cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Lagoon Effluent Polishing by Soil Mantle Treatment Using Various Utah Soil Types
Creators: name: Tinkey, Roger Scott
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1975

description: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of four Utah Great Basin soil types in removing particular chemical constituents and select enteric organisms from a sewage lagoon effluent. Sewage taken from the secondary oxidation pond in Logan, Utah was applied daily to lysimeters which allowed samples to be recovered at 7.6 and 38.1 centimeter soil depths. The texture of the soils was the most important physical property affecting their removal capacity. Drainage Farm soil (clay) provided the best bacteriological and overall chemical removal with Nibley (silty clay loam) second, then Draper (sandy loam) and Parleys (silty loam) last.
The soils were analyzed before and after the test period to determine any major change which would ultimately affect their removal capacity. Noticeable changes occurred in phosphorus, percent organic matter and cation exchange capacity. The changes that did occur had no apparent effect on the removal capacity of any of the soil during the test period.
The paper is dividen into three major parts: the bacteriological, the chemical, the initial and final soil comparison.
Traces of random operators associated with self-affine Delone sets and Shubin's formula
Creators: name: Schmieding, Scott
name: Treviño, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37A55, 47L90

description: We study operators defined on a Hilbert space defined by a self-affine Delone set $Λ$ and show that the usual trace of a restriction of the operator to finite-dimensional subspaces satisfies a certain $\limsup$ law controlled by traces on a certain subalgebra. The asymptotic traces are defined through asymptotic cycles, or $\mathbb{R}^d$-invariant distributions of a dynamical system defined by $Λ$. We use this to refine Shubin's trace formula for self-adjoint operators and show that the errors of convergence in Shubin's formula are given by these traces.
description: 19 pages, final version
Type one generalized Calabi--Yaus
Creators: name: Bailey, Michael
name: Cavalcanti, Gil R.
name: Gualtieri, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D18, 53D17

description: We study type one generalized complex and generalized Calabi--Yau manifolds. We introduce a cohomology class that obstructs the existence of a globally defined, closed 2-form which agrees with the symplectic form on the leaves of the generalized complex structure, the twisting class. We prove that in a compact, type one, 4n-dimensional generalized complex manifold the Euler characteristic must be even and equal to the signature modulo four. The generalized Calabi--Yau condition places much stronger constrains: a compact type one generalized Calabi--Yau fibers over the 2-torus and if the structure has one compact leaf, then this fibration can be chosen to be the fibration by the symplectic leaves of the generalized complex structure. If the twisting class vanishes, one can always deform the structure so that it has a compact leaf. Finally we prove that every symplectic fibration over the 2-torus admits a type one generalized Calabi--Yau structure.
description: 9 pages
Algorithms for Graph-Constrained Coalition Formation in the Real World
Creators: name: Bistaffa, Filippo
name: Farinelli, Alessandro
name: Cerquides, Jesús
name: Rodríguez-Aguilar, Juan A.
name: Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2

description: Coalition formation typically involves the coming together of multiple, heterogeneous, agents to achieve both their individual and collective goals. In this paper, we focus on a special case of coalition formation known as Graph-Constrained Coalition Formation (GCCF) whereby a network connecting the agents constrains the formation of coalitions. We focus on this type of problem given that in many real-world applications, agents may be connected by a communication network or only trust certain peers in their social network. We propose a novel representation of this problem based on the concept of edge contraction, which allows us to model the search space induced by the GCCF problem as a rooted tree. Then, we propose an anytime solution algorithm (CFSS), which is particularly efficient when applied to a general class of characteristic functions called $m+a$ functions. Moreover, we show how CFSS can be efficiently parallelised to solve GCCF using a non-redundant partition of the search space. We benchmark CFSS on both synthetic and realistic scenarios, using a real-world dataset consisting of the energy consumption of a large number of households in the UK. Our results show that, in the best case, the serial version of CFSS is 4 orders of magnitude faster than the state of the art, while the parallel version is 9.44 times faster than the serial version on a 12-core machine. Moreover, CFSS is the first approach to provide anytime approximate solutions with quality guarantees for very large systems of agents (i.e., with more than 2700 agents).
description: Accepted for publication, cite as "in press"
Additional file 1 of Preliminary study of AI-assisted diagnosis using FDG-PET/CT for axillary lymph node metastasis in patients with breast cancer
Creators: name: Zongyao Li
name: Kitajima, Kazuhiro
name: Hirata, Kenji
name: Togo, Ren
name: Junki Takenaka
name: Miyoshi, Yasuo
name: Kudo, Kohsuke
name: Ogawa, Takahiro
name: Haseyama, Miki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1
Additional file 2 of Salvage radiotherapy strategy and its prognostic significance for patients with locoregional recurrent cervical cancer after radical hysterectomy: a multicenter retrospective 10-year analysis
Creators: name: Shan, Minjie
name: Deng, Yuping
name: Zou, Wen
name: Fan, Shasha
name: Li, Yanlong
name: Liu, Xianling
name: Wang, Jingjing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 2
27 W 2.1 µm OPCPA system for coherent soft X-ray generation operating at 10 kHz
Creators: name: Feng, Tianli
name: Heilmann, Anke
name: Bock, Martin
name: Ehrentraut, Lutz
name: Witting, Tobias
name: Yu, Haohai
name: Stiel, Holger
name: Eisebitt, Stefan
name: Schnürer, Matthias
Publisher: name: Washington, DC : Soc.
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA)
subject: single pulse energy
subject: soft X-ray continuum
subject: 530

description: We developed a high power optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) system at 2.1 µm harnessing a 500 W Yb:YAG thin disk laser as the only pump and signal generation source. The OPCPA system operates at 10 kHz with a single pulse energy of up to 2.7 mJ and pulse duration of 30 fs. The maximum average output power of 27 W sets a new record for an OPCPA system in the 2 µm wavelength region. The soft X-ray continuum generated through high harmonic generation with this driver laser can extend to around 0.55 keV, thus covering the entire water window (284 eV - 543 eV). With a repetition rate still enabling pump-probe experiments on solid samples, the system can be used for many applications. © 2020 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
Polarization memory in single Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Poem, E.
name: Khatsevich, S.
name: Benny, Y.
name: Marderfeld, I.
name: Badolato, A.
name: Petroff, P. M.
name: Gershoni, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measured the polarization memory of excitonic and biexcitonic optical transitions from single quantum dots at either positive, negative or neutral charge states. Positive, negative and no circular or linear polarization memory was observed for various spectral lines, under the same quasi-resonant excitation below the wetting layer band-gap. We developed a model which explains both qualitatively and quantitatively the experimentally measured polarization spectrum for all these optical transitions. We consider quite generally the loss of spin orientation of the photogenerated electron-hole pair during their relaxation towards the many-carrier ground states. Our analysis unambiguously demonstrates that while electrons maintain their initial spin polarization to a large degree, holes completely dephase.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
title: Personality Factors Associated with Negative Affect: Application of the "Big Five" Taxonomy to Depression and Anxiety
Creators: name: Anderson, Kent W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1994

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the patterns and discriminant utility of the five-factor model of personality ("Big Five," consisting of neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness factors) with depressed and anxious outpatients.
One hundred two outpatients seeking services at a community mental health center in a small western community participated in the study. Subjects were 41 clients with a depressive disorder, 31 with an anxiety disorder, and 30 in a mixed clinical control group. Subjects completed the Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness to Experience Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI).
Results indicate that both depressed and anxious clients score in the "very high" range on neuroticism and "low" on extraversion. However , neither of these two factors is useful in discriminating between depression and anxiety since their mean scores are essentially equivalent . Conscientiousness is the crucial variable that discriminates between depressed and anxious clients. The mean score for the anxiety group is in the "very low" range, significantly lower than the depressed group whose mean is in the "low-average" range. Openness to experience contributes mildly to discriminant utility, with the mean score of the depressed group in the "high-average" range and the mean score of the anxiety group in the "average" range. The agreeableness variable contributes minimally to the discriminant function.
Fibrations and stable generalized complex structures
Creators: name: Cavalcanti, Gil R.
name: Klaasse, Ralph L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D18, 53D17, 53D05

description: A generalized complex structure is called stable if its defining anticanonical section vanishes transversally, on a codimension-two submanifold. Alternatively, it is a zero elliptic residue symplectic structure in the elliptic tangent bundle associated to this submanifold. We develop Gompf-Thurston symplectic techniques adapted to Lie algebroids, and use these to construct stable generalized complex structures out of log-symplectic structures. In particular we introduce the notion of a boundary Lefschetz fibration for this purpose and describe how they can be obtained from genus one Lefschetz fibrations over the disk.
description: 35 pages, 2 figures
Motivation, field-dependence , and level of cognitive performance : an exploratory study with Chinese children
Creators: name: Mao, Geraldine Eleanor
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The major purpose of this study was to relate the performance of Chinese Ss in Hong Kong on Piagetian tasks to two factors: first to a cognitive style variable, and secondly, to achievement motivation. It was hoped that the results from this study would provide some new interpretation to Goodnow's (1962) findings in Hong Kong. This study also provided an opportunity to determine if Piaget's results concerning the order of acquisition of tasks as well as levels of difficulty within tasks can be replicated with Ss from another culture. Finally, the performance of a comparable group of white Canadian children was compared to the Chinese Ss both in terms of achievement on the tasks and relationship between the tasks. It was hypothesized that performance on Piagetian tasks would correlate with scores on the CEFT and with scores on n Achievement. Furthermore, it was believed that the predictions made by Piaget regarding the order of achievement on the Conservation tasks as well as the levels of difficulty within the Water Level Test will be replicated with Ss from Hong Kong. Finally, it was expected that there would be no significant difference in performance between white and Chinese Ss. Thirty-nine Ss from Hong Kong were individually tested on the following tests: Conservation of Substance, Conservation of Weight, the Water Level Test and the CEFT. Group testing was employed for administering the TAT. Scores from a group of previously tested white Ss on Conservation of Substance, Conservation of Weight, the Water Level test and the CEFT were used for comparison with the Chinese Ss. Results for both white and Chinese Ss showed that there was no significant relationship between performance on the Conservation tasks and the CEFT. A significant but low relationship was obtained between performance on the Water Level test and the CEFT for both Chinese and white Ss. Thus, in terms of relationship between Piagetian tasks and the CEFT, the findings were similar for white and Chinese Ss. There was no significant difference in performance between Chinese and white Ss on Conservation of Weight, the Water Level Test, and the CEFT. However, the white Ss performed significantly better than the Chinese Ss on Conservation of Substance. The order of achievement on the Conservation tasks predicted by Piaget was replicated with the white Ss, but the order was not clear for the Chinese sample. Developmental levels of difficulty within the Water Level Test predicted by Piaget and Inhelder was supported by the findings for both white and Chinese Ss. No significant relationship was found for the Chinese Ss between performance on any of the Piagetian tasks and n Achievement. There was some indication of a low negative relationship between Conservation of Weight and n Achievement, but this failed to reach significance at the .05 level.
Models of Isospin Breaking in the Pion Form Factor: Consequences for the Determination of Pi_{ρω}(m_rho^2) and (g-2)_mu/2
Creators: name: Wolfe, C. E.
name: Maltman, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the implications of several recent high-precision measurements of the pion form factor in the region of the rho-omega interference "shoulder" for (i) the extraction of the rho-omega mixing matrix element, Pi_{ρω}(m_rho^2), and (ii) the evaluation of the isospin-breaking (IB) correction needed to incorporate hadronic tau decay data into the determination of the Standard Model expectation for the leading order hadronic contribution, [a_mu]_{had}^{LO}, to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, focussing, in the latter case, on the model-dependence of the rho-omega mixing component of the IB correction. We consider a range of different models for the broad rho contribution to the e^+e^- --> ππamplitude, applying these models to each experimental data set, and find that the model dependence of the rho-omega mixing correction is significantly larger than the uncertainty induced by experimental errors for any individual model. We also find that, for each such model, the recent data allows one to separate rho-omega mixing and direct omega --> ππcoupling contributions to the amplitude, and hence to obtain a reasonably precise extraction of Pi_{ρω}(m_rho^2), uncontaminated by direct omega --> ππcoupling effects, for use in meson exchange model calculations of charge symmetry breaking in NN scattering.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures. Final published version. Main change is inclusion of a detailed discussion of the source of differences between the present work and M. Davier et al. (arXiv:0906.5443v3)
Additional file 1 of Persian version of the Barkin Index of Maternal Functioning (BIMF): a cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation
Creators: name: Mehri Ansariniaki
name: Lamyian, Minoor
name: Fazlollah Ahmadi
name: Foroushani, Abbas Rahimi
name: Curry, Carolann L.
name: Barkin, Jennifer L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. The Barkin Index of Maternal Functioning-Persian version.
D8.5 – Data Management Handling Plan
Creators: name: Forgό, Nikolaus
name: Steindl, Elisabeth
name: Tima Anwana
name: Žiga Škorjanc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: food safety
big data
standards
certification

description: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
 The purpose of the TheFSM project is to deliver an industrial data platform that has the potential
 to significantly modernize the procedure of how food certification takes place in Europe. By
 facilitating the exchange and connection of data between different food safety actors who are
 interested in sharing information critical to certification the project is going to accelerate the pace
 by which this group adopts digital innovation and offers data-driven services to its clients in
 around the world.
 Following the European Commission’s recommendations this deliverable describes the FAIR
 management of the research data sets processed for TheFSM. Objective of the Data Management Handling Plan
 The Data Management Handling Plan (DMP) shall ensure that TheFSM follows the European
 Commission’s guidelines on making our data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable).
 The document itself is a living document. This first version of the DMP due already in M6 reflects
 a relatively early stage of the project. Regular iterations will follow in M24 and in M36 where
 additional questions corresponding to the more advanced stage and knowledge about the project
 and its data will be tackled, the pilots will be addressed with a local DMP.
 In addition, earlier or irregular updates will be made whenever significant changes arise (e.g. new
 data, changes in consortium policies or consortium composition).
 The objectives of a DMP is to define how data will be created, how it will be documented, who
 will be able to access it, where it will be stored, who will back it up and whether (how) it will be
 shared and preserved.
Equilibrium configurations for generalized Frenkel-Kontorova models on quasicrystals
Creators: name: Treviño, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: I study classes of generalized Frenkel-Kontorova models whose potentials are given by almost-periodic functions which are closely related to aperiodic Delone sets of finite local complexity. Since such Delone sets serve as good models for quasicrytals, this setup presents Frenkel-Kontorova models for the type of aperiodic crystals which have been discovered since Shechtman's discovery of quasicrystals. Here I consider models with configurations $u:\mathbb{Z}^r \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^d$, where $d$ is the dimension of the quasicrystal, for any $r$ and $d$. The almost-periodic functions used for potentials are called pattern-equivariant and I show that if the interactions of the model satisfies a mild $C^2$ requirement, and if the potential satisfies a mild non-degeneracy assumption, then there exist equilibrium configurations of any prescribed rotation rotation number/vector/plane. The assumptions are general enough to satisfy the classical Frenkel-Kontorova models and its multidimensional analogues. The proof uses the idea of the anti-integrable limit.
description: 14 pages, comments welcome
title: The Effects of SO2 on N2-Fixation, Carbon Partitioning, and Yield Components in Snapbean, Phaseolus Vulgaris L.
Creators: name: Griffith, Stephen M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1983

description: The primary air pollutant sulfur dioxide has been shown to affect plant biochemistry and physiology, although very little is known about its effects on N2-fixation in legumes.
This study was designed to determine if N2-fixation, carbon partitioning , and productivity are affected under short term low level, so2 exposures. Greenhouse grown snapbeans (P has eo lus vulgaris L. cv. Ear l iwax), 29 days from planting, were exposed to 0.0, 0.4, and 0.8 parts per million sulfur dioxide for 4 hours day-l for 5 days in a fumigation chamber. At these concentrations there was no visible damage of the plant tissue and no significant changes in dry weight or yield components. Only t he 0.8 parts per million sulfur dioxide treatment reduced acetylene reduction rates but rates returned to control levels with in 2 days after the removal of the stress. Sulfur dioxide treatment increased the total carbon -14 exported from the leaves of 0.4 parts per million sulfur dioxide treated plants while the 0.8 parts per million sulfur dioxide treated plants were found to retain more of their total carbon -1 4. This retention of carbon-14 at the 0.8  parts per million level may account for the inhibit ion of acetylene reduction due to lower photosynthate supplies arriving at the root - nodules.
These data suggest that low sulfur dioxide levels that would not cause any visible injury, may be interacting with carbohydrate assimilation and/or transport in P. vulgaris.
Classification of boundary Lefschetz fibrations over the disc
Creators: name: Behrens, Stefan
name: Cavalcanti, Gil R.
name: Klaasse, Ralph L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D18, 53D17

description: We show that a four-manifold admits a boundary Lefschetz fibration over the disc if and only if it is diffeomorphic to $S^1 \times S^3\# n \overline{\mathbb{C} P^2}$, $\# m\mathbb{C} P^2 \#n\overline{\mathbb{C} P^2}$ or $\# m (S^2 \times S^2)$. Given the relation between boundary Lefschetz fibrations and stable generalized complex structures, we conclude that the manifolds $S^1 \times S^3\# n \overline{\mathbb{C} P^2}$, $\#(2m+1)\mathbb{C} P^2 \#n\overline{\mathbb{C} P^2}$ and $\# (2m+1) S^2 \times S^2$ admit stable structures whose type change locus has a single component and are the only four-manifolds whose stable structure arise from boundary Lefschetz fibrations over the disc.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures. Paper for the proceedings of the conference in honour of Prof. Nigel Hitchin on the occasion of his 70th birthday
Role of final state interaction and of three-body force on the longitudinal response function of 4He
Creators: name: Bacca, Sonia
name: Barnea, Nir
name: Leidemann, Winfried
name: Orlandini, Giuseppina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an ab-initio calculation of the longitudinal electron scattering response function off 4He with two- and three-nucleon forces and compare to experimental data. The full four-body continuum dynamics is considered via the Lorentz integral transform method. The importance of the final state interaction is shown at various energies and momentum transfers q. The three-nucleon force reduces the quasi-elastic peak by 10% for q between 300 and 500 MeV/c. Its effect increases significantly at lower q, up to about 40% at q=100 MeV/c. At very low q, however, data are missing.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, corrected typos, shorter version
Significance of Softmax-based Features in Comparison to Distance Metric Learning-based Features
Creators: name: Horiguchi, Shota
name: Ikami, Daiki
name: Aizawa, Kiyoharu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The extraction of useful deep features is important for many computer vision tasks. Deep features extracted from classification networks have proved to perform well in those tasks. To obtain features of greater usefulness, end-to-end distance metric learning (DML) has been applied to train the feature extractor directly. However, in these DML studies, there were no equitable comparisons between features extracted from a DML-based network and those from a softmax-based network. In this paper, by presenting objective comparisons between these two approaches under the same network architecture, we show that the softmax-based features perform competitive, or even better, to the state-of-the-art DML features when the size of the dataset, that is, the number of training samples per class, is large. The results suggest that softmax-based features should be properly taken into account when evaluating the performance of deep features.
description: 6 pages
From weak coupling to spinning strings
Creators: name: Freyhult, Lisa
name: Rej, Adam
name: Zieme, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify the gauge theory dual of a spinning string of minimal energy with spins S_1, S_2 on AdS_5 and charge J on S^5. For this purpose we focus on a certain set of local operators with two different types of covariant derivatives acting on complex scalar fields. We analyse the corresponding nested Bethe equations for the ground states in the limit of large spins. The auxiliary Bethe roots form certain string configurations in the complex plane, which enable us to derive integral equations for the leading and sub-leading contribution to the anomalous dimension. The results can be expressed through the observables of the sl(2) sub-sector, i.e. the cusp anomaly f(g) and the virtual scaling function B_L(g), rendering the strong-coupling analysis straightforward. Furthermore, we also study a particular sub-class of these operators specialising to a scaling limit with finite values of the second spin at weak and strong coupling.
description: 23 pages, 3 figures, minor changes, references added
Additional file 1 of External validation of the Surgical Outcome Risk Tool (SORT) in 3305 abdominal surgery patients in the independent sector in the UK
Creators: name: K. Oakland
name: D. Cosentino
name: T. Cross
name: C. Bucknall
name: S. Dorudi
name: D. Walker
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Appendix
Water softening using a light-responsive, spiropyran-modified nanofiltration membrane
Creators: name: Das, Rasel
name: Kuehnert, Mathias
name: Sadat Kazemi, Asieh
name: Abdi, Yaser
name: Schulze, Agnes
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Electron beam irradiation
subject: Nanofiltration
subject: Photo switching
subject: Polyamide
subject: Salt rejection
subject: Water softening
subject: 540

description: A novel technique for the covalent attachment of a light-responsive spiropyran onto polyamide thin film composite nanofiltration (NF) membranes in a one-step reaction using low-energy electron beam technology is described. The effect of illumination of the immobilized spiropyran was studied, as well as the resulting membrane properties with respect to MgSO4 retention, water permeability rate, and chlorine resistance. Electron beam irradiation showed a direct effect on the transformation of the rough PA NF membrane surface into a ridge-and-valley structure. Upon UV light irradiation, the spiropyran transformed into zwitterionic merocyanine, which had shown MgSO4 removal of >95% with water permeation rates of 6.5 L/(m2·h·bar). Alternatively, visible light was used to convert merocyanine to spiropyran, which achieved >95% of MgSO4 retention with a water flux of around 5.25 L/(m2·h·bar). The modified NF membranes showed higher chlorine resistance as well as a higher normalized water flux as compared to the reference membrane, without a loss of ion retention. All the NF membranes were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. This study demonstrates a simple and inexpensive method for the immobilization of molecules onto polymeric membranes, which may be applied in water softening.
title: A Study of Utah High School Band Teacher's Perceptions of Factors Affecting the Band Rehearsal Period
Creators: name: Coleman, Robert Denton
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1980

description: The purpose of this study was to determine if there were any differences between what Utah high school band teachers perceive as important skills, activities, behaviors, knowledge, and concepts in the context of the rehearsal and their assessment of the degree to which these items were applied during the rehearsal period.
A survey questionnaire listing twenty band rehearsal instructional items was used to obtain the data. Sixty-one percent of the sample responded to the survey. The sample included all high school band teachers in the state of Utah.
A correlation coefficient was computed between respondent's ratings of the validity of the instructional item to the band rehearsal and the degree to which the respondents applied that item in their rehearsals.
There was a positive correlation between these ratings for all twenty items. Some items, however, had a lower correlation coefficient than others showing a lesser degree of congruency between opinion of validity and application.
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Year: 2017
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Etching of Photon Energy into Binding Energy in Depositing Carbon Films at Different Chamber Pressures
Creators: name: Ali, Mubarak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A hot filament chemical vapor deposition is an attractive technique to deposit carbon films of different applications. In this technique, it is also feasible to study the influence of chamber pressure in the deposition of carbon films. In the deposition chamber, having dissociated from the methane precursor, gaseous carbon atoms first convert into the graphite state atoms and then into the diamond state atoms. An increase in the chamber pressure changes the morphology and structure of the deposited carbon films. The growth rate of the deposited carbon film increases by increasing the chamber pressure from 3.3 kPa to 8.6 kPa. The rate of converting gaseous carbon atoms into diamond atoms also increases. At 11.3 kPa and 14 kPa chamber pressure, gaseous carbon atoms convert into graphite state atoms at a high rate. The gas activation and gas collision processes vary broadly at varying chamber pressure. The morphology and structure of carbon films got deposited at different growth rates. The dissociation of molecular hydrogen into atomic hydrogen varies by varying the chamber pressure. Atomic hydrogen etched the photons released from the hot filaments. Thus, bits of differently shaped energy result. Gaseous carbon atoms convert into graphite and diamond state atoms under suitably shaped bits of energy. Graphite state atoms bind under the same involved bits, which is not the case when the diamond state atoms bind. The study sets a new trend in depositing, characterizing, and analyzing carbon films.
Additional file 1 of Enhancing engagement beyond the conference walls: analysis of Twitter use at #ICPIC2019 infection prevention and control conference
Creators: name: Martischang, Romain
name: Tartari, Ermira
name: Kilpatrick, Claire
name: Mackenzie, Graham
name: Carter, Vanessa
name: Castro-Sánchez, Enrique
name: Márquez-Villarreal, Hilda
name: Otter, Jonathan A.
name: Perencevich, Eli
name: Silber, Denise
name: Storr, Julie
name: Tetro, Jason
name: Voss, Andreas
name: Pittet, Didier
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. File 1: Supplementary tables. File 2: Definitions. File 3: Latent-dirichlet allocation. File 4: Supplementary figures. File 5: Label and validation of categories. File 6: R Code and crude data
title: Die Umsetzung des Hinweisgeberschutzgesetzes in Unternehmen - eine Betrachtung aus der Risikoperspektive unter Anwendung einer Balanced Score Card
Creators: name: Ciasto, Sarah
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hof
Year: 2023

description: Die Umsetzungsfrist der Richtlinie (EU) 2019/1937 zum Schutz von Personen, die Verstöße gegen das Unionsrecht melden (Whistleblower-Richtlinie) ist in Deutschland zum 17.12.2021 erfolglos abgelaufen. Ein vom Bundestag verabschiedeter Entwurf eines Gesetzes für einen besseren Schutz hinweisgebender Personen (Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz) hat am 10. Februar 2023 im Bundesrat keine Mehrheit erhalten. Mit einem zeitnahen Abschluss des Gesetzgebungsverfahrens ist dennoch zu rechnen, da die Koalition das Gesetzesvorhaben nun in zwei Teile gefasst hat, welche seit dem 14. März 2023 in das parlamentarische Verfahren eingebracht wurden.
Die Umsetzung des Hinweisgeberschutzgesetzes in Unternehmen birgt an einigen Stellen rechtliche Unsicherheiten, woraus Risiken resultieren können. So geht die vorliegende Arbeit der Frage nach, ob eine Balanced Score Card für Unternehmen im Umgang mit rechtlichen Unsicherheiten und aus der Umsetzung des Hinweisgeberschutzgesetzes resultierenden Risiken eine geeignete Hilfestellung darstellen könnte.
Um die Forschungsfrage zu beantworten, wurde zunächst die Eignung einer Balanced Score Card als Instrument des Risikomanagements untersucht. Anschließend wurden rechtliche Unsicherheiten und Risiken, welche für Unternehmen durch die Umsetzung des Hinweisgeberschutzgesetzes entstehen könnten, herausgearbeitet. Behandelt wurden dabei die Themengebiete persönlicher und sachlicher Anwendungsbereich, Anreize zur Wahl der internen Meldestelle, zentrale Konzernmeldestelle, anonyme Meldungen, Schutzvoraussetzungen, Repressalienverbot und Beweislastumkehr sowie interne Untersuchungen als Folgemaßnahmen. Im Anschluss wurde eine Risiko-Balanced Score Card für den Umgang mit dem Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz erstellt und das Vorgehen geprüft und bewertet. Zuletzt wurden Handlungsempfehlungen für Unternehmen herausgearbeitet.
Die Risiko-Balanced Score Card kann als Instrument zur Risikoidentifikation und -analyse und als Grundlage für die Risikobewertung dienen. Für viele Unternehmen kann sie als Hilfestellung im Umgang mit den genannten Risiken gelten, da für sie eine Pflicht zur Einrichtung interner Meldekanäle besteht und daraus Schutzansprüche für Whistleblower entstehen können.
description: Hofer akademische Schriften zum Recht in Nachhaltigkeit, Compliance und IT; 2
Additional file 2 of Effect of sex-specific differences on function of induced hepatocyte-like cells generated from male and female mouse embryonic fibroblasts
Creators: name: Ullah, Imran
name: Yurianna Shin
name: Yeongji Kim
name: Oh, Keon Bong
name: Seongsoo Hwang
name: Kim, Young-Im
name: Lee, Jeong Woong
name: Tai-Young Hur
name: Seunghoon Lee
name: Ock, Sun A
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 1. Primers used for realtime PCR. Supplementary Table 2. Primers used for real-time PCR analysis. Supplementary Table 3. List of antibodies used for immunofluorescence staining. Supplementary Table 4. Ploidy percentage of miHep.
Revisiting the Challenges of MaxClique
Creators: name: Marino, Raffaele
name: Kirkpatrick, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The MaxClique problem, finding the largest complete subgraph in an Erd{ö}s-R{é}nyi $G(N,p)$ random graph in the large $N$ limit, is a well-known example of a simple problem for which finding any approximate solution within a factor of $2$ of the known, probabilistically determined limit, appears to require P$=$NP. This type of search has practical importance in very large graphs. Algorithmic approaches run into phase boundaries long before they reach the size of the largest likely solutions. And, most intriguing, there is an extensive literature of \textit{challenges} posed for concrete methods of finding maximum naturally occurring as well as artificially hidden cliques, with computational costs that are at most polynomial in the size of the problem. We use the probabilistic approach in a novel way to provide a more insightful test of constructive algorithms for this problem. We show that extensions of existing methods of greedy local search will be able to meet the \textit{challenges} for practical problems of size $N$ as large as $10^{10}$ and perhaps more. Experiments with spectral methods that treat a single large clique of size $αN^{1/2}$ \textit{planted} in the graph as an impurity level in a tight binding energy band show that such a clique can be detected when $α\geq \approx1.0$. Belief propagation using a recent \textit{approximate message passing} (\textbf{AMP}) scheme of inference pushes this limit down to $α\sim \sqrt{1/e}$. Exhaustive local search (with early stopping when the planted clique is found) does even better on problems of practical size, and proves to be the fastest solution method for this problem.
description: 17 pages, 23 figures
title: A Study of Rest Period, Hardiness, and Bud Development of the 'Concord' Grape
Creators: name: Weeks, Mervin Gayle
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1977

description: The length of the 'Concord' grape rest period was evaluated during 1974-75 and 1975-76. Cuttings were placed in a 25 C growth chamber every two weeks from October through April. Number of days to reach 50 percent full bud swell was plotted to determine rest completion. Seven years of weather data and full bloom dates of 'Concord' grapes from Prosser, Washington were statistically analyzed to give another estimate of rest completion. Rest was terminated after about 830 chill units.
During 1974-75 and 1975-76, T50 temperatures were determined every two weeks for both cambium and primary buds of 'Concord' grapes. The cambium ranged 2 to 10 C hardier than the primary buds. The T50 temperature pattern correlated with the minimum ambient air temperatures.
Cuttings, collected and placed in growth chambers, were analyzed for both optimum and base temperatures. Optimum bud growth and development occurred at 25 C. The base temperature of first noticeable bud development was approximately 4.4 C.
Bud phenological stages were followed both years and a standard set of pictures of representative stages was compiled. The growing degree hours (GDH) from end of rest to first bud swell through full bloom to maturity were determined.
A regression line was plotted between the various GDH requirements for the percent soluble solids acquired during the 1975 and 1976 seasons. The GDH accumulation and soluble solids were well correlated with an r2 value of 0.95 percent.
Accretion torques and motion of the hot spot on the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294
Creators: name: Patruno, Alessandro
name: Hartman, Jacob M.
name: Wijnands, R.
name: Chakrabarty, Deepto
name: van der Klis, Michiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a coherent timing analysis of the 2003 outburst of the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294. We find an upper limit for the spin frequency derivative of 5E-14 Hz/s. The sinusoidal fractional amplitudes of the pulsations are the highest observed among the accreting millisecond pulsars and can reach values of up to 27% (2.5-30 keV). The pulse arrival time residuals of the fundamental follow a linear anti-correlation with the fractional amplitudes that suggests hot spot motion over the surface of the neutron star both in longitude and latitude. An anti-correlation between residuals and X-ray flux suggests an influence of accretion rate on pulse phase, and casts doubts on the use of standard timing techniques to measure spin frequencies and torques on the neutron star.
description: Submitted to ApJ
title: Economic Impacts of Irrigation Technologies in the Sevier River Basin
Creators: name: Frickel, Theodore R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1980

description: The economic well-being of the semi-arid intermountain area requires efficient use of available water supplies. Agriculture, the major water-consuming industry, depends on irrigation water. The adoption of sprinkler systems that increase irrigation "efficiencies" and increase water available for irrigation upstream may interfere with the "tenure" of downstream water rights. The farmers would like to use the water saved to irrigate additional acreages or crop to provide greater profits.
The problem in letting farmers expand their irrigated acreage is that the individual farmer increases his profits through increased consumptive use. The consequent reduction in return flows reduces the water available to the downstream irrigators and violates their proper rights. Water rights administrators have a responsibility to both groups. They need to protect downstream water rights. In doing so, the policies should not deny those who install new sprinkler systems the right to any water they really save from wasteful consumptive use (e.g., by weeds or evaporation).
A linear programing model was developed to determine to evaluate the effect of changes in irrigation technology on consumptive use and return flows for downstream users within the Sevier River Basin. The model was constructed in two sectors. The agriculture sector incorporated field slopes and soil types as represented by land classifications, consumptive use for nine crops, four on-farm irrigation systems: flood and sprinkler irrigation systems with lined and unlined ditches.
The hydrological flow integrated the return flows, outflows of one county with the inflows in the next downstream county. The water available within the county plus the inflow determine the water available for diversion. In addition, water diversions and available irrigated acreages were constrained to the limits imposed by the State Engineer's Office as a means of protecting property rights.
Modern systems would be adopted with the present acreage and diversion restrictions. Basin output would increase; however, downstream water rights 1vill not be met. With the relaxation of acreage limitations, basin output again increases.
Maximization from a basinwide output indicates that society will gain by the adoption of new irrigation systems.
Again, water rights as presently held would not be met. The Federal and State costs sharing program could also aggravate the water rights problem if not properly handled.
Thereby by facilitating the transfer of water rights society stands to gain. Where the private incentive may differ from the basin's optimum, the study also provides sprinkler acreage limitations and recommendations which will allow the basin to achieve the optimum output.
Should the acreages be less than a basin optimum, subsidy programs would encourage the farmers to move to the optimum.