cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: An Investigatory Study of Relationships Among Selected Theoretical components of Letter-Writing fluency
Creators: name: Reutzel, Pamela C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Research that shows the need for letter-writing fluency as a foundation for being able to attend to higher-level thinking skills in writing calls for more research as to what the components of letter-writing fluency actually are and how they are related to writing efficiency. This hierarchical multiple regression study entailed two parts.
First, results of assessments of three selected subskills of letter-writing fluency were analyzed to determine how much variance they contribute to the task of letterwriting fluency in 49 kindergarten students in December of their kindergarten year. The first assessed subskill was letter-naming fluency (LNF), which has previously been shown to be predictive of reading ability. The other two subskills that were assessed focus on critical features of letters: (a) letter construction of lowercase letters using physical manipulation and placement of critical features, and (b) critical feature production (CFP) in the form of writing pseudo-letters made up of the same critical features as Roman alphabet letters. As LNF was suspected to be a strong indicator of letter-writing fluency, the other two subskills of critical feature identification and CFP were also analyzed to see how much variance they accounted for in LNF. LNF, CFP, and letter construction were shown to account for a total of 49% of the variance in the skill of letter-writing fluency.
LNF accounted for 39% and thus most strongly correlated with writing fluency. Letter construction using critical features and writing of pseudo-letters together added 10% more to the variance of letter-writing fluency. Critical feature identification and CFP were shown to account for 20% of the variance in LNF.
This study has implications for letter-writing instruction in early childhood education classrooms, including a strong emphasis on letter-naming activities in the early stages of letter writing. Exploratory, developmentally sensitive instruction may be beneficial involving early writers in activities that require identification, manipulation, and writing of basic critical features of letters. These instructional options are worthy of further research.
A mollified Ensemble Kalman filter
Creators: name: Bergemann, Kay
name: Reich, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is well recognized that discontinuous analysis increments of sequential data assimilation systems, such as ensemble Kalman filters, might lead to spurious high frequency adjustment processes in the model dynamics. Various methods have been devised to continuously spread out the analysis increments over a fixed time interval centered about analysis time. Among these techniques are nudging and incremental analysis updates (IAU). Here we propose another alternative, which may be viewed as a hybrid of nudging and IAU and which arises naturally from a recently proposed continuous formulation of the ensemble Kalman analysis step. A new slow-fast extension of the popular Lorenz-96 model is introduced to demonstrate the properties of the proposed mollified ensemble Kalman filter.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures. Minor revisions, added algorithmic summary and extended appendix
Additional file 1 of The Kandelia obovata transcription factor KoWRKY40 enhances cold tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis
Creators: name: Fei, Jiao
name: Wang, You-Shao
name: Cheng, Hao
name: Su, Yu-Bin
name: Zhong, Yong-Jia
name: Zheng, Lei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure S1. The phylogenetic analysis of KoWRKY40 with Arabidopsis WRKYs. The phylogenetic tree contained 58 Arabidopsis thaliana WRKYs, which were downloaded from the NCBI database and marked with accession numbers. The red triangle represented KoWRKY40 protein. The blue triangle represented AtWRKY1 protein, which was the template of KoWRKY40 for building 3D model. The scale indicates the length of the branch.
A Multiobjective Optimization Framework for Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Creators: name: Jaffrès-Runser, Katia
name: Comaniciu, Cristina
name: Gorce, Jean-Marie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Wireless ad hoc networks are seldom characterized by one single performance metric, yet the current literature lacks a flexible framework to assist in characterizing the design tradeoffs in such networks. In this work, we address this problem by proposing a new modeling framework for routing in ad hoc networks, which used in conjunction with metaheuristic multiobjective search algorithms, will result in a better understanding of network behavior and performance when multiple criteria are relevant. Our approach is to take a holistic view of the network that captures the cross-interactions among interference management techniques implemented at various layers of the protocol stack. The resulting framework is a complex multiobjective optimization problem that can be efficiently solved through existing multiobjective search techniques. In this contribution, we present the Pareto optimal sets for an example sensor network when delay, robustness and energy are considered. The aim of this paper is to present the framework and hence for conciseness purposes, the multiobjective optimization search is not developed herein.
Paphiopedilum notatisepalum Z. J. Liu, M. Wang & S. R. Lan KY 2017, sp. nov
Creators: name: Wang, Meina
name: Lan, Si-Ren
name: Liu, Zhong-Jian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Paphiopedilum
Paphiopedilum notatisepalum

description: Paphiopedilum notatisepalum Z. J. Liu, M. Wang & S. R. Lan sp. nov (Figs 3, 4) (ŖṄAE±)
Type:— CHINA. Yunnan (ȓffi): Malipo (ṀAEĄ), in crevices of shady cliffs or rocks of limestone, 1300 m, 8 Oct. 2016, Liu 9349 (holotype: NOCC).
This new species is morphologically similar to Paphiopedilum henryanum, from which it differs by the smaller plants with large yellow spots on the leaves, shorter scape, larger flower, white and narrower sepal and light purple-red petals with larger purple spots and yellow-white margins.
Lithophytic herbs. Leaves 3–5, narrowly oblong, 8.0–17.0 × 1.2–2.0 cm, apex unequally bilobulate, minutely tridenticulate, deep green, with large yellow spots and purple markings at the base. Inflorescence arching, 8–10 cm long, green, densely purple-pubescent, terminally 1-flowered; floral bract ovate, pale green, with small purple spots, 3.0–3.5 ×1.5–2.0 cm; pedicel and ovary 3.3–4.0 cm long, green, densely purple-pubescent; flower 7.5–8.2 cm in diameter; dorsal sepal white with large purple spots; synsepal white with purple spots; petals pale purple-red with large purple spots and yellow-white margins; lip pale purple-red with yellow-white margins; staminode pale purple with brownish-yellow margins and a yellow umbo; dorsal sepal ovate, 3.5–3.8 × 2.4–2.7 cm margins minutely ciliate, recurved; synsepal narrowly ovate-elliptic, 3.0–3.3 × 1.7–2.0 cm, minutely ciliate, apex bilobulate; petals narrowly obovate-oblong, 4.0–4.3 × 1.4–1.6 cm long, margins undulate and recurved, obscurely tridenticulate apically, minutely ciliate, with long hairs at base; lip helmet-shaped; pouch ellipsoid, 3.5–4.0 × 1.9–2.2 cm, opening slightly auriculate on both sides; staminode obovate, 8–9 × 6–7 mm, papillose, with a small umbo adaxially, apex emarginate.
Flowering period:— September–November.
Distribution and habitat:— In crevices of shady cliffs or rocks in evergreen broad-leaved forests in limestone areas in southeastern Yunnan, China.
Etymology:— The species name notatisepalum refers to purple-maroon-spotted sepals, from the Greek notati (spot) and sepalum (sepal).
Conservation status:— Using the World Conservation Union Red List Categories and Criteria (IUCN, 2012), P. notatisepalum should be treated as critically endangered.
description: Published as part of Wang, Meina, Lan, Si-Ren & Liu, Zhong-Jian, 2017, Paphiopedilum notatisepalum, a new species of slipper orchid (Cypripedioideae, Orchidaceae) from China based on morphological and DNA evidence, pp. 156-164 in Phytotaxa 302 (2) on pages 161-163, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.302.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13695153
3S RECIPE – Smart Shrinkage Solutions: Timisoara (RO) Policy Brief #1. Resilient Urban Economy & Municipal Finance
Creators: name: Nadolu, Bogdan
name: Dincă, Melinda
name: Daniel, Lucheş
name: Raceanu, Corina
name: Mykhnenko, Vlad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: smart
solutions
shrinking
cities
urban
futures
resilience
intervention

description: Timișoara is the third-largest city in Romania, located at the crossroads of the Bucharest–Budapest–Vienna–Belgrade transport corridor of the major European capitals. For two decades following the collapse of state socialism, the city had been shrinking, losing 50,000 inhabitants (14%) by 2008. Since then, Timișoara has bounced back. To confront future depopulation trends, the city has prioritised economic development by attracting strategic foreign direct investment (FDI). This policy brief showcases one of the successful solutions to foster urban resilience and propel sustainable development of the city of Timișoara as a growth pole of West Romania and a smart specialisation pioneer across the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euro region (DKMT, formerly known as the Banat). Building on local knowledge and the stakeholders’ experience in implementing a strategic investor-driven smart specialisation strategy, the brief demonstrates how to develop a solid evidence base, design, and build a public policy for attracting new business investors, thus, contributing to a sustainable and diverse urban economy, with direct impact upon the broader metropolitan development.
description: 3S RECIPE is part of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe's ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures Call (ENSUF). This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857160.
Multipartite entanglement purification with quantum nondemolition detectors
Creators: name: Sheng, Yu-Bo
name: Deng, Fu-Guo
name: Zhao, Bao-Kui
name: Wang, Tie-Jun
name: Zhou, Hong-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a scheme for multipartite entanglement purification of quantum systems in a Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state with quantum nondemolition detectors (QNDs). This scheme does not require the controlled-not gates which cannot be implemented perfectly with linear optical elements at present, but QNDs based on cross-Kerr nonlinearities. It works with two steps, i.e., the bit-flipping error correction and the phase-flipping error correction. These two steps can be iterated perfectly with parity checks and simple single-photon measurements. This scheme does not require the parties to possess sophisticated single photon detectors. These features maybe make this scheme more efficient and feasible than others in practical applications.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Asymptotic behavior of unstable INAR(p) processes
Creators: name: Barczy, Matyas
name: Ispany, Marton
name: Pap, Gyula
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J80, 60F99

description: In this paper the asymptotic behavior of an unstable integer-valued autoregressive model of order p (INAR(p)) is described. Under a natural assumption it is proved that the sequence of appropriately scaled random step functions formed from an unstable INAR(p) process converges weakly towards a squared Bessel process. We note that this limit behavior is quite different from that of familiar unstable autoregressive processes of order p. An application for Boston armed robberies data set is presented.
description: 35 pages; corrected and extended version: a new section on an application for Boston armed robberies data set is added
title: A Multilevel Analysis of Young Adult Migration, 1980-1998
Creators: name: Lee, Ji-Youn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2002

description: The primary objective of this research was to investigate the propensity to migrate the destination choices of young adults, and the importance of individual, household, and community characteristics in these migration choices. Using cohort data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79 from 1980 to 1998, this study specifies the set of individual-, household-, and community-level of determinants on migration and then incorporates these variables in multivariate analyses to test their direct and relative effects on the migratory behavior of young adult groups. A Cox proportional hazard analysis suggests that among three levels of factors, individual characteristics are the most important determinants of migration, but the migratory behavior is more fully explained by multilevel variables rather than a single-level variable.
This research had three foci within the primary objective. First, at the individual level, this study is tbe first step in research that intended to suggest the usefulness of status inconsistency arguments on migration studies. Findings of the research indicate that underrewarded individuals are more likely to migrate than those who have balanced status, while overrewarded individuals are less likely to migrate than those who have balanced status.
Second, at the household-level investigation, this research focused on the effects of relative conjugal power between husbands and wives on migration. Results suggest that differences in relative power between husbands and wives has only minor effects on migration and the direction of migration, but the quantitative effects of relative power variables are greater for wives than for husbands.
Third, at the community-level investigation, this study focused on analyzing the interaction between the residential mobility of individuals and characteristics of the residential areas where they are located. The migration propensity of the most mobile types of people (the more educated whites) has responded more to differences in community characteristics than that of the least mobile types of people (the less educated blacks).
title: Amenity Migration and Social Change: Expanding the Concept of Community Attachment and its Relationship to Dimensions of Well-Being in the Rural West
Creators: name: Brehm, Joan M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2003

description: Most sociological analyses of community attachment have focused on the strength of attachment, with little concern for the qualities or attributes of a place to which people become attached. In cases where dimensions of attachment are the focus of analysis, the literature is rather narrowly focused on social dimensions, re ferring most often to connections with family, friends, and other social networks and largely ignoring the realm of natural environment factors. Two primary premises motivated this study. Fi rst, sociological understandi ngs of community attachment wou ld benefit from an expanded analytic framework that incorporates more complex arrays of both social and natural environment dimensions. Second, it is important to understand what variations in attachment may mean for the broader well-being of rural communities.
Initial analyses of the data demonstrated four key results. First, factor analysis of fi fleen indicators of attachment produced two distinct dimensions of community attachment, social and natural environment. Second, the nature of the response patterns indicates that strength of natural environment attachment is widely shared amongst a variety of res idents, regardless of length of residence, historical roots to the area, or life cycle. Third, participation in collective action and perceptions of open communication (measures of well-being) within a respondent's community explained only a small portion of the variance in both social and natural environment attachment. Fourth, Structural Equation Modeling demonstrated that there is a causal relationship between attachment and community well-being, though that relationship appeared to be non-recursive.
In contrast to much of the previous empirical work on community attachment, this research provides strong evidence of the natural environment dimension and provides justification for further research. This research provides one model to be considered and expanded upon in future research efforts in this area, and supports the need for further attention to the use of multiple dimensions of attachment and their associations with community well-being.
title: Implementation of Online Tutoring Program to Increase University Student Information Retention
Creators: name: Litchford, April
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Online tutoring program, Mastering Nutrition©, was implemented as a required portion of an entry level collegiate nutrition course. The Mastering Nutrition program incorporates effective teaching pedagogies that initiate information transfer and retention. To test the ability of tutoring program to increase student learning outcomes, a set of questions specific to course learning objectives were asked of students in two consecutive semesters. Questions were administered to students in a pretest, in the final exam, and in a posttest 4-6 months after course completion. Repeated measures analysis of variance reported no significant difference for posttest scores when compared to control scores, p=.595. Pretest data compared to posttest data indicated improvement in student outcomes on the final test for students with the lowest preliminary scores with implementation of Mastery©.
title: Ecology and Behavior of Coyotes in Urban Environments at Varying Spatial Scales
Creators: name: Poessel, Sharon A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Increasing global urbanization has altered landscapes for many wildlife species, including carnivores. Some carnivore species have been able to adapt to and even thrive in urban environments, including coyotes (Canis latrans). As coyotes continue to settle in more urban areas, human-coyote conflicts, such as attacks on humans or pets, are also increasing. Understanding the various factors affecting space use of urban coyotes may assist wildlife officials in reducing such conflicts. We conducted three studies of urban coyotes at varying spatial scales. First, using a captive population of coyotes at a fine spatial scale, we tested whether coyotes preferred urban, natural, or a mixture of habitat structures and whether sex, behavioral profile, biological season, or food manipulation affected coyote patch choice. When investigating novel environments, coyotes, especially females and bold animals, preferred a mixture of urban and natural structures rather than uniform structure. Food had no effect on patch choice, and coyotes appeared to be primarily motivated by the structure of the habitat rather than by the amount of food within each habitat. Second, we examined home-range size, habitat use, and resource selection of 22 coyotes at a local, population scale in the Denver metropolitan area. Mean (± SD) home-range size of resident coyotes (11.6 ± 11.0 km2) was smaller than ranges of transient coyotes (200.7 ± 232.4 km2). Home-range size did not vary by season or sex, but resident coyotes during the day had smaller home ranges than during the night. Coyotes had high percentages of developed lands (44.5 ± 18.9%) within their home ranges, but the percentage of coyote locations in natural lands (48.9 ± 22.4%) was higher than in developed lands (20.6 ± 11.7%). Coyotes selected for natural lands over developed lands, and they increased activity at night. Finally, we surveyed 105 urban areas in the United States, focusing on the occurrence of coyotes and conflicts on a national scale. Larger urban areas were more likely to contain both coyotes and conflicts, and were also more likely to have greater numbers of conflicts. Urban areas in the western regions with larger amounts of high-intensity development and less forested and agricultural areas were more likely to have conflicts. Most urban areas considered the management of conflicts to be of low priority. We conclude from these three studies that coyotes residing in urban areas prefer to spend their time in natural lands where human activity is minimized, especially forested and riparian areas that provide cover for coyotes and their native prey. Habitat management practices, such as sustainable urban planning and landscape design incorporating wildlife habitat requirements, may be an important tool in reducing human-coyote conflicts in highly urbanized environments.
title: Effect of Manufacturing Processes on the Loss Factor and Other Mechanical Properties of Kenaf Fiber-Reinforced Composites
Creators: name: Spackman, Brian P.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Kenaf fibers have mechanical properties making them a good candidate to replace glass fibers in composites. This research investigates kenaf fiber-reinforced composites, examining the effect of cure time, density, matrix hardener ratio, surface treatment, and fiber length on the mechanical properties of the composite material such as natural frequency, damping loss factor, and tensile modulus. These are essential characteristics for many manufacturing parts and products, but are not well known for natural fiber-reinforced composite materials since interest in utilizing natural fibers for composites is in the infancy phase and determining properties is difficult. Natural fibers display properties similar to glass fibers, and present a more environmentally friendly option for manufacturing composite materials. By studying published research on the topic and experimenting with different methods, a consistent procedure for manufacturing composites was developed and several samples were created for testing these parameters. These samples were subjected to a vibrational test using an impact hammer and accelerometer. Through the half-power bandwidth method and other relationships, mechanical properties were extracted from the test to study the effect of each manufacturing process. Samples were found to exhibit repeatable mechanical properties after approximately 150 hours following removal from the oven. Increasing the pressure applied during the cure cycle results in higher densities, which increases loss factors and tensile moduli, and lowers natural frequencies. The matrix hardener ratio also affects these properties in a similar way. High hardener ratios result in a more brittle material that dampens less but generally has a higher stiffness. Models predict that a chemical surface treatment should decrease the loss factor due to a better fiber-matrix bond, resulting in less sliding and friction. However, testing showed the opposite result with treated fibers exhibiting higher amounts of damping. Fiber length was also tested, though the results showed a less prominent effect.
Re-examining the directional-ordering transition in the compass model with screw-periodic boundary conditions
Creators: name: Wenzel, Sandro
name: Janke, Wolfhard
name: Laeuchli, Andreas M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the directional-ordering transition in the two-dimensional classical and quantum compass models on the square lattice by means of Monte Carlo simulations. An improved algorithm is presented which builds on the Wolff cluster algorithm in one-dimensional subspaces of the configuration space. This improvement allows us to study classical systems up to $L=512$. Based on the new algorithm we give evidence for the presence of strongly anomalous scaling for periodic boundary conditions which is much worse than anticipated before. We propose and study alternative boundary conditions for the compass model which do not make use of extended configuration spaces and show that they completely remove the problem with finite-size scaling. In the last part, we apply these boundary conditions to the quantum problem and present a considerably improved estimate for the critical temperature which should be of interest for future studies on the compass model. Our investigation identifies a strong one-dimensional magnetic ordering tendency with a large correlation length as the cause of the unusual scaling and moreover allows for a precise quantification of the anomalous length scale involved.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures; version as published
Finite Thurston type orderings on dual braid monoids
Creators: name: Ito, Tetsuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F36, 20F60

description: For a finite Thurston type ordering < of the braid group B_{n}, we introduce a new normal form of a dual positive braid which we call the C-normal form. This normal form extends Fromentin's rotating normal form and the author's C-normal form of positive braids. Using the C-normal form, we give a combinatorial description of the restriction of the ordering < to the dual braid monoids B_{n}^{+*}. We prove that the restriction to the dual positive monoid (B_{n}^{+*},
description: 28pages, 5 figures
title: Contribution of a Novel Obligatory Heterofermentative Nonstarter Lactobacillus Species to Late Gassy Defect in Cheddar Cheese
Creators: name: Ortakci, Fatih
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: This study sought to determine whether a recently isolated slow-growing nonstarter lactic acid bacterium, Lactobacillus wasatchii sp. nov., could be implicated in late gassy defect in Cheddar cheese. I demonstrated that Lb. wasatchii grows readily in the laboratory under cheese-like stress conditions of 5% salt and pH 5.2, and has the potential to survive pasteurization. Lactobacillus wasatchii can co-utilize ribose and galactose to maximize its growth. Due to being an obligatory heterofermentative, Lb. wasatchii produces CO2 whenever it ferments a hexose such as galactose.
A second investigation extended these findings by examining the growth and gas forming characteristics of Lb. wasatchii in Cheddar cheese. The optimum growth of Lb. wasatchii and highest levels of gas production were observed in cheese supplemented with ribose plus galactose, and stored at 12°C rather than 6°C. Lactobacillus wasatchii also grew readily and produced gas in Cheddar cheese even without added ribose and galactose, which corresponds with the ability of Lb. wasatchii to grow on starter cell lysate. A challenge still remains of how to easily enumerate Lb. wasatchii in cheese with a higher background population of other nonstarter lactic acid bacteria.
The third set of experiments explored the consequences on growth and gas production of Lb. wasatchii in Cheddar cheese made with Streptococcus thermophilus. Using St. thermophilus in cheesemaking results in galactose accumulation, which Lb. wasatchii then can utilize for growth, causing release of CO2 with the end result of having blown Cheddar cheese. Results showed Lb. wasatchii or similar nonstarter lactic acid bacteria are likely to be particularly problematic in cheesemaking involving starter or adventitious St. thermophilus.
From these observations, it was concluded that Lb. wasatchii is a contributor to late gassy defect in Cheddar cheese and may be widely present as part of the nonstarter lactic bacteria population but has been undetected up until now. The late gassy defect is more pronounced at temperatures used for accelerated ripening of cheese and when there are substantial residual levels of galactose in the cheese. Thus, researchers and cheese manufacturers now must consider slow-growing obligatory heterofermentative nonstarter lactic acid bacteria when dealing with late gassy defect in cheese.
title: The Legend, The Madman, and the Prophet a Memoir about Fathers and Sons
Creators: name: Thalman, Erik K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: The Legend, the Madman, and the Prophet is a memoir about fathers and sons, about the experience of being a son of a man of the Rocky Mountains, a legend grown old. The narrative centers around my struggle with the fact that my father had grown old and sick while I was still young, and my consequent search for other fathers, employing two primary examples—a martial-arts instructor from my high-school years who was later exposed as a pedophile, and the eccentric figure of my ex-girlfriend’s wealthy and traditional Egyptian-American father. The memoir relates the story of my father’s impact on my perception of manhood, my own experience with depression in the wake of his death, and the story of a spiritual search he began in me, which led me from my boyhood Mormonism toward eventual conversion to Islam. This is a story about fathers and sons, about what it means to lose a father, to want a father, and to learn to be a father to myself.
Additional file 8 of Aberrant lncRNA expression in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy: preliminary results from a single-center observational study
Creators: name: Zeng, Lan
name: Zhou, Minwen
name: Wang, Xiaocong
name: Long, Xiaofeng
name: Ye, Meng
name: Yuan, Yuan
name: Tan, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 8: Fig. S5. Expression levels of lncRNAsof the confirmation cohort, in vitreous and plasma (Group B versus Group C).
title: Propaganda Powers Social Reform: The Visual Rhetoric of Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, and Norman Rockwell
Creators: name: Halling, Shelly Stock
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: This thesis is a study of the visual rhetoric of Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, and Norman Rockwell. The claim is Hine, Lange, and Rockwell’s artwork is propaganda because it is posed, contrived, and emotionally manipulative. The three artists used their propaganda art to bring awareness to the plight of exploited children, impoverished migrant workers, and racial segregation. The thesis concludes that Hine, Lange, and Rockwell were advocates for social reform, and their art instigated change for various enclaves of the American populace. The initial chapter reviews the theoretical components of propaganda, visual rhetoric, and advocacy, and explains how these overlap to create a framework to examine the photographs of Hine and Lange, and the paintings of Rockwell. Subsequent chapters delve into the individual lives, motives, and art of the artists, placing each artist in an historical context. Selected pieces of art that are exemplary of both propaganda and advocacy are chosen for close reading.
From Market Place to Superstore: The connections between retail product, advertising method, popular culture and art. A study focused on a Harvey Norman store in Launceston, Northern Tasmania.
Creators: name: Broad, E
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: From Market Place to Superstore reflects on 21st century retail presentation of home furnishing consumer goods. In particular the artwork focuses on the lounge suite. Inside the Harvey Norman superstore, which stands on the site of a 19th century colonial marketplace, the retail space with its ironically palace-like dimensions is divided into a series of tableaux of methodically ordered furniture. Carefully chosen colour-coordinated accessories are arranged and lit by softly glowing lamps promoting seductively comfortable home scenarios. Glossy catalogues take the production line furniture beyond the store to demonstrate the almost seamless retail/home experience. Still life settings interact and merge with contemporary lifestyle expectations. Merchandise can be the substance of desire.\ \ The research artwork sought to capture an art image from retailing, advertising and specific elements derived from popular commercial TV lifestyle programs. The concept of the work was to ascertain if the lounge-suite-as-image retained its aura of aesthetic expendability and collapsed into contemporary art when transferred to the white box of the gallery space. To this end digital photographs, miniaturised models, video and actual merchandise were installed in the gallery space. Using varying scales and tactility the viewer was asked to engage in an alternative retailing experience within the Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania at Inveresk.
title: The Use of Feedback in Group Counseling in a State Vocational Rehabilitation Setting: A Pilot Study
Creators: name: Grizzell, Saara
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: The primary objective of this study was to examine the impact of providing feedback with group counseling upon the employment, symptom distress, interpersonal relationships, social role, and mental health functioning of 30 individuals with disabilities receiving services at a state vocational rehabilitation agency. Utilizing a repeated measures randomized wait-list control trial design, participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: treatment (feedback plus group counseling) or treatment-asusual (group counseling only). Each participant completed the Outcome Questionnaire- 45, a measure of mental health, on a weekly basis and attended a group counseling program, 1.5 hours each week, for 10 weeks at one of five different offices within a vocational rehabilitation state agency. Analyses of improved mental health functioning between the experimental and control groups failed to reach statistical significance. Analyses found three statistically significant three-way interactions between time, condition, and public benefits when interpersonal relationships (p=.025); social role performance (p=.021), and mental health functioning (p=.028) were the dependent variables. Participant ratings in the feedback condition for progress made toward employment were significantly higher than those of participants in the treatment-as-usual. Similarly, the proportion of participants employed at the end of the group counseling program was statistically significant and favored the treatment condition. Taken as a whole, results raise the possible importance of public benefits and the use of feedback and group counseling for improving employment outcomes and functioning in the areas of interpersonal relationships, social roles, and overall mental health.
title: Sexual Orientation Change Efforts, Identity Conflict, and Psychosocial Health Amongst Same-Sex Attracted Mormons
Creators: name: Dehlin, John P.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: This study examined sexual orientation change efforts, identity conflict, and psychosocial health in a sample of 1,612 same-sex attracted Mormons.
A minimum of 66% of participants reported engaging in sexual orientation change efforts, usually through multiple methods, and across more than 10 years (on average). Religious change efforts such as personal righteousness (e.g., prayer, fasting, scripture study, improved relationship with Jesus Christ) and counseling with church leaders (e.g., bishops), along with individual methods (e.g., introspection, private study, mental suppression) were found to be far more prevalent and significantly more damaging than therapist- (e.g., psychotherapy, psychiatry) or group-led change efforts. Overall, 0% of those attempting change reported an elimination of same-sex attraction, and less than 4% reported any change in sexual orientation. Conversely, the majority of participants reported these efforts to be either ineffective or damaging.
Regarding the navigation of sexual and religious identity conflict, the vast majority of participants were found to have either rejected their religious identity (53%) or compartmentalized their religious and sexual identities (37%), with significantly fewer reporting the rejection of their same-sex sexual identity (6%) or the successful integration of the two identities (4%). Overall, the (a) acceptance of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender identity and (b) “coming out” to family, friends, work, and religious associates correlated positively with quality of life and self-esteem, and negatively with internalized homophobia, identity confusion, depression, and sexual identity distress.
Regarding various religion-based approaches to same-sex attraction, the following were generally positively associated with psychosocial health (e.g., quality of life, selfesteem) and negatively correlated with psychosocial harm (e.g., internalized homophobia, sexual identity distress, depression): (a) embracing biological (vs. developmental) views on the causes of same-sex sexuality, (b) decreased LDS Church participation, (c) eschewing celibacy, and (d) pursuing committed, legal same-sex relationships. Heterosexual marriages for same-sex attracted participants were estimated to have a 69% divorce rate, with very low average quality of life ratings for those remaining in the marriages.
title: Activated Carbon Decreases Invasive Plant Growth by Mediating Plant-Microbe Interactions
Creators: name: Nolan, Nicole E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Abandoned agricultural lands in the Intermountain West are plagued by dense, persistent non-native vegetation. Targeted restoration tools are required to remove the competitive advantage of these non-natives while also removing the soil legacies they leave behind. Activated carbon (AC) is one such tool, with the ability to disrupt the mechanisms of allelopathy, positive plant-soil feedbacks, and altered nutrient cycling commonly used by non-native species. Previous studies have shown the success of high concentrations of AC in native plant community restoration on a small scale. Here, our goals are twofold: first, to test AC effectiveness in restoring desirable plant communities on a larger scale, and secondly, to identify the primary mechanism, allelopathy versus microbial changes, through which AC impacts native and non-native species. A large scale AC treatment in Methow Valley, Washington tested the effectiveness of AC restoration at a large scale and tested five concentrations and two types of AC to determine lowest effective application. Following treatment, sites were monitored for vegetation cover for three years. The large-scale application produced similar results to the previous study at a 1000 g/m2 application rate, with a 28% increase in the ratio of desirable:undesirable species cover and a decrease to 25% undesirable species cover. However, the effectiveness of AC concentrations below 1000 g/m2 cannot yet be determined and may require a longer time scale and additional monitoring to assess restoration success. A greenhouse experiment was performed, which used native and non-native species common to the study site, grown in pairs in sterilized and live AC-treated soils to separate AC effects on allelopathy from that of microbial interactions. Both native and non-native species experienced a 25% decreased biomass in AC-treated live soils, with a minimal decrease in A- treated sterile soils for native species and no effect in AC-treated sterile soils for non-native species. Overall, AC live soils produced a positive effect on relative abundance; the ratio of native to non-native biomass was highest in AC-treated live soils. From these results, it is concluded that the primary pathway through which AC works is changes in the plant-microbial interactions of both native and non-native species.
title: Where the Action Is: An Analysis of Partisan Change in House of Representatives Open Seat Elections, 2000-2014
Creators: name: Wallace, Kyle B.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Open seat House of Representatives elections are an area that has not received the same attention as seats with incumbents, despite open seats traditionally providing more interesting results. This research examines partisan change in open seat House races from 2000-2014 in order to determine whether previous research is still applicable in light of changing behavior of open seats in the 2000s. This research found that since 2004 partisan change has occurred more often with incumbents being defeated and not due to open seats. A logit model was used with partisan change as the dichotomous dependent variable, a unique approach to House elections. The model found that candidate spending was the most significant variable in explaining partisan change, while other variables such as district competitiveness, candidate quality, and unemployment were also significant. The model was then used to predict the 2014 House elections, correctly predicting roughly 75% of races. Finally two case studies were examined where the model failed to provide accurate predictions to determine improvements that could be made to future iterations of the model
title: Understanding Myth and Myth as Understanding: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Mytho-Logic Narration
Creators: name: Atwood, Sandra Bartlett
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: I wanted to see if there were points of overlap between the various accounts of creation found in folklore, philosophy and physics. In order to justify such a project, I initially considered literature from each of these disciplines regarding the necessity of interdisciplinary dialogue generally and specifically the need for both intuition and logic when considering how anything actually exists. Through my research and casual observation, I hypothesized that opposition seemed to be a universal characteristic of nature. I then looked at how each discipline has described fundamentally opposing pairs and created a list of primary features that those accounts had in common. Finally, I demonstrated (in my study The Symmetry of God) the utility of an interdisciplinary approach to myth by showing how science and philosophy can improve our understanding of myth and conversely how folklore (myth in particular) may suggest meaningful and potentially revolutionary relationships not yet considered by science.
Rigid motion revisited: rigid quasilocal frames
Creators: name: Epp, Richard J.
name: Mann, Robert B.
name: McGrath, Paul L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the notion of a rigid quasilocal frame (RQF) as a geometrically natural way to define a "system" in general relativity. An RQF is defined as a two-parameter family of timelike worldlines comprising the worldtube boundary of the history of a finite spatial volume, with the rigidity conditions that the congruence of worldlines is expansion-free (constant size) and shear-free (constant shape). This definition of a system is anticipated to yield simple, exact geometrical insights into the problem of motion in general relativity. It begins by answering the questions what is in motion (a rigid two-dimensional system boundary), and what motions of this rigid boundary are possible. Nearly a century ago Herglotz and Noether showed that a three-parameter family of timelike worldlines in Minkowski space satisfying Born's 1909 rigidity conditions has only three degrees of freedom instead of the six we are familiar with from Newtonian mechanics. We argue that in fact we can implement Born's notion of rigid motion in both flat spacetime (this paper) and arbitrary curved spacetimes containing sources (subsequent papers) - with precisely the expected three translational and three rotational degrees of freedom - provided the system is defined quasilocally as the two-dimensional set of points comprising the boundary of a finite spatial volume, rather than the three-dimensional set of points within the volume.
description: 10 pages (two column), 24 pages (preprint), 1 figure
How we talk to our children : an evaluation of parent effectiveness training for the development of emotional competence
Creators: name: Wood, CD
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Converging studies in empathic listening (Ickes, 1997), emotional intelligence (Bar-On 2000,2001) and conflict resolution (Sanson & Bretherton, 2001; Alvy, 1994) point to the importance of parent training for bringing up socially competent children in a world so changed in western countries that traditional parenting practices are less than effective. Both behaviour and the ability to manage emotion can be affected by interactions with the parent in infancy (Fischer & Rose, 1994) childhood and adolescence (Gottman, 1 997). Appropriate assertiveness is an important component of communication skill (Wilson & Gallois, 1993). Conflict resolution skills require a combination of empathic listening, assertiveness and creative problem solving (Littlefield, Love, Peck & Wertheim, 1993). Parent Effectiveness Training (PET, Gordon, 1976) focuses attention on the developnlent of empathic family relationships leading to autonomy and self-responsibility in children through parent training in empathic listening, appropriate assertiveness and conflict resolution. PET reaches over 900 parents annually around Australia, using a newly developed workbook (Wood, 1997) simplified without loss of content as part of this study. The present investigation provides an extensive study of PET in Australia using a three-group comparison (70 standard US workbook, 8 1 Australian workbook and 8 1 controls with no PET) comparing parents' pretest and posttest results with outcome measures following a PET program. Verbal and cognitive skills acquisition was measured using the Parent-Child Response Sheet (PCRS, Wood & Davidson, 1987, 1994/95). Parents' family management concerns were collected through the parent-listed objectives for training and the Issues of Parental Concern (PC, Gordon, 1976; Wood, 1996) including ratings of the stress they felt about each issue on the SUDS scale (Wolpe, 1990) before and after PET. Both PET groups achieved substantially and significantly higher scores than controls on empathic listening, appropriate assertiveness and conflict resolution as measured by the PCRS. Compared with controls the PET parents showed a significantly greater reduction in levels of parental stress about their family concerns. Males scored significantly higher in listening skills using the vernacular version, although there were no statistically significant differences between the workbooks. Extensive qualitative reports indicated that parents had made satisfactory changes in I family management procedures, improved relationships with children and increased levels of family harmony. These findings confirm the conclusions of earlier research, including the meta-analysis of PET studles (Cedar & Levant, 1990), and provide the fnst extensive evaluation of PET implemented at a community level in the light of emerging awareness of emotional intelligence and the need for family development of interpersonal communication skills.
title: "We want to get down to the nitty-gritty": The Modern Hardboiled Detective in the Novella Form
Creators: name: Pack, Kendall G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: This thesis approaches the issue of the detective in the 21st century through the parodic novella form. The main body of the work is a piece of fiction about an amateur detective trying to find a solution to an imagined crime. This comes from my study of detective fiction, starting with Oedipus and ending with twentieth and twenty-first century examples, especially in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Chester Himes, where the detective loses power. The novella follows Whitney Sloat as he acts as detective in a world that can’t let go of the hardboiled traditions. He and the people around him struggle to connect with reality, pursuing a way of life that cannot exist outside of their world.