cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Design Baseline Document: Mini Baja Frame
Creators: name: Scoggins, Michael Luke
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: Our objective as the Mini Baja Frame team is to design and implement a prototype vehicle frame that is both cost-effective and competitive in an all-terrain racing environment. This vehicle must be able to endure the trials of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Mini Baja competition. An effective frame will contribute to the complete Utah State University Mini Baja Team objectives by efficiently integrating the components produced by the drivetrain and the suspension engineers. In addition, this competition is a means for us as students to gain valuable, tangible experience in the engineering design process.
title: A Deeper Look into the Vastus Medialis: A Stabilizer for the Knee
Creators: name: Barnes, Connie Nicole
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: Anterior cruciate ligament tears are one of the most common injuries that occur, especially in female athletes. It requires surgery and months of physical therapy to get these athletes back in playing condition. The angle of women’s hips and lack of strength of inner quadriceps muscles enhances the risk of injuries to the knees. One specific muscle that is known for being a stabilizer of the knee and may help in preventing ACL tears is the vastus medialis. By understanding what exercises activate this muscle the most, conditioning plans and preventative workouts need to be created to help female athletes stabilize the knee. Therefore, this research could impact the prevention of ACL tears in female athletes. By taking a generalized approach, a variety of exercises in each of the three muscle contractions: concentric, eccentric, and isometric, will be evaluated by a Vernier Electromyography system. For this research, one female will be tested doing all the movements three times to measure the average peak muscle activation for each exercise. This will help prevent outliers and human error. For this study, variables such as percent body fat, BMI, history of exercising, and previous strength were ignored.
title: A Different Perspective on the Debate Between Nonprofit and For-Profit Microfinance Organizations
Creators: name: de Oliveira Crevelari, Hane E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: Microfinance for-profit organizations flooded the market in the early 2000's when microcredit demonstrated profitability. Ever since, an intense debate arose contesting the morality of profiting from the poor. Many for-profit microfinance institutions were accused of predatory lending through high interest rates and aggressive marketing and payment collection. In this paper, I examine the validity of the arguments for and against for-profits by extensively comparing the different target audiences of the charity sector and the private sector and the main arguments of each side. I conclude that, although the ability to serve the poor is compromised by profit motives, for-profit microfinance organizations are serving a different market—and a much needed one—than nonprofits. Therefore, for-profits serve a function that, as of right now, nonprofits are not able to.
On a random number of disorders
Creators: name: Szajowski, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60G40, 60K99, 90D60

description: We register a random sequence which has the following properties: it has three segments being the homogeneous Markov processes. Each segment has his own one step transition probability law and the length of the segment is unknown and random. It means that at two random successive moments (they can be equal also and equal zero too) the source of observations is changed and the first observation in new segment is chosen according to new transition probability starting from the last state of the previous segment. In effect the number of homogeneous segments is random. The transition probabilities of each process are known and a priori distribution of the disorder moments is given. The former research on such problem has been devoted to various questions concerning the distribution changes. The random number of distributional segments creates new problems in solutions with relation to analysis of the model with deterministic number of segments. Two cases are presented in details. In the first one the objectives is to stop on or between the disorder moments while in the second one our objective is to find the strategy which immediately detects the distribution changes. Both problems are reformulated to optimal stopping of the observed sequences. The detailed analysis of the problem is presented to show the form of optimal decision function.
description: in Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Science, Preprint no. 702, 25 references, 34 pages
Structural Entropy of the Stochastic Block Models
Creators: name: Han, Jie
name: Guo, Tao
name: Zhou, Qiaoqiao
name: Han, Wei
name: Bai, Bo
name: Zhang, Gong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the rapid expansion of graphs and networks and the growing magnitude of data from all areas of science, effective treatment and compression schemes of context-dependent data is extremely desirable. A particularly interesting direction is to compress the data while keeping the "structural information" only and ignoring the concrete labelings. Under this direction, Choi and Szpankowski introduced the structures (unlabeled graphs) which allowed them to compute the structural entropy of the Erdős--Rényi random graph model. Moreover, they also provided an asymptotically optimal compression algorithm that (asymptotically) achieves this entropy limit and runs in expectation in linear time. In this paper, we consider the Stochastic Block Models with an arbitrary number of parts. Indeed, we define a partitioned structural entropy for Stochastic Block Models, which generalizes the structural entropy for unlabeled graphs and encodes the partition information as well. We then compute the partitioned structural entropy of the Stochastic Block Models, and provide a compression scheme that asymptotically achieves this entropy limit.
The Kepler Pixel Response Function
Creators: name: Bryson, Stephen T.
name: Tenenbaum, Peter
name: Jenkins, Jon M.
name: Chandrasekaran, Hema
name: Klaus, Todd
name: Caldwell, Douglas A.
name: Gilliland, Ronald L.
name: Haas, Michael R.
name: Dotson, Jessie L.
name: Koch, David G.
name: Borucki, William J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kepler seeks to detect sequences of transits of Earth-size exoplanets orbiting Solar-like stars. Such transit signals are on the order of 100 ppm. The high photometric precision demanded by Kepler requires detailed knowledge of how the Kepler pixels respond to starlight during a nominal observation. This information is provided by the Kepler pixel response function (PRF), defined as the composite of Kepler's optical point spread function, integrated spacecraft pointing jitter during a nominal cadence and other systematic effects. To provide sub-pixel resolution, the PRF is represented as a piecewise-continuous polynomial on a sub-pixel mesh. This continuous representation allows the prediction of a star's flux value on any pixel given the star's pixel position. The advantages and difficulties of this polynomial representation are discussed, including characterization of spatial variation in the PRF and the smoothing of discontinuities between sub-pixel polynomial patches. On-orbit super-resolution measurements of the PRF across the Kepler field of view are described. Two uses of the PRF are presented: the selection of pixels for each star that maximizes the photometric signal to noise ratio for that star, and PRF-fitted centroids which provide robust and accurate stellar positions on the CCD, primarily used for attitude and plate scale tracking. Good knowledge of the PRF has been a critical component for the successful collection of high-precision photometry by Kepler.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted by ApJ Letters. Version accepted for publication.
Organigramme de la Bibliothèque du roi de 1814-1815
Creators: name: JACQUOT, Olivier
Publisher: name: BnF Comité d'histoire
Year: 2024
Subjects: Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bibliothèque nationale (France)
Organigrammes (organisation)

description: Organigramme de la Bibliothèque du roi de 1814-1815.
title: The Relationship between Competitive State Anxiety and Imagery Ability in High School Track and Field Athletics
Creators: name: Grondel, Bryson Thomas
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between imagery ability, subcomponents of competitive state anxiety, and performance outcomes in high school track and field athletes during the competitive season. Following IRB approval and parental consent, sixteen participants were recruited to participate in a four-week study using two thoroughly validated assessment tools: The Sport's Imagery Questionnaire (SIQ) and The Competitive State Anxiety Inventory #2 (CSAI-2). This study explored imagery ability by qualifying several aspects of imagery ability. Instead of focusing exclusively on frequency, (a commonly cited limitation to the applicability of the SIQ) the SIQ was modified to include three more variables: vividness of the image, ease of the practice, and control of the image or actions being performed. Athletes took the CSAI-2 while recalling their personal best and before two competitions to measure state anxiety. The SIQ was only taken once as a trait measure. Statistical analysis for competition one revealed statistically significant negative correlations between cognitive anxiety and performance, somatic anxiety and performance, imagery and cognitive anxiety, and imagery and somatic anxiety. Results also discovered a strong, positive correlation between self-confidence and performance. Imagery did not significantly predict performance outcomes according to ANOVA analysis. Imagery may have been operating as a mediating or moderating variable, and this should be pursued in the future. Competition two failed to produce any significant relationships, and there was no significant different between the use of frequency or all four imagery ability variables.
Meservey-Tedrow-Fulde effect in a quantum dot embedded between metallic and superconducting electrodes
Creators: name: Domanski, T.
name: Donabidowicz, A.
name: Wysokinski, K. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic field applied to the quantum dot coupled between one metallic and one superconducting electrode can produce a similar effect as has been experimentally observed by Meservey, Tedrow and Fulde [Phys. Rev. Lett. 25, 1270 (1970)] for the planar normal metal -- superconductor junctions. We investigate the tunneling current and show that indeed the square root singularities of differential conductance exhibit the Zeeman splitting near the gap edge features V = +/- Delta/e. Since magnetic field affects also the in-gap states of quantum dot it furthermore imposes a hyperfine structure on the anomalous (subgap) Andreev current which has a crucial importance for a signature of the Kondo resonance.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
title: Meeting the Needs of Refugees in Utah Through Interior Design
Creators: name: Jenkins, Valerie Diane
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: This thesis will discuss a collaborative project between the senior students in the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (LAEP) department and the Interior Design (ID) Program. In an effort to understand and address the needs of the refugees who reside in South Salt Lake we will research, go on site visits, speak with refugee families, and meet with the outreach coordinator for the refugee community of South Salt Lake. All needs, whether observed or mentioned specifically, will be taken into account and addressed within the parameters of the project.
LAEP students will create an urban plan for the redevelopment of nine blocks from 300 West to South Main Street and 2100 South to West Truman Ave in South Salt Lake. ID students will design buildings and interiors to meet the needs of refugees and support community infrastructure.
The goal of this project is to encourage community building through developing the infrastructure in this area. The parameters for this project involve the redesign of a nine block area and to design the three spaces specified by the outreach coordinator and specialist for the refugee community in South Salt Lake. The spaces include an apartment complex, marketplace, and transit center.
HINODE Observations of Coherent Lateral Motion of Penumbral Filaments during a X-class Flare
Creators: name: Gosain, S.
name: Venkatakrishnan, P.
name: Tiwari, Sanjiv Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The X-3.4 class flare of 13 December 2006 was observed with a high cadence of 2 minutes at 0.2 arc-sec resolution by HINODE/SOT FG instrument. The flare ribbons could be seen in G-band images also. A careful analysis of these observations after proper registration of images show flare related changes in penumbral filaments of the associated sunspot, for the first time. The observations of sunspot deformation, decay of penumbral area and changes in magnetic flux during large flares have been reported earlier in the literature. In this Letter, we report lateral motion of the penumbral filaments in a sheared region of the delta-sunspot during the X-class flare. Such shifts have not been seen earlier. The lateral motion occurs in two phases, (i) motion before the flare ribbons move across the penumbral filaments and (ii) motion afterwards. The former motion is directed away from expanding flare ribbons and lasts for about four minutes. The latter motion is directed in the opposite direction and lasts for more than forty minutes. Further, we locate a patch in adjacent opposite polarity spot moving in opposite direction to the penumbral filaments. Together these patches represent conjugate foot-points on either side of the polarity inversion line (PIL), moving towards each other. This converging motion could be interpreted as shrinkage of field lines.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters
title: The Impact of Visual Cues and Service Behavior on the Consumer Retail Experience
Creators: name: Bjerk, Taylor
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: With product differentiation low in the retail industry, businesses need to create strong brand images and increase customer loyalty in order to remain competitive. Visual merchandising is one tool that businesses have to communicate their message in a compelling and strategic manner. Within the scope of visual merchandising there are a number of atmospherics, or cues, which include visual, tactile, and auditory, that can be used in conjunction with one another to influence consumer behavior. Service encounters also have a strong influence on the consumer retail experience and must be managed effectively to make sure their influence is positive. All of these factors can greatly affect a business's bottom line and must be fully understood in order to work in its favor.
title: Signos neuroradiológicos clásicos en TC y RM craneal.
Creators: name: Córdoba Rovira, Sandra
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: CT

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Revisar la literatura médica en busca de los signos neuroradiológicos más conocidos visibles en TC y RM craneal. Describir y presentar algunos signos neuroradiológicos útiles en la realización del diagnóstico diferencial de pacientes...
What Seismic Minimum Reveals About Solar Magnetism Below the Surface?
Creators: name: Jain, Kiran
name: Jain, Niket
name: Tripathy, Sushanta C.
name: Dikpati, Mausumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Sun's magnetic field varies in multiple time scales. Observations show that the minimum between cycles 24 and 25 was the second consecutive minimum which was deeper and wider than several earlier minima. Since the active regions observed at the Sun's surface are manifestations of the magnetic field generated in the interior, it is crucial to investigate/understand the dynamics below the surface. In this context, we report, by probing the solar interior with helioseismic techniques applied to long-term oscillations data from the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG), that the seismic minima in deeper layers have been occurring about a year earlier than that at the surface for the last two consecutive solar cycles. Our findings also demonstrate a decrease in strong magnetic fields at the base of the convection zone, the primary driver of the surface magnetic activity. We conclude that the magnetic fields located in the core and near-surface shear layers, in addition to the tachocline fields, play an important role in modifying the oscillation frequencies. This provides evidence that further strengthens the existence of a relic magnetic field in the Sun's core since its formation.
description: The Astrophysical Journal Letters (in press), 16 pages including 5 figures
Land-use capabilities for recreation at hydro-electric reservoirs in British Columbia : a case study
Creators: name: Griggs, Robert Mark
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis develops an approach to integrated resources management for hydro-electric energy development and an application of the method to an established single purpose project. Traditionally hydroelectric projects in British Columbia have been orientated towards the single purpose of energy generation. Yet as demands for water-based recreation rise, hydro-electric reservoirs become increasingly valuable for other uses, as has been demonstrated by multi-purpose projects in the United States. Thus, improved planning and management of reservoirs is necessary to achieve an increased level of resource use and environmental quality. It is suggested in this thesis that an analysis of land-use capabilities (biogeophysical) is a logical initial phase in determining the limitations for recreational use at reservoirs. It is further postulated that the use of a methodology which integrates land-use capabilities of the reservoir ecosystem with recreation-user requirements for selected recreational activities will minimize their environmental impact. Such a framework is based on the ecological principle that all land has the inherent capacity to generate different levels of biological production under various combinations of circumstances. Furthermore, based on these combinations of circumstances, the land and water may be classified into distinct landtypes for recreational use. Such a classification was developed and applied in a case study to Hayward Lake (a Run-of-the-River Reservoir) located near the coast of southwestern British Columbia. The results demonstrated clearly that the five landtypes (probably genera 1izable to other reservoirs) were identifiable, and that within these divisions, varying degrees of capability for recreation existed. Within the Reservoir ecosystem, five land-based and water-based landtypes are distinguished. These are the division of the water surface into: 1) the Open Water Zone, and 2) the Littoral Zone, and the division of the land into 1) the Beach Zone, 2) the Foreshore Zone (often preceded by a Subforeshore Zone), and 3) the Upland Zone. These zones may be further classified for selected recreational activities on the basis of various biogeophysica1 attribute values: e.g., soil textures, slope, water temperature, surface currents, exposure to sun and wind, etc. The preliminary analysis also indicated that five additional components for integrated reservoir management were necessary, namely: sedimentation control, reservoir clearance, regulated water flows, on-water zoning, and proper design standards. These were discussed briefly in the concluding chapter. In the final analysis, it is suggested that the classification framework should be expanded to assess not only the recreation capabilities of the reservoir (which forms one component of integrated management) but also the total uses of the water resource (based on capability, suitability, and feasibility) for the maximum benefit of society.
On closed geodesics in the leaf spaces of singular Riemannian foliations
Creators: name: Alexandrino, Marcos M.
name: Javaloyes, Miguel Angel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C12

description: In this paper we survey on some recent results on Riemannian orbifolds and singular Riemannian foliations and combine them to conclude the existence of closed geodesics in the leaf space of some classes of singular Riemannian foliations (s.r.f.), namely s.r.f. that admit sections or have no horizontal conjugate points. We also investigate the shortening process with respect to Riemannian foliations.
description: 18 pages. A section was expanded and new results were added. The final publication is available at http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0017089511000127
Atomic displacements in the "charge-ice" pyrochlore Bi2Ti2O7 studied by neutron total scattering
Creators: name: Shoemaker, D. P.
name: Hector, A. L.
name: Fennie, C. J.
name: Llobet, A.
name: Proffen, Th.
name: Seshadri, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The oxide pyrochlore Bi$_2$Ti$_2$O$_6$O$^\prime$ is known to be associated with large displacements of Bi and O$^\prime$ atoms from their ideal crystallographic positions. Neutron total scattering, analyzed in both reciprocal and real space, is employed here to understand the nature of these displacements. Rietveld analysis and maximum entropy methods are used to produce an average picture of the structural non-ideality. Local structure is modeled via large-box reverse Monte Carlo simulations constrained simultaneously by the Bragg profile and real-space pair distribution function. Direct visualization and statistical analyses of these models show the precise nature of the static Bi and O$^\prime$ displacements. Correlations between neighboring Bi displacements are analyzed using coordinates from the large-box simulations. The framework of continuous symmetry measures has been applied to distributions of O$^\prime$Bi$_4$ tetrahedra to examine deviations from ideality. Bi displacements from ideal positions appear correlated over local length scales. The results are consistent with the idea that these nonmagnetic lone-pair containing pyrochlore compounds can be regarded as highly structurally frustrated systems.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures
title: Lesiones óseas pélvicas: revisión y aproximación práctica.
Creators: name: Mourelo López, Santiago
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: PET-CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Nuestro objetivo es describir las lesiones óseas pélvicas benignas y malignas más frecuentes,
de acuerdo con los hallazgos radiológicos y clínicos más frecuentes.
Tratamos de enfatizar en los hallazgos típicos y la apariencia radiológica...
title: Aprendiendo a realizar PAAF de tiroides: la experiencia como elemento clave.
Creators: name: Gómez Huertas, María
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Thyroid / Parathyroids
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Puncture

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
INTRODUCCIÓN La patología tiroidea es muy frecuente en la población general,
siendo los nódulos tiroideos un problema clínico común,
observándose en el 4% - 8% por palpación,
19 – 67% por ecografía y el 50% en autopsias. Entre las...
Low Frequency Quasi Periodic Oscillations and Shocks in Accretion onto Black Hole
Creators: name: Singh, Chandra B.
name: Mondal, Santanu
name: Garofalo, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (LFQPOs) have been routinely observed in black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs). These LFQPOs can be explained by axisymmetric shock oscillation in accretion flow around a rotating black hole. We address the physical origin of Type-C LFQPOs in BHXRBs observed by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer satellite considering a minimum number of free parameters, namely, specific energy and specific angular momentum of the infalling matter for a given set of BH mass and spin parameter. We apply the solution for a large number of BH candidates to further strengthen the scenario of an anti-correlation between the QPO frequency and the location of the shock. Our study also confirms that Compton cooling can be sufficient to explain the observed QPOs.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
String theory and the Kauffman polynomial
Creators: name: Marino, Marcos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a new, precise integrality conjecture for the colored Kauffman polynomial of knots and links inspired by large N dualities and the structure of topological string theory on orientifolds. According to this conjecture, the natural knot invariant in an unoriented theory involves both the colored Kauffman polynomial and the colored HOMFLY polynomial for composite representations, i.e. it involves the full HOMFLY skein of the annulus. The conjecture sheds new light on the relationship between the Kauffman and the HOMFLY polynomials, and it implies for example Rudolph's theorem. We provide various non-trivial tests of the conjecture and we sketch the string theory arguments that lead to it.
description: 36 pages, many figures; references and examples added, typos corrected, final version to appear in CMP
Machina Callida – Eine Plattform zum lateinischen Lexikonerwerb
Creators: name: Beyer, Andrea
name: Schulz, Konstantin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Latin
Vocabulary Acquisition
Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Language Exercises

description: Folien zu einem virtuellen Vortrag an der Universität Potsdam, Institut für Klassische Philologie
description: Der Vortrag entstand im Rahmen einer Kooperation mit der Universität Potsdam, die ein Projekt zum lateinischen Wortschatzerwerb förderte (https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/klassphil/projekte/ein-wort-ist-ein-schatz).
A first direct measurement of the intergalactic medium temperature around a quasar at z=6
Creators: name: Bolton, James S.
name: Becker, George D.
name: Wyithe, J. Stuart B.
name: Haehnelt, Martin G.
name: Sargent, Wallace L. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) provides an indirect probe of both the HI and HeII reionisation epochs. Current constraints on the IGM temperature from the Lya forest are restricted to the redshift range 2
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Improving Deep Learning Interpretability by Saliency Guided Training
Creators: name: Ismail, Aya Abdelsalam
name: Bravo, Héctor Corrada
name: Feizi, Soheil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Saliency methods have been widely used to highlight important input features in model predictions. Most existing methods use backpropagation on a modified gradient function to generate saliency maps. Thus, noisy gradients can result in unfaithful feature attributions. In this paper, we tackle this issue and introduce a {\it saliency guided training}procedure for neural networks to reduce noisy gradients used in predictions while retaining the predictive performance of the model. Our saliency guided training procedure iteratively masks features with small and potentially noisy gradients while maximizing the similarity of model outputs for both masked and unmasked inputs. We apply the saliency guided training procedure to various synthetic and real data sets from computer vision, natural language processing, and time series across diverse neural architectures, including Recurrent Neural Networks, Convolutional Networks, and Transformers. Through qualitative and quantitative evaluations, we show that saliency guided training procedure significantly improves model interpretability across various domains while preserving its predictive performance.
Peace Movements and Internationalism
Creators: name: Nehring, Holger
Publisher: name: Moving the Social
Year: 2016

description: This article charts the history of (European) peace movements as agents of internationalism in the long twentieth century. It highlights the rather ambiguous relationship between national trends and internationalist aspirations within European peace movements and also highlights their broadly Eurocentric views of the meaning and practices of internationalism.
description: Moving the Social, Vol 55 (2016): Moving the Social. The Internationalism of Social Movements
title: The impact of higher interest rates on mortgage payments
Creators: name: teNyenhuis, Maria
name: Su, Adam
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2023

description: We investigate how the increase in interest rates since early 2022 is affecting mortgage payments. By November 2023, less than half of mortgage holders had faced higher payments. Many borrowers will see a sizable increase in payments at renewal, although income growth could help mitigate the impact.
description: Nous étudions comment les hausses de taux d’intérêt amorcées au début de 2022 se répercutent sur les versements hypothécaires. En novembre 2023, moins de la moitié des détenteurs de prêts hypothécaires avaient commencé à assumer des versements plus élevés. Beaucoup d’emprunteurs subiront toutefois une hausse substantielle au renouvellement, même si la croissance des revenus pourrait atténuer le tout.
title: Caffeine and Acetaminophen Concentration and Other Water Quality Parameters Along the Middle to Lower Bear River
Creators: name: Slade, Autumn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: Various water quality parameters were measured at seven sites along the Middle to Lower Bear River and compared across the sites, to past data and to set standards in Utah and Idaho. Much of the data was comparable to past data with most state standards being met. However, nitrate was above indicator level for half of the sites, and turbidity is a problem at the last two sites. Also, chloride and unionized ammonia are at high levels by the last site. Overall, the river tended to decrease in water quality as it moved downstream, with dams like at Cutler Reservoir acting as reset points at times. Pharmaceutical concentration was in the ng/L range, with the highest caffeine value at Alexander Reservoir and the highest acetaminophen value at Oneida Narrows. There were no correlations found between pharmaceuticals and other water quality parameters. However, the pharmaceutical concentration could not accurately be determined due to interferences, bad recovery, and high blanks, which may have affected results.
Broadcasting but not receiving: density dependence considerations for SETI signals
Creators: name: Smith, Reginald D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper develops a detailed quantitative model which uses the Drake equation and an assumption of an average maximum radio broadcasting distance by an communicative civilization to derive a minimum civilization density for contact between two civilizations to be probable in a given volume of space under certain conditions, the amount of time it would take for a first contact, and whether reciprocal contact is possible. Results show that under certain assumptions, a galaxy can be teeming with civilizations yet not have a guarantee of communication between any of them given either short lifetimes or small maximum distances for communication.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures; note revised 2/6/2010 to correct minor mathematical errors. The conclusions and final numbers of the paper only change slightly so its findings are not invalidated. Quote as Int. J. Astrobio but arxiv version is most correct and updated
The development of two instruments designed to assess person and thing orientation in children
Creators: name: Holzmuller, Ana Luisa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of the research reported here was the development of two paper-and-pencil instruments for the assessment of person-thing orientation in children. Interviews were conducted with 82 children who ranged in age from eight to 12 years. The interviews yielded two sets of descriptive statements, one set which pertained to the person domain and one set which pertained to the thing domain. The statements were rationally classified into content categories by three judges. The rational categories specified the universe of content to be sampled by the instruments and provided a quasi-empirical basis for item construction. Two parallel pools of items were written for the preliminary forms of the self-report measure. Half of these items were considered to be appropriate for grade four subjects in the interests and behaviors that were depicted, and the other half were considered to be appropriate for grade six subjects. A preliminary form which consisted of both pools was administered to a sample of grade four children. A preliminary form which consisted of the items prepared for the older group and the items from Little's (1972a) Thing Person Interest Questionnaire designed for adults was administered to a sample of grade six subjects. The itemmetric properties of the items were analyzed, and a sequential selection procedure was devised to permittthe selection of items which exhibited the best properties. These procedures resulted in two, age-related versions of the Person Thing Self Report. Both instruments are comprised of a 12-item person scale and a 14-item thing scale. The construction of items for a peer nomination measure was similarly based on the category sampling strategy. Two comparable preliminary forms were prepared and administered to samples of third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade subjects. Validity ratings from classroom teachers were also obtained. The item-analytic and selection procedures of Wiggins and Winder (1961) were followed, with modification, for the evaluation of the properties of the peer-report items. These procedures resulted in the development of the Person Thing Peer Report which is comprised of a 12-item person scale and a 14-item thing scale. The theoretical foundations for the development of specialized interests in the person domain and in the thing domain were discussed. A research program was outlined which concerned the investigation of the development of specialized interests and the relationships among these variables and the acquisition of cognitive and behavioral skills, temperament and personality variables.
title: Los diagnósticos diferenciales de la Trombosis venosa profunda a tener en cuenta cuando solicitan una Ecografía Doppler de miembros inferiores
Creators: name: Correa Soto, Roberto
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Extremities
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler

description: Objetivo docente
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Conclusiones
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description: Objetivo docente:
Describir las características de las imágenes en ecografia y ecografía Doppler de las diversas entidades que hacen sospechar clínicamente una trombosis venosa profunda. Repasar la anatomía y dividir la extremidad inferior en regiones,
para...
title: A Forest Kingdom Unlike Any Other
Creators: name: Ruppel, Kurt F.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: Olympic National Park (ONP), a natural area 15% larger than Rhode Island, located on the Olympic Peninsula in northwestern Washington State, is a land of diverse contrasts and impressive beauty. It is also a land rich in natural resources (e.g. timber, water power, and recreational potential) that are strongly coveted by man. This dichotomy has led to a number of conflicts during the past hundred years over the policies directing the control, management, and use of this area. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the factors that have shaped that policy and to follow the changes that policy has undergone from the initial establishment of Olympic Forest Reserve in 1897 to the present day national park.
Nernst and Seebeck Coefficients of the Cuprate SuperconductorYBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6.67}$: A Study of Fermi Surface Reconstruction
Creators: name: Chang, J.
name: Daou, R.
name: Proust, Cyril
name: LeBoeuf, David
name: Doiron-Leyraud, Nicolas
name: Laliberte, Francis
name: Pingault, B.
name: Ramshaw, B. J.
name: Liang, Ruixing
name: Bonn, D. A.
name: Hardy, W. N.
name: Takagi, H.
name: Antunes, A.
name: Sheikin, I.
name: Behnia, K.
name: Taillefer, Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Seebeck and Nernst coefficients $S$ and $ν$ of the cuprate superconductor YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_y$ (YBCO) were measured in a single crystal with doping $p = 0.12$ in magnetic fields up to H = 28 T. Down to T=9 K, $ν$ becomes independent of field by $H \simeq 30$ T, showing that superconducting fluctuations have become negligible. In this field-induced normal state, $S/T$ and $ν/T$ are both large and negative in the $T \to 0$ limit, with the magnitude and sign of $S/T$ consistent with the small electron-like Fermi surface pocket detected previously by quantum oscillations and the Hall effect. The change of sign in $S(T)$ at $T \simeq 50$ K is remarkably similar to that observed in La$_{2-x}$Ba$_x$CuO$_4$, La$_{2-x-y}$Nd$_y$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ and La$_{2-x-y}$Eu$_y$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$, where it is clearly associated with the onset of stripe order. We propose that a similar density-wave mechanism causes the Fermi surface reconstruction in YBCO.
description: Final version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. New title, shorter abstract, minor revision of text and added references
title: The Acquisition of Knowledge (A discussion in dialogue form)
Creators: name: Mackay, Alva D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: Setting for the dialogue: Mantu meets Nisha in the realms of eternity where in all knowledge and truth make themselves manifest and discuss the philosophical questions of truth and knowledge. Mantu starts the dialogue on the question of "What is knowledge?" and after some length of discussion they arrive at an understanding of its parts.
Additional file 1 of Improving WHO’s understanding of WHO guideline uptake and use in Member States: a scoping review
Creators: name: Saluja, Kiran
name: Reddy, K. Srikanth
name: Wang, Qi
name: Zhu, Ying
name: Li, Yanfei
name: Chu, Xiajing
name: Li, Rui
name: Hou, Liangying
name: Horsley, Tanya
name: Carden, Fred
name: Bartolomeos, Kidist
name: Hatcher Roberts, Janet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Search strategy.
Crowdsourcing-based Multi-Device Communication Cooperation for Mobile High-Quality Video Enhancement
Creators: name: Wu, Xiaotong
name: Qi, Lianyong
name: Xu, Xiaolong
name: Yu, Shui
name: Dou, Wanchun
name: Zhang, Xuyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The widespread use of mobile devices propels the development of new-fashioned video applications like 3D (3-Dimensional) stereo video and mobile cloud game via web or App, exerting more pressure on current mobile access network. To address this challenge, we adopt the crowdsourcing paradigm to offer some incentive for guiding the movement of recruited crowdsourcing users and facilitate the optimization of the movement control decision. In this paper, based on a practical 4G (4th-Generation) network throughput measurement study, we formulate the movement control decision as a cost-constrained user recruitment optimization problem. Considering the intractable complexity of this problem, we focus first on a single crowdsourcing user case and propose a pseudo-polynomial time complexity optimal solution. Then, we apply this solution to solve the more general problem of multiple users and propose a graph-partition-based algorithm. Extensive experiments show that our solutions can improve the efficiency of real-time D2D communication for mobile videos.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, to be published in WSDM'22
title: Survey of the History, Development, and Medical Uses of Chinese Acupuncture
Creators: name: Hansen, Kendell G
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1977

description: It is difficult to pick up a magazine, medical or otherwise, that does not include an article about the Chinese method of diagnosis and treatment known as acupuncture. This ancient technique, about which there is so much current interest, is reputed to have originated nearly 30 centuries ago when a Chinese warrior emperor made the observation that certain arrow wounds caused pain to disappear in remote parts of the body.
During World War II, the new China of the Red Army rediscovered the effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of wounded or sick soldiers during combat conditions. Today, Chinese medical schools have established courses in this traditional therapy. Its results, in China, are many times considered superior to those of western methods, also taught in the same schools.
The history of the development of acupuncture in China is a thesis unparalled in the annals of medicine. It was under the Chinese Communists the treatment found its first official support in modem China, for a reason similar to one at the very inception of its use. Acupuncture was reserved first for the Emperor's warriors, the official guardians of China. In the late 1930's, faced with a desparate lack of drugs and western trained doctors, Mao and his Red Army resorted to battlefield use of acupuncture and Chinese herbalists. A clinic for practitioners was opened in Yenan Province under Communist control and political indoctrination, in the words of Mao, "Chinese medicine and pharmacology are a great treasure house and effort should be made to explore them to a higher level."
Hardware Software Co-design framework for Data Encryption in Image Processing Systems for the Internet of Things Environmen
Creators: name: Lata, Kusum
name: Chhabra, Surbhi
name: Saini, Sandeep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data protection is a severe constraint in the heterogeneous IoT era. This article presents a Hardware-Software Co-Simulation of AES-128 bit encryption and decryption for IoT Edge devices using the Xilinx System Generator (XSG). VHDL implementation of AES-128 bit algorithm is done with ECB and CTR mode using loop unrolled and FSM-based architecture. It is found that AES-CTR and FSM architecture performance is better than loop unrolled architecture with lesser power consumption and area. For performing the Hardware-Software Co-Simulation on Zedboard and Kintex-Ultra scale KCU105 Evaluation Platform, Xilinx Vivado 2016.2 and MATLAB 2015b is used. Hardware emulation is done for grey images successfully. To give a practical example of the usage of proposed framework, we have applied it for Biomedical Images (CTScan Image) as a case study. Security analysis in terms of the histogram, correlation, information entropy analysis, and keyspace analysis using exhaustive search and key sensitivity tests is also done to encrypt and decrypt images successfully.
description: The manuscript is accepted in IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine . 6 pages in double column format. A total of 4 figures
The degree of practice of servant leadership among secondary school principals in Haifa District in the Palestinian interior and its relationship to the level of motivation of teachers
Creators: name: Jamal Zaid*
name: Mohammed Masallha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Servant leadership, Motivation, High schools, Haifa District.

description: Abstract: This study aimed to reveal the extent to which secondary school principals in Haifa District in the Palestinian interior practice servant leadership and its relationship to the level of motivation of teachers, and the correlational descriptive approach was used. The study relied on two questionnaires in data collection, the first for the degree to which secondary school principals practice servant leadership, and the second for the level of teacher`s motivation. The study population consisted of all secondary school teachers in Haifa District in the Palestinian interior, numbering (3287) teachers, and the study sample consisted of (410) teachers, and the results showed that the degree of practice of secondary school principals in Haifa District in the Palestinian interior for the altruistic dimension  has come in the first rank and with a high degree of evaluation, followed by loved dimension and has a high degree of evaluation,  followed by humility dimension and has come with a high degree of appreciation, while  the results  showed that there were no statistically significant differences in the dimensions of servant leadership  due to the variables of gender, experience, and scientific qualification, and the results showed that the level of motivation among teachers came at a high level in all Items, and there were statistically significant differences due to the gender variable and the differences came in favor of females. The results also showed a positive correlation between servant leadership among principals and motivation among teachers.
title: “Cómo aplicamos los algoritmos diagnósticos del nódulo pulmonar sólido”
Creators: name: Taberner López, Ester
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Surgery
subject: Thorax
subject: Lung
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT
subject: PET-CT
subject: Biopsy

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
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description: Objetivo docente:
Enseñar de una forma práctica cómo aplicamos los algoritmos diagnósticos del nódulo pulmonar sólido mediante casos...