cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Deep Reinforcement Learning Pairs Trading
Creators: name: Brim, Andrew
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: This research applies a deep reinforcement learning technique, Deep Q-network, to a stock market pairs trading strategy for profit. Artificial intelligent methods have long since been applied to optimize trading strategies. This work trains and tests a DQN to trade co-integrated stock market prices, in a pairs trading strategy. The results demonstrate the DQN is able to consistently produce positive returns when executing a pairs trading strategy.
title: Transition Portfolio
Creators: name: Atkinson, Sarah
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Teaching self-determination skills has been shown to be successful among those who are from Anglo-Saxon decent. However, not much has been done to study the effects of teaching culturally responsive self-determination skills to those who are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The literature review in this transition portfolio addresses how teaching culturally and linguistically responsive self-determination skills can be useful to help individuals who receive special education services to more fully succeed in a post-high school setting.
title: Modeling Lake Temperature Response to Climate Change in the Alaskan Arctic
Creators: name: Balkcom, Thomas
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: This thesis study focuses on simulating lake temperature and ice duration for four lakes at the Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research site, near the Toolik Field Station in Alaska. Model projections were driven by the representative global climate model outputs under different carbon emission scenarios. Results show that my simple lake model can reproduce historical lake temperature and ice duration observations, indicating the reliability of the model for future projections. Model projections show that JuneSeptember lake temperatures would increase by 4.3-5.8 °C from the historical period with most progressive carbon emission scenarios, but by 0.7-2.2 °C in the conservative scenarios. Results also indicate that in all carbon emission scenarios, the ice-off period would increase in duration by at least 10 days by 2100, but by as much as 25-30 days in the most progressive scenarios. In addition, while the timing of mixed lake conditions would shift with the timing of ice-off, the duration of mixing and onset of stratification would be unaffected by warming temperatures. This study provides important knowledge for modeling and predicting lake thermal processes for the Arctic region.
Stroke Correspondence by Labeling Closed Areas
Creators: name: Miyauchi, Ryoma
name: Fukusato, Tsukasa
name: Xie, Haoran
name: Miyata, Kazunori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Constructing stroke correspondences between keyframes is one of the most important processes in the production pipeline of hand-drawn inbetweening frames. This process requires time-consuming manual work imposing a tremendous burden on the animators. We propose a method to estimate stroke correspondences between raster character images (keyframes) without vectorization processes. First, the proposed system separates the closed areas in each keyframe and estimates the correspondences between closed areas by using the characteristics of shape, depth, and closed area connection. Second, the proposed system estimates stroke correspondences from the estimated closed area correspondences. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method by performing a user study and comparing the proposed system with conventional approaches.
description: Proceedings of NICOGRAPH International 2021. 9 pages, 11 figures
TOI-530b: A giant planet transiting an M dwarf detected by TESS
Creators: name: Gan, Tianjun
name: Lin, Zitao
name: Wang, Sharon Xuesong
name: Mao, Shude
name: Fouqué, Pascal
name: Stassun, Keivan G.
name: Giacalone, Steven
name: Fukui, Akihiko
name: Murgas, Felipe
name: Ciardi, David R.
name: Howell, Steve B.
name: Collins, Karen A.
name: Shporer, Avi
name: Arnold, Luc
name: Barclay, Thomas
name: Charbonneau, David
name: Christiansen, Jessie
name: Crossfield, Ian J. M.
name: Dressing, Courtney D.
name: Elliott, Ashley
name: Esparza-Borges, Emma
name: Evans, Phil
name: Gnilka, Crystal L.
name: Gonzales, Erica J.
name: Howard, Andrew W.
name: Isogai, Keisuke
name: Kawauchi, Kiyoe
name: Kurita, Seiya
name: Liu, Beibei
name: Livingston, John H.
name: Matson, Rachel A.
name: Narita, Norio
name: Palle, Enric
name: Parviainen, Hannu
name: Rackham, Benjamin V.
name: Rodriguez, David R.
name: Rose, Mark
name: Rudat, Alexander
name: Schlieder, Joshua E.
name: Scott, Nicholas J.
name: Vezie, Michael
name: Ricker, George R.
name: Vanderspek, Roland
name: Latham, David W.
name: Seager, Sara
name: Winn, Joshua N.
name: Jenkins, Jon M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of TOI-530b, a transiting giant planet around an M0.5V dwarf, delivered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The host star is located at a distance of $147.7\pm0.6$ pc with a radius of $R_{\ast}=0.54\pm0.03\ R_{\odot}$ and a mass of $M_{\ast}=0.53\pm0.02\ M_{\odot}$. We verify the planetary nature of the transit signals by combining ground-based multi-wavelength photometry, high resolution spectroscopy from SPIRou as well as high-angular-resolution imaging. With $V=15.4$ mag, TOI-530b is orbiting one of the faintest stars accessible by ground-based spectroscopy. Our model reveals that TOI-530b has a radius of $0.83\pm0.05\ R_{J}$ and a mass of $0.4\pm0.1\ M_{J}$ on a 6.39-d orbit. TOI-530b is the sixth transiting giant planet hosted by an M-type star, which is predicted to be infrequent according to core accretion theory, making it a valuable object to further study the formation and migration history of similar planets. We discuss the potential formation channel of such systems.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures, 8 tables, accepted for publication by MNRAS
title: Convergent Validity of Automated Language Sample Analysis with Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT)
Creators: name: Peterson, Madeline
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: The purpose of the study was to assess the convergent validity of Coh-Metrix, an automated text analysis tool, with Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT; Miller & Iglesias, 2017), a computer-assisted language analysis software, on measures of syntactic complexity and language productivity. An additional goal of this study was to determine whether indices of syntactic complexity and language productivity calculated in Coh-Metrix were sensitive to developmental changes in oral narratives. SALT and Coh-Metrix variables were calculated on 220 oral narratives obtained from children ages 5-9. Coh-Metrix indices were correlated with comparative SALT measures of syntactic complexity (MLUm, MLUw, and VPU) and language productivity (TNU, TNW). Correlations suggested that Coh-Metrix and SALT demonstrated adequate convergent validity on a number of these measures. Additionally, moderate correlations were observed between Coh-Metrix indices and the age of participant. Coh-Metrix may be a valid tool to assist in making language sample analysis more efficient for practicing speech-language pathologists.
title: Metal Storytellers: Reflections of War Culture in Silverplate B-29 Nose Art from the 509th Composite Group
Creators: name: Wesemann, Terri
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Most people are familiar with the Enola Gay—the B-29 that dropped Little Boy, the first atomic bomb, over the city of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Less known are the fifteen Silverplate B-29 airplanes that trained for the mission, that were named and later adorned with nose art. However, in recorded history, the atomic mission overshadowed the occupational folklore of this group. Because the abundance of planes were scrapped in the decade after World War II and most WWII veterans have passed on, all that remains of their occupational folklore are photographs, oral and written histories, some books, and two iconic airplanes in museum exhibits. Yet, the public’s infatuation and curiosity with nose art keeps the tradition alive.
The purpose of my graduate project and internship with the Hill Aerospace Museum was to collaborate on a 60-foot exhibit that analyzes the humanizing aspects of the Silverplate B-29 nose art from the 509th Composite Group and show how nose art functioned in three ways. First, nose art was a canvas to express airmen’s emotions regarding their training and ending the war. Second, nose art framed the airmen’s experience and created an identity for the crews. Last, after the war, the men reframed their war experiences by transitioning the art from the plane to their storytelling performances.
Looking beyond the pin up girls and cartoon images, aircraft nose art opens an opportunity to reflect on stories of bravery and fear, loneliness and pain, and a desire for change. While some nose art was a snapshot of a specific time in these airmen’s lives—1944 to 1945—other images reflected a culmination of lifelong feelings: dedication, support, and love. A nose art exhibit is a vehicle to help society better understand the experiences of today’s veterans and launch conversations about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Inelastic Backaction due to Quantum Point Contact Charge Fluctuations
Creators: name: Young, C. E.
name: Clerk, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically transitions of a double quantum-dot qubit caused by nonequilibrium charge fluctuations in a nearby quantum point contact (QPC) used as a detector. We show that these transitions are related to the fundamental Heisenberg backaction associated with the measurement, and use the uncertainty principle to derive a lower bound on the transition rates. We also derive simple expressions for the transition rates for the usual model of a QPC as a mesoscopic conductor, with screening treated at the RPA level. Finally, numerical results are presented which demonstrate that the charge noise and shot noise backaction mechanisms can be distinguished in QPCs having nonadiabatic potentials. The enhanced sensitivity of the charge noise to the QPC potential is explained in terms of interference contributions similar to those which cause Friedel oscillations.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
title: The Future of Narrative Discourse Analysis: First Steps toward Automated Scoring
Creators: name: Sainsbury, Ryan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: The purpose of this study examined the extent to which measures calculated using an automated, online discourse analysis program demonstrated predictive variance of a hand-scored metric of oral narrative proficiency with regards to macrostructure elements. An additional goal of this study was to explore the potential clinical utility of these automated measures by examining the extent to which they correlated with a hand-scored metric of macrostructure proficiency.
Pearson product correlation and multiple regression analyses were utilized to examine 240 oral narratives of children ages 6-9 that were analyzed using both an automated discourse analysis program and a hand-scored metric of narrative proficiency. The results showed that the automated Coh-Metrix measures of connectivity were predictive of the hand-coded macrostructure score. Coh-Metrix measures of narrativity and thematic relationships also accounted for additional variance to the macrostructure score. Certain Coh-Metrix measures of narrativity and connectivity correlated moderately with the hand-scored measure of narrative proficiency. These findings provide preliminary evidence that some aspects of the freely available Coh-Metrix automated scoring system, specifically measures of connectivity, narrativity, and thematic relationships predicted a macrostructure score based on human coding. Additionally, certain Coh-Metrix measures of narrativity and connectivity demonstrated moderate correlations with the narrative macrostructure proficiency score. However, the correlations did not demonstrate sufficient strength to provide an automated progress monitoring tool of narrative macrostructure proficiency.
title: Do Changing Resource Conditions Displace Anglers? A Study of Contingent Travel Behaviors and Substitution Patterns on Minnesota’s North Shore
Creators: name: Hestetune, Adam
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Angling in Minnesota’s North Shore faces unique threats from the impacts of climate change. These impacts, such as changes in the presence and/or abundance of specific species, present management challenges which might also influence the demand for recreational angling throughout the region. Anglers’ adaptations to climate change in the North Shore region could shift densities, timing, and spatial use of the region’s fish populations, increasing the stress on ecological systems. Developing an empirically-grounded understanding of the contingent behaviors of anglers is imperative if the region’s fish populations are to be managed sustainably. Using a travel cost model, we measured the demand for angling under current conditions and a range of future climate and environmental conditions. Our research also explores the adaptive and coping behaviors of anglers. We tested the substitution of anglers against non-anglers to determine if anglers exhibit sensitivities in their contingent behaviors. Results imply anglers to the North Shore would not alter their trip-taking behavior under any of the future climate and environmental conditions presented. However, anglers are willing to substitute recreation settings, and even their participation in the activity, in response to future climate and environmental conditions. These substitution patterns are significantly different than those reported by non-anglers. This study provides empirical evidence of substitution behavior amongst anglers in response to shifts in environmental and climatic conditions. Further research is needed to understand why anglers’ future trip-taking behaviors are not responsive to changes in climate and environmental conditions, though their substitution behaviors are. Our findings can be used to help managers maintain the satisfaction, experiences, and participation of future generations of anglers.
A universal characterization of higher algebraic K-theory
Creators: name: Blumberg, Andrew J.
name: Gepner, David
name: Tabuada, Goncalo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 19D10, 19D55, 18D20, 55N15

description: In this paper we establish a universal characterization of higher algebraic K-theory in the setting of small stable infinity categories. Specifically, we prove that connective algebraic K-theory is the universal additive invariant, i.e., the universal functor with values in spectra which inverts Morita equivalences, preserves filtered colimits, and satisfies Waldhausen's additivity theorem. Similarly, we prove that non-connective algebraic K-theory is the universal localizing invariant, i.e., the universal functor that moreover satisfies the "Thomason-Trobaugh-Neeman" localization theorem. To prove these results, we construct and study two stable infinity categories of "noncommutative motives"; one associated to additivity and another to localization. In these stable infinity categories, Waldhausen's S. construction corresponds to the suspension functor and connective and non-connective algebraic K-theory spectra become corepresentable by the noncommutative motive of the sphere spectrum. In particular, the algebraic K-theory of every scheme, stack, and ring spectrum can be recovered from these categories of noncommutative motives. In order to work with these categories of noncommutative motives, we establish comparison theorems between the category of spectral categories localized at the Morita equivalences and the category of small idempotent-complete stable infinity categories. We also explain in detail the comparison between the infinity categorical version of Waldhausen K-theory and the classical definition. As an application of our theory, we obtain a complete classification of the natural transformations from higher algebraic K-theory to topological Hochschild homology (THH) and topological cyclic homology (TC). Notably, we obtain an elegant conceptual description of the cyclotomic trace map.
description: Various revisions and corrections
Regnskabsstatistik for akvakultur 2016
Creators: Danmarks Statistik
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2022

description: Formålet med Regnskabsstatistik for Akvakultur er at belyse økonomien i dansk fiskeopdræt. Herudover er regnskabsstatistikken et input til opgørelsen af nationalregnskabet og til indberetninger til EU. Baggrunden for Regnskabsstatistik for Akvakultur er et ønske om, at der udarbejdes en regnskabsstatistik for akvakultur til brug for akvakulturerhvervets udøvere, Dansk Akvakultur, Fødevareministeriet samt andre interessenter.
Our Knowledge of High-Mass Star Formation at the Dawn of Herschel
Creators: name: Motte, Frédérique
name: Hennebelle, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the theories and observations of high-mass star formation emphasizing the differences with those of low-mass star formation. We hereafter describe the progress expected to be achieved with Herschel, thanks notably to Key Programmes dedicated to the earliest phases of high-mass star formation.
description: 16 pages
F2
Creators: Styrelsen for Fastholdelse og Rekruttering
STAR
Forebyggelsesfonden
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2022

description: F2 er et sags- og dokumenthåndteringssystem (ESDH-system), der har til formål at understøtte og kontrollere journaliseringspligten og imødekommelse af retten til aktindsigt efter offentlighedsloven, dokumentationskravet i forvaltningsloven, beskyttelse af personoplysninger efter databeskyttelsesloven, behandlingen af sager og behovet for effektivt at kunne finde relevante informationer, der er et forretningsmæssigt behov for at opbevare.
Threshold for Extended Emission in Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Norris, Jay P.
name: Gehrels, Neil
name: Scargle, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The initial pulse complex (IPC) in short gamma-ray bursts is sometimes accompanied by a softer, low-intensity extended emission (EE) component. In cases where such a component is not observed, it is not clear if it is present but below the detection threshold. Using Bayesian Block (BB) methods, we measure the EE component and show that it is present in one quarter of a Swift/BAT sample of 51 short bursts, as was found for the Compton/BATSE sample. We simulate bursts with EE to calibrate the BAT threshold for EE detection and show that this component would have been detected in nearly half of BAT short bursts if it were present, to intensities ~ 10^-2 counts cm^-2 s^-1, a factor of five lower than actually observed in short bursts. In the BAT sample the ratio of average EE intensity to IPC peak intensity, Rint, ranges over a factor of 25, Rint ~ 3 x 10^-3 to 8 x 10^-2. In comparison, for the average of the 39 bursts without an EE component, the 2-sigma upper limit is Rint < 8 x 10^-4. These results suggest that a physical threshold effect operates near Rint ~ few x 10^-3, below which the EE component is not manifest.
description: 26 pages, 8 figures; revised appendix; accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Measuring the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation below the detection threshold
Creators: name: Pan, Hengxing
name: Jarvis, Matt J.
name: Ponomareva, Anastasia A.
name: Santos, Mario G.
name: Allison, James R.
name: Maddox, Natasha
name: Frank, Bradley S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel 2D flux density model for observed HI emission lines combined with a Bayesian stacking technique to measure the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation below the nominal detection threshold. We simulate a galaxy catalogue, which includes HI lines described either with Gaussian or busy function profiles, and HI data cubes with a range of noise and survey areas similar to the MeerKAT International Giga-Hertz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) survey. With prior knowledge of redshifts, stellar masses and inclinations of spiral galaxies, we find that our model can reconstruct the input baryonic Tully-Fisher parameters (slope and zero point) most accurately in a relatively broad redshift range from the local Universe to $z = 0.3$ for all the considered levels of noise and survey areas, and up to $z = 0.55$ for a nominal noise of $90\,μ$Jy/channel over 5 deg$^{2}$. Our model can also determine the $M_{\rm HI} - M_{\star}$ relation for spiral galaxies beyond the local Universe, and account for the detailed shape of the HI emission line, which is crucial for understanding the dynamics of spiral galaxies. Thus, we have developed a Bayesian stacking technique for measuring the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation for galaxies at low stellar and/or HI masses and/or those at high redshift, where the direct detection of HI requires prohibitive exposure times.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Generalized proof of the linearized second law in general quadric corrected Einstein-Maxwell gravity
Creators: name: Wang, Xin-Yang
name: Jiang, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although the entropy of black holes in any diffeomorphism invariant theory of gravity can be expressed as the Wald entropy, the issue of whether the entropy always obeys the second law of black hole thermodynamics remains open. Since the nonminimal coupling interaction between gravity and the electromagnetic field in the general quadric corrected Einstein-Maxwell gravity can sufficiently influence the expression of the Wald entropy, we check whether the Wald entropy of black holes in the quadric corrected gravity still satisfies the second law. A quasistationary accreting process of black holes is first considered, which describes that black holes are perturbed by matter fields and eventually settle down to a stationary state. Two assumptions that the matter fields should obey the null energy condition and that a regular bifurcation surface exists on the background spacetime are further proposed. According to the two assumptions and the Raychaudhuri equation, we demonstrate that the Wald entropy monotonically increases along the future event horizon under the linear order approximation of the perturbation. This result indicates that the Wald entropy of black holes in the quadric corrected gravity strictly obeys the linearized second law of thermodynamics.
description: 24 pages, published version of PRD
Estimation in functional regression for general exponential families
Creators: name: Dou, Winston Wei
name: Pollard, David
name: Zhou, Harrison H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper studies a class of exponential family models whose canonical parameters are specified as linear functionals of an unknown infinite-dimensional slope function. The optimal minimax rates of convergence for slope function estimation are established. The estimators that achieve the optimal rates are constructed by constrained maximum likelihood estimation with parameters whose dimension grows with sample size. A change-of-measure argument, inspired by Le Cam's theory of asymptotic equivalence, is used to eliminate the bias caused by the nonlinearity of exponential family models.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AOS1027 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Photoprocessing of H2S on dust grains: building S chains in translucent clouds and comets
Creators: name: Cazaux, S.
name: Carrascosa, H.
name: Caro, G. M. Munoz
name: Caselli, P.
name: Fuente, A.
name: Navarro-Almaida, D.
name: Riviére-Marichalar, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Sulfur is used as a tracer of the evolution from interstellar clouds to stellar systems. However, most of the expected sulfur in molecular clouds remains undetected. Sulfur disappears from the gas phase in two steps. One first depletion occurs during the translucent phase, reducing the gas phase sulfur by 7-40 times, while the following freeze-out step occurs in molecular clouds, reducing it by another order of magnitude. This long-standing dilemma awaits an explanation. Aims. The aim of this study is to understand under which form the missing sulfur is hiding in molecular clouds. Depletion onto dust grains is considered. Methods. Experimental simulations mimicking H2S ice UV-photoprocessing in molecular clouds were conducted. The ice was monitored using infrared spectroscopy and the desorbing molecules were measured by quadrupole mass spectrometry. Theoretical Monte Carlo simulations were performed for interpretation of the experimental results and extrapolation to astrophysical conditions. Results. H2S2 formation was observed during irradiation at 8 K. Molecules H2Sx with x > 2 were also identified and found to desorb during warm-up, along with S2 to S4 species. Larger Sx molecules up to S8 are refractory at room temperature and remained on the substrate forming a residue. Monte Carlo simulations were able to reproduce the molecules desorbing during warming up, and found that residues are chains or sulfur consisting of 6-7 atoms. Conclusions. We propose that S+ in translucent clouds contributes notoriously to S depletion in denser regions by forming long S-chains on dust in few times 10^4 years. We suggest that the S2 to S4 molecules observed in comets are not produced by fragmentation of these large chains. Instead, they probably come either from UV-photoprocessing of H2S-bearing ice produced in molecular clouds or from short S chains formed during the translucent cloud phase
description: Accepted to A&A
title: History Takes Flight: Evaluating the Cache Valley: An Airminded Community Exhibition
Creators: name: Wilkey, Landon O.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: A regularly overlooked but vital element of Cache Valley history is the impact of aviation. Just eight short years after the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight, the first aircraft arrived in Logan to perform for the masses eager to catch a glimpse of this burgeoning technology. From that point on, aviation has been a relevant topic to community leaders and members. This fervor for all things flight-related has been coined “airmindedness.”
To bring the discussion of airmindedness to the forefront, I created a traveling exhibit that could be used throughout the community to shed light on both the vibrant history and the current status of aviation in Cache Valley. My primary desire was to create a space where people could gather and share their own aviation experiences by offering a visual and interactive display on the topic that could evoke memories and foster airmindedness. In addition, with the help of USU Digital Initiatives, I created a supplementary digital exhibit (http://exhibits.usu.edu/exhibits/show/cacheair) where visitors could find more information and view their own contributions.
The process of creating an exhibit and touring it around the local community was a valuable lesson in public history practices. This report is a case study in affordable exhibit designs that can be used for outreach by small museums or other organizations. It is also an evaluation of creating interactive elements that are relevant to visitors, and using digital components to encourage participation and enhance visitor experiences.
title: Implementing Option Pricing Model
Creators: name: Ming, Zhao
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: In this paper I replicate Clewlow and Strickland's control variates methods based on Greek letters method to test if it can improve the simulation efficiency. First, I use Black Scholes Merton formula for option pricing as a benchmark, to compare with the European call option price from Monte Carlo methods. Then I use Greek letters as control variates to reduce sample standard deviation and improve the efficiency of the Monte Carlo simulation. The whole process is programming in C++. C++ is a compiled language which can generate machine code from source code and provide a shorter running time. This paper is based on ideas from Implementing Derivatives Models by Clewlow and Strickland, On The Simulation of Contingent Claims by Clewlow and Carverhill, Chapter 4, and Derivatives Markets by McDonald, Chapter 12, 13, 19.
Coupling and Level Repulsion in the Localized Regime: From Isolated to Quasi-Extended Modes
Creators: name: Bliokh, K. Y.
name: Bliokh, Y. P.
name: Freilikher, V.
name: Genack, A. Z.
name: Sebbah, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the interaction of Anderson localized states in an open 1D random system by varying the internal structure of the sample. As the frequencies of two states come close, they are transformed into multiply-peaked quasi-extended modes. Level repulsion is observed experimentally and explained within a model of coupled resonators. The spectral and spatial evolution of the coupled modes is described in terms of the coupling coefficient and Q-factors of resonators.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
title: Assessing & Protecting Dark Night Skies in El Morro National Monument
Creators: name: Kobinsky, Leslie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2019

description: Light pollution is causing the disappearance of dark night skies around the world. In the United States alone, 1/3 of people are unable to see the Milky Way where they live (Ramlagan, 2016). National Park Service sites contain some of the darkest skies in the country. Here at El Morro National Monument, these dark skies are a beautiful and healthy benefit to people in the local community and visitors traveling from afar. El Morro’s current park legislation does not include specific measures of protection for the night sky. This capstone project will create a baseline data set of night sky measurements, produce an interpretive program and webpage, implement stronger night sky protection and preservation standards into park management documents, and help El Morro become an International Dark Sky Park.
Analysis of the Holzmann-Chevallier-Krauth theory for the trapped quasi-two-dimensional Bose gas
Creators: name: Bisset, R. N.
name: Baillie, D.
name: Blakie, P. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide an in depth analysis of the theory proposed by Holzmann, Chevallier and Krauth (HCK) [Europhys. Lett., {\bf 82}, 30001 (2008)] for predicting the temperature at which the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition to a superfluid state occurs in the harmonically trapped quasi-two-dimensional (2D) Bose gas. Their theory is based on a meanfield model of the system density and we show that the HCK predictions change appreciably when an improved meanfield theory and identification of the transition point is used. In this analysis we develop a consistent theory that provides a lower bound for the BKT transition temperature in the trapped quasi-2D Bose gas.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Analyse eines neuen optisch-digitalen Messverfahrens für die Detektion und Quantifizierung biomechanischer Prozesse an dentalen Implantaten
Creators: name: Riegger, Katharina
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Year: 2023

description: Hintergrund und Ziele Das Ziel der vorliegenden in-vitro Studie war die Analyse eines neuen optisch- digitalen Messsystems zur Detektion und Quantifizierung biomechanischer Prozesse an dentalen Implantaten. Zu diesem Zwecke wurde das verwendete optisch-digitale Messsystem mit dem konventionellen Messverfahren mittels Dehnungsmessstreifen verglichen. Material und Methode Um einen direkten Vergleich zwischen den beiden Messverfahren zu ermöglichen, wurden in einen Polyurethanblock (Sawbones Europe AB, Malmö, Schweden), der die Kompakta des humanen Kieferknochens simulieren sollte, zwei Implantate mit einem Durchmesser von 4,1mm und einer Länge von 14mm (Standard Implantate Regular Neck, Straumann GmbH, Freiburg, Deutschland) inseriert. Für diese wurden als Suprakonstruktionen jeweils eine dreigliedrige Brücke aus einer Nichtedelmetall-Legierung, einer Oxidkeramik und einem Polyetheretherketon angefertigt, die sich lediglich im verwendeten Material unterschieden. Sowohl an der Horizontalfläche des künstlichen Knochenblocks, parallel zur Verbindungslinie der beiden Implantate, als auch an der Vertikalfläche, axial zur Longitudinalachse des rechten Implantates, wurden Dehnungsmessstreifen angebracht. Gleichzeitig wurde die gesamte Oberfläche des Versuchsmodells mit dem optischen ARAMIS Messsystem (GOM GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany) erfasst. Im Folgenden wurde über die handfest mit den Implantaten verschraubten Suprakonstruktionen mittels einer Universalprüfmaschine eine progrediente Kraft von maximal 200 N eingeleitet. Die daraus resultierende Dehnung des umliegenden Knochengewebes wurde simultan sowohl mit den Dehnungsmessstreifen, als auch mit dem optischen ARAMIS Messsystem (GOM GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany) erfasst. Diese Messdaten konnten direkt, durch eine Integration aller Daten in der ARAMIS Professional Software, miteinander verglichen werden. Ergebnisse Insgesamt konnte anhand der korrespondierenden Messdaten gezeigt werden, dass kein signifikanter Unterschied zwischen beiden Messsystemen bestand. Quantitativ ergab sich für die Dehnung des Knochengewebes bei beiden Messmethoden ein Unterschied zwischen den drei verschiedenen Suprakonstruktionen. Insbesondere wurden bei der Krafteinleitung über die Brücke aus PEEK geringere Dehnungswerte als für die übrigen Suprakonstruktionen registriert. Die durchgeführten Intraklassenkorrelationen bestätigten in allen Fällen eine Übereinstimmung der beiden Messmethoden. Schlussfolgerung Auf Grundlage der Ergebnisse der in-vitro Studie, darf die neue optisch-digitale Messmethode als vergleichbar mit der konventionellen Methode der Dehnungsmessstreifen betrachtet werden. Teilergebnisse der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden veröffentlicht in: “Establishment of a New Biomechanical Measurement Method for Surface Deformation of Bone by Force Application via Dental Implants – A Pilot Study.” im Journal Applied Sciences. [1]
UM ESTUDO DE CASO SOBRE A QUALIDADE DE VIDA NO TRABALHO DE PROFESSORES DE UMA INSTITUIÇÃO PÚBLICA NO AMAPÁ
Creators: name: Paulo Edson da Silva Tenório FILHO
name: Janderson Henrique Mota de SOUSA
name: Michael Machado de MORAES
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Qualidade de vida no trabalho
Instituições de Educacionais
Docentes
Amapá
Laranjal do Jari

description: RESUMO

Este estudo analisou a percepção de professores sobre a qualidade de vida no trabalho (QVT) em uma instituição pública no estado do Amapá, utilizando como base as oito dimensões teóricas propostas por Walton (1973). Sob a hipótese de que as condições de trabalho afetam diretamente o bem-estar docente, foi desenvolvido um questionário estruturado, aplicado digitalmente. Tem-se como objetivo geral deste artigo: Analisar e problematizar a qualidade de vida no trabalho (QVT) dos servidores docentes de uma instituição pública de ensino localizada na cidade de Laranjal do Jari, no estado do Amapá. Os resultados apontaram altos índices de contentamento em dimensões como aprimoramento de habilidades e relevância social, evidenciando aspectos positivos do ambiente de trabalho. Contudo, emergiram insatisfações significativas relacionadas à remuneração e ao equilíbrio entre vida pessoal e profissional. A maioria dos respondentes está há menos de um ano na instituição, o que pode influenciar algumas percepções devido à inexperiência. Além disso, greves recentes podem ter sido fator determinante para que todos os docentes pudessem responder ao questionário. A abordagem quantitativa do estudo permitiu não apenas mapear os fatores que impactam positivamente ou negativamente a QVT, mas também propor medidas concretas para o aprimoramento dessas condições. Entre as sugestões destacam-se ações voltadas para a valorização salarial, a promoção de equilíbrio entre trabalho e vida pessoal e a criação de um ambiente mais inclusivo e colaborativo.
title: Examining the Use of a Gamified Transcription Task to Support Perceptual Learning of Dysarthric Speech
Creators: name: Budge, Samantha
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Purpose: The primary aim of the current study investigated whether a lexical transcription task during perceptual training with dysarthric speech improves listener perception of the degraded speech signal. A secondary aim investigated whether adding a gamified component to the training task would further increase intelligibility gains.
Method: Following an intelligibility pretest using stimuli provided by a speaker with ataxic dysarthria, 59 participants completed a perceptual training phase dependent on their assigned condition (lexical transcription of healthy speech & feedback [control], lexical transcription of dysarthric speech & feedback [LT], or lexical transcription of dysarthric speech & gamified feedback [LTG]). Participants then completed a intelligibility posttest.
Results: Analysis of intelligibility data at pretest and posttest indicated no significant differences between any of the three experimental conditions. Further fine-grained analysis revealed that all participants, regardless of condition, experienced a 10% intelligibility gain during the training phase and a second 10% intelligibility gain during the posttest phase. This suggests that participants used the training phase to learn how to complete the transcription task and used the posttest to learn about dysarthric speech. Gamification, as it was deployed in this study, did not have any discernable effect on intelligibility improvements.
Conclusions: Future studies investigating perceptual learning of dysarthric speech may benefit from adaptions to the transcription task used in the current study in order to reduce the cognitive load experienced by the listeners. Improvements to the gamification element of the task may also be improved in order to increase motivation during the training phase.
title: Bookscapes: A Study in the Interconnectivity of Landscape and Narrative Visualization and Communication in Landscape Architecture
Creators: name: Randall, Tonya
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: The fields of landscape architecture and literacy have the potential to be linked through a simulated environment. Through this connection, opportunity for education arises. This thesis creates and describes a program called Bookscapes, which presents a narrative inside a simulated landscape for the purpose of communicating landscape architecture/urban planning principles.
Bookscapes is a stand-alone computer program designed using theories in education and guidelines for virtual and restorative environments (including Huang’s elements, Kaplan’s Attention Restoration Theory for restorative environments, constructivist theory of situational learning) and the revolving design process in landscape architecture’s communication to clients through 3D modeling.
This thesis first discusses the literature and foundational framework behind the creation of Bookscapes, and why creating a program that will engage users in a narrative is important and relevant today. This section also talks about how the field of landscape architecture uses 3D modeling techniques to design, setting the stage for combining both disciplines of Narrative and Landscape Architecture into one unified program.
Next in this paper is a description of the physical and philosophical creation of Bookscapes in the methodology which includes 9 steps including: book selection, a site visit, architectural and historical research, sketch studies, 3D modeling techniques, preliminary renders and edits, mood and texture studies, programming, and finally the completion of the process resulting in a program titled Bookscapes.
A proposed study is discussed in the appendix to test if Bookscapes has the potential to increase immersion and interest to create a higher level of recall in students who use Bookscapes to learn about landscape architecture principles. This appendix discusses proposed testing instruments, testing environment, and sample size. All the information in Bookscapes is also available in a paper packet. The paper packet can be used to asses user interest, learning, and immersion as it compares to the computer program version. The proposed instruments to measure these factors are a self-recorded pre and post-test which can be found in the appendix.
title: New Perspectives on Promoting EFL Teaching and Learning in Oman
Creators: name: Al Naabi, Jihan Sulaiman
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This portfolio is an accumulation of work that the author accomplished during her study in the program of Master of Second Language Teaching at Utah State University. It is an outcome of the author’s personal teaching experiences, insights gained from her master’s study, and several class observations as well.
The portfolio comprises three primary portions: (1) teaching perspectives, (2) research perspectives, and (3) an annotated bibliography. The teaching perspectives revolve around the author’s beliefs on the role of both teachers and students in L2 classrooms, the communicative teaching of grammar, and the value of a positive learning environment. The research perspectives’ section involves two papers written during different courses in the MSLT program. The annotated bibliography reviews literature on topics about task-based language teaching and learning.
title: Harvest: Poems
Creators: name: Allen, Brittney
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Louise Glück wrote, “the actual making of art is a revenge on circumstance.” The risk, she goes on, is in the possibility of shame. Writing poetry then becomes an act of courage, purchased with sacrifice or loss. “Courage, in this usage, alludes to a capacity for facing down the dark forces.”
In Harvest, a poetry chapbook, the speaker takes revenge on the circumstances of her life by being blunt, bare, and brave on the page. She contends with a male-dominated society and abusive childhood as she moves into adulthood and the supposed saving grace of a marriage. The speaker confesses traumatic memories, marital betrayals, and harmful coping mechanisms in a lyrical way, adding her voice to the abused poets of past and present who have also asked themselves – how can a raped daughter grow up to love a man? In an attempt to break the silence forced upon her by an abusive parent, the speaker examines the pattern of sexual failures in her life, as well as her roles as a female, daughter, sister, and wife through poetry. My speaker has excavated her inner child and bared her most intimate parts in poetry. By attempting to exorcize her stepfather to make room for her husband, she found the potential for fierce love in her sibling relationships. In reaching for them, my speaker reaches for herself instead of another man.
F2
Creators: Ligestillingsafdelingen
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2022

description: F2 er et sags- og dokumenthåndteringssystem (ESDH-system), der har til formål at sikre en effektiv sagsbehandling, gøre relevante dele af Ligestillingsafdelingens sager tilgængelige for fremtidig dokumentation og forskning og opfylde lovgivningens krav til journalisering og arkivering i det offentlige. Samtidig tjener systemet som et informationssystem, der kan sikre videnddelingen i Ligestillingsafdelingen.
title: Private Land, Public Trust: Strategic Conservation Planning for Public Wildlife on Private Lands Through the USFWS Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program
Creators: name: Wirick, Clint
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Law requires federal agencies to develop long-term strategic plans. Strategic plans define goals, objectives, and performance measures defining how the agencies and programs will reach their stated goals. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Partners for Fish and Wildlife (PFW) develops strategic plans every five years. Each individual state develops a plan for their respective state. Those state plans are compiled for the region and become part of Regional Comprehensive Strategic Plan. The current strategic plan expires in 2021. States will begin the strategic planning process in 2020. In Utah, PFW staff will also begin developing a strategic plan for the years 2022-2026.
This document explains the need for a strategic plan, policy and laws guiding strategic plans, and program goals, objectives, and Program cornerstone concepts. Strategic plans must take into account human social and cultural perspectives.
Several factors go into a strategic plan such as funding targets, goals, and partnerships. One major component of these plans are the concept of Focus Areas. These focus areas determine where the Program focuses restoration and enhancement on the ground. Focus areas designation is developed using focal species and focal ecosystems as well as other criteria such as partnerships and private-public landownership. In this document suggested considerations for focus area development is provided.
This capstone report will provide managers with information and guidance important to the Utah PFW Program planning process. The goal of this document is to inform and enhance the strategic planning process in Utah. This document will be shared with other state and regional leadership in USFWS Region 6. This report summarizes the need for a strategic plan, states goals and objectives of the PFW Program related to planning, and provides strategic planning guidance not currently found in any one document.