cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Experiences of giving psychotropic medications to psychiatric inpatients as perceived by psychiatric nurses
Creators: name: Barber, Lorie Ann
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Nursing Process
Patient Advocacy
Prescriptions

description: The purposes of this study were to (a) explore and describe psychiatric nurses' experiences of giving psychotropic medications to inpatients and (b) to explore what nurses do when there is disagreement with a physician's prescribed pharmacologic treatment. Through the use of a semistructured interview, 12 nurses described their experiences of giving psychotropic medications to psychiatric inpatients. They also described how they manage situations when they did not agree with a physician's prescribed pharmacologic treatment. From their work experiences, nurses described situations where they felt the patient benefitted and situations where the patient did not benefit from the prescribed medication. The nurses were able to describe productive ways of managing their disagreements with the physician's prescribed pharmacologic treatment, as well as nonproductive methods were described. From these nursing experiences of psychotropic medication management, information was generated to assist the profession and the individual nurses to act as patient advocates and better manage conflict.
Brief an Johann Bernoulli
Creators: name: Toaldo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1787

description: von Giuseppe Toaldo
description: Mit rotem Siegel
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Italienisch
description: Druck: Astronomisches Jahrbuch für das Jahr ... : nebst einer Sammlung der neuesten in die astronomischen Wissenschaften einschlagenden Abhandlungen, Beobachtungen und Nachrichten / mit Genehmhaltung der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften. - Berlin : Lange, 1791, S.250-251
description: Druck: Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres depuis l'avénement de Frédéric Guillaume III au trône : avec l'histoire. - Berlin : Decker Andere AuDt. Uebers. 1770 - 1786 : Physicalische und medicinische Abhandlungen der Königlichen Academie der Wissenschaften zu Berlingabe, 1788/1789, S.19-20
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Brief an [Johann Bernoulli]
Creators: name: Toaldo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1781

description: von Giuseppe Toaldo
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Italienisch
description: Druck: Johann Bernoulli's Sammlung kurzer Reisebeschreibungen und anderer zur Erweiterung der Länder- und Menschenkenntniss dienender Nachrichten. - Berlin : bey dem Herausgeber ; Leipzig : in der Buchhandlung der Gelehrten, 1782, Bd.5, S.451
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Brief an Johann Bernoulli
Creators: name: Trembley, Jean
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1786

description: von Jean Trembley
description: Mit Spuren von einer schwarzen Oblate
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Januar 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Vollständige Rekatalogisierung nach Standortverzeichnis und Briefkatalog
Quality Diversity for Robot Learning: Limitations and Future Directions
Creators: name: Batra, Sumeet
name: Tjanaka, Bryon
name: Nikolaidis, Stefanos
name: Sukhatme, Gaurav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quality Diversity (QD) has shown great success in discovering high-performing, diverse policies for robot skill learning. While current benchmarks have led to the development of powerful QD methods, we argue that new paradigms must be developed to facilitate open-ended search and generalizability. In particular, many methods focus on learning diverse agents that each move to a different xy position in MAP-Elites-style bounded archives. Here, we show that such tasks can be accomplished with a single, goal-conditioned policy paired with a classical planner, achieving O(1) space complexity w.r.t. the number of policies and generalization to task variants. We hypothesize that this approach is successful because it extracts task-invariant structural knowledge by modeling a relational graph between adjacent cells in the archive. We motivate this view with emerging evidence from computational neuroscience and explore connections between QD and models of cognitive maps in human and other animal brains. We conclude with a discussion exploring the relationships between QD and cognitive maps, and propose future research directions inspired by cognitive maps towards future generalizable algorithms capable of truly open-ended search.
description: Accepted to GECCO 2024
Comparison study of two methods of phototherapy for the very-low-birth-weight infant
Creators: name: O'Connor, Deborah G.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Fiberoptic Phototherapy Units
Wallaby Phototherapy System
Healthdyne PT1400 Spotlight Unit

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the utility and possible benefits of the Wallaby Phototherapy Unit in the very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infant. Twenty-seven VLBW infants were randomly assigned to the Wallaby System FSMED401 or the Healthdyne PT1400 Spotlight Unit group. The Wallaby group experienced significantly higher bilirubin levels at 24 and 48 hours, possibly due to the combination of the Wallaby panel design and the restricted body surface area of the VLBW infant. Weight loss at 24 hours was significantly less in the Wallaby group and they also required a smaller change in servo control temperatures at 24 hours, indicating a more stable body temperature. These findings do support further study of the utilization of better designed fiberoptic phototherapy units with a uniform irradiance across the fiberoptic panel in the VLBW population. The use of the Wallaby Phototherapy System is not recommended for the VLBW infant.
Techniques for climate modeling
Creators: name: Burkhard, David B.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2015

description: This thesis reviews the techniques used to model the circulation of the atmosphere and oceans. Models of the atmospheric and oceanic circulation can be used to evaluate future and past conditions of the climate of the Earth. They can also be used to evaluate what affect any changes to the parameters for the Earth's environment might have on the climate of the Earth. For models of the atmosphere, physical properties of the air and of the rotating Earth are used to develop equations for the state and motion of the air in the atmosphere. These equations represent the relationships between the temperature, density, and wind speeds of the air in the atmosphere. The final equations are a set of nonlinear partial differential equations which require a numerical solution. There are several methods used to accomplish a numerical solution to these equations. Models of the ocean can be developed in much the same way as models of the atmosphere. The differences include the fact that sea water is essentially incompress- ible. The models are much more complicated as the oceans are much more limited by the shape of the continents and so do not cover the entire Earth like the atmosphere does. To aid in the understanding of ocean circulation, simpler models of the main circulation of the oceans have been developed as "boxes" of sea water connected by flows of sea water between the boxes which are driven by differences in density between the boxes of sea water. The density of the sea water is a function of the temperature and salinity of the water in each part of the ocean. These box models show that there are multiple equilibrium states for the circulation of the ocean.
Manufacture and transportation of gunpowder in the Ottoman Empire: 1400-1800
Creators: name: Nelson, Cameron Rubaloff
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Empire
Gunpowder
Manufacture
Ottoman
Transport
Turkey

description: This thesis attempts to analyze the reasons for the Ottoman Empire's successful expansion in the 1400s-1800s and its ultimate decline in the 1800s-1900s through the perspective of its national gunpowder factories and gunpowder transportation capabilities. Ultimately, all premodern firearms were only as powerful as the gunpowder they used, and a recurrent problem for all gunpowder armies was the unreliability of their  powder. Such unreliability became the primary cause for the loss of a battle or an entire campaign. In comparison with their rivals to the west and to the east, the Ottomans displayed an unparalleled aptitude for the manufacture and transport of gunpowder. The abundance  of natural resources, such as high quality saltpeter, sulfur, and the right kind of trees for producing charcoal, when combined with the Ottomans' highly sophisticated state-run gunpowder works and excellent transportation network, was a major factor in their stunning successes between the 1450s and 1700s. By looking at several prime examples of the Ottoman manufacturing and transportation systems in action, we can see how a  highly developed state-organized machine triumphed again and again against rivals who came to the battlefield with inferior gunpowder in some of the period's most decisive battles. Between 1800 and 1900, however, state control over these vital wartime  industries experienced a decline coinciding with the Empire's inability to produce sufficient gunpowder and the financial burden which resulted from having to import it.
Redox chemistry of 8-Oxopurine Nucleosides and Oligonucleotides and their potential role as primordial redox coenzymes
Creators: name: Nguyen, Khiem Van
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012

description: The RNA world hypothesis about the origin of life enjoys wide acceptance. The fact that RNA is capable of catalyzing a wide range of chemical reactions supports a RNA-based primitive metabolism. Redox reactions are very important to metabolism, and at the present time, protein enzymes need the assistance of redox coenzymes such as flavin and nicotinamide to promote these processes. In our current work, we investigate the potential role of 8-oxopurine nucleosides including 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanosine (OG) and ribofuranosyl uric acid (RU) as primordial redox coenzymes that could help RNA in redox reactions to support primitive metabolism. More specifically, we propose that 8-oxopurine nucleosides could function as primitive flavins in repairing cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPD) that are photodamaged lesions of nucleic acids and are currently repaired by a flavin-dependent photolyase enzyme. In support of this, we incorporated OG proximal to a CPD in double-stranded oligonucleotides and investigated the repair of the CPD when OG is selectively photoexcited. Our results showed that OG is able to mediate the CPD repair following a flavin-type mechansim. The repair efficiency is dependent upon base pair context as well as the 5' vs. 3' orientation and the strand location. The photorepair activity of OG can operate on versatile environments including directly stacking on to a CPD in the same strand and base pairing with one or the other bases of these lesions.
Brief an [Johann] Bernoulli
Creators: name: Trembley, Jean
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1779

description: von [Jean] Trembley
description: Mit roter Oblate
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
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Brief an [Johann Bernoulli]
Creators: name: Trembley, Jean
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1780

description: von Jean Trembley
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Januar 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Vollständige Rekatalogisierung nach Standortverzeichnis und Briefkatalog
Working memory capacity and task goals modulate error-specific event-related potentials
Creators: name: Coleman, James Richard
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014
Subjects: EEG
ERN
Individual differences
Pe
Post-error slowing
Working memory capacity

description: The present study investigates individual differences in information processing following an error. Participants with high working memory capacity (WMC) and with low WMC performed a high congruency version of the flanker task under both speedand accuracy-stress. We recorded event-related potentials and behavioral measures of accuracy and response time (RT) in the flanker task with a primary focus on processing following an error. We compared WMC groups on the error related negativity (ERN) and the positivity following an error (Pe) associated with both task goal and working memory capacity. Those with a high WMC had a larger ERN compared to those with lower WMC. In addition, accuracy stress reflected a larger ERN than speed-based trials. The data suggest the error related negativity was modulated by task goals and working memory capacity. The Pe was modulated by task goals, but not by WMC. However, a significant interaction demonstrates an increased awareness of erroneous responses for high WMC subjects under accuracy-stress. Additionally, both groups exhibited greater posterror slowing under accuracy-stress as compared to speed-stress. This indicates that both WMC groups were able to adjust their behaviors according to the constraints of the task goals following an erroneous response.
Needs assessment of spouses caring for terminally ill mates at home: implications for nursing
Creators: name: Loken, Thomas Mark
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012

description: A retrospective descriptive study was conducted to assess the needs of spouses caring for terminally ill mates at home.  Four questions were studied:  1. What are the needs of the spouse who is providing primary care to a dying mate at home?  2. Are some of the identified needs met or partially unmet, as perceived by the spouse?  3.  Will spouses classified indifferent categories have different expressed needs?  4.  Will spouses classified in different categories have variant degrees of unmet needs?  The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire designed by the investigator.  The questionnaire dealt with five major categories of need, plus the opportunity for the spouse to add personal input.  The study population consisted of a spouse taking care of the terminally ill mate at home for a minimum of four weeks. The data analysis indicated that there was a statistically significant difference between the number of hospitalizations the dying mate required three months before death, and the increased expressed needs of the care giver.  There was also a significant difference between care givers who had previously taken care of a dying person at home to one who had not.  The spouse with previous experience had significantly fewer expressed needs in the area of talking to others about the impending death and sequela.  The category relating to the personal needs of the care giver produced the greatest degree of unmet needs.  It appears that most spouses give up many personal needs to devote more time to the ill mate.  A trend was also depicted that male care givers have more expressed needs than females in the area of knowing how to give physical care to the dying mate. The care giver also had the opportunity to respond to open-ended questions.  The majority of spouses stated the experience was positive for them and they would care for their spouses at home again, given the opportunity. The county visiting nurse was rated most frequently as the most helpful aide to the spouse caring for a dying mate at home. The implications of these findings will assist nursing and other health care professionals provide anticipatory guidance to both the care giver and patient, thereby promoting successful home care of the terminally ill.
Modulation of immune function by activators of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor Alpha in aging
Creators: name: Poynter, Matthew Edward
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cellular Redox

description: Oxidative stress contributes to a number of biological alterations in aging, including important parameters of immune function. This dissertation demonstrates that the redox-regulated transcription factor NF-kappaB becomes activated in cells that comprise the spleen and secondary lymphoid organs of aged experimental mice. NF-kappaB transcriptionally regulates genes encoding products capable of exerting inflammatory effects that are detrimental to immunocompetence, perpetuate the pro-oxidant state, and contribute to disease in aging. Since NF-kappaB can be activated in response to stimulation with reactive oxygen species, regimens that exert an antioxidant effect should ameliorate NF-kappaB activity and reduce the expression of NF-kappaB regulated genes. Aged mice were provided dietary supplementation with the antioxidant vitamin E or with specific activators of PPAR-alpha;, including dehydroepiandrosterone-3?-sulfate (DHEAS) or WY-14,643. Activators of PPAR-alpha; may modulate cellular redox state through the transcriptional upregulation of antioxidant and fatty acid-catabolizing enzymes. Supplementation of aged mice with these agents reduced splenic NF-kappaB activity and inflammatory cytokine production to levels seen in young mice and reduced tissue levels of oxidative damage, implicating excesses in oxidative stress as etiologic for the aged phenotype. The capacity of PPAR-apha activation to function in a manner similar to vitamin E suggested that the activation of PPAR-alpha does exert a cellular antioxidant effect and that appropriate regulation of the PPAR-alpha system may be essential to maintenance of redox balance in aging. With PPAR-alpha knockout mice, a functional PPAR-alpha was required for the beneficial effects of DHEAS or WY-14,643 in aging or under conditions of redox imbalance induced by feeding a vitamin E-deficient diet. PPAR-alpha -/- mice also showed indices of oxidative stress at an earlier age than PPAR-alpha +/+ mice, supportive of the essential role for PPAR-alpha; in the maintenance of redox balance. Furthermore, reduced expression of PPAR-alpha; in the spleen is another consequence of aging, a finding suggesting that age-associated alterations in the PPAR-alpha; system may contribute to the immunosenecent phenotype as well as to a number of disease states.
Creating a performance-based asphalt mix design to incorporate Uinta Basin oil sands
Creators: name: Vrtis, Michael C.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2013
Subjects: oil sand asphalt
tar sand asphalt

description: This research was an effort to create and test a performance-based mix design that allows for oil sand to be incorporated as the binder material. The design is based on creating an open-graded aggregate blend that will allow incorporating the optimum volume of oil sand. The oil sand used in this project is a natural, unmodified material that was characterized to explore its unique attributes. Aggregate stockpiles were blended to find the maximum space for the oil sand to be added in the mix. A field project was performed to bring the laboratory mix to full-size scale. Even though there were some minor delays while trying to incorporate the oil sand into the mixing chain, the results prove that the design from this work was feasible. Loose mix samples were obtained and brought back to the laboratory for testing. The Hamburg Wheel Tracking Device (HWTD), Bending Beam Rheometer (BBR), and Asphalt Mixture Performance Tester (AMPT) were performed on the loose mix samples from the field project. The results were compared with the laboratory mix results as well as with results from conventional hot mix asphalt (HMA) mixes used in Utah. The HWTD shows the mix has a solid aggregate structure; however, there is a potential for premature pavement failure due to moisture susceptibility. In the BBR, all of the oil sand mixes had a iv greater creep stiffness at low temperatures than conventional binder grades; meaning that the oil sand mixtures are more likely to crack at low in-service temperatures when compared to the performance binders typically used in interstate roads. In the AMPT, at high in-service temperatures, the dynamic modulus was lower than the conventional mixes, meaning there is a greater likelihood of rutting occurring at high temperatures because the binding material is softer. Based on these performance measures, it was determined that it is possible to develop a mixture that incorporates oil sands into a pavement material for rural or low volume roads. There are economic and environmental advantages to using oil sand mixes as a roadway material. Oil sand mixes require a lower mixing temperature than HMA and, therefore, can save on both fuel costs and emissions.
Roles of drug basicity, melanin binding, and cellular transport in drug incorporation into hair
Creators: name: Borges, Chad Randolph
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Analysis

description: Hair has become a widely accepted alternative matrix for forensic drug testing. This project examined the roles of drug basicity, drug-melanin binding, and cellular transport of drugs in the phenomenon of preferential incorporation of drugs into darker versus lighter colored hair. Validated assays were developed then used to profile the melanin content in human hair of various colors. Melanin content was then correlated with codeine incorporation into the analyzed hair. Black hair from rats dosed with the basic drug amphetamine was found to contain three times the concentration of amphetamine than white hair from the same rats. In contrast, no difference in N acetylamphetamine (N-AcAp) content was found between black hair and white hair from rats dosed with N-AcAp, a nonbasic amphetamine analog. Cocaine and amphetamine, two drugs that show a hair color bias, bound to eumelanins and mixed eu-/pheomelanins to varying degrees, but not to pure pheomelanin. Benzoylecgonine (BE) and N AcAp, drugs that do not show a hair color bias, did not to bind to any subtype of melanin. Pigmented melanocytes (PM) took up large amounts of the basic drugs amphetamine and cocaine (levels of uptake dependent on melanin content), while keratinocytes and non-pigmented melanocytes (NPM) took up only small amounts of amphetamine. None of the studied cells took up N-AcAp above background levels. While keratinocytes and NPM quickly effluxed most of an influxed basic drug, PM were slow to efflux and only partially effluxed the drug, if efflux media was not refreshed. BE was quickly effluxed from both PM and NPM. Cultured cells influxed amphetamine and cocaine to far greater extents than N-AcAp and BE. This is in accord with the fact that the non-plasma-protein-bound
Slit and Netrin are vascular guidance factors
Creators: name: Park, Kye Won
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Mechanisms

description: The cardiovascular system is the first organ to form during embryogenesis and is critical for the survival and subsequent development of the embryo. Vascular development is defined as two processes, vasculogenesis and angiogenesis. Vasculogenesis is the process of differentiation and assembly of endothelial cells into primitive vessels. Subsequently, angiogenesis is responsible for the remodeling and expansion of the premature vascular plexus into a highly organized complex network. The fact that the basic blueprint for outgrowth of the vascular tree is evolutionarily conserved indicates that vascular guidance is controlled genetically. Vascular guidance is dependent upon directional sprouting, involving proliferation, migration and tube formation of endothelial cells that are the basic unit of a vessel. Nerves often share common paths with blood vessels throughout the entire organism. Neuronal patterning is mainly mediated by four major pathways: Netrins, Semaphorins, Ephrins, and Slits, interacting with their cognate families of receptors. Recent efforts have demonstrated that molecular mechanisms initiated by Ephrins and Semaphorins for guiding neuronal patterning also regulate endothelial sprouting and angiogenesis. In order to identify additional vascular guidance mechanisms, two parallel strategies were undertaken. First, I hypothesized that putative guidance genes could be identified by examining mutants in which the normal routes of sprouting blood vessels are disrupted. With this strategy I was able to identify a novel Robo homologue, Robo4, based on its differential expression in an Alk-1 targeted mouse. Our data suggest that Robo4 is a vascular-specific Robo receptor that plays a role in angiogenesis and vascular patterning, analogous to the roles played by other Robo receptors in patterning axons in the nervous system. Second, because of recent evidence for shared guidance mechanisms between the nervous and vascular systems, candidate gene approaches were also performed to screen for vascular expression of known neuronal guidance genes. This approach led to the identification of Unc5h2, one of the Netrin receptors in the nervous system, as a putative vascular guidance protein. Our data indicate that Netrin promotes angiogenesis in vitro and in vivo. This suggests that Netrin-Unc5h2 signaling is also involved in angiogenesis in addition to its roles in neuronal guidance. I generated an Unc5h2 conditional allele and mice are currently being bred and will be characterized to elucidate the in vivo roles of netrin-Unc5h2 signaling in vascular development. Together, these experimental data, and those of others, strongly indicate that the four major pathways that regulate axonal guidance have been adapted by the vascular system for its patterning. These shared guidance cues are likely responsible for generating the superimposable patterns of and functional cooperation between the neuronal and vascular systems.
Worldly atonement: neo-agrarianism and marriage to place in the works of Wendell Berry
Creators: name: Wallis, Bryan Verdin
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agriculture in literature
Environmental protection in literature

description: The writings of essayist, poet, novelist, and farmer Wendell Berry are a preeminent influence in an ongoing neo-agrarian renaissance. Drawing from his cannon of essays, fiction, and poetry, this work elucidates several key principles of Berry's  "agrarian argument" including his sense of the relationship between culture, worship, and  agriculture, his relationship to the past and the Western tradition, and the connections between urban and agricultural landscapes. This work argues that Berry's thought is not simply a nostalgic yearning for a never-realized agrarian ideal (as construed by some critics) but that Berry looks forward to the possibility of healthy communities (which for Berry include humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems) grounded in the health of the sustaining land, and that Berry's thought expands agrarian thought and practice beyond the family farm into rural and urban environments. This work examines Berry's critiques  of industrial capitalism and current educational and religious thinking, and argues for Berry's twenty-first-century popular and academic relevance. From a broad focus on agrarian principles this work shifts to examine (primarily through the lens of his fiction) the proper relationship Berry imagines between humans and the surrounding world based on his metaphorical use of marriage and the moral exemplar of the husbandman to imagine a relationship of lifelong care and fidelity between individuals, community, and place. This work also examines Berry's sense of atonement, an integration of individuals  to a sustaining pattern of community and an ultimately literal at-one-ment between  humans, place, and the divinity Berry perceives as eminent in the world.
Brief an Johann Bernoulli
Creators: name: Trembley, Jean
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1785

description: von Jean Trembley
description: Mit Spuren von einer roten Oblate
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Januar 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Vollständige Rekatalogisierung nach Standortverzeichnis und Briefkatalog
Brief an [Johann Bernoulli]
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1780

description: von [Friedrich Ludolph] Trefurt
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
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Intimate partner violence: from patriarchal theory to health education practice
Creators: name: Barco, Jacqueline Rose
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Attitudes
Female offenders
Gender
Intimate partner violence
Patriarchy
Self-efficacy

description: Field researchers continue to document Intimate partner violence (IPV) as a public health concern in the United States. Initial efforts to bring public awareness to IPV  began in response to the Women's Rights movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Studies of IPV supported the contention that "wife abuse" was a manifestation of "male dominance," such that male spouses of women were the perpetrators of IPV. However, the 1970s and 1980s brought about nationally representative samples that failed to support that IPV was perpetrated only by males; females were also found to report IPV perpetration at equal, or greater, rates than men. Today, IPV research reflects various theories, including family violence theories, conflict and control theories, theories of  psychopathology, and gender and feminist theory applications. This manuscript represents a feminist theoretical approach to the study of IPV. Chapter 2 draws upon criticisms of the use of patriarchal theories to explain IPV by presenting a theoretical framework that incorporates the theory of self-efficacy, triadic  reciprocal causation model, and patriarchy to explain attitudes accepting female perpetrated IPV in the literature. Data collection methods and findings will be provided to support that attitudes are more accepting of female perpetrated IPV than male perpetrated IPV. Practical applications and recommendations for future research in IPV research will be discussed in Chapter 3.
Brief an Johann Bernoulli
Creators: name: Trembley, Jean
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1780

description: von Jean Trembley
description: Mit rotem Siegel
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Januar 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Vollständige Rekatalogisierung nach Standortverzeichnis und Briefkatalog
Brief an [Johann Heinrich Lambert]
Creators: name: Toaldo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1775

description: von [Giuseppe] Toaldo
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Italienisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Januar 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Vollständige Rekatalogisierung nach Standortverzeichnis und Briefkatalog
description: Bl.137: Thermometri, astronomische Tabelle
Brief an Johann Bernoulli
Creators: name: Trembley, Jean
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1786

description: von [Jean] Trembley
description: Mit rotem Siegel
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Januar 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Vollständige Rekatalogisierung nach Standortverzeichnis und Briefkatalog
Brief an [Johann Bernoulli]
Creators: name: Trembley, Jean
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1779

description: von Jean Trembley
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Druck: Astronomisches Jahrbuch für das Jahr ... : nebst einer Sammlung der neuesten in die astronomischen Wissenschaften einschlagenden Abhandlungen, Beobachtungen und Nachrichten / mit Genehmhaltung der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften. - Berlin : Lange, 1782, Bd.2, S.175-187
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Brief an Johann Bernoulli
Creators: name: Trembley, Jean
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1777

description: von Jean Trembley
description: Mit Spuren von einer roten Oblate
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Januar 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Vollständige Rekatalogisierung nach Standortverzeichnis und Briefkatalog
Brief an Johann Bernoulli
Creators: name: Trembley, Jean
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1784

description: von Jean Trembley
description: Mit Spuren von einer roten Oblate
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Januar 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Vollständige Rekatalogisierung nach Standortverzeichnis und Briefkatalog
Brief an [Johann Heinrich Lambert]
Creators: name: Toaldo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1777

description: von Giuseppe Toaldo
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Italienisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Januar 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Vollständige Rekatalogisierung nach Standortverzeichnis und Briefkatalog
Brief an Johann Bernoulli
Creators: name: Trembley, Jean
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1790

description: von [Jean] Trembley
description: Mit Spuren von einer roten Oblate
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Januar 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Vollständige Rekatalogisierung nach Standortverzeichnis und Briefkatalog
Ultrasound beam simulation for magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery
Creators: name: Vyas, Urvi
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Element response function array
HIFU
Hybrid angular spectrum
MRgFUS
Ring-bessel
Ultrasound beam simulation

description: Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) is a noninvasive means of causing selective tissue necrosis using high-power ultrasound and  MR temperature imaging. Inhomogeneities in the medium of propagation can cause significant distortion of the ultrasound beam, resulting in changes in focal-zone  amplitude, location and shape. Current ultrasound beam simulation techniques are either only applicable to homogeneous media or are relatively slow in calculating power deposition patterns in inhomogeneous media. Further, these techniques use table-value estimates of the acoustic parameters for predicting ultrasound beam propagation in inhomogeneous media, resulting in at best an approximate power deposition pattern. This  work improves numerical analysis of ultrasound beam propagation by developing techniques for: 1) fast, accurate predictions of ultrasound beam propagation in  inhomogeneous media, 2) noninvasive estimation of acoustic parameters (speed of sound and attenuation coefficient) of tissue types present in inhomogeneous media, 3) noninvasive determination of changes in tissue acoustic properties due to treatment.  These beam simulation techniques utilizing subject-specific tissue parameters will rapidly predict power deposition patterns in real patient geometries and estimate changes in tissue acoustic parameters during treatment, leading to treatment-responsive patientspecific treatment plans that will improve the safety, efficacy and effectiveness of MRgFUS.
Brief an Johann Bernoulli
Creators: name: Trembley, Jean
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1780

description: von Jean Trembley
description: Mit Spuren von einem roten Siegel
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
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Brief an Johann Bernoulli
Creators: name: Trembley, Jean
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1785

description: von Jean Trembley
description: Mit schwarzem Siegel
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
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Synthesis of internally functionalized silica nanoparticles for theranostic applications
Creators: name: Walton, Nathan Isaac
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2013
Subjects: Boron
Mesoporous
Nanoparticle
Silica
Synthesis
Theranostic

description: This thesis addresses the synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic silica nanoparticle hybrids. It focuses in large part on their potential applications in the medical field. Silica acts as a useful carrier for a variety of compounds and this thesis silica will demonstrate its use as a carrier for boron or gadolinium. Boron-10 and gadolinium-157 have been suggested for the radiological treatment of tumor cells through the process called neutron capture therapy (NCT). Gadolinium is also commonly used as a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) contrast agent. Particles that carry it have potential theranostic applications of both imaging and treating tumors. Chapter 1 presents a background on synthetic strategies and usages of silica nanoparticles, and NCT theory. Chapter 2 describes a procedure to create mesoporous metal chelating silica nanoparticles, mDTTA. This is achieved via a co-condensation of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and 3-trimethoxysilyl-propyl diethylenetriamine (SiDETA) followed by a postsynthesis modification step with bromoacetic acid (BrAA). These particles have a large surface area and well-defined pores of ~2 nm. The mDTTA nanoparticles were used to chelate the copper(II), cobalt(II) and gadolinium(III). The chelating of gadolinium is the most interesting since it can be used as a MRI contrast agent and a neutron capture therapeutic. The synthetic procedure developed also allows for the attachment of a fluorophore that gives the gadolinium chelating mDTTA nanoparticles a dual imaging modality. Chapter 3 presents the synthetic method used to produce two classes of large surface area organically modified silica (ORMOSIL) nanoparticles. Condensating the organosilane vinyltrimethoxysilane in a micellar solution results in nanoparticles that are either surface rough (raspberry-like) or mesoporous nanoparticles, which prior to this thesis has not been demonstrated in ORMOSIL chemistry. Furthermore, the vinyl functionalities are modified, using hydroboration, to make the nanoparticles into waterdispersible boron carriers that also have potential boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) applications. Lastly, Chapter 4 provides a general description of NCT, specifically that involving boron-10 and gadolinium-157. It further describes the synthetic methodology used in producing fatty acid coated boron nanoparticles (BNPs). The BNPs are encapsulated with silica to add a hydrophilic shell so that they can potentially be used in biological systems as BNCT agents. The silica shell is also modified with a fluorophore, dansyl chloride, so that the particle hybrid could be imaged during cell studies.
Neutron stars as extreme gravity probes
Creators: name: Silva, Hector O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutron stars are powerful probes into the extremes of physics. In this chapter, we will discuss how observations of neutron stars, either in isolation or in binaries, can be leveraged to test general relativity and constrain competing theories of gravity.
description: 46 pages, 8 figures. Review Chapter for the book "Recent Progress on Gravity Tests" (Eds. C. Bambi and A. C\'ardenas-Avenda\~no, Springer Singapore)
Avant-propos
Creators: name: Jakubowska, Joanna
name: Solová, Regina
Publisher: name: Classiques Garnier
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: André Gide
subject: Colloque
subject: Critique littéraire
subject: Études gidiennes
subject: Réception

description: À l’aube du xxie siècle, l’œuvre d’André Gide suscite-t-elle encore de nouvelles questions, ou se laisse-t-elle, au contraire, ranger dans les classifications existantes ? L’œuvre et la personne de l’auteur des Faux-monnayeurs touchent-elles à nouveau le grand public ? Le présent ouvrage est une tentative de donner les éléments de réponse aux questions qui émergent autour d’un personnage qui reste, semble-t-il, insaisissable.
Dichotomius (Dichotomius) subaeneus
Creators: name: Hielkema, Auke J.
name: Hielkema, Meindert A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Dichotomius
Dichotomius subaeneus

description: Dichotomius (Dichotomius) subaeneus (Laporte, 1840)
Copris subaenea Laporte 1840: 79 (French Guiana)
Distribution. Guyana: BMNH - NEW COUNTRY RECORD (Guyana, [East Berbice-Corentyne], New River. 3-V-1938. C. A. Hudson. NHMUK013655399.). Suriname: Gillet 1911b: 62 (as Pinotus subaeneus); Blackwelder 1944: 208 (as Pinotus subaeneus); Larsen 2011: 98, 2013: 96; MHCN; NZCS; RMNH. French Guiana: Laporte 1840: 79 (as Copris subaenea); Gillet 1911b: 62 (as Pinotus subaeneus); Blackwelder 1944: 208 (as Pinotus subaeneus); Feer 2000: 32; Feer and Pincebourde 2005: 29; Price and Feer 2012: 327; Brûlé et al. 2014: 183; MHCN. Brazil (NA): Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 193; Quintero and Roslin 2005: appendix A (NA); Gardner et al. 2008: table S1 (NA).
description: Published as part of Hielkema, Auke J. & Hielkema, Meindert A., 2019, An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guianas, pp. 1-306 in Insecta Mundi 732 (732) on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3678492
Surrounding fields
Creators: name: Nelson, Cami
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Smithson, Robert
Spiral jetty

description: Surrounding Fields is an investigation of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and an ars poetica. Having made three visits to the Jetty, documenting the trips photographically, this project explores the experience of interacting with an art site constructed as a 'non-site'. In addition to the photographs, I have included text, dialogue, code, and scientific facts that acted as the lyrical subtext for each trip. Considering the ways in which the experience of art in a museum is unhinged by Smithson's Jetty, my project investigates the role of the art viewer and trip taker in that unhinging. Smithson's Jetty blurs the boundaries between figure and ground, text and context. Accordingly, I hope that the texts in my project begin to zoom in and out so that the foreground and background for each trip become unstable in the ways all of our trips become as they get layered with memory, screened by desire, thought through, and mediated by our tender machines. In my approach to poetry as a field, "art becomes inseparable from the search for reality," as Lyn Hejinian puts it in My Life. The concept of mediation, so foregrounded in visual art, becomes a useful concept when it comes to thinking about what I'm doing in a poem. I'm trying to say something but all I have is words. This feels dreadfully insufficient so many times, but it's the constant failure of words to get at what I'm saying that I find so beautiful. Sometimes the words stop pointing to anything else and just gum up like paint on the end of a brush. Moving between the visual world and the written world becomes an act of translation that is generative in its failure. I like to emphasize and find beauty in the failure of words. In searching through what it means to see things and to experience the media of the world, I keep going in circles. The circles, like Duchamp's notion of delay and Smithson's Spiral, feel very satisfying because it allows a concept to come out of the lyric.
Brief an [Johann Bernoulli]
Creators: name: Trembley, Jean
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1782

description: von Jean Trembley
description: Mit roter Oblate
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Französisch
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Brief an [Johann Bernoulli]
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1780

description: von Friedrich Ludolph Trefurt
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Deutsch
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Brief an [Johann Bernoulli]
Creators: name: Toaldo, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1781

description: von [Giuseppe] Toaldo
description: Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität Basel
description: Italienisch
description: Druck: Johann Bernoulli's Sammlung kurzer Reisebeschreibungen und anderer zur Erweiterung der Länder- und Menschenkenntniss dienender Nachrichten. - Berlin : bey dem Herausgeber ; Leipzig : in der Buchhandlung der Gelehrten, 1781, Bd.2, S.411-413
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20220802 FINAL NEW SUBMISSION JES SUPPLEMENTARY INFO ALBUMIN MODIFICATIONS
Creators: name: Srikanta, Sathyanarayana
name: Vaishnav, Madhumati
name: Kumari, Namita
name: Krishnaswamy, Patnam
name: Balaram, Padmanabhan
name: Bhat, Navakanta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Albumin molecular fingerprinting using mass spectrometry can be potentially useful for understanding the evolution and progression of diabetes. The simultaneous monitoring of albumin glycation, oxidation and truncation in clinical samples, can provide valuable insights into the pathogenesis and future therapies of diabetes.
Development of Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Systems for Corporate Management
Creators: name: Romanova, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The article discusses development of autonomous artificial intelligence systems for corporate management. The function of a corporate director is still one of the few that are legislated for execution by a "natural" rather than an "artificial" person. The main prerequisites for development of systems for full automation of management decisions made at the level of a board of directors are formed in the field of corporate law, machine learning, and compliance with the rules of non-discrimination, transparency, and accountability of decisions made and algorithms applied. The basic methodological approaches in terms of corporate law for the "autonomous director" have already been developed and do not get rejection among representatives of the legal sciences. However, there is an undeniable need for further extensive research in order to amend corporate law to effectively introduce "autonomous directors". In practice, there are two main options of management decisions automation at the level of top management and a board of directors: digital command centers or automation of separate functions. Artificial intelligence systems will be subject to the same strict requirements for non-discrimination, transparency, and accountability as "natural" directors. At a certain stage, autonomous systems can be an effective tool for countries, regions, and companies with a shortage of human capital, equalizing or providing additional chances for such countries and companies to compete on the global market.
description: in Russian language