cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: 2017-2018 Fuels Management Class III Inventory, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Teller County, Colorado
Creators: name: Olsen, Richard
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Between May 2017 and July 2018, Utah State University (USU) conducted Class III cultural resource surveys of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (FLFO) for the National Park Service to identify cultural resources for a prescriptive fuel management project. [redacted]. The survey included block surveys, as well as new site and isolated find recording. Block surveys covered approximately [redacted] acres at [redacted] transect intervals. The survey was completed in three ten-day sessions during each of the two field seasons. The survey found [redacted] sites, [redacted] isolated finds, and [redacted] culturally modified trees (CMTs). Of these discoveries, [redacted] sites and [redacted] isolated finds and [redacted] of [redacted] CMTs are located within proposed burn units. [redacted] previously recorded sites are also located in the burn units. Except for [redacted] burn units [redacted] contained no cultural material, possibly since the trees had blown down in most of those areas and ground visibility and terrain caused reduced ability to identify artifacts and other CMTs. Significant new discoveries in this survey report include documentation of the Adam and Charlotte Hill homestead, an important location in the late 19th and early 20th Century development of the area as both a tourist attraction and scientific destination. An historic campsite associated with Dr. Harry MacGinitie’s 1937 paleontological expedition was also located near [redacted], which MacGinitie excavated between 1936 and 1938. Prehistoric materials are limited, which has been typical of previous research in the area, although this survey added a prehistoric mudstone quarry site to the records, along with two Late Paleoindian Jimmy Allen type projectile points, which are typical of regional high-elevation occupations. Cultural resource clearance is recommended for the project with guidelines for management provided on a case-by-case basis.
Superconductivity on the surface of topological insulators and in two-dimensional noncentrosymmetric materials
Creators: name: Santos, Luiz
name: Neupert, Titus
name: Chamon, Claudio
name: Mudry, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the superconducting instabilities of a single species of two-dimensional Rashba-Dirac fermions, as it pertains to the surface of a three-dimensional time-reversal symmetric topological band insulators. We also discuss the similarities as well as the differences between this problem and that of superconductivity in two-dimensional time-reversal symmetric noncentrosymmetric materials with spin-orbit interactions. The superconducting order parameter has both s-wave and p-wave components, even when the superconducting pair potential only transfers either pure singlets or pure triplets pairs of electrons in and out of the condensate, a corollary to the non-conservation of spin due to the spin-orbit coupling. We identify one single superconducting regime in the case of superconductivity in the topological surface states (Rashba-Dirac limit), irrespective of the relative strength between singlet and triplet pair potentials. In contrast, in the Fermi limit relevant to the noncentrosymmetric materials we find two regimes depending on the value of the chemical potential and the relative strength between singlet and triplet potentials. We construct explicitly the Majorana bound states in these regimes. In the single regime for the case of the Rashba-Dirac limit, there exist one and only one Majorana fermion bound to the core of an isolated vortex. In the Fermi limit, there are always an even number (0 or 2 depending on the regime) of Majorana fermions bound to the core of an isolated vortex. In all cases, the vorticity required to bind Majorana fermions is unity, in contrast to the half-flux in the case of two-dimensional $p_x \pm i p_y$ superconductors that break time-reversal symmetry.
description: Published version. References added. 24 pages
WALLABY Pre-Pilot Survey: The effects of angular momentum and environment on the HI gas and star formation properties of galaxies in the Eridanus supergroup
Creators: name: Murugeshan, C.
name: Kilborn, V. A.
name: For, B. -Q.
name: Wong, O. I.
name: Wang, J.
name: Westmeier, T.
name: Stevens, A. R. H.
name: Spekkens, K.
name: Kamphuis, P.
name: Staveley-Smith, L.
name: Lee-Waddell, K.
name: Kleiner, D.
name: Koribalski, B. S.
name: Cluver, M. E.
name: Oh, S. -H.
name: Rhee, J.
name: Catinella, B.
name: Reynolds, T. N.
name: Denes, H.
name: Elagali, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use high-resolution ASKAP observations of galaxies in the Eridanus supergroup to study their HI, angular momentum and star formation properties, as part of the WALLABY pre-pilot survey efforts. The Eridanus supergroup is composed of three sub-groups in the process of merging to form a cluster. The main focus of this study is the Eridanus (or NGC 1395) sub-group. The baryonic specific angular momentum - baryonic mass ($j_{\mathrm{b}} - M_{\mathrm{b}}$) relation for the Eridanus galaxies is observed to be an unbroken power law of the form $j_{\mathrm{b}} \propto M_{\mathrm{b}}^{0.57 \pm 0.05}$, with a scatter of $\sim 0.10 \pm 0.01$ dex, consistent with previous works. We examine the relation between the atomic gas fraction, $f_{\mathrm{atm}}$, and the integrated atomic disc stability parameter $q$ (the $f_{\mathrm{atm}} - q$ relation), and find that the Eridanus galaxies deviate significantly from the relation owing to environmental processes such as tidal interactions and ram-pressure affecting their HI gas. We find that a majority of the Eridanus galaxies are HI deficient compared to normal star-forming galaxies in the field. We also find that the star formation among the Eridanus galaxies may be suppressed owing to their environment, thus hinting at significant levels of pre-processing within the Eridanus sub-group, even before the galaxies have entered a cluster-like environment.
description: 19 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Presentations of Schutzenberger groups of minimal subshifts
Creators: name: Almeida, Jorge
name: Costa, Alfredo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20E18 (Primary), 20M05, 37B10 (Secondary), 20M07

description: In previous work, the first author established a natural bijection between minimal subshifts and maximal regular J-classes of free profinite semigroups. In this paper, the Schützenberger groups of such J-classes are investigated, in particular in respect to a conjecture proposed by the first author concerning their profinite presentation. The conjecture is established for all non-periodic minimal subshifts associated with substitutions. It entails that it is decidable whether a finite group is a quotient of such a profinite group. As a further application, the Schützenberger group of the J-class corresponding to the Prouhet-Thue-Morse subshift is shown to admit a somewhat simpler presentation, from which it follows that it has rank three, and that it is non-free relatively to any pseudovariety of groups.
description: To appear in Israel Journal of Mathematics. Corrects metadata field (abstract) of version of 27 Feb 2013
title: Political Connections and Abnormal Stock Returns: An Analysis of the Trump Nominations
Creators: name: Bacon, Kennon
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Shortly after winning the 2016 Presidential Election, Donald Trump began announcing his Cabinet nominations. I examine cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) for firms with political connections to Cabinet and some non-Cabinet level appointments. Nominee and stock characteristics are aggregated, and I find positive and significant CARs surrounding the announcement dates. Additionally, the traits of being a Cabinet nominee, being a board member, and having a narrow confirmation margin all significantly explain the CARs for various event windows and subgroups. The annualized CARs around the announcement date for these firms are often greater than 100% in excess of the market, providing strong evidence that political connections are highly sought after and rewarded by the market.
title: Eclipsed by Culture
Creators: name: Diamond, Andrea
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: The purpose of this thesis is to explore through poetry my conflicted relationship with an abusive, narcissistic father, a father who passed down to me the after-effects of generations of inherited trauma and traditions of patriarchy. In a narrative arc unfolding through domestic scenes and deepened with metaphor, I offer readers the story of my struggle to accept the personal and psychological damage I experienced as a child, to forgive, and to achieve a measure of healing so that my experience might benefit others. Using poetry enabled me to distill elements of my circumstances that, in my lived experience, were overwhelming and blinding, and control them with poetic devices in a way that the complexities I encountered could be clearly examined and sculpted as provocative art.
My poetry thesis is accompanied by a critical introduction that offers background to the generational dysfunction and inherited trauma of my father’s family, based upon research, family records, and poets writing about similar kinds of trauma. Inviting the reader into my poetic narrative in this way, through story, scene and metaphor, an imaginative, embodied experience can result, and healing solutions can become discernible. In exploring my relationship with my father, a man saturated by the traditions of Polish patriarchy and domestic cycles of abuse, I confront that abuse, define the ways I survived, thrived, and healed. I do not wish to scorn my father, but rather to map the path of my attempt to survive, find support, and claim my own identity and reality.
title: Chinese Wind Turbine Export Growth Continued in 2021
Creators: name: David, Andrew
Publisher: name: United States International Trade Commission
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05hsggr76
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022

description: Chinese wind turbine exports increased from $2.9 billion in 2017 to $7.2 billion in 2021, including a $2.2
billion increase from 2020 to 2021. The rise in exports reflects the increasing competitiveness of Chinese
original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in foreign markets, Western OEMs exporting more turbines
from their factories in China, and an increase in component sourcing from China.
F2
Creators: Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut (DMI)
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2022

description: F2 er et elektronisk sags- og dokumenthåndteringssystem (ESDH-system), der har til formål dels at sikre bedre videndeling og en effektiv sagsbehandling, dels at gøre relevante dele af DMI's sager tilgængelige for fremtidig dokumentation og forskning.
Spin Hamiltonians with resonating-valence-bond ground states
Creators: name: Cano, Jennifer
name: Fendley, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum dimer models exhibit quantum critical points and liquid states when the ground state is the resonating-valence bond (RVB) state. We construct SU(2)-invariant spin-1/2 Hamiltonians with the same RVB ground state. The main technical obstacle overcome is the fact that different "dimer" configurations in the spin model are not orthogonal to each other. We show that the physics depends on how dimers are related to the spins, and find a Hamiltonian that may be quantum critical.
description: v3: major revision, with new results and new title
WorkZone
Creators: Havarikommissionen for Civil Luftfart og Jernbane (HCLJ)
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2022

description: WorkZone er et elektronisk sags- og dokumenthåndteringssystem (ESDH-system), der har til formål at sikre journalisering af alle dokumenter og øvrigt materiale, der har betydning for sagsbehandlingen og for dokumentation af denne i forhold til omverdenen.
The targum (1971:Nov. 1 - 1971:Nov. 30)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1971

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Properties of the C II 1334 Å line in Coronal Hole and Quiet Sun as observed by IRIS
Creators: name: Upendran, Vishal
name: Tripathi, Durgesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coronal Holes (CHs) have subdued intensity and net blueshifts when compared to Quiet Sun (QS) at coronal temperatures. At transition region temperatures, such differences are obtained for regions with identical photospheric absolute magnetic flux density ($\vert$B$\vert$). In this work, we use spectroscopic measurements of the \car 1334~Å line from Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), formed at chromospheric temperatures, to investigate the intensity, Doppler shift, line width, skew, and excess kurtosis variations with $\vert$B$\vert$. We find the intensity, Doppler shift, and line widths to increase with $\vert$B$\vert$ for CHs and QS. The CHs show deficit in intensity and excess total widths over QS for regions with identical $\vert$B$\vert$. For pixels with only upflows, CHs show excess upflows over QS, while for pixels with only downflows, CHs show excess downflows over QS that cease to exist at $\vert$B$\vert$ $\le$ 40. Finally, the spectral profiles are found to be more skewed and flatter than a Gaussian, with no difference between CH and QS. These results are important in understanding the heating of the atmosphere in CH and QS, including solar wind formation, and provide further constraints on the modeling of the solar atmosphere.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
title: Student-Centered, Interaction-Based, Community-Driven Language Teaching
Creators: name: Lyman, Sharon
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This portfolio is a compilation that highlights some of the author’s accomplished work while in the Master of Second Language Teaching (MSLT) program at Utah State University (USU). Organized into sections that reflect the author’s teaching and research perspectives as a MSLT graduate student and instructor, who taught intensive English reading, writing, and conversation courses for the Intensive English Language Institute (IELI).
In the first section, teaching perspectives, the author describes her desired professional environment, shares her personal teaching philosophy statement, and accounts for her professional development through classroom observations. In the second section, research perspectives, two research papers and an annotated bibliography demonstrate the author’s interests, especially in regard to the teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms.
title: Every Step a Novel: Historical Circumstances and Somali American Identity
Creators: name: Griggs, Haden
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This project is designed to help high school students learn about the experiences, history and identity of Somali men who came to Utah as refugees. It is organized around the oral histories of eight Somali men who live in the Salt Lake City area. They were collected by Haden Griggs in the latter half of 2019. Transcripts and audio recordings for all the interviews are available here.
A paper, analyzing the historical circumstances and variations on Somali identity, is included here for scholarly or instructor use. This project also includes a digital exhibit tracing recent Somali history and contextualizing the experiences of these men within that history, found at http://exhibits.usu.edu/exhibits/show/somalisaltlake, as well as a lesson plan to be used in conjunction with the exhibit.
title: Using Motivation to Teach Portuguese as a New Global Language
Creators: name: Allen, Aline
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This portfolio is written to show how Portuguese was a global language in the past, as a result of Portuguese exploration, settlement, and colonization, and is once again a world language that is becoming increasingly important on a global scale, especially as a result of the economic and political emergence of Brazil on the international scene. This portfolio also covers the important topic of motivation and its key role in learning Portuguese or any second or foreign language. Music is also addressed as an invaluable medium that plays an integral role in teaching a second or foreign language, Portuguese in this case. The portfolio addresses the power that music has in helping people, and especially students, to remember key words when those words are set to music. The Teaching Philosophy Statement addresses the prominent role that motivation has in the second language learning process. The power of music to increase information retention or memory is also covered. Experiences using music in the Portuguese language classroom are documented in the portfolio and many of the study results have shown music to be an effective medium to capture and maintain student attention and aid them in learning and memorizing vocabulary.
Proposition of the Interactive Pareto Iterated Local Search Procedure - Elements and Initial Experiments
Creators: name: Geiger, Martin Josef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The article presents an approach to interactively solve multi-objective optimization problems. While the identification of efficient solutions is supported by computational intelligence techniques on the basis of local search, the search is directed by partial preference information obtained from the decision maker. An application of the approach to biobjective portfolio optimization, modeled as the well-known knapsack problem, is reported, and experimental results are reported for benchmark instances taken from the literature. In brief, we obtain encouraging results that show the applicability of the approach to the described problem.
title: Journeying Into a New World: Constructing a New Identity Through Language Acquisition
Creators: name: Hansen, Hyrum
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: The following portfolio represents the author’s experiences and studies while he has participated in the Master of Second Language Teaching (MSLT) program. It is the result of the author’s teaching experiences abroad and at Utah State University, his teaching observations of peers and colleagues, and insights from his studies in the MSLT program.
The portfolio is divided into three major sections, namely: teaching perspectives; research perspectives; and an annotated bibliography. The teaching perspectives demonstrate the author’s beliefs in regard to communicative language teaching and identity construction and their importance in the language acquisition process. The research perspectives further deal with identity and involve two papers written on the subject during the MSLT program. The bibliography discusses the use of technology in enhancing the skill of second language (L2) listening.
The Fermi Haze: A Gamma-Ray Counterpart to the Microwave Haze
Creators: name: Dobler, Gregory
name: Finkbeiner, Douglas P.
name: Cholis, Ilias
name: Slatyer, Tracy R.
name: Weiner, Neal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope reveals a diffuse inverse Compton signal in the inner Galaxy with a similar spatial morphology to the microwave haze observed by WMAP, supporting the synchrotron interpretation of the microwave signal. Using spatial templates, we regress out pi0 gammas, as well as IC and bremsstrahlung components associated with known soft-synchrotron counterparts. We find a significant gamma-ray excess towards the Galactic center with a spectrum that is significantly harder than other sky components and is most consistent with IC from a hard population of electrons. The morphology and spectrum are consistent with it being the IC counterpart to the electrons which generate the microwave haze seen at WMAP frequencies. In addition, the implied electron spectrum is hard; electrons accelerated in supernova shocks in the disk which then diffuse a few kpc to the haze region would have a softer spectrum. We describe the full sky Fermi maps used in this analysis and make them available for download.
description: 21 pages, 18 figures; accepted in ApJ; several new fits including the Fermi Diffuse Model and expanded discussion of fit residuals and haze spectra
title: Flash Lab: A High-Speed Imaging Laboratory
Creators: name: Hatch, Cody D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: To help students become better acquainted with high-speed instrumentation and measurement techniques, a high-speed imaging laboratory for the College of Engineering is equipped with a high-speed camera and schlieren imaging device. The laboratory will be used for labs in classes, such as Instrumentation, Thermal/Fluids Lab, Experimental Solids, and Mechanical Experiments. In addition, graduate students will use it for research purposes. The laboratory also has the potential to have a course associated with it that would include the image processing techniques for a variety of applications (e.g., a course on high-speed imaging). The scope of this project will be to create a training/orientation course for the laboratory and equipment, develop experiments and course work for the Thermal/Fluids Lab course, and to help design a storage area into a workable lab space. The goal of the experiments is to expand the exposure of thermal/fluids phenomena as well as introduce modern measurement techniques. The experiments designed will be built off previous successful experiments. All results of the experiments should match the literature cited. With this new lab it will be used as a recruiting tool as well as a resource for funding from donors and bringing in more research opportunities to Utah State University. The laboratory will be setup in such a way that its use can be expanded to meet the needs of the department, faculty, and students.
High cadence observations of a global coronal wave by EUVI/STEREO
Creators: name: Veronig, Astrid M.
name: Temmer, Manuela
name: Vrsnak, Bojan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a large-scale coronal wave (so-called "EIT wave") observed with high cadence by EUVI onboard STEREO in association with the GOES B9.5 flare and double CME event on 19 May 2007. The EUVI instruments provide us with the unprecedented opportunity to study the {\it dynamics} of flare/CME associated coronal waves imaged in the extreme ultraviolet. The coronal wave under study reveals deceleration, indicative of a freely propagating MHD wave. Complementary analysis of the associated flare and erupting filament/CME hint at wave initiation by the CME expanding flanks, which drive the wave only over a limited distance. The associated flare is very weak and occurs too late to account for the wave initiation.
description: Astrophysical Journal Letters (in press)
TM Sund
Creators: Brøndby Kommune
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2022

description: TM Sund er elektroniske journalsystem specifikt udarbejdtet til den kommunale sundhedspleje. Systemet understøtter sundhedsplejerskernes daglige arbejde ved hjemmebesøg hos spædbørn mellem 0 - 1 år, udføre behovsbesøg hos børn mellen 1 - 5 år og ved skoleundersøgelser når barnet er mellem 6 og 18 år eller når de forlader Folkeskolen. Den elektroniske journal omfatter kvalitetssikrede undersøgelsesskemaer specifikt rette mod en bestemt alder. TM Sund omfatter også forældrejournaler, hvor graviditetsskemaer, trivselsskemaer, alkoholskema kan udføres som screeninger. Generelt udføres screeninger på både børn og forældre med henbrik på at kunne støtte familien efter deres specifikke behov. Alle strukturerede data fra TM Sund udlæses tillige til data bearbejdning i den kvalitetssikrede database Børn sundhed og Børnedatabasen.  TM Sund uderstøtter ikke bare sundhedsplejerskernes daglige journalskrivning, men også det overordnede administrative arbejde i sundhedsplejen, hvor modtagelse af fødselsanmeldelser, tilflyttere, fraflyttere, dødsfald m.v. håndteres.
Averaging over fast variables in the fluid limit for Markov chains: Application to the supermarket model with memory
Creators: name: Luczak, M. J.
name: Norris, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We set out a general procedure which allows the approximation of certain Markov chains by the solutions of differential equations. The chains considered have some components which oscillate rapidly and randomly, while others are close to deterministic. The limiting dynamics are obtained by averaging the drift of the latter with respect to a local equilibrium distribution of the former. Some general estimates are proved under a uniform mixing condition on the fast variable which give explicit error probabilities for the fluid approximation. Mitzenmacher, Prabhakar and Shah [In Proc. 43rd Ann. Symp. Found. Comp. Sci. (2002) 799-808, IEEE] introduced a variant with memory of the "join the shortest queue" or "supermarket" model, and obtained a limit picture for the case of a stable system in which the number of queues and the total arrival rate are large. In this limit, the empirical distribution of queue sizes satisfies a differential equation, while the memory of the system oscillates rapidly and randomly. We illustrate our general fluid limit estimate by giving a proof of this limit picture.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AAP861 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
A method of evaluating bucking and sawing strategies for sawlogs
Creators: name: McPhalen, James Charles
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: the last few years the sawmilling industry has faced the economic pressure of increasing raw material costs, increasing conversion costs and limited product value due to competition from other products, one result of this pressure has been the development of process control systems which automate many of the cutting decisions required to convert tree-length logs into marketable products. Regardless of whether saws are positioned automatically or manually, a set of cutting instructions is essential. These instructions should, for the available log supply, provide the most economical yield consistent with market demands and mill constraints. Two critical decisions are made in converting logs into lumber. The bucking decision constrains the lumber length and hence may limit the value of the lumber. The sawing decision determines the lumber products which can be sawn from the resulting short logs. The two decisions cannot be analyzed in isolation. In order to determine the bucking strategy which yields the mix of short logs which will produce the maximum lumber value it is necessary to know the sawing pattern which will be used to convert the logs into lumber. Similarly, given a limited log supply of fixed characteristics, limited sawmill capacity and restrictions on market demand for lumber products, the optimum sawing strategy cannot be determined without information on the population of short logs which will develop from the bucking decision. Formulating the problem of determing optimum bucking-saving decisions for a limited log supply and limited sawmill capacity as a linear programming model is attractive but the large number of alternative cutting decisions make such a formulation intractable. The problem of deterring optimal bucking and saving strategies for a single log can be modelled as a dynamic programming recursion. However, the dynamic programming approach cannot efficiently handle the large number of constraints inherent in formulating an optimum bucking-sawing strateqy for a given population of tree-length logs. It was shown that the linear and dynamic programming models could be combined using Dantzig-wolfe decomposition. The linear model determines the combination of cutting strategies which optimize an objective function subject to constraints. The dynamic programming model supplies the linear model with new activities as required. The decomposition approach is attractive because it avoids the necessity of working with all possible activities in the linear programme. The L.P. calculates with the basis inverse and the dynamic programming sub-problem generates new bucking-sawing activities as required by the L. P. The efficiency of the technique was demonstrated by determing optimal bucking and sawing strategies for a population of 967 long logs.
Photochemistry and Spectral Characterization of Temperate and Gas-Rich Exoplanets
Creators: name: Hu, Renyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exoplanets that receive stellar irradiance of approximately Earth's or less have been discovered and many are suitable for spectral characterization. Here we focus on the temperate planets that have massive H2-dominated atmospheres, and trace the chemical reactions and transport following the photodissociation of H2O, CH4, NH3, and H2S, with K2-18 b, PH2 b, and Kepler-167 e representing temperate/cold planets around M and G/K stars. We find that NH3 is likely depleted by photodissociation to the cloud deck on planets around G/K stars but remains intact in the middle atmosphere of planets around M stars. A common phenomenon on temperate planets is that the photodissociation of NH3 in presence of CH4 results in HCN as the main photochemical product. The photodissociation of CH4 together with H2O leads to CO and CO2, and the synthesis of hydrocarbon is suppressed. Temperate planets with super-solar atmospheric metallicity and appreciable internal heat may have additional CO and CO2 from the interior and less NH3 and thus less HCN. Our models of K2-18 b can explain the transmission spectrum measured by Hubble, and indicate that future observations in 0.5-5.0 um would provide the sensitivity to detect the equilibrium gases CH4, H2O, and NH3, the photochemical gas HCN, as well as CO2 in some cases. Temperate and H2-rich exoplanets are thus laboratories of atmospheric chemistry that operate in regimes not found in the Solar System, and spectral characterization of these planets in transit or reflected starlight promises to greatly expand the types of molecules detected in exoplanet atmospheres.
description: Accepted by ApJ
Early results of the Douglas-fir cooperative progency test
Creators: name: Bartram, Victor Cameron
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In 1969, a cooperative progeny test of Douglas-fir, Pseudotsuqa menzies-ii (Mirb.) Franco, was initiated to evaluate the growth performance of progeny from selected plus trees. Using height data measured in 19 75, it is shown that the mean height of plus tree progeny is significantly greater than the mean height of the control progeny. Much of this gain may, however, be due to the heterotic effect of crossing parents from allopatric populations. The breeding value of individual plus trees showed a wide range of variation. This range was markedly reduced when the few extreme plus tree parents were excluded. An investigation of possible geographic trends showed that in only one instance did the progeny of parents of similar origin perform comparably. It is therefore concluded that, over the range of plus tree selection, geographic origin is; of little, importance in determining breeding value. Initial juvenile-mature data demonstrated that nursery height in 1969 and 1970 was significantly correlated with plantation height in 1975. As expected, 1973 and 1974 plantation heights were highly correlated with 1975 height. An attempt to predict genotype x environment interactions from the latitudinal and longitudinal displacement of the progeny from their plus tree parents proved unsuccessful. Other variables must therefore be considered before: progeny performance at a specific location can be successfully predicted.
Imaging the Molecular Gas in a z=3.9 Quasar Host Galaxy at 0.3" Resolution: A Central, Sub-Kiloparsec Scale Star Formation Reservoir in APM 08279+5255
Creators: name: Riechers, Dominik A.
name: Walter, Fabian
name: Carilli, Christopher L.
name: Lewis, Geraint F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have mapped the molecular gas content in the host galaxy of the strongly lensed high redshift quasar APM 08279+5255 (z=3.911) with the Very Large Array at 0.3" resolution. The CO(J=1-0) emission is clearly resolved in our maps. The CO(J=1-0) line luminosity derived from these maps is in good agreement with a previous single-dish measurement. In contrast to previous interferometer-based studies, we find that the full molecular gas reservoir is situated in two compact peaks separated by
description: 25 pages, 12 figures, 6 tables, to appear in ApJ (accepted September 03, 2008)
title: Second Chances
Creators: name: Bingham, Michael
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: "Second Chances"
"Making the most out of whatever Life gives you".
For decades I have been making art out of things that other people have abandoned, discarded, sent to thrift stores or sold in garage sales. Since my youth I have possessed the ability to find value, usefulness and even see beauty in objects that most others would label as trash.
This is both a curse and a blessing. It requires patience and space to save, appreciate and tolerate the chaos accompanying objects that have not yet found their useful place in the world. Most of the art, including my displays are constructed from unwanted underappreciated items. Many of which have been collected long ago, patiently waiting for their second chance.
At this time in history, the Corona 19 pandemic has certainly given us all massive challenges to overcome. With graduate art exhibitions all being canceled, I decided to “Make the most” of the situation and do what I always try to do when something unexpected, even devastating ruins well formed plans. Situations like the one we are currently in change everything, forcing us to act and think in new and different ways.
Rather than feel bad, get angry, sad, disappointed, or even give up, saying "oh well" there's nothing I could have done. Instead, I became grateful for the opportunity to demonstrate the same resourceful resilience that I utilize in the creation of art from unwanted materials.
I located and set up my graduate exhibition in an unused auto body repair space with a large garage door creating what I believe to be the world's first “Drive-In” Art exhibition. Families and groups who have been sequestered together were allowed to drive their vehicles one at a time right into the middle of the exhibition essentially becoming part of it. Once in the space and with face masks in place, attendees could get out and view the actual art. (this in contrast to the “virtual” Art exhibitions that are now becoming the norm.)
The time spent at Utah State creating this work has been a truly rewarding exploration of ideas and new methods. I feel an increased connection to the innovative souls who came before us. People who overcame nearly insurmountable obstacles to tame the wilderness and make the most out of what life gave them.
Limits of quantum speedup in photosynthetic light harvesting
Creators: name: Hoyer, Stephan
name: Sarovar, Mohan
name: Whaley, K. Birgitta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been suggested that excitation transport in photosynthetic light harvesting complexes features speedups analogous to those found in quantum algorithms. Here we compare the dynamics in these light harvesting systems to the dynamics of quantum walks, in order to elucidate the limits of such quantum speedups. For the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex of green sulfur bacteria, we show that while there is indeed speedup at short times, this is short lived (70 fs) despite longer lived (ps) quantum coherence. Remarkably, this time scale is independent of the details of the decoherence model. More generally, we show that the distinguishing features of light-harvesting complexes not only limit the extent of quantum speedup but also reduce rates of diffusive transport. These results suggest that quantum coherent effects in biological systems are optimized for efficiency or robustness rather than the more elusive goal of quantum speedup.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures. To appear in New Journal Physics, special issue on "Quantum Effects and Noise in Biomolecules." Updated to accepted version
Zero-field spin resonance in graphene with proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling
Creators: name: Kumar, Abhishek
name: Maiti, Saurabh
name: Maslov, Dmitrii L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate collective spin excitations in graphene with proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) of the Rashba and valley-Zeeman types, as it is the case, e.g., for graphene on transition- metal-dichalcogenide substrates. It is shown that, even in the absence of an external magnetic field, such a system supports collective modes, which correspond to coupled oscillations of the uniform and valley-staggered magnetizations. These modes can be detected via both zero-field electron spin resonance (ESR) and zero-field electric-dipole spin resonance (EDSR), with EDSR response coming solely from Rashba SOC. We analyze the effect of electron-electron interaction within the Fermi- liquid kinetic equation and show that the interaction splits both the ESR and EDSR peaks into two. The magnitude of splitting and the relative weights of the resonances can be used to extract the spin-orbit coupling constants and many-body interaction parameters that may not be accessible by other methods.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures
Amager Hospital ESDH-system DocuLive
Creators: Amager Hospital
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2022

description: Elektronisk sags og dokumenthåndteringsystem til journalisering og håndtering af indgående breve, udgående breve, formandsmeddelelser, mødesager, notater, sagsnotater på Amager hospital. Ydermere er systemet brugt til at sikre indgående servicemål opnås.
Sundby Hospital ESDH-system DocuLive
Creators: Amager Hospital, afdeling Sundby
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2022

description: Elektronisk sags og dokumenthåndteringsystem til journalisering og håndtering af indgående breve, udgående breve, formandsmeddelelser, mødesager, notater, sagsnotater på Amager hospital. Ydermere er systemet brugt til at sikre indgående servicemål opnås. Det drejer sig f.eks. om at overholde målet for den svarfrist der er indgået i forhold til borgerhenvendelser.
Magnetization dynamics in optically excited nanostructured nickel films
Creators: name: Müller, Georg M.
name: Eilers, Gerrit
name: Wang, Zhao
name: Scherff, Malte
name: Ji, Ran
name: Nielsch, Kornelius
name: Münzenberg, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, Laser-induced magnetization dynamics of nanostructured nickel films is investigated. The influence of the nanosize is discussed considering the time-scale of hundreds of femtoseconds as well as the GHz regime. While no nanosize effect is observed on the short time-scale, the excited magnetic mode in the GHz regime can be identified by comparison with micromagnetic simulations. The thickness dependence reveals insight on the dipole interaction between single nickel structures. Also, transient reflectivity changes are discussed.
title: Increasing Knowledge Through Nutrition Education in Adolescents and Children in Klaten, Indonesia
Creators: name: Leavitt, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Food insecurity continues to plague over 840 million people all over the world. Food insecurity can lead to malnutrition which can result in long-term adverse health effects. Malnutrition has the highest impact on mothers and children living in developing countries as most families are living on less than two U.S. dollars a day. In order to provide enough food, low-income families rely on inexpensive foods, which are often lacking in essential nutrients. More developed countries can provide food aide in the form of commodities or therapeutic foods, but this is only a temporary fix to a continuous problem. The long-term solution for fighting malnutrition and food insecurity lies within local food sources along with nutrition education. The Nutrition Education Ending Malnutrition (NEEM) organization provides nutrition education to villages in developing countries with an emphasis on local food sources. The purpose of this project is to increase knowledge through nutrition education in adolescents and children to help decrease food insecurity in Indonesia. The organization created education materials and presented to a local high school and created nutrition activities to play with children at a local reading house in Klaten, Indonesia. The objective of the study is to determine the acceptance of the NEEM education materials on both the adolescent and children participating in nutrition activities. The project will help NEEM by creating education material for the organization and adding to the literature on the impact nutrition education has on children and adolescents in developing countries. The high school presentation was delivered using a Power-point presentation focusing on basic nutrition, food safety and sanitation, permaculture and gardening, and environmental awareness and sustainability. The reading house activities consisted of interactive nutrition games with a focus on food identification to help the children learn the English name of the foods, their colors, and their food groups. The project revealed the education materials were accepted by both the adolescent group and the children group and received high participation in both nutrition activities.
title: Trade, Policy, and Economic Development in the Digital Economy
Creators: name: Herman, Peter
name: Oliver, Sarah
Publisher: name: United States International Trade Commission
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05hsggr76
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022

description: We assess the impact of internet connectivity and digital trade policies on trade and welfare. Using a bilateral measure of internet connectivity, we find a significant positive relationship between the internet and
both domestic and international trade for goods and services—at the both the intensive and extensive margin. We also find that digital trade facilitation provisions in trade agreements have significantly increased
trade in services but not goods. These findings highlight that digital trade determinants play different roles
for goods and services: the internet is beneficial for goods trade but critical for services. Finally, using a
general equilibrium model of trade, we assess the trade and welfare impacts of increased internet connectivity in developing countries and find that increases in internet use can have large positive impacts on
poorly connected countries. However, it also highlights the danger of developing countries falling behind
as the digital economy continues to grow.
Keywords: Digital trade, gravity, internet, development, data policies, international trade, domestic trade,
services, extensive margin.
JEL: D600, F140, F680, C540, O300
The genealogy of branching Brownian motion with absorption
Creators: name: Berestycki, Julien
name: Berestycki, Nathanaël
name: Schweinsberg, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a system of particles which perform branching Brownian motion with negative drift and are killed upon reaching zero, in the near-critical regime where the total population stays roughly constant with approximately N particles. We show that the characteristic time scale for the evolution of this population is of order $(\log N)^3$, in the sense that when time is measured in these units, the scaled number of particles converges to a variant of Neveu's continuous-state branching process. Furthermore, the genealogy of the particles is then governed by a coalescent process known as the Bolthausen-Sznitman coalescent. This validates the nonrigorous predictions by Brunet, Derrida, Muller and Munier for a closely related model.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOP728 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
title: The Sacred Circle: Ostension in Native American Hoop Dancing
Creators: name: George, Emma
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This thesis examines the role of the semiotic concept ostension in folk dance, specifically in Native American hoop dance. Although the discipline of folklore is well-versed in ostension, folk dance has not been examined through this lens. I argue that dance is a form of ostension, of demonstrating a narrative, and this is especially apparent within Native American hoop dancing. I begin with a brief history of Native Americans in North America before discussing the origins of powwows, intertribal culture, and hoop dance. I then look at both the sacred nature and material culture of the modern hoop dance before establishing hoop dance as a form of ostension.