cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
BANISHED INTO EXISTENCE: AGRITECTURE AT THE INTERSECTION OF ARCHITECTURE & AGRICULTURE
Creators: name: Konan, Yan
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Farming
subject: Hemp
subject: Landscape Architecture
subject: Photovoltaics
subject: Productive Hemp Landscape
subject: Sustainbility

description: Building operating emissions account for 28% of global greenhouse gas emissions while building components account for 11%. To mitigate these effects, we must reduce the carbon footprints of construction activities, building materials, and sequestering carbon dioxide in forests and farmland. Industrial hemp is a solution to all these challenges. Hemp is a carbon-negative crop, absorbing more carbon dioxide than trees, and thus represents a unique sequestration opportunity. By using hemp as a construction material, we can improve the thermal efficiency of our buildings, consequently reducing operational carbon. Finally, by substituting hempbrick, a mixture of hemp and various binders, for more carbon-intensive materials, we can reduce the embodied carbon of the built environment. This thesis proposes a productive hemp landscape that will be open to the public as an agritourism destination. The project will raise public awareness about hemp cultivation as an agricultural opportunity and demonstrate the potential of hemp as a construction material, highlighting its multiple possible contributions to tackling the climate crisis.
title: Ear and hearing health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2023: children aged 0–14
Creators: name: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Publisher: name: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3.3
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This in focus report presents information on the ear and hearing health of First Nations children aged 0–14. Otitis media, or middle ear infection, is the main condition contributing to hearing loss among First Nations children. Middle ear infections are preventable and treatable. Identifying and managing chronic and recurrent middle ear infections depend on children being checked when needed and referred to accessible services.
Zwischen Idylle und Kommerz — Die Wiederbelebung der Hausindustrie in den Künstlerkolonien Gödöllő und Abramcevo
Creators: name: Dimitrieva, Marina
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2018

description: -
description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 64 (2018): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
title: Chronik zum 75jährigen Jubiläum des Institutes für Pflanzenschutz in Ackerbau und Grünland
Creators: name: Schöber-Butin, Bärbel
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: 630

description: Berichte aus dem Julius Kühn-Institut, vol. 146
Tracing Everyday Developmental Idealism in Singapore
Creators: name: Fong, Clara
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: developmental idealism (DI)
subject: post-developmentalism
subject: East Asian Model
subject: state-sponsored capitalism
subject: Singapore
subject: interview data
subject: abductive analysis

description: Developmental idealism (DI) provides a robust framework for conceptualizing the psychosocial effects of development theory in everyday life. DI implies that several facets of modern development originate from Western thought, and post-developmentalist criticize these frameworks because they are not suitable for developing countries in the non-Western world. Only few countries have transcended the boundary between ‘developing’ and ‘developed;’ the most prominent of the few known as the East Asian Miracles (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan). Previous research attributes their success to an East Asian Model of development, which contradicts some of the fundamental aspects of Western modernity, such as individualism and pluralistic democracy. While previous studies have examined DI models in China and India, this study focuses on Singapore, which has a historical association with both ‘Western-style capitalism' and ‘Asian political characteristics.’ This study examines how DI interacts with the East Asian Model of development through conducting 17 semi-structured interviews with Singaporean nationals and foreign residents in Singapore. I find that ordinary individuals hold both Western modernity and Asian values salient in their conceptualization of Singapore’s development, demonstrating the need for a more nuanced theory. These findings provide evidence that a more complex development schema exists in the minds of ordinary individuals, and the DI cultural model may need to reform its assumption that Western values continue to be the baseline for modernity and development in the developing world.
Wert und Wandel — Zur Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte der Künstlerkolonie in Darmstadt
Creators: name: Durth, Werner
Publisher: name: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Year: 2018

description: -
description: ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees, Bd. 64 (2018): ICOMOS – Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
Attenuation characteristics of spin pumping signal due to travelling spin waves
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Sankha Subhra
name: Deorani, Praveen
name: Kwon, Jae Hyun
name: Yang, Hyunsoo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The authors have investigated the contribution of the surface spin waves to spin pumping. A Pt/NiFe bilayer has been used for measuring spin waves and spin pumping signals simultaneously. The theoretical framework of spin pumping resulting from ferromagnetic resonance has been extended to incorporate spin pumping due to spin waves. Equations for the effective area of spin pumping due to spin waves have been derived. The amplitude of the spin pumping signal resulting from travelling waves is shown to decrease more rapidly with precession frequency than that resulting from standing waves and show good agreement with the experimental data.
title: NEPTUN 2007 - Zuckerrüben
Creators: name: Roßberg, Dietmar
name: Ladewig, Erwin
name: Lukashyk, Pavel
Publisher: name: Saphir-Verl.
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Zuckerrübe
subject: Pflanzenschutzmittel
subject: Datenerhebung
subject: Recht
subject: 630

description: Berichte aus dem Julius Kühn-Institut, vol. 145
description: NEPTUN : statistische Erhebung zur Anwendung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln in der Praxis
Additional file 1 of A flexible liposomal polymer complex as a platform of specific and regulable immune regulation for individual cancer immunotherapy
Creators: name: Chen, Chia-Hung
name: Weng, Tzu-Han
name: Huang, Hsiao-Hsuan
name: Huang, Ling-Ya
name: Huang, Kai-Yao
name: Chen, Pin-Rong
name: Yeh, Kuang-Yu
name: Huang, Chi-Ting
name: Chien, Yu-Tzu
name: Chuang, Po-Ya
name: Lin, Yu-Ling
name: Tsai, Nu-Man
name: Liu, Shih-Jen
name: Su, Yu-Cheng
name: Weng, Shun-Long
name: Liao, Kuang-Wen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1. Construction of LPPC/MP andLPPC/MP/Ab complexes.The picture illustrated the formulation of LPPC complexes with different immunofunctionalproteins and their specific aims.
Antibacterial surface based on hierarchical polyurethane acrylate/zinc oxide structures
Creators: name: Oopath, Sruthi Venugopal
name: Kakarla, Akesh Babu
name: Kong, Ing
name: Nguyen, Thanh Tien
name: Truong, Vi Khanh
name: Baji, Avinash
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4016
subject: Materials engineering
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
classificationCode: 3406
subject: Physical chemistry

description: In this study, we fabricated hierarchical structures on the surface of polyurethane acrylate (PUA) film and demonstrated that the film displays antibacterial properties. PUA resin was coated on a commercial porous anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) template and was UV-cured using nanoimprint lithography. This led to the formation of 150 nm diameter pillars on the surface of PUA film. Following this, zinc oxide structures were grown on the surface of this imprinted PUA sample using a hydrothermal method. The scanning electron microcopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy results confirmed the presence of ZnO on the surface of the PUA film. The antibacterial behavior of the fabricated sample was demonstrated against Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) as model bacteria. The results show that PUA film with 150 nm diameter pillars had moderate antibacterial properties against both S. aureus and P. aeruginosa. The presence of zinc oxide (ZnO) structures improved the film's antibacterial property to ∼100% against P. aeruginosa. However, the presence of ZnO structures on PUA film is shown to have no effect against S. aureus. This can be attributed to the shape and size of the fabricated ZnO structures.
Sense and sensitivity: How ALMA receivers work
Creators: name: Wilson, T. L.
name: Mauersberger, R.
name: Hales, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In previous articles, we described how electromagnetic waves emitted from objects in the sky are collected by the ALMA antennas (Anatomy of ALMA), and how they are combined in order to produce images. Before these images can be processed, they are picked up by the antennas and concentrated by the large main mirror and a smaller secondary mirror in the so called focal point of each antenna. In order to process the data they must be first converted to electromagnetic waves of a lower frequency and amplified. This is the role of the ALMA receivers. In principle they work like a normal AM receiver, but at much higher frequencies. Here we describe how they work and what makes them special.
title: Comparing the effects of inspiratory muscle training and core training on core muscle function
Creators: name: Hahn, Teresa J.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2010

description:
This study was designed to test the effects of inspiratory muscle training on core function compared to a typical core training program. One group performed inspiratory muscle training for six weeks while another performed a core training program of the same duration. A third group served as controls. Core function was assessed pre and post training using a side bridge, prone extension and Stabilizer test of transversus abdominis contraction. Maximal inspiratory pressure was also assessed before and after the six week training period. A two-way repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to determine the significance of inspiratory muscle training and core training on the tests of core function. The results showed a significant increase in maximal inspiratory pressure in the inspiratory muscle training group from 1.06(sd=0.37) to 1.72 cm H20 (sd=0.42), p=0.000. The core training group significantly improved their time of the prone extension test from 114.0 (sd=53.0) to 154.0 seconds (sd=77.6), p=0.014. The inspiratory muscle training group had a significantly improved performance over the core training group on the Stabilizer test, with the core training group actually showing a poorer performance following training. The inspiratory muscle training group improved on the Stabilizer test from a mean score of -6.9 mm Hg (sd=12.6) to -10.0 mm Hg (sd=11.0), p=0.038. Six weeks of core training and inspiratory muscle training can both improve core function and target different muscles.
The doubling map with asymmetrical holes
Creators: name: Glendinning, Paul
name: Sidorov, Nikita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 28D05, Secondary 37B10

description: Let $00$; $\mathcal J(a,b)$ is uncountable of zero Hausdorff dimension; $\mathcal J(a,b)$ is of positive Hausdorff dimension. {enumerate} In particular, we show that (iv) is always the case if \[ b-a
description: 26 pages, 3 figures
Show and Tell: Exploring how audio narratives can complement visualizations of stroke survivors’ personal health data
Creators: name: Shettigar, Aishwarya
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Design
subject: Information science
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Human-Computer Interaction
subject: Multimodal Interaction
subject: Participatory Design
subject: Rehabilitation
subject: Stroke
subject: Wearable technology

description: Wearable technology in healthcare could give individuals awareness and independence in rehabilitation. In this qualitative work, I investigate how using speech-based, audio narrative summaries alongside graphical visualizations affect users’ understanding of their personal data. I conducted this work in the context of stroke recovery, where stroke survivors experiencing hemiparesis can monitor their physical progress using a wearable ring sensor. Using a co-design approach, I engaged with stroke survivors and their caregivers to elicit recommendations for multimodal (speech/visual) feedback of the wearable ring data. Reflexive thematic analysis of the sessions showed that multimodal feedback can potentially lend therapeutic support for stroke survivors. Audio narratives helped to reinforce the visual feedback, and positively framed narrative content that was reflective, motivational, and suggestive was able to support stroke survivors as they navigate their independent recovery journeys.
Creative Commons and Public Sector Information: Flexible tools to support PSI creator s and re-users
Creators: name: Vollmer, Timothy
name: Peters, Diane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: public sector information, open licensing, creative commons, open government license

description: Public sector information (PSI) is meant for wide re-use, but this information will only achieve maximum possible impact if users understand how they may use it. Creative Commons tools, which signify availability for re-use to users and require attribution to the releasing authority, are ideal tools for the sharing of public sector information. There is also increasing interest in open licenses and other tools to share publicly funded information, data, and content, including various kinds of cultural resources, educational materials, and research findings; Creative Commons tools are applicable here and recommended for these purposes too.
Additional file 2 of A flexible liposomal polymer complex as a platform of specific and regulable immune regulation for individual cancer immunotherapy
Creators: name: Chen, Chia-Hung
name: Weng, Tzu-Han
name: Huang, Hsiao-Hsuan
name: Huang, Ling-Ya
name: Huang, Kai-Yao
name: Chen, Pin-Rong
name: Yeh, Kuang-Yu
name: Huang, Chi-Ting
name: Chien, Yu-Tzu
name: Chuang, Po-Ya
name: Lin, Yu-Ling
name: Tsai, Nu-Man
name: Liu, Shih-Jen
name: Su, Yu-Cheng
name: Weng, Shun-Long
name: Liao, Kuang-Wen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2. The effects of LPPC/Abcomplexes on the cell cycle. The cell cycle profiles ofnaive (A) or activated (B) splenocytes under LPPC/Ab complexestreatments were performed by PI staining. A significant difference compared tothe LPPC/CD3 group was indicated by * (P<0.05).
On subdirect factors of a projective module and applications to system theory
Creators: name: Barakat, Mohamed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13C10, 13H10, 18E10, 13P10, 13P20, 18G05, 18G15, 13P25, 93B05, 93B25, 93B40

description: We extend a result of Napp Avelli, van der Put, and Rocha with a system-theoretic interpretation to the noncommutative case: Let P be a f.g. projective module over a two-sided Noetherian domain. If P admits a subdirect product structure of the form P = M x_T L over a factor module T of grade at least 2 then the torsion-free factor of M (resp. L) is projective.
title: Thought in the absence of attention
Creators: name: Braunlich, Kurt
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2010

description:
Although many researchers have been unsuccessful in doing so, I was able to partially replicate Dijksterhuis' (2004) "unconscious thought" effect. I found that participants who were distracted with the performance of an irrelevant task made better decisions than participants who engaged in conscious thought or participants who made immediatedecisions. Task directions and population differences in the evaluation of option attributes likely represent confounding variables that can disrupt the unconscious thought effect. While Dijksterhuis has argued that his findings necessitate the existence of an unconscious thought process capable of operating in the absence of attention, I suspect that there is a more parsimonious explanation. I suggest that participants may develop implicit preference as they read the attribute statements, and that the behavioral expression of this preference is moderated by thought condition.
Experimental determination of the quasi-projectile mass with measured neutrons
Creators: name: Marini, P.
name: Zarrella, A.
name: Bonasera, A.
name: Bonasera, G.
name: Cammarata, P.
name: Heilborn, L.
name: Kohley, Z.
name: Mabiala, J.
name: May, L. W.
name: McIntosh, A. B.
name: Raphelt, A.
name: Souliotis, G. A.
name: Yennello, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The investigation of the isospin dependence of multifragmentation reactions relies on precise reconstruction of the fragmenting source. The criteria used to assign free emitted neutrons, detected with the TAMU Neutron Ball, to the quasi-projectile source are investigated in the framework of two different simulation codes. Overall and source-specific detection efficiencies for multifragmentation events are found to be model independent. The equivalence of the two different methods used to assign experimentally detected charged particles and neutrons to the emitting source is shown. The method used experimentally to determine quasi-projectile emitted free neutron multiplicity is found to be reasonably accurate and sufficiently precise as to allow for the study of well-defined quasi-projectile sources.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures. To be submitted to Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A
"I love that they exist, even if imperfectly:" Disability, Music Archives, Descriptive Language, and Symbolic Annihilation
Creators: name: Pineo, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Library science
subject: Music
subject: Disability studies
subject: archive
subject: description
subject: disability
subject: music
subject: representation
subject: symbolic annihilation

description: Drawing on scholarship that addresses symbolic annihilation, this thesis brings together three related studies to argue that music archivists need to address the symbolic annihilation of Disabled individuals within their materials. It offers an assessment of the current state of representation of Disabled individuals in music and non-music archives (chapter 2) and in Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) (chapter 3). From there, it explores the ways in which music and non-music archives are perceived by Disabled individuals with ties to music (chapter 4). Following the presentation of these three studies, the thesis relates combined implications, considerations for further research, and suggestions for methods archivists might use to combat symbolic annihilation and its underlying causes. The author provides practical steps for combatting symbolic annihilation of Disabled individuals throughout, but the final chapter (chapter 5) focuses exclusively on this topic.
An Explorative Study of Local Area Marketing Techniques Used by Australian Small to Medium Enterprises
Creators: name: Webster, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 350604
subject: Marketing communications

description: Even though small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are vital to driving Australia’s economy, accounting for a significant proportion of the workforce as well as GDP revenue, they appear to be struggling with broad industry digital disruption. SMEs who embrace contemporary local area marketing (LAM), that is, digital marketing methods, are expected to be financially better off, and they are, hence, encouraged to be more digitally ready. Due to the lack of academic research, however, it is unclear how Australian SMEs perceive LAM techniques as a medium for touchpoint activation and engagement as well as customer engagement; it is also unclear what factors influence their perception of the effectiveness of these techniques. The current research is designed to address these gaps, aiming to explore LAM marketing techniques, especially how well Australian SMEs embrace contemporary LAM techniques. The research included three separate studies. Study 1 consisted of a content analysis that reviewed 156 SMEs, assessing their online website touchpoint presence. The content analysis addressed Research Question 1. Study 2 involved quantitative research and utilised a 27-question online survey undertaking descriptive statistical, correlation and regression analysis. The quantitative analysis addressed Research Question 2. Study 3 entailed qualitative research incorporating in-depth interviews with 15 Queensland-based SMEs selected using a convenience sampling technique. Interview questions were framed around media methods, touchpoints and customer engagement, with interview transcripts thematically analysed using methodological triangulation. The qualitative analysis addressed Research Question 3. ii The research found that SMEs perceptions of the effectiveness of marketing methods, both traditional and digital as SME LAM techniques, were mixed. From Study 1, the content analysis, found touchpoint emphasis for some SME business sectors had increased whilst other touchpoint engagement practices had declined. SME survey results (Study 2) indicated higher preferences for traditional marketing methods because they were deemed more effective and also an informal approach to tracking customer engagement. SMEs advised in Study 3 that they used digital LAM techniques for brand awareness and traditional techniques for customer engagement and had concerns about a lack of effective measurement tools and guidance for improved customer engagement. These concerns were consistent with issues raised in international academic studies reviewing SME digital technology adoption.
Fluctuation-induced and symmetry-prohibited metastabilities in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Phuc, Nguyen Thanh
name: Kawaguchi, Yuki
name: Ueda, Masahito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spinor Bose-Einstein condensates provide a unique example in which the Bogoliubov theory fails to describe the metastability associated with first-order quantum phase transitions. This problem is resolved by developing the spinor Beliaev theory which takes account of quantum fluctuations of the condensate. It is these fluctuations that generate terms of higher than the fourth order in the order-parameter field which are needed for the first-order phase transitions. Besides the conventional first-order phase transitions which are accompanied by metastable states, we find a class of first-order phase transitions which are not accompanied by metastable states. The absence of metastability in these phase transitions holds to all orders of approximation since the metastability is prohibited by the symmetry of the Hamiltonian at the phase boundary. Finally, the possibility of macroscopic quantum tunneling from a metastable state to the ground state is discussed.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
title: Developers Hold Keys to Supply but They Can’t Control Demand
Creators: name: Sirr, Lorcan
Publisher: name: Technological University Dublin
Year: 2015

description: WITH all eyes on Ireland’s homelessness crisis, rising rental costs and an undersupply of newhousing on the market, people ask where the rising demand for homes is coming from. By concentrating on the economic and construction aspects of housing, many people miss the hugely important demographic aspect. Housing is and always will be about people. Brian Hughes, of the government’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) expert group, and Declan Redmond and Brendan Williams of University College Dublin have identified the four main drivers of housing demand—and they’re not what you’d think.
Additional file 3 of A flexible liposomal polymer complex as a platform of specific and regulable immune regulation for individual cancer immunotherapy
Creators: name: Chen, Chia-Hung
name: Weng, Tzu-Han
name: Huang, Hsiao-Hsuan
name: Huang, Ling-Ya
name: Huang, Kai-Yao
name: Chen, Pin-Rong
name: Yeh, Kuang-Yu
name: Huang, Chi-Ting
name: Chien, Yu-Tzu
name: Chuang, Po-Ya
name: Lin, Yu-Ling
name: Tsai, Nu-Man
name: Liu, Shih-Jen
name: Su, Yu-Cheng
name: Weng, Shun-Long
name: Liao, Kuang-Wen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 3. The activities of LPPC/MP complexes. The splenocytes from different treatments were pulsed with BSA antigens, and the cytokines secretion were estimated at different times by ELISA, such as IFN-γ (A) and IL-4 (B). Each data indicated the mean ± SD from three independent experiments (N=6).
Chinese-Teacher Conceptions of Assessment (Cantonese)
Creators: name: Brown, Gavin
name: Hui, Sammy
name: Yu, Flora
name: Ping, Wang
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Education
subject: 130303 Education Assessment and Evaluation
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This survey aims to question school teachers in Chinese contexts about assessment. The questionnaire is developed by a team of researchers of Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Hong Kong Institute of Education. The team included Dr Gavin Brown, Dr Sammy KF Hui, and Dr Flora MF Yu. The project was funded by the HKIEd.The survey is dated 2010.
A note on inextensible flows of curves in Een
Creators: name: Yıldız, Önder Gökmen
name: Tosun, Murat
name: Karakuş, Sıddıka Ö.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C44, 53a04, 53A05, 53A35

description: In this paper, we investigate the general formulation for inextensible flows of curves in En. The necessary and sufficient conditions for inextensible curve flow are expressed as a partial differential equation involving the curvatures.
description: 7 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1106.2012
title: The effects of a widespread, showy invasive plant (Rubus armeniacus) on pollinator visitation rates, pollen deposition, and seed set in a rare native wildflower (Sidalcea hendersonii)
Creators: name: Johnson, Natasha S.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2010

description:
The relentless spread of invasive plant species has illuminated their capacity for disrupting essential ecosystem services, including the pollination of native flowers. Invaders that are particularly showy, resource-laden and widespread appear to be the most likely to create pollinator competition. Native plants that are most likely to be impacted by the encroachment of such invaders are those that are sensitive to disturbance, locally rare and obligate-outcrossers. This study examined the effects of a widespread showy invader of the Pacific Northwest, Rubus armeniacus, on an imperiled endemic wildflower, Sidalcea hendersonii. These species are sympatric, have overlapping flowering phenologies and provide pollinators with similar resources: copious amounts of pollen and nectar. Pollinator observations revealed that 77% of species that visited S. hendersonii also visited the invader and that R. armeniacus flowers received more than three times as many total visits as S. hendersonii flowers. Further, three of the most common insect pollinators in the study system, Apis mellifera, Thymelicus lineola, (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) and Nacerdes melanura (Coleoptera: Oedemeridae) were non-native. Invasive pollen deposition on native stigmas was high, with 67% of the S. hendersonii stigmas containing at least one R. armeniacus pollen grain. However, there was no relationship between either invasive pollen deposition or S. hendersonii seed set and distance from the invader (1m, 15m and 50m). Across all distances, pollen supplementation revealed that S. hendersonii was pollen-limited, with an average increase in seed set of 37% in pollen-supplemented flowers. Thus, either R. armeniacus does not have a reproductive effect on S. hendersonii and the observed pollen limitation was a result of other environmental factors, or R. armeniacus creates a pollen-limiting force that is felt across the entire study area equally. Regardless, the first-year seed set of this rare, self-incompatible species in a highly invaded environment was on par with several wild S. hendersonii populations in British Columbia (Marshall 1997) and the high degree of visitor diversity suggests that the plant will be serviced even in highly invaded communities. This result, and the general vigor and health of all the transplanted study plants, sheds a positive light on the restoration potential of a rare endemic. Moreover, a main threat to the species, as reported in British Columbia and Oregon populations, is seed predation by weevils (Macrorhoptus sidalcea and Anthonomus melancholicus) (Marshall 1997, Marshall and Ganders 2001, Gisler and Love 2005), which were not found at the Ferndale, Wash., study site, suggesting that restored S. hendersonii populations may actually have greater reproductive success than remnant endemic populations, at least in the short term.
Structure, dynamics and bifurcations of discrete solitons in trapped ion crystals
Creators: name: Landa, H.
name: Brox, J.
name: Mielenz, M.
name: Schaetz, T.
name: Reznik, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study discrete solitons (kinks) accessible in state-of-the-art trapped ion experiments, considering zigzag crystals and quasi-3D configurations, both theoretically and experimentally. We first extend the theoretical understanding of different phenomena predicted and recently experimentally observed in the structure and dynamics of these topological excitations. Employing tools from topological degree theory, we analyze bifurcations of crystal configurations in dependence on the trapping parameters, and investigate the formation of kink configurations and the transformations of kinks between different structures. This allows us to accurately define and calculate the effective potential experienced by solitons within the Wigner crystal, and study how this (so-called Peierls-Nabarro) potential gets modified to a nonperiodic globally trapping potential in certain parameter regimes. The kinks' rest mass (energy) and spectrum of modes are computed and the dynamics of linear and nonlinear kink oscillations are analyzed. We also present novel, experimentally observed, configurations of kinks incorporating a large-mass defect realized by an embedded molecular ion, and of pairs of interacting kinks stable for long times, offering the perspective for exploring and exploiting complex collective nonlinear excitations, controllable on the quantum level.
description: 25 pages, 10 figures, v2 corrects Fig. 2 and adds some text and references
Additional file 4 of A flexible liposomal polymer complex as a platform of specific and regulable immune regulation for individual cancer immunotherapy
Creators: name: Chen, Chia-Hung
name: Weng, Tzu-Han
name: Huang, Hsiao-Hsuan
name: Huang, Ling-Ya
name: Huang, Kai-Yao
name: Chen, Pin-Rong
name: Yeh, Kuang-Yu
name: Huang, Chi-Ting
name: Chien, Yu-Tzu
name: Chuang, Po-Ya
name: Lin, Yu-Ling
name: Tsai, Nu-Man
name: Liu, Shih-Jen
name: Su, Yu-Cheng
name: Weng, Shun-Long
name: Liao, Kuang-Wen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 4. The lung photos of mice under different treatments. (A)The representative photos of the lungs from differenttreatments of Fig. 7B were selected. (B) The representative photos ofthe lungs from different treatment groups of Fig. 8B were selected.
BLM rangeland: Has the condition improved?
Creators: name: Angela C. Dudley
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 1997

description: "Whose Home Is the Range, Anyway?: The latest research is confirming that in the West's fragile public lands, cattle are often bad news for wildlife." This is the title and headline of Lisa Drew's article in the December/January 1994 issue of National Wildlife. It shows a picture of what looks like a wasteland with only cattle, manure and a fence, no vegetation (Drew, 1994). Inside the article, Drew quotes biologist Bob Ohmart at Arizona State University's Center for Environmental Studies as saying, "Livestock grazing is without a doubt the greatest threat to western wildlife" (p. 15). Drew contends that, "The more researchers learn, the more of a villain seems the cow, which eats 12,000 pounds of plants a year and lingers in riparian areas" (p. 16).
Livestock grazing on the public rangelands has come under much criticism in both the past and the present. In a 1977 report to the Congress by the Comptroller General of the United States, the first sentence was, "The Nation's public rangelands have been deteriorating for years and, for the most part, are not improving" (p. i). Many environmentalists agree with this statement today. In Ending the Range Wars?, William Riebsame writes: "Environmentalists claim that much of the federal rangeland is overgrazed and that low grazing fees and lax agency oversight give ranchers defacto control of the land and make them careless of the resource" (p. 6).
On the other end of the spectrum is the statement by Thadis Box, "I believe the range, on a whole, is in the best condition it has been in this century" (Box, 1988, p. 1). Box is a Certified Range Management Consultant, past president of the Society for Range Management, professor and Dean Emeritus of Natural Resources at Utah State University. Box made the same statement in 1979 in a paper presented for the Rangelands Policy Symposium in Tucson, Arizona (Box, 1979).
The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the available data concerning range condition on BLM administered lands, and to determine the trend for those lands.
Periodontal healing after different treatments of root fractures: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Antunes, Livia Azeredo Alves
name: Maia, Lucianne Cople
name: Antunes, Leonardo Dos Santos
name: Magaldi, Mariana Gouvêa Latini
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: This study aimed to carry out a scoping review to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge about treatments of root fracture and periodontal stability and tooth survival. The searches were conducted up to August 06, 2023 on the following databases: PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, LILACS using the Virtual Health Library, Embase and Cochrane. The studies were included based in the acronimum PCCo: Participants: adults with evidence of root fracture; concept: root fracture treatment and context: techniques and healing of periodontal tissues after follow up. The eligibility criteria and extracted qualitative data of the fifteen articles, including eight case reports, two observational and five intervention studies were accessed.
DBI Inflation in N=1 Supergravity
Creators: name: Koehn, Michael
name: Lehners, Jean-Luc
name: Ovrut, Burt A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was recently demonstrated that, when coupled to N=1 supergravity, the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action constructed from a single chiral superfield has the property that when the higher-derivative terms become important, the potential becomes negative. Thus, DBI inflation cannot occur in its most interesting, relativistic regime. In this paper, it is shown how to overcome this problem by coupling the model to one or more additional chiral supermultiplets. In this way, one obtains effective single real scalar field DBI models with arbitrary positive potentials, as well as multiple real scalar field DBI inflation models with hybrid potentials.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure, v2: references added
Qualitative measurements of occupant comfort in five U.S. schools
Creators: name: Anthony Miller
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2003

description: The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) performed indoor air quality studies in five U.S. schools during energy retrofits during 1997-98. Four EPA reports and three Environmental Health and Engineering, Inc. (EH&E) reports illustrated the indoor environmental quality before and after heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) retrofits at specific elementary schools in Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, New Jersey, and California. Selected comfort, environmental, physical, and occupant response data were collected in randomly selected areas over a oneweek, fiveschool day monitoring period for each of these schools.
The EPA studied indoor air quality (IAQ) and occupant comfort using an EPA Indoor Environmental Quality Survey. The questionnaire asked the building occupants at the schools about how they thought their building environment and work affected them. Within in the school building studies, the EPA measured sound, indoor temperature, relative humidity, continuous light, airborne particle concentrations, individual volatile organic compounds (VOCs), formaldehyde, particulates, bacteria and fungi, radon, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide. Selected comfort, environmental, and physical data were collected in selected areas over a three contiguous school day monitoring period. A baseline and follow-up study was conducted for each school. Survey information possibly suggests that occupant comfort improved after HVAC retrofits, albeit the findings are inconclusive.
The focus of the paper was to determine if occupant comfort improved, decreased, or remained neutral after energy retrofits in the five U. S. schools. Selected measurement data and applicable questionnaire data was summarized for each school and then compared between the pre-study and the post study years.
Larrons En Foire: Perceptions and Changing Strategies in Russia and Britain durring the Balkan Crises
Creators: name: Trombley, Josiah D
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: European history
subject: Russian history
subject: A. G. Jomini
subject: Balkans
subject: Congress of Berlin
subject: Lord Derby
subject: Perception
subject: Russo-Turkish War

description: With a contemporary diplomatic crisis between Russia and the West heating up due to the Russo-Ukrainian War, this thesis looks at an often undervalued Nineteenth Century crisis that offers lessons for the ongoing political situation. This thesis argues that, instead of merely being a starting point for many polities in Southern Europe, the Balkan Crisis of 1876-1878 and the subsequent Treaty of Berlin are not only important for Balkan and Ottoman history, but also provides a crucial window into how a crisis could lead to changes in governing and national ideologies. Crucially, this thesis argues that despite the Russian government’s lack of representative bodies, and the British government’s own incredibly limited electorate, the perception of popular support at home for the Balkan peoples abroad altered the way in which leaders of both empires made diplomatic decisions throughout the Balkan Crises. Furthermore, this public sentiment, in this case support for Balkan nationalism and pan-nationalism, became part of an enduring legacy in the political spheres of both St. Petersburg and London.
MODIFIKATSIYALANG'AN QUMLI  BETON  QURAMIN  ISLEP  SHIG'IW
Creators: name: Kaliknazarova, Amangul
name: Amaniyazova, Farida
name: Jumaniyazova, Juldiz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Modifikaciyalanģan qumlı beton quramın islep shıģıw onıń quramına qosılatuģın qum dáneshelerinin' mayda-iriliginen tartıp, cement quramınada tiykarlanıp qoymastan oģan qosımta retinde yaģnıy modifikaciyalaw ushın quramı hár-tùrli bir birine uqsamaģan qosımtalar qosıp alınadı. Bul qosımtalar betonnıń bekkemliligin asırıp qoymastan, onıń uzaq mùddetke jasawınada ùles qosadı. Qumlı betondı ápiwayı betonģa salıstırģandaģı parqı òzine tùser bahasi bir qansha arzanlastırılģan  hámde jergilikli qurılıs materiallarınan keń tùrde qollanıla alamız. Qumlı betonnan bizler tek ģana qurılıs materialın islep shiģarıp qoymastan, sıbaw jumıslarınada, jol tòsemeleri astınada qarspa retinde qollanıla alamız. Qumlı betonnıń tayar suspenziyasın qaltashalarda tayar halda bazarlarģa tayar ònim retinde usına almız. Qumlı betonnıń bekkemligin asırıw ushın plastifikator ham oģan tebin bulaq titanomagnetit tasın kuydiriw arqalı alınģan shlaktı cement qosımshası  esabında qosıw arqalı betonnıń bekkemligin asıramız.
How ALMA is calibrated: I Antenna-based pointing, focus and amplitude calibration
Creators: name: van Kempen, T.
name: Corder, S.
name: Lucas, R.
name: Mauersberger, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we will discuss which calibrations are needed, how to perform them and how the calibration affect ALMA observations. This first part concentrates on aspects related to a single antenna, namely antenna pointing (including the antenna metrology), focusing, and the amplitude calibration, we also mention the bandpass calibration for single measurements.
Additional file 5 of A flexible liposomal polymer complex as a platform of specific and regulable immune regulation for individual cancer immunotherapy
Creators: name: Chen, Chia-Hung
name: Weng, Tzu-Han
name: Huang, Hsiao-Hsuan
name: Huang, Ling-Ya
name: Huang, Kai-Yao
name: Chen, Pin-Rong
name: Yeh, Kuang-Yu
name: Huang, Chi-Ting
name: Chien, Yu-Tzu
name: Chuang, Po-Ya
name: Lin, Yu-Ling
name: Tsai, Nu-Man
name: Liu, Shih-Jen
name: Su, Yu-Cheng
name: Weng, Shun-Long
name: Liao, Kuang-Wen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 5. Flow chart of theprocess for RNA-seq analysis. The flow chart described how RNA data wereprocessed, the criteria for every stage, and the number of genes. The number ofupregulation genes was shown in red, while that of downregulation genes wasshown in blue.
Conformal coupling associated with the Noether symmetry and its connection with the $Λ$CDM dynamics
Creators: name: de Souza, Rudinei C.
name: Kremer, Gilberto M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of the present work is to investigate a non-minimally coupled scalar field model through the Noether symmetry approach, with the radiation, matter and cosmological constant eras being analyzed. The Noether symmetry condition allows a conformal coupling and by means of a change of coordinates in the configuration space the field equations can be reduced to a single equation, which is of the form of the Friedmann equation for the $Λ$CDM model. In this way, it is formally shown that the dynamical system can furnish solutions with the same form as those of the $Λ$CDM model, although the theory here considered is physically different from the former. The conserved quantity associated with the Noether symmetry can be related to the kinetic term of the scalar field and could constrain the possible deviations of the model from the $Λ$CDM picture. Observational constraints on the variation of the gravitational constant can be imposed on the model through the initial condition of the scalar field.
description: 12 pages. Version accepted for publication in CQG
UNLV residence hall recycling & reuse program for move-in and move-out
Creators: name: Angela Michelson
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 1999

description: The goal of this thesis was to develop a program for the UNLV Residence Hall Recycling & Reuse Program for Move-In and Move-Out that would collect unwanted and unneeded materials from the residents and put them to use. Move-In collected cardboard boxes for recycling while Move-Out collected usable items such as shoes, clothes, food, bedding, and school supplies for resale. In order to have a good collection turnout, a combination of advertising and resident and staff education was conducted. Letters were sent to Resident Assistants (RAs) and Complex Coordinators and posters and other advertisements were placed in high traffic areas for both Move-In and Move-Out. For Move-In cardboard dumpsters were put into place outside next to garbage dumpsters and for Move-Out collection bins were put into place on each floor in every hall. The collection diverted a total of 8,627.5 pounds of material for the 1998 Move-Out Program and approximately 28 cubic yards of cardboard for the 1998 Move-In Program. Although the collection for Move-In and Move-Out was very successful some important changes need to be made to improve the program. The changes deal more with the administration and coordination of the program, instead of the program design. Some changes include having pre-determined collection schedules and responsible volunteers recruited ahead of time. Other changes include improvements of Move-Out collection bins and increasing the number of collection bins. Overall, the program was an incredible success and should be modified and continued.
Der kupferne Spangenhelm: Ein Beitrag zur Stilgeschichte der Völkerwanderungszeit auf waffentechnischer Grundlage
Creators: name: Post, Paul
Publisher: name: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, Bd. 34 (1951-1953): Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
Mosquito population dynamics during the establishment phase of a constructed desert wetland
Creators: name: April Newman
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2002

description: The Nature Preserve at the Clark County Wetlands Park is a constructed wetland that has the potential to produce new mosquito habitat. This thesis evaluates the potential for the development of a mosquito problem at the newly constructed wetland system by assessing the population dynamics of mosquitoes within the Nature Preserve. Based on data collected from May 2001 through January 2002, I describe fluctuations in mosquito genus and relative abundance during the first summer through winter period of wetland development.