cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Pregenomic and Genomic Effects of 24,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3
Creators: name: Zhang, Yang
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Vitamin D is hydroxylated to form several active metabolites, of these, 1,25- dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25(OH)2D3] is the most studied stimulatory product. It is now accepted that 1,25(OH)2D3 mediates its rapid actions on the control of phosphate homeostasis through its membrane receptor 1,25D3-MARRS (membrane associated rapid response steroid binding) protein. Another metabolite, 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [24,25(OH)2D3] has been reported to be inhibitory with respect to calcium and phosphate absorption in intestine. Previous work in this laboratory has indicated that 24,25(OH)2D3 inhibits phosphate uptake in isolated intestinal cells and perfused duodenal loops and in vivo. This thesis further tested the hypothesis that the actions of 24,25(OH)2D3 on phosphate homeostasis are physiologically important. Catalase has been identified as a binding protein for 24,25(OH)2D3. We determined the localization of catalase in the presence and absence of steroid, monitored catalase mRNA levels related to gene 24,25(OH)2D3 gene transcription regulation. We studied the effects of the two isomers of 24,25(OH)2D3 on localization of catalase in chicken enterocytes over a time course of 15 sec to 60 min. It was demonstrated that 24R,25(OH)2D3 is the effective metabolite for catalase redistribution in vitro. We also studied the effects of vitamin D on catalase and phosphate uptake in chicken intestinal cells. It was once again demonstrated that 24R,25(OH)2D3 is the effective metabolite for decreasing phosphate uptake and catalase gene expression. These combined results lead us to conclude that 24,25(OH)2D3 is an important hormone in phosphate homeostasis in chick intestinal epithelial cells.
Extinction of coherent backscattering by a disordered photonic crystal with a Dirac spectrum
Creators: name: Sepkhanov, R. A.
name: Ossipov, A.
name: Beenakker, C. W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photonic crystals with a two-dimensional triangular lattice have a conical singularity in the spectrum. Close to this so-called Dirac point, Maxwell's equations reduce to the Dirac equation for an ultrarelativistic spin-1/2 particle. Here we show that the half-integer spin and the associated Berry phase remain observable in the presence of disorder in the crystal. While constructive interference of a scalar (spin-zero) wave produces a coherent backscattering peak, consisting of a doubling of the disorder-averaged reflected photon flux, the destructive interference caused by the Berry phase suppresses the reflected intensity at an angle which is related to the angle of incidence by time-reversal symmetry. We demonstrate this extinction of coherent backscattering by a numerical solution of Maxwell's equations and compare with analytical predictions from the Dirac equation.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures; slightly expanded new version
Additional file 1 of Acidosis-mediated increase in IFN-γ-induced PD-L1 expression on cancer cells as an immune escape mechanism in solid tumors
Creators: name: Knopf, Philipp
name: Stowbur, Dimitri
name: Hoffmann, Sabrina H. L.
name: Hermann, Natalie
name: Maurer, Andreas
name: Bucher, Valentina
name: Poxleitner, Marilena
name: Tako, Bredi
name: Sonanini, Dominik
name: Krishnamachary, Balaji
name: Sinharay, Sanhita
name: Fehrenbacher, Birgit
name: Gonzalez-Menendez, Irene
name: Reckmann, Felix
name: Bomze, David
name: Flatz, Lukas
name: Kramer, Daniela
name: Schaller, Martin
name: Forchhammer, Stephan
name: Bhujwalla, Zaver M.
name: Quintanilla-Martinez, Leticia
name: Schulze-Osthoff, Klaus
name: Pagel, Mark D.
name: Fransen, Marieke F.
name: Röcken, Martin
name: Martins, André F.
name: Pichler, Bernd J.
name: Ghoreschi, Kamran
name: Kneilling, Manfred
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Induction of surrogate acidosis markers in MC38wt cells treated with acidic cell culture media in vitro. Fig. S2. MC38wt tumor cell proliferation after 72h incubation in acidic and neutral media. Fig. S3. AIFN-γ induces PD-L1 expression on cancer cells. Fig. S4. IFN-γ induces Stat1 and PD-L1 expression in CT26wt cells. Fig. S5. Basal and IFN-γ-induced PD-L1 expression in murine wild-type cell lines and CRISPR/Cas9-generated PD-L1 knockout cells. Fig. S6. AIFN-γ induces total and cell surface PD-L1 expression in different human cancer cell lines. Fig. S7. Imaging of tumor pHe neutralization by NaHCO3 treatment using noninvasive in vivo acidoCEST MRI. Fig. S8. Histopathology of murine MC38wt, CT26wt, B16F10wt, 4T1wt tumors. Fig. S9. CD3 Immunohistochemistry of murine CT26wt, B16F10wt and 4T1wt tumors. Fig. S10. Transcriptome correlation analysis of cutaneous melanoma samples of patients.
Measures from Dixmier Traces and Zeta Functions
Creators: name: Lord, Steven
name: Potapov, Denis
name: Sukochev, Fedor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L51, 47B10, 58J42 (Primary) 46L87 (Secondary)

description: For essentially bounded functions on a (closed) compact Riemannian manifold, the noncommutative residue and the Dixmier trace formulation of the noncommutative integral are shown to equate to a multiple of the Lebesgue integral. The identifications are shown to continue to, and be sharp at, square integrable functions. To do better than square integrable, symmetrised noncommutative residue and Dixmier trace formulas are introduced, for which the identifications are shown to continue to $L^{1+ε}$-spaces, $ε> 0$. However, a failure is shown for the Dixmier trace formulation at integrable functions. The (symmetrised) noncommutative residue and Dixmier trace formulas diverge at this point. It is shown the noncommutative residue remains finite and recovers the Lebesgue integral for any integrable function while the Dixmier trace expression can diverge. The results show the claim (in the monograph "Elements of Noncommutative Geometry", Birkhauser, 2001), that the identification on smooth functions obtained using Connes' Trace Theorem can be extended to any integrable function, is false.
description: 28 pages, submitted to J. Funct. Anal.
title: An online wear state monitoring methodology for off-the-shelf embedded processors
Creators: name: Arunachalam, Srinath
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: The continued scaling of transistors has led to an exponential increase in on-chip power density, which has resulted in increasing temperature. In turn, the increase in temperature directly leads to the increase in the rate of wear of a processor. Negative-bias temperature instability (NBTI) is one of the most dominant integrated circuit (IC) failure mechanisms [13, 5] that strongly depends on temperature. NBTI manifests in the form of increased circuit delays which can lead to timing failures and processor crashes. The ability to monitor the wear progression of a processor due to NBTI is valuable when designing real-time embedded systems. While NBTI can be detected using wear state sensors, not all chips are equipped with these sensors because detecting wear due to NBTI requires modifications to the chip design and incurs area and power overhead. NBTI sensor data may also not be exposed to users in software. In addition, wear sensors cannot take into account variations in wear due to the differences in the wear sensor devices and the other functional devices and their operating conditions. In this paper, we propose a lightweight, online methodology to monitor the wear process due to NBTI for off-the-shelf embedded processors. Our proposed method requires neither data on the threshold voltage and critical paths nor additional hardware. Our methodology can also be extended to predict the wear progression due to some other dominant IC failure mechanisms. Experiments on embedded processors provide insights on NBTI wear progression over time. This knowledge can be used to design real-time embedded systems that explicitly consider runtime wear progression to increase predictability and maintain lifetime reliability requirements.
On the way to remote sensing of alpha radiation: radioluminescence of pitchblende samples
Creators: name: Klose, Annika
name: Luchkov, Maksym
name: Dangendorf, Volker
name: Krasniqi, Faton
name: Lehnert, Aaron
name: Walther, Clemens
Publisher: name: Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Alpha-track-detection
subject: Grid Ionisation Chamber
subject: Pitchblende
subject: Radioluminescence
subject: Remote detection
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: In the framework of the project RemoteALPHA, an optical scanning system for remote sensing of alpha emitters using radioluminescence is being developed. After the feasibility of the technique was proven, current work aims at improving the sensitivity for detection of low surface activities. As calibration standard, pitchblende minerals were prepared. Their surface count rate of 80 Bq cm-2 to 105 Bq cm-2 was measured by alpha-track-detection and alpha-spectroscopy. Subsequently, radioluminescence measurements were performed in a sealed chamber filled with different gas atmospheres. The radioluminescence signal was measured in UVC and UVA spectral ranges for all samples.
title: Exploiting Application Behaviors for Resilient Static Random Access Memory Arrays in the Near-Threshold Computing Regime
Creators: name: Mugisha, Dieudonne Manzi
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Near-Threshold Computing embodies an intriguing choice for mobile processors due to the promise of superior energy efficiency, extending the battery life of these devices while reducing the peak power draw. However, process, voltage, and temperature variations cause a significantly high failure rate of Level One cache cells in the near-threshold regime a stark contrast to designs in the super-threshold regime, where fault sites are rare.
This thesis work shows that faulty cells in the near-threshold regime are highly clustered in certain regions of the cache. In addition, popular mobile benchmarks are studied to investigate the impact of run-time workloads on timing faults manifestation. A technique to mitigate the run-time faults is proposed. This scheme maps frequently used data to healthy cache regions by exploiting the application cache behaviors. The results show up to 78% gain in performance over two other state-of-the-art techniques.
The Mass and Radius of the Neutron Star in 4U 1820-30
Creators: name: Guver, Tolga
name: Wroblewski, Patricia
name: Camarota, Larry
name: Ozel, Feryal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the measurement of the mass and radius of the neutron star in the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1820-30. The analysis of the spectroscopic data on multiple thermonuclear bursts yields well-constrained values for the apparent emitting area and the Eddington flux, both of which depend in a distinct way on the mass and radius of the neutron star. The distance to the source is that of the globular cluster NGC 6624, where the source resides. Combining these measurements, we uniquely determine the probability density over the stellar mass and radius. We find the mass to be M = 1.58 +/- 0.06 M_sun and the radius to be R = 9.11 +/- 0.40 km.
description: accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
title: Evaluation of Tracking Regimes for, and Security of, PLI Systems
Creators: name: Taheri, Shayan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: In the area of computer and network security, due to the insufficiency, high costs, and user-unfriendliness of existing defending methods against a number of cyber attacks, focus for developing new security improvement methods has shifted from the digital to analog domain. In the analog domain, devices are distinguished based on the present variations and characteristics in their physical signals. In fact, each device has unique features in its signal that can be used for identification and monitoring purposes. In this regard, the term physical layer identification (PLI) or device fingerprinting refers to the process of classifying different electronic devices based on their analog identities that are created by employment of signal processing and data analysis methods. Due to the fact that a device behavior undergoes changes due to variations in external and internal conditions, the available PLI techniques might not be able to identify the device reliably. Therefore, a tracking system that is capable of extracting and explaining the present variations in the electrical signals is required to be developed. In order to achieve the best possible tracking system, a number of prediction models are designed using certain statistical techniques. In order to evaluate the performance of these models, models are run on the acquired data from five different fabrications of the same device in four distinct experiments. The results of performance evaluation show that the surrounding temperature of a device is the best option for predicting its signal. The last part of this research project belongs to the security evaluation of a PLI system. The leveraged security examination technique exposes the PLI system to different types of attacks and evaluates its defending strength accordingly. Based on the mechanism of the employed attack in this work, the forged version of a device’s signal is generated using an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) and is sent to the PLI system. The outcomes of this experiment indicate that the leveraged PLI technique is strong enough in defeating this attack.
Drift Time Measurement in the ATLAS Liquid Argon Electromagnetic Calorimeter using Cosmic Muons
Creators: name: The ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ionization signals in the liquid argon of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter are studied in detail using cosmic muons. In particular, the drift time of the ionization electrons is measured and used to assess the intrinsic uniformity of the calorimeter gaps and estimate its impact on the constant term of the energy resolution. The drift times of electrons in the cells of the second layer of the calorimeter are uniform at the level of 1.3 % in the barrel and 2.8 % in the endcaps. This leads to an estimated contribution to the constant term of (0.29 +0.05 -0.04) % in the barrel and (0.54 +0.06 -0.04) % in the endcaps. The same data are used to measure the drift velocity of ionization electrons in liquid argon, which is found to be 4.61 +- 0.07 mm/μs at 88.5 K and 1 kV/mm.
description: 32 pages, 25 figures, submitted to EPJC
Gravity and temperature measurements on the Fox Glacier, Yukon
Creators: name: Crossley, David John
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: During the summer of 1968 a gravity survey was conducted over the Fox* Glacier, Yukon Territory, for the purpose of finding ice depths. Choice of the Fox Glacier was as a result of its predicted surge, and the survey was part of a long-term analysis of the physical condition of the glacier. Although seismic sounding was attempted, the thinness of the glacier prevented successful results. Analysis of the gravity measurements indicated 88m as the maximum depth; comparison with depths from three drilled holes showed that the gravity results were not seriously in error. A small near-surface temperature program was completed and the results identify the Fox as a sub-polar glacier. *This is not an officially accepted name.
VLBI observations of nearby radio loud Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Giovannini, G.
name: Liuzzo, E.
name: Giroletti, M.
name: Taylor, G. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an update of the parsec scale properties of the Bologna Complete Sample consisting of 95 radio sources from the B2 Catalog of Radio Sources and the Third Cambridge Revised Catalog (3CR), with z < 0.1. Thanks to recent new data we have now parsec scale images for 76 sources of the sample. Most of them show a one-sided jet structure but we find a higher fraction of two-sided sources in comparison with previous flux-limited VLBI surveys. A few peculiar sources are presented and discussed in more detail.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures, Proceedings for "The Universe under the Microscope" (AHAR 2008), April 2008, to be published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series by Institute of Physics Publishing; R. Schoedel, A. Eckart, S. Pfalzner, and E. Ros eds
Ultra-cool Dwarfs from Large Area Surveys
Creators: name: Zhang, Z. H.
name: Jones, H. R. A.
name: Pinfield, D. J.
name: Pokorny, R. S.
name: Han, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We selected brown dwarf candidates from the seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS DR7) with new photometric selectioncriteria based on a parameteriaztion of well-known L and T dwarfs. Then we confirmed their status with SDSS spectra. The candidates without SDSS spectra are cross matched in the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) and the Fourth Data Release of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS DR4). With the help of colors based on SDSS, 2MASS and UKIDSS, we are able to estimate spectral types of our candidates. We obtain reliable proper motions using positional and epoch information downloaded direct from the survey databases.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures, Proceeding of 10th Asian-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting 2008, oral talk
Une analyse comparée du choix des modèles de gouvernance des mégaprojets d’électrification des transports publics lors de la mise à l’agenda du réseau électrique métropolitain à Montréal et du train léger à Ottawa.
Creators: name: Taki Imrani, Mohammed Kamal
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: Gouvernance des mégaprojets d'infrastructures
électrification des transports publics urbains
Partenariats publics-privés
Modèle des fenêtres d'opportunités de Kingdon
mise à l'agenda des politiques publiques

description: Dans le cadre de cette thèse, notre intérêt porte plus précisément sur les enjeux de mobilité, dont les mégaprojets d’électrification sont présentés comme une des ambitions pour répondre aux défis des transports publics urbains. Sur le plan empirique, nous nous intéressons à deux mégaprojets d’électrification des transports récents, soit celui du Réseau express métropolitain (REM) à Montréal et celui de la Ligne de la Confédération de l'O-Train à Ottawa. Ces mégaprojets impliquent eux-mêmes des défis de gouvernance significatifs. Notre question de recherche place la gouvernance des mégaprojets d’électrification des transports publics urbains au centre de notre objet d’étude : Dans quelle mesure le choix du modèle de gouvernance influence-t-il la mise à l'agenda des grands projets d'électrification du REM et du OTrain ? En choisissant cette question de recherche, nous souhaitons comprendre deux aspects de la gouvernance : le premier vise à expliquer l’apparition et la formulation de politiques d’électrification des transports publics à Montréal et à Ottawa. Le deuxième aspect cherche à comprendre si le choix du modèle de gouvernance des deux projets fait partie de la solution au problème : un modèle de PPP « déguisé » en partenariat public-public de la Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) à Montréal et un modèle en partenariat public privé (PPP) piloté par la Ville à Ottawa. Dans le but de comprendre le degré d’influence de ces modèles de gouvernance nous utilisons le modèle d’analyse basé le concept des PPP et sur la mise à l’agenda des politiques inspiré du modèle de Kingdon. Cette approche fournit un cadre d’analyse de l’action publique ciblant la formulation des problèmes publics et l’explication des décisions prises par les acteurs publics en tenant compte de l’écosystème des acteurs pouvant influencer les décisions. La méthodologie utilisée s’appuie sur une étude de cas comparée entre les deux mégaprojets. Les données collectées et analysées sont de type qualitatif et s’inspirent d’une tradition archivistique historique. Cette thèse tend à confirmer que le choix des modèles de gouvernance des mégaprojets d’électrification des transports est une variable déterminante dans la mise à l’agenda de ces projets. Nos analyses tendent aussi à démontrer que les fenêtres d’opportunités ne peuvent pas s’ouvrir sans un choix d’un modèle de gouvernance dans la phase de la mise à l’agenda et non après. L’originalité de cette thèse c’est qu’elle démontre que le modèle de gouvernance des mégaprojets s’ajoute aux facteurs influant la solution dans le modèle de Kingdon.
Poesia verbovisionaria Editoriale di Engramma n. 145
Creators: name: Bondi, Fabrizio; Torre, Andrea
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2017
Subjects: Poesia verbovisionaria
Performance
Gesto
Reading
Happening

description: Engramma issue no. 145 “poesia verbovisionaria” includes contributions by Andrea Torre, Fabrizio Bondi, Ugo Fracassa, Bianca Battilocchi, Chiara Portesine, Alessandro Giammei, Giuseppe Cavatorta, Marco Berisso, Michela Garda, Silvia Moretti. This issue was born from the reworked speeches of the convention “I verbovisionari. L’altra avanguardia tra sperimentazione visiva e sonora", Scuola Normale Superiore (11/24-25/2016).
title: Runtime Detection of a Bandwidth Denial Attack from a Rogue Network-on-Chip
Creators: name: JayashankaraShridevi, Rajesh
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Chips with high computational power are the crux of today’s pervasive complex digital systems. Microprocessor circuits are evolving towards many core designs with the integration of hundreds of processing cores, memory elements and other devices on a single chip to sustain high performance computing while maintaining low design costs. Two decisive paradigm shifts in the semiconductor industry have made this evolution possible: (a) architectural and (b) organizational.
At the heart of the architectural innovation is a scalable high speed data communication structure, the network-on-chip (NoC). NoC is an interconnect network for the glueless integration of on-chip components in the modern complex communication centric designs. In the recent days, NoC has replaced the traditional bus based architecture owing to its structured and modular design, scalability and low design cost. The organizational revolution has resulted in a globalized and collaborative supply chain with pervasive use of third party intellectual properties to reduce the time-to-market and overall design costs.
Despite the advantages of these paradigm shifts, modern system-on-chips pose a plethora of security vulnerabilities. This work explores a threat model arising from a malicious NoC IP embedded with a hardware trojan affecting the resource availability of on-chip components. A rigorous simulation infrastructure is established to evaluate the feasibility and potency of such an attack. Further, a non-invasive runtime monitoring technique is proposed and thoroughly investigated to ensure the trustworthiness of a third party NoC IP with low overheads.
Additional file 1 of A hybrid model for hand-foot-mouth disease prediction based on ARIMA-EEMD-LSTM
Creators: name: Wan, Yiran
name: Song, Ping
name: Liu, Jiangchen
name: Xu, Ximing
name: Lei, Xun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1.
Invariants, torsion indices and oriented cohomology of complete flags
Creators: name: Calmès, Baptiste
name: Petrov, Victor
name: Zainoulline, Kirill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14F43, 20G10

description: In the present notes we generalize the classical work of Demazure [Invariants symétriques entiers des groupes de Weyl et torsion] to arbitrary oriented cohomology theories and formal group laws. Let G be a split semisemiple linear algebraic group over a field and let T be its split maximal torus. We construct a generalized characteristic map relating the so called formal group ring of the character group of T with the cohomology of the variety of Borel subgroups of G. The main result of the paper says that the kernel of this map is generated by W-invariant elements, where W is the Weyl group of G. As one of the applications we provide an algorithm (realized as a Macaulau2 package) which can be used to compute the ring structure of an oriented cohomology (algebraic cobordism, Morava $K$-theories, connective K-theory, Chow groups, K_0, etc.) of a complete flag variety.
description: 36pp. xypic
Additional file 2 of Clinical and biological heterogeneities in triple-negative breast cancer reveals a non-negligible role of HER2-low
Creators: name: Hu, Xi′e
name: Yang, Ping
name: Chen, Songhao
name: Wei, Gang
name: Yuan, Lijuan
name: Yang, Zhenyu
name: Gong, Li
name: He, Li
name: Yang, Lin
name: Peng, Shujia
name: Dong, Yanming
name: He, Xianli
name: Bao, Guoqiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S2. Showing the UMAPs of tumor cells based on different patients and the expression of four key biological functions in different tumor clusters which suggests HER2neg TNBC and HER2low TNBC harbor distinct tumor biological properties.
title: Static Lateral Load Testing of Model Piles in Clay Soil Phase 1
Creators: name: Dapp, Steven Douglas
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2000

description: This research project was done on behalf of the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT). Model piles were subjected to static lateral loading in homogeneous, undisturbed clay with a known undrained shear strength. The dimensions of length, diameter, height from soil to applied load, and a pile stiffness parameter as was determined by dimensional analysis to be consistent will common full-scale steel pipe piles commonly used by UDOT. Bending moment profiles of the model pile were obtained for Lateral loads using foil type strain gages. Pile head deflection and soil response (p-y curves) were determined from these measured pile moment profiles.
Model pile test results were compared to predictions made by the computer design packages Florida Pier (a 3-D, nonlinear, finite element analysis program written at the University of Florida) and COM624P.
Hallyu fandom in Mexico City and Lima : soft power, gender, and new media self-fashioning of transcultural youth
Creators: name: Kim, Min Suk (Ph. D. In Iberian And Latin American Languages And Cultures)
name: 0000-0002-4242-0826
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Hallyu
Fandom
Soft power
Gender
Self-fashioning

description: This dissertation examines why Hallyu (the global consumption of Korean popular culture in the New Millennium) operates as a class-based and gendered phenomenon in Latin America. With a fanbase predominately comprised of women and LGBTQ+ communities from lower-middle classes and non-White populations, young Latin Americans adopt Korean popular culture to (re)imagine and fashion their identities beyond the social constraints of the nation-state. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative research methods (in-depth interviews, participant observation, grounded theory) and data collected in Mexico City and Lima, Peru, between 2016 and 2019, I analyze, reconceptualize, and recontextualize less visible layers of Hallyu fandom demographics in Latin America in relation to questions of social belonging. My research reveals that Hallyu fans in Mexico City and Lima are culturally hybrid, technologically savvy, and socially nonconforming young people who resist the normative impositions of a binary gender system and hegemonic social inequality for upward mobility. Hallyu, as a vital point of reference to study the intersectionality of local and global forces, enables us to interpret recent class, racial, gender, and age dynamics in a digitally connected Latin American youth culture in new, still underexplored ways.
Discovery of a 205.89 Hz accreting-millisecond X-ray pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 6440
Creators: name: Altamirano, D.
name: Patruno, A.
name: Heinke, C.
name: Markwardt, C.
name: Strohmayer, T.
name: Linares, M.
name: Wijnands, R.
name: van der Klis, M.
name: Swank, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of the second accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) in the globular cluster NGC 6440. Pulsations with a frequency of 205.89 Hz were detected with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer on August 30th, October 1st and October 28th, 2009, during the decays of ~4 day outbursts of a newly X-ray transient source in NGC 6440. By studying the Doppler shift of the pulsation frequency, we find that the system is an ultra-compact binary with an orbital period of 57.3 minutes and a projected semi-major axis of 6.22 light-milliseconds. Based on the mass function, we estimate a lower limit to the mass of the companion to be 0.0067 M_sun (assuming a 1.4 M_sun neutron star). This new pulsar shows the shortest outburst recurrence time among AMXPs (~1 month). If this behavior does not cease, this AMXP has the potential to be one of the best sources in which to study how the binary system and the neutron star spin evolve. Furthermore, the characteristics of this new source indicate that there might exist a population of AMXPs undergoing weak outbursts which are undetected by current all-sky X-ray monitors. NGC 6440 is the only globular cluster to host two known AMXPs, while no AMXPs have been detected in any other globular cluster.
description: Published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
title: Electroreduction of CO₂ on Au(310)@Cu High‐index Facets
Creators: name: Liang, Liang
name: Feng, Quanchen
name: Wang, Xingli
name: Hübner, Jessica
name: Gernert, Ulrich
name: Heggen, Marc
name: Wu, Longfei
name: Hellmann, Tim
name: Hofmann, Jan P.
name: Strasser, Peter
Publisher: name: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2023

description: The chemical selectivity and faradaic efficiency of high‐index Cu facets for the CO₂ reduction reaction (CO₂RR) is investigated. More specifically, shape‐controlled nanoparticles enclosed by Cu {hk0} facets are fabricated using Cu multilayer deposition at three distinct layer thicknesses on the surface facets of Au truncated ditetragonal nanoprisms (Au DTPs). Au DTPs are shapes enclosed by 12 high‐index {310} facets. Facet angle analysis confirms DTP geometry. Elemental mapping analysis shows Cu surface layers are uniformly distributed on the Au {310} facets of the DTPs. The 7 nm Au@Cu DTPs high‐index {hk0} facets exhibit a CH₄ : CO product ratio of almost 10 : 1 compared to a 1 : 1 ratio for the reference 7 nm Au@Cu nanoparticles (NPs). Operando Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy spectra disclose reactive adsorbed *CO as the main intermediate, whereas CO stripping experiments reveal the high‐index facets enhance the *CO formation followed by rapid desorption or hydrogenation.
title: Seeds in the Forest Floor of the Ponderosa Pine Type
Creators: name: Krygier, James T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1955

description: Regeneration of forest stands is often complicated by the establishment and competition of brush on logged and burned-over areas. The encroachment of brush in the ponderosa pine type of Idaho, particularly Ceanothus velutinus, Dougl. presents a difficult problem to the forest manager. The brush competition severely reduces the growth rate of associated trees, thus extending the period necessary to grow a crop of trees. This situation may seriously limit the economic production of a wood crop of ponderosa pine.
Any approach to the solution of brush problems should include a thorough understanding of brush ecology. Those phases of ecology dealing with reproduction and distribution of brush need special emphasis. It has been assumed that most of the brush on logged or burned-over areas originated from seed stored in the forest floor; yet little is known of the quantity or distribution of these seeds.
This study was carried out to learn what kind, number and variability of seed is present in the forest floor, and to investigate the number of seed located in different forest conditions, aspects and soil layers.
To achieve the above objectives, 48 square-foot, duff-soil samples were taken in the ponderosa pine type of the Boise Basin Experimental Forest in Idaho. Seeds were separated from the samples and major species identified, pretreated and germinated. Appropriate statistical techniques were employed to determine significant results among the different forest conditions, aspects and soil layers sampled.
Application of the projection operator formalism to non-Hamiltonian dynamics
Creators: name: Xing, Jianhua
name: Kim, Kenneth S
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Reconstruction of equations of motion from incomplete or noisy data and dimension reduction are two fundamental problems in the study of dynamical systems with many degrees of freedom. For the latter extensive efforts have been made but with limited success to generalize the Zwanzig-Mori projection formalism, originally developed for Hamiltonian systems close to thermodynamic equilibrium, to general non-Hamiltonian systems lacking detailed-balance. One difficulty introduced by such systems is the lack of an invariant measure, needed to define a statistical distribution. Based on a recent discovery that a non-Hamiltonian system defined by a set of stochastic differential equations can be mapped to a Hamiltonian system, we develop such general projection formalism. In the resulting generalized Langevin equations, a set of generalized fluctuation-dissipation relations connect the memory kernel and the random noise terms, analogous to Hamiltonian systems obeying detailed balance. Lacking of these relations restricts previous application of the generalized Langevin formalism. Result of this work may serve as the theoretical basis for further technical developments on model reconstruction with reduced degrees of freedom. We first use an analytically solvable example to illustrate the formalism and the fluctuation-dissipation relation. Our numerical test on a chemical network with end-product inhibition further demonstrates the validity of the formalism. We suggest that the formalism can find wide applications in scientific modeling. Specifically, we discuss potential applications to biological networks. In particular, the method provides a suitable framework for gaining insights into network properties such as robustness and parameter transferability.
description: 35 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 5 of Clinical and biological heterogeneities in triple-negative breast cancer reveals a non-negligible role of HER2-low
Creators: name: Hu, Xi′e
name: Yang, Ping
name: Chen, Songhao
name: Wei, Gang
name: Yuan, Lijuan
name: Yang, Zhenyu
name: Gong, Li
name: He, Li
name: Yang, Lin
name: Peng, Shujia
name: Dong, Yanming
name: He, Xianli
name: Bao, Guoqiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 5: Fig. S5. Showing the expression characteristics of AR and AR target genes in the pseudotime trajectory.
Tra il segno e il suono: gesti vocali nella poesia sonora
Creators: name: Garda, Michela
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2017

description: The article claims that vocal experimentation in the second half of 20th century shows convergence zones both in sound poetry and in avant-garde music. The disintegration of language in its phonetic unities, and the magnification of the intonational profile is a strategy shared both by sound poetry and by experimental vocal music, as are the cases of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, Luigi Nono, and Gyorgy Ligeti. The contribution of Luciano Berio to this field is of paramount importance, notably in works such as Thema. Omaggio a Joyce, Visage and Sequenza I, as well as in the reflection on the concept of vocal gestures. Performers play an innovative role in vocal experimentation: Cathy Berberian in a case in point. Luigi Nono’s A floresta é jovem e cheja de vida shows an innovative compositional practice − which involves collaboration between composer, actors and musicians − and highlights the strategic function of performance in the creative process. The third part of the article tackles Luigi Pasotelli’s Serraglio poem collection, and its complex array of texts and paratexts focusing on the performativity of audiotexts. Drawing on Steven Connor’s distinction between ‘phonomemes’ (onomatopoeic signs) and ‘phenomemes’ (iconic sounds), the author claims that performativity depends on the successful use of the iconic potential of vocal sounds and on the provocative handling of vocal gestures embedded in languages and dialect.
Berry's Phase for Standing Wave Near Graphene Edge
Creators: name: Sasaki, Ken-ichi
name: Wakabayashi, Katsunori
name: Enoki, Toshiaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Standing waves near the zigzag and armchair edges, and their Berry's phases are investigated. It is suggested that the Berry's phase for the standing wave near the zigzag edge is trivial, while that near the armchair edge is non-trivial. A non-trivial Berry's phase implies the presence of a singularity in parameter space. We have confirmed that the Dirac singularity is absent (present) in the parameter space for the standing wave near the zigzag (armchair) edge. The absence of the Dirac singularity has a direct consequence in the local density of states near the zigzag edge. The transport properties of graphene nanoribbons observed by recent numerical simulations and experiments are discussed from the point of view of the Berry's phases for the standing waves.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
title: Optical Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Forests
Creators: name: Wood, Brian D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Carbon nanotube forests are vertically grown tubular formations of graphene. Samples were grown with an injection chemical vapor deposition method on substrates of silicon with various deposited layers and bare fused silica. The morphology of the forest is characterized by the height, density, and presence of defects. Total diffuse reflectance and transmittance measurements were taken in the 2-16 �m spectral range and correlated to the forest’s specific morphology. From these correlations, the conditions necessary to maximize the absorption of the forest were found and exploited to cater sample growth for specific substrates to make ideal absorbers. From the transmittance data, the absorption coefficient is found via Beer-Lambert’s Law and also correlated to sample morphology, giving us an indication of the height of the forest needed for ideal absorption. Two models were used to attempt to reproduce the experimental absorption coefficient: an effective medium theory using a Maxwell Garnett approximation and by treating the carbon nanotube forest as an effective cylindrical waveguide with walls of graphite. Each model leads to a set of fitting parameters providing a better physical understanding of the forests. It was found that the effective medium theory gave results loosely corroborated with electron microscopy, but had trouble fitting the experimental data, and the index of refraction it provides does not behave like a unified medium. The waveguide model fits the data well, but it requires more experimental evidence to be more conclusive. The theoretical models need more work, but fabrication of ideal absorbers has been achieved on various substrates providing framework for their usage in radiometry and spectroscopy.
Continuous seismic reflection profiling in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia
Creators: name: Tiffin, Donald Lloyd
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Approximately 790 kilometers of continuous seismic reflection data were obtained with a 5000 joule Sparker in the Strait of Georgia, southwestern British Columbia. The Strait is a geological boundary between Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group rocks of the Vancouver Island area and Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary continental rocks found in scattered outcrops on the southern mainland. Coast Intrusives form mountains on the mainland northeast of the Strait. The Fraser River has built a large submarine delta across the Strait and is the main source of Recent sediments. Deposition is occurring mainly on the delta front and in deep basins to the northwest. In the basin adjacent to the delta, flat-lying bottomset beds average about 200 meters in thickness. An older layer of bottomset beds in this basin overlies bedrock and extends under the present foreset beds. Thinner sedimentary layers of possible hemipelagic origin overlie Pleistocene banks and ridges along the mainland north of the delta. No significant amounts of Recent sediment are presently accumulating in the Strait south of the delta. Erosion of possible Late Pleistocene deltaic sediments has deepened the Strait in that area. Pleistocene deposits of probable drift, till and interglacial sediments occur mainly along the northeast side of the Strait. One extensive stratified deposit, possibly correlated with exposed Pleistocene deposits on nearby shorelines, may reach 550 meters in thickness. Below the Pleistocene, stratified reflectors, suspected to be Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary bedrock, unconformably overlie Coast Intrusive bedrock along the mainland shore. The reflectors dip seaward at 8 degrees or more. Along the southwest Island coast Upper Cretaceous bedrock dips into the Strait. Deformation, most severe in the south, decreases northward. Dips of bedrock reflectors become less in mid-Strait before disappearing under delta deposits toward the mainland. Some synclinal and anticlinal folding occurs near mid-Strait.
title: Estimating Life Loss for Dam Safety Risk Assessment
Creators: name: McClelland, Duane Michael
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2000

description: "Estimating Life Loss for Dam Safety Risk Assessment" explores the need for a new life-loss model in dam safety risk assessment, historical foundations on which that model can be built, and issues that are critical for a successful life-loss model to address. After critiquing existing life-loss models, the work presents a summary of historical insights that were derived by characterizing flood events on the level of subpopulations at risk, using nearly l 00 carefully defined variables. Building upon both conceptual and historical insights, the work culminates by presenting the conceptual basis for a new life-loss model that remains under development.
Chapter I introduces the topic of dam safety risk assessment and the central role that life-loss estimation plays in that field. Chapter II discusses important preliminary considerations in model development. Chapter Ill provides a detailed review of previous life-loss models that pertained to floods, including a critique of each. Chapter IV explores the DeKay-McClelland model in detail and raises serious concerns regarding its future use. Chapter V defines nearly l 00 variables and their respective categories for use in characterizing flood events. Chapter VI provides a detailed outline of historical insights that relate to flood events in one of 18 logical categories. Chapter VII proposes the framework for a new conceptual life-loss model-a model that is still under development and has yet to be refined or offered for testing-with sufficient details to indicate how it was developed and how it might be used. Chapter VIII provides a summary, conclusions, and recommendations for future research. Appendices A through D provide material related to over 900 pages of unpublished working documents developed while characterizing 38 flood events and nearly 200 subpopulations at risk. Appendix E offers a summary of existing software that, given additional development, might prove useful to life-loss estimation in dam safety risk assessment.
Environment-dependent dissipation in quantum Brownian motion
Creators: name: Paavola, J.
name: Piilo, J.
name: Suominen, K. -A.
name: Maniscalco, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dissipative dynamics of a quantum Brownian particle is studied for different types of environment. We derive analytic results for the time evolution of the mean energy of the system for Ohmic, sub-Ohmic and super-Ohmic environments, without performing the Markovian approximation. Our results allow to establish a direct link between the form of the environmental spectrum and the thermalization dynamics. This in turn leads to a natural explanation of the microscopic physical processes ruling the system time evolution both in the short-time non-Markovian region and in the long-time Markovian one. Our comparative study of thermalization for different environments sheds light on the physical contexts in which non-Markovian dissipation effects are dominant.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, v2: added new references and paragraphs