cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
STXBP1 forms amyloid-like aggregates in rat brain and demonstrates amyloid properties in bacterial expression system
Creators: name: Chirinskaite, A.V.
name: Siniukova, V.A.
name: Velizhanina, M.E.
name: Sopova, J.V.
name: Belashova, T.A.
name: Zadorsky, S.P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Amyloids are the fibrillar protein aggregates with cross-β structure. Traditionally amyloids were associated with pathology, however, nowadays more data is emerging about functional amyloids playing essential roles in cellular processes. We conducted screening for functional amyloids in rat brain. One of the identified proteins was STXBP1 taking part in vesicular transport and neurotransmitter secretion. Using SDD-AGE and protein fractionation we found out that STXBP1 forms small detergent-insoluble aggregates in rat brain. With immunoprecipitation analysis and C-DAG system, we showed that STXBP1 forms amyloid-like fibrils. Thus, STXBP1 demonstrates amyloid properties in rat brain and in bacterial expression system.
Evaluating a Proposed Modification to Federal Crop Insurance
Creators: name: Ling, Shuqiong
name: Deng, Xiaohui
name: Barnett, Barry J.
name: Ling, Shuqiong
name: Deng, Xiaohui
name: Barnett, Barry J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: certainty peril crop insurance

description: A proposed modification to the Federal Crop Insurance Program would allow crop producers to simultaneously purchase both a farm-level crop insurance policy and a supplemental county-level crop insurance policy. This study evaluates this proposal for representative cotton farms in Georgia. The goal is to test whether the additional risk protection provided by the supplemental policy is considered to be worth the additional cost.
Anti-de Sitter boundary in Poincare coordinates
Creators: name: Bayona, C. A. Ballon
name: Braga, Nelson R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the space-time boundary of a Poincare patch of Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space. We map the Poincare AdS boundary to the global coordinate chart and show why this boundary is not equivalent to the global AdS boundary. The Poincare AdS boundary is shown to contain points of the bulk of the entire AdS space. The Euclidean AdS space is also discussed. In this case one can define a semi-global chart that divides the AdS space in the same way as the corresponding Euclidean Poincare chart.
description: In this revised version we add a discussion of the physical consequences of the choice of a coordinate system for AdS space. We changed figure 1 and added more references. Version to be published in Gen. Relat. Grav.
Universal scaling and quantum critical behavior of CeRhSb(1-x)Sn(x)
Creators: name: Slebarski, A.
name: Spalek, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a universal scaling rho*chi=const of the electrical resistivity rho with the inverse magnetic susceptibility chi^(-1) below the temperature of the quantum-coherence onset for the Ce 4f states in CeRhSb(1-x)Sn(x). In the regime, where the Kondo gap disappears (x~0.12), the system forms a non-Fermi liquid (NFL), which transforms into a Fermi liquid at higher temperature. The NFL behavior is attributed to the presence of a novel quantum critical point (QCP) at the Kondo insulator - correlated metal boundary. The divergent behavior of the resistivity, the susceptibility, and the specific heat has been determined when approaching QCP from the metallic side.
description: Sent to Phys. Rev. Lett
Origin of gap-like behaviors in URu$_2$Si$_2$: Combined study via quasiparticle scattering spectroscopy and resistivity measurements
Creators: name: Zhang, S.
name: Chappell, G.
name: Pouse, N.
name: Baumbach, R. E.
name: Maple, M. B.
name: Greene, L. H.
name: Park, W. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address two long-standing questions regarding the hidden order in URu2Si2: Is it associated with the hybridization process, and what are the distinct roles played by the localized and itinerant electrons? Our quasiparticle scattering spectroscopy reveals a hybridization gap ubiquitous in the entire phase space spanned by P and Fe substitutions in URu2Si2, including the no-order and antiferromagnetic regions, with minimal change upon crossing the phase boundary. This indicates its opening isn't associated with the ordering, and thus localized electrons must be the major player. Towards a consistent understanding of all the other gap-like behaviors observed only below transition temperatures, we analyze the electrical resistivity using a model in which gapped bosonic excitations are the dominant scattering source. With their stiffness set to follow an unusual temperature dependence (decreasing with decreasing temperature), this model fits all of our resistivity data well including the jump at the transition. Remarkably, the extracted gap increases slowly with increasing Fe content, similarly to the gap detected by inelastic neutron scattering at Q1 = (1.4, 0, 0), suggesting a common origin. Such a model can also naturally explain the Hall effect temperature dependence without invoking Fermi surface gapping.
description: Main text is 6 pages with 4 figures. Supplemental material is 8 pages with 11 figures
Is Attracting Retirees a Sustainable Rural Economic Development Policy?
Creators: name: Das, Biswaranjan
name: Rainey, Daniel V.
name: Das, Biswaranjan
name: Rainey, Daniel V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: An economic impact analysis was conducted in two rural counties in Northwest Arkansas to observe effects of hypothetical retiree in-migration as a sustainable economic development policy. The analysis reveals economic benefits with varying impacts and additional socio-economic costs on both counties. The policy has the potential for sustaining in the long-term.
Economic Impacts of Ethanol Production in Georgia
Creators: name: Flanders, Archie
name: Luke-Morgan, Audrey S.
name: Shumaker, George A.
name: McKissick, John C.
name: Flanders, Archie
name: Luke-Morgan, Audrey S.
name: Shumaker, George A.
name: McKissick, John C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Capital costs to construct a conventional ethanol plant producing 100 million gallons per year are $170.593 million. Average annual net returns average $59.216 million with a 1% chance of annual net returns less than $0. Ethanol production stimulates total economic output of $314.221 million in the Georgia economy. Wages and benefits total $20.181 million for 408 jobs in Georgia. State and local governments derive a total of $4.572 million in tax revenues from ethanol production.
Investigating the Potential of Fee-Based Recreation on Private Lands in the Lower Mississippi River Delta
Creators: name: Henderson, James E.
name: Dunn, Michael A.
name: Henderson, James E.
name: Dunn, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: wildlife-associated recreation
subject: liability perceptions

description: Private landowners may be willing to allow public access for fee-based wildlife-associated recreation. A survey and econometric techniques are proposed to determine what characteristics may influence the probability to decide to offer recreation, what organizational form landowners may prefer to manage and market fee-based recreation, and how liability concerns and other possible disincentives collectively influence landowners' access decisions.
Additional file 2 of ASXL3 bridges BRD4 to BAP1 complex and governs enhancer activity in small cell lung cancer
Creators: name: Szczepanski, Aileen Patricia
name: Zibo Zhao
name: Sosnowski, Tori
name: Goo, Young Ah
name: Bartom, Elizabeth Thomas
name: Wang, Lu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S1. ASXL3 defines a subtype of SCLC with high expression of ASCL1. Figure S2. ASXL3 interacts with BRD4 in SCLC. Figure S3. Identification of direct BRD4 binding motif in ASXL3. Figure S4. ASXL3 is an enhancer binding factor in both human and mouse SCLC. Figure S5. Enhancer ASXL3 determines the expression of nearby genes in SCLC. Figure S6. ASXL3 is a direct target of BET inhibitors and predicts drug sensitivity.
Product System Life Cycle Assessment for Emerging Technologies
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Sameer
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401105
subject: Life cycle assessment and industrial ecology

description: The race to comply with the Paris Climate Accords fueled by the desire to combat climate change and a greater appreciation of balance of ecological systems requires reducing reliance on fossil fuels and transitioning to using clean energy. This transition is expected to be cleaner but be also material intensive. These materials, such as neodymium or graphite, have been deemed critical by the United States, due to their importance to future of the country. Therefore, efforts are being made to diversify their production (by discovering new manufacturing methods) or improve the material efficiency of their applications.It is important that these new applications are analyzed for their environmental impact. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is widely accepted methodology for conducting environmental assessment on products and processes. Traditional LCA has 4 steps – goal, scope definition, life cycle inventory, and life cycle impact analysis. Applying traditional LCA techniques on these emerging technologies has challenges, as they are still emerging and have demonstrated their potential at various scales – theoretical, lab scale, pilot scale, or small-scale industrial level. Often, the new processes or products are compared against existing conventional manufacturing methods. Therefore, to appropriately assess the impact of these new emerging technologies against current ones, the scope must be extended to include the product or manufacturing system (which is the economic system under which these technologies will operate and compete against). This methodology is applied to 3 technologies at various stages of their development.In the first case study, for magnets, by including the importance of energy product to the product system within the LCA, we see that the higher energy product of additively manufactured magnets directly translates to its environmental benefits relative to injection molded magnets. The next case study looked at a novel process to create battery grade graphite, demonstrated at lab scale. This process was scaled to an industrial level and assessed against conventional methods of manufacturing graphite. The scaleup allowed the LCA to identify the molten salt and the graphite anode to be a potential hotspot. Lastly, the potential green marketability of aluminum cerium alloys is investigated. The product system is extended to include the effect of this new application on cerium compound prices and therefore the economic allocation for the LCA. A Nash equilibrium is found based on market dynamics for aluminum cerium alloys to help resolve this issue.The case studies show that allowing the product systems to inform the LCA can result in richer results, which help identify hotspots or opportunities for these technologies as they mature and compete against the conventional products or processes.
Multifrequency VLA radio observations of the X-ray cavity cluster of galaxies RBS797: evidence of differently oriented jets
Creators: name: Gitti, Myriam
name: Feretti, Luigina
name: Schindler, Sabine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the peculiar activity of the radio source located at the center of the cooling flow cluster RBS797 (z=0.35), the first distant cluster in which two pronounced X-ray cavities have been discovered. New multifrequency (1.4, 4.8, and 8.4 GHz) observations obtained with the Very Large Array clearly reveal the presence of radio emission on three different scales showing orientation in different directions, all of which indicates that RBS797 represents a very peculiar case. The lowest resolution images show large-scale radio emission characterized by amorphous morphology and a steep spectrum, extended on a scale of hundreds of kpc. On a scale of tens of kpc, there is evidence of 1.4 GHz radio emission elongated in the northeast-southwest direction exactly towards the holes detected in X-rays. The highest resolution image shows the details of the innermost 4.8 GHz radio jets on a kpc scale; they are remarkably oriented in a direction that is perpendicular to that of the extended structure detected at a lower resolution. We therefore find evidence of a strong interaction between the central radio source and the intra-cluster medium in RBS797. We suggest a scenario in which the 1.4 GHz emission filling the X-ray cavities consists of buoyant bubbles of radio emitting plasma that are created by twin jets in the past and whose expansion has displaced the thermal gas that was formerly in the X-ray holes, whereas the two jets visible at 4.8 GHz are related to the present nuclear activity that has restarted at a different position angle from the original outburst that created the outer radio lobes. The total radio luminosity is ~ 10^42 erg/s, corresponding to a factor of a few thousand times less than the estimated cooling luminosity.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics; replaced with revised version corrected for language editing
The Impact of Competition Policy on Production and Export Competitiveness: A Perspective from Agri-food Processing
Creators: name: Babool, Md. Ashfaqul Islam
name: Reed, Michael R.
name: Mikic, Mia
name: Saghaian, Sayed H.
name: Babool, Md. Ashfaqul Islam
name: Reed, Michael R.
name: Mikic, Mia
name: Saghaian, Sayed H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Competition policy
subject: production
subject: export competitiveness

description: This study tests the hypothesis that competition policy positively impacts a country's production and export competitiveness. The results show that competition policy has a significantly positive impact on manufacturing production. The results also show that exports for both total manufacturing and food manufacturing are positively related to competition policy.
On the Quantum Invariant for the Spherical Seifert Manifold
Creators: name: Hikami, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Witten--Reshetikhin--Turaev SU(2) invariant for the Seifert manifold $S^3/Γ$ where $Γ$ is a finite subgroup of SU(2). We show that the WRT invariants can be written in terms of the Eichler integral of the modular forms with half-integral weight, and we give an exact asymptotic expansion of the invariants by use of the nearly modular property of the Eichler integral. We further discuss that those modular forms have a direct connection with the polyhedral group by showing that the invariant polynomials of modular forms satisfy the polyhedral equations associated to $Γ$.
description: 36 pages
Quantum Stochastic Calculus and Quantum Nonlinear Filtering
Creators: name: Belavkin, V. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A *-algebraic indefinite structure of quantum stochastic (QS) calculus is introduced and a continuity property of generalized nonadapted QS integrals is proved under the natural integrability conditions in an infinitely dimensional nuclear space. The class of nondemolition output QS processes in quantum open systems is characterized in terms of the QS calculus, and the problem of QS nonlinear filtering with respect to nondemolition continuous measurments is investigated. The stochastic calculus of a posteriori conditional expectations in quantum observed systems is developed and a general quantum filtering stochastic equation for a QS process is derived. An application to the description of the spontaneous collapse of the quantum spin under continuous observation is given.
description: 25 pages. See also related publications at http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/vpb/research/fil_con.html and http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/vpb/research/evo_equ.html
Additional file 5 of Effects of Supervised Early Resistance Training versus standard care on cognitive recovery following cardiac surgery via median sternotomy (the SEcReT study): protocol for a randomised controlled pilot study
Creators: name: Pengelly, Jacqueline M. S.
name: Royse, Alistair G.
name: Bryant, Adam L.
name: Williams, Gavin P.
name: Tivendale, Lynda J.
name: Dettmann, Timothy J.
name: Canty, David J.
name: Royse, Colin F.
name: Doa A. El-Ansary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5. Master Patient Information Consent Form (PICF)
Small clusters of fermions
Creators: name: Carbonell, J.
name: Lazauskas, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By comparing respectively the interaction between 3He atoms and the neutron-neutron one, we examine the possibility for both fermionic systems to form small clusters.
description: Contributed talk to 17th International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Durham, North Carolina, 5-10 June 2003. Published in the proceedings (Elsevier, 2004) pp. S106-S108
Far Infrared Observations of Radio Quasars and FR II Radio Galaxies
Creators: name: Shi, Y.
name: Rieke, G. H.
name: Hines, D. C.
name: Neugebauer, G.
name: Blaylock, M.
name: Rigby, J.
name: Egami, E.
name: Gordon, K. D.
name: Alonso-Herrero, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report MIPS photometry of 20 radio-loud quasars and galaxies at 24 and 70 um (and of five at 160 um). We combine this sample with additional sources detected in the far infrared by IRAS and ISO for a total of 47 objects, including 23 steep spectrum Type I AGNs: radio-loud quasars and broad line radio galaxies; and 24 Type II AGNs: narrow line and weak line FR II radio galaxies. Of this sample, the far infrared emission of all but 3C 380 appears to be dominated by emission by dust heated by the AGN and by star formation. The AGN appears to contribute more than 50% of the far infrared luminosity in most of sources. It is also expected that the material around the nucleus is optically thin in the far infrared. Thus, the measurements at these wavelengths can be used to test the orientation-dependent unification model. As predicted by the model, the behavior of the sources is consistent with the presence of an obscuring circumnuclear torus; in fact, we find it may still have significant optical depth at 24 um.In addition, as expected for the radio-loud quasars, there is a significant correlation between the low frequency radio (178 MHz) and the 70 um emission, two presumably isotropic indicators of nuclear activity. This result is consistent with the simple unified scheme. However, there is a population of radio galaxies that are underluminous at 70 um compared with the radio-loud quasars and hence are a challenge to the simple unified model.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 33 pages, 7 figures
A New Taxonomy of Thin Markets
Creators: name: Anderson, John D.
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Harri, Ardian
name: Turner, Steven C.
name: Anderson, John D.
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Harri, Ardian
name: Turner, Steven C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The traditional conception of a thin market based on transactions volume remains relevant in many agricultural markets but does not adequately frame emerging thin market issues. As non-price means of pricing goods becomes more common, some cash commodity markets have become residual markets. In some of these markets, not only the volume of transactions but also the representativeness of transactions to those on the related contract market is an important issue. This paper develops a concept of thin markets that accounts for this dimension of market thinness and proposes a research agenda related to this topic.
Transitions To the Long-Resident State in coupled chaotic oscillators
Creators: name: Ao, Bin
name: Zheng, Zhigang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The behaviors of coupled chaotic oscillators before complete synchronization were investigated. We report three phenomena: (1) The emergence of long-time residence of trajectories besides one of the saddle foci; (2) The tendency that orbits of the two oscillators get close becomes faster with increasing the coupling strength; (3) The diffusion of two oscillator's phase difference is first enhanced and then suppressed. There are exact correspondences among these phenomena. The mechanism of these correspondences is explored. These phenomena uncover the route to synchronization of coupled chaotic oscillators.
description: 3 pages, 5 figures
More on the Classical Double Copy in Three Spacetime Dimensions
Creators: name: Gumus, Mehmet Kemal
name: Alkac, Gokhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well-known that General Relativity (GR) in three spacetime dimensions (3D) has no well-defined Newtonian limit. Recently, a static solution mimicking the behaviour of the expected Newtonian potential has been found in arXiv:1904.11001 by studying the classical double copy of a point charge in gauge theory. This is the first example where the vacuum solution in the gauge theory leads to a non-vacuum solution on the gravity side. The resulting energy-momentum tensor was attributed to a free scalar ghost field; however, alternatively, the source can be seen as one resulting from a spacelike perfect fluid. In this paper, we first give an alternative derivation of the solution where there is no need to perform a generalized gauge transformation to obtain a quadratic Lagrangian without propagating ghost fields. Then, we present a stationary version of the solution and show that the scalar field interpretation of the source does not survive in this case, leaving the spacelike fluid as the only possibility. We give the gauge theory single copy of our solution and comment on the implications of our results on the validity of the classical double copy in 3D. The effect of the cosmological constant is also discussed.
description: 11 pages, no figures, minor changes, version to appear in PRD
Blountia Walcott 1916
Creators: name: Westrop, Madison Armstrong Stephen R.
name: Eoff, Jennifer D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Trilobita
Ptychopariida
Kingstoniidae
Blountia

description: Genus Blountia Walcott, 1916
 Type species. Blountia mimula Walcott, 1916, from the Nolichucky Formation, eastern Tennessee (by original designation).
 Diagnosis. Strongly convex glabella on cranidium and pygidium with well-defined, flat to concave pygidial bor- der.
 Discussion. Assignment of Blountia to Kingstoniidae, rather than Asaphiscidae (e.g., Rasetti 1965), follows Westrop (1992), who drew attention to the structure of the occipital ring as a synapomorphy of the family. Maryvillia has been considered to be a junior synonym of Blountia by some authors (e.g., Pratt 1992, p. 66). However, a phylogenetic analysis (Fig. 2) supports monophyly of both Maryvillia and Blountia. Maryvillia is relatively effaced, whereas Blountia is strongly furrowed. Only a single unambiguous apomorphic state of Blountia, the expression of the pygidial border (character 12, state 1 in Table 2) emerged from the phylogenetic analysis, and this is the basis for the diagnosis presented above. A more comprehensive analysis of Kingstoniidae may help clarify the status of Blountia, but this is beyond the scope of our study. Maryvillia is better supported (Fig. 2), with synapomorphies including a relatively short (character 1, state 1), evenly tapered glabella with nearly straight sides (character 2, state 2), a concave anterior crandial border (character 6, state 1), and a pygidial axis that extends back beyond the anterior edge of the border (character 13, state 1).
 Articulated specimens of B. mimula (Pl. 1, figs 1–4) and B. bristolensis (Pl. 3, figs 3–7) both have seven thoracic segments. Rasetti (1965, p. 58) reported an articulated exoskeleton of an older, undescribed species of Blountia from the Murphy’s Creek Formation in the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, with nine thoracic segments.
description: Published as part of Westrop, Madison Armstrong Stephen R. & Eoff, Jennifer D., 2020, Systematics of a survivor: the Cambrian kingstoniid trilobite Blountia Walcott, 1916 across the Marjuman-Steptoean (Guzhangian-Paibian) extinction interval in Laurentian North America, pp. 1-79 in Zootaxa 4804 (1) on pages 8-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4804.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3927094
title: Advancing Quantitative Approaches for Estimating Avian Population Responses to Environmental Change Using a Data-Rich Species: The American White Pelican
Creators: name: Van Tatenhove, Aimee Michele
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: Advancements in wildlife data collection technology and analysis are helping us understand how human-caused environmental change is impacting bird species. Yet data collection for many species remains challenging, and often the data are difficult to analyze. Improved methods for collecting and analyzing avian data are needed to understand how species respond to environmental change. However, before applying new methods to poorly understood species, it is crucial to test methods on well-studied species to ensure their effectiveness. The American White Pelican is a well-studied species that is ideal for testing new analysis methods. Pelicans have been studied extensively due to conservation concerns and conflicts with humans. However, gaps still exist in our understanding of pelican survival and migratory destinations, threats, and reactions to environmental change.
My dissertation used pelican data to improve methods that estimate avian survival, identify environments bird species use, and measure how likely individuals are to migrate between regions. In Chapter 2, I developed a mathematical model to estimate how many pelicans migrate between North American regions and their resulting survival probabilities. I found that pelicans often remain in the same region year-long, with substantial variation in survival depending on location. In Chapter 3, I measured environmental conditions favored by pelicans and how this varied between individuals. I found that pelicans do not rely on specific conditions as a population, and that individual use varies substantially, suggesting population resilience to environmental change. Chapter 4 investigated the feasibility of extracting radar signatures of flying birds from weather radar using location data from GPS-tagged pelicans. Using this radar signature, I predicted locations of untagged pelicans across my study area and developed a pelican-airplane collision risk index for a local airport. In Chapter 5, I used a mathematical model to estimate how environmental conditions affected pelican colony abundance, then estimated future abundance under various management scenarios. I found that land bridge formation between the colony and mainland is a likely cause of abundance declines. My research offers improved analytical methods for avian populations, and highlights that birds may respond to environmental change differently depending on the landscape and population scales examined.
Pulse-duration dependence of high-order harmonic generation with coherent superposition state
Creators: name: Wang, Bingbing
name: Cheng, Taiwang
name: Li, Xiaofeng
name: Fu, Panming
name: Chen, Shigang
name: Liu, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We make a systematic study of high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in a He$^+$-like model ion when the initial states are prepared as a coherent superposition of the ground state and an excited state. It is found that, according to the degree of the ionization of the excited state, the laser intensity can be divided into three regimes in which HHG spectra exhibit different characteristics. The pulse-duration dependence of the HHG spectra in these regimes is studied. We also demonstrate evident advantages of using coherent superposition state to obtain high conversion efficiency. The conversion efficiency can be increased further if ultrashort laser pulses are employed.
Locally applied Ketorolac and Bupivicaine with epinephrine for the control of postoperative pain in breast augmentation patients
Creators: name: Mahabir, Raman Chaos
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: One of the difficulties that continues to challenge reconstructive and aesthetic surgeons is postoperative pain control. Developments in anaesthesia have increased the understanding of pain and it is now accepted that there is a role for pre-empting it. Research with systemic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and local anaesthetics has been encouraging. The use of locally applied non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in combination with local anaesthetics has not been studied. The objective of this study was to test the effectiveness of locally administered, intraoperative Ketorolac and Bupivicaine with epinephrine at reducing pain in the first two-hours of the postoperative period. Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Review Board of the Okanagan / Similkameen Health Region through the Kelowna General Hospital and the Medical Director of the Okanagan Plastic Surgery Center. The study was designed as a prospective, randomized, triple-blind, clinical trial. One hundred consecutive breast augmentation patients were enrolled and informed consent was obtained from each patient. A standard anaesthetic protocol and surgical procedure were followed. The intervention was divided into four groups of twenty-five patients that received either normal saline, Ketorolac only, Bupivicaine only or Ketorolac and Bupivicaine. The primary outcome was pain as measured by the Visual Analog Pain Scale. The secondary outcome was time spent in the recovery room. Other variables were considered for their effect on postoperative pain. All patients completed the study. The power of this study was 0.90 and confidence intervals of 95% were used to determine significance. The findings of this study allow rejection of the null hypothesis and support the alternate hypothesis that in women undergoing primary augmentation mammaplasty, intraoperative irrigation of Ketorolac combined with Bupivicaine with epinephrine into the surgical wound reduced pain in the postoperative period. It did not appear that anaesthesiologist, anaesthesia time, surgeon, OR time, difficulty of dissection or implant size had a significant impact on postoperative pain. Time in the recovery room was not different between the current standard of care and the Ketorolac and Bupivicaine patients. However, there was a trend that Ketorolac and Bupivicaine patients did spend less time in the recovery room than the Bupivicaine only patients.
Optimal Harvest Time of Florida Valencia Oranges to Maximize Grower Returns
Creators: name: Searcy, Jacob
name: Roka, Fritz M.
name: Spreen, Thomas H.
name: Searcy, Jacob
name: Roka, Fritz M.
name: Spreen, Thomas H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Research goals are to estimate the optimal harvest time of Florida Valencia oranges for Florida growers and calculate the economic consequences of harvesting inside or outside the optimal window. Determining the optimal fruit harvest time will help the industry anticipate how mechanical harvesting may affect deviations from this optimum.
Dual fermion method as a prototype of generic reference-system approach for correlated fermions
Creators: name: Brener, Sergey
name: Stepanov, Evgeny A.
name: Rubtsov, Alexey N.
name: Katsnelson, Mikhail I.
name: Lichtenstein, Alexander I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a purely diagrammatic derivation of the dual fermion scheme [Phys. Rev. B 77 (2008) 033101]. The derivation makes particularly clear that a similar scheme can be developed for an arbitrary reference system provided it has the same interaction term as the original system. Thereby no restrictions are imposed by the locality of the reference problem or by the nature of the original problem as a lattice one. We present new arguments in favour of keeping the dual denominator in the expression for the lattice self-energy independently of the truncation of the dual interaction. As an example we present the computational results for the half-filled 2D Hubbard model with the choice of a $2\times2$ plaquette with periodic boundary conditions as a reference system. We observe that obtained results are in a good agreement with numerically exact lattice quantum Monte Carlo data.
title: Managing Voyager in small libraries: supporting your server
Creators: name: Guy, Laura
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Voyager
subject: system administration
subject: Libraries

description: 78 Powerpoint slides plus 3 session handouts combined in 1 PDF file.
description: Presentation delivered at the May 2011 Ex Libris Technical Seminar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Light and intermittent smoking among young adults : trends and transitions
Creators: name: Li, Xiaoyin
name: 0000-0001-8028-8910
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: Very light smoking
Young adults
Alternative tobacco use
Trend analysis
Markov model
Longitudinal analysis

description: Although smoking prevalence has declined, very light smoking (5 or fewer cigarettes per day) is still very common among young adults. The limited available literature indicates that emerging alternative tobacco use may play a role in the prevalence and progression of very light smoking among young adults. The current dissertation involved two studies examining trends and transitions of very light smoking and investigating the demographic and behavioral corelates of these trends and transitions. Study 1 fills the research gap by examining the trends of light smoking among young adults (18-25 year) during the past decade. The roles of demographic factors (such as sex, race/ethnicity, age group, and educational status) and other tobacco use status (such as daily smoking status and use of alternative tobacco) in trends of light smoking among young adults were also explored. The research sample was selected from the public national database, the NSDUH (National Survey on Drug Use and Health), 2002-2015. Findings suggested that the long-term smoking trends among young adults were nonlinear and the trends varied in different subgroups of young adults. The general decline in very light smoking among young adults masks the different trends in certain time periods, tobacco use groups and demographic subpopulations. Tailored policies and prevention programs are needed to benefit subpopulations of young adults. Study 2 examines transitions of cigarette smoking among college students across two and half years using six semi-annual waves of online data from the Project M-PACT study (Marketing and Promotions Across Colleges in Texas), supported by the National Cancer Institute and the FDA Center for Tobacco Products (CTP). Using Markov models, the author examined changes in states of current smoking among college students within time intervals of various duration, and also investigated the roles of sex and alternative tobacco use in smoking status and transition. The results showed that the transitions of smoking status among college students were associated with starting smoking status, the duration of the interval, sex and the use of alternative tobacco products. These findings highlight the need to identify priorities for tobacco control programs and policies among college students
LONG-TERM PROFITABILTIY OF ANIMAL MANURE USING OPTIMAL NITROGEN APPLICATION RATE
Creators: name: Park, Seong Cheol
name: Stoecker, Arthur L.
name: Hattey, Jeffory A.
name: Turner, Jason Clemn
name: Park, Seong Cheol
name: Stoecker, Arthur L.
name: Hattey, Jeffory A.
name: Turner, Jason Clemn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Animal Manure
subject: Carryover
subject: Optimal Application Rate

description: Dynamic optimization compared the NPV of manure and ammonium fertilizers on irrigated corn. Yield, soil residual nitrogen and pH functions were estimated from a six year experiment in Oklahoma. Results show that given prices of corn and nitrogen fertilizer, animal manures provide a higher NPV of return than ammonia fertilizer.
Additional file 4 of Effects of Supervised Early Resistance Training versus standard care on cognitive recovery following cardiac surgery via median sternotomy (the SEcReT study): protocol for a randomised controlled pilot study
Creators: name: Pengelly, Jacqueline M. S.
name: Royse, Alistair G.
name: Bryant, Adam L.
name: Williams, Gavin P.
name: Tivendale, Lynda J.
name: Dettmann, Timothy J.
name: Canty, David J.
name: Royse, Colin F.
name: Doa A. El-Ansary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4. Sternal ultrasound protocol
Variations of the mixing character of dipolar mixed modes in red giant stars
Creators: name: Jiang, C.
name: Cunha, M.
name: Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.
name: Zhang, QS.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thanks to the high quality data of space missions, the detection of mixed modes has become possible in numerous stars. In this work, we investigate how the mixing character of dipolar mixed modes changes with stellar evolution, as well as with frequency within each stellar model. This is achieved by monitoring the variations in the coupling strength and the period spacing of dipolar mixed modes in red-giant models. These parameters are measured by fitting the asymptotic expansion of mixed modes to the model frequencies of a grid of red-giant models with masses between 1.0 and 2.0 $M_\odot$ and three different chemical abundances. The coupling strength and the period spacing decrease with stellar evolution. We find that the slopes of their decreasing trends depend on the radial order of the pressure mode component. A non-negligible increase of the coupling strength with frequency by up to around 40\% is found in the observable frequency range for a set of red-giant models. On the contrary, no significant changes of the period spacing with frequency are found. The changes in the mixing character of the modes are in most cases affected by the model mass and metallicity. Buoyancy glitches also have an impact on the mixing character. Significant fluctuations in the estimated coupling strength and period spacing are found for models approaching the luminosity bump, if the glitch impact of the frequencies is not considered in the applied asymptotic expansion.
description: 23 pages, 17 figures, 4 tables
Ultra-cold fermions in optical lattices
Creators: name: Drummond, P. D.
name: Corney, J. F.
name: Liu, X. -J.
name: Hu, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize recent theoretical results for the signatures of strongly correlated ultra-cold fermions in optical lattices. In particular, we focus on: collective mode calculations, where a sharp decrease in collective mode frequency is predicted at the onset of the Mott metal-insulator transition; and correlation functions at finite temperature, where we employ a new exact technique that applies the stochastic gauge technique with a Gaussian operator basis.
description: To appear, Journal of Modern Optics
Coherent phonon dynamics in semiconductors
Creators: name: He, Feng
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: Pump-probe technique
Coherent phonon
Quantum coherent coupling

description: Ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy is a powerful experimental technique to study the light-matter interaction and ultrafast dynamics in solids. In many semiconductors, under ultrafast laser irradiation, phonons (quantized lattice vibrations) with both temporal and spatial coherence can be generated conveniently. When a stronger laser pulse excites coherent phonons that induce refractive index change, and thus the reflectivity change of the materials, the time-dependent phonon dynamics can be detected by a delayed probe pulse. The generation and detection of coherent phonons provide an opportunity to understand the fundamental physics between light and matter interaction, as well as a path to manipulate other physical processes, for applications such as sound amplification stimulated emission (SASER), phonon mode manipulation, ultrafast phase switching, superconductivity enhancement and manipulation of magnetism¹⁻⁵. This thesis presents a series of time-resolved studies of coherent phonons in three semiconductor systems, including bulk CdSe, Bi₂Te₃/Sb₂Te₃ superlattice and GaAs/AlAs superlattice. In bulk CdSe, a material extensively studied for quantum dot photoelectronics, coherent phonons serve as the probe for the reversible ultrafast melting. In Bi₂Te₃/Sb₂Te₃ superlattice, a material system used for thermoelectrics, the coherent thermal phonons are excited directly and are found to be selectively filtered in the superlattice structure compared with bulk materials. In GaAs/AlAs superlattice, a quantum well structure for photodetectors and lasers, a strong quantum coherent coupling among different phonon modes is observed. A similar coherent coupling between photons and phonons has been used to induce and enhance superconductivity [superscript 6,7] and mimic the magnetic field⁸. However, direct observation of nonlinear phonon coupling is rare. Moreover, a novel technique based on surface plasmon resonance has been implemented into the pump-probe spectrometer to improve detection efficiency
Maryvillia Walcott 1916
Creators: name: Westrop, Madison Armstrong Stephen R.
name: Eoff, Jennifer D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Trilobita
Ptychopariida
Kingstoniidae
Maryvillia

description: Genus Maryvillia Walcott, 1916
 Type species. Maryvillia arion Walcott, 1916, from the Nolichucky Formation, eastern Tennessee (by original designation).
 Diagnosis. Short, evenly tapered glabella with nearly straight sides, a concave anterior crandial border, and a pygidial axis that extends back beyond the anterior edge of the border.
 Discussion. As noted above, under the discussion of Blountia, four synapomorphies support monophyly of Maryvillia in the phylogenetic analysis (Fig. 2). In addition to the type species, M. arion Walcott, the genus also includes M. triangularis (Lochman, in Lochman & Duncan, 1944).
description: Published as part of Westrop, Madison Armstrong Stephen R. & Eoff, Jennifer D., 2020, Systematics of a survivor: the Cambrian kingstoniid trilobite Blountia Walcott, 1916 across the Marjuman-Steptoean (Guzhangian-Paibian) extinction interval in Laurentian North America, pp. 1-79 in Zootaxa 4804 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4804.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3927094
title: Teachers' Descriptions of Their Professional Learning Networks and Spaces
Creators: name: Justis, Nathan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of this study is to understand teacher professional learning through the eyes of teachers to assist them in improving their teaching and better support student learning. Teachers learn to improve their practice in many different ways and from many different sources. Researchers have studied teachers' descriptions of learning resources they value and have labeled this personal collection of resources a teacher's professional learning network (PLN). This study explored teachers' descriptions of their PLNs and closely examined what teachers do in professional learning spaces of their choosing. This study also provided teachers with an opportunity to voice what they believe to be ideal professional learning spaces and describe what they are currently experiencing in required spaces. I found that teachers use a variety of spaces, people, and tools to get better at teaching. In general, teachers look for collaborative environments in which they access expertise and ideas relevant to their practice in a way they can control. While some teachers reported positive experiences with required professional learning, many reported not experiencing these desired factors in professional learning that is required of them.
FEASIBILITY OF MACHINERY COOPERATIVES IN THE SOUTHERN PLAINS REGION
Creators: name: Long, Garret
name: Kenkel, Philip L.
name: Long, Garret
name: Kenkel, Philip L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: This is a comparison of machinery ownership costs for individuals and cooperatives. By looking at various complements of equipment we can see the potential for cost savings through machinery cooperatives. Specifically these savings can be seen in farming operations that require higher capital investment, such as in no-till operations.
A bidirectional MEMS thermal actuator as the building block for a programmable metamaterial
Creators: name: Zhao, Cheng
name: 0000-0001-6757-4111
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: MEMS
Thermal actuator
FEM
FEA
Microfabrication
Semiconductor
Optimization
Piezoresistive strain gauge

description: This thesis presents a novel bidirectional MEMS thermal actuator that is intended to be implemented as the building block for a microarchitectured material. The successful proof of concept demonstrates the potential for a new level of miniaturization for the technology that would improve existing capabilities and enable new ones. The design is built upon the bent-beam type thermal actuators with an emphasis on large travel and force output. Sensing capabilities are accomplished through piezoresistive strain gauges that provide sufficient sensitivity and resolution. An analytical model was created to calculate the performance parameters of actuator designs and was used in conjunction with optimization software to arrive at four selected designs with minimal theoretical trade-offs. Successful fabrication of the devices was achieved with standard microfabrication techniques. Preliminary testing results have demonstrated the successful operation of bidirectional actuation and confirms the validity of the concept