cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung, unnummeriert.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 04.11.1966, als Blatt eröffnet dank auswärtiger Beobachtungen, ausgewertet in Zürich
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung bzw. Auswertung aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen direkt auf dem Vordruck, erstellt durch Mitarbeitende der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich
BiSyn-GAT+: Bi-Syntax Aware Graph Attention Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
Creators: name: Liang, Shuo
name: Wei, Wei
name: Mao, Xian-Ling
name: Wang, Fei
name: He, Zhiyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a fine-grained sentiment analysis task that aims to align aspects and corresponding sentiments for aspect-specific sentiment polarity inference. It is challenging because a sentence may contain multiple aspects or complicated (e.g., conditional, coordinating, or adversative) relations. Recently, exploiting dependency syntax information with graph neural networks has been the most popular trend. Despite its success, methods that heavily rely on the dependency tree pose challenges in accurately modeling the alignment of the aspects and their words indicative of sentiment, since the dependency tree may provide noisy signals of unrelated associations (e.g., the "conj" relation between "great" and "dreadful" in Figure 2). In this paper, to alleviate this problem, we propose a Bi-Syntax aware Graph Attention Network (BiSyn-GAT+). Specifically, BiSyn-GAT+ fully exploits the syntax information (e.g., phrase segmentation and hierarchical structure) of the constituent tree of a sentence to model the sentiment-aware context of every single aspect (called intra-context) and the sentiment relations across aspects (called inter-context) for learning. Experiments on four benchmark datasets demonstrate that BiSyn-GAT+ outperforms the state-of-the-art methods consistently.
description: Findings of ACL 2022
Improving Decision Support for Uncertain Gene Varients
Creators: name: Crockett, David K.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014

description: Rapidly evolving technologies such as chip arrays and next-generation sequencing are uncovering human genetic variants at an unprecedented pace. Unfortunately, this ever growing collection of gene sequence variation has limited clinical utility without clear association to disease outcomes. As electronic medical records begin to incorporate genetic information, gene variant classification and accurate interpretation of gene test results plays a critical role in customizing patient therapy. To verify the functional impact of a given gene variant, laboratories rely on confirming evidence such as previous literature reports, patient history and disease segregation in a family. By definition variants of uncertain significance (VUS) lack this supporting evidence and in such cases, computational tools are often used to evaluate the predicted functional impact of a gene mutation. This study evaluates leveraging high quality genotype-phenotype disease variant data from 20 genes and 3986 variants, to develop gene-specific predictors utilizing a combination of changes in primary amino acid sequence, amino acid properties as descriptors of mutation severity and Naïve Bayes classification. A Primary Sequence Amino Acid Properties (PSAAP) prediction algorithm was then combined with well established predictors in a weighted Consensus sum in context of gene-specific reference intervals for known phenotypes. PSAAP and Consensus were also used to evaluate known variants of uncertain significance in the RET proto-oncogene as a model gene. The PSAAP algorithm was successfully extended to many genes and diseases. Gene-specific algorithms typically outperform generalized prediction tools. Characteristic mutation properties of a given gene and disease may be lost when diluted into genomewide data sets. A reliable computational phenotype classification framework with quantitative metrics and disease specific reference ranges allows objective evaluation of novel or uncertain gene variants and augments decision making when confirming clinical information is limited.
Quantifying patient experiences with therapeutic neurorehabilitation technologies: a scoping review
Creators: name: Nguyen, Chi Mai
name: Uy, Jeric
name: Serrada, Ines
name: Hordacre, Brenton
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Neurorehabilitation technologies are a novel approach to providing rehabilitation for patients with neurological conditions. There is a need to explore patient experiences. This study aimed; 1) To identify available questionnaires that assess patients’ experiences with neurorehabilitation technologies, and 2) where reported, to document the psychometric properties of the identified questionnaires. Four databases were searched (Medline, Embase, Emcare and PsycInfo). The inclusion criteria were all types of primary data collection that included neurological patients of all ages who had experienced therapy with neurorehabilitation technologies and completed questionnaires to assess these experiences. Eighty-eight publications were included. Fifteen different questionnaires along with many self-developed scales were identified. These were categorised as; 1) self-developed tools, 2) specific questionnaire for a particular technology, and 3) generic questionnaires originally developed for a different purpose. The questionnaires were used to assess various technologies, including virtual reality, robotics, and gaming systems. Most studies did not report any psychometric properties. Many tools have been used to evaluate patient experiences, but few were specifically developed for neurorehabilitation technologies and psychometric data was limited. A preliminary recommendation would be use of the User Satisfaction Evaluation Questionnaire to evaluate patient experience with virtual reality systems. Fifteen unique tools evaluating patient experiences with neurorehabilitation technology were identifiedThe User Satisfaction Evaluation and ArmAssist Usability Assessment were designed specifically for therapeutic neurorehabilitation technologyFor all identified tools, psychometric data were poorly reported or not availableA preliminary recommendation is to use the User Satisfaction Evaluation Questionnaire for evaluating virtual reality systems Fifteen unique tools evaluating patient experiences with neurorehabilitation technology were identified The User Satisfaction Evaluation and ArmAssist Usability Assessment were designed specifically for therapeutic neurorehabilitation technology For all identified tools, psychometric data were poorly reported or not available A preliminary recommendation is to use the User Satisfaction Evaluation Questionnaire for evaluating virtual reality systems
Protein-based hydrogels self-assembled from genetically engineered triblock containing coiled-coil domains
Creators: name: Xu, Chunyu
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Hydrogels
triblock Polypeptides
Coiled-Coil
Self-Assembly
Pharmacology
Polymers
Materials Science

description: Protein-based biomaterials have great potential in biomedical applications due to their similar composition with biological organisms. Environment-sensitive hydrogels based on proteins can undergo sol-gel transition due to the conformational change of the proteins in response to external stimuli. The physical properties of these hydrogels can be tailored by modification of the protein structures. Two major hypotheses were made in this dissertation. One was that coiled-coil folding motifs could be a good candidate for physical crosslinking in protein-based hydrogels, and the other was that the conformational change of coiled-coils in response to external stimuli could mediate the sol-gel transition of the protein-based hydrogels.  The first part established synthesis strategies of the coiled-coil containing proteins using a genetic engineering technique. An important observation was made that the fusion sequence on the proteins could influence the thermal stability of the proteins.  In the second part of the research, the self-assembly of hydrogels from a series of triblock polypeptides containing coiled-coils was evaluated. It was found that the hydrogels had a porous interconnected network microstructure. The hydrogels responded to temperature and pH, which correlated to the temperature- and pH-triggered structural transition of the coiled-coil domains. In addition, the formation of hydrogels was reversible in the present or absence of guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl).  The last part of the research attempted to explore the relationship between the structure of the protein polymers and the physical property of the hydrogels, and to investigate the parameters influencing the hydrogel formation and physical properties. Triblock and diblock polypeptides were designed to contain different lengths of coiled-coil domains. Tyrosine residues were incorporated at selected solvent-exposed positions in order to increase the hydrophobicity of the coiled-coil domains. The association of the coiled-coil domains was studied using the diblock polypeptides. Our results suggested that the hydrogel formation and physical properties may be influenced by other factors, such as the length of the central random coil segment, or selective inter-molecular association of tje cpil blocks.  Environment-sensitive protein-based hydrogels in this dissertation represent a novel class of biomaterials.  They can be used in a wide-range of biomedical applications in the future.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22340.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 16.10.1966, erstellt von Werner Scheidegger
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Why do some firms pay more than the market wage rate? A case study with longitudinal data
Creators: name: Parsons, Richard
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Efficiency wage
Institutional wage theory
Labor theory
Motivational theory
Productivity
Wages

description: This research studies the three main economic theories of wage as they apply to a specific case study using longitudinal panel data. The firm in the case study pays employees above market wage which presents an interesting opportunity to scrutinize the validity of each wage theory. The economic theories associated with the neoclassical school of thought, the institutional school of thought and power relationships are each tested for a fit with the case study data. Relative to the neoclassical theory, the efficiency wage theory and agency theory are tested as these are the elements of neoclassical thought which support wages above market rates.  Two tests are used to evaluate the hypotheses. The first is a formal econometric test of the shirking model of the efficiency wage theory using production and pay data at the factory level. This is made possible because the four factories in the case study have essentially the same cultural and institutional environment, along with shared production technology and similar product output. As such, control is provided for elements other than wage differences between the factories.  The second test is a survey of plant management. The survey provides a view of both what plant management was trying to accomplish with wage policy, and also how effective they felt the pay practices were. In addition to the survey, the culture within the firm is analyzed logically for its connection to pay practices.  This research concludes that for the four factories studied there is no support for the shirking model of the efficiency wage theory or agency theory. As a result the standard neoclassical wage theory cannot explain the above market wage and is called into question, at least as a generalized model. In addition, there is substantial support provided for the institutional theories around wage as well as evidence of the power of the threat of union organizing. The management survey, the logical analysis of firm culture, and the comparisons to the organizational behavioral research all support the findings that institutional factors heavily influence wages in the sample firm.
Willingness to Join Community-Based Health Insurance among Rural Households of Bugna District, Northeast Ethiopia
Creators: name: Minyihun, Amare
name: G /Selassie, Measho
name: Assefa, Yalemzewod
name: Debie, Ayal
name: Amare, Getasew
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences
Year: 2020

description: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 10 No. 1 (2020)
Spin waves and magnetic exchange Hamiltonian in CrSBr
Creators: name: Scheie, A.
name: Ziebel, M.
name: Chica, D. G.
name: Bae, Y. J.
name: Wang, Xiaoping
name: Kolesnikov, A. I.
name: Zhu, Xiaoyang
name: Roy, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CrSBr is an air-stable 2D van der Waals semiconducting magnet with great technological promise, but its atomic-scale magnetic interactions -- crucial information for high-frequency switching -- are poorly understood. We present an experimental study to determine the CrSBr magnetic exchange Hamiltonian and bulk magnon spectrum. We confirm the $A$-type antiferromagnetic order using single crystal neutron diffraction. We also measure the magnon dispersions using inelastic neutron scattering and rigorously fit the excitation modes to a spin wave model. The magnon spectrum is well described by an intra-plane ferromagnetic Heisenberg exchange model with seven nearest in-plane exchanges. This fitted exchange Hamiltonian enables theoretical predictions of CrSBr behavior: as one example, we use the fitted Hamiltonian to predict the presence of chiral magnon edge modes with a spin-orbit enhanced CrSBr heterostructure.
description: 8 pages and 7 figures, plus six figures of supplemental information
title: Konzepte, Korpora und die Quellenoffenheit der Kunst
title: Hannes Bajohrs digitale Lyrik
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Aust, Robin-M.
Publisher: name: Graduate School Practices of Literature
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 800 Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric

description: Der Beitrag nimmt das Spannungsfeld zwischen literarischen Traditionen und aktuellen, digitalen Schreibweisen in den Blick: Exemplarisch wird der Band Halbzeug (Hannes Bajohr, 2018) betrachtet, der Konzeptgedichte enthält, die mittels digitaler Verfahren erzeugt wurden. Beispielanalysen einzelner Gedichte erörtern die Verfahren der Texterzeugung, die dahinterstehende Poetik sowie den bedeutungstragenden Kontrast zwischen Prätext und Transform. Dies dient als Grundlage für Reflexionen über die Implikationen digitaler Textproduktion und algorithmengestützter Autor:innenschaft, die mit der Verbreitung digitaler Schreibweisen und durch Bajohrs Offenlegung der jeweiligen Transformationstechnik zunehmend diffuser, aber auch "quelloffener" werden.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung unnummeriert, einen Zürcher Lückentag ergänzend.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 17.07.1966, erstellt von Claire Delys, Observatoire Royal de Belgique in Uccle
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Zeichnung nach eigener Vorlage in Uccle.
Instrument: Merz-Grubb Refraktor Teleskop (Öffnung 160 mm, f = 2450 mm, projiziertes Sonnenbild D = 25 cm)
Synthesis, characterization, and applications of hydrophobic room temperature ionic liquids
Creators: name: Rollins, Julie Beth
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Chiral ionic liquid
Fuel cell
Ionic liquid
Separation
Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy
Surface properties

description: The synthesis and characterization of a series of novel hydrophobic room temperature ion liquids (RTILs) are reported along with their applications in a variety of  different systems ranging from electrochemical cells to biphasic separations. The effect of alkyl chain length, anion composition, and the SiO2 surface charge density were examined in 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium cations (Cnmim, n = 4, 6, 8, 10, 12) at the RTIL/SiO2 interface using sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy (SFVS). These studies concluded that the orientation of the 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium cation was dictated largely by the length of the alkyl chain. As the alkyl chain length increased, the number of gauche defects in the chain decreased, and the imidazolium ring orientation  becomes more perpendicular to the SiO2 surface. Changes in the surface charge density of the SiO2 also affected the orientation of the imidazolium ring. As the surface charge density became more negative the imidazolium ring oriented more parallel to the surface.
The infall region as a complementary probe to cluster abundance
Creators: name: Mpetha, Charlie T.
name: Taylor, James E.
name: Amoura, Yuba
name: Haggar, Roan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy cluster abundance measurements provide a classic test of cosmology. They are most sensitive to the evolved amplitude of fluctuations, usually expressed as $S_8 = σ_8\sqrt{Ω_m/0.3}$. Thus, abundance constraints exhibit a strong degeneracy between $σ_8$ and $Ω_{\rm m}$, as do other similar low-redshift tests such as cosmic shear. The mass distribution in the infall region around galaxy clusters, where material is being accreted from the surrounding field, also exhibits a cosmological dependence, but in this case it is nearly orthogonal to the $S_8$ direction in the $Ω_m$--$σ_8$ plane, making it highly complementary to halo abundance or cosmic shear studies. We explore how weak lensing measurements of the infall region might be used to complement abundance studies, considering three different tests. The splashback radius is a prominent feature of the infall region; we show that detection of this feature in lensing data from the Euclid survey could independently constrain $Ω_{\rm m}$ and $σ_8$ to $\pm 0.05$. Another feature, the depletion radius where the bias reaches a minimum, also shows cosmological dependence, though it is challenging to observe in practice. The strongest constraints come from direct measurements of the shear profile in the infall region at $2$--$4\,r_{200{\rm c}}$. Combining the latter with abundance constraints such as those reported from SRG$/$eROSITA should reduce the area of the error contours by an estimated factor of $1.2$ using a sample of clusters observed by the UNIONS survey, or a factor of $3$ using clusters observed by the Euclid Wide survey over a broader range of redshift.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Finite-temperature surface elasticity of crystalline solids
Creators: name: Saxena, Shashank
name: Spinola, Miguel
name: Gupta, Prateek
name: Kochmann, Dennis M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Surface energies and surface elasticity largely affect the mechanical response of nanostructures as well as the physical phenomenon associated with surfaces such as evaporation and adsorption. Studying surface energies at finite temperatures is therefore of immense interest for nanoscale applications. However, calculating surface energies and derived quantities from atomistic ensembles is usually limited to zero temperature or involve cumbersome thermodynamic integration techniques at finite temperature. Here, we illustrate a technique to identify the energy and elastic properties of surfaces of solids at non-zero temperature based on a Gaussian phase packets (GPP) approach (which in the isothermal limit coincides with a maximum-entropy formulation). Using this setup, we investigate the effect of temperature on the surface properties of different crystal faces for six pure metals -- copper, nickel, alumimum, iron, tungsten and vanadium -- thus covering both FCC and BCC lattice structures. While the obtained surface energies and stresses usually show a decreasing trend with increasing temperature, the elastic constants do not show such a consistent trend across the different materials and are quite sensitive to temperature changes. Validation is performed by comparing the obtained surface energy densities of selected BCC and FCC materials to those calculated via molecular dynamics.
Occupational Injuries among Workers in Iron and Steel Industries in Bishoftu Town, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia: a Cross-Sectional Study
Creators: name: Sime, Aschalew
name: Worku, Walelegn
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences
Year: 2020

description: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 10 No. 1 (2020)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung unnummeriert, einen Zürcher Lückentag ergänzend.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 04.11.1966, erstellt am Kandilli Observatorium Istanbul
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Bleistift, erstellt als Zeichnung nach eigener Vorlage am Istanbul Kandilli Rasathanesi, Çengelköy (Istanbul). Instrument: Refraktor Teleskop (Öffnung 200 mm, f = 3070 mm, projiziertes Sonnenbild D = 25 cm).
Instrumentennachweis gemäss Kandilli Observatory Istanbul, Report from Solar Institute, in: Solar Physics, 1968, Vol. 3, Issue 3, pp.491-492, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00171622
Drug usage in a self-medication program for post-partum patients
Creators: name: Freston, Margie Sudweeks
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Patients
Stages of Labor

description: The purpose of this study was to explore the difference in drug usages of post-partum patients under two different methods of drug administration in the hospital setting.  The two methods studied were self-medication and traditional nurse-administration.  The study was concerned largely with assessing the use of potentially harmful medication such as analgesies and sedatives.  Normal mothers were the subjects; the number studied was 100 women.  The study was conducted on a post-partum unit where self-medication was widely employed.  Data collection for the group receiving nurse-administered medication was done by patient chart review and ward records kept at the time that this method of drug administration was used.  Data collection for the group on self-medication was done in patient chart review, ward records, and by counting unused medications. Information was recorded on a standardized form.  Drug use by type and dose was assessed for the labor and delivery period, recovery period, and a three-day post-partum period.  Variables relative to age, parity, type of anesthesia employed, time of labor, position of the infant at delivery, sex of the baby, method of infant feeding, status of the perineum following delivery, and type of physician giving care were compared in the two groups.  One way analysis of variance and correlation of all variables were achieved utilizing a Univac computer at the University of Utah Computer Center.  It was shown that the differences between the groups were no greater than the differences within the groups in variables unrelated to drug usage.  The one exception was a statistically significant difference in the hours of hospitalization between the two groups.  The mothers administering their own medication were found to take significantly more analgesics, but fewer sedatives than mothers who requested this medication from the nurse.  Statistically significant correlations were found between variables related to drug usage and minutes in labor, hour of hospitalization, and age.  Speculations about the findings are discussed
Willingness to Enroll For Community-Based Health Insurance and Associated Factors among Household Heads in the Rural Community of Fogera District, Northwest Ethiopia
Creators: name: Kebede, Adane
name: Gebreslassie, Measho
name: Yitayal, Mezgebu
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences
Year: 2020

description: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 10 No. 1 (2020)
Situating Helen Frankenthaler's  Wizard
Creators: name: Byrne Cranny, Louise
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014
Subjects: 1963
Frankenthaler

description: Completed in 1963, Helen Frankenthaler's Wizard stands apart from her then contemporary paintings, with its vertical orientation, body-sized scale, and figural allusion in both name and form. One of the last paintings Frankenthaler worked entirely in oil, Wizard should be understood as a crucial experiment in both method and medium, presaging key changes in Frankenthaler's established approach. The artist's works of 1962 show the last influences of didactic expressionism, where apparently unguided drips and blots of oil punctuate wide expanses of unprimed canvas, each piece emerging as an autonomous work. Between 1963-1964, however, Frankenthaler began to work serially, using acrylic rather than oil. At the same time, her work turned more profoundly interior, with enveloping swathes of paint containing centered but still abstracted images. With its recognizable, centrally placed figural form, its flooded surface, and its dense layering of paint, Wizard makes visible a pull between spontaneity and intent. The tensions of Wizard signal a change of direction for Frankenthaler. Where her works from 1962 clearly privileged flatness-the canvas of equal import with the paint-in Wizard and related works, a new and more conflicted relationship between form and material emerged.
CMOS compatible multi-band plasmonic TE-pass polarizer
Creators: name: Abadía, Nicolás
name: Saber, Md. Ghulam
name: Bello, Frank
name: Samani, Alireza
name: El-Fiky, Eslam
name: Wang, Yun
name: Donegan, John F.
name: Plant, David V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A CMOS-compatible plasmonic TE-pass polarizer capable of working in the O, E, S, C, L, and U bands is numerically analyzed. The device is based on an integrated hybrid plasmonic waveguide (HPW) with a segmented metal design. The segmented metal will avoid the propagation of the TM mode, confined in the slot of the HPW, while the TE fundamental mode will pass. The TE mode is not affected by the metal segmentation since it is confined in the core of the HPW. The concept of the segmented metal can be exploited in a plasmonic circuit with HPWs as the connecting waveguides between parts of the circuit and in a silicon photonics circuit with strip or slab waveguides connecting the different parts of the circuit. Using 3D FDTD simulations, it is shown that for a length of 5.5 μm the polarization extinction ratios are better than 20 dB and the insertion losses are less than 1.7 dB over all the optical communication bands.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, and 5 tables. Published version: see https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.26.030292. Related works: see https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.22.011236, https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.25.010070, https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.26.001752, and https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0044490. Keywords: Integrated Optics; Integrated Optics Devices; Polarization-Selective Devices; Plasmonics; Components
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22337.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 13.10.1966, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Albumin-heparin in microspheres for drug delivery
Creators: name: Kwon, Glen Sung Soo
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Microspheres (Pharmacy)
Albumins
Heparin

description: Albumin-heparin microspheres have been prepared as an injectable, biodegradable drug delivery system.  First, the soluble albumin-heparin conjugate was synthesized and purified by ion exhange and affinity liquid chromatography. The composition of the conjugate was established by amino acid analysis.  Microspheres of the conjugate were prepared by crosslinking of the conjugate in a water in oil emulsion and characterized in terms of size, swelling and surface properties.  Initial release experiments from albumin-heparin microspheres, using FITC-dextran as a model macromolecule, were carried out.  The release of the macromolecule was modulated by crosslinking density, loading content and method of solute incorporation.  Apparently, the mechanism of FITC-dextran release was dependent on the method of solute incorporation.  The release of FITC-dextran from the microspheres was much more prolonged than the release of low molecular weight drugs from chemically crosslinked albumin microspheres and was attributed to the high molecular weight of the dextran.  The release of macromolecules by ion exchange from albumin-heparin microspheres was investigated.  Lysozyme, chicken egg and human, were used as positively charged model macromolecules due to their dissimilar properties and macromolecules due to their dissimilar properties and adsorptive behavior on polymer surfaces.  Adsorption isotherms of the lysozymes on albumin-heparin and albumin microspheres were obtained.  Higher loading of lysozyme into albumin-heparin microspheres relative to albumin microspheres was observed.  Long term release of lysozymes from albumin-heparin and albumin microspheres was obtained. A mathematical model based on the Nernst-Planck equation was proposed for the release of the lysozyme from the microspheres.  Apparent diffusion coefficients on the order of 10' to 10'^^ cmVsec were established for the release processes.  The release was found not to be dependent on diffusion, but the rate determining step was likely adsorption/desorption processes.  Overall, albumin-heparin microspheres demonstrated enhanced ion exchange properties over albumin microspheres.  The released lysozyme was found to retain considerable enzymatic activity.  The heparin of the albumin-heparin microspheres was determined to retain bioactivity and inhibit serine proteases of the blood coagulation cascade.  The surface associated heparin accounted largely for the activity of the immobilized heparin of the microspheres.  Platelet adhesion on albumin-heparin microspheres was lower compared to albumin microspheres and much lower than for polystyrene coated beads.""
Transcendent waste
Creators: name: Glick, Robert Dale
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2015
Subjects: Creative writing

description: Transcendent Waste is a collection of stories that explores the difficulties of bereavement through what we literally and metaphorically throw away. Characters in Transcendent Waste question the validity of ritual in healing, displace guilt and grief onto relationship and career, and attempt to empathize with others who understand death and mourning in radically different ways. Influenced by Bataillean notions of excess and Kristeva's concept of the abject, I explore loss by using the concept of "waste" within literal, symbolic, and conceptual frameworks. Waste can signify trash, a surfeit of language, the lost potential of a life, the misuse of time, or the degradation of the body. In "Hotel Grand Abyss," for example, a professor of popular culture/zombie studies reluctantly decides to consign his dementiariddled father to a convalescent home. Waste need not be negative: in "Strawbellies," for example, waste refers to once-useful survival strategies that must be sloughed off so that a family can recover from the loss of a son. Similarly, in "Mermaid Anatomy," the narrator employs unpunctuated digressions, fractured timelines, and improper syntax; a "wasteful" and energetic language that, by fetishizing the unfamiliar, staves off his depression. Formally, the stories in "Transcendent Waste" are characterized by disruptions to subject position, language, and linearity. In "Southwest of Guadalajara," a dramatic monologue by the Nazi architect Albert Speer is interrupted by either the collective voice of his victims or the voice of his own guilt. The story "In The Room / Memory is / White" depicts the relationship of a self-punishing child to his separated parents through multiple points of view and a narrative sequence that moves from the chronological middle towards the first and last scenes. Ideally, the use of unconventional narrative strategies in character-based, pathos-driven plots complicates our understanding both of storytelling and of loss.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22367.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 28.11.1966, erstellt von Werner Scheidegger
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22321.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 24.09.1966, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Tuberculosis data management, knowledge and associated factors in public-private mix dots implementing health facilities in Bahir dar city, North west Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mekonnen, Feleke
name: Alamir, Tadesse
name: Eshetie, Setegn
name: Daba, Sintayehu
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences
Year: 2020

description: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 10 No. 1 (2020)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22285.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 09.08.1966, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22282.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 06.08.1966, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Li1.3Al0.3Ti1.7(PO4)3 as a solid state Li-Ion conductor: Issues with microcracking and stability in aqueous solutions
Creators: name: Jackman, Spencer D.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Corrosion
Ionic conductivity
Microcracking
Stability
Strength

description: Lithium aluminum titanium phosphate (LATP) with formula Li1.3Al0.3Ti1.7(PO4)3 was analyzed and tested to better understand its applicability as a solid state ion conducting ceramic material for electrochemical applications. Sintered samples were obtained from Ceramatec, Inc. in Salt Lake City and characterized in terms of density, phase-purity, fracture toughness, Young‟s modulus, thermal expansion behavior, mechanical strength, a.c. and d.c. ionic conductivity, and susceptibility to static and electrochemical corrosion in aqueous Li salt solutions. It was shown that LATP is prone to microcrack generation because of high thermal expansion anisotropy. A.c. impedance spectra of high-purity LATP of varying grain sizes showed that microcracking had a negative impact on the ionic conduction of Li along grain boundaries, with fine-grained (1.7±0.7 μm) LATP having twice the ionic conductivity of the same purity of coarse-grained (4.8±1.9 μm) LATP at 50°C. LATP with detectible secondary phases had lower ionic conductivity for similar grain sizes, as would be expected. The Young‟s modulus of fine-grained LATP was measured to be 115 GPa, and the highest biaxial strength was 191±11 MPa when tested in mineral oil, 144±13 MPa as measured in air, and 26±7 MPa after exposure to deionized water, suggesting that LATP undergoes stress-corrosion cracking. After exposure to LiOH, the strength was 76±19 MPa. This decrease in strength was observed despite there being no measureable change iv in a.c. impedance spectra, X-ray diffraction, or sample mass, suggesting phosphate glasses at grain boundaries. The chemical and electrochemical stability of high-purity LATP in aqueous electrochemical cells was evaluated using LiOH, LiCl, LiNO3, and LiCOOCH3 salts as the Li source. LATP was found to be most stable between pH 8-9, with the longest cell operating continuously at 25 mA cm-2 for 625 hours at 40°C in LiCOOCH3. At pH values outside of the 7-10 range, eventual membrane degradation was observed in all aqueous systems under electrochemical conditions. While LATP was surprisingly resistant to static corrosion in a hot, aqueous LiOH solution, electrochemical degradation was observed at the cathode due to subsurface pitting. Strength measurements were more instructive than impedance measurements in detecting this degradation.
The agglomeration of nickel laterite ore
Creators: name: Janwong, Adirek
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agglomeration
Laterite
Leaching
Nickel

description: Nickel laterites are becoming more attractive for nickel production due to the depletion of high grade nickel sulfide ores. Since the nickel content in laterites is relatively low, processes to recover nickel from these resources must be economical and robust. Heap leaching has been commonly used to treat low grade copper and gold ores due to its low capital and operating costs. Therefore, research and development in nickel heap leaching technology is compelling. However, nickel laterites typically contain significant quantities of fine particles and clay minerals which could contribute to heap leaching difficulties. Agglomeration has been used to improve heap performance in copper and gold heap leaching. Experiments have been conducted to evaluate the performance of agglomeration in nickel heap leaching. In this study, nickel laterite ores were agglomerated with various conditions, including moisture content, acid concentration, retention time and drum rotation speed. Size distribution, permeability and electrical conductivity data of agglomerates were collected to study the effects of agglomeration conditions on agglomerate qualities. The agglomerates were then leached with diluted sulfuric acid for 90 days. Nickel and other interested element extraction rates were obtained by ICP-OES. Mineralogy of feeds, agglomerates and leached residuals were also investigated. From the experimental data, we found that agglomerate size distributions (ASD) correlated with the agglomeration volume of solution added agglomeration. The drum rotation speeds did not a have significant effect on agglomerate size distribution. Increasing mixing times during agglomeration led to increases in agglomerate sizes. Hydraulic conductivity (permeability) of the agglomerate bed is related to the agglomerate size distribution. The electrical conductivity of nickel laterite agglomerate beds depends on the sulfuric acid concentration used during agglomeration, solution addition, external compression and nature of the ores. Nonetheless, the values depend heavily on the sulfuric acid concentration. The highest extraction rate of nickel, cobalt, iron, aluminum, magnesium and manganese in these experiments are 58%, 38%, 22%, 28%, 48% and 27%, respectively. The feed contains mainly silico-ferruginous plasma, goethite and clay minerals along with other minor phases. In agglomerates, a new sulfate phase was observed. The main element in this phase is sulfur. The "sulfate" phase and clays appear to dissolve during leaching. The nickel that remained unleached predominantly resides in the silicoferruginous plasma.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22359.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 18.11.1966, erstellt von Werner Scheidegger
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Action research: perceptions of content-based instruction in an English as a foreign language setting
Creators: name: Souza, Vitor Marconi de
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2015
Subjects: Content-based instruction
Culture
EFL
Perceptions
Teaching
Vocabulary

description: Content-based instruction (CBI) aims to develop students' content and language knowledge as well as their ability to use learning strategies to become autonomous learners. It is a language teaching methodology that uses content as the organizing principle and makes a dual commitment to both language and content objectives. Through a three-cycle action research project, this M.A. thesis investigated teacher and learner perceptions of a content and language integrated course in an English as a foreign language (EFL) environment. As the teacher/researcher in this project, I designed and taught the CBI course at a private English center in Niterói, Brazil. Learner data were obtained from initial questionnaires, student journals, and oral interviews in Cycles 2 and 3, and teacher data were obtained from teaching journals and videotaped lessons in the three cycles. Learner data indicated that some participants recognized the integration of language and content during the course and appreciated CBI methodology. Other participants had expectations for a traditional language course and were not able to recognize the integration of content and language. Although content was used as the organizing principle in the course, some learners paid little attention to the content and expressed a desire to improve their language skills, not realizing that it was possible to do both. Furthermore, some participants revealed that learning vocabulary derived from the content and vocabulary-learning strategies (VLSs) were beneficial despite the difficulty of some strategies. Although participants identified the importance of the content being taught (i.e., culture and specifically, intercultural tolerance), they did not show tolerance toward some aspects of American values and ideas during in-class activities. Teacher data showed that CBI methodology in Cycles 2 and 3 promoted a deeper understanding of content. As my own knowledge of the course content deepened, I realized that I was also able to use content resources more appropriately. Based on an analysis of qualitative data, I concluded that course design improved through the three cycles. Additional modifications to course design in the future would allow for more opportunities to target strategies and promote the gradual development of intercultural communication, tolerance, and acceptance.