cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Generalization and Maintenance of Treatment Gains of Behaviorally/Emotionally Handicapped Students from Resource Rooms to Regular Classrooms Using Self-Evaluation Procedures
Creators: name: Rhode, Ginger
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1981

description: Students who are removed from their regular classrooms for treatment in special education classrooms commonly exhibit positive behavior gains in those settings. Typically, however, the gains do not generalize and maintain when the students are returned to their regular classrooms. The present study initially provided six Behaviorally/Emotionally Handicapped elementary school students with a short-term resource room treatment to bring their behavior under the control of a combination of procedures emphasizing self-evaluation. Once acceptable levels of appropriate behavior were maintained with only minimal external reinforcement and students accurately self-evaluated their own work and behavior, generalization and maintenance of behavior gains were sought in subjects' regular classrooms.
A multiple baseline across pairs of subjects design was used to examine individual subjects' behavior throughout the study. Analysis of the results of the study indicated that once self-evaluation procedures were extended into subjects' regular classrooms, subjects transferred and maintained high levels of appropriate classroom behavior in those settings. For four of the six subjects, all extratraining components were faded from use. Only two subjects required a modified form of the original intervention to maintain behavior gains in their regular classrooms.
title: Development and Characterization of Reporter-Expressing Zika Viruses
Creators: name: Woolley, Michael E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: In recent years, Zika virus (ZIKV) has garnered worldwide attention due to its epidemic spread throughout the Americas and due to the newly recognized link between ZIKV infection and neurological diseases, including microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome. ZIKV is a mosquito-borne member of the genus Flavivirus, which includes the other prominent human pathogens Japanese encephalitis virus, West Nile virus, dengue virus, and yellow fever virus. Many questions about the biology of ZIKV and how it causes disease remain unanswered. Furthermore, there currently are no vaccines or licensed antiviral drugs available to treat ZIKV infection. The goal of this study was to create new tools to aid in ZIKV research and in the creation of new therapies for ZIKV infection. To accomplish this, we created two recombinant ZIKVs–one expressing a green fluorescent protein reporter gene and the other expressing a luciferase reporter gene. These additional genes will allow us to easily visualize infected cells and to precisely track levels of viral replication over time, thereby facilitating new experimental approaches and providing a means to gain insights about ZIKV. We believe that these two new versions of ZIKV will prove to be useful tools in the urgent task of better understanding how ZIKV causes disease and its links to other complications, as well as in the process of developing and testing new treatments to combat ZIKV infection.
Bound states for a stationary nonlinear Schrodinger-Poisson system with sign-changing potential in $R^3$
Creators: name: Jiang, Yongsheng
name: Zhou, Huan-Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J60

description: We study the following Schrödinger-Poisson system (P_λ){ll} -Δu + V(x)u+λϕ(x) u =Q(x)u^{p}, x\in \mathbb{R}^3 \\ -Δϕ= u^2, \lim\limits_{|x|\to +\infty}ϕ(x)=0, u>0, where $λ\geqslant0$ is a parameter, $1 < p < +\infty$, $V(x)$ and $Q(x)$ are sign-changing or non-positive functions in $ L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^3)$. When $V(x)\equiv Q(x)\equiv1$, D.Ruiz \cite{RuizD-JFA} proved that ($P_λ$) with $p\in(2,5)$ has always a positive radial solution, but ($P_λ$) with $p\in(1,2]$ has solution only if $λ>0$ small enough and no any nontrivial solution if $λ\geqslant{1/4}$. By using sub-supersolution method, we prove that there exists $λ_0>0$ such that ($P_λ$) with $p\in(1,+\infty)$ has always a bound state ($H^1(\mathbb{R}^3)$ solution) for $λ\in[0,λ_0)$ and certain functions $V(x)$ and $Q(x)$ in $ L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^3)$. Moreover, for every $λ\in[0,λ_0)$, the solutions $u_λ$ of $\rm (P_λ)$ converges, along a subsequence, to a solution of ($P_0$) in $H^1$ as $λ\to 0$.
description: 13 pages. to appear in Acta Math. Sci., 29B(2009), No.4, pp:1095-
title: Lesiones con contenido graso del Sistema Nervioso Central . No sólo Lipomas
Creators: name: Roa Martínez, Elena
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Las lesiones con contenido graso son poco frecuentes en el Sistema Nervioso Central (SNC).
Es importante caracterizarlas adecuadamente para un correcto diagnóstico. Nuestro objetivo es mostrar los hallazgos radiólogicos en Resonancia Magnética...
Micromorphology of the Adhesive Interface of Self-Adhesive Resin Cements to Enamel and Dentin
Creators: name: Scholz, Konstantin J.
name: Bittner, Aleksandra
name: Cieplik, Fabian
name: Hiller, Karl-Anton
name: Schmalz, Gottfried
name: Buchalla, Wolfgang
name: Federlin, Marianne
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: dental bonding; scanning electron microscopy; self-adhesive resin cements; SEM evaluation
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Interfaces between dentin, enamel and luting agents were characterized using low vacuum Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). After smear layer creation, one of three luting agents (RelyX Unicem 2, Clearfil SA Cement and Panavia F 2.0/ED Primer II) was applied on 60 enamel-dentin specimens and dual-cured or self-cured. Specimens were polished (Experiment 1) and subsequently demineralized and deproteinized (Experiment 2). Adhesive interfaces were analyzed (low vacuum SEM, ×3000). Presence of an interdiffusion zone, tag-like structures (dentin) and marginal gaps (enamel) were assessed. Non-parametrical tests (χ2-test, α = 0.05) were performed. The first null-hypothesis was that the adhesive interface micromorphology between enamel and dentin and self-adhesive resin cements (SARCs) is similar with conventional resin cement used with a self-etch adhesive (CRC+SE). The second null-hypothesis was that the micromorphology is not influenced by curing modes. Interdiffusion zones and tag-like structures (dentin) were observed more frequently for CRC+SE compared to SARCs. For each luting agent, there was a non-significant (p > 0.05) tendency for interdiffusion zone and tag-like structures detectable in more specimens after self-curing compared to dual-curing. Marginal gaps (enamel) were found only for SARCs. The first null-hypothesis was not rejected fully: Tag-like structures and interdiffusion zones in dentin were found for CRC+SE and SARCs. The second null-hypothesis was not rejected.
MYC-DRIVEN EPIGENETIC MEMORY MAINTAINS EMBRYONIC STEM CELL IDENTITY
Creators: name: CHERUBINI, ALESSANDRO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: Stem cells balance their self-renewal and differentiation potential by integrating environmental signals with the Transcriptional Regulatory Network (TRN). Moreover, the integration between extrinsic and intrinsic signals affects the maintenance of their epigenetic state, establishing an accurate cells identity. Although c-Myc transcription factors plays a major role in stem cells self-renewal and pluripotency, their mechanisms of actions and their ability to establish an epigenetic memory remains poorly defined. We addressed this point by profiling the epigenetic pattern and gene expression in Embryonic Stem (ES) cells, whose growth depends on conditional c-Myc activity. Here we show that c-Myc potentiates the Wnt/?- Catenin signaling pathway, which cooperates with the transcriptional regulatory network in sustaining ES cells self-renewal. c-Myc activation results in the transcriptional repression of Wnt antagonists Dkk1 and Sfrp1 through the direct recruitment of PRC2 on these targets. We found that, through these molecular mechanisms, c-Myc promotes pluripotency and self-renewal of ES cells by activating an alternative epigenetic program. Finally our data suggest that the consequent potentiation of the autocrine Wnt/?-Catenin signaling induces the transcriptional activation of the endogenous Myc family members, which in turn activates a Myc-driven self-reinforcing circuit. Thus, our data unravel a Myc-dependent selfpropagating epigenetic memory in the maintenance of ES cell identity.
CCI+ Sea Ice ECV - Sea Ice Thickness Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD)
Creators: name: Paul, Stephan
name: Hendricks, Stefan
name: Rinne, Eero
name: Sallila, Heidi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This document is the Algorithm Theoretical Basis for the Sea Ice ECV within CCI+ PHASE 1 - NEW R&D ON CCI ECVs, which is being undertaken by a METNO-led consortium. It contains the algorithm used to compute the ESA CCI sea ice thickness climate data record v3.0 based on radar altimeter data from Envisat and CryoSat-2.
ANALYZING FLUORIDE CONTAMINATION IN GROUNDWATER: CASE STUDIES OF REWARI BLOCK OF REWARI DISTRICT, HARYANA
Creators: name: SHAVETA DESWAL
name: Dr. ANIL SHARMA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fluoride Contamination, Groundwater, Ion-Selective Electrode, Fluorosis, Public Health.

description: Abstract

This study investigates the fluoride concentration in drinking water across 84 villages in the Rewari Block of Rewari District, Haryana, India, a region with significant agricultural activity and semi-arid climate. Fluoride, a persistent pollutant, is naturally present in the Earth's crust and can accumulate in groundwater, particularly in regions with fluoride-bearing minerals. The study utilized the ion-selective electrode (ISE) method to measure fluoride levels in groundwater samples, finding concentrations ranging from 0.3 to 1.3 mg/L, which is within the permissible limit set by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, 21 villages reported levels exceeding the recommended 1.0 mg/L limit. The higher fluoride concentrations in some areas are attributed to geological factors, such as the presence of fluoride-rich rocks, deeper water tables, and specific climatic conditions. These findings highlight the need for targeted interventions by government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to mitigate the health risks associated with fluoride contamination in drinking water, particularly in rural and semi-arid regions dependent on groundwater sources.
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay April 2004
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Economic situation of your family; economic situation of the country; future financial expectations; purchasing household appliances; ideal qualities of presidential candidates; voting in primary elections; interest in candidates; political campaigns; interest in politics; likability of presidential candidates and politicians; allocation of government spending; corruption in government; number of public employees; approval of President Jorge Battle; legalizing abortion; political spectrum position; religious views; past voting history; potential future voting choices. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection.
Nuclear halo structure and pseudo-spin symmetry
Creators: name: Long, Wen Hui
name: Ring, Peter
name: Meng, Jie
name: Van Giai, Nguyen
name: Bertulani, Carlos A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear halo structure and restoration of relativistic symmetry are studied within the framework of the relativistic Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (RHFB) theory. Giant halos as well as ordinary ones are found in Cerium isotopes close to the neutron drip line. Bridged by T=0 {channel}, the restoration of pseudo-spin symmetry (PSS) plays an essential role in stabilizing the neutron halo structures. The Fock terms, especially the $ρ$-tensor couplings, not only play significant role in the PSS restoration but also present substantial contributions to the T=0 {channel}, from which is well demonstrated the necessity of Fock terms.
description: 5pages, 4figures, 1table
title: Valor del ADC como predictor de respuesta al tratamiento neodyuvante en el cáncer de recto.
Creators: name: Pardo Souto, Maria del Carmen
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Treatment effects
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Colon
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
El pronóstico del cáncer de recto depende de factores determinables en el momento del diagnóstico como son el estadio TNM,
la invasión o no de la fascia mesorrectal,
el grado de diferenciación histológica y la invasión...
title: La ecografía cutánea, aspectos prácticos y utilidad diagnóstica en lesiones dermatológicas benignas.
Creators: name: Muñoz Parra, Fabiola
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
La aparición de nuevas sondas sondas lineales de alta frecuencia abre el campo del diagnóstico en las lesiones dermatológicas.
Mostraremos aspectos técnicos y características ecográficas de lesiones cutáneas benignas,
según su...
SyzScope: Revealing High-Risk Security Impacts of Fuzzer-Exposed Bugs in Linux kernel
Creators: name: Zou, Xiaochen
name: Li, Guoren
name: Chen, Weiteng
name: Zhang, Hang
name: Qian, Zhiyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fuzzing has become one of the most effective bug finding approach for software. In recent years, 24*7 continuous fuzzing platforms have emerged to test critical pieces of software, e.g., Linux kernel. Though capable of discovering many bugs and providing reproducers (e.g., proof-of-concepts), a major problem is that they neglect a critical function that should have been built-in, i.e., evaluation of a bug's security impact. It is well-known that the lack of understanding of security impact can lead to delayed bug fixes as well as patch propagation. In this paper, we develop SyzScope, a system that can automatically uncover new "high-risk" impacts given a bug with seemingly "low-risk" impacts. From analyzing over a thousand low-risk bugs on syzbot, SyzScope successfully determined that 183 low-risk bugs (more than 15%) in fact contain high-risk impacts, e.g., control flow hijack and arbitrary memory write, some of which still do not have patches available yet.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures; accepted to USENIX Security 2022
Educare la democrazia.
Educativo e politico nella tradizione liberale
Creators: name: Biagini, Marco <1960>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: M-PED/02 Storia della pedagogia

description: La presente ricerca si basa sull’ipotesi che all’interno della tradizione liberale il
momento educativo sia tanto importante quanto quello politico. E’ una tesi che non
trova molti riscontri nella letteratura intorno al liberalismo, maggiormente propensa a
vedere in ogni intervento formativo una minaccia alla libera espressione individuale.
L’educazione, secondo questa accezione, conterrebbe una rilevante disposizione ad
essere utilizzata ideologicamente, finendo per divenire il più raffinato degli strumenti
illiberali.
Nel tentativo di contrastare tale ipotesi sono analizzate le principali manifestazioni
del liberalismo: contrattualistico (Locke), evoluzionistico (Mandeville, Hume,
Smith), giuridico-morale (Kant), liberal-democratico (Tocqueville) e sociale
(Dewey). Da tale analisi emerge un particolare modello pedagogico, di natura
indiretta e asistematica, che pone al centro della propria riflessione la salvaguardia
delle prerogative individuali, senza che questo comporti la sottovalutazione della
presenza dell’altro e della creazione di istituzioni sociali giuste. Il processo educativo,
inoltre, non può essere visto secondo un’ottica propedeutica nei confronti
dell’esperienza politica, contenendo al proprio interno quelle variabili di ordine
comportamentale e relazionale in grado di anticipare la stessa vita democratica.
Quest’ultima, secondo la celebre definizione di Dewey, non può che essere devota
nei confronti dell’educazione, non potendo basarsi esclusivamente su giustificazioni
di ordine formale. Il discorso intorno al processo formativo, di conseguenza,
allontana il pericolo che il progetto politico liberale si tramuti in mero disegno di
stampo “ingegneristico”, senza alcuna considerazione intorno al piano della
realizzabilità.
title: Investigations into Factors Affecting the WPD-Loop in the Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases YopH and PTP1B
Creators: name: Moise, Gwendolyn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: The research in this dissertation documents connections between the primary amino acid sequence of proteins, the dynamics of proteins, and their catalytic function. This research project studied two proteins called protein-tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs): the human enzyme PTP1B, and the bacterial enzyme YopH. PTP1B is a human enzyme that down regulates the insulin receptor on the outer cellular membrane, and causes the insulin receptor to be less responsive to insulin. A deeper knowledge of how PTP1B is different from other human PTPs might be useful in designing drugs to increase insulin sensitivity in diabetics. Yersinia Pestis is the bacteria that caused the Black Plague, and YopH is an essential for virulence factor that helps Yersinia Pestis to escape the human immune response.
Using these proteins, the primary sequence of amino acids in a small but critical loop region was altered and the effect on the catalytic efficiency was measured. This research shows how some residues are key to the catalytic efficiency of PTPs while others could be changed with little to no effect on the catalytic efficiency. A deeper understanding of the difference between key residues and structural residues may allow future scientists to create designer enzymes and perhaps design pharmaceuticals that mediate enzyme activity by affecting their protein dynamics.
Realistic interpretation of entangled state: a defense and application to Hardy's experiment
Creators: name: Lan, Boon Leong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two criticisms which have prevented the realistic interpretation of entangled state from being widely accepted are addressed and shown to be unfounded. A local realistic theory, which reproduces all the quantum probabilistic predictions, is constructed for Hardy's experiment based on the realistic interpretation of the entangled two-particle Hardy state.
title: The Swett Homestead: An Oral History 1909-1970
Creators: name: Swedin, Eric G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1991

description: Making extensive use of oral interviews with the surviving children, this thesis is an biography of Oscar and Emma Swett and their children, who lived on a homestead in Greendale, Utah, (near Flaming Gorge Reservoir) from 1909 to 1970. The family is representative of a group of families who moved to Greendale and engaged in small-scale cattle ranching. The introduction of new technology changed their lifestyles and homestead economics, while simultaneously Greendale evolved from a rural agricultural environment to become part of a National Recreation Area.
The phi meson at high temperatures and densities
Creators: name: Vujanovic, G.
name: Ruppert, J.
name: Gale, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectral density of the phi meson in a hot bath of nucleons and pions is calculated by relating the vector meson self-energy to the forward scattering amplitude, which is constrained by experimental data. Dispersion techniques are used to verify the relationship between real and the imaginary parts of the in-medium self energy. The position of the spectral peak of the phi meson is found to be shifted from its vacuum position by only a small amount, but its width is considerably increased.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
title: Putting Weight in Context: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Guided Self-Help for Weight Self-Stigma
Creators: name: Potts, Sarah A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Obesity is a serious public health issue within the U.S. and minimal long-term success is found with standard behavioral weight-loss treatments. Typical weight-loss interventions do not acknowledge psychological factors, such as weight-related stigma, which may play a role in the development and maintenance of poor coping behaviors, such as unhealthy eating patterns. Individuals who are obese may often experience weight-related stigma present in society and are ultimately at risk for weight self-stigma, which is related to poor health behaviors and increased psychological distress. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), can be effective for treating numerous mental health presentations, might also be effective in decreasing weight self-stigma and improving health behaviors. Guided self-help may be particularly attractive to individuals struggling with weight self-stigma because it allows for greater flexibility and personal choice. There have been no previous randomized controlled trials evaluating guided self-help for weight self-stigma and health behavior change in obese populations.
This study reports the results of a randomized controlled trial of ACT guided self-help for weight self-stigma comparing two versions of guided self-help with varying levels of support versus waitlist control. Each active condition provided unique levels of guided self-help to evaluate whether phone coaching enhanced the program. Results showed both active conditions were highly acceptable, although greater satisfaction with support and greater follow-through with book reading was found for those who received phone coaching. There were significant improvements at post in binge eating, physical activity, psychological distress, weight self-stigma, and weight-related psychological flexibility for both active conditions versus waitlist. Mediational analyses showed significant treatment effects, such that weight self-stigma and weight-related psychological flexibility fully and separately accounted for the relation between ACT guided self-help and binge eating behavior. The findings from this study provide the first randomized controlled trial data of an effective intervention for weight self-stigma. Clinical implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.
A New Empirical Method to Infer the Starburst History of the Universe from Local Galaxy Properties
Creators: name: Hopkins, Philip F.
name: Hernquist, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The centers of bulges are formed dissipationally via gas inflows over short timescales: the 'starburst' mode of star formation (SF). Recent work has shown that detailed observations can be used to separate the stellar mass profile of these 'burst relic' components in local systems. Together with the assumption that some Kennicutt-Schmidt law holds, and that the burst was indeed a dissipational gas-rich event, we show that the observed profiles can be inverted to obtain the time and space-dependent SF history of each burst. Performing this with a large sample of well-studied spheroids, we show that the implied bursts scale in magnitude, mass, peak SFR, and spatial extent with galaxy mass in simple manner, and provide fits to these correlations. Burst masses are ~10% the total spheroid mass; timescales a mass-independent ~10^8 yr; peak SFR ~M_burst/t_burst; and they decay in power-law fashion ~t^-2.4. Sizes are ~0.1 R_e(spheroid), but grow with time. Combined with measurements of the nuclear stellar population ages of these systems (i.e. burst times), it is possible to re-construct the burst contribution to the distribution of SFRs and IR luminosity functions at all redshifts. The burst LF agrees well with observed IR LFs at the brightest luminosities, at z=0-2. At low-L, bursts are always unimportant; the transition to their importance increases from ULIRG luminosities at z~0 to HyLIRG luminosities at z~2. At all redshifts, bursts are a small fraction (~5-10%) of the total SFR density. We discuss possible implications of tension between maximum relic stellar mass densities in massive systems, and estimated number counts of brightest sub-millimeter galaxies.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Regulating atomic imbalance in double-well lattices
Creators: name: Yukalov, V. I.
name: Yukalova, E. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An insulating optical lattice with double-well sites is considered. In the case of the unity filling factor, an effective Hamiltonian in the pseudospin representation is derived. A method is suggested for manipulating the properties of the system by varying the shape of the double-well potential. In particular, it is shown that the atomic imbalance can be varied at will and a kind of the Morse-alphabet sequences can be created.
description: Latex file, 12 pages, 3 figures
APPRAISING THE IMPACT OF RELATIONAL CAPITAL ON INNOVATION CAPABILITY OF HIGH-TECH ENTERPRISES IN CHINA—A PLS -SEM APPROACH
Creators: name: RUI ZHU
name: NIYOM SUWANDEJ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Knowledge Integration, Relational Capital, Innovation Capability, High-Tech Enterprises, Smart –PLS.

description: Abstract

Purpose – This study aims to appraise the impact of relational capital (RC) on the innovation capability (IC) of High-tech enterprises in China. It also examines the role of Knowledge integration as a mediating factor in enhancing IC. Design/methodology/approach – The study employs a quantitative research design, collecting data from 308 key executives of High-tech enterprises in China. Analyses are conducted using Smart-partial least square (PLS) version 4.1.0.3, incorporating confirmatory factor analysis and PLS relational equation modeling. Findings – The RC factor directly influences the enterprises' IC. Additionally, knowledge integration partially mediates the relationship between RC and IC. The impact of knowledge integration on IC is found to be more significant compared to the direct effect of RC on IC. Practical implications – Management teams in the High-tech industry should emphasize the role of RC as a key component in fostering innovation. RC represents a strategic asset in today's rapidly evolving technological landRCape. Managers must understand the implications of enhancing relational capital to develop strategies that bolster innovation capabilities and address disparities in knowledge integration processes. Originality/value – This study specifically addresses the linkage between RC, IC, and knowledge integration. It contributes to the existing theories of intellectual capital by exploring the complementary effects of RC and IC, with knowledge integration serving as a positive partial mediator. Achieving robust relational capital is crucial for boosting innovation and maintaining a competitive edge in the market.
title: Invasive Phragmites australis Management in Great Salt Lake Wetlands: Context Dependency and Scale Effects on Vegetation and Seed Banks
Creators: name: Rohal, Christine B.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Invasive plants can outcompete native plants, replacing diverse plant communities with monocultures, which can negatively impact the whole ecosystem. One invasive plant, Phragmites australis, has invaded wetlands across North America. In Utah’s Great Salt Lake, it has greatly reduced the area of native plants that are important habitat for migratory birds. Here we describe experiments that assess multiple treatments for Phragmites removal and evaluate the return of native plants after Phragmites management. The treatments were applied to Phragmites patches at two scales (small 1/4-acre plots and large 3-acre plots) and across multiple sites to evaluate how patch size and environmental differences can influence the plants that return after Phragmites removal. The treatments (applied over 3 years and monitored two more) compared two different herbicides (glyphosate and imazapyr) and different herbicide and mowing timings. The treatments evaluated in the large patch study were 1.) untreated control 2.) fall glyphosate, winter mow, 3.) summer imazapyr, winter mow, 4.) summer glyphosate, winter mow. The treatments evaluated in the small patch study included treatments 1-4 above plus 5.) summer mow, fall glyphosate, 6.) summer mow, then black plastic solarization. In the small patches, we also monitored the seeds in the soil to assess how Phragmites management treatments can change the densities of Phragmites and native seeds. Fall glyphosate treatments were superior for Phragmites cover reduction. After the initial treatment, summer herbicide and mow treatments reduced Phragmites seed production, while fall glyphosate did not. Phragmites seeds were plentiful in the soil but were reduced following three years of all herbicide treatments. Native plant recovery following Phragmites management was extremely variable across sites. Sites with high soil moisture had better Phragmites removal and more native plants. But when flooding was deep, native plants were rare. Native seed density in the soil did not change due to Phragmites management, but soil seed densities were different across sites, which influenced native plant recruitment. Phragmites was removed more effectively and native plants returned in greater numbers in small patches compared with large. This was because small patches were typically near established native plant communities, which likely provided more native plant seeds and had hydrology that was less disturbed by human activity. In sites where native plants do not return after Phragmites management, practitioners may need to try revegetation with native plant seeds to restore important native plant communities.
Sulfonylamide-Based Ionic Liquids for High-Voltage Potassium-Ion Batteries with Honeycomb Layered Cathode Oxides
Creators: name: Yoshii, Kazuki
name: Masese, Titus
name: Kato, Minami
name: Kubota, Keigo
name: Senoh, Hiroshi
name: Shikano, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The world is at the cusp of a new era where pivotal importance is being attached to the development of sustainable and high-performance energy storage systems. Potassium-ion batteries are deemed not only as cheap battery candidates, but also as the penultimate high-voltage energy storage systems within the monovalent-cation chemistries. However, their performance and sustainability are undermined by the lack of suitable electrolytes for high-voltage operation particularly due to the limited availability of cathode materials. Here, the potential of ionic liquids based on potassium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)amide (KTFSA) as high-voltage electrolytes is presented by assessing their physicochemical properties, along with the electrochemical properties upon coupling with new high-voltage layered cathode materials. These ionic liquids demonstrate a lower redox potential for potassium dissolution / deposition (with a wide voltage tolerance of around $6.0$ $\rm V$), placing them as feasible and safe electrolytes for high-voltage potassium-ion battery configuration. This is proven by matching this electrolyte with new high-voltage layered cathode compositions, demonstrating stable electrochemical performance. The present findings of electrochemically stable ionic liquids based on potassium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)amide will bolster further advancement of high-performance cathode materials, whose performance at high-voltage regimes were apparently restricted by the paucity of suitable and compatible electrolytes.
description: 29 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, 1 cover art
Presa di decisione in situazioni rischiose: effetto della rabbia
Creators: name: Gambetti, Elisa <1979>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: M-PSI/01 Psicologia generale

description: The current studies assessed the role of trait anger and anger expression styles on
risk decision-making in adulthood, adolescence and childhood. In the first experiment
158 adults completed the STAXI-2 and an inventory consisting of a battery of
hypothetical everyday decision-making scenarios. Participants were also asked to
evaluate the perception of risk for each chosen option and some contextual
characteristics, that are familiarity and salience for each scenario. The study provides
evidence for a relationship between individual differences in the tendency to feel and
express anger and risky decisions and for mediation effects of familiarity and salience
appraisals. Moreover, results indicated that trait anger was predictive of risk
perception and they provide evidence for a positive relationship between risk
decision-making and risk perception.
In the second study, we examined the relationship between specific components of
anger (i.e., cognitive, affective and behavioural) and risk decision-making in
adolescents. 101 subjects completed specific tasks, measuring risk decision-making,
assessed using hypothetical choice scenarios, and anger, evaluated through the
STAXI-CA and the MSAI-R. Results showed that adolescents higher on hostility,
anger experience and destructive expression, make more risky decisions in everyday
life situations. Moreover, regression analyses indicated that destructive expression of
anger and hostility were predictive of adolescents’ risky decisions.
In the third experiment, 104 children completed three tasks: the STAXI-CA, the
MSAI-R and a task measuring risk decision-making in everyday situations. Subjects
were also asked to evaluate the degree of danger, benefit, fun and fear perceived for
each risky choice. Analyses indicated that: (a) risk decision-making was predicted by
both trait anger and outward expression of anger; (b) destructive expression o anger
was predictive of children’s risky decisions; (c) appraisal of danger fully mediated
the relation between trait anger and risk; (d) perceptions of benefit, scare and fun
partially mediated the relationship between trait anger and risk; and (e) appraisal of
danger partially mediated the relationship between outward expression of anger and
risk decision-making. The results provide evidence for a relationship between
dispositional anger and risk decision-making during childhood, suggesting a possible
explanation of the mechanisms below. In particular, risk decision-making can be
viewed as the output of cognitive and emotive processes, linked to dispositional anger
that leads children to be amused, optimistic and fearless in potentially risky
situations.
These findings substantiate the importance of incorporating cognitive and emotive
factors in theories that seek to explain the relationship between personality traits and
risk decision making across a broad range of age.
A connection between HH3 and KdV with one source
Creators: name: Zhao, Jun-xiao
name: Conte, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the system made of Korteweg-de Vries with one source, we first show by applying the Painleve' test that the two components of the source must have the same potential. We then explain the natural introduction of an additional term in the potential of the source equations while preserving the existence of a Lax pair. This allows us to prove the identity between the travelling wave reduction and one of the three integrable cases of the cubic He'non-Heiles Hamiltonian system.
description: 7 pages, Journal of Mathematical Physics, to appear (March 2010)
title: Impacts of Phragmites australis Management on Wetland Plant Community Recovery, Seedbank Composition, and the Physical Environment in the Chesapeake Bay
Creators: name: Hazelton, Eric L. G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Biological invasions have adverse economic, cultural, and ecological effects worldwide. Among the most impactful in North America is the invasion of Phragmites australis (Phragmites), a large-scale clonal grass that rapidly colonizes wetlands. Phragmites crowds out native plants and alters habitat for native fauna. In doing so, Phragmites also alters human access to water resources and has adverse economic effects, including decreasing property value, inhibiting recreational use, and limiting populations of game species.
The efforts described in this dissertation are a component of a large, multidisciplinary effort to better understand the anthropogenic stressors to Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, at the land/water interface. Utah State University worked in collaboration with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and other academic and public organizations to address this problem from multiple directions. The diverse and extensive studies ranged from aquatic and avian faunal composition and submerged aquatic vegetation to our work on the invasive wetland grass, Phragmites.
Having assessed the existing literature and its shortcomings, we conducted a large-scale, long-term study of the effects of Phragmites removal on the Bay. By removing Phragmites from plots in select sub-estuaries of Chesapeake Bay through herbicide spraying, leaving associated plots intact, and comparing both with native wetland conditions, we sought to better understand herbicidal management of Phragmites and the potential for wetland plant community recovery. Although sprayings decreased the relative cover, stem diameters, and stem densities of Phragmites, we found that herbicide treatment alone was not adequate to restore native plant communities or significantly affect seedbank composition. Our results demonstrate the resilience of Phragmites and call for a diverse range of control measures, including mowing, grazing, burning to expose the seedbank to germination, and—if economics allow—active revegetation to establish the desired plant community composition.
This dissertation provides beneficial data for those who seek to manage Phragmites in wetland plant communities, but there is much work still to be done. The literature review, seedbank study, and community analysis included in this volume are components of a larger research program on Phragmites management. Future studies should, in particular, investigate revegetation and nutrient amelioration as means to recover pre-invasion vegetation.
Statistical properties of determinantal point processes in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces
Creators: name: Scardicchio, A.
name: Zachary, C. E.
name: Torquato, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The goal of this paper is to quantitatively describe some statistical properties of higher-dimensional determinantal point processes with a primary focus on the nearest-neighbor distribution functions. Toward this end, we express these functions as determinants of $N\times N$ matrices and then extrapolate to $N\to\infty$. This formulation allows for a quick and accurate numerical evaluation of these quantities for point processes in Euclidean spaces of dimension $d$. We also implement an algorithm due to Hough \emph{et. al.} \cite{hough2006dpa} for generating configurations of determinantal point processes in arbitrary Euclidean spaces, and we utilize this algorithm in conjunction with the aforementioned numerical results to characterize the statistical properties of what we call the Fermi-sphere point process for $d = 1$ to 4. This homogeneous, isotropic determinantal point process, discussed also in a companion paper \cite{ToScZa08}, is the high-dimensional generalization of the distribution of eigenvalues on the unit circle of a random matrix from the circular unitary ensemble (CUE). In addition to the nearest-neighbor probability distribution, we are able to calculate Voronoi cells and nearest-neighbor extrema statistics for the Fermi-sphere point process and discuss these as the dimension $d$ is varied. The results in this paper accompany and complement analytical properties of higher-dimensional determinantal point processes developed in \cite{ToScZa08}.
description: 42 pages, 17 figures
Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies in the Perseus Cluster: Comparing Galaxy Properties with Globular Cluster System Richness
Creators: name: Gannon, Jonah S.
name: Forbes, Duncan A.
name: Romanowsky, Aaron J.
name: Ferré-Mateu, Anna
name: Couch, Warrick J.
name: Brodie, Jean P.
name: Huang, Song
name: Janssens, Steven R.
name: Okabe, Nobuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is clear that within the class of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) there is an extreme range in the richness of their associated globular cluster (GC) systems. Here, we report the structural properties of five UDGs in the Perseus cluster based on deep Subaru / Hyper Suprime-Cam imaging. Three appear GC-poor and two appear GC-rich. One of our sample, PUDG\_R24, appears to be undergoing quenching and is expected to fade into the UDG regime within the next $\sim0.5$ Gyr. We target this sample with Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) spectroscopy to investigate differences in their dark matter halos, as expected from their differing GC content. Our spectroscopy measures both recessional velocities, confirming Perseus cluster membership, and stellar velocity dispersions, to measure dynamical masses within their half-light radius. We supplement our data with that from the literature to examine trends in galaxy parameters with GC system richness. We do not find the correlation between GC numbers and UDG phase space positioning expected if GC-rich UDGs environmentally quench at high redshift. We do find GC-rich UDGs to have higher velocity dispersions than GC-poor UDGs on average, resulting in greater dynamical mass within the half-light radius. This agrees with the first order expectation that GC-rich UDGs have higher halo masses than GC-poor UDGs.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Land Cover and Use Change in Utah: A Comparison of  Field- vs. Aerial Image-Based Observations
Creators: name: Bakken, Jennifer Lynn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: The Image-based Change Estimation program (ICE) was developed by the US Forest Service Forest Inventory & Analysis (FIA) program and the Geospatial Technology Applications Center in response to the 2014 Farm Bill calling for more timely and accurate estimates of land cover and use change. ICE monitors change throughout the US on a state by state basis by assessing each FIA plot using high resolution imagery from two dates in time. In the western US, FIA measures 10% of the plots each year to report on status, trends, and sustainability of our Nation’s forests. However, this 10 year cycle misses disturbances because a temporal gap occurs from disturbance event to measurement.
This study compares field- and image-based observations of land cover and use change to improve sampling procedures in Utah. Image-based data collected from 2011 and 2014 imagery and field-based plots measured between 2011 and 2016 are compared using three methods to compile the ICE data, termed hierarchical, majority, and point center, to determine a standardized system and better understand their relationships. Additionally, ICE change agents were compared with causes of tree mortality observed on FIA forest plots to assess how well ICE evaluates causes of change and the differences of change vs. mortality agents were explored by conducting a second review of the imagery to find trends in data discrepancies. This knowledge can help image interpreters better recognize and identify change.
Zum Abschied vom Generalstabschef Oberkorpskommandant Sprecher von Bernegg
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1927
Subjects: subject: 355 Militärwissenschaft
subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Sprecher von Bernegg, Theophil
subject: Maienfeld
subject: Walenstadt

description: Sonderdruck aus: Schweizerischer Volksblatt vom Bachtel, 1927
title: Feature Screening of Ultrahigh Dimensional Feature Spaces With Applications in Interaction Screening
Creators: name: Reese, Randall D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Data for which the number of predictors exponentially exceeds the number of observations is becoming increasingly prevalent in fields such as bioinformatics, medical imaging, computer vision, And social network analysis. One of the leading questions statisticians must answer when confronted with such “big data” is how to reduce a set of exponentially many predictors down to a set of a mere few predictors which have a truly causative effect on the response being modelled. This process is often referred to as feature screening. In this work we propose three new methods for feature screening. The first method we propose (TC-SIS) is specifically intended for use with data having both categorical response and predictors. The second method we propose (JCIS) is meant for feature screening for interactions between predictors. JCIS is rare among interaction screening methods in that it does not require first finding a set of causative main effects before screening for interactive effects. Our final method (GenCorr) is intended for use with data having a multivariate response. GenCorr is the only method for multivariate screening which can screen for both causative main effects and causative interactions. Each of these aforementioned methods will be shown to possess both theoretical robustness as well as empirical agility.
title: Canonical Coordinates on Lie Groups and the Baker Campbell Hausdorff Formula
Creators: name: Graner, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Lie Groups occur in math and physics as representations of continuous symmetries and are often described in terms of their Lie Algebra. This thesis is concerned with finding a concrete description of a Lie group given its associated Lie algebra. Several calculations toward this end are developed and then implemented in the Maple Differential Geometry package. Examples of the calculations are given.