cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Population Ecology of Spruce-Fir Forests of the Interior West
Creators: name: Little, Katheryn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Spruce-fir forest type covers nearly 10 million acres of forested land in the interior west, but there is a lack of research defining how these forests grow for future planning. Stand density index (SDI) represents the average tree size and number of trees in a stand multiplied. Each species has specific maximum number the growing space can handle known as ‘fully stocked’. If the stand is fully stocked, it must wait until trees die for individuals to grow. Spruce and fir have similar maximum stocking values, and similar growth characteristics, allowing them to be plotted together. Using current forest data, tree size and number can be fit to complex equations that tell us relative density of the stand, average stand height, and estimated wood volume. A graph with tree number on the x-axis and average size on the y-axis, that can also include height and volume lines, is called a density management diagram (DMD). Using a local height reference, the stand age and rotation time can be estimated. Large areas of spruce forest are dying because of spruce beetle populations which have been associated with larger average tree size and higher density. If a stand grows to a big enough average size, or has enough trunk surface area, it is more likely to increase growth of large beetle populations. Previously defined risks of beetle attack were plotted on a graph of average tree size by tree density, and scores were calculated for each zone of the diagram. Zones were plotted on the DMD so forest managers can see both beetle risk and stand growth at the same time. Forest managers can plan forest growth, and how they would select and remove trees to reduce the potential risk to beetle infestation. Using a DMD, a forest manager could plot multiple stands to compare hazard ratings and prioritize treatments. The forest manager could mitigate a contiguous high-risk stand by thinning corridors of low-risk to divide the larger area and reduce probability of spread. A forest manager could also predict future stand development and plan thinning treatments to prevent increasing beetle risk.
Generators of the ring of weakly holomorphic modular functions for $Γ_1(N)$
Creators: name: Koo, Ja Kyung
name: Yoon, Dong Sung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F03, 11F11, 11G16

description: For a positive integer $N$ divisible by $4,5,6,7$ or $9$, let $\mathcal{O}_{1,N}(\mathbb{Q})$ be the ring of weakly holomorphic modular functions for the congruence subgroup $Γ_1(N)$ with rational Fourier coefficients. We present explicit generators of the ring $\mathcal{O}_{1,N}(\mathbb{Q})$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ by making use of modular units which have infinite product expansions.
description: 16 pages
title: Graviweak Theory in Bicomformal Space
Creators: name: Ukashat, Mubarak
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: There are four basic forces in nature: the electromagnetic force, which accounts for interactions of particles with charges; the weak force, which is responsible for radioactive decay; the strong force, which holds the particles inside a nucleus tightly bound together; and the gravitational force, which is responsible for keeping us on our beautiful planet, Earth and holding together our entire solar system. Physicists have been on the hunt for a theory that can single-handedly explain all these forces under the same underlying mathematical formulation. So far, physicists have suceeded in unifying the electromagnetic and weak forces in what is called the electroweak theory. Some ways are known to unify the electroweak and strong interactions using group theory, but the odd one out is really gravitational force. Gravity is explained successfully so far by Einstein’s general theory of relativity but it has seen limited quantum mechanical explanation. One possible route to full unification is string theory but we take an alternative approach. In this dissertation, we attempt to unify gravity with the electroweak interaction. We propose a graviweak theory based on a gauge field theory approach by harnessing the plethora of mathematical techniques found in biconformal gauge field theory. In this special kind of field theory, not only can we readily and easily get gravity, we simulteneously have a dual space that can accommodate the electroweak theory within the same formulation. We see that certain surprising properties of the electroweak theory such as the existence of isospin or its preference for left-handedness over right-handedness may have a natural explanation within biconformal theory.
NOTCH1 INHIBITS THE DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE BY IMPAIRING THE FORMATION OF THE ATM-FOXO3A-KAT5 COMPLEX
Creators: name: ADAMOWICZ, MAREK
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2017

description: The DNA damage response is a pathway responsible for the maintenance of genome integrity. In my thesis I focused on the investigation of the modulation of ATM activity, a DNA damage response master kinase, by NOTCH1 receptor. Here I show that NOTCH1 inhibits DNA damage response activation. This inhibitory effect of NOTCH1 is not mediated by its transcriptional activity, but it is the result of direct binding between NOTCH1 and ATM kinase. I show that NOTCH1 binds to the FATC domain of ATM, and this results in an inhibition of ATM kinase activity. Furthermore, I provide evidence that NOTCH1-mediated ATM inhibition does not result from the impairment of ATM recruitment to DNA double-strand breaks. Rather, I show that NOTCH1 competes with FOXO3a transcription factor for the binding to the FATC domain of ATM and that over-expression of FOXO3a prevents NOTCH1-mediated ATM inhibition. As the exact function of FOXO3a in ATM activation was unclear, I sought to understand molecular mechanisms underlying NOTCH1-mediated ATM inactivation and the role of FOXO3a as an opposing factor in this process. I discovered that FOXO3a forms a direct complex with KAT5 lysine acetyl transferase that is critical for ATM activation upon DNA damage. Moreover, I observed that FOXO3a was necessary for the formation of a complex between ATM and KAT5. Surprisingly, I observed that NOTCH1 was not only impairing ATM-KAT5 interaction, but also FOXO3a-KAT5 one. This unexpected observation led me to the discovery that FOXO3a-KAT5 interaction is restricted to the formation of this three-protein complex together with the ATM kinase. Next, I demonstrated that induction of FOXO3a nuclear localization as well as inhibition of NOTCH1 increases ATM activation in NOTCH1-driven cancer cells, which leads to augmented DNA damage-induced cell death. Finally, I show that, in addition to ATM, NOTCH1 interacts also with other PI3K-like kinases: DNA-PKcs and ATR. Although I did not observe a significant impact of NOTCH1 on ATR kinase activation in the experimental settings I used, I observed an impaired activation of DNA-PKcs, which however did not result in a significant reduction of DNA damage repair in NOTCH1-expressing cells.
title: Low Resource Assay for Tracking SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater
Creators: name: van Renselaar, Julissa
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Wastewater based epidemiology (WBE) allows for the tracking of nucleic acid of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater which gives the opportunity for the public and government officials to be informed about the infectivity of the virus in a community. Advances have been made in WBE that have allowed for higher performance, lower resource use, and faster turnaround time. An adapted concentration method of spin column direct extraction has yielded a proxy virus recovery of 83%, consumable cost of $2.01 per sample, and a turnaround time of 0.33 hour/sample. Other concentration methods have lower proxy virus recoveries, comparable cost, and comparable turnaround time. The concentration methods that are reviewed are direct extraction, HA filtration, ultrafiltration, ultracentrifugation, magnetic bead absorption, and precipitation. The advantage to the spin column direct extraction method is it serves as a concentration and extraction method which saves time and resources. There are a series of common steps in sample processing that goes as follows: pretreatment, heat pasteurization, concentration, extraction, and analysis. Each step contributes to the loss and/or recovery of the nucleic acid. It is important to evaluate each step of the process to have a comprehensive review of the protocol. Factors used for the evaluation are performance, resource use, and turnaround time. This study compared the newly adapted spin column direct extraction to HA filtration + bead beating. In addition, this method was compared to other reported methods and their values of spike recovery, cost, and throughput time. Under these parameters, the spin column direct extraction proved to have high performance, low resource use, and fast turnaround time.
(3629) Ernest Baggallay
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Assessing and Improving Effort-Based Decision-Making
Creators: name: Peck, Sara
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Low effort tendencies are related to maladaptive proclivities. There is a lack of research on this topic, possibly because of a lack of a standardized effort discounting task. In addition to a lack of standard task, most effort discounting tasks do not control for the delay confound inherent to effort requirements. It is unknown whether the delay confound affects effort discounting. The aim of Experiment 1 was to develop a task for measuring effort discounting that might be used as a standard measure, and to evaluate the influence of the delay confound on effort discounting. The remainder of the dissertation aimed to test methods to improve effort-based decision-making. Episodic future thinking is one intervention which successfully improves decision-making. Experiment 2 examined the effects of episodic future thinking on effort discounting. In Experiment 3, a novel episodic effortful thinking exercise was tested as an intervention to improve effort-based decision-making.
BASIC PENTACYSTEINE PROTEINS: UNDERSTANDING THEIR ROLES AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS DURING REPRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA
Creators: name: PETRELLA, ROSANNA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2020

description: Il mio lavoro di dottorato si basa prevalentemente sullo studio di una classe di fattori trascrizionali, le BASIC PENTACYSTEINE PROTEINS (BPCs) in Arabidopsis thaliana. I BPCs possono legare il DNA al livello di specifiche sequenze consenso, le C-boxes, per regolare l?espressione di geni target. Il primo obiettivo della mia tesi � quello di identificare il meccanismo molecolare di azione dei BPCs nella regolazione del gene d?identit� dell?ovulo SEEDSTICK (STK) durante lo sviluppo del fiore. A tale scopo, sono stati condotti esperimenti di immunoprecipitazione della cromatina (ChIP) in diversi background, in cui � stata valutato il legame dei BPCs alla sequenza regolatrice di STK. Inoltre, l?analisi dell?espressione del gene omeotico nel quintuplo mutante bpc (bpcV) ha confermato una sua regolazione da parte dei BPCs e svelato il ruolo ridondante dei BPCs di classe I e classe II. I nostri risultati indicano che i BPCs possano regolare STK, interagendo con il fattore MADS-domain SVP, la cui attivit� � necessaria per la corretta espressione del gene omeotico. Inoltre, il mio lavoro ha permesso di identificare un altro regolatore di STK, LIKE HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1 (LHP1), un componente del POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1 (PRC1). I dati, presentati in questa tesi, suggeriscono che i BPCs possano formare un super complesso proteico per regolare STK durante lo sviluppo del fiore. I BPCs sono espressi in tutti i tessuti della pianta durante lo sviluppo. Il gineceo del quintuplo mutante bpc � caratterizzato da difetti nello sviluppo del septum e del transmitting tract, una struttura che riveste un ruolo fondamentale durante la fecondazione. Il ruolo dei BPCs nello sviluppo del gineceo � stato studiato attraverso diversi esperimenti, con lo scopo di identificare i loro target e partners per localizzarli nel network di regolazione dello sviluppo del septum. Inoltre, l?analisi trascrittomica sul bpcV ha permesso di identificare un possibile contributo dei BPCs nella regolazione dei livelli di auxina e citochinine, due fitormoni, la cui attivit� � fondamentale per il corretto sviluppo del gineceo. In conclusione, il lavoro presentato nella mia tesi approfondisce i meccanismi molecolari che governano lo sviluppo riproduttivo nelle piante.
title: Identifying Self-Regulation Strategies Students Use When Cognitive Load Occurs
Creators: name: Luo, Linyu
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: When the amount of information to process exceeds students’ capacity to do so, that indicates a problem in the learning environment that will hinder students’ successful learning. This study found that students use a variety of strategies to help them manage their own learning when they felt overwhelmed by the amount of information they needed to process. Further, these strategies differed from those typically expected of students when they are not overwhelmed.
title: Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production Through Crops, Grazing, and Forestry in the U.S. from 1997 to 2012
Creators: name: Paudel, Suman
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: This dissertation conducts a county-level analysis of human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) harvested from crops, timber and grazing in the conterminous United States in the years 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2012. This study consists of three manuscripts (Chapters 2, 3, and 4). The first study quantifies net primary production in US counties in 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2012. The detailed HANPP study conducted concludes that HANPP is a valuable footprint tool for analyzing land use intensity and agricultural ecosystems. The second manuscript shows how HANPP is an improved or modernized ecological footprint and is a sustainable indicator as it is able to inform different sustainability narratives at different scales (planet, countries, counties, and 30m pixels). This study also provides insights to improve the agroecosystems of the U.S. and generates an integrated picture of the socioecological condition of the land system. The third manuscript analyzes the uses of biomass production, measured as human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP), in the U.S. from 1997 to 2012 at a national level and for 2012 at a state level. It shows how proportions of HANPP allocated to food, feed, fiber, fuel, and exports are distributed geographically in the 48 contiguous states.
Additional file 2 of Evaluating the CYP-IAPT transformation of child and adolescent mental health services in Cambridgeshire, UK: a qualitative implementation study
Creators: name: Burn, Anne-Marie
name: Vainre, Maris
name: Humphrey, Ayla
name: Howarth, Emma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Interview schedule.
title: Monthly Variation of Thermospheric Neutral Winds
Creators: name: Pedersen, Layne G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Earth’s atmosphere is commonly divided into different layers based on the change of temperature with altitude. The thermosphere is a part of the atmosphere characterized by a dramatic increase in temperature with altitude starting at about 100 km in altitude. Embedded in the thermosphere is an electrically charged layer called the ionosphere that is created by solar radiation. Neutral winds in the thermosphere strongly affect the motion and morphology of these charged particles. These winds can be estimated by space weather models for the upper atmosphere similar to the ones used in daily weather forecasts. These space weather models incorporate satellite observations of the ionosphere with a physical computational model.
The Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements Full Physics (GAIM-FP) model can use monthly averaged satellite measurements to estimate winds in the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field. The Thermospheric Wind Assimilation Model (TWAM) combines these wind estimates with the physical equations that describe the motion of the neutral gas to provide estimates of the monthly climatology of thermospheric winds in the two horizontal directions.
As part of this research the monthly climatology of the neutral winds for the entire year of 2009 is determined and compared with estimates obtained from a prominent empirical model as well as ground- and space-based observations.
Community preceptors' views of a required third-year family medicine clerkship
Creators: name: Storaasli, Marie
name: Slatt, Lisa
name: Kollisch, Donald O.
name: Fraiser, Pamela York
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1997

description: BACKGROUND: Previous studies documented the importance of family medicine clerkships to medical student education and to the potential costs of precepting students borne by community physicians. But what are the physicians' views of their experience, their perceived needs for teaching, and sources of satisfaction from the preceptor role?  OBJECTIVES: To explore preceptors' views of a required, third-year family medicine clerkship, focusing on satisfaction with the teaching experience, effect of having students in the practice, and concerns about continuing as a preceptor.  METHODS: Preceptors from 38 private practices were asked to participate in a 15-minute telephone survey, using a semistructured interview format.  RESULTS: Thirty-five physicians (92%) agreed to participate and 33 of the 35 primary preceptors were interviewed. Of those interviewed, 29 (88%) indicated a positive teaching experience, and 31 (94%) desired to continue precepting. Intangible rewards (eg, love of teaching or "giving back" to the specialty of family medicine) far out-weighed tangible rewards (eg, dinners or letters of appreciation) with regard to their desire to precept. Continued satisfaction with precepting seemed to be affected by loss of revenue to the practice, longer work hours, ability to effectively manage time and patient load, and need for additional educational resources and equipment.  CONCLUSIONS: Intrinsic rewards seem to be a key factor in the physicians' decision to precept. Moreover, to reinforce the preceptor's continued desire to precept, faculty development, provision of educational tools and resources, and remuneration may be necessary. Preceptors should be asked routinely about their needs, and special programs of support should be offered.
Additional file 1 of A heat-shock inducible system for flexible gene expression in cereals
Creators: name: Harrington, Sophie A.
name: Backhaus, Anna E.
name: Fox, Samantha
name: Rogers, Christian
name: Borrill, Philippa
name: Uauy, Cristobal
name: Richardson, Annis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Contains gene sequences of NAM-B1 and Cre which were domesticated for use in cloning.
Comparison of the hormonal responses to exhaustive incremental exercise in adolescent and young adult males
Creators: name: Hackney, Anthony
name: Karelson, Kalle
name: VanBruggen, Mitch
name: Viru, Mehis
name: Janson, Tamara
name: Viru, Atko
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: OBJECTIVE: Evaluate hormonal responses to incremental-stage exercise (EX) test to exhaustion in adolescents. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Adolescents were tested at 16 years of age in Tanner Stage 4 (TS4) and at 17 years of age in Tanner Stage 5 (TS5) (n = 6). Adults were tested at 21 ± 1 y. (X ± SD) (n = 4) and served as controls. Blood samples were taken at rest, at the end of each EX stage. RESULTS: Main effects for EX in cortisol (p < 0.01, increasing with each EX stage) and for subject group for testosterone (T) occurred (p < 0.01; TS4 < TS5, adults). Interaction effect of group by EX stage occurred for GH (p < 0.05). GH increased in response to EX in all groups, however, the magnitude of increase was significantly less for TS5 and adults than TS4. CONCLUSIONS: Differences in T and GH responses for TS4 than those for TS5 and adults reflect the differing maturation levels of the endocrine system between Tanner Stages. TS5 adolescents are more similar to young adults in hormonal responses to EX than are TS4 adolescents.
(3623) Frederic Higgins
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Breakdown of deterministic lateral displacement efficiency for non-dilute suspensions: a numerical study
Creators: name: Vernekar, Rohan
name: Krüger, Timm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of particle volume fraction on the efficiency of deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) devices. DLD is a popular passive sorting technique for microfluidic applications. Yet, it has been designed for treating dilute suspensions, and its efficiency for denser samples is not well known. We perform 3D simulations based on the immersed-boundary, lattice-Boltzmann and finite-element methods to model the flow of red blood cells (RBCs) in different DLD devices. We quantify the DLD efficiency in terms of appropriate "failure" probabilities and RBC counts in designated device outlets. Our main result is that the displacement mode breaks down upon an increase of RBC volume fraction, while the zigzag mode remains relatively robust. This suggests that the separation of larger particles (such as white blood cells) from a dense RBC background is simpler than separating smaller particles (such as platelets) from the same background. The observed breakdown stems from non-deterministic particle collisions interfering with the designed deterministic nature of DLD devices. Therefore, we postulate that dense suspension effects generally hamper efficient particle separation in devices based on deterministic principles.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures
title: Increasing Production of Therapeutic mAbs in CHO Cells through Genetic Engineering
Creators: name: Barentine, Charles
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Between 2014 and 2018, the global market for therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) rose from $60 billion to $115.2 billion with a projected value of $300 billion by 2025. These molecules are used to effectively treat some of the most challenging illnesses from auto-immune diseases to cancer. While mAbs are highly valuable with potent applications, their production at scale remains an outstanding challenge. These molecules are largely produced in Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells that require highly specific conditions to produce a useful product.
Genetic engineering presents one solution to overcome productivity limits. With the advent of CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)-Cas (CRISPR-associated proteins) systems, engineering the CHO genome has never been easier. CRISPR/Cas9 allows for site-specific editing and gene integration. Within the CHO genome, a variety of sites have been identified that warrant further investigation for editing. Among these sites is the gene C12orf35. The deletion of C12orf35 has been shown to lead to increased productivity in CHO cells. Additionally, C12orf35 has been identified as a site with a high transcription rate, implying that genes at this site are likely to be expressed more frequently.
The gene coding for mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) has been demonstrated to alter CHO cell phenotype characteristics such as cell size, viable cell density, and antibody productivity when expressed transiently. This study aims to evaluate the potential synergism of deleting the gene C12orf35 by editing the gene coding for mTOR between a cut site made in C12orf35. Splicing the gene coding for mTOR at this site has the potential combined benefit of disrupting C12orf35 while simultaneously stably expressing the mTOR gene at a highly transcribed site in the CHO genome.
Hormonal status, creatine kinase and soccer: a need for research
Creators: name: Machado, Marco
name: Hackney, Anthony
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Soccer is a physically demanding sport in which muscular damage and trauma are
frequent occurrences. These occurrences are especially true for those athletes
involved in top-division clubs at national or international levels. Many factors
may come into play when determining the degree of muscular damage that may occur
during a soccer match, such as intensity of physical participation, environmental
conditions, skill level, prior level of rest, and aggressiveness of the teams involved in
the match.
(3624) Barbara Ellaline Joy Loder
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Additional file 1 of Evaluating the CYP-IAPT transformation of child and adolescent mental health services in Cambridgeshire, UK: a qualitative implementation study
Creators: name: Burn, Anne-Marie
name: Vainre, Maris
name: Humphrey, Ayla
name: Howarth, Emma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. COREQ checklist.
title: Responsive Technical Education Curriculum: An Exploratory Case Study Approach Toward Understanding Human Skills Alignment
Creators: name: Lamoreaux, Kari
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Globalization and rapid changes in technology have led to a shift in the skills employers need. These changes have resulted in a gap between the skills people have and those required by industry. This exploratory case study sought to better understand the uniquely human skills employers desire and technical educators should teach in order to address this gap in a local context. The study was conducted in four phases. 1) Current literature was analyzed to identify commonly recurring human skills discussed in studies and reports. 2) These skills were then used as search terms in an analysis of occupational advisory committee meeting minutes. 3) Two survey instruments were then created from these analyses: one for distribution among employers in Davis and Morgan Counties, Utah, and the other for distribution among Davis Technical College faculty. 4) Data was collected and analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics.
This dissertation reports employer perceptions regarding the importance of human skills for entry-level employees and for career success. In addition, it reports faculty perceptions regarding the importance of human skills for entry-level employees and the instructional methods used to help develop these skills. These perceptions were compared in multiple ways. Among the many findings of the study, integrity and work ethic were found to be the most important human skills across all constructs explored.
An important implication of this study is that the findings from the survey data should be utilized as a catalyst for further discussion rather than as the ending point of inquiry. A better understanding of how employers define and perceive human skills most important to their industry contexts for entry-level employees is needed if faculty want to create responsive curricula.
Supersymmetric polynomials and the center of the walled Brauer algebra
Creators: name: Jung, Ji Hye
name: Kim, Myungho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16U70, 16T30, 05E05

description: We study a commuting family of elements of the walled Brauer algebra $B_{r,s}(δ)$, called the Jucys-Murphy elements, and show that the supersymmetric polynomials in these elements belong to the center of the walled Brauer algebra. When $B_{r,s}(δ)$ is semisimple, we show that those supersymmetric polynomials generate the center. Under the same assumption,we define a maximal commutative subalgebra of $B_{r,s}(δ)$, called the \emph{Gelfand-Zetlin subalgebra}, and show that it is generated by the Jucys-Murphy elements. As an application, we construct a complete set of primitive orthogonal idempotents of $B_{r,s}(δ)$, when it is semisimple. We also give an alternative proof of a part of the classification theorem of blocks of $B_{r,s}(δ)$ in non-semisimple cases, which appeared in the work of Cox-De~Visscher-Doty-Martin.Finally, we present an analogue of Jucys-Murpy elements for the quantized walled Brauer algebra $H_{r,s}(q,ρ)$ over $\mathbb C(q, ρ)$ and by taking the classical limit we show that the supersymmetric polynomials in these elements generates the center. It follows that H. Morton conjecture, which appeared in the study of the relation between the framed HOMFLY skein on the annulus and that on the rectangle with designated boundary points, holds if we extend the scalar from $\mathbb Z[q^{\pm1},ρ^{\pm1}]_{(q-q^{-1})}$ to $\mathbb C(q, ρ)$.
description: Second version, Section "6. Center of the quantized walled Brauer algebra" is added
Histiocytosis: a review focusing on neuroimaging findings
Creators: name: Andriola, Ranieli Saraiva
name: Pinho, Paula da Cunha
name: Gabbay, Larissa Barcessat
name: Lucato, Leandro Tavares
name: Leite, Cláudia da Costa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Objective:  Histiocytosis is a systemic disease that usually affects the central nervous system. The aim of this study is to discuss the neuroimaging characteristics of Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), the most common of these diseases; and the non-Langerhans cells histiocytosis (NLCH), which includes entities such as hemophagocytic syndrome, Erdheim-Chester and Rosai-Dorfman diseases.   Method:  Literature review and illustrative cases with pathologic confirmation.   Results:  In LCH, the most common findings are 1) osseous lesions in the craniofacial bones and/or skull base; 2) intracranial, extra-axial changes; 3) intra-axial parenchymal changes (white and gray matter); 4) atrophy. Among the NLCH, diagnosis usually requires correlation with clinical and laboratory criteria. The spectrum of presentation includes intraparenchymal involvement, meningeal lesions, orbits and paranasal sinus involvement.   Conclusion:  It is important the recognition of the most common imaging patterns, in order to include LCH and NLCH in the differential diagnosis, whenever pertinent.
Stellar populations in $ω$ Centauri: a multivariate analysis
Creators: name: Fraix-Burnet, Didier
name: Davoust, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed multivariate statistical analyses of photometric and chemical abundance parameters of three large samples of stars in the globular cluster $ω$ Centauri. The statistical analysis of a sample of 735 stars based on seven chemical abundances with the method of Maximum Parsimony (cladistics) yields the most promising results: seven groups are found, distributed along three branches with distinct chemical, spatial and kinematical properties. A progressive chemical evolution can be traced from one group to the next, but also within groups, suggestive of an inhomogeneous chemical enrichment of the initial interstellar matter. The adjustment of stellar evolution models shows that the groups with metallicities [Fe/H]\textgreater{}-1.5 are Helium-enriched, thus presumably of second generation. The spatial concentration of the groups increases with chemical evolution, except for two groups, which stand out in their other properties as well. The amplitude of rotation decreases with chemical evolution, except for two of the three metal-rich groups, which rotate fastest, as predicted by recent hydrodynamical simulations. The properties of the groups are interpreted in terms of star formation in gas clouds of different origins. In conclusion, our multivariate analysis has shown that metallicity alone cannot segregate the different populations of $ω$ Centauri.
Imaging of adult leukodystrophies
Creators: name: Castillo, Mauricio
name: Kok, Fernando
name: Brandão, Anderson Rodrigues
name: Lucato, Leandro Tavares
name: Santos, Germana Titoneli
name: Leite, Claudia Costa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Leukodystrophies are genetically determined white matter disorders. Even though leukodystrophies essentially affect children in early infancy and childhood, these disorders may affect adults. In adults, leukodystrophies may present a distinct clinical and imaging presentation other than those found in childhood. Clinical awareness of late-onset leukodystrophies should be increased as new therapies emerge. MRI is a useful tool to evaluate white matter disorders and some characteristics findings can help the diagnosis of leukodystrophies. This review article briefly describes the imaging characteristics of the most common adult leukodystrophies.
Neurological complications after H1N1 influenza vaccination: magnetic resonance imaging findings
Creators: name: Azevedo, Fernanda
name: Azevedo, Renata
name: Lessa, Ronaldo
name: Castillo, Maurício
name: Azevedo, Hildo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Objective:  To report 4 different neurological complications of H1N1 virus vaccination.   Method:  Four patients (9, 16, 37 and 69 years of age) had neurological symptoms (intracranial hypertension, ataxia, left peripheral facial palsy of abrupt onset, altered mental status, myelitis) starting 4-15 days after H1N1 vaccination. MRI was obtained during the acute period.   Results:  One patient with high T2 signal in the cerebellum interpreted as acute cerebellitis; one patient showed gyriform hyperintensities on FLAIR with sulcal effacement in the right fronto-parietal region; another, with left facial palsy, showed contrast enhancement within both internal auditory canals was present, however it was more important in the right side; and the last one showed findings compatible with thoracic myelitis.   Conclusion:  H1N1 vaccination can result in important neurological complications probably secondary to post-vaccination inflammation. MRI detected abnormalities in all patients.
(3625) Esmee Wilson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Dreams of economic transformation and the reality of economic crisis in Japan: Keidanren in the era of the ‘bubble’ and the onset of the ‘lost decade,’ from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s
Creators: name: Fletcher, W. Miles
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: This study examines the dynamics of the development of Japan's notorious ‘lost decade’ from 1990--2003. This economic downturn marked the end of four decades of strong economic growth and is still affecting the Japanese economy today. While previous studies have focused on government policies to explain the nation's slow response to this crisis, the attitudes of the Japanese business community merit more attention. For example, the leaders of Keidanren, the powerful representative of big business in Japan, defined a set of economic challenges facing Japan in the late 1980s and neoliberal solutions that blinded them to the significance of the economic bubble that developed at that time and its subsequent collapse. Since then, Keidanren's prescriptions for reviving the Japanese economy have remained essentially the same.
Giving Commitment: Employee Support Programs and The Prosocial Sensemaking Process
Creators: name: Grant, A. M.
name: Dutton, J. E.
name: Rosso, B. D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Researchers have assumed that employee support programs cultivate affective organizational commitment by enabling employees to receive support. Using multimethod data from a Fortune 500 retail company, we propose that these programs also strengthen commitment by enabling employees to give support. We find that giving strengthens affective organizational commitment through a "prosocial sensemaking" process in which employees interpret personal and company actions and identities as caring. We discuss theoretical implications for organizational programs, commitment, sensemaking and identity, and citizenship behaviors.
Additional file 1 of Population genetic and biophysical evidences reveal that purifying selection shapes the genetic landscape of Plasmodium falciparum RH ligands in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, India
Creators: name: Ghoshal, Sharmistha
name: Pramita Chowdhury
name: Sanhita Ray
name: Mitashree Mitra
name: Sumana Datta Kanjilal
name: Srikanta Sen
name: Dasgupta, Anjan Kr.
name: Sengupta, Sanghamitra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Details of oligonucleotide primers used for amplification and sequencing.
(3626) Chloe Crosse
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Bifurcations in models of a society of reasonable contrarians and conformists
Creators: name: Bagnoli, Franco
name: Rechtman, Raul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study models of a society composed of a mixture of conformist and reasonable contrarian agents that at any instant hold one of two opinions. Conformists tend to agree with the average opinion of their neighbors and reasonable contrarians to disagree, but revert to a conformist behavior in the presence of an overwhelming majority, in line with psychological experiments. The model is studied in the mean field approximation and on small-world and scale-free networks. In the mean field approximation, a large fraction of conformists triggers a polarization of the opinions, a pitchfork bifurcation, while a majority of reasonable contrarians leads to coherent oscillations, with an alternation of period-doubling and pitchfork bifurcations up to chaos. Similar scenarios are obtained by changing the fraction of long-range rewiring and the parameter of scale-free networks related to the average connectivity.
El arte rupestre y su protección legal en Panamá. Los petroglifos de la provincia de Chiriquí y del área comarcal.
Creators: name: Adames, Luz Graciela Joli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Arte rupeste
Peteoglifos
Área comarcal
Panamá
Provincia de Chiriquí

description: Presentación para el webinar El arte rupestre en Panamá y su protección legal. Los petroglifos de la provincia de Chiriquí y el área comarcal.
title: A Hydrological Characterization of a Zero-Order Basin in Volcanic Hillslope Terrain
Creators: name: Mock, Neil A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1988

description: Hydrologists have displayed a renewed effort towards understanding the complexity of runoff generation and its association with basin structure. Basin structure is defined as the complex geomorphological, vegetation, and soil characteristics that make up and distinguish the physical nature of a drainage basin. Zero-order basins are an integral part of watershed structure because they furnish the capacity to store and transmit snowmelt and rainfall. By definition, zero-order basins are sub-basins which are depressions in the surf ace and shallow bedrock topography. This study involves a space time characterization of a zero-order basin in fractured media located in southwest Idaho.
The purpose of the study is to gain insight into the relationships among subsurface flow, runoff generation, and basin structure. Topography, soils, geology, and infiltration rates play important role in controlling the flow of water within the hillslope. The spatial variability of these characteristics was analyzed to identify natural causal patterns.
Geophysical analysis defined five primary refractors loam soil, fractured basalt, semi-dense basalt, altered basalt, and dense basalt. The dense basalt and semi-dense basalt are relatively homogeneous, while the remaining three are heterogeneous. The Upper Sheep Creek Watershed is seismically diverse and complex.
The major source of water within the watershed is snowmelt, which provides the major contribution to subsurface flow within the drainage basin. Time moment analysis was used to analyze piezometer-streamflow response due to the pulse of melt water. This method provides the means to evaluate the evolution of annual hydrograph response between source, upslope, and downslope pulses and sort out separation times.
Natural-length scales of the surface and bedrock topography were used to create simple profile curves to approximate the spatial distribution of head along the hillslope. The separation of the surface and bedrock topography curves provides an envelope, wherein the normalized values of head can be plotted. This enables the position of the water table to be estimated at any location on the hillslope at any time of the year, provided that the length of the flow paths and head values are known and have been normalized.
Additional file 2 of Population genetic and biophysical evidences reveal that purifying selection shapes the genetic landscape of Plasmodium falciparum RH ligands in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, India
Creators: name: Ghoshal, Sharmistha
name: Pramita Chowdhury
name: Sanhita Ray
name: Mitashree Mitra
name: Sumana Datta Kanjilal
name: Srikanta Sen
name: Dasgupta, Anjan Kr.
name: Sengupta, Sanghamitra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Comparison of genetic diversity of Pfrh loci in publicly available global data
LA LINGUA DELLA CHIESA NEL SETTECENTO: UNA RICOGNIZIONE NEL FONDO AGIOGRAFICO << BIBLIOTECA DEI DUCHI DI PARMA >>
Creators: name: POLITA, MARIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2011

description: The subject of this paper deals with religious language in XVIII century, starting from the seven hagiographic texts of �Biblioteca dei Duchi di Parma�, kept� in Braidense Library, in Milan from 1938. Its Corpus significantly shows both� uniformity and linguistic peculiarities. Through the analysis of the phonetical, morphological, syntactic, textual and lexical phenomena it is clearly shown how the Church aimed to a communicative intelligible vehicle so as to be a modern language. Due to the need to reach more and different people the only possible result is the medietas.