cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Large-x structure of physical evolution kernels in Deep Inelastic Scattering
Creators: name: Grunberg, Georges
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The modified evolution equation for parton distributions of Dokshitzer, Marchesini and Salam is extended to non-singlet Deep Inelastic Scattering coefficient functions and the physical evolution kernels which govern their scaling violation. Considering the x->1 limit, it is found that the leading next-to-eikonal logarithmic contributions to the physical kernels at any loop order can be expressed in term of the one-loop cusp anomalous dimension, a result which can presumably be extended to all orders in (1-x), and has eluded so far threshold resummation. Similar results are shown to hold for fragmentation functions in semi-inclusive e+ e- annihilation. Gribov-Lipatov relation is found to be satisfied by the leading logarithmic part of the modified physical evolution kernels.
description: 12 pages; version 2: eq.(4.6) and comment below corrected (main results unchanged), section on fragmentation functions added; version 3: new results added: all-order relation in section 3.5, O(1-x) terms adressed in section 5; version 4: incorrect suggestion on Gribov-Lipatov reciprocity removed; version 5: slight extension of the version to be published in Physics Letters B, contains a discussion of O((1-x)^2) terms and added references
Intercultural Literacy and the International School
Creators: name: Heyward, M
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: In this study a new developmental model describing the nature of intercultural literacy and how it is learnt\ is proposed and trialled. Intercultural literacy is defined as the understandings, attitudes, competencies and\ identities which enable effective participation in a cross-cultural setting. As such it is presented as a\ crucial literacy for the globalised world of the twenty-first century.\ The Multidimensional Model for the Development of Intercultural Literacy is developed on the basis of\ theory from social psychology and international education, is checked for validity against reference groups\ in the field - practitioners in international schools in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand - and is modified\ in the light of inputs received.\ The model is then trialled in the context of a case study of the Tanjung Bara International School and its\ community in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The case study seeks to map the school and community in\ terms of intercultural literacy, evaluate the school's intercultural literacy curriculum and explore the\ relationship between the community and school in relation to intercultural literacy learning. The broad aim\ is to determine the extent to which the proposed model is useful in helping to describe the case and to\ answer the questions posed by the case study.\ The case study concludes that the school and its community is predominately at a monocultural or\ 'distancing' level with a smaller group moving into the more positive learning stage characteristic of the\ cross-cultural level in the model. The community is found to have been deeply divided on cultural lines\ between the Indonesian and the largely Australian expatriate communities. The international school\ contributed to this divide through reinforcing the status of expatriates as privileged and separate. The\ objectives of the curriculum and non-core school programs to facilitate intercultural literacy were found to\ have been seriously hampered by this cultural divide, among other factors. The school was not found to\ have played a significant role in facilitating intercultural literacy learning in the broader community.\ The thesis concludes that the proposed Multidimensional Model for the Development of Intercultural\ Literacy is useful in this case study and is potentially useful in a wide range of contexts, particularly in\ international schools and their communities. It provides a tool which may assist educators in\ understanding intercultural literacy and facilitate the development of policy and practice including\ curriculum, extra-curricular programs and assessment.
title: A Painted Void
Creators: name: Larsen, Kevin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: A collection of four original short stories written by Utah State University student Kevin Larsen. These fictional stories were written with particular attention to the magical realism and horror genres in an attempt to combine both the fantastic and the horrific. In addition to these stories, this thesis contains a literature review of both contemporary and historic authors including, but not limited to, Brian Evenson, Bret Easton Ellis, David Lawrence Morse, and Kelly Link.
title: The Problems of Generating Sufficient Revenue in a Rapidly Growing Small Community
Creators: name: Memmott, Jeffery L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of rapid growth on the various revenue and expenditure categories at the local level. A model is presented to project local revenues and expenditures based upon projected per capita income, population, and average daily attendance. The model is based upon previous models from a review of the literature with modification and additions by the author. Revenues and expenditures are estimated simultaneously reflecting the budgetary process at the local level.
Coefficients in the model are estimated using sample data from Duchesne and Uintah counties. These coefficients are then used to project the effects of oil shale development in the region.
Different policies and changes in current policies are presented to lessen or alleviate the adverse impacts of rapid growht on local cities and school districts.
title: Economic Implications of Phenologically Timed Irrigation in Corn Production
Creators: name: Gowon, Dawuda Tsalhatu
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: Corn production data was fitted into a Translog production function. Analysis of the resultant equation was based on what impact irrigation keyed to the crop's phenology would have on yield. A crop product cost function was developed to determine if there is profit (loss) in adapting water application to corn by phenological time period. Reasons for not adapting phenology as a key variable in irrigation include institutional constraints. Without modifying these institutional constrains, adopting the proposed technology may prove prohibitive.
title: A Rapid and Specific Gas Chromatographic Analysis for Cysteine-S-Sulfonate to Determine the Distribution of Sulfite in Mammalian Plasma
Creators: name: deBethizy, Joseph Don
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: It has been shown in previous studies that when sulfite is absorbed by rabbits via either inhalation of SO2 or oral exposure to sulfite, the hydrated form, bisulfite, interacts with plasma disulfides where it is suspected to be in the form, cysteine-S-sulfonate. A rapid and specific gas chromatographic analysis procedure for cysteine-S-sulfonate has been developed to better study the distribution of sulfite in biological systems. Sulfonated proteins are enzymatically hydrolyzed to ensure stability of the acid labile S-sulfonate disulfide. The hydrolysate is then applied to a 6 cm cation-exchange column and eluted with 0.1 N HCl which elutes the acidic cysteine-S-sulfonate with the void volume of the column leaving behind any remaining cysteine. the silylated derivatives of the column effluent are prepared using Tri-Sil/BSA. These derivatives are injected into a gas chromatograph equipped with a flame-photometric detector operating in the sulfur mode, 2% 0v-101 on Chromosorb W/HP 1/4 inch glass column, oven temperture 140°C, and carrier flow rate of 86 ml/min. The presence of cysteine-S-sulfonat in the sulfite treated rabbits had been directly determined by the described method.
title: The Effects of Tri-O-Tolyl Phosphate (TOTP) on the Immune System of Mice
Creators: name: Brinkerhoff, Craig R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1980

description: TOTP is a prevalent industrial and environmental contaminant which has been shown to be a neurotoxic agent. This study was undertaken to investigate the effects of this compound on the immune system. Several techniques were employed to test the humoral as well as cellular effects. Male Swiss Webster mice were administered by gastric gavage with three doses of TOTP (5, 50, and 500 mg/kg) and one dose TMTP (50 mg/kg) in corn oil once a week for 13 weeks. Control animals were given corn oil alone.
Lymphocyte transformation was determined on cultures of splenic cells obtained from animals sacrificed at 1, 4, 8, and 13 weeks. Relative Proliferation Index (RPI) and Stimulation Index (SI) was calculated for phytohemagglutinin (PHA), pokeweed (PWM), and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) mitogen treated cultures. Proliferation was measured by uptake of radioisotope labeled thymidine.
Plaque formation as well as delayed hypersensitivity was evaluated at all dose levels after 4 weeks of treatment. Humoral effects were determined utilizing quantitative (Rocket) immunoelectropheresis. Serum was compared with control serum for IgA, IgG, and IgM fractions.
TOTP was found to cause slight suppression in proliferation of splenic lymphocytes at 8 and 13 weeks although this suppression was non-specific and not dose related. No effects were seen on body and organ weights. Plaque forming cells and delayed hypersensitivity were not affected either by dose or time of treatment. Immunoglobulin fractions tested were similarly not affected by time or dosage. These findings suggest that neither TOTP nor TMTP exhibit immunotoxic effects at levels used.
Additional file 2 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 2: Fig. S1. Heatmaps were generated from the hierarchical cluster analysis (Group B versus Group C).
SU(5) and SO(10) Models from F-Theory with Natural Yukawa Couplings
Creators: name: Li, Tianjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the SU(5) and SO(10) models from F-theory. Turning on the U(1) fluxes, we can break the SU(5) gauge symmetry down to the Standard Model (SM) gauge symmetry, and break the SO(10) gauge symmetry down to the SU(3)_C X SU(2)_L X SU(2)_R X U(1)_{B-L} gauge symmetry. In particular, all the SM fermion Yukawa couplings preserve the enhanced U(1)_a X U(1)_b gauge or global symmetries at the triple intersections of the SM fermion and Higgs curves. And the SM fermion masses and mixings can be generated in the presence of background fluxes. In our models, the doublet-triplet splitting problem can be solved naturally. The additional vector-like particles can obtain heavy masses via the instanton effects or Higgs mechanism and then decouple at the high scale. The SM gauge couplings at the string scale, which are splitted due to the U(1) flux effects, can be explained by considering heavy threshold corrections from the extra vector-like particles. Moreover, in the SU(5) model, we have the Yukawa coupling unification for the bottom quark and tau lepton. In the SO(10) models, we have the Yukawa coupling unification for the top and bottom quarks, and the Yukawa coupling unification for the tau lepton and tau neutrino.
description: RevTex4, 22 pages, 3 tables, comments added, version to appear in PRD
The value and practicability of bilingual education programmes for migrant children in Australia.
Creators: name: Ball, SM
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation seeks to determine whether or not bilingual education programmes would be a valuable and practicable educational alternative for migrant children in Australia. The role of the school in relation to migrant children, together with their educational attainment and school experience in the present education system, is reviewed. Research which investigates the effects of bilingualism on identity, cognition and language skills and the implications of these findings for bilingual education is examined as well as relevant sociolinguistic aspects. Implications relevant to Australia are drawn from an examination of bilingual education programmes overseas and bilingual programmes suitable for the Australian situation, as well as the practicability of establishing these, are discussed.
title: Who Cares? Developing a Pedagogy of Caring in Higher Education
Creators: name: Larsen, Andrew Shayne
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: When students are asked about their motivation to succeed in a course, about whether they enjoyed their instructor, and about their overall satisfaction with the class, answers can often be traced back to an educator who was perceived by the student as caring. Perceived caring occurs when a student feels that a teacher’s positive behaviors directed toward the student are motivated by good intentions and good will.
Research in the area of teacher care has almost exclusively focused on elementary and secondary classrooms, and has advanced the theory that caring teachers and caring classroom environments prompt many positive educational outcomes. Noticeably lacking from the caring literature is research focusing on the application of caring theory in postsecondary classrooms. Does caring have as large an impact on college students?
A pilot study was conducted in which four students at a major university were invited to document their thoughts and perceptions of care by their professors, and were asked to pay particular attention to what caring behaviors their professors took. As a result of the qualitative analysis, five caring behaviors were discovered: efforts by professors to know student names, efforts to display care and concern during office hours, efforts in knowing and understanding students, efforts to create interesting and applicable lessons, and efforts to address student concerns during class.
The current study sought through further qualitative inquiry to validate these five caring behaviors and attempted to identify others that may strengthen an atmosphere of perceived care in the college classroom. Twenty students were interviewed and invited to chronicle impressions of caring principles in their classrooms, with the objective of shedding insight into those caring behaviors that are most meaningful. Ten professors were also interviewed regarding their perceptions of extending care to students.
Eight factors were found to influence the perception of care in college classrooms. These included verbal expressions of care, nonverbal expressions of care, knowing student names, displaying care and concern during office hours, making an effort to get to know students, creating interesting and applicable lessons, addressing student concerns during class, and the existence of a “feeling of care.”
Counsellor Trainees' perception, attitudes and Perspectives on approaches for enhancing inclusion of students with disabilities within regular schools in Calabar, Nigeria.pdf
Creators: name: Abuo, Cyril  Bissong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other human society not elsewhere classified

description: This study provides data on trainee Counsellors' perception, attitudes and perspectives on approaches for enhancing the inclusion of students with disabilities in regular schools in Calabar, Nigeria. Subjects were 415 trainee Counsellors (149 males and 266females) from the two major Universities in Calabar. A questionnaire titled, 'Trainee Counsellors perception, attitudes and perspective on strategies disability inclusion in school questionnaire' (TCAPSFC) was developed by the researchers and used to gather data for the study. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistical tools like actual numbers, frequencies and percentages. The major finding indicates Counsellors' low perception and comparatively negative attitudes to inclusion. Again, the respondent considered only 8 out of the 11 methods and approaches as effective for increasing Counsellor participation in inclusive education practice. Counselling implications of findings and recommendations were discussed
Additional file 5 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 5: Fig. S4. The co-expression network of differential transcripts (Group B versus Group C).
title: Improvement of Nutrient Utilization Efficiency, Ruminal Fermentation and Lactational Performance of Dairy Cows by Feeding Birdsfoot Trefoil
Creators: name: Christensen, Rachael G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Forages containing condensed tannins (CT) have potential to reduce the environmental impact of dairy farming. In 3 studies, I hypothesized that feeding CTcontaining birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus, BFT) would result in improved nutrient utilization and lactational performance of dairy cows compared with control forages of the respective experiments.
Improved milk components, reduction in waste N, and overall improved N efficiency were hypothesized for BFT-fed cows compared to those cows fed alfalfa hay (Study 1) or grass-based diets (Study 2). In addition, a decrease in in vitro methane production and improved rumen fermentation due to diets based on BFT pasture and concentrate supplementation compared with grass pasture-based diets was the hypothesis of the third study.
Study 1 showed BFT-hay diets improved lactational performance through increased energy-corrected milk yield and increased milk protein yield, resulting in improved N utilization efficiency compared with the alfalfa hay diet. Total volatile fatty acids concentration tended to increase, and greater microbial protein yield was exhibited by cows fed BFT compared to other diets tested. Therefore, BFT can replace alfalfa hay in dairy diets and showed improved feed and N utilization efficiencies and lactational performance.
Study 2 determined that pasture nutrient content increased for BFT pasture compared to the mixed grass control, contributing to increases in milk yield most weeks during the 2-year study. Energy-corrected milk yield increased most weeks by BFT-grazed cows due to increased milk yield, although milk protein concentration was similar between treatments. Cows grazing BFT pasture increased N efficiency coupled with decreased milk urea N secretion in the first, but not the second year, suggesting an environmental advantage over traditional grass-based pastures depending on the effect of growing conditions on pasture quality at time of grazing.
Study 3 showed that offering BFT pasture to continuous cultures without or with barley grain or total mixed ration supplements reduced methane production and altered rumen microbial populations. The reduced methane production on the continuous cultures was likely due to direct and/or indirect effects of CT on rumen microbiota.
Overall, diets including BFT showed improved nutritive, lactational, and environmental benefits by decreasing N waste and methane production over typical alfalfa hay-based dairy diets and grass pastures.
Entanglement detection with bounded reference frames
Creators: name: Costa, Fabio
name: Harrigan, Nicholas
name: Rudolph, Terry
name: Brukner, Caslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum experiments usually assume the existence of perfect, classical, reference frames, which allow for the specification of measurement settings (e.g. orientation of the Stern Gerlach magnet in spin measurements) with arbitrary precision. If the reference frames are "bounded" (i.e. quantum systems themselves, having a finite number of degrees of freedom), only limited precision can be attained. Using spin coherent states as bounded reference frames we have found their minimal size needed to violate local realism for entangled spin systems. For composite systems of spin-1/2 particles reference frames of very small size are sufficient for the violation; however, to see this violation for macroscopic entangled spins, the size of the reference frame must be at least quadratically larger than that of the spins. Unavailability of such reference frames gives a possible explanation for the non-observance of violation of local realism in everyday experience.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure. Published version
Virtual Resonant States in Two-Photon Decay Processes: Lower-Order Terms, Subtractions, and Physical Interpretations
Creators: name: Jentschura, Ulrich D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the two-photon decay rate of a highly excited atomic state which can decay to bound states of lower energy via cascade processes. We show that a naive treatment of the process, based on the introduction of phenomenological decay rates for the intermediate, resonant states, leads to lower-order terms which need to be subtracted in order to obtain the coherent two-photon correction to the decay rate. The sum of the lower-order terms is exactly equal to the one-photon decay rate of the initial state, provided the naive two-photon decay rates are summed over all available two-photon channels. A quantum electrodynamics (QED) treatment of the problem leads to an "automatic" subtraction of the lower-order terms.
description: 8 pages, RevTeX
title: Sources of Authority for Leadership and Instructional Technology Coaches' Diffusion of High Access Teaching and Learning
Creators: name: Proffit, Gregory M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: This study used a theoretical framework to explore the leadership of three schoolbased instructional technology coaches (ITCs). The researcher employed typical qualitative fieldwork methods by compiling observation notes, interview transcripts, and archival documents for data analysis. This research and dissertation were also placed in context with the tenets of diffusion research.
The collected evidence was analyzed with a theory that proposes five sources of authority for leadership: bureaucratic, psychological, technical rational, professional, and moral. The study presents four major findings: First, ITCs do not use bureaucratic or moral sources of authority for leadership. Second, the coaches are aware of and use technical rational and professional sources of authority. Third, the participants may use some of the characteristics of psychological sources of authority for leadership. Finally, this study verifies that all five theoretical sources of authority are discernible in the participants' school district.
The author recommends that educators combine their respective sources of authority in diffusion of innovation. Schools should recognize and use in combination their administrators’ bureaucratic, coaches’ technical rational, and teachers’ professional sources of authority for leadership.
This study suggests future research in applying the theoretical framework: for tests of the consequences of each source of authority for leadership; to the use of diffusion; for leadership in the diffusion of professional learning communities; to analyze the 2014 Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) standards for school leaders.
LEGAME TRA L�IMMUNODEFICIENZA HIV-CORRELATA E L�INSORGENZA DI TUMORI: ASPETTI DI METODOLOGIA STATISTICA
Creators: name: DAL MASO, LUIGINO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The aim of the present Ph.D. program was exploring methodological issues arising in studies of cancer incidence, relative risk, and survival in patients with HIV/AIDS (PHA). Aspects related to the first two objectives were explored in the first two years. This thesis described a record-linkage study conducted between the national Italian AIDS Registry and 24 Italian cancer registries to estimate survival after a cancer diagnosis in PHA. More than 2600 cancer cases diagnosed between 1986 and 2005 were included. Survival in PHA was compared with that reported in patients without AIDS using, as comparison group, patients matched for site (1:1 for Kaposi Sarcoma, 1:2 for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, 1:5 for other cancers), sex, age, period of diagnosis, and area of residence. Overall survival and death hazard ratios (HR) compared survival in PWA with cancer to that in cancer patients without AIDS have been calculated. Overall, the 3-year survival rate of PHA with cancer increased from 16% in 1986-1995 to 41% in 1996-2005 period, after the widespread use of antiretroviral therapy (cART). In this period, HR remained higher in PHA than in persons without AIDS (3.0, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.7?3.4), in particular for cancer with good prognosis, e.g., Hodgkin lymphomas (HR=8.6), non-melanoma skin cancer (H=5.0), and anal cancer (HR=4.0). A sensitivity analysis was performed to evaluate the impact on survival and on HR of different study designs and comparison groups.
Awareness of the psychological mechanisms that occur while using Instagram
Creators: name: Nestrenko, Michael
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: זוהי ההרשמה שלנו מראש למחקר שלנו, במסגרת הקורס פסיכולוגיה ניסויית.
title: "They Are Hiring the White Women but They Won't Hire the Colored Women": Black Women Confront Racism and Sexism in the Richmond Shipyards During World War II
Creators: name: Tuft, Paige
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: During World War II, black women migrated largely out of the South to take advantage of the growing defense industries in California. Black women flocked to the shipbuilding industry in Richmond for the great economic opportunities industrial jobs offered. What they found when they arrived and attempted to secure jobs in the shipyards hardly lived up to their dreams and expectations. Black women found themselves faced with dual discrimination due to their race and gender.
The shortage of available manpower opened up the traditionally white male shipbuilding industry to women and minorities but it did not guarantee them equal treatment or employment opportunities. Women faced hostile treatment from their male coworkers, especially in the form of sexual harassment, while black workers experienced racist comments and behavior. Black women experienced both gender and racial harassment. Yet, they chose not to fight against the interpersonal discrimination they experienced in the workplace.
Black women fought against the dual discrimination that hindered their employment opportunities. The shipyards and the union worked together to limit the employment opportunities of black women. They practiced many methods of discrimination that denied black women jobs. The union used residency requirements and a quota system to limit black women’s access to shipyard jobs. This discrimination extended beyond hiring practices. The shipyards and union worked together to keep black women out of skilled occupations regardless of their training and prior experience. They also denied black women access to supervisory positions. These discriminatory policies and practices severely limited the employment opportunities of black women but they continuously fought for greater access to jobs and sought government support for their efforts.
As black women confronted this double burden due to their race and gender, they fought most strongly against discrimination that affected their employment opportunities. They migrated to the Bay Area to take advantage of industrial jobs in the shipbuilding industry and they did everything in their power to acquire these jobs despite the many forms of discrimination that attempted to thwart their plans.
title: Factors Contributing to the Conservation of Phacelia submutica (Boraginaceae), a Threatened Species in Western Colorado: Reproductive Biology and Seed Ecology
Creators: name: Langton, Alicia M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Conservation and recovery plans for rare species require biological and ecological information to discern how they may be susceptible to human disturbances. Phacelia submutica is a threatened annual species in western Colorado. Human activities including energy development, recreation, and livestock grazing are occurring within the species’ range. To provide conservation practitioners with a scientific basis for management, this research aimed to elucidate elements of the species’ ecology. Chapter 2 describes the reproductive biology of P. submutica. Potential insect pollinators were not observed during two years of observations. Floral traits and development ensure self-pollination and reduce the likelihood that insects would be effective pollinators. Hand pollination experiments using varying pollen sources did not result in significant differences in seed number and mean mature seed weight per fruit, two metrics of reproductive success. These results indicate that the species is habitually autogamous. Conservation of this species will not require the protection of pollinators and their habitat, but should consider the potential impacts of autogamy on the species’ genetic diversity. Chapter 3 examines aspects of P. submutica’s seed ecology as they relate to the development and maintenance of the seed bank. Observations suggest seeds are limited in their long-range dispersal capacity. Average seed bank density was low (74 seeds per m2) and seeds were highly aggregated within sites. Based on three years of seed burial data, the species forms a long-term persistent seed bank that maintains high proportions of viability in drought years, but germinates prolifically in favorable years. Projections of seed depletion rates from this dataset predicted longevity to be between four and six years. Finally, seeds were generally unresponsive to germination trials involving varying degrees of cold-moist stratification, incubation temperatures, and scarification. P. submutica shows adaptations that promote its persistence in an arid environment characterized by climatic variability. Appropriate management of this species will require protection of the seed bank and the dynamics involved in its replenishment and maintenance. Chapter 4 presents implications of the two major studies and provides conservation practitioners with an integrated assessment of the results and how they relate to management.
Additional file 3 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 3: Fig. S2. GO Enrichment Analysis (Group B versus Group C).
Intermittency on catalysts: Voter model
Creators: name: Gärtner, J.
name: Hollander, F. den
name: Maillard, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we study intermittency for the parabolic Anderson equation $\partial u/\partial t=κΔu+γξu$ with $u:\mathbb{Z}^d\times[0,\infty)\to\mathbb{R}$, where $κ\in[0,\infty)$ is the diffusion constant, $Δ$ is the discrete Laplacian, $γ\in(0,\infty)$ is the coupling constant, and $ξ:\mathbb{Z}^d\times[0,\infty)\to\mathbb{R}$ is a space--time random medium. The solution of this equation describes the evolution of a ``reactant'' $u$ under the influence of a ``catalyst'' $ξ$. We focus on the case where $ξ$ is the voter model with opinions 0 and 1 that are updated according to a random walk transition kernel, starting from either the Bernoulli measure $ν_ρ$ or the equilibrium measure $μ_ρ$, where $ρ\in(0,1)$ is the density of 1's. We consider the annealed Lyapunov exponents, that is, the exponential growth rates of the successive moments of $u$. We show that if the random walk transition kernel has zero mean and finite variance, then these exponents are trivial for $1\leq d\leq4$, but display an interesting dependence on the diffusion constant $κ$ for $d\geq 5$, with qualitatively different behavior in different dimensions. In earlier work we considered the case where $ξ$ is a field of independent simple random walks in a Poisson equilibrium, respectively, a symmetric exclusion process in a Bernoulli equilibrium, which are both reversible dynamics. In the present work a main obstacle is the nonreversibility of the voter model dynamics, since this precludes the application of spectral techniques. The duality with coalescing random walks is key to our analysis, and leads to a representation formula for the Lyapunov exponents that allows for the application of large deviation estimates.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOP535 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
title: How Arizona Community College Teachers Go About Learning to Teach
Creators: name: Hamblin, Carolyn J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: This mixed-method study used a survey and semistructured interviews to learn how new Arizona community college teachers learned to teach, how available certain learning experiences and effective professional development activities were, how valuable teachers perceived those learning experiences and activities to be, and if there were any factors that underlie how new community college teachers learned to teach. The survey questioned whether 26 learning experiences were available to new community college teachers, and whether they had participated in professional development activities conducted using critical reflection, peer group conferencing, professional development cases, and active learning. All of these activities were available to the majority of new teachers except for professional development cases, which were available to only 38% of respondents. The perception of these community college teachers was that active learning, critical reflection, and peer group conferencing were more valuable than other more typical faculty development activities. The researcher expected that professional development cases would be rated more highly than typical faculty development activities; however, the survey respondents who reported participating in professional development cases rated them as equally valuable to other faculty development activities, but not higher. The researcher discovered six factors that underlie the process new Arizona community college teachers used to learn to teach. They were guidance from others, receptive communications, formalized teacher training, personal resources, experimentation and reflection, and student perspective.
The process that new Arizona community college teachers used to learn to teach can be explained by the adult learning theory of transformative learning. They valued learning experiences that were reflective and applicable to the classroom. They benefitted from professional development activities that used the principles of transformative learning theory such as active learning, critical reflection, and peer group conferencing. Learning to teach was a process that included challenging and changing their assumptions about what happens in a community college classroom. They adjusted their assumptions and their teaching behaviors with time and experience.
title: Representations of US Acts of Extra-Territoriality as Illustrated in Pakistani-English Political Cartoons
Creators: name: Niaz, Aina S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: The geopolitical significance of Pakistan in the Global War on Terror has led to multiple instances of the US acting in an extra-territorial manner. Repeated territorial intrusion by the US strains US-Pakistan relations because extra-territoriality is viewed as a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty. This study analyzes Pakistani-English political cartoons to examine the ways the US extra-territoriality is represented. Approximately 2940 political cartoons are collected from four Pakistani-English newspapers: Dawn, The Express Tribune, The Nation, and The News. Wallerstein’s world-system theory provides the theoretical backdrop to demonstrate the explicit (military) and implicit (economic, cultural, and political/diplomatic) means a hegemonic-core power can act extra-territorially towards a state in the periphery. A combination of content analysis and social semiotic analysis methodologies is used. Content analysis reveals a total of 323 US-related political cartoons that are classified into themes of economic, cultural, military, and political/diplomatic depictions in political cartoons. A visual social semiotic analysis deconstructs the visual rhetoric of extra-territoriality as expressed in the various themed political cartoons. The outcome of these two methodologies provides a holistic illustration of the ways US extra-territoriality in a sovereign but periphery state like Pakistan is viewed.
Curiouser and curiouser: progress in understanding the programming of iterative highly-reducing polyketide synthases
Creators: name: Cox, Russell J.
Publisher: name: London : Soc.
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Catalytic Domain
subject: Polyketide Synthases
subject: enzyme active site
subject: metabolism
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: Covering: 1996-2022 Investigations over the last 2 decades have begun to reveal how fungal iterative highly-reducing polyketide synthases are programmed. Both in vitro and in vivo experiments have revealed the interplay of intrinsic and extrinsic selectivity of the component catalytic domains of these systems. Structural biology has begun to provide high resolution structures of hr-PKS that can be used as the basis for their engineering and reprogramming, but progress to-date remains rudimentary. However, significant opportunities exist for translating the current level of understanding into the ability to rationally re-engineer these highly efficient systems for the production of important biologically active compounds through biotechnology.
title: Effect of High Intensity Ultrasound on Crystallization Behavior and Functional Properties of Lipids
Creators: name: Ye, Yubin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: The effects of high intensity ultrasound (HIU) on the crystallization behavior and functional properties of shortenings were evaluated. HIU was applied to different shortenings such as interesterified soybean oil (IESBO), multi-purpose commercial shortening, palm oil, and palm stearin. The functional properties measured include crystal morphology, solid fat content, melting profile, viscoelastic properties, hardness, and polymorphism. Different experimental set-ups were evaluated including a static batch system, a temperature cycling design, and flow cell system. Results showed that HIU generated harder material on IESBO, commercial shortening, and palm oil with more uniform and smaller crystal size, sharper melting profile, and higher elasticity. No chemical changes on triacylglycerol (TAG) and fatty acids were observed on IESBO under the sonication conditions used in this dissertation. Application of HIU maintained the texture of the commercial shortening that was subjected to temperature fluctuations, especially when HIU was applied before changes in temperature occurred. When sonication was applied in a flow-cell system lower power levels applied in a continuous manner was proved to be the most effective at inducing crystallization of palm oil. Research also showed that pulse irradiation of sonication and higher flow rates could be used to decrease the thermal effects generated by higher power levels of HIU. In addition, HIU was used in a highly saturated fat (palm stearin) at low power levels with long durations to delay lipid crystallization and generate a softer material. All the research findings suggest the great potential use of HIU in shortening production and food processing to improve the texture and its stability, as well as other functional properties.
Analytic extensions of Starobinsky model of inflation
Creators: name: Ivanov, Vsevolod R.
name: Ketov, Sergei V.
name: Pozdeeva, Ekaterina O.
name: Vernov, Sergey Y.
Publisher: name: London : IOP
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: inflation
subject: modified gravity
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: We study several extensions of the Starobinsky model of inflation, which obey all observational constraints on the inflationary parameters, by demanding that both the inflaton scalar potential in the Einstein frame and the F(R) gravity function in the Jordan frame have the explicit dependence upon fields and parameters in terms of elementary functions. Our models are continuously connected to the original Starobinsky model via changing the parameters. We modify the Starobinsky (R + R 2) model by adding an R 3-term, an R 4-term, and an R 3/2-term, respectively, and calculate the scalar potentials, the inflationary observables and the allowed limits on the deformation parameters by using the latest observational bounds. We find that the tensor-to-scalar ratio in the Starobinsky model modified by the R 3/2-term significantly increases with raising the parameter in front of that term. On the other side, we deform the scalar potential of the Starobinsky model in the Einstein frame in powers of y = exp(-(2/3)φ/M Pl), where φ is the canonical inflaton (scalaron) field, calculate the corresponding F(R) gravity functions in the two new cases, and find the restrictions on the deformation parameters in the lowest orders with respect to the variable y that is physically small during slow-roll inflation.
Dressing of hybrid-bonded graded diamond grinding wheels
Creators: name: Denkena, Berend
name: Bergmann, Benjamin
name: Raffalt, Daniel
Publisher: name: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Deep grinding
subject: Dressing
subject: Graded grinding tools
subject: Hybrid-bond grinding wheels
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: For tool grinding, an optimization potential in terms of productivity is available using graded grinding wheels. This is especially the case when grinding flutes in cemented carbide. Due to the properties of the cemented carbide, high radial wear occurs. Depending on the geometry of the flute, the radial wear varies along the engagement width of the grinding tool. The varying radial wear can be compensated by load adapting the grinding tool properties along its engagement width. The adaptation of the wear behaviour to non-uniform engagement conditions results in non-uniform radial wear occurring under uniform engagement conditions. Indeed, this is the case when dressing these grinding tools. Therefore, this publication presents a method that enables the dressing of graded grinding wheels. For this purpose, four differently graded grinding wheels and two non-graded grinding wheels are dressed with SiC-rolls. Different SiC-rolls, as well as dressing parameters, are investigated. The contour accuracy after dressing is analysed using contour profiles in polyurethane. In the presented paper, dressing parameters are proposed which allow reproducible dressing of all grinding wheels used.
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and Featureless Mott Insulators
Creators: name: Burkov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out and explicitly demonstrate a close connection that exists between featureless Mott insulators and fractional quantum Hall liquids. Using magnetic Wannier states as the single-particle basis in the lowest Landau level (LLL), we demonstrate that the Hamiltonian of interacting bosons in the LLL maps onto a Hamiltonian of a featureless Mott insulator on triangular lattice, formed by the magnetic Wannier states. The Hamiltonian is remarkably simple and consists only of short-range repulsion and ring-exchange terms.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure. Published version.
title: The Effectiveness of an Intervention Designed to Increase the Positive to Negative Ratio of Instructor Interactions During After-School Programming
Creators: name: Wheatley, Rikki K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Correlational research has shown the ratio of positive to negative interactions (PN ratio) between students and teachers may have an effect on the frequency and type of student behavior displayed in the context of teaching. Based on this research, PN ratio has become a prominent feature of many school improvement and teacher evaluation measures. While a variety of correlational data show a positive relationship between high PN ratios and improved student behavior in the classroom, there is little evidence assessing the extent to which instructors will increase PN ratios following didactic workshop training (relatively passive, one-session workshops with few opportunities for skill building). Additionally, the limited amount of available data suggests that increasing these ratios may be more difficult than expected. The purpose of this research was to assess the effectiveness of two interventions used to train after-school instructors to increase PN ratios. The first intervention (workshop training) followed a didactic workshop-training model. The second intervention (coaching) included the components of the didactic workshop model with the addition of modeling, role-play, and performance feedback. In this study four instructors in an after-school program were randomly assigned to one of two groups to participate in training programs. These programs were designed to help them increase PN ratios when interacting with students during homework time in the after-school program. Group 1 received only the workshop training, and Group 2 received the workshop training as well as the coaching intervention. Instructor behaviors were recorded during 15-minute observation sessions, and PN ratios were calculated for each instructor. All observation sessions took place in the context of homework time during regularly scheduled after-school programming. The study used AB/ABC design to assess the success of the two training models. Instructors in Group 1 showed no increases in the frequency of positive interactions or PN ratios. Instructors in Group 2 showed an increased frequency of positive interactions and increased PN ratios in the coaching condition. Results are discussed in terms of increases and decreases in the daily frequency of positive and negative interactions as well as the overall increases in PN ratio.