cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Impact of the Updated National School Lunch Program Meal Standards on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Among Elementary School Students in Cache County Utah
Creators: name: Fox, Jillian C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Due to the short time the updated National School Lunch Program standards have been in place since fall of 2012, few research studies have explored what effect these new standards have had on fruit and vegetable (F/V) consumption, particularly among elementary school students. Because the new standards require schools to offer students more F/V than before, researchers are interested to know if F/V consumption has indeed increased.
The participants in the study were enrolled in a program to motivate students to eat more F/V – the Food Dudes program. The results of the data analysis found that most students, regardless of grade, were eating less F/V initially after the new standards were in place. However, the group of students receiving prizes from the Food Dudes program actually ate more F/V over time instead of less. Also, F/V consumption for the first spring under the new standards did not decrease as much as it had during the spring under the old standards.
These results indicate that, despite initial declines in F/V consumption, students could be adjusting to the updated standards. Also, students who have participated in the incentives group of the Food Dudes program did not show a drop in F/V consumption, even during the first semester the new standards were in place. Future studies should look at the current F/V intake of students under the updated guidelines now that they have been in place for several school years, as well as at additional intervention programs to increase F/V consumption among this population.
Stability of the singular vortex and associated Majorana zero modes in trapped p-wave resonant superfluids of neutral cold atoms
Creators: name: Tsutsumi, Y.
name: Machida, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stability conditions for the singular vortex which accompanies Majorana zero modes at the core are investigated for p-wave resonant superfluids of atomic Fermi gases. Within the Ginzburg-Landau framework we determine the stable conditions in the parameter space for the external rotation frequency and the harmonic trap frequency. There exists the narrow stable region in this parameter space for quasi-two-dimensional condensates. We also describe the detailed characterizations of the spatial structure of the order parameter in the chiral p-wave superfluids under rotation.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, replaced by the version to appear in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn.
Generalised Hasse-Schmidt varieties and their jet spaces
Creators: name: Moosa, Rahim
name: Scanlon, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 12H99, 14A99

description: This work provides a unified formalism for studying difference and (Hasse-) differential algebraic geometry, by introducing a theory of "iterative Hasse rings and schemes". As an application, Hasse jet spaces are constructed generally, allowing the development of the theory for arbitrary systems of algebraic partial difference/differential equations, where constructions by earlier authors applied only to the finite dimensional case. In particular, it is shown that under appropriate separability assumptions a Hasse variety is determined by its jet spaces at a point.
description: This significantly revised version is to appear in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
Pollen Cryopreservation in Jackfruit for Crop Improvement (Poster)
Creators: name: Navya B., L.
name: Rajasekharan P., E.
name: Gutam, Sridhar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Jackfruit
in-vitro germination
pollen cryopreservation

description: Jackfruit is an important edible fruit bearing tree of India. The fruits have multifarious uses, high nutritive value and market potential. The trees exhibit wide range of diversity with respect to fruit character and bulb quality. There is lack of potential varieties with high quality fruits. Pollen is an important entity in transfer of genetic traits. Pollen mediated trait transfer can be effectively utilized in the crop improvement programmes. The jackfruit cultivars show asynchronous flowering pattern which is a barrier in breeding program. Hence an effective and long-term storage of pollens can be successfully achieved through cryopreservation. The male spikes were collected during anthesis at 2-3 pm, pollen grains were extracted and dried in zeolite desiccator for an hour, The pre-storage viability assessment was carried out by hanging drop technique using Brewbaker and Kwack (BK) medium containing 5% sucrose. Then the pollen were packed with butter paper enclosed in aluminium pouch and were rapidly plunged into the cryobiological system containing liquid nitrogen. The post storage germination assessment was done in similar way. The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was carried out, length and wide of the pollen was recorded. The results indicated that germination percentage of fresh pollen was 72% and was 69% after three weeks of cryopreservation. The illustrates that there I no decline in the viability of pollens after cryopreservation. Therefore, it can be concluded that jackfruit pollens can be cryopreserved successfully and can be used in breeding programmes for transfer of quality traits and to broaden the genetic base by excluding the limitation if time and season.
description: Poster No.. 70
On Electrical Equivalence of Aperture-Body and Transmission-Cavity Resonance Phenomena in Subwavelength Conducting Aperture Systems from an Equivalent Circuit Point of View
Creators: name: Cho, Young Ki
name: Lee, Jong-Ig
name: Kim, Ki Young
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a narrow slit structure backed by a conducting strip which is taken as a representative example of an aperture-body resonance (ABR) problem, the transmission resonance condition (i.e., condition for maximum power transmission) and the transmission width (i.e., normalized maximum transmitted power through the slit) are found to be the same as those for narrow slit coupling problem in a thick conducting screen, which is designated as a transmission-cavity resonance (TCR) problem. From a viewpoint of equivalent circuit representation for the transmission resonance condition and the funneling mechanism, the ABR and the TCR problems are thought to be essentially of the same nature.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
Dimerization-assisted energy transport in light-harvesting complexes
Creators: name: Yang, S.
name: Xu, D. Z.
name: Song, Z.
name: Sun, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the role of the dimer structure of light-harvesting complex II (LH2) in excitation transfer from the LH2 (without a reaction center (RC)) to the LH1 (surrounding the RC), or from the LH2 to another LH2. The excited and un-excited states of a bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) are modeled by a quasi-spin. In the framework of quantum open system theory, we represent the excitation transfer as the total leakage of the LH2 system and then calculate the transfer efficiency and average transfer time. For different initial states with various quantum superposition properties, we study how the dimerization of the B850 BChl ring can enhance the transfer efficiency and shorten the average transfer time.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Self-organization without conservation: true or just apparent scale-invariance?
Creators: name: Bonachela, Juan A.
name: Munoz, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of true scale-invariance in slowly driven models of self-organized criticality without a conservation law, as forest-fires or earthquake automata, is scrutinized in this paper. By using three different levels of description - (i) a simple mean field, (ii) a more detailed mean-field description in terms of a (self-organized) branching processes, and (iii) a full stochastic representation in terms of a Langevin equation-, it is shown on general grounds that non-conserving dynamics does not lead to bona fide criticality. Contrarily to conserving systems, a parameter, which we term "re-charging" rate (e.g. the tree-growth rate in forest-fire models), needs to be fine-tuned in non-conserving systems to obtain criticality. In the infinite size limit, such a fine-tuning of the loading rate is easy to achieve, as it emerges by imposing a second separation of time-scales but, for any finite size, a precise tuning is required to achieve criticality and a coherent finite-size scaling picture. Using the approaches above, we shed light on the common mechanisms by which "apparent criticality" is observed in non-conserving systems, and explain in detail (both qualitatively and quantitatively) the difference with respect to true criticality obtained in conserving systems. We propose to call this self-organized quasi-criticality (SOqC). Some of the reported results are already known and some of them are new. We hope the unified framework presented here helps to elucidate the confusing and contradictory literature in this field. In a second accompanying paper, we shall discuss the implications of the general results obtained here for models of neural avalanches in Neuroscience for which self-organized scale-invariance in the absence of conservation has been claimed.
description: 40 pages, 7 figures.
Deep neural network model for DTM extraction using DSM and semantic map
Creators: name: Perez, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Checkpoint of a deep neural network model for DTM generation, made in the context of the project available on github : https://github.com/davpergan/DTM_DSM_GAN/. The model uses 2 layers as input : a DSM and a semantic map where pixels with value 0 represent the ground and 1 represents object points.
A Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopic survey of the faint M31 satellites And IX, And XI, And XII, and And XIII
Creators: name: Collins, M. L. M.
name: Chapman, S. C.
name: Irwin, M. J.
name: Martin, N. F.
name: Ibata, R. A.
name: Zucker, D. B.
name: Blain, A.
name: Ferguson, A. M. N.
name: Lewis, G. F.
name: McConnachie, A. W.
name: Penarrubia, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first spectroscopic analysis of the faint M31 satellite galaxies, AndXI and AndXIII, and a reanalysis of existing spectroscopic data for two further faint companions, And IX and AndXII. By combining data obtained using the DEIMOS spectrograph mounted on the Keck II telescope with deep photometry from the Suprime-Cam instrument on Subaru, we have calculated global properties for the dwarfs, such as systemic velocities, metallicites and half-light radii.We find each dwarf to be very metal poor ([Fe/H] -2 both photometrically and spectroscopically, from their stacked spectrum), and as such, they continue to follow the luminosity-metallicity relationship established with brighter dwarfs. We are unable to resolve a dispersion for And XI due to small sample size and low S/N, but we set a one sigma upper limit of sigma-v <5 km/s. For And IX, And XII and And XIII we resolve velocity dispersions of v=4.5 (+3.4,-3.2), 2.6(+5.1,-2.6) and 9.7(+8.9,-4.5) km/s, and derive masses within the half light radii of 6.2(+5.3,-5.1)x10^6 Msun, 2.4 (+6.5,-2.4)x10^6 Msun and 1.1(+1.4,-0.7)x10^7 Msun respectively. We discuss each satellite in the context of the Mateo relations for dwarf spheroidal galaxies, and the Universal halo profiles established for Milky Way dwarfs (Walker et al. 2009). For both galaxies, this sees them fall below the Universal halo profiles of Walker et al. (2009). When combined with the findings of McConnachie & Irwin (2006a), which reveal that the M31 satellites are twice as extended (in terms of both half-light and tidal radii) as their Milky Way counterparts, these results suggest that the satellite population of the Andromeda system could inhabit halos that are significantly different from those of the Milky Way in terms of their central densities (abridged).
description: 26 pages, 18 figures, MNRAS submitted
Stable propagation of a modulated positron beam in a bent crystal channel
Creators: name: Kostyuk, A.
name: Korol, A. V.
name: Solov'yov, A. V.
name: Greiner, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The propagation of a modulated positron beam in a planar crystal channel is investigated. It is demonstrated that the beam preserves its modulation at sufficiently large penetration depths which opens the prospect of using a crystalline undulator as a coherent source of hard x-rays. This finding is a crucial milestone in developing a new type of lasers radiating in the hard x-ray and gamma-ray range.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, iopart
Lipschitz behavior of the robust regularization
Creators: name: Lewis, Adrian S.
name: Pang, C. H. Jeffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93B35, 49K40, 65K10, 90C30, 15A18, 14P10

description: To minimize or upper-bound the value of a function "robustly", we might instead minimize or upper-bound the "epsilon-robust regularization", defined as the map from a point to the maximum value of the function within an epsilon-radius. This regularization may be easy to compute: convex quadratics lead to semidefinite-representable regularizations, for example, and the spectral radius of a matrix leads to pseudospectral computations. For favorable classes of functions, we show that the robust regularization is Lipschitz around any given point, for all small epsilon > 0, even if the original function is nonlipschitz (like the spectral radius). One such favorable class consists of the semi-algebraic functions. Such functions have graphs that are finite unions of sets defined by finitely-many polynomial inequalities, and are commonly encountered in applications.
description: 32 pages, no figures
IGEC2: A 17-month search for gravitational wave bursts in 2005-2007
Creators: name: Astone, P.
name: Baggio, L.
name: Bassan, M.
name: Bignotto, M.
name: Bonaldi, M.
name: Bonifazi, P.
name: Cerdonio, M.
name: Coccia, E.
name: Conti, L.
name: D'Antonio, S.
name: Emilio, M. di Paolo
name: Drago, M.
name: Fafone, V.
name: Falferi, P.
name: Foffa, S.
name: Fortini, P.
name: Frasca, S.
name: Giordano, G.
name: Hamilton, W. O.
name: Hanson, J.
name: Johnson, W. W.
name: Liguori, N.
name: Longo, S.
name: Maggiore, M.
name: Marin, F.
name: Marini, A.
name: McHugh, M. P.
name: Mezzena, R.
name: Miller, P.
name: Minenkov, Y.
name: Mion, A.
name: Modestino, G.
name: Moleti, A.
name: Nettles, D.
name: Ortolan, A.
name: Pallottino, G. V.
name: Pizzella, G.
name: Poggi, S.
name: Prodi, G. A.
name: Re, V.
name: Rocchi, A.
name: Ronga, F.
name: Salemi, F.
name: Sturani, R.
name: Taffarello, L.
name: Terenzi, R.
name: Vedovato, G.
name: Vinante, A.
name: Visco, M.
name: Vitale, S.
name: Weaver, J.
name: Zendri, J. P.
name: Zhang, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here the results of a 515 days long run of the IGEC2 observatory, consisting of the four resonant mass detectors ALLEGRO, AURIGA, EXPLORER and NAUTILUS. The reported results are related to the fourfold observation time from Nov. 6 2005 until Apr. 14 2007, when Allegro ceased its operation. This period overlapped with the first long term observations performed by the LIGO interferometric detectors. The IGEC observations aim at the identification of gravitational wave candidates with high confidence, keeping the false alarm rate at the level of 1 per century, and high duty cycle, namely 57% with all four sites and 94% with at least three sites in simultaneous observation. The network data analysis is based on time coincidence searches over at least three detectors: the four 3-fold searches and the 4-fold one are combined in a logical OR. We exchanged data with the usual blind procedure, by applying a unique confidential time offset to the events in each set of data. The accidental background was investigated by performing sets of 10^8 coincidence analyses per each detector configuration on off-source data, obtained by shifting the time series of each detector. The thresholds of the five searches were tuned so as to control the overall false alarm rate to 1/century. When the confidential time shifts was disclosed, no gravitational wave candidate was found in the on-source data. As an additional output of this search, we make available to other observatories the list of triple coincidence found below search thresholds, corresponding to a false alarm rate of 1/month.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures Accepted for publication on Phys. Rev. D
Pencil of irreducible rational curves and Plane Jacobian conjecture
Creators: name: Van Chau, Nguyen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14R15, 14R25, 14E20

description: We are concerned with the behavior of the polynomial maps $F=(P,Q)$ of $\mathbb{C}^2$ with finite fibres and satisfying the condition that all of the curves $aP+bQ=0$, $(a:b)\in \mathbb{P}^1$, are irreducible rational curves. The obtained result shows that such polynomial maps $F$ is invertible if $(0,0)$ is a regular value of $F$ or if the Jacobian condition holds.
description: Correct main result and tittle
title: Examining the Association Between Children's Fruit and Vegetable Intake at and Away from School
Creators: name: Yaa Ankrah Ansu, Velarie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Several school-based interventions aimed at increasing fruit and vegetables (FV) intake among children have demonstrated success in short-term interventions. The Fit Game is a school-based intervention aimed at encouraging children to consume increasing amounts of FV during a game, which is a narrative. Just as children are being encouraged to eat FV at school, so is it equally important for them to eat FV at home. Parents strongly influence the amount of FV children consume at home. The aim of this thesis is to examine associations between factors that influence consumption of fruits and vegetables at and away from school among children who are participating in a schoolbased intervention, which has been shown to increase fruit and vegetable consumption at school. Associations between factors of the home environment and FV intake of children at and away from school are also explored. The study population was 37 parent-child pairs who participated in the Fit Game intervention conducted at one elementary school in 2013 (n = 252).
This study showed that there was an increase in FV intake of children at school during the period they played the Fit Game; however there was no change in fruit and vegetable intake away from school during that same period of time. In addition, though parents and children’s intake of FV were correlated, parents did not change their FV intake during the period of time their child participated in the Fit Game at school. There was no significance between children’s intake and the factors in the home environment including family meals, FV accessibility and availability as well as parental knowledge. This study used rigorous methods to assess dietary intake. It is, however, important that this study is replicated with a larger sample that is more diverse.
Phenomenology of flavon fields at the LHC
Creators: name: Tsumura, Koji
name: Velasco-Sevilla, Liliana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study low energy constraints from flavour violating processes, production and decay at the LHC of a scalar field varphi (flavon) associated to the breaking of a non-supersymmetric Abelian family symmetry at the TeV scale. This symmetry is constrained to reproduce fermion masses and mixing, up to O(1) coefficients. The non-supersymmetric gauged U(1) models considered are severely restricted by cancellation of anomalies and LEP bounds on contact interactions, consequently its phenomenology is out of the LHC reach. We therefore introduce an effective U(1) which is not gauged and it is broken explicitly by a CP odd term at the TeV scale. This helps us to explore flavour violating processes, production and decay at the LHC for these kind of light scalars. In this context we first study the constraints on the flavon mass and its vacuum expectation value from low energy flavour changing processes such as μ-> eγ. We find that a flavon of about m_ϕ t ϕ. The produced flavons can have characteristic decay modes such as t \bar{c} for m_ϕ>~ m_t, and τ\barμ for m_ϕ
description: 41 pages, 6 figures. Replacement that matches the published version, except some minor details about English style, with added references and minor corrections, one figure replaced.
title: A Century of Geomorphic Change of the San Rafael River and Implications for River Rehabilitation
Creators: name: Fortney, Stephen T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Suspended-load rivers are subject to rapid geomorphic changes. In particular during the Holocene Epoch, arroyos of the Colorado Plateau experienced several periods of rapid erosion and aggradation. The most recent period of entrenchment occurred around the turn of the 20th century. The mechanisms responsible for the modern period of aggradation that has followed the most recent period of entrenchment have not been well documented. The research presented in this thesis reveals the mechanisms responsible for modern alluviation of the San Rafael River, which drains the Colorado Plateau
The lower 87 km of the San Rafael River, which enters the Green River south of the town of Green River, UT has experienced rapid geomorphic changes during the last 100 years. To quantify these changes, we used a complement of temporally precise and spatially robust methods. By understanding the rates, magnitudes and types of geomorphic changes, we could then identify the mechanisms of these channel changes.
The San Rafael River narrowed by 83% between 1938 and 2009 and the floodplain aggraded 1.0 to 2.5 m. Channel narrowing was caused by a reduction in the transport capacity of the river, and was accelerated by the establishment of vegetation, including the non-native tamarisk shrub, on active channel surfaces and the floodplain. Significant water withdrawals during the 20th century have primarily been responsible for the reduction in transport capacity by decreasing the magnitude and duration of the annual snowmelt flood. During this time period, monsoon floods continued to deliver large quantities of fine sediment to the channel.
During the 20th century, the channel bed incised in one segment and aggraded in five segments. The two periods of incision that we documented were related to human modifications of the channel and floodplain.
With the knowledge of the physical processes that have been responsible for the channel changes in the San Rafael River, prediction of future channel conditions can then be made. The changes to the physical template of the San Rafael River have implications for the management of three endemic fish – the roundtail chub (Gila robusta robusta), the bluehead sucker (Catostomus discobolus), and the flannelmouth sucker (Catostomus latipinnis) – which currently utilize the study area.
Additional file 1 of Aberrant lncRNA expression in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy: preliminary results from a single-center observational study
Creators: name: Zeng, Lan
name: Zhou, Minwen
name: Wang, Xiaocong
name: Long, Xiaofeng
name: Ye, Meng
name: Yuan, Yuan
name: Tan, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primer sequence.
title: Agricultural Water Management in the Sevier River Basin, Utah: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Creators: name: Kim, Daeha
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: The Sevier River Basin situated in south central Utah is characterized by its semiarid climate, snowmelt-driven runoff, and high dependency on agricultural economy. High evapotranspiration and low precipitation make agricultural production challenging, but naturally stored water in the snowpack in the mountains alleviates water stresses during high water demand seasons. The snowmelt-driven river flow along the main channel is highly exploited for irrigation for farms near the Sevier River. Reservoir operations and river diversions result in heavily regulated flows from the upper to the lower basins. The return flows of over-irrigated water in the upper basin increase salinity of surface water. Long-term applications of salinity water in agriculture eventually produce high soil salinity in the agricultural areas near Delta in the lower basin, which deteriorated farmers’ crop productivity. Farmers cropping near Delta struggle with both water and salinity stresses. Indeed, crop prices and yields are always their concerns. For them, efficient water management can be achieved with consideration of hydrologic, agronomic, and economic aspects of water resources. The overall goal of this research was to develop a decision supporting framework for efficient water and land allocations that considered hydrologic processes, crop response to water in salinity-affected farms, and farmers’ profit and financial risk.
This research introduces a methodology for predicting water availability in a given cropping year from the snowpack in the mountains, and agronomic simulations with satellite images follow for quantifying crop response to water. The hydrologic predictions and the agronomic simulations are finally incorporated into an economic analysis that provides efficient water and land allocations with multiple crop selections. In a rural river basin, data limitation is a common concern for water resources engineers; thus simple but robust methodologies are proposed for hydrologic prediction. In the same context, satellite images are used for the estimation of crop yields in individual farms near Delta with no prior crop experimental plots. Historical records of crop prices are used for the economic analysis. The methodologies developed in this research provide a comprehensive decision analysis framework for efficient water management where water is scare and available from snowmelt only, the economy depends on agriculture only, and salinity is present in both soil and water due to long-term irrigation. The case study is for the agricultural area near Delta in the Sevier River Basin, but its applicability is not limited and is flexibly applicable to other agricultural regions.
Notes on large angle crossing graphs
Creators: name: Dujmovic, Vida
name: Gudmundsson, Joachim
name: Morin, Pat
name: Wolle, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.2.2

description: A graph G is an a-angle crossing (aAC) graph if every pair of crossing edges in G intersect at an angle of at least a. The concept of right angle crossing (RAC) graphs (a=Pi/2) was recently introduced by Didimo et. al. It was shown that any RAC graph with n vertices has at most 4n-10 edges and that there are infinitely many values of n for which there exists a RAC graph with n vertices and 4n-10 edges. In this paper, we give upper and lower bounds for the number of edges in aAC graphs for all 0 < a < Pi/2.
title: The Impact of Academic and Teaching Self-Efficacy on Student Engagement and Academic Outcomes
Creators: name: Papa, Lesther A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: As college classrooms increase in size, the challenge of keeping students engaged in the course becomes a greater challenge. Instructors are burdened with the task of managing larger classrooms while maintaining high levels of student participation. Research has shown that students tend to hide and are less likely to participate in larger classrooms. Research has also shown that student participation is affected by fear of judgment from their peers and the instructor. However it is unclear whether this fear is tied to students’ perceived ability or self-efficacy. In addition, it may be that students’ perception of the instructor may affect their class participation. The present study attempted to disentangle how these factors work together to influence student engagement in the classroom.
The present study was conducted over the fall 2013 semester. Two hundred forty four students were recruited from three introductory psychology courses. At the beginning of the semester, students were asked to report their perception of their academic ability (academic self-efficacy; ASE) and demographic information. During the last week of instruction, students were asked to self-report their ASE, level of course engagement, and perceptions of the instructors teaching self-efficacy (PIE). After grades were posted, the final grades for each student were collected.
Three predictions were explored: (a) changes in ASE would predict students’ course grade, (b) the relationship between student ASE and student grades would be mediated or moderated by student engagement, and (c) PIE would moderate the relationship between students’ ASE and student engagement. Two of the predictions were supported. Changes in ASE did predict students’ course grades such that increases in ASE predicted increases in grades as well. Student engagement partially explained the relationship between ASE and grades. Closer examination showed that performance (wanting good grades in the course) accounted for the relationship between ASE and course grades. The final prediction could not be evaluated because PIE was not related to ASE. However results show that PIE does significantly impact student engagement in the course.
This adds to previous literature and shows that perceptions of an instructor’s teaching self-efficacy can influence how students engage in the course. These results also align with previous research that has shown that students with higher sense of ASE and course engagement have better academic outcomes.
Binarity at the L/T brown dwarf transition
Creators: name: Goldman, B.
name: Bouy, H.
name: Osorio, M. R. Zapatero
name: Stumpf, M. B.
name: Brandner, W.
name: Henning, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current atmospheric models cannot reproduce some of the characteristics of the transition between the L dwarfs with cloudy atmospheres and the T dwarfs with dust-depleted photospheres. It has been proposed that a majority of the L/T transition brown dwarfs could actually be a combinaison of a cloudy L dwarf and a clear T dwarf. Indeed binarity seems to occur more frequently among L/T transition brown dwarfs. We aim to refine the statistical significance of the seemingly higher frequency of binaries. Co-eval binaries would also be interesting test-beds for evolutionary models. We obtained high-resolution imaging for six mid-L to late-T dwarfs, with photometric distances between 8 and 33pc, using the adaptive optics systems NACO at the VLT, and the Lick system, both with the laser guide star. We resolve none of our targets. Combining our data with published results, we obtain a frequency of resolved L/T transition brown dwarfs of (31+21-15)%, compared to (21+10-7)% and (14+14-7)% for mid-L and T dwarfs (90% of confidence level). These fractions do not significantly support, nor contradict, the hypothesis of a larger binary fraction in the L/T transition. None of our targets has companions with effective temperatures as low as 360-1000K at separations larger than 0.5".
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted by A&A
title: Portraits of Logan
Creators: name: Lawson, Leroy
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1976

description: The purpose of this thesis is to explain some of the historical and personal developments in the painting of portraits.
For this project, eleven models were selected all of whom showed a wide range of emotional types and were painted in oil on canvas. The subjects were placed in shallow space, and color was explored as an emotional element. The personal experiences were evaluated and ideas for future development were suggested.
D8.7 Set of indicators for the evaluation of multiple impacts of ARICE
Creators: name: Moretti, Pier Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Evaluation is addressed mainly in terms of learning process and accountability of resources. The complexity of the interconnected activities involved in ARICE, and the intrinsic difficulty in measuring impacts in short-term timescales, has suggested to design a simplified structure to enable and structure a long -term evaluation of the outputs. It allows the diversity of activities to be framed in an evaluation framework through quantitative and qualitative indicators, avoiding the fragmentation of initiatives and paths which could evolve not coherently with the ultimate objectives of the project. The set of indicators are articulated within evaluation tables, built on well-know e xperiences in join European initiatives and adapted to ARICE specificities. It also aims at motivating the communities in embedding the evaluation concept from the beginning, avoiding the perception of burdening and at the same time catalyzing their diversity of their interests and capacities towards a true EU added value.
Prenatal Zinc deficient mice as a model for autism spectrum disorders
Creators: name: Sauer, Ann Katrin
name: Hagmeyer, Simone
name: Grabrucker, Andreas
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Epidemiological studies have shown a clear association between early life zinc deficiency and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). In line with this, mouse models have revealed prenatal zinc deficiency as a profound risk factor for neurobiological and behavioral abnormalities in the offspring reminiscent of ASD behavior. From these studies, a complex pathology emerges, with alterations in the gastrointestinal and immune system and synaptic signaling in the brain, as a major consequence of prenatal zinc deficiency. The features represent a critical link in a causal chain that leads to various neuronal dysfunctions and behavioral phenotypes observed in prenatal zinc deficient (PZD) mice and probably other mouse models for ASD. Given that the complete phenotype of PZD mice may be key to understanding how non-genetic factors can modify the clinical features and severity of autistic patients and explain the observed heterogeneity, here, we summarize published data on PZD mice. We critically review the emerging evidence that prenatal zinc deficiency is at the core of several environmental risk factors associated with ASD, being mechanistically linked to ASD-associated genetic factors. In addition, we highlight future directions and outstanding questions, including potential symptomatic, disease-modifying, and preventive treatment strategies.
LUNASKA experiments using the Australia Telescope Compact Array to search for ultra-high energy neutrinos and develop technology for the lunar Cherenkov technique
Creators: name: James, C. W.
name: Ekers, R. D.
name: Alvarez-Muñiz, J.
name: Bray, J. D.
name: McFadden, R. A.
name: Phillips, C. J.
name: Protheroe, R. J.
name: Roberts, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the design, performance, sensitivity and results of our recent experiments using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) for lunar Cherenkov observations with a very wide (600 MHz) bandwidth and nanosecond timing, including a limit on an isotropic neutrino flux. We also make a first estimate of the effects of small-scale surface roughness on the effective experimental aperture, finding that contrary to expectations, such roughness will act to increase the detectability of near-surface events over the neutrino energy-range at which our experiment is most sensitive (though distortions to the time-domain pulse profile may make identification more difficult). The aim of our "Lunar UHE Neutrino Astrophysics using the Square Kilometer Array" (LUNASKA) project is to develop the lunar Cherenkov technique of using terrestrial radio telescope arrays for ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmic ray (CR) and neutrino detection, and in particular to prepare for using the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) and its path-finders such as the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) and the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) for lunar Cherenkov experiments.
description: 27 pages, 18 figures, 4 tables.
D3.7 Summer School Final Report
Creators: name: Lenz, Josefine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: ARICE and APECS enabled a unique in-person training opportunity on an icebreaking research vessel in the Central Arctic: The MOSAiC School, a “summer” school in the frame of the MOSAiC Expedition. The aim of the summer school was to provide the opportunity for practical hands-on and in-depth learning, as well as active exchange with peers and lecturers in order to educate the next generation of polar researchers as part of Task 3.2 in WP3 in the ARICE project.
 As a result of the MOSAiC School 2019, all participants became MOSAiC Ambassadors for the remaining year of the MOSAiC Expedition, performing outreach projects in their home countries.
Energy-Entanglement Relation for Quantum Energy Teleportation
Creators: name: Hotta, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Protocols of quantum energy teleportation (QET), while retaining causality and local energy conservation, enable the transportation of energy from a subsystem of a many-body quantum system to a distant subsystem by local operations and classical communication through ground-state entanglement. We prove two energy-entanglement inequalities for a minimal QET model. These relations help us to gain a profound understanding of entanglement itself as a physical resource by relating entanglement to energy as an evident physical resource.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Physics Letter A
Extremal Kähler metrics on projective bundles over a curve
Creators: name: Apostolov, Vestislav
name: Calderbank, David M. J.
name: Gauduchon, Paul
name: Tønnesen-Friedman, Christina W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $M=P(E)$ be the complex manifold underlying the total space of the projectivization of a holomorphic vector bundle $E \to Σ$ over a compact complex curve $Σ$ of genus $\ge 2$. Building on ideas of Fujiki, we prove that $M$ admits a Kähler metric of constant scalar curvature if and only if $E$ is polystable. We also address the more general existence problem of extremal Kähler metrics on such bundles and prove that the splitting of $E$ as a direct sum of stable subbundles is necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of extremal Kähler metrics in sufficiently small Kähler classes. The methods used to prove the above results apply to a wider class of manifolds, called {\it rigid toric bundles over a semisimple base}, which are fibrations associated to a principal torus bundle over a product of constant scalar curvature Kähler manifolds with fibres isomorphic to a given toric Kähler variety. We discuss various ramifications of our approach to this class of manifolds.
description: improved presentation
title: Insulation of Small Open Economies in the Presence of External Disturbances Under Alternative Exchange Rate Systems
Creators: name: Azad, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1988

description: This study analyzes the determination of the exchange rate system in a small economy when external real and monetary disturbances occur. Choice of exchange rate policy is investigated using a model assuming rational expectations and a loss function expressing the squared deviations of the small country output from desired output. The distinguishing feature of the analysis is the emphasis on real as well as monetary disturbances which originate abroad but are a source of domestic output variation. the link between foreign monetary and real disturbances and variance in output is traced using the thoretical model and the loss function assumed.
The emphasis of the analysis is on a three country (one small and two large) trading situation, whereby the small country trades with two major large country trading partners. It is assumed throughout that there is perfect commodity arbitrage between two large countries. The small country imports an intermediate good from one of the large countries and exports a finished good. The small country doesnot import goods for consumption. there is perfect capital movement between two large countries, but capital is immobile between the small and these two large countries.
The analysis indicates that occurrence of purely nominal shocks abroad are not transmitted to the small country under floating exchange rate system. The presence of real disturbances in large countries induce lower prices for the goods they produce, but the effect on the exchange rate is ambiguos. This study concludes that in general the adoption of a flexible exchange rate system by a small country is preferred and results in lower loss in most cases of external disturbance.
title: The Plankton of the Bear River Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, Utah Seasonal Distribution of Organisms
Creators: name: Piranian, George
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1937

description: In the summer of 1932, an investigation of some biological, physical, and chemical conditions at the Bear River Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, Utah, was begun at the Utah State Agricultural College to determine some of the factors governing the biological productivity of brackish-water marshes. Unfortunately, lack of funds made it impossible to continue work beyond the first season.
Environmental Data Initiative: Accelerating the publishing and reuse of environmental data
Creators: name: Smith, Colin
name: Gries, Corinna
name: Servilla, Mark
name: O'Brien, Margaret
name: Brunt, James
name: Vanderbilt, Kristin
name: Costa, Duane
name: Hanson, Paul
name: Waide, Robert
name: Grossman-Clarke, Susanne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: In fall 2017, Water@UW-Madison hosted its second annual poster session. The event was designed to spread knowledge of the organization on campus while advancing its mission of building connections between members of the UW-Madison Water Community. The event was held on the evening of October 24th at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery with snacks, beverages, beer, and wine catered by Steenbock’s on Orchard. 34 different posters featuring water research from 10 different campus departments, as well as organization partners such as the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, UW Extension, and National Science Foundation, were presented in an informal walk-in gallery setting. Numerous productive conversations between presenters and attendees actively participated in the future of Water@UW-Madison by submitting information about their water research to a geodatabase, which will be used in producing a story map of water research at UW-Madison. Submissions to this database were displayed in real time on an interactive map that allowed other attendees to explore details of each project. Total attendance at the event was estimated around 230 people including presenters, guests, volunteers, and Water@UW staff.
description: Funding: NSF DBI-1629233, NSF DBI-1565103, DBI-1931143, and NSF DBI-1931174
Equation of State for physical quark masses
Creators: name: Cheng, M.
name: Ejiri, S.
name: Hegde, P.
name: Karsch, F.
name: Kaczmarek, O.
name: Laermann, E.
name: Mawhinney, R. D.
name: Miao, C.
name: Mukherjee, S.
name: Petreczky, P.
name: Schmidt, C.
name: Soeldner, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the QCD equation of state for temperatures corresponding to the transition region with physical mass values for two degenerate light quark flavors and a strange quark using an improved staggered fermion action (p4-action) on lattices with temporal extent N_tau=8. We compare our results with previous calculations performed at twice larger values of the light quark masses as well as with results obtained from a resonance gas model calculation. We also discuss the deconfining and chiral aspects of the QCD transition in terms of renormalized Polyakov loop, strangeness fluctuations and subtracted chiral condensate. We show that compared to the calculations performed at twice larger value of the light quark mass the transition region shifts by about 5 MeV toward smaller temperatures
description: 7 pages, LaTeX, 6 figures; minor corrections, typos corrected, references added
Nonequilibrium, thermostats and thermodynamic limit
Creators: name: Gallavotti, Giovanni
name: Presutti, Errico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relation between thermostats of "isoenergetic" and "frictionless" kind is studied and their equivalence in the thermodynamic limit is proved in space dimension $d=1,2$ and, for special geometries, $d=3$.
description: 22 pages PRA 2-columns format v3: Typos corrected as acknowledged