cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Essays on the flow of distress along the supply chain
Creators: name: Kolay, Madhuparna
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012

description: This dissertation is composed of three essays which examine the effects of a firm's bankruptcy on its suppliers and customers. Suppliers and customers are considered to be stakeholders of the firm with which they trade and face potential costs if the firm files for Chapter 11. In the first essay, I examine the puzzle that while there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to show that upstream and downstream trading partners face costs when their trading partner is distressed, the existing literature seems to find that contagion effects are relatively small in magnitude. I propose and test a method which potentially reduces noise in the inputs used to determine wealth effects. I show that both suppliers and customers of filing firms experience significantly greater negative wealth effects due to the trading partner's distress than what has been documented in the existing literature. In the second essay, I examine the following question: how do supplier and customer stock price effects vary in the cross section when the trading partner becomes distressed and files for bankruptcy? I find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that the impact of the filing firm's distress on upstream and downstream firms depends on whether the bankrupt firm is economically distressed or financially distressed. The results show that both customers and suppliers of distressed firms face switching costs which vary significantly with the probability of successful reorganization of the filing firm, and these costs are higher when the degree of reliance and product specialization are greater. The third and final essay examines the trade credit policy of suppliers when their trading partner is distressed and files for Chapter 11. Trade credit is an economically important source of short-term funds for firms. I study empirically whether the data demonstrate that suppliers support customers in times of distress by continuing to extend credit or whether distressed customers are denied trade credit by suppliers who want to protect their own cash position. Evidence indicates that suppliers may continue to support their distressed customer by extending short-term credit depending on the probability of reorganization.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22278.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 01.08.1966, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Reconciling differences between technologically and socially focused theories of group communication
Creators: name: Dahl, Raymond Alexander
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014
Subjects: HCI
Interaction
Media
Mediation
Rich-media
Technology

description: In today's highly mediated society it is very likely that communication technologies will be utilized for group interactions. Questions regarding how groups interact and how modalities of interaction factor into effectiveness, affinity, productivity and satisfaction abound. Scholarship in this area is broadly approached from technologically deterministic perspectives and social constructionist perspectives. The reality is that neither perspective is completely accurate and any argument that relies solely on technology or group dynamic as the determining variable will have failings. This thesis explores the middle ground, acknowledging that both communication mode and group construction are factors when assessing communication quality. In order to understand the interplay between group dynamics and mediated interaction, study participants were selected from undergraduate communication courses where group assignments are a regular part of the curriculum. The study participants were allowed to work on the assigned tasks in an unstructured setting. After completion of the tasks the students were surveyed to discover how the groups organized and interacted, with a focus on determining types of interaction, satisfaction and perceived efficiency. Participant groups chose face-to-face as their preferred form of interaction (58.33%) with email the second most frequently used (34.95%). Part of the study addresses the question of conscious selection of interaction method and the correlation with outcome satisfaction, interaction satisfaction and perceived interaction effectiveness. Groups that made active decisions on how to interact showed a significant correlation with both outcome and interaction satisfaction, while groups that interacted based simply on the preferences of the group only reported having interactive satisfaction. The results of this study lend support to both the basic tenants of media richness theory and technology deterministic theories. The primary conclusion of this thesis is that interaction based on conscious decisions by the group result in a higher level of interaction and outcome satisfaction.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22268.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 20.07.1966, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Feature-aligned, semiregular, quad-only mesh generation
Creators: name: Daniels, Joel
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Computer graphics
Geometry processing
Mesh simplification
Quadrilateral meshing
Surface parameterization
Surface reconstruction

description: This research focuses on the generation of representational structure from unstructured  inputs for model reconstruction to facilitate subsequent geometry processing. In particular, the results include spline-based curve reconstruction of sharp features in pointsampled geometry, and quadrilateral-only mesh processing and generation from polygonal models. The challenges of model reconstruction, as well as the relationship between continuous and discrete geometry, are important thematic elements of this research.  Virtual surface models are ubiquitous in computer graphics, representing fundamental entities in visualization and modeling toolkits. Applications of surface geometry are as diverse as the representational formats constructed to achieve these ends, each designed with different characteristics and advantages. Translation between the assorted forms is often necessitated by the allowable inputs of system implementations and desired algorithms, and requires techniques to reconstruct the model with new geometry. Consequently, model reconstruction algorithms are prevalent in most modeling pipelines, used to augment the availability of applicable algorithms and to improve the robustness and efficiency of subsequent geometry processing. In this work, my simplification and reconstruction results are demonstrated on a variety of organic and mechanical models whose original representations range from point clouds to unstructured and structured triangle, quadrilateral, and hybrid meshes.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22302.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 01.09.1966, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung unnummeriert, einen Zürcher Lückentag ergänzend.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 28.10.1966, erstellt am Kandilli Observatorium Istanbul
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Bleistift, erstellt als Zeichnung nach eigener Vorlage am Istanbul Kandilli Rasathanesi, Çengelköy (Istanbul). Instrument: Refraktor Teleskop (Öffnung 200 mm, f = 3070 mm, projiziertes Sonnenbild D = 25 cm).
Instrumentennachweis gemäss Kandilli Observatory Istanbul, Report from Solar Institute, in: Solar Physics, 1968, Vol. 3, Issue 3, pp.491-492, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00171622
Modeling Long-term Dependencies and Short-term Correlations in Patient Journey Data with Temporal Attention Networks for Health Prediction
Creators: name: Liu, Yuxi
name: Zhang, Zhenhao
name: Yepes, Antonio Jimeno
name: Salim, Flora D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Building models for health prediction based on Electronic Health Records (EHR) has become an active research area. EHR patient journey data consists of patient time-ordered clinical events/visits from patients. Most existing studies focus on modeling long-term dependencies between visits, without explicitly taking short-term correlations between consecutive visits into account, where irregular time intervals, incorporated as auxiliary information, are fed into health prediction models to capture latent progressive patterns of patient journeys. We present a novel deep neural network with four modules to take into account the contributions of various variables for health prediction: i) the Stacked Attention module strengthens the deep semantics in clinical events within each patient journey and generates visit embeddings, ii) the Short-Term Temporal Attention module models short-term correlations between consecutive visit embeddings while capturing the impact of time intervals within those visit embeddings, iii) the Long-Term Temporal Attention module models long-term dependencies between visit embeddings while capturing the impact of time intervals within those visit embeddings, iv) and finally, the Coupled Attention module adaptively aggregates the outputs of Short-Term Temporal Attention and Long-Term Temporal Attention modules to make health predictions. Experimental results on MIMIC-III demonstrate superior predictive accuracy of our model compared to existing state-of-the-art methods, as well as the interpretability and robustness of this approach. Furthermore, we found that modeling short-term correlations contributes to local priors generation, leading to improved predictive modeling of patient journeys.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, accepted at ACM BCB 2022
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22357.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 13.11.1966, erstellt von Werner Scheidegger
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22317.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 20.09.1966, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt
title: Kinematics of the New Zealand plate boundary: Field report on GNSS surveys of the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ2022)
Creators: name: Hart, Rory J. A.
name: Palmer, Neville G.
Publisher: name: GNS Science
Year: 2022

description: During February 2022, a team from GNS Science re-measured a network of 45 geodetic survey markers using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) methods throughout the Taupō Volcanic Zone of New Zealand for monitoring the regional deformation due to tectonic processes. Previous comprehensive GNSS surveys of this region have been carried out in 2021 (TVZ 2021 [Hart and Palmer 2022]), 2015, (TVZ 2015 [unpublished]), 2011 (2011TARA-TVZ [unpublished]), 2007 (TVZ 2007 [unpublished]), 2005 (TVZ 2005 [Palmer NP 2005]), 1995, (TVZ 1995 [Blick GH et al. 1995]), 1994, (TVZ 1994 [Darby DJ et al. 1994]), 1993, (TVZ 1993 [Blick GH 1993]), 1992, (TVZ 1992 [Blick GH et al. 1992]) and 1991, (TVZ 1991 [Blick GH]) primarily for the Taupō Volcanic Zone. This report documents the field operations of the TVZ2022 resurvey. It describes the logistics of the campaign, the sites occupied, and the data collected. (The authors)
title: Garsitz-Bärenkeller 217-219
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Seminar für Ur- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 930

description: OsseoPro: a catalogue of osseous projectiles of the Central European Late Upper Palaeolithic (23–14 ka calBP)Garsitz-Bärenkeller
Gender, relationship power, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal reactivity to couple conflict
Creators: name: Rith, Kendrick A.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cortisol
HPA, Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical
Relationship conflict
Relationship power
Sexual orientation

description: The present study investigates how individuals' gender and their perceptions of power in romantic relationships relate to hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) activity during and after a conflict with their romantic partner. We assessed HPA activity (via salivary cortisol) in 120 same-sex and heterosexual couples before, during, and after a laboratory assessment of couple conflict. Women in both same-sex and heterosexual couples showed greater HPA reactivity to conflict and poorer HPA recovery from conflict, independent of their perceptions of power in their relationship. Gender differences in conflict reactivity were greatest among individuals whose partners reported having low power. Among both women and men, those whose partners reported taking on fewer household responsibilities had greater baseline HPA activity. Individuals in same-sex couples had greater HPA conflict reactivity and poorer conflict recovery than individuals in heterosexual couples. The findings have implications for investigating power, gender, and social marginalization as influences on health-related processes in couples.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung, unnummeriert.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 02.12.1966, als Blatt eröffnet dank auswärtiger Beobachtungen, ausgewertet in Zürich
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung bzw. Auswertung aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen direkt auf dem Vordruck, erstellt durch Mitarbeitende der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich
Pressure dependent magnetic investigation of tetracyanoethylene-based molecule-based magnets and their analogues
Creators: name: DaSilva, Jack Guy
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2013
Subjects: Cyanide
Magnet
Organic
Polymer
Pressure
Tetracyanoethylene

description: Several metal-tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) compounds, including the bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)iron(III)]+[tetracyanoethylene]', [FeCp*2][TCNE], family of molecule-based magnets and two cyanide based MBMs were investigated by pressure dependent DC magnetic measurements. The 0-D electron transfer salts: [FeCp*2 ][TCNE], ferromagnetic [FeCp*2 ][TCNQ] (TCNQ = 7,7,8,8- tetracyanoquinodimethane), metamagnetic [FeCp*2][TCNQ], [FeCp*2][HCBD] (HCBD = hexacyanobutadiene), and [FeCp*2][DDQ] (DDQ = 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone) exhibited an array of magnetic behavior both at ambient and applied pressure. [FeCp*2][TCNE] and [FeCp*2][HCBD] exhibited weak ferromagnetism above 4.2 and 3.1 kbar, respectively. The ferromagnetic polymorph of [FeCp*2][TCNQ] displayed linear increase to the critical temperature, Tc, and the bifurcation temperature, Tb, reaching 5.01 and 5.46 K, respectively at 10.3 kbar. The coercive field, Hcr, displayed exponential-like increase, reaching 550 Oe at 10.3 kbar. The metamagnetic polymorph of [FeCp*2][TCNQ] displayed linear increase of the Tc at low applied pressure, reaching 2.90 at 2.9 kbar, then transitioned to a paramagnetic state at further applied pressure. [FeCp*2][HCBD] transitioned from a paramagnetic state at ambient pressure to a weak ferromagnetic state at 3.1 kbar with a Tc, Hcr, and Hc of 2.46 K, 25 Oe, and 2,200 Oe, respectively. The Tc and Hc then increased linearly with further applied pressure to 4.80 K and 10,000 Oe, while the Hcr increased exponentially to 795 Oe, at 11.4 kbar. [FeCp*2][DDQ] exhibited paramagnetic behavior at ambient and applied pressures up to 9.2 kbar. The structurally related 2-D MnII(TCNE)I(H2O) and 3-D Mnn(TCNE)3/2(I3)1/2, showed significant increases to the Tc, Tb, and Hcr with applied pressure. A high- and low-pressure regions were observed for MnII(TCNE)I(H2O). 2-D [R ^ ^ C B u ^ H M tC N ^ ^ O (M = Fe, Cr) displayed suppression of hysteretic properties at high applied pressure and irreversibility of the suppression. A Mean Field (MF) analysis of three structurally related non-cubic Prussian blue analogues (PBA) was performed to assess the intensity of their coupling modes. These values were framed by the reinvestigation of several known cubic PBAs and comparing the coupling intensities, as well as evaluating the MF theory in the context of these structures as several had been evaluated by other means.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22322.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 25.09.1966, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt
A Novel Role for the p16INK4A Tumor Supressor in Regulating Cellular Oxidative Stress
Creators: name: Jenkins, Noah Christopher Jenkins
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014

description: Mutations, deletions, and epigenetic silencing of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p16INK4A are associated with several cancer types, but are more commonly associated with familial melanoma predisposition and melanoma tumors. p16INK4A functions as a tumor suppressor by negatively regulating the cell cycle, however several outstanding questions remain. It remains unclear why compromise of p16INK4A predisposes to melanoma over other cancers, and why several melanoma-associated p16INK4A mutations do not compromise CDK4-binding. This study describes a novel function of p16INK4A in regulating intracellular oxidative stress independently of its role in cell cycle inhibition, and analyzes these functions in several familial melanomaassociated p16INK4A point mutants. I also demonstrate that, due in part to the prooxidizing nature of melanogenesis, melanocytes have higher constitutive levels of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) than other cell types, suggesting why genetic compromise of p16INK4A preferentially predisposes to melanoma. This dissertation demonstrates that p16INK4A was rapidly upregulated following ultraviolet-irradiation and H2O2-induced oxidative stress (Chapter 2). Depletion of p16INK4A increased ROS and oxidative DNA damage in several cell types, which was exacerbated by H2O2. Aberrant ROS levels in Cdkn2a-deficient fibroblasts were elevated relative to controls and normalized by expression of exogenous p16INK4A. Finally, p16INK4A-mediated suppression of ROS could not be attributed to the potential effects of iv p16 on cell cycle phase. I then constructed 12 different familial melanoma-associated point mutants and analyzed their capacity to restore normal cell-cycle phase and ROS levels in p16INK4A-deficient fibroblasts (Chapter 3). Whereas wild-type p16INK4A fully restored both functions, various p16INK4A mutants showed different abilities to normalize ROS and cell cycle profiles. Different mutations were found to affect both, neither, or only one of the functions of p16INK4A, indicating that these two regulatory functions can be uncoupled. Structural analysis indicated that these distinct functions may be mediated by distinct regions of the protein. Lastly, in normal melanocytes, inhibition of melanin was sufficient to decrease levels of intracellular ROS to levels constitutively observed in fibroblasts (Chapter 4), indicating that the unique process of melanin production may be responsible for high basal levels of ROS and preferential susceptibility to oncogenic transformation brought on by genetic compromise of p16INK4A.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22304.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 03.09.1966, erstellt von Werner Scheidegger
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Cytokine Response in Mono and Malaria-S. mansoni Co-Infected Individuals in Fincha Sugar Estate, Western Ethiopia
Creators: name: Dufera, Mebrate
name: C.Aass, Hans
name: Berhe, Nega
name: Petros, Beyene
name: Erko, Berhanu
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences
Year: 2019

description: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2019)
Analysis of variable billing for nursing services based on patient classification
Creators: name: Shimp, Monica Laura
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Accounting
Patients

description: Health care cost containment and nursing's role in fiscal accountability are important areas of research in nursing administration.  The use of patient classification as a means of variable billing for Nursing Services addresses the issue of care versus cost.  The purposes of this study were to a) develop variable nursing care charger for the ICU/CCU at St. Mark's Hospital based of patient classification data from July 1, 1981 through June 30, 1982; b) compare and contrast projected revenues generated by per diem charges; c) compare and contrast projected and actual revenues with total costs and nursing costs, and d) formulate specific recommendations for the implementation of variable charging system to evaluate the fiscal efficiency of nursing services.  The data were gathered from ICU/CCU Patient Classification Report Forms and Cost Analysis Reports to develop the Variable Nursing Charge System to be profitable in all four fiscal quarters with a closer proportional approximation of cost to revenues.  The following implications for nursing administration are apparent.  Patient classification is an efficient, effective means of manpower resource management.  Variable billing based on patient classification can be developed to make nursing service an accountable revenue-generating department.  Recommendations for implementation and suggestions for future research are also presented.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung unnummeriert, einen Zürcher Lückentag ergänzend.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 17.08.1966, erstellt von ÖZ am Kandilli Observatorium Istanbul
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Bleistift, erstellt als Zeichnung nach eigener Vorlage am Istanbul Kandilli Rasathanesi, Çengelköy (Istanbul). Instrument: Refraktor Teleskop (Öffnung 200 mm, f = 3070 mm, projiziertes Sonnenbild D = 25 cm).
Instrumentennachweis gemäss Kandilli Observatory Istanbul, Report from Solar Institute, in: Solar Physics, 1968, Vol. 3, Issue 3, pp.491-492, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00171622
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung unnummeriert, einen Zürcher Lückentag ergänzend.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 02.12.1966, erstellt von Vasile Dinulescu, Observatorium Bukarest
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Zeichnung nach eigener Vorlage am Astronomischen Observatorium Bukarest, Solarsektor, Rumänien. Instrument: Zeiss-Refraktor (Öffnung 130mm, f = 1950mm, projiziertes Sonnenbild D = 25cm)
Dopamine receptor regulation of vesicular monoamine transporter-2: implications for neurotoxicity and Parkinson's neurodegenration.
Creators: name: Truong, Jannine Giang
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Methamphetamine
Dopamine
Receptors
Nervous System

description: Alterations in vesicular monoamine transporter-2 (VMAT-2) function could regulate intra- and extra-neuronal dopamine levels, which may modify cytoplasmic dopamine levels. An aberrantly high level of cytoplasmic dopamine has been linked to neuronal toxicity. Recent studies have indirectly demonstrated that dopamine D1 and D2 receptor classes influence vesicular dopamine uptake, however, no studies to date have shown that direct dopamine receptor stimulation would alter VMAT-2 function. Several studies have also suggested that dopamine receptor agonists may be protective in neurodegenerative models such as methamphetamine (METH)-induced toxicity, although the underlying mechanism is unknown. Interestingly, this METH-induced neurotoxicity is observed in older but not younger rodent models. In this dissertation, the hypothesis that METH and dopamine receptor agonists differentially alter vesicular dopamine uptake will be tested. In the first part of this dissertation, the effect of direct dopamine receptor stimulation on VMAT-2 function is examined. Results reveal that dopamine receptor agonists (apomorphine, pramipexole, and quinpirole) increase vesicular dopamine uptake and redistribute VMAT-2 within nerve terminals. This effect occurs in both postnatal day (PND) 40 and 90 rats. Pretreating with a dopamine D3 or D4 receptor antagonist does not prevent the quinpirole-induced increase in vesicular dopamine uptake. Pretreating with the nonselective dopamine D2 receptor antagonist, eticlopride, blocks the apomorphine-, pramipexole-, and quinpirole-induced increases in vesicular dopamine uptake. These data demonstrate that the dopamine D2 receptor subtype underlies the dopamine receptor agonist-induced increase in vesicular dopamine uptake. The present results also demonstrate that, in contrast to dopamine receptor agonists, a neurotoxic regimen of METH significantly decreases vesicular dopamine uptake in purified vesicles of PND 90 but not of PND 40 rats. This greater effect caused by METH that was observed in PND 90 rats was not due to differences in body temperature, as both treated groups were similarly hyperthermic. However, the effect is associated with greater brain METH concentration in PND 90 compared to PND 40 rats. This difference in pharmacokinetics likely did not contribute to the difference in vesicular dopamine uptake, as administering doses of METH that produced greater or equivalent brain METH levels in PND 40 compared to PND 90 rats did not cause a greater decrease in dopamine uptake in PND 40 rats. These findings suggest a novel mechanism whereby dopamine receptor agonists may be protective and signify a possible explanation for METH-induced toxicity observed in PND 90 but not PND 40 rats.
Spatial-Temporal Cross-View Contrastive Pre-training for Check-in Sequence Representation Learning
Creators: name: Gong, Letian
name: Wan, Huaiyu
name: Guo, Shengnan
name: Li, Xiucheng
name: Lin, Yan
name: Zheng, Erwen
name: Wang, Tianyi
name: Zhou, Zeyu
name: Lin, Youfang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rapid growth of location-based services (LBS) has yielded massive amounts of data on human mobility. Effectively extracting meaningful representations for user-generated check-in sequences is pivotal for facilitating various downstream services. However, the user-generated check-in data are simultaneously influenced by the surrounding objective circumstances and the user's subjective intention. Specifically, the temporal uncertainty and spatial diversity exhibited in check-in data make it difficult to capture the macroscopic spatial-temporal patterns of users and to understand the semantics of user mobility activities. Furthermore, the distinct characteristics of the temporal and spatial information in check-in sequences call for an effective fusion method to incorporate these two types of information. In this paper, we propose a novel Spatial-Temporal Cross-view Contrastive Representation (STCCR) framework for check-in sequence representation learning. Specifically, STCCR addresses the above challenges by employing self-supervision from "spatial topic" and "temporal intention" views, facilitating effective fusion of spatial and temporal information at the semantic level. Besides, STCCR leverages contrastive clustering to uncover users' shared spatial topics from diverse mobility activities, while employing angular momentum contrast to mitigate the impact of temporal uncertainty and noise. We extensively evaluate STCCR on three real-world datasets and demonstrate its superior performance across three downstream tasks.
description: This paper has been accepted as a regular paper at IEEE TKDE
Professional development needs of academics of the Faculty of Health Sciences: A preliminary study
Creators: name: Lee, Gary Mark
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150305 Human Resources Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Training and development programmes should form an important part of human resource management functions within all organisations. Such programmes are needed whenever organisational goals and objectives can be furthered by improved employee performance. In order to provide suitable content within these programmes, precise information about the training needs of staff must be obtained. In this study a survey instrument was developed and used for the determination of professional development needs of staff in a higher education institution undergoing major organisational change.
Perception of Climate Change and Associated Factors among Rural Dwellers of Gondar Zuria District, Northwest Ethiopia
Creators: name: Slute, Mulu
name: Debalkie, Getu
name: Fentahun, Kindie
name: Tadesse, Sebsebie
name: Alemu, Kassahun
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences
Year: 2019

description: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2019)
Measuring 60-pc-scale Star Formation Rate of the Nearby Seyfert Galaxy NGC 1068 with ALMA, HST, VLT/MUSE, and VLA
Creators: name: Nagashima, Yuzuki
name: Saito, Toshiki
name: Ikarashi, Soh
name: Takano, Shuro
name: Nakanishi, Kouichiro
name: Harada, Nanase
name: Nakajima, Taku
name: Taniguchi, Akio
name: Tosaki, Tomoka
name: Bamba, Kazuharu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Star formation rate (SFR) is a fundamental parameter for describing galaxies and inferring their evolutionary course. HII regions yield the best measure of instantaneous SFR in galaxies, although the derived SFR can have large uncertainties depending on tracers and assumptions. We present an SFR calibration for the entire molecular gas disk of the nearby Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068, based on our new high-sensitivity ALMA 100GHz continuum data at 55pc (=0."8) resolution in combination with the HST Paα line data. In this calibration, we account for the spatial variations of dust extinction, electron temperature of HII regions, AGN contamination, and diffuse ionized gas (DIG) based on publicly available multi-wavelength data. Especially, given the extended nature and the possible non-negligible contribution to the total SFR, a careful consideration of DIG is essential. With a cross-calibration between two corrected ionized gas tracers (free-free continuum&Paα), the total SFR of the NGC 1068 disk is estimated to be 3.2\pm0.5 Msol/yr, one-third of the SFR without accounting for DIG (9.1\pm1.4 Msol/yr). We confirmed high SFR around the southern bar-end and the corotation radius, which is consistent with the previous SFR measurements. In addition, our total SFR exceeds the total SFR based on 8μm dust emission by a factor of 1.5. We attribute this discrepancy to the differences in the young stars at different stages of evolution traced by each tracer and their respective timescales. This study provides an example to address the various uncertainties in conventional SFR measurements and their potential to lead to significant SFR miscalculations.
description: 25 pages, 19 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
Age-Associated Alterations to Sperm DNA Methylation and Possible Consequences on the Offspring
Creators: name: Jenkins, Timothy Gerald
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014

description: The effects of advanced paternal age have received little attention in the past. However, recent data from multiple groups suggesting an association between advanced paternal age and various disorders in the offspring have sparked a great deal of interest. Specifically, offspring of older fathers have an increased risk of autism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia among other issues. Further fueling this interest is the striking trend of delayed parenthood in developed countries, likely a result of socioeconomic pressures and increasing divorce rates with subsequent remarriage. Increased interest in the "paternal age effect" has driven some private tissue banks to promote cryopreservation of sperm at a young age to avoid the detrimental impacts of aging. Taken together, there is a great need for further investigation into this phenomenon. Although there is solid epidemiological evidence to substantiate the impacts of advanced paternal age on the offspring, the etiological mechanisms that drive this process remain poorly defined. Among the most plausible contributing factors to the increased incidence of various diseases in the offspring of older fathers are age-associated alterations to the sperm epigenome. Specifically, sperm DNA methylation perturbations may have the capacity to affect offspring phenotype through transcription inhibition/activation but have yet to be explored in the context of advancing age. To investigate age-associated sperm DNA methylation alterations, we have analyzed sperm from 17 donors who collected samples between 9 and 19 years apart. DNA methylation was analyzed in all samples at both the global and cytosine phosphate guanine (CpG) level. The results indicate that global sperm DNA methylation increases with age while regional alterations are strongly biased toward hypomethylation, a finding in stark contrast to somatic cell age-associated methylation alterations. Intriguingly, many of the genes affected by regional methylation alteration have been previously suggested to be associated with many types of neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, developmental delay, personality disorders, and autism. These data provide the first direct evidence that age-associated epigenetic alterations to the sperm represent a plausible mechanism for the increased incidence of various abnormalities in offspring of older fathers.
Making the subtle the obvious: underrepresentd students on a historically white camput and implications for institutional fit and stress
Creators: name: Franklin, Jeremy David
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Minorities
Discrimination in higher education
United States

description: Amid growing concern over the campus racial climate for historically marginalized populations on historically White college campuses, the current study examined how a student's institutional fit and sense of belonging is affected by stress.  Secondary data from a section of the Survey of College Adjustment and Cultural Diversity Issues in Higher Education that focused on issues of satisfaction with the university were obtained from 267 White, 287 African American, 230 Asian American, and 171 Latina/o junior year students. Five components of the university environment  and the student's self-reported opinion on issues surrounding their experience â€"  academic sense of belonging, social sense of belonging, discrimination, stress, and  institutional fit â€" were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural  equation modeling.  Findings suggest that students from all of racial/ethnic groups sampled demonstrated that stress predicted their fit to the institution. For African American and Asian American students, experiences with discrimination were additional predictors of their institutional fit. Compared to White students, the academic sense of belonging for all groups of students of color more significantly predicted stress than the social sense of belonging. This finding suggests that there is something within the academic setting of  universities that explains the stress that students of color experience. In turn, the stressors  that students of color experience affect their institutional fit. Therefore, this finding  along with others should be a calling to university administrators, faculty, and peer students that the academic setting needs to be a place of focus to increase institutional fit for students of color. A full hearted, concentrated effort on behalf of campus leaders may help reduce the race-related stressors and discrimination that can lead to attrition, or even worse, detrimental health outcomes of historically marginalized groups.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22330.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 05.10.1966, erstellt von Werner Scheidegger
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Data Management Practice and Associated Factors among Health Extension Workers in Awi Administrative Zone, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tizazu, Getaye
name: Yitayal, Mezgebu
name: Mazengia, Atsede
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences
Year: 2019

description: Ethiopian Journal of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2019)
Copper, zinc-superoxide dismutase: subcellular location in rat liver lysosomes.
Creators: name: Geller, Bruce Lee
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biology
Lysomes

description: Rat liver Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase, previously reported to be localized in the mitochondrial intermembrane space in addition to the cytosol, is now found to be lysosomal. The enzyme has been shown to segregate coincidently with lysosomal enzymes and not mitochondrial enzymes from a subcellular granule fraction by three independent methods: (1) digitonin treatment and (2) hypotonic treatment, which selectively releases lysosomal enzymes into the supernate prior to the release of mitochondrial enzymes, and (3) separation of mitochondria and lysosomes by isopycnic density centrifugation after in vivo loading of lysosmes with Triton WR-1339. The Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase in lysosomes appears to be derived from cytosolic Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase, since microinjection of the enzyme into HeLa cells results in a partial redistribution from cytosol to lysosomes. In the rat, the amount of superoxide dismutase in the lysosomes varies with the nutritional state of the animal. Fasted animals have about 8% and fed animals about 2% of the total cellular superoxide dismutase in the lysosomes. This increase in lysosomal Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase upon fasting is consistent with what is known to occur with other soluble cytosolic proteins during autophagy. Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase is probably not located in mitochondria, as the enzyme found associated with this organelle on isopycnic density gradients may be attributed to lysosomal contamination. However, the possibility that a small amount (less than 0.1% of total cellular) is located in the mitochondria cannot be excluded.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22303.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 02.09.1966, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1966

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
The origins of EU legislation: agenda-setting, intra-institutional decision-making or interinstitutional negotiations?
Creators: name: Laloux, Thomas
name: Delreux, Tom
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: This article traces the origins of European legislation during the legislative policy-making process. It identifies three phases where parts of the text of legislative acts can be developed: (1) agenda-setting; (2) intra-institutional decision-making and (3) interinstitutional negotiations, depending on whether the content of the legislation originates respectively in the Commission proposal, the co-legislators’ positions or trilogue negotiations. Using a newly developed text-mining technique which computes in which phase each word of a legislative act originally appears, the article examines the relative importance of each phase and explores how it is affected by interinstitutional conflict. Applying this method to 219 legislative acts adopted between 2012 and 2018, it finds that most EU legislation originates in the agenda-setting phase, and that the new content developed during trilogue negotiations is limited. However, the importance of the agenda-setting phase decreases in cases with high levels of interinstitutional conflict.
When and where: spatiotemporal analysis of dynamic public transit accessibility along the Wasatch Front
Creators: name: Ritter, Benjamin Joseph
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2015
Subjects: Accessibility
Geography
GIS
Public transportation
Transportation

description: The literature is rich with studies about accessibility to opportunities. However, most of these studies focus on driving or assume a fixed transit travel time between origins and destinations. Using the Utah Transit Authority's (UTA) public transit network, this research uses temporally dynamic public transit travel times in an effort to explore spatiotemporal variability in accessibility. We make use of new tools to transform freely available General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data into a routable Esri Network Dataset (ND). This research examines how accessibility provided by public transit fluctuates through the estimation of minute-by-minute transit travel times between all census block groups (CBGs) in the Wasatch Front. In addition, because research has shown that different social groups travel at different times of the day and for different purposes (work, school, health care, etc.), this research examines how fluctuations in accessibility differentially affect the transit-dependent population. As a result, we will depict how social inequality in transit provision can be viewed through both spatial and temporal lenses.