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title: The Production of Acceptable Baked products in the Electronic Oven
Creators: name: Knudsen, Lois Irene
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: The purpose was to find the adjustments needed to make acceptable pies, cookies and muffins baked in the electronic oven. The products were evaluated by a taste panel and by objective tests. The results of both tests supported each other. The best bottom pie crust had an extra tablespoon of liquid added to the pastry and was precooked before the filling was added. It was both flaky and tender. No leavening and one-fourth more liquid produced the most acceptable cookies. They were more like standard cookie in height, texture, moisture and tenderness. It was found that one-half the amount of egg and two tablespoons more liquid made the best muffins. No treatment of the muffins as used in this study resembled the standard, but were half way between a standard muffin and cake in their texture, flavor and appearance.
Electroweak corrections to squark pair production at the LHC
Creators: name: Hollik, Wolfgang
name: Mirabella, Edoardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Presented are the complete NLO electroweak contributions to the production of diagonal squark--anti-squark pairs at the LHC. We discuss their effects for the production of squarks of the first two generations, in different SUSY scenarios.
description: 3 pages. To appear in the proceedings of 16th International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY08), Seoul, Korea, June 16-21 2008
Gauge theory of Faddeev-Skyrme functionals
Creators: name: Koshkin, Sergiy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study geometric variational problems for a class of nonlinear sigma-models in quantum field theory. Mathematically, one needs to minimize an energy functional on homotopy classes of maps from closed 3-manifolds into compact homogeneous spaces G/H. The minimizers are known as Hopfions and exhibit localized knot-like structure. Our main results include proving existence of Hopfions as finite energy Sobolev maps in each (generalized) homotopy class when the target space is a symmetric space. For more general spaces we obtain a weaker result on existence of minimizers in each 2-homotopy class. Our approach is based on representing maps into G/H by equivalence classes of flat connections. The equivalence is given by gauge symmetry on pullbacks of G-->G/H bundles. We work out a gauge calculus for connections under this symmetry, and use it to eliminate non-compactness from the minimization problem by fixing the gauge.
description: 34 pages, no figures
title: The Influence of Various Energy Sources on Microbial Protein Synthesis From Biuret as Determined by Artificial Rumen Fermentation
Creators: name: Eggleston, Jenny
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: Barley, cornstarch, crested wheatgrass, glucose, molasses and solka floc were fermented with rumen fluid obtained from sheep that were adapted or unadapted to feed grade biuret (Kedlor) in their diet. Each rumen fluid and substrate combination was subjected to three nitrogen treatments: (1) control, (2) nitrogen added as feed grade biuret and (3) reagent grade biuret in a factoral arrangement of treatments. In vitro fermentations were terminated at 0, 12, 24, and 36 hours and the protein nitrogen insoluble in trichloroacetic acid (TCA) was determined.
Molasses and cornstarch fermentation residues increased while barley, crested wheatgrass, glucose and solka floc decreased in TCA insoluble protein nitrogen. The average of all treatments decreased in TCA insoluble protein nitrogen during the first 12 hours and increased during the remaining 24 hours. Unadapted rumen fluid with simple carbohydrates from glucose and molasses and adapted rumen fluid with complex carbohydrates from barley, crested wheatgrass, cornstarch and solka floc gave the largest gains in TCA insoluble protein nitrogen. No significant differences occurred due to the addition of non-protein nitrogen.
title: A Procedure for Measuring Residual Rennin Activity in Whey and Curd From Freshly Coagulated Milk
Creators: name: Reyes, Jorge
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: A procedure was developed for measuring residual rennin activity in curd extracts and whey. A sensitive substrate at pH 5.8 was prepared by mixing 6 grams of low-heat nonfat dry milk in 500 milliliters buffer containing 0.05 molar cacodylic acid, 0.02 molar calcium chloride, and 0.012 molar triethanolamine, and storing it at 2 degrees centigrade for 18 hours. Two milliliters of whey or curd extract were inoculated into 25 milliliters of substrate at 30 degrees centigrade. The coagulation time was measured and compared to that induced by 2 milliliters of a known rennin concentration added at the same time to identical substrate. Recovery of activity was determined by adjusting milk samples to pH 5.20 and coagulating them with a known concentration of rennin. The clot was broken by agitation and the curd separated from the whey by centrifugation. Activities accounted for in the curd and whey amounted to 91±1.6 per cent the activity added to the milk. Maximum release of activity from curd was achieved by diluting the curd 1:15 with water and adjusting the pH to 6.80. Inclusion of curd particles with the inoculum decreased the sensitivity of the substrate.
title: Factors Affecting the Growth of Staphylococcus Aureus Strains Capable of Producing Enterotoxins A, B, C and D in Sterile Milk
Creators: name: Divatia, Manoj A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: Growth and enterotoxin production by Staphylococcus aureus straings, in the presence of different starter [2:1 (V/V) blend of AM2:ML8 strains of Streptococcus lactis] levels was investigated. Sterile, 10 per cent non-fat dry milk was inoculated with S. aureus strains capable of producing all types of enterotoxins, and reduced levels of starters; and was incubated at 32 C for 24 hours. The pH and S. aureus population were determined at 2 hour intervals until 8 hours and at 24 hours. The inhibitory response of lactic streptococci was studied by spot-tests on a lawn of S. aureus strains.
The drop in pH, from 4 to 8 hours incubation, for all starter levels, was proportional to their inocula. The rate of acid formation, or drop in pH, from 4 to 8 hours, was correlated with the change in staphylococcal population from 6 to 24 hours (Correlation Coefficient = Y = -0.805). Regression analysis indicated that change in pH from 4 to 8 hours could be used to predict the staphylococcal population change from 6 to 24 hours.
All four enterotoxigenic strains showed differential susceptibility to the starter metabolite(s). A 0.1 per cent starter level did not allow the increase of approximately 104 cells per milliliter, of an eterotoxin D producing strain of S. aureus (23235). Approximately 106 cells per milliliter of S. aureus 23235, decreased to about 104 cells in the presence of a 0.1 per cent starter level; while 0.01 per cent starter level did not allow the inocula of approximately 106 cells pe milliliter, of enterotoxin B producing strain of S. aureus, did not increase in the presence of 0.01 per cent starter level. The same inocula of enterotoxin A and C producing straings of S. aureus decreased to about 103 to 104 cells per milliliter in the presence of 0.01 per cent starter. These strains sharply declined in population in the presence of 0.1 per cent starter level.
The lactic organism did not produce inhibitory levels nisin, or over 5 micrograms of hydrogen peroxide per milliliter of broth. When the lactic streptococci were spotted on lawns of enterotoxins B, C, and D producing strains of S. aureus, staphylococcal grothwas inhibited around the spots, on both agar, with and without added calcium carbonate. Enterotoxin A producing strain was not inhibited on agar. The degree of inhibition for B and D enterotoxin producing strains, was greater in agar fortified with calcium carbonate, than that without fortification while the revers was true for enterotoxin C producing strain.
Localized $N, Λ, Σ$, and $Ξ$ Single-Particle Potentials in Finite Nuclei Calculated with $SU_6$ Quark-Model Baryon-Baryon Interactions
Creators: name: Kohno, M.
name: Fujiwara, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Localized single-particle potentials for all octet baryons, $N$, $Λ$, $Σ$, and $Ξ$, in finite nuclei, $^{12}$C, $^{16}$O, $^{28}$Si, $^{40}$Ca, $^{56}$Fe, and $^{90}$Zr, are calculated using the quark-model baryon-baryon interactions. $G$-matrices evaluated in symmetric nuclear matter in the lowest order Brueckner theory are applied to finite nuclei in local density approximation. Non-local potentials are localized by a zero-momentum Wigner transformation. Empirical single-particle properties of the nucleon and the $Λ$ hyperon in nuclear medium have been known to be explained semi-quantitatively in the LOBT framework. Attention is focused in the present consideration on predictions for the $Σ$ and $Ξ$ hyperons. The unified description for the octet baryon-baryon interactions by the SU$_6$ quark-model enables us to obtain less ambiguous extrapolation to the $S=-1$ and $S=-2$ sectors based on the knowledge in the $NN$ sector than other potential models. The $Σ$ mean field is shown to be weakly attractive at the surface, but turns to be repulsive inside, which is consistent with the experimental evidence. The $Ξ$ hyperon s.p. potential is also attractive at the nuclear surface region, and inside fluctuates around zero. Hence $Ξ$ hypernuclear bound states are unlikely. We also evaluate energy shifts of the $Σ^-$ and $Ξ^-$ atomic levels in $^{28}$Si and $^{56}$Fe, using the calculated s.p. potentials.
Testing of Princess River Bridge
Creators: name: McGee, Rodney William
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Princess River Bridge was a two span reinforced concrete T-beam bridge located on the Lyell Highway on Tasmania's west coast. It was inundated in 1991 by the King River Hydro Electric Power Development. A program of testing was undertaken prior to inundation to assist with the understanding of bridge performance and the overall management of the State's bridge asset The range of testing included dimensional, cracking and cover surveys, concrete and steel testing, dynamic response, load distribution, deck punching shear behaviour and ultimate capacity. While bridge dimensions were generally within tolerance, 48% of measurements of cover to reinforcement were outside the range permitted in the current Australian Standard. The variability of cover is however consistent with that reported for bridges in the Sydney area and for other Tasmanian bridges. Little flexural cracking was evident in the beams prior to testing. There was however a significant amount of random cracking in the deck soffit, which is likely to have been attributable to the permeability of the timber formwork and consequent implications for curing. Concrete testing showed high strength due to relatively high cement contents. Concrete quality and the high relative humidities at the site would have contributed to the minimal carbonation. Steel tensile strength of 300 MPa was higher than the anticipated 230 to 250 MPa. Measurements of dynamic response were able to discern the removal of sections of railing, but required substantial damage to beam reinforcement before observable changes in response occurred. There was reasonable correlation between calculated and measured load distributions, although strains were underestimated. Loading of the deck showed substantial capacity in punching shear. The load at which the bridge yielded was reasonably well predicted, and the bridge failed in a ductile manner.
title: Immunological Response of Rats Fed Decreasing Levels of Dietary Iron and Calcium With or Without Vitamin D
Creators: name: Neibaur, Bernice Nell
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: A considerable amount of research has shown that a severe dietary deficiency of protein or vitamins will markedly depress antibody synthesis. Very little work has been done with the effect of mineral deficiencies on antibody production, and no evidence has been presented showing the relationship of the effects of small changes in nutrient intake to the sensitivity of the antibody response to small degrees of malnutrition and the relationship of dietary iron, calcium and vitamin D to the production of antibodies.
In two experiments, it was shown that as the level of iron in the diet is decreased, the production of antibodies is decreased proportionally. In the first iron experiment, 42, weanling male rats were given 7 levels of iron ranging from 20 to 5 mg Fe/kg diet. Antibody titer after immunization with tetanus toxoid was decreased proportionally from 88 to 17. In a second iron experiment, 10 raths were given either 10 or 0 mg Fe/kg diet and their titers to tetanus toxoid were 340 and 19 respectively.
In another two experiments, it was found that the level of dietary calcium makes little or no significant difference on antibody production, when fed either with or without vitamin D. In the first calcium experiment, 20 rats were given either 6.3, 4.4. or 3.2 gm Ca/kg diet and their antibody titers after tetanus toxoid immunization ranged from 88 to 55. in the final calcium study, 50 rats were divided into ten groups and given five different levels of dietary calcium ranging from 6.3 to 1.3 gm Ca/kg diet. Half of each dietary group was given adequate vitamin D and vitamin D was withheld from the other half. In this experiment, antibody titers to tetanus toxoid ranged from 90 to 110.
From the results of these experiments, it is apparent that dietary iron plays an important role in the synthesis of antibodies and thus in the maintainance of resistance against infectious disease. It is also evident that the antibody response is sensitive to different degrees of malnutrition, with antibody production being decreased proportionally to the severity of the dietary deficiency.
Unifying the Baire category theorem
Creators: name: Huber, George Michael
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The formulation of the Baire category theorem found in most elementary topology texts deals with two distinct classes of spaces: locally compact spaces, and complete metric spaces. This "dual theorem" status of Baire's theorem suggests the problem of finding one class of topological spaces for which the Baire category theorem can be proved and which includes both the locally compact spaces and the complete metric spaces. This thesis surveys and compares the three approaches to this problem taken by three methamticians. The classical results of E. Čech achieve a unified Baire theorem by a Aefinl.ti.on of completeness different from that in current common usage. Johannes de Groot introduced a notion of subcompactness, generalizing compactness. K. Kunugi worked in the setting of complete ranked spaces which generalize uniform spaces and eliminate the need to assume regular separation in the space. This last point is the basis for the construction of a complete ranked space which is neither subcompact nor complete in the sense of Čech. It is also shown in the paper that there exist spaces subcompact but not complete in the sense of Čech, and that in certain special cases completeness in the sense of Čech implies subcompactness.
О герое боёв за Керчь Б. Н. Аршинцеве (по материалам фондовых коллекций и Научного архива Восточно-Крымского музея-заповедника)
Creators: name: Непомнящая Наталья Николаевна
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Б. Н. Аршинцев
военачальник
Великая Отечественная война
герой
Керчь
музей
память
B. N. Arshintsev
military leader
Great Patriotic War
hero
Kerch
museum
memory

description: Аннотация. Статья посвящена участнику боев за Керчь 1943–1944 гг. Герою Советского Союза Борису Никитовичу Аршинцеву, страницам его биографии и боевого пути, его личности и полководческим талантам. Исследование базируется на архивных и фондовых материалах Восточно-Крымского музея-заповедника. Некоторые сведения публикуются впервые. Привлечены документы Центрального архива Министерства обороны Российской Федерации.

Abstract. The article is dedicated to the participant of the battles for Kerch in 1943–1944, Hero of the Soviet Union Boris Nikitovich Arshintsev, the pages of his biography and combat path, his personality and military leadership talents. The study is based on archival and fund materials of the Eastern-Crimean Museum-Reserve. Some information are published for the first time. Documents of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation are involved.
On pointwise decay of linear waves on a Schwarzschild black hole background
Creators: name: Donninger, Roland
name: Schlag, Wilhelm
name: Soffer, Avy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83C57, 35L05, 81R20

description: We prove sharp pointwise $t^{-3}$ decay for scalar linear perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole without symmetry assumptions on the data. We also consider electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations for which we obtain decay rates $t^{-4}$, and $t^{-6}$, respectively. We proceed by decomposition into angular momentum $\ell$ and summation of the decay estimates on the Regge-Wheeler equation for fixed $\ell$. We encounter a dichotomy: the decay law in time is entirely determined by the asymptotic behavior of the Regge-Wheeler potential in the far field, whereas the growth of the constants in $\ell$ is dictated by the behavior of the Regge-Wheeler potential in a small neighborhood around its maximum. In other words, the tails are controlled by small energies, whereas the number of angular derivatives needed on the data is determined by energies close to the top of the Regge-Wheeler potential. This dichotomy corresponds to the well-known principle that for initial times the decay reflects the presence of complex resonances generated by the potential maximum, whereas for later times the tails are determined by the far field. However, we do not invoke complex resonances at all, but rely instead on semiclassical Sigal-Soffer type propagation estimates based on a Mourre bound near the top energy.
description: 33 pages, revised and expanded version, initial data are no longer required to vanish at the bifurcation sphere, to appear in Comm, Math. Phys
The weak structure of the nucleon from muon capture on 3He
Creators: name: Gazit, Doron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I use a microscopic calculation of the weak capture process 3He(μ^{-},ν_μ)3H, to extract and constrain the weak form factors of the nucleon, particularly the induced pseudo-scalar, and the second-class currents. The induced pseudo-scalar form-factor is found to agree with the prediction of chiral perturbation theory. The constraint found on the conservation of vector current (CVC) hypothesis is the tightest to date.
description: Talk presented at the 18th Particle and Nuclei International Conference, PANIC08, Eilat, 9-14 November 2008. To appear in Nuclear Physics A
title: The Effects of Telone and Related Compounds on the Synthesis and Degradation of Carotenoids in Plants
Creators: name: Berry, David L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: The incorporation of 3- C-,B-hydroxy-, B-methylglutaric acid (HMG) vii into carotenoids of excised etiolated maize shoots, crude cell free extracts and soluble extracts (20, 000 x g) of maize was investigated. HMG was effectively incorporated into carotenoids of excised shoots, crude extracts and soluble extracts. The excised shoots, crude extracts and soluble extracts incorporated 2- 14 C-mevalonic acid (MVA) into carotenoids as well. The results indicated the presence of HMG-CoA reductase in the plant as well as an HMG activating enzyme. The soluble extract showed a pH optimum of 7. 0 for incorporation of HMG into carotenoids. Endogenous metabolites such as MVA in the soluble enzyme preparation decreased the amount of 3- 14 C-HMG incorporated into carotenoids. The conversion of HMG to MVA may be a regulatory site in carotenoid biosynthesis in the plant. Telone (a mixture of cis-1, 3-dichloropropene, trans-I, 3-dichloropropene and other halogenated hydrocarbons), 3-chloroallyl alcohol, viii 3-chloropropionic acid, 3-hydroxypropionic acid, 3-chloro-1-propanol and 14 malonic acid significantly reduced the amount of 3- C-HMG incorporated into carotenoids of maize. Activity of lipoxidase from tomato extracts was significantly inhibited by Telone, cis-1, 3-dichloropropene, trans-1, 3-dichloropropene, 3-chloroallyl alcohol, 3-chloropropionic acid, 3-hydroxy-propionic acid, 3-chloro-1-propanol and malonic acid.
title: Effects of Soil Fumigations with Telone and Nemagon on Physio-Chemical and Ultrastructural Changes in Carrot Roots and Sweet Corn Seeds
Creators: name: Chen, Maureen Mei-chu
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: Carrots (Daucus carota L. cv. Royal Chantenay) and sweet corn vi (Zea mays L. cv. Iochief) were grown rm the Utah State University's Greenville farm in 1969 and 1970. The soil was fumigated with Telone (a mixture of 1, 3-dichloropropene and other chlorinated hydrocarbons) at the rates of 10, 20, and 30 gal/acre and Nemagon (1, 2-dibromo-3-chloropropane) at the rates of 1, 2, and 3 gal/acre one week before planting. Samples of uniformly mature carrot roots were taken for the studies of total carotenes, β-carotene, total and reducing sugars, respiration, and ultrastructural changes; and those of sweet corn seeds for the studies of total carotenoids , starch, total sugar, and total nitrogen changes.
Compared to the controls, carrots grown on fumigated soil had a significantly higher content of total carotenes, β-carotene, and total sugars, and a lower rate of respiration. The electron microscopic study indicated that the carrots from Telone (30 gal/acre) and Nemagon (3 gal/acre) fumigated soil had larger chromoplasts that contained more globuli and crystals than those of the controls. The soil fumigations with Telone and Nemagon also brought about the increase in total carotenoid content in sweet corn seeds.
Impact of hierarchical modular structure on ranking of individual nodes in directed networks
Creators: name: Masuda, Naoki
name: Kawamura, Yoji
name: Kori, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many systems, ranging from biological and engineering systems to social systems, can be modeled as directed networks, with links representing directed interaction between two nodes. To assess the importance of a node in a directed network, various centrality measures based on different criteria have been proposed. However, calculating the centrality of a node is often difficult because of the overwhelming size of the network or the incomplete information about the network. Thus, developing an approximation method for estimating centrality measures is needed. In this study, we focus on modular networks; many real-world networks are composed of modules, where connection is dense within a module and sparse across different modules. We show that ranking-type centrality measures including the PageRank can be efficiently estimated once the modular structure of a network is extracted. We develop an analytical method to evaluate the centrality of nodes by combining the local property (i.e., indegree and outdegree of nodes) and the global property (i.e., centrality of modules). The proposed method is corroborated with real data. Our results provide a linkage between the ranking-type centrality values of modules and those of individual nodes. They also reveal the hierarchical structure of networks in the sense of subordination (not nestedness) laid out by connectivity among modules of different relative importance. The present study raises a novel motive of identifying modules in networks.
description: 4 figures, 4 tables. In v3, a major update has been done
Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Cetacea
Physeteridae
Physeter
Physeter macrocephalus

description: 109. Sperm Whale, Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758
(IUCN Red List: VU)
Subspecies: Monotypic species.
Status: Occasional; a single specimen was found stranded dead along the coast of Tartous in 2005 (Gonzalvo & Bearzi 2008; Ibrahim 2008; Ibrahim 2011a) (Fig. 119).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 107, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Additional file 1 of Isolation and functional verification of an aspartate aminotransferase gene from Neoporphyra haitanensis
Creators: name: Li, Shuang
name: Shao, Zhanru
name: Lu, Chang
name: Duan, Delin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Additional file 2 of Dihydromyricetin inhibits African swine fever virus replication by downregulating toll-like receptor 4-dependent pyroptosis in vitro
Creators: name: Chen, Yang
name: Song, Zebu
name: Chang, Hao
name: Guo, Yanchen
name: Wei, Zhi
name: Sun, Yankuo
name: Gong, Lang
name: Zheng, Zezhong
name: Zhang, Guihong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 2. Antiviral activity of DHM againstPRRSV and SIV. PAMs were attached to the plates and infected with 1 MOI (A) PRRSV or (B) SIV solution. After 2 h, the supernatants were removed, and PAMs were treated with fresh medium containing DHM. After 48 h, samples were collected for Western blotting.
title: Antibody Production of Rats Fed Diets of Varying Nutrient Density
Creators: name: Radharukmani
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: Available evidence indicated that the deficiency of a specific nutrient in the diets adversely affect antibody production from a mild to severe degree. Studies of the effects of diet partially deficient in various essential nutrients on antibody response is meagre. Twelve groups of weanling rats were fed with diets prepared by diluting the basal diet with 0 to 75 percent sucrose for 46 days and their antibody response was measured on the 28th, 40th and 46th day using Salmonella pullorum as the anti gen. The rats fed the diet containing 75 percent sucrose and 25 percent basal diet had mean antibody titer of 15 as compared to 143 for their controls which were fed 100 percent basal diet. The antibody titer decreased as the basal diet was diluted with increasing amounts: of sucrose. Comparison of antibody titer with total serum proteirus, serum vitamin A, hemoglobin, and hematocrit showed that a multiple deficiency in the diet depresses antibody response much more severely than total serum proteins, serum vitamin A, hemoglobin or hematocrit . Rats which had coprophagy prevented had slightly lower food intake, growth rate, antibody response than rats allowed coprophagy.
DECIPHERING URBAN TOURISM: INSIGHTS FROM COMMERCIAL SEX WORK IN UGANDA
Creators: name: Emmanuel, Odongo Ongom
name: Rebecca, Auma Otim
Publisher: name: AMERICAN SERIAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Commercial Sex Work (CSW
Urban Tourism
Stigma
Marginalization
Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities

description: The intersection between Commercial Sex Work (CSW) and urban tourism presents a complex and intriguing dynamic in the contemporary era. This paper delves into the evolving landscape of urban tourism in the 21st century, examining the potential role of CSW in shaping and influencing this domain. Despite its controversial nature, CSW remains a significant aspect of urban life, yet is often subjected to stigma and legal marginalization, particularly in societies characterized by religious conservatism. Drawing upon insights from scholars such as De Dieu Longo et al. (2017) and Antebi-Grusizka et al. (2019), this study elucidates the pervasive stigma surrounding sex work, highlighting its implications for the livelihoods and rights of CSWs, particularly in African contexts. Furthermore, Fedorko et al. (2021) shed light on the heightened vulnerabilities faced by sex workers during crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, wherein they were marginalized from socioeconomic support systems. By critically examining these issues, this research contributes to a deeper understanding of the complexities surrounding CSW and its intersections with urban tourism. Through nuanced analysis, this paper aims to stimulate discourse among researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders, ultimately fostering more inclusive and rights-based approaches towards addressing the needs and realities of sex workers within urban tourism contexts
title: Effects of Controlled Atmosphere Storage on Quality and Certain Physiological Characteristics of Lettuce (Lactuca Sativa L., Cultivar "Great Lakes")
Creators: name: Yang, Christopher Chi-Chuen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: Lettuce heads (Cultivar "Great Lakes") were stored in different concentrations of O2 and CO2, including l percent O2 and l percent CO2, 2.5 percent O2 and 2.5 percent CO2, 5 percent O2 and 0 percent CO2, and 5 percent O2 and 5 percent CO2; temperatures of 35 and 70 F; and with or without microbe- and senescence-inhibiting chemicals and packaging. The samples were taken on the twentieth and fortieth days in the first series of experiments; and in the subsequent experiments, on the fifteenth, thirtieth, forty-fifth, sixtieth, and seventy-fifth days of storage for quality evaluation, determination of rate of respiration, and chemical analyses.
The results indicated that lettuce could be stored at 35 F for at least 2 to 3 weeks. At this temperature, lettuce heads were still field fresh and bright green, without apparent sign of quality deterioration. At 70 F, none of the treatments could prolong the shelf-life of the lettuce more than l week.
Lettuce heads maintained the best marketing quality when stored in atmospheres of 2.5 percent O2 and 2.5 percent CO2 at 35 F for 60 days. Microbe- and senescence-inhibiting chemicals (Captan, Phaltan, Mycostatin, and N6-benzyladenine) had detrimental effects on the quality of lettuce stored in controlled atmosphere.
The reduction in russet spotting was the major benefit in controlled atmosphere storage at 35 F. In addition, the incidence of pink rib and butt discoloration was less than for those lettuce heads held in the conventional refrigerator. However, the hearts of the lettuce were sensitive to low O2 injury in controlled atmospheres consisting of 1 percent O2 and l percent CO2.
Controlled atmosphere (2.5 percent O2, 2.5 percent CO2) and controlled atmosphere combined with polyethylene packaging reduced the CO2 production, degradation of chlorophyll, loss of total sugar, and starch. Phaltan (microbe inhibitor, 1,000 ppm) or Phaltan in combination with polyethylene packaging under controlled atmosphere storage had an adverse effect on the lettuce held in the conventional refrigerator. In every case, the rate of respiration was in direct correlation with the sugar retention data.
Isolation of Australian microalgae and preparation of microalgal concentrates for use as aquaculture feeds
Creators: name: Knuckey, RMP
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: In this study, two types of microalgal feed were examined; 1) algal concentrates and 2) new Australian microalgae. Algal concentrates were examined because for aquaculturists, they could provide an off-the-shelf alternative to maintaining live algal cultures. Australian microalgae were examined to identify new feed species and to determine specific dietary requirements of local juvenile Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas). Ten diatoms, microalgae widely cultivated as feed for aquaculture species, were isolated and purified from local waters, Tasmania, Australia. Proximate analysis of logarithmic and stationary phase cultures showed major differences between species and in the effect of stationary phase on composition. Four species (Attheya septentrionalis, Entomoneis cf. punctulata, Extubocellulus spinifera and Thalassiosira oceanica) were evaluated as feed for juvenile Pacific oysters. Fed as the major component in a ternary algal diet, two algae (Attheya septentrionalis and Entomoneis cf. punctulata) supported over 80% of the growth of the T. pseudonana control. Centrifugation of eleven microalgae from a range of classes showed it to be an efficient (>80 % recovery) way to concentrate microalgae. Small chlorophytes survived the high shear forces best but, are documented poor algal diets for oysters. Of the diatoms Chaetoceros calcitrans and Thalassiosira pseudonana were least damaged. Juvenile oyster feeding trials showed that T. pseudonana pastes were capable of sustaining limited growth. However, nutritional deficiencies in the pastes were reflected in falling weekly growth rates, by the third week, oysters grew only marginally or lost organic weight. An alternative, low shear concentration process was developed based on chemical induced flocculation. Initial coagulation of algae was induced using Fe +3 or by increasing pH. Flocculated concentrates of T pseudonana were fed to juvenile Pacific oysters and compared to live T. pseudonana and centrifuged algal pastes. The pH flocculated algal diet was superior to all other test diets and lost nutritional value more slowly than centrifuged algal diets. In the discussion the nutritional composition of algal diets is related to the composition and nutritional requirements of the juvenile oysters. It is argued that the dietary protein content of live algal diets, not limited in essential nutrients, is the most significant factor in determining a nutritionally superior diet. The nutritional value of algal concentrates is discussed and flocculation is concluded to be a superior method to produce concentrates. It is shown that flocculation is applicable for concentrating many algal species and argued that it is a cost-effective process with commercial applications.
Homotopical stable ranks for Banach algebras
Creators: name: Nica, Bogdan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L85, 19A13, 19B10, 58B34

description: The connected stable rank and the general stable rank are homotopy invariants for Banach algebras, whereas the Bass stable rank and the topological stable rank should be thought of as dimensional invariants. This paper studies the two homotopical stable ranks, viz. their general properties as well as specific examples and computations. The picture that emerges is that of a strong affinity between the homotopical stable ranks, and a marked contrast with the dimensional ones.
description: 23 pages, final version
An illustrative example of the relationship between dissipation and relative entropy
Creators: name: Horowitz, Jordan
name: Jarzynski, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kawai, Parrondo, and Van den Broeck [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 080602 (2007)] have recently established a quantitative relationship between dissipated work and a microscopic, information-theoretic measure of irreversibility. We illustrate this result using the exactly solvable system of a Brownian particle in a dragged harmonic trap.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, accepted in Physical Review E
Ziphius cavirostris G. Cuvier 1823
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Cetacea
Hyperoodontidae
Ziphius
Ziphius cavirostris

description: 110.Cuvier’s Beaked Whale, Ziphius cavirostris G. Cuvier, 1823
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Status: Regular; stranded dead along the coast of Tartous, Um et-Tiur, Wadi Qandil, Burj Islam, and Rmielah (Gonzalvo & Bearzi 2008; Ibrahim 2008); along the coastlines near Ibn Hani, Jabla, and Al-Baseit (Saad 2008; Ibrahim 2008, 2011a) (Fig. 120).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 107, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Analysis of relative influence of nodes in directed networks
Creators: name: Masuda, Naoki
name: Kawamura, Yoji
name: Kori, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many complex networks are described by directed links; in such networks, a link represents, for example, the control of one node over the other node or unidirectional information flows. Some centrality measures are used to determine the relative importance of nodes specifically in directed networks. We analyze such a centrality measure called the influence. The influence represents the importance of nodes in various dynamics such as synchronization, evolutionary dynamics, random walk, and social dynamics. We analytically calculate the influence in various networks, including directed multipartite networks and a directed version of the Watts-Strogatz small-world network. The global properties of networks such as hierarchy and position of shortcuts, rather than local properties of the nodes, such as the degree, are shown to be the chief determinants of the influence of nodes in many cases. The developed method is also applicable to the calculation of the PageRank. We also numerically show that in a coupled oscillator system, the threshold for entrainment by a pacemaker is low when the pacemaker is placed on influential nodes. For a type of random network, the analytically derived threshold is approximately equal to the inverse of the influence. We numerically show that this relationship also holds true in a random scale-free network and a neural network.
description: 9 figures
Commuting operator solutions of algebraic equations.
Creators: name: Insley, Robin Bruce
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Let X be a fixed Banach space, S a scalar type operator in B(X), and G a complex polynomial in two indeterminates. The aim of this thesis is to characterize all operators T ∊ B(X) which commute with S and satisfy the algebraic equation G(S,T) = 0.
title: Certain Changes in Chemical Composition of Lettuce (Lactuca Sativa L.) Stored in Controlled Atmosphere
Creators: name: Wang, Don Jeng
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: This study was undertaken to determine the effect of four different combinations of treatments and storage; i.e., controlled atmosphere (2.5 percent O2 and 2.5 percent CO2), controlled atmosphere in combination with phaltan (1,000 ppm), controlled atmosphere with packaging in polyethylene bags, controlled atmosphere with phaltan and packaging in polyethylene bags, as well as conventional refrigeration, on the chemical composition of lettuce heads (Cultivar "Great Lakes") during 75 days of storage. Analyses of total sugars, starch, reducing sugars, total organic acids, free amino acids, soluble proteins, pH, titratable acidity, and total carotenes were made on the fifteenth, thirtieth, forty-fifth, sixtieth, and seventy-fifth days of storage at 35 F.
There were no significant differences in total organic acids and free amino acids between the conventional refrigeration (35 F) and other treatments during the early stage of storage. They were, however, higher after 45 days of storage with phaltan treatments, although still not changed in controlled atmosphere and controlled atmosphere in combination with packaging.
The soluble proteins and the reducing sugars were lower in the controlled atmosphere lettuce than in the conventional refrigeration lettuce. The lettuce treated with phaltan or phaltan in combination with polyethylene packaging had higher amounts of soluble proteins.
Although pH of the lettuce heads was not changed throughout 75 days of storage, the titratable acidity was higher in all treatments during the storage.
The role of tachykinin receptors in the control of respiration by the nucleus of the solitary tract
Creators: name: Mazzone, Stuart B
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The tachykinins are a family of peptides found extensively throughout the mammalian nervous system. In the brain stem, tachykinins, including substance P (SP) and neurokinin A (NKA), are present in areas involved in the integration of cardiovascular and respiratory reflexes. However, little is known of the role played by tachykinins and tachykinin receptors at such sites. The overall aim of the studies presented in this thesis was to describe the respiratory actions of tachykinins, the identity of the receptors involved and subsequently examine the regulation of tachykinin receptors in the rat brain stem, using both in vivo (respiratory response to microinjection of drugs in to the commissural nucleus of the solitary tract (cNTS)) and in vitro techniques (radioligand binding and autoradiography).
Proposed all-versus-nothing violation of local realism in the Kitaev spin-lattice model
Creators: name: Hu, Ming-Guang
name: Deng, Dong-Ling
name: Chen, Jing-Ling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the nonlocal property of the fractional statistics in Kitaev's toric code model. To this end, we construct the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger paradox which builds a direct conflict between the statistics and local realism. It turns out that the fractional statistics in the model is purely a quantum effect and independent of any classical theory.We also discuss a feasible experimental scheme using anyonic interferometry to test this contradiction.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, Accepted by Phys. Rev. A as a Rapid Communication
title: Comparison of Various Types of Milk Sampling Devices
Creators: name: Hoskisson, William A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1940

description: Volatiles of peach (Prunus persica L., cultivar, Gleason Early Elberta) fruit were studied by gas-liquid chromatography, thin-layer chromatography, and infrared spectrometry. Hard mature, firm mature, soft mature, tree ripe, and artificially ripened hard mature fruit obtained from four seasons, 1964 to 1967, were used. A total of 86 peaks were observed in the chromatogram of the tree ripe peach volatiles. Major components of the volatiles identified were mainly esters, gamma and delta lactones, aldehydes, alcohols, and terpenes. In general, concentration of the volatile components were found to increase with the maturity of the fruit. However, that of the artificially ripened fruit did not reach the same level of the tree ripe fruit.
Quantitative understanding of magnetic vortex oscillations driven by spin-polarized out-of-plane dc current: Analytical and micromagnetic numerical study
Creators: name: Choi, Youn-Seok
name: Lee, Ki-Suk
name: Kim, Sang-Koog
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied magnetic vortex oscillations associated with vortex gyrotropic motion driven by spin-polarized out-of-plane dc current by analytical and micromagnetic numerical calculations. Reliable controls of the tunable eigenfrequency and orbital amplitude of persistent vortex oscillations were demonstrated. This work provides an advanced step towards the practical application of vortex oscillations to persistent vortex oscillators in a wide frequency (f) range of 10 to 2000 MHz and with high values of f/(delta f).
description: 27 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
title: Extraction of Rennet From Fresh Frozen Vells
Creators: name: Clarke, Neil Harvey
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1968

description: A method was developed for the extraction of rennet from fresh frozen vells. Frozen vells were partially thawed and minced in a Hobart "Wonder worker." The tissue was treated with 2.0 per cent potassium alum and allowed to stand for 20 hours before sufficient 0.45 M disodium phosphate was added to bring the pH of the mixture to 5.7. Dry sodium chloride was added until the salt concentration in the moisture of the mixture was 10 per cent. The tissue was then mixed with 3/4-inch pumice gravel in a volume ratio of 1 to 2 and packed into extractor columns. The tissue was extracted continuously with a 10 per cent sodium chloride solution. The yield of enzyme and extract viscosity from 60 undried vells was compared with that from 60 dried vells. The undried vells yielded 2. 99 x 106 R.U. in 86 liters of extract and the dried vells yielded 3.03 x 106 R.U. in 74 liters of extract. The viscosities of the initial extracts were 5.8 and 6.2 centipoise respectively.
Drying temperature, moisture content and pH had no effect on extract viscosity . Viscosities of extracts were viii reduced by aging the dried vells prior to extraction, adjusting sodium chloride to 10 per cent in extracting solutions, and adding 2 to 3 per cent potassium alum to undried vell tissue and holding for 20 hours before neutralizing to pH 5.7 ± plusmn; 0.2 with disodium phosphate.
The mean activity value of extracts representing 96,000 vells was 45.5 R.U. with a standard deviation of ± 19.57 for individual vells. This variation in enzyme content precluded useful comparisons of yield based on small numbers of individual whole vells.
A constructive approach to the special theory of relativity
Creators: name: Miller, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simple physical models of a measuring rod and of a clock are used to demonstrate the contraction of objects and clock retardation in special relativity. It is argued that the models could help in promoting student understanding of special relativity and in distinguishing between dynamical and purely perspectival effects.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures