cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Effects of Cognitive Strategy and Exercise Setting on Running
Creators: name: LaCaille, Rick A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2001

description: The cognitive strategies of association and dissociation have been identified and studied in runners and other athletes. Association is said to involve thoughts that are task-oriented and may include a focus on pace, strategy, or physiological sensations. Conversely, dissociation involves task-irrelevant thoughts and may include thinking about such things as relationships, work, spiritual matters, or scenery. To date, studies have been largely descriptive, methodologically flawed, failed to use manipulation checks, and/or present unclear or differing conclusions. The emphasis with previous association and dissociation research has also been with elite and/or endurance athletes, such as marathon runners. Additionally, only a few studies have included more than one exercise setting, and these investigations seemed to indirectly suggest that the exercise environment may influence the use of cognitive strategies, performance, and perceived exertion.
In an effort to clarify the effects of cognitive strategies and exercise setting on several dependent variables, the current study investigated a sample of experienced recreational runners in a 3 x 2 mixed experimental design. Exercise setting had three levels (treadmill, indoor track, and outdoor route) and was a within-groups independent variable and cognitive strategy had two levels (association vs. dissociation) as a between-groups factor. The dependent variables were the ratings of perceived exertion, course satisfaction, and performance time for a 5 km run. The results indicated strong effects for the influence of exercise setting. The treadmill setting was rated as least satisfying, while resulting in the highest perceived exertion and slowest performance time. Alternately, the outdoor route resulted in the highest level of course satisfaction, while also yielding the lowest level of perceived exertion. For the dissociation strategy, the outdoor setting garnered the lowest perceived exertion, followed by the indoor track and treadmill, respectively, while with the associative strategy perceived exertion did not significantly differ among the settings. There were no overall differences in perceived exertion or course satisfaction between the cognitive strategies; however, there was a medium effect size and trend for the association group to run faster. The implications and limitations of these data are discussed and suggestions for future research are provided.
title: How Utah Parents of Utah School Children Judge School Effectiveness
Creators: name: Rodgers, Philip L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2003

description: There is a perceived crisis concerning public education in the United States. This has led to an increase in the use of standardized tests for the purpose of measuring school effectiveness. However, the use of standardized tests for this purpose is problematic. Among these problems is the concern that standardized tests may not measure what parents believe are the most important attributes of an effective school. Unfortunately, there is little in the way of empirical evidence regarding parent beliefs in this area.
The purpose of this research was to answer the following four questions.
1. What do parents of school-aged children in Utah feel are the most important attributes of an effective school?
2. Are there statistical and practical differences between levels of respondents' association with public schools and their responses to question #1?
3. Are there statistical and practical differences between levels of respondents' level of education and their responses to question #1?
4. Are there statistical and practical significant differences between respondents' gender and their responses to research question #1?
A mail survey of 800 randomly selected Utah parents of school-aged children was conducted to address these questions. To answer research question #1, the method of paired comparisons was used to derive a parent ranking of eight attributes of an effective school. To answer research questions #2, #3, and #4, a chi-square analysis of association was conducted. The practical significance of these results was assessed through the calculation of the effect size w. In total, 199 usable surveys were returned.
Results indicated that parents believed that providing students with a balanced curriculum that encourages a wide range of learning experiences and providing students with the skills necessary to become a productive and useful citizen were more important attributes of an effective school than providing students with a good understanding of basic academic skills. This result is important because it indicates parent support for two attributes of an effective school-wide range of learning experiences and skills to become a productive and useful citizen-that are difficult to measure through the use of standardized tests.
Discrimination and generalization in autistic children
Creators: name: Adnan, Nurjehan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The present study examined stimulus control in autistic children. A matching-to-sample procedure was employed in all experiments. In the first part of Experiment I, autistic and control subjects were trained to discriminate between a vertical line and a line tilted at an angle of 33 degrees from vertical. Following training, subjects were given a generalization test to determine the degree of dimensional control by line tilt. In the second part of Experiment I, subjects were trained to discriminate between a vertical line and lines tilted progressively closer to vertical. Experiment II was also a test for the degree of dimensional control by the line tilt. In Experiment I, the autistic subjects took a greater number of trials than the controls to reach the criterion of 24 consecutive correct trials. However, the difference in the number of trials taken by the two groups was not large. There was also little difference between the autistic and control subjects in part two of Experiment I. All of the autistic subjects successfully discriminated between a vertical line and a 2 degree line tilt to a criterion of eight consecutive correct trials. In the generalization tests in Experiments I and II, there was little difference between the autistic and control subjects in dimensional stimulus control. In Experiment III, the autistic subjects were examined for acquisition of a multidimensional discrimination. Both autistic and control subjects were trained to match a standard stimulus with one of four comparison stimuli that were varied in shape and in the presence and absence of a star within the shape. The autistic subjects took a greater number of trials than the controls to reach the criterion of eight consecutive correct trials. However, the difference between the autistic and control subjects in the number of trials taken to reach criterion was not large. In summary, the study found little difference between autistic and control subjects in the acquisition of simple or multidimensional discrimination. As well, there was little difference between the autistics and the controls in dimensional stimulus control. The results of the study suggest that the autistic child's problem is not one of stimulus selectivity.
title: Test of a Psychosocial Strain Model of Delinquency for Mexican American Youth
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Jose de Jesus
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2003

description: The purposes of this study were twofold: (1) to compare rates of delinquency between Mexican American and European American adolescents, and (2) to test the application of a model of delinquency designed to be especially relevant to Mexican lll American adolescents. The study is one of the first attempts to advance knowledge about delinquency among Mexican American adolescents through the development and test of a comprehensive model of delinquency. The model constructed as part of this study-labeled the psychosocial strain model-was unique in that it integrated variables from different theoretical perspectives and its construction was guided by knowledge of cultural and demographic characteristics of Mexican Americans. The study used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a large and nationally representative sample of adolescents. Analyses indicated that Mexican American adolescents engaged in a disproportionate amount of delinquency. Mexican American adolescents also tended to engage in delinquency at a greater and more serious level than European American adolescents. Results of path analysis used to test the psychosocial strain model revealed that the model explained a statistically significant amount of the variance in delinquency for both males and females. However, not all paths in the model were statistically significant. In addition, the results revealed important gender differences in the applicability of the model. Implications of the study findings and future research directions are discussed.
Anacroneuria lineata Navas
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Armitage, Brian J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Anacroneuria
Anacroneuria lineata

description: Anacroneuria lineata (Navás)
http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Plecoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:2027
 Neoperla lineata Navás, 1924: 73. Holotype ♂ (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris), Costa Rica
 Material examined. PANAMA: Chiriqui Province, Cuenca 93 (Río Guabo), afluente Río Guabo, NNE Fortuna Dam, nr. Fortuna Cabins, 8.77806°N, 82.19359°W, 1128 m, UV light, B. and T. Armitage, 21 January 2017, 2 ♂ (COZEM).
 Comments. Stark (1998) redescribed this species and produced new figures. Stark and Kondratieff (2004) described the female of this species, figured the head and male genitalia, and compared it with other species (DeWalt et al, 2018). They note that this species appears to be widespread and common, especially in Mexico.
description: Published as part of Stark, Bill P. & Armitage, Brian J., 2018, The Plecoptera of Panama. II. Two new species, one new country record, and additional locality records of Anacroneuria (Perlidae) from western Panama, pp. 315-326 in Zootaxa 4459 (2) on page 318, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1458661
An environmental study of the macroinvertebrate fauna of three Hobart streams
Creators: name: Pathoumthong, Bounnam
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Three adjacent streams, Cartwright Creek, Lambert Creek, and Sandy Bay Rivulet in the Hobart municipality have their upper catchments relatively unimpacted, but the lower reaches have been affected to various degrees by urban development. An investigation of their macroinvertebrate communities was undertaken to assess their potential usefulness in recognising the impact of development on these three streams. This investigation may provide baseline data and define indicator species which may be useful in the development of biological criteria for water quality assessment. Macroinvertebrate data collection was undertaken from March to November 1998. In total 59 species and 19 107 macroinvertebrate individuals from 9 sites were collected (three sites at each stream). Multivariate analysis including clustering (Two-way Indicator Species Analysis TWINSPAN) and ordination (semi-strong Hybrid Multidimentional Scaling HMDS) was used to recognise assemblages of species typical of each stream, site and season. Significant differences in species composition and diversity were found between the Sandy Bay Rivulet sites where site 1 was different from sites 2 and 3, and between the Cartwright Creek sites. No variation between the Lambert Creek sites was found. Results indicate a strong correlation between impacted sites lower in the catchment and the diversity of species as well as number of individuals. Pollution sensitive invertebrates (especially Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera) were found only at unimpacted sites in the higher reaches of the catchment, and were absent in all lower sites. No Ephemeroptera or Plecoptera were found in Lambert Creek. Two pollution tolerant species, the introduced snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum and the native crustacean Austrogammarus sp, were abundant in all lower sites. Results from this investigation therefore indicate that development has had some detrimental impact on macroinvertebrates at the three streams investigated.
title: Physicians' Health Promotion Practices for Mexican American Patients at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes
Creators: name: McFarland, Holly Day
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: The relationship between physicians' perceptions of Mexican American patients at risk for Type 2 diabetes and the subsequent care they provide was studied. Primary care providers responded to questionnaires about their health promotion practices. A 2x2 analysis of variance was used to identify differences in reported treatment of patients that accounted for both ethnicity and risk. Results indicated Hispanic patients received less time with their providers than Caucasian patients regardless of risk for Type 2 diabetes. Both groups received about the same reported care in terms of information gathered for diagnosis, diagnosis made, and treatment regimen prescribed. Data also suggested that providers' scores for treatment regimen and information gathered were disappointingly low, which may not only account for the lack of statistically significant findings, but may reflect a larger issue within the medical care field.
title: The Effects of Auditory Stimulation on Academic and Behavior Performance in Children With and Without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Creators: name: Sneddon, Penny L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: This study evaluated the relationship between noise and academic performance and behavior of children with ADHD (n = 15) and without ADHD (n = 18). Children completed math sheets under four noise conditions: no noise, standard classroom noise, classroom noise with verbalizations, and classroom noise with classical music. There were no differences in math performance between the two groups. Children with ADHD exhibited more problem behaviors than children without ADHD. Group-by-condition interactions were not significant. Significant effects were found for noise condition; children completed more math problems and had fewer inappropriate behaviors in the no-noise condition. However, there were significant order effects with children performing better on the initial task. The no-noise condition was always presented first; other conditions were randomized. Thus, it is impossible to determine if improved performance was due to decreased environmental stimulation or initial performance effects. Implications of these findings are discussed.
Distance Measurements from Supernovae and Dark Energy Constraints
Creators: name: Wang, Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Constraints on dark energy from current observational data are sensitive to how distances are measured from Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) data. We find that flux-averaging of SNe Ia can be used to test the presence of unknown systematic uncertainties, and yield more robust distance measurements from SNe Ia. We have applied this approach to the nearby + SDSS +ESSENCE +SNLS +HST set of 288 SNe Ia, and the ``Constitution''of set 397 SNe Ia. Combining the SN Ia data with CMB data from WMAP five year observations, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey baryon acoustic oscillation measurements, the data of 69 gammay-ray bursts, and the Hubble constant measurement from the HST project SHOES, we measure the dark energy density function X(z)=ρ_X(z)/ρ_X(0) as a free function of redshift (assumed to be a constant at z>1 or z>1.5). Without flux-averaging of SNe Ia, the combined data using the ``Constitution'' set of SNe Ia seem to indicate a deviation from a cosmological constant at ~95% confidence level at 0< z <0.8; they are consistent with a cosmological constant at ~68% confidence level when SNe Ia are flux-averaged. The combined data using the nearby +SDSS +ESSENCE +SNLS +HST data set of SNe Ia are consistent with a cosmological constant at 68% confidence level with or without flux-averaging of SNe Ia, and give dark energy constraints that are significantly more stringent than that using the ``Constitution'' set of SNe Ia. Assuming a flat universe, dark energy is detected at >98% confidence level for z<= 0.75 using the combined data with 288 SNe Ia from nearby + SDSS+ ESSENCE +SNLS +HST, independent of the assumptions about X(z>1). We quantify dark energy constraints without assuming a flat universe using the dark energy Figure-of-Merit (FoM) for both $X(z)$ and a dark energy equation-of-state linear in the cosmic scale factor.
description: 12 pages including 12 figures. Slightly expanded version accepted by PRD
title: The Effectiveness of Peer Tutoring Programs in Elementary Schools
Creators: name: Gee, Melinda
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: The present review examined the effectiveness of three peer tutoring programs: cross-age peer tutoring, Classwide Peer Tutoring (CWPT), and Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS), for elementary students in the academic areas of math and reading. The research reviewed indicates students who participated in cross-age peer tutoring and CWPT had improved test scores on basic math facts as well as increased math scores on standardized assessments. Students also showed improvement in reading fluency, reading comprehension, spelling, and reading level after participating in cross-age peer tutoring and CWPT. High-, average-, and low-achieving students as well as students in special Ill education benefitted from these peer tutoring programs. In addition, both tutors and tutees received benefits from the tutoring programs, although fewer studies examined outcomes for tutors. Although cross-age peer tutoring, and CWPT resulted in mostly positive outcomes, this was not the case for the PALS program. Students participating in this program demonstrated little change from pre- to post-assessment. Since the PALS studies were better designed with tighter experimental control, it is less likely results were due to another variable. The cross-age and CWPT studies lacked the tight experimental control of the PALS studies.
Search and decision in fishing systems
Creators: name: Shotton, Ross
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Methods of search in marine fisheries are reviewed, and aspects of variables necessary to evaluate exploitation strategies are considered. Estimates of fish school densities based on gas diffusion principles are made. Possible school patterns are examined using the Poisson, Poisson with added zeroes, Neyman type A and Negative Binomial distributions. The Negative Binomial distribution was found to give best fit to the data used although the Neyman type A distribution gave a better estimate of the data variance. School size was reasonably well described by a log distribution, Mean square dispersion rates, modal velocities and direction of movement for sets of observations on tuna schools are found. Tests on the significance of direction of movement by groups of tuna school are done and those groups showing significance were tested for homogeneity of direction. Confidence intervals on the movement of direction are also calculated. Decision methods so as to increase catch are considered for three situations: (1) Where the position of a school is known with some error, and it must be decided whether to attempt to locate it or remain searching on the present grounds. (2) When the Bayes estimate of catch rate on the present grounds is less than that expected on an alternate ground, and the decision of changing depends on minimizing an expected loss function. (3) For the Vancouver trawl fishery where fish occurrence may be considered of a present or absent nature, and it is desired to minimize the time spent steaming between grounds. The use of entropy as a criterion of search effectiveness as used by other workers is also discussed.
title: Using Music in Teaching Social Skills to Mentally Retarded Subjects
Creators: name: Barron-Johnson, Tamara
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1987

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which Melodies to Assist Social Interaction (MASI) would affect the social skills performance of the educable mentally retarded.
The study employed a pretest-posttest control group design with an N of 27 mentally-retarded subjects. It also employed a one-group pretest-posttest design with an N of 8 non-mentally retarded subjects.
All of the subjects received a pre- and post-score for their social skills performance level. Nineteen of the mentally-retarded subjects and all eight non-mentally retarded subjects received the MASI social skills teaching program as part of their regular curriculum.
The pre- and post-treatment performance was analyzed by a correlated means t-test. An analysis of covariance was used in which the posttest means were compared using the pretest means as a covariate.
It was concluded that MASI did not have an impact, positive or negative, on the social skills performance level of the subjects.
Link between antiferromagnetism and superconductivity probed by nuclear spin relaxation in organic conductors
Creators: name: Bourbonnais, C.
name: Sedeki, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interdependence of antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in the Bechgaard salts series of organic conductors is examined in the light of the anomalous temperature dependence of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate. We apply the renormalization group approach to the electron gas model to show that the crossover from antiferromagnetism to superconductivity along with the anomalous nuclear relaxation rate of the Bechgaard salts can be well described within a unified microscopic framework. For sizable nesting deviations of the Fermi surface, scaling theory reveals how pairing correlations enhance short-range antiferromagnetic correlations via magnetic Umklapp scattering over a large part of the metallic phase that precedes superconductivity. These enhanced magnetic correlations are responsible for the Curie-Weiss behavior observed in the NMR relaxation rate.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
title: Roles of Religious Orientation and Health Locus of Control in an Aging Population
Creators: name: Fallon, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: An intrinsic religious orientation has been linked to improved cardiovascular health. Individuals may be protected by their beliefs against anger/hostility, which have been linked to increased cardiovascular reactivity and disease. Health locus of control differentiates between internals, who take responsibility for health, and externals, who attribute responsibility to chance or powerful others. Internal health locus of control has been linked to healthy behaviors, but its relationship to religious orientation is unclear.
Intrinsically held religious beliefs and internally held expectancies for health may, through the mechanism of reactivity, reduce risk for cardiovascular disease. This study explored relationships among health locus of control, religious orientation, and cardiovascular reactivity to an interpersonal stressor in an older adult population. Intrinsic religiousness and internal health locus of control emerged as highly related potential buffers against anger/hostility and cardiovascular reactivity.
Gunter Grass's Unkenrufe : telling German hi/stories : who it telling them? And by whose authority?
Creators: name: Petz, BH
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Historical writing is a means of taking possession of the past in the interest of the present, and in turn, the future. The reunification of Germany provided the impetus and urgency for historiography to play an important role in influencing the kind of nation that would establish itself in the heart of Europe. With a crucial aspect of the nation's identity consisting in its relations with its neighbours, the prospect of reunification threw the spotlight on unresolved aspects of German-Polish relations, for at that time Germany's border with Poland had still not been recognized by the Federal Republic. To Gunter Grass Germany's prevarication on this issue has long been a matter of deep concern. Unkenrufe, his first postunification prose fiction work, is his response to the new urgency surrounding issues of German-Polish relations at the time of reunification. It is an important work which, to date, has not been accorded the recognition it deserves. Employing two questions posed by Grass - 'Wer erzahlt hier? Und mit wessen Erlaubnis?' - as its starting point, this thesis situates Unkenrufe securely within the traditions of Grass's complete oeuvre, while simultaneously demonstrating that the work represents a new departure in that most central aspect of Grass's prose fiction writing, namely the narrator figure. The two most significant changes which distinguish Unkenrufe from the work of the preceding decades are identified as, firstly, the shift in the narrator's location away from the position at the centre of the action characteristically occupied Grass's narrators, to a position on the edge of the action; and secondly, a move away from a concern with metafiction towards a concern with metahistory. The Unkenrufe narrator is identified as an historian whose methodical treatment of historical documents as he struggles with the existential circumstances which brought the documents into his possession shows how historical obligation falls to those who were too young to have been perpetrators and victims, those whose age might imbue them with the cool distance of the 'Verdienst- und Schuldlosen'. At the same time, however, Unkenrufe represents a step towards the more direct confrontation of the issue of the German victims of Nazism which is seen a decade later in Im Krebsgang, and is a precursor to a broader, more considered approach to German history.
title: School Counselors' Referral Practices of Children with Internalizing Symptoms
Creators: name: Hughes, Kelly
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: This project proposed to examine school counselors' knowledge of and experiences with internalizing issues in children. The sample included all elementary and middle/secondary school counselors employed in Utah. The measure used in the present study was a questionnaire adapted from a study by Green, Clopton, and Pope. Analyses revealed that few elementary school counselors would meet with a student struggling with internalizing symptoms, but many would meet with the students' teacher(s) and parents. Overall, fewer secondary school counselors endorsed the presented responses as compared to elementary school counselors. More than half of both elementary and secondary school counselors indicated they had encountered one to five students struggling with internalizing issues during the past year. The knowledge gained from this research highlights changes that need to be made to preservice and inservice training of school counselors in order to aid in the identification and intervention of internalizing disorders in students.
title: Power Distance Perceptions in Post-Soviet Russia: Understanding the Workplace Environment
Creators: name: Kamenchuk, Olga
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: The modem business economy is characterized by increased collaboration among different organizations across nation al boundaries. Post-Soviet Russia is one of the regions that is witnessing rapid economic growth and development of international business relations. Because of the challenges in intercultural communication the current study focuses on the problem of power distance, specifically in the workplace (in post-Soviet Russia).
A phenomenological perspective, based on qualitative methodology, guided this research into the meaning of power experiences for individuals. Symbolic interactionism was used as a research paradigm of the study to view humans as active participants of the workplace, who engage in the power relationships actively-reacting to controversies of interactions and constant change in the everyday situations.
The researcher developed and conducted several sets of interviews with employees, with relatives/friends of employees, and with country experts. The data were collected from employees of four companies in one of Central Russian regions (where intercultural connections develop especially rapidly)-with two private, two public, two prereform, and two postreform companies. These four companies were selected to examine influences of two dimensions, public versus private and older traditional versus newer entrepreneurial organizations. Analysis included transcribing of the interviews, identification and categorizations of the statements of meaning, description of participants' experiences, and identification of social processes. The results were grouped into gender, age, and ethical themes depending on three major dimensions (ownership, generation, gender). The major findings included: (a) contrary to previous research older managers appear not to be more aversive to risk-taking behaviors, (b) younger superiors are better accepted in the private postreform companies, but are less often appointed to such positions as compared to the other three settings, (c) public companies hold to the Soviet egalitarian gender ideas, but attitudes and hiring practices remain traditional in preferring male leaders, (d) although recognizing that female superiors can be as good as male superiors, young employees emphasize the "natural calling" of the women (that women's primary focus should be family), (e) emphasis on the importance of ethical leaders was common to all company types.
The catalytic oxidation of inositols and the solvolysis of their monotosyl esters
Creators: name: Pitman, ME
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The oxidation of inositols by aeration in aqueous solution in the presence of a platinum catalyst is described in Part I of this thesis. The six isomers, eni, cis-, scyllo-, (-)-, neo-, and allo-inositols, and two methyl ethers, quebrachitol and dambonitol were oxidized and the oxidation products identified. The results are discussed with reference to the corresponding results for oxidation by Acetobacter suboxydans. It was established that only axial hydroxyl groups were dehydrogenated. This also holds for oxidation by Acetobacter suboxydans. Catalytic oxidation differs from enzymatic oxidation in two respects. Firstly, the action stops at the monoketone stage except in the case of alloinositol. Aeration of alloinositol in the presence of platinum catalyst gave a diketone and a monoketone which was not an intermediate in the formation of the diketone. Secondly, the presence of adjacent methyl groups, as in dambonitol, does not prevent oxidation. Two new monotosyl esters of inositols were prepared and the solvolysis of a number of monotosyl esters was studied. This work is described in Part II of this thesis. In all the cases studied, solvolysis occurred, and was mostly accompanied by inversion, but the stereochemical result varied considerably. Those solvolysis reactions provide new methods of synthesis for two of the rarer isomers, cis- and muco- inositols. It was found that the solvolysis was accompanied by a novel type of epimerisation reaction, and a preliminary study of this reaction was made.
title: Predictors of Outcome of Surgery for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Creators: name: Manning, Clayton T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: Wrist surgery is a common method for treating carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) although few studies have examined patient outcomes or predictive correlates of such procedures. The objectives of this study were to characterize Utah workers who received surgery for CTS in terms of relevant presurgical and outcome variables and to identify presurgical correlates of patient outcomes. Participants were 75 Utah workers' compensation patients who underwent surgery for CTS from 1999-2002 and were at least 6 months postsurgery at time of follow-up. A retrospective cohort design was utilized consisting of a review of presurgical medical records and a postsurgical telephone survey. Presurgical variables included: gender, age, history of depression, and litigation status. Correlational analyses revealed that age and lawyer involvement were consistent significant predictors of poorer outcomes. The importance of conceptualizing CTS surgery patient outcomes from a biopsychosocial perspective is discussed.
Anacroneuria marca Stark 1998
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Armitage, Brian J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Anacroneuria
Anacroneuria marca

description: Anacroneuria marca Stark
http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Plecoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName1838
 Anacroneuria marca Stark, 1998: 575. Holotype ♂ (United States National Museum), Costa Rica, Heredia Province, Río Peje, Parque Nacional Braulio Carrillo
 Anacroneuria marca: Gutiérrez-Fonseca and Springer, 2011: 29
 Material examined. PANAMA: Chiriqui Province: Cuenca 102, (Río Chiriqui Viejo), afluente Río Chiriqui Viejo, 8.89307°N, 82.59969°W, 2189 m, Las Nubes dentro del PILA, 19 September 2016, C. Nieto, M. Molinar, and A. Tuñon, 1 ♀ (COZEM); same except, Río Colorado, Mount Totumas Biological Reserve, 8.873556°N, 82.689993°W, 26 June 2016, B. Armitage, 3 ♂ (COZEM); same except, 1 September 2016, 2 ♂; Chiriqui Province: Cuenca 93 (Río Guabo), afluente Río Guabo, NNE Fortuna Dam, nr Fortuna Cabins, 8.77806°N, 82.19359°W, 1128 m, UV light, 21 January 2017, B. and T. Armitage, 10 ♂ (COZEM); same except, 18 February 2018, 22 ♀ (COZEM); Chiriqui Province: Cuenca 108 (Río Chiriqui), Quebrada Hondo, NNE Fortuna Dam, 8.75003°N, 82.23884°W, 1128 m, B. and T. Armitage, 2 ♂ (COZEM).
 Comments. Stark (2014) and Armitage & Stark (2017) reported this species from Chiriqui Province. The species appears more common in Costa Rica (Stark 1998) than in Panama.
description: Published as part of Stark, Bill P. & Armitage, Brian J., 2018, The Plecoptera of Panama. II. Two new species, one new country record, and additional locality records of Anacroneuria (Perlidae) from western Panama, pp. 315-326 in Zootaxa 4459 (2) on pages 318-319, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1458661
title: The Use of Stress Management in Combination with Parent Training: An Intervention Study with Parents of Preschool Children
Creators: name: Gunderson, Theresa L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: Many preschool children exhibit a number of problematic, acting-out behaviors. Parents of preschoolers exhibiting behavior problems often experience a great deal of stress associated with these problem behaviors. Consistently robust improvements have been found in the use of stress management for adult stress, pain, and medical wellbeing. Likewise, studies have shown parent training decreases the severity of child behavior problems. However, only a few studies have examined effects of parent training on both child behavior and parent stress. Some studies have found that parents who complete parent training also report lowered stress levels commensurate with improvement of child behavior. It is unclear, though, whether adding stress management would provide additional benefits to parents and their children.
The purpose of this study was to look at effects of providing both parent training and stress management training to parents of preschoolers, and to look at the effects of providing treatment in a different order to two groups of parents. Parent volunteers completed seven weeks of parent training and four weeks of stress management training, with half of the parents receiving stress management first and half receiving parent training first.
It was found that overall improvements in measures of parent stress and chi Id behavior were not significantly different between the two groups. Improvement in child behavior was attributed to parent training; improvement in parent stress was attributed to both parent training and stress management training, with larger improvements in parent-related stress generally attributed to stress management training and larger improvements in child-related stress attributed to parent training. However, child behavior temporarily worsened while parents received stress management training. Stress management did not enhance effects of parent training, but parents were better off on measures of stress and parenting efficacy after receiving both training components than they were after receiving only one treatment component. Parents felt more effective as parents after treatment and rated the overall treatment package highly; however, parents who received their prefened treatment first were slightly more satisfied than parents receiving prefened treatment second. Teachers reported general improvement in children whose parents received treatment and those whose parents did not receive treatment.
title: An Investigation of the Impact of Chld Care Quality on Child Outcomes Using Structural Equation Modeling
Creators: name: Cutler, Jared
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: The quality of a child care setting is believed by many child care researchers to have an impact on the development of children in child care. While a considerable amount of research has been done regarding the impact of child care quality on child outcomes, an examination of literature reviews on the topic reveals that there is a lack of consensus in the field on the question of whether child care quality has a substantial impact on children's development.
The present study assessed the impact child care quality has on child outcomes. A dataset from the NICHD Early Child Care Study involving 878 subjects was used. Analyses utilizing structural equation modeling indicated that child care quality has a substantial impact on children's development, even when the influence of demographic and family variables is taken into account.
Anacroneuria ngabe Stark & Armitage 2018, sp. n.
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Armitage, Brian J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Anacroneuria
Anacroneuria ngabe

description: Anacroneuria ngabe sp. n.
(Figs. 6–10, 12)
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 Material examined. Holotype ♂, 4 ♀ paratypes from Panama, Chiriqui Province, Cuenca 93 (Río Guabo), afluente Río Guabo, NNE Fortuna Dam nr. Fortuna Cabins, 8.77806°N, 82.19359°W, 1128 m, UV light, 18 February 2018, B. and T. Armitage (Holotype ♂ COZEM; paratype ♀ COZEM, BPSC).
 Adult habitus. General body color yellow with brown patches. Head yellow except for dark brown lappets and antennae; ocellar area with obscure darker yellow brown pigment spot. Median half of pronotal disc yellow, lateral areas brown (Fig. 6). Wings brown, veins darker except pale costa. Femora mostly yellow but with a small, dark brown distal area; tibiae banded, dark brown distally and proximally, and with a yellow median band.
 Male. Forewing length 11 mm. Hammer absent, or at most a low membranous disc (Fig. 7). Aedeagal apex simple but lateral margins curved outward near tip, and apex with a small notch; ventral keel conspicuous, consisting of a pair of long, curved ridges that form an X-pattern beyond the hooks; a pair of prominent membranous lobes present subapically. Hooks very slender (Figs. 8–10).
 Female. Forewing length 12–13 mm. Subgenital pate bilobed, lobes separated by a V-shaped notch (Fig. 12).
 Larva. Unknown.
 Etymology. The species name is proposed in honor of the Ngäbe people of Chiriqui province and adjacent areas of Panama.
 Diagnosis. The general body color is yellow patterned with dark brown and the median yellow pronotal band is relatively wide and the dark area near the ocelli is obscure. This general head/pronotal color pattern is shared by at least nine other Anacroneuria species known to occur in Panama and Costa Rica, therefore the color pattern is not considered distinctive. Males of this species will key to A. varilla Stark, 1998 and the aedeagal apices of the two are somewhat similar, but in A. varilla the aedeagal apex is truncate and has parallel lateral margins and the dorsal keel of A. varilla is obscure. Female subgenital plates of the two species are also quite similar.
description: Published as part of Stark, Bill P. & Armitage, Brian J., 2018, The Plecoptera of Panama. II. Two new species, one new country record, and additional locality records of Anacroneuria (Perlidae) from western Panama, pp. 315-326 in Zootaxa 4459 (2) on pages 319-320, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1458661
Anacroneuria plutonis Banks
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Armitage, Brian J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Anacroneuria
Anacroneuria plutonis

description: Anacroneuria plutonis (Banks)
http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Plecoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:1777
 Neoperla plutonis Banks, 1914: 610. Lectotype ♀ (Museum of Comparative Zoology), La Trinidad, Costa Rica
 Forquilla tristani Navás, 1932: 29. Synonymy (Stark 1998)
 Material examined. PANAMA: Chiriqui Province: Cuenca 102 (Río Chiriqui Viejo), Quebrada Norte, Mount Totumas Biological Reserve, 8.873613°N, 82.690512°W, 26–28 December 2017, B. Armitage, 1 ♂ (COZEM); same except, Malaise trap, 28 January–2 February 2018, B. Armitage, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ (COZEM); same except, afluente Río Colorado, 8.883717°N, 82.684077°W, 2 January 2015, B. Armitage, 1 ♂ (COZEM); same except, 31 August 2016, 1 ♂ (COZEM); same except, Río Colorado, 8.873556°N, 82.689993°W, 15 April 2015, B. Armitage, 1 ♂ (COZEM); same except, 13 February, 2017, B. Armitage, 1 ♀ (COZEM); Chiriqui Province: Cuenca 93 (Río Guabo), afluente Río Guabo, NNE Fortuna Dam, nr. Fortuna Cabins, 8.77806°N, 82.19359°W, 1128 m, UV light, 21 January 2017, B. and T. Armitage, 10 ♂ (COZEM); same except, 18 February 2018, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (COZEM).
 Comments. Stark (1998) reported the species from several sites in Costa Rica, and recently Armitage and Stark (2017) reported it from Panama for the first time.
description: Published as part of Stark, Bill P. & Armitage, Brian J., 2018, The Plecoptera of Panama. II. Two new species, one new country record, and additional locality records of Anacroneuria (Perlidae) from western Panama, pp. 315-326 in Zootaxa 4459 (2) on page 320, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1458661
title: Developmental Changes in the Structure of Affect: Is the Tripartite Model Equally Valid for Younger and Older Children?
Creators: name: Bushman, Bryan B.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: Many studies investigating the validity of the Tripartite model of affect in children have been supportive of the model. However, few studies have examined if older and younger children structure affect similarly. The current study used confirmatory factor analytic techniques (SEM) to test the validity of the tripartite model in two developmentally distinct populations of children (third and sixth grade). Confirmatory factor analytic methods examined one-factor, two-factor correlated, and two-factor uncorrelated models. Furthermore, the pattern of correlations between positive affect (PA), negative affect (NA), and dependent measures of anxiety and depression was calculated.
The results indicated the two-factor correlated and two-factor uncorrelated models demonstrated adequate fit across samples. However, in the younger sample the correlation between NA and PA was larger and statistically significant compared to the older sample, thus supporting the hypothesis that older and younger children structure affect differently. Limitations of the study and clinical/developmental implications are discussed.
YANGI O'ZBEKISTONGA TASHQI OMILLARNING (COVID-19 PANDEMIYASI, GEOSIYOSIY SILJISHLAR) TA'SIRI
Creators: name: Qosimaliyev, Karimjon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada COVID-19 pandemiyasi va zamonaviy geosiyosiy o'zgarishlarning O'zbekiston rivojlanishiga ta'siri tahlil qilinadi. Tadqiqot natijalariga ko'ra, pandemiya va global geosiyosiy vaziyat mamlakatning iqtisodiy, ijtimoiy va siyosiy hayotiga sezilarli ta'sir ko'rsatgan. Maqolada mazkur ta'sirlarning qisqa va uzoq muddatli oqibatlari, shuningdek, O'zbekistonning ushbu vaziyatga moslashish strategiyalari ko'rib chiqiladi.
Exploring Jet Properties in p-p Collisions at 200 GeV with STAR
Creators: name: Caines, Helen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mechanisms underlying hadronization are not well understood, both in vacuum and in hot QCD matter. Precise characterization of jet fragmentation to hadrons in p-p collisions will help elucidate the fundamental process of hadronization, and will serve as essential reference to measure the modification of hadronization in heavy ion collisions. We present measurements of fragmentation functions for unidentified particles in jets produced in p-p collisions at 200 GeV using the STAR detector at RHIC. The results from different jet reconstruction algorithms are compared, including variations of the resolution parameter. It is found that the results are largely insensitive to details of the jet-finding algorithm at RHIC energies. Particle production inside and outside of these reconstructed jets will be compared to improve our understanding of the hadronization mechanisms for soft and hard particles in p-p events at RHIC energies.
description: 4 pages, 7 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee Final version after referee's comments
title: Pharmacological and Behavioral Treatments for Migraine Headaches: A Meta-Analytic Review
Creators: name: Stewart, Kristi Lowe
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: Migraine headache is a painful and often serious problem in the United States. There are many prophylactic pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments available for migraine headaches. However, choosing between them can be difficult for individuals and treatment providers alike. The primary literature regarding the effectiveness of pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments is quite dense. More than 191 primary studies were identified as providing information about the effectiveness of one or more treatments for migraine headaches. Of these, 82 articles were retained for meta-analyses on six prophylactic treatments for migraine: propranolol, flunarizine, divalproex sodium, thermal biofeedback, relaxation treatments, and combined treatments. These results suggest that all of the treatments examined have very similar treatment effect sizes. Effect sizes for the reduction of migraine were found to be between .60 and .75 for all treatments. Results suggest that selection of treatment for migraine must be based on more than treatment effectiveness rates alone.