cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development and Identification of Metrics to Predict the Impact of Dimension Reduction Techniques on Classical Machine Learning Algorithms for Still Highway Images
Creators: name: Khan, Wasim Akram
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: We are witnessing an influx of data - images, texts, video, etc. Their high dimensionality and large volume make it challenging to apply machine learning to obtain actionable insight. This thesis explores several aspects pertaining to dimensional reduction: dimension reduction methods, metrics to measure distortion, image preprocessing, etc. Faster training and inference time on reduced data and smaller models which can be deployed on commodity hardware are a critical advantage of dimension reduction. For this study, classical machine learning methods were explored owing to their solid mathematical foundation and interpretability.
The dataset used is a time series of images from several camera feeds observing the traffic, weather and road conditions along highways. The time-series nature of dataset gives rise to interesting questions which are investigated in this work. For instance, can machine learning models trained on past data be used on future camera feed data? This is highly desirable and yet difficult due to the changing weather, road conditions, traffic conditions and scenery. Can dimension reduction models obtained from past data be used for reducing dimensionality of future data? This thesis also examines the difference between the performance of machine learning methods before and after application of dimension reduction. It tests some existing metrics to measure quality of dimension-reduced data set and introduces several new ones. It also examines the application of image pre-processing methods to boost the performance of classifiers. The classification performance with and without random sampling has been studied as well.
Adverbial ordering in english
Creators: name: Yong, Christina M.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: adverbial
adverb order
experimental syntax
semantics
syntax
VP

description: Cross-linguistically, adverbials appear to be subject to strict ordering restrictions based on semantic subclass.  For example, frequentative adverbials (often) must precede celerative adverbials (quickly), which must precede degree of perfection adverbials (well); several other classes of adverbials fill in this ordered hierarchy.  Approaches to accounting for this phenomenon include applying semantic and/or syntactic methods of analysis.  While several competing explanations for the facts of VP-external adverbial distribution have been offered, the distribution facts themselves are not controversial.   In contrast to the distribution VP-external adverbials, that of VP-internal adverbials (adverbials within the VP, probably including some preverbal adverbials in English) is not well understood.  It seems likely that VP-internal adverbials, like VP-external adverbials, do appear in a set order relative to each other.  This thesis examines the semantic subcategories of potentially VP-internal adverbials and takes as its main purpose to verify, based on solicited grammaticality judgments, whether or not such VP-internal adverbials are indeed subject to ordering restrictions similar to those affecting pre-VP adverbial distribution.  Grammaticality judgments are also used to try to determine what effects (if any) adverbial length or complexity have on adverbial positional licensing within the VP.  Pilot study findings suggest that VP-internal adverbials do demonstrate ordering restrictions based on semantic subcategory, and also that phonological considerations may bear a significant impact on the grammaticality of adverbial positioning within the VP.  The implications for future experimental work as well as for the theory of adverbial distribution are discussed.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16631.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 27.06.1947, erstellt von Helmut Müller
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Lasiodermini Boving 1927
Creators: name: Zahradník, Petr
name: Háva, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Ptinidae

description: Lasiodermini Böving, 1927
Lasioderma Stephens, 1835: 417. Type species Ptilinus testaceum Duftschmid, 1825 (A, E, I, N, Nt, P, F). Hypora Mulsant et Rey, 1864b: 294. Type species Ptinus serricorne Fabricius, 1792.
Pseudochina Jacquelin du Val, 1860b: 143. Type species Ptilinus haemorrhoidalis Illiger, 1807.
Megorama Fall, 1905: 206. Type species Catorama simplex LeConte, 1865 (E, I, N, Nt, P). Catoramina Pic, 1951b: 6. Type species Catoramina signata Pic, 1951.
Falsoptilinus Pic, 1950a: 10. Type species Falsoptilinus modestus Pic, 1950.
Pseudolasioderma Logvinovskiy, 1978: 26. Type species Lasioderma brevis Reitter, 1891 (P).
description: Published as part of Zahradník, Petr & Háva, Jiří, 2014, Catalogue of the world genera and subgenera of the superfamilies Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea (Coleoptera: Derodontiformia, Bostrichiformia), pp. 301-352 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on page 333, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/224794
Veiled incivilities: international students and campus/classroom climate at predominantly white universities
Creators: name: Roemer, Ann E.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: campus climate
classroom climate
discrimination
international students
linguoracism
whiteness

description: This dissertation adds to the literature on campus climate in higher education in the United States, by 1) focusing on international students, especially those from China and Saudi Arabia, and their perceptions of the classroom climate as the racialized Other, in particular, their feelings of being welcomed or not welcomed; and 2) examining their perceptions of, and reactions to, pedagogical practices and peer behaviors that marginalized and/or included them. The mixed-methods study was conducted at three predominantly White institutions in the Intermountain West, utilizing the theoretical framework of campus climate and the White racial frame. Qualitative and quantitative data found the international students to be somewhat ambivalent in their perceptions of the campus climate, reporting that it was both welcoming and unwelcoming. Perceptions of the classroom climate were found to be associated with those of the campus climate, with the role of the professor as essential to their feel
Additional file 7 of Performance of the No-U-Turn sampler in multi-trait variance component estimation using genomic data
Creators: name: Nishio, Motohide
name: Arakawa, Aisaku
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 7: Table S5. Presence of divergence and parameters that affect divergence for the No-U-Turn Sampler.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung unnummeriert, einen Zürcher Lückentag ergänzend.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität nach einer Projektion vom 20.05.1947, erstellt am Observatory der Cheloo University in Tsinan (Jinan) Shandong, beobachtet von: Ching, kopiert in Zürich
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Kopie einer 25cm-Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen am Observatory in Tsinan (Jinan) Shandong auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund weiterer Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Instrument: unbekannt
Longitudinal analysis of the role of insomnia in suicide risk amongst suicide ideators and attempters
Creators: name: Roberge, Erika M.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: Insomnia
Longitudinal growth model
Military
Suicide risk

description: Currently, identification of proximal risk factors of suicide is a primary focus of suicide research; however, knowledge of these risk factors is limited.  Therefore, longitudinal studies aiming to identify proximal, time-varying predictors of suicidal behavior are needed to improve prediction and prevention of suicide behaviors.  To date, several studies have reported significant associations among insomnia, suicide ideation, and suicidal behaviors.  This study sought to examine the relationship between insomnia (ISI) and suicide risk (BSS) over time amongst a group of suicide ideators, single, and multiple suicide attempters who took part in a clinical trial comparing treatment as usual (TAU) to brief cognitive behavioral therapy (BCBT).  Participants included 152 active-duty Army soldiers reporting past week suicide ideation with some intent and/or past month suicide attempt.  Longitudinal growth modeling was used to test the effect of trajectories of variables, as well as to compare group means.  Additionally, a two-intercept cross-lagged panel over time was created to determine if insomnia and suicide scores risk predict change at the next time point.  BCBT participants experienced a significant negative trajectory of ISI, while TAU's trajectory was nonsignificant.  Suicide ideators and single attempters reported similar baseline and end-of-study levels of ISI.  No differences in ISI trajectories were observed between suicide status groups. A two-intercept cross-lagged panel over time was created to model the ability of previous BSS and ISI scores to predict change in the following time points.  Previous variable measurements (t-1) significantly predicted change in following like-measurements, but did not predict change in the other variable (i.e., t-1 ISI did not predict change in BSS, t-1 BSS did not predict change in ISI).  Results of analyses revealed that suicide status groups report similar baseline levels of insomnia and suicide risk; suicide status groups have similar trajectories in insomnia over time; and while insomnia and suicide risk change together over time, change in one does not predict change in the other.  Overall, these findings suggest that insomnia is a co-occurring problem with suicide risk for individuals with suicidal thoughts and behaviors, but it does not influence fluctuations in suicide risk.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16629.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 25.06.1947, erstellt von Helmut Müller
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
A HISTORICAL APPROACH TO "ANIMAL FARM" BY GEORGE ORWELL
Creators: name: Sapayeva, Khosiyat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: George Orwell's "Animal Farm" is more than just a simple tale of barnyard animals; it is a profound political allegory that explores the dynamics of power, corruption, and the impact of education in the context of the Soviet Union's history. By employing a historical approach, we can better understand how Orwell's novella serves as a critique of totalitarian regimes, particularly Stalinist Russia, and how it reflects the broader socio-political environment of the 20th century. By using vague language, implementing fear tactics, and creating manipulative laws, leaders convinced the populace of their lies, which served their interests. The simplicity of the people made them easily persuaded, even though power could have been used to benefit the entire Soviet population. This study employs a historical approach to analyze the research.
The dynamic biomechanical regulation of morphogenesis
Creators: name: Edgar, Lowell Taylor
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: Neovascularization
Neovascularization - Regulation
Blood-vessels - Mechanical properties
Biomechancis

description: Angiogenesis is the process by which new blood vessels sprout from existing vessels, enabling new vascular elements to be added to an existing vasculature network.  Mechanical interactions during angiogenesis, i.e., traction forces applied by neovessels and the corresponding deformation of the extracellular matrix (ECM), are important regulators of growth and neovascularization.  However, the dynamic relationship between cell-generated forces, the deformation of the ECM, and the topology of the emerging vascular network are poorly understood.   The goal of this research was to develop, implement, and validate a computational framework that simulates the dynamic mechanical interaction between angiogenic neovessels and the ECM.  This dissertation presents a novel continuous-discrete finite element (FE) model with angiogenic growth coupled with matrix deformation.  Angiogenesis was simulated using a discrete growth model.  This model uses properties of the ECM, represented by a continuous FE mesh, to regulate angiogenic growth and branching and was capable of  accurately predicting vascular morphometric data when simulating growth in various matrix conditions.  To couple growth with matrix deformation, sprout forces were applied to the mesh and the corresponding deformation of the matrix was determined using the nonlinear FE software FEBio.   This deformation was then used to update the ECM into the current configuration before calculating the next growth step.   Data from vascularized gel experiments were used to both calibrate mechanisms within the model during implementation and compare with computational simulations to assess the   validity of the simulations.  In simulations of experiments involving vascularized collagen gels subjected to various mechanical boundary constraints, this coupled framework accurately predicted gel contraction and microvessel alignment for each condition.  The primary mechanism for alignment occurs as microvessels passively align while moving with the deformation of the surrounding matrix.  These results demonstrate how biomechanical cellular activity at the microscale during morphogenic processes such as angiogenesis can influence the macroenvironment and induce patterns and organization.  These methods provide a flexible computational platform to investigate the mechanisms by which the biomechanical interaction between cells and the ECM regulates the structure and composition of the emerging tissue during morphogenesis.
Design of a Sweeping Impedance Probe for the SPORT Mission
Creators: name: Young, Caleb W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: In our modern world satellite systems are an evermore common part of day to day life. Reliable communication from the ground to these satellites is becoming more and more necessary. Plasma scintillations in the ionosphere can make these communications difficult or even impossible. By gaining a better understanding of these scintillations, times of bad satellite connection can be predicted in the same way terrestrial weather gets predicted and reported today. The objective of the SPORT mission is to gain a better understanding of these plasma scintillations. In order to measure plasma density, and gain a better understanding of plasma scintillations, a Sweeping Impedance Probe (SIP) can be used.
It is proposed that the SIP for the SPORT mission be a digital rework of a probe used on the ASSP mission. By using digital processing methods instead of analog methods the new probe can be more accurate in the plasma measurement.
This thesis will describe the theory and design of the SPORT SIP and its advantages over previous analog methods. The design is detailed for both the analog and digital portions of the probe along with a selection of testing data. Potential changes are also discussed.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16612.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 08.06.1947, erstellt von Helmut Müller
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Numerical modeling of near-field thermal radiation in complex, three-dimensional and multiscale geometries
Creators: name: Edalatpour, Sheila
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: Thermal discrete dipole approximation (T-DDA) - Research
Radiative Heat Transfer

description: Modeling techniques are provided for accurate and efficient solution of near-field radiative heat transfer in complex, three-dimensional and multiscale geometries. These techniques are applied to investigate the physics of near-field thermal radiation in several configurations.  A closed-form expression based on fluctuational electrodynamics is derived and applied for modeling size effect on the emissivity of metallic and dielectric thin films. The emissivity of dielectric films increases with increasing film thickness, while metallic films show the inverse behavior. The critical thickness, above which no size effect is observed, is about a hundred nanometers for metals and a few centimeters for dielectrics.  A novel computational method, called the thermal discrete dipole approximation (T-DDA), for modeling near-field radiative heat transfer in arbitrary geometries is proposed and verified. The T-DDA is based on discretizing objects into cubical subvolumes behaving as electric point dipoles. The objects are submerged in an infinite lossless medium and can interact with an infinite surface. An extensive convergence analysis of the method is performed using the exact results for two spheres. The convergence of the T-DDA mostly depends on the dielectric function of the objects and the object size to gap ratio. An error less than 5% was achievable in the T-DDA using the available computational resources.   The T-DDA is applied to model near-field thermal radiation between a silica probe and a silica surface separated by a gap of size d. When d --> 0, the probe-surface heat rate is dominated by the contribution of surface phonon-polaritons and approaches a d^-2 power law. In this limit, the total heat rate and the resonance location can be predicted using the proximity approximation. When the probe tip size is comparable to the gap thickness, localized surface phonons also contribute to heat transfer and induce a resonance splitting in the thermal spectrum. In this regime, the spheroidal dipole approximation predicts the resonant frequencies accurately, and it provides a rough estimate of the heat rate. Finally, the T-DDA analysis of probe-sample interactions demonstrates that the resonance redshift observed in near-field thermal spectroscopy is caused by the reflection interactions between the probe and the sample.
Additional file 8 of Performance of the No-U-Turn sampler in multi-trait variance component estimation using genomic data
Creators: name: Nishio, Motohide
name: Arakawa, Aisaku
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 8: Table S6. Number of iterations and computing time (seconds) for estimating variance components.
Japanese American Youth in Topaz Relocation Center, Utah: An Oral History
Creators: name: Tohmatsu, Akiko J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1994

description: This project examines Japanese American youth in Topaz High School, a school set up in a War Relocation Center during 1942 to 1945. It looks at what students were taught there, as well as what they felt, thought, heard, and saw. Oral histories collected from Japanese American former internees constitute the main methodology. An oral history enables us to know the feelings and emotions involved in evacuation at the same time as it provides us with more human insight, such as human perspectives and personal reminiscences, which are not available in historical, social, or political accounts.
Findings of this project are both positive and negative personal recollections of Topaz High School and life in the War Relocation Center. Despite the adverse circumstances in the War Relocation Center, Japanese American youth maintained their morale and determination to do well in school. The research shows that an appropriate educational program was provided in Topaz High School in spite of an unusual school setting in a War Relocation Center, and Japanese cultural and traditional values in education facilitated the academic achievement of Japanese American youth.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung unnummeriert, einen Zürcher Lückentag ergänzend.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 20.05.1947, erstellt am Skalnate Pleso Observatorium
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Zeichnung nach eigener Vorlage am Skalnate Pleso Observatorium. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund weiterer Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Es sind zudem statistische Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert. Instrument: unbekannt, Sonnenbild D = 25 cm
Restoration of Aspen in Different Stages of Mortality in Southern Utah
Creators: name: Ohms, Seth Ray
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2003

description: Aspen clones of an aspen-dominated community in Southwestern Utah are declining, some having experienced high mortality coupled with in sufficient regeneration. The objectives of this study were to (I) determine if decadent, non-regenerating mature aspen stands could be regenerated through disturbance of the 111 auxin/cytokinin hormone relationship by clearcutting; (2) determine the extent of ungulate use of regenerating aspen ramets. Clearcuts were made in late summer of 2001 in 10 different clones that exhibited various levels of decline on a continuum from relatively healthy to extremely deteriorated. Nested wildlife/livestock exclosures were constructed in each clearcut plot, as well as in a corresponding uncut control plot. In the fall of 2002, regenerating suckers were counted. In addition, vigor and ungulate utilization of these suckers were measured in the wildlife and livestock exclosures, as well as in an unprotected portion of the clearcut and control plots.
Regeneration of the clearcut plots ranged from none in the most decadent clones, to 75,000 stems/ha in the least decadent clone, and was significantly greater than the control plots. Vigor, as measured by height of the suckers, was 1.5 to 2.1 times greater in the clearcut plots than in the control plots. Seventy-three percent of the suckers in the unprotected portion of the plots were heavily browsed, while only 12% were not browsed. Successful regeneration of aspen clones is heavily dependent upon clone decadence. Unregulated browsing pressure may limit the clone’s ability to successfully restock and remain on the landscape.
Extending Ethos in Digital Rhetorics
Creators: name: Hillen, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This dissertation researched the concept of ethos, or appeal to authority or trust, on the social media platform, Twitter. Looking at collections of tweets, I found that the characteristics of the Twitter platform, as well as the general qualities of writing online, pushed users to use short cuts to trust, such as focusing in on specific buzz words, or through referencing well known organizations and individuals. Users also used internet culture as its own source of authority. They demonstrated that they were up to date on the latest trends and memes, and so were trustworthy accounts to follow. Users appealed to ethos this way because Twitter conversations occurred faster and farther, and with people who most users were either unfamiliar with or who were completely anonymous. Essentially, Twitter user rely on the short cuts to trust and authority in conversations because they are less often engaging with a stable, known audience. Twitter users must continually reassert and define themselves again as their posts circulate widely across and beyond the platform.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung, unnummeriert.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität nach einer Projektion vom 01.07.1947, erstellt am Observatory der Cheloo University in Tsinan (Jinan) Shandong, beobachtet von: Ching, kopiert in Zürich
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Kopie einer 25cm-Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen am Observatory in Tsinan (Jinan) Shandong auf dem Vordruck der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: unbekannt
Anthropogenic Influences on Bacterial Assemblages in Stream Biofilms
Creators: name: Ogata, Elizabeth M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Bacteria within biofilms are an essential component of stream ecosystems, influencing the movement of carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) in watersheds. To better understand the ecological effects of human activities on stream ecosystems, my research examined how nutrients and pharmaceuticals, common pollutants in streams worldwide, influence bacterial assemblages in stream biofilms. First, I tested how nutrients (N, P, iron) and pharmaceuticals (caffeine, diphenhydramine) influenced biofilm bacterial microbiomes (taxa present in at least 75% of samples of a contaminant treatment). Nutrients allowed taxa known for their ability to thrive in nutrient-rich environments to dominate microbiomes, pharmaceuticals supported a rich microbiome that included unique taxa with contaminant-degrading abilities, and nutrients plus pharmaceuticals fostered microbiomes with unique cyanobacterial taxa.The distinctly different effects of nutrients and pharmaceuticals on bacterial microbiomes contribute to our understanding of the unique ecological ramifications of these two common pollutant classes. Next, I examined bacterial assemblages contributing to two nutrient cycling processes using DNA stable isotope probing (DNA-SIP), a technique which identifies bacteria that use an isotopically-labeled compound by tracking the movement of an isotopic label into bacterial genetic material. I performed a 13C-hemicellulose DNA-SIP experiment to identify and compare bacteria which assimilate this common organic C compound under N and/or P enriched conditions. N and P had distinctly different effects on bacterial assemblages metabolizing 13C-hemicellulose. N enabled certain abundant taxa to dominate, P enhanced assemblage richness and stability, and N plus P supported C metabolism by families which were abundant in initial assemblages. My results demonstrate the potential for changes in the absolute and relative amount of N and P to uniquely influence bacterial assemblages contributing to organic C processing. Last, I performed a DNA-SIP experiment to identify and compare bacteria which metabolized inorganic (15N-ammonium [15NH4+], 15N-nitrate [15NO3-]) and organic (15N-glycine) N forms in streams. 15NH4+ was generally metabolized by low and variably abundant families, 15NO3- was metabolized by a rich assemblage which included a family known to be able to assimilate this less preferred N form and 15N-glycine stimulated families which were rare in baseline assemblages. These results suggest distinctly different bacterial assemblages may remove different inorganic and organic N forms from stream water columns. Overall, my results provide insight into how anthropogenic pollutants influence bacterial microbiomes and identify bacteria contributing to C and N cycling in stream environments.
Orson Pratt and the Expansion of the Doctrine and Covenants
Creators: name: Passantino, Brian C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a faith that is distinguished by its religious texts. The nickname “Mormon,” that has been applied to adherents of the faith, comes from the name of its most cherished canonical book, the Book of Mormon. Aside from the Bible and the Book of Mormon, Latter-day Saints accept two other books of scriptures – the Pearl of Great Price and the Doctrine and Covenants. These four books constitute the authorized scriptures of the faith, or as they refer to them, “the standard works.”
My thesis focuses on the book entitled the Doctrine and Covenants. The Doctrine and Covenants is a book that contains a compilation of revelations and teachings from prophets within the history of the Church, most notably Joseph Smith, its founding prophet. Before Smith died in 1844, he oversaw the collection and dissemination of his most essential and authoritative revelations and teachings as contained within the Doctrine and Covenants. Almost thirty years after his passing, however, Orson Pratt, an apostle of the Church, acting as Church Historian, was asked to amend and augment the revelations and teachings found within the Doctrine and Covenants. After a two-year project, Pratt added an additional twenty-six sections to the Doctrine and Covenants, mostly consisting of other revelations purportedly given to Smith while he was still alive.
My thesis seeks to uncover Orson Pratt’s rationale for adding the revelations and teachings that he did to the Doctrine and Covenants. Because little documentation has survived that explains exactly why he decided to add certain revelations and omit others, I have sought to contextualize the additions that he made to the Doctrine and Covenants by studying the historical context in which he made those decisions, namely, the 1870s, and analyze the texts that he added in order to look for clues into his decision-making. Pratt was influenced by a litany of factors and my thesis explores how those influences effected his expansion project of the Doctrine and Covenants.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16654.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 20.07.1947, erstellt von Helmut Müller
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Später wurden ergänzende Angaben aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen direkt auf der Fleckenzeichnung hinzugefügt. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Connections Between Hydrothermal System Geochemistry and Microbiology: Traversing Tectonic Boundaries in the South-Central Peruvian Andes
Creators: name: Upin, Heather
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Geochemistry and microbiology are inherently tied in the natural world. The study of geomicrobiology has historically taken place in extreme systems, like hot springs of Yellowstone National Park and deep-sea hydrothermal vents, because the organisms that exist there have deep lineages on the tree of life and provide insight into early life on Earth. These microbes use chemical energy from nutrients available in their environment rather than relying on photosynthesis, energy obtained from the sun, to support their metabolism. The goal of this study is to improve our understanding of geological controls (for example the tectonic setting) on hot spring geomicrobiology. Fourteen thermal springs were sampled for aqueous and gas geochemistry and molecular microbiology along a transect from the Peruvian flat-slab subduction segment southward to the back-arc setting with steep-dip subduction in the Altiplano. The flat-slab region currently lacks active magmatic activity in contrast to southern Peru that is characterized by active arc volcanoes and behind the arc volcanism. Flat-slab springs (FSS) are cooler, more geochemically varied, and are supported by cooler subsurface reservoir temperatures compared to back-arc springs (BAS). Conversely, BAS have higher temperatures, exclusively Na-Cl rich waters, and are supported by hot subsurface temperatures. Statistical analyses were employed to meaningfully interpret and link the geochemistry and microbial community datasets. Significant relationships between spring geochemistry, spring temperature, microbial community composition, and geologic setting show that the FSS and BAS contain different phyla based on geologically influenced characteristics (i.e. temperature, chemistry). Our findings show that geological processes deep in the subsurface impart a primary control on surface geomicrobiological diversity.
Impacts of large-scale green infrastructure implementation and climate change on receiving water response  in the salt lake city area
Creators: name: York, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: Bioretention
Green infrastructure
Rainwater harvesting

description: Farmington Bay is an important natural resource for the state of Utah, providing wetland habitats including freshwater and salt water, marshes, mud flats, and upland areas. The primary water source for Farmington Bay is the Jordan River, which receives water from natural and urban runoff in the Salt Lake Valley.    This thesis work is guided by broad interest in evaluating implications of green infrastructure as a stormwater management practice on return flows under current and potential future climate change scenarios. The ultimate goal was to create a model to explore the impacts that bioretention, rainwater harvesting, and climate change may have, individually and combined, on the downstream stakeholders and receiving water systems in the Salt Lake Valley. This was performed using integrated modeling techniques through use of GoldSim software.   Overall, the model demonstrated that bioretention and rainwater harvesting individually and combined showed minimal to no impacts to downstream water users, Jordan River flows, and ultimately Farmington Bay water levels.  Bioretention reduced the flow in the Jordan River by less than 1%, primarily during peak flow.  Rainwater harvesting actually kept more water in the natural system on average because less water was needed from the water treatment facilities when outdoor irrigation was supplemented with rainwater.  This means more water stayed in the upstream reservoir or bypassed to the Jordan River. The user reliability did not differ for any of the bioretention and rainwater harvesting scenarios.  Climate change had the greatest impact to Jordan River flows, Farmington Bay water levels, and user reliability.  The selected 20% reduction in tributary flows and precipitation led to an average decrease of 11% in the Jordan River streamflow when compared to average baseline scenario over a 25-year simulation.  The user reliability decreased by 5% and most importantly, there was found to be an average of 36% decrease in the water levels in Farmington Bay, with a critical level of 41,000 acre-feet reached. The resultant of this is a loss of up to 15,000 acres of open bay that would impact bird habitat, brine shrimp grounds, recreationalists, bird watchers, hunters, and more.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16608.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 04.06.1947, erstellt von Bernhard Beck
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung, unnummeriert.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 13.06.1947, erstellt von Gaston Coutrez, Observatoire Royal de Belgique in Uccle
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Zeichnung nach eigener Vorlage in Uccle.
Instrument: Merz-Grubb Refraktor Teleskop (Öffnung 160 mm, f = 2450 mm, projiziertes Sonnenbild D = 25 cm)
Study of Levee Underseepage through Abandoned Channels and Point Bars on Curved Levee Sections Using the Response Surface-Monte Carlo Method
Creators: name: Reed, Tomsen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: The current procedures for calculated the probability of failure of levees (earthen structures designed to prevent flooding of important locations) all have their own unique limitations. Some methods are very simplistic, and either ignore or do not allow for inclusion of complex geometries. Other methods allow for complex geometry, but do not lend themselves to large quantities of analysis because of the amount of time it takes to create or modify a model. For these reasons, previous research performed by Lourdes Polanco and Dr. John Rice developed the preliminary stages of a new method called the Response Surface-Monte Carlo method. This method not only accounts for complex geometry, it is a probabilistic method that has the ability to calculate the probability of erosion initiation within a levee section. The research contained herein focused on a specific aspect of Dr. Rice’s work on levees which involved the creation of a “response surface” or a type of model for curved levees and for levees overlying a specific riverside feature known as a point bar. A point bar is a river feature that can, if it underlies a levee, potentially decrease the performance thereof.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 16647.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 13.07.1947, erstellt von Helmut Müller
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Kern-Merz-Refraktor.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Unter Umständen sind Angaben zu Protuberanzen vermerkt
Perceptions and enacted identities within the hiv prevention counseling context
Creators: name: Rogers, Brian Robert
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2016
Subjects: AIDS
Counseling
HIV
Identity
Prevention
Sexual Health

description: With the present study, I aim to address three major areas that, to date, have been infrequently studied on their own terms, and not at all in conjunction with one another: (1) health and identity, (2) health counseling as a topic of health communication, and (3) the counselor's subjectivity within the counseling context. Extant literature on health counseling posits both counselor and client identities as binary and static and fails to account for, much less endorse or cultivate, the complexity and nuance that characterize the health-counseling situation. I seek to trouble these assumptions and contribute to new ways of thinking about health counseling by focusing this study on an AIDS foundation to assess how counselor and client identities are respectively positioned and how counselors perceive their own and clients' identities, as well as how counselors accomplish particular subjectivities in fluid, dynamic, and complex ways. In order to accomplish this, I utilize a combination of theoretical approaches, including critical, rhetorical, and poststructural, and a range of textual and qualitative methods. This study suggests that not only do counselors perform myriad and multifaceted identities during counseling, even in a context that prescribes rigid positionalities, but that these practices may be a valuable resource for effective health-counseling practices.
From Data Modeling to Knowledge Engineering in Space System Design
Creators: name: Hennig, Christian
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2017
Subjects: Systemtechnik
Datenmodellierung
Wissensverarbeitung
Raumfahrttechnik
System Engineering
Data Modeling
Knowledge Engineering
Web Ontology Language
Astronautics

description: The technologies currently employed for modeling complex systems, such as aircraft, spacecraft, or infrastructures, are sufficient for system description, but do not allow deriving knowledge about the modeled systems. This work provides the means to describe space systems in a way that allows automating activities such as deriving knowledge about critical parts of the system’s design, evaluation of test success, and identification of single points of failure.
A Mormon Missionary's Guide to Conversion Therapy Addiction Recovery
Creators: name: Anderson, Shaun M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: This collection of essays explores my experience as a gay Mormon missionary, when I studied the Mormon Church’s Addiction Recovery Program in an attempt to alter my sexuality. The initial four essays take place during the two years that I lived in Southern California as a Mormon missionary from 2011-2013. They present the text of the LDS Family Services Addiction Recovery Program workbook, with my own thoughts, experiences, and stories driven into the margins. Through these four essays, I demonstrate the hope, anguish, and longing of a gay man who desperately wants to live the model of a righteous Mormon man.
The final essay explores the year after my mission, when I returned to Utah State University, and began the process of leaving the Mormon Church. In this essay, I abandon the text of the workbook to create a space for my own story, mirroring my experience leaving the Mormon Church.
This work explores the damage of conversion therapy, and stands as a testament against the practice of conversion therapy in all of its insidious forms. My aim is to hold institutions who encourage conversion therapy accountable for the harm they create, while simultaneously creating a space of validation and understanding for survivors of conversion therapy.
A Translational Examination of Alternative-Response Discrimination Training and Resurgence
Creators: name: Browning, Kaitlyn O.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorders often engage in severe forms of problem behavior. Reward-based behavioral interventions are highly effective at reducing levels of problem behavior and teaching more appropriate and adaptive alternative behaviors. Despite successful reduction in problem behavior during treatment, problem behaviors are susceptible to reoccurrence or relapse. Resurgence is a type of behavioral relapse that is particularly relevant to the treatment of problem behavior and may occur following the worsening of conditions of a more recently learned alternative behavior. That is, if the rewards that were used to teach the alternative behavior are removed or lessened, problem behavior may increase as a result. Importantly, resurgence of problem behavior poses a major obstacle for these individuals and their families. Recent clinical research has suggested that resurgence of severe destructive behavior may be prevented using a specific signal to indicate that a particular behavior will not be rewarded. While this may be a promising method for preventing resurgence, the generality of this finding is unknown. Laboratory research with animal subjects is a useful way to study resurgence under highly controlled settings and can provide important information for the development of behavioral interventions in clinical settings. The general procedures of behavioral interventions used in the clinic were approximated in Experiments 1 and 2 with rats as subjects to expand on this previous clinical finding. The goal of Experiment 1 was to determine whether resurgence would still be prevented by the signal that indicates reward unavailability when the reward is removed under conditions in which it was previously available. Contrary to previous findings, the signal for reward unavailability did not prevent resurgence; however, the conditions under which resurgence was tested were different between Experiment 1 and the previous clinical research. The goal of Experiment 2 was to determine whether this difference contributed to the discrepant findings. Resurgence was compared under conditions identical to Experiment 1 as well as conditions that more closely resembled those in the clinic. Resurgence was not differentially impacted by the testing procedures and, importantly, was not reduced under conditions similar to those used in the clinic. These results suggest that the conditions under which this signal may mitigate resurgence are limited and suggest avenues for future research to determine the necessary and sufficient conditions for this effect.
Administrar E Trabalhar: Uma Relação Impossível?
Creators: name: Correia, Catarina
name: Machado, Maria João
Publisher: name: UL-P Law Review - Revista de Direito da UL-P
Year: 2024

description: A proibição legal do cúmulo de funções de administrador com quaisquer outras ao abrigo de contrato de trabalho ou de prestação de serviços, bem como as suas legais consequências, numa sociedade anónima ou em sociedade que com esta esteja em relação de domínio ou de grupo, previstas no artigo 398.º n.º1 e n.º2 do Código das Sociedades Comerciais, é o tema que nos propomos analisar.


Como é natural, a proibição estabelecida no artigo 398.º n.º1 provocou diferentes entendimentos, de concordância, absoluta ou relativa, e de discordância, que serão aqui analisados, bem como as consequências legalmente extraídas de tal proibição que envolveram, pelo menos em parte, tomadas de posição do Tribunal Constitucional que conduziram a um acórdão uniformizador de jurisprudência com o n.º 774/2019, de 27 de janeiro.


Trata-se, portanto, para um tema que não é novo mas permanece atual, de propor um ponto de situação da doutrina e da jurisprudência portuguesas.
description: UL-P Law Review - Revista de Direito da UL-P, Vol. 17 No. 1 (2023): UL-P Law Review/Revista de Derecho de la UL-P
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung, unnummeriert.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 16.06.1947, erstellt von Gaston Coutrez, Observatoire Royal de Belgique in Uccle
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1947

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Zeichnung nach eigener Vorlage in Uccle.
Instrument: Merz-Grubb Refraktor Teleskop (Öffnung 160 mm, f = 2450 mm, projiziertes Sonnenbild D = 25 cm)