cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
FERRAVILLA AUTORE, FERRAVILLA ATTORE. LA PAROLA DI EDOARDO FERRAVILLA TRA ORALIT� E DRAMMATURGIA
Creators: name: SCIUTO, ANDREA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Il testo indaga il rapporto tra messinscena e scrittura nell'opera di Edoardo Ferravilla, commediografo e capocomico milanese attivo nell'ultimo quarto del XIX secolo. Dopo un primo capitolo che introduce vita e opere di Ferravilla, capitolo nel quale ha un certo peso il problema della definizione di un corpus ferravilliano, il lavoro entra nel vivo nel secondo capitolo, che studia la questione del personaggio nell?opera di Ferravilla: problema fondamentale nel teatro ottocentesco, e che viene affrontato sia con una serie di considerazioni generali sia analizzando singolarmente i principali personaggi creati da Ferravilla. Nel terzo capitolo, pi� espressamente letterario, si identificano due filoni differenti nell?opera di Ferravilla, e li si studia mettendo a confronto due opere, una per ciascun filone. Il quarto capitolo interroga la modernit� dell?opera di Ferravilla, basandosi sulle categorie proposte da Peter Szondi nella "Teoria del dramma moderno". Il quinto capitolo, infine, analizza la lingua dell?opera di Ferravilla. Dopo le conclusioni, una breve appendice raccoglie alcune citazioni che testimoniano i rapporti di Ferravilla con alcuni grandi autori dell?Otto e Novecento italiano.
title: Lentiviral Vector Production at High Cell Density by Transient Transfection of Suspended Culture HEK Cells
Creators: name: Accordino, Jacob G.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Viral vectors are gene carriers that efficiently deliver therapeutic gene constructs to target cells. Viral vectors are frequently produced in suspension-growing cells of mammalian origin, referred to as packaging cells. Lentiviral vectors have become widely used as gene vectors since they were initially developed two and a half decades ago, particularly in research settings. The advantages of lentiviral vectors for treating diseases of genetic origin have driven research into their large-scale manufacture for clinical settings. Currently, three main challenges exist that limit mass production of lentiviral vectors. First, plasmid DNA used in the production process is very expensive. Second, high vector titers have historically only been achievable at low packaging cell densities, limiting the scalability of suspended-culture technologies. And third, vector production frequently suffers from batch-to-batch variability in vector yield. In conjunction, these challenges diminish the economic viability and practical implementation of industrially-scaled processes for lentiviral vector production.
Recent advances in commercial reagents can help mitigate these stated challenges. There is currently a knowledge gap in the utility of cationic lipid-based transfection reagents for producing lentivirus in suspended cultures at high cell density.
In the present work, we investigate the production of lentiviral vectors by transient transfection of high density Human Embryonic Kidney packaging cells with a commercial cationic lipid transfection reagent. Several parameters in the production process were monitored to identify sources of variability in vector titers. We found that as packaging cells were cultured to increasing densities pre-transfection, there was a corresponding increase in lentiviral vector yield. Further, we found that aside from pre-culture density, consistency in culture routine leading up to transfection had the most significant influence on lentiviral vector yields.
title: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Participation of Students with Disabilities in Secondary Career and Technical Education
Creators: name: Emery, Crystal Kay
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Students with disabilities have been shown to be less ready for college and career when they leave high school than students without disabilities. Secondary transition is the process of a student with disabilities moving from school to post-school settings. Research has shown that participation in career and technical education (CTE) while still in high school for improves the likelihood of meaningful employment after high school for students with disabilities. Research has also shown that collaboration between educators improves academic outcomes for students. Special education (SPED) teachers have extensive training in supporting students with disabilities throughout the education process. Collaboration between SPED teachers and general education teachers (e.g. CTE teachers) may have play an important role in preparing students with disabilities for future educational and vocational experiences.
The purpose of this research was to explore the CTE course-taking patterns of students with disabilities and compare them with factors of collaboration between different educational professionals. The author sought to identify factors of collaboration that may support the participation of students with disabilities in CTE in high school. Additionally, this study explored the barriers to collaboration and the collaborative practices most commonly experienced by educators in Utah. This study demonstrated that the practice of co-teaching, the existence of a formal multidisciplinary transition team, and high levels of attendance by education professionals in student IEP meetings were related to higher levels of participation in CTE for students with disabilities. This study also demonstrated that different education professionals experienced collaboration differently and may need different instruction in support to collaborate effectively.
Bayesian Inference on Order-Constrained Parameters in Generalized Linear Models
Creators: name: Neelon, Brian
name: Dunson, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: In biomedical studies, there is often interest in assessing the association between one or more ordered categorical predictors and an outcome variable, adjusting for covariates. For a -level predictor, one typically uses either a degree of freedom (df) test or a single df trend test, which requires scores for the different levels of the predictor. In the absence of knowledge of a parametric form for the response function, one can incorporate monotonicity constraints to improve the efficiency of tests of association. This article proposes a general Bayesian approach for inference on order-constrained parameters in generalized linear models. Instead of choosing a prior distribution with support on the constrained space, which can result in major computational difficulties, we propose to map draws from an unconstrained posterior density using an isotonic regression transformation. This approach allows flat regions over which increases in the level of a predictor have no effect. Bayes factors for assessing ordered trends can be computed based on the output from a Gibbs sampling algorithm. Results from a simulation study are presented and the approach is applied to data from a time-to-pregnancy study.
title: [Fünfteilige Sammelhandschrift]; [Anfang 16. Jahrhundert]
title: (1r) Collectio sermonum praecipue de eucharistia. (128av) Federproben.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2024

description: Papier - Bastarda und Kursive von mehreren Händen, rubriziert
A PETRI NET MODEL OF LIVER RESPONSE TO VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS: SELF-REGULATION AND COMPLEX INTERPLAY IN THE VERTEBRATE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Creators: name: ALBERGANTE, LUCA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2010

description: Visceral leishmaniasis (also called "Kala-azar") is a widespread disease, which is usually fatal in the absence of treatment. Characteristic of the liver immune response to leishmaniasis is a type of inflammation (granulomatous inflammation) that leads to the formation of "granulomas". A granuloma provides a very interesting micro-environment, which is maintained by the coordination of many cells of the immune system. Due to the complexity of the immune response, only a limited amount of modeling work exists in the context of granulomatous infection, and most of the current models focus only on the formation stage of granulomas. The primary goal of this thesis is to gain insights into the process of formation and development of a granuloma. To this end, we built a model of the granuloma formation and resolution in the liver using stochastic Petri nets, and performed several in silico experiments to study the nature of the immune response to leishmaniasis, possible therapeutic options, and the role of the cells involved. Additionally, the building of the model is extensively documented, and the most important qualitative and quantitative assumptions are referenced and discussed, with the aim of presenting a ?conceptual framework? to be used when facing similar problems. The model is validated against available biological data, and its robustness is assessed using sensitivity analysis.
Conglomerability and Finitely Additive Representations
Creators: name: Cassese, Gianluca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A25, 46A22, 52A41

description: We prove results concerning the representation of a given distribution by means of a given random quantity. The existence of a solution to this problem is related to the notion of conglomerability, originally introduced by Dubins to study finitely additive conditional probability. We show that this property has many interesting applications in probability as well as in analysis.
description: 24 pages
Bayesian Inferences in the Cox Model for Order-Restricted Hypotheses
Creators: name: Dunson, David
name: Herring, Amy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: In studying the relationship between an ordered categorical predictor and an event time, it is standard practice to include dichotomous indicators of the different levels of the predictor in a Cox model. One can then use a multiple degree-of-freedom score or partial likelihood ratio test for hypothesis testing. Often, interest focuses on comparing the null hypothesis of no difference to an order-restricted alternative, such as a monotone increase across levels of a predictor. This article proposes a Bayesian approach for addressing hypotheses of this type. We reparameterize the Cox model in terms of a cumulative product of parameters having conjugate prior densities, consisting of mixtures of point masses at one, and truncated gamma densities. Due to the structure of the model, posterior computation can proceed via a simple and efficient Gibbs sampling algorithm. Posterior probabilities for the global null hypothesis and subhypotheses, comparing the hazards for specific groups, can be calculated directly from the output of a single Gibbs chain. The approach allows for level sets across which a predictor has no effect. Generalizations to multiple predictors are described, and the method is applied to a study of emergency medical treatment for stroke.
(3611) Michael Lambart
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Generalized Hierarchical Markov Models for the Discovery of Length-Constrained Sequence Features from Genome Tiling Arrays
Creators: name: Gupta, Mayetri
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: A generalized hierarchical Markov model for sequences that contain length-restricted features is introduced. This model is motivated by the recent development of high-density tiling array data for determining genomic elements of functional importance. Due to length constraints on certain features of interest, as well as variability in probe behavior, usual hidden Markov-type models are not always applicable. A robust Bayesian framework that can incorporate length constraints, probe variability, and bias is developed. Moreover, a novel recursion-based Monte Carlo algorithm is proposed to estimate the parameters and impute hidden states under length constraints. Application of this methodology to yeast chromosomal arrays demonstrate substantial improvement over currently existing methods in terms of sensitivity as well as biological interpretability.
title: Finding Relationships Between Physical Properties of Butter and Water Loss
Creators: name: Jones, Annalisa
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Butter is a desirable fat rich product used for laminated pastries, like croissants, because of its flavor and consumer acceptance. However, butter has some functional aspects that reduce its performance and quality. In manufacturing of butter for laminated pastries, large blocks of butter are pushed through a rectangular opening to form a thin sheet. In this process it is not unusual to see water dripping, indicating water loss in the butter. The purpose of this study was to understand the properties of butter and their role in water loss during processing.
The properties of commercial butters were tested to understand their relation to water loss. Water content was found to play a key role in water loss. Butters with less water and a lower amount of solid fat at low temperatures had less water loss. Changes in fat content of cream were tested to see the impact on butter properties and water loss. Water content and fat content of the cream led to a higher amount of water loss. This study indicated that the butter needed to be pliable without losing its structure to reduce water loss. Lastly, three fats with different melting properties were added to the cream for butter making. The fat that was solid at higher temperatures made a harder butter with a lower water content. This butter had the lowest amount of water loss in this method. A similar method was performed adding the butter fat to the end of the butter making process. This resulted in a lower water loss in the softer butter. However, all the butters made in that method had large crystals that would not be desirable for consumers. These studies indicate that the properties of the butter play a role in water loss and that they can be manipulated by the water content and processing method. For best results in water loss reduction a lower fat cream (38-46%) with a butter fat that is solid at higher temperatures and that is incorporated in the cream before churning is recommended.
A semiparametric additive rate model for recurrent events with an informative terminal event
Creators: name: Zeng, D.
name: Cai, J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: We propose a semiparametric additive rate model for modelling recurrent events in the presence of a terminal event. The dependence between recurrent events and terminal event is nonparametric. A general transformation model is used to model the terminal event. We construct an estimating equation for parameter estimation and derive the asymptotic distributions of the proposed estimators. Simulation studies demonstrate that the proposed inference procedure performs well in realistic settings. Application to a medical study is presented.
Overtrading of widespread generalist amphibians is a global biodiversity time-bomb
Creators: name: Othman, Siti N.
name: Wang, Zhen-Qi
name: Qiu, Zhi-Xin
name: Borzée, Amaël
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy

description: Overtrading of widespread generalist amphibians is a global biodiversity time-bomb
title: Comparing Fecal DNA Capture-Recapture Methods to Traditional Mark-Resight Methods for Estimating Abundance of Mule Deer on Winter Ranges
Creators: name: Stewart, Andi M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Well-designed monitoring strategies are required to obtain accurate estimates of population abundance, which is important for evaluating conservation and management strategies. Obtaining abundance estimates using traditional survey methods, like aerial surveys, is not possible in all scenarios and can be expensive and risky. One survey method that has gained popularity in the last decade is fecal DNA-based capture-recapture (CMR). However, this method has not been evaluated on winter ranges or in snowy, winter conditions.
My first objective was to implement fecal DNA CMR to estimate abundance of mule deer in the Round Valley and Goodale winter survey areas in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA (2020). I compared precision and cost of fecal DNA CMR surveys to aerial mark-resight (MR) surveys for estimating abundance. I found that while aerial MR surveys had more precise estimates of abundance for our field situation, the cost was higher than for fecal DNA DMR. When comparing study designs with the same precision, simulations indicated that fecal DNA CMR typically had the lowest cost. I also found that fecal DNA CMR surveys were not effective in all areas. Therefore, when evaluating whether to apply this method, I recommend reviewing annual variation in weather, constraints on access to the winter range, and the scale of effort needed to achieve adequate coverage.
My second objective was to evaluate the relationship between GPS points (2017 – 2020), a kernel density estimator, and a resource selection function (RSF) to the number of pellet piles counted (2020) in the Round Valley survey area, California, USA. There was a positive relationship between the number of GPS points and the average kernel density per cell and the number of pellet piles. However, based on the large amount of variation in the pellet pile data not explained by the RSF, I conclude GPS-based RSFs are not the best method for generating strata. I recommend that managers use the number of GPS points or a kernel density estimator to inform fecal DNA CMR surveys. If GPS points are not available, I recommend that managers use the number of of pellet piles per survey cell to generate a well-informed stratification scheme, which can be used to improve the precision of abundance estimates from fecal DNA CMR surveys on large winter ranges.
Approximate Joint Diagonalization and Geometric Mean of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices
Creators: name: Congedo, Marco
name: Afsari, Bijan
name: Barachant, Alexandre
name: Moakher, Maher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We explore the connection between two problems that have arisen independently in the signal processing and related fields: the estimation of the geometric mean of a set of symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices and their approximate joint diagonalization (AJD). Today there is a considerable interest in estimating the geometric mean of a SPD matrix set in the manifold of SPD matrices endowed with the Fisher information metric. The resulting mean has several important invariance properties and has proven very useful in diverse engineering applications such as biomedical and image data processing. While for two SPD matrices the mean has an algebraic closed form solution, for a set of more than two SPD matrices it can only be estimated by iterative algorithms. However, none of the existing iterative algorithms feature at the same time fast convergence, low computational complexity per iteration and guarantee of convergence. For this reason, recently other definitions of geometric mean based on symmetric divergence measures, such as the Bhattacharyya divergence, have been considered. The resulting means, although possibly useful in practice, do not satisfy all desirable invariance properties. In this paper we consider geometric means of co-variance matrices estimated on high-dimensional time-series, assuming that the data is generated according to an instantaneous mixing model, which is very common in signal processing. We show that in these circumstances we can approximate the Fisher information geometric mean by employing an efficient AJD algorithm. Our approximation is in general much closer to the Fisher information geometric mean as compared to its competitors and verifies many invariance properties. Furthermore, convergence is guaranteed, the computational complexity is low and the convergence rate is quadratic. The accuracy of this new geometric mean approximation is demonstrated by means of simulations.
Consistent testing for recurrent genomic aberrations: Table 1.
Creators: name: Wright, F. A.
name: Nobel, A. B.
name: Walter, V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: We consider the detection and identification of recurrent departures from stationary behaviour in genomic or similarly arranged data containing measurements at an ordered set of variables. Our primary focus is on departures that occur only at a single variable, or within a small window of contiguous variables, but involve more than one sample. This encompasses the identification of aberrant markers in genome-wide measurements of DNA copy number and DNA methylation, as well as meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies. We propose and analyse a cyclic shift-based procedure for testing recurrent departures from stationarity. Our analysis establishes the consistency of cyclic shift $$p$$-values for datasets with a fixed set of samples as the number of observed variables tends to infinity, under the assumption that each sample is an independent realization of a stationary Markov chain. Our results apply to any test statistic satisfying a simple invariance condition.
(3607) Barbara Ellaline Joy
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A divergence theorem for pseudo-Finsler spaces
Creators: name: Minguzzi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the divergence theorem on pseudo-Finsler spaces and obtain a completely Finslerian version for spaces having a vanishing mean Cartan torsion. This result helps to clarify the problem of energy-momentum conservation in Finsler gravity theories.
description: Latex2e, 9 pages
title: Executive Orders on a Political Timeline: Examination of Executive Orders in the Supreme Court and Stephen Skowronek's Theory of Presidential Leadership
Creators: name: Urrutia, Alisha Rachele
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: The research performed here applies a theoretical model of the presidency by Stephen Skowronek that spans all of American history to the number of executive orders issued per president and the number of these orders argued before the Supreme Court per president. I hypothesized that presidents who have the fewest political resources available to them (disjunctive presidents) would issue the most executive orders, and presidents who transform the face of American government and politics (reconstructionists) would face the most Supreme Court cases dealing with executive orders. I created two datasets for this research and used descriptive statistics to evaluate these hypotheses. In three out of the four time periods examined, disjunctive presidents issued more orders than all other presidents. However, I did not find a correlation between presidential type and how many Supreme Court cases they faced. This research produced accurate data that can be used to study executive orders for years to come and contributed to our understanding of why presidents choose to exercise unilateral actions to accomplish their policy goals rather than negotiate with Congress. As this was written as a partial requirement for a master’s degree and did not require any grants, the public cost of this research was minimal.
Submission 109.1 Martuwarra Council: 2020 Juukan Gorge Inquiry, Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia
Creators: name: RiverOfLife Martuwarra
name: Poelina, Anne
name: Taylor, Kat
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111701 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110403 Traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medicine and Treatments
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 130301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 160501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 180101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 210301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 200201 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 80701 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge Management
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 169902 Studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Society
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 200502 Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature
subject: 210101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology
subject: 200319 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages
subject: 190401 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Performing Arts
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 50201 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Knowledge
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 80601 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Information and Knowledge Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Letter from the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council to Hon Warren Entsch MP, Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia regarding the destruction of the 46,000 year old caves at the Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Making Diplomatic Assurances Effective: State Protections Against Torture
Creators: name: Sotir, Grayon William
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Human Rights
subject: Human Rights Law
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: International Law
subject: Refoulement
subject: Torture
subject: UNCAT
subject: Obligations
subject: Diplomatic Assurances
subject: African Charter
subject: American Convention
subject: Chalal v. United Kingdom
subject: Agiza v. Switzerland
subject: European Committee
subject: War on Terror
subject: ICCPR
subject: Soering v. United Kingdom
subject: UDHR
subject: UN Commission

description: First, I will review the existing human rights literature and offer a detailed background on the ways in which states are legally obligated not to torture, and how these obligations also extend to the obligation of non-refoulement. Understanding both of these obligations is requisite to clearly identify the reasons that states rely on diplomatic assurances. Second, I will discuss the characteristics and the legal history of diplomatic assurances. This will demonstrate how states have attempted to circumvent their human rights obligations using diplomatic assurances, and concisely summarize the nature of the debate over whether or not diplomatic assurances can be a legitimate tool in international human rights law. Third, I will detail the problems inherent in diplomatic assurances, and highlight the absence of meaningful enforcement mechanisms that could make such assurances successful. Finally, I will offer solutions which meaningfully address the problems inherent in diplomatic assurances without relying on the strengthening of supranational institutions.
Studi Mixing Air Panas Bumi Daerah Rembuh, Gunungapi Slamet Jawa Tengah
Creators: name: Iswahyudi, Sachrul
name: Laskarul Wildan Attabik
name: Novan Arif Saifrudin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 40603 Hydrogeology
subject: 90608 Renewable Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Solar Cells)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This publication is a scientific paper for the 2018 Indonesian Groundwater Expert Association scientific meeting. In addition to this scientific paper file (in word format) a presentation file with the same title has been uploaded in ppt format on this figshare website.
title: Evaluating the Use of Inclusive Teaching Materials for Learners with Autism
Creators: name: Aguilar, Juliana
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: In the last decade, the field of applied behavior analysis (ABA) has committed to working on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The work began with call-to-action papers, empirical work on cultural accommodations, and most recently, the certifying board has changed the professional standards for board-certified behavior analysts (BCBAs). An objective and measurable step that BCBAs can take to adhere to the new ethical and professional standards is to use inclusive teaching materials. Inclusive teaching materials are teaching materials that reflect the diversity of society. This study compared the rate of learning and generalization between an inclusive and non-inclusive set of teaching materials during an occupations identification task (e.g., “Touch Scientist”). We attempted to teach six preschool-aged children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to identify occupations using an inclusive set of 2-D stimuli and a non-inclusive set of 2-D stimuli. The purpose of this study was to begin empirically evaluating inclusion within the field of ABA by comparing the rate of learning and generalization across the two teaching materials. All of the participants had difficulty in learning to identify occupations, except for one. Two participants only met the mastery criteria of the occupations assigned to the inclusive materials conditions, and three participants were withdrawn from the study. While there were many limitations to participant learning in this study, based on an occupation by condition analysis, it did not seem that the type of teaching materials was a variable. The potential limitations and future research related to inclusive teaching materials, stimulus feature manipulation, and instructional procedures for children with ASD are discussed.
Bulk and micropatterned conjugation of extracellular matrix proteins to characterized polyacrylamide substrates for cell mechanotransduction assays
Creators: name: Damljanovic, Vesna
name: Jacobson, Ken
name: Christoffer Lagerholm, B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Increasing numbers of cell mechanotransduction studies are currently utilizing elastic substrates fabricated from polyacrylamide in the form of thin gels. Their versatility depends on the ability to ensure the appropriate gel stiffness and control the uniformity and geometry of extracellular matrix protein coating of the gel. Beginning with a brief quantitative emphasis on the elastic properties of polyacrylamide gels, we present an inexpensive and highly reproducible method for uniform coating with a wide variety of extracellular matrix proteins. We used a reducing agent, hydrazine hydrate, to modify nonreactive amide groups in polyacrylamide to highly reactive hydrazide groups that can form covalent bonds with aldehyde or ketone groups in oxidized proteins. This simple conjugation method overcomes the limitations of previously used photoactivatable cross-linkers: nonuniform coating due to nonuniformity of irradiation and technically challenging procedures for micropatterning. As demonstrated in our study of cell polarity during constrained migration, this conjugation method is especially effective in gel micropatterning by manual microcontact printing of protein patterns as small as 5 microm and enables numerous studies of constrained cell attachment and migration that were previously unfeasible due to high cost or difficulty in controlling the protein coating.
Project Evaluation of Enhancement Learning Achievement base on Active Learning of Ban Phon-Ngam School Office of Roi Et Primary Education Service Area Office 2 with the CIPPIEST Model
Creators: name: Chaowat Phiturongkapitak
Publisher: name: DR.KEN Institute of Academic Development and Promotion
Year: 2022
Subjects: Project Evaluation
Active Learning
Enhancement Learning Achievement

description: Interdisciplinary Academic and Research Journal, 2, 2, 59-76
title: Control Mapping Methodology for Tailless Morphing-Wing Aircraft
Creators: name: Montgomery, Zachary S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Advanced aircraft designs tend to have several control surfaces or devices that affect the flight of the aircraft. It is difficult or even impossible for a pilot to directly control each of these devices and fly the aircraft well. Therefore, a control mapping logic is needed to take typical pilot commands and map them to what the control devices should do to achieve the pilot’s commands. This work presents a methodology for determining this control mapping logic using two different approaches. The first uses a theoretical approach based on lifting-line theory, while the second leverages computational methods. The methodology consists of computing optimal control configurations for a wide range of flight conditions and then curve fitting that data to obtain control mapping functions that act as the control mapping logic. Example results are given for a typical aircraft configuration as well as a flying wing configuration.
IL CONFLITTO TRA SOCI NELLA S.R.L.
Creators: name: FORESTIERI, ILARIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: The work attemps to discuss the problem of internal conflicts between majority and minority shareholders of SRL. The strong relationships among the members of this type of corporation is a considerable organizational advantage because the greater cohesion and disciplining effect created by shared a common view, reduces the cost of control and supervision. But this advantage has also a dark side: in closed corporation minority shareholders are particularly at risk due to the interaction of various factors. These factors include the majority principle for shareholders? resolution, private ordering for internal relationships, a stable majority, the lack of a liquid secondary market, no reliable mechanism for determining the value of the shares and restricted judicial review of business policy decisions. To address this problem, the first part of the work identifies typical conflicts (of interest) and regulatory requirements arising in SRL, discussing different regulatory goals, content and forms. Chapter two addresses the various instruments developed for the solution of majority-minority conflicts: the general clause of fiduciary duties, limiting the influential power of majority shareholder, protects minority from oppressive conduct; voice and exit rights for shareholders serve to enforce minority protection. The third section predominantly focuses on the importance of private arrangements as a way to regulate the relation between shareholders, the purpose is to enlight that for SRL a complete offer of regulating provisions by the state legislature is preferable. In this way, sample articles of association can therefore ? with optional law ? apply as fall-back or catch all regulations.
title: The Bray Schools and Black Education in the Early American Republic
Creators: name: Fellows, Mitchell Allen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Ideas about the role of education in American society were contentious during the early years of the Nation. Despite this discord, the vast majority of African Americans lacked access to educational opportunities regardless of whether they were free or enslaved. When schools for African Americans did exist, they were often established by local community leaders or by benevolent societies. Benevolent societies in the early United States existed to prevent what they perceived as a moral decline in the nation. This thesis analyzed the records of schools established by two benevolent societies, the Associates of the Late Dr. Bray and the American Colonization Society, to examine how African Americans and black people in the remaining British Colonies navigated working with schools supported by white organizations.
A thorough look at the Bray School and Colonization Society documents revealed that both organizations attempted to utilized education to achieve a different end goal, the conversion to Christianity and the colonization of free African Americans in Africa, respectively. However, by the early 1800s, the Associates altered the mission of the Bray Schools in a way that accepted African American and black agency within the organization’s institutions. Rather than change being driven by the Associates, this thesis argues that African Americans and black community leaders were the ones that led to these changes in the Bray Schools’ mission. In two of the three geographic areas of this study, funding from the Associates was predated by the existence of informal schools led by black community members. Moreover, this thesis reveals that the success of the Bray Schools, where the American Colonization Society failed to attract students, was contingent upon their acceptance of the involvement of black people within the institutions. In doing so, this thesis adds to the current, growing historiography on private education in the early United States that highlight the renewed debates about private schools in modern American life. Lastly, it also adds to our understanding of the role of African American leadership in the development of the United States.
Resveratrol analogues and metabolites selectively inhibit human and rat 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 as the therapeutic drugs: structure–activity relationship and molecular dynamics analysis
Creators: name: Hu, C.
name: Zhai, Y.
name: Lin, H.
name: Lu, H.
name: Zheng, J.
name: Wen, C.
name: Li, X.
name: Ge, R.S.
name: Liu, Y.
name: Zhu, Q.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Resveratrol is converted to various metabolites by gut microbiota. Human and rat liver 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 (11β-HSD1) are critical for glucocorticoid activation, while 11β-HSD2 in the kidney does the opposite reaction. It is still uncertain whether resveratrol and its analogues selectively inhibit 11β-HSD1. In this study, the inhibitory strength, mode of action, structure–activity relationship (SAR), and docking analysis of resveratrol analogues on human, rat, and mouse 11β-HSD1 and 11β-HSD2 were performed. The inhibitory strength of these chemicals on human 11β-HSD1 was dihydropinosylvin (6.91 μM) > lunularin (45.44 μM) > pinostilbene (46.82 μM) > resveratrol (171.1 μM) > pinosylvin (193.8 μM) > others. The inhibitory strength of inhibiting rat 11β-HSD1 was pinostilbene (9.67 μM) > lunularin (17.39 μM) > dihydropinosylvin (19.83 μM) > dihydroresveratrol (23.07 μM) > dihydroxystilbene (27.84 μM) > others and dihydropinosylvin (85.09 μM) and pinostilbene (>100 μM) inhibited mouse 11β-HSD1. All chemicals did not inhibit human, rat, and mouse 11β-HSD2. It was found that dihydropinosylvin, lunularin, and pinostilbene were competitive inhibitors of human 11β-HSD1 and that pinostilbene, lunularin, dihydropinosylvin, dihydropinosylvin and dihydroxystilbene were mixed inhibitors of rat 11β-HSD1. Docking analysis showed that they bind to the steroid-binding site of human and rat 11β-HSD1. In conclusion, resveratrol and its analogues can selectively inhibit human and rat 11β-HSD1, and mouse 11β-HSD1 is insensitive to the inhibition of resveratrol analogues.
Implications of the Choice of Quadrature Nodes for Picard Integral Deferred Corrections Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations
Creators: name: Layton, Anita
name: Minion, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: This paper concerns a class of deferred correction methods recently developed for initial value ordinary differential equations; such methods are based on a Picard integral form of the correction equation. These methods divide a given timestep [tn ,tn+1] into substeps, and use function values computed at these substeps to approximate the Picard integral by means of a numerical quadrature. The main purpose of this paper is to present a detailed analysis of the implications of the location of quadrature nodes on the accuracy and stability of the overall method. Comparisons between Gauss-Legendre, Gauss-Lobatto, Gauss-Radau, and uniformly spaced points are presented. Also, for a given set of quadrature nodes, quadrature rules may be formulated that include or exclude function values computed at the left-hand endpoint tn . Quadrature rules that do not depend on the left-hand endpoint (which are referred to as right-hand quadrature rules) are shown to lead to L(α)-stable implicit methods with α≈π/2. The semi-implicit analog of this property is also discussed. Numerical results suggest that the use of uniform quadrature nodes, as opposed to nodes based on Gaussian quadratures, does not significantly affect the stability or accuracy of these methods for orders less than ten. In contrast, a study of the reduction of order for stiff equations shows that when uniform quadrature nodes are used in conjunction with a right-hand quadrature rule, the form and extent of order-reduction changes considerably. Specifically, a reduction of order to \(\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^2)\) is observed for uniform nodes as opposed to \(\mathcal{O}(\epsilon\Delta{t})\) for non-uniform nodes, where Δt denotes the time step and ε a stiffness parameter such that ε→0 corresponds to the problem becoming increasingly stiff.
Reproducing pairs and the continuous nonstationary Gabor transform on LCA groups
Creators: name: Speckbacher, Michael
name: Balazs, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22B99, 43A32, 42C15, 42C40

description: In this paper we introduce and investigate the concept of repro- ducing pairs as a generalization of continuous frames. Reproducing pairs yield a bounded analysis and synthesis process while the frame condition can be omitted at both stages. Moreover, we will investigate certain continuous frames (resp. reproducing pairs) on LCA groups, which can be described as a continuous version of nonstationary Ga- bor systems and state sufficient conditions for these systems to form a continuous frame (resp. reproducing pair). As a byproduct we iden- tify the structure of the frame operator (resp. resolution operator). We will apply our results to systems generated by a unitary action of a subset of the affine Weyl-Heisenberg group in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$. This setup will also serve as a nontrivial example of a system for which, whereas continuous frames exist, no dual system with the same structure exists even if we drop the frame property.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1407.6830
Differential expression of Zymomonas mobilis sucrase genes (sacB and sacC) in Escherichia coli and sucrase mutants of Zymomonas mobilis
Creators: name: Gurunathan, Sangiliyandi
name: Gunasekaran, Paramasamy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: The sacB and sacC genes encoding levansucrase and extracellular sucrase respectively were independently subcloned in pBluescript (high copy number) and in Z. mobilis-E. coli shuttle vector, pZA22 (low copy number). The expression of these genes were compared under identical background of E. coli and Z. mobilis host. The level of sacB gene expression in E. coli was almost ten fold less than the expression of sacC gene, irrespective of the growth medium or the host strain. In Z. mobilis the expression of sacB and sacC genes was shown to be subject to carbon source dependent regulation. The transcript of sacB and sacC was three fold higher in cells grown on sucrose than in cells grown on glucose/fructose. Northern blot analysis revealed that the transcript levels of sacC was approximately 2-3 times higher than that of sacB. These results suggested that the expression of sacC gene was more pronounced than sacB.
(3604) Blanche Kate Loder
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.