cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Permanganate oxidations and the carboxyl group
Creators: name: MacPhee, John Anthony
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In order to study the possible effects on permanganate oxidation reactions of a carboxyl sustituent near the reacting centre, three systems were investigated. The first of these systems consisted of the 2-and 4-benzhydrolcarboxylic acids. It was found that the 2-compound reacted more slowly than the 4-compound. The activation parameters at pH 5.45 show that the rate difference is accounted for entirely in terms of the difference in entropy of activation between the two compounds. Solubility difficulties prevented a study of the reaction below about pH 5. The kinetic results in more basic solution indicate that the pK corresponding to alcoholic OH ionization is greater for the 2-isomer than the 4-isomer. This behaviour is readily explained by examining the pK’s of several model compounds. The second system consisted of phthalaldehydic acid and terephthalaldehydic acid. The behaviour expected for aldehydes is observed except for phthalaldehydic acid at pH 1.55. The kinetic results for phthalaldehydic acid suggest rather strongly that it exists as 3-hydroxy- phthalide in acid solution (pH 1.55) and as the free aldehyde above pH 6. This result is shown to be in accord with previous work dealing with the diverse chemical behaviour of phthalaldehydic acid. The third system was the 2-carboxy cyclohexanol system. The pH-rate profiles of a number of isomeric 2-carboxy cyclohexanols were investigated as well as-that of the parent compound, cyclohexanol. It was found that cis-2-hydroxy-cyclohexanecarboxylic acid (XIV) showed a bell-shape rate maximum in its pH-rate profile around pH 6, while trans-2-hydroxycyclohexanecarboxylic acid did not. The parent compound, cyclohexanol, does not show such an effect - the pH-rate profile is almost flat in the region pH 4 to 8. The pH-rate profiles of cis-5-t-butyl-cis-2-hydroxycyclohexanecarboxylic acid (X), cis-5-t-butyl-trans-2- hydroxycyclohexanecarboxylic acid (XI), and trans-5-t-butyl-cis-2-hydroxycyclohexanecarboxylic acid (XII) were also investigated. A mechanism is proposed which involves two opposed dissociation equilibria involving hydrogen ions. A comparison of the reactivity of XIV in protium oxide with that in deuterium oxide gives evidence consistent with the mechanism. The conformational aspects of the reaction (elucidated by means of the conformationally biased compounds -X, XI and XII) were found also to be consistent with the proposed mechanism. It was possible to make a decision between the two kinetically indistinguishable forms of the proposed mechanism on the basis of the assembled data
Structure and bonding in some mono- and bisfluorosulfates
Creators: name: Mailer, Kathleen O'Sullivan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The single crystal X-ray analyses of KSO(3)F and NH(4)SO(3)F are reported. Both are orthorhombic (space group: Pnma) with cell dimensions a =8.62 Å, b =5.84, c = 7.35 and a = 8.97 Å, b = 5.99, c = 7.54 respectively. Two of the anion ligand positions are completely disordered in KSO(3)F (i.e. SO(2)X(2)¯, X = 50% F and 50% O). A hydrogen bond between NH(4)+ and one of the SO(3)F ¯ disordered positions causes that ligand position to be occupied preferentially by oxygen in NH(4)SO(3)F. The laser Raman spectrum of CH(3)C(OH)(2)SO(3)F is determined. The vibrational spectra and SO(3)F¯ dimensions are compared in NK(4)SO(3)Fr KSO(3)F, CH(3)C(OH)(2)SO(3)F, and (CH3)2 Sn(SO3F)2. The SO(3)F¯ dimensions are surprisingly constant with only S-F in (CF3)2Sn(SO3F)2 (in which there is greatest X-OSO(2)F interaction) shorter than in the others. vS-F increases with increasing cation-anion interaction. The vibrational spectra of the fluorosulfates of Li+, Na+ , K+, NH4+, Rb+, Cs+, (CH3)4N+, and (C6H5)4As+ are reported. vS-F increases 108 cm(-1) with polarizing power of the cation (from (C6H5)4As+ to Li+) and vS-O (average) increases in the same series by 35 cm(-1). The preparation and conductivity in HSO(3)F of Sn(SO3F)2 and Pb(SO3F)2 are reported. Both are weaker bases than Ca(SO3F)2. The Mössbauer parameters of Sn(SO3F)2 (ὁ= +4.17 mm/sec, ∆ = 0.73 mm/sec) indicate it is one of the most ionic SnII compounds yet reported. A new preparative route for obtaining M(SO3F)2 {M(OOCC6H5)2 + HSO3F} is reported. The vibrational spectra of the bis-fluorosulfates of Mg(II), Ca(II), Sr(II), Ba(II), Sn(Il), Pb(II), Cu(II), Zn(II), Cd(II), Mn(II), and Hg(II) are reported. vS-O (average) and vS-F cannot be correlated with polarizing power of the cation or M2+ ionization potential but are in all cases higher than for the mono-fluorosulfates. The differences among the spectra are explained in terms of polarizing power of the cation, some multiple bonding to fluorine and different site-symmetries for the SO3 F¯ anion.
title: A History of the Utah Extension Service, 1888-1950
Creators: name: Juchau, Karen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1968

description: A Utah State Agriculture Extension Department was created by the Utah State Agricultural College in 1907 to be supported by state appropriations. Its purpose was to bring the information being gained by the College Experiment Station, and other knowledge applicable to agriculture, to the rural population of the State in order to improve the quality of Utah agriculture and the conditions of the farm population. The program began with college instructors holding Farmers' Institutes and schools and expanded into a state-wide system of agricultural and home extension work carried on by specially appointed county agents in each county. The purpose of the agent was to demonstrate to the farmer improved farm methods and help in any way the situation of the farm family.
In 1914 the Smith-Lever Act was passed by the Congress of the United States which appropriated federal funds for county agent work. This made the extension program a joint government undertaking with funds appropriated by state, federal, and local governments. This also linked the Extension Service to the Federal Government through the United States Department of Agriculture and in times of national crisis it was called upon to assist in putting government programs into effect.
The Utah Extension Service can be said to have rendered valuable service to the people of Utah. It has provided information, has been available for consultation in farm and home problems, and has helped unite the rural population by encouraging farm bureau organizations, cooperative associations, and community projects. Through programs involving both adults and young people it has, in one way or another, either directly or indirectly, affected the lives of most Utah citizens. It has become involved in every facet of farm living including economic, social, and political. The object of the Utah Extension Service has been improvement and progress through extending education.
Neither Biased Algorithms nor Biased Humans are Desirable, But Combining Them is Permissible
Creators: name: Wang, Sophie Jiarui
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Given the many notions of fairness, virtually any algorithm or human can be biased or unfair by some standard. Little is known about people’s preferences for potentially biased humans consulting potentially biased Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. In two studies (N = 1,610), we found that (a) people prefer biased humans to consult unbiased AI, (b) people prefer unbiased humans to avoid consulting biased AI, and (c) people lean towards wanting biased humans to consult biased AI. Although people prefer not to utilize algorithmic aids when the human decision-maker is unbiased, people do not always react negatively to algorithms. Algorithms can be a more permissible decision aid for potentially biased humans. This work suggests that in real-world conditions where any human or algorithm can be biased by some standard, people may not object to potentially biased experts consulting with potentially biased AI.
A Formulation of Quantum Field Theory Realizing a Sea of Interacting Dirac Particles
Creators: name: Finster, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this survey article, we explain a few ideas behind the fermionic projector approach and summarize recent results which clarify the connection to quantum field theory. The fermionic projector is introduced, which describes the physical system by a collection of Dirac states, including the states of the Dirac sea. Formulating the interaction by an action principle for the fermionic projector, we obtain a consistent description of interacting quantum fields which reproduces the results of perturbative quantum field theory. We find a new mechanism for the generation of boson masses and obtain small corrections to the field equations which violate causality.
description: 16 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure, minor changes (published version)
A Noisy-Channel Model for Document Compression
Creators: name: Daumé, Hal
name: Marcu, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a document compression system that uses a hierarchical noisy-channel model of text production. Our compression system first automatically derives the syntactic structure of each sentence and the overall discourse structure of the text given as input. The system then uses a statistical hierarchical model of text production in order to drop non-important syntactic and discourse constituents so as to generate coherent, grammatical document compressions of arbitrary length. The system outperforms both a baseline and a sentence-based compression system that operates by simplifying sequentially all sentences in a text. Our results support the claim that discourse knowledge plays an important role in document summarization.
title: The power of hope for Māori youth suicide prevention: Preliminary themes from the Aotearoa/New Zealand HOPE studies
Creators: name: Lawson-Te Aho, Keri Rose
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Hope is considered a protective factor for suicide prevention in Māori communities. In this small study, twenty-one Māori youth in four at risk communities participated in a digital media project on the constituents of HOPE. The preliminary results show that a positive relationship with peers and family is critical for the maintenance of hope in the lives of these Māori youth. The constituents of HOPE identified in this study include; a supportive non-judgmental family, particularly important for queer/LGBTI Māori youth; stable family relationships; knowledge of one’s cultural identity, exposure to opportunities to learn about being Māori; faith and capacity to envisage a life beyond the immediate struggle for survival and to set and achieve personal goals. This preliminary study will inform an extended study with Māori youth and development of a Māori measure of HOPE to guide suicide prevention efforts in the future.
Probing CPT Violation in B Systems
Creators: name: Kundu, Anirban
name: Nandi, Soumitra
name: Patra, Sunando Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss how a possible violation of the combined symmetry CPT in the B meson system can be investigated at the LHC. We show how a tagged and an untagged analysis of the decay modes of both B(d) and B(s) mesons can lead not only to a possible detection of a CPT-violating new physics but also to an understanding of its precise nature. The implication of CPT violation to a large mixing phase in the B(s) system is also discussed.
description: 14 pages, 5 encapsulated postscript figures. Some typographical errors corrected
Suncus etruscus
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
Soricomorpha
Soricidae
Suncus
Suncus etruscus

description: 46. Etruscan Shrew, Suncus etruscus (Savi, 1822)
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Subspecies: S. e. etruscus (Savi, 1822).
Distribution: Abundant with a wide distribution in Mesopotamia, Aleppo along the coastal region, Orontes Basin, and towards the southwestern region (Fig. 52).
Previous records: ar-Raqqa (Ebenau1996), Qal’atAl-Hosson (Rzebik-Kowalska& Nadachowski1978; Nadachowski et al. 1990), Mhardeh (Kock & Nader 1983), Tell Sheikh Hamad (Krupp & Schneider 1991; Kock et al. 1994), Yahmool (Shehab & Charabi 2006), Serghaya, Al-Mozirieb, Ebla Citadel (Shehab 2002), and Qal’at Sukkara, Tell Al-Buderi, and es-Salihiyyeh (Hutterer & Kock 2002).
Recent records: Fadrah, Deir Hbash, Salqeen (2020), az-Zabadani (2021), and Tell Hidiah (2022).
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 61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
title: Activation of Prorennin at Low pH Values
Creators: name: Shukri, Nazar A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1965

description: Rennin is the main milk-clotting enzyme in the fourth stomach of young calves. This enzyme has been crystallized and studied by several workers such as Hankinson, Berridee, and Ernstrom, and found to be heterogeneous. It is a proteolytic enzyme, which exhibits its maximum activity on hemoglobin, bovine serum albumin, and casein in the region of pH 3.4 - 4.0. It has a specificity similar to, but narrower than, that of pepsin.
Implementation of two-party protocols in the noisy-storage model
Creators: name: Wehner, Stephanie
name: Curty, Marcos
name: Schaffner, Christian
name: Lo, Hoi-Kwong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The noisy-storage model allows the implementation of secure two-party protocols under the sole assumption that no large-scale reliable quantum storage is available to the cheating party. No quantum storage is thereby required for the honest parties. Examples of such protocols include bit commitment, oblivious transfer and secure identification. Here, we provide a guideline for the practical implementation of such protocols. In particular, we analyze security in a practical setting where the honest parties themselves are unable to perform perfect operations and need to deal with practical problems such as errors during transmission and detector inefficiencies. We provide explicit security parameters for two different experimental setups using weak coherent, and parametric down conversion sources. In addition, we analyze a modification of the protocols based on decoy states.
description: 41 pages, 33 figures, this is a companion paper to arXiv:0906.1030 considering practical aspects, v2: published version, title changed in accordance with PRA guidelines
A Large-Scale Exploration of Effective Global Features for a Joint Entity Detection and Tracking Model
Creators: name: Daumé, Hal
name: Marcu, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Entity detection and tracking (EDT) is the task of identifying textual mentions of real-world entities in documents, extending the named entity detection and coreference resolution task by considering mentions other than names (pronouns, definite descriptions, etc.). Like NE tagging and coreference resolution, most solutions to the EDT task separate out the mention detection aspect from the coreference aspect. By doing so, these solutions are limited to using only local features for learning. In contrast, by modeling both aspects of the EDT task simultaneously, we are able to learn using highly complex, non-local features. We develop a new joint EDT model and explore the utility of many features, demonstrating their effectiveness on this task.
title: Effects of Hydro-Cooling, Chemicals, and Packaging Treatments on Refrigerated-Life and Quality of Sweet Cherries and in vitro Effects of Chemicals on Selected Fungi Responsible for Fruit Deterioration
Creators: name: Do, Joseph Yungsheng
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1964

description: As the population tends to urbanize, the potential consumer market of fresh produce becomes distant from the producing farm. This distance brings to growers and handlers the problems of how to keep their fresh products unspoiled after harvest and during transit period of shipping, and how they can be delivered to the specified destination without substantial deterioration. It is the common interest of fruit growers, shippers, wholesalers, and retailers that the shelf-life of fresh fruit be prolonged to increase sales.
Sweet cherries are one of the important fruit crops in Utah. Being highly perishable, fresh sweet cherries have relatively short storage life after harvest . It is known that the approximate limit for the successful commercial storage of fresh sweet cherries is about 10 days to 2 weeks only. A practicable measure for extending this storage limit has to be established so that the market may have fresh sweet cherries over a longer season and also be able to balance the time of plenty and the time of scarcity. Furthermore, the Utah grown cherries may find new outlets in the distant market. Thus the benefit will be shared by the grower, the seller, and the consumer.
Metabolic breakdown and fungal deterioration are the two important factors which cause the spoilage of fruits. Studies have shown that with many perishable produces, precooling -- the prompt application of refrigeration prior 2 to normal storage or transportation is the key to successful storage. Hydro -cooling treatment is considered to be advantageous especially in Utah, where high temperature and low relative humidity predominate during the harvest season of sweet cherries. Post-harvest chemical and packaging treatments of sweet cherries are possible approaches on ext ending the keeping quality of the fruits concerned. With some of the antifungal agents available today, the fungi which cause fruit decay might be successfully controlled. As a matter of fact, new fungicides, antifungal antibiotics, and packaging films are continuously developed by the industries in the United States. Appropriate combination of these newly developed materials with hydro-cooling followed by refrigerated storage, coupled with in vitro study of the effects of chemicals on fruit decay organisms, might lead to an improvement in the storage life of sweet cherries.
It was with this idea in mind that experiments were conducted to study the effects of hydro-cooling, chemicals, and packaging treatments on preserving fresh sweet cherries and also in vitro effects of chemicals on certain fungi responsible for fruit deterioration.
title: Effects of Pre- and Post-Harvest Applications of 6-Furfurylaminopurine and N6-Benzyladenine on Physio-Chemical Changes in Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)
Creators: name: El-Mansy, Hussein Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1964

description: The extent and nature of physio-chemical changes that take place in detached leaves after harvest and during storage have been reviewed and discussed by Osborne (1962) and Rogers (1955). These changes include loss of moisture (Wittwer et al., 1962), chlorophyll degredation (Person et al., 1957), Protein loss (Thimann and Manmahan, 1960), and result in subsequent appearance of the visual manifestations of senescence of plant tissues.
As lettuce, like most leafy vegetables, deteriorates rapidly and steadily after harvest. Loss of quality is inevitable and can only be minimized by rapid handling and with the best possible storage conditions (Pratt et al., 1954).
In recent years, abundant work has been done to delay senescence by the use of various chemicals. Among the investigated chemicals, kinetin (6-furfurylarninopurine) and its related c ompounds show some promise. Van Overbeek et al. (1941) reported a potent new growthpromoting factor (kinetin) in coconut milk. This chemical is active in causing many of the growth reactions of c oconut milk at exceedingly small dosages. Subsequently several arninopurine compounds were synthesized. One of which is SD 4901 (Verdan), N6-benzyladenine, an experimental senescence inhibitor, was developed by Shell Development Company, Modesto, California in 1960. Many reports showed that this chemical is capable of delaying senescence of plant tissues on the basis of restoring protein molecules and respiration inhibition. On the other hand, others have shown stimulation of respiration and delaying of senescence.
Paucity of scientific literature on the stability of those chemicals on leafy vegetables gave impetus to a study of the comparative influence of pre- and post-harvest applications of 6-furfurylaminopurine and N6-benzyladenine as related to successive harvest times. Such studies may have considerable economic bearing upon storing and shipping leafy vegetables to distant markets.
This thesis presents effects of different concentrations (5, 10, and 20 ppm.) of pre- and post-harvest applications of 6-furfurylaminopurine and N6-benzyladenine as related to three successive harvest times (at one week intervals) on chlorophyll content, moisture content, total nitrogen, insoluble and soluble nitrogen, oxygen uptake, 0 and co2 production during storage (at 40 Fo and 85 percent RH) of "Great Lakes" variety of lettuce.
Quantum field theory without divergences
Creators: name: Altaisky, M. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that loop divergences emerging in the Green functions in quantum field theory originate from correspondence of the Green functions to {\em unmeasurable} (and hence unphysical) quantities. This is because no physical quantity can be measured in a point, but in a region, the size of which is constrained by the resolution of measuring equipment. The incorporation of the resolution into the definition of quantum fields $ϕ(x)\toϕ^{(A)}(x)$ and appropriate change of Feynman rules results in finite values of the Green functions. The Euclidean $ϕ^4$-field theory is taken as an example.
description: 6 pages, LaTeX, revtex, 2 eps figures
Twist deformations of Newton-Hooke Hopf algebras
Creators: name: Daszkiewicz, Marcin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct five new quantum Newton-Hooke Hopf algebras with the use of Abelian twist procedure. Further we demonstrate that the corresponding deformed space-times with quantum space and classical time are periodic or expanding in time.
description: 11 pages, no figures, the paper accepted for publication in Mod.Phys.Lett.A
Tachyon-Chaplygin inflation on the brane
Creators: name: Herrera, Ramon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tachyon-Brane inflationary universe model in the context of a Chaplygin gas equation of state is studied. General conditions for this model to be realizable are discussed. In the high-energy limit and by using an exponential potential we describe in great details the characteristic of this model. Recent observational data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe experiment are employed to restrict the parameters of the model.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in General Relativity and Gravitation
title: James Mellor: English Convert and Handcart Pioneer - A Biography
Creators: name: Gregerson, Edna J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1961

description: For many years the descendants of John and James Mellor -- a large family who have made contributions to the cultural and educational activities of their various communities -- have been desirous of preserving for their posterity, and others, a record of the Mellors. Several years ago Amy Mellor Howe initiated the project by compiling and editing the first Mellor History. The foreword in her book wherein she "...hoped that the information and data herein contained may form the nucleus for further research..." served as the incentive to continue the project.
It is planned to incorporate the following biography into one of the section of the book The Mellors Through the Years which this author has consented to compile and edit for the family. In this biography will be presented the highlights in the life of James Mellor: his youth and early married life in England, his sharing in the experiences of the "ill-fated" handcart pioneers, and his coping with the problems involved in subduing a primitive frontier in settling the Mormon community of Fayette, Sanpete County, Utah.
This study has been based on excerpts from James Mellor's own diary and on the diaries of other members of his family; on old letters, documents, and other unpublished information; on newspaper clippings; on personal interviews, letters which the author has received, and available community, church, and government records. It is hoped that this evaluation will result in an objective biography of James Mellor that is as accurate as available information permits. Some previously published historical information has been inter-woven with the original diary of James Mellor in order to enhance both the interest and the authenticity of this document.
Grateful appreciation is hereby acknowledged for invaluable assistance rendered by Roy Delbert Mellor, president of the Mellor family organization; his wife, Vivian Margaret Anderson Mellor; and to Martha Wintach Bartholomew, Fayette historian, in the compilation of extensive information and illustrations used in writing this thesis. Likewise, the author wishes to express appreciation to numerous other writers whose statements have been cited in this work, and to Ronald B. Jensen, business instructor at Manti high School, for assisting with the enormous task of typing this information. The author also desires to express sincere thanks to Professor J. Lynn Mortensen, members of her graduate committee at Utah State University, for their invaluable suggestions and professional guidance given in the preparation of this thesis.
Talpa davidiana
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
Soricomorpha
Talpidae
Talpa
Talpa davidiana

description: 47. Père David’s Mole, Talpa davidiana (Milne-Edwards, 1884)
(IUCN Red List: DD)
Distribution: Status uncertain. Found in Barn Owl (Tyto alba) pellets collected in a small cave below the castle ruins of Qal’at Salah ad-Din in Al-Shardoub Forest in western Syria on 30 June 1998 (Benda & Obuch 2009) (Fig. 53).
Remarks: The Barn Owl Tyto alba is a resident breeding species; the nesting period usually extends during summer in Syria. However, information on the species’ local migration is scarce as well as for other migratory owls.Although the owl pellets with T. davidiana remains may originate from a migratory owl, further investigation is needed.
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 61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Composite pulses for high fidelity population transfer in three-level systems
Creators: name: Shi, Zhi-Cheng
name: Zhang, Cheng
name: Ran, Du
name: Xia, Yan
name: Ianconescu, Reuven
name: Friedman, Aharon
name: Yi, X. X.
name: Zheng, Shi-Biao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we propose a composite pulses scheme by modulating phases to achieve high fidelity population transfer in three-level systems. To circumvent the obstacle that not enough variables are exploited to eliminate the systematic errors in the transition probability, we put forward a cost function to find the optimal value. The cost function is independently constructed either in ensuring an accurate population of the target state, or in suppressing the population of the leakage state, or both of them. The results demonstrate that population transfer is implemented with high fidelity even when existing the deviations in the coupling coefficients. Furthermore, our composite pulses scheme can be extensible to arbitrarily long pulse sequences. As an example, we employ the composite pulses sequence for achieving the three-atom singlet state in an atom-cavity system with ultrahigh fidelity. The final singlet state shows robustness against deviations and is not seriously affected by waveform distortions. Also, the singlet state maintains a high fidelity under the decoherence environment.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures
Charge transport in a single superconducting tin nanowire encapsulated in a multiwalled carbon nanotube
Creators: name: Tombros, Nikolaos
name: Buit, Luuk
name: Arfaoui, Imad
name: Tsoufis, 2 Theodoros
name: Gournis, Dimitrios
name: Trikalitis, Pantelis N.
name: van der Molen, Sense Jan
name: Rudolf, Petra
name: van Wees, Bart J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charge transport properties of single superconducting tin nanowires, encapsulated by multiwalled carbon nanotubes have been investigated by multi-probe measurements. The multiwalled carbon nanotube protects the tin nanowire from oxidation and shape fragmentation and therefore allows us to investigate the electronic properties of stable wires with diameters as small as 25 nm. The transparency of the contact between the Ti/Au electrode and nanowire can be tuned by argonion etching the multiwalled nanotube. Application of a large electrical current results in local heating at the contact which in turn suppresses superconductivity.
Different types of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov states induced by anisotropy effects
Creators: name: Denisov, D.
name: Buzdin, A.
name: Shimahara, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The crystal structure determines both the Fermi surface and pairing symmetry of the superconducting metals. It is demonstrated in the framework of the general phenomenological approach that this is of the primary importance for the determination of the structure of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) phase in the magnetic field. The FFLO modulation of the superconducting order parameter may be revealed in the form of the higher Landau level states or/and modulation along the magnetic field. The transition between different FFLO states could occur with the temperature variation or with the magnetic field rotation.
title: Influence of Temperature on Protein, Moisture and Fat and Some Other Factors in Charcoal Broiled Meats
Creators: name: Savage, Ilene C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1964

description: Due to the increasing popularity of outdoor cooking of meat, there is interest in determining the chemical and physical changes that occur during the charcoal broiling process. Of particular interest is the effect of these changes upon the quality of the broiled meat. Although broiling is not a new method of cooking meat, a review of the literature revealed few reports of scientific work on broiled meats. Some work has been done on the effect of different cooking methods on weight losses, tenderness, palatability, thiamine, protein content, but no reports were found relating surface temperature and cooking time to rate of heat transfer and to final internal temperature. Little research has been done in this area because there has been no means available for measuring surface temperature during broiling.
The investigation and results reported in this study were made possible by the development of an experimental model of a coil type thermometer, developed by the Taylor Instrument Company, and an Electronic Universal Nine Point Strip Chart Recorder were used to record temperatures in this study. The thermometer determined the surface temperature of the grill and thermocouples attached to the meat and connected tot he recorder determined the top, internal, and bottom temperatures of the samples.
This preliminary study was conducted on beef using charcoal as the source of heat, since the heat from the charcoal could be controlled at an approximately constant temperature. Studies by Salvosa (1963) and Irvine (1963) showed the interrelationships of surface temperature to cooking time and degree of doneness. One grade (Good) Sirloin, two grades (Good and Choice) Porterhouse steaks and ground beef patties were broiled in this study. The steaks were cut in two thicknesses, 1 and 1/12 inches, and were broiled at three different cooking temperatures (400o, 350o, and 300o Fahrenheit) to three degrees of doneness.
Statistical analysis using these variables produced a change of only two minutes in predicted cooking time.
The current study, a continuation of the previous studies, was made to determine the relationships of surface temperature, cooking temperature, cooking time, and degree of doneness, to moisture, protein, and fat content of broiled beef. This study also included a compilation of thiamine and soluble protein results of the previous studies (Salvosa, 1963; and Irvine, 1963).
title: 1641 Depositions: Sharing our history, building a legacy
Creators: name: Ohlmeyer, Jane
name: de Moura Rocha Lima, Giovanna
name: Ó Siochrú, Micheál
name: Bowman, Sarah
name: Patten, Eve
Publisher: name: Trinity College Dublin
Year: 2020

description: This research impact case study highlights the multiple impacts stemming from the 1641 Depositions Project. The document summarises how this flagship transdisciplinary digital humanities endeavour has engaged with publics inside and outside academia and transformed our understanding of how the controversial events of the mid-seventeenth century are recorded and remembered.
Multiarray Signal Processing: Tensor decomposition meets compressed sensing
Creators: name: Lim, Lek-Heng
name: Comon, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 94A12, 15A69, 41A29, 41A50, 41A52

description: We discuss how recently discovered techniques and tools from compressed sensing can be used in tensor decompositions, with a view towards modeling signals from multiple arrays of multiple sensors. We show that with appropriate bounds on a measure of separation between radiating sources called coherence, one could always guarantee the existence and uniqueness of a best rank-r approximation of the tensor representing the signal. We also deduce a computationally feasible variant of Kruskal's uniqueness condition, where the coherence appears as a proxy for k-rank. Problems of sparsest recovery with an infinite continuous dictionary, lowest-rank tensor representation, and blind source separation are treated in a uniform fashion. The decomposition of the measurement tensor leads to simultaneous localization and extraction of radiating sources, in an entirely deterministic manner.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
title: The Effects of Cooking Temperature and Stage of Doneness on Some Factors in Broiled Beef
Creators: name: Salvosa, Carmencita
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1963

description: Broiling is cooking tender cuts of meat by radiant heat from hot coals, a gas flame, or an electric element. Steaks and chops for broiling are from 1 to 2 inches thick.
Broiling as a method of cooking mat is not new, but the directions for the process are the result of individual trial and error testing and are often in conflict. Current interest in indoor and outdoor broiling, particularly in Western United States, emphasizes the need for better information. There is no measuring device for surface heat during broiling and thus little research on the relationship of surface temperature, degree of doneness and cooking time. Little has been done to investigate the effect of a change in rate of heat transfer on the physical and chemical reactions which occur during broiling.
Although some work has been done on the effects of different cooking methods on weight losses, tenderness, palatability, and thiamine content of beef, no reports were found relating cut of meat, temperature at the surface of the mat, and degree of doneness to other factors during broiling.
The existing literature contained relatively little information on changes produced in broiled beef. Most of the data available were indefinite, lacking precise information regarding time and temperature. Timetables for broiling, like roasting, varied in directions given and frequently stated the time of cooking in minutes per pound. At best this can serve only as a poor guide because the amount of fat and bone present, the state of the meat, whether solid or ground, the amount of connective tissue present, and the thickness of the meat influence the rate of heat penetration.
This initial study was conducted on beef using charcoal as the source of heat, since the heat of the charcoal could be controlled at different temperatures. A high, medium and low temperature were used for cooking and the meat was cooked to three degrees of doneness (rare, medium and well-done).
In this research a potentiometer devised by Taylor Instrument Company to measure the temperature at the surfaces of the meat and internally was used. Thus it was possible to accurately measure the temperature.
An experimental model of a coil-type thermometer was also made by Taylor Instrument Company and its use offered, for the first time, the possibility of determining the temperature at the surface of the meat.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of surface temperature during broiling to stage of doneness and to cooking time on the following factors in broiled sirloin steaks: thiamine retention, soluble protein content, weight loss, moisture retention, changes in tenderness, juiciness and flavor. It was hoped that the findings might be of use in the development of a thermometer to be used for broiling much as oven and meat thermometers are used now for roasting meats. Also, an attempt was made to develop time-temperature charts for use in broiling.
Cosmic vector for dark energy: constraints from SN, CMB and BAO
Creators: name: Jimenez, Jose Beltran
name: Lazkoz, Ruth
name: Maroto, Antonio L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been recently shown that the presence of a vector field over cosmological scales could explain the observed accelerated expansion of the universe without introducing neither new scales nor unnatural initial conditions in the early universe, thus avoiding the coincidence problem. Here, we present a detailed analysis of the constraints imposed by SNIa, CMB and BAO data on the vector dark energy model with general spatial curvature. We find that contrary to standard cosmology, CMB data excludes a flat universe for this model and, in fact, predicts a closed geometry for the spatial sections. We see that CMB and SNIa Gold data are perfectly compatible at the 1-sigma level, however SNIa Union dataset exhibits a 3-sigma tension with CMB. The same level of tension is also found between SNIa and BAO measurements.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures. New figure and references included. Final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Learning as Search Optimization: Approximate Large Margin Methods for Structured Prediction
Creators: name: Daumé, Hal
name: Marcu, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mappings to structured output spaces (strings, trees, partitions, etc.) are typically learned using extensions of classification algorithms to simple graphical structures (eg., linear chains) in which search and parameter estimation can be performed exactly. Unfortunately, in many complex problems, it is rare that exact search or parameter estimation is tractable. Instead of learning exact models and searching via heuristic means, we embrace this difficulty and treat the structured output problem in terms of approximate search. We present a framework for learning as search optimization, and two parameter updates with convergence theorems and bounds. Empirical evidence shows that our integrated approach to learning and decoding can outperform exact models at smaller computational cost.
Twisting algebras using non-commutative torsors
Creators: name: Guillot, Pierre
name: Kassel, Christian
name: Masuoka, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16T05, 16W22, 14R20

description: Non-commutative torsors (equivalently, two-cocycles) for a Hopf algebra can be used to twist comodule algebras. After surveying and extending the literature on the subject, we prove a theorem that affords a presentation by generators and relations for the algebras obtained by such twisting. We give a number of examples, including new constructions of the quantum affine spaces and the quantum tori.
description: 27 pages. Masuoka is a new coauthor. Introduction was revised. Sections 1 and 2 were thoroughly restructured. The presentation theorem in Section 3 is now put in a more general framework and has a more general formulation. Section 4 was shortened. All examples (quantum affine spaces and tori, twisting of SL(2), twisting of the enveloping algebra of sl(2)) are left unchanged
title: A Study of the Effects of Mastitic Milk on the Quality and Yield of Cheese
Creators: name: Huber, Clayton Shirl
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1963

description: Mastitis is found to some degree all over the world where cows are used for milk production. It could be classed as one of the most perplexing problems of milk production in the airy industry. The loss to the producer and the manufacturer is of considerable importance.
Today sub-clinical mastitis is probably the most common form. This type of infection is commonly so mild that it passes without recognition. It will be investigated in this study.
The influence of mastitis on milk composition has not been studied extensively. Very little research has been done on the influence of mastitic milk when manufactured into various dairy products. In this study, cheddar cheese and cottage cheese will be made from abnormal milk to determine the influence of sub-clinical mastitis.
When scalar field is kinetically coupled to the Einstein tensor
Creators: name: Gao, Changjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the cosmic evolution of a scalar field with the kinetic term coupled to the Einstein tensor. We find that, in the absence of other matter sources or in the presence of only pressureless matter, the scalar behaves as pressureless matter and the sound speed of the scalar is vanishing. These properties enable the scalar field to be a candidate of cold dark matter. By also considering the scalar potential, we find the scalar field may play the role of both dark matter and dark energy. In this case, the equation of state of the scalar can cross the phantom divide, but this can lead to the sound speed becoming superluminal as it crosses the divide, and so is physically forbidden. Finally, if the kinetic term is coupled to more than one Einstein tensor, we find the equation of state is always approximately equal to -1 whether the potential is flat or not, and so the scalar may also be a candidate for the inflaton.
description: 12 pages, 17 figures
Critical mass phenomenon for a chemotaxis kinetic model with spherically symmetric initial data
Creators: name: Bournaveas, Nikolaos
name: Calvez, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82C40, 92C17

description: The goal of this paper is to exhibit a critical mass phenomenon occuring in a model for cell self-organization via chemotaxis. The very well known dichotomy arising in the behavior of the macroscopic Keller-Segel system is derived at the kinetic level, being closer to microscopic features. Indeed, under the assumption of spherical symmetry, we prove that solutions with initial data of large mass blow-up in finite time, whereas solutions with initial data of small mass do not. Blow-up is the consequence of a virial identity and the existence part is derived from a comparison argument. Spherical symmetry is crucial within the two approaches. We also briefly investigate the drift-diffusion limit of such a kinetic model. We recover partially at the limit the Keller-Segel criterion for blow-up, thus arguing in favour of a global link between the two models.
On the ill-posedness of the Prandtl equation
Creators: name: Gerard-Varet, David
name: Dormy, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The concern of this paper is the Cauchy problem for the Prandtl equation. This problem is known to be well-posed for analytic data, or for data with monotonicity properties. We prove here that it is linearly ill-posed in Sobolev type spaces. The key of the analysis is the construction, at high tangential frequencies, of unstable quasimodes for the linearization around solutions with non-degenerate critical points. Interestingly, the strong instability is due to vicosity, which is coherent with well-posedness results obtained for the inviscid version of the equation. A numerical study of this instability is also provided.
description: A few more typos corrected. Definition of L_eps added on page 12. Confusing semigroup notation corrected