cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cerium Oxides without $U$: The Role of Many-Electron Correlation
Creators: name: Schäfer, Tobias
name: Daelman, Nathan
name: López, Núria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron transfer with changing occupation in the 4f subshell poses a considerable challenge for quantitative predictions in quantum chemistry. Using the example of cerium oxide, we identify the main deficiencies of common parameter-dependent one-electron approaches, such as density functional theory (DFT) with a Hubbard correction, or hybrid functionals. As a response, we present the first benchmark of ab initio many-electron theory for electron transfer energies and lattice parameters under periodic boundary conditions. We show that the direct random phase approximation clearly outperforms all DFT variations. From this foundation, we, then, systematically improve even further. Periodic second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory meanwhile manages to recover standard hybrid functional values. Using these approaches to eliminate parameter bias allows for highly accurate benchmarks of strongly correlated materials, the reliable assessment of various density functionals, and functional fitting via machine-learning.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
The effects of involvement in decision-making on the productivity of three-man laboratory groups
Creators: name: Ponder, Arthur Aubrey
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: An inquiry was carried out into the effects of involvement in decision-making, related to how to perform a given task, on the productivity of three-man laboratory groups. One of the possible explanations for the wealth of contradictory findings in the literature is that the "motivational" effects of being involved indecision-making and the efficacy of decisions made appear to be two logically separable effects, although both are often treated as one. As a consequence, an attempt was made to control the effectiveness of the strategy used between the two treatment conditions. The theoretical basis for the experiment was McGregor's (I960) adaptation of need theory for the organizational context and Lowin's (1968) analysis of the potential effects of participative decision-making on productivity. The three hypotheses, derived there from, which guided the investigation were: (1) groups involved in decision-making would be more productive than groups which were not; (2) would implement the strategy designed to accomplish the task more faithfully, and; (3) given the choice, subjects in the experiment would choose to perform in a situation in which they were involved in decision-making rather than one in which they were not. The task involved the assembly of matrices from component pieces. The measure of productivity was time to successful completion. Results did not agree with predictions. In all three cases the hypotheses were not confirmed. Additionally productivity and choice results were significant in the opposite direction to that predicted by the experimenter . The experimental procedures, assumptions concerning the nature of the test population and the theory itself were re-examined in an attempt to offer possible explanations for these findings.
Additional file 1 of Examining determinants of control of metabolic syndrome among older adults with NCDs receiving service at NCD Plus clinics: multilevel analysis
Creators: name: Suapumee, Nongnuch
name: Seeherunwong, Acharaporn
name: Wanitkun, Napaporn
name: Chansatitporn, Natkamol
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Quantum dynamics of instability-induced pulsations of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice
Creators: name: Shrestha, Uttam
name: Javanainen, Juha
name: Ruostekoski, Janne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional optical lattice in the limit of weak atom-atom interactions, including an approximate model for quantum fluctuations. A pulsating dynamical instability in which atoms periodically collect together and subsequently disperse back into the initial homogeneous state may occur in the time evolution. We take into account the quantum fluctuations within the truncated Wigner approximation. We observe that the quasiperiodic behavior still persists for a single realization that represents a typical experimental outcome, but ensemble averages show various manifestations of quantum fluctuations. Quantum effects become more prominent when the effective interaction strength is increased.
Target Entropy Annealing for Discrete Soft Actor-Critic
Creators: name: Xu, Yaosheng
name: Hu, Dailin
name: Liang, Litian
name: McAleer, Stephen
name: Abbeel, Pieter
name: Fox, Roy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) is considered the state-of-the-art algorithm in continuous action space settings. It uses the maximum entropy framework for efficiency and stability, and applies a heuristic temperature Lagrange term to tune the temperature $α$, which determines how "soft" the policy should be. It is counter-intuitive that empirical evidence shows SAC does not perform well in discrete domains. In this paper we investigate the possible explanations for this phenomenon and propose Target Entropy Scheduled SAC (TES-SAC), an annealing method for the target entropy parameter applied on SAC. Target entropy is a constant in the temperature Lagrange term and represents the target policy entropy in discrete SAC. We compare our method on Atari 2600 games with different constant target entropy SAC, and analyze on how our scheduling affects SAC.
title: Expressive Writing and Breast Cancer: Outcomes and Linguistic Analyses
Creators: name: Hughes, Kelly N.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: This project examined the imp act of an expressive writing intervention as compared to a general health in formation control on breast cancer patients' postradiation treatment. It further examined the content of the expressive writing narratives. The sample included women who were completing radiation treatment for breast cancer at the Huntsman Cancer Institute and City of Hope hospital. The measures utilized in this study were self-report instruments targeting psychological distress (PANAS, JES) and general functioning (SIP), as well as demographic questionnaires. Results revealed the expressive writing intervention significantly impacted positive affect over time. Furthermore, participants from both the treatment and control groups evidenced improvements in psychological distress and general functioning over time. Linguistic analyses revealed participants' use of positive affect words increased across writing sessions, whereas the use of negative affect words and cognitive words did not change. Additionally, the use of past tense words decreased across writing sessions, whereas the use of present tense words increased and the use of future tense remained constant. The findings revealed from this study indicate that an expressive writing intervention can positively impact breast cancer patients up to 1 year postradiation treatment. Furthermore, the analysis of writing trends suggests that the use of positive affect words, the decrease in use of past tense words, along with the increase of present tense words across writing sessions, may be important linguistic components in positive outcomes.
Beyond the Planck scale
Creators: name: Giddings, Steven B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I outline motivations for believing that important quantum gravity effects lie beyond the Planck scale at both higher energies and longer distances and times. These motivations arise in part from the study of ultra-high energy scattering, and also from considerations in cosmology. I briefly summarize some inferences about such ultra-planckian physics, and clues we might pursue towards the principles of a more fundamental theory addressing the known puzzles and paradoxes of quantum gravity.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the proceedings of the XXV Max Born Symposium, "The Planck Scale," Wroclaw, Poland
PAN-DOMAIN: Privacy-preserving Sharing and Auditing of Infection Identifier Matching
Creators: name: Abramson, William
name: Buchanan, William J.
name: Sayeed, Sarwar
name: Pitropakis, Nikolaos
name: Lo, Owen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The spread of COVID-19 has highlighted the need for a robust contact tracing infrastructure that enables infected individuals to have their contacts traced, and followed up with a test. The key entities involved within a contact tracing infrastructure may include the Citizen, a Testing Centre (TC), a Health Authority (HA), and a Government Authority (GA). Typically, these different domains need to communicate with each other about an individual. A common approach is when a citizen discloses his personally identifiable information to both the HA a TC, if the test result comes positive, the information is used by the TC to alert the HA. Along with this, there can be other trusted entities that have other key elements of data related to the citizen. However, the existing approaches comprise severe flaws in terms of privacy and security. Additionally, the aforementioned approaches are not transparent and often being questioned for the efficacy of the implementations. In order to overcome the challenges, this paper outlines the PAN-DOMAIN infrastructure that allows for citizen identifiers to be matched amongst the TA, the HA and the GA. PAN-DOMAIN ensures that the citizen can keep control of the mapping between the trusted entities using a trusted converter, and has access to an audit log.
title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Telepresence-Enabled Cognitive Apprenticeship Model of Teacher Professional Development
Creators: name: Edmondson, R. Shawn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: This exploratory research used a mixed-methods design to compare the effectiveness of a telepresence-enabled cognitive apprenticeship model of teacher professional development (TEAM-PD) to that of a traditional workshop model by examining outcomes in teacher pedagogy and student achievement. Measures of the lll degree to which teachers in both groups enacted mathematics pedagogy provided mixed results. Both groups demonstrated similar patterns of behavior and cognition, indicating modest levels of pedagogy implementation. Although the experimental group demonstrated higher levels of enactment of the mathematics pedagogy, the comparison group demonstrated a faster rate of growth. Student outcome data were clear: students of teachers in the experimental group scored substantially higher on a test of relevant mathematics content than students of teachers in the comparison group. Collectively the results suggest that TEAM-PD has potential to be an effective model of teacher professional development.
Role of cross-shell excitations in the reaction 54Fe(d_pol,p)55Fe
Creators: name: Mahgoub, M.
name: Kruecken, R.
name: Faestermann, Th.
name: Bergmaier, A.
name: Bucurescu, D.
name: Hertenberger, R.
name: Kroell, Th.
name: Wirth, H. -F.
name: Lisetskiy, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reaction 54Fe(d_pol,p)55Fe was studied at the Munich Q3D spectrograph with a 14 MeV polarized deuteron beam. Excitation energies, angular distributions and analyzing powers were measured for 39 states up to 4.5 MeV excitation energy. Spin and parity assignments were made and spectroscopic factors deduced by comparison to DWBA calculations. The results were compared to predictions by large scale shell model calculations in the full pf-shell and it was found that reasonable agreement for energies and spectroscopic factors below 2.5 MeV could only be obtained if up to 6 particles were allowed to be excited from the f_7/2 orbital into p_3/2, f_5/2, and p_1/2 orbitals across the N=28 gap. For levels above 2.5 MeV the experimental strength distribution was found to be significantly more fragmented than predicted by the shell model calculations.
description: 9 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables, submitted to European Physical Journal A
Additional file 1 of Expanded gene and taxon sampling of diplomonads shows multiple switches to parasitic and free-living lifestyle
Creators: name: Wiśniewska, Monika M.
name: Salomaki, Eric D.
name: Silberman, Jeffrey D.
name: Terpis, Kristina X.
name: Mazancová, Eva
name: Táborský, Petr
name: Jinatham, Vasana
name: Gentekaki, Eleni
name: Čepička, Ivan
name: Kolisko, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table S1. Overview of the isolates included in the analysis and accession numbers for the raw sequence, and SSU rRNA gene sequence data used in the analysis. Explanations: DE – Germany, AT – Austria, NO – Norway, ZM– Zambia, IT – Italy, TH – Thailand, CZ – Czech Republic, RI – Rhode Island, USA, NY – New York, USA, and MA – Massachusetts, USA.
On the well-posedness of the incompressible density-dependent Euler equations in the $L^p$ framework
Creators: name: Danchin, Raphaël
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 76B03

description: The present paper is devoted to the study of the well-posedness issue for the density-dependent Euler equations in the whole space. We establish local-in-time results for the Cauchy problem pertaining to data in the Besov spaces embedded in the set of Lipschitz functions, including the borderline case $B^{\frac Np+1}_{p,1}(\R^N).$ A continuation criterion in the spirit of the celebrated one by Beale-Kato-Majda for the classical Euler equations, is also proved. In contrast with the previous work dedicated to this system in the whole space, our approach is not restricted to the $L^2$ framework or to small perturbations of a constant density state: we just need the density to be bounded away from zero. The key to that improvement is a new a priori estimate in Besov spaces for an elliptic equation with nonconstant coefficients.
description: 31 pages
Proposing a New Method for Query Processing Adaption in DataBase
Creators: name: Feizi-Derakhshi, Mohammad-Reza
name: Asil, Hasan
name: Asil, Amir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes a multi agent system by compiling two technologies, query processing optimization and agents which contains features of personalized queries and adaption with changing of requirements. This system uses a new algorithm based on modeling of users' long-term requirements and also GA to gather users' query data. Experimented Result shows more adaption capability for presented algorithm in comparison with classic algorithms.
Tracking the QUIC Spin Bit on Tofino
Creators: name: Kunze, Ike
name: Sander, Constantin
name: Wehrle, Klaus
name: Rüth, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2.3

description: QUIC offers security and privacy for modern web traffic by closely integrating encryption into its transport functionality. In this process, it hides transport layer information often used for network monitoring, thus obsoleting traditional measurement concepts. To still enable passive RTT estimations, QUIC introduces a dedicated measurement bit - the spin bit. While simple in its design, tracking the spin bit at line-rate can become challenging for software-based solutions. Dedicated hardware trackers are also unsuitable as the spin bit is not invariant and can change in the future. Thus, this paper investigates whether P4-programmable hardware, such as the Intel Tofino, can effectively track the spin bit at line-rate. We find that the core functionality of the spin bit can be realized easily, and our prototype has an accuracy close to software-based trackers. Our prototype further protects against faulty measurements caused by reordering and prepares the data according to the needs of network operators, e.g., by classifying samples into pre-defined RTT classes. Still, distinct concepts in QUIC, such as its connection ID, are challenging with current hardware capabilities.
title: Social Interactions and Bullying in Withdrawn Children: An Evaluation of Generalization Strategies Within a Social Skills Training Intervention
Creators: name: Hancock, Kyle Max
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: Socially withdrawn children are at increased risk for various maladaptive outcomes. One intervention suggested to mediate these outcomes is the use of peermediated social skills training. However, little research supports its use with socially withdrawn children; even less research has investigated the role of peer mediators in the generalization of treatment effects. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a generalization training package on the generalization of socially withdrawn students and their peer mediators' interactions. This study compared the effectiveness of various procedures in a peer-mediated intervention on the generalization of prosocial interactions with socially withdrawn students and examined how students' perceptions of social support, bullying experiences, and intervention acceptability changed as a result of the peer-mediated social skills training intervention. Results indicated that the socially withdrawn participants engaged in more prosocial behavior following the intervention and that it generalized to a highly unstructured, novel setting with multiple students.
title: Identity Development, Identity Disclosure, and Identity Exploration Among Adolescent Sexual Minorities
Creators: name: Glover, Jenna A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: This study investigated the utility of applying the social constructionist perspective to adolescent sexual minority identity development, disclosure, and identity explorations. Differences between middle and late adolescents and male and females were examined. No differences were found between middle and late adolescents on measures of identity development and identity exploration; however, differences in identity disclosure were found regarding history of accidental discovery of sexual orientation. Biological sex differences were found for identity development, disclosure, and exploration. Relationships between same- and opposite-sex attractions, behaviors, romantic experiences, and self-labels are presented. Trends in intentional disclosure patterns and unintentional discovery identify predicted reaction as a primary motivator in disclosure. Finally, different relationship styles in which sexual minorities engage are presented. Outcomes of relationship styles show better psychosocial outcomes for those engaging in different relationship styles compared to those who do not participate in relationships.
title: Predicting Child Outcomes from Parenting Styles of Spanish-Speaking Families
Creators: name: Donovick, Melissa Renee
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: The purpose of this study was to evaluate observed parenting practices among first-generation Spanish-speaking Latinos living in Utah. Participants included 50 families with a child between the ages of 4 and 9. Parents and their child engaged in a behavioral observational task that was coded for parenting dimensions and styles to determine if they predict child outcomes among Latino families. Parents completed the Child Behavior Checklist to assess for behavioral problems. Observations were coded using the Parenting Scale, developed specifically for this study. In general, parents received high ratings on warmth and demandingness, and lower ratings on autonomy granting. Parenting dimensions significantly predicted internalizing problems. Findings lll also suggested that autonomy granting exerted an influence on total behavioral problems. The application of parenting style categories to Latino parents was not useful. Implications for prevention and intervention methods for Latino families were discussed as well as directions for future research .
Additional file 2 of Examining determinants of control of metabolic syndrome among older adults with NCDs receiving service at NCD Plus clinics: multilevel analysis
Creators: name: Suapumee, Nongnuch
name: Seeherunwong, Acharaporn
name: Wanitkun, Napaporn
name: Chansatitporn, Natkamol
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2.
title: An Outcome Study of Spinal Cord Stimulation Implants in a Retrospective Cohort of Failed Back Surgery Syndrome Patients
Creators: name: Browning, Anthony Davis
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: The current study was designed to test the effectiveness of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) in a retrospective group of 43 failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) patients. A medical record review was conducted on study participants to capture · relevant presurgical biopsychosocial variables deemed to be of potential prognostic value. In addition, a multidimensional approach to outcome assessment was undertaken along three general domains: general health status, disease specific outcomes, and surgical outcomes. Descriptive statistics of presurgical variables and outcome measurements are provided as well as a model of outcome prediction based on these prognostic variables. Results suggest that the use of neurostimulation may help to reduce low back and/or leg pain in some patients with FBSS; however, a large number of patients reported continuing pain, physical disability, and inability to work despite treatment. The current study calls into question the efficacy of SCS for FBSS. Recommendations for future studies are presented.
Astronomical imaging: The theory of everything
Creators: name: Hogg, David W.
name: Lang, Dustin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We are developing automated systems to provide homogeneous calibration meta-data for heterogeneous imaging data, using the pixel content of the image alone where necessary. Standardized and complete calibration meta-data permit generative modeling: A good model of the sky through wavelength and time--that is, a model of the positions, motions, spectra, and variability of all stellar sources, plus an intensity map of all cosmological sources--could synthesize or generate any astronomical image ever taken at any time with any equipment in any configuration. We argue that the best-fit or highest likelihood model of the data is also the best possible astronomical catalog constructed from those data. A generative model or catalog of this form is the best possible platform for automated discovery, because it is capable of identifying informative failures of the model in new data at the pixel level, or as statistical anomalies in the joint distribution of residuals from many images. It is also, in some sense, an astronomer's "theory of everything".
description: a talk given at "Classification and Discovery in Large Astronomical Surveys", Ringberg Castle, 2008-10-16
title: Environmental Values and Landscape Architecture: A New Ecological Paradigm Study
Creators: name: Pruss, Emmet J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: In recent decades, landscape design theory has been affected by an increase in pro-environmental values. Currently, concepts of ‘sustainability’ and ‘ecosystem services’ exert a strong influence. These concepts involve sustaining current human behaviors within the constraints of ecological limits and maintaining or enhancing the goods and services that humans receive from ecosystems, respectively. In this way, they are most characteristic of anthropocentric environmental worldviews with high degrees of concern for the instrumental values of ecosystems, which are indicative of shallow ecology.
Previous researchers have advanced theoretical characterizations of the environmental values of landscape architects in terms of environmental ethics. However, as of yet, no statistics-based model has been developed for this purpose. In order to advance such a model, and in the effort to further characterize the environmental values of landscape architects, two studies were performed. Both utilized data collected with the New Ecological Paradigm (revised-NEP) survey.
In the first study, a Shallow v. Deep Worldview model was used to characterize revised-NEP survey responses of landscape architecture students and alumni practitioners from Utah State University (USU) in terms of shallow or deep ecology. The results indicate that the groups exhibited essentially anthropocentric environmental values, which were characteristic of shallow ecology worldviews.
In the second study, the revised-NEP survey was used to assess the environmental worldviews of general education and landscape architecture students at USU. The results indicate that the landscape architecture students exhibited greater pro-environmental worldviews, which were correlated to differences in political orientation between the groups.
Overall, the results of the two studies support the notions that the study or practice of landscape architecture is correlated to greater pro-environmental values than are common for general higher education students, and that, in general, current landscape architecture students and practitioners exhibit environmental values that are characteristic of ecologically-concerned, yet essentially anthropocentric, shallow ecology worldviews.
MoC-System: Efficient Fault Tolerance for Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Model Training
Creators: name: Cai, Weilin
name: Qin, Le
name: Huang, Jiayi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As large language models continue to scale up, distributed training systems have expanded beyond 10k nodes, intensifying the importance of fault tolerance. Checkpoint has emerged as the predominant fault tolerance strategy, with extensive studies dedicated to optimizing its efficiency. However, the advent of the sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model presents new challenges due to the substantial increase in model size, despite comparable computational demands to dense models.
 In this work, we propose the Mixture-of-Checkpoint System (MoC-System) to orchestrate the vast array of checkpoint shards produced in distributed training systems. MoC-System features a novel Partial Experts Checkpointing (PEC) mechanism, an algorithm-system co-design that strategically saves a selected subset of experts, effectively reducing the MoE checkpoint size to levels comparable with dense models. Incorporating hybrid parallel strategies, MoC-System involves fully sharded checkpointing strategies to evenly distribute the workload across distributed ranks. Furthermore, MoC-System introduces a two-level checkpointing management method that asynchronously handles in-memory snapshots and persistence processes.
 We build MoC-System upon the Megatron-DeepSpeed framework, achieving up to a 98.9% reduction in overhead for each checkpointing process compared to the original method, during MoE model training with ZeRO-2 data parallelism and expert parallelism. Additionally, extensive empirical analyses substantiate that our methods enhance efficiency while maintaining comparable model accuracy, even achieving an average accuracy increase of 1.08% on downstream tasks.
description: Accepted to ASPLOS 2025
Fourth Generation t-prime in Extensions of the Standard Model
Creators: name: De Pree, Erin
name: Marshall, Gardner
name: Sher, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of a fourth generation t-prime quark in various extensions of the standard model. In the Randall-Sundrum model, the decay t-prime -> t Z has a large branching ratio that could be detected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We also look at the two-Higgs doublet models I, II and III, and note that, in the latter, the branching ratio of t-prime -> t H, where H is a Higgs scalar or pseudoscalar, is huge and we discuss detection at the LHC.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, to be published in the proceedings of DPF-2009, Detroit, MI, July 2009, eConf C090726
Additional file 3 of Examining determinants of control of metabolic syndrome among older adults with NCDs receiving service at NCD Plus clinics: multilevel analysis
Creators: name: Suapumee, Nongnuch
name: Seeherunwong, Acharaporn
name: Wanitkun, Napaporn
name: Chansatitporn, Natkamol
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 3.
A combined study of thermohaline mixing and envelope overshooting with PARSEC: Calibration to NGC 6397 and M4
Creators: name: Nguyen, C. T.
name: Bressan, A.
name: Korn, A. J.
name: Cescutti, G.
name: Costa, G.
name: Addari, F.
name: Girardi, L.
name: Fu, X.
name: Chen, Y.
name: Marigo, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermohaline mixing is one of the main processes in low-mass red giant stars that affect the transport of chemicals and, thus, the surface abundances along the evolution. The interplay of thermohaline mixing with other processes, such as the downward overshooting from the convective envelope, should be carefully investigated. This study aims to understand the combined effects of thermohaline mixing and envelope overshooting. After implementing the thermohaline mixing process in the \textsc{parsec} stellar evolutionary code, we compute tracks and isochrones (with \textsc{trilegal} code) and compare them with observational data. To constrain the efficiencies of both processes, we perform a detailed modelling that is suitable for globular clusters NGC 6397 and M4. Our results indicate that an envelope overshooting efficiency parameter, $Λ_\mathrm{e}=0.6$, and a thermohaline efficiency parameter, $α_\mathrm{th}=50$, are necessary to reproduce the RGB bump magnitudes and lithium abundances observed in these clusters. We find that both envelope overshooting and thermohaline mixing have a significant impact on the variation of $^7$Li abundances. Additionally, we also explore the effects of adopting solar-scaled or $α$-enhanced mixtures on our models. The $^{12}$C and the $^{12}$C/$^{13}$C ratio are also effective indicators to probe extra mixing in RGB stars. Although, their usefulness is currently limited by the lack of precise and accurate C-isotopes abundances.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures
Why we should be able to stop the COVID-19 Pandemic without destroying our economy and way of life - An optimist's scenario from a risk management perspective
Creators: name: Schmitz, Johannes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Risk Management
COVID-19

description: The Whitepaper (30 March 2020) argues that we can should be able to stop the COVID 19 pandemic without destroying our economy and way of life. This is a view on the COVID-19 pandemic and on measures to stop the pandemic from a risk management perspective. Focus of the conceptual discussion is on the reproduction number R and the impact of non-pharmaceutical measures to reduce it compared to the social and economical costs. The paper argues that the COVID-19 pandemic is stoppable and that we should be able to stop it and save lives without destroying our economy or our way of life. Hygiene measures as part of our future social etiquette, a moderate reduction of everyday social interaction, some restructuring of schooling and day-care services and an abstinence from mass events and entertainment in public might be enough to stop the pandemic. We should be able to restore public and social life and business activities with moderate and sustainable cutbacks. A systematic risk management is required and research to weigh the effects and social and economic costs of mitigation measures.
title: A Biography of Lot Smith (1830-1892)
Creators: name: Cane, Robert L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1970

description: There is much in the literature of Utah-Mormon history that mentions the name of Lot Smith over and over again. As one evaluates the material for this biography, the contribution and significance of the life of Lot Smith in relation to the times in which he lived become meaningful. Lot Smith helped build much of Utah and Arizona history.
This thesis places emphasis on the following phases of his life: The Mormon Battalion, The Utah War, The Civil War, and The Arizona Mission. Lot was mainly a soldier, but he was also a missionary, farmer and statesman whose whole way of life was centered around building and defending the Mormon Kingdom of God.
Measurements of the neutron absorption in supermirror coatings
Creators: name: DiJulio, D. D.
name: Santoro, V.
name: Devishvili, A.
name: Khaplanov, A.
name: Kolevatov, R.
name: Magán, M.
name: Miller, T. M.
name: Muhrer, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we report on measurements of neutron absorption in supermirror coatings. The measurements were carried out using the SuperADAM instrument at the Institut Laue-Langevin and by measuring the gamma-ray production from m = 3 and m = 4 neutron supermirrors when illuminated by a beam of neutrons. The results provide a valuable validation for recent computational and theoretical work that can be used as input to Monte-Carlo radiation transport calculations for the design of the shielding of neutron scattering instruments.
Detection of Very High Energy radiation from HESS J1908+063 confirms the Milagro unidentified source MGRO J1908+06
Creators: name: Aharonian, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detection of a gamma-ray source above 300 GeV is reported, confirming the unidentified source MGRO J1908+06, discovered by the Milagro collaboration at a median energy of 20 TeV. The source was observed during 27 h as part of the extension of the H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey to longitudes >30degr. HESS J1908+063 is detected at a significance level of 10.9 s with an integral flux above 1 TeV of (3.76+-0.29stat+-0.75sys)x10^-12 ph cm^-2 s^-1, and a spectral photon index Gamma = 2.10+-0.07stat+-0.2sys. The positions and fluxes of HESS 1908+063 and MGRO J1908+06 are in good agreement. Possible counterparts at other wavelengths and the origin of the gamma-ray emission are discussed. The nearby unidentified GeV source, GRO J1908+0556 (GeV) which also remains unidentified and the new Fermi pulsar 0FGL J1907.5+0617, may be connected to the TeV source.
description: Accepted for publication on Astron. Astrophys
title: Effects of a Synthetic Cannabinoid on the Reinforcing Efficacy of Ethanol in Rats
Creators: name: Bailey, Ericka M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2007

description: The co-abuse of alcohol and marijuana is widespread, although the mechanisms underlying this behavior are unclear. There is some evidence of a relationship between the neural processes that mediate the effects of ethanol and marijuana. For example, research has shown that exposure to marijuana increases responding for, and intake of, ethanol. The alcohol deprivation effect is an anima l model of alcoholism that suggests that the reinforcing efficacy of ethanol, as measured by intake, increases following a period of deprivation. Recent research indicates that rats chronically exposed to marijuana during periods of alcohol deprivation consume ethanol above and beyond deprivation alone. It is unclear, however, whether the marijuana exposure or the repeated deprivations increased motivation to consume ethanol. In the present experiment, rats were trained to self-administer ethanol on a progressive ratio schedule and subjected to two separate periods of deprivation during which either drug or saline was chronically administered for 7 days. Breakpoint (i.e., last ratio completed) was recorded as a measure of the reinforcing efficacy of ethanol. Following deprivations, breakpoint was initially lower than baseline, regardless of whether the drug or saline was administered. Breakpoint recovered to, but did not exceed, baseline levels following both deprivations, indicating a lack of increased reinforcing efficacy of ethanol after repeated deprivation or chronic exposure to marijuana. The lack of an expression of an alcohol deprivation effect following deprivation may have been due to the length and number of deprivations employed. Furthermore, lowered breakpoint recorded following chronic drug administration during deprivation may have been due to the dose administered or stress generated by chronic injections . Further investigation is necessary to separate and clarify the variables responsible for the present results.
Current Exchanges for Reducible Higher Spin Multiplets and Gauge Fixing
Creators: name: Fotopoulos, A.
name: Tsulaia, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the current exchanges between triplets of higher spin fields which describe reducible representations of the Poincare group. Through this computation we can extract the propagator of the reducible higher spin fields which compose the triplet. We show how to decompose the triplet fields into irreducible HS fields which obey Fronsdal equations, and how to compute the current-current interaction for the cubic couplings which appear in ArXiv:0708.1399 [hep-th] using the decomposition into irreducible modes. We compare this result with the same computation using a gauge fixed (Feynman) version of the triplet Lagrangian which allows us to write very simple HS propagators for the triplet fields.
description: 26 pages, 1 table; v3 some clarifications and references added, typos corrected. Published version
Expert System Models in the Companies' Financial and Accounting Domain
Creators: name: Mates, D.
name: Iancu, E.
name: Bostan, I.
name: Grosu, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The present paper is based on studying, analyzing and implementing the expert systems in the financial and accounting domain of the companies, describing the use method of the informational systems that can be used in the multi-national companies, public interest institutions, and medium and small dimension economical entities, in order to optimize the managerial decisions and render efficient the financial-accounting functionality. The purpose of this paper is aimed to identifying the economical exigencies of the entities, based on the already used accounting instruments and the management software that could consent the control of the economical processes and patrimonial assets.
title: Student Teachers' Explicit and Implicit Perceptions of Attention-Defici t/H yperacti vi ty Disorder
Creators: name: Berglof, Hollie K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2007

description: This study examined student teachers' explicit and implicit perceptions of ADHD and the relationship between perceptions of ADHD and social desirability. In addition, the relationship between a current measure of implicit perceptions of ADHD and one that was adapted for this study was also investigated. Findings indicate that student teachers view a student portrayed as exhibiting symptoms consistent with ADHD more negatively than a "normal" child in terms of their self-reported first impressions of the child as well as their predictions for the child's future success. Participants' perceptions, as measured by two implicit measures, however, were mixed, with results from one measure indicative of neutral attitudes toward ADHD, while results from another measure were suggestive of an implicit attitude bias against ADHD behaviors. Overall, social desirability did not appear to be meaningfully associated with student teachers' implicit or explicit perceptions of ADHD. The key findings seem to indicate that student teachers generally exhibit more negative perceptions of stereotypical ADHD behaviors than "normal" behaviors. Two measures of student teachers' implicit perceptions of ADHD were not significantly related.
Additional file 1 of Contextualizing HIV testing experiences within the HIV prevention cascade: qualitative insights from refugee youth in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, Uganda
Creators: name: Logie, Carmen Helen
name: Okumu, Moses
name: Loutet, Miranda
name: Coelho, Madelaine
name: McAlpine, Alyssa
name: MacKenzie, Frannie
name: Lukone, Simon Odong
name: Kisubi, Nelson
name: Kalungi, Hakim
name: Lukone, Okello Jimmy
name: Kyambadde, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Effects of the Diagnostic Label "ADHD " on Peer Judgment
Creators: name: Toone, Jared
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: Diagnostic labels are frequently used with children exhibiting symptoms of learning and behavioral disorders. The effect that such labels have on the labeled children as well as their peers is not completely understood. In the present study, the effects of the label "ADHD" on peer acceptance were examined. Fourth- and fifth-grade boys and girls viewed a video of a peer listening to teacher instruction and working on a worksheet. For half of the participants, the child in the video was labeled as having ADHD, while the other participants were told nothing about the child. After viewing the video, the children responded to a questionnaire assessing the likelihood that they would befriend the peer in the video. An analysis of variance revealed that the label resulted in significantly lower friendship ratings. Gender of the participant was not found to impact peer ratings. These results indicate that parents, professionals, and children need to be educated about the effects that labels may have and that labels need to be used with caution. Labeled children may also benefit from counseling about how others may respond to their label.
Oscillations of the magnetic polarization in a Kondo impurity at finite magnetic fields
Creators: name: Bergmann, Gerd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic properties of a Kondo impurity are investigated in a magnetic field using linear response theory. The distribution of electrical charge and magnetic polarization are calculated in real space. The (small) magnetic field does not change the charge distribution. However, it unmasks the Kondo cloud. The (equal) weight of the d-electron components with their magnetic moment up and down is shifted and the compensating s-electron clouds don't cancel any longer (a requirement for an experimental detection of the Kondo cloud). In addition to the net magnetic polarization of the conduction electrons an oscillating magnetic polarization with a period of half the Fermi wave length is observed. However, this oscillating magnetic polarization does not show the long range behavior of Rudermann-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida oscillations because the oscillations don't extend beyond the Kondo radius. They represent an internal electronic structure of the Kondo impurity in a magnetic field. PACS: 75.20.Hr, 71.23.An, 71.27.+a
title: New Perspectives on the Relationship Between Emotion Decoding and Social Acceptance in School-Age Children
Creators: name: Suzuki, Eri
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2006

description: The relationship between children's emotion decoding ability and their social acceptance was examined, with a major focus on potential nonlinear components. Based on the display rules literature, the prediction was tested that social acceptance and emotion decoding skills can be best described as an inverted U-shaped function. Children in kindergarten through fifth grade (113 girls and 123 boys) completed measures of postural and facial decoding accuracy (FACES and TALK) and their social acceptance was assessed using child and teacher reports (SPPC or PSPC). The results showed only a statistically significant quadratic relationship for girls and a statistically significant linear relationship for boys in the link between postural decoding and teacher-rated social acceptance.
Association schemes with a certain type of $p$-subschemes
Creators: name: Abbas, Wasim
name: Hirasaka, Mitsugu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E15, 05E30

description: In this article, we focus on association schemes with some properties derived from the orbitals of a transitive permutation group $G$ with a one-point stabilizer $H$ satisfying $H