cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Ecology, Behavior and Taxonomy of Anurans from Brazil's Atlantic Forest
Creators: name: Ferreira, Rodrigio Barbosa
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: The Atlantic Forest extends mainly along the Atlantic coast of Brazil, but today the native habitat is reduced to 14.5% of its historical range. This biome is among the fifth most important biodiversity hotspots in the world due to the high richness and endemism and also high degree of human-induced habitat modification. Understanding the response of species with differing life-history traits to habitat modification such as forest edges and matrix types helps predict species occurrence across changing landscapes. Previous studies have used amphibians as a biological indicator of habitat quality due to their physiological and morphological constraints. Amphibians are also an excellent taxon model to study antipredator behavior due to their variety of defensive postures, vocalizations, skin secretions and aposematic colors. Brazil has currently 1026 recognized amphibian species, of which 60 species were described in the past five years, mostly from the Atlantic Forest biome. New species are increasingly described with the increase in sampling effort at microhabitats from remote areas. My study aimed to understand frog response to habitat modification and their antipredator behaviors, and also to describe a new frog species. First, I demonstrated that the breeding guild was the most important variable explaining frog response to edge effects and matrix types. Leaf-litter and bromeliad breeders decreased in richness and abundance from the forest interior toward the matrix habitats. Water-body breeders increased in richness toward the matrix and remained relatively stable in abundance across distances. Second, I created a database comprising 224 records of frog antipredator behavior, of which 102 (45%) were collected during our fieldwork, 116 (52%) were compiled from the literature, and six (3%) were reported by colleagues. The 224 records represented 165 species, and included 16 families of anurans. Lastly, I described the first bromeliad-dwelling species among the 96 species of the genus Dendropsophus. The new species was diagnosed by its small size, framed dorsal color pattern, medium-sized vocal sac, and short membrane in the fifth toe. Phylogenetic analysis based on molecular data indicated this new species should not be assigned to any of the currently recognized species groups of Dendropsophus.
title: Computational Prediction and Rational Design of Novel Clusters, Nanoparticles, and Solid State Materials
Creators: name: Ivanov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: The creation of new materials is absolutely essential for developing new technologies. However, experimental efforts toward the material discovery are usually based on trial-and-error approach and thus require a huge amount of time and money. Alternatively, computational predictions can now provide a more systematic, rapid, inexpensive, and reliable method for the design of novel materials with properties suitable for new technologies. This dissertation describes the technique of theoretical predictions and presents the results on the successfully predicted and already produced (in some cases) unusual molecules, clusters, nanoparticles, and solids. The major part of scientific efforts in this dissertation was devoted to rationalizing of size- and composition-dependent properties of the materials based on understanding of their electronic structure and chemical bonding. It was shown that understanding relations between bonding and geometric structure, bonding and stability, and bonding and reactivity is an important step toward rational design of new, yet unknown materials with unusual properties. Our findings led to the discovery of the first simplest inorganic double helix structures, which can be used in the design of novel molecular devices. A significant part of this work also deals with the pseudo John-Teller effect, which potentially can be a powerful tool for rationalizing and predicting molecular and solid state structures, their deformations, transformations, and properties. Therefore, the works on the pseudo Jahn-Teller effect presented in this dissertation can be considered the steps toward further generalization and elevation of the pseudo Jahn-Teller effect to a higher level of understanding of the origin of molecular and solid state properties.
QMA-complete problems for stoquastic Hamiltonians and Markov matrices
Creators: name: Jordan, Stephen P.
name: Gosset, David
name: Love, Peter J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that finding the lowest eigenvalue of a 3-local symmetric stochastic matrix is QMA-complete. We also show that finding the highest energy of a stoquastic Hamiltonian is QMA-complete and that adiabatic quantum computation using certain excited states of a stoquastic Hamiltonian is universal. We also show that adiabatic evolution in the ground state of a stochastic frustration free Hamiltonian is universal. Our results give a new QMA-complete problem arising in the classical setting of Markov chains, and new adiabatically universal Hamiltonians that arise in many physical systems.
description: 11 pages. Contains several new results not present in version 1.
The thermodynamics and roughening of solid-solid interfaces
Creators: name: Angheluta, Luiza
name: Jettestuen, Espen
name: Mathiesen, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of sharp interfaces separating two non-hydrostatically stressed solids is analyzed using the idea that the rate of mass transport across the interface is proportional to the thermodynamic potential difference across the interface. The solids are allowed to exchange mass by transforming one solid into the other, thermodynamic relations for the transformation of a mass element are derived and a linear stability analysis of the interface is carried out. The stability is shown to depend on the order of the phase transition occurring at the interface. Numerical simulations are performed in the non-linear regime to investigate the evolution and roughening of the interface. It is shown that even small contrasts in the referential densities of the solids may lead to the formation of finger like structures aligned with the principal direction of the far field stress.
description: (24 pages, 8 figures; V2: added figures, text revisions)
title: Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis of Whole Field Pennycress Biomass
Creators: name: Kidane, Yonas Afewerki
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Reports indicate that the worldwide energy consumption and fossil fuel energy production level will have an opposite trend in the coming two decades. The former will continue to increase while the later will decrease. Therefore, additional sources of energy need to be developed. Field pennycress (Thlaspi, arvense L.) has been found to be an ideal source of energy because it has prolific yield and has no value as food. We demonstrated conventional and catalytic fast pyrolysis of whole pennycress biomass in a fluidized bed reactor. Characterization studies on field pennycress showed that the biomass had a potential to be converted to energy-rich bio-fuel. Thermogravimetric and kinetic study on field pennycress provided vital information on the degradation behavior of the feedstock. A parametric study was conducted on conventional rapid pyrolysis by using the effects model. The optimum experimental condition that gave maximum liquid yield was found to be at a temperature of 500 °C and a gas flow rate of 24 l/min. The catalysts used for catalytic fast pyrolysis were HZSM-5, a commercial catalyst, and red mud, an alumina industry waste material. The liquid products obtained from pennycress were found to have better qualities compared to a typical lignocellulosic feedstocks pyrolysis bio-oil. The bio-oil from the red mud catalyzed experiment had almost neutral pH of 6.5 and the pH in the case of HZSM-5 was 5.7. In comparison to bio-oil from conventional rapid pyrolysis, HZSM-5 and red mud reduced the viscosity of the bio-oil by 3 and 5 times, respectively. However, red mud was only found to be effective in improving the higher heating value (HHV) of the bio-oil from 33.18 MJ/kg (dry basis) in conventional pyrolysis to 35.7 MJ/Kg (dry basis). The HHV of HZSM-5 catalyzed bio-oil was 33.63 MJ/kg. The composition of non-condensable gases and the chemical makeup of the bio-oil from the two catalysts were different, suggesting that the reaction pathways could be different. HZSM-5 had higher selectivity for aromatics whereas red mud produced longer aliphatic chains. The bio-oil obtained from red mud catalytic pyrolysis of field pennycress is a promising alternative energy source that could replace petroleum fuels after some upgrading.
title: Religious Outsiders and the Catholic Critique of Protestantism in America
Creators: name: Kime, Bradley
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, widespread Catholic commentary cast a congeries of prophets, millenarians, freethinkers, metaphysicians, and other (ir)religious outsiders as an indictment of Protestantism in America. To Catholics, Mormons and Millerites, atheists and agnostics, Spiritualists and Christian Scientists were the exegetical and educational products of Protestantism. And mainstream Protestant reactions to these groups exposed the contradictions of Protestant power and anti-Catholic discourse in America. Catholics argued that proliferating religious radicals ultimately belied Protestants’ portrayals of their own exegetical, intellectual, and politico-religious freedom from Catholic oppression. Recovering Catholic commentary on religious outsiders and Protestantism in America helps correct the historiographical neglect of Catholic responses to anti-Catholicism, present oft-obscured historical Catholic perspectives on American religious history, recover a polemical dialogue where historians have offered a Protestant monologue, and qualify the historical cogency of anti-Catholic discourse in America. Most importantly, this study reveals a rare instance in which one marginalized religious group used other marginalized religious groups to interrogate and critique, rather than appeal to and deflect criticism from, a religious mainstream.
title: Diseguaglianze e inclusione. Saggi di sociologia
Creators: name: BURGALASSI, MARCO
name: COCOZZA, ANTONIO
Publisher: name: ROMATRE-PRESS
Year: 2020

description: Il volume presenta una raccolta di saggi su fenomeni emergenti che caratterizzano la società contemporanea e dai quali dipendono condizioni di disuguaglianza sociale di cui vi è ampio riscontro nel dibattito pubblico.

Pur trattando argomenti diversi, gli scritti sono organizzati in modo da configurare un percorso ragionato. Il punto di partenza è lo scenario della società globalizzata, nel quale si definiscono condizioni e vincoli di natura economica e culturale che sembrano aver messo sotto scacco il ruolo della politica e che alimentano anche nei paesi occidentali una rapida crescita delle diseguaglianze sociali. I saggi che aprono la raccolta analizzano tale scenario discutendone le origini e le recenti dinamiche, le questioni che dovrebbero essere affrontate per contrastare una deriva economicista dei sistemi sociali e il corretto utilizzo che la sociologia dovrebbe fare dei concetti che animano il dibattito pubblico.

Il percorso prosegue andando poi a focalizzare alcune specifiche dimensioni della diseguaglianza sociale. In particolare, tale approfondimento viene condotto attraverso la prospettiva del genere e quella delle generazioni, proponendo per l’una e per l’altra la rappresentazione di processi che possono determinare dinamiche di inclusione o esclusione. L’attenzione è rivolta a fenomeni nei quali emergono alcuni dei vincoli di natura economica e culturale che segnano il quadro della società contemporanea, con un particolare interesse per le vicende che riguardano la condizione giovanile a cui sono dedicate analisi che discutono le difficoltà legate alle sfide poste dalla precarietà di vita e di lavoro e i rischi di marginalità sociale che ne possono derivare.
title: Fake and Spam Messages: Detecting Misinformation During Natural Disasters on Social Media
Creators: name: Rajdev, Meet
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: During natural disasters or crises, users on social media tend to easily believe contents of postings related to the events, and retweet the postings, hoping that the postings will be reached by many other users. Unfortunately, there are malicious users who understand the tendency and post misinformation such as spam and fake messages with expecting wider propagation. To resolve the problem, in this paper we conduct a case study of the 2013 Moore Tornado and Hurricane Sandy. Concretely, we (i) understand behaviors of these malicious users; (ii) analyze properties of spam, fake and legitimate messages; (iii) propose at and hierarchical classification approaches; and (iv) detect both fake and spam messages with even distinguishing between them. Our experimental results show that our proposed approaches identify spam and fake messages with 96.43% accuracy and 0.961 F-measure.
Factorization of Boosted Multijet Processes for Threshold Resummation
Creators: name: Bauer, Christian W.
name: Dunn, Nicholas Daniel
name: Hornig, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Explicit applications of factorization theorems for processes at hadron colliders near the hadronic endpoint have largely focused on simple final states with either no jets (e.g., Drell-Yan) or one inclusive jet (e.g., deep inelastic scattering and prompt photon production). Factorization for the former type of process gives rise to a soft function that depends on timelike momenta, whereas the soft function for the latter type depends on null momenta. We derive in soft-collinear effective theory a factorization theorem that allows for an arbitrary number of jets, where the jets are defined with respect to a jet algorithm, together with any number of non-strongly interacting particles. We find the soft function in general depends on the null components of the soft momenta inside the jets and on a timelike component of the soft momentum outside of the jets. This generalizes and interpolates between the soft functions for the cases of no jets and one inclusive jet. We verify consistency of our factorization theorem to order alpha_s for any number of jets. While in this paper we demonstrate consistency only near the hadronic endpoint, we keep the kinematics general enough (in particular allowing for nonzero boost) to allow for an extension to partonic threshold resummation away from the hadronic endpoint.
description: Section added, along with minor revisions and citations
Disentangling the effect of climatic and hydrological predictor variables on benthic macroinvertebrate distributions from predictive models
Creators: name: Irving, Katie
name: Jähnig, Sonja C.
name: Kuemmerlen, Mathias
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Species distribution models (SDMs)
subject: Hydrology
subject: Climate
subject: Benthic macroinvertebrate
subject: Rivers
subject: 550 Geowissenschaften

description: Lotic freshwater macroinvertebrate species distribution models (SDMs) have been shown to improve when hydrological variables are included. However, most studies to date only include data describing climate or stream flow-related surrogates. We assessed the relative influence of climatic and hydrological predictor variables on the modelled distribution of macroinvertebrates, expecting model performance to improve when hydrological variables are included. We calibrated five SDMs using combinations of bioclimatic (bC), hydrological (H) and hydroclimatic (hC) predictor datasets and compared model performance as well as variance partition of all combinations. We investigated the difference in trait composition of communities that responded better to either bC or H configurations. The dataset bC had the most influence in terms of proportional variance, however model performance was increased with the addition of hC or H. Trait composition demonstrated distinct patterns between associated model configurations, where species that prefer intermediate to slow-flowing current conditions in regions further downstream performed better with bC–H. Including hydrological variables in SDMs contributes to improved performance, it is however, species-specific and future studies would benefit from hydrology-related variables to link environmental conditions and diverse communities. Consequently, SDMs that include climatic and hydrological variables could more accurately guide sustainable river ecosystem management.
title: Relationship of Nutritional Factors to Cognitive Decline in the Progression of Dementia: The Cache County Dementia Progression Study
Creators: name: Sanders, Chelsea
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Previous studies have found nutritional status to predict better functional and cognitive ability in dementia. The current study investigated the relationship between nutritional status and progression of neuropsychological impairment in a U.S. sample of persons with dementia. Participants were studied for up to 6 years in the population-based Cache County, UT, study. Baseline sample included 240 persons with dementia (71.3% Alzheimer’s disease, 52.1% female). Mean (SD) age and dementia duration at baseline was 85.6 (5.2) and 3.4 (1.9) years, respectively. Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD) neuropsychological test battery and Boston Naming Test (30-item) were administered annually. Nutritional status was assessed using a modified Mini Nutritional Assessment (mMNA). Components of nutritional status were chosen for further investigation (dietary intake and BMI). Linear mixed effects models examined change in nutritional status and food consumption over time as well as the association between mMNA and its components (time-varying) with each neuropsychological measure and rate of decline over time. The following covariates were tested as appropriate: dementia type, gender, age of dementia onset and duration (at baseline), education, neuropsychiatric symptoms, caregiver coresidence, place of residence, overall health, and dementia severity.
mMNA scores decreased by .22 pts/year (p = .006), though this was confounded by dementia severity (β = -.12, p = .108). Consumption of carbohydrates (β = -.09), protein (β = -.07) and fruit/vegetables (β = -.08) also declined over time, all p < .05). Better nutritional status was associated with better neuropsychological test scores across all visits in verbal learning (β = .23), praxis drawing (β = .23), praxis memory (β = .08), verbal fluency (β = .34) and confrontation naming (β = .31), while mMNA predicted rate of decline in verbal recognition memory (β = .13); all p < .001, with the inclusion of covariates. Higher protein intake was associated with worse verbal learning, while higher BMI predicted better scores on all neuropsychological tests except for confrontation naming. The results emphasize the importance of nutritional status in dementia and raises the possibility of nutritional interventions that may improve patient outcomes.
Association of ATP2B1 common variants with asymptomatic intracranial and extracranial large artery stenosis in hypertension patients
Creators: name: An, Dewei
name: Zhang, Jin
name: Tang, Xiaofeng
name: Gao, Pingjin
name: Li, Yan
name: Wang, Yan
name: Zhu, Dingliang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Background and aims: Genetic factors play an important role in the cervico-cerebral large-artery atherosclerotic stenosis (LAS), and ATP2B1 gene has been associated with the process of atherosclerosis disorders, such as coronary artery disease and arterial stiffness. But there is little information about the relationship between ATP2B1 gene and atherosclerosis in the intracranial arteries. We hereby investigated the association of common variants in ATP2B1 gene with LAS in asymptomatic Chinese hypertension patients. Methods: The stenosis of intracranial and extracranial arteries were evaluated in 899 subjects through computerized tomography angiography from the aortic arch to the skull base. A total of 11 ATP2B1 common variants were genotyped. Multivariate logistic regression was carried out in a dominant model with confounding factors adjusted. Results: rs17249754-A (OR = 0.43, p = 0.0002) and rs1401982-G (OR = 0.47, p = 0.0007) were associated with decreased susceptibility of concurrent extra and intracranial stenosis even after Bonferroni correction. These two minor alleles were also significantly associated with less stenotic arteries and moderate-to-severe stenosis. Conclusion: rs17249754 and rs1401982 were associated with asymptomatic LAS in stroke-free Chinese hypertension patients and might benefit early recognition of LAS patients in clinical practice.
Generalized Cahn effect and parton 3D motion in a covariant approach
Creators: name: Zavada, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Cahn effect and the unintegrated unpolarized parton distribution function $f_{1}^{q}(x,\mathbf{p}_{T})$ are studied in a covariant approach. The Cahn effect is compared with some other effects due to the parton intrinsic motion. The comparison suggests that the present understanding of parton transverse momenta and intrinsic motion in general is still rather incomplete. The new relation for $f_{1}^{q}(x,\mathbf{p}_{T})$ is obtained in the framework of the covariant parton model from which a prediction for this distribution function follows.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. Updated version is accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.D
Supplementary information for "A palaeolimnological perspective to understand regime-shift dynamics in two Yangtze-basin lakes"
Creators: name: Xu, Min
name: Wang, Rong
name: Dong, Xuhui
name: Yang, Xiangdong
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019

description: 1-Diatom profile in the Lake Zhangdu and Chaohu; 2-Regime shift detection using F-statistic method
Orbitally controlled Kondo effect of Co ad-atoms on graphene
Creators: name: Wehling, T. O.
name: Balatsky, A. V.
name: Katsnelson, M. I.
name: Lichtenstein, A. I.
name: Rosch, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on ab-initio calculations we identify possible scenarios for the Kondo effect due to Co ad-atoms on graphene. General symmetry arguments show that for magnetic atoms in high-symmetry positions, the Kondo effect in graphene is controlled not only by the spin but also by the orbital degree of freedom. For a Co atom absorbed on top of a carbon atom, the Kondo effect is quenched by spin-orbit coupling below an energy scale of $\sim 15$\,K. For Co with spin $S=1/2$ located in the center of a hexagon, an SU(4) Kondo model describes the entanglement of orbital moment and spin at higher energies, while below \sim 60$\,meV spin-orbit coupling leads to a more conventional SU(2) Kondo effect. The interplay of the orbital Co physics and the peculiar band-structure of graphene is directly accessible in Fourier transform tunneling spectroscopy or in the gate-voltage dependence of the Kondo temperature displaying a very strong, characteristic particle-hole asymmetry.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures (extended version)
title: Tropical Arithmetics and Dot Product Representations of Graphs
Creators: name: Turner, Nicole
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: In tropical algebras we substitute min or max for the typical addition and then substitute addition for multiplication. A dot product representation of a graph assigns each vertex of the graph a vector such that two edges are adjacent if and only if the dot product of their vectors is greater than some chosen threshold. The resultS of creating dot product representations of graphs using tropical algebras are examined. In particular we examine the tropical dot product dimensions of graphs and establish connections to threshold graphs and the threshold dimension of a graph.
Modelling tri-bimaximal neutrino mixing
Creators: name: Hirsch, M.
name: Morisi, S.
name: Valle, J. W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model tri-bimaximal lepton mixing from first principles in a way that avoids the problem of the vacuum alignment characteristic of such models. This is achieved by using a softly broken A4 symmetry realized with an isotriplet fermion, also triplet under A4. No scalar A4-triplet is introduced. This represents one possible realization of general schemes characterized by the minimal set of either three or five physical parameters. In the three parameter versions mee vanishes, while in the five parameter schemes the absolute scale of neutrino mass, although not predicted, is related to the two Majorana phases. The model realization we discuss is potentially testable at the LHC through the peculiar leptonic decay patterns of the fermionic and scalar triplets.
description: some changing, reference added
title: Mining the Colorado Plateau: the Story of Calamity Mesa 1910-1970
Creators: name: Godfrey, Lisa Pitcher
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1991

description: This thesis was written to outline the history of five stone houses, which have survived almost a century of mining activity. The houses are located on a barren mesa, called Calamity, in southwestern Colorado. This work was funded by the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, in order to explore the possibility of designating this site as a National Historic Site.
Men and women lived and worked on this and the surrounding mesas for most of the twentieth century. The lives of the families, the men, women, and children who lived and worked on Calamity Mesa, provided the context for the entire period. These people formed nebulous communities on what could only be called a twentieth-century frontier.
I used several methods for this study, including oral interviews with surviving miners and their families, company and government officials, mining engineers, and medical personnel involved in studies concerning the effects of radiation exposure. Government publications, local newspapers, and personal papers of several individuals were also researched. Through the use of these methods I further developed the history of the period, by focusing on Calamity Camp and the lives of the men and women who lived and worked there.
The miners who came to Calamity Mesa extracted the carnotite ore from sandstone beds. Originally, miners searched for radium, desired for its illusory cure for cancer. Then they sought vanadium, which was used as a strengthening agent for steel during both world wars . Finally, their goal was uranium, a key component for the production of nuclear weapons and energy.
The search for these minerals brought, many working class men and women to the Colorado Plateau. They brought their families to Calamity Mesa and lived in whatever shelter they could find. The stone houses, lived in by generation after generation of miners and their families, who came searching for carnotite, provided a permanence to Calamity Mesa throughout this period.
title: Διεθνές Κέντρο Πολεμικών Τεχνών στην Αλάμπρα
title: International Martial Arts Center in Alambra
Creators: name: Γρηγοριου Μιχαηλ
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2023

description: Η παρούσα διπλωματική έχει ως θέμα το σχεδιασμό ενός Διεθνούς Κέντρου Πολεμικών Τεχνών, στην Κύπρο, στο χωριό Αλάμπρα της επαρχίας Λευκωσίας. Στην Κύπρο υπάρχουν αρκετές σχολές πολεμικών τεχνών και προάγεται το πνεύμα του αθλητισμού, εντούτοις στην ευρύτερη περιοχή μελέτης δεν υπάρχει κάτι, με αποτέλεσμα οι ενδιαφερόμενοι να αναγκάζονται να ταξιδεύουν μέχρι την πόλη της Λευκωσίας για να προπονηθούν. Μια άλλη σχεδιαστική πτυχή που καλύπτει η αρχιτεκτονική πρόταση, είναι η φιλοξενία αθλητικών γεγονότων στο πλαίσιο των πολεμικών τεχνών. Υπάρχει έλλειψη χώρου, που να φιλοξενεί αποκλειστικά και μόνο αγώνες πολεμικών τεχνών, με αποτέλεσμα όταν διοργανώνονται να γίνονται σε χώρους που δεν είναι κατάλληλοι για τέτοιου είδους αγώνες, μη μπορώντας να ανταπεξέλθουν με τα δεδομένα των πολεμικών τεχνών.
Η συγκεκριμένη περιοχή είναι το ιδανικό σημείο για την υλοποίηση του Διεθνούς Κέντρου Πολεμικών Τεχνών, γιατί είναι σε κεντροβαρικό  σημείο στο νησί και έχει περίπου την ίδια απόσταση από κάθε πόλη. Επίσης, το οικόπεδο είναι λίγο έξω από το χωριό και σε σημείο που δεν υπάρχουν σπίτια κοντά. Βρίσκεται σε πιο ψηλό υψόμετρο σε σύγκριση με τα γύρω σπίτια, με αποτέλεσμα να μην ενοχλούνται οι κάτοικοι. Ένα ακόμη θετικό είναι ότι με την κατασκευή του Κέντρου στο συγκεκριμένο σημείο, θα μπορούν να αθλούνται οι κάτοικοι από τα γύρω χωριά και περιοχές, χωρίς να χρειάζεται να πηγαίνουν μέσα στην πόλη της Λευκωσίας, δίνοντας στο Κέντρο ένα υπερτοπικό χαρακτήρα.
Η κεντρική ιδέα της οργάνωσης του Κέντρου προκύπτει από το οκταγωνικό ρινγκ, δηλαδή το ρινγκ που χρησιμοποιείται για τους αγώνες της πολεμικής τέχνης ΜΜΑ, Μεικτών Πολεμικών Τεχνών. Το οκταγωνικό σχήμα στη συνέχεια αποδομήθηκε για να ανασυνταχθεί με τη χρήση ψηφιακών εργαλείων ως διάγραμμα voronoi και συνδετικό στοιχείο των όψεων του συγκροτήματος. Η αρχιτεκτονική πρόταση αντιμετωπίζει το οκτάγωνο ως το συστατικό στοιχείο ενός μοτίβου, και διερευνά τους τρόπους ανάπτυξής του με μια bottom up λογική.
Clones with finitely many relative R-classes
Creators: name: Lehtonen, Erkko
name: Szendrei, Ágnes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 08A40

description: For each clone C on a set A there is an associated equivalence relation analogous to Green's R-relation, which relates two operations on A iff each one is a substitution instance of the other using operations from C. We study the clones for which there are only finitely many relative R-classes.
description: 41 pages; proofs improved, examples added
Asymmetric Left-Right Model and the Top Pair Forward-Backward Asymmetry
Creators: name: Barger, Vernon
name: Keung, Wai-Yee
name: Yu, Chiu-Tien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The forward-backward asymmetry measurement in top-pair production at the Tevatron is about $2σ$ from the Standard Model prediction. We propose an asymmetric left-right model, which includes a $W'$ boson with a right-handed coupling of down to top quark, and a $Z'$ boson with diagonal couplings to the up, top, and down quarks with $M_{W'}\approx175$ GeV and $M_{Z'}\approx 900$ GeV. The model accounts for the asymmetry while remaining consistent with the top-pair total cross-section and invariant mass distribution.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures; version published in Phys. Rev. D
title: Ghrelin Concentrations in Milk and Plasma of Dairy Cows During Early Lactation
Creators: name: Alhojaily, Sameer M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Ghrelin is a hormone produced mainly by the cells lining the gastric mucosa. Ghrelin was first extracted from human and rat stomachs, and identified as an endogenous stimulator of growth hormone release. Ghrelin is synthesized and produced in several tissues, but the gastric mucosa remains the major source of circulating ghrelin. Besides growth hormone release, ghrelin stimulates appetite and plays some major roles in different organs. In several studies, ghrelin was described as a hormone with multiple functions and diverse biological actions. Ghrelin exists in two major forms, active ghrelin and inactive ghrelin, and only the active from binds to the receptor. The majority of total circulating ghrelin is inactive ghrelin with no identified function. The aims of the present study were to measure active and total ghrelin in dairy cow’s milk and plasma during early lactation, and to observe changes in the ghrelin concentrations over time. We are interested in this period of time since the milk during early lactation contains a variety of biologically active hormones that are vital for newborn calves. In this study, fifteen Holstein dairy cows were selected randomly from different lactations. Milk and blood samples were taken daily from cows at early lactation for 10 days, and from some cows in mid-lactation. A laboratory test was used to measure active and total ghrelin in milk and plasma samples. Supplementary measurements such as milk fat, lactose, protein, and milk yield were recorded. Active and total milk ghrelin concentrations were found to be significantly higher in the first day of lactation during colostrum production. Interestingly, the percentage of active to total ghrelin in milk and blood was constant in all days tested, suggesting that this constant percentage can be used to estimate active or total ghrelin, if one of them is know, from the same sample. However, no correlation was observed between the percentage of milk ghrelin and plasma ghrelin or with other milk components. In conclusion, the presence of ghrelin in colostrum and milk in measurable amounts of both active and total form suggests that it is a critical compound for the metabolic activity of newborn calves and functions transiently to regulate the activity of some physiological processes until the endocrine system of the new calves starts to function independently.
Spectral geometry as a probe of quantum spacetime
Creators: name: Benedetti, Dario
name: Henson, Joe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Employing standard results from spectral geometry, we provide strong evidence that in the classical limit the ground state of three-dimensional causal dynamical triangulations is de Sitter spacetime. This result is obtained by measuring the expectation value of the spectral dimension on the ensemble of geometries defined by these models, and comparing its large scale behaviour to that of a sphere (Euclidean de Sitter). From the same measurement we are also able to confirm the phenomenon of dynamical dimensional reduction observed in this and other approaches to quantum gravity -- the first time this has been done for three-dimensional causal dynamical triangulations. In this case, the value for the short-scale limit of the spectral dimension that we find is approximately 2. We comment on the relevance of these results for the comparison to asymptotic safety and Horava-Lifshitz gravity, among other approaches to quantum gravity.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures. Version 2: references to figures added, acknowledgment added.
title: Synthesis of Fluorogenic Probes for Studying Biomass Degradation and Synthesis of New Antifungal Aminoglycosides
Creators: name: Zhang, Qian
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: This dissertation is composed of two research projects. The first research project is aimed at using synthetic fluorogenic probes to study the possible or dominant linkages in biomass. These probes that mimic the linkages found in lignin-cellulosic biomass are designed to select the optimal fungi from direct evaluation process or could be tested against other microbials to screen candidates which can break ligno-hemicellulose bonds. For the first stage, these probes would be tested against white rot fungi extract. The white rot fungi are used for the first stage to see if releasing or degrading carbohydrates while keeping lignin largely intact is possible or not.
These probes can help to answer fundamental questions, such as what could be the dominant linkages between lignin and hemicellulose, and what are the possible mechanisms for the cleavage of carbohydrates in biomasses. Understanding the linkages in these biomass will enable high efficient degradation or release of carbohydrates, primarily hemicelluloses, from biomass. The second project is focused on synthesizing new aminoglycoside analogs and exploring the potential to revive traditional antibacterial kanamycin as new types of antifungal agents. Aminoglycosides are widely used broad spectrum antibiotics. Although mainly used as antibacterial agents, there have been studies to show amphiphilic aminoglycoside derivatives could be possibly employed as antifungal agents. A concise and novel method for site-selective alkylation of tetra-azidokanamycin has been developed that leads to the divergent synthesis of three classes of kanamycin derivatives. These new amphiphilic kanamycin derivatives bearing alkyl chains length of 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14，16 have been synthesized and tested against bacteria and fungi. Surprisingly, the antibacterial effect of the synthesized kanamycin derivatives decline or disappear compared with the original kanamycin A, but some of the compounds show very strong activity as antifungal agents.
Random permutations with cycle weights
Creators: name: Betz, Volker
name: Ueltschi, Daniel
name: Velenik, Yvan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the distribution of cycle lengths in models of nonuniform random permutations with cycle weights. We identify several regimes. Depending on the weights, the length of typical cycles grows like the total number $n$ of elements, or a fraction of $n$ or a logarithmic power of $n$.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AAP697 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
title: Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations of Oscillating Wings and Comparison to Lifting-Line Theory
Creators: name: Keddington, Megan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was performed in order to compare the solutions of oscillating wings with Prandtl’s lifting-line theory. Quasi-steady and steady-periodic simulations were completed using the CFD software Star-CCM+. The simulations were performed for a number of frequencies in a pure plunging setup. Additional simulations were then completed using a setup of combined pitching and plunging at multiple frequencies. Results from the CFD simulations were compared to the quasi-steady lifting-line solution in the form of the axial-force, normal-force, power, and thrust coefficients, as well as the efficiency obtained for each simulation. The mean values were evaluated for each simulation and compared to the quasi-steady lifting-line solution. It was found that as the frequency of oscillation increased, the quasi-steady lifting-line solution was decreasingly accurate in predicting solutions.
Experimental Realization of a Controlled-NOT Gate with Four-Photon Six-Qubit Cluster States
Creators: name: Gao, Wei-Bo
name: Xu, Ping
name: Yao, Xing-Can
name: Gühne, Otfried
name: Cabello, Adán
name: Lu, Chao-Yang
name: Peng, Cheng-Zhi
name: Chen, Zeng-Bing
name: Pan, Jian-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally demonstrate an optical controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate with arbitrary single inputs based on a 4-photon 6-qubit cluster state entangled both in polarization and spatial modes. We first generate the 6-qubit state, and then by performing single-qubit measurements the CNOT gate is applied to arbitrary single input qubits. To characterize the performance of the gate, we estimate its quantum process fidelity and prove its entangling capability. The results show that the gate cannot be reproduced by local operations and classical communication. Our experiment shows that cluster states are promising candidates for efficient optical quantum computation.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, typos corrected, references added
title: School-Based Mental Health Practices in Utah: A Descriptive Study
Creators: name: Hargrave, Dina
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: As psychological well-being, or mental health, is a key factor to academic performance, schools are in a pivotal position to provide needed services to improve the well-being of individual students, parents, and teachers, as well as school-wide wellness. Research has shown positive outcomes related to psychological symptom reduction, but academic outcomes are less prevalent. Due to the increasing need for services, schoolbased mental health (SBMH) programs are being developed to combine the resources and expertise of SBMH professionals and community agency mental health professionals to serve these needs. In an effort toward developing a statewide Communities of Practice Model for the state of Utah, an internet survey was developed to identify the current practices that are being implemented with schools in Utah. This study explored the current and possible types of school based and community services within a multi-tier service system approach at each tier level (universal, at-risk, and intensive) delivered to elementary and secondary students, the outcomes expected to be impacted by these partnerships, and the barriers and key factors associated with effective program iv implementation. The sample included 32 school district respondents from 21 districts and 19 community agency respondents from 18 agencies throughout the state. Results revealed that 18 of the 21 districts are involved in a SBMH partnership implementing a broad range of collaborative activities, assessments and interventions that vary between tier levels. Specific practices, barriers, and implications for SBMH services and future research are discussed.
title: Democracies Waging Counterinsurgency in a Foreign Context: The Past and Present
Creators: name: Winslow, Scott J
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: The lack of favorable outcomes produced by recent attempts at counterinsurgency by Western countries shows that the importance of uncovering a more effective approach for conducting external counterinsurgency operations cannot be downplayed. In an attempt to discover what this approach might entail, prior successful interventions conducted by democracies in the Philippines and Kenya were compared to the recent failure in Iraq, using three variable groupings as a lens through which to view all three conflicts and allow cross-conflict comparison of conditions that contributed to success or failure. Through evaluation of indicators linked to these variable groupings, it was determined that there were many similarities in conditions between the two successful examples and an inverse correlation for those conditions in the unsuccessful example. In order to be more successful in the future, intervening states should attempt to replicate the specified conditions found in Kenya and the Philippines, approach interventions with a strategic mindset, and execute interventions holistically instead of with a narrow tactical approach. Finally, planning for counterinsurgency contingencies during an intervention should start before the first dollar is spent or the first bullet fired.
BCFW Recursion Relations and String Theory
Creators: name: Cheung, Clifford
name: O'Connell, Donal
name: Wecht, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that all tree-level string theory amplitudes can be computed using the BCFW recursion relations. Our proof utilizes the pomeron vertex operator introduced by Brower, Polchinski, Strassler, and Tan. Surprisingly, we find that in a particular large complex momentum limit, the asymptotic expansion of massless string amplitudes is identical in form to that of the corresponding field theory amplitudes. This observation makes manifest the fact that field-theoretic Yang-Mills and graviton amplitudes obey KLT-like relations. Moreover, we conjecture that in this large momentum limit certain string theory and field theory amplitudes are identical, and provide evidence for this conjecture. Additionally, we find a new recursion relation which relates tachyon amplitudes to lower-point tachyon amplitudes.
description: 36 pages, JHEP3; reference and note added, improved discussion in section 6
On the energy of bound states for magnetic Schrödinger operators
Creators: name: Fournais, S.
name: Kachmar, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a leading order semiclassical asymptotics of the energy of bound states for magnetic Neumann Schrödinger operators in two dimensional (exterior) domains with smooth boundaries. The asymptotics is valid all the way up to the bottom of the essential spectrum. When the spectral parameter is varied near the value where bound states become allowed in the interior of the domain, we show that the energy has a boundary and a bulk component. The estimates rely on coherent states, in particular on the construction of `boundary coherent states', and magnetic Lieb-Thirring estimates.
description: 26 pages