cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Creating an educational module to improve the calculation of total body surface area burned
Creators: name: Eckert, Kristine
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Initial management of burn patients involves the calculation of total body surface area burned and subsequent fluid management; a series of events which when performed incorrectly leads to complications for the patients. Proper education of graduate level health care practitioner students through an educational module is a solution to the miscalculation of total body surface area burned. A convenience sample of graduate level health care practitioner students was used to implement a burn education module via an online classroom platform. There, students learned how to calculate total body surface area burned using the Lund-Browder chart. It was expected for students to gain knowledge in the care of burn patients as well as experience an increased confidence to care for these patients. Care of the burn patient is essential for all personnel. It is heightened for those in New Jersey who may need to respond in the event of a Mass Casualty incident where burn patients will be placed in a variety of hospitals throughout the state according to the Eastern Regional Burn Disaster Consortium. The education resulted in Graduate level nurse practitioner students being able to more accurately determine the total body surface area burned as well as fluid requirements as compared to previous research. The participants also experienced an increased confidence level to care for burn patients after completion of the educational module. This educational module focused on graduate level healthcare providers with the ability to be implemented in other disciplines in the future, further decreasing the morbidity and mortality associated with incorrect calculation of total body surface area burned.
Henry Fuseli's The Death of Dido at Somerset House
Creators: name: Hohlios, Stephanie M.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Dido
Feminine
Fuseli
Fussli
Joshua Reynolds
Somerset

description: This thesis examines the disquieting paradoxes of neo-classical form in Henry Fuseli's The Death of Dido (1781). Drawing his subject matter from Virgil's Aeneid,  Fuseli depicts a voluptuous and seemingly ideal feminine figure that recalls the Nike of Samothrace (c. 220-190 BCE) in all her drama and dynamic legibility. Yet classical  coherence is simultaneously undermined by a series of dramatic and jarring juxtapositions: light abuts shade, color distorts line, gesture contradicts pose. The formal  and rhetorical tensions of the painting likewise drew polarized commentary when it first appeared at the Royal Academy exhibition at Somerset House in 1781. Some critics likened it to the sublime rhetoric of Longinus, while others lamented what they described  as the ungraceful, even vulgar composition of the painting's main figure.   Fuseli's Dido is-both literally and figuratively-a body divided. Sitting midway between classical tradition and modern form, Dido's figure is disrupted not only by the  suicidal act that forms the dramatic center of the story, but moreover by the formal juxtapositions and figural shifts in the painting. Looking to a series of private and public negotiations in which Fuseli was engaged at the time of the painting's execution, I argue that the paradoxes of a "new classicism" find particularly salient expression in Fuseli's art, where fetish appeal vies with classical grace and decay becomes the inevitable  complement to ideal beauty. I also look to Virgil's text; and secondary scholarship to show that the Dido character has historically been problematic for modern artists, often dealt with only in part; she is either a civil martyr or an unstable temptress. Lastly, I discuss  Fuseli's Dido figure as one sacrificed on the pyre of social change, as she embodies a very real difficulty for eighteenth-century English society, as an intrusive female form on the traditionally male academic scene.
Selective decision-making and collective behavior of fish by the motion of visual attention
Creators: name: Ito, Susumu
name: Uchida, Nariya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Collective motion provides a spectacular example of self-organization in Nature. Visual information plays a crucial role among various types of information in determining interactions. Recently, experiments have revealed that organisms such as fish and insects selectively utilize a portion, rather than the entirety, of visual information. Here, focusing on fish, we propose an agent-based model where the direction of attention is guided by visual stimuli received from the images of nearby fish. Our model reproduces a branching phenomenon where a fish selectively follows a specific individual as the distance between two or three nearby fish increases. Furthermore, our model replicates various patterns of collective motion in a group of agents, such as vortex, polarized school, swarm, and turning. We also discuss the topological nature of the visual interaction, as well as the positional distribution of nearby fish and the map of pairwise and three-body interactions induced by them. Through a comprehensive comparison with existing experimental results, we clarify the roles of visual interactions and issues to be resolved by other forms of interactions.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22031.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 05.09.1965, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1965

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
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
An exploration of vulnerability through creative process and performance
Creators: name: Peng, Shih-Ya
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Creative process
Performance
Vulnerability

description: This thesis explores the relationship between vulnerable experiences and dance. As artists, why is it important for us to value our vulnerabilities? Through examining or facing our weakness, our true strengths are revealed. In my 3- year MFA studies, I have found that allowing myself to be vulnerable is important in my learning process, my creative process, and my performance. By embracing my own vulnerabilities, I have gained a greater understanding of who I am as an artist and as a person. Finally, through my exploration of my thesis process, I believe that vulnerability is one of the universal languages in art and in dance.
Improved SQP and SLSQP Algorithms for Feasible Path-based Process Optimisation
Creators: name: Ma, Yingjie
name: Gao, Xi
name: Liu, Chao
name: Li, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Feasible path algorithms have been widely used for process optimisation due to its good convergence. The sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm is usually used to drive the feasible path algorithms towards optimality. However, existing SQP algorithms may suffer from inconsistent quadratic programming (QP) subproblems and numerical noise, especially for ill-conditioned process optimisation problems, leading to a suboptimal or infeasible solution. In this work, we propose an improved SQP algorithm (I-SQP) and an improved sequential least squares programming algorithm (I-SLSQP) that solves a least squares (LSQ) subproblem at each major iteration. A hybrid method through the combination of two existing relaxations is proposed to solve the inconsistent subproblems for better convergence and higher efficiency. We find that a certain part of the dual LSQ algorithm suffers from serious cancellation errors, resulting in an inaccurate search direction or no viable search direction generated. Therefore, the QP solver is used to solve LSQ subproblems in such a situation. The computational results indicates that I-SLSQP is more robust than fmincon in MATLAB, IPOPT, Py-SLSQP and I-SQP. It is also shown that I-SLSQP and Py-SLSQP is superior to I-SQP for ill-conditioned process optimisation problems, whilst I-SQP is more computationally efficient than I-SLSQP and Py-SLSQP for well-conditioned problems.
description: 43 pages, 10 figures, 12 tables
Weakly Supervised-Based Oversampling for High Imbalance and High Dimensionality Data Classification
Creators: name: Qian, Min
name: Li, Yan-Fu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the abundance of industrial datasets, imbalanced classification has become a common problem in several application domains. Oversampling is an effective method to solve imbalanced classification. One of the main challenges of the existing oversampling methods is to accurately label the new synthetic samples. Inaccurate labels of the synthetic samples would distort the distribution of the dataset and possibly worsen the classification performance. This paper introduces the idea of weakly supervised learning to handle the inaccurate labeling of synthetic samples caused by traditional oversampling methods. Graph semi-supervised SMOTE is developed to improve the credibility of the synthetic samples' labels. In addition, we propose cost-sensitive neighborhood components analysis for high dimensional datasets and bootstrap based ensemble framework for highly imbalanced datasets. The proposed method has achieved good classification performance on 8 synthetic datasets and 3 real-world datasets, especially for high imbalance and high dimensionality problems. The average performances and robustness are better than the benchmark methods.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22059.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 08.10.1965, erstellt von Werner Scheidegger
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1965

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung unnummeriert, einen Zürcher Lückentag ergänzend.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 10.09.1965, erstellt von Vasile Dinulescu, Observatorium Bukarest
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1965

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift, erstellt als Zeichnung nach eigener Vorlage am Astronomischen Observatorium Bukarest, Solarsektor, Rumänien. Instrument: Zeiss-Refraktor (Öffnung 130mm, f = 1950mm, projiziertes Sonnenbild D = 25cm)
Teaching beliefs and practices of language teaching assistants
Creators: name: Kau, Kevin
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014
Subjects: Beliefs
Graduate teaching assistants
Language education
Practices

description: Teaching assistantships were originally based on an apprenticeship model, where teaching assistants (TAs) would work with a professor by performing tasks such as grading papers, leading discussion groups, or preparing class. However, in the field of second language education, more and more novice and inexperienced TA find themselves teaching and managing an entire course themselves due to increased demand of second language (L2) teachers at U.S. universities. This study reports on the results of teachers beliefs and practices of two distinct populations of L2 TAs: those who self-identify as TAs and plan on making language teaching part of their future career, and TAs who do not plan on teaching language as part of their future career. Previous research has shown that teaching beliefs have a significant impact on how teachers teach. Given the self-identification of students into groups, it is hypothesized that there will be differences between the teaching beliefs and practices between these two groups. Little research has looked specifically at these two populations. This study looked at the teaching beliefs and practices of these two populations through the use of a survey. A 4-point Likert scale survey with matched teaching belief and teacher practice statements was used to compare the self-reported beliefs and practices of the study populations. Classroom observations were conducted on two of the TAs. Following this, any observed inconsistencies between survey data and actual observation were addressed in an interview. iv Results of this study showed that there was no significant difference between the self-reported beliefs and practices of the two groups. However, the career group had higher rates of correlation than the noncareer group, indicating that the career group was developing and growing, while the noncareer group may not be. Classroom observations and interviews revealed that there were many inconsistencies between the self-reported beliefs and practices of TAs, and actual classroom practices, indicating that while the career group is questioning their teaching beliefs and practices more than the noncareer group, both groups are still novice teachers.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 22086.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 28.11.1965, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1965

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
R-curve behavior of SiC
Creators: name: Kaur, Sarbjit
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Silicon carbide
Damage resistant ceramics
Fracture toughness

description: R-curve behavior of four different silicon carbide (SiC) materials was assessed  using an indentation/strength technique. Two developmental grades, with similar  microstructures and chemistries but different fracture modes, were compared with  commercially available SiC-N (Cercom, Inc., Vista, CA) and solid-state PS-5000  (Morgan AM&T). The long-crack fracture toughness, measured using single-edge  precracked beam (SEPB) technique, was 88% higher for material A (SEPB of 6.4  MPavm), which showed a highly intergranular fracture mode compared to B (SEPB of  3.4 MPavm), which was mainly transgranular. The higher SEPB toughness was  associated with a modest increase in average strength (25%) and a significant increase in  Weibull modulus (11 to 32). Short-crack fracture toughness measured with the  indentation method used fracture strength and crack lengths at fracture to assess R-curve  behavior. A new method for determining 6, which characterizes the residual driving force  of the plastic zones based on stable growth of indentation cracks from the initial (co) to  instability (c*) lengths, was developed. Material A exhibited a rising crack-growth resistance  behavior compared to material B, which had mainly flat crack-growth  resistance. Commercial SiC-N also showed R-curve behavior whereas PS-5000 had no Rcurve.  The concept of a crack-stability map was developed for materials with R-curve  behavior. Transformation-toughened Ce02 doped ZrC>2 (Ce-TZP) was shown fifteen  years ago to have both R-curve behavior and high reliability. These data were revisited  by considering the interaction between the crack-driving force and the rising resistance to  such growth. Three distinct crack-growth regimes occur for this material. Unstable crack  growth is followed by a region of stable crack growth, which leads to a second condition  for unstable crack growth. Conditions for each of the three regions are discussed.  Extremely high Weibull values (m>50) are possible for ceramic materials with large  regions of stable crack growth. It is shown that the ratio of the fracture toughness at the  initiation of crack growth (K0) to the steady-state fracture toughness (Kx) determines the  behavior of materials with R-curve behavior. For materials like SiC, where Ko/Kx is  greater than 0.197, it is nearly impossible to grow cracks from natural flaws because the  cracks grow unstably. For Ce-TZP, however, since Ko/Kx is less than 0.197, a region of  stable crack growth allows nearly invariant strength, which results in truly damage resistant  ceramics.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 21948.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 02.06.1965, erstellt von Werner Scheidegger
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1965

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
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. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
An explicit awareness-raising approach to the teaching of sociopragmatic variation in early foreign language learning
Creators: name: Lemmerich, Eleonore
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Address
Du
Interlanguage
Sie
Sociopragmatics
German

description: In recent years, researchers in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) have become increasingly interested in the implications of sociolinguistic research for L2 learning. Among the many questions that arise are whether the development of sociolinguistic competence should be an instructional goal as early as the beginning level, and what types of learning opportunities are most beneficial for its development. Issues regarding learners? acquisition of L2 pragmatic competence have repeatedly been addressed in the field of Interlanguage Pragmatics (ILP), and today, a considerable body of classroom-based ILP research exists. However, there is still a lack of studies that specifically investigate the teachability of sociolinguistic competence, one aspect of pragmatic competence, in the beginning-level foreign language classroom. This study examined the effects of a web-based pedagogical intervention adopting an explicit, awareness-raising approach on learners? development of sociopragmatic competence. The research focus was on the development of receptive skills and metapragmatic knowledge as demonstrated by the learners? ability to recognize and reflect on context;ually appropriate language. The instructional target was forms of address in German, including address pronouns, greetings, and pronominal forms. The research design was based on a mixed-method design, and research data were elicited by means of discourse completion tasks and retrospective comment tasks. The participants were 56 learners of German, who at the time of the intervention were enrolled in several sections of a second-semester German course at a major university in the Northwest of the United States. The results showed a significant increase in the experimental group learners? ability to employ the metapragmatic information that they had received through instruction, and a clear approximation to the native speaker norm. The research findings indicate that L2 learners benefit from the integration of sociolinguistic variation into the beginning-level curriculum and suggest which instructional techniques are most effective. The study has important implications for the field of Second Language Teacher Education, particularly with regard to curriculum design and material development. It informs the discussion of the pedagogical norm and provides an example of how data obtained from L1 sociolinguistic research can constitute a relevant source for L2 teaching material development.
Contributions of lake-effect period precipitation to the hydroclimate of the Great Salt Lake basin
Creators: name: Yeager, Kristen Noelle
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2015
Subjects: Great Salt Lake
Hydroclimate
Lake effect
Lake-effect
Precipitation
Precipitation climatology

description: This study examines the contribution of lake-effect precipitation to the coolseason (16 Sep - 15 May) hydroclimate of the Great Salt Lake basin. Lake-effect periods are identified based on the visual inspection of KMTX radar reflectivity imagery. Quantitative lake-effect period precipitation estimates are generated using high temporal resolution radar-derived precipitation estimates to disaggregate daily COOP and SNOTEL precipitation gauge observations. This preserves the daily precipitation gauge totals and enables the separation of accumulated precipitation into lake-effect and nonlake- effect periods. Evaluation of the method at two stations (Salt Lake City International Airport and Alta-Collins) demonstrates that the method works well for estimating climatological lake-effect period totals, with some random error in hourly estimates. Accumulated precipitation from 128 lake-effect periods indicates that Great Salt Lake-effect period precipitation contributes modestly (8.4% or less) to the cool-season precipitation of the Great Salt Lake basin with the largest contributions to the south and east of the Great Salt Lake. Lake-effect period contributions are highly variable from cool-season to cool-season and are dominated by intense episodic lake-effect periods. The most lake-effect period precipitation falls in the months of Oct and Nov. Lake-effect period precipitation also reaches a maximum when the 700-hPa wind is between 300-360°, corresponding to the longest fetch across the Great Salt Lake.
Fast, quantitative assay of nerve somatotopy via recording stimulus-evoked compound action potentials with the Utah slanted electrode array
Creators: name: Towns, Sarah A
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Neural transmission

description: Clinical uses for assaying nerve somatotopy or continuity could benefit from more detailed mappings than current methods offer. In the present study, the efficacy of using the Utah Slanted Electrode Array (USEA) to assay nerve resomatotopy in a fast, detailed, and quantitative manner was tested. Feline tibial nerve at the ankle  (TNA) and superficial peroneal nerve (SPN) branches were stimulated with bipolar  electrodes at the ankle. The resultant compound action potentials (CAPs) were recorded from a USEA implanted in the sciatic nerve.  Results from eight preparations showed that somatotopy of the nerve could be distinguished using the recordings with the USEA. This approach was fast, monitoring 100 sites within the nerve simultaneously. The results were quantitative,  with CAP amplitudes from one stimulus being twice the CAP amplitudes from the other stimulus in distinct areas. This method was also very eproducible, showing the  same somatotopy both within a preparation and among preparations: TNA stimulation  consistently evoked a larger response at the posterior side of the nerve, whereas SPN  stimulation evoked a larger response at the anterior side of the nerve.  The ability of the USEA to record from small groups of cutaneous afferents was  examined by cutaneous, bipolar stimulation of skin innervated by the TNA and SPN  branches. Cutaneous stimulation of the dorsal surface of the paw evoked a recorded  response at the anterior side of the nerve, whereas stimulation of the plantar surface  was recorded at the posterior side of the nerve. This result was expected, because the  SPN innervates the dorsum of the paw and the TNA innervates the plantar surface of  the paw.  Musculotopy of the sciatic nerve was also examined by stimulation through the  USEA of the sciatic nerve. The resultant musculotopy map showed activation of  muscles innervated by the peroneal nerve by stimulation through electrodes implanted  at the anterior of the nerve. Muscles innervated by the tibial nerve were activated by  stimulation through electrodes implanted at the posterior of the nerve. This result  showed that the somatotopy map was similar to the musculotopy map.  The documented ability to record nerve CAPs with USEAs may provide novel opportunities for research investigations and clinical applications.  v
Through fire and ice: the olympic cauldron park carves a legacy
Creators: name: Holt, Kristine M.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2014
Subjects: 2002
Cauldron
Games
Olympic
Park
Winter

description: In 2002, Salt Lake City joined an elite group of cities, in the world, when it hosted the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. This "once in a lifetime" chance gave the city, community, and state of Utah an opportunity to show the world a different side of the community than just the home to the peculiar people known as Mormons. The city took the chance and pulled it off beautifully. Salt Lake not only managed to stage one of the most impressive Olympic Winter Games ever but ended up with an unprecedented amount of profit. But what do you do after the party is over? In an effort to keep the spirit of the Olympics alive, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) wanted to build a legacy park where locals and tourists could visit and relive the thrill and excitement the Olympics. The announcement of the legacy park brought great support from the people, the city, and state government officials but unfortunately, it also brought along all of the politics and personal agendas involved when working with these entities. In the end, the legacy park was merged with a park which was originally planned to showcase just the Olympic cauldron at Rice-Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah. The following thesis is the story of how the legacy park came to reside at the University of Utah, the planning and design of the park, the operations and maintenance, and the celebrations it hosted in the ten plus years since the Olympic Winter Games. This thesis focuses on whether or not the Olympic Cauldron Park served as a legitimate and appropriate legacy for the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games and if that legacy should continue now that original contracts are expiring. Primary research was gathered through local and national newspaper articles, oral interviews, personal experience, and official documents such as contracts between SLOC and the University of Utah. As time and the outdoor elements take their toll on the park, contracts are finished and expansion of the stadium for the Pac 12 Athletic Conference pending, the future of the Olympic Cauldron Park looks bleak. Although there are plans to have some items from the park live on at another Olympic legacy destination, the Olympic Cauldron Park story needed to be told before it ceases to exist.
Genetic exchange among linear replicons of the lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi
Creators: name: Murphy, Maria A.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: DNA
Linear Plasmids

description: Spirochetes of the genus Borrelia are unusual among members of the prokaryotic kingdom as they have a linear chromosome of 950±20 kb.  Initial physical mapping studies of Borrelia species indicate that this linear chromosome is stable with the exception of some observed variability at the right end of the linear chromosome.  Among the original seven B. burgdorferi isolates analyzed the terminal SgrAI restriction fragment was found to have three possible sizes, thus implying that some isolates carry extra DNA at the right end of the chromosome.  A panel of 30 B. burgdorferi isolates was obtained to allow further investigation of this phenomenon.  Isolates were first cleaved with SgrAI to determine the length of the terminal restriction fragment.  These experiments demonstrated that there are four possible lengths for the B. burgdorferi chromosome.  Long length chromosome isolates carry 14 kb of extra DNA that is not present on short chromosome isolates; longer and intermediate length isolates carry 12 kb and 6 kb of DNA respectively.  DNA found on intermediate, longer and long length chromosome isolates but not on short chromosome isolates was termed right-end extension sequence.  Cloning and sequencing of a 1.6 kb DNA fragment (from isolate 1352), which begins in sequence conserved in all chromosome lengths and extends into right-end extension sequence, revealed that chromosomal right-end extension sequence is carried on plasmids in 13 out of 30 isolates.  The 30 members of the panel can carry zero, one or two copies of this cloned right-end extension sequence.  When only one copy is present, it may be either on the chromosome or a linear plasmid.  Further analysis of the right end revealed that some isolates carry up to 6 kb of chromosomal DNA on linear plasmids.  The prevalence and conservation of these 6-14 kb right-end extension sequences imply that they must be biologically significant.  Isolates representative of the other eight species do not have right-end extension sequence.  B. burgdorferi must have acquired this extra DNA since diverging from a common Borrelia ancestor.  The presence of B. burgdorferi chromosomal DNA on linear plasmids suggest that chromosome telomeres may be exchanging with plasmid telomeres through a single recombination event.  These dynamic events may contribute to the organism's pathogenicity, and ability to avoid the host immune response or allow the organism to alternate between life in an aartropod vector and a mammalian host.
Permutationless Many-Jet Event Reconstruction with Symmetry Preserving Attention Networks
Creators: name: Fenton, Michael James
name: Shmakov, Alexander
name: Ho, Ta-Wei
name: Hsu, Shih-Chieh
name: Whiteson, Daniel
name: Baldi, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Top quarks, produced in large numbers at the Large Hadron Collider, have a complex detector signature and require special reconstruction techniques. The most common decay mode, the "all-jet" channel, results in a 6-jet final state which is particularly difficult to reconstruct in $pp$ collisions due to the large number of permutations possible. We present a novel approach to this class of problem, based on neural networks using a generalized attention mechanism, that we call Symmetry Preserving Attention Networks (SPA-Net). We train one such network to identify the decay products of each top quark unambiguously and without combinatorial explosion as an example of the power of this technique.This approach significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods, correctly assigning all jets in $93.0%$ of $6$-jet, $87.8%$ of $7$-jet, and $82.6%$ of $\geq 8$-jet events respectively.
description: replaced with final published version
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 21981.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 09.07.1965, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1965

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Kinetic and kinematic evaluation of kneeling work
Creators: name: Kallakanti, Mohan Krishna
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Kneeling work
Occupational hazard
Osteoarthritis

description: Kneeling work is considered an occupational hazard that may ultimately result in lower extremity diseases such as osteoarthritis. Previous studies indicate that there is a relationship between exposure to knee-stressing work activities and the development of knee osteoarthritis. This relationship is understudied and remains unclear. This study aims at understanding the kinetics and kinematics of hip and knee joints and trunk during simulated kneeling work with and without the use of kneepads. Ten participants were recruited and consented to perform a series of kneeling tasks that simulated a tile setting task. Five wooden platforms were placed in five locations surrounding two force plates. Participants were asked to reach five locations and randomly place a ceramic tile on the wooden platforms. Prior to performing the tasks, 36 markers were placed on anatomical land marks. The simulation was recorded using ARENA by Natural Point™, with 18 cameras. The data recorded from the force plates and motion capture were combined and analyzed using Matlab™ and OpenSim™ to calculate joint angles and joint moments. The outputs from OpenSim™ were normalized and then analyzed using JMP™. Dunnett's control method was used to compare the means of the independent variables. Results indicated that hip and knee kinematics and kinetics are influenced by reach location and kneepad used. Lumbar extension moment is observed to remain the same with respect to reach location and kneepad used while lumbar bending and rotation moments were altered. These results strengthen the need to study kneeling work and factors that influence lower extremity stresses, including work posture and use of personal protective equipment.
The effects of 1:1 individualized diabetes self-management education and support on glycemic control
Creators: name: Eguh, Nwamaka H.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Purpose of Project: Diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) has been shown to improve the management and health of people living with diabetes, improve their knowledge, reduce HBA1c and hospital readmission rates. The purpose of this DNP project was to evaluate the effectiveness of 1:1 diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) on knowledge, HbA1c and hospital readmission rates of diabetic patients. Methodology: Pretest – posttest study. Participants completed two paper questionnaires – the modified Revised Michigan Diabetes Knowledge Test (DKT2) and the diabetes self-management questionnaire (DSMQ) – before and after the intervention. Hospital charts were reviewed for HbA1c, admission glucose levels, and 90 days past admission records. All data were de-identified and stored on Rutgers University password protected cloud storage. Intervention included inpatient diabetes self-management education (DSME) followed by outpatient phone support. Outcome measured were pre-/post-intervention diabetes knowledge, HbA1c level, and 90 -day-readmission rates. Coding and analysis of the data was done using SPSS. Data analyses included descriptive statistics and nonparametric tests- Wilcoxon ranks sum and Mann-Whitney U due to the small sample size.Results: The findings include statistically significant improvements in knowledge (p = .011), HbA1c (p= .027) and diabetes related hospital readmission rates (p = .008).Implications for Practice: The findings of this project support the need for a greater focus on patient/caregiver centered care. The creation of patient centered medical homes and hospital to home transitional support. It supports the need for primary care providers to continually refer their diabetic patients/caregivers for DSME as part of their routine management.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung, unnummeriert.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 22.08.1965, als Blatt eröffnet dank auswärtiger Beobachtungen, ausgewertet in Zürich
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1965

description: Bleistiftzeichnung bzw. Auswertung aufgrund auswärtiger Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen direkt auf dem Vordruck, erstellt durch Mitarbeitende der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich
Feature boosting with efficient attention for scene parsing
Creators: name: Singh, Vivek
name: Sharma, Shailza
name: Cuzzolin, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The complexity of scene parsing grows with the number of object and scene classes, which is higher in unrestricted open scenes. The biggest challenge is to model the spatial relation between scene elements while succeeding in identifying objects at smaller scales. This paper presents a novel feature-boosting network that gathers spatial context from multiple levels of feature extraction and computes the attention weights for each level of representation to generate the final class labels. A novel `channel attention module' is designed to compute the attention weights, ensuring that features from the relevant extraction stages are boosted while the others are attenuated. The model also learns spatial context information at low resolution to preserve the abstract spatial relationships among scene elements and reduce computation cost. Spatial attention is subsequently concatenated into a final feature set before applying feature boosting. Low-resolution spatial attention features are trained using an auxiliary task that helps learning a coarse global scene structure. The proposed model outperforms all state-of-the-art models on both the ADE20K and the Cityscapes datasets.
Multisubstrate analogs of the glycinamide ribonucleotide formyltransferase reaction
Creators: name: Licato, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Pharmacy

description: A prototype multisubstrate analog of the glycinamide ribonucleo- tide formyltransferase (GAR Tfase) reaction would permit a more detailed study of the mechanism of formyl group transfer and allow for further determination of the parameters of enzyme binding and inhibition. The important structural features which could be modified in approaching a viable synthesis are discussed. The rationale for the types of structural modifications suggested, which include biological studies and their inferences are reviewed.  The synthesis of diethyl N-2-isobutoxycarbonyl-5,8-dideaza folic acid, incorporating a novel carbamoyl blocking group has proven useful in the synthesis of a ureide-bridged intermediate towards a multisubstrate analog. The success of the N-2-isobutoxycarbonyl blocking group was limited to the dideazafolate class. Only the analog missing the pteridine portion of the analog, diethyl (N(2'3' -O-isopropylidene-(beta)-D-ribofuranos-1-yl)carbamoyl)methylureido - benzoylglutamate, was additionally approachable.  Formation of an active acylation intermediate of the dideazafolate and phosgene allowed for the synthesis of the nucleoside, diethyl 2-isobutoxycarbonyl-5,8-dideaza-10-N((N(2'3'-O-isopropylidene-(beta)- D-ribofuranos-1-yl)carbamoyl)methyl)carbamoyl folic acid. Phospho- rylation of this nucleoside with a commercially available phosphoro- chloridate gave the pentultimate 5,8-dideaza multisubstrate analog.  The characterization by proton NMR of the deblocked intermediates was successful through the tetraacid intermediate, 5,8-dideaza-10-N((N(2'3'-O-isopropylidene-(beta)-D-ribofuranos-1-yl) carbamoyl)methyl)carbamoyl folic acid-5'-phosphate. The difficul- ties toward this intermediate, as well as the results of application of several methods toward the fully deblocked intermediate are discussed.
OpenIPMC: a free and open source Intelligent Platform Management Controller
Creators: name: Calligaris, Luigi
name: Cascadan, André
name: Ardila-Perez, Luis E.
name: Casu, Bruno
name: da Costa, Alison França
name: Shinoda, Ailton Akira
name: Ramalho, Lucas Arruda
name: Sander, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: OpenIPMC is a free and open source firmware designed to operate as an Intelligent Platform Management Controller (IPMC). An IPMC is a fundamental component of electronic boards conformant to the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) standard, currently being adopted by a number of high energy physics experiments, and is responsible for monitoring the health parameters of the board, managing its power states, and providing board control, debug and recovery functions to remote clients. OpenIPMC is based on the FreeRTOS real-time operating system and is designed to be architecture-independent, allowing it to be built for a variety of different Microcontrollers. Having a fully free and open source code is an innovative aspect for this kind of firmware, allowing full customization by the user. In this work we present the features and structure of OpenIPMC and its example implementations on Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ (ZynqUS+), Espressif ESP32, and ST Microelectronics STM32 architectures.
description: 8 pages, double-column, 9 figures, 2 tables. Paper submitted as proceeding for the IEEE Real-Time 2020 conference
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 21992.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 20.07.1965, erstellt von Berthold Hermes
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1965

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
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. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel
Students of color in white-dominated college classrooms: an examination of racialized roles, safety and empowerment
Creators: name: Blackwell, Deanna Maria
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2012
Subjects: Antiracist Pedagogy
Classroom as a safe space
College classrooms
Empowerment
Higher education
Racialized roles

description: This dissertation reports data I collected using qualitative research methods to investigate the racial dynamics that students of color experienced in predominantly White college classrooms. I used Black Feminist Standpoint Theory to analyze interviews I conducted with twelve students of color from diverse racial ethnic minority backgrounds including African American, Asian American, Chicana/o, Mixed Race, Native American, and Pacific Islander. Their testimonies revealed how  racial tensions unfolded around exchanges between students, professors, pedagogy, and the curriculum in ways that often left students of color not only outnumbered, but outpowered in what can be more accurately referred to as White-dominated classrooms. Participants entered college classrooms hoping to experience an education that addressed people of color and race-related issues in humanized ways. Not only did they find that race-related topics were addressed in decontext;ualized and stereotypical ways, but also came to an understanding as to how they were often silenced, marginalized, and stigmatized from the academic process.  In my study students of color discussed the strategies they used in college classrooms to create safety for themselves and other students. In several cases  students of color debunked the idea that a White-dominated classroom could ever be safe for students of color. Also, research participants challenged the term ‘empowerment' as used by radical educational theorists. They charged that they rarely if ever felt empowered, and questioned whether or not it was possible under  the given circumstances of White-dominated college classrooms. Students redefined what counted as empowerment and instead described what I refer to as powerful experiences. These experiences spurred them on to achieve their educational and social justice oriented goals.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 21962.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 20.06.1965, erstellt von Werner Scheidegger
Creators: name: [s.n.]
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1965

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit Tinte und Farbstift überschrieben, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung in der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte Zürich. Instrument: Zeiss Coudé-Refraktor (150/2250 mm).
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden mit Bleistift auf einem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich notiert: Tabelle mit statistischen Angaben – mit Vermerk der Werte Gr, f und g, wobei die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl nach wie auf visueller Beobachtung und anderer Instrumentierung beruhte (und dafür das entsprechende Registerblatt (in Teilbestand acht) ausgefüllt wurde). Zusammen mit den täglichen Werten oft Angabe der Resultate der Flächenmessungen der Flecken (F und F -o) in Millionsteln der Scheibe bzw. der Halbkugel