cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Design of Tunable Edge-Coupled Microstrip Bandpass Filters
Creators: name: Kaveri, Srinidhi V
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: This thesis is a study of tunability of edge-coupled filters. Microstrip edge-coupled bandpass filters are planar structures and have advantages such as easy design procedures and simple integration into circuits. Three tuning techniques were implemented. The first technique involved the loading of one open end of each coupled into tunable capacitors. The second technique used a tunable resonator in series with the edge-coupled blocks. The final design made use of tunable feedback sections. A detailed mathematical analysis of each design was performed. MATLAB code based on the analyses was written. The MATLAB simulations were compared to Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS) simulations in order to and the minimum design parameters required to arrive at an approximate solution. ADS simulations were used to accurately determine the final design. The tunable filters with a series capacitor and feedback were fabricated on RO4003C boards from Roger's Corporation, having a dielectric constant of 3.55. The built boards were then tested with the HP 8510c network analyzer. The measured results were compared to the ADS simulations. The filter with a tuning capacitor in series with the coupled sections had high insertion loss of -20 dB and tuning range in terms of KHz. The design involving feedback had advantages over the previous design since the insertion loss was better than -14 dB and it had a tuning range of 91 MHz. It was observed from simulations that the design had an adjustable tunability range and bandwidth as the width was varied.
title: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Effects of Wildlife Water Developments in the Western United States
Creators: name: Larsen, Randy T
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: Free water can be a limiting factor to wildlife in arid regions of the world. In the western United States, management agencies have installed numerous, expensive wildlife water developments (e.g. catchments, guzzlers, wells) to: 1) increase the distribution or density of target species, 2) influence animal movements, and 3) mitigate for the loss of available free water. Despite over 50 years as an active management practice, water developments have become controversial for several species. We lack an integrated understanding of the ways free water influences animal populations. In particular, we have not meshed understanding of evolutionary adaptations that reduce the need for free water and behavioral constraints that may limit use of otherwise available free water with management practices. I propose a conceptual framework for understanding more generally how, when, and where wildlife water developments are likely to benefit wildlife species. I argue that the following five elements are fundamental to an integrated understanding: 1) consideration of the variable nature in time and space of available free water, 2) location and availability of pre-formed and/or metabolic water, 3) seasonal temperature and precipitation patterns that influence the physiological need for water, 4) behavioral constraints that limit use of otherwise available free water, and 5) proper spacing of water sources for target species. I developed this framework from work done primarily with chukars (Alectoris chukar). I also report supporting evidence from research with mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus). Chukars demonstrated a spatial response to available free water when estimates of dietary moisture content were < 40%. Mule deer photo counts were reduced at water sources with small-perimeter fencing, suggesting increased predation risk caused mule deer to behaviorally avoid use of otherwise available free water. When all five framework elements are considered, I found strong evidence that wildlife water developments have benefited some chukar populations. Historic chukar counts suggested a population benefit following installation of wildlife water developments. Experimental removal of access to free water caused increased movements and decreased survival of adult chukars.
Additional file 3 of Acute promyelocytic leukaemia: population-based study of epidemiology and outcome with ATRA and oral-ATO from 1991 to 2021
Creators: name: Gill, Harinder
name: Raghupathy, Radha
name: Lee, Carmen Y.Y.
name: Yung, Yammy
name: Chu, Hiu-Tung
name: Ni, Michael Y.
name: Xiao, Xiao
name: Flores, Francis P.
name: Yim, Rita
name: Lee, Paul
name: Chin, Lynn
name: Li, Vivian W.K.
name: Au, Lester
name: Au, Wing-Yan
name: Ma, Edmond S.K.
name: Mohan, Diwakar
name: Kumana, Cyrus Rustam
name: Kwong, Yok-Lam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 3
title: Threat Perception as a Determinant of Pro-Environmental Behaviors: Public Involvement in Air Pollution Abatement in Cache Valley, Utah
Creators: name: Marquit, Joshua D
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: Threat perception related to environmental issues such as air pollution may be a determinant of pro-environmental behaviors. Among the potential threats of air pollution, include the perceived impacts on the psychological, social, and economic wellbeing of a community. Because of rapid increases in population growth, urbanization, and the mountainous landscapes, the American West is extremely susceptible to the adverse impacts of air pollution. A secondary data analysis was conducted using data from the Air Quality Perception Survey conducted in Cache County, Utah. The survey focused on the public perception of air pollution in Cache County and perceived impact on personal and community life. From a sample of 289 returned surveys, the data were examined to determine the possible link between threat perception and the decision to engage in specific pro-environmental and avoidance behaviors. The analysis found that threat perception predicted some pro-environmental and avoidance behaviors.
Additional file 4 of Spontaneous tumor lysis syndrome in adrenal adenocarcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
Creators: name: Shafie, Mahan
name: Teymouri, Alireza
name: Parsa, Samaneh
name: Sadeghian, Ali
name: Zarei Jalalabadi, Narjes
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 4: Table S1. Published cases of spontaneous tumor lysis syndrome in solid tumors.
Additional file 11 of Acute promyelocytic leukaemia: population-based study of epidemiology and outcome with ATRA and oral-ATO from 1991 to 2021
Creators: name: Gill, Harinder
name: Raghupathy, Radha
name: Lee, Carmen Y.Y.
name: Yung, Yammy
name: Chu, Hiu-Tung
name: Ni, Michael Y.
name: Xiao, Xiao
name: Flores, Francis P.
name: Yim, Rita
name: Lee, Paul
name: Chin, Lynn
name: Li, Vivian W.K.
name: Au, Lester
name: Au, Wing-Yan
name: Ma, Edmond S.K.
name: Mohan, Diwakar
name: Kumana, Cyrus Rustam
name: Kwong, Yok-Lam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 11
title: Agroforestry Practice Adoption Among Solomon Island Women On The Island Of Malaita
Creators: name: Sechrest, Etta K
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: The goal of agricultural training is the adoption and diffusion of introduced agriculture techniques. New subsistence agricultural techniques have been introduced mainly to the male population in many developing countries, even though most subsistence farmers are women. Therefore, an understanding of how new subsistence agricultural techniques can be introduced and adopted by women would be important to achieve. This study focuses on women's adoption of agricultural techniques. It takes place on the island of Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. The study looks at the adoption of agroforestry and several other subsistence techniques that were introduced under a joint program by Peace Corps and the Malaita Agriculture Division between 1983 and 1989. Two Peace Corps volunteers were posted in North Malaita at Malu'u from 1983 to 1986. The Malu'u volunteers lived in the village of Karu for two and one-half years while introducing and teaching new agricultural practices. Two other Peace Corps volunteers were posted at the Dala Agricultural Training Center from 1987 to 1989, and worked with the residents of the nearby village of Kakara. In 1991, a two-month survey was conducted in the areas where the Peace Corps volunteers were posted, as well as in an area that did not have any Peace Corps volunteers posted. The findings of this study indicate that adoption of new agroforestry techniques is based on several factors. Who introduced the technology, the farmer's wealth, and being able to obtain income from market vegetables and other identified factors improved a respondent's chances of adopting new agroforestry techniques.
A Map of the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Signal from Luminous Red Galaxies
Creators: name: Granett, Benjamin R.
name: Neyrinck, Mark C.
name: Szapudi, István
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a map of the time derivative of the gravitational potential traced by SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies. The potential decays on large scales due to cosmic acceleration, leaving an imprint on cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation through the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect. With a template fit, we directly measure this signature on the CMB at a 2-sigma confidence level. The measurement is consistent with the cross-correlation statistic, strengthening the claim that dark energy is indeed the cause of the correlation. This new approach potentially simplifies the cosmological interpretation. Our constructed linear ISW map shows no evidence for degree-scale cold and hot spots associated with supervoid and supercluster structures. This suggests that the linear ISW effect in a concordance Lambda-CDM cosmology is insufficient to explain the strong CMB imprints from these structures that we previously reported.
description: 9 pages, 12 figures, accepted to ApJ. Updated discussion about redshift cuts
Crystalline finite-size topology
Creators: name: Pacholski, Michał J.
name: Cook, Ashley M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological phases stabilized by crystalline point group symmetry protection are a large class of symmetry-protected topological phases subjected to considerable experimental scrutiny. Here, we show that the canonical three-dimensional (3D) crystalline topological insulator protected by time-reversal symmetry $\mathcal{T}$ and four-fold rotation symmetry $\mathcal{C}_4$ individually or the product symmetry $\mathcal{C}_4 \mathcal{T}$, generically realizes finite-size crystalline topological phases in thin film geometry (a quasi-(3-1)-dimensional, or q(3-1)D, geometry): response signatures of the 3D bulk topology co-exist with topologically-protected, quasi-(3-2)D and quasi-(3-3)D boundary modes within the energy gap resulting from strong hybridisation of the Dirac cone surface states of the underlying 3D crystalline topological phase. Importantly, we find qualitative distinctions between these gapless boundary modes and those of strictly 2D crystalline topological states with the same symmetry-protection, and develop a low-energy, analytical theory of the finite-size topological magnetoelectric response.
description: 6+3 pages, 4 figures
title: Mechanisms of Nutrition Bar Hardening: Effect of Hydrolyzed Whey Protein and Carbohydrate Source
Creators: name: Adams, Shaun P
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: The influence of increasing hydrolyzed protein content on the microstructure and hardness of high protein nutrition bars was investigated to determine the mechanism of hardening during storage. Bars with various hydrolyzed protein levels were manufactured using differing ratios of 0, 25, 50, 75, 100% (wt. /wt.) of partially hydrolyzed whey protein isolate (HWPI) to an intact (non-hydrolyzed) whey protein isolate (WPI) which made up approximately 38% of the total bar composition. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) (42%) and vegetable shortening (20%) constituted the rest of the ingredients. Accelerated aging was performed by storing bars at 32 ºC for 36 d with analysis being performed every 7 d starting at d 2. Hardness was measured as the peak force to penetrate into the bars 8.5 mm using a 45º chisel blade. Microstructure was examined using confocal scanning microscopy with staining for protein and fat. The level of HWPI affected both hardness and microstructure of the bars. Bars that developed the most hardness, with hardness values of 87.6 x 102 g-force and 97.2 x 102 g-force, were those that had no added HWPI or only 25% HWPI (P < 0.05). Bars with 100% of the protein as HWPI were softest with a value of 24.6 x 102 g-force (P< 0.05) and these bars had a microstructure showing a two-phase separation of fat from the aqueous phase containing protein and sugars. The bars that exhibited severe bar hardening had a three-phase separation of the fat, protein, and sugar. The gradual separation of the protein from the sugars into two distinct phases is proposed as the mechanism causing hardening in high protein nutrition bars. The influence of different carbohydrate sources on water activity, Maillard browning, hardness, and microstructure was then investigated. Bars were formulated using either WPI or HWPI with either 70% HFCS or 70% sorbitol syrup as carbohydrate source. This resulted in four bar types, which were then aged at an accelerated rate through storage at 32 ºC and analyzed again every 7 d. Color and water activity were measured as well as hardness and the microstructure was again observed using confocal microscopy. Changing the carbohydrate component of the bars from HFCS to sorbitol syrup had a large effect on the amount of Maillard browning, no effect on the aw, and a slight effect on bar hardening and microstructure while using HWPI instead of WPI had a slight effect on browning, an effect on water activity, and a large effect on bar hardening and microstructure. The carbohydrate effect on bar hardening was not to the same degree as using HWPI. Using sorbitol with WPI reduced hardness after 35 d at 32 ºC by 25% while replacing WPI with HWPI reduced hardness by 55%. When using HWPI both the HFCS and sorbitol, bars remained soft (i.e. hardness
The small kt-region in Drell-Yan production at next-to-leading order with the Parton Branching Method
Creators: name: Bubanja, I.
name: Martinez, A. Bermudez
name: Favart, L.
name: Guzman, F.
name: Hautmann, F.
name: Jung, H.
name: Lelek, A.
name: Mendizabal, M.
name: Figueroa, K. Moral
name: Moureaux, L.
name: Raicevic, N.
name: Seidel, M.
name: Monfared, S. Taheri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Parton Branching (PB) method describes the evolution of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) parton distributions, covering all kinematic regions from small to large transverse momenta kT. The small kT-region is very sensitive both to the contribution of the intrinsic motion of partons (intrinsic kT) and to the resummation of soft gluons taken into account by the PB TMD evolution equations. We study the role of soft-gluon emissions in TMD as well as integrated parton distributions. We perform a detailed investigation of the PB TMD methodology at next-to-leading order (NLO) in Drell-Yan (DY) production for low transverse momenta. We present the extraction of the nonperturbative "intrinsic-kT" distribution from recent measurements of DY transverse momentum distributions at the LHC across a wide range in DY masses, including a detailed treatment of statistical, correlated and uncorrelated uncertainties. We comment on the (in)dependence of intrinsic transverse momentum on DY mass and center-of-mass energy, and on the comparison with other approaches.
description: Replaced with journal version, minor edits
title: Synthetic Complexes of Relevance to Ni(II)-Containing Enzymes
Creators: name: Rudzka, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: The work outlined herein presents an investigation of synthetic model complexes of relevance to the active sites of Ni(II)-containing enzymes, particularly urease, glyoxalase I, and acireductone dioxygenase. The research focuses on studying the structural and reactivity features of nickel complexes with biologically relevant substrates. The anion of acetohydroxamic acid is a well-known inhibitor of urease enzymes, including those isolated from Klebsiella aerogenes and Bacillus pasteurii. A precursor to the acetohydroxamate coordination in ureases is proposed to be an interaction between Ni(II) and acetohydroxamic acid. By using a novel supporting chelate ligand capable of secondary hydrogen bonding interactions a novel pseudo-octahedral, Ni(II) acetohydroxamic acid complex has been isolated and characterized. Detailed analysis of the structural features and acetohydroxamic displacement reactivity of this complex has provided fundamental chemical insight toward understanding of the inhibition mechanism in urease enzymes. Glyoxalase I (Glx I) catalyzes one step of the cellular detoxification pathway for α-ketoaldehydes (e.g. methylglyoxal) in humans and bacteria. The GlxI enzyme from E. coli is a Ni(II)-containing enzyme that catalyzes the isomerization of a hemithioacetal to produce a thioester. Of relevance to this enzyme, the first example of a Ni(II) complex that promotes a hemithioacetal isomerization is reported herein. In order to monitor this type of reaction a new approach involving a a deuterium-labeled hemithioacetal (PhC(O)CH(OH)SCD3) and 2H NMR was employed. Acireductone dioxygenases (ARDs) catalyze aliphatic oxidative C-C bond cleavage of an acireductone (1,2-dihydroxy-3-oxo-5-(methylthio)pent-1-ene) intermediate in the methionine salvage pathway. A unique aspect of these enzymes is that the regioselectivity of the dioxygenase reaction depends on the metal ion bound in the active site. Outlined herein are descriptions of the synthesis, characterization, and O2 reactivity of a novel trinuclear Ni(II) enediolate complex of relevance to the proposed enzyme/substrate adduct in Ni(II)-ARD. Efforts have also been made toward the preparation of C(1)-H acireductone compounds using a combined synthetic/enzymatic approach. A phenyl appended-C(1)-H acireductone was isolated and introduced to a Ni(II) precursor complex. This reaction produced spectroscopic changes consistent with the formation of a new Ni(II) acireductone complex. Preliminary studies of the O2 reactivity of this complex are reported.
On the tensor rank of multiplication in any extension of $\F_2$
Creators: name: Ballet, Stéphane
name: Pieltant, Julia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H05, 11Y16, 12E20

description: In this paper, we obtain new bounds for the tensor rank of multiplication in any extension of $\F_2$. In particular, it also enables us to obtain the best known asymptotic bound. In this aim, we use the generalized algorithm of type Chudnovsky with derivative evaluations on places of degree one, two and four applied on the descent over $\F_2$ of a Garcia-Stichtenoth tower of algebraic function fields defined over $\F_{2^4}$.
New Aspects of Beyond Worst-Case Analysis
Creators: name: White, Colin
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Traditionally, the theory of algorithms has focused on the analysis of worst-case instances. While this has led to beautiful results and a thorough understanding of awide variety of problems, there are many problems for which worst-case analysis is not useful for empirical or real-world instances. A rapidly developing line of research, theso-called beyond worst-case analysis of algorithms (BWCA), considers the design and analysis of problems using more realistic models or using natural structural properties.The goals of BWCA are to design realistic models and new theoretical algorithms which perform well in practice, as well as to explain why preexisting algorithms that do well in practice perform better than worst-case analysis suggests. In other words, the goal of BWCA is to bridge the gap between theory and practice. In this thesis, we continue the line of work of BWCA for clustering and distributed learning by making contributions in several areas. Specifically, we focus on three main problems and models.? Clustering is one problem that has benefited greatly from BWCA. The perturbation resilience assumption proposed by Bilu and Linial (2011) states that the optimal clustering does not change under small perturbations to the input distances.We design efficient algorithms that output optimal or near-optimal clusterings for the canonical k-center objective (in both symmetric and asymmetric forms) under perturbation resilience. Our results are tight up to the level of perturbationresilience assumed. Next, we give robust algorithms with guarantees even if only part of the data satisfies the perturbation resilience assumption.? Clustering has many varied applications in practice, and an algorithm may have drastically different performance between two applications. To reconcile this fact, we consider a data-driven approach, in which a clustering application isrepresented by a distribution over problem instances, and the goal is to find the best algorithm for the (unknown) distribution. This model was first studied theoreticallyby Gupta and Roughgarden (2016). We define rich, infinite classes of linkage algorithms with dynamic programming, as well as local search algorithms with initialization, generalizing the k-means algorithm. We bound thepseudo-dimension of these classes, which leads to computational- and sample efficient meta-algorithms for some of the algorithm classes we study.? As datasets become larger and more complex, distributed learning becomes more prevalent. Motivated by the fact that similar datapoints often belong to the same or similar classes, we propose data-dependent dispatching that takes advantage of such structure. We provide new dispatching algorithms which cast the problem as clustering with important balance and fault-tolerance conditions. Finally, wedesign general and robust distributed clustering algorithms.
Additional file 1 of Complete pan-plastome sequences enable high resolution phylogenetic classification of sugar beet and closely related crop wild relatives
Creators: name: Sielemann, Katharina
name: Pucker, Boas
name: Schmidt, Nicola
name: Viehöver, Prisca
name: Weisshaar, Bernd
name: Heitkam, Tony
name: Holtgräwe, Daniela
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: S1A. Geographic distribution of the Betoideae species as described in the literature. S1B. Distribution of coverage values and assembly length (in bp) for each region and the total assemblies. S1C. Circular and linear plots of selected plastome assembly sequences. S1D. Distance metrics for the comparison of splitstree results. S1E. Reduced phylogenetic tree based on 53 gene and intergenic regions. S1F. Phylogenetic trees based on different sequence matrices. S1G. Workflow for the construction of phylogenetic trees.
Additional file 3 of MYBL2 regulates de novo purine synthesis by transcriptionally activating IMPDH1 in hepatocellular carcinoma cells
Creators: name: Zhao, Jun-Zhang
name: Wang, Wei
name: Liu, Tao
name: Zhang, Lei
name: Lin, De-Zheng
name: Yao, Jia-Yin
name: Peng, Xiang
name: Jin, Gang
name: Ma, Tian-Tian
name: Gao, Jin-Bo
name: Huang, Fang
name: Nie, Jun
name: Lv, Qing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3.
Evaluation of the optical axis tilt of Zinc oxide films via noncollinear second harmonic generation
Creators: name: Bovino, Fabio Antonio
name: Larciprete, Maria Cristina
name: Belardini, Alessandro
name: Sibilia, Concita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated noncollinear second harmonic generation form Zinc oxide films, grown on glass substrates by dual ion beam sputtering technique. At a fixed incidence angle, the generated signal is investigated by scanning the polarization state of both fundamental beams. We show that the map of the generated signal as a function of polarization states of both pump beams, together with the analytical curves, allows to retrieve the orientation of the optical axis and, eventually, its angular tilt, with respect to the surface normal
description: To appear on Appl. Phys. Lett
Spot the difference : recognizing risks for cancer in the experiences of normal aging
Creators: name: Abdelrahman Ibrahim, Malak
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2025

description: Background: Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most diagnosed gynecologic malignancy in the developed world, with 417,367 new cases and 97,370 deaths in 2020. If detected while still confined to the uterus, patients with EC can expect an excellent 5-year survival rate of 96%. Conversely, only 20% of patients survive an advanced stage diagnosis. This emphasizes the need for early detection of EC, beginning with recognition of early signs and symptoms, especially among those at elevated risk for EC or who experience disparities in care and diagnosis. Objective: To conduct a multipronged investigation of knowledge and awareness of EC, specifically recognition of associated symptoms and risk factors, and compare and contrast findings from a provincial study to the literature. Methods: A scoping review was conducted to identify and synthesize literature related to symptom and risk factor recognition for EC. Socio-demographic characteristics were taken into consideration to identify trends or characteristics that may influence recognition and knowledge. Next, a series of semi-structured qualitative interviews were undertaken to evaluate the experiences of a diverse group of women in British Columbia going through reproductive aging or who have faced an EC diagnosis to identify gaps in their ability to distinguish between normal aging and potential causes for concern. Participants were invited to a virtual workshop, where we further discussed and ranked strategies for improving awareness of EC. Results: Participants demonstrated poor awareness and knowledge of EC, specifically associated risk factors and symptoms. This trend was also observed in the literature. Awareness of abnormal uterine bleeding, which is often the first presenting symptom of EC, was also poor in both methodologies. Misconceptions about abnormal bleeding and reproductive health can be linked back to limited understanding of perimenopause, menopause, and menstruation. Furthermore, women often confuse risk factors of other gynecologic cancers, particularly those related to sexual behaviors, as risk factors for EC. Poor awareness of perimenopause and EC played a role in delaying the medical investigation of symptoms. Conclusion: Capturing and understanding knowledge gaps and experiences leading to delays in diagnosis is needed to inform future knowledge interventions to improve awareness of EC.
On k-hypertournament losing scores
Creators: name: Pirzada, Shariefuddin
name: Zhou, Guofei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.2.2; F.2.m

description: We give a new and short proof of a theorem on k-hypertournament losing scores due to Zhou et al. [G. Zhou, T. Yao, K. Zhang, On score sequences of k-tournaments, European J. Comb., 21, 8 (2000) 993-1000.]
Additional file 1 of Genetic engineering of novel yellow color african violet (Saintpaulia ionantha) produced by accumulation of Aureusidin 6-O-glucoside
Creators: name: Rajabi, Amir
name: Fahmideh, Leila
name: Keykhasaber, Mojtaba
name: Omran, Valiollah Ghasemi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Genes used for RT-qPCR in African violet white (wild type), transgenic African violet and A. majus (Yellow). Table S2. List of primers used in the study.
Additional file 1 of Evaluating ‘Power 4 a Healthy Pregnancy’ (P4HP) – protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial and process evaluation to empower pregnant women towards improved diet quality
Creators: name: van Lonkhuijzen, Renske M.
name: Cremers, Susanne
name: de Vries, Jeanne H. M.
name: Feskens, Edith J. M.
name: Wagemakers, Annemarie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Completed SPIRIT guidelines checklist for this P4HP cluster randomized trial protocol article.
title: Framing Anti-War Theatre: Public Perceptions of Embedded
Creators: name: Gordon, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: Extending research of framing anti-war protest is framed in the public sphere, this study examines theatre critics' reviews and viewers' responses to Tim Robbins' anti-war play Embedded. My research examines how two groups of publics interpreted Embedded: (1) professional theatre reviewers and (2) a sample of Utah State University students. It is important to note that the majority of the students who participated in this study are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), a consistently social and political conservative religious sect. Thus, how this specific group of viewers deciphered Embedded is of special interest. Critical analyses of both reviews and responses revealed the prominence of two seemingly irreconcilable partisan master frames in critics' and spectators' interpretations of the play's protest narratives. Although these frames seem to be incompatible, adherents to both "whining for peace" and "anti-war protest" consider protection of American democracy the primary goal. However, members of both groups define the role of anti-war protest in, and defense of, democracy differently. Examination of discourse suggests that marginalization of anti-war protest continues to be the privileged discourse. Overwhelming dismissal of Embedded's anti-war narratives by the majority of critics and Latter-day Saint (LDS) viewers indicates that dissent was framed according to cultural and societal values, which perpetuated conceptions of anti-war protest as deviant. Thus, in both public discussion and personal interpretation of Embedded's outward expression of protest, anti-war activism is perceived to be illegitimate when the United States is at war. Results suggest that most theatre critics and LDS viewers relied on values framing in their perception of the play, which negated complex and nuanced discussion regarding military action in Iraq. By broadening discussion of how anti-war dissent is framed by including theatre critics and individual viewers, this research provides insight into how dissenting action is perceived within a larger cultural context. As findings reveal, it is reasonable to conclude that marginalization of anti-war dissent is not limited to mass media. Rather, I argue that dismissal of protest may be perpetuated on a wider societal scale, a problematic trend, especially as protest is widely considered to be a valuable tenet of democratic practice.
32251: Working from Tokyo
Creators: name: Project, Lockdown2020 and Beyond
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 479999
subject: Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified

description: Yōkoso (welcome) to the desk space in my Tokyo apartment. I'm a third year DPhil history candidate. My research is a transnational history of laughter and political satire in nineteenth century Japan. Mid-Hilary term I left my Oxford accommodation for what I expected to be a short archival research trip to Tokyo. Plans changed and I am still here. Now I'm an affiliated researcher with Rikkyo University where I will be continuing my dissertation write-up and delivering an undergraduate course as a lecturer. Japan is in "lockdown lite". That means while I can't access the libraries, the options to sing in an airtight karaoke booth, line up for the latest popular dessert or try your luck in a pachinko parlour are still readily available. Choosing not to gamble with my own life or that of others, I am staying at home and practicing a new karaoke number in the shower.
Habitability of Super-Earth Planets around Other Suns: Models including Red Giant Branch Evolution
Creators: name: von Bloh, W.
name: Cuntz, M.
name: Schroeder, K. -P.
name: Bounama, C.
name: Franck, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The unexpected diversity of exoplanets includes a growing number of super- Earth planets, i.e., exoplanets with masses of up to several Earth masses and a similar chemical and mineralogical composition as Earth. We present a thermal evolution model for a 10 Earth mass planet orbiting a star like the Sun. Our model is based on the integrated system approach, which describes the photosynthetic biomass production taking into account a variety of climatological, biogeochemical, and geodynamical processes. This allows us to identify a so-called photosynthesis-sustaining habitable zone (pHZ) determined by the limits of biological productivity on the planetary surface. Our model considers the solar evolution during the main-sequence stage and along the Red Giant Branch as described by the most recent solar model. We obtain a large set of solutions consistent with the principal possibility of life. The highest likelihood of habitability is found for "water worlds". Only mass-rich water worlds are able to realize pHZ-type habitability beyond the stellar main-sequence on the Red Giant Branch.
description: 40 pages, 6 figures; Astrobiology (in press)
Influence-directed Explanations for Machine Learning
Creators: name: Sen, Shayak
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Increasingly, decisions and actions affecting people’s lives are determined by automated systems processing personal data. Excitement about these systems has been accompanied by serious concerns about their opacity and the threats that they pose to privacy, fairness, and other values. Recognizing these concerns, it is important to make real-world automated decision-making systemsaccountable for privacy and fairness by enabling them to detect and explain violations of these values. System maintainers may leverage such accounts to repair systems to avoid future violations with minimal impact on the utilitygoals. In this dissertation, we provide a basis for explaining how machine learning systems use information. These explanations increase trust in the functioning of the system, allowing us to verify that they make not only right decisionsbut also for justifiable reasons. Further, explanations can be used to support detection of privacy and fairness violations, as well as explain how they came about. We can then leverage this understanding to repair systems to avoidfuture violations. We identify two major challenges to explaining information use in machine learning systems: (i) converged use, that machine learning systems typicallycombine a large number of input features, and (ii) indirect use, that these systems can typically infer and use information that is not directly provided to the system. Our approach to explaining how complex machine learning models use information involves answering two questions: (influence) Which factors were influential in determining outcomes?, and (interpretation) What do these factors mean? We first present key results measuring the causal influence of factors in machine learning models. We then examine the following settings: (i) systems with potential indirect use of information, and (ii) convolutional neuralnetworks. For each setting we demonstrate how influence and interpretation combine to account for information use.
Human Resource Development and the Productivity of the Civil Service of Cross River State, Nigeria.pdf
Creators: name: Obo, Ekpenyong  Bassey
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Occupational and workplace health and safety
Human resources and industrial relations not elsewhere classified
Workplace wellbeing and quality of working life
Industrial and employee relations
Human resources management

description: This study was designed to determine the level of training and development of civil employees and how it affects their present and future productive capacities. Survey design was adopted for the study. Civil employees selected from six ministries constituted the population for the study from which a sample of 90 was randomly drawn, 15 employees from each ministry. Two research questions and a null hypothesis was formulated to guide and direct the study. The t-test statistic and simple percentages were used to analysis hypothesis and questionnaire respectfully. The result revealed that civil employees in cross river state civil service were not exposed to regular training workshops and refresher courses required to cope with job challenges and organizational changes. Hence, they are denied the opportunity of acquiring the relevant skills and knowledge required to perform tasks effectively and these has a direct and immediate impact on productivity. It was recommended that government should expose its employees to regular training workshops and refresher courses as well as award scholarships to intelligent employees to improve their educational levels.
title: Racial and Ethnic Comparison of Migration Selectivity: Primary and Repeat Migration
Creators: name: Lee, Sang Lim
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: The purposes of this study are to examine migration disparities in primary, onward, and return migration by Hispanics, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white and to inspect the differences among the various types of migration. In addition, this study explores explanations of the migration disparities. These have been rarely studied because of a lack of proper migration data. This research employs the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY79) for a logistic regression of primary migration and for a hierarchical generalized linear model (HGLM) of the two types of repeat migration, namely onward and return. The results demonstrate that whites are more likely to make primary and onward migrations compared to blacks and Hispanics. But, with return migration, significant differences between whites and other minorities are not found. With respect to the contributors or explanations, this study indicates that the racial/ethnic migration disparities are not explained by socioeconomic status as opposed to explanations by human capital perspectives. The racial/ethnic disparities in migrations seem to be produced by discrimination and an unequal distribution of opportunities. Return migration presents several interesting different patterns compared with the other type migrations, including the effects of age and educational attainment. For return migration, old and less educated individuals have higher odds, showing reversed pattern of total, primary, and onward migration. The findings seem to indicate that different characteristics are involved in different types of migration.
title: Essays on Investment Fluctuation and Market Volatility
Creators: name: Lai, Chaoqun
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation includes two different groups of objects in macroeconomics and financial economics. In macroeconomics, the aggregate investment fluctuation and its relation to an individual firm's behavior have been extensively studied for the past three decades. Most studies on the interdependence behavior of firms' investment focus on the key issue of separating a firm's reaction to others' behavior from reaction to common shocks. However, few researchers have addressed the issue of isolating this endogenous effect from a statistical and econometrical approach. The first essay starts with a comprehensive review of the investment fluctuation and firms' interdependence behavior, followed by an econometric model of lumpy investments and an analysis of the binary choice behavior of firms'investments. The last part of the first essay investigates the unique characteristics of the Italian economy and discusses the economic policy implications of our research findings. We ask a similar question in the field of financial economics: Where does stock market volatility come from? The literature on the sources of such volatility is abundant. As a result of the availability of high-frequency financial data, attention has been increasingly directed at the modeling of intraday volatility of asset prices and returns. However, no empirical research of intraday volatility analysis has been applied at both a single stock level and industry level in the food industry. The second essay is aimed at filling this gap by modeling and testing intraday volatility of asset prices and returns. It starts with a modified High Frequency Multiplicative Components GARCH (Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity) model, which breaks daily volatility into three parts: daily volatility, deterministic intraday volatility, and stochastic intraday volatility. Then we apply this econometric model to a single firm as well as the whole food industry using the Trade and Quote Data and Center for Research in Security Prices data. This study finds that there is little connection between the intraday return and overnight return. There exists, however, strong evidence that the food recall announcements have negative impacts on asset returns of the associated publicly traded firms.
Tile and crystal calorimeter for KLOE-2 experiment
Creators: name: Happacher, F.
name: Martini, M.
name: Miscetti, S.
name: Sarra, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The upgrade of the DA$Φ$NE machine layout requires a modification of the size and position of the inner focusing quadrupoles of KLOE$^2$ thus asking for the realization of two new calorimeters covering the quadrupoles area. To improve the reconstruction of $K_L\to 2π^0$ events with photons hitting the quadrupoles, a tile calorimeter, QCALT, with high efficiency to low energy photons (20-300 MeV), time resolution of less than 1 ns and space resolution of few cm, is needed. We propose a tile calorimeter with a high granularity readout corresponding to about 2500 silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) of $1\times 1$ mm$^2$ area. Moreover, the low polar angle regions need the realization of a dense crystal calorimeter with very high time resolution performances to extend the acceptance for multiphotons events. Best candidates for this calorimeter are LYSO crystals with APD readout or PbWO$_4$ crystals with large area SIPM readout.
description: talk given at IPRD08 Siena, Italy
Primal and dual optimal stopping with signatures
Creators: name: Bayer, Christian
name: Pelizzari, Luca
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Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signature
subject: optimal stopping
subject: rough paths
subject: Monte Carlo
subject: rough volatility
subject: 60L10
subject: 60L20
subject: 91G20

description: We propose two signature-based methods to solve the optimal stopping problem - that is, to price American options - in non-Markovian frameworks. Both methods rely on a global approximation result for Lp-functionals on rough path-spaces, using linear functionals of robust, rough path signatures. In the primal formulation, we present a non-Markovian generalization of the fa- mous Longstaff--Schwartz algorithm, using linear functionals of the signature as regression basis. For the dual formulation, we parametrize the space of square-integrable martingales using linear functionals of the signature, and apply a sample average approximation. We prove convergence for both methods and present first numerical examples in non-Markovian and non-semimartingale regimes.
Relationship between plasma trans-fatty acid isomer concentrations and self-reported cardiovascular disease risk in US adults
Creators: name: Zhang, Qian
name: Yang, Yuwei
name: Hu, Mingjun
name: Li, Haibo
name: Zhong, Qi
name: Huang, Fen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The effect of different individual TFA isomers on cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been a limited study, especially for stroke. We aimed to investigate the relationships between four major plasma TFA isomer (elaidic, vaccenic, palmitelaidic and linolelaidic acid) concentrations and the risk of CVD, stroke and non-stroke CVD. A cross-sectional study was conducted, utilising a nationally representative sample of US adults in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Among the 3504 participants, 304 participants self-reported CVD history. The highest quintile of elaidic acid intake was associated with a 233% higher CVD risk (p = .010). Adjusted for age, gender and race, palmitelaidic acid was associated with a decreased CVD risk, but the effect size was diminished in a subsequent analysis model. For stroke risk, we failed to identify any associations. In addition to elaidic acid, the health effect of palmitelaidic acid should be paid more attention in the future studies.