cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Influence of Invasive Plants on the Small Mammal Community in a Cold Desert
Creators: name: Smith, Trinity N.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Exotic invasive species can alter ecosystem health. Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum), Russian thistle (Salsola kali) and tall tumble mustard (Sisymbrium altissimum) are widely distributed invasive plants occurring throughout desert and shrub-steppe communities in the western United States. Due to the relative ease of capture, small mammal community metrics are often used to quantify overall ecosystem health. Studies examining small mammal communities are numerous but few have specifically examined the effects of invasive plants at the community level in arid ecosystems. In this study I examined community level small mammal responses to changes in microhabitat features, with an emphasis on levels of invasive species dominance. In the summers of 2010-2013, small mammals were sampled using Sherman live traps and vegetation structure was measured using the line-point intercept method. Using estimates of species richness and number of captures (relative abundance), I developed generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) to test the predictor variables: percent invasive species cover, plant species richness, percent shrub cover, percent bare ground, mean plant height, moon illumination, and percent litter cover. Findings revealed a significant negative relationship between percent invasive species cover and small mammal species richness and a significant nonlinear relationship between percent invasive species cover and small mammal relative abundance, where total capture rates and cover of invasive plants exhibited a positive relationship, reached a threshold, and then exhibited a negative relationship. This non-linear finding provides support for the intermediate disturbance hypothesis and suggests that intermediate levels of exotic plant invasions may positively affect organisms that are members of higher trophic levels that consume primarily small mammals. Overall, this study suggests that if maintaining high levels of total small mammal abundance (e.g., biomass) is important for higher trophic level species (e.g., the kit fox), the importance of invasive species eradication and native species restoration should be carefully considered if invasive species have not completely displaced the native flora community. However, if maintaining small mammal diversity is a higher priority, eradication of invasives and native species restoration should be a top priority. Further, maintaining intermediate levels of invasive species in order to strengthen small mammal biomass could prove both challenging and risky.
THE WORK RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHIEF STUDENT AFFAIRS AND CHIEF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS ADMINISTRATORS AT A SAMPLE OF FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
Creators: name: Lowe, John Lyle
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 39-06, Section: A, page: 3405.
Highly Scalable Bayesian Geostatistical Modeling via Meshed Gaussian Processes on Partitioned Domains
Creators: name: Peruzzi, Michele
name: Banerjee, Sudipto
name: Finley, Andrew O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a class of scalable Bayesian hierarchical models for the analysis of massive geostatistical datasets. The underlying idea combines ideas on high-dimensional geostatistics by partitioning the spatial domain and modeling the regions in the partition using a sparsity-inducing directed acyclic graph (DAG). We extend the model over the DAG to a well-defined spatial process, which we call the Meshed Gaussian Process (MGP). A major contribution is the development of a MGPs on tessellated domains, accompanied by a Gibbs sampler for the efficient recovery of spatial random effects. In particular, the cubic MGP (Q-MGP) can harness high-performance computing resources by executing all large-scale operations in parallel within the Gibbs sampler, improving mixing and computing time compared to sequential updating schemes. Unlike some existing models for large spatial data, a Q-MGP facilitates massive caching of expensive matrix operations, making it particularly apt in dealing with spatiotemporal remote-sensing data. We compare Q-MGPs with large synthetic and real world data against state-of-the-art methods. We also illustrate using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data from the Serengeti park region to recover latent multivariate spatiotemporal random effects at millions of locations. The source code is available at https://github.com/mkln/meshgp.
title: 'Mono and Binuclear Complexes of Schiff-Base Macrocyclic and Related Ligands: Synthetic and Structural Studies'.
Creators: name: Murphy, Brian Paul
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1984

description: Template condensation of the diketones, 2,6-diacetylpyridine and 2,5-diformyl-furan with a series of diprimary amines has yielded a range of binucleating macrocyclic ligands with potential internuclear separation between ~7.5 and 3^. The cations used to generate the (2 + 2) con2+ + densation product include Gp (II) metal ions, Pb and Ag . Complexes of these ions and of first transition series ions, obtained by transmetallation, have been structurally characterized using electronic, infrared, n.m.r and e.s.r spectroscopy. In a few cases X-ray crystallographic structure determination has been carried out (collaboration with Dr MGB Drew at the University of Reading). Mononuclear complexes, could be made either with the large and flexible ligands or with the smallest ligands; in one case as the result of a ring- opening reaction. Binuclear transition metal complexes were obtained with all the macrocycles studied. The degree of spin-spin interaction between the metal centres in the paramagnetic binuclear complexes varied with internuclear distance and the nature and disposition of the bridging ligand, if present. Some simple substrate oxidations have been studied using the diCu 0) complex of a 30-membered macrocycle as catalyst.; diCu(l) complexes of related acyclic ligands have been prepared and examined to discover whether they might also have potentially useful catalyst properties. The binuclear chemistry of Cu (I) has also been studied in complexes of a heterocyclic a-diimine ligand where an unusual mode of coordination has been shown to exist.
title: Culture instead of a state, culture as a state : art, regime and transcendence in the works of Laibach and Neue Slowenische Kunst
Creators: name: Monroe, Alexei
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: The thesis examines the significance and effects of the Slovene art collective NSK (founded 1983), particularly the group Laibach. NSK employ traumatic and controversial imagery (Nazi-Kunst, Socialist Realism) as part of an extremely complex response to various political, historical and aesthetic ''regimes'' that structure their political and cultural environment. Its interventions are mapped through discussion of specific works in the media it operates within including music, art, philosophy, theatre and design. The subject is approached via an integrated representational strategy that seeks to illustrate NSK's relation to political and cultural trends (including the disintegration of socialism and the influx of capitalism) through in-depth analysis of the content of its works. The sources ofNSK's aesthetic extremism are located in historical tendencies and the political structures with which the groups interacted. It identifies the sources of the wide range of historical, political and artistic motifs used by NSK, and recounts some of the key works and their significances and effects. The discussion centres on the interplay between state and culture in NSK's work and the way in which NSK have preserved a space of utopian post-territorial imagination by using the imageries of the totalitarian state and other regimes. The thesis concludes that it is possible for an artistic practice based on the "demaskiog and recapitulation" of regimes to temporarily disrupt and transcend such systems.
New and Recent Trends in Modern Cosmology
Creators: name: Wanas, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non Conventional treatments in modern cosmology, in both Steady State and Big Bang, are given. The motivation behind these treatments is to solve some of the problems of the conventional treatments in cosmology. For this aim, different geometric structures and alternative field theories, used to construct world models, are given. A brief review of Absolute parallelism (AP) geometry and its parameterized version(PAP), as a wider geometry than the Riemannian one, is presented. World models constructed using alternative field theories, constructed in the AP geometry, are discussed and compared. Some points about using topology in the field of cosmology are commented. A new path equation, admitted by the PAP geometry, is used to get the effect of spin-gravity interaction on the cosmological parameters.
description: 23 pages, latex-file. A version of this paper, has been published in the following Journal
Orgichneumon calcatorius
Creators: name: Riedel, Matthias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Orgichneumon
Orgichneumon calcatorius

description: Orgichneumon calcatorius (THUNBERG, 1824)
 Material: East Siberia, Lake Baikal near Anghasolka, under bark, 3  2007-04-06, leg. Berlov (coll. Riedel).
 Distribution: Holarctic region, new record for Siberia.
description: Published as part of Riedel, Matthias, 2020, Contribution to the knowledge of Ichneumoninae of Siberia and Far East Russia (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), pp. 365-386 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 70 (2) on page 384, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.70.2.365-386, http://zenodo.org/record/4755531
Symmetry and Rigidity of Minimal Surfaces with Plateau-like Singularities
Creators: name: Bernstein, Jacob
name: Maggi, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By employing the method of moving planes in a novel way we extend some classical symmetry and rigidity results for smooth minimal surfaces to surfaces that have singularities of the sort typically observed in soap films.
description: 30 pages; an appendix about a maximum principle for geodesic nets has been added
The Face of Bedlam: Madness, Gender, and Social Mores in Jacobean Drama
Creators: name: Welliver, Amelé
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: Spectacular images of madness and villainy characterized the Jacobean stage. Amidst the grief of losing beloved Queen Elizabeth I and the turmoil of James I's early years as king, the spirit of drama shifted so that, as Una Ellis-Fermor explains, Elizabethans' love of life transformed into a Jacobean preoccupation with death. Her book The Jacobean Drama: An Interpretation examines this transition, exploring Jacobean playwrights' heightened dramatic presentations as social commentary. During this period, Machiavellian villains became standard on the stage; dramatic plots became overtly violent, even satanic. One of the most striking and well-studied developments during this time was the presentation of madness on the stage. John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The Changeling both contain sensational depictions of madness that epitomize the Jacobean period. In the former, a group of madmen are sent to torment a prisoner; they are a "wild consort" that produces "nothing but noise and folly" ( 4.2.1; 4.2.5). Half of the latter play takes place in a madhouse where patients shout nonsense from offstage and other characters mimic their antics. The spectacle of madness onstage displays Jacobean society's obsession with mental disturbance, but is not as simple as it first appears.
Understanding the hydrological impacts of climate change in the Tana River Basin
Creators: name: Sood, Aditya
name: Muthuwatta, Lal
name: Silva, Sandeepana
name: McCartney, Matthew
name: Sood, Aditya
name: Muthuwatta, Lal
name: Silva, Sandeepana
name: McCartney, Matthew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Climate change
subject: Rain
subject: Evapotranspiration
subject: Flooding
subject: River basin
subject: Hydrology
subject: Discharges
subject: Water yield
subject: Groundwater recharge
subject: Natural resources
subject: Infrastructure
subject: Land use
subject: Ecosystem services
subject: Soil water
subject: Simulation models
subject: Kenya
subject: Tana River Basin

description: The Tana River is one of Kenya’s most important rivers. It is the principal water source for Nairobi, the capital city, providing water for hydroelectric power generation and irrigation. Several of the flagship projects laid out in Vision 2030 - the blueprint that guides Kenya’s national development – are located in the basin. This report presents the findings of a study to determine the possible impacts of climate change on the hydrology of the basin. Data from seven Regional Circulation Models (RCMs), simulating two Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs), were used as input to the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) hydrological model. For both RCPs, rainfall is projected to increase across the basin over the remainder of the twenty-first century. Associated increases in water yield, groundwater recharge and baseflow point to an improved water resource situation in the future. However, declining natural flow regulation, increased variability, and considerable increases in the frequency and magnitude of floods pose a risk that threatens to undermine development opportunities. Water resource management will be much more difficult than under historic climatic conditions.
African Drumming: An Examination of Drumming in Ghana, Its Intentions, and Application in Music Therapy Practice
Creators: name: Bowles, Marti
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: Drumming is a phenomenon that is found in many cultures throughout the world. Although each culture has a different use and intention in which drumming is incorporated, there are many common elements that overlap between the various groups. Because of the versatility of drumming, it is widely used as a therapeutic intervention in music therapy. Understanding the uses and intentions of drumming in other cultures can help music therapists to broaden their understanding of drumming. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the value of African drumming and to see how it relates to the use and intent of drumming in music therapy practice. While participating in the International Student Exchange Program through Utah State University, I attended the University of Ghana for the Fall 2012 semester. Research on African drumming was collected through enrollment in classes such as: drumming, dance, traditional African ensemble, music academic courses, and private drumming instruction. Other information was also collected through cultural observations, interviews, and educational material. There were three main overlaps that were found between drumming as it is used for therapeutic purposes in music therapy and African drumming as it is found in Ghana: non-verbal communication, self-expression and improvisation, and group support and unity. An exploration of these commonalities may further enable music therapists to bridge the gap between cultures and gain understanding of how multicultural music is incorporated in a therapeutic setting.
Slowly varying tachyon and tachyon potential
Creators: name: Garousi, Mohammad R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the scattering amplitude of four open string scalars or tachyons on the world-volume of a D$_p$-brane in the bosonic string theory can be written in a universal form. The difference between this amplitude and the corresponding amplitude in the superstring theory is in an extra tachyonic pole. We show that in an $α'$ expansion and for slowly varying fields, the amplitude is consistent with the tachyonic DBI action in which the even part of the tachyon potential is $V(T)=e^{-(\sqrtπ T/α)^2}$ with $α=1$ for bosonic theory and $α=\sqrt{2}$ for superstring theory.
description: Latex, 11 pages, no figures v3; clarify that the potential found is only the even part of the tachyon potential
Weak-ergodicity-breaking via lattice supersymmetry
Creators: name: Surace, Federica Maria
name: Giudici, Giuliano
name: Dalmonte, Marcello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spectral properties of $D$-dimensional $N=2$ supersymmetric lattice models. We find systematic departures from the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) in the form of a degenerate set of ETH-violating supersymmetric (SUSY) doublets, also referred to as many-body scars, that we construct analytically. These states are stable against arbitrary SUSY-preserving perturbations, including inhomogeneous couplings. For the specific case of two-leg ladders, we provide extensive numerical evidence that shows how those states are the only ones violating the ETH, and discuss their robustness to SUSY-violating perturbations. Our work suggests a generic mechanism to stabilize quantum many-body scars in lattice models in arbitrary dimensions.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Holstein polaron in two and three dimensions by quantum Monte Carlo
Creators: name: Hohenadler, Martin
name: Evertz, Hans Gerd
name: von der Linden, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recently developed quantum Monte Carlo approach to the Holstein model with one electron [PRB 69, 024301 (2004)] is extended to two and three dimensional lattices. A moderate sign problem occurs, which is found to diminish with increasing system size in all dimensions, and not to affect simulations significantly. We present an extensive study of the influence of temperature, system size, dimensionality and model parameters on the small-polaron cross over. Results are extrapolated to remove the error due to the Trotter discretization, which significantly improves the accuracy. Comparison with existing work and other quantum Monte Carlo methods is made. The method can be extended to the many-electron case.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures
Not Shut in by Any Fence
Creators: name: Brown, Anna Bullock
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: From their beginning in the mid-l 800s, zoos ( or zoological gardens as they were first known) were meant for both research and education. They offered viewers the opportunity to see animals that they otherwise would never have seen. These animals were kept in cages to protect the zoo-goers. The history of zoos demonstrates a conflicting desire between our human need to connect with animals as well as our fear (literal and metaphoric) of what that connection might mean. Informing this creative project are three main areas of research: primary research in the form of interview, place-based research conducted at the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. and Library of Congress, and literature specifically about zoos (including the history of the modern zoo). This thesis explores human connection to animals within zoos, the connections we have with ourselves, and the connections we have with animals in our past, present and future.
Joint ventures in the Flag Boshielo Irrigation Scheme, South Africa: a history of smallholders, states and business
Creators: name: Van Koppen, Barbara
name: Tapela, B. N.
name: Mapedza, Everisto
name: Van Koppen, Barbara
name: Tapela, B. N.
name: Mapedza, Everisto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Joint ventures
subject: Irrigation schemes
subject: Smallholders
subject: Farmers
subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farming systems
subject: Agricultural policy
subject: Small scale systems
subject: Irrigated farming
subject: Land tenure
subject: Land ownership
subject: Resettlement
subject: Gender
subject: Public-private cooperation
subject: Contract farming
subject: Water resources development
subject: Food security
subject: Infrastructure
subject: Labour
subject: State intervention
subject: Crop production
subject: Cotton
subject: Policymaking
subject: Accountability
subject: South Africa

description: The report analyzes the changing tripartite constellations between South African black smallholders, the pre- and post-apartheid state, and the country’s large-scale agribusiness and irrigation industry. A recent mode of farming is the ‘joint venture’, in which smallholders hand over land and share in the net profits, while a strategic partner manages the cultivation with own inputs and equipment, and markets the output. With a focus on the 13 sub-schemes of the Flag Boshielo irrigation scheme in the former homeland of Lebowa (current Limpopo Province), the report analyzes the emergence of six joint ventures - the collapse of three and the troubled continuation of the other three. For the government’s support to joint ventures as one of the options of the revitalization of smallholder irrigation schemes in former homelands, it is recommended to ensure there is a robust bilateral contract between smallholders and the strategic partner, to strengthen land tenure arrangements, and to diversify irrigation technologies for women and men smallholders.
Additional file 2 of Activation of the PDGFRα-Nrf2 pathway mediates impaired adipocyte differentiation in bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells lacking Nck1
Creators: name: Haider, Nida
name: Larose, Louise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. Effects of Nck1 depletion in mesenchymal stem cells. (A) Representative images (DIC, 10X) and Oil red O staining in day 5 differentiated siControl and siNck1 C3H10T1/2 cells (n=3/group). (B) Relative Pparg, Fabp4, Adipoq, and Nck1 mRNA levels before (black bars) and at day 7 of differentiation (white bars) in siControl and siNck1 C3H10T1/2 cells (n=3/group). (C) Relative Pdgfa and Pdgfc mRNA levels in siControl and siNck1 C3H10T1/2 cells (n=5-6/group). Data are mean ± SEM. Statistical significance evaluated by unpaired Student’s t-test is reported as *p≤0.05, and **p≤0.01.
Asymptotic theory for a moving droplet driven by a wettability gradient
Creators: name: Pismen, Len M.
name: Thiele, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An asymptotic theory is developed for a moving drop driven by a wettability gradient. We distinguish the mesoscale where an exact solution is known for the properly simplified problem. This solution is matched at both -- the advancing and the receding side -- to respective solutions of the problem on the microscale. On the microscale the velocity of movement is used as the small parameter of an asymptotic expansion. Matching gives the droplet shape, velocity of movement as a function of the imposed wettability gradient and droplet volume.
description: 8 figs
Crony Chronicles Website Redesign
Creators: name: McBride, Lindsey Marie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: The policy team at the Charles Koch Institute is broken into different areas of research. During my summer internship, I was assigned to research crony capitalism with four other members of the policy team. Along with their research on crony capitalism, these team members maintained a website called cronychronicles.org. For a definition of crony capitalism, or cronyism, see Appendix C. The goal of the website was to be "the leading online resource for everything related to cronyism" (About Us). I was very interested in the research I was conducting on crony capitalism, and enjoyed contributing information to the Crony Chronicles site, but I felt that that the current template for the website and the information contained in the website kept Charles Koch policy team from achieving their goal for cronychronicles.org. Although Crony Chronicles wanted to be the leading resource for cronyism, their website was structured more like a blog. Furthermore, the information contained in the website, and specifically the new blog posts that were added daily, seemed to appeal only to those who fully understand cronyism and were actively searching for news stories on the topic. In order to be the leading resource on cronyism, I felt the policy team needed to appeal to a wider audience and have a standing website that linked to a blog for reoccurring visitors. I pitched my idea to redesign the website to the policy team, and as a result, I was given the title of project manager over website redesign. In order to redesign the website, I conducted surveys on the current website, researched website design and created a template for an outsourced web designer, and wrote all the content that would be displayed in the new website. I was able to complete all the necessary work for the website to be re-launched on time, but the funding was never secured for the new website.
Derivatives, forms and vector fields on the kappa-deformed Euclidean space
Creators: name: Dimitrijevic, Marija
name: Möller, Lutz
name: Tsouchnika, Efrossini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The model of kappa-deformed space is an interesting example of a noncommutative space, since it allows a deformed symmetry. In this paper we present new results concerning different sets of derivatives on the coordinate algebra of kappa-deformed Euclidean space. We introduce a differential calculus with two interesting sets of one-forms and higher-order forms. The transformation law of vector fields is constructed in accordance with the transformation behaviour of derivatives. The crucial property of the different derivatives, forms and vector fields is that in an n-dimensional spacetime there are always n of them. This is the key difference with respect to conventional approaches, in which the differential calculus is (n+1)-dimensional. This work shows that derivative-valued quantities such as derivative-valued vector fields appear in a generic way on noncommutative spaces.
description: 25 pages, footnotes and other small changes added
Cicada cassinii Fisher 1850, nobis
Creators: name: Fisher, J. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1851
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Cicada
Cicada cassinii

description: Cicada Cassinii, nobis
. ♂ total length of body, 9-10ths of an inch of the wings, 1 2-10ths inches; ♀ frequently smaller.
Colors and general appearance much like those of Cicadas septendecim,Linn., but darker, and the segments of the abdomen below are more narrowly bordered with yellow. note different to that of C. septendecim, and more like that of some of the grasshoppers.
Inhabits the neighborhood of Philadelphia, appearing in the winged or perfect state at intervals of seventeen Years.
description: Published as part of Fisher, J. C., 1851, On a new species of Cicada, pp. 272-273 in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 5 on pages 272-273, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4755949
title: Money and planning for socialist transition: the Mozambican experience
Creators: name: Wuyts, Marc
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1986

description: This study develops an argument about the role of money in the process of planning for socialist transformation in the concrete case of the Mozambican experience in the period 1975-1983. The context was an economy were the peasantry through its production of cash crops as well as through its supply of labour power constituted the cornerstone of the social organization of production. Hence, the nationalisations of the major means of production created a state sector which was only part of a wider economy. This study argues that, within this context, the role of money can only be understood with respect to the dynamic, but not exclusive, role of the state sector in propelling the wider transformation of the economy. The actual experience in Mozambique was characterised by a process of state centered accumulation which implied that planning . boiled down to mobilising resources behind the accelerated development^ of the state sector. The result was the separation as between the official and parallel economies, and the dynamics of peasant agriculture became determined by the latter. Money acquired an active function in this process inasmuch as monetary imbalances originating in the state sector fuelled the development of speculative capital in the parallel economy, and hence enhanced the social differentiation of the peasantry. As a result, the control of the state over the economy was weakened and the process of socialisation of the countryside effectively blocked. Hence, the conclusion is that money matters in the context of socialist transition, because its role is not neutral with respect to the process of transforming production.
Two-particle Aharonov-Bohm effect and Entanglement in the electronic Hanbury Brown Twiss setup
Creators: name: Samuelsson, P.
name: Sukhorukov, E. V.
name: Buttiker, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze a Hanbury Brown Twiss geometry in which particles are injected from two independent sources into a mesoscopic electrical conductor. The set-up has the property that all partial waves end in different reservoirs without generating any single particle interference. There is no single particle Aharonov-Bohm effect. However, exchange effects lead to two-particle Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in current correlations. We demonstrate that the two-particle Aharonov-Bohm effect is connected to orbital entanglement which can be used for violation of a Bell Inequality.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, discussion of postselected electron-electron entanglement added
Quantum Hall spin liquids and their possible realization in moiré systems
Creators: name: Zhang, Ya-Hui
name: Senthil, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently Chern insulators with Chern number $C=1$ and $C=2$ in zero (or very small) magnetic field have been observed in two moire graphene systems: twisted bilayer graphene and ABC trilayer graphene, both aligned with a hexagonal Boron-Nitride (h-BN) substrate. These Chern insulator states arise due to many body effects in the Chern bands of these systems when they are partially filled to a total integer filling $ν_T = 1,3$ (including spin and valley degrees of freedom). A simple possible explanation is from Hartree-Fock mean field theory which predicts valley and spin polarization in the zero bandwidth limit, similar to the "quantum Hall ferromagnetism" in Landau levels. Though valley polarization is implied by the existing experiments, the fate of the spin degree of freedom is not presently clear. In this paper we propose alternative valley polarized - but not spin polarized - candidates for the observed QAH effect. For a valley polarized spinful Chern band at filling $ν_T=1$, we describe a class of exotic Chern insulator phases through spin-charge separation: charge is in a conventional Chern insulator phase with quantized Hall conductivity, while the spin forms disordered spin liquid phase with fractionalization, which we dub quantum Hall spin liquids. We construct a simple class of $Z_2$ quantum Hall spin liquid as analogs of the familiar $Z_2$ spin liquid through slave fermion-schwinger boson parton theory. Condensation of the spinon from the $Z_2$ quantum Hall spin liquid can lead to a quantum Hall antiferromagnet which is yet another, less exotic, candidate for the experimentally observed Chern insulator. We offer several experimental proposals to probe the quantum Hall spin liquid and the quantum Hall anti-ferromagnetic phases.
description: 11 pages; 1 figure; v2: add discussions on doped case and experimental detection
Patient Perspectives of Nutrition in Healthcare: An Exploratory Study
Creators: name: Petersen, Matthew Gary
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: Healthcare is one of the most debated and controversial issues facing our nation and the world today. From availability to affordability, healthcare influences the lives of millions of people daily. For more than a decade the World Health Organization has called for an integrated approach to improve global health by improving patient adherence to prescribed treatments. Despite this, very little improvement has been made in adherence trends since the 1980's. Some current research has focused on improved adherence through an understanding of the patient's perspective of healthcare. By understanding how the patient sees healthcare, physicians are able to provide more effective care.
This study focuses specifically on the role of nutrition in healthcare. Nutrition is implicated in the development and progression of some of the nation's most prevalent chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and obesity. This study aims to explore and understand how patients expect nutrition to play a role in healthcare. This understanding will help align physician education and practice with patient expectations and may lead to improved care.
Exploring the Mass Segregation Effect of X-ray Sources in Globular Clusters. III. Signs of Binary Disruption in M28
Creators: name: Cheng, Zhongqun
name: Mu, Huijun
name: Li, Zhiyuan
name: Xu, Xiaojie
name: Wang, Wei
name: Li, Xiangdong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using archival {\it Chandra} observations with a total effective exposure of 323 ks, we derive an updated catalog of point sources in the bulge globular cluster M28. The catalog contains 502 X-ray sources within an area of $\sim475\, \rm arcmin^{2}$, and more than $90\%$ of these sources are first detected in this cluster. We find significant dips in the radial distribution profiles of X-ray sources in M28, with the projected distance and width of the distribution dip for bright ($L_{X} \gtrsim 4.5\times 10^{30} {\rm\ erg\ \,s^{-1}}$) X-ray sources are larger than the faint ($L_{X} \lesssim 4.5\times 10^{30} {\rm\ erg\ \,s^{-1}}$) sources. The "generalized King model" fitting give a slightly larger average mass for the bright sources ($1.30\pm0.15\,M_{\odot}$) than the faint sources ($1.09\pm0.14\,M_{\odot}$), which support a universal mass segregation delay between heavy objects in GCs. Compared with 47 Tuc and Terzan 5, we show that the dynamical age of M28 is comparable to Terzan 5 and much smaller than 47 Tuc, but it is evolving more fast (i.e., with smaller two-body relaxation timescale) than 47 Tuc. These features may suggest an acceleration effect of cluster dynamical evolution by tidal shock in M28. Besides, we find an abnormal deficiency of X-ray sources in the central region ($R \lesssim 1.5 \rm~arcmin$) of M28 than its outskirts, which indicate that M28 may have suffered an early phase of primordial binary disruption within its central region, and mass segregation effect will erase such a phenomenon as cluster evolve to older dynamical age.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A LANGUAGE STUDY APPROACH TO A COLLEGE COURSE IN FRESHMAN COMPOSITION
Creators: name: Thompson, Merle O'Rourke
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 39-06, Section: A, page: 3340.
The power spectrum of the circular noise
Creators: name: Müller, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The circular noise is important in connection to Mach's principle, and also as a possible probe of the Unruh effect. In this letter the power spectrum of the detector following the Trocheries-Takeno motion in the Minkowski vacuum is analytically obtained in the form of an infinite series. A mean distribution function and corresponding energy density are obtained for this particular detected noise. The analogous of a non constant temperature distribution is obtained. And in the end, a brief discussion about the equilibrium configuration is given.
description: accepted for publication in GRG
Additional file 1 of Activation of the PDGFRα-Nrf2 pathway mediates impaired adipocyte differentiation in bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells lacking Nck1
Creators: name: Haider, Nida
name: Larose, Louise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Differentiation of BM-MSCs into osteoblasts. (A) Representative images (DIC, 10X) of week 5 post-weaning Nck1+/+ mice derived BM-MSCs before and upon 10 days of differentiation. (B) Relative osteoblast markers Bglap2, Runx2, Sp7, and Col1a1 mRNA levels before (black bars) and upon 10 days of differentiation (white bars) in BM-MSCs derived from week 5 post-weaning Nck1+/+ mice (W5) (n = 4/group). Data are mean ± SEM. Statistical significance evaluated by unpaired Student’s t-test is reported as *p ≤ 0.05, and **p ≤ 0.01.
Knotlike Cosmic Strings in The Early Universe
Creators: name: Duan, Yi-shi
name: Liu, Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the knotlike cosmic strings in the Riemann-Cartan space-time of the early universe are discussed. It has been revealed that the cosmic strings can just originate from the zero points of the complex scalar quintessence field. In these strings we mainly study the knotlike configurations. Based on the integral of Chern-Simons 3-form a topological invariant for knotlike cosmic strings is constructed, and it is shown that this invariant is just the total sum of all the self-linking and linking numbers of the knots family. Furthermore, it is also pointed out that this invariant is preserved in the branch processes during the evolution of cosmic strings.
Abaya-Chamo Lakes physical and water resources characteristics, including scenarios and impacts
Creators: name: Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele
name: Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Lakes
subject: Morphology
subject: Watersheds
subject: GIS
subject: Simulation models
subject: Runoff
subject: Water balance
subject: Rainfall-runoff relationships
subject: Bathymetry surveys
subject: Ethiopia
subject: Abaya Lake
subject: Chamo Lake
subject: Rift Valley Region

description: Paper presented at Lake Abaya-Chamo Research Symposium, Arba Minch University, Ethiopia, 7-11 May 2007
SMALL-SCALE INDUSTRY: THE CASE OF GREECE'S KNITTING PLANTS
Creators: name: Vasiliades, Kanella Constantinos
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 3803
subject: Economic theory

description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 39-06, Section: A, page: 3738.
Sentiment Analysis with Contextual Embeddings and Self-Attention
Creators: name: Biesialska, Katarzyna
name: Biesialska, Magdalena
name: Rybinski, Henryk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In natural language the intended meaning of a word or phrase is often implicit and depends on the context. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective method for sentiment analysis using contextual embeddings and a self-attention mechanism. The experimental results for three languages, including morphologically rich Polish and German, show that our model is comparable to or even outperforms state-of-the-art models. In all cases the superiority of models leveraging contextual embeddings is demonstrated. Finally, this work is intended as a step towards introducing a universal, multilingual sentiment classifier.
description: Accepted at the 25th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2020)
Modulation of Neuronal R-Type Ca2+ Channels (Cav2.3) by G Protein-Coupled Receptors
Creators: name: Page, Lauren S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: Neuronal R-type Ca2+ channels (Cav2.3) are expressed at high concentrations within the cortex, hippocampus and striatal regions of the brain, where they participate in neuronal excitability and synaptic signaling. This pattern of expression may signify a connection between Cav2.3 channel function and neurological disorders such as Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Huntington's Disease (HD). Both of these disorders are caused by inadequate secretion of the neurotransmitter dopamine within the striatum. The first step in characterizing the potential importance of Cav2.3 in PD and HD is to examine its modulation by G-protein-coupled dopamine receptors. Specifically, we aim to characterize modulation of Cav2.3 by dopamine 1 (D1) and dopamine 2 (D2) receptors functioning as obligate heterodimers. The initial phase of the project involves the construction, using molecular biological techniques, of mutant D1 and D2 receptors that will form obligate heterodimers. The project will culminate with expression of the obligate heterodimers in a mammalian cell line, and whole-cell patch-clamp recordings of Cav2.3 current modulation.
User participation in main canal governance
Creators: name: Manthrithilake, Herath
name: Djalalov, S.
name: Manthrithilake, Herath
name: Djalalov, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Irrigation canals
subject: Governance
subject: Participatory management
subject: Farmers
subject: Water users Associations
subject: Water resource management
subject: Water delivery
subject: Performance indexes
subject: Water distribution
subject: Central Asia
subject: Uzbekistan
subject: Kyrgyzstan
subject: Kazakhstan
subject: Tajikistan
subject: Ferghana Valley

description: In The 4th Asian Regional Conference and 10th International Seminar on Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM), Teheran, Iran, 2-5 May 2007
Correlation between electrons and vortices in quantum dots
Creators: name: Tavernier, M. B.
name: Anisimovas, E.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exact many-body wave functions for quantum dots containing up to four interacting electrons are computed and we investigated the distribution of the wave function nodes, also called vortices. For this purpose, we evaluate the reduced wave function by fixing the positions of all but one electron and determine the locations of its zeros. We find that the zeros are strongly correlated with respect to each other and with respect to the position of the electrons and formulate rules describing their distribution. No multiple zeros are found, i.e. vortices with vorticity larger than one. Our exact calculations are compared to results extracted from the recently proposed rotating electron molecule (REM) wave functions.
Atomic scale friction between clean graphite surfaces
Creators: name: Matsushita, Katsuyoshi
name: Matsukawa, Hiroshi
name: Sasaki, Naruo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate atomic scale friction between clean graphite surfaces by using molecular dynamics. The simulation reproduces atomic scale stick-slip motion and low frictional coefficient, both of which are observed in experiments using frictional force microscope. It is made clear that the microscopic origin of low frictional coefficients of graphite lies on the honeycomb structure in each layer, not only on the weak interlayer interaction as believed so far.
description: 4 pages, 7 figures
Preservation Effects on Common Macroinvertebrates of the Intermountain West
Creators: name: Paxton, Megan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: Dry mass/wet mass ratios are essential for estimating energy flow through ecosystems, determining energy budgets, and studying energy allocation in organisms. Preserving specimens by freezing or storing them in ethanol has known effects on the wet mass measurements. These storage methods are used regardless of their effects - altering the wet mass and thereby changing the mass ratio for the organism. We evaluated the effects of ethanol storage and freezing on six different taxa from the Interrnountain West: Hesperoperla, lsoperla, Rhithrogena, Drunella, Arctopsyche, and Rhyacophila. All the taxa studied except Hesperoperla and Rhyacophila showed a significant loss in wet mass when treated with ethanol, with organisms retaining only 17.7% - 79.9% of their original wet mass. Freezing had varied effects. Only Rhithrogena and Drunella showed significant losses in wet mass after being frozen (retaining 29.8% - 45.9% of their original wet mass). Hesperoperla, lsoperla, and Arctopsyche showed no significant loss or gain in wet mass after treatment. Rhyacophila was the only taxa to have a significant mass gain after being frozen, taking on an additional 23% of its original wet mass. Freezing specimens had less of an impact on their wet mass than storing them in ethanol. Dry masses were not significantly affected by either treatment.