cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quantum Locality
Creators: name: Griffiths, Robert B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is argued that while quantum mechanics contains nonlocal or entangled states, the instantaneous or nonlocal influences sometimes thought to be present due to violations of Bell inequalities in fact arise from mistaken attempts to apply classical concepts and introduce probabilities in a manner inconsistent with the Hilbert space structure of standard quantum mechanics. Instead, Einstein locality is a valid quantum principle: objective properties of individual quantum systems do not change when something is done to another noninteracting system. There is no reason to suspect any conflict between quantum theory and special relativity.
description: Introduction has been revised, references added, minor corrections elsewhere. To appear in Foundations of Physics
title: Late Taino Occupation of Jamaica: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Faunal Materials from the Bluefields Bay Site
Creators: name: Azevedo, Diana M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: My thesis seeks to answer the broad questions: can early foragers alter marine resources in island settings and can archaeological data provide insights into these changes. These questions highlight two important issues. The first issue reflects the common belief that small-scale societies did not affect their environments. The second issue centers on growing concern over the collapse of fisheries across the globe.
To answer these questions, I use fish bones recovered from an archaeological site located in Belmont, Jamaica near the Bluefields Bay marine sanctuary. The Bluefields Bay site dates to the late Taíno occupation of Jamaica. The name Taíno refers to the peoples who greeted Columbus. I conduct my analyses through the identification of the faunal bones to lowest taxonomic level, and apply the theoretical tool known as resource depression to detect declines in the relative abundance of large-bodied fishes, reductions in fish body size, and changes to fish community composition. I found significant changes in body size and diversity of fishes through time, pointing to shifts in the marine ecosystem due to human exploitation that occurred nearly a thousand years ago.
title: Modeling the Ecological Consequences of Visitor Behavior in Off-Trail Areas of Dispersed Recreation Use
Creators: name: D'Antonio, Ashley L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Parks and protected areas are often created to protect important social, ecological, or cultural resources from impairment. In the United States, a large majority of these parks and protected areas are also public land where recreational activities such as hiking or scenic driving are allowed. Managers of many parks and protected areas must therefore try to protect resources while also allowing for recreation use that may put these resources at risk for damage. The field of recreation ecology is interested in understanding how recreation use in parks and protected areas can sometimes cause ecological impacts to vegetation, soil, wildlife, water, air, and soundscapes. This information is then used to help managers prevent undesirable ecological change. When visitors to parks and protected areas leave designated sites such as trails or roads, there is a greater chance that ecological impacts will occur.
The studies presented here are designed to help managers better understand how visitor behavior off of designated trails may result in damage to plant communities. These studies examine data on both the social aspects of recreation use (such as visitor behavior and the number of visitors recreating) and the ecological aspects (specifically the plant communities found at popular recreation destinations). By looking at social and ecological data together, these studies can predict locations in parks or protected areas where ecological impact may occur as a result of recreation use. Managers can use these predictions to better allocate resources and time to managing recreation use at locations that are most at risk of impairment.
Fitness-performance of southern British Columbia Indian children
Creators: name: Waldie, Jean V. M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Fitness performance of southern British Columbia Indian children as measured by the Canadian Association for Health Physical Education and Recreation Fitness-Performance Test was studied to determine the following. 1. Were there any significant differences between the fitness performance of the Indian children tested and the fitness performance of other Canadian children? 2. Were there any significant differences between the fitness performance of the Indian children who attended provincial schools and those who attended Indian schools? 3. Were there any significant differences between the fitness performance of the Indian children who lived in residence and those who lived at home? The CAHPER Fitness-Performance Test was administered to 651 Indian children between the ages of eight to seventeen years. The subjects were students of selected Indian schools or were living in Indian residential schools selected for this study. The significant differences found which showed the Indian children to have better performances were concentrated in three test items: the flexed arm hang, the shuttle run, and the fifty yard run. The CAHPER mean scores which were found to be significantly better were concentrated in two test items: the standing broad jump and the one minute speed sit-up tests. In the comparison of the fitness performance of Indian children attending provincial schools with the Indian school students, all of the significant differences found indicated a superior performance by provincial school students. Only one significant difference was found which favoured the Indian children who lived at home. Significantly better scores for Indian children who live in residence were found on all test items.
The role of working memory for task-order coordination in dual-task situations
Creators: name: Kübler, Sebastian
name: Strobach, Tilo
name: Schubert, Torsten
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Psychology Research
subject: 153 Kognitive Prozesse und Intelligenz

description: Dual-task (DT) situations require task-order coordination processes that schedule the processing of two temporally overlapping tasks. Theories on task-order coordination suggest that these processes rely on order representations that are actively maintained and processed in working memory (WM). Preliminary evidence for this assumption stems from DT situations with variable task order, where repeating task order relative to the preceding trials results in improved performance compared to changing task order, indicating the processing of task-order information in WM between two succeeding trials. We directly tested this assumption by varying WM load during a DT with variable task order. In Experiment 1, WM load was manipulated by varying the number of stimulus–response mappings of the component tasks. In Experiment 2A, WM load was increased by embedding an additional WM updating task in the applied DT. In both experiments, the performance benefit for trials with repeated relative to trials with changed task order was reduced under high compared to low WM load. These results confirm our assumption that the processing of the task-order information relies on WM resources. In Experiment 2B, we tested whether the results of Experiment 2A can be attributed to introducing an additional task per se rather than to increased WM load by introducing an additional task with a low WM load. Importantly, in this experiment, the processing of order information was not affected. In sum, the results of the three experiments indicate that task-order coordination relies on order information which is maintained in an accessible state in WM during DT processing.
title: Face Recognition Under Varying Illuminations
Creators: name: Faraji, Mohammadreza
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Face recognition under illumination is really challenging. This dissertation proposes four effective methods to produce illumination-invariant features for images with various levels of illuminations. The proposed methods are called logarithmic fractal dimension (LFD), eight local directional patterns (ELDP), adaptive homomorphic eight local directional pat- terns (AH-ELDP), and complete eight local directional patterns (CELDP), respectively.
LFD, employing the log function and the fractal analysis (FA), produces a logarithmic fractal dimension (LFD) image that is illumination-invariant. The proposed FA feature-based method is an effective edge enhancer technique to extract and enhance facial features such as eyes, eyebrows, nose, and mouth.
The proposed ELDP code scheme uses Kirsch compass masks to compute the edge responses of a pixel's neighborhood. It then uses all the directional numbers to produce an illumination-invariant image.
AH-ELDP first uses adaptive homomorphic filtering to reduce the influence of illumination from an input face image. It then applies an interpolative enhancement function to stretch the filtered image. Finally, it produces eight directional edge images using Kirsch compass masks and uses all the directional information to create an illumination-insensitive representation.
CELDP seamlessly combines adaptive homomorphic filtering, simplified logarithmic fractal dimension, and complete eight local directional patterns to produce illumination- invariant representations.
Our extensive experiments on Yale B, extended Yale B, CMU-PIE, and AR face databases show the proposed methods outperform several state-of-the-art methods, when using one image per subject for training.
We also evaluate the ability of each method to verify and discriminate face images by plotting receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves which plot true positive rates (TPR) against the false positive rates (FPR).
In addition, we conduct an experiment on the Honda UCSD video face database to simulate real face recognition systems which include face detection, landmark localization, face normalization, and face matching steps. This experiment, also, verifies that our proposed methods outperform other state-of-the-art methods.
title: Computational Modeling to Study Disease Development: Applications to Breast Cancer and an in vitro Model of Macular Degeneration
Creators: name: Bani Baker, Qanita
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: There have been several techniques developed in recent years to develop computer models of a variety of disease behaviors. Agent-based modeling is a discrete-based modeling approach used agents to represent individual cells that mechanically interact and secrete, consume or react to soluble products. It has become a powerful modeling approach, widely used by computational researchers. In this research, we utilized agent-based modeling to study and explore disease development, particularly in two applications, breast cancer and bioengineering experiments. We further proposed an error-minimization search approach and used it to estimate cellular parameters from multicellular in vitro data.
In this dissertation, in the first study, we developed a 2D agent-based model that attempted to emulate the in vivo structure of breast cancer. The model was applied to describe the progression from DCIS into DCI. This model confirms that the interaction between tumor cells and the surrounding stroma in the duct plays a critical role in tumor growth and metastasis. This interaction depends on many mechanical and chemical factors that work with each other to produce tumor invasion of the surrounding tissue. In the second study, an in silico model was developed and applied to understanding the underlying mechanism of vascular-endothelial growth factor (VEGF) auto-regulation in REP and emulate the in vitro experiments as part of bioengineering research. This model may provide a system with robust predictive modeling and visualization that could enable discovery of the molecular mechanisms involved in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) progression and provide routers to the development of effective treatments. In the third and final study, a searching approach was applied to estimate cellular parameters from spatiotemporal data produced from bioengineered multicellular in vitro experiments. We applied a search method to an integrated cellular and multicellular model of retinal pigment epithelial cells to estimate the auto-regulation parameters of VEGF.
Proximity-induced superconductivity in graphene
Creators: name: Feigel'man, M. V.
name: Skvortsov, M. A.
name: Tikhonov, K. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a way of making graphene superconductive by putting on it small superconductive islands which cover a tiny fraction of graphene area. We show that the critical temperature, T_c, can reach several Kelvins at the experimentally accessible range of parameters. At low temperatures, T<
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
The p-rank strata of the moduli space of hyperelliptic curves
Creators: name: Achter, Jeff
name: Pries, Rachel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H10, 11G20, 14D05

description: We prove results about the intersection of the p-rank strata and the boundary of the moduli space of hyperelliptic curves in characteristic p > 2. Using this, we prove that the Z/\ell-monodromy of every irreducible component of the stratum H_g^f of hyperelliptic curves of genus g and p-rank f is the symplectic group Sp_{2g}(Z/\ell) if g > 2, f > 0 and \ell is an odd prime distinct from p. These results yield applications about the generic behavior of hyperelliptic curves of given genus and p-rank. The first application is that a generic hyperelliptic curve of genus g > 2 and p-rank 0 is not supersingular. Other applications are about absolutely simple Jacobians and the generic behavior of class groups and zeta functions of hyperelliptic curves of given genus and $p$-rank over finite fields.
description: Slight reorganization, improved results for p-rank zero locus
title: Improving the Scalability and Usability of the Public Information Officer Monitoring Application
Creators: name: Shah, Rohan D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: This thesis work addresses the limitations of a web application called the Public Information Officer Monitoring Application (PMA). This application helps Public Information Officers (PIOs) to gather, monitor, sort, store, and report social media data during a crisis event. Before this work, PMA was unable to handle large data sets and as a result, it had not been adequately tested with potential users of the application.
This thesis describes changes made to PMA to improve its ability to handle large data sets. After these changes were made, the application was then tested with target users. All test participants found the application useful and relevant to their work. Testing also revealed many ways to improve the usefulness of the application, which were subsequently implemented. The thesis concludes with suggestions for future work and distribution of PMA.
Exponential decay of correlation functions in many-electron systems
Creators: name: Kashima, Yohei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a class of tight-binding many-electron models on hyper-cubic lattices the equal-time correlation functions at non-zero temperature are proved to decay exponentially in the distance between the center of positions of the electrons and the center of positions of the holes. The decay bounds hold in any space dimension in the thermodynamic limit if the interaction is sufficiently small depending on temperature. The proof is based on the U(1)-invariance property and volume-independent perturbative bounds of the finite dimensional Grassmann integrals formulating the correlation functions.
description: 52 pages, minor changes, final version, to appear in J. Math. Phys
Case-based Reporting and Analysis to Enhance the Value and Use of Routine Health Facility Data for Health Policy, Programming and Research: Case Study of a New Malaria Surveillance System in The Gambia
Creators: name: Anya, Samuel Emetu
Publisher: name: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 80702 Health Informatics
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: A sustained decline in the burden of malaria from 2003 to 2007 in The Gambiahighlighted the need for real-time data to monitor the changing epidemiology ofmalaria. The aim of the studies described in this thesis was to determine thevalue and use of routine case-based health facility data for malaria policy,programming and research.To achieve this aim, individual, rather than aggregate, malaria case records atthe six sentinel sites were analysed by age, sex, month, season and location.The impact of malaria on anaemia was analysed at individual and populationlevels. Malaria data from one of the sentinel sites and from village healthworkers in the catchment community were compared. The use of data wasinvestigated through 31 key informant interviews and document review.Quantitative and qualitative data were analysed in R. A CATWOE analysis wasdone to characterise health system strengthening barriers and facilitators.Case-based analyses revealed previously unreported age and sex distributionsof malarial illness. Young children had the lowest rates of malaria parasitaemiabut highest rates of severe anaemia if they had malaria. However, at populationlevel, the prevalence of malaria-attributable severe anaemia was less than 2%in all age groups. Health facility malaria data were representative of malarialillness in the community despite small-area heterogeneity. The availability anduse of surveillance data led to changes in malaria policy, programming anddesign of surveys.Case-based reporting is feasible and enhances the value and use of routinehealth facility data as it enabled a depth and breadth of analysis that is notpossible with aggregated data. Changes to WHO recommendations on malariareporting are required to facilitate the adoption of case-based reporting inmalaria control settings. Systems thinking is required to ensure that actions andcapabilities required to generate, report, analyse and use data are clarified andaccommodated.
DTM from DSM extraction model
Creators: name: Perez, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Checkpoint of a deep neural network model for DTM generation, made in the context of the project available on github : https://github.com/davpergan/DTM_DSM_GAN/. The model is an adapted version of the pix2pix model (https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/generative/pix2pix?hl=en), trained with a modified loss function, using the gradient and normal criteria from "Amini Amirkolaee, Hamed et al. “DTM Extraction from DSM Using a Multi-Scale DTM Fusion Strategy Based on Deep Learning.” Remote sensing of environment 274 (2022): 113014–. Web."
Adiabatic approximation in time-dependent reduced-density-matrix functional theory
Creators: name: Requist, Ryan
name: Pankratov, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the aim of describing real-time electron dynamics, we introduce an adiabatic approximation for the equation of motion of the one-body reduced-density matrix (one-matrix). The eigenvalues of the one-matrix, which represent the occupation numbers of single-particle orbitals, are obtained from the constrained minimization of the instantaneous ground state energy functional rather than from their dynamical equations. To clarify the motivation for this minimization condition, we discuss a sequence of adiabatic energy functionals, each obeying a minimum principle. The performance of the approximation vis-a`-vis nonadiabatic effects is assessed in real-time simulations for a two-site Hubbard model. Due to the presence of Landau-Zener-type transitions, the system evolves into a nonstationary state with persistent oscillations in the observables. The amplitude and phase of the oscillations exhibit resonance behavior both with respect to the strength of the electron-electron interaction and the rate of variation of the external potential. Both types of resonances have the same origin -- the interference of dynamical and scattering phases.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures; thoroughly revised
Field induced spin ice like orders in spin liquid Tb$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$
Creators: name: Cao, H.
name: Gukasov, A.
name: Mirebeau, I.
name: Bonville, P.
name: Dhalenne, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the field induced magnetic structures in the spin liquid Tb$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$, in a wide temperature (0.3$
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Macrophage-derived exosomes mediate glomerular endothelial cell dysfunction in sepsis-associated acute kidney injury
Creators: name: Xiang, Huiling
name: Xu, Zhifeng
name: Zhang, Chun
name: Xiong, Jing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Successive sections stained with CD68 and CD63, respectively, showed that some CD63 could appear in the same location as CD68 in LPS-induced acute kidney injury.
Hybrid natural inflation from non Abelian discrete symmetry
Creators: name: Ross, Graham G
name: German, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A spontaneously broken global discrete symmetry may have pseudo Goldstone modes associated with the spontaneous breaking of the approximate continuous symmetry of the low dimension terms in the Lagrangian. These provide natural candidates for an inflaton that can generate slow roll inflation. We show that, in the case of a non Abelian discrete symmetry, the pseudo Goldstone modes readily couple to further scalar fields in a manner that the end of inflation is determined by these additional scalar fields, generating hybrid inflation. We give a simple parameterisation of the inflationary potential in this case, determine the inflationary parameters resulting, and show that phenomenological successful inflation is possible while keeping the scale of symmetry breaking sub-Plankian. Unlike natural inflation the inflation scale can be very low. We construct two simple hybrid inflation models, one non supersymmetric and one supersymmetric. In the latter case no parameters need be chosen anomalously small.
description: Accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. B
Nemoura arctica Esben-Petersen 1910
Creators: name: Zhu, Ya-Fei
name: Rehman, Abdur
name: Yang, Xiao
name: Huo, Qing-Bo
name: Zeng, Liang-Liang
name: Teslenko, Valentina A.
name: Du, Yu-Zhou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Nemouridae
Nemoura
Nemoura arctica

description: Nemoura arctica Esben-Petersen, 1910
Nemoura arctica Esben-Petersen, 1910: 85.
Nemoura trispinosa Claassen, 1923: 289.
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ya-Fei Zhu & Xiao Yang; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: 2EE0772D-FF21-5E04-81B9-84BFC182AF62; Taxon: scientificName: Nemoura arctica Esben-Petersen, 1910; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Nemouridae; genus: Nemoura; specificEpithet: arctica; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; locality: HulunBuir city, Genhe city, Jinhe town; maximumElevationInMeters: 791; verbatimLatitude: 51.331111; verbatimLongitude: 121.491944; Identification: identifiedBy: Ya-Fei Zhu & Valentina A. Teslenko; Event: year: 2023; month: 5; day: 27; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU
Diagnosis
Males exhibit consistency with epiproct shape and characteristics across the Holarctic. The apical sclerite terminates laterally, bearing two short, thick spines. Male cerci are sclerotized laterally and terminate typically in a pair of appressed spines; they also have an outer spine (Fig. 3 A-F).
Distribution
Canada, USA, and Europe, including Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden, Mongolia (DeWalt et al. 2024). Russia, north of the European part, Siberia, Far East (Teslenko and Zhiltzova 2009). The species is recorded for China for the first time.
description: Published as part of Zhu, Ya-Fei, Rehman, Abdur, Yang, Xiao, Huo, Qing-Bo, Zeng, Liang-Liang, Teslenko, Valentina A. & Du, Yu-Zhou, 2025, New records of stoneflies (Insecta, Plecoptera) from the Greater Khingan Mountains, China, pp. e 151489 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e151489, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e151489
Stress Relaxation in Aging Soft Colloidal Glasses
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Ranjini
name: Mohan, P. Harsha
name: Joshi, Yogesh M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the stress relaxation behavior on the application of step strains to aging aqueous suspensions of the synthetic clay Laponite. The stress exhibits a two-step decay, from which the slow relaxation modes are extracted as functions of the sample ages and applied step strain deformations. Interestingly, the slow time scales that we estimate show a dramatic enhancement with increasing strain amplitudes. We argue that the system ends up exploring the deeper sections of its energy landscape following the application of the step strain.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
title: Aminostratigraphy of Thatcher Basin, SE Idaho: Reassessment of Pleistocene Lakes
Creators: name: Hochberg, Amy
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: The Quaternary geologic history of Lake Thatcher, southeastern Idaho, is pivotal in determining when the Bear River carved its through-flowing channel into the Bonneville Basin. Bright's reconstruction of the history of Lake Thatcher was based on 14C dates that are now known to be inaccurate. Lava Creek B ash found interbedded with lacustrine sediment suggests that Thatcher Basin contained a lake well before Bright's original estimate of 34 ka.
D/L ratios, which measure the extent of racemization in fossil gastropods, in conjunction with paleosols and tephra, were used to correlate between four localities across Thatcher Basin to reassess lake-level chronology. Lab-heating experiments were performed on four genera of molluscs to obtain integeneric conversions of D/L, which aided in chronostratigraphic correlation between beds that contained different genera. An age calibration curve for Lymnaea was developed using D/L ratios associated with the proto Mount St. Helens tephra (90±30 ka; D/L=0.21 [Valvata]) and Lake Bonneville sediment (20±5 ka; D/L=0.09 [lymnaea]). D/L ratios from non-dated lake deposits were assigned ages using this calibration curve, providing the basis for the late-Pleistocene Lake Thatcher chronology.
Based on high D/L ratios in Valvata (~0.7) contained in the lower Thatcher sediment, lake level through early-middle Pleistocene was shallow, evidenced by numerous paleosols and organic-rich beds. A gap in the Lake Thatcher stratigraphic record exists for much of the middle Pleistocene. Lake Thatcher existed at its highest elevation from ~110 until ~80 ka, separated from the final Lake Thatcher high-water episode at ~40 ka by a middle-Wisconsin soil. This provides a maximum age on the breaching of the divide at Oneida Narrows and unimpeded flow of the Bear River into Bonneville Basin. By ~17 ka, Lake Bonneville backed up into Thatcher Basin, during its all-time highstand, which Bright believed was owned in part to the added inflow of the Bear River. However, evidence from this study suggests that the Bear River may have been spilling over the divide at Oneida Narrows into Bonneville Basin at ~110 ka.
Effects on sentence recall of varying age : mean depth, and sentence type.
Creators: name: Mitchell, Diana Lee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects on recall of varying sentence complexity, sentence type, and age of the subjects. The measure of sentence complexity used was Martina and Roberts’ (1966) adaptation of Yngve's (1960) depth. The six sentence types involved were kernel (K), negative (N), passive (P), negative-passive (NP), passive truncated (PT), and negative-passive truncated(NPT). One hundred twenty children, and one hundred twenty adults, were exposed, ten at a time, to an orally-presented example of each sentence type. After hearing the six sentences, the subjects were instructed to write as many as they could recall. Six such trials were effected with each subject. Twelve sets of six sentences each were used such that six sets were of the lesser mean depth (1.29) and six sets were of the greater mean depth (1.71). Sixty subjects of each age were exposed to one of either the six sets of sentences having mean depth 1.29, or to one of the six sets of sentences having mean depth 1.71. The data supported two of three stated hypotheses, that is: i) The likelihood of recall of a sentence is inversely related to the mean depth of that sentence when both children and adults are subjects. ii) More sentences of all types and of either depth are recalled by adults than by children. A third hypothesis that: iii) Kernel sentences are recalled better than non-kernel sentences by children and adults, was not supported by the data. It was found, rather, that both adults and children correctly recalled sentences involving the negative better than those which did not. This finding, although supported by neither psycholinguistic theory nor by the experimental literature, was interesting. It was suggested that a study be performed in an attempt to reproduce these results, and that an investigation be made to determine if a tendency to respond correctly more often to negative stimuli Is a culturally-determined factor. Further, it was suggested that study be made of the significance of the mean depth factor, of transformations, and of their interaction.
title: Quaternary Bear River Paleohydrogeography Reconstructed from the 87Sr/86Sr Composition of Lacustrine Fossils
Creators: name: Bouchard, David P.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1997

description: Diverted from its former course to the Pacific Ocean by basalt flows in Gem Valley, Idaho, the Bear River presently flows south into the Bonneville Basin. Constraining the timing of the river's diversion is pivotal to understanding the hydrologic budgets, and thus the climatological implications of the Bonneville Basin lakes. This study employs strontium (Sr) isotopes in mollusc fossils as a tracer of the Bear River water that entered Lake Thatcher, a small, closed-basin lake into which the redirected river flowed en route to the Bonneville Basin. The Sr ratios, combined with the temporal control afforded by amino acid geochronology and tephrochronology, were compared to mixing models constructed from the 87Sr/86Sr composition of the modern rivers draining into the basin to stimulate the Sr isotropic composition of Lake Thatcher.
Strontium ratios of six fossil molluscs collected from the lower-most exposed section of the Main Canyon Formation (MCF) indicate that during the early Quaternary (>620 ka), Thatcher Basin was occupied by a locally fed, isotopically-enriched (87Sr/86Sr=0.71309) lake and did not receive input form the Bear River. Eleven fossils, collected from the uppermost exposed section of the MCF, indicate at least three course changes of the Bear River in the late Quaternary: diversion into the basin around 140 ka, diversion from the basin sometime between 140 and 100 ka, and finally diversion back into the basin around 50 ka. Hydrologic modeling of Thatcher Basin with and without the input of the Bear River suggests that water from both a Bear River-influenced or a locally fed lake is capable of filling the basin and causing it to spillover into the adjacent Bonneville Basin. Thus, the Bonneville Basin may have been receiving water from either the Bear River, or the Thatcher Basin rivers, significantly earlier than the ~30 ka previously proposed. Additional hydrologic modeling in Thatcher Basin suggests that a two-fold reduction in the effective precipitation as compared to modern conditions would be required to lower a locally fed Lake Thatcher the ~30 m necessary to account for the paleosol exposed in the uppermost MCF.
title: Evaluation of Two-Dimensional Hydraulic Modeling in a Natural River and Implications in Instream Flow Assessment Methods
Creators: name: Tarbet, Karl L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1997

description: The Logan River was used as a study site to assess the capabilities of two-dimensional depth-averaged hydraulic modeling in the x-y plane of a natural river for use with instream flow studies. Data were collected to spatially represent the study reach with depth, velocity, northing, easting, elevation, and substrate values using a total station and electronic velocity meter. Computational finite element meshes were generated using four different density levels of geometry data to examine the relationship between field data density and computational mesh on geometry errors. Geometry errors were found to be related to smoothing effects, which removed complex channel geometries while overall mesh geometry errors were related to data density in homogeneous versus heterogeneous channel conditions.
Results indicate that required field data can be optimized with lower data densities in homogenous sections of the river channel. Of the two hydraulic models examined, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers RMA2 model could not be adequately calibrated given the high slope within the study reach and therefore all subsequent evaluations were made utilizing the CDG2D model. CDG2D model performance was best in the lower gradient sections of the test section at both calibrated and simulated flows with increasing errors for water surface and associated depth and velocity errors as channel gradient increased. These results suggest that additional research is needed to define limiting gradients under which application of this class of hydrodynamic model can be expected for practical instream flow assessments.
title: Behavioral finance views on bank regulation to strengthen bank stability
title: Perspektiven der Behavioral Finance auf die Bankeregulierung zur Verbesserung der Bankenstabilität
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hertrampf, Patrick
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 330 Wirtschaft
subject: Behavioral finance
subject: Bank stability
subject: Bank regulation
subject: Anlageverhalten
subject: Stabilität der Banken
subject: Bankenregulierung
subject: Anlageverhalten
subject: Bankpolitik

description: Über 10 Jahre nach der Finanzkrise von 2007 und 2008 blicken Regulierung, Forschung und Praxis auf weitreichende Veränderungen in den regulatorischen Anforderungen und Lehren aus der Vergangenheit zurück. Dennoch zeigen sich immer wieder Bankenkrisen, die trotz der regulatorischen Dynamik in den vergangenen Jahren nicht aufgefangen werden konnten. Oftmals resultierten sie aus Managemententscheidungen, die im Ergebnis eine Verstetigung systemischer Risiken erzeugten. Hierbei rückte das individuelle Verhalten von Entscheidungsträgern in den Fokus. Die Finanzkrise hat bewiesen, dass Krisen durch viele Faktoren aber insbesondere durch fehlgeleitete Entscheidungen entstehen können. Durch diese vernetzte sich die Bankenwelt immer mehr und die systemischen Risiken erreichten ein ungeahntes Ausmaß. Ein Prozess, der zuletzt 2007 und 2008 durch die irrational hohen Investitionen in Mortgage-Backed Securities zu erkennen war. Diese Dissertation stiftet über gleich drei papers Mehrwerte für Regulierung, Forschung und Praxis. Im Resultat entstehen durch diese Dissertation neue Steuerungsimpulse, um das Risikobewusstsein der Entscheidungsträger zu schärfen.
description: More than 10 years after the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, regulation, research, and practice can look back on the far-reaching changes in the regulatory requirements as well as the lessons learned. Nevertheless, despite recent regulatory initiatives, banking crises continue to emerge, often as a result of management decisions that perpetuate systemic risks. The focus of this dissertation is on the individual behavior of decision makers. The financial crisis proved that crises can be caused by many factors, especially misguided decisions. Because of the heavy interconnectedness of the banking sector, systemic risks have reached unprecedented levels. This process was last observed in 2007 and 2008 with irrationally high investments in mortgage-backed securities. This dissertation added value to regulation, research, and practice by generating new steering impulses to sharpen decision makers’ awareness of risk.
Measurements of observables sensitive to colour reconnection in t ~t events with the ATLAS detector at p s = 13TeV
Creators: name: Wahdan, Shayma
Publisher: name: Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Year: 2022

description: This thesis presents the measurement of observables sensitive to the effects of colour reconnection in top-quark pair-production events. The measurement is performed using 139 fb
Topological quantum phase transition in an S=2 spin chain
Creators: name: Zang, Jiadong
name: Jiang, Hong-Chen
name: Weng, Zheng-Yu
name: Zhang, Shou-Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a model Hamiltonian for S = 2 spin chain, where a variable parameter $α$ is introduced. The edge spin is S = 1 for $α= 0$, and S = 3/2 for $α= 1$. Due to the topological distinction of the edge states, these two phases must be separated by one or several topological quantum phase transitions. We investigate the nature of the quantum phase transition by DMRG calculation, and propose a phase diagram for this model.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: A Hydrogeochemical Study of the Evolution of the Headwaters of the Bear River in the Uinta Mountains, Utah
Creators: name: Leschin, Michael F.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1997

description: The headwaters of the Bear River in the Uinta Mountains of Utah provide a good setting in which to examine the influence of geological materials on stream chemistry. Ionic contributions to the stream-water from soils, vegetation, and the atmosphere generally are sparse enough that they do not mask the geologic contributions. Samples from 37 sites on the four major headwater streams and several minor tributaries were examined geochemically. Data derived from the samples allowed the construction of a hydrogeochemical weathering model specific to the study area. A significant feature of this model is that carbonic acid is the dominant chemical agent involved in geochemical weathering.
The aim of this study was to examine the geologic influences on river chemistry. However, atmospheric contributions dominate the hydrochemistry through at least the first 10 kilometers of stream length for the easternmost three of the four major headwater streams.
Except for the atmospheric contribution, surface-water chemistry is dominated by the groundwater chemistry, which is indelibly marked by the lithology the groundwater passes through. Other geologic factors in the study area that appear to influence groundwater chemistry, and hence stream chemistry, are the glacial till and outwash deposits and a major zone of east-west trending high-angle thrust faults. A technique for estimating the hydrochemistry of the groundwater based on surface-water chemistry and flow measurements was developed in this study.
Gravitational Higgs Mechanism: The Role of Determinantal Invariants
Creators: name: Pirinccioglu, Nurettin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Higgs mechanism for gravity, as proposed by 't Hooft in arXiv:0708.3184 [hep-th], can be augmented by including determinantal invariants. We analyze the effects of determinantal invariants in such a set up. We find that the part of the potential that depends on the determinantal invariants, if obtains a specific exponential form in terms of its argument, may not affect the graviton mass calculated.
description: 7 pages, no figure
Measurement of the asymmetry parameter for the decay $\barΛ\to \bar pπ^+$
Creators: name: BES Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a sample of $58\times10^6J/ψ$ decays collected with the BESII detector at the BEPC, the $\barΛ$ decay parameter $α_{\barΛ}$ for $\barΛ\to \bar p π^+$ is measured using about 9000 $J/ψ\toΛ\barΛ\to p \bar p π^+π^-$ decays. A fit to the joint angular distributions yields $α_{\barΛ}(\barΛ\to \bar pπ^+)=-0.755\pm0.083\pm0.063$, where the first error is statistical, and the second systematic.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Principal noncommutative torus bundles
Creators: name: Echterhoff, Siegfried
name: Nest, Ryszard
name: Oyono-Oyono, Herve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19K35; 46L55; 46L80; 46L85

description: In this paper we study continuous bundles of C*-algebras which are non-commutative analogues of principal torus bundles. We show that all such bundles, although in general being very far away from being locally trivial bundles, are at least locally trivial with respect to a suitable bundle version of bivariant K-theory (denoted RKK-theory) due to Kasparov. Using earlier results of Echterhoff and Williams, we shall give a complete classification of principal non-commutative torus bundles up to equivariant Morita equivalence. We then study these bundles as topological fibrations (forgetting the group action) and give necessary and sufficient conditions for any non-commutative principal torus bundle being RKK-equivalent to a commutative one. As an application of our methods we shall also give a K-theoretic characterization of those principal torus-bundles with H-flux, as studied by Mathai and Rosenberg which possess "classical" T-duals.
description: 33 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
Temperature and precipitation in Mongolia based on dendroclimatic investigations
Creators: Jacoby, Gordon
Pederson, Neil
D'Arrigo, Rosanne Dorothy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Paleoclimatology
Meteorology
Hydrology

description: Recent tree-ring studies in Mongolia provide evidence of unusual warming that is in agreement with large-scale reconstructed and recorded temperatures for the Northern Hemisphere and the Arctic. One Mongolian proxy record for temperature extends back over 1000 years and several others are over 350 years in length. Precipitation reconstructions based on tree rings reflect recent increases but also indicate that the increases are within the long-term range of variations. Spectral analyses of recorded precipitation data and the reconstructions support the hypotheses of quasi-solar periodicity in precipitation variation, previously suggested by others.
title: Evaluation of Translocation Criteria for Trumpeter Swans Reintroduced to Northern Utah: Habitat Quality and Interactions with Tundra Swans
Creators: name: Engelhardt, Katharina A. M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1997

description: Fifty-seven Trumpeter swans (Cygnus buccinator) were translocated to the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the Bear River Club Company in northern Utah. The purpose of this effort was to encourage dispersal of the Rocky Mountain population of Trumpeter swans during the winter, and to reestablish a migratory route to southern wintering grounds. I assessed the success of the translocation by evaluating 13 translocation criteria proposed in the literature. In this study I addressed two of these criteria in detail by evaluating habitat quality at the translocation sites and by analyzing potential competitive interactions with Tundra swans (Cygnus columbianus).
Habitat quality was determined by analyzing the spatial distribution of sago pondweed (Potamogeton pectinatus) tubers in wetland sediments before the fall and after the spring migration of Tundra swans. Sixty-four transects were established within the study sites with 10 sediment cores per transect. Geostatistical procedures were employed to account for autocorrelation between samples. Tuber biomass was not randomly distributed within the studied wetlands. In fact, discrete areas of high values appeared to exist before and after swan foraging . It is not likely that sago pondweed tubers are limiting swan abundance in this system. Thus, the habitat quality of the study sites is sufficient for Trumpeter swan translocation.
Potential competitive interactions with Tundra swans were evaluated by examining differences in resource utilization patterns of the two species. I measured body size differences, dietary overlap, resource availability, and the efficiency of extracting available resources. Trumpeter swans appear to benefit from a larger body size and a longer neck because they are more efficient in extracting tubers from the sediment, and are able to exploit tubers to a greater sediment depth than Tundra swans. However, Trumpeter swans incur higher traveling costs due to the larger body size. The trade-off between higher foraging efficiency of Trumpeter swans and higher traveling efficiency of Tundra swans may be a potential mechanism for coexistence.
Lack of support by governmental and non-governmental agencies did not allow for more than one year of translocation. Even though the Trumpeter swan translocation in 1996 was successful, I concluded that the Utah translocation program failed because the translocation did not meet translocation goals.
Solar Battery Charger By Monitoring Via Smartphone Application
Creators: name: Thammakorn Krongtripop
name: Putthiphong Kirdpipat
name: Jessada Konpang
name: Nattapong Intarawiset
name: Kobkhun Chaiyawong
Publisher: name: Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna
Year: 2023
Subjects: Solar Cell
Monitoring System
Blynk Application
Solar Battery Charger

description: RMUTL Engineering Journal, 8, 2, 1-11