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Electron paramagnetic resonance study of molecular spin multiplets with s>1
Creators: name: Hebden, James Arthur
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A completely general method has been developed for calculating Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) transition fields and transition probabilities from the spin Hamiltonian [formula omitted] The method is a generalization of a previously existing, limited technique, and can be applied without any restrictions. A general computer program has also been written based on the method. Using the program, the results of an EPR study on a U.V. irradiated single crystal of para-nitrophenyl azide were fitted to the spin Hamiltonian [formula omitted] The observed and calculated fine and hyperfine transition probabilities were found to be in good agreement. The observed hyperfine splittings, due to the nitrene nitrogen, were analyzed in terms of a 6.5 gauss linewidth, combined with the transition probabilities for the nine theoretical components of the hyperfine resonance fields. Evidence of a ¹⁴N quadrupolar splitting was observed, but not completely analyzed. In addition, evidence was found to indicate that the nitrene impurity is twisted somewhat from the position in the crystal lattice held by the parent azide. The EPR spectra obtained on U.V. irradiation of randomly oriented 1,5- and 1,8-diazidonaphthalene were analyzed, and found to originate from ground triplet state species with |D|= 0.8152±0.0010 cm⁻¹ and 0.7599±0.0010 cm⁻¹, respectively. The theoretical spin densities for the triplet and quintet states of 1,5- , 1,8- and 2,7- naphthalene dinitrene were calculated using the method of intermediate neglect of differential overlap (INDO). Attempts to obtain a consistent picture of multiplet spin densities based on the results of the calculations were largely inconclusive.
title: Effects of Feeding High-Moisture Corn Grain with Slow-Release Urea in Dairy Diets on Lactational Performance, Energy and Nitrogen Utilization, and Ruminal Fermentation Profiles by Lactating Cows
Creators: name: Tye, Braden M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: The objective of this experiment was to determine if nutrient utilization and energy partitioning by lactating dairy cows would differ in response to dietary corn grain (CG) types [steam-flaked corn (SFC) vs. high-moisture corn (HMC)] and to test if the types of CG would interact with slow-release urea (SRU) on lactational performance and energy utilization. Eight multiparous Holstein cows (32 ± 8.2 days-in-milk) were used in a duplicated 4 × 4 Latin square with one square consisting of ruminally cannulated cows. A 2 × 2 factorial arrangement was used to test 4 dietary treatments: SFC without SRU, SFC with SRU, HMC without SRU, and HMC with SRU. The experimental diets contained 60.5% dry matter (DM) of forages, whereas 12.9% or 14.4% DM of SFC or HMC was added in the diets, respectively. The SRU was supplemented at 0.46% DM, replacing a mixture of soybean meal and canola meal in a 50:50 ratio. Feeding HMC decreased intakes of DM, crude protein, and fiber compared with SFC. Supplementation of SRU did not affect intakes of DM and nutrients, whereas it tended to increase intakes of DM or increased crude protein intake under SFC but no effect under HMC, leading to CG ×SRU interactions on DM and crude protein intakes. Neither type of CG nor SRU supplementation affected milk production except that cows fed HMC-based diets tended to decrease energy-corrected milk yield compared to those fed SFC-based diets. Utilization of HMC in the diet had a tendency to increase dairy efficiency based on milk yield over SFC utilization. Cows fed HMC diets gained more body weight (BW) than those fed SFC diets, whereas supplementing SRU tended to reduce BW gain regardless of type of CG. Cows fed HMC diets shifted more net energy into BW compared with those fed SFC diets, whereas supplementing SRU tended to decrease a portion of net energy partitioned into BW gain under both SFC and HMC diets. Dietary treatments exerted minor impacts on ruminal fermentation profiles. Feeding HMC diets decreased fecal N excretion compared with SFC diets. In addition, supplementing SRU increased fecal N excretion under SFC, but it was decreased by SRU with HMC, leading to an interaction between CG and SRU. These collective results demonstrate that feeding HMC with SRU can be a practical option in high-forage lactation diets to maintain or improve nutrient and energy utilization efficiency and minimize negative environmental impacts.
MPEC 2023-Y17 : 2023 XK16
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 XK16

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Design of Miniaturized Time-of-Flight Reﬂectron Mass Spectrometer for Upper Atmosphere Density Measurements
Creators: name: Pyle, Michelle Lynn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Variations of gas and plasma density and composition in Earth’s thermosphere and ionosphere are key indicators of interactions between diﬀerent layers of Earth’s atmosphere. The nature of interactions between neutral and ion species in the upper atmosphere is an active area of study in Heliophysics and there is much to learn about the dynamic relationship between the ionosphere and neutral thermosphere. Mass Spectrometers are among an array of instruments used to explore Earth’s upper atmosphere and other space environments. In the past, data from mass spectrometers ﬂown in low earth orbit has been used to improve atmospheric models and to study the dynamics of the ionosphere and thermosphere. Historically, these instruments are substantial in size and deployed on larger satellite platforms. Data from these larger instruments generally provide information from a speciﬁc point in time at a single location. Studies of atmospheric density and composition with multiple locations for each time point could be performed by CubeSat swarms if proper instrumentation were available to ﬁt CubeSat payload restrictions. The proposed miniaturized time-of-ﬂight (TOF) mass spectrometer (MS) will have a mass resolution and range suﬃcient for measuring the composition of Earth’s thermosphere and ionosphere while operating within the power and space constraints of a CubeSat. The capabilities of this instrument could dramatically reduce the cost of future missions while simultaneously enhancing the science return. The design employs miniaturization of TOF-MS technology, including resolution reﬁnement techniques used for larger instruments and standard concepts for TOF-MS components such as acceleration grids, a Bradbury-Nielsen wire gate, a gridless ion mirror, and microchannel plate detector.
Soliton shape and mobility control in optical lattices
Creators: name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Vysloukh, Victor A.
name: Torner, Lluis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a progress overview focused on the recent theoretical and experimental advances in the area of soliton manipulation in optical lattices. Optical lattices offer the possibility to engineer and to control the diffraction of light beams in media with periodically-modulated optical properties, to manage the corresponding reflection and transmission bands, and to form specially designed defects. Consequently, they afford the existence of a rich variety of new families of nonlinear stationary waves and solitons, lead to new rich dynamical phenomena, and offer novel conceptual opportunities for all-optical shaping, switching and routing of optical signals encoded in soliton formats. In this overview, we consider reconfigurable optically-induced lattices as well as waveguide arrays made in suitable nonlinear materials. We address both, one-dimensional and multi-dimensional geometries. We specially target the new possibilities made possible by optical lattices induced by a variety of existing non-diffracting light patterns, we address nonlinear lattices and soliton arrays, and we briefly explore the unique features exhibited by light propagation in defect modes and in random lattices, an area of current topical interest and of potential cross-disciplinary impact.
description: 117 pages, 18 figures, review on solitons in optical lattices
title: The Effects of Concurrently Teaching Parents and Their Children with Learning Adjustment Problems the Principles of Parent Effectiveness Training
Creators: name: Andelin, Sterling
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1975

description: This study attempts to determine if concurrently teaching Parent Effectiveness Training principles to parents and their children results in greater effectiveness than teaching the parents only.
The study was performed in the context of the Learning Adjustment School Program sponsored by the Eastern Idaho Community Mental Health Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
The subjects were 35 students in this program who had learning disabilities and/or emotional disturbances. Fifty-two of their parents were also subjects. An experimental group of parents, a control group of parents, an experimental group of children, and a control group of children were selected. The students in the experimental group of children were the children of the parents in the experimental group of parents. The same relationship existed for the control groups.
Both groups of parents received a course in Parent Effectiveness Training. The experimental group of children received a modified version of Parent Effectiveness Training. The control group of children did not receive instruction in the principles of Parent Effectiveness Training.
All parents were pretested and post-tested on the Parent Attitude Survey, the Parent Problem Check List, and the Self-Concept Inventory-- Parent. All children were pretested and post-tested on the Children's Reports of Parental Behavior Inventory and the Self-Concept Inventory--Child.
The experimental group of parents showed a significantly greater increase in confidence in themselves as parents, in trusting their children, in over all attitude improvement, and in more positive self-ratings of their own problems. These results were consistent with the predicted outcome.
The control group of children rated their parents as showing a significantly greater decrease in hostile detachment than the experimental group of children. The control group also rated themselves as showing a significantly greater increase of positive work habits and happy qualities than did the children in the experimental group. These results were inconsistent with the predicted outcome.
The results of this study seem to indicate that teaching children Parent Effectiveness Training principles is desirable from the point of view of parents but undesirable from the point of view of children.
title: The Association Between Shared Values and Well-being Among Married Couples
Creators: name: Parry, Travis G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Marital well-being in the U.S. has been declining since 1973. Individualism has increased during these years contributing to the decreases in marital well-being. The main objectives of this study were: (1) test the relationships between shared values (religious, family, and marital) and marital well-being (financial stability, marital happiness, and individual well-being) and (2) examine simultaneously the relationships between the three marital well-being variables. Data were utilized from the Survey of Marital Generosity (an extant data set collected during 2010-2011) to answer the research questions. This survey provided a nationally representative sample of married couples (n=1,237). Path analysis was used to examine the hypotheses of the study.
Significant relationships were found between several shared values and the marital well-being variables of marital happiness and individual well-being. However, no shared values were found to be related to financial stability. The control variables of education, ethnicity, and cohabitation did have significant associations with financial stability and the other dependent variables. The marital well-being variables were all found to be positively related to each other and the husbands and wives' reports of each of the dependent variables were also positively correlated. The underlying theme of teamwork in marriage was seen as the most important finding and several suggestions for future research and professional interventions were suggested.
STAR: Recent Results and Future Physics Program
Creators: name: Barannikova, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two major advantages of the STAR detector - uniform azimuthal acceptance complementing extended pseudo-rapidity coverage, and the ability to identify a wide variety of the hadron species in almost all kinematic ranges - have allowed us to address successfully a set of key physics topics at RHIC. We report here selected recent results from the STAR experiment, including insights on system size effects on medium properties, hadronization mechanisms, and partonic energy loss from triggered and non-triggered probes. In conclusion, we present an outlook on the STAR new physics program in upcoming years.
description: Proceedings for Strangeness in Quark Matter 2008
title: Role of Lamb Pregastric and Gastric Extracts in Cheese Manufacture
Creators: name: Chaudhari, Ramjibhai V.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: Lamb pregastric (PGE) and gastric extracts (GE) have been evaluated for their role in Italian cheese flavor production. Both have been shown to produce increases in free fatty acids and in non-protein-nitrogen during incubation with milk fat and casein substrates as well as in cheese substrates. Gastric lipase and cathepsins are considered to be the additional active agents in GE. Parmesan cheese manufactured with PGE and GE added to the curd was superior in flavor when both were employed, and either extract alone was better than the uninnoculated control. An assay for GE proteolytic activity has been proposed which involves the use of pH9.0 casein substrate thereby eliminating the effects of pepsin and rennin proteases. Differences among GE and rennin or pepsin preparations have also been established using starch gel electrophoresis and casein-agar gel diffusion techniques.
Canis aureus Linnaeus 1758
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
Carnivora
Canidae
Canis
Canis aureus

description: 83. Golden Jackal, Canis aureus Linnaeus, 1758
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Subspecies: C. a. syriacus Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833.
Distribution: Abundant with a wide distribution in dry open arid lands, forested areas, riparian habitats, short grasslands, and steppe landscapes across the country; rarely in desert habitats. (Fig. 90)
Previous records: Aleppo (Russell 1756), around Tell Abiad (Misonne 1957), around Daraa (Kattinger 1971), near Hamah and Aleppo (Harrison & Bates 1991), vicinity of Idleb, as-Sa’an to the northeast of Salamiyah, Slenfeh (Serra 2004), Palmyra, and Jabal Al-Bilaas (Masseti 2009), around Palmyra (Serra et al. 2009a, b), Abu Qubays, Al-Furunlok (Daoud & Khalil 2009a, b), and along the Euphrates Valley (Aidek 2010; Murdoch & Aidek 2012).
Recent records: Qal’at Jandal (1994), Al-Hasrat, Abu Hardoub, Al Qouriyah, Buqruss, Al-Bseireh, Muhasan, Al-Mri’iyah, as-Suwar, Haweijt Saqur, Haweijt Kate’e, Mheimideh, Al-Misrab, at-Tebni, Maadan, Maskana, Jarablus, Khanaser, Al-Mansurah, ash-Shaddady, ar-Rastan, Tell Tamr (2006–2012), Al-Mozirieb, Koayah and Talila (2010), Mhardeh, Mesiaf, Hammam Wasil, Amreet, Al-Naqeeb, Nimreh, Al-Kadmous, Marmarita, Al-Quneitra, Smeihqiah, B’amrah, Taldarah, Jabla, Sheen, Al-Zwiteineh and Qarn Hilyah (2020–2023).
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 86, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Relic gravitational wave spectrum, the trans-Planckian physics and Hořava-Lifshitz gravity
Creators: name: Koh, Seoktae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the spectrum of the relic gravitational wave due to the trans-Planckian effect in which the standard linear dispersion relations may be modified. Of the modified dispersion relations suggested in literatures which have investigated the trans-Planckian effect, we especially use the Corley-Jacobson dispersion relations. The Corley-Jacobson type modified dispersion relations can be obtained from Hořava-Lifshitz gravity which is non-relativistic and UV complete. Although it is not clear how the transitions from Hořava-Lifshitz gravity in the UV regime to Einstein gravity in the IR limit occur, we assume Hořava-Lifshitz gravity regime is followed by the inflationary phase in Einstein gravity.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures; added references and comments
Limits to plant regeneration in alpine vegetation on Tasmania's central plateau
Creators: name: Misiak, WM
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The long history of disturbance by human activities on Tasmania's Central Plateau has resulted in some of the most eroded alpine and subalpine country in Australia. Although the rate of vegetation and soil loss has declined following the introduction of myxomatosis, prohibition of burning, and the exclusion of stock grazing within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, recovery has been relatively slow, and erosion continues to occur. This study examined some of the current biotic and abiotic parameters affecting plant regeneration in alpine vegetation in the Central Plateau region. Seed traps were used to assess the availability of seed for regeneration in different microhabitats. There were significant seasonal and locality differences in seed density and species richness. A total of 14 to 24 seed taxa per site were trapped over a 14 month period. Average seed densities per month ranged from 5 to 3,090 seeds m\\(^{-2}\\). In general, bare microhabitats captured similar numbers of seeds and taxa to those trapped in existing vegetation clumps, at the edges of prostrate Grevillea australis, and directly underneath this shrub. Germination trials of a variety of species showed high germinability under wide temperature regimes, indicating the potential for recruitment throughout much of the year. In addition, pitfall trapping found little evidence of invertebrate taxa associated with post dispersal seed harvesting in the area, but potential predation by small mammals and birds cannot be excluded. Some aspects of microclimate in eroded bare patches and under G. australis were also recorded. This native shrub species appears to play an important role in ameliorating the microenvironment for seedling establishment due to its prostrate habit, which limits levels of excessive solar radiation, velocity of desiccating wind gusts, and the extent of frost heave activity. Consequently, numbers of seedlings were significantly higher under Grevillea shrubs than in open patches throughout the year, despite seed arrival being similar. The frequency of freeze-thaw cycles, minimum soil surface temperature and relative humidity however, were not detectably different between. open and Grevillea microhabitats, while jute matting and Orites acicularis slash were effective in increasing minimum soil surface temperatures and relative humidity, and reducing freeze-thaw and frost heave activity compared to bare areas. Unexpected microclimatic readings could be attributed to the highly heterogeneous nature of the microhabitats. This baseline data will improve our understanding of the processes and requirements for regeneration in highland areas and contribute to effective conservation and ecosystem management.
Generalised DBI-Quintessence
Creators: name: Gumjudpai, Burin
name: Ward, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the phase space of a quintessence theory governed by a generalised version of the DBI action, using a combination of numeric and analytic methods. The additional degrees of freedom lead to a vastly richer phase space structure, where the field covers the full equation of state parameter space; $-1 \le ω\le 1$. We find many non-trivial solution curves to the equations of motion which indicate that DBI quintessence is an interesting candidate for a viable k-essence model.
description: 33 pages, lots of figures
How to compute the thermal quarkonium spectral function from first principles?
Creators: name: Laine, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the limit of a high temperature T and a large quark-mass M, implying a small gauge coupling g, the heavy quark contribution to the spectral function of the electromagnetic current can be computed systematically in the weak-coupling expansion. We argue that the scale hierarchy relevant for addressing the disappearance ("melting") of the resonance peak from the spectral function reads M >> T > g^2 M > gT >> g^4 M, and review how the heavy scales can be integrated out one-by-one, to construct a set of effective field theories describing the low-energy dynamics. The parametric behaviour of the melting temperature in the weak-coupling limit is specified.
description: 8 pages; to appear in the Proceedings of SEWM08, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 26-29, 2008
Fiscal measures and vehicle fuel conservation
Creators: name: Mitchell, D H
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Australian self sufficiency in oil is declining. From the early 1990's Australia will have to fund rapidly increasing oil imports and find alternative tax revenues to replace present oil resource taxes. Because of low levels of fuel taxation, Australia has one of the world's lowest prices for vehicle fuel and one of the world's highest rates of vehicle fuel consumption. Switching to smaller and more fuel efficient vehicles is the accepted strategy for reducing vehicle fuel demand, but in Australia fuel price incentives are no longer sufficient to maintain, let alone increase, such a trend. The logical solution is to increase vehicle fuel taxes in Australia to levels common in similar economies. The additional tax revenue would offset the declining yield from oil resource taxation, and higher fuel prices would promote the adoption of more efficient vehicle technology. However, logical solutions must be defined in the context of existing social and political realities. Present government policy of not increasing vehicle fuel taxes to reduce fuel demand is based on economic theory. While this study concentrates on removing, or at least weakening, this economic argument, the real barriers to fuel tax increases are considered more likely to be found in the underlying social attitudes developed around the private motor vehicle in Australia, and the impact of these attitudes at a political level.
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758
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
Carnivora
Canidae
Canis
Canis lupus

description: 84. Gray Wolf, Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Subspecies: C. l. pallipes Sykes, 1831 and C. l. arabs Pocock, 1934.
Distribution:Abundant but uncommon; populations are possibly decreased due to extensive persecution; widespread in almost all habitats across the country but in small numbers. Heavy persecution by the nomads in central Syria documented by G. Serra and MS Abdallah (2000–2010, unpublished report) and Serra (2002). (Fig. 91)
Previous records: 45 km southwest of Ain Al-Arous (Misonne 1957), Jabal Abd Al-Aziz, Buhayrat Al-Khatuniyah, Sabkhat al-Jabbul, Wadi Al-Azib, Jabal Al-Bishri, Jabal Al-Bilaas, Palmyra (Harrison 1968; Tohme et al. 1975; Evans 1994), in many regions across Syria (Shehab 2002), Palmyra, Jabal Al-Bishri, Efreen, and north of Slenfeh (Masseti 2009), around Palmyra (Serra et al. 2009a, b), Abu Qubays, Jabal Abd Al-Aziz (Daoud & Khalil 2009a, c), south of Al-Badia of Deir ez-Zor and Jabal Al-Bishri (Aidek 2010; Murdoch & Aidek 2012).
Recent records: Qal’at Jandal (1994), Jabal Al-Bishri, vicinity of Feidhat Ibn Muwyin’e, vicinity of Al-Mayadin (2006–2012), Deir Sawwan (2009), east of az-Zelif, an-Nasriyeh, vicinity of Salamiyah (2011), Fajlit, Al-Hjeifat, east of Latakia, Shahba, Jabla, Mesiaf, Salkhad, Rab’o, 10 km east of Rbeidha, Deir as-Saleeb, Al-Matikh, and Rsass, Al-Gheidha (2020–2023).
Remarks: Three subspecies were recognized in Syria by earlier authors: C. l. lupus Linnaeus, 1758, C. l. pallipes Sykes, 1831 and C. l. arabs Pocock, 1934 (Mech & Boitani 2004), but with undefined ranges. Misonne (1957) indicated that the Iranian subspecies C. l. pallipes occurs in Mesopotamia and around Tell Abiad, the northern subspecies C. l. lupus would be putatively confined to the mountains of north and northwest Syria, while the Arabian subspecies C. l. arabs occurs in the arid plains and wadies of south and southeast Syria. The current status and distribution of wolves in Syria are not fully known, hence, further research 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 pages 86-89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
title: Adaptation to Dietary Protein of Nitrogenous Components in Blood and Urine
Creators: name: Kim, Whang Hea
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: A study was made of the adaptation to dietary protein of nitrogenous components in blood and urine of rats and humans. Forty-four mature male rats "ere adapted to a low protein diet (10 per cent casein diet) for three weeks before they were divided into two groups. Four rats were then killed for a control, and twenty of the remaining rats were switched to a high protein diet (40 per cent casein diet) and the other twenty continued to be fed the low protein diet. Four rats fed each level of protein were killed 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 days after they were divided into two groups. A study similar to that carried out on rats was conducted on six male college students who were living in the same unit of a cooking dormitory. Blood and urine samples were taken when they were eating a normal diet as a control and then they were adapted on a low protein dict providing 12 per cent of the calories as protein for two weeks. They were then switched to a high protein diet containing 30 per cent protein calories for four consecutive days.
The rats fed the 40 per cent casein diet had a higher rate of weight gain and increased amounts of urine per 24 hours than the rats fed the 10 per cent casein diet. Urinary output of the human subjects on the diets containing 30 per cent protein calories was greater than when they received the 12 per cent protein calorie diet.
There was a significant increase in total nitrogen and urea in serum and urine of rats and humans as the dietary protein level increased. The urinary excretion of uric acid, of creatinine in humans, and of urinary amino nitrogen and total serum protein in rats and humans were also increased appreciably as the protein intake increased. Ko significant effects or trends in serum amino nitrogen of humans, or serum creatinine in rats or humans were observed with the change in the level of dietary protein. The high casein diet fed to rats reduced the excretion of creatinine and serum uric acid, while the high meat intake increased the excretion of creatinine and of uric acid in the humans. It was also found that there was a high negative correlation between serum uric acid and urinary uric acid of rats, and between serum amino nitrogen and urinary amino nitrogen of human subjects.
This study indicates that the body rapidly adjusts to an altered level of protein intake by changing the level of nitrogenous components in blood and urine.
Additivity and non-additivity for perverse signatures
Creators: name: Friedman, Greg
name: Hunsicker, Eugenie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55N33, 57R20 (Primary), 53D12, 15A63 (Secondary)

description: A well-known property of the signature of closed oriented 4n-dimensional manifolds is Novikov additivity, which states that if a manifold is split into two manifolds with boundary along an oriented smooth hypersurface, then the signature of the original manifold equals the sum of the signatures of the resulting manifolds with boundary. Wall showed that this property is not true of signatures on manifolds with boundary and that the difference from additivity could be described as a certain Maslov triple index. Perverse signatures are signatures defined for any stratified pseudomanifold, using the intersection homology groups of Goresky and MacPherson. In the case of Witt spaces, the middle perverse signature is the same as the Witt signature. This paper proves a generalization to perverse signatures of Wall's non-additivity theorem for signatures of manifolds with boundary. Under certain topological conditions on the dividing hypersurface,Novikov additivity for perverse signatures may be deduced as a corollary. In particular, Siegel's version of Novikov additivity for Witt signatures is a special case of this corollary.
description: 45 pages, 4 figures; new revisions; to appear in Journal f\"ur die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle's Journal)
New spectra of some group V heteronuclear diatomics
Creators: name: Hunt, James Edgar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Flash photolysis of AH₃ (where A = P, As or Sb) produces metastable A atoms in the ²D° and ²P° states, AH, AH₂ and A₂. Similar transients were also observed from ACl₃ with the exception of Sb₂ from SbCl₃. The reaction forming A₂ is probably: 2AH(2ACl) + A₂ + H₂(Cl₂) Since this reaction is endothermic for SbCl no Sb₂ is observed following photolysis of SbCl₃. From the photolysis of PCl₃ a new spectrum was observed and attributed to PCI (³π ← ³Σ⁻). The bands resulting from this transition each consist of three subbands which are easily recognized since the spin-orbit splitting is less than the vibrational spacings in the ³π state. The ΔG₁/₂ value for the ³Σ⁻ ground state is significantly larger than that reported by Basco and Yee⁽¹⁶⁾ from a long wavelength spectrum assigned to PCI. This system may arise by absorption from the metastable ¹Δ state which has the same electronic configuration as the ground state. Spectra of the mixed Group V diatomics AsP, PSb and AsSb were obtained by flashing corresponding mixtures of AH₃ plus BH₃ They are formed by: AH + BH → AB + H₂ AsP was also formed from the mixture of AsCl₃ and PCl₃. That neither PSb nor AsSb were produced from the corresponding chlorides is due to the probable endothermicity for the reaction. The spectrum of AsP consists of a number of strong red degraded bands between 2030 Å and 2260 Å. Due to perturbations a vibrational analysis was not possible. A system of bands in the region of 3000 Å to 3225 Å attributed to AsP by Yee and Joness⁽²⁶⁾ was not detected. Two systems of red degraded bands are attributed to PSb. System 1 (3740 Å -3690 Å) has also been observed by Yee, Jones and Kopp⁽²⁷⁾. System 2 (2420 Å - 2640 Å) is much stronger than system 1. Again, as for AsP, strong perturbations prevented a vibrational analysis. A group of red degraded bands in the region of 3710 Å to 3525 Å were attributed to AsSb. This spectrum was also observed by Yee and Jones⁽²⁸⁾. A vibrational analysis gave ωe and ωexe values of 274.3 cm⁻¹ and 1.7 cm⁻¹ for the upper state.
title: Effect of Different Levels of Dietary Protein and Sex Hormones on Lipid Metabolism in Male Castrated Rats
Creators: name: Patel, Sharad
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: Male castrated rats treated with testosterone or estradiol were given a diet containing 9, 18, or 50 per cent protein. Total lipids, lipid classes and fatty acid composition of lipid classes were determined.
Estradiol treated rats grew slower, smaller and consumed less diet. Their liver weights were larger when compared to their body weights. Moisture content of liver remained unaffected by sex hormones, but increased with the high level of protein in the diet.
Both testosterone and estradiol affected lipid metabolism; in general, the estrogenic influence was more pronounced and more predictable. Estradiol administration increased total lipids, free and esterified cholesterol and phospholipids in serum. Liver triglyceride level was decreased and free fatty acids and phospholipids were increased.
An effect of sex hormone on the percentage composition of serum and liver fatty acids was apparent. Estradiol dosed rats maintained higher proportions of myristic and strearic acids in the serum cholesterol esters than that of the other fatty acids. It also increased the level of stearic and oleic acids and decreased the level of myristic, palmitic and linoleic acids in serum phospholipids. Oleic acid concentration was increased while linoleic acid concentration was decreased in serum triglycerides of estradiol treated rats. The liver cholesterol ester fatty acid patterns remained unchanged by sex hormone treatement. Liver phospholipid fractions contained a lower percentage of oleic acid in estradiol treated groups. Testosterone and estradiol treated rats had a higher proportion of myristic, stearic and linoleic acids and lower proportion of oleic acid in liver triglycerides than did the control rats. Dietary content of protein did not change serum lipid values significantly. The high level of dietary protein decreased oleic acid concentration in liver phospholipids and triglycerides.
Anomalous phylogenetic behavior of ribosomal proteins in metagenome assembled asgard archaea
Creators: name: Garg, SG
name: Kapust, N
name: Lin, W
name: Knopp, M
name: Tria, FDK
name: Nelson-Sathi, S
name: Gould, SB
name: Fan, L
name: Zhu, R
name: Zhang, C
name: Martin, WF
Publisher: name: Genome Biology and Evolution
Year: 2020
Subjects: Metagenomics, binning, eukaryogenesis, phylogenetics, asgard archaea, candidate phylum radiation (CPR)

description: Supplement to a paper in GBE (title: Anomalous phylogenetic behavior of ribosomal proteins in metagenome assembled asgard archaea)
A supersymmetric model for graphene
Creators: name: Abreu, Everton M. C.
name: De Andrade, Marco A.
name: de Assis, Leonardo P. G.
name: Helayel-Neto, Jose A.
name: Nogueira, A. L. M. A.
name: Paschoal, Ricardo C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we focus on the fermionic structure of the low-energy excitations of graphene (a monolayer of carbon atoms) to propose a new supersymmetric field-theoretic model for this physical system. In the current literature, other proposals for describing graphene physics have been contemplated at the level of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. Also, by observing the inhomogeneities between neighbor carbon atoms, Jackiw {\it et al.} have set up an interesting chiral Abelian gauge theory. We show in this paper that our formulation encompasses models discussed previously as sectors of an actually richer (supersymmetric) planar gauge model. Possible interpretations for the fields involved in the present graphene model are proposed and the question of supersymmetry breaking is discussed.
description: 12 pages. Preprint format. Final version published in JHEP 1105 (2011) 001
Additional file 1 of Immune-related genes of the larval Holotrichia parallela in response to entomopathogenic nematodes Heterorhabditis beicherriana LF
Creators: name: Li, Ertao
name: Qin, Jianhui
name: Feng, Honglin
name: Li, Jinqiao
name: Li, Xiaofeng
name: Nyamwasa, Innocent
name: Cao, Yazhong
name: Ruan, Weibin
name: Li, Kebin
name: Yin, Jiao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The annotations of PGRP-SC1, PPAE-I and GST. Table S2:. The annotations of symbiotic bacteria in the transcriptomes of the Holotrichia parallela larvae postexposure to H. beicherriana LF for 72 h. Table S3. Summary of all species name, gene name, abbreviation and GenBank accession involved in phylogenetic analysis. Table S4. Oligonucleotides used for qRT-PCR and RNAi. The T7 promoter sequence is bolded in RNAi. Fig. S1. Rationality evaluation results of PGRP-SC1 (a), PPAE-I (b) and GST (c) 3D model. The red regions (A, B, L) represents the residues in most favoured regions; Bright yellow regions (a, b, l, p) represents the residues in additional allowed regions; Dark yellow regions (~a, ~b, ~l, ~p) represents the residues in generously allowed regions.
title: Survival and Distribution of Rennin During Cheddar Cheese Manufacture
Creators: name: Wang, John Ta-chuang
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: Residual rennin in cheese whey and curd was measured by using a special sensitive substrate. The substrate was made by reconstituting 6 g NDM in 500 ml of buffer containing 0.2 M CaCl2, 0.5 M cacodylic acid and 0.2 M triethanolamine at pH 5.7. Cheese curd was blended into a 1:7 slurry (1 part curd, 7 parts water), and 1.67% sodium chloride was added to the why and slurry to liberate residual rennin from casein. The residual rennin in cheese whey and slurry were determined simultaneously with an identical sample containing known rennin activity. Samples with known activity were prepared by destroying the residual rennin in unknown samples after which a known amount of rennin was added back to a standard. The examine the effectiveness of this method for measuring rennin activity in whey or slurry, a recovery test was developed to measure rennin activities in the whey and curd made by centrifuging rennet-coagulated milk. The average total recovery from 15 replications was 101.6 ± 2.4%. It was found that pH was a main factor affecting rennin distribution between whey and curd. The amount in the curd increased with decreasing pH at setting. Adding 0.02% CaCl2 to milk was of little effect.
The results showed that 68.1 6 ± 6.6% of the residual rennin was found in Cheddar cheese whey after dipping and 17.2 6 ± 2.6% of the residual rennin was in the curd after milling.
Aspects of the acquired immune response of snapper (Pagrus auratus)
Creators: name: Morrison, RN
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Snapper (Pagrus auratus) are part of a developing marine aquaculture industry in Australia. However, little is known about the immune system of this species. This study investigated :fundamental aspects of the acquired immune response of snapper. Initially, snapper lg was purified by Staphylococcal protein A (SpA)-agarose affmity chromatography and polyclonal and monoclonal antisera were produced against the purified product then characterised by indirect ELISA, Western blot and flow cytometry. The polyclonal anti-snapper lg antisera bound to both heavy (H) and light (L) chains of reduced snapper serum while three monoclonal anti-snapper lg antibodies bound to the mucosal and/or systemic lg H chain. Both monoclonal and polyclonal anti-snapper lg antisera bound to cells with flow cytometric light scattering profiles similar to lymphocytes as well as macrophages and granulocytes. It is hypothesised that the macrophages and granulocytes do not express mlg but are identified upon binding to systemic lg bound to putative Fe-like receptors (FcR). Monoclonal anti-snapper lg was also shown to mediate quantitative and qualitative changes in PBL intracellular protein tyrosine phosphorylation, indicative of B cell activation. Prominent phosphorylated proteins are hypothesised to be mlg accessory molecules as in murine B cells (CD79˜í¬± and CD79˜í‚â§. Other leucocyte differentiation markers were sought and assessed by screening 54 anti-human and anti-murine monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies against snapper PBLs in flow cytometry. An anti-human CD3˜í¬µ antibody bound to a population ofmlg\\(^-\\) PBLs and it is hypothesised that the anti-CD˜í¬µ antibody may have identified T cells, since the peptide immunogen used to produce the antibody is conserved in CD3˜í¬µ amino acid sequences from humans to sterlet (a Chondrostean). Preliminary experiments indicated that snapper may utilise cellular communication as in higher vertebrates, although it was not determined if communication was in the form of cognate cellular interaction, soluble factor(s) or a combination of both. Activation with either B cell or T cell mitogens drove both mlg\\(^+\\) and mlg\\(^-\\) cells into cycle while activation with both mitogens initiated a synergistic proliferative effect, indicative of an interaction between directly or indirectly activated cell types. Finally, the apparent similarity between teleost B cells and murine B1 cells was assessed using techniques that were originally used to characterise B1 cell derived lg. Snapper lg bound to bromelain treated erythrocytes and binding was inhibited by liposomes of phosphatidylcholine, reminiscent of B1 derived lg. It is hypothesised that the binding to this autoantigen together with the binding of other teleost natural lg to autoantigens are a product of a teleost B1-cell like equivalent.
title: Comparative Cost and Quality Studies of Dehydrated Vegetables Versus Fresh Vegetables Used in Institutional Food Services
Creators: name: Wegener, Kathleen Olsen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1969

description: The cost of fresh and dehydrated vegetables was studied in terms of initial cost and labor cost. Three institution kitchens were used: Logan Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Hospital, Logan Senior High School, and the High Rise Cafeteria at Utah State University. Beans, celery, onions, peas, green peppers, diced potatoes, shredded potatoes, sliced potatoes, and whipped potatoes were included in the research.
Fresh vegetables were found to have lower initial cost. Labor costs were lower for dehydrated vegetables. In the preparation of 25 pounds of vegetables the total cost of dehydrated vegetables was less than that of fresh vegetables. This cost difference continued to increase as the amount of fresh vegetables used increased.
Quality scores indicated that the potato products, green peppers when served in a mixed dish, and onions when served in a mixed dish were the best accepted of the dehydrated products. Green beans were found to be an unacceptable product.
title: Educational Experiences and Goals of Homeless Youth and Barriers to Reaching these Goals
Creators: name: Peterson, Rachel
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Over one million youth (age 14-24) experience homelessness each year in the United States, about 5-8% of all youth. For homeless youth to become independent and avoid cycling through public services, consistent income is necessary. Barriers to gaining employment and subsequent income often stem from lack of education. Defining the educational goals of homeless youth and barriers in reaching them are crucial steps in the development of relevant and effective educational interventions. Using data obtained from surveys of homeless youth in an urban Western city, this study found large discrepancies between the educational goals of homeless youth and actual academic attainment. Becoming homeless before the age of 18 and having fewer lifetime parents or guardians were predictive of lacking a diploma or GED. Implications of this research for informing educational interventions for homeless youth are discussed.
Vulpes rueppellii
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
Carnivora
Canidae
Vulpes
Vulpes rueppellii

description: 85. Rüppell’s Fox, Vulpes rueppellii (Schinz, 1825)
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Subspecies: V. r. sabaea Pocock, 1934.
Distribution: Uncommon; confined to the deserts, semi-deserts and arid plains (Fig. 92).
Previous records: Talila Reserve (Serra et al. 2007), Palmyra, ar- Rasafah, and Mari (Masseti 2009), dry steppes south of Deir ez-Zor and ar-Raqqa (Aidek 2010; Murdoch & Aidek 2012).
Recent records: Jabal Al-Bishri, Ad-Dukhoul steppes, as-Sarayim, Feidhat Ibn Muwyin’e, and Kabajep (2006– 2012).
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 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597