints. Since torsion is not an independent dynamical variable in this formalism, the modified Einstein equations are different from those in the general Einstein-Cartan theory. This leads to important cosmological consequences such as the emergence of cosmic acceleration.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay November 1999
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Approval of various political figures and groups; memory of past presidents; closeness to political party; Uruguay economy; Mercosur (1991 South American trade bloc); rate kindness of political figures; Uruguay history (1973 coup d'état); Tabaré Vázquez vs. Jorge Batlle debate; proportion of women in Parliament (senators and deputies); newspaper purchase history; family economic situation; loans and debt; political ideologies of Tabaré Vázquez and Jorge Batlle; 1994 voting history; 1999 voting history. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection.
Galaxy cluster hydrostatic bias in Kottler spacetime
Creators: name: Desai, Shantanu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the relativistic corrections to hydrostatic X-ray masses for galaxy clusters in Kottler spacetime, which is the spherically symmetric solution to Einstein's equations in General relativity endowed with a cosmological constant. The hydrostatic masses for clusters (calculated assuming Newtonian gravity) have been found to be underestimated compared to lensing masses, and this discrepancy is known as hydrostatic mass bias. Since the relativistic hydrostatic X-ray masses are automatically lower than lensing masses, under the edifice of Kottler metric, we check if the hydrostatic mass bias problem gets alleviated using this {\it ansatz}. We consider a sample of 18 galaxy clusters for this pilot test. We find that the ratio of X-ray to lensing mass is close to unity even in Kottler spacetime. Therefore, the effect of relativistic corrections to hydrostatic X-ray masses for galaxy clusters is negligible.
description: 4 pages
Localization of spin mixing dynamics in a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate
Creators: name: Zhang, Wenxian
name: Sun, Bo
name: Chapman, M. S.
name: You, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose to localize spin mixing dynamics in a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate by a temporal modulation of spin exchange interaction, which is tunable with optical Feshbach resonance. Adopting techniques from coherent control, we demonstrate the localization/freezing of spin mixing dynamics, and the suppression of the intrinsic dynamic instability and spontaneous spin domain formation in a ferromagnetically interacting condensate of $^{87}$Rb atoms. This work points to a promising scheme for investigating the weak magnetic spin dipole interaction, which is usually masked by the more dominant spin exchange interaction.
description: 4 pages, 5 eps figures, published in Phys. Rev. A.
title: Invaginaciones de intestino delgado como hallazgo casual
Creators: name: Fornell Pérez, Roberto
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Small bowel
subject: CT

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
La invaginación de intestino delgado es una patología infrecuente en el adulto que clásicamente se ha asociado a la coexistencia de alguna patología subyacente,
ya sea benigna o maligna,
como factor precipitante.
De forma habitual se podrá...
Attractor Solution in Coupled Yang-Mills Field Dark Energy Models
Creators: name: Zhao, Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the attractor solution in the coupled Yang-Mills field dark energy models with the general interaction term, and obtain the constraint equations for the interaction if the attractor solution exists. The research also shows that, if the attractor solution exists, the equation-of-state of the dark energy must evolve from $w_y>0$ to $w_y\le-1$, which is slightly suggested by the observation. At the same time, the total equation-of-state in the attractor solution is $w_{tot}=-1$, the universe is a de Sitter expansion, and the cosmic big rip is naturally avoided. These features are all independent of the interacting forms.
description: 6 pages, no figure. version for publication. IJMPD accepted
title: Assessing Attitudes Towards Global Climate Change Among Utah State University Faculty
Creators: name: Rohman, Amy C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: Climate change is a polarizing issue in which there are significant differences in perception between the scientific community and the general public. The intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has formally acknowledged an increasing body of evidence that supports primarily human-caused climate change. No scientific organization has dissented, and over thirty national academies of the sciences have issued joint declarations confirming the evidence of anthropogenic climate change. Therefore, polarization is not caused by a lack of available scientific information. This study surveys Utah State University faculty to solicit their knowledge of and attitudes towards global climate change. Responses are assessed against the current consensus as articulated in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report. Statistical analyses are performed to examine any relationships between perceptions and variables such as information sources, personal issue importance, gender, college, political identity, and religious affiliation. Respondents whose perceptions differ significantly from the scientific community are analyzed and found to mirror national trends. This project will provide Utah State University with a faculty profile that can be used to enhance the quality of education students receive on the topic of global climate change.
Organigramme de la Bibliothèque du roi de 1784
Creators: name: JACQUOT, Olivier
Publisher: name: BnF Comité d'histoire
Year: 2024
Subjects: Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bibliothèque royale (France ; 14..-1792)
Organigrammes (organisation)

description: Organigramme de la Bibliothèque du roi de 1784.
title: Evaluación del diagnóstico por imagen de los tumores uroteliales en nuestro centro: Relevancia del Uro-TC
Creators: name: Fernandez Lopez, Isabel Maria
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Neoplasia

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
-Analizar en los últimos años el cambio de tendencia en nuestro Hospital en el estudio radiológico de los tumores uroteliales. -Demostrar la importancia del Uro-TC en el diagnóstico de tumores y...
Finite size scaling and first order phase transition in a modified XY-model
Creators: name: Sinha, Suman
name: Roy, Soumen Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monte Carlo simulation has been performed in a two-dimensional modified XY-model first proposed by Domany et. al [E. Domany, M. Schick and R. H. Swendsen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1535 (1984)]. The cluster algorithm of Wolff has been used and multiple histogram reweighting is performed. The first order scaling behavior of the quantities like specific heat, order parameter susceptibility and free energy barrier are found to be obeyed accurately. While the lowest order correlation function was found to decay to zero at long distance just above the transition, the next higher order correlation function shows a non-zero plateau.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
On the geometric approach to the boundary problem in supergravity
Creators: name: Andrianopoli, Laura
name: Ravera, Lucrezia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the geometric superspace approach to the boundary problem in supergravity, retracing the geometric construction of four-dimensional supergravity Lagrangians in the presence of a non-trivial boundary of spacetime. We first focus on pure $\mathcal{N}=1$ and $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories with negative cosmological constant. Here, the supersymmetry invariance of the action requires the addition of topological (boundary) contributions which generalize at the supersymmetric level the Euler-Gauss-Bonnet term. Moreover, one finds that the boundary values of the super field-strengths are dynamically fixed to constant values, corresponding to the vanishing of the $\mathrm{OSp}(\mathcal{N}|4)$-covariant supercurvatures at the boundary. We then consider the case of vanishing cosmological constant where, in the presence of a non-trivial boundary, the inclusion of boundary terms involving additional fields, which behave as auxiliary fields for the bulk theory, allows to restore supersymmetry. In all the cases listed above, the full, supersymmetric Lagrangian can be recast in a MacDowell-Mansouri(-like) form. We then report on the application of the results to specific problems regarding cases where the boundary is located asymptotically, relevant for a holographic analysis.
description: V2, 54 pages, typos corrected. Version accepted for publication in Universe, Special Issue "Women Physicists in Astrophysics, Cosmology and Particle Physics"
The statistical strength of experiments to reject local realism with photon pairs and inefficient detectors
Creators: name: Zhang, Yanbao
name: Knill, Emanuel
name: Glancy, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Because of the fundamental importance of Bell's theorem, a loophole-free demonstration of a violation of local realism (LR) is highly desirable. Here, we study violations of LR involving photon pairs. We quantify the experimental evidence against LR by using measures of statistical strength related to the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence, as suggested by van Dam et al. [W. van Dam, R. Gill and P. Grunwald, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory. 51, 2812 (2005)]. Specifically, we analyze a test of LR with entangled states created from two independent polarized photons passing through a polarizing beam splitter. We numerically study the detection efficiency required to achieve a specified statistical strength for the rejection of LR depending on whether photon counters or detectors are used. Based on our results, we find that a test of LR free of the detection loophole requires photon counters with efficiencies of at least 89.71%, or photon detectors with efficiencies of at least 91.11%. For comparison, we also perform this analysis with ideal unbalanced Bell states, which are known to allow rejection of LR with detector efficiencies above 2/3.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures, minor changes (add more references, replace the old plots, etc.).
Study of heavy quark conserving weak decays in the quark model
Creators: name: Niu, Peng-Yu
name: Wang, Qian
name: Zhao, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the framework of a constituent quark model, we investigate the heavy quark conserving weak decays of $Ξ_c$ and $Ξ_b$. This process involves elementary transitions of $us\to du$ or $s\to ud \bar u$ with the heavy quark as a spectator, while for the charmed baryon in the initial state it can also occur via $cs\to dc$ to conserve the heavy quark flavor in the weak decays. It shows that the heavy quark symmetry (HQS) plays an essential role in the processes where the heavy quark acts as a spectator. For the $Ξ_c$ decays, the dominance of the pole terms in the parity-conserving transitions is evident. This can naturally explain the sizeable branching ratio for $Ξ_c^0\toΛ_cπ^-$ as recently reported by LHCb. The same mechanism predicts a large branching ratio for $Ξ_c^+\toΛ_cπ^0$. In contrast, the decays of $Ξ_b$ will only go through the parity-violating processes because of the HQS. In addition, the branching ratios of the $Ξ_c^+\to Λ_c π^0$ and $Ξ_b^0\to Λ_b π^0$ processes are also predicted for the further experimental measurement.
Appearance of peak in symmetry energy at N = 126 for Pb isotopic chain within relativistic energy density functional
Creators: name: Pattnaik, Jeet Amrit
name: Joshua, T. M.
name: Kumar, Ankit
name: Bhuyan, M.
name: Patra, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The newly derived relativistic energy density functional [\textcolor{blue}{ Phys. Rev. C \textbf{103}, 024305 (2021)}], which stems from the effective field theory motivated relativistic mean-field (E-RMF) is employed to establish the appearance of peak/kink in the symmetry energy over the isotopic chain of Pb-nuclei. The coherent density fluctuation model parametrization procedure for finite nuclei is adopted here to obtain the relativistic energy density functional at local density. The relativistic energy density functional from E-RMFT takes precedence over the Brückner energy density functional as it accurately predicts the empirical saturation density and binding energy per nucleon $E/A$, so-called 'Coester Band Problem'. Interestingly, using the relativistic energy density functional, it is possible to predict the peak at $N=126$ for recently developed G3 and widely used NL3 parameter sets, which is not observed for Brückener's functional in-spite of using the E-RMF density. From the present analysis, the newly fitted energy density functional is found to be minutely sensitive to the choice of the parameter sets employed.
description: 4 figures
title: An Application of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as it Relates to Children
Creators: name: Thompson, Hannah
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: This paper expounds upon a modern therapy which has emerged as an effective, albeit less conventional, mode for the treatment of people with Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, is a therapy based on the premise that an effective way of coping with unwanted cognitions, such as those present in OCD, is for one to focus on life ideals and values. This approach contrasts with the conventional method of remedying the symptoms of a mental disorder such as OCD before pursuing life goals. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy has several dimensions which will be discussed.
Levy distribution in many-particle quantum systems
Creators: name: Ponomarev, A. V.
name: Denisov, S.
name: Hanggi, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Levy distribution, previously used to describe complex behavior of classical systems, is shown to characterize that of quantum many-body systems. Using two complimentary approaches, the canonical and grand-canonical formalisms, we discovered that the momentum profile of a Tonks-Girardeau gas, -- a one-dimensional gas of $N$ impenetrable (hard-core) bosons, harmonically confined on a lattice at finite temperatures, obeys Levy distribution. Finally, we extend our analysis to different confinement setups and demonstrate that the tunable Levy distribution properly reproduces momentum profiles in experimentally accessible regions. Our finding allows for calibration of complex many-body quantum states by using a unique scaling exponent.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, results are generalized, new examples are added
Systematic study of two-proton radioactivity half-lives based on a modified Gamow-like model
Creators: name: Liu, Hong-Ming
name: Zou, You-Tian
name: Pan, Xiao
name: He, Biao
name: Li, Xiao-Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work, we systematically study the two-proton (2p) radioactivity half-lives of nuclei close to the proton drip line within a modified Gamow-like model. Using this model, the calculated 2p radioactivity half-lives can well reproduce the experimental data. Moreover, we use this model to predict the 2p radioactivity half-lives of 22 candidates whose 2p radioactivity is energetically allowed or observed but not yet quantied in evaluated nuclear properties table NUBASE2016. The predicted results are in good agreement with the ones obtained by using Gamow-like model, effective liquid drop model (ELDM), generalized liquid drop model (GLDM) as well as a four-parameter formula.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
title: Student-Initiated Campus Sustainability: Strategies for Success
Creators: name: Harper, Michaela Stuver
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: Campus sustainability is growing in popularity throughout the United States, and also internationally. The purpose of this study was to determine whether student-run environmental sustainability initiatives are capable of succeeding, and if so, what factors and characteristics exist in successful and unsuccessful projects. Environmental sustainability initiatives are those that address at least one of the following five ares: 1) Air quality and climate change, 2) local food and sustainable agriculture, 3) land conservation and recycling, reducing and reusing, 4) renewable energy, and 5) water conservation. Success was defined as the ability of a program to continue when the initiator leaves the university. Six representatives-faculty or staff members with sustainability experiences and university sustainability roles-from three universities were interviewed using a semi-structured approach. Successful initiatives were hypothesized by the research to require 1) faculty/staff support, 2) funding and 3) specific features and functions for management. Results indicated, however, that while faculty/staff support and funding were important factors; committed students, networking and collaboration were more important than the predicted specific features and functions for management. The results of this study may provide future programs with the framework necessary to succeed and develop permanence, and may aid the many programs and departments at various universities in determining whether a proposed initiative is capable of gaining longevity.
Far from equilibrium Chiral Magnetic Effect in Strong Magnetic Fields from Holography
Creators: name: Grieninger, Sebastian
name: Morales-Tejera, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the real time evolution of the chiral magnetic effect out-of-equilibrium in strongly coupled anomalous field theories. We match the parameters of our model to QCD parameters and draw lessons of possible relevance for the realization of the chiral magnetic effect in heavy ion collisions. In particular, we find an equilibration time of about $\sim0.35$ fm/c in presence of the chiral anomaly for plasma temperatures of order $T\sim300-400$ MeV.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the conference (virtual) "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum 2021" (vConf21), 2 - 6 August 2021 in Stavanger, Norway; Talk on arXiv:2105.05855
title: Describing Horse and Ranchette Owners in Utah
Creators: name: Buchanan, Courtney
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: A 2008 study of the Extension needs and preferences of small-acreage landowners in Morgan, Summit, Utah, and Washington counties revealed that approximately 50% of landowners grazed horses. These landowners present a specific group within small-acreage owners that can be targeted with Extension information. Using the data gathered previously, this study looks to identify the characteristics of these landowners as well as compare owners that graze horses, other livestock, or do not keep animals on their property. In addition, I evaluated whether horse owners fit the stereotype they are often given: Affluent people from city or suburban roots that move into rural areas and do not know how to manage their land. Differences were found between owners with and without horses as well as differences between owners that kept strictly horses as compared to horses and other livestock. This is relevant to Extension, as horse owners are a distinct audience for management information. In order to better target these landowners, Extension should evaluate whether they are targeting horse owners in general or specifically those that only keep horses. In addition, this provides a picture of Utah horse owners, which is information that can be used for further purposes.
Quantum Preferred Frame: Does It Really Exist?
Creators: name: Rembielinski, J.
name: Smolinski, K. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The idea of the preferred frame as a remedy for difficulties of the relativistic quantum mechanics in description of the non-local quantum phenomena was undertaken by such physicists as J. S. Bell and D. Bohm. The possibility of the existence of preferred frame was also seriously treated by P. A. M. Dirac. In this paper, we propose an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-type experiment for testing the possible existence of a quantum preferred frame. Our analysis suggests that to verify whether a preferred frame of reference in the quantum world exists it is enough to perform an EPR type experiment with pair of observers staying in the same inertial frame and with use of the massive EPR pair of spin one-half or spin one particles.
description: 5 pp., 6 figs
title: Motivation and Achievement in Tennis
Creators: name: Bentley, Scott
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Each person is motivated by different things and in different ways. Athletes specifically use how they are motivated to achieve goals, improve in practice, and overcome difficult tasks and opponents . Coaches can play a crucial role in helping their athletes recognize their motivational style (extrinsic or intrinsic) and learn how to best motivate themselves. My goal in this study was to work with 13-18 year old tennis players in Cache Valley and see if the participants improved more with coaching tailored to their motivational style than with general, non-specific coaching. Each participant was given the same motivational survey, the same warm-up, ran through a warm-up of each groundstroke (6), and the total number of 10 made shots was recorded for each stroke after the warm-up and coaching phase. The participants worked with me for 20-30 minutes and did a cool-down stretch afterwards. Each participant worked with me on two occasions to show improvement between the two sessions. The results of this study show that the participants not only improved more between the two sessions when they were coached according to how they are motivated, but also performed better during the first lesson than did those who were coached with general, non-specific coaching. This leads me to suggest that coaches should, if they want to maximize a players ' progress, coach each player according to how that player is motivated.
title: Sports Literature in the Secondary Classroom
Creators: name: Thompson, Hannah
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: When I first began thinking about focusing my thesis on sports literature, my initial research was not promising-many of the studies that have been done in the past focused on using sports literature to encourage reluctant readers. Reluctant male readers in particular were encouraged to try sports literature as a ploy to get them to read. Professor Linda Purdy Carter examines the reasons why reluctant readers tend to connect with sports literature. Overall, Carter concludes that sports literature can be a viable and valuable part of a classroom, but continues to emphasize the use of sports literature for students who are not up to reading typical classroom literature. Saul Bachner gives examples of stimulating and inspiring discussions that came from sports literature, and again demonstrates that students who are struggling tend to connect with sports literature better than with the typical classroom literary staples. Although Bachner does acknowledge that sports literature can lead to interesting discussions and do have literary merit, he also emphasizes its use for struggling readers. In these studies, sports literature is treated as a "lesser form" of literature because of the topic, and is relegated to being used for struggling students only.
title: SIMPLIFY!
Creators: name: Embry, Janet I.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: Centuries of technological advancements have contributed to a propensity for Western man to judge the quality of his life on a quantitative scale: bigger or faster or more has been interpreted to mean better. The inhabitants of the Western world are usually so caught up in the struggle for material goods, they have neither the time nor the inclination to see beyond that immediate concern. There have often, if not always, been poets and philosophers to point out the weaknesses in such a system but they have had little visible impact. A Gary Snyder writing in the middle of the twentieth century sounds the same alarm that Henry David Thoreau did in the nineteenth. The struggle has not changed; it may have intensified.
Autofocus Under Large Defocus Conditions
Creators: name: Wang, Qinche
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: auto-focus; large defocus; Linear Search; Binary Search

description: This paper discusses the current state of research on autofocus under large defocus conditions and conducts experiments on two focusing strategies—linear search and binary search—using commercial cameras with medium-to-telephoto lenses. Based on experimental results and related studies in the literature, the paper suggests that applying AI algorithms such as deep learning to extract additional information from defocused images may be a potential solution for enabling autofocus under large defocus conditions.
Effective thermal dynamics following a quantum quench in a spin chain
Creators: name: Rossini, Davide
name: Silva, Alessandro
name: Mussardo, Giuseppe
name: Santoro, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of the Quantum Ising Model following an abrupt quench of the transverse field. We focus on the on-site autocorrelation function of the order parameter, and extract the phase coherence time $τ^ϕ_Q$ from its asymptotic behavior. We show that the initial state determines $τ^ϕ_Q$ only through an effective temperature set by its energy and the final Hamiltonian. Moreover, we observe that the dependence of $τ^ϕ_Q$ on the effective temperature fairly agrees with that obtained in thermal equilibrium as a function of the equilibrium temperature.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Published version
Subsurface currents in the Strait of Georgia, west of Sturgeon Bank
Creators: name: Chang, Phillip Yit Kuen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Spectral characteristics of sub-surface current and temperature records spanning 310-533 days from me Strait of Georgia near Sturgeon Bank are examined. Of particular interest are low-frequency fluctuations having, a characteristic period of 30 days. Typically, the energy of the low-frequency and tidal currents are equal at 50m (each about 40% of the total), and 10% and 10%, respectively, at 200m. Low-frequency currents are observed to be baroclinic and posses a lateral length scale less than 10km. Their generation mechanisms are not identified. The low-frequency fluctuations in sea-level and current have poor-to-fair coherence, while those in air-pressure and current have poor coherence. Low-frequency fluctuations in wind and current have fair coherence at the eastern mooring, and poor coherence at the remaining two moorings. Fluctuations in water temperature have a characteristic period of 300 days. Water temperatures at different locations generally have poor coherence except at the lowest frequencies where they are fair-to-good. Water temperature and current at the same location have poor coherence. Tidal currents are found to be ellipses, with the largest constituents being M² and K¹. The magnitude, shape .and orientation of the tidal current ellipses are time-dependent. Internal tides are suggested as an explanation.
Additional file 1 of Dominance of the zoonotic pathogen Cryptosporidium meleagridis in broiler chickens in Guangdong, China, reveals evidence of cross-transmission
Creators: name: Lin, Xuhui
name: Xin, Luyao
name: Qi, Meng
name: Hou, Minyu
name: Liao, Shenquan
name: Qi, Nanshan
name: Li, Juan
name: Lv, Minna
name: Cai, Haiming
name: Hu, Junjing
name: Zhang, Jianfei
name: Ji, Xiangbo
name: Sun, Mingfei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Samples from 43 intensive chicken farms across six distinct geographical regions (Qingyuan, Maoming, Huizhou, Meizhou, Yangjiang and Shanwei) in Guangdong Province.
Improving the Resilience of Fast Failover Routing: TREE (Tree Routing to Extend Edge disjoint paths)
Creators: name: Schweiger, Oliver
name: Foerster, Klaus-Tycho
name: Schmid, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Today's communication networks have stringent availability requirements and hence need to rapidly restore connectivity after failures. Modern networks thus implement various forms of fast reroute mechanisms in the data plane, to bridge the gap to slow global control plane convergence. State-of-the-art fast reroute commonly relies on disjoint route structures, to offer multiple independent paths to the destination. We propose to leverage the network's path diversity to extend edge disjoint path mechanisms to tree routing, in order to improve the performance of fast rerouting. We present two such tree-mechanisms in detail and show that they boost resilience by up to 12% and 25% respectively on real-world, synthetic, and data center topologies, while still retaining good path length qualities.
description: Accepted at the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems 2021 (ANCS'21)
title: Directing of Mice and Men
Creators: name: Edwards, James Leavell
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1973

description: The work of the playwright is necessarily an interpretation and reflection of his time. The work of the company in a theatrical production is necessarily an interpretation and reflection of the playwright as he is seen through their own time. These works are readily perceived by the audience in the living theatre experiences through the sensory impressions of their eyes and ears.
In contrast to that which the audience perceives, the world of the director is unknown. Despite the fact that he is the premier artistic coordinator, his job is completed when the curtain rises, with the spectators viewing the finished product and knowing little of its inception and creation.
This thesis will show what goes into and comes out of tho director's analyzing, interpreting, and mounting of a production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
Kaehler Metrics and Yukawa Couplings in Magnetized Brane Models
Creators: name: Di Vecchia, P.
name: Liccardo, A.
name: Marotta, R.
name: Pezzella, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the field theoretical approach introduced by Cremades, Ibanez and Marchesano for describing open strings attached to D9 branes having different magnetizations, we give a procedure for determining the Kaehler metrics of those open strings in toroidal compactifications.
description: 33 pages, minor corrections
title: The Effect of the Herbicide Glyphosate on the Growth of Selenastrum Capricornutum
Creators: name: Eisen, Judith Susan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1973

description: The herbicide glyphosate (MON-0139), an isopropylamine salt of N- (phosphonemethyl)glycine, was tested to determine its effects on the growth of the fresh water green alga Selenastrum capricornutum. Experiments were carried out to determine algicidal, algistatic, and inhibitory concentrations of the compound.
Concentrations from 5 ppm to 1000 ppm were inhibitory to the growth of the alga, but the effects were algistatic, rather than algicidal. At concentrations from 0.1 ppm to 1.0 ppm the growth of the alga was stimulated by the presence of the herbicide, while at concentrations from 0.001 ppm to 0.05 ppm the effects of the herbicide were negligible.
Two chemical tests were used, and it was determined that in low pH systems (pH of about 4.5) glyphosate hydrolyzes with inorganic phosphate as one of the hydrolysis products. The concentrations of phosphate released is so low as to have no effect on the growth of S. capricornutum.
Study of similarity rules for electromagnetic process in partially ionized plasmas
Creators: name: Yao, Jiansheng
name: Zhao, Yingkui
name: Zhang, Hantian
name: Ye, Difa
name: Ouyang, Biyao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As proved by previous study, the similarity of electromagnetic processes in plasmas will be violated by Coulomb collisions between electron and ions. Therefore, there is no similarity in highly ionized collisional plasma. But the situation will be completely different for collisional plasmas with low ionization degree. The main collision type will change from electron-ion Coulomb collision to electron-molecule collision, and a new variable (the number density of neutral molecules) will be introduced into the similarity constraint, which can increase the degree of freedom.Thus, in this condition, the similarity restriction caused by the collision process does not conflict with the other restrictions. Therefore, the similarity for electromagnetic process in collisional plasmas can be valid for partially ionized plasmas. In this paper, we propose the similarity in partially ionized plasmas, and prove it via particle in cell/Monte Carlo (PIC/MCC) simulation. Our research has a wide range of engineering applications.
Mesonic Excitations of QGP: Study with an Effective Model
Creators: name: Deb, Paramita
name: Bhattacharyya, Abhijit
name: Datta, Saumen
name: Ghosh, Sanjay K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the correlations between quark-antiquark pairs in different quantum number channels in a deconfined plasma by using an effective model of QCD. Using the three flavour PNJL model, the finite temperature spectral functions for different mesonic states are studied at zero and nonzero quark chemical potentials. It is found that in the $η$ channel resonance structures survive above the chiral transition temperature $\tc$, while the kaonic states seem to get washed off just above $\tc$. The sensitivity of the structures to the anomaly term are carefully investigated.
description: 15pages
title: Utopia...
Creators: name: Griffith, David A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1973

description: This short story is an attempt to dramatize human relations as the crux of Utopianism. Its science fiction setting has been deemphasized in order to keep distraction at a minimum. The House described in the story may be taken as a symbol of the phalanx - the physical structure - associated with Utopias. The story's focus, however, is on the importance and vulnerability of interpersonal communication in Utopia.
Stagnation of Community Forest Management: A Case Study of NamKian Sub-District, Phupiang District, Nan Province
Creators: name: Banjit Sairorkham
Publisher: name: คณะสิ่งแวดล้อมและทรัพยากรศาสตร์
Year: 2014
Subjects: Stagnation, Community forest management, Dynamism, Complexity

description: 1, 12, Environment and Natural Resources Journal