cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Some Effects of a Grazer, Hyalella azteca on Ecosystem Level Properties in Aquatic Microcosms
Creators: name: Werner, Martin D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: A study to determine some ecosystem level effects of an aquatic invertebrate grazer, Hyalella azteca, was performed in aquatic ix microcosms. Impact of the grazer was assessed in three general areas: 1) inorganic nutrient levels of the microcosm water column, 2) productivity and respiration of the biotic community, and 3) plant community composition in the microcosms.
The grazing amphipod caused inorganic phosphorus and nitrogen (except ammonia) levels to be elevated in the microcosms. The increase was due, at least partially, to excretion of nutrients into the water by the amphipod. The presence of H. azteca did not significantly alter levels of gross productivity for the whole system nor for the sediment surface. Productivity to respiration ratios were significantly reduced by the grazing amphipod, indicating the amphipod was inhibiting plant biomass accumulation even though gross productivity was not affected.
Systems exposed to amphipod grazing had a twenty-five percent lower plant biomass than controls at the termination of the experiment. Gross productivity to plant biomass ratios were significantly higher in grazed systems, indicating a more actively growing plant community was being maintained by the grazer's activities. Plant community composition was significantly altered by the amphipod. Chara biomass was higher in grazed systems, while filamentous algae, blue-green algal colonies and periphyton had significantly higher biomasses in the control systems. The phosphorus distribution within the grazed microcosms was significantly different from that found in the controls. More phosphorus was incorporated into filamentous algae, blue-green algal colonies and the overall plant compartment in the control, while Chara and the water column contained more phosphorus in the grazed microcosms. The amphipod also caused the percent content of phosphorus to be higher in certain plant categories.
The adaptive significance of maternal effects : a study of two geographically distinct populations of the spotted snow skink, Niveoscincus ocellatus
Creators: name: Hall, AJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: I manipulated basking opportunity and circulating blood plasma corticosterone levels in gravid female Niveoscincus ocellatus and their offspring to investigate the relative importance of genetic, environmental and postnatal effects on offspring fitness. In this way, the potential of maternal effects to produce fitness enhancing traits in offspring from two geographically distinct populations were explored. In the first experiment, females were collected from their natural population (Orford on the East Coast and Miena on the Central Plateau) shortly after ovulation and were maintained in twelve and four hour basking treatments throughout gestation. Both populations responded to increased basking opportunity in the same way, by giving birth earlier and producing significantly larger offspring with significantly slower sprint speeds compared to offspring from mothers maintained in four hour basking treatments. The absence of genetic x environment interactions indicate populations are genetically similar and maternal basking opportunity alone is sufficient to generate many of the phenotypic differences observed in natural populations of N. ocellatus. Further, populations differed significantly in thermal sensitivity of offspring growth rate. Growth rate of Orford offspring was not affected by maternal or postnatal basking opportunity, however, Miena offspring were significantly affected by both maternal and offspring basking opportunity. Male biased sex ratios were also observed in Orford females with limited basking opportunity, but there was no effect of maternal thermal treatment on offspring sex in the Miena population. In a second experiment, corticosterone treatment of gravid females differentially affected Orford and Lake Mackenzie offspring. No effects (or sex-specific effects) on offspring phenotypes were detected, however, male biased sex ratios were observed in Orford females treated with corticosterone and Lake Mackenzie females in both corticosterone and control treatments produced a larger proportion of unviable offspring compared to Orford females. Maternal and offspring corticosterone treatment had no effect on growth rates of offspring from Orford, however corticosterone treated offspring from Lake Mackenzie showed a significant decrease in growth rate. These results indicate that maternal effects are responsible for generating many of the observed phenotypic differences and subsequent life history traits between populations in N. ocellatus, and potentially other taxa, and further, populations show a difference in degree of control over maternally affected traits. This research highlights the ecological end evolutionary significance of maternal effects in generating phenotypic traits in offspring that are adapted to local environmental conditions.
The class S as an ME invariant
Creators: name: Sako, Hiroki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F38, 37A20, 46L05

description: We prove that being in Ozawa's class $\mathcal{S}$ is a measure equivalence invariant.
description: 8 pages
The role of tidal mixing in Rupert and Holberg Inlets
Creators: name: Drinkwater, Kenneth Francis
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Analysis of monthly observations of temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen content in the basin formed by Rupert and Holberg Inlets reveals a greater degree of mixing than that found in most British Columbia Inlets. Although relatively uniform water properties are constantly found, there are large monthly variations of the actual values. The water temperature correlates with the solar radiation while the salinity changes follow the river runoff which is in turn controlled by precipitation. The variation in dissolved oxygen content appears due to a combination of biological influences and influx of Pacific Oceanic water. A model has been developed which ascribes the monthly fluctuations and vertical homogeneity to an accumulation of irregular mixing events associated with the tidal flow through Quatsino Narrows, a shallow connecting channel. Thermal microstructure measurements disclose a region of deep turbulent mixing near the narrows and provide evidence of an up-inlet flow beneath the thermocline in Rupert and Holberg Inlets.
title: Seasonal Temperature Preference of Adult Mountain Whitefish, Prosopium williamsoni
Creators: name: Ihnat, Jean M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1981

description: Temperatures selected seasonally by adult mountain whitefish were measured in the laboratory in a horizontal gradient. Final preferendum estimates, based on acute (3-hour) preference tests conducted with fish acclimated to 5, 10, and 15 C each season, were 17.7 C (pre-spawning), 11.9 C (post-spawning), 9.9 C (winter), and 16.3 C (spring). Seasonal influence on temperature selection was evident on the basis of differences in final preferenda, covariance analysis of responses of laboratory-acclimated fish, and temperature selection by fish held at ambient river temperatures. Post-spawning and winter groups selected lower temperatures than did pre-spawning and spring groups. Pre-spawnine fish selected temperatures unsuitable for embryo survival. Reproductive status as reflected by gonad size was evidently not a factor that influenced seasonal temperature selection of adult whitefish.
The Conformal Window from the Worldline Formalism
Creators: name: Armoni, Adi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the worldline formalism to derive a universal relation for the lower boundary of the conformal window in non-supersymmetric QCD-like theories. The derivation relies on the convergence of the expansion of the fermionic determinant in terms of Wilson loops. The expansion shares a similarity with the lattice strong coupling expansion and the genus expansion in string theory. Our result relates the lower boundary of the conformal window in theories with different representations and different gauge groups. Finally, we use SQCD to estimate the boundary of the conformal window in QCD-like theories and compare it with other approaches.
description: 14 pages. 4 eps figures. v2: refs. added. To appear in Nuclear Physics B
Additional file 1 of First real-world study on the effectiveness and tolerability of rimegepant for acute migraine therapy in Chinese patients
Creators: name: Yang, Zhao
name: Wang, Xiaodan
name: Niu, Mengyue
name: Wei, Qiao
name: Zhong, Huizhu
name: Li, Xiaoyan
name: Yuan, Weihong
name: Xu, Wenli
name: Zhu, Shuo
name: Yu, Shengyuan
name: Liu, Jun
name: Yan, Jianzhou
name: Kang, Wenyan
name: Huang, Peijian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Science Policy
Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Roughness gradient induced spontaneous motion of droplets on hydrophobic surfaces: A lattice Boltzmann study
Creators: name: Moradi, Nasrollah
name: Varnik, fathollah
name: Steinbach, Ingo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of a step wise change in the pillar density on the dynamics of droplets is investigated via three-dimensional lattice Boltzmann simulations. For the same pillar density gradient but different pillar arrangements, both motion over the gradient zone as well as complete arrest are observed. In the moving case, the droplet velocity scales approximately linearly with the texture gradient. A simple model is provided reproducing the observed linear behavior. The model also predicts a linear dependence of droplet velocity on surface tension. This prediction is clearly confirmed via our computer simulations for a wide range of surface tensions.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures
Desvelando aspectos musicais e procedimentos composicionais num repertório para Coro Falado
Creators: name: Pereira, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Year: 2019

description: Este artigo descreve os aspectos musicais que constituem o repertório para Coro Falado, modalidade de canto coletivo que abrange um conjunto vasto de características e técnicas que fazem uso das inflexões entoativas da fala, tais como textos projetados através da recitação, sprechstimme, recitativo declamatório em estilo falado, utilização de fonemas do IPA e efeitos vocais, sons imitativos ou improvisados que incluem gargalhadas, falsete em alturas indeterminadas, morphing vocálico, muting vocal, trilos de garganta, zumbidos com os lábios, inspirações e expirações, entre outros. Para tanto, serão apresentados alguns dados com fins de compreensão do seu contexto histórico e estético tendo como referências as peças Geographical Fugue (Ernst Toch), Ludus Verbalis (Einojuhani Rautavaara), Living room music (John Cage), Süßer Tod (Klaus Stahmer) e o cenário que as permeiam, estabelecendo uma relação com estudos e obras em outras formações vocais/instrumentais que nomeadamente verificam-se conexões com o estilo em questão de compositores tais como Schoenberg, Berio, Ligeti e Arpeghis, chamando atenção para questões até então pouco contempladas. Um breve panorama sobre obras para Coro Falado pode auxiliar no entendimento da utilização do texto e seus desdobramentos de transposição da fala para a música revelando procedimentos estruturantes no campo da Composição.
description: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança, vol. 4 n.º 4 (2017): Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
title: Influence of Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density on UV-BInduced Photoinhibition in Soybean Leaves: Comparison of Preconditioning and Concomitant Light Treatments
Creators: name: Warner, Charles W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1982

description: Previous studies indicate that the degree of UV-Binduced photosynthetic inhibition may be highly dependent upon the photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD, total quantum flux in the waveband 400-700 nm) incident on a plant. This study illustrates that Essex soybean leaves (Glycine max) preconditioned under high PPFD suffered less UV-B-induced photoinhibition than when preconditioned under low PPFD. However, sensitivity to UV-B increased when soybean leaves received high-PPFD as a concomitant treatment.
The relative msgnitude of UV-B-induced damage was similar for both light-limited and light-saturated photosynthesis. This probably indicates that UV-B is inhibiting fundamentally different photosynthetic processes.
Soybean leaves preconditioned under high PPFD had greater specific-leaf-weight, chlorophyll a/b ratio, and crude flavonoid content. The total chlorophyll concentration of soybean leaves preconditioned under high PPFD increased slightly over a UV-B irradiation period of five hours. Total chlorophyll concentration of leaves preconditioned under low PPFD decreased slightly in response to the same irradiation period.
Processos de refração e dialogismo na música instrumental brasileira
Creators: name: Brandão, Klesley
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Year: 2019

description: Esse artigo apresenta o dialogismo bakhtiniano como ferramenta para a identificação/interpretação de possíveis conteúdos refratados em obras musicais. Para tal, foi realizada uma análise dialógica do LP Quarteto Novo (1967), que é considerado um marco na história da música instrumental brasileira, buscando-se apontar possíveis conteúdos refratados nas construções composicionais e estilo empregado nesse LP. Essa reflexão, realizada a partir do referencial teórico bakhtiniano, permite averiguar as influências dos diversos campos da atividade humana em obras musicais. Trata-se de um recorte de uma pesquisa de mestrado em andamento do autor.
description: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança, vol. 4 n.º 4 (2017): Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Rigidity of quasicrystallic and Z^γ-circle patterns
Creators: name: Bücking, Ulrike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C25 (Primary), 52C26, 52C23 (Secondary)

description: The uniqueness of the orthogonal Z^γ-circle patterns as studied by Bobenko and Agafonov is shown, given the combinatorics and some boundary conditions. Furthermore we study (infinite) rhombic embeddings in the plane which are quasicrystallic, that is they have only finitely many different edge directions. Bicoloring the vertices of the rhombi and adding circles with centers at vertices of one of the colors and radius equal to the edge length leads to isoradial quasicrystallic circle patterns. We prove for a large class of such circle patterns which cover the whole plane that they are uniquely determined up to affine transformations by the combinatorics and the intersection angles. Combining these two results, we obtain the rigidity of large classes of quasicrystallic Z^γ-circle patterns.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures, pdfLaTeX
title: Writing Attitudes and Practices of Content Area Teachers after Participating in the Central Utah Writing Project Summer Institute
Creators: name: Anson, Joseph P.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: The Central Utah Writing Project (CUWP) was created in 2009 and, following the National Writing Project's model of professional development, has held a 3- or 4-week summer institute each subsequent year. This training includes collaborative, constructivist, teacher-led training to improve the teaching of writing in schools. Multiple qualitative and quantitative studies have shown the effectiveness of this professional development in the language arts classroom. This multiple-case study of four secondary teachers, whose individual content areas lie outside English or language arts (math, music, science, and social studies), used data from interviews, observations, and artifacts to provide a description of each case and how each teacher has personally and professionally incorporated the training gained from the CUWP. The study also synthesized common themes across the cases. These themes, necessary for professional development included a participant's personal interpretation of the experience (phenomenon) construction of one's own learning, active learning/ participation in the professional development, the inclusion of authentic tasks, collaborative support community, inclusion of prior knowledge and/or experience, self-efficacy regarding one's own writing and the teaching of writing, motivation as a teacher, motivation as a student, scaffolded modeling, teacher expertise in professional development, and the use of writing in the content area. In short, the study investigates how the CUWP summer institute influences the attitudes and classroom writing practices of teachers whose primary content area is not English or language arts. Results showed that only one of the case studies changed their attitudes about writing from neutral to positive. The other three already possessed positive attitudes toward the use of and the teaching of writing in their own classrooms. All four participants changed their classroom practices as a result of participating in the CUWP summer institute and also deemed the results on student performance beneficial. Each of the four constructed a separate takeaway that they implemented in their respective classrooms.
title: Evaluating Utah 4-H STEM Curricula Used to Promote STEM in Utah 4-H Programs
Creators: name: Simmons, Michelle D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: Evaluating curricula and resources used by extension professionals and 4-H volunteers to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in Utah is critical to keeping with the 4-H standard of excellence for promoting positive youth development. This study aimed to determine if the Utah 4-H STEM curricula used to promote STEM in 4-H programs across Utah aligned with the 4-H STEM logic model.
Generalized Runcorn's theorem and crustal magnetism
Creators: name: Smolić, Ivica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the era of NASA's Apollo missions, Keith S. Runcorn proposed an explanation of discrepancy between the Moon's negligible global magnetic field and magnetized samples of lunar regolith, based on identical vanishing of external magnetic field of a spherical shell, magnetized by an internal source which is no longer present. We revisit and generalize the Runcorn's result, showing that it is a consequence of a (weighted) orthogonality of gradients of harmonic functions on a spherical shell in arbitrary number of dimensions. Furthermore, we explore bounds on external magnetic field in the case when the idealized spherical shell is replaced with a more realistic geometric shape and when the thermoremanent magnetization susceptibility deviates from the spherical symmetry. Finally, we analyse a model of thermoremanent magnetization acquired by crustal inward cooling of a spherical astrophysical body and put some general bounds on the associated magnetic field.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure; ver. 2: published version (reorganized and expanded section 5, three new references, minor typos corrected)
Additional file 1: of Genotype-phenotype correlation analysis of MYO15A variants in autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss
Creators: name: Zhang, Jing
name: Guan, Jing
name: Wang, Hongyang
name: Yin, Linwei
name: Wang, Dayong
name: Zhao, Lidong
name: Zhou, Huifang
name: Wang, Qiuju
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. List of 127 targeted genes or related regions. (DOCX 15 kb)
Additional file 5 of Elucidating the genotoxicity of Fusobacterium nucleatum-secreted mutagens in colorectal cancer carcinogenesis
Creators: name: Xu, Wenye
name: Zhang, Yuchen
name: Chen, Dongjiao
name: Huang, Dan
name: Zhao, Yang
name: Hu, Wei
name: Lin, Ling
name: Liu, Yingzhi
name: Wang, Shilan
name: Zeng, Judeng
name: Xie, Chuan
name: Chan, Hung
name: Li, Qing
name: Chen, Huarong
name: Liu, Xiaodong
name: Wong, Sunny H.
name: Yu, Jun
name: Chan, Francis K. L.
name: Chan, Matthew T. V.
name: Ng, Siew C.
name: Wu, William K. K.
name: Zhang, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 5.
Contracted and expanded integrable structures
Creators: name: Doikou, Anastasia
name: Sfetsos, Konstadinos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a generic framework to obtain certain types of contracted and centrally extended algebras. This is based on the existence of quadratic algebras (reflection algebras and twisted Yangians), naturally arising in the context of boundary integrable models. A quite old misconception regarding the "expansion" of the E_2 algebra into sl_2 is resolved using the representation theory of the aforementioned quadratic algebras. We also obtain centrally extended algebras associated to rational and trigonometric (q-deformed) R-matrices that are solutions of the Yang--Baxter equation.
description: 25 pages, Latex. Comments and clarifications added. Version to appear in J. Phys. A
Etnomusicologia visual: desafios na elaboração de um vídeo-documentário sobre o Cantar os Reis em Ovar
Creators: name: Graça, Jorge
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Year: 2019

description: O Cantar os Reis em Ovar é uma prática performativa com carácter de peditório, realizada todos os anos nos dias imediatamente anteriores e posteriores ao dia da festa dos Reis Magos (6 de janeiro) em vários locais do concelho de Ovar. No final de 2014, a Câmara Municipal de Ovar tomou a iniciativa de promover o processo de candidatura para a Inscrição do Cantar os Reis na Matriz do Património Cultural Imaterial (PCI) de Portugal, iniciando um protocolo com o pólo de Aveiro do INET-md, no qual foi escolhida uma equipa de investigadores para o efeito. A recolha de dados para construir o dossier desta candidatura, em contexto de trabalho de campo, deu origem a um arquivo audiovisual (imagens, vídeos, documentos escritos) que foi usado na elaboração de um vídeo-documentário. Neste artigo exploram-se as dificuldades encontradas durante a elaboração do documentário, tais como: a triagem do material a incluir, a adaptação de materiais captados antes da escrita do guião a uma visão estética específica, a articulação entre os paradigmas documental e estético na organização dos conteúdos e, a criação experimental orgânica versus premeditação e cumprimento de guião. Estas problemáticas vão ser exploradas sob o ponto de vista de um investigador que participa pela primeira vez numa investigação etnomusicológica.
description: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança, vol. 4 n.º 4 (2017): Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Experience, expectation, and personal meaning: understanding the person-environment relationship in the context of a musical performance
Creators: name: Armstrong, James
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Journal of the International Forum for Studies in Music and Dance
Year: 2019

description: The environment in which a musical performance takes place is influential over a musician’s playing beyond its acoustical properties (Byrne 2012), social settings (Bates 2012), and staging (Vad 2017). However, the individual’s relationship with their environment is typically overlooked. An interdisciplinary approach combining the fields of music performance studies and environmental psychology has been developed in order to investigate the environmental attributes influential over a musician’s performance from their own perspective. Musicians are tasked with performing short instrumental excerpts of their choosing in a number of real-world and acoustically simulated environments. A semi-structured interview with participants is then conducted in order to gather qualitative data about their experiences during the study, otherwise unavailable through musical analysis alone. This paper presents the conclusive findings of an ongoing PhD research project, revealing the delicate interactions between a musician and their surroundings that form the person-environment relationship in the context of a performance. Elements of cultural significance, social expectation, behaviour-settings, and personal meaning are explored in depth. The impact of this study is important in understanding how different physical environments can affect a musician’s approach and attitudes towards performing on an emotional and psychological level.
description: Post-ip: Journal of the International Forum for Studies in Music and Dance, vol. 4 n.º 4 (2017): Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
As sonatas de Ludwig van Beethoven para piano e violino por Alexandre Rey Colaço e Júlio Cardona: uma revisitação dos concertos de 1915 através da imprensa da época
Creators: name: Sá, Hélder
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Year: 2019

description: Entre Janeiro e Março de 1915 Alexandre Rey Colaço e Júlio Cardona apresentaram a integral das Sonatas para piano e violino de Beethoven no Grémio Literário, em Lisboa. A partir da metodologia de análise de conteúdo de Bardin (2011) esta investigação analisa as críticas a estes cinco concertos de modo a aferir a recepção junto da imprensa. Estabeleceram-se quatro categorias finais: Intérpretes; Interpretação; Importância do compositor e do repertório; O Grémio Literário, os seus valores e objectivos. Constatam-se referências ao carácter educativo das audições, seja pelo repertório como pela colaboração de discípulos. As alusões à genialidade de Beethoven e à sua importância histórica são frequentes. É perceptível o prestígio artístico que Colaço e Cardona possuíam, sendo as suas interpretações qualificadas como magistrais, plenas de brilho e sensibilidade.
description: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança, vol. 4 n.º 4 (2017): Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
title: Evaluation of Some Soil Loss Equations for Predicting Sheet Erosion
Creators: name: Trieste, Douglas Joseph
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1977

description: The objectives of this study were (a) to apply sediment and associated plot data from various infiltrometer studies to the parameters in the Universal Soil Loss Equation, a modified version of the original Musgrave Equation, and a modified version of the original Universal Soil Loss Equation, and compare the computed results with the measured soil loss, (b) to suggest reasons for any differences between computed and measured soil loss, and (c) to suggest improvements for each equation so that it will give results near the measured soil loss. The data used consisted of 2805 infiltrometer plots collected by previous researchers in a variety of rangeland conditions, both in the western United States and Australia, and included the necessary information needed to compute the factors in each of the above equations. Simple and multiple linear regression techniques were used to make the evaluations by computing the coefficient of determination (R2), correlation coefficients (r), and to optimize each factor in the equations by placing an exponent on it.
The results showed that the three soil loss prediction equations are not universal, but, for the most part, explain sediment yield with varying degrees of accuracy in different situations with no apparent trends or patterns. However, most individual mine sites and other sites with loosely consolidated soil resembling fallow conditions showed high R2 values when the computed sediment yield was regressed against measured sediment yield. Little improvement was made in reducing the variability of the equations by placing exponents on each factor indicating that the factors, as determined in each equation, do not explain sediment yield under western rangeland conditions. In summary, the prediction equations are not recommended as "universal" predictors of sheet erosion in western rangelands, but, may be applied in specific situations.
Subdiffusive dynamics in photonic random walks probed with classical light
Creators: name: Longhi, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The random walk of photons in a tight-binding lattice is known to exhibit diffusive motion similar to classical random walks under decoherence, clearly illustrating the quantum-to-classical transition. In this study, we reveal that the random walk of intense classical light under dephasing dynamics can disentangle quantum and ensemble averaging, making it possible to observe a subdiffusive walker dynamics, i.e. a behavior very distinct from both a classical and a quantum walker. These findings are demonstrated through proposing photonic random walks in synthetic temporal lattices, based on pulse dynamics in coupled fiber loops.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, included supplemental document, to appear in Optics Letters
GraphPAS: Parallel Architecture Search for Graph Neural Networks
Creators: name: Chen, Jiamin
name: Gao, Jianliang
name: Chen, Yibo
name: Moctard, Oloulade Babatounde
name: Lyu, Tengfei
name: Li, Zhao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph neural architecture search has received a lot of attention as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has been successfully applied on the non-Euclidean data recently. However, exploring all possible GNNs architectures in the huge search space is too time-consuming or impossible for big graph data. In this paper, we propose a parallel graph architecture search (GraphPAS) framework for graph neural networks. In GraphPAS, we explore the search space in parallel by designing a sharing-based evolution learning, which can improve the search efficiency without losing the accuracy. Additionally, architecture information entropy is adopted dynamically for mutation selection probability, which can reduce space exploration. The experimental result shows that GraphPAS outperforms state-of-art models with efficiency and accuracy simultaneously.
description: 5 papes,3 figures,Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Homenaje a Debussy: uma obra com várias versões
Creators: name: Herrmann, Frederico
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Year: 2019

description: Este trabalho apresenta uma breve contextualização, à luz da intertextualidade, acerca da obra Homenaje - pour le “Tombeau de Claude Debussy” (1920) de Manuel de Falla (1876-1946). Em seguida pretendo discutir a problemática criada por suas múltiplas versões, utilizando os esboços do compositor, as três versões manuscritas originais para guitarra e as duas versões manuscritas para piano.
description: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança, vol. 4 n.º 4 (2017): Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
title: Human-Bear Interactions in the Backcountry of Yosemite National Park
Creators: name: Hastings, Bruce Charles
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1982

description: The objective of this study was to quantitatively document interactions between black bears and backcountry visitors, and to identify the factors affecting those encounters. Fine hundred and ninety-two interactions were observed. The most common responses of visitors to bears were to watch, walk toward, and talk to others and/or point at the bear. Bears responded to humans largely by walking away, watching, traveling around, walking toward, and running away from people.
Each behavior for both species was categorized into one of four response classes: (1) fear/avoidance, (2) neutrality, (3) approach, or (4) aggression. Over 65 percent of visitor responses were neutral. People were least likely to react to bears with fear/avoidance behavior. Bears also were most likely to be neutral. Of particular interest is the low occurrence of aggression shown by bears. Less than
two percent of all responses fell into this category, most of which were exhibited by two animals. We witnessed no interactions which resulted in injury or even contact between visitors and bears. When ursid aggression did occur, bears appeared to be more aggressive in June, with younger visitors, and at close distances. Both human aggression and fear were correlated with short interactions.
Bear behavior was greatly altered by possession of camper foods. Bears were more neutral and walked toward people less after they had begun to eat. They also showed much less fear of visitors at this time. Other correlations of both human and ursid behavior with biotic and abiotic variables ( temporal, spatial, environmental, etc.) are presented and discussed. Recommendations for improved management are also suggested.
Uma reflexão sobre os silêncios musicais na obra Appalachian Spring (1945) do compositor Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Creators: name: Teixeira, Filipe
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Year: 2019

description: Esta pesquisa é parte integrante da dissertação de mestrado do seu autor e tem por objetivo discutir o silêncio musical, utilizando como objeto de pesquisa a obra Appalachian Spring, do compositor Aaron Copland. No primeiro tópico traz definições gerais sobre o silêncio, sua estrutura física e seu uso como material de comunicação; no segundo tópico, demonstrará definições específicas e suas funções específicas à música; no terceiro tópico, apresenta três funções articuladoras do silêncio para o discurso musical, que são as funções preparatórias, de transição e interrupção; por último, a conclusão da pesquisa. A principal fundamentação teórica foi feita a partir de trabalhos de Koelrreutter (1990), Vilela (2016) e especialmente Ramos (1997).
description: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança, vol. 4 n.º 4 (2017): Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
A performance contemporânea no baixo elétrico do repertório jazzístico e da música popular brasileira
Creators: name: Pizzol, Fausto
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Year: 2019

description: O baixo eléctrico, tendo o seu papel primordial de instrumento melódico de sustentação da base harmónica/rítmica preservada, vem sendo tocado de formas que extrapolam esta designação. Com a utilização de harmónicos e acordes, os baixistas contam com novas possibilidades de interpretação, seja fornecendo a base harmónica, numa abordagem similar ao acompanhamento guitarrístico, ou executando a melodia e a harmonia simultaneamente, auxiliados pela ampliação da tessitura proporcionada pelos harmónicos. Até mesmo as células rítmicas de diferentes géneros musicais praticados pelos baixistas foram influenciadas por essas técnicas estendidas, ganhando também performances diferenciadas. A busca por uma concepção de performance em sintonia com a prática dos baixistas da atualidade encaminhou esta pesquisa ao estudo do processo de utilização das técnicas instrumentais do baixo elétrico para além do tradicional pizzicato ou do uso da palheta, assim como das linhas de base herdadas da prática do baixo acústico. Nomeadamente, performances que agregam os harmónicos e os acordes na execução musical no baixo elétrico, a sua origem e seu desenvolvimento, são o foco deste estudo.
description: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança, vol. 4 n.º 4 (2017): Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
title: The Toxicity, Metabolism and Distribution of Carbaryl in Three Species of Labops with and without Piperonyl Butoxide Treatment (Hemiptera:miridae)
Creators: name: Osman, Deifalla H.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: Carbaryl toxicity, metabolism, and distribution in adults of three species of grass bugs _from the genus Labops were studied in relation to species, sex, and treatment with piperonyl butoxide. Lc50 values for 8 hour exposure periods ranged from 0.02-0.14, 0.03-0.3, and 0.2-0.7 μg carbaryl/vial for L. utahensis, L. hirtus, and L. hesperius respectively. The males were more susceptible to carbaryl than females. Males of L. utahensis were more susceptible than L. hirtus and L. hesperius respectively.
The synergist difference values (Lc50 of carbaryl alone - Lc50 values of carbaryl after piperonyl butoxide treatment) were measured. The percent dependency of these _insects on MFOs for detoxifying carbaryl was estimated based on the theoretical synergist difference which was calculated by the equation Log LC50 = 1.014 log SD - 0.009. The percent dependency values were 38-59, 25-46, and 13-33% for L. hesperius, L. hirtus, and L. utahensis, respectively. Males of L. utahensis had the lowest percent dependency upon MFOs in detoxifying carbaryl (13%) indicating the possibility that carbaryl toxicity may be controlled by other potential defense mechanisms which are relatively ineffective themselves in view of the low tolerances of the insects to carbaryl.
Treatment with piperonyl butoxide resulted in greater enhancement of carbaryl toxicity against L. hesperius (synergized Lc50 0.1-0.26 μg carbaryl/vial) while it showed a moderate effect on L. hirtus (synergized Lc50 0.02-0.16 μg carbaryl/vial). Piperonyl butoxide's effect was less pronounced in the case of L. utahensis (synergized Lc50 0.013- 0.09 μg carbaryl/vial.
Unmetabolized carbaryl was the principle compound isolated from the bugs after 6 hours from treatment, being more prominent in males of L. hirtus (71.1% of the total metabolites) and less prominent in females hesperius (36.7% of the total metabolites).
The mechanism of detoxication appeared to include ring hydroxylation for both species and sexes. 4 and 5-hydroxycarbaryl were the only metabolites associated with the degrading of carbaryl by the bugs, since the levels of metabolites obtained were too low for accurate quantitation. Pretreatment with piperonyl butoxide prevented the appearance of both carbaryl metabolites in the organosoluble fraction and increased the accumulation of unmetabolized carbaryl. This effect was probably due to inhibition of the insect's MFO system.
Generally, this study showed a good correlation between the bioassays and the metabolic studies, thus reflecting the effectiveness of the bioassays along with synergist difference (SD) and percent dependency concepts in establishing some conclusions regarding the MFOs of Labops bugs. Further application of these techniques with agricultural insects should provide a practical means of characterizing field populations for insecticide tolerance, relative levels of MFOs and their role as a defense mechanism.
Recommendation System for Journals based on ELMo and Deep Learning
Creators: name: Hemila, Mahmoud
name: Rölke, Heiko
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2023
Subjects: Journal Recommender System
NLP
Deep Learning
ELMo
RNN
CNN

description: Choosing the right journal to publish research studies is critical for researchers. Despite its importance, the task of determining the suitable and high-ranking journal for publishing can be challenging due to several factors such as the growing number of the available journals and the fact that every journal has its specific area of expertise. In this paper we investigate content-based journal recommendation systems that rely on using NLP to analyze features of existing journals and use those to pre-select a particular number of suitable journals for a new paper. Our experiments are based on the ELMo feature engineering mechanism and use different deep learning neural network architectures (CNN, RNN). We used datasets from the disciplines physics, chemistry and biology, with each containing data of more than 750000 publications. The data source consists of the abstracts of the papers. The experiments show promising results with the accuracy of our models outperforming existing models. Specffically, our RNN model can achieve 83% accuracy when using data from physics by considering top-20 journals
Adolescent depression and interpersonal behavior
Creators: name: Furnell, Margery D.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Adolescents may be particularly vulnerable to depression. Yet Public health nurses working with large groups of adolescents are often unable to recognize depressed youths due to the lack of simple, reliable screening tools. This exploratory study was undertaken in order to gain information that could be used to develop such a tool. Specifically, the following question was posed: 'Are there modes of relating interpersonally that can be used to distinguish the highly and moderately depressed adolescent from the non-depressed adolescent?' The answer was sought from information obtained from adolescent self-reports on Beck's Depression Inventory and an adapted and pre-tested form of McNair and Lorr's Interpersonal Behavior Inventory. These inventories were administered to twenty-five adolescents who attended a treatment centre for adolescents with emotional problems and seventy seven randomly selected adolescents who attended four Catholic high schools in Greater Vancouver. Adolescents were classified as non-depressed, moderately depressed and highly depressed on the basis of their scores on Beck's Depression Inventory. An analysis of variance was carried out to discover if there was a significant difference in interpersonal behavior scores of non-depressed, moderately depressed and highly depressed adolescents. A simple regression analysis and a multiple step-wise regression analysis was done to see if there was a significant correlation between any interpersonal behavior categories that could distinguish between the non-depressed, moderately depressed, and highly depressed adolescent. The findings supported the overall conclusion: adolescents who exhibit mistrust, competition and detachment most of the time or all of the time and exhibit dominance only some of the time or not all all, may be moderately or highly depressed adolescents. The findings did not support the generally held thesis that suppressed hostility is an important factor in the depressed person.
As complexidades da classificação documental. O caso da Associação dos Antigos Orfeonistas da Universidade do Porto
Creators: name: Cordeiro, Eva
Publisher: name: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
Year: 2019

description: Duas instituições: o Orfeão Universitário do Porto (1912-), associação universitária coral, musical e etnográfica, ligada à Universidade do Porto; e a Associação dos Antigos Orfeonistas da Universidade do Porto (1967-), associação cultural e de convívio que dá seguimento à atividade orfeónica com os seus antigos alunos. O mesmo desafio: a classificação documental dos seus arquivos. Aqui, partilho os desafios e constrangimentos relacionados com o tratamento e a classificação documental de um acervo de música privado, no caso particular da Associação dos Antigos Orfeonistas da Universidade do Porto.
description: Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança, vol. 4 n.º 4 (2017): Post-ip: Revista do Fórum Internacional de Estudos em Música e Dança
A Wireless Neural Stimulator IC for Cortical Visual Prosthesis
Creators: name: Lee, Jungho
name: Letner, Joseph
name: Lim, Jongyup
name: Sun, Yi
name: Jeong, Seokhyeon
name: Kim, Yejoong
name: Koo, Beomseo
name: Atzeni, Gabriele
name: Liao, Jiawei
name: Richie, Julianna
name: Valle, Elena Della
name: Patel, Paras
name: Jang, Taekwang
name: Chestek, Cynthia
name: Phillips, Jamie
name: Weiland, James
name: Sylvester, Dennis
name: Kim, Hun-Seok
name: Blaauw, David
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2023
Subjects: multiply-and-accumulation (MAC)
nonvolatile memory (NVM)
nonvolatile compute-in-memory (nvCIM)

description: 2023 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits)
description: ISBN:978-4-86348-806-9
title: Integrative Ability as it Relates to Problem Solving Strategies: A Study of Possible Factors Affecting and Affected by this Ability
Creators: name: King, Ann
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1979

description: Individuals within the United States Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and state park systems were studied to determine their integrative orientation (general problem solving strategies). This orientation involves a preference for trying new ideas, working within a long time frame, generalizing in planning or managing, taking risks, working in close association with others, examining many aspects of a problem, working on difficult problems, developing a variety of skills, and working on problems requiring continual revision. An attempt was made to relate this orientation to education, major field of study, agency, time, tasks, level in the organization, important skills, and situations in which skills are acquired.
The results, for the most part, were inconclusive. However, much of this can be attributed to the sampling procedure and the format of the questionnaire.
Integrative orientation tested with skills thought to be important yielded significant results, with definite differences appearing between the groups. The overall pattern which developed showed that an individual with a high integrative ability feels that a wider variety of skills is more important than does an individual with less integrative ability.
An Energy-Efficient Impedance-Boosted Discrete-Time Amplifier Achieving 0.34 Noise Efficiency Factor and 389 MΩ Input Impedance
Creators: name: Atzeni, Gabriele
name: Livanelioglu, Can
name: Recchioni, Lavinia
name: Arjmandpour, Sina
name: Jang, Taekwang
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2023

description: 2023 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology and Circuits)
description: ISBN:978-4-86348-806-9
description: ISBN:979-8-3503-4669-5