cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CONDITIONAL CONSENT AND THE ELIMINATION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN INDONESIA
Creators: name: Asmin Fransiska
name: Dellvin Sergio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Conditional Consent, Sexual Violence, Violence Against Women, Sexual Autonomy, Gender Transformative Approach.

description: Abstract

In various studies, sexual consent is considered an important aspect, especially as one of the determining factors in cases of sexual violence. As a concept in criminal law, many countries have recognized the role of consent in sexual violence. With the increasing number of types of sexual violence such as stealthing, a new concept has emerged in criminal law known as conditional consent in sexual relations. Countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States have experience in handling cases of violation of conditional consent in sexual relations. This research wants to respond to whether violation of conditional consent in sexual relations is a criminal offense. This research was conducted using an empirical juridical method that describes the violation of sexual relations with conditions. Unfortunately, through the data collected and interviews with respondents, it was found that there are various key roles in placing certain conditions on sexual consent. If these conditions are violated, such actions will alter and undermine the consent given. Research also found that women have special vulnerabilities. However, in terms of criminal elements, violation of conditional consent is not a criminal act of sexual violence in Indonesia. One of the weaknesses is that conditional consent is not a criminal element in the Sexual Violence Crime Law (TPKS Law) and there is no provision in the Criminal Code in Indonesia. The TPKS Law does not specifically regulate the concept and paradigm of sexual consent with conditional consent and does not regulate the criminal provisions against it particularly. In the end, the individual who victims of the prerequisite consent in having sexual intercourse are not protected.
title: Manual del tutor
Creators: name: Torres Nuez, Julio
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Professional issues

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Dar a conocer una herramienta docente que permita una fácil integración del tutor novel en el sistema de formación sanitaria...
Rovibronic spectroscopy of PN from first principles
Creators: name: Semenov, Mikhail
name: El-Kork, Nayla
name: Yurchenko, Sergei N.
name: Tennyson, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an ab initio study on the rovibronic spectroscopy of the closed-shell diatomic molecule phosphorous mononitride, PN. The study considers the nine lowest electronic states, $X\,{}^{1}Σ^{+}$, $A\,{}^{1}Π$, $C\,{}^{1}Σ^{-}$, $D\,{}^{1}Δ$, $E\,{}^{1}Σ^{-}$, $a\,{}^{3}Σ^{+}$, $b\,{}^{3}Π$, $d\,{}^{3}Δ$ and $e\,{}^{3}Σ^{-}$ using high level electronic structure theory and accurate nuclear motion calculations. The ab initio data cover 9 potential energy, 14 spin-orbit coupling, 7 electronic angular momentum coupling, 9 electric dipole moment and 8 transition dipole moment curves. The Duo nuclear motion program is used to solve the coupled nuclear motion Schrödinger equations for these nine electronic states and to simulate rovibronic absorption spectra of $^{31}$P$^{14}$N for different temperatures, which are compared to available spectroscopic studies. Lifetimes for all states are calculated and compared to previous results from the literature. The calculated lifetime of the $A\,{}^{1}Π$ state shows good agreement with an experimental value from the literature, which is an important quality indicator for the ab initio $A$-$X$ transition dipole moment.
Symplectic dynamics of the nuclear mean-field
Creators: name: Grigorescu, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elements of a restricted variational approach to the nuclear mean-field dynamics, providing the microscopic structure of the low energy collective modes, are summarized. The results are illustrated for the isovector states produced by the proton-neutron interactions in deformed and superfluid nuclei.
description: 16 pages
New aspects of microwave properties of Nb in the mixed state
Creators: name: Pompeo, N.
name: Silva, E.
name: Sarti, S.
name: Attanasio, C.
name: Cirillo, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the frequency dependence of the vortex dynamics in a conventional superconductor. We have employed a swept-frequency, Corbino-disk technique to investigate the temperature (3.6K-Tc) and high-field (from Hc2/2 to Hc2) microwave complex resistivity in Nb thin (20-40 nm) films as a function of the frequency (1-20 GHz). We have found several previously unnoticed features: (i) a field-dependent depinning frequency in the GHz range; (ii) deviations from the accepted frequency dependence, that can be ascribed to some kind of vortex creep; (iii) the presence of switching phenomena, reminiscent of vortex instabilities. We discuss the possible origin of the features here reported.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, presented at VORTEX VI Conference, to appear on Physica C
A Comparative Study and Development of Norm Biological Literacy of Students of Princess Chulabhorn Science High Schools in Thailand
Creators: name: Nurisah Sueri
Publisher: name: Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Norms
Biological literacy
Biology teaching

description: Humanities and Social Sciences Journal of Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University, 17, 2, 715-727
Properties of X-ray Binaries in the Magellanic Clouds from RXTE and Chandra Observations
Creators: name: Corbet, R. H. D.
name: Coe, M. J.
name: McGowan, K. E.
name: Schurch, M. P. E.
name: Townsend, L. J.
name: Galache, J. L.
name: Marshall, F. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The X-ray binary population of the SMC is very different from that of the Milky Way consisting, with one exception, entirely of transient pulsating Be/neutron star binaries. We have now been monitoring these SMC X-ray pulsars for over 10 years using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer with observations typically every week. The RXTE observations have been complemented with surveys made using the Chandra observatory. The RXTE observations are non-imaging but enable detailed studies of pulsing sources. In contrast, Chandra observations can provide precise source locations and detections of sources at lower flux levels, but do not provide the same timing information or the extended duration light curves that RXTE observations do. We summarize the results of these monitoring programs which provide insights into both the differences between the SMC and the Milky Way, and the details of the accretion processes in X-ray pulsars.
description: To appear in proceedings of IAU Symposium 256, The Magellanic System: Stars, Gas, and Galaxies
DIGITAL INNOVATION IN BUILDING DISADVANTAGED VILLAGES IN BANTEN PROVINCE CASE STUDY OF LEBAK REGENCY BORDER AREA
Creators: name: ADE HADIONO
name: RUSITO
name: SARIPAN
name: JUMANAH
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Digital Innovation, Building Villages, Disadvantaged Villages.

description: Abstract

Village digitalization is very important to reduce the gap and lag between urban and rural areas, as well as increase village community access to public services, the economy, and others, therefore the development of villages into digital villages still needs to be encouraged. Village digitalization in Banten Province has become the focus of attention in recent years, one of which is the implementation of village digitalization, namely the Digdaya Village application, Village E-commerce, and Village Information System. In this study, a qualitative descriptive method was used to determine digitalization innovations in disadvantaged villages in Banten Province, especially in Lebak Regency. The main focus of this research is to understand how digital technology is used in disadvantaged villages and how it impacts improving the quality of life of the people in those villages. Data was collected by conducting interviews, observations and literature studies, namely by reviewing journals related to digitalization innovations in building disadvantaged villages. The results of the study show that the determining factors for the success of the implementation of digitalization in the village are; (1) Strong Technology Infrastructure, (2) Budget Support, (3) Support for Competent Human Resources, (4) Digital Education and Education, (5) Collaboration and Coordination, (6) Policy Support. The results of the study show that digitalization can help disadvantaged villages in improving access to information, administrative efficiency, and community economic empowerment. However, in the field, there are obstacles such as limited infrastructure, human resources, budget support, and digital literacy are still the main obstacles to implementing digitalization comprehensively.
Bose-Einstein condensates on tilted lattices: coherent, chaotic and subdiffusive dynamics
Creators: name: Kolovsky, Andrey R.
name: Gómez, Edgar A.
name: Korsch, Hans Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of a (quasi)one-dimensional interacting atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in a tilted optical lattice is studied in a discrete mean-field approximation, i.e., in terms of the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation. If the static field is varied the system shows a plethora of dynamical phenomena. In the strong field limit we demonstrate the existence of (almost) non-spreading states which remain localized on the lattice region populated initially and show coherent Bloch oscillations with fractional revivals in the momentum space (so called quantum carpets). With decreasing field, the dynamics becomes irregular, however, still confined in configuration space. For even weaker fields we find sub-diffusive dynamics with a wave-packet width spreading as $t^{1/4}$.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
La valorizzazione della professionalità nella contrattazione collettiva: sistemi classificatori e percorsi di mobilità professionale
Creators: name: Murrone, Maria Giovanna <1982>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: IUS/07 Diritto del lavoro

description: La tesi, che si articola in tre capitoli, analizza la rilevanza della professionalità del lavoratore nell’ambito del rapporto di lavoro subordinato con particolare riferimento all’interesse mostrato da parte della contrattazione collettiva nel settore privato e pubblico nella definizione dei sistemi classificatori e di inquadramento del personale. 
Nel primo capitolo, si dà conto dei fattori che hanno determinato l’emersione della professionalità quale bene giuridico meritevole di tutela da parte dell’ordinamento: si analizzano in particolare le trasformazioni organizzative e produttive, nonché le indicazioni provenienti dal testo costituzionale che si riverberano di poi nella legislazione ordinaria. 
Nel secondo si analizza quanto la professionalità, o le singole voci che la compongono, rilevi a fini classificatori: dunque in che termini le competenze, le conoscenze del lavoratore rilevino quali criteri classificatori. Nel terzo capitolo, viceversa, si pone maggiore attenzione rispetto all’ “importanza” della professionalità quale fattore che incide su meccanismi di progressione retributiva e in genere professionale (assumendosi tale espressione come una sorta di sinonimo del termine carriera, rispetto al quale si differenzia quanto al contesto organizzativo e produttivo in cui si svolge) del lavoratore. In un assetto simile, centrale è il rilievo della valutazione del lavoratore.
I contratti collettivi analizzati sono per il settore privato quelli delle categorie chimici, terziario e tessile; per il settore pubblico, quelli del comparto sanità e regioni ed autonomie locali.
COMPENSATION VS COMPETENCE: HOW JOB SATISFACTION AND MOTIVATION MEDIATE THEIR IMPACT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF INSTRUCTORS AT PRIVATE-OWNED COURSE AND TRAINING INSTITUTIONS IN SOUTH BORNEO
Creators: name: ASNAN
name: Dr. UJIANTO
name: Dr. ABDUL HALIK
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Compensation, Competence, Performance, Job Satisfaction, Motivation, Course and Training Institutions.

description: Abstract

This study aims to analyze the impact of compensation and competence on instructor performance in private courses and training institutions in South Kalimantan. It considers the mediating role of job satisfaction and motivation. The method used is a quantitative approach with multiple linear regression analysis, involving 93 instructors from 61 active institutions. Data were collected through questionnaires distributed manually and via Google Forms. The results suggest that both compensation and competence have a significant positive effect on instructor performance. Additionally, job satisfaction and motivation act as intervening variables that strengthen the relationship between compensation, competence, and performance. These findings underline the significance of effective human resource management in enhancing teaching performance, which ultimately positively impacts student satisfaction and learning outcomes. The study recommends that educational institutions continue investing in competency development and fair compensation systems to improve instructor motivation and job satisfaction.
The Self-Regulation and Self-Control Factors Affecting the Growth Mindset of Hospitality Industry Students and Personnel
Creators: name: Surakiat Tadawattanawit
Publisher: name: Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Growth mindset
Self-regulation
Self-control
Hospitality industry

description: Humanities and Social Sciences Journal of Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University, 17, 2, 728-740
title: The hippocampus as an indexing machine of episodic memory
Creators: name: Kolibius, Luca Dominik
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: Episodic memories refer to our ability to encode and reinstate experiences. By extension, these memories shape how we view ourselves and the world around us. Despite this, little is known about how neurons in the hippocampus encode and retrieve new episodes. Here, I will demonstrate evidence for single neurons in the human hippocampus that code specific episodic memories (hence called Episode Specific Neurons), both through a rate code and a temporal code. Importantly, these neurons cannot be construed as coding for specific timepoints or concepts. Next, I will extend these findings to population activity in the local field potential. I report evidence for a reinstatement in high frequency power during successful memory processing that mirrors earlier findings in single neurons. Again, these results cannot be explained by activity induced by a content-code. Despite the undisputed importance of theta activity in memory processing, we find no consistent evidence of an increase in theta power during memory processing. Likewise, we find no evidence that earlier identified Episode Specific Neurons or other hippocampal neurons fire preferentially at a particular theta phases or theta phase offsets between encoding or retrieval of episodic memories. Lastly, I embed these findings in the broader literature, identify future experiments, and discuss possible translational applications.
Shakespeare’s polyphonic imagination
Creators: name: Rowan, Stephen Charles
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Shakespeare's plays do not dramatize a single point of view; rather, they enact the mind's playing with a concern. They are the dancing of several attitudes through time. As with the text in polyphonic music, Shakespeare's concern in each play is distributed among several voices, each of which expresses it in ways unique to itself while in relation to all the others. The concern emerges through the counterpointing of one voice with another - by the repetition of similar words and situations among the several parts. As a result, the play does not conclude with a point proven so much as it ends with attitudes celebrated. Renaissance aesthetics, by its emphasis on decorum and proportion, recognized the need for distinct voices in poetic expression. Renaissance cosmology recognized the principle of hierarchy on all levels of the cosmos, each level expressing the principle in a way proper to itself while corresponding with the others. Being attuned to polyphonic structuring was a habit of the Renaissance mind that was seeking understanding. The three comedies studied in this thesis – "Much Ado About Nothing", "Twelfth Night" and "As You Like It" - are analyzed with an eye and ear alerted to the polyphonic relations among several voices. It studies these plays as they move through time, notes the variety of attitudes counterpointed with one another, and accounts for the festive mood that holds in the end.
ScotGrid: Providing an Effective Distributed Tier-2 in the LHC Era
Creators: name: Skipsey, Sam
name: Ambrose-Griffith, David
name: Cowan, Greig
name: Kenyon, Mike
name: Richards, Orlando
name: Roffe, Phil
name: Stewart, Graeme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: ScotGrid is a distributed Tier-2 centre in the UK with sites in Durham, Edinburgh and Glasgow. ScotGrid has undergone a huge expansion in hardware in anticipation of the LHC and now provides more than 4MSI2K and 500TB to the LHC VOs. Scaling up to this level of provision has brought many challenges to the Tier-2 and we show in this paper how we have adopted new methods of organising the centres, from fabric management and monitoring to remote management of sites to management and operational procedures, to meet these challenges. We describe how we have coped with different operational models at the sites, where Glagsow and Durham sites are managed "in house" but resources at Edinburgh are managed as a central university resource. This required the adoption of a different fabric management model at Edinburgh and a special engagement with the cluster managers. Challenges arose from the different job models of local and grid submission that required special attention to resolve. We show how ScotGrid has successfully provided an infrastructure for ATLAS and LHCb Monte Carlo production. Special attention has been paid to ensuring that user analysis functions efficiently, which has required optimisation of local storage and networking to cope with the demands of user analysis. Finally, although these Tier-2 resources are pledged to the whole VO, we have established close links with our local physics user communities as being the best way to ensure that the Tier-2 functions effectively as a part of the LHC grid computing framework..
description: Preprint for 17th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, 7 pages, 1 figure
An X-Ray Face-on View of the Sgr B Molecular Clouds Observed with Suzaku
Creators: name: Ryu, Syukyo G.
name: Koyama, Katsuji
name: Nobukawa, Masayoshi
name: Fukuoka, Ryosuke
name: Tsuru, Takeshi Go
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new methodology to derive the positions of the Sgr B molecular clouds (MCs) along the line of sight, as an application study of the Galactic center diffuse X-rays (GCDX). The GCDX is composed of hot plasma emission of about 7 keV and 1 keV temperatures, and non-thermal continuum emission including the 6.4 keV line from neutral irons. The former, the Galactic center plasma emission (GCPE), is uniformly distributed over 1 degree in longitude, while the latter is clumpy emission produced by Thomson scattering and fluorescence from MCs irradiated by external X-rays (the X-ray reflection nebula emission: XRNE). We examined the Suzaku X-ray spectra of the GCPE and XRNE near to the Sgr B MC complex, and found that the spectra suffer from two different absorptions of N_H (Abs1) >10^23 H cm^-2 and N_H (Abs2) ~6 x 10^22 H cm^-2. Abs1 is proportional to the 6.4 keV-line flux, and hence is due to the MCs, while Abs2 is typical of interstellar absorption toward the Galactic center. Assuming that the GCPE plasma is spherically-extended around Sgr A* with a uniform density and the same angular distribution of the two temperature components, we quantitatively estimated the line-of-sight positions of the MCs from the flux ratio the GCPE spectrum suffered by Abs1 and that with no Abs1. The results suggest that the Sgr B MCs are located at the near side of Sgr A* in the GCPE.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ (Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan)
Electron spin dynamics in strongly correlated metals
Creators: name: Dóra, Balázs
name: Simon, Ferenc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temperature dependence of the electron spin life-time, T_1 and the g-factor are anomalous in alkali fullerides (K,Rb)_3C_60, which cannot be explained by the canonical Elliott-Yafet theory. These materials are archetypes of strongly correlated and narrow band metals. We introduce the concept of "complex electron spin resonance frequency shift" to treat these measurables in a unified manner within the Kubo formalism. The theory is applicable for metals with nearly degenerate conduction bands and large momentum scattering even with an anomalous temperature dependence and sizeable residual value.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Fast-ion conduction and flexibility and rigidity of solid electrolyte glasses
Creators: name: Micoulaut, M.
name: Malki, M.
name: Novita, D. I.
name: Boolchand, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electrical conductivity of dry, slow cooled (AgPO$_3$)$_{1-x}$(AgI)$_x$ glasses is examined as a function of temperature, frequency and glass composition. From these data compositional trends in activation energy for conductivity E$_A$(x), Coulomb energy E$_c$(x) for Ag$^+$ ion creation, Kohlrausch stretched exponent $β$(x), low frequency ($\varepsilon_s$(x)) and high-frequency ($\varepsilon_\infty$(x)) permittivity are deduced. All parameters except E$_c$(x) display two compositional thresholds, one near the stress transition, x = x$_c$(1)= 9%, and the other near the rigidity transition, x = x$_c$(2)= 38% of the alloyed glass network. These elastic phase transitions were identified in modulated- DSC, IR reflectance and Raman scattering experiments earlier. A self-organized ion hopping model (SIHM) of a parent electrolyte system is developed that self-consistently incorporates mechanical constraints due to chemical bonding with carrier concentrations and mobility. The model predicts the observed compositional variation of $σ$(x), including the observation of a step-like jump when glasses enter the Intermediate Phase at x$>$x$_c$(1), and an exponential increase when glasses become flexible at x$>$x$_c$(2). Since E$_c$ is found to be small compared to network strain energy (E$_s$), we conclude that free carrier concentrations are close to nominal AgI concentrations, and that fast-ion conduction is driven largely by changes in carrier mobility induced by an elastic softening of network structure.
description: 11 pages, 10 figure, to appear in Physical Review B
A spatial model of autocatalytic reactions
Creators: name: de Anna, Pietro
name: Di Patti, Francesca
name: Fanelli, Duccio
name: McKane, Alan J.
name: Dauxois, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Biological cells with all of their surface structure and complex interior stripped away are essentially vesicles - membranes composed of lipid bilayers which form closed sacs. Vesicles are thought to be relevant as models of primitive protocells, and they could have provided the ideal environment for pre-biotic reactions to occur. In this paper, we investigate the stochastic dynamics of a set of autocatalytic reactions, within a spatially bounded domain, so as to mimic a primordial cell. The discreteness of the constituents of the autocatalytic reactions gives rise to large sustained oscillations, even when the number of constituents is quite large. These oscillations are spatio-temporal in nature, unlike those found in previous studies, which consisted only of temporal oscillations. We speculate that these oscillations may have a role in seeding membrane instabilities which lead to vesicle division. In this way synchronization could be achieved between protocell growth and the reproduction rate of the constituents (the protogenetic material) in simple protocells.
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. E
The potential of large germanium detector arrays for solar-axion searches utilizing the axio-electric effect for detection
Creators: name: Avignone, F. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The sensitivities of large arrays of low-background germanium detectors for solar axion searches are investigated in the context of three coupling scenarios. A search was made for the 14.4-keV axion branch from the M1-transition in the thermally excited 57Fe in the solar core in 80 kgd of data from the IGEX Dark Matter experiment published earlier. In one scenario, the direct couplings of axions to hadrons and to electrons were assumed to be in the range of Peccei-Quinn (PQ) scale, 3x105 GeV < fPQ < 7x105 GeV. This scenario is excluded by the IGEX data. In a second case, at the same PQ scale, coupling to photons and to electrons are suppressed. The IGEX data partially excludes this scenario depending on the degree of suppression. In the third case, the PQ-scale for all couplings is assumed to be in the range: 3x106 GeV< fPQ <7x106 GeV. Detection rates in Ge for all three scenarios are presented.
description: 10 pages and 1 figure
SM fermion scattering off electric charge and CP-violating domain walls in the 2HDM
Creators: name: Sassi, Mohamed Younes
name: Moortgat-Pick, Gudrid
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: electroweak interaction, symmetry breaking
charge, electric
symmetry, discrete
charge, violation
neutral current, flavor changing
CP, violation
fermion, scattering
domain wall, formation
new physics
spontaneous symmetry breaking
sphere
vacuum state
quark
structure

description: In several models of beyond Standard Model physics (BSM) discrete symmetries play an important role. For instance, in order to avoid flavor changing neutral currents (FCNC), a discrete $Z_2$ symmetry is imposed on Two-Higgs-Doublet-Models (2HDM). This can lead to the formation of domain walls (DW) as the $Z_2$ symmetry gets spontaneously broken during electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) in the early universe. Due to this simultaneous spontaneous breaking of both the discrete symmetry and the electroweak symmetry, the vacuum manifold has the structure of two disconnected 3-spheres and the formed domain walls can exhibit several special properties in contrast to standard domain walls. We focus on some of these properties such as CP and electric charge violating vacua localized inside the domain walls. The breaking of $U(1)_{em}$ inside the wall leads to the known phenomenon of 'clash-of-symmetries' mechanism, meaning that the symmetry group inside the wall is smaller than the symmetry group far from the wall. We also discuss the scattering of top quarks off such types of domain walls and show, for example, that they can be reflected or transmitted off the wall as a bottom quark.
title: The Effects of Surge Flows on Residential Water Meters
Creators: name: Weller, Ryan P
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: All residential water meters have published flow rates for which they will operate as designed. These specifications include a maximum operating flow rate, which is recommended not to exceed. However, there are situations which may cause a meter to flow above the maximum flow rate. This thesis explores what effect these surge flows have on residential water meters.
Twenty-one 5/8”x3/4” meters were tested in this study: three oscillating pistons, six nutating disks, nine ultrasonic, and three electromagnetic. Testing was done at the Utah Water Research Laboratory using a gravimetric test bench specifically designed for residential water meter testing.
The results of this study showed that the ultrasonic meters decreased significantly in accuracy for tests above 35 gallons per minute. The nutating disk and oscillating piston meters were found to be accurate through nearly all surge flow rates tested. The electromagnetic meters were found to be accurate up to 55gallons per minute.
Accuracy tests that were performed after surge flows showed that some nutating disk and oscillating piston meters decreased in accuracy at flow rates below two gallons per minute. The electronic meters had similar accuracy before and after surge flows.
title: Relationships Among Preschool Attendance, Type, and Quality and Early Mathematical Literacy
Creators: name: Throndsen, Jennifer E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: As students enter kindergarten, some students are more academically prepared than others. This study looked at the relationships among preschool attendance, preschool type (i.e., public, private, Head Start, and home-based technology providers) and preschool quality and early mathematical literacy skills for diverse students. The study sought to answer three research questions: What is the relationship between preschool attendance and early mathematical literacy? What is the relationship between preschool type and early mathematical literacy? What is the relationship between preschool quality and early mathematical literacy? Within each research question, there was also an investigation to see if there were differing effects for diverse student demographics. Data was obtained from the USBE in relation to preschool enrollment records and kindergarten entry scores on the state mandated Kindergarten Entry and Exit Profile (KEEP) assessment for all kindergarten students enrolled in the 2017-18 school year. The researcher conducted a 2x2 Factor ANOVA, independent group means t-tests, and multiple regression analysis to determine relationships among preschool attendance, type, and quality and early mathematical literacy. In general, the independent variables of attending preschool and the quality of the preschool did not seem to have the positive influence expected on early mathematical literacy as a whole, but when looking more specifically at the demographic covariates, there were some positive influences. Students who participated in online preschool programming on average experienced the highest early mathematical literacy scores. Overall, the results suggested that students from diverse backgrounds experience improved early mathematical literacy when they attended preschool. Therefore, with the limited funding available for preschool, policymakers should consider which students might most benefit from preschool experience and target limited resources to such populations.
title: The Use of Microfluidics and Dielectrophoresis for Separation, Concentration, and Identification of Bacteria
Creators: name: Hanson, Cynthia
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Typical bacterial analysis involves culturing and visualizing colonies on an array of agar plates. The growth patterns and colors among the array are used to identify the bacteria. For fast growing bacteria such as Escherichia coli, analysis will take one to two days. However, slow growing bacteria such as mycobacteria can take weeks to identify. In addition, there are some species of bacteria that are viable but nonculturable. This lengthy analysis time is unacceptable for life-threatening infections and emergency situations. It is clear that to decrease the analysis of the bacteria, the culturing and growth steps must be avoided. The goal of this research is to design, build, and test a device that could decrease the analysis time of bacteria.
Device design accommodates for the varied growth and environmental conditions of expected samples for bacterial analysis. Clinical samples containing bacteria come in a wide variety of forms including urine, saliva, sputum, blood, etc. Each medium will have associated debris and other contaminants that must be isolated from bacteria before identification. This process can be challenging as bacteria and debris can range in size from a fraction of a micrometer to tens of micrometers. In addition, a device must be equipped to accurately identify bacteria regardless of growth conditions. Thus, to decrease the analysis time of bacteria, a device must be capable of isolation, concentration, and identification at a micron level.
In this dissertation, a device was designed, built, and tested that incorporates dielectrophoresis for cell sorting and Raman spectroscopy for identification. Using the device, bacteria (1 μm in length) were successfully isolated away from 5 μm polystyrene spheres and Raman spectra of the trapped bacteria were collected. The simultaneous isolation and identification of bacteria from a mixed sample indicates the capability for the cDEP-Raman device to decrease the analysis time of bacteria from clinical samples.
title: A Model for Bioaugmented Anaerobic Granule
Creators: name: Mahajan, Amitesh
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: In this study, we have created a simulation model which is concerned about digesting cellulose, as a major component of microalgae in a bioreactor. This model is designed to generate a computational model that simulates the process of granulation in anaerobic sludge and aims to investigate scenarios of possible granular bioaugmentation. Once a mature granule is formed, protein is used as an alternative substrate that will be supplied to a mature granule. Protein, being a main component of cyanobacteria, will promote growth and incorporation of a cell type that can degrade protein (selective pressure). The model developed in a cDynoMiCs simulation environment successfully demonstrated the process of granule formation and bioaugmentation in an Anaerobic granule. Bioaugmentation is a common strategy in the field of wastewater treatment, used to introduce a new metabolic capability to either aerobic or anaerobic granules. The end product of our work is a model that can visually demonstrate varying stratifications of different trophic microbial groups that will be of help for the engineers and researchers, who are operating both laboratory and industrial-scale anaerobic digesters and wish to enhance reactor performance. The working model that we have developed has been validated using the existing literature and lab experiments. The model successfully demonstrates granulation in a cellobiose fed system with formation of 0.63 mm mature granule in 59 days with the production of good amount of methane that could be used commercially as a green fuel. This model is extended to perform bioaugmentation by chaining different simulations.
Technique as meaning : language, perception and time in "One flew over the cuckoo’s nest" and "Sometimes a great notion"
Creators: name: Segal, Judith
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Both "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Sometimes a Great Notion" are essentially about conflict, and the thematic resolution of both novels involves the affirmation of the dignity of the individual. While Kesey's theme is not unusual, his method of articulating theme is worthy of study. Conflict is acted out structurally in each text. Point of view is the primary element to consider. In" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", there is a single first person narrator who is clearly psychotic and only intuitively reliable. In "Sometimes a Great Notion", there are a series of first person narrators as well as a third person narrator and the contradictions in accounts of events and thoughts throw the whole nature of truth into doubt. The novels focus our attention on perception. Attention to perception carries us to an awareness of the structural and contextual implications of language and time. Language shapes, records and transmits perceptions; time is experienced as a subjective phenomenon and is therefore a function of perception. Reading the novels in terms of perception, language and time leads to a recognition of the complexity of Kesey's work and to a series of conclusions about the intricacy of the thematic patterns which Kesey forms. The quality of conflict is such that there are never absolute winners or absolute losers; rather there are moments of ambiguous victories and defeats. Both novels endorse a vision of life as a cyclical process and any kind of finality (except for the finality of death) implicitly becomes questionable. Perception, language and time are themselves arenas for conflict in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"; but in "Sometimes a Great Notion", Kesey transcends open confrontation in these areas and goes on to explore the further ramifications of perception, language and time. The more subtle dynamics of "Sometimes a Great Notion" result from the evolution of a real union of method and meaning in Kesey's writing. In his first novel, Kesey is trapped by limitations of sequence, chronology and-point of view, and he writes through the contradiction of conveying a cyclical vision in a linear form. His second novel is more sophisticated and more integrated. "Sometimes a Great Notion" is structurally, not just thematically, cyclical. Yet in both novels, either through contrived or natural momentum, a sense of cycles is projected. The theme of individual dignity is reinforced by the peculiar structural contortions of each novel. Lines give way to fragmentation or circles give way to centrifuge and then to entropy, but in each case, the result is the dispersion of characters. In both novels, protagonists either die or spin off, not even to an ambiguous end, but to the next phase of an ambiguous process. In focusing on perception, language and time in both novels, we are focusing ultimately on Kesey's concept of reality as perpetual flow.
title: Understanding the Late Mesoproterozoic Earth System from the Oldest Strata in Grand Canyon: C-Isotope Stratigraphy and Facies Analysis of the 1254 Ma Bass Formation, Grand Canyon Supergroup, AZ., USA
Creators: name: Lathrop, Erin C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Rocks provide insight into ancient times before complex animals existed. The oldest sedimentary rocks in Grand Canyon (the Bass Formation) allow us to glimpse into what things might have been like over a billion years ago. These rocks record the time known as the Mesoproterozoic Era (1.6 to 1.0 billion years ago), otherwise known as the ‘boring billion’. These rocks are thought to be the right age to indicate the end of an oddly stable world when continents were quiet and life was calm, yet they predate younger rocks that record extreme events. The Bass Formation, some of the only rock of this age in the world, contains evidence for life and the carbon cycle, and yields information about Earth’s environments 1.2 billion years ago.
The carbon cycle can be studied using carbonate rocks. Assuming that the rock has the same chemistry as the water it formed in, we can measure the relative abundance of carbon isotopes to see a ‘fingerprint’ of the system during the time the rock was deposited. During the boring billion, it is thought that very little variation occurs in this fingerprint. However, as more studies are completed, we see a modest variation in units around the age of the Bass Formation. The fingerprint results from this study can be added to the growing collection of Mesoproterozoic studies and help to further our knowledge about the world from this not-so-boring period of time.
title: The Role of Recoverable and Non-Recoverable Defects in DC Electrical Aging of Highly Disordered Insulating Materials
Creators: name: Andersen, Allen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Electrical insulation under high voltage can eventually fail, causing critical damage to electronics. Such electrostatic discharge (ESD) is the primary source of anomalies or failures on spacecraft due to charged particles from the Sun or planetary radiation belts accumulating in spacecraft insulators. Highvoltage direct current power distribution is another example of a growing industry that needs to estimate the operational lifetime of electrical insulation. My research compares laboratory tests of ESD events in common insulating materials to a physics-based model of breakdown. This model of breakdown is based on the approximation that there are two primary types of defects in structurally amorphous insulators. One of the two defect modes can switch on and off depending on the material temperature. This dual-defect model can be used to explain both ESD and less-destructive transient partial discharges. I show that the results of ESD tests agree reasonably well with the dual defect model. I also show that transient partial discharges, which are usually ignored during ESD tests, are closely related to the probability of catastrophic ESD occurring. Since many partial discharges are typically seen during one ESD test, this relationship suggests that the measurements of partial discharges could accelerate the testing needed to characterize the likelihood of ESD in insulating materials.
I materiali ceramici trasparenti: preparazione, caratterizzazione e correlazione microstruttura-proprietà
Creators: name: Esposito, Laura <1965>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: CHIM/04 Chimica industriale

description: This thesis focuses on the ceramic process for the production of optical grade transparent materials to be used as laser hosts. 
In order to be transparent a ceramic material must exhibit a very low concentration of defects.  Defects are mainly represented by secondary or grain boundary phases and by residual pores. The strict control of the stoichiometry is mandatory to avoid the formation of secondary phases, whereas residual pores need to be below 150 ppm.  In order to fulfill these requirements specific experimental conditions must be combined together.  In addition powders need to be nanometric or at least sub-micrometric and extremely pure.  On the other hand, nanometric powders aggregate easily and this leads to a poor, not homogeneous packing  during shaping by pressing and to the formation of residual pores during sintering. Very fine powders are also difficult to handle and tend to absorb water on the surface.  Finally, the powder manipulation (weighting operations, solvent removal, spray drying, shaping, etc), easily introduces impurities.  All these features must be fully controlled in order to avoid the formation of defects that work as scattering sources thus decreasing the transparency of the material.
The important role played by the processing on the transparency of ceramic materials is often underestimated.  In the literature a high level of transparency has been reported by many authors but the description of the experimental process, in particular of the powder treatment and shaping, is seldom extensively described and important information that are necessary to reproduce the described results are often missing.  The main goal of the present study therefore is to give additional information on the way the experimental features affect  the microstructural evolution of YAG-based ceramics and thus the final properties, in particular transparency. 
Commercial powders are used to prepare YAG materials doped with Nd or Yb by reactive sintering under high vacuum.  These dopants have been selected as the more appropriate for high energy and high peak power lasers.  
As far as it concerns the powder treatment, the thesis focuses on the influence of the solvent removal technique (rotavapor versus spray drying of suspensions in ethanol), the ball milling duration and speed, suspension concentration, solvent ratio, type and amount of dispersant.  The influence of the powder type and process on the powder packing as well as the pressure conditions during shaping by pressing are also described.  Finally calcination, sintering under high vacuum and in clean atmosphere, and post sintering cycles are studied and related to the final microstructure analyzed by SEM-EDS and HR-TEM, and to the optical and laser properties.
Supplementary Information from Meltwater generation in ice stream shear margins: case study in Antarctic ice streams
Creators: name: Ranganathan, Meghana
name: Barotta, Jack-William
name: Meyer, Colin R.
name: Minchew, Brent
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 40602 Glaciology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: This file contains further study into the effects of various parameters on our results, further comparison of our model to numerics, and a presentation of how using a temperature-dependent rheology may affect the results.
title: Experiences of Instructors Using Ready-to-Teach, Fixed-Content Online Courses
Creators: name: Geilman, Douglas J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Online instruction is now the prevalent tool for distance learning. Understanding the adaptable role of the instructor in online distance education is pivotal in the work of comprehending its affordances and limitations. Although there are some commonalities between all forms of online teaching, experiences instructors have may vary depending upon the structure of the online course. The ready-to-teach, fixed-content format merited further study because of the degree to which it unbundles or disaggregates traditional instructor responsibilities by removing the work of determining what to teach and how to teach it. This qualitative multiple case study examined the instructional experiences of adjunct online instructors who adapted to a limited teaching role that excluded selecting online course content or developing course design. Study findings revealed that instructor perceptions of ready-to-teach courses varied according to the nature of the subject being taught and personal preferences. Findings also demonstrated that instructors applied previous teaching experiences to the situation when possible but learned new skills that reflected the modified instructional environment as well. Despite varying degrees of contentment or discontentment with the limitations regarding course content, most instructors found the motivation to continue in their employment with their sponsoring institution. This study provided perspectives on the phenomenon of instructional unbundling in higher education, in which roles that traditionally belonged to a single educator are distributed among many individuals for the purpose of greater efficiency or use of expertise.