cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MINSEQE: Minimum Information about a high-throughput Nucleotide SeQuencing Experiment - a proposal for standards in functional genomic data reporting
Creators: name: Brazma, Alvis
name: Ball, Catherine
name: Bumgarner, Roger
name: Furlanello, Cesare
name: Miller, Michael
name: Quackenbush, John
name: Reich, Michael
name: Rustici, Gabriella
name: Stoeckert, Chris
name: Trutane, Stephen Chervitz
name: Taylor, Ronald C
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: nucleotide, sequencing, genome, transcriptome, genomics, transcriptomics, reproducibility, standards, publication

description: MINSEQE describes the Minimum Information about a high-throughput nucleotide SEQuencing Experiment that is needed to enable the unambiguous interpretation and facilitate reproduction of the results of the experiment. By analogy to the MIAME guidelines for microarray experiments, adherence to the MINSEQE guidelines will improve integration of multiple experiments across different modalities, thereby maximising the value of high-throughput research. The five elements of experimental description considered essential when making data available supporting published high-throughput sequencing experiments are as follows: The description of the biological system, samples, and the experimental variables being studied: “compound” and “dose” in dose-response experiments or “antibody” in ChIP-Seq experiments, the organism, tissue, and the treatment(s) applied. The sequence read data for each assay: read sequences and base-level quality scores for each assay; FASTQ format is recommended, with a description of the scale used for quality scores. The ‘final’ processed (or summary) data for the set of assays in the study: the data on which the conclusions in the related publication are based, and descriptions of the data format. General information about the experiment and sample-data relationships: a summary of the experiment and its goals, contact information, any associated publication, and a table specifying sample-data relationships. Essential experimental and data processing protocols: how the nucleic acid samples were isolated, purified and processed prior to sequencing, a summary of the instrumentation used, library preparation strategy, labelling and amplification methodologies, alignment algorithms and data filtering plus data processing & analysis protocols. The present document contains version 1.0 of the MINSEQE guidelines, which originated from discussions at an FGED-organized workshop held in Berkeley in March 2008.
description: {"references": ["Brazma et al. (2001). Minimum information about a microarray experiment (MIAME)\u2014toward standards for microarray data, Nature Genetics, 29, 365 - 371."]}
title: A Pre-Paving Baseline Inventory of Vehicle-Related Mortality on Mule Deer along, Seep Ridge Road, Book Cliffs, Utah
Creators: name: Hansen, D. Alex
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2012

description: Part I:
The Seep Ridge road is the major route used to access the Book Cliffs from Uintah County. For many years the County has expressed interest in paving the road in order to improve access to this remote portion of the County. In 2011 Uintah County received Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approval for the project and began construction on the road. There have been many concerns expressed concerning the Seep Ridge Road paving project, including impacts to mule deer. The Utah Division of Wildlife, sportsmen and conservation groups are concerned that upgrading the road may lead to a decline in the Book Cliffs Deer herd. This paper will serve as Part I to my Capstone project and will detail the objectives and methods to be used in Part II. The objectives of this study include establishing baselines for deer vehicle mortality and vehicle volume and speed along the Seep Ridge Road pre-construction. In addition to this I have evaluated public perceptions, reviewed policies and assessed the economic impacts associated with the paving project.
Part II:
Without proper mitigation, realigning and paving 29 km (18 mi) of the Seep Ridge Road (SRR) in the Book Cliffs of Utah could potentially contribute to a decline of the mule deer herd in the area. As such I have initiated a study to record baseline data for deer vehicle collision (DVC) rates and vehicle speed and volume prior to completion of the paving project. Along with this I have compared the number of deer carcasses resulting from DVC’s that were observed from the road during weekly deer counts to the number of carcasses found immediately outside the view shed of the road. This comparison was intended to provide a correction factor that could be used to more adequately estimate DVC’s. Over the course of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) Book Cliffs deer study (see Part 1 of this Capstone) biologists found approximately 0.45 DVC/km (0.28 DVC/mi) during road counts. More intensive DVC searches along the SRR as part of my study did not find that DVC numbers were any greater than the UDWR counts suggest. The relatively low DVC rate may be due in part to the slow travel speeds along the SRR (~87% at or below 35mph) prior to paving the road. In conclusion it was determined the pre-construction conditions of the SRR did not significantly contribute to the decline of the Book Cliffs deer population. With this understanding and the establishment of baseline data future research should be able to identify any change in the number of DVCs that occurs as a result of the SRR paving and realignment project.
title: Inter- and Intra-rater Reliabililty of a Modified Approach to Scoring the Balance Error Scoring System BESS in Undistracted and Distracted Conditions
Creators: name: Pierce, Jacob Ryan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Context: We have developed a modified approach to scoring balance errors with the Balance Error Scoring System (BESS) by eliminating two of the six original error criteria.
Objective: To measure the inter- and intra-rater reliability of this modified BESS approach. Because of the potential auditory distractions that may be present in a clinical setting, we also measured reliability for distracted rating conditions.
Design: Cross-sectional.
Setting: University sports medicine clinic.
Patients or Other Participants: Board of Certification (BOC) certified athletic trainers as raters (n=6).
Intervention: Raters used a modified approach to scoring the BESS to score 32 different sets of pre-recorded videos of balancers completing the six stance positions of the BESS. They first completed this in an undistracted condition, then one week later in a distracted condition as they performed a concurrent auditory vigilance task.
Main Outcome Measures: Two-way, random, absolute agreement intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) measured the inter- and intra-rater reliability of the modified approach for undistracted and distracted conditions. Repeated measures ANOVAs tested for effects of condition (undistracted vs. distracted) and also BESS stance position (e.g. single-leg, foam) on the raters’ reported number of errors.
Results: For the undistracted condition, inter- and intra-rater reliability ICCs were 0.93 and 0.92, respectively. For the distracted condition, inter- and intra-rater reliability ICCs were 0.89 and 0.92, respectively. There was no significant effect of condition (undistracted vs. distracted) on the reported number of errors in the total error score or in the individual stance position scores.
Conclusions: This modified approach to scoring the BESS is reliable, even when used in a potentially distracting environment.
title: To envy its rising greatness, and to dvise every possible means of doing it injury Pittsburgh and Wheeling: The Struggle for Hegemony on the Upper Ohio, 1808 - 1855.
Creators: name: Alfred, Jon W
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: The primary reason for urban growth in the Early Republic was the growth and linking of transportation networks. This study will show how two cities, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Wheeling, Virginia, sought to bring the many rapidly changing transportation networks to their city. Through the examination of the role of boosters, local, state, and federal investments, and the conflict or cooperation between eastern elites in each state versus the concerns of the western counties, one of these cities, Pittsburgh, will be show to have achieved regional hegemony by bringing more trade networks into its hub. The role of geography in settlement patterns and construction of these networks will also be discussed.
This study examined existing scholarship in books and journals as well as archival evidence from the University of Pittsburgh, West Virginia University, the University of Virginia, the Historical Society of Wheeling, the Carnegie Foundation, and records from the United States Congressional Series.
title: Optimal Debt-to-Equity Ratios and Stock Returns
Creators: name: Winn, Courtney D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Value maximization of a firm depends heavily on the financial leverage of the company. This is measured by the debt-­‐to-­‐equity ratio, which explains what proportions of debt and equity are being used to finance the firm’s assets. By adjusting this ratio, firms can influence their stock performance.
In this study, I estimate the value function for each firm and take the derivative with respect to the debt-­‐to-­‐equity ratio. By setting this equal to zero, I solve for the optimal debt-­‐ to-­‐equity ratio or the ratio that maximizes firm value. The difference between the optimal and historically observed debt-­‐to-­‐equity ratios is called the margin.
Variables like market capitalization, trading volume, and book-­‐to-­‐market ratio can influence margin, as my test results show. Furthermore, I find that margin can influence stock returns of the firm, and it does so in a negative and significant way.
By minimizing margin, companies are able to influence the magnitude of stock returns.
title: Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Transition Planning Guide
Creators: name: Thompson, Shalee
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Transition planning for students with disabilities is often a difficult process for students, their families, and their teachers. Families are often unsure of how best to help their student and often feel unheard by the professionals with whom they are working (Defur, Todd-Allen & Getzel, 2001.) Teachers are also unsure of how to best implement transition planning strategies in the classroom (Thoma, Pannazzo, Fritton & Bartholomew, 2008). Transition planning is often poorly aligned with the desired end outcomes for students (Thompson, Fulk & Piercy, 2000) and parents and teachers lack systematic guidance in decision making for transition planning.
This project included the development and evaluation of a transition planning guide for parents and teachers of transition-age students with moderate to severe disabilities. Teachers and parents of students from Cache School District’s high school and post high settings participated. A pre-experimental, pre-test post-test single case design was used to evaluate parents’ and teachers’ knowledge of and satisfaction with the process before and after using the transition planning guide. Before implementation, the transition planning guide was evaluated by experts within the field and revised accordingly. Teacher participants received training on the use of the transition planning guide prior to meeting with the parent and student. The use of the transition planning guide improved both knowledge of post-school options and satisfaction with the transition planning process for teachers and parents.
title: Assessment of Morphosyntactic Development of Preschool Children with Hearing Loss Using the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Preschool Second Edition
Creators: name: Anderson, Angela
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: It is recommended that children with HL are assessed using standardized assessments normed on hearing peers (Houston & Caraway, 2009; Joint Commission on Infant Hearing (JCIH), 2007). However, as these assessments are more commonly administered to children with HL there is reason to further investigate the sensitivity of these assessments particularly in their ability to identify weaknesses specific to HL. The CELF-Preschool 2 (Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals – Preschool (Wiig, Secord & Semel, 2004)) has been found to be a valid tool for diagnosing language impairment in normal hearing children (Spaulding, Plante, & Farinella, 2006). However, this assessment has not been normed on children with HL and the standardized assessment may not successfully identify areas of acoustic weakness that may exist in children with HL, particularly as it relates to the form of language (such as syntax and morphology) (Spencer, 2004). Standard and/or scaled scores alone may not provide the information needed to understand a child’s ability to hear across frequencies and to learn and accurately use morphosyntactic structures/information.
This preliminary study will 1) provide results examining the performance of 47 preschool children with HL on the CELF-P2; 2) describe findings from an item analysis that show children with HL have ongoing challenges with morphosyntactic development; and 3) discuss implications for educational providers (i.e., speech-language pathologists, deaf educators,) for interpretation of assessment results and intervention strategies.
The results indicated that compared to standardized norms, children with HL are performing within the average range on the CELF. An itemized analysis of subtests of the CELF revealed a pattern of errors were made as a collective group. These errors involved the following morphemes: a) using the phoneme /s/ (plurals, possessives, verb tense third person singular), b) regular past tense –ed, c) irregular past tense, and d) uncontractible copula “be”. The results suggest there may be other factors beyond language abilities affecting the performance of children with HL, and a standardized test score overall may not reflect these deficits. These findings merit further investigation into the frequency of sound factors that may be preventing acquisition of morphosyntactic parts of language in this population.
Subsidiary power, cultural intelligence and interpersonal knowledge transfer between subsidiaries within the multinational enterprise
Creators: name: Phookan, H
name: Sharma, RR
Publisher: name: Open Access Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150599 Marketing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified

description: We propose that individual-level knowledge transfer between subsidiaries within a multinational enterprise depends on the perceived relative power of the subsidiary and the cultural intelligence of individuals. Using a sample of 333 research and development (R&D) subsidiary employees of foreign Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in India, we find that the perceived subsidiary power has a direct positive significant effect on knowledge sharing, and an indirect significant effect, through organizational identification, on knowledge seeking. Further, cultural intelligence moderates the effect of organizational identification on knowledge seeking, and the indirect effect of the perceived subsidiary power on it. The findings highlight the role of organizational identification and cultural intelligence in explaining the impact of the perceived subsidiary power on interpersonal knowledge transfer within the MNE.
title: High Cognitive Test Item Development and Implementation
Creators: name: Salisbury, Ashley
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: In secondary math classrooms there has been a movement toward discovery and problem solving based instruction. This type of instruction requires teachers to teach on what is often considered a higher level of cognition and allows students to discover more ideas and concepts on their own as opposed to traditional lecture style. Teachers with well thought-out examples, questions, and activities provide students with tools to solve problems on their own requiring students to make mathematical discoveries and connections. These skills not only benefit students in their math class but are analytical skills students can use throughout their lives.
With this change in instruction style there is also a push to change the method of assessment used in classrooms. Tests should require more of students than simple memorization of ideas and steps, the test should provide an opportunity for students to show the discoveries and connections they have made. It is also important that assessments be effective in measuring and determining what students have learned or have not learned relevant to the teacher’s objectives and concepts that have been taught. In this study, test items will be evaluated using known methods for judging item effectiveness.
LHC Phenomenology for String Hunters
Creators: name: Anchordoqui, Luis A.
name: Goldberg, Haim
name: Lust, Dieter
name: Nawata, Satoshi
name: Stieberger, Stephan
name: Taylor, Tomasz R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider extensions of the standard model based on open strings ending on D-branes, with gauge bosons due to strings attached to stacks of D-branes and chiral matter due to strings stretching between intersecting D-branes. Assuming that the fundamental string mass scale is in the TeV range and the theory is weakly coupled, we discuss possible signals of string physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In previous works, direct channel excitations of Regge recurrences in parton-parton scattering supplied the outstanding new signature. The present work considers the deviation from standard model expectations for the 4-fermion processes qq\to qq and qq' \to qq', in which the s-channel excitation of string resonances is absent. In this case, we find that Kaluza-Klein recurrences at masses somewhat less than the string scale generate effective 4-fermion contact terms which can significantly enhance the dijet R ratio above its QCD value of about 0.6. The simultaneous observation of a nearby resonant structure in the dijet mass spectrum would provide a "smoking gun" for TeV scale string theory. In this work, we also show that (1) for M_{string}<3.5 TeV, the rates for various topologies arising from the pp \to Z^0 + jet channel could deviate significantly from standard model predictions and (2) that the sizeable cross sections for Regge recurrences can allow a 6σdiscovery for string scales as large as 3 TeV after about 1 year of LHC operation at \sqrt{s} =10 TeV and \int L dt ~ 100 pb^{-1}.
description: Typographical error in equations (17), (18), (19), and (20) has been corrected
title: The Infrastructure of the Fur Trade in the American Southwest, 1821-1840
Creators: name: Call, Hadyn B.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Careful study of the published history of the American Southwest reveals that historians have not provided a comprehensive analysis of the infrastructure that enabled the fur trade in the American Southwest to thrive. Analysis of that infrastructure unveils an amalgamation of blended characteristics derived from the French, British, and American systems along with characteristics derived from the Southwest’s own evolutionary development over time and space. This paper will detail and explain the shared characteristics of the Southwestern fur trade’s infrastructure, emphasizing the animals, people, depots, and supplies, during the era of the soft fur trade, which dealt primarily with beaver from 1821 to 1840. This work will show how that infrastructure was significant to the success of the Southwestern Fur Trade.
In order to avoid conflicting interpretations of phrases such as “the Southwest,” it is important to define some terms. For this work the Southwest is defined as the northern provinces of Old Mexico prior to the Mexican-American War. This includes lands south of the 42nd parallel, specifically as a region entailing modern day California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, as well as Wyoming west of the Continental Divide. Infrastructure is defined as “the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.”1 This study will advance a new theoretical approach to history by looking at the past as a series of infrastructures or components that allowed for, in this case, a fur trade to exist. This work will also highlight a region of rich and detailed history often left underexplored by historians.
title: Asociación  Entre Densidad Mamaria Visualizada En Mamografía y Cáncer de Mama:  Estudio Casos-Control.
Creators: name: Sáez Valero, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Breast

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
Valorar la asociación entre la densidad mamaria visualizada en mamografía y los casos de cáncer de mama observados por el servicio de Anatomía patológica del hospital Ernest Lluch de...
title: Bridging Music and the Early Childhood Curriculum in Listening and Spoken Language Programs for Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Creators: name: Wright, Whitney
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Music is an integral aspect of human life. Its impact weaves through arts, culture, communication, recreation, and education. In addition to benefits of enjoyment and entertainment, music is a vital component of early childhood educational settings. Educators routinely utilize music as an embedded component of instruction to meet both group and individual needs of young children in early childhood classrooms. In fact, specialized musical instruction can be particularly beneficial for children with disabilities, including those who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) (Gfeller, Driscoll, Kenworthy, & Van Voorst, 2011). Children who are DHH are at significant risk for speech, language, and academic delays (Madell & Flexer, 2008). However, with early detection, use of appropriate hearing technology, and specialized early intervention, many children who are DHH can develop language and academic proficiency similar to their same-aged hearing peers (Nelson, 2008; Yoshinaga-Itano, 2003; Yoshinaga-Itano, 2004).
FAIR Digital Objects research and adoption: Let's pretotype
Creators: name: Limani, Fidan
name: Koumpis, Adamantios
name: Latif, Atif
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: NFDI
FAIR Digital Objects
NFDI4DS
Pretotyping
Use cases
Industry applications
Digital Objects

description: In the NFDI4DS project, as part of the “Research Knowledge Graphs” task area, there is already a recommendation to share tasks across measures via working groups that could start as soon as possible with the project realization. In this context, we can target an artifact collection and model it via FDOs. This should give us the means to explore the adoption of this model, as well as the assumptions or issues we will face in the process, something that we can, in turn, give feedback to the FDO forum. This exploration should provide us insights about adopting FDOs as our model of choice for representing research artifacts. In the process, we aim to assess whether this idea is the right one, whether there is a community that will engage in their realization and, ultimately, if there will be a commitment from the industry to invest in them if these will be proposed. To cope with the above, it is worth considering the concept of pretotyping as a tool.
title: Recovering the Moca River: An Exploration through Sustainable Strategies for Developing Countries
Creators: name: Diaz, Marleny Santana
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Natural watercourses are being negatively affected by growing urbanization in different cities of the world. Within these circumstances the concept of river restoration has gained relevance, becoming a worldwide priority in water management. In developing countries, river restoration plans, conditioned by social and economic limitations, are mainly focused on a single approach, typically relying on short-term, low technology strategies.
In the long term, these strategies tend to fail because they usually avoid integral solutions that address the interconnected factors contributing to river degradation. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to develop a framework of river restoration planning for developing countries that sustains the health of the river, the welfare of the ecosystem and the safety of the community. This framework develops three strategies with potential techniques to address the impacts of water pollution, flooding risk, and informal settlement in river ecosystems. Techniques responding to each of these strategies were described under a matrix that expresses their suitability with respect to a set of attributes or criteria selected for analysis. an explanatory case study approach in the Moca River, Dominican Republic, was used to apply the three strategies.
The Growth and Evolution of Art Basel Miami Beach
Creators: name: Thompson, Emily Rose
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023

description: This research examines arts management issues associated with the Art Basel organization by taking an in depth look at the management practices of Art Basel Miami Beach. The research highlights the organization's history, people involved, organizational features, its impact on the art world, and where it is headed in the future. The author used two main research strategies: first hand analysis of Art Basel Miami Beach, its organizers and participants, and in-depth research into international art fairs. Through this study, the reader will gain a greater understanding of the purpose of an art fair and how an event such as Art Basel Miami Beach is produced, as well as the impact it has on arts markets and on its host community.
Low-Q^2 scaling behavior of the form-factor ratios for the NΔ(1232)-transition
Creators: name: Vereshkov, G.
name: Volchanskiy, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the issue of the scaling behavior of the nucleon electromagnetic form factors (FFs). We propose a consistent Lagrangian of the electromagnetic NΔ(1232)-interaction possessing all the internal symmetries of the spin-3/2 baryon resonance, point and gauge invariance. The point and gauge invariant FFs may exhibit quasi-scaling behavior--while the FFs do not reach asymptotic scaling domain, the ratios thereof do. The hypothesis of the quasi-scaling is in good agreement with the experimental data available at Q^2 > 0.4 GeV^2.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
title: Cambios en el volumen y la densidad de las glandulas parótidas tras tratamiento neoadyuvante en neoplasias de cabeza y cuello.
Creators: name: Saenz Bañuelos, Javier
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Head and neck

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
La xerostomía es la manifestación clinica más común de las disfunciones salivares y consiste en una disminución de la secreción salival. En pacientes con respuesta tumoral completa,
es el efecto secundario más frecuente y que más impacta la...
Transport through the network of topological channels in HgTe based quantum well
Creators: name: Gusev, G. M.
name: Kvon, Z. D.
name: Kozlov, D. A.
name: Olshanetsky, E. B.
name: Entin, M. V.
name: Mikhailov, N. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter which is characterized by edge or surface states and an insulating band gap in the bulk. In a two dimensional (2D) system based on the HgTe quantum well (QW) of critical width random deviations of the well width from its average value result in local crossovers from zero gap 2D Dirac fermion system to either the 2D topological insulator or the ordinary insulator, forming a complicated in-plane network of helical channels along the zero-gap lines. We have studied experimentally the transport properties of the critical width HgTe quantum wells near the Dirac point, where the conductance is determined by a percolation along the zero-gap lines. The experimental results confirm the presence of percolating conducting channels of a finite width. Our work establishes the critical width HgTe QW as a promising platform for the study of the interplay between topology and localization.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
On the lattice of sub-pseudovarieties of DA
Creators: name: Kufleitner, Manfred
name: Weil, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The wealth of information that is available on the lattice of varieties of bands, is used to illuminate the structure of the lattice of sub-pseudovarieties of DA, a natural generalization of bands which plays an important role in language theory and in logic. The main result describes a hierarchy of decidable sub-pseudovarieties of DA in terms of iterated Mal'cev products with the pseudovarieties of definite and reverse definite semigroups.
The Growth and Evolution of Art Basel Miami Beach
Creators: name: Thompson, Emily Rose
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research examines arts management issues associated with the Art Basel organization by taking an in depth look at the management practices of Art Basel Miami Beach. The research highlights the organization's history, people involved, organizational features, its impact on the art world, and where it is headed in the future. The author used two main research strategies: first hand analysis of Art Basel Miami Beach, its organizers and participants, and in-depth research into international art fairs. Through this study, the reader will gain a greater understanding of the purpose of an art fair and how an event such as Art Basel Miami Beach is produced, as well as the impact it has on arts markets and on its host community.
title: Causas frecuentes, raras y curiosas de la obstrucción intestinal en el adulto.
Creators: name: Soliva Martínez, Daniel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Volvulus
subject: Inflammation
subject: Foreign bodies
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Emergency
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Definición y diferenciación de la obstrucción del intestino delgado y del grueso. Mostrar los signos típicos de obstrucción intestinal mediante ejemplos ilustrativos. Exposición y descripción de causas comunes y de otras menos frecuentes de...
Torsion formulation of gravity
Creators: name: Lledo, M. A.
name: Sommovigo, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We make it precise what it means to have a connection with torsion as solution of the Einstein equations. While locally the theory remains the same, the new formulation allows for topologies that would have been excluded in the standard formulation of gravity. In this formulation it is possible to couple arbitrary torsion to gauge fields without breaking the gauge invariance.
description: AMS-LaTeX, 25 pages. Appendices have been eliminated and the necessary concepts have been inroduced in the text. We have added some references
RGB vegetation indices applied to grass monitoring: a qualitative analysis
Creators: name: Barbosa, B.D.S.
name: Ferraz, G.A.S.
name: Gonçalves, L.M.
name: Marin, D.B.
name: Maciel, D.T.
name: Ferraz, P.F.P.
name: Rossi, G.
Publisher: name: Agronomy Research
Year: 2019
Subjects: ARP
emerald grass
index vegetation RGB
article

description: In developing countries such as Brazil, research on low-cost remote sensing and computational techniques become essential for the development of precision agriculture (PA), and improving the quality of the agricultural products. Faced with the scenario of increasing production of emerald grass (Zoysia Japônica) in Brazil, and the value added the quality of this agricultural product. The objective of this work was to evaluate the performance of RGB (IV) vegetation indices in the identification of exposed soil and vegetation. The study was developed in an irrigated area of 58 ha cultivated with emerald grass at Bom Sucesso, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The images were obtained by a RGB digital camera coupled to an remotely piloted aircraft. The flight plan was setup to take overlapping images of 70% and the aircraft speed was 10 m s -1 . Six RGB Vegetation index (MGVRI, GLI, RGBVI, MPRI, VEG, ExG) were evaluated in a mosaic resulting from the images of the study area. All of the VIs evaluated were affected by the variability of lighting conditions in the area but MPRI and MGVRI were the ones that presented the best results in a qualitative evaluation regarding the discrimination of vegetation and soil.
VISABLI - an RCN-UBE for Visualizations, Interactive Simulations, and Animations for Biology Learning & Instruction (RCN-UBE Introduction)
Creators: name: Keen, Susan
name: Jenkinson, Jodie
name: McGill, Gael
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: Our network improves instructional multimedia design for biology education by fostering communication and collaboration among members of three communities: undergraduate biology instructors, creators of scientific visualizations, and education researchers.
title: Reproducibilidad y concordancia entre observadores en la realización del “R.E.N.A.L nephrometry score”.
Creators: name: García Duitama, Iván
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: CT
subject: Kidney

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
Evaluar la reproducibilidad y concordancia en la “R.E.N.A.L nephrometry score” (RENAL-NS) en el estudio de tumores renales intervenidos en un hospital de tercer nivel. Antecedentes El carcinoma de células renales (CCR) es la neoplasia renal...
Saturn's icy satellites investigated by Cassini -- VIMS. V. Spectrophotometry
Creators: name: Filacchione, G.
name: Ciarniello, M.
name: D'Aversa, E.
name: Capaccioni, F.
name: Clark, R. N.
name: Buratti, B. J.
name: Helfenstein, P.
name: Stephan, K.
name: Plainaki, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Albedo, spectral slopes, and water ice band depths maps for the five midsized saturnian satellites Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, and Rhea have been derived from Cassini-Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) data. The maps are systematically built from photometric corrected data by applying the Kaasalainen-Shkuratov model (Kaasalainen et al., 2001, Shkuratov et al., 2011}. In this work a quadratic function is used to fit phase curves built by filtering observations taken with incidence angle $i\le70^\circ$, emission angle $e\le70^\circ$, phase angle $10^\circ \le g \le 120^\circ$, and Cassini-satellite distance $D \le 100.000$ km. This procedure is systematically repeated for a subset of 65 VIMS visible and near-infrared wavelengths for each satellite. The average photometric parameters are used to compare satellites' properties and to study their variability with illumination conditions changes. We derive equigonal albedo, extrapolated at g=0$^\circ$, not including the opposition effect, equal to 0.63$\pm$0.02 for Mimas, 0.89$\pm$0.03 for Enceladus, 0.74$\pm$0.03 for Tethys, 0.65$\pm$0.03 for Dione, 0.60$\pm$0.05 for Rhea at 0.55 $μ$m. The knowledge of photometric spectral response allows to correct individual VIMS spectra used to build maps through geolocation. Maps are rendered at a fixed resolution corresponding to a $0.5^\circ \times 0.5^\circ$ bin on a longitude by latitude grid resulting in spatial resolutions of 1.7 km/bin for Mimas, 2.2 km/bin for Enceladus; 4.7 km/bin for Tethys; 4.5 km/bin for Dione; 6.7 km/bin for Rhea. These spectral maps allow establishing relationships with morphological features and with endogenic and exogenic processes capable to alter satellites' surface properties through several mechanisms...
description: 60 pages, 16 figures, 6 tables. Accepted for publication on Icarus journal
title: Teacher Perception of Social/Emotional Skills of Preschool Children and the Relationship to Common Core Standards
Creators: name: Price, A. Mi'kel
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Sampson is a 4-year-old preschooler. It is difficult for him to make friends, understand simple social settings, and interact with peers. He struggles to interpret incoming contextual information (such as talking to a peer about the blocks they are playing with), has difficulty comprehending non-literal/figurative expressions (such as jokes and irony), and implicit messages (such as when a child does not want to play with him). Sampson’s difficulties increase his risk of social isolation and lower self-esteem.
This vignette offers a glimpse into the challenges faced by children with low social/emotional skills. The social use of language, often referred to as pragmatics, is a skill learned early in life by typically developing children (Geurts, & Embrechts, 2010). To become a competent language user, children must learn to appropriately play the role of speaker and listener and understand how they interact (Toe, Beattie & Barr, 2007).
Children are social beings, and as such, need to learn the skills necessary to build relationships in a social world. The appropriate use of social language is complicated (Kostelnik, Whiren, Soderman & Gregory, 2006). Even with the most basic social exchange, such as conversational turn taking, proper engagement using social skills is required (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2013). To interact effectively, one must understand various communication contexts and when to use them appropriately. Many judgments must be made in a short amount of time, such as what is polite or impolite based on the relationship with the person, the time, the place, the culture norms, the person’s current status as well as one’s own status (Kostelnik, et al., 2006). For example, the way to greet the school principal is different than the way to greet a best friend. Social/emotional skills may seem intuitive to adults, but children are still in the experimental phase, the trial and error of learning and perfecting social skills (Kostelnik, et al., 2006). It is indeed necessary that children be provided with the tools to appropriately use these skills. In fact, Hartup (1992) contends that, “The single best childhood predictor of adult adaptation is not school grades, and not classroom behavior, but rather, the adequacy with which the child gets along with other children. Children who are generally disliked, who are aggressive and disruptive, who are unable to sustain close relationships with other children, and who cannot establish a place for themselves in the peer culture are seriously at risk". (p. 1) Therefore, social/emotional skills should be evaluated and documented to provide at risk children the instruments for social competence
Revisiting the classical electron model in general relativity
Creators: name: Rahaman, Farook
name: Jamil, Mubasher
name: Chakraborty, Kaushik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron is modeled as a spherically symmetric charged perfect fluid distribution of matter. The existing model is extended assuming a matter source that is characterized by quadratic EoS in the context of general theory of relativity. For the suitable choices of the parameters, our charged fluid models almost satisfy the physical properties of electron.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, to be published in Astrophys. Space Sci
Shearing effects on the phase coarsening of binary mixtures using the Active Model B
Creators: name: Lamura, A.
name: Tiribocchi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phase separation of a two-dimensional active binary mixture is studied under the action of an applied shear through numerical simulations. It is highlighted how the strength of the external flow modifies the initial shape of growing domains. The activity is responsible for the formation of isolated droplets which affect both the coarsening dynamics and the morphology of the system. The characteristic dimensions of domains along the flow and the shear direction are modulated in time by oscillations whose amplitudes are reduced when the activity increases. This induces a broadening of the distribution functions of domain lengths with respect to the passive case due to the presence of dispersed droplets of different sizes.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
Squeezing electromagnetic energy with a dielectric split ring inside a permeability-near-zero metamaterial
Creators: name: Jin, Yi
name: Zhang, Pu
name: He, Sailing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel electromagnetic energy squeezing mechanism is proposed based on the special properties of permeability-near-zero metamaterials. Nearly no energy stream can enter a conventional dielectric region positioned inside a permeability-near-zero material. When a source is surrounded by a dielectric split ring (encloser with a gap opened), the electromagnetic energy generated by the source is forced to propagate through the gap. When the gap is narrow, the energy stream density becomes very large and makes the magnetic field enhanced drastically in the gap. The narrow gap can be long and bended. This provides us a method to obtain strong magnetic field without using resonance enhancement.
description: 17pages, 4 figures
title: Assessing Efficiency of Schools Participating in Startsmart K3+
Creators: name: Hedeman, Yamil Vargas
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: New Mexico has administered and funded State K3+ program to reduce the achievement gap between students in kindergarten through third grade since 2007. StartSmart K3+ project is an experimental research to examine the cost-effectiveness of State K3+. This research attempts to measure the efficiency of the schools participating in StartSmart using valuable information and data collected by StartSmart K3+. A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) originally developed to study production efficiency of micro-level organizations, and a regression model are used to analyze the efficiency of the schools participating in the first year of the project in 2011. The DEA is used to measure each school’s inputs and outputs ratio, such as teachers’ qualification and students’ performance, compares them and calculate the efficiency score. Efficiency scores generated by the DEA are biased by construction since the DEA constructs a lower bound on the true efficient frontier. Efficiency scores from the DEA are corrected using the bootstrap procedure as suggested in Simar and Wilson (1998, 2000). After generating DEA scores and correcting the bias, a regression model is used to identify the environmental factors that school may not control and affect schools’ performance. Two-limit Tobit with limits at zero and unity is used to estimate equations. Three performance measurements are identified as outputs: 1) average scores in reading, writing, math and vocabulary (each score is considered as one output and thus there are four outputs in total), 2) minimum scores in four subjects (four outputs), and 3) percentage of students with scores above 90 points in each subject tests based on the Woodcock-Johnson III classification (four outputs). Results suggest that between 50% and 58% of the schools were efficient in 2011, depending on the students’ performance measurements considered. Three Tobit regression models for three different types of outputs are estimated. Dependent variables are bias-corrected DEA scores and explanatory variables are education level of the closest caregiver, poverty rate in the school district and other variables. Results from the regression model tell us that education level of the closest caregiver is an important factor in explaining school efficiency. The time students spend watching television and playing non-education video games has a high impact in changes in school efficiency too.
Schools in areas with high-risk populations will require a greater share of resources to provide the same quality of education enjoyed in more affluent areas. The goal pursue by the Government of New Mexico of reducing the existing achievement gap between students will be limited by these inefficiencies. An efficiency evaluation could be carried out at the end of each summer session to identify inefficient schools and to better allocate resources. Short and long run policies should be implemented to increase schools’ efficiency.
title: Infección endoprotesica tras reparación endovascular de aneurismas de aorta abdominal: serie de tres casos.
Creators: name: Shehadeh, Sana
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Aneurysms
subject: Stents
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Vascular
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Arteries / Aorta

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
Presentar los casos de infección endoprotésica tras reparación endovascular de aneurisma de aorta abdominal (EVAR) y describir los hallazgos radiológicos encontrados durante el seguimiento en nuestro...
title: Retrofitting Two Solar Hot Water Systems for Year Round Operation
Creators: name: Cook, Zachary A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2014

description: Solar energy in a variety of applications is again becoming more widely used. Solar collectors have been installed during the construction of two Utah State University buildings: Wetlands Discovery located in Kaysville, Utah and Swaner Nature Preserve located in Park City, Utah. While these systems are capable of capturing a significant amount of solar energy, problems have been encountered when the demand is less than the system’s capacity. This project report documents the problems encountered while operating the two solar water heating systems and how the systems were modified to be operational year round under typical operating conditions. The peak solar gain for the collectors was calculated and modeled to determine the amount of heat that would need to be rejected when the system stalled. Based on these findings, modifications were made to the two solar collector systems and the performance was monitored and analyzed. The systems can now operate throughout the year with minimal maintenance.