cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Hydrogen Peroxide Catalase Treatment of Milk for Swiss Cheese Manufacture
Creators: name: Kowallis, Theodore Ricks
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1961

description: Various temperatures and concentrations of the hydrogen peroxide catalase treatment of milk were studied in an attempt to discover the optimum temperature and concentration that would destroy unfavorable organisms and yet allow favorable ones to grow. The Federal Food and Drug Administration in their November, 1959, Definitions and Standards of Cheeses and Cheese Products states that "the amount of the hydrogen peroxide solution used shall be such that the weight of the hydrogen peroxide added thereby does not exceed 0.05 percent of the weight of the milk treated." Within the maximum level allowed, it was found that in day old manufacturing milk treated with 0.05 percent peroxide for 10 minutes at either 32 C or 49 C, more than 64 percent of all microorganisms present were destroyed. Coliform organisms were very sensitive to peroxide, exhibiting a 92 percent kill at 32 C, and a 100 percent kill at 49 C. Lactic acid producing organisms were next in sensitivity to bacterial destruction, showing an 80 and 83 percent kill respectively for the same temperatures. Spore-forming organisms showed a 42 and 73 percent kill respectively at the above temperatures, but due to the refractory nature of spores to peroxide, the difference was not significant (p .05).
In addition to the foregoing, related studies were conducted on the hydrogen peroxide treatment of milk without the addition of catalase. Storage milk was treated over night at 4 C for 16 hours with two peroxide concentrations, 0.025 and 0.05 percent. At the lower concentration the kill was not satisfactory, while at the higher concentration 50 percent of the spore-formers and 99 percent of the coliforms were killed. There was, however, a peroxide residue which would have to be eliminated to meet Federal Food and Drug Administration standards.
Apodemus (Sylvaemus) witherbyi
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Apodemus
Apodemus witherbyi

description: 33. Steppe Field Mouse, Apodemus (Sylvaemus) witherbyi (Thomas, 1902)
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Distribution: Uncertain status but apparently rare. Recorded from coastal region to Orontes Basin. (Fig. 39)
Previous records: Slenfeh and Kastel Maaf (Lehmann 1965), Kafaria and Jisr ech-Choghur (Shehab et al. 2018).
Remarks: In the past reported as A. sylvaticus, A. hermonensis or A. iconicus (Heptner, 1948; Filippucci et al. 1996) according to skull characters; however, the nomenclature adopted here is based on Kryštufek (2002).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Additional file 1 of Phytochemical investigation and anti-inflammatory potential of Atriplex leucoclada Boiss
Creators: name: Ahmed, Hayam S.
name: Mohamed, Enas I. A.
name: Amin, Elham
name: Moawad, Abeer S.
name: Sadek Abdel-Bakky, Mohamed
name: Almahmoud, Suliman A.
name: Afifi, Naglaa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. 2D Docking poses of β-sitosterol (A), β-sitosterol-3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside (B), 20-hydroxy-ocdysone (C), and luteolin (D) in the active site of COX-2.
title: Studies on Venison Quality: Flavor Studies; Effect of Methods of Thawing, Kind and Level of Fat, and Degree of Doneness
Creators: name: Smith, Grace J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1961

description: Venison represents an important resource in this area. The average number of deer killed in Utah during hunting seasons of the ten-year period, 1940 to 1950, was over 50,000 animals annually according to the Utah State Fish and Game Department. For the period from 1950 to 1960 this figure has increased to over 100,000 animals. In terms of dressed weight, 100,000 animals would yield an estimated 8,000,000 pounds of meat. Neighboring states also produce large numbers of deer. This pictures venison not only as an important resource but as one rapidly increasing in importance.
Small time Chung-type LIL for Lévy processes
Creators: name: Aurzada, Frank
name: Doering, Leif
name: Savov, Mladen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove Chung-type laws of the iterated logarithm for general Lévy processes at zero. In particular, we provide tools to translate small deviation estimates directly into laws of the iterated logarithm. This reveals laws of the iterated logarithm for Lévy processes at small times in many concrete examples. In some cases, exotic norming functions are derived.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/11-BEJ395 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
title: American Indian Hope: A Potential Protective Factor Against Suicidal Ideation
Creators: name: O'Keefe, Victoria M.
name: Tucker, Raymond P.
name: Wingate, LaRicka R.
name: Rasmussen, Kathy A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) suicide is a major public health concern.  Although suicide statistics continue to be high, there is relatively little research investigating the factors associated with AI/AN suicidal behavior.  A new approach to studying suicidal behavior is through using positive psychology concepts, such as hope and optimism.  To our knowledge, this is the first research study to investigate the relationship between hope, optimism, and suicidal ideation amongst American Indian (AI) college students.  Results of regression analyses statistics showed that hope was a significant negative predictor of suicidal ideation, but optimism was not.  The results suggest that AI college students with more hope had less symptoms of suicidal ideation.  However, this was not true for optimism.  This finding demonstrates that the positive psychology construct of hope is relevant to the study of suicidal ideation for AI college students.  The findings of this preliminary study point to the importance of continued research on positive psychology constructs as protective factors against suicidal ideation for AI/AN.  In turn, these protective factors can help inform the development of culturally appropriate suicide prevention and intervention programs for AI/AN communities.
title: Quality Evaluation of Certain Fruit Jellies and Syrups Prepared with Sucrose, Sorbitol, and Synthetic Sweeteners
Creators: name: Day, Sandra Louise
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1962

description: Body weight is fast becoming the major health problem in the United States. Recent estimates of the number of weight conscious people in the United States are now up to 75 million. One year ago, the estimate of overweight individuals was 60 million Americans who were overweight or should be concerned about watching their weight. There are also two million known diabetics who must control their disease and body weight by a restricted caloric intake.
Nitrogen assimilation under different nitrate nutrition in Tunisian durum wheat landraces and improved genotypes
Creators: name: Sawsen Ayadi
name: Jallouli, Salma
name: Landi, Simone
name: Capasso, Giorgia
name: Zoubeir Chamekh
name: Cardi, Manuela
name: Paradisone, Valeria
name: Lentini, Marco
name: Chahine Karmous
name: Trifa, Youssef
name: Esposito, Sergio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: The effects of nitrate were studied in wheat varieties grown in hydroponic culture: two landraces (Azizi and Bidi), and two improved genotypes (Om Rabiaa and Khiar) from Tunisia. Nitrogen (N) supply generally induced an increase in plant height in all varieties, albeit to a different extent; interestingly, landraces exhibited the same N Uptake Efficiency (NUpE) as other varieties, and a lower Nitrogen Utilization Efficiency (NUtE); in contrast, improved genotypes exhibit a better NUtE at high N. Nitrate reductase activity (NRA) was sensibly and constitutively higher in the improved genotypes in the roots, while NRA was strongly influenced by nitrate supply in the leaves of Bidi landrace. Glutamine synthetase (GS) activity was similar in all varieties studied, in contrast, ferredoxin-glutamate synthase (Fd- GOGAT) activity and occurrence were increased by nitrate. Intriguingly, glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) activity followed an opposite behaviour with respect to GOGAT. Glucose-6P-dehydrogenase (G6PDH), which provides reductants for N assimilation, increased in roots upon nitrate supply, but the different plastidial and cytosolic isoforms differently changed in the different varieties studied. The data suggest that landraces present higher metabolic flexibility as compared with improved cultivars; therefore, the metabolic changes observed could be suitable for the identification of factors limiting the NUtE.
A comparison of DNA damage signaling in human epithelial cells treated with UVB and 9,10 phenanthrenequinone
Creators: name: An, Yunqi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: Humans are chronically exposed to environmental risks, including air pollutants and solar UV radiation, which seriously affect human health. 9,10-Phenanthrenequinone (9,10-PQ), a redox-active component found in diesel exhaust particles (DEP), plays a key role in the adverse health effects triggered by air pollution. The first part of my thesis research is to investigate the role of 9,10-PQ in oxidative and mitochondrial stress in human lung epithelial cell lines. The toxicity of 9,10-PQ has been associated with the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) via the process of redox cycling, as evidenced by decrease in cell viability and increase in ROS production in A549 and Calu-1 human lung epithelial cells. In addition, 9,10-PQ induced mitochondrial dysfunction in the cells. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) was found to decrease 9,10-PQ toxicity by suppression of intracellular ROS production and partially by inhibition of mitochondrial dysfunction. In the second part of my thesis research, I have uncovered an unexpected role of 9,10-PQ to induce DNA damage responses (DDR) in human lung epithelial cells. We found that 9,10-PQ caused a time- and concentration-dependent activation of DDR proteins in A549 cells and Calu-1 cells. Treatment of the cells with 9,10-PQ caused a suppression of cell proliferation by inhibiting DNA synthesis, and induction of 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxo-dG), an oxidative DNA damage indicator, suggesting that 9,10-PQ generated ROS mediated DNA damage. The last part focused on the effects of UVB on DDR in human keratinocytes. We found that UVB caused dose- and time-dependent activation of DDR in human keratinocytes. DDR signaling in HaCaT cells predominated in S phase cells, when compared to cells in G0/G1 and G2/M. Increases in UVB-induced ROS were noted when HaCaT cells were depleted of glutathione using buthionine sulfoximine (BSO), this had no effect on the UVB-induced DDR. These data demonstrate that UVB induces cell cycle-dependent DNA damage in human keratinocytes, which is independent of oxidative stress. Taken together, these data provide evidence to compare DNA damage signaling activated by UVB and 9,10-PQ respectively in human epithelial cells.
Mindfulness intervention to reduce stress and increase resilience
Creators: name: Ojuok, Mourine A.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2025

description: Purpose of Project: The project’s purpose was to use a brief mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program to reduce stress and increase resilience in an outpatient mental health clinic. Methodology: A 5-minute guided mindfulness intervention during lunch break done three times a week over the course of a 4-week period. The sample consisted of consisting of nurses, social workers, and secretaries (n=8). The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and Brief Resiliency Scale (BRS) were used to assess stress and resilience respectively. A pre- and postintervention survey was completed with paired data from each of the eight participants using the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test because of the small sample. Results: Wilcoxon Signed Ranked Test, a non-parametric statistic, was used to analyze data for the eight participants. The Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test for the PSS comparison pretest to posttest score showed statistical significance (Z = -2.07, p = .038). Also, the same test for the BRS comparison pretest to posttest score showed statistically significant increased resilience (Z = -2.371, p = .018). The participants’ p-value results were significant for both PSS and BRS. Implications for Practice: Nurses face a high level of stress and constant demands, which can have a severe influence on both physical and psychological health. Mindfulness interventions are cost-effective, provide a means of overcoming problems, promote job satisfaction, minimize errors, improve patient outcomes, and, as a result, reduce stress and increase resilience. This project demonstrates the potential of mindfulness in reducing stress and increasing resilience. Keywords: mindfulness-based intervention, nurses' burnout in mental health, moral distress, job satisfaction, turnover rates in mental health nurses, stress in mental health nurses, anxiety, and quality of life.
title: Recommendations for Counseling Native Americans: Results of a Survey
Creators: name: Thomason, Timothy
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Opinions of a sample of counselors and psychologists who work with Native American clients were examined by means of an internet survey. Most respondents recommended humanistic counseling approaches. Other recommendations concerned methods for building rapport with Native clients, reducing barriers to counseling, and incorporating Native practices and spirituality into counseling.
title: An Investigation of Clinically Significant Change among Child and Adolescent Clients of a Graduate-Level Training Clinic
Creators: name: Prout, Kerry K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: The study investigated client outcome data for child and adolescent clients seen for outpatient psychotherapy services by graduate-level student therapists in a psychology training clinic in order to better understand change trajectories occurring in such settings and to examine whether services being offered are meaningful for youth clients. One hundred sixty-nine clients seen by graduate-level therapists at a training clinic setting were evaluated at each session using the Youth-Outcome Questionnaire 2.01 in order to identify the percentage of clients who met criteria for clinically significant change, reliable improvement, no change, or deterioration in outcomes across the course of treatment. Approximately 24% of clients seen for treatment met criteria for clinically significant change at the termination of treatment and 34% reliably improved. Survival analyses indicated the median time required to attain clinically significant change was 18 sessions, with 10 sessions required for reliable improvement. Current findings are compared to earlier investigations in youth psychotherapy outcomes and training clinic outcomes. The implications of these findings for education and training, client care and clinical services, and policy are discussed.
title: Determined by the Community: CBPR in Alaska Native Communities Building Local Control and Self-Determination
Creators: name: Lewis, Jordan P
name: Boyd, Keri
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Objectives: Past research conducted with Alaska Native communities involved researchers entering the community to gather data then leaving with that data never being returned or presented or the researchers to be heard from again. The communities were not made aware of the findings, how the data was used, or where the information was published. This method of research resulted in significant mistrust of researchers by tribal communities. This article will briefly describe the context and history of research with Alaska Native people; provide an overview of the complex approval process for research through two case studies; highlight the relevant principles of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) when working with tribal communities; and our own experiences with the tribal approval process.
Methods: Using a case study format, the authors provide a guide to the complex approval process in working with tribal communities and the relevance of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR). This is based on their experiences with the approval processes in a dissertation study and a community-based Elder Needs Assessment project.
Results and Conclusions: Drawing from their personal experiences and understanding of the tribal approval process, the authors discuss the benefits and challenges associated with conducting research with tribal communities in rural Alaska. They also provide recommendations for future researchers on how to work effectively with tribal communities, from entry into the community through dissemination and publication of information.
On Computational Complexity of Clifford Algebra
Creators: name: Budinich, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: After a brief discussion of the computational complexity of Clifford algebras, we present a new basis for even Clifford algebra Cl(2m) that simplifies greatly the actual calculations and, without resorting to the conventional matrix isomorphism formulation, obtains the same complexity. In the last part we apply these results to the Clifford algebra formulation of the NP-complete problem of the maximum clique of a graph introduced in a previous paper.
description: 13 pages
title: A Comparative Study of Milk Solids and Corn Syrup Solids in the Manufacture of Sherbets
Creators: name: Walker, George C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1957

description: Burke says, "Product inferiority constitutes the greatest menace to the success and progress of any industry." The ice cream industry is no exception. Improvement in the quality of dairy products is a challenge that always faces the industry. Today's products are good, but they can be improved, Sherbet is one product that should be improved most. Many ice cream manufacturers are losing a great potential market because sherbets generally are of poor quality.
title: Defining of a Peace Process within Indigenous Research, Indigenous Ethics and the Implications in Psychology.
Creators: name: Hains, Shaun L
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: An Indigenous Research process over sixteen years and during this time, a peace process emerged as a key element within Indigenous Research. The Indigenous Research included a school where and 100% of Native Students stayed in school (large urban school), work with mediators, and work with youth with special needs. The Indigenous Research was also during a time as Indigenous Ethics was being defined. When applied, it became clear that a working understanding of a peace process was needed. A peace process was defined that worked cross-culturally. This longitudinal work then was then placed within Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Research, Indigenous Ethics, Indigenous Pedagogy, Indigenous Science and Indigenous Peace Processes. As a result of Indigenous Research methods, this paper was prepared to outline how the work of peace can be a foundation for defining work in Indigenous Psychology.
Additional file 1 of Spatio-temporal modeling of human leptospirosis prevalence using the maximum entropy model
Creators: name: Shirzad, Reza
name: Alesheikh, Ali Asghar
name: Asgharzadeh, Mojtaba
name: Hoseini, Benyamin
name: Lotfata, Aynaz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Appendix Fig.A.1. (a) Average temperature, (b) average maximum monthly temperature and (c) average yearly precipitation maps in Iran from 2009-2018. Appendix Fig.A.2. Average Normaized Differenece Vegetation Index (NDVI) map in Iran from 2009-2018. Appendix Fig.A.3. Map of Landcover in Iran based on GlobeCover map. Appendix Table A.1. Description of different classes of Landcover map. Appendix Fig.A.4. (a) Maps of distance from water areas and (b) displacement areas. Appendix Fig.A.5. (a) DEM and (b) Slope maps of the study area.
Boundary Harnack Inequality for alpha-harmonic functions on the Sierpiński triangle
Creators: name: Kaleta, Kamil
name: Kwaśnicki, Mateusz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J45

description: We prove an uniform boundary Harnack inequality for nonnegative functions harmonic with respect to $α$-stable process on the Sierpi{ń}ski triangle, where $α\in (0, 1)$. Our result requires no regularity assumptions on the domain of harmonicity.
title: Foraging Behavior and Habitat Use Patterns of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) in Relation to Human Activity and Salmon Abundance on a Coastal Alaskan Salmon Stream
Creators: name: Crupi, Anthony P.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2003

description: Over the past decade, demand for recreation has increased as part of Alaska's doubling growth in tourism. Along the Chilkoot River, near Haines, fishing and bear viewing have become increasingly popular. I investigated the ecological and behavioral interactions there between two brown bears, salmon, and humans between 2000 and 2002. My objectives were to: (1) determine if specific human activities differentially influenced bear activity and foraging behavior, (2) identify temporal and spatial habitat use patterns, (3) evaluate brown bear response to natural and human disturbances and quantify related flight distances, (4) investigate changes in bear foraging behaviors in response to prey abundance and human activity to find if bears selectively forage to maximize energy intake, and (5) assess the role of individual tolerance for human proximity in relation to specific foraging behaviors.
Evidence clearly indicated that temporal and spatial brown bear activity patterns were influenced by human activity. Bears were most active and spent the longest periods of time fishing when the numbers of anglers and vehicles were below threshold levels. Adult female bears disproportionately preferred (73%) non-roaded riparian habitat, while subadults were less selective. I classified over 1000 disturbance responses and found human activity accounted for 46% of bear departures with a mean flight response distance of 97 meters. When humans were either absent or at distances greater than or equal to 100 meters from bear activity, bears captured fish at higher rates, captured 2.65 times as many fish, and caught greater proportions of live fish (71%). The greatest predictors of capture rate were the time of day when bears fished, the proximity of human activity, and the individual's tolerance level. Bear tolerance for human proximity helped explain variation in capture rates, foraging bout lengths, and total salmon captured. This suggests nutritional rewards for bears adapting to human disturbance.
These analyses depict clear relationships with simple interpretation of the dynamic relationships between people, bears, and their environment. With improved understanding of the Chilkoot River's natural resources, managers can work to reduce bear-human conflicts and plan for continued growth in tourism and recreation.
title: Reward Differences Between Adolescents From A Native American Community And Adolescents From A Non-Native American Community
Creators: name: Guthmiller, Mark
name: Houlihan, Daniel D
name: Klein, Liesa A.
name: Homan, Kendra J
name: Jollie-Trottier, Tammy J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Differences in preferred rewards of male and female Native American and non-Native America adolescents were examined using the Native American version of the Survey of Rewards for Teens (SORT-NA). The SORT-NA is a self-report survey which examines preferences across eight domains: sports, food, entertainment, excursions, interests and hobbies, social activities, social related activities, and a miscellaneous category. Results indicated significant differences in reward preference across culture in two domains, and across gender in five domains.
A Strong Law of Large Numbers with Applications to Self-Similar Stable Processes
Creators: name: Nane, Erkan
name: Xiao, Yimin
name: Zeleke, Aklilu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G52, 60F15

description: Let $p \in (0, \infty)$ be a constant and let $\{ξ_n\} \subset L^p(Ω, {\mathcal F}, ¶)$ be a sequence of random variables. For any integers $m, n \ge 0$, denote $S_{m, n} = \sum_{k=m}^{m + n} ξ_k$. It is proved that, if there exist a nondecreasing function $φ: \R_+\to \R_+$ (which satisfies a mild regularity condition) and an appropriately chosen integer $a\ge 2$ such that $$ \sum_{n=0}^\infty \sup_{k \ge 0} \E\bigg|\frac{S_{k, a^n}} {φ(a^n)} \bigg|^p < \infty,$$ Then $$ \lim_{n \to \infty} \frac{S_{0, n}} {φ(n)} = 0\qquad \hbox{a.s.} $$ This extends Theorem 1 in Levental, Chobanyan and Salehi \cite{chobanyan-l-s} and can be applied conveniently to a wide class of self-similar processes with stationary increments including stable processes.
description: 9 pages
Heterogeneous Graph Learning for Explainable Recommendation over Academic Networks
Creators: name: Chen, Xiangtai
name: Tang, Tao
name: Ren, Jing
name: Lee, Ivan
name: Chen, Honglong
name: Xia, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6
subject: 68Q32, 68T07

description: With the explosive growth of new graduates with research degrees every year, unprecedented challenges arise for early-career researchers to find a job at a suitable institution. This study aims to understand the behavior of academic job transition and hence recommend suitable institutions for PhD graduates. Specifically, we design a deep learning model to predict the career move of early-career researchers and provide suggestions. The design is built on top of scholarly/academic networks, which contains abundant information about scientific collaboration among scholars and institutions. We construct a heterogeneous scholarly network to facilitate the exploring of the behavior of career moves and the recommendation of institutions for scholars. We devise an unsupervised learning model called HAI (Heterogeneous graph Attention InfoMax) which aggregates attention mechanism and mutual information for institution recommendation. Moreover, we propose scholar attention and meta-path attention to discover the hidden relationships between several meta-paths. With these mechanisms, HAI provides ordered recommendations with explainability. We evaluate HAI upon a real-world dataset against baseline methods. Experimental results verify the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Drying of wheat grain in thin layers
Creators: name: Bhargava, Veerendra Kumar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The effect of drying parameters on the drying-rate constant, the diffusion coefficient, and the dynamic equilibrium moisture content was investigated using the Park variety of wheat. The initial moisture content of all the grain used in the drying tests was approximately 29 percent, dry basis. Air temperatures of 120, 100, 80 and 60 degrees Farenheit; air flow rates of 120, 80, 20 and 5 feet per minute and several relative humidities were employed as the drying conditions during the tests. A closed cycle, heated air dryer in which the air temperature and the relative humidity could be controlled to ± 2 degrees Farenheit and ± 5 percent respectively, was constructed for the investigation. It was assumed that the mechanism of internal flow of moisture within a kernel is that of diffusion. When the initial transition drying period was neglected, the drying-rate constant and the diffusion coefficient were found to be constant and the plot of log moisture ratio against time gave an excellent fit for each drying test. It was concluded that the falling-rate period in thin layer drying could be represented by a constant drying-rate constant and diffusion coefficient. The effect of air temperature on the drying-rate constant and diffusion coefficient was found to be inconsistent with an Arrhenius type equation. There was no observable effect due .to air flow rate and relative humidity of the drying air. The dynamic equilibrium moisture content increased with increased relative humidity of the air. A plot of log dynamic equilibrium moisture content versus log-log relative humidity gave a straight line relationship and satisfied Henderson's equation. The equilibrium constants were found to vary with the air temperature. The dynamic equilibrium moisture content was found to decrease with both the air temperature and air flow rate. The effect of air flow rate was quite small except at low' temperatures. When log air temperature was plotted against dynamic equilibrium moisture content, it followed a straight line, indicating that an exponential relationship between the two might exist.
Functional Itô calculus and stochastic integral representation of martingales
Creators: name: Cont, Rama
name: Fournié, David-Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop a nonanticipative calculus for functionals of a continuous semimartingale, using an extension of the Ito formula to path-dependent functionals which possess certain directional derivatives. The construction is based on a pathwise derivative, introduced by Dupire, for functionals on the space of right-continuous functions with left limits. We show that this functional derivative admits a suitable extension to the space of square-integrable martingales. This extension defines a weak derivative which is shown to be the inverse of the Ito integral and which may be viewed as a nonanticipative "lifting" of the Malliavin derivative. These results lead to a constructive martingale representation formula for Ito processes. By contrast with the Clark-Haussmann-Ocone formula, this representation only involves nonanticipative quantities which may be computed pathwise.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AOP721 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Transport and magnetotransport properties of cold-pressed CrO$_2$ powder, prepared by hydrothermal synthesis
Creators: name: Belevtsev, B. I.
name: Dalakova, N. V.
name: Osmolowsky, M. G.
name: Beliayev, E. Yu.
name: Selutin, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Submicron powder of CrO$_2$ was prepared by hydrothermal synthesis method from chromium trioxide. Particles obtained were of rounded form with mean diameter about 120 nm. The powder (stabilized with thin surface layer of β-CrOOH) has been characterized by structural, X-ray and magnetic measurements. The powder (with Curie temperature about 385 K) was cold-pressed and its transport and magnetotransport properties have been measured in the temperature range 4--450 K in magnetic field up to 1.6 T. The samples studied is characterized by non-metallic temperature behavior of resistance and large negative magnetoresistance (MR) in low temperature range. At T=5 K the MR magnitude has been -17% at H=0.3 T and -20% at H=1.4 T. Its magnitude decreased fast with increase in temperature reducing to 0.3% and less for T>200 K. It is shown that this MR behavior is inherent for a system of magnetic grains with spin-dependent intergrain tunnelling. Some peculiarities of MR behavior in low-temperature range (below 40 K) can be associated with percolating character of tunnelling conductivity of this granular system under conditions of availability of only few conducting current paths through the sample.
description: 21 pages (including 9 separate figures), submitted to J. of Alloys and Compounds
Mus (Mus) macedonicus Petrov & Ruzic 1983
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Mus
Mus macedonicus

description: 34. Macedonian Mouse, Mus (Mus) macedonicus Petrov & Ružić, 1983
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Distribution: Status uncertain, probably abundant, and widely distributed in rural areas, but does not occur close to human settlements (Fig. 40).
Previous records: Aleppo (Harrison & Bates 1991), Qater Maghara and el- Ukersheh (Shehab et al. 2004).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
title: Attitudes of Ogden City Teachers Toward Merit Rating
Creators: name: Carruth, Russell W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1955

description: Many people have from time to time concerned themselves with the problem of the benefits and detriments that would accrue to the teaching profession if a merit rating system were to be adopted. One of the most notable is a two-part discussion resented by prominent educators in the field of public education in New York. This discussion is aimed at exposing the strengths and weaknesses of merit rating in general and, more specifically, as conducted in their own state.
Quantum Darwinism in a hazy environment
Creators: name: Zwolak, Michael
name: Quan, H. T.
name: Zurek, Wojciech H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum Darwinism recognizes that we - the observers - acquire our information about the "systems of interest" indirectly from their imprints on the environment. Here, we show that information about a system can be acquired from a mixed-state, or hazy, environment, but the storage capacity of an environment fragment is suppressed by its initial entropy. In the case of good decoherence, the mutual information between the system and the fragment is given solely by the fragment's entropy increase. For fairly mixed environments, this means a reduction by a factor 1-h, where h is the haziness of the environment, i.e., the initial entropy of an environment qubit. Thus, even such hazy environments eventually reveal the state of the system, although now the intercepted environment fragment must be larger by ~1/(1-h) to gain the same information about the system.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Symmetric flow past orthotropic bodies : single and clusters
Creators: name: Masliyah, Jacob Heskel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equation was successfully accomplished, using an adaptation of the relaxation technique of Jenson, for axisymmetric flow past single oblate and prolate spheroids at particle Reynolds numbers up to 100. The aspect ratio of the spheroids varied between 0.999 (nearly perfect sphere) and 0.2. For low aspect ratios the surface pressure and vorticity distributions showed a marked difference from those of a sphere. The appearance of the wake bubble behind a spheroid was found to be a strong function of the particle shape. Numerical solutions were also obtained for two-dimensional symmetric flow past elliptical cylinders, with the flow parallel to the major axis for aspect ratios of 0.995 to 0.2 at Reynolds numbers up to 90, and with the flow parallel to the minor axis for an aspect ratio of 0.2 at Reynolds numbers up to 40. The numerical solution was found to be less stable than the corresponding three-dimensional axisymmetric case. The variation of the total drag coefficient with Reynolds number for the spheroids and the elliptical cylinders of various aspect ratios was not much different from that of a sphere and a circular cylinder, respectively. The results for both the spheroids and the elliptical cylinders showed a steady trend with Reynolds number from Stokes and/or Oseen flow to boundary layer flow. Happel's free surface cell model and Kuwabara's zero vorticity cell model were employed for the study of creeping flow past swarms of aligned spheroids and clusters of aligned elliptical cylinders. Large deviations of the Kozeny constant from its commonly assumed value of 5 for packed beds were found by both models for particles which deviate significantly in shape from a sphere or a circular cylinder. In general, Happel's free surface model predicted lower total drag coefficients than did Kuwabara's zero vorticity model for both the swarms of spheroids and the clusters of elliptical cylinders. Contours of the streamlines, equi-vorticity lines and equi-velocity lines are presented.
title: A Sweetgrass Method of Bullying Prevention for Native American Youth
Creators: name: Baez, Mark Standing Eagle
name: Isaac, Patricia
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: A Sweetgrass Method of Bullying Prevention for Native American Youth
Abstract
The Sweetgrass Method of Bullying Prevention for Native Youth serves as an instrument and strategy to communicate, collaborate and continue healthy journeys for native people. Native
Americans have held sweetgrass as sacred for a very long time. Sweetgrass is used to cleanse the heart so that our hearts feel the truth, grow in harmony and balance, and feel compassion, gentleness and thoughtfulness for others. The Sweetgrass Method forms a culturally responsive method of delivery for bullying prevention by looking at the three braiding strands: introspective (looking within self), collaboration with families (reaching out to others), and continuity (providing continued support) as a means of developing partnerships. What we bring from this is an understanding that we as educators will braid the introspective (self) with collaborative and constant support efforts for students and their families (Baez, 2011).
Although the Sweetgrass Method is not an empirically based research approach, it is a method that addresses cultural partnerships with traditional practitioners as important stakeholders in addressing “traditionally” how Native youth should carry themselves in public.
title: Internal Family Systems (IFS) in Indian Country:  Perspectives and Practice on Harmony and Balance
Creators: name: McVicker, Suzan A. M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Today's Indigenous peoples straddle several worlds. This article explores the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model as a healing, psycho-therapeutic modality that offers an accessible language and framework for those whose knowledge is drawn from both Indigenous worldviews and Western worldviews. IFS is viewed through the lens of Indigenous Knowledge Research (IKR). A description of an IFS workshop presented at the Society of Indian Psychologists annual conference in 2012 gives an introduction to the basic concepts of IFS. Although IFS, a bio/psychosocial/spiritual/energy healing model, has gained wide acceptance over the last twenty years as a non-pathologizing way to reduce the impacts of trauma and increase compassionate respect, it is not well known in Indian Country. A distinguishing aspect of the model is the belief that the core self has interconnecting, healing, and leadership qualities that are different from other parts (or sub-personalities of an individual. IFS and IKR hold resonant values, methodologies, and worldviews which invite wider application of IFS healing in Indian Country.
Enhanced biomass production of Scenedesmus obliquus in a flat-panel photobioreactor, grown in photoautotrophic mode
Creators: name: Trivedi, Jayati
name: Atray, Neeraj
name: Agrawal, Deepti
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A study on biomass accumulation was conducted with Scenedesmus obliquus CCAP 276/3A in flat-panel photobioreactor, grown in photoautotrophic mode. It is one of the prime prerequisites to increase the economic feasibility and acceptance of microalgal feedstock for biofuel production, besides high lipid concentration. Various physicochemical parameters considered for evaluation during the present study were illumination conditions between 50 and 200 µmol m−2 s−1, temperatures between 22 and 30°C, pH varying from 7 to 9, and with and without the use of buffers. Among the variables, growth temperature and buffering with TRICINE had a pronounced effect on the enhanced biomass production. With an illumination intensity of 150 µmol m−2 s−1 at 24°C in the TRICINE-buffered Bold's Basal medium (pH 8.5) the maximum biomass concentration achieved was 1.76 gL-1. The specific growth rate of the microalga was found to be 1.28 d−1. Under these optimized conditions, the maximum lipid accumulation in Scenedesmus obliquus was found to be 33% (w/w). The compositional analysis of the neutral lipids indicated the predominance of palmitic acid and linoleic acid, accounting for 28% and 22.5%, respectively.
title: Using Community Based Participatory Action Research as Service-learning for Tribal College Students
Creators: name: Cowden, kimberly J.
name: McDonald, Leander
name: Littlefield, Robert
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This work reports the methodological approach used in a Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) project that incorporated Northern Plains tribal college students from four different communities as data gatherers and co-researchers in their communities. We report preliminary findings of perceptions of service learning among the participating tribal college students based on reflective interviews.
title: Incorporating a Training Construct into the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology
Creators: name: Harris, Matthew E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: The purpose of this study was to identify and examine existing technology acceptance constructs as they relate to end-user participation in training programs. By analyzing technology acceptance constructs and their fit with existing training paradigms, it was expected that there would be a significant increase in use behavior as defined in the Unified Theory of Technology Acceptance and Use (UTAUT) model. An extended model that describes the links between the training paradigms and existing technology acceptance constructs as found in the UTAUT was then introduced and tested to see if the model could be improved by adding a training reactions construct.
Online pre and post training surveys were received from 111 students who participated in face-to-face training on structured query language (SQL) during spring 2014 and 2015 semesters. Survey questions were created from previously validated technology acceptance and training studies. From these responses, the basic structure of the original UTAUT model was partially confirmed.
The first conclusion drawn from this study was that training reactions (TR) significantly impact behavioral intention to use (BIU) information technology and was positively correlated, suggesting when TR increased, BIU also increased. The second conclusion drawn from this study was that the relationship between TR and BIU information technology was not fully mediated by facilitating conditions (FC), but was partially mediated by it. The third conclusion drawn from this study was that from the original UTAUT model, only performance expectancy (PE) was found to be a significant predictor of BIU information technology. Effort expectancy (EE), social influences (SI), and facilitating conditions (FC) were not found to be significant. Also, neither gender nor computer experience moderated any of the independent variables from the original UTAUT model. The fourth conclusion drawn from this study was neither gender, nor computer experience (Exp) moderated TR in predicting BIU.
Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection via Alfven Eigenmodes
Creators: name: Dai, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an analytic approach to the problem of collisionless magnetic reconnection formulated as a process of Alfven eigenmodes' generation and dissipation. Alfven eigenmodes are confined by the current sheet in the same way that quantum mechanical waves are confined by the tanh^2 potential. The dynamical time scale of reconnection is the system scale divided by the eigenvalue propagation velocity of the n=1 mode. The prediction of the n=1 mode shows good agreement with the in situ measurement of the reconnection-associated Hall fields.