cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
INFLUENCING FACTORS OF NURSES PERFORMANCE AT H. PADJONGA DG. NGALLE REGIONAL GENERAL HOSPITAL IN TAKALAR REGENCY
Creators: name: Syukma Ekawati
name: Indar
name: Balqis Nazaruddin
name: Muhammad Alwy Arifin
name: Aminuddin Syam
name: Stang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Performance, Nurses, Workload, Shift, Interpersonal Relationships, Organizational Culture, Dual Roles, Hospital.

description: Abstract

Background. Nursing services in hospitals are a critical component, requiring reliable nurses with strong motivation to perform their duties, which include providing nursing care. The success of nursing services is largely determined by the performance of the nurses. Therefore, evaluating nurse performance is essential and should always be carried out through a standardized system to ensure more objective results and evaluations. Objective. This study aims to identify the factors influencing nurse performance at RSUD H. Padjonga Dg. Ngalle in Takalar Regency. Method. This is a quantitative research study with a cross-sectional approach. The sample consists of 149 professional nurses. Data were collected using questionnaires and analyzed using chi-square and logistic regression tests. Result. The study results indicate that workload affects nurse performance with a p-value of 0.000 < 0.05, shift work affects nurse performance with a p-value of 0.005 < 0.05, interpersonal relationships do not affect nurse performance with a p-value of 0.607 > 0.05, organizational culture does not affect nurse performance with a p-value of 0.229 > 0.05, and dual roles affect nurse performance with a p-value of 0.000 < 0.05. Multivariate analysis indicates that the primary factor affecting nurse performance is workload. Recommendation. Hospitals are encouraged to ensure that all nurses maintain a balanced workload to sustain nurse productivity.
NbReSi: A Noncentrosymetric Superconductor with Large Upper Critical Field
Creators: name: Su, H.
name: Shang, T.
name: Du, F.
name: Chen, C. F.
name: Ye, H. Q.
name: Lu, X.
name: Cao, C.
name: Smidman, M.
name: Yuan, H. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric NbReSi, which crystallizes in a hexagonal ZrNiAl-type crystal structure with space group $P\bar{6}2m$ (No.~189). Bulk superconductivity, with $T_c$ = 6.5 K was characterized via electrical-resistivity, magnetization, and heat-capacity measurements. The low-temperature electronic specific heat suggests a fully gapped superconducting state in NbReSi, while a large upper critical field of $μ_0H_\mathrm{c2}(0)$ $\sim$ 12.6 T is obtained, which is comparable to the weak-coupling Pauli limit. The electronic band-structure calculations show that the density of states at the Fermi level are dominated by Re and Nb $d$-orbitals, with a sizeable band splitting induced by the antisymmetric spin-orbit coupling. NbReSi represents another candidate material for revealing the puzzle of time-reversal symmetry breaking observed in some Re-based superconductors and its relation to the lack of inversion symmetry.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures; accepted by Phys. Rev. Materials
The development of banking institutions in Manchester, 1770-1850
Creators: name: Jones, Frank Stuart
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this thesis is to show how the banking houses of Manchester emerged in response to the needs of the cotton industry. Because banking functions and theory have, tended to be studied in isolation from the socio-economic conditions that gave rise to them, this has not always seemed obvious. However, this has now changed and a theoretical framework exists that conceptualises banking as one of the lateral linkages resulting from industrial growth. To the Manchester bankers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, this would come as no surprise; to them it was self-evident. This study falls into three sections. In the first of these, after the nature of the problem has been outlined, there is an analysis of the interactions between the growth of the cotton industry and the development of banking houses and an analysis of the changing financial needs of the cotton industry between 1770 and 1850. The second section inquires into the backgrounds of the men who owned the private banks and the men who controlled the joint stock banks. In the third section, an examination of the business of the banks looks at their resources, their investments, their relations with the London money market and their relations with the Bank of England. The conclusions derived from the study confirm the validity of the propositions that banking functions were determined by the requirements of the cotton industry and that the main financial requirements of the cotton industry were for remittance services and working capital. Ownership of the banks by cotton entrepreneurs was not necessary in order to ensure the provision of these services. Indeed the banks did not pass into the ownership of cotton merchants and manufacturers until the development of the joint stock banks in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Nor did the cotton merchants and manufacturers who took control of the joint stock banks in the 1830*s effect any permanent radical changes in banking functions. They took control, not in order to channel funds into their own businesses, but in order to ensure the continuance of the traditional banking practices developed by the private bankers over the previous half century. Remittance facilities, short-term loans for working capital and an acceptable medium of exchange were what the cotton industry required in the industrial revolution. In the period 1770-1850, as banks evolved to make these available, Manchester experienced a financial revolution, the scale and intensity of which was just as great as that taking place in cotton manufacturing.
title: Towards the Prediction of Climate Extremes with Attribution Analysis Through Climate Diagnostics and Modeling: Cases from Asia to North America
Creators: name: Fosu, Boniface Opoku
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: This project summarizes the findings of research organized in two parts. The first involved the characterization of changes in the variability of climate that lead to extreme events. The second focused on the predictability of extreme climate on time-scales ranging from short forecast lead-times to long-lead climate predictions exceeding a year.
Initial studies focused on three interrelated, yet regionally unique extreme climate phenomena. First, the relationship between increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and particulate matter (PM) concentration in basin terrain was investigated. Next, we evaluated changes in large-scale atmospheric circulation associated with two climate phenomena at either extreme side of the water cycle--droughts and floods. In the final analysis, an attempt was made to understand the mechanisms that link two North Pacific ENSO precursor patterns to the ENSO cycle.
Zonal profile corrugations and staircase formation: Role of the transport crossphase
Creators: name: Leconte, M.
name: Kobayashi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, quasi-stationary structures called $E \times B$ staircases were observed in gyrokinetic simulations, in all transport channels [Dif-Pradalier et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 085004 (2015)]. We present a novel analytical theory - supported by collisional drift-wave fluid simulations - for the generation of density profile corrugations (staircase), independent of the action of zonal flows: Turbulent fluctuations self-organize to generate quasi-stationary radial modulations $Δθ(r,t)$ of the transport crossphase $θ$ between density and electric potential fluctuations. The radial modulations of the associated particle flux drive zonal corrugations of the density profile, via a modulational instability. In turn, zonal density corrugations regulate the turbulence via nonlinear damping of the fluctuations.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures (low-quality figures)
REVIEW ON ALMOST IDEMPOTENT AND MULTIPLICATIVE SUB IDEMPOTENT IN TERNARY SEMIRING
Creators: name: B. DEEPAN
name: S. ANBALAGAN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Idempotent, Almost Idempotent (AI), Multiplicative Sub Idempotent (MSI), Regular, Ternary Semiring (T.S.R).

description: Abstract

To study Almost Idempotent and Multiplicative Sub Idempotent in Ternary Semiring. We extend the concept of almost idempotent in semiring to Ternary semiring. We discussed, when the additive idempotent and multiplicative idempotent are coinside. In this research work a number equivalent conditions were investigated. We also find some of their interesting results and properties.

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:  16U40, 16Y60.
Thermal Casimir effect between random layered dielectrics
Creators: name: Dean, D. S.
name: Horgan, R. R.
name: Naji, A.
name: Podgornik, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the thermal Casimir effect between two thick slabs composed of plane-parallel layers of random dielectric materials interacting across an intervening homogeneous dielectric. It is found that the effective interaction at long distances is self averaging and is given by a description in terms of effective dielectric functions. The behavior at short distances becomes random (sample dependent) and is dominated by the local values of the dielectric function proximal to each other across the dielectrically homogeneous slab.
description: 4 pages RevTex, 1 pdf figure
Physical models for numerical simulation of Si-based nanoscale FETs and sensors
Creators: name: Silvestri, Luca <1981>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: To continuously improve the performance of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors (MOSFETs), innovative device architectures, gate stack engineering and mobility enhancement techniques are under investigation. In this framework, new physics-based models for Technology Computer-Aided-Design (TCAD) simulation tools are needed to accurately predict the performance of upcoming nanoscale devices and to provide guidelines for their optimization. In this thesis, advanced physically-based mobility models for ultrathin body (UTB) devices with either planar or vertical architectures such as single-gate silicon-on-insulator (SOI) field-effect transistors (FETs), double-gate FETs, FinFETs and silicon nanowire FETs, integrating strain technology and high-κ gate stacks
are presented. The effective mobility of the two-dimensional electron/hole gas in a UTB FETs channel is calculated taking into account its tensorial nature and the quantization effects. All the scattering events relevant for thin silicon films and for high-κ dielectrics and metal gates have been addressed and modeled for UTB FETs on differently oriented substrates. The effects of mechanical stress on (100) and (110) silicon band structures have been modeled for a generic stress configuration.
Performance will also derive from heterogeneity, coming from the increasing diversity of functions integrated on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) platforms. For example, new architectural concepts are of interest not only to extend the FET scaling process, but also to develop innovative sensor applications. Benefiting from properties like large surface-to-volume ratio and extreme sensitivity to surface modifications, silicon-nanowire-based sensors are gaining special attention in research. In this thesis, a comprehensive analysis of the physical effects playing a role in the detection of gas molecules is carried out by TCAD simulations combined with interface characterization techniques. The complex interaction of charge transport in silicon nanowires of different dimensions with interface trap states and remote charges is addressed to correctly reproduce experimental results of recently fabricated gas nanosensors.
Two parity violating asymmetries from $n p \to d γ$ in pionless effective field theories
Creators: name: Schindler, Matthias R.
name: Springer, Roxanne P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider parity-violating observables from the processes $\vec n p\to d γ$ and $ np \to d \overset {\circlearrowleft}γ$. We perform calculations using pionless effective field theory both with and without explicit dibaryon fields. After combining these results with ones we have already obtained on parity-violating asymmetries in $\vec NN$ scattering, experimental input would in principle allow the extraction of all five parameters occurring at leading order in the parity-violating Lagrangian.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay March 1998
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Newspaper reading/buying frequency; approval of President Julio Maria Sanguinetti; approval of district mayor; treatment of US President Bill Clinton's controversy in Uruguay; investigating politicians; likability of politicians and presidential candidates; plans for voting in primary elections; economic situation of the country; approval of ANCAP, a state-owned oil and alcohol company; approval of presidents of public organizations; plans for voting in referendums; government attention on national problems; agreement with statements regarding drugs; government confiscation of drugs; volunteer experience; agreement with the Laws of the Energy Framework; economic situation of your family; interest in politics; religious views; past voting history; future voting tendencies. Montevideo: Personal medical service choices; membership status of social service program. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection.
PARENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF GIRLS' EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS FROM A CITIZENSHIP PERSPECTIVE IN BARANANGSIANG VILLAGE, PERCEPTIONS OF GIRLS'S EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS CIPONGKOR DISTRICT, WEST BANDUNG REGENCY
Creators: name: EKA JAYADIPUTRA
name: DEWI SAPITRI
name: INDRIYANI LESTARI
name: SARIPATUN NIDA
name: NANDA ALFINA NURBAETI
name: FUAD H KASIM
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Parents' Perceptions of Girls' Rights, Education.

description: Abstract

Education is essential and fundamental for life. Accessing quality education without discrimination and exclusion is a human right, as education enables individuals to improve their quality of life by developing their thinking, attitudes, and behaviors. Conversely, poor quality education is a major cause of the human resource crisis. However, most communities, especially in rural areas, still do not receive education in line with national mandates. This situation is evident in Baranangsiang Village, Cipongkor District, West Bandung Regency. The traditional belief that no matter how high a woman's education, she will eventually return to the kitchen is still prevalent in this community. This study examines parents' perceptions of girls' rights to education, human rights perspectives on women's educational rights, the impact of parental perceptions on girls' educational rights, and the importance of educational equality for women in Baranangsiang Village, Cipongkor District, West Bandung Regency from a citizenship education perspective. This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study method. Data collection techniques include observation, documentation study, literature study, and interviews. Data analysis techniques involve: 1) Data collection, 2) Data reduction and categorization, 3) Data display and conclusion drawing. The results show that there must be support from the family, especially parents, both moral and material, so that girls can continue their education to higher levels, similar to boys in the village. The perspective of citizenship education on girls' educational rights is equally important as boys' educational rights, as the responsibility for the nation's progress rests on the shoulders of every citizen, both male and female.
Canadian technology and derived import demand and export supply functions
Creators: name: Kohli, Ulrich Johan Robert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In this thesis we model the structure of Canadian foreign trade and investigate the relationship among imports, exports, and other inputs or outputs. Rather than estimate isolated import and export demand functions, we assume that import and export decisions are made by profit maximizing firms which choose the quantities of their variable inputs and outputs subject to a vector of prices and a vector of fixed inputs. Imports and exports are thus integrated into a model of the Canadian technology together with other domestic inputs and outputs (capital, labour, and indirect taxation on the input side; consumption, investment, changes in inventories, and government purchases on the output side). The model also allows for factor augmenting technological change in a multi-input multi-output framework. Applying duality theory we specify a variable profit function (translog) which is a second order approximation to this technology. The derived import demand and export supply functions are then estimated simultaneously with the equations of the remaining variables. This treatment of imports and exports within a consistent theoretical framework yields not only estimates of the price elasticities of imports and exports, but also determines the possibilities of substitution among imports, exports, and domestic inputs or outputs. Thus we found that exports and investment goods are complements in production and that both are import intensive. We also found that imports are capital intensive and exports labour intensive. Regarding the own price elasticities of both imports and exports, it appeared that they are somewhat higher than it was usually thought. A major part of the thesis is devoted to the construction of imports and exports data. Both are disaggregated into four components and price and quantity indices are calculated for 1948 to 1972. These indices also account for import duties and re-exports.
Holography at an Extremal De Sitter Horizon
Creators: name: Anninos, Dionysios
name: Hartman, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rotating maximal black holes in four-dimensional de Sitter space, for which the outer event horizon coincides with the cosmological horizon, have an infinite near-horizon region described by the rotating Nariai metric. We show that the asymptotic symmetry group at the spacelike future boundary of the near-horizon region contains a Virasoro algebra with a real, positive central charge. This is evidence that quantum gravity in a rotating Nariai background is dual to a two-dimensional Euclidean conformal field theory. These results are related to the Kerr/CFT correspondence for extremal black holes, but have two key differences: one of the black hole event horizons has been traded for the cosmological horizon, and the near-horizon geometry is a fiber over dS_2 rather than AdS_2.
description: 15 pages
title: Tackling Choke Point Induced Performance Bottlenecks in a Near-Threshold GPGPU
Creators: name: Shabanian, Tahmoures
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Over the last decade, General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) have garnered a substantial attention in the research community due to their extensive thread-level parallelism. GPGPUs provide a remarkable performance improvement over Central Processing Units (CPUs), for highly parallel applications. However, GPGPUs typically achieve this extensive thread-level parallelism at the cost of a large power consumption. Consequently, Near-Threshold Computing (NTC) provides a promising opportunity for designing energy-efficient GPGPUs (NTC-GPUs). However, NTC-GPUs suffer from a crucial Process Variation (PV)-inflicted performance bottleneck, which is called Choke Point. Choke Point is defined as one or small group of gates which is affected by PV. Choke Point is capable of varying the path-delay of circuit and causing different forms of timing violation.
In this work, a cross-layer design technique is proposed to tackle the performance impediments caused by choke points in NTC-GPUs.
IMPLEMENTATION OF ASSESSMENT FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR MODERATE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY CHILDREN CLASS 1 AT SLB C BUDAYA BANGSA BANDUNG AND SKh NEGERI 01 CILEGON
Creators: name: TETI RATNAWULAN
name: LINNA YULIANI
name: AINI FARAH
name: DEWI RINI SISWANTI
name: AHMAD HAER
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Implementation, Assessment, Education Services, Children with Disabilities.

description: Abstract

The implementation of assessment is an activity to collect various accurate information about the strengths, difficulties and weaknesses of children in certain fields that will be used as a basis for preparing an education program that suits their needs. Intellectual disability children are children who have IQ significantly below the average accompanied by their inability to adapt to the environment. SLB C Budaya Bangsa Bandung and SKh Negeri 01 Cilegon are schools that organize educational services for children with disabilities. This study aims to describe the implementation of assessments for educational services for children with intelectual disabilities at SLB C Budaya Bangsa Bandung and Skh Negeri 01 Cilegon.  This research uses descriptive research. The subject of this research is the assessment team at SLB C Budaya Bangsa Bandung and Skh Negeri 01 Cilegon.  The data collection techniques used are interviews, observations and documentation studies. In the implementation of the assessment can be divided into 3 stages, preparation, implementation and follow-up, in the preparation stage the teacher compiles the assessment test instrument, prepares the officers, time and place as well as the methods and media/tools that will be used. In the implementation stage, assessment activities include initial activities, preparing for the implementation process, core activities, namely carrying out assessments and final activities of evaluation, calming children, and describing the results, while in the third stage, namely recommending results, informing the results to the principal and parents and making programs. Difficulties experienced were lack of reference books, media/tools, conditioning children and communicating results to parents. Efforts made by finding and completing assessment instruments, giving rewards to children so that children are comfortable, and providing an understanding to parents about the results of the assessment so that children can get the right program. Recommendations are addressed to teachers so that the implementation of assessments is carried out in order to design learning programs according to the abilities and needs of Intellectual disability children
Structural study on hole-doped superconductors Pr1-xSrxFeAsO
Creators: name: Ju, J
name: Li, Z
name: Mu, G
name: Wen, H-H
name: Sato, K
name: Watahiki, M
name: Li, G
name: Tanigaki, K
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structural details in Pr1-xSrxFeAsO (1111) superconducting system are analyzed using data obtained from synchrotron X-ray diffraction and the structural parameters are carefully studied as the system is moving from non-superconducting to hole-doped superconducting with the Sr concentration. Superconductivity emerges when the Sr doping amount reaches 0.221. The linear increase of the lattice constants proves that Sr is successfully introduced into the system and its concentration can accurately be determined by the electron density analyses. The evolution of structural parameters with Sr concentration in Pr1-xSrxFeAsO and their comparison to other similar structural parameters of the related Fe-based superconductors suggest that the interlayer space between the conducting As-Fe-As layer and the insulating Pr-O-Pr layer is important for improving Tc in the hole-doped (1111) superconductors, which seems to be different from electron-doped systems.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Searching for Quasi-periodic Oscillations in Active Galactic Nuclei of the Chandra Deep Field South
Creators: name: Bao, Tong
name: Li, Zhiyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent X-ray observations have revealed growing evidence of quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the light curve of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), which may serve as a useful probe of black hole physics. In this work, we present a systematic search for X-ray QPOs among ~ 1000 AGNs of the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) in a homogeneous fashion. Dividing the 7-Ms Chandra observations into four epochs, we search for periodic signals that are persistent throughout any of these epochs, using two independent methods: Lomb-Scargle periodogram and Gregory-Loredo Algorithm. No statistically significant periodic signal is found with either method on any of the four epochs. Our extensive simulations of source light curves suggest that this non-detection is primarily due to a moderate sensitivity of the CDF-S data in QPO detection. Using the simulation-predicted detection efficiency, we are able to provide a meaningful constraint on the intrinsic occurrence rate of persistent QPOs, < (15-20) %, provided that they share a similar power spectral density with a handful of currently known AGN QPOs. The true intrinsic occurrence rate might be significantly below this upper limit, however, given the non-detection among the CDF-S sources. Our additional search for short-lived QPOs that are only detected over a small subset of all observations results in two candidates, one in source XID 643 at a period of ~ 13273 s and the other in source XID 876 at a period of ~ 7065 s.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Design Scaffolding for Computational Making in the Visual Programming Tool ARIS
Creators: name: Lewis, Whitney E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: In this thesis, I explore how design scaffolds, or (i.e., intellectual supports) can assist learners engaging with computational making processes. Computational making combines programming with artifact production. Due to the complexity of tasks involved in computational making, there is an increasing need to explore and develop support systems for learners engaging with computational making.
With $3,000 funding from Utah State University’s College of Education and Human Services, an undergraduate researcher and I, who both have experience with youth and computational making research, explored how design scaffolds impact youth engaging with computational making processes. To do so, we held a workshop where 11 learners (11 female, ages 11-16) used ARIS, a platform designed for non-programmers to create mobile games. In addition, we interviewed five ARIS designers who were able to evaluate our design scaffolds.
We provide insights for improving the use of design scaffolds in computational making with ARIS specifically that also apply broadly to computational making processes. Moreover, we developed an ARIS course that teaches educators to use a design scaffold tool for ARIS. This research provides immediate benefits for educators who access the ARIS course and researchers seeking to improve upon design scaffold research for computational making processes.
title: 'Plan Integral de Calidad (PIC) IDI'. Experiencia y acciones desarrolladas desde su reciente creación.
Creators: name: Serra Tauler, Núria
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Health policy and practice
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Management
subject: Professional issues
subject: Computer applications

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
ANTECEDENTES: El IDI es una empresa pública,
adscrita al CatSalut cuya misión es la gestión,
administración y ejecución de servicios de radiología y de Medicina Nuclear en los ocho Hospitales Universitarios del Instituto Catalán de la Salud...
title: The Culture of Sexuality: Identification, Conceptualization, and Acculturation Processes Within Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Cultures
Creators: name: Parmenter, Joshua Glenn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: This study aimed to provide insights into the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) people within LGBTQ+ culture, and to explore how they disclose or conceal their sexual identities within different social environments. A qualitative study enabled me to become immersed within the stories of LGBTQ+ people, in order to better understand the construct and importance of LGBTQ+ culture. Through in-depth interviews and focus groups, 14 members of the LGBTQ+ community from around the nation volunteered to share their experiences with LGBTQ+ culture and their negotiation of identity within heterosexual culture.
From participants’ stories, key themes were identified: sexual identity and the processes of integrating multiple aspects of identity (i.e., ethnic, religious, gender), characteristics and values within the LGBTQ+ and heterosexual cultures, and how LGBTQ+ people make decisions to conceal or “come out” about their sexual identity depending on the environment. Participants described three levels of identification as LGBTQ+: individual, proximal social group, and a broader LGBTQ+ culture. The narratives converged to reveal a process, contextual navigation, for how LGBTQ+ people conceal or disclose (“come out”) their sexual orientation depending on safety within a given environment. We suggest that people working with LGBTQ+ individuals should encourage engagement in the LGBTQ+ culture, as this may provide support for identity development and facilitate mental health outcomes.
title: Consultoría externa dentro del Plan Integral de Calidad (PIC). Experiencia y acciones desarrolladas desde su reciente creación.
Creators: name: Moreno Bartrolí, Manel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Management
subject: Professional issues
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Audit and standards

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
El IDI tiene como misión lagestión,
administración y ejecución de los servicios de diagnóstico por la imagen y medicina nuclear en centros hospitalarios del Institut Català de la Salut. Su visión es definir un modelo con el reto de la calidad...
The diffuse radio filament in the merging system ZwCl 2341.1+0000
Creators: name: Giovannini, G.
name: Bonafede, A.
name: Feretti, L.
name: Govoni, F.
name: Murgia, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In some clusters of galaxies, a diffuse non-thermal emission is present, not obviously associated with any individual galaxy. These sources have been identified as relics, mini-halos, and halos according to their properties and position with respect to the cluster center. Moreover in a few cases have been reported the existence of a diffuse radio emission not identified with a cluster, but with a large scale filamentary region. The aim of this work is to observe and discuss the diffuse radio emission present in the complex merging structure of galaxies ZwCl 2341.1+0000. We have obtained VLA observations at 1.4 GHz to derive a deep radio image of the diffuse emission. Low resolution VLA images show a diffuse radio emission associated to the complex merging region with a largest size = 2.2 Mpc. In addition to the previously reported peripheral radio emission, classified as a double relic, diffuse emission is detected along the optical filament of galaxies. The giant radio source discussed here shows that magnetic fields and relativistic particles are present also in filamentary structures. Possible alternate scenarios are: a giant radio halo in between two symmetric relics, or the merging of two clusters both hosting a central radio halo.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication as a Letter in Astronomy and Astrophysics
title: Development and Optimization of a Produced Water, Biofilm Based Microalgae Cultivation System for Biocrude Conversion with Hydrothermal Liquefaction
Creators: name: Peterson, Benjamin L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Extraction of oil and gas in Utah’s Uintah Basin results in large quantities of wastewater, or produced water, with nutrients and residual organic chemical that represent a significant resource for producing energy-related and value-added products. Produced water was obtained as a biomass producing nutrient source from industries operating in Utah’s Uintah Basin. Within the Uintah Basin (defined as Uintah and Duchesne Counties within Utah) approximately 93 million barrels of water were produced in 2013 while only 11% of the water was disposed of through evaporation, with the national average at 2%. The rest is reinjected into the subsurface.
The goal of this project was to design a system that utilizes produced water as a nutrient source for growing microalgae biomass in a biofilm form using a Rotating Algal Biofilm Reactor (RABR). The biomass would then be harvested and converted into biocrude oil using hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). The objectives were to (1) cultivate biomass on produced water, (2) optimize the reactor to reduce energy costs to operate while increasing biomass productivity, and (3) increase feedstock quality for HTL.
The RABR was constructed out of polystyrene disks, and experimentation was carried out to optimize rotational speed of the reactor. Two strains of algal biomass were identified as biofilm formers and grown using produced water as the nutrient source. The biomass was then utilized as a HTL feedstock that gave an average yield of 34.5% ash free dry weight.
Global climate model evaluations: Africa, Asia, the Arctic & Europe
Creators: name: Benestad, Rasmus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Climate change processes
Climate change science not elsewhere classified
Atmospheric sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Extension of evaluation from Benestadet al (2023; Various ways of using empirical orthogonal functions for climate model evaluation, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 2899–2913, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-2899-2023) to parts of Africa, Asia, the Arctic and the Euo-CORDEX region. These files are the output (PDF-files) of R-markdown scripts, similar to the cited study.
The planet-hosting subdwarf B star V391 Pegasi is a hybrid pulsator
Creators: name: Lutz, R.
name: Schuh, S.
name: Silvotti, R.
name: Bernabei, S.
name: Dreizler, S.
name: Stahn, T.
name: Huegelmeyer, S. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A noticeable fraction of subdwarf B stars shows either short-period (p-mode) or long-period (g-mode) luminosity variations, with two objects so far known to exhibit hybrid behaviour, i.e. showing both types of modes at the same time. The pulsating subdwarf B star V391 Pegasi (or HS2201+2610), which is close to the two known hybrid pulsators in the log g - Teff plane, has recently been discovered to host a planetary companion. In order to learn more about the planetary companion and its possible influence on the evolution of its host star (subdwarf B star formation is still not well understood), an accurate characterisation of the host star is required. As part of an ongoing effort to significantly improve the asteroseismic characterisation of the host star, we investigate the low-frequency behaviour of HS2201+2610. We obtained rapid high signal-to-noise photometric CCD (B-filter) and PMT (clear-filter) data at 2m-class telescopes and carried out a careful frequency analysis of the light curves. In addition to the previously known short-period luminosity variations in the range 342s-367s, we find a long-period variation with a period of 54min and an amplitude of 0.15 per cent. This can most plausibly be identified with a g-mode pulsation, so that HS2201+2610 is a new addition to the short list of hybrid sdB pulsators. Along with the previously known pulsating subdwarf B stars HS0702+6043 and Balloon090100001 showing hybrid behaviour, the new hybrid HS2201+2610 is the third member of this class. This important property of HS2201+2610 can lead to a better characterisation of this planet-hosting star, helping the characterisation of its planetary companion as well. Current pulsation models cannot yet reproduce hybrid sdBV stars particularly well and improved pulsation models for this object have to include the hybrid behaviour.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in 'Astronomy & Astrophysics'
title: Influence of Global Atmospheric Circulation Variations on Weather and Climate Extremes
Creators: name: Lin, Yen-Heng
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Global warming and climate change deeply influence weather and climate extremes, causing substantial property damage and loss every year around the world. Given the importance of heating differences between low-latitude and Arctic regions, which produce heat sources and cold sources that each influence global circulations, we investigate three extreme weather events in different regions in order to better understand the possible connections between extreme events and global circulation changes.
This study begins with climate variations in the low-latitude western North Pacific. In early summer, the timing of the wet season has shifted from late May to early June since 1979. This change influences the water supply in Southeast Asia. Our analysis results indicate that the increase in global temperatures is suggested to have induced this change. During the hurricane season, deep convection in the western North Pacific has a 20-year frequency of timing variations, oscillating between July and August and influencing hurricane activity. These variations have not been previously identified and do not have any driven forcings, but a precursor deep-convection signal is found in the spring.
Mid-latitude weather and climate can be influenced by tropical deep convection through the Pacific North American teleconnection. Our analysis results suggest that the wintertime Californian drought is mainly modulated by a teleconnection pattern from the tropics and natural variations in North Pacific circulation. Another key factor that influences mid-latitude circulation is Arctic temperature variations. We find an increase in the subseasonal Arctic warming event, suggesting more weather extremes in the mid-latitudes. Evidence suggests that sea-ice loss and the increase in tropical deep convection results in the increased likelihood of a subseasonal Arctic warming event.
title: TC colonografía: Más Allá del Adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Cabero Moyano, Jordi
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Colonography CT
subject: CT
subject: Colon
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Presentación de casos de TC colonografía con lesiones tumorales y pseudotumorales radiológicamente similares al adenocarcinoma,
pero con un diagnóstico final distinto del de adenocarcinoma de colon. Descripción de los hallazgos clínicos y...
Simulations of the Dipole-Dipole Interaction between Two Spatially Separated Groups of Rydberg Atoms
Creators: name: Carroll, T. J.
name: Daniel, C.
name: Hoover, L.
name: Sidie, T.
name: Noel, M. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dipole-dipole interaction among ultra-cold Rydberg atoms is simulated. We examine a general interaction scheme in which two atoms excited to the x and x' states are converted to y and y' states via a Forster resonance. The atoms are arranged in two spatially separated groups, each consisting of only one species of atom. We record the fraction of atoms excited to the y' state as the distance between the two groups is varied. With zero detuning a many-body effect that relies on always resonant interactions causes the interaction to have a finite range. When the detuning is greater than zero, another many-body effect causes a peak in the interaction when the two groups of atoms are some distance away from each other. To obtain these results it is necessary to include multiple atoms and solve the full many-body wave function. These simulation results are supported by recent experimental evidence. These many-body effects, combined with appropriate spatial arrangement of the atoms, could be useful in controlling the energy exchange among the atoms.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures; fixed font issues in some figures and minor typos
L’art dramatique dubillardien : étude thématique, technique et critique
Creators: name: Sing, Pamela Verolyne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: "Le nouveau théâtre" fait de recherches et d'expériences, travaille à se situer, se définir. Le théâtre de boulevard, dont l'objectif principal consistait en l'amusement de son public, a fait son temps. Nous sommes certes tout aussi loin d'un autre vieil instrument théâtral, c'est-à-dire de la perpétuelle remise en question de la condition humaine et de la société, de la prise de conscience des liens qui unissent l'individu aux "autres." On voit les dramaturges contemporains écartelés entre la gravité du constat social ou métaphysique lié à notre époque et le besoin d'une gaîté saine qui procure l'oubli. Pour être fidèle à notre temps,le théâtre contemporain rie doit ignorer ni celle-ci ni celui-là. Doit-on conclure que déchiré par deux tendances extrêmes, le théâtre de nos jours doit souffrir d'une incongruité esthétique? Pour examiner ce problème, nous avons choisi de faire une étude du théâtre de Roland Dubillard qui à notre avis, est un des auteurs les plus représentatifs de notre époque. Depuis quinze ans, la cocasserie de ses pièces dramatiques fait rire Paris. Depuis quèlque.-teipps, ses sketches drôles ont ravi le vaste auditoire de la radio française. Or, curieusement, on découvre qu'à la source de l'oeuvre dubillardienne, s'impose un désespoir singulier devant l'aliénation irrécusable et irré-médiable de l'homme. Certains aspects de l'univers, qu'ils tiennent soit de l'homme lui-même, soit d'un domaine supra-humain, font de l'homme un "domestique" (terme employé par le dramaturge lui-même) sans recours dans son propre monde. Au premier abord, le rôle que pourrait jouer l'humour dans un drame si désolant semble inconcevable. A la réflexion cependant, on se rend compte que le burlesque, le vaudeville même, contiennent des éléments de provocation: c'est cela même qui fait rire. Ainsi, un théâtre qui . invente le rire là précisément où le sérieux voudrait l'interdire et qui fait surgir le plaisant et le plaisir de situations qui d'ordinaire s'y prêtent le moins atteste-t-il tout seul la profonde vérité humaine si subtilement contenue. Le théâtre dubillardien donc, nous met en face de notre condition navrante, mais fournit aussi le moyen de supporter cette vérité: l'hu-mour. Notre étude sur ce théâtre tout récent et original démontre que l'humour dubillardien emporte tout sur son passage. Il tient sa forme de la réalité quotidienne et sa puissance de tout ce qui veut sty soustraire. Grandeur de la dérision, misère du rien, les contrastes qu'offrent les spectacles actuels de Roland DuB.illard ne sont autres que le témoi-gnage de la dualité humaine.
title: Novel Methods to Produce Large Recombinant Spider Silk Proteins via Polymerization
Creators: name: Hebert, Nathan L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Spider silk has long been a subject of scientific research due to its remarkable mechanical properties. Until recently, there has been no way to effectively obtain spider silk except by harvesting it from individual spiders. With advances in technology, the genes that code for the individual spider silk proteins have been isolated and genetically engineered into other hosts to produce recombinant spider silk proteins (rSSp) of varying sizes, Larger rSSp have correspondingly greater mechanical properties in any resulting materials. Using current production methods, larger rSSp cannot be produced in commercially viable quantities while simultaneously being economically viable. The current production methods have shown that small rSSp are easier to produce and purify in genetically engineered systems while maintaining favorable yields. After the small molecular weight rSSp were expressed and purified, they were polymerized to form larger molecular weight rSSp, while having maintained mechanical properties of similarly sized rSSp from other expression systems.
To accomplish this polymerization, two systems were designed that can catalyze this reaction: using a Spy System and an intein system. These two systems require no external cofactors or enzymes and occur spontaneously once initiated. The expression and purification of rSSp from both of these systems has been characterized. The Spy System did not produce high enough quantities of rSSp to be economically viable. Whereas the intein system produced yields of 5 g/L, which is higher than previously reported. The rSSp from the intein system have been made into biomaterials, such as films, hydrogels, and aerogels. The mechanical properties of these biomaterials were comparable to biomaterials from other spider silk protein production. Utilizing the intein system, projected cost estimates for the production of rSSp has been lowered from $350 to $40 per kilogram. This decreased cost of rSSp would allow a wider array of commercial applications.