cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Functional Convergence of Berry's Nodal Lengths: Approximate Tightness and Total Disorder
Creators: name: Notarnicola, Massimo
name: Peccati, Giovanni
name: Vidotto, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60G60, 60F05, 34L20, 33C10

description: We consider Berry's random planar wave model (1977), and prove spatial functional limit theorems - in the high-energy limit - for discretized and truncated versions of the random field obtained by restricting its nodal length to rectangular domains. Our analysis is crucially based on a detailed study of the projection of nodal lengths onto the so-called second Wiener chaos, whose high-energy fluctuations are given by a Gaussian total disorder field indexed by polygonal curves. Such an exact characterization is then combined with moment estimates for suprema of stationary Gaussian random fields, and with a tightness criterion by Davydov and Zikitis (2005).
description: 38 pages, 1 figure
The Turing Way: Collaboratively Learning and Sharing Data Science and Research Skills
Creators: name: Sharan, Malvika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: community, training, collaboration

description: About the event: The East African Network for Bioinformatics training (EANBiT), seeks to upskill students in Bioinformatics using the model: coursework, 5-week residential training and finally research project placement at partner institutions. EANBiT works with universities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, to offer MSc in Bioinformatics. It supports curriculum development, offers MSc fellowships to students, and support placement for research. The residential training (gone online this year), has four tracks: technical, Soft skills, Seminars, and Mini projects. The seminars involve talks from leaders in various areas of genomics, including open science. For open science, in collaboration with H3ABioNet, we seek to expose the students to: Open Science principles, and how they apply to our fellows’ research, now and in the future Practicing and promoting reproducible and collaborative research - The Turing Way Data and Education in Low-income settings: David Selassie Leveraging and building a community in science and research - Open Life Science mentoring program How to get involved in local communities - Galaxy Africa About this talk: As one of the panelists, Malvika Sharan introduced The Turing Way to the students, and discussed the following aspects of Open Science with the help of this project: Collaborative and reproducible research Why the community-building inclusive project is essential How African researchers can get involved in this project How we can openly learn and share research skills to advance science in our communities
title: Non-Return Conception Rate of Artificially Inseminated Cows as Affected by Dilution Rate, Grade, Bull Source, and Age of Semen Shipped by a Utah Artificial Breeding Association
Creators: name: Smith, William Lloyd
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1956

description: Artificial insemination of dairy cattle has become a major part of the dairy industry during the past 1.5 years. There has been a steady increase in the number of cows serviced each year since the first artificial breeding association was organized in the United States in 1938. In 1952 there were 4,238,245 cows bred artificially. In 1953 there were 4,845,222 and in 1955, artificially cows bred numbered 5,250,000.
title: A Study of the Problems of Teaching Health in Selected High Schools of Utah
Creators: name: Williams, Frank R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1956

description: It was the general belief of the developers, curators and protectors of the American form of Government that education of the masses is the backbone of the Democratic way of life practiced in the United States. This belief has been the foundation for the development of broad curriculums, expanded facilities and increased enrollment in teacher training institutions; especially since the beginning of World War II. The teacher shortage so prevalent in the United States at present has aroused the public and educators alike to concern about the welfare of the teacher, and the schooling of the child.
title: A Comparison of Fluid Milk Processing 6 and 3 Days Per Week in One Small Plant, Utah 1953
Creators: name: Willis, John L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1956

description: Many of the fluid milk processing plants in Utah are relatively small. The typical small plant in Utah is generally family operated with some hired help. Although most of the small plants are individually owned, some are operated as partnerships. Often the same man picks-up, processes, and then delivers the milk. Some of the processors also own dairy herds. In these cases, the same man performs all the functions necessary to carry the milk products from the farm to the consumer's door. It is not uncommon to find the plant owner and manager performing all these duties himself.
Inhibition of Purified Collagenase from Alkali-Burned Rabbit Corneas.
Creators: name: Paterson, C A
name: Burns, F R
name: Stack, Sharon
name: Gray, R.D.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: The inhibitory potency of four classes of compounds that inhibit corneal ulceration (thiols,tetracyclines,sodium citrate and sodium ascorbate) was assessed with collagenase purified from culture medium of alkali-burned rabbit corneas. The most potent inhibitor,a beta-mercaptomethyl tripeptide HSCH2(DL)CH[CH2CH(CH3)2]CO-Phe-Ala-NH2,exhibited 50% inhibition (IC50) at approximately 10 nM using the synthetic metalloproteinase substrate Dnp-Pro-Leu-Gly-Leu-Trp-Ala-D-Arg-NH2. The inhibitor was somewhat less potent with type 1 collagen as substrate (IC50 between 1 and 3 microM),possibly because autooxidation of the essential - SH moiety of the inhibitor occurred during the longer time required for assay with the natural substrate. An N-carboxyalkyl tripeptide,CH3(CH2)2(DL)CH-(COOH)-Leu-Phe-Ala-NH2,was less potent (IC50 = 25 microM) than the thiol peptide. N-acetylcysteine,which is used to treat corneal ulceration,gave IC50 values of 2.7 mM and less than 10 mM with the synthetic and natural substrates,respectively. The IC50 values for the tetracyclines using the synthetic substrate were 15,190 and 350 microM for doxycycline,minocycline and tetracycline,respectively. Inhibition by sodium citrate,but not the tetracyclines,could be reversed by excess Ca2+. Sodium ascorbate did not inhibit collagenase-mediated hydrolysis of either collagen or the synthetic substrate,thus indicating that the mechanism by which this agent inhibits corneal ulceration is not related to inhibition of collagen degradation by collagenase.
Additional file 9 of Frailty as a predictor of mortality among patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao-Ming
name: Jiao, Jing
name: Cao, Jing
name: Huo, Xiao-Peng
name: Zhu, Chen
name: Wu, Xin-Juan
name: Xie, Xiao-Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 9. Supplemental file 1.
Thermal Casimir Force between Magnetic Materials
Creators: name: Klimchitskaya, G. L.
name: Geyer, B.
name: Mostepanenko, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Casimir pressure between two parallel plates made of magnetic materials at nonzero temperature. It is shown that for real magnetodielectric materials only the magnetic properties of ferromagnets can influence the Casimir pressure. This influence is accomplished through the contribution of the zero-frequency term of the Lifshitz formula. The possibility of the Casimir repulsion through the vacuum gap is analyzed depending on the model used for the description of the dielectric properties of the metal plates.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the Proceedings of QFEXT09, Norman, OK, September 21-25, 2009
BERTOS
Creators: name: Wei, Lai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 340309
subject: Theory and design of materials

description: BERTOS: transformer language model for oxidation state predictionCitation: Fu, Nihang, Jeffrey Hu, Ying Feng, Gregory Morrison, Hans‐Conrad zur Loye, and Jianjun Hu. "Composition Based Oxidation State Prediction of Materials Using Deep Learning Language Models." Advanced Science (2023): 2301011. Link
title: A Study of the Farm Mechanics Program as Being Taught in the Vocational Agriculture Shops in the State of Utah
Creators: name: Zohner, Daniel R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1956

description: The numerous influences which are so greatly changing rural life in America are having their effect upon the farm shopwork which farmers perform. New farm machines and tools are being introduced and used, causing the farmer to learn new operations and to acquire new skills in the maintenance, repair and use of this equipment. The farm shop is becoming an essential part of every farm. In order to carry on the farming business more economically, and thereby meet competition which is necessary in present day farming, the farmer must know how to properly use his farm mechanics needs to the best advantage.
Domain-Specific Risk Minimization for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
Creators: name: Zhang, Yi-Fan
name: Wang, Jindong
name: Liang, Jian
name: Zhang, Zhang
name: Yu, Baosheng
name: Wang, Liang
name: Tao, Dacheng
name: Xie, Xing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent domain generalization (DG) approaches typically use the hypothesis learned on source domains for inference on the unseen target domain. However, such a hypothesis can be arbitrarily far from the optimal one for the target domain, induced by a gap termed ``adaptivity gap''. Without exploiting the domain information from the unseen test samples, adaptivity gap estimation and minimization are intractable, which hinders us to robustify a model to any unknown distribution. In this paper, we first establish a generalization bound that explicitly considers the adaptivity gap. Our bound motivates two strategies to reduce the gap: the first one is ensembling multiple classifiers to enrich the hypothesis space, then we propose effective gap estimation methods for guiding the selection of a better hypothesis for the target. The other method is minimizing the gap directly by adapting model parameters using online target samples. We thus propose \textbf{Domain-specific Risk Minimization (DRM)}. During training, DRM models the distributions of different source domains separately; for inference, DRM performs online model steering using the source hypothesis for each arriving target sample. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed DRM for domain generalization with the following advantages: 1) it significantly outperforms competitive baselines on different distributional shift settings; 2) it achieves either comparable or superior accuracies on all source domains compared to vanilla empirical risk minimization; 3) it remains simple and efficient during training, and 4) it is complementary to invariant learning approaches.
description: 9 papers for the main paper, 2 pages for the appendix, published in SIGKDD 2023
A novel non-Fermi-liquid state in the iron-pnictide FeCrAs
Creators: name: Wu, W.
name: McCollam, A.
name: Swainson, I.
name: Rourke, P. M. C.
name: Rancourt, D. G.
name: Julian, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report transport and thermodynamic properties of stoichiometric single crystals of the hexagonal iron-pnictide FeCrAs. The in-plane resistivity shows an unusual "non-metallic" dependence on temperature T, rising continuously with decreasing T from ~ 800 K to below 100 mK. The c-axis resistivity is similar, except for a sharp drop upon entry into an antiferromagnetic state at T_N 125 K. Below 10 K the resistivity follows a non-Fermi-liquid power law, rho(T) = rho_0 - AT^x with x<1, while the specific heat shows Fermi liquid behaviour with a large Sommerfeld coefficient, gamma ~ 30 mJ/mol K^2. The high temperature properties are reminiscent of those of the parent compounds of the new layered iron-pnictide superconductors, however the T -> 0 properties suggest a new class of non-Fermi liquid.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
title: A Historical Study of the Utah State Elementary School Principles Association, 1936-1957
Creators: name: Taylor, Wheatly John
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1958

description: The problem. This study seeks to present a history of the Utah Elementary Principals Association from its beginning to 1957. In its early years, the elementary principles worked with secondary principals and supervisors. The organization was not identified as a professional group separate and apart from other administrators of the state of Utah.
The purpose. The purpose of this study is to compile, organize, and record significant activities of the association. This will include personnel and chronology. Other general purposes of the study are as follows:
1. To gain a knowledge of the role of Utah Elementary Principals Association in the professional training of elementary school administrators.
2. To meet a request of the officers of the Utah Elementary Principals Association.
3. It is a means of preserving a record of important activities that have been accomplished.
Delimitations. This study is limited to the activities of the association from its beginning to 1957. It will be confined to the period of time since it became a professional group separate and apart from administrators.
Sources of data. The source for this investigation from which the historical material was compiled was found in the minute books of the Elementary Principals Association. It was also gathered by personal interviews with past officers of the Association. Pertinent Information was also obtained from personal letters from past officers and from records which have been kept by different officers of the association.
Method of treatment. From the nature of sources available, it is evident that the methods employed in dealing with the problems are most generally characterized as historical and documentary.
The particular aspects of the history of the Association that are to be discussed are as follows:
1. A brief historical background.
2. A chronological list of officers.
3. Financial reports of the Utah Elementary Principals Association.
4. Participation of the Utah Elementary Principals Association at the Northwest Convention.
5. Workshops held in the state.
6. The relation of the Utah State Elementary Principals Association to the State Department of Education.
7. Salary schedules.
8. The official magazine.
9. The promotion of professionalism.
a. Goals and objectives
b. Significance for education
c. constitution
d. Code of ethics
In gathering information for the study, the writer has searched diligently to get the important items to record. The plan is to have accessible to the Association a history which may prove valuable to it.
A fixed-time inverse-free dynamical system for solving the system of absolute value equations
Creators: name: Li, Xuehua
name: Yu, Dongmei
name: Yang, Yinong
name: Han, Deren
name: Chen, Cairong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, an inverse-free dynamical system with fixed-time convergence is presented to solve the system of absolute value equations (AVEs). Under a mild condition, it is proved that the solution of the proposed dynamical system converges to the solution of the AVEs. Moreover, in contrast to the existing inverse-free dynamical system \cite{chen2021}, a conservative settling-time of the proposed method is given. Numerical simulations illustrate the effectiveness of the new method.
description: 3 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2208.05308
title: A Survey of Supervisory Practices of Junior High School Principals and Teachers in the Field of Industrial Arts in the State of Utah
Creators: name: Bybee, Calvin R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1957

description: This thesis is a survey study of the supervisory practices or junior high school principals and teachers in the field of industrial arts. The study is limited to the state of Utah and for the school year, 1955-56.
The Relation between EIT Waves and Coronal Mass Ejections
Creators: name: Chen, P. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: More and more evidence indicates that "EIT waves" are strongly related to coronal mass ejections (CMEs). However, it is still not clear how the two phenomena are related to each other. We investigate a CME event on 1997 September 9, which was well observed by both EUV imaging telescope (EIT) and the high-cadence MK3 coronagraph at Mauna Loa Solar Observatory, and compare the spatial relation between the "EIT wave" fronts and the CME leading loops. It is found that "EIT wave" fronts are co-spatial with the CME leading loops, and the expanding EUV dimmings are co-spatial with the CME cavity. It is also found that the CME stopped near the boundary of a coronal hole, a feature common to observations of "EIT waves". It is suggested that "EIT waves"/dimmings are the EUV counterparts of the CME leading loop/cavity, based on which we propose that, as in the case of "EIT waves", CME leading loops are apparently-moving density enhancements that are generated by successive stretching (or opening-up) of magnetic loops.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
title: An Economic Analysis of Selected Problems in Processing Sour Cherries
Creators: name: Taylor, Reed D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1961

description: Red sour cherries have been a dessert item for Americans since long before George Washington chopped down the cherry tree. In the past twenty years production of sour cherries has increased at a faster rate than population. Since 1938 population of the United States has increased approximately 43 million, a 25 percent increase, whereas sour cherry production has increased approximately 78 million pounds, a 38 percent increase. This trend is expected to continue in the future, in fact, according to a Michigan survey the production of sour cherries in relation to the population will increase more in the future.
The migration of the Sons of Freedom into the Lower Mainland of British Columbia
Creators: name: Seebaran, Roopchand B.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study is primarily concerned with a description of the events that occurred in Vancouver in the year 1963, when a group of Sons of Freedom left the town of Hope and arrived in the city of Vancouver. While the Sons of Freedom have had a long history of migration their trek into a large western city such as Vancouver was a unique phenomenon. The purpose of this document was to record the activities of the Sons of Freedom and the response of lay and voluntary groups as well as the reactions of civic and provincial governments in connection with the Freedomites. Such a recording was seen to have historic value and would also serve as another frame of reference on Sons of Freedoms affairs. The method used was primarily individual and group interviews. The writer attempted to ignore previous issues and problems of this group, and focussed mainly on the collection of factual information from people who had come into contact with this group during their stay in Vancouver. Several Sons of Freedom were interviewed - youths and elderly people, male and female. The writer also conducted an attitude survey of a random sample of people (75) in Vancouver. The study revealed that while in Vancouver, the Freedomites encountered a range of attitudes (including curiosity, hostility, and indifference) from the Vancouver public. The Sons of Freedom had to face several problems in Vancouver and they dealt with most of these very well. Perhaps the most significant finding of this study was that the group seemed to respond fairly well to the work of the Committee for the Welfare of Sons of Freedom Children. The- committee was able to exhort the Freedomites to attend school. The role and consequence of the Committee's work in dealing with some of the concerns of the Sons of Freedom in Vancouver, may very well suggest that a bridge of this nature is the answer to an understanding and an amelioration of some of the cold conditions that now prevail between this group and the government of British Columbia.
title: The Effect of Captan, Demeton, and 4(2,4-Db) on Alfalfa Growth and Seed Production
Creators: name: Taylor, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1961

description: The widespread use of chemicals for the control of diseases, insects, and weeds in the production of alfalfa seed has caused concern with regards to what effect these materials may have on the inherent reproductive potential of the plants. It has been reported that captan (N- (trichloromethylthio)-4-cyclohexene-1,2-dicarboximide) has both a morphological and physiological effect on some plants. The action of this chemical with regards to alfalfa reproduction has not been reported. Demeton (0,0- diethyl O(and S)-2-(ethylthio) ethylphosphorodithioate) is another chemical used in alfalfa seed production for which the direct effects on reproduction have not been studied. Adverse effects have been reported on a number of plant species with the use of organic phosphate insecticides. A selective herbicide, 4(2,4-DB), (2,4-dichlorophenoxybatyric acid) shows promise of being satisfactory for the control of broad-leaf weeds in alfalfa. Work reported on studies of forage and seed yields is quite varied as to the effect of 4(2,4-DB) on alfalfa.
The European project and the challenges of the future. Revue ECU/EURO, N°51 (2017)
Creators: name: Duisenberg, Willem
Publisher: name: RESuME
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: European Central Bank
subject: Banque centrale européenne
subject: Eurosystem
subject: Eurosystème
subject: Monetary Policy
subject: Politique monétaire

description: In this speech delivered on 11 November 1999 at the Edmond Israel Foundation, Dr. Willem F. Duisenberg, President of the European Central Bank, presents some observations about the challenges facing the European Union in the years ahead. Among other things, national policy-markers are invited, in their areas of competence, to pursue policies, which respect the EU common rules.
Probing robustness of nonlinear filter stability numerically using Sinkhorn divergence
Creators: name: Mandal, Pinak
name: Roy, Shashank Kumar
name: Apte, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93E11(Primary), 60G35, 62M20

description: Using the recently developed Sinkhorn algorithm for approximating the Wasserstein distance between probability distributions represented by Monte Carlo samples, we demonstrate exponential filter stability of two commonly used nonlinear filtering algorithms, namely, the particle filter and the ensemble Kalman filter, for deterministic dynamical systems. We also establish numerically a relation between filter stability and filter convergence by showing that the Wasserstein distance between filters with two different initial conditions is proportional to the bias or the RMSE of the filter.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
New Results on Nucleon Resonance Transition Form Factors
Creators: name: Burkert, Volker D.
name: Aznauryan, Inna
name: collaboration, the CLAS
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent measurements with CLAS at Jefferson Lab of nucleon resonance transition form factors for several lower mass states are discussed.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, invited talk at the CIPANP 2009 conference, San Diego, CA
title: Evaluation of Male Physical Education Programs in Selected Secondary Schools of Utah as Determined by the Standards of the Utah State Course of Study
Creators: name: Robbins, F. Dale
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1953

description: Physical education has made unusually rapid progress during the past 50 years. Emphasis has deviated from absolute academic objectives to those permitting a well rounded educational program including the physical aspect. Physical education has been influenced by educational, spiritual, political, and social conditions.
As a result of these influences, the necessity of developing the physical has assumed major proportions. There is now a greater demand for physical education than ever before in the history of our country. For the welfare of not only the individual, but also to the state and nation, it is essential that an extremely high degree of physical fitness be maintained.
Notes on Ramond-Ramond spinors and bispinors in double field theory
Creators: name: Butter, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Ramond-Ramond sector of double field theory (DFT) can be described either as an O(D,D) spinor or an O(D-1,1) x O(1,D-1) bispinor. Both formulations may be related to the standard polyform expansion in terms of even or odd rank field strengths corresponding to IIA or IIB duality frames. The spinor approach is natural in a (bosonic) metric formulation of DFT, while the bispinor is indispensable for supersymmetric DFT. In these notes, we show how these two approaches may be covariantly connected using a spinorial version of the DFT vielbein, which flattens an O(D,D) spinor into a bispinor. We also elaborate on details of the bispinor formulation in both even and odd D and elaborate on the distinction between the IIA/IIB/IIA*/IIB* duality frames.
description: 40 pages; v2: added additional comment in section 4.4 and 7; v3: added new sections 5.3 and 6.3 (published version)
title: A Curriculum Evaluation by Selected Graduates of the Richfield High School
Creators: name: Rowley, Robert D
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1961

description: This study was undertaken to assist the principal and faculty of the Richfield High School in their more or less continuous evaluation of the effectiveness of the school. The writer graduated from this school in 1943 and is at present living in the community after having graduated from Utah State University and teaching one year in the junior high school of a neighboring district.
An analysis of the adoption of innovations by Okanagan orchardists
Creators: name: Millerd, Frank Webb
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study analyses the adoption of some innovations by Okanagan Valley orchardists. Comparisons were made with findings on the adoption of innovations by American farmers. Also included in the study is an evaluation of the 1964 televised chautauqua produced by the Horticultural Branch of the British Columbia Department of Agriculture. This style of chautauqua (which may be defined as an assembly for educational purposes, lectures, entertainment, etc.) replaced an earlier version held in district halls throughout the Okanagan Valley. The data were gathered by interviewing a sample of Okanagan Valley orchardists from the population of orchardists in the area served by the 1964 T.V. Chautauqua and who were also included in the 1960 Orchard Survey of the Okanagan Valley. Generally, adoption theory, as developed from studies in other countries, can be applied to a specific Canadian setting. Earlier adopters of innovations were more active educationally, had been in orcharding longer, had larger and more valuable orchards, and sold more orchard products than later adopters. These results coincide with past studies. However, the vast majority of the early adopters were full-time orchardists, while other studies have found part-time farmers to be the most innovative. Also, this study found complete ownership of the farm to be a characteristic of the later adopters while other studies have found this characteristic of early adopters. Two differences with previous studies were found in the use of sources of information. Agricultural agencies increased in importance between the awareness and interest stages in the adoption process. Also unique to this study was less use of mass media and agricultural agencies by the earlier adopters than the later ones. Evidence of a two-step concept of the diffusion of technological innovations was found with innovations flowing from their place of origin to the earlier adopters and from them to the later adopters. Innovativeness was found to be a general characteristic of certain respondents in that they adopted most innovations. The T.V. Chautauqua was more valuable than its predecessor in one respect; more of the laggards (who use fewer agricultural agencies than most orchardists) watched the televised program than attended the district hall chautauqua. This study is limited by the use of a sample to gather data, the use of an incomplete population list for sampling and inconsistencies in the interpretation of questions and answers by the interviewers.
Additional file 3 of Nomogram for prediction of fatal outcome in patients with severe COVID-19: a multicenter study
Creators: name: Yang, Yun
name: Zhu, Xiao-Fei
name: Huang, Jian
name: Chen, Cui
name: Zheng, Yang
name: He, Wei
name: Zhao, Ling-Hao
name: Gao, Qian
name: Huang, Xuan-Xuan
name: Fu, Li-Juan
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Chang, Yan-Qin
name: Zhang, Huo-Jun
name: Lu, Zhi-Jie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplemental Table 1 Comparison of Baseline characteristics between severe patients and non-severe patients n(%). WBC. White blood cell; PLT. Platelet; CRP. C-reactive protein; PCT. Procalcitonin; IL-6. Interleukin-6; SaO2. Oxygen saturation; TBIL. Total bilirubin; ALT. Alanine aminotransferase; AST. Aspartate aminotransferase; LDH. Lactate dehydrogenase; γ-GT. γ-glutamyl transpeptadase; Cr. Creatinine; CT. Computed tomography. Supplemental Table 2 Baseline characteristics of the patients [n(%)]. aAges are shown as median (range). WBC. White blood cell; PLT. Platelet; CRP. C-reactive protein; PCT. Procalcitonin; IL-6. Interleukin-6; SaO2. Oxygen saturation; TBIL. Total bilirubin; ALT. Alanine aminotransferase; AST. Aspartate aminotransferase; LDH. Lactate dehydrogenase; γ-GT. γ-glutamyl transpeptadase; Cr. Creatinine; CT. Computed tomography
Relative Facts of Relational Quantum Mechanics are Incompatible with Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Lawrence, Jay
name: Markiewicz, Marcin
name: Żukowski, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relational Quantum Mechanics (RQM) claims to be an interpretation of quantum theory [see arXiv:2109.09170, which appears in the Oxford Handbook of the History of Interpretation of Quantum Physics]. However, there are significant departures from quantum theory: (i) in RQM measurement outcomes arise from interactions which entangle a system $S$ and an observer $A$ without decoherence, and (ii) such an outcome is a "fact" relative to the observer $A$, but it is not a fact relative to another observer $B$ who has not interacted with $S$ or $A$ during the foregoing measurement process. For $B$ the system $S \otimes A$ remains entangled. We derive a GHZ-like contradiction showing that relative facts described by these statements are incompatible with quantum theory. Hence Relational Quantum Mechanics should not be considered an interpretation of quantum theory, according to a criterion for interpretations that we have introduced. The criterion states that whenever an interpretation introduces a notion of outcomes, these outcomes, whatever they are, must follow the probability distribution specified by the Born rule.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Distributed Spatio-Temporal Information Based Cooperative 3D Positioning in GNSS-Denied Environments
Creators: name: Cao, Yue
name: Yang, Shaoshi
name: Feng, Zhiyong
name: Wang, Lihua
name: Hanzo, Lajos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A distributed spatio-temporal information based cooperative positioning (STICP) algorithm is proposed for wireless networks that require three-dimensional (3D) coordinates and operate in the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) denied environments. Our algorithm supports any type of ranging measurements that can determine the distance between nodes. We first utilize a finite symmetric sampling based scaled unscented transform (SUT) method for approximating the nonlinear terms of the messages passing on the associated factor graph (FG) with high precision, despite relying on a small number of samples. Then, we propose an enhanced anchor upgrading mechanism to avoid any redundant iterations. Our simulation results and analysis show that the proposed STICP has a lower computational complexity than the state-of-the-art belief propagation based localizer, despite achieving an even more competitive positioning performance.
Sistemas de apoio à decisão em planeamento: desafios metodológicos e conceptuais
Creators: name: Marques, João Lourenço
name: Wolf, Jan
name: Borges, Monique
name: Batista, Paulo
Publisher: name: TPU: Território, Planeamento e Urbanismo: teoria e prática
Year: 2020

description: Este artigo discute a aplicação de metodologias de suporte à tomada de decisão no planeamento. Mais especificamente, pretende-se analisar os desafios que se colocam à implementação de um sistema de apoio à decisão, face à complexidade organizativa dos sistemas urbanos. Realça- se a importância da tomada de decisão tecnicamente informada, apoiada numa abordagem integradora de várias dimensões e de diferentes formas de informação, de modo a permitir uma maior validade, transparência e flexibilidade das políticas urbanas. Para esta discussão, são abordadas três questões fundamentais. Em primeiro lugar, é feita uma análise dos processos de transformação urbana a diferentes escalas, realçando-se as dimensões mais relevantes para a compreensão dessas transformações. Em segundo lugar, é analisada a importância dos sistemas de apoio à decisão em planeamento, face aos diferentes paradigmas pelo qual este tem passado e às exigências que a definição de políticas urbanas enfrenta. Em terceiro lugar, é apresentada uma proposta concetual para um modelo integrado de apoio à decisão.
description: TPU: Território, Planeamento e Urbanismo: teoria e prática, n.º 2 (2020)
New Insights into the Problem of the Surface Gravity Distribution of Cool DA White Dwarfs
Creators: name: Tremblay, P. -E.
name: Bergeron, P.
name: Kalirai, J. S.
name: Gianninas, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review at length the longstanding problem in the spectroscopic analysis of cool hydrogen-line (DA) white dwarfs (Teff < 13,000 K) where gravities are significantly higher than those found in hotter DA stars. The first solution that has been proposed for this problem is a mild and systematic helium contamination from convective mixing that would mimic the high gravities. We constrain this scenario by determining the helium abundances in six cool DA white dwarfs using high-resolution spectra from the Keck I 10-m telescope. We obtain no detections, with upper limits as low as He/H = 0.04 in some cases. This allows us to put this scenario to rest for good. We also extend our model grid to lower temperatures using improved Stark profiles with non-ideal gas effects from Tremblay & Bergeron and find that the gravity distribution of cool objects remains suspiciously high. Finally, we find that photometric masses are, on average, in agreement with expected values, and that the high-log g problem is so far unique to the spectroscopic approach.
description: 44 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
title: An Inheritance and Linkage Study of Barley with Special Emphasis on Purple Pigmentation of the Auricle
Creators: name: Doney, Devon Lyle
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1961

description: New and better adapted varieties of crop plants have resulted from the application of the principles of genetics. Fundamental research in the field of barley genetics has helped the plant breeder in developing better varieties for specific uses and adaptability.
Barley is one of the best cultivated crop plants for making genetic studies. It has a wide range of adaptability, exhibits a host of contrasting genetic characters, is a simple diploid with only seven pairs of chromosomes, and all the cultivated species are interfertile.
title: A Comparison of Daughters of Sires in Artificial Breeding at Different Levels of Management
Creators: name: Cook, Richard C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1960

description: One of t he largest problems facing the successful dairyman of today is selection of proper sires to mate to his high producing cows. Many breeders and dairymen have the impression that proven sires will give the same increase in production regardless of the dam's production or the level of environment present. Even though sires come from high producing herds, some as high as 600 pounds of butterfat, the average production of all cows in the state of Utah remains at a much lower figure. The average for all cows in Utah is about 250 pounds of butterfat and the average in 1958 of cows on Dairy Herd Improvement test was 403 pounds. This difference in level of production may be attributed to either genetic or environmental factors and possibly an interaction of the two. Most workers agree that the heritability estimates for milk production and fat yield are from .2 to .3. This means t hat about 25 per cent of the variance in milk yield is due to inheritance, and the other 75 per cent is due to management or environment. Therefore, there is a need to study daughters of the same sire at various levels of production to determine the amount of increase or decrease found at these levels.
This thesis presents a study of daughters of Holstein sires used in artificial breeding. Sires in artificial breeding were used because they have a larger number of daughters, and their daughters come from a wide range of production and management levels.
Magnetic field control of the near-field radiative heat transfer in three-body planar systems
Creators: name: Qu, Lei
name: Moncada-Villa, Edwin
name: Fang, Jie-Long
name: Zhang, Yong
name: Yi, Hong-Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the application of an external magnetic field to actively control the near-field heat transfer has emerged as an appealing and promising technique. Existing studies have shown that an external static magnetic field tends to reduce the subwavelength radiative flux exchanged between two planar structures containing magneto-optical (MO) materials, but so far the nearfield thermomagnetic effects in systems with more such structures at different temperatures have not been reported. Here, we are focused on examining how the presence of an external magnetic field modifies the radiative energy transfer in a many-body configuration consisting of three MO n-doped semiconductors slabs, separated by subwavelength vacuum gaps. To exactly calculate the radiative flux transferred in such an anisotropic planar system, a general Green-function-based approach is offered, which allows one to investigate the radiative heat transfer in arbitrary manybody systems with planar geometry. We demonstrate that, under specific choices of the geometrical and thermal parameters, the applied magnetic field is able to either reduce or enhance the near-field energy transfer in three-element MO planar systems, depending on the interplay between the damped evanescent fields of the zero-field surface waves and the propagating hyperbolic modes induced by magnetic fields. Our study broadens the understanding concerning to the use of external fields to actively control the heat transfer in subwavelength regimes, and may be leveraged for potential applications in the realm of nanoscale thermal management.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
Discerning Elementary Particles
Creators: name: Muller, F. A.
name: Seevinck, M. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the quantum-mechanical results of Muller & Saunders (2008) establishing the weak discernibility of an arbitrary number of similar fermions in finite-dimensional Hilbert-spaces in two ways: (a) from fermions to bosons for all finite-dimensional Hilbert-spaces; and (b) from finite-dimensional to infinite-dimensional Hilbert-spaces for all elementary particles. In both cases this is performed using operators whose physical significance is beyond doubt.This confutes the currently dominant view that (A) the quantum-mechanical description of similar particles conflicts with Leibniz's Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles (PII); and that (B) the only way to save PII is by adopting some pre-Kantian metaphysical notion such as Scotusian haecceittas or Adamsian primitive thisness. We take sides with Muller & Saunders (2008) against this currently dominant view, which has been expounded and defended by, among others, Schrödinger, Margenau, Cortes, Dalla Chiara, Di Francia, Redhead, French, Teller, Butterfield, Mittelstaedt, Giuntini, Castellani, Krause and Huggett.
description: Final Version. To appear in Philosophy of Science, July 2009
title: The Use of Therapeutic Rituals in Substance Abuse Treatment
Creators: name: Thomas, Becky L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2001

description: This study explored the use of rituals in substance abuse counseling. Data were obtained from a total of 25 mental health workers in the substance abuse field from the northern region of Utah. Four research questions were asked about rituals and their use in substance abuse counseling: (I) Are addictions therapists using rituals? (2) How did therapists determine when to use rituals? (3) What types of rituals do they use? and (4) How do therapists assess ritual effectiveness? Results indicated that about three fourths of the mental health workers questioned were using rituals in their treatment protocol with substance abuse clients. The most common methods used for determining when to implement rituals into treatment were (a) clients were emotionally stuck, (b) client's cognitive ability, and (c) therapist's perception. The findings also suggested that therapists presented means of assessing the effectiveness of the rituals they implemented, but the data also supported past literature findings that showed little empirical means of assessment.
The Fermi Large Area Telescope
Creators: name: Rando, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Large Area Telescope, the primary instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, is an imaging, wide field-of-view gamma-ray telescope. After many improvements to the data acquisition and event analysis procedures, it now covers the broad energy range from $\sim 20$ MeV to $\sim 2$ TeV. After more than 13 years of operation since its launch in June 11, 2008, it has provided the best-resolved and deepest portrait of the gamma-ray sky. In this chapter we review the design of the instrument, the data acquisition system, calibration, and performance.
description: 30 pages, 11 figures; Invited chapter for Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics (Eds. C. Bambi and A. Santangelo, Springer Singapore, expected in 2022)
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness of companion-intensive multi-aspect weight management in Chinese adults with obesity: a 6-month multicenter randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Jiang, Wanzi
name: Huang, Shushu
name: Ma, Shuai
name: Gong, Yingyun
name: Fu, Zhenzhen
name: Zhou, Li
name: Hu, Wen
name: Mao, Guofang
name: Ma, Zhimin
name: Yang, Ling
name: Tang, Guangfeng
name: Sun, Xiaofang
name: Zhang, Ping
name: Bai, Jianling
name: Chen, Lei
name: Shi, Bimin
name: Ye, Xinhua
name: Zhou, Hongwen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Anthropometric, metabolic, and clinical characteristics of participants in each group before and after the weight loss intervention.
Seeking dark matter with $γ$-ray attenuation
Creators: name: Bernal, José Luis
name: Caputo, Andrea
name: Sato-Polito, Gabriela
name: Mirocha, Jordan
name: Kamionkowski, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The flux of high-energy astrophysical $γ$ rays is attenuated by the production of electron-positron pairs from scattering off of extragalactic background light (EBL). We use the most up-to-date information on galaxy populations to compute their contributions to the pair-production optical depth. We find that the optical depth inferred from $γ$-ray measurements exceeds that expected from galaxies at the $\sim2σ$ level. If the excess is modeled as a frequency-independent re-scaling of the standard contribution to the EBL from galaxies, then an excess (an overall $14-30\%$ increase of the EBL) over the null hypothesis of no excess at the $2.7σ$ level. If the frequency dependence of the excess is instead modeled as a two-photon decay of a dark-matter axion, then the excess is favored over the null hypothesis at the $2.1σ$ confidence level. While we find no evidence for a dark-matter signal, the analysis sets the strongest current bounds on the photon-axion coupling over the $8-25$ eV mass range. This work highlights the sensitivity of $γ$-ray optical depth measurements to ALPs, which is expected to improve with new observatories and better EBL determinations from future observations.
description: 5 pages + 3 pages of appendix (+5 pages of references), 6 figures. Discussions and figures slightly modified, an appendix to discuss the likelihood added, conclusions unchanged. Matches the published version