cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 3 of Primary gross tumor volume is prognostic and suggests treatment in upper esophageal cancer
Creators: name: Chen, Yuanmei
name: Huang, Qiuyuan
name: Chen, Junqiang
name: Lin, Yu
name: Huang, Xinyi
name: Wang, Qifeng
name: Yang, Yong
name: Chen, Bijuan
name: Ye, Yuling
name: Zheng, Binglin
name: Qi, Rong
name: Chen, Yushan
name: Xu, Yuanji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Clinical characteristics of 149 patients in the RT and S + RT groups before PSM, and 54 patients after PSM for GTV-p ≥ 30 cm3.
Additional file 1 of Primary gross tumor volume is prognostic and suggests treatment in upper esophageal cancer
Creators: name: Chen, Yuanmei
name: Huang, Qiuyuan
name: Chen, Junqiang
name: Lin, Yu
name: Huang, Xinyi
name: Wang, Qifeng
name: Yang, Yong
name: Chen, Bijuan
name: Ye, Yuling
name: Zheng, Binglin
name: Qi, Rong
name: Chen, Yushan
name: Xu, Yuanji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Clinical characteristics of 568 patients sorted by GTV-p before PSM, and 264 patients after PSM.
Damping of Nanomechanical Resonators
Creators: name: Unterreithmeier, Quirin P.
name: Faust, Thomas
name: Kotthaus, Jorg P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the transverse oscillatory modes of nanomechanical silicon nitride strings under high tensile stress as a function of geometry and mode index m <= 9. Reproducing all observed resonance frequencies with classical elastic theory we extract the relevant elastic constants. Based on the oscillatory local strain we successfully predict the observed mode-dependent damping with a single frequency independent fit parameter. Our model clarifies the role of tensile stress on damping and hints at the underlying microscopic mechanisms.
title: Agent-Organized Network Coalition Formation
Creators: name: Barton, Levi L
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: This thesis presents work based on modeling multi-agent coalition formation in an agent organized network. Agents choose which agents to connect with in the network. Tasks are periodically introduced into the network. Each task is defined by a set of skills that agents must fill. Agents form a coalition to complete a task by either joining an existing coalition a network neighbor belongs to, or by proposing a new coalition for a task no agents have proposed a coalition for. We introduce task patience and strategic task selection and show that they improve the number of successful coalitions agents form. We also introduce new methods of choosing agents to connect to in the network and compare the performance of these and existing methods.
Additional file 2 of Primary gross tumor volume is prognostic and suggests treatment in upper esophageal cancer
Creators: name: Chen, Yuanmei
name: Huang, Qiuyuan
name: Chen, Junqiang
name: Lin, Yu
name: Huang, Xinyi
name: Wang, Qifeng
name: Yang, Yong
name: Chen, Bijuan
name: Ye, Yuling
name: Zheng, Binglin
name: Qi, Rong
name: Chen, Yushan
name: Xu, Yuanji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Clinical characteristics of 306 patients in the RT and S groups before PSM, and 158 patients after PSM for GTV-p < 30 cm3.
title: Estimating Total Phosphorus and Total Suspended Solids Loads from High Frequency Data
Creators: name: Jones, Amber Spackman
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: Frequently measured turbidity was examined as a surrogate for total phosphorus (TP) and total suspended solids (TSS) loads at two locations in the Little Bear River, Utah, USA. Using regression techniques, equations were developed for TP and TSS as functions of turbidity. The equations accounted for censored data, and additional explanatory variables to represent hydrological conditions were considered for inclusion in the equations. By using the resulting surrogate relationships with high frequency turbidity measurements, high frequency estimates of TP and TSS concentrations were calculated. To examine the effect of sampling frequency, reference loads were determined from the concentration records for two water years. The concentration records were artificially decimated to represent various frequencies of manual grab sampling from which annual loads were calculated and compared to the reference loads.
Metadata record for the manuscript: Hypermutated phenotype in gliosarcoma of the spinal cord
Creators: name: Hong, Christopher S.
name: Kuzmik, Gregory
name: Kundishora, Adam J.
name: Aladine A. Elsamadicy
name: Koo, Andrew B.
name: McGuone, Declan
name: Blondin, Nicholas A.
name: Diluna, Michael L.
name: E. Zeynep Erson-Omay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111203 Cancer Genetics

description: Summary This metadata record provides details of the data supporting the claims of the related manuscript: “Hypermutated phenotype in gliosarcoma of the spinal cord”. The related study provides the first report of a hypermutator phenotype in gliosarcoma, which may represent a novel genomic mechanism of progression from lower-grade glioma. Type of data: Whole-exome sequencing (WES) of tumour Subject of data: Homo sapiens patient with intradural, extramedullary tumor anterior to the spinal cord at T4, which was resected and diagnosed as gliosarcoma. Sample size: 1 Population characteristics: case report Recruitment: Patient consented to genomic analysis of tumor and normal tissues Data access The whole-exome sequencing data of the resected spinal tumour are shared openly in the European Genotype-phenotype Archive under accession https://identifiers.org/ega.study:EGAS00001004864.
 Corresponding authors Michael L. DiLuna, M.D., Department of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, 300 Cedar Street, New Haven CT, 06520, Phone: 203-785-2809, Email: michael.diluna@yale.edu.
 E. Zeynep Erson-Omay, Ph.D., Department of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, 300 Cedar Street, New Haven CT, 06520, Phone: 203-737-4677, Email: zeynep.erson@yale.edu.
 Name of Institutional Review Board or ethics committee that approved the study  Institutional Review Board of Yale University
Country Life in America: A Jewel Set in a Sapphire Sea, January 1924, by Frances T. Ordway
Creators: name: Ordway, Frances T.
name: Garden Club Of East Hampton
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1924
Subjects: Gardening
Gardens
Social organizations
Organizations
Geography

description: This is a article written in Country Life in America titled, "A Jewel Set in a Sapphire Sea" by Frances T. Ordway in January of 1924, which focuses on gardens, culture, and native vegetations in Bermuda.
Fano resonances in saturable waveguide arrays
Creators: name: Naether, Uta
name: Rivas, Daniel E.
name: Larenas, Manuel A.
name: Molina, Mario I.
name: Vicencio, Rodrigo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a waveguide array with an embedded nonlinear saturable impurity. We solve the impurity problem in closed form and find the nonlinear localized modes. Next, we consider the scattering of a small-amplitude plane wave by a nonlinear impurity mode, and discover regions in parameter space where transmission is fully suppressed. We relate these findings with Fano resonances and propose this setup as a mean to control the transport of light across the array.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Optics Letters
Scalp spreading depression
Creators: name: Jafaryrabanybastany, Zoya
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Ionic currents in the brain generate voltage oscillations, including ultra-low frequency electroencephalograms (DC-EEG) and standard electroencephalograms (AC-EEG). While AC-EEG is typical for epilepsy diagnosis, recent research highlights DC-EEG's crucial role in epilepsy analysis. AC-EEG filters out DC-EEG using high-pass filters to eliminate slow-wave artifacts, bioelectrodes' half-cell potential asymmetrical changes and prevent instrument saturation. Spreading depression (SD), a significant pathological DC-EEG, encounters challenges in scalp recording due to its ultralow frequency range, necessitating the use of invasive EEG as the sole method to capture this wave. Considering the side effects of invasive methods for epileptic patients, we designed an innovative clinical DC/AC EEG to capture SD from the surface scalp of epileptic patients and extended the clinical EEG lower band to 4mHz. Our device successfully recorded SD waves from the surface scalp of epileptic patient during clinical EEG monitoring for the first time, marking a significant breakthrough [73]. We examined DC and AC EEG in 18 epileptic patients using our innovative system during long-term video EEG monitoring in a clinical trial. Scalp SD preceded seizures with a <30-minute lag. Additionally, using our ictal EEG, SD detections, and customized brain mapping method, we located the responsible brain regions for epilepsy (EZ) and SD, revealing a clear link between scalp SD and EZ [48]. We improved the novel EEG with NIRS (Near-infrared spectroscopy) to measure local tissue oxygen levels during SD and seizures in the clinical video EEG monitoring study. During scalp SD, local tissue oxygenation decreased and returned to normal afterward. Then by using the recorded data (AC EEG, DC EEG, NIRS, synchronized video), we extracted the scalp SD features for the first time. Scalp SD showed an amplitude exceeding 1mV, lasting over 10 seconds (maximum:81s), and propagated through tissue at an average velocity of 5.7 mm/minute. AC EEG diminished during SD and subsequent seizures in epileptic patients. Hemoglobin concentrations changed during SD and seizures. More significantly, using synced video, we detected patients' neurological symptoms during the repolarization stage of SD for the first time. These findings suggest the scalp SD as an innovative biomarker for epilepsy.
title: Henry VIII: Supremacy, Religion, And The Anabaptists
Creators: name: Gillaspie, Joel Martin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: In 1534, the English Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy. This effectively stripped all of the authority the Pope held in England and gave it to Henry VIII. Also because of the Act of Supremacy Henry VIII gained a new title: Supreme Head of the Church of England. However, there was a problem. The Act of Supremacy only vaguely defined the new powers that had been given to the King. Consequently, what exactly his new powers were and their limits had to be established. The other issue that had to be dealt with was the establishment of the canons of the Church of England. It was a new church with no canons or rules in place other then the establishment of Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the Church of England The purpose of this thesis is to explore the use of Anabaptists and Sacramentaries in the formulation of the doctrine of the Church of England and the expansion of Henry VIII's power as Supreme Head of the Church of England. Henry was able to use the Anabaptists and Sacramentaries because they posed no real threat to the state but were easy tools to be manipulated. The main documents that will be dealt with are the November 1538 Royal Proclamation Prohibiting Unlicensed Printing of Scripture, Exiling Anabaptists, Depriving Married Clergy, Removing St. Thomas à Becket from Calendar, the trial of John Lambert, and the February 1539 Royal Proclamation Prescribing Rites and Ceremonies, Pardoning Anabaptists.
Additional file 15 of Uncovering the Arabidopsis thaliana nectary transcriptome: investigation of differential gene expression in floral nectariferous tissues
Creators: name: Kram, Brian W
name: Xu, Wayne W
name: Carter, Clay J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 2
title: Darboux Integrability Of Wave Maps Into 2-Dimensional Riemannian Manifolds
Creators: name: Ream, Robert
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: The harmonic map equations can be represented geometrically as an exterior differential system (EDS), E. Using this representation we study the harmonic maps from 2D Minkowski space into 2D Riemannian manifolds. These are also known as wave maps. In this case, E is invariant under conformal transformations of Minkowski space. The quotient of E by these conformal transformations, E/G, is an s=0 hyperbolic system. The main result of our study is that the prolonged EDS, E(k), is Darboux integrable if and only if the prolonged quotient EDS, E/G(k+1), is Darboux integrable. We also find invariants determining the Darboux integrability of both systems. Analyzing these invariants leads to three additional results. First, Darboux integrability of E, without prolongation, requires that the range manifold have zero scalar curvature. Second, after one prolongation there are two inequivalent metrics for which E(1) /super> is Darboux integrable. Third, prolonging to E(2) does not provide any further metrics with Darboux integrable wave maps.
Relativistically invariant encoding of quantum information revisited
Creators: name: Schlichtholz, Konrad
name: Markiewicz, Marcin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we provide a detailed analysis of the issue of encoding of quantum information which is invariant with respect to arbitrary Lorentz transformations. We significantly extend already known results and provide compliments where necessary. In particular, we introduce novel schemes for invariant encoding which utilize so-called pair-wise helicity -- a physical parameter characterizing pairs of electric-magnetic charges. We also introduce new schemes for ordinary massive and massless particles based on states with fixed total momentum, in contrast to all protocols already proposed, which assumed equal momenta of all the particles involved in the encoding scheme. Moreover, we provide a systematic discussion of already existing protocols and show directly that they are invariant with respect to Lorentz transformations drawn according to any distribution, a fact which was not manifestly shown in previous works.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure
Counting Cubic Extensions with given Quadratic Resolvent
Creators: name: Cohen, Henri
name: Morra, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R20

description: Given a number field $k$ and a quadratic extension $K_2$, we give an explicit asymptotic formula for the number of isomorphism classes of cubic extensions of $k$ whose Galois closure contains $K_2$ as quadratic subextension, ordered by the norm of their relative discriminant ideal. The main tool is Kummer theory. We also study in detail the error term of the asymptotics and show that it is $O(X^α)$, for an explicit $α<1$.
description: 19 pages
Additional file 16 of Uncovering the Arabidopsis thaliana nectary transcriptome: investigation of differential gene expression in floral nectariferous tissues
Creators: name: Kram, Brian W
name: Xu, Wayne W
name: Carter, Clay J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 3
Violation of LGtI inequalities in the light of NO$ν$A and T2K anomaly
Creators: name: Konwar, Lekhashri
name: Vardani, Juhi
name: Yadav, Bhavna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent anomaly observed in NO$ν$A and T2K experiments in standard three-flavor neutrino oscillation could potentially signal physics extending beyond the standard model (SM). For the NSI parameters that can accommodate this anomaly, we explore the violation of Leggett-Garg type inequalities (LGtI) within the context of three-flavor neutrino oscillations. Our analysis focuses on LGtI violations in scenarios involving complex NSI with $ε_{eμ}$ or $ε_{eτ}$ coupling in long baseline accelerator experiments for normal and inverted mass ordering.LGtI violation is significantly enhanced in normal ordering (NO) for $ε_{eτ}$ scenario for T2K, NO$ν$A, and DUNE experiment set-up. We find that for inverted ordering (IO), in the DUNE experimental set-up above $8.5$ GeV, the LGtI violation can be an indication of $ε_{eτ}$ new physics scenario.
description: 7 pages, 2 figure
Dynamics of filaments and membranes in a viscous fluid
Creators: name: Powers, Thomas R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the motion of biopolymers and membranes in solution, this article presents a formulation of the equations of motion for curves and surfaces in a viscous fluid. We focus on geometrical aspects and simple variational methods for calculating internal stresses and forces, and we derive the full nonlinear equations of motion. In the case of membranes, we pay particular attention to the formulation of the equations of hydrodynamics on a curved, deforming surface. The formalism is illustrated by two simple case studies: (1) the twirling instability of straight elastic rod rotating in a viscous fluid, and (2) the pearling and buckling instabilities of a tubular liposome or polymersome.
description: 26 pages, 12 figures, to be published in Reviews of Modern Physics
title: Aminoglycosides and Syringomycin E as Fungicides Against Fusarium graminearum in Head Blight Disease
Creators: name: Kawasaki, Yukie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: Fusarium graminearum is one of the most problematic phytopathogens in US agriculture. This fungus causes head blight, foot rot, and damping off on wheat and barley. The infection lowers the grain yield and causes contamination of the grain product with mycotoxins. Effective control measures are lacking, and new fungicides that kill F. graminearum but remain safe and economical to use are needed. Newly synthesized aminoglycosides (JL22, JL38, JL39, JL40, NEOF004, NEOF005), classic aminoglycosides (amikacin, gentamicin, kanamycin A, kanamycin B, neomycin, and ribostamycin), and a lipopeptide, syringomycin E (SRE), were studied to determine their antifungal potential to control F. graminearum. Aminoglycosides are protein synthesis inhibitors that mainly target bacteria, but a few were recently observed to kill fungi. They consist of an aminocyclitol ring bound with two or more amino sugars. Novel aminoglycosides were recently synthesized using novel glycodiversification synthetic schemes involving the replacement of the original amino sugars with unusual amino sugars. SRE is an antifungal lipodepsinonapeptide produced by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae. This bacterium is an opportunistic pathogen in a wide range of plant species and produces several fungicidal lipopeptides. SRE forms pores on fungal plasma membrane and causes ion fluxes. An enhancement of its antifungal activity is reported in the presence of rhamnolipid surfactants. The antifungal activities of various aminoglycosides, SRE, and a SRE-rhamnolipids mixture were determined against F. graminearum by measuring in vitro minimum inhibition concentrations (MICs) and in planta lesion area and chlorosis development using a leaf infection assay protocol. It was determined that using Tween® 20 at 0.2 % (v/v) concentration in the leaf infection assay promotes lesion development by F. graminearum with minimum phytotoxicity. In vitro, SRE, SYRA, and synthetic aminoglycoside JL38 showed the best antifungal activities. With the in planta assay, all three antifungal agents prevented infection by F. graminearum. However, inconsistent phytotoxicities were observed with SRE and SYRA that were influenced by the Tween® 20 surfactant included in the leaf infection assay. How Tween® 20 induces these phytotoxic inconsistencies is not known.
Mistuning-based Control Design to Improve Closed-Loop Stability of Vehicular Platoons
Creators: name: Barooah, Prabir
name: Mehta, Prashant G.
name: Hespanha, Joao P
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a decentralized bidirectional control of a platoon of N identical vehicles moving in a straight line. The control objective is for each vehicle to maintain a constant velocity and inter-vehicular separation using only the local information from itself and its two nearest neighbors. Each vehicle is modeled as a double integrator. To aid the analysis, we use continuous approximation to derive a partial differential equation (PDE) approximation of the discrete platoon dynamics. The PDE model is used to explain the progressive loss of closed-loop stability with increasing number of vehicles, and to devise ways to combat this loss of stability. If every vehicle uses the same controller, we show that the least stable closed-loop eigenvalue approaches zero as O(1/N^2) in the limit of a large number (N) of vehicles. We then show how to ameliorate this loss of stability by small amounts of "mistuning", i.e., changing the controller gains from their nominal values. We prove that with arbitrary small amounts of mistuning, the asymptotic behavior of the least stable closed loop eigenvalue can be improved to O(1/N) All the conclusions drawn from analysis of the PDE model are corroborated via numerical calculations of the state-space platoon model.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, to appear in IEEE transactions in automatic control in 2009/2010
title: Developmental Students' Perceptions of Unsuccessful and Successful Mathematics Learning
Creators: name: Howard, Laurel
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe what experiences, attitudes, and learning strategies developmental mathematics students believed contributed to their failure to gain basic math skill proficiency in the past and what experiences, attitudes, and learning strategies these students now believed were most likely to enhance the successful learning of basic math skills. To gain an understanding of the lived experiences of successful developmental mathematics students who were previously unsuccessful, structured, open-ended interviews were conducted, classroom observations were made, and formative and summative assessments for the students were collected. Fourteen students from a western 4-year college were selected purposefully based on instructor recommendations and preliminary survey results. The students, who were eight males and six females, ranged in age from 19 to 51. Seven were considered traditional students and seven nontraditional. Based on the data analysis, five prevalent themes emerged: turning point, attitude, motivation, learning environment, and learning strategies. Motivation was the most common reason given as the difference between being unsuccessful and successful math skill development. Underlying their motivation were the students' own beliefs. In the unsuccessful period, every student had the fixed mindset of not being capable of learning mathematics. When successful, the students exhibited a growth mindset, believing that if they exerted time and effort, they would be able to learn. This mindset made the difference in their motivation and attitude. Previously they hated mathematics. When successful, students actually enjoyed learning mathematics and expressed confidence that they would be successful in the subsequent course. When unsuccessful, students were field dependent. Most were children or adolescents. They had no control over their learning environment or selection of learning resources. The predominant coping strategy was one of avoidance. When successful, students were more field independent. They could choose their teachers and actively seek learning resources. When asked what changes in their K-12 experience would have helped them be more successful, the students paradoxically suggested that a close monitoring of their progress might have made a difference. However, during their unsuccessful period, students did everything they could to avoid being labeled as needing help.
Exploring students' understandings and perspectives of place : the case of place in a Skagit Valley school
Creators: name: Strich, David
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Drawing upon notions of Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Becoming Naturalized to Place, this dissertation explored how students revealed their perspectives and understandings of place at their school in the Skagit Valley, Washington State. This study employed an ethnographic case study approach guided by phenomenographic principles and informed by Indigenous perspectives to document students’ stories of place. Data were collected through an introductory questionnaire and stationary and walking interviews. Findings revealed that the students’ understandings and perspectives of place were situated within the following themes: Place as Action; Place as People; Place as Social Arena; Place as Nature; Place as Journey and Time; and Place as Displacement. This study contributes to the current research on Place and related phenomena due to the unique context of the school and the individual students’ stories which give voice to diverse and distinctive narratives of place.
Estimation of nuclear polarization via discrete measurement of NV center spin evolution
Creators: name: Kuniej, Mateusz
name: Roszak, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method for the estimation of the initial polarization of spinful nuclei of the 13 C isotope in diamond via a measurement of the evolution of the coherence of an NV center spin qubit. Existing polarization measurement methods are difficult to implement experimentally, because they require direct interference in the environment of the qubit. Here, in order to obtain the information, it is necessary to measure the qubit coherence at certain points of time, which are unambiguously determined by the applied magnetic field. For sufficiently high magnetic fields, the minimum value of the measured coherence constitutes an upper bound on the product of the initial polarizations of each environmental spin. The most significant advantage of the method, which allows to infer initial values of nuclear polarizations without any direct access to the environment, lies in its simplicity and the small amount of experimental resources that it requires. We exemplify the operation of the scheme on a realistic, randomly generated environment of eight nuclear spins, obtaining a reasonably accurate estimation of the initial polarization.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
title: A C to Register Transfer Level Algorithm Using Structured Circuit Templates: A Case Study with Simulated Annealing
Creators: name: Phillips, Jonathan D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: A tool flow is presented for deriving simulated annealing accelerator circuits on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) from C source code by exploring architecture solutions that conform to a preset template through scheduling and mapping algorithms. A case study carried out on simulated annealing-based Autonomous Mission Planning and Scheduling (AMPS) software used for autonomous spacecraft systems is explained. The goal of the research is an automated method for the derivation of a hardware design that maximizes performance while minimizing the FPGA footprint. Results obtained are compared with a peer C to register transfer level (RTL) logic tool, a state-of-the-art space-borne embedded processor and a commodity desktop processor for a variety of problems. The automatically derived hardware circuits consistently outperform other methods by one or more orders of magnitude.
Additional file 17 of Uncovering the Arabidopsis thaliana nectary transcriptome: investigation of differential gene expression in floral nectariferous tissues
Creators: name: Kram, Brian W
name: Xu, Wayne W
name: Carter, Clay J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 4
Relativistic Effects in Quantum Entanglement
Creators: name: Friis, Nicolai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most fundamental phenomena of quantum physics is entanglement. It describes an inseparable connection between quantum systems, and properties thereof. In a quantum mechanical description even systems far apart from each other can share a common state. This entanglement of the subsystems, although arising from mathematical principles, is no mere abstract concept, but can be tested in experiment, and be utilized in modern quantum information theory procedures, such as quantum teleportation. In particular, entangled states play a crucial role in testing our understanding of reality, by violating Bell inequalities. While the role of entanglement is well studied in the realm of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, its significance in a relativistic quantum theory is a relatively new field of interest. In this work the consequences of a relativistic description of quantum entanglement are discussed. We analyze the representations of the symmetry groups of special relativity, i.e. of the Lorentz group, and the Poincaré group, on the Hilbert space of states. We describe how unitary, irreducible representations of the Poincaré group for massive spin 1/2 particles are constructed from representations of Wigner's little group. We then proceed to investigate the role of the Wigner rotations in the transformation of quantum states under a change of inertial reference frame. Considering different partitions of the Hilbert space of 2 particles, we find that the entanglement of the quantum states appears different in different inertial frames, depending on the form of the states, the chosen inertial frames, and the particular choice of partition. It is explained, how, despite of this, the maximally possible violation of Bell inequalities is frame independent, when using appropriate spin observables, which are related to the Pauli-Ljubanski vector, a Casimir operator of the Poincaré group.
description: 115 pages, 6 figures, diploma thesis
title: Optimal Irrigation Management for Sloping, Blocked-End Borders
Creators: name: Escurra, Jorge Jose
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: A robust mathematical model of one-dimensional flow for sloping, blocked-end border irrigation was developed using the four-point implicit method to solve the Saint-Venant equations, the volume-balance solution method, and the implementation of new algorithms to avoid numerical instability and solution divergence. The model has the capability of successfully simulating all surface irrigation phases in blocked-end borders for a range of inflow rates (0.01 - 0.05 m3/s per m), longitudinal slopes (up to 1.00%), and border lengths (100 - 500 m). To achieve numerical stability over the specified parameter ranges, the model was divided into three parts: (1) advance-phase simulation which uses the four-point implicit solution method of the Saint-Venant equations, with an algorithm that changes the spatial and temporal weighting, in addition to an algorithm that handles the water depth profile at the blocked-end downstream boundary upon completion of the advance phase; (2) simultaneous advance-recession-phase calculations using a hybrid algorithm to solve the governing equations; and (3) recession-phase simulation using the four-point implicit method until (and if) divergence occurs, then the volume-method is applied to complete the simulation. The three parts also involve the use of computational grid management algorithms and a parabolic equation which defines the Chezy coefficient as a function of water depth. The model incorporates the downhill simplex optimization method to determine the recommended inflow rate and irrigation cutoff time, maximizing a composite irrigation efficiency (water requirement efficiency and application efficiency). Different optimum values of inflow rate and irrigation cutoff time for a range of longitudinal slopes, border lengths, and soil types were generated. Most of the optimum values are for relatively high inflow rate and rapid cutoff time. In addition, exponential relations were developed, based on the simulation results, to determine the best irrigation time for maximization of the composite irrigation efficiency for specified, non-optimal inflow rates. The exponential relations are particularly useful in practice when it is not feasible to use the optimum inflow rate due to constraints at the water source, or because of irrigation scheduling issues.
Additional file 18 of Uncovering the Arabidopsis thaliana nectary transcriptome: investigation of differential gene expression in floral nectariferous tissues
Creators: name: Kram, Brian W
name: Xu, Wayne W
name: Carter, Clay J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 5
An impossibility theorem concerning positive involvement in voting
Creators: name: Holliday, Wesley H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Theoretical Economics (econ.TH)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.11
subject: 91B12, 91B14, 91B10

description: In social choice theory with ordinal preferences, a voting method satisfies the axiom of positive involvement if adding to a preference profile a voter who ranks an alternative uniquely first cannot cause that alternative to go from winning to losing. In this note, we prove a new impossibility theorem concerning this axiom: there is no ordinal voting method satisfying positive involvement that also satisfies the Condorcet winner and loser criteria, resolvability, and a common invariance property for Condorcet methods, namely that the choice of winners depends only on the ordering of majority margins by size.
description: Fixed typos in bibliography
Simulation of relativistic shocks and associated radiation
Creators: name: Nishikawa, K. -I.
name: Niemiec, J.
name: Medvedev, M.
name: Zhang, B.
name: Hardee, P.
name: Mizuno, Y.
name: Nordlund, A.
name: Frederiksen, J.
name: Sol, H.
name: Pohl, M.
name: Hartmann, D. H.
name: Fishman, J. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using our new 3-D relativistic electromagnetic particle (REMP) code parallelized with MPI, we investigated long-term particle acceleration associated with a relativistic electron-positron jet propagating in an unmagnetized ambient electron-positron plasma. We have also performed simulations with electron-ion jets. The simulations were performed using a much longer simulation system than our previous simulations in order to investigate the full nonlinear stage of the Weibel instability for electron-positron jets and its particle acceleration mechanism. Cold jet electrons are thermalized and ambient electrons are accelerated in the resulting shocks for both cases. Acceleration of ambient electrons leads to a maximum ambient electron density three times larger than the original value for pair plasmas. Behind the bow shock in the jet shock strong electromagnetic fields are generated. These fields may lead to time dependent afterglow emission. We calculated radiation from electrons propagating in a uniform parallel magnetic field to verify the technique. We also used the new technique to calculate emission from electrons based on simulations with a small system with two different cases for Lorentz factors (15 and 100). We obtained spectra which are consistent with those generated from electrons propagating in turbulent magnetic fields with red noise. This turbulent magnetic field is similar to the magnetic field generated at an early nonlinear stage of the Weibel instability.
description: submitted to 2009 Fermi Symposium and eConf Proceedings C091122
title: Reinitiation on the USCG ATON Program
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7 Reinitiated Biological and Conference Opinion Consultation on the United States Coast Guard Federal Aids to Navigation Program
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Office of Protected Resources
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Office of Protected Resources
Year: 2023

description: OPR-2022-03504
Additional file 19 of Uncovering the Arabidopsis thaliana nectary transcriptome: investigation of differential gene expression in floral nectariferous tissues
Creators: name: Kram, Brian W
name: Xu, Wayne W
name: Carter, Clay J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 6
Black hole complementarity from AdS/CFT
Creators: name: Lowe, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a simple version of the AdS/CFT (anti-de Sitter spacetime/Conformal Field Theory) correspondence, where operators have integer conformal dimensions. In this model, bulk causality follows from boundary analyticity, even in nontrivial black hole backgrounds that break the underlying conformal symmetry. This allows a natural set of quasi-local bulk observables to be constructed. Estimates of finite central charge corrections to semiclassical correlators are made. These corrections are used to determine the regime of validity of effective field theory in the bulk spacetime. The results are consistent with black hole complementarity.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures
title: Fabrication of Long-Fiber-Reinforced Metal Matrix Composites Using Ultrasonic Consolidation
Creators: name: Yang, Yanzhe
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: This research is a systematic study exploring a new fabrication methodology for long-fiber-reinforced metal matrix composites (MMCs) using a novel additive manufacturing technology. The research is devoted to the manufacture of long-fiber-reinforced MMC structures using the Ultrasonic Consolidation (UC) process. The main objectives of this research are to investigate the bond formation mechanisms and fiber embedment mechanisms during UC, and further to study the effects of processing parameters on bond formation and fiber embedment, and the resultant macroscopic mechanical properties of UC-made MMC structures. From a fundamental research point of view, bond formation mechanisms and fiber embedment mechanisms have been clarified by the current research based on various experimental observations. It has been found that atomic bonding across nascent metal is the dominant bond formation mechanism during the UC process, whereas the embedded fiber are mechanically entrapped within matrix materials due to significant plastic deformation of the matrix material during embedment. From a manufacturing process point of view, the effects of processing parameters on bond formation and fiber embedment during the UC process have been studied and optimum levels of parameters have been identified for manufacture of MMC structures. An energy-based model has been developed as a first step toward analytically understanding the effects of processing parameters on the quality of ultrasonically consolidated structures. From a material applications point of view, the mechanical properties of ultrasonically consolidated structures with and without the presence of fibers have been characterized. The effects on mechanical properties of UC-made structures due to the presence of embedded fibers have been discussed.
title: Effect of the specimen size on necking development in metals and alloys during superplastic deformation
Creators: name: Sheinerman, A.G.
Publisher: name: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Year: 2020

description: A model is proposed that describes the development of individual and multiple
necks in superplastically deformed materials. Within the model, the examined samples have
the form of round bars and are subjected to tensile superplastic deformation without strain
hardening. It is demonstrated that neck development and necking-induced failure occur faster
with a decrease in strain rate sensitivity and/or an increase in the fraction of the sample length
occupied by necks. This means that high values of strain to failure observed in small
specimens of superplastically deformed ultrafine-grained metals and alloys, where diffuse
necking happens in the whole specimen, can be significantly reduced in larger specimens
where the necking regions occupy only a small part of the sample.
Additional file 20 of Uncovering the Arabidopsis thaliana nectary transcriptome: investigation of differential gene expression in floral nectariferous tissues
Creators: name: Kram, Brian W
name: Xu, Wayne W
name: Carter, Clay J
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 7
title: Phenotypic Plasticity and the Post-Modern Synthesis: Integrating Evo-Devo and Quantitative Genetics in Theoretical and Empirical Studies
Creators: name: Scoville, Alison G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: Mainstream evolutionary biology lacks a mature theory of phenotype. Following from the Modern Synthesis, researchers tend to assume an unrealistically simple mapping of genotype to phenotype, or else trust that the complexities of developmental architecture can be adequately captured by measuring trait variances and covariances. In contrast, the growing field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) explicitly examines the relationship between developmental architecture and evolutionary change, but lacks a rigorous quantitative and predictive framework. In my dissertation, I strive to integrate quantitative genetics and evo-devo, using both theoretical and empirical studies of plasticity. My first paper explores the effect of realistic development on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity when there is migration between two discrete environments. The model I use reveals that nonadditive developmental interactions can constrain the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in the presence of stabilizing selection. In my second paper, I examine the manner in which the genetically controlled responsiveness of traits to each other is shaped by selection and can in turn shape the phenotypic response to selection. Here, results indicate that developmental entanglement through plasticity can facilitate rapid multivariate adaptation in response to a novel selective pressure. In my final paper, I examine patterns of gene expression underlying ancestral plasticity and adaptive loss of melanin in Daphnia melanica. My results indicate that the developmental mechanism underlying ancestral plasticity has been co-opted to facilitate rapid adaptation to an introduced predator.
Investigation of air pollution interventions in airway epithelial cells
Creators: name: Huff, Ryan D.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Air pollution is a pervasive and global problem, with 99% of the world’s population living in areas that exceed the World Health Organization exposure guidelines. Although public policies and legislation continue to lower anthropomorphic emissions, and engineering solutions such as air purifiers work to limit personal exposures, few therapeutic strategies exist to limit the cellular effects of air pollution. To address this issue, I evaluated multiple approaches to counteracting air pollution-induced oxidative stress and inflammation using several in vitro models of particulate matter (PM) exposure on human lung epithelial cells. Using immortalized and primary human epithelial cells exposed to PM, I showed that two antioxidants, tetrahydrocurcumin and quercetin, significantly attenuated cellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) and inflammatory mediator release. Next, I examined the utility of modulating lung epithelial cell responses to PM by priming them with omega-3 fatty acids, precursors of specialised pro-resolving mediators. I demonstrated that docosahexaenoic acid significantly decreased PM-induced pro-inflammatory mediator release and cellular ROS. Finally, I noted that suppressing inflammation in the lungs has been associated with increased susceptibility to viral infections, an association also observed with air pollution exposures. Thus, I investigated the effect of exposing human epithelial cells to air pollution, as well as their treatment with a corticosteroid, a common medication used to control inflammation, on rhinovirus infectivity. I demonstrated that pre-exposure of epithelial cells to the corticosteroid fluticasone propionate and PM synergistically increased rhinovirus levels, suppressed host defence responses, and increased levels of the rhinovirus entry receptor. In summary, this thesis’ investigation of air pollution interventions and possible consequences both provides novel therapeutic options and identifies a potential risk, evidence that collectively may inform comprehensive strategies to mitigate the risk associated with air pollution exposure.
title: Centering Pregnancy and Traditional Prenatal Care: A Comparison of Health Practices
Creators: name: Shakespear, Kaylynn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: Centering Pregnancy is an alternative method of providing prenatal care with increased education and social support with health assessment in a group setting. This study, a cross-sectional, correlational, convenience-sample design, sought to determine the difference between women who receive prenatal care in Centering Pregnancy prenatal care and those in traditional prenatal care in regards to health behaviors. Adult pregnant women (n = 125) were surveyed from at least 28 weeks gestation. The sample comprised primarily White low-income women. Using multiple linear regression, it was determined that women in Centering Pregnancy had significantly lower index health behavior scores compared with the traditional care group (p = .01); those in Centering Pregnancy reported engaging in fewer health-promoting behaviors. Furthermore, those in Centering Pregnancy reported a lower perceived value of prenatal care in the current study. No differences were observed for smoking and weight gain behaviors between groups. A number of health behaviors changed during pregnancy for both groups but no significant differences were found.