cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Executive Compensation Incentives Impact on the Tone and Readability of Financial Reports
Creators: name: Mi, Xiaoyan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Financial disclosures do not only influence the future reaction of customers, they also imply the financial strategies of the managers of corporations. Through analysis, we find a strong causal relationship between tone and readability of financial disclosures and incentive methods of managers. Controlling executives’ pay-performance sensitivity (delta) and other variables, executives with higher sensitivity of executives’ wealth to stock volatility (vega) (Coles, Daniel, Naveen, 2004) tend to announce reports with more negative tone and low readability.
A new integrable model of long wave-short wave interaction and linear stability spectra
Creators: name: Caso-Huerta, Marcos
name: Degasperis, Antonio
name: Lombardo, Sara
name: Sommacal, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37K40 (Primary) 37K10, 37K20, 35B35, 35Q35, 35Q55, 74J30 (Secondary)

description: We consider the propagation of short waves which generate waves of much longer (infinite) wave-length. Model equations of such long wave-short wave resonant interaction, including integrable ones, are well-known and have received much attention because of their appearance in various physical contexts, particularly fluid dynamics and plasma physics. Here we introduce a new long wave-short wave integrable model which generalises those first proposed by Yajima-Oikawa and by Newell. By means of its associated Lax pair, we carry out the linear stability analysis of its continuous wave solutions by introducing the stability spectrum as an algebraic curve in the complex plane. This is done starting from the construction of the eigenfunctions of the linearised long wave-short wave model equations. The geometrical features of this spectrum are related to the stability/instability properties of the solution under scrutiny. Stability spectra for the plane wave solutions are fully classified in the parameter space together with types of modulational instabilities.
title: Factors Affecting the Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube Forests by Chemical Vapor Deposition Methods
Creators: name: Mojica Decena, Jonh
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: carbon nanotubes (CNTs) research has increase in recent years due to the possibility of its application in energy storage, energy conversion devices, and solid sorbent, but there is still a lot that is unknown when it comes to synthesizing CNT. In this paper we explore the relationship between the control growth parameters and the observables in the synthesis of CNT forest by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). We studied the effects of catalyst predeposited CVD and catalyst injection CVD in terms of quantity, carbon feedstock, flow rate, substrate, substrate position, as well as temperature setting to determine in a qualitatively manner their effects on CNT density, diameter, chirality and forest height.
Exoplanet Chemistry
Creators: name: Lodders, Katharina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The terrestrial and gas-giant planets in our solar system may represent some prototypes for planets around other stars; the exoplanets because most stars have similar overall elemental abundances as our sun. The solar system planets represent at least four chemical planet types, depending on the phases that make them: Terrestrial-like planets made of rock (metal plus silicates), Plutonian planets made of rock and ice, Neptunian giant planets of rocky, icy with low H and He contents, and Jovian gas-giant planets of rocky, icy planets with near-solar H and He contents. The planetary compositions are linked to the chemical fractionation in the planetary accretion disks. Chemical tracers of these fractionations are described. Many known exoplanets are gas-giant planets with up to several Jupiter-masses and their atmospheric chemistry is compared to that of brown dwarfs. Exoplanets in close orbits around their host stars may resemble hot brown dwarfs (L-dwarfs). Planets receiving less radiation form their host may compare more to the methane-rich T dwarfs. The cloud layers resulting from condensation of oxides, metal, sulfides, and salts in these hot and cool gas giant planets and their chemical tracers are described.
description: 33 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, in: Formation and Evolution of Exoplanets, R. Barnes (ed.), Wiley, Berlin, in press
Bin Packing Under Multiple Objectives - a Heuristic Approximation Approach
Creators: name: Geiger, Martin Josef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The article proposes a heuristic approximation approach to the bin packing problem under multiple objectives. In addition to the traditional objective of minimizing the number of bins, the heterogeneousness of the elements in each bin is minimized, leading to a biobjective formulation of the problem with a tradeoff between the number of bins and their heterogeneousness. An extension of the Best-Fit approximation algorithm is presented to solve the problem. Experimental investigations have been carried out on benchmark instances of different size, ranging from 100 to 1000 items. Encouraging results have been obtained, showing the applicability of the heuristic approach to the described problem.
HHEAR Analyte List (Targeted Assay)
Creators: name: Barupal, Dinesh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: data-dictionary
metadata
HHEAR

description: Analytes (Metals, organics, pesticides, phthalates etc.) that were measured by the targeted assays for the NIEHS HHEAR program ( https://hheardatacenter.mssm.edu/ )
LA PRÁCTICA DEL JUEGO DRAMÁTICO EN LA EDUCACIÓN INFANTIL: SUS IMPLICACIONES EN EL DESARROLLO DE LA INTELIGENCIA EMOCIONAL.
Creators: name: Ceballos, Antonio Cantos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Juego dramático, Educación Infantil y representación de roles, Inteligencia emocional, Metodología creativa y educación.

description: Nuestra propuesta creativa se centra en propiciar un contexto necesario en el que los niños pueden diseñar y jugar su propio juego de representación de roles en el aula. Para ello, partimos de lo general (el tema que eligen los niños) y llegamos a lo particular (la paralización de ese tema en pequeñas unidades de acción con sus respectivos personajes o mini conflictos). Los niños eligen tema, personaje favorito, argumento y diseñan su propio dispositivo escénico. El educador se ocupa de que los diferentes personajes inventados por los niños se integren en subgrupos y ayuda al diseño del dispositivo escénico  donde se juegan las diferentes acciones.  La práctica del juego dramático con criterio globalizador en la Educación Infantil ayuda a los pequeños a movilizar su fantasía, a adoptar y adecuarse a roles y situaciones y, finalmente, a transmitir a través de otro lenguaje su conducta expresiva en distintos contextos y espacios.
HHEAR Analyte List (Targeted Assay)
Creators: name: Barupal, Dinesh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: data-dictionary
metadata
HHEAR

description: Analytes (Metals, organics, pesticides, phthalates etc.) that were measured by the targeted assays for the NIEHS HHEAR program ( https://hheardatacenter.mssm.edu/ )
Controlling spatial coherence with an optical complex medium
Creators: name: Nardi, Alfonso
name: Tebbenjohanns, Felix
name: Rossi, Massimiliano
name: Divitt, Shawn
name: Norrman, Andreas
name: Gigan, Sylvain
name: Frimmer, Martin
name: Novotny, Lukas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Control over optical spatial coherence is a key requirement in diverse applications including imaging, optical trapping, and communications. Current approaches to controlling spatial coherence are constrained by speed or limited to a single pair of optical fields. Here, we propose a method to achieve single-shot control of the spatial coherence between an arbitrary number of fields. Our method employs a multi-port linear optical device, which we realize by shaping the wavefront of the input light fields and transmitting them through a complex medium. To demonstrate the capabilities of our method, we experimentally realize a 3x3-port system and use it to generate three output beams with desired mutual correlations.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures
Generelt LandbrugsRegister/Centralt HusdyrbrugsRegister
Creators: Fødevarestyrelsen
Landbrugsstyrelsen
Landmænd, jordbrugere, landnrugskonsulenter og dyrlæger
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2022

description: Systemet består af et integreret forvaltnings- og kontrolsystem i Fødevareministeriets regi til brug for tilskudsadministration og kontrol på landbrugsområdet.
title: We Can Use Machine Learning to Determine Which Financial Ratios are Best for Investors
Creators: name: Butterfield, Collin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This study develops and tests the hypothesis that the machine learning algorithm, Random Forests, can be used to systematically pick financial ratios that would be best for indicating market trends and be used subsequently to perform comparable analysis to speculate whether a firm is over- or under-valued. Results show that financial ratio selection differs depending on the market sector to which a firm pertains. We examine the 11 financial sectors representing the key areas of the economy. We also look at four possible trading strategies that an investor could have: month-long, quarter-long, semi-annual, and annual to capture differing trading horizons.
The n2EDM experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute
Creators: name: Chen, Wenting
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: electric dipole moment
CP violation

description: Precision measurements of permanent electric dipole moments (EDM) are among the most sensitive methods for exploring physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, particularly regarding charge-parity (CP) violation. The international nEDM collaboration at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) aims to search for the neutron EDM with a sensitivity an order of magnitude higher than the current best-measured limit of 1.8×10−26 e cm, which was measured by our collaboration [1]. Our new n2EDM apparatus [2] set up at the ultracold neutron source at PSI has now entered its commissioning phase.This talk will present an overview of the experiment and preliminary results from the recent commissioning measurements with the new apparatus.

[1] C. Abel et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 124 (2020) 081803.[2] N.J. Ayres et al., Eur. Phys. J. C 81 (2021) 512.Supported by Swiss National Science Foundation #204118
Symmetry of superconducting states with two orbitals on a tetragonal lattice: application to $LaO_{1-x}F_{x}FeAs$
Creators: name: Zhou, Yi
name: Chen, Weiqiang
name: Zhang, Fu-chun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use group theory to classify the superconducting states of systems with two orbitals on a tetragonal lattice. The orbital part of the superconducting gap function can be either symmetric or anti-symmetric. For the orbital symmetric state, the parity is even for spin singlet and odd for spin triplet; for the orbital anti-symmetric state, the parity is odd for spin singlet and even for spin triplet. The gap basis functions are obtained with the use of the group chain scheme by taking into account the spin-orbit coupling. In the weak pairing limit, the orbital anti-symmetric state is only stable for the degenerate orbitals. Possible application to iron-based superconductivity is discussed.
description: published version
ENDODONTIA GUIADA: UMA REVISÃO LITERÁRIA SOBRE SUAS APLICAÇÕES CLÍNICAS E LIMITAÇÕES
Creators: name: Rafaela Regina LIMA
name: Jader Oliva JORGE
name: Kelly Oliva JORGE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Endodontia Guiada
Impressão Tridimensional Endodôntica
Calcificação do Canal Pulpar

description: RESUMO

O tratamento endodôntico objetiva um satisfatório selamento dos canais radiculares com o intuito de se evitar a disseminação da infecção e permitir o reparo dos tecidos periapicais. Atualmente os avanços tecnológicos de impressão 3D com base na tomografia computadorizada de feixe cônico têm sido cada vez mais utilizados no campo da odontologia. Sendo assim, o presente estudo teve como objetivo desenvolver uma revisão de literatura sobre as aplicações clínicas e limitações da endodontia guiada. Este trabalho foi elaborado a partir de uma busca ativa de manuscritos nas bases de dados PubMed, Medline e Lilacs, no período entre 2016 e 2021. Pode-se concluir que a endodontia guiada se apresenta como um método inovador e eficaz para o tratamento de canais radiculares complexos. Essa técnica se destaca por sua diversidade de aplicações clínicas, como tratamento de canais calcificados, retratamento de canais de dentes que possuem pino de fibra de vidro em seu interior e cirurgias parendodônticas. Apesar da existência de algumas desvantagens e limitações, como custo elevado, espaço interoclusal insuficiente na região posterior da cavidade bucal e dificuldade de acesso a canais curvos, suas vantagens proporcionam um resultado previsível, minimamente invasivo, com menor tempo de consulta e um menor risco de lesão iatrogênica.
title: Numerical Approximations of Phase Field Equations with Physics Informed Neural Networks
Creators: name: Wight, Colby
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Designing numerical algorithms for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) is one of the major research branches in applied and computational mathematics. Recently there has been some seminal work on solving PDEs using the deep neural networks. In particular, the Physics Informed Neural Network (PINN) has been shown to be effective in solving some classical partial differential equations. However, we find that this method is not sufficient in solving all types of equations and falls short in solving phase-field equations. In this thesis, we propose various techniques that add to the power of these networks. Mainly, we propose to embrace the adaptive idea in both space and time and introduce various sampling strategies to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the PINN. The improved PINN can solve a broader set of PDEs, and in particular, the phase-field equations. The improved PINN sheds light on numerical approximations of other PDEs in general.
Almost local metrics on shape space of hypersurfaces in n-space
Creators: name: Bauer, Martin
name: Harms, Philipp
name: Michor, Peter W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58B20, 58D15, 58E12, 65K10

description: This paper extends parts of the results from [P.W.Michor and D. Mumford, \emph{Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal.,} 23 (2007), pp. 74--113] for plane curves to the case of hypersurfaces in $\mathbb R^n$. Let $M$ be a compact connected oriented $n-1$ dimensional manifold without boundary like the sphere or the torus. Then shape space is either the manifold of submanifolds of $\mathbb R^n$ of type $M$, or the orbifold of immersions from $M$ to $\mathbb R^n$ modulo the group of diffeomorphisms of $M$. We investigate almost local Riemannian metrics on shape space. These are induced by metrics of the following form on the space of immersions: $$ G_f(h,k) = \int_{M} Φ(\on{Vol}(f),\operatorname{Tr}(L))\g(h, k) \operatorname{vol}(f^*\g),$$ where $\g$ is the Euclidean metric on $\mathbb R^n$, $f^*\g$ is the induced metric on $M$, $h,k\in C^\infty(M,\mathbb R^n)$ are tangent vectors at $f$ to the space of embeddings or immersions, where $Φ:\mathbb R^2\to \mathbb R_{>0}$ is a suitable smooth function, $\operatorname{Vol}(f) = \int_M\operatorname{vol}(f^*\g)$ is the total hypersurface volume of $f(M)$, and the trace $\operatorname{Tr}(L)$ of the Weingarten mapping is the mean curvature. For these metrics we compute the geodesic equations both on the space of immersions and on shape space, the conserved momenta arising from the obvious symmetries, and the sectional curvature. For special choices of $Φ$ we give complete formulas for the sectional curvature. Numerical experiments illustrate the behavior of these metrics.
description: 70 pages, version which agrees with the published version
title: Teaching the Engineering Design Process to High School Students by Implementing a Non-Traditional Engineering Capstone Course
Creators: name: Woodard, Joseph
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This plan B project is to showcase the implementation of an engineering design capstone course at a remote, rural public high school, in a non-traditional (after-school) format with a small group of students. The project documents successful strategies along with challenges that were learned from such an implementation of this course. Three high school students were supported in learning to solve an extended design challenge, in this case creating an augmented reality (AR) sandbox. The project shows how a capstone course can be utilized in teaching students to solve complex, ill-structured problems.
In this project, a manuscript was prepared for publication (e.g., in the Technology and Engineering Teacher). The article from the teacher’s perspective provides an overview of how Utah’s high school “Engineering Capstone” course was developed and delivered in a non-traditional (afterschool) setting. The article details lessons learned by the teacher as students completed an engineering design challenge that required them to develop, build, and present a prototype of an augmented reality sandbox.
Semi-supervised classification of radiology images with NoTeacher: A Teacher that is not Mean
Creators: name: Unnikrishnan, Balagopal
name: Nguyen, Cuong
name: Balaram, Shafa
name: Li, Chao
name: Foo, Chuan Sheng
name: Krishnaswamy, Pavitra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 41A05, 41A10, 65D05, 65D17

description: Deep learning models achieve strong performance for radiology image classification, but their practical application is bottlenecked by the need for large labeled training datasets. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) approaches leverage small labeled datasets alongside larger unlabeled datasets and offer potential for reducing labeling cost. In this work, we introduce NoTeacher, a novel consistency-based SSL framework which incorporates probabilistic graphical models. Unlike Mean Teacher which maintains a teacher network updated via a temporal ensemble, NoTeacher employs two independent networks, thereby eliminating the need for a teacher network. We demonstrate how NoTeacher can be customized to handle a range of challenges in radiology image classification. Specifically, we describe adaptations for scenarios with 2D and 3D inputs, uni and multi-label classification, and class distribution mismatch between labeled and unlabeled portions of the training data. In realistic empirical evaluations on three public benchmark datasets spanning the workhorse modalities of radiology (X-Ray, CT, MRI), we show that NoTeacher achieves over 90-95% of the fully supervised AUROC with less than 5-15% labeling budget. Further, NoTeacher outperforms established SSL methods with minimal hyperparameter tuning, and has implications as a principled and practical option for semisupervised learning in radiology applications.
description: Preprint submitted to Medical Image Analysis. Accepted in June 2021
title: Effects of Flywheel Resistance Training on Muscle Function and Sport-Specific Performance in Collegiate Club Water Polo Players
Creators: name: Xu, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Flywheel training has been shown to be beneficial for improving a multitude of muscle function and performance parameters, but its short-term training effects on athletic performance have yet to be established. PURPOSE: To investigate the effects of four weeks of flywheel squat training on lower body muscle function adaptations and sport-specific performance in collegiate club water polo players. METHODS: Thirteen men and women who participated in collegiate club water polo performed flywheel squat training twice a week for four weeks. Isokinetic knee extension peak power (PP) and peak torque (PT), flywheel squat peak power (FPP) and mean power (FMP), countermovement jump (CMJ), in-water jump height (WJH) and foot speed were assessed at Pre1 (0 weeks), Pre2 (4 weeks), and Post (8 weeks). Throughout the training period, muscle soreness was assessed with a visual analog scale every session, and FPP and FMP were assessed during sessions 2, 4, 6, and 8. RESULTS: Isokinetic PP (ES = .65) and PT (ES = .67) increased significantly from Pre1 to Post, and FPP and FMP increased between Pre2 and Post (ES = 1.1, 1.0 respectively), and Pre1 and Post (ES = .79, .82). CMJ and foot speed were not changed, and WJH displayed a significant change between Pre1 and Post (ES = 0.4). FPP increased 19% from session 2 to 4 and FMP increased 27% from session 2 to 6, and each remained elevated through session 8. Muscle soreness peaked at session 2 but tapered off by session 3. CONCLUSIONS: Four weeks of flywheel squat training in collegiate club water polo players elicited large gains (47-52%, Effect Size = ~1.0) in flywheel specific squat power, but did not influence sport-specific performance measures including CMJ, WJH, and foot speed. Water-based exercises and stretch-shortening cycle movements (plyometrics) in combination with effective resistance training programs, including flywheel-based training, are likely needed for marked sport skill improvements, along with longer-term training studies.
title: Using Video Modeling to Teach Staff How to Implement Preference Assessments
Creators: name: Weaver, Megan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Identification of reinforcers through preference assessments for individuals with disabilities is an important task because it increases the probability of skill development, including academic tasks, self-help skills, social skills, and behavior modification. Teachers of students with disabilities often experience problems with training paraprofessionals to implement preference assessments using written instructions alone. In this study, researchers will investigate whether video modeling will be more effective than written instruction to staff to implement preference assessments. Participants will include three to five paraprofessionals in a classroom setting with no previous behavior analysis training on preference assessments and three to five students in a special education classroom. The target behavior will involve conducting preference assessments as measured by percentage of steps implemented correctly. If results determine that the video modeling intervention is successful, this will add to our understanding of video modeling and its use for staff training.
CAPTIA
Creators: Landbrugs- og Fiskeristyrelsen
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2022

description: CAPTIA 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.
MPEC 2025-G38 : 2025 GC
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 GC

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Emission of Terahertz Radiation from SiC
Creators: name: Strait, Jared H.
name: George, Paul A.
name: Dawlaty, Jahan
name: Shivaraman, Shriram
name: Chandrashekhar, Mvs
name: Rana, Farhan
name: Spencer, Michael G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the emission of strong coherent broadband terahertz radiation from 6H-Silicon-Carbide (SiC) excited with optical pulses. The measured terahertz spectral signal-to-noise ratio is better than one thousand. We determine that the terahertz radiation is generated via second order optical nonlinearity (optical rectification). We present a measurement of the ratio of nonlinear susceptibility tensor elements $χ_{zzz}^{(2)}/χ_{zxx}^{(2)}$ and the complex index of refraction of silicon carbide at THz frequencies.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
title: Reexamining Metallgesellschaft’s Hedging Policy: Does Anything Beat a One-For-One Hedge Ratio?
Creators: name: Haddock, Christopher
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: There has been significant debate surrounding Metallgesellschaft's derivatives based fixed-price marketing strategy. Most of this debate relates to Metallgesellschaft's choice to use a one-for-one hedge ratio instead of an alternative hedge ratio optimized for risk management. I contribute to this discussion by reexamining the hedging strategy of Metallgesellschaft and use the Test for Superior Predictive Ability to determine whether any hedge ratio less than one outperforms the one-for-one hedge utilized by Metallgesellschaft.
title: Exploring the Importance of Play, Motivation, Identity, and Dialect in Arabic Language Learning and Teaching
Creators: name: Mabey, Lindsey S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This portfolio is a compilation of work that the author wrote during her studies in the Master of Second Language Teaching program at Utah State University. During her time in the program, the author also served as an instructor of Arabic at the university and at a local grade school, as well as serving as a teaching assistant. This work is informed by the author’s personal reflections on these experiences in conjunction with her studies.
The portfolio consists of three sections: (1) teaching perspectives, (2) research perspectives, and (3) an annotated bibliography. The teaching perspectives revolve around the author’s beliefs of surrounding the art of teaching a second language. The research perspectives’ section contains two papers written during her coursework in the MSLT program, while the annotated bibliography reviews literature regarding identity in second language acquisition (SLA).
Elastic ice shells of synchronous moons: Implications for cracks on Europa and non-synchronous rotation of Titan
Creators: name: Goldreich, Peter M.
name: Mitchell, Jonathan L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A number of synchronous moons are thought to harbor water oceans beneath their outer ice shells. A subsurface ocean frictionally decouples the shell from the interior. This has led to proposals that a weak tidal or atmospheric torque might cause the shell to rotate differentially with respect to the synchronously rotating interior. As a result of centrifugal and tidal forces, the ocean would assume an ellipsoidal shape with its long axis aligned toward the parent planet. Any displacement of the shell away from its equilibrium position would induce strains thereby increasing its elastic energy and giving rise to an elastic restoring torque. We compare the elastic torque with the tidal torque acting on Europa and the atmospheric torque acting on Titan. For Europa, the tidal torque is far too weak to produce stresses that could fracture the ice shell, thus refuting a widely advocated idea. Instead, we suggest that cracks arise from time-dependent stresses due to non-hydrostatic gravity anomalies from tidally driven, episodic convection in the interior. Two years of Cassini RADAR observations of Titan's surface are interpreted as implying an angular displacement of ~0.24 degrees relative to synchroneity. Compatibility of the amplitude and phase of the observed non-synchronous rotation with estimates of the atmospheric torque requires that Titan's shell be decoupled from its interior. We find that the elastic torque balances the atmospheric torque at an angular displacement <0.05 degrees, thus coupling the shell to the interior. Moreover, if Titan's surface were spinning faster than synchronous, the tidal torque tending to restore synchronous rotation would certainly be larger than the atmospheric torque. There must either be a problem with the interpretation of the radar observations, or with our understanding of Titan's atmosphere and/or interior.
description: Icarus, in press
title: Enseignement Engagé: Engaging and Motivating French Language Learners
Creators: name: Workman, James T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This portfolio is a compilation of work that the author completed during the Master of Second Language Teaching (MSLT) program at Utah State University. It represents the culmination of the author’s personal learning and teaching experiences from his coursework and teaching experience both as a graduate instructor of French at USU and as a seventh-grade French Dual Language Immersion (DLI) instructor.
The portfolio consists of three main sections. The teaching perspectives section provides insight into the author’s beliefs about the ideal roles of teachers and students in an L2 classroom, both in a foreign language setting and an immersion setting, including the importance of student and teacher engagement, a communicative environment, multiliteracies teaching strategies, and the importance of sociolinguistic pragmatics. The research perspectives section consists of two papers written during two different courses in the MSLT program. Last, the annotated bibliography examines a selection of current literature on multiliteracies pedagogy.
KLABS
Creators: Københavns Amt
Københavns Amts Behandlingscenter
Glostrup Kommune, KABS
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2022

description: Formålet med systemet er at sikre muligheden for patientjournalisering og dataregistrering af parakliniske samt lovpligtige oplysninger om borgere i stofmisbrugsbehandling.
Analyse der 2D Stimmlippenschwingung bei Menschen mit Ektodermaler Dysplasie
Creators: name: Ensthaler, Maria (Jetzt Elsberger)
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Year: 2023

description: Die ektodermale Dysplasie ist eine seltene Erkrankung, deren Ursache in erblichen Entwicklungsstörungen des äußeren der drei Keimblätter des Embryos liegen. Aufgrund der Betroffenheit des Ektoderms gehen hieraus die Hauptsymptome hervor, zu welchen unter anderem verminderter Haarwuchs, das Fehlen oder verminderte Vorhandensein von Zähnen, eingeschränkte Speichelproduktion sowie die verminderte Anzahl oder sogar die Abwesenheit von Schweißdrüsen zählen. Bedingt durch die generelle Unterproduktion an Körperflüssigkeiten und somit reduzierter Speichelproduktion beschreiben Menschen mit ektodermaler Dysplasie neben Kau- und Schluckbeschwerden gehäuft den subjektiven Eindruck einer unangenehm rauen, heiseren und „kratzig“ klingenden Stimme. Ein möglicher Zusammenhang zwischen der verminderten Speichelproduktion und Stimmauffälligkeiten wurde bei dieser Erkrankung in der Vergangenheit bisher nur unzureichend untersucht. Der Wunsch nach systematischer Untersuchung dieser subjektiven Beobachtung, der Leidensdruck der Betroffenen sowie die spärlich vorhandene Literatur zu dieser Thematik, führte dazu, dass die Selbsthilfegruppe Ektodermale Dysplasie e.V. an die Abteilung für Phoniatrie und Pädaudiologie der Hals-Nasen-Ohren Klinik des Universitätsklinikums Erlangen mit der Bitte, einer eingehenden systematischen Untersuchung dieser subjektiven Beobachtung herangetreten ist. Ziel dieser Studie ist es, von allen Versuchsteilnehmern das Rohgewicht des Speichels und Hochgeschwindigkeits-Videoendoskopie-Parameter zu untersuchen, um Rückschlüsse auf mögliche Unterschiede treffen zu können, die die Stimmenauffälligkeit der Personen mit ektodermaler Dysplasie erklären.
title: Exploring the Impact of Musical Mnemonic Strategies on Student Achievement and Engagement in Inclusive Science Classes
Creators: name: Eaton, Zinna
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Students with disabilities often struggle with comprehending material and performing at grade level, and teachers often find new ways to help their students comprehend the curriculum. A common challenge for special education teachers is incorporating different learning styles and various instructional strategies to better assist their students. One teaching strategy and resource that many teachers incorporate is the use of music in their instruction. This research project examines how incorporating music teaching strategies into daily instruction impacts the level of engagement and the academic achievement level of sixth-grade students with and without mild/moderate disabilities within inclusive science classrooms. The study used a pre/post group design to evaluate the changes in student achievement and engagement prior to, during, and following a four-week intervention in which two special education and general education co-teaching pairs implemented musical mnemonic strategies during the daily warm-up portion of their lessons. Results were compared with two control classes taught by the same co-teaching pairs. The results indicated that students in the experimental condition made greater academic gains on the pre/post-tests than students in the control condition, and students with disabilities in the experimental group made the highest gains of all students in either condition.
Co-link analysis as a monitoring tool: A webometric use case to map the web relationships of research projects
Creators: name: Dudek, Jonathan
name: Pina, David G.
name: Costas, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study explores the societal embeddedness of the websites of research projects. It combines two aims: characterizing research projects based on their weblink relationships, and discovering external societal actors that relate to the projects via weblinks. The study was based on a set of 121 EU-funded research projects and their websites. Domains referring to the websites of the research projects were collected and used in visualizations of co-link relationships. These analyses revealed clusters of topical similarity among the research projects as well as among referring entities. Furthermore, a first step into unveiling potentially relevant stakeholders around research projects was made. Weblink analysis is discussed as an insightful tool for monitoring the internal and external linkages of research projects, representing a relevant application of webometric methods.
description: Research in progress paper accepted for oral presentation at the 18th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (2021)
Least squares after model selection in high-dimensional sparse models
Creators: name: Belloni, Alexandre
name: Chernozhukov, Victor
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: In this article we study post-model selection estimators that apply ordinary least squares (OLS) to the model selected by first-step penalized estimators, typically Lasso. It is well known that Lasso can estimate the nonparametric regression function at nearly the oracle rate, and is thus hard to improve upon. We show that the OLS post-Lasso estimator performs at least as well as Lasso in terms of the rate of convergence, and has the advantage of a smaller bias. Remarkably, this performance occurs even if the Lasso-based model selection "fails" in the sense of missing some components of the "true" regression model. By the "true" model, we mean the best s-dimensional approximation to the nonparametric regression function chosen by the oracle. Furthermore, OLS post-Lasso estimator can perform strictly better than Lasso, in the sense of a strictly faster rate of convergence, if the Lasso-based model selection correctly includes all components of the "true" model as a subset and also achieves sufficient sparsity. In the extreme case, when Lasso perfectly selects the "true" model, the OLS post-Lasso estimator becomes the oracle estimator. An important ingredient in our analysis is a new sparsity bound on the dimension of the model selected by Lasso, which guarantees that this dimension is at most of the same order as the dimension of the "true" model. Our rate results are nonasymptotic and hold in both parametric and nonparametric models. Moreover, our analysis is not limited to the Lasso estimator acting as a selector in the first step, but also applies to any other estimator, for example, various forms of thresholded Lasso, with good rates and good sparsity properties. Our analysis covers both traditional thresholding and a new practical, data-driven thresholding scheme that induces additional sparsity subject to maintaining a certain goodness of fit. The latter scheme has theoretical guarantees similar to those of Lasso or OLS post-Lasso, but it dominates those procedures as well as traditional thresholding in a wide variety of experiments.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/11-BEJ410 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
title: “Racist, Sexist, Profane, and Violent”: Reinterpreting WWE’s Portrayals of Samoans Across Generations
Creators: name: Honey, John
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This paper examines the shifting portrayals of Pacific Islanders in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) across three generations. As both a popular and historically racially problematic venue, WWE’s politically incorrect programming has played an underappreciated and under examined role in representing the USA. Although many different groups have been portrayed by gross stereotypes in WWE, this paper uses the family of Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson—the Samoan Dynasty—as a case study. The WWE originally presented Pacific Islanders using the most offensive stereotypes, and the first two generations of the Samoan Dynasty had to “play Indian” or cosign onto gross representations of their people to be recognized by American audiences unfamiliar with representations of Pacific Islanders. I argue that the first generation mentored the second generation, who expanded their cultural footprint in the WWE, establishing a launching pad for Johnson’s superstar movie career. Using a “Pioneer, Settler, Opportunist” framework adopted from criminal justice, I explore how Johnson benefitted from the work of the generations of his family members that came before him. These three generations demonstrate how the WWE, as a unique venue of political incorrectness, allowed a place for the Samoan Dynasty as “persons” to create and promote harmful “personas” as part of a successful bid to slowly transition their performance away from “playing Indian.”
Spectroscopic factors for alpha decay in the $N_pN_n$ scheme
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Madhubrata
name: Roy, Subinit
name: Gangopadhyay, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lifetime values for alpha decay in even-even nuclei with $Z=84-98$ and $N=128-152$ have been calculated in the superasymmetric fission model. The interaction between the alpha particle and the daughter nucleus has been formed in the double folding approach using a density dependent NN interaction. The densities have been obtained using the Relativistic Mean Field formalism. The spectroscopic factors for the decays have been deduced and are shown to vary smoothly as a function of effective numbers of valence nucleons, $N_p$ and $N_n$ chosen with a suitable core. The implication of such a smooth behaviour has been discussed.
title: The Relative Industry Specific Effects of COVID-19 on Market Volatility and Liquidity
Creators: name: Christensen, Callin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Understanding how historical events affect market volatility and liquidity can provide crucial information to financial analysts, investment professionals, and managers in the event that similar circumstances resurface. In this study, I look at how a global pandemic (COVID-19) can introduce frictions into the market and cause disrupt the generation or flow of available information, this could cause prices to deviate significantly from their equilibrium values. I also hypothesize that these inefficiencies may have a greater effect on some industries than others. My analysis seems to confirm this hypothesis. I observe that the global COVID-19 pandemic leads to statistically significant increases in the volatility of industries such as Meals, Games, and Mines relative to the market. I also find that the pandemic leads to significant liquidity deterioration relative to the market in industries including ElcEq, Carry, and Other.
Bewegungsförderung im Kontext sozialer Ungleichheit - Von der Bedarfsbestimmung bis zur Bewertung von Maßnahmen der Bewegungsförderung in der Praxis
Creators: name: Linder, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Year: 2023

description: Die sozial bedingten Unterschiede im Bewegungsverhalten untermauern eine hohen Bedarf an adäquaten Strategien zur Förderung der freizeitbezogenen körperlichen Aktivität für Personen mit einem niedrigen Sozialstatus. Obwohl sozial bedingten Unterschiede im Bewegungsverhalten bereits vielfach untersucht wurden, gelingt es bisher noch nicht, dieser Herausforderung wirkungsvoll zu begegnen. Die vorliegende Dissertation widmet sich basierend auf einem vielschichtigen Forschungsansatz dem Thema der Bewegungsförderung im Kontext sozialer Ungleichheit. Im Rahmen von drei Publikationen wird der bisherige Forschungsstand um Erkenntnissen zur Bedarfsbestimmung und Planung, sowie zur Umsetzung und Bewertung von Ansätzen zur Steigerung des freizeitbezogenen Bewegungsverhaltens erweitert. Die Ergebnisse dieser Dissertation untermauern die Bedeutung sozialer Ungleichheiten für das Bewegungsverhalten von Erwachsenen in der Freizeit. Zudem wird deutlich, dass die Umsetzung und Etablierung von Bewegungsinterventionen im Praxiskontext bisher nur unzureichend berücksichtigt wird. Gleichzeitig wird anhand einer quantitativen Untersuchung eines seit vielen Jahren in der Praxis etablierten Projekts zur Bewegungsförderung exemplarisch aufgezeigt, dass es gelingen kann, Personen mit niedrigem Sozialstatus durch bedarfsgerechte Strategien für Bewegungsförderung zu erreichen, längerfristig an ein bewegungsförderliches Projekt zu binden,sowie positive gesundheits- und bewegungsbezogene Wirkungen zu erzielen.
title: “Grass” Roots: The Regrowth of Hemp Globally?
Creators: name: DeCarlo, Samantha
name: Weaver, Marin
Publisher: name: United States International Trade Commission
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05hsggr76
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022

description: Although hemp–a cannabis plant–has been cultivated for thousands of years, the story of hemp for the
past century has been about the decline of global hemp production due to the crop’s close relationship to
marijuana. However, hemp production has recently reemerged in many countries where it had previously
been banned, and the global commercial industry is growing. Globally, the hemp industry continues to be
in a state of flux, and differences in regulations across countries may influence trade. Industry
characteristics vary from country to country as briefly outlined in this Executive Briefing on Trade.
PCD Klient
Creators: Norddjurs Kommune, administrationen
Trekanten, botilbud
Skovstjernen, botilbud
Mellemgården, aktivitetstilbud
Nærheden, beskæftigelsestilbud
Ålunden, bofællesskab
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2022

description: Formålet med it-systemet er at samle dokumentation vedr. sagsbehandling, ydelser, intern kommunikation m.v. i forhold til borgere, der modtager ydelser inden for serviceloven og dagtilbudsloven. Derudover kunne kommunikere elektronisk med sygehuse,
F-Divergences and Cost Function Locality in Generative Modelling with Quantum Circuits
Creators: name: Leadbeater, Chiara
name: Sharrock, Louis
name: Coyle, Brian
name: Benedetti, Marcello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Generative modelling is an important unsupervised task in machine learning. In this work, we study a hybrid quantum-classical approach to this task, based on the use of a quantum circuit Born machine. In particular, we consider training a quantum circuit Born machine using $f$-divergences. We first discuss the adversarial framework for generative modelling, which enables the estimation of any $f$-divergence in the near term. Based on this capability, we introduce two heuristics which demonstrably improve the training of the Born machine. The first is based on $f$-divergence switching during training. The second introduces locality to the divergence, a strategy which has proved important in similar applications in terms of mitigating barren plateaus. Finally, we discuss the long-term implications of quantum devices for computing $f$-divergences, including algorithms which provide quadratic speedups to their estimation. In particular, we generalise existing algorithms for estimating the Kullback-Leibler divergence and the total variation distance to obtain a fault-tolerant quantum algorithm for estimating another $f$-divergence, namely, the Pearson divergence.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables
An application of the Threshold Accepting metaheuristic for curriculum based course timetabling
Creators: name: Geiger, Martin Josef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The article presents a local search approach for the solution of timetabling problems in general, with a particular implementation for competition track 3 of the International Timetabling Competition 2007 (ITC 2007). The heuristic search procedure is based on Threshold Accepting to overcome local optima. A stochastic neighborhood is proposed and implemented, randomly removing and reassigning events from the current solution. The overall concept has been incrementally obtained from a series of experiments, which we describe in each (sub)section of the paper. In result, we successfully derived a potential candidate solution approach for the finals of track 3 of the ITC 2007.