cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Monochromatization interaction region optics design for direct s-channel Higgs production at FCC-ee
Creators: name: Zhang, Z.
name: Faus-Golfe, A.
name: Korsun, A.
name: Bai, B.
name: Jiang, H.
name: Oide, K.
name: Raimondi, P.
name: d'Enterria, D.
name: Zhang, S.
name: Zhou, Z.
name: Chi, Y.
name: Zimmermann, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The FCC-ee offers the potential to measure the electron Yukawa coupling via direct s-channel Higgs production, $e^+ e^- \rightarrow \text{H}$, at a centre-of-mass (CM) energy of ~125 GeV. This measurement is significantly facilitated if the CM energy spread of $e^+ e^-$ collisions can be reduced to a level comparable to the natural width of the Higgs boson, $Γ_{\text{H}}$ = 4.1 MeV, without substantial loss in luminosity. Achieving this reduction in collision-energy spread is possible through the "monochromatization" concept. The basic idea is to create opposite correlations between spatial position and energy deviation within the colliding beams, which can be accomplished in beam optics by introducing a nonzero dispersion function with opposite signs for the two beams at the interaction point. Since the first proposal in 2016, the implementation of monochromatization at the FCC-ee has been continuously improved, starting from preliminary parametric studies. In this paper, we present a detailed study of the interaction region optics design for this newly proposed collision mode, exploring different potential configurations and their implementation in the FCC-ee global lattice, along with beam dynamics simulations and performance evaluations including the impact of "beamstrahlung."
Additional file 1 of Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and hTERT gene expression in CTCs for radiotherapy effect with lung cancer
Creators: name: Xu, Ying
name: Ren, Xue
name: Jiang, Tong
name: Lv, Shuang
name: Gao, Kuanke
name: Liu, Yunen
name: Yan, Ying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1
No Radial Excitations in Low Energy QCD. II. The Shrinking Radius of Hadrons
Creators: name: Friedmann, Tamar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the implications of our prior results obtained in our companion paper [arXiv:0910.2229]. Inescapably, they lead to three laws governing the size of hadrons, including in particular protons and neutrons that make up the bulk of ordinary matter: a) there are no radial excitations in low-energy QCD; b) the size of a hadron is largest in its ground state; c) the hadron's size shrinks when its orbital excitation increases. The second and third laws follow from the first law. It follows that the path from confinement to asymptotic freedom is a Regge trajectory. It also follows that the top quark is a free, albeit short-lived, quark. [For Note Added regarding experimental support, including the experiments studying muonic hydrogen, and other experiments, see last page.]
description: 12 pages, footnote 3 added, version appearing in Eur. Phys. J. C
title: Understanding Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Potentials at Utah Ski Resorts
Creators: name: Hager, Rachel
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Increasing temperature and shifting precipitation regimes due to climate change are a significant threat to winter recreation. Some businesses such as high-elevation ski resorts are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. However, ski resorts may be able mitigate the impacts of climate change by proactively implementing adaptation strategies. The overall goal of this study was to investigate the impact of climate change on Utah ski resorts, and to understand adaptation perception, barriers, and strategies for different resorts across the state.
To meet that goal, we used a mixed-methods approach including examining temperature shifts at all Utah ski resorts 1980-2018 and climate change projections under RCP 2.6, 4.5, and 8.5 for 2021-2100, in addition to semi-structured interviews with ski resort managers. The interviews with resorts addressed how leadership perceives climate change threats and impacts, how the report is implementing adaptation strategies, and addressing barriers to adaptation. Since 1980, the minimum daily temperature has increased at all 14 Utah ski resorts, and at 12 of the 14 resorts the number of early season days with a minimum temperature at or below -5℃ (the temperature needed to make snow) has significantly decreased. Climate projections show that minimum temperatures are expected to rise during the prime ski season of December-March by up to 6.0℃ in Northern Utah and up to 6.6℃ in Southern Utah by 2100 under RCP 8.5. Resort managers are aware and concerned about the shrinking and shifting ski season especially with less snow and of a lower quality. Of the eight Utah ski resorts interviewed, most resort managers have already begun to implement adaptation measures such as diversifying winter and other season activities, increasing snowmaking capacity, and closing high-maintenance slopes. Resort managers face moderate to extreme barriers in adaptation including financial and water limitations. Utah ski resorts are already impacted by climate change and as the impacts become more severe, adaptation strategies will be needed to minimize negative impacts of higher temperature and lower quality and quantity of snow.
An effective model for magnetic field amplification by the magnetorotational and parasitic instabilities
Creators: name: Miravet-Tenés, Miquel
name: Pessah, Martin E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is considered a leading mechanism for driving angular momentum transport in differentially rotating astrophysical flows, including accretion disks and protoneutron stars. This process is mediated by the exponential amplification of the magnetic field whose final amplitude is envisioned to be limited by secondary (parasitic) instabilities. In this paper, we investigated the saturation of the MRI via parasitic modes relaxing previous approximations. We carried out the first systematic analysis of the evolution of parasitic modes as they feed off the exponentially growing MRI while being advected by the background shear flow. We provide the most accurate calculation of the amplification factor to which the MRI can grow before the fastest parasitic modes reach a comparable amplitude. We find that this amplification factor is remarkably robust, depending only logarithmically on the initial amplitude of the parasitic modes, in reasonable agreement with numerical simulations. Based on these insights, and guided by numerical simulations, we provide a simple analytical expression for the amplification of magnetic fields responsible for MRI-driven angular momentum transport. Our effective model for magnetic field amplification may enable going beyond the standard prescription for viscous transport currently employed in numerical simulations when the MRI cannot be explicitly resolved.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures
title: The Intermountain Indian School
Creators: name: Williams, Lewis A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1991

description: The past year and a half I have focused all my artistic effort on the subject of my thesis: The Intermountain Indian School at Brigham City, Utah. My artistic approaches and modes of depiction have varied greatly during this time period. The following describes the progression and purpose of my visual investigation and artistic development.
Landau Damping for Non-Maxwellian Distribution Functions
Creators: name: Stucchi, Riccardo
name: Lauber, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Landau damping is one of the cornerstones of plasma physics. In the context of the mathematical framework developed by Landau in his original derivation of Landau damping, we examine the solutions of the linear Vlasov-Poisson system for different equilibrium velocity distribution functions, such as the Maxwellian distribution, kappa distributions, and cut-off distributions without and with energy diffusion. Specifically, we focus on the full set of roots that the dispersion relation of the linear Vlasov-Poisson system generally admits, and we wonder if the full structure of solutions might hint at a deeper understanding of the Landau damping phenomenon.
title: Mélange de Motifs: Custom Pattern Designs Inspired by the  Interiors, Architecture, and Gardens of Vaux-le-Vicomte
Creators: name: Harmon, Jill Christine
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: How can a historic precedent be successfully employed to inform modern design? History will always provide a degree of influence in contemporary design. In design, a historic precedent can be the backbone of a creative concept and stands as a relevant and informative aspect throughout the project. The precedent acts as a basis in developing designs with substance and meaning and is a fundamental practice in architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design. Delving into the history of Vaux-le-Vicomte, often referred to as Vaux, provided three relevant aspects which compose the historic precedent for this MFA project. First, the creative initiative between owner, architect, artist (interior designer), and gardener which produced a harmonious and ingenious outcome. Second, the dynamic relationship between Fouquet and the king of France, Louis XIV. And finally, the long-lasting influence of the innovative results on the fields of architecture, gardens, and interior design. These three aspects act as a historic precedent and the guiding principles in developing a collection of custom patterns inspired by Vaux-le-Vicomte.
Programmable multistability for 3D printed reinforced multifunctional composites with reversible shape change
Creators: name: Puthanveetil, Shanthini
name: Liu, Wing Chung
name: Riley, Katherine S.
name: Arrieta, Andres F.
name: Ferrand, Hortense Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 4D printing empowers 3D printed structures made of hydrogels, liquid crystals or shape memory polymers, with reversible morphing capabilities in response to an external stimulus. To apply reversible shape-change to stiff lightweight materials such as microfiber reinforced polymers, we developed a composite ink that can be printed using direct-ink-writing (DIW), and that exhibits multistability around its glass transition temperature. After curing at room temperature, the flat print thermally morphs into a predefined shape upon heating at an actuation temperature and cooling down. The sample can then reversibly snap between multiple stable shapes when heated above its glass transition temperature thanks to prestress-induced multistability. The key that allows thermal morphing and prestress multistability is the microstructuring of the 3D printed composites by shear-induced alignment of reinforcing microfibers. This alignment leads to local anisotropy in thermomechanical properties and the build-up of prestresses. Furthermore, the ink composition can be tuned to generate shape-dependant reversible functional properties, such as electrical conductivity. Based on finite element modelling and experimental results, the method proposed here can be used for variety of compositions and designs, for applications where stiffness, reconfigurability and shape-dependent functionalities can be exploited.
Condensation in disordered lasers: theory, 3D+1 simulations and experiments
Creators: name: Conti, Claudio
name: Leonetti, Marco
name: Fratalocchi, Andrea
name: Angelani, Luca
name: Ruocco, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complex processes underlying the generation of a coherent-like emission from the multiple-scattering of photons and wave-localization in the presence of structural disorder are still mostly un-explored. Here we show that a single nonlinear Schroedinger equation, playing the role of the Schawlow-Townes law for standard lasers, quantitatively reproduces experimental results and three-dimensional time-domain parallel simulations of a colloidal laser system.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
title: No Evidence of Stochastic Resonance in Postural Sway Response to Noisy Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation in Healthy Young Adults
Creators: name: Rice, Dominique
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: The transcutaneous application of a sub-sensory electrical stimulation to the vestibular afferents, known as noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation (nGVS), is thought to cause a reduction in postural sway at optimal amplitude intensities due to a mechanism known as stochastic resonance (SR). SR is a phenomenon whereby the addition of low amplitude noise to a non-linear system can be beneficial rather than detrimental. In humans, behavioral markers of SR in postural sway have been inconsistent, potentially due to insufficient power or false positives. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to determine whether the frequency of observing SR-like effects improves with recording duration and if not, whether SR-like effects can emerge as a result of chance (false positives). To test this, sixteen healthy participants stood on a force plate and on foam with eyes closed and feet together while they were provided 300-second trials of nGVS (ten times longer than what is commonly used) at six stimulation amplitudes (100 µA, 200 µA, 300 µA, 500 µA, 700 µA and a sham of 0 µA). To identify SR-like effects, the center of pressure (COP) area and COP path length were recorded. To quantify the presence of SR-like behavior, COP measures were fit with an SR model and a linear model, then the fit of the two models were compared using the Akaike information criterion (AIC) and the Bayesian information criterion (BIC). Less than 25% of the data fit the SR model better than the linear model. In addition, by randomly extracting 30-second data segments from the 0 µA sham trials, in which no SR-like behavior should be present, the SR model was found to be the best fit model up to 44% of the time in the COP area and up to 38% of the time in the COP path length data. These data support recent findings that suggest SR-like behavior may have been observed by chance in previous studies and true SR may be limited, or absent, in measures of postural sway in healthy young adults.
Low temperature universality in disordered solids
Creators: name: Schechter, M.
name: Stamp, P. C. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low temperature universal properties in disordered and amorphous solids are considered. We introduce a model that includes two types of two level systems (TLSs), which, based on their local symmetry, interact weakly or strongly with the phonon field. This accounts well for the experimental results, and addresses some long-standing questions: the nature of the TLSs; the smallness and universality of the phonon attenuation, and the energy scale of $3$K below which universality is observed. Our model describes disordered lattices; we also discuss its application to amorphous solids.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, published version
Detection asymmetry in solar energetic particle events
Creators: name: Dalla, S.
name: Hutchinson, A.
name: Hyndman, R. A.
name: Kihara, K.
name: Nitta, N.
name: Rodriguez-Garcia, L.
name: Laitinen, T.
name: Waterfall, C. O. G.
name: Brown, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Solar energetic particles (SEPs) are detected in interplanetary space in association with solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The magnetic connection between the observing spacecraft and the solar active region (AR) source of the event is a key parameter in determining whether SEPs are observed and the particle event's properties. Aims. We investigate whether an east-west asymmetry in the detection of SEP events is present in observations and discuss its possible link to corotation of magnetic flux tubes with the Sun. Methods. We used a published dataset of 239 CMEs recorded between 2006 and 2017 and having source regions both on the Sun's front and far sides as seen from Earth. We produced distributions of occurrence of in-situ SEP intensity enhancements associated with the CME events, versus Δϕ, the longitudinal separation between source active region and spacecraft magnetic footpoint based on the nominal Parker spiral. We focused on protons of energy >10 MeV measured by STEREO A, STEREO B and GOES at 1 au. We also considered occurrences of 71-112 keV electron events detected by MESSENGER between 0.31 and 0.47 au. Results. We find an east-west asymmetry with respect to the best magnetic connection (Δϕ=0) in the detection of >10 MeV proton events and of 71-112 keV electron events. For protons, observers for which the source AR is on the east side of the spacecraft footpoint and not well connected (-180<Δϕ<-40) are 93% more likely to detect an SEP event compared to observers with +40<Δϕ<+180. The asymmetry may be a signature of corotation of magnetic flux tubes with the Sun, since for events with Δϕ<0 corotation sweeps particle-filled flux tubes towards the observing spacecraft, while for Δϕ>0 it takes them away from it. Alternatively it may be related to asymmetric acceleration or propagation effects.
description: A&A, in press
title: COVID-19 Outcomes and the Incidence of Slavery
Creators: name: Ortega, Amanda
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Environmental factors have been shown to correlate with COVID-19 outcomes. This study advances the literature on health economics by examining the importance of socioeconomic factors. In addition to standard economic factors, I consider the relationship between the past incidence of slavery and COVID-19 outcomes. I analyze county-level U.S. Census data and Georgia Department of Public Health county-level COVID-19 data using regression analysis. I find that the Covid-19 county vaccination rate in Georgia is related to 1860 slave concentration. No statistically significant relationship is found between 1860 slave concentration and COVID-19 death rate, case rate, or vaccination rate when health, socioeconomic, and demographic differences across counties are controlled for. The findings from this study suggest the importance of further research on slavery’s legacy for better informed policy making.
การศึกษาแนวทางการออกแบบปรับปรุงภูมิทัศน์น้ำตกน้ำเค็ม จังหวัดตรัง เพื่อการท่องเที่ยวโดยการมีส่วนร่วมของประชาชน
Creators: name: ณัฐนีภรณ์ น้อยเสงี่ยม
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2021
Subjects: ภูมิทัศน์
อัตลักษณ์
ลุ่มน้ําปะเหลียน
กระบวนการมีส่วนร่วม
น้ําตกน้ําเค็ม

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 18, 1, 65-82
Multi-granularity for knowledge distillation
Creators: name: Shao, Baitan
name: Chen, Ying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Considering the fact that students have different abilities to understand the knowledge imparted by teachers, a multi-granularity distillation mechanism is proposed for transferring more understandable knowledge for student networks. A multi-granularity self-analyzing module of the teacher network is designed, which enables the student network to learn knowledge from different teaching patterns. Furthermore, a stable excitation scheme is proposed for robust supervision for the student training. The proposed distillation mechanism can be embedded into different distillation frameworks, which are taken as baselines. Experiments show the mechanism improves the accuracy by 0.58% on average and by 1.08% in the best over the baselines, which makes its performance superior to the state-of-the-arts. It is also exploited that the student's ability of fine-tuning and robustness to noisy inputs can be improved via the proposed mechanism. The code is available at https://github.com/shaoeric/multi-granularity-distillation.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures
Crack-front model for adhesion of soft elastic spheres with chemical heterogeneity
Creators: name: Sanner, Antoine
name: Pastewka, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Adhesion hysteresis can be caused by elastic instabilities that are triggered by surface roughness or chemical heterogeneity. However, the role of these instabilities in adhesion hysteresis remains poorly understood because we lack theoretical and numerical models accounting for realistic roughness. Our work focuses on the adhesion of soft elastic spheres with low roughness or weak heterogeneity, where the indentation process can be described as a Griffith-like propagation of a nearly circular external crack. We discuss how to describe the contact of spheres with chemical heterogeneity that leads to fluctuations in the local work of adhesion. We introduce a variational first-order crack-perturbation model and validate our approach using boundary-element simulations. The crack-perturbation model faithfully predicts contact shapes and hysteretic force-penetration curves, provided that the contact perimeter remains close to a circle and the contact area is simply connected. Computationally, the crack-perturbation model is orders of magnitude more efficient than the corresponding boundary element formulation, allowing for realistic heterogeneity fields. Furthermore, our crack-front formulation clarifies the connection of adhesion hysteresis to classic theories on pinning of elastic lines.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures
Higgs Decays and Brane Gravi-vectors
Creators: name: Clark, T. E.
name: Liu, Boyang
name: Love, S. T.
name: ter Veldhuis, T.
name: Xiong, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Higgs boson decays in flexible brane world models with stable, massive gravi-vectors are considered. Such vectors couple bilinearly to the Standard Model fields through either the Standard Model energy-momentum tensor, the weak hypercharge field strength or the Higgs scalar. The role of the coupling involving the extrinsic curvature is highlighted. It is found that within the presently allowed parameter space, the decay rate of the Higgs into two gravi-vectors (which would appear as an invisible Higgs decay) can be comparable to the rate for any of the Standard Model decay modes.
description: 5 pages, 11 figures, revtex
Mpemba effect and super-accelerated thermalization in the damped quantum harmonic oscillator
Creators: name: Longhi, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The behavior of systems far from equilibrium is often complex and unpredictable, challenging and sometimes overturning the physical intuition derived from equilibrium scenarios. One striking example of this is the Mpemba effect, which implies that non-equilibrium states can sometimes relax more rapidly when they are further from equilibrium. Despite a rich historical background, the precise conditions and mechanisms behind this phenomenon remain unclear. Recently, there has been growing interest in investigating accelerated relaxation and Mpemba-like effects within quantum systems. In this work, we explore a quantum manifestation of the Mpemba effect in a simple and paradigmatic model of open quantum systems: the damped quantum harmonic oscillator, which describes the relaxation of a bosonic mode in contact with a thermal bath at finite temperature $T$. By means of an exact analytical analysis of the relaxation dynamics based on the method of moments in both population and coherence subspaces, we demonstrate that any initial distribution of populations with the first $r$ moments exactly matching those of the equilibrium distribution shows a super-accelerated relaxation to equilibrium at a rate linearly increasing with $r$, leading to a pronounced Mpemba effect. In particular, one can find a broad class of far-from-equilibrium distributions that relax to equilibrium faster than any other initial thermal state with a temperature $T'$ arbitrarily close to $T$. The super-accelerated relaxation effect is shown to persist even for a broad class of initial states with non-vanishing coherences, and a general criterion for the observation of super-accelerated thermalization is presented.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures, revised and extended version, accepted for publication in Quantum
title: Meeting the Needs of Adult Language Learners: A Focus on Communication and Literacy
Creators: name: Hercules, Jessica
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: This portfolio is a compilation of the author’s perspectives and reflections about teaching and language acquisition during her time in the Master of Second Language Teaching (MSLT) program at Utah State University. The portfolio includes samples of writing on a variety of topics surrounding second language teaching and acquisition developed through study and teaching experience.
This collection of papers begins with the author’s perspectives on teaching, including a description of her desired professional environment, a reflection on her experiences observing other language teachers, and the author’s teaching philosophy statement. In the second section, the author presents two research papers and an annotated bibliography which demonstrate her research interests in the field of adult language learning.
title: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
Creators: name: Terraneo, Federico
name: Cattaneo, Daniele
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Front Matter
subject: Table of Contents
subject: Preface
subject: Conference Organization
subject: Computer systems organization → Real-time systems
subject: Computer systems organization → Embedded and cyber-physical systems
subject: Software and its engineering → Software notations and tools
subject: Networks

description: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
description: OASIcs, Vol. 108, Fourth Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2023), pages 0:i-0:x
A unified description of small, peripheral, and large system suppression data from pQCD
Creators: name: Faraday, Coleridge
name: Horowitz, W. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present quantitative predictions for the nuclear modification factor in both small and peripheral systems from a pQCD-based energy loss model that is constrained by light- and heavy-flavor suppression data from central heavy-ion collisions. We find nearly identical suppression for central $p / d + A$ collisions as for peripheral $A + A$ collisions, quantitatively consistent with the measured 20% suppression of neutral pions produced in $d + \mathrm{Au}$ collisions by PHENIX, but dramatically inconsistent with the measured 20% enhancement of charged hadrons produced in $p + \mathrm{Pb}$ collisions by ATLAS. We demonstrate that this equivalence of central small system suppression and peripheral large system suppression is insensitive to the underlying energy loss model.
description: 6 pages (excluding references), 4 figures. Updated to be consistent with published letter in Physics Letters B
title: Mindfulness-Based Practices for the Impaired Performance Athlete
Creators: name: Campbell, Mackenzie L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Mindfulness-based programs are becoming commonly considered for the improvement of athlete's mental and physical state. However, their usage in improving performance in impaired athletes is limited and not fully understood. The purpose of this thesis was to review the standing literature on the topic of the application of mindfulness to improving athletic performance in wellbeing-impaired athletes. Seventy-three articles were included as references for this paper describing functional mechanisms, clinical significance and anecdotal evidence that points to the effectiveness of mindfulness in sport for the treatment of pain, injury recovery, prevention of injury, and chronic illness. Ultimately, this review supports the use of mindfulness in traditional sports performance contexts as well as its clinical application to aid recovery in unhealthy or performance-impaired athletes.
End-to-End Data Management Toolkit for Norwegian Life Scientists
Creators: name: Bösl, Korbinian
name: Ghavidel, Fatemeh Zamanzad
name: Tekle, Kidane
name: Kleppe, Rune
name: Hjerde, Erik
name: Drabløs, Finn
name: Hovig, Eivind
name: Våge, Dag Inge
name: Willassen, Nils Peder
name: Petersen, Kjell
name: Jonassen, Inge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Data management
Data management plan
Deposition
Data deposition

description: Major funding agencies require the successful planning and implementation of Data Management. In addition to obtaining funding, good Data Management also makes research more efficient, facilitates collaboration and saves time and resources. ELIXIR Norway and the Centre for Digital Life Norway have established an End-to-End toolkit, covering the whole data life cycle from proposal to publication, providing practical, existing solutions, available to Norwegian Life Scientists to make their research FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). We provide access to the Data Steward Wizard tool as one solution to identify data management needs, plan Data Management budgets and to produce a Data Management Plans (DMPs) according to the specifications by filling an interactive, well-documented questionnaire. NeLS - the Norwegian e-Infrastructure for Life Sciences is a versatile and backuped storage solution for Life Science data. NeLS is directly integrated with Galaxy, an open, web-based platform for accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational biological research, without the need of programming skills. We have further developed a integration of NeLS with FAIRDOMHub/SEEK, a resource platform for managing data-sets and models in projects and sharing at publication. ELIXIR maintains as variety of data deposition databases that are suited to host sensitive and non-sensitive data. Usage of this deposition repositories also maximises the visibility of published research.
description: This work was funded by the ELIXIR.NO (208481/F50) , ELIXIR2 (270068) infrastructure grants and the Centre for Digital Life Norway (248810/O70) through the Research Council of Norway, as well as the Tryggve and Tryggve2 projects from the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC)
title: Teaching in the Digital Age: Creating a Student-Centered Classroom
Creators: name: Huber-Jackson, Becca
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: This portfolio compiles the work of the author during her time as a student in the Master of Second Language Teaching (MSLT) program at Utah State University (USU). It highlights her personal pedagogy as well as provides supporting research. The different components of this portfolio are separated into two sections: teaching perspectives and research perspectives.
In the teaching perspectives section, she introduces her desired professional environment, outlines her teaching philosophy statement, and provides an analysis based on teaching observations. Research perspectives consist of two research papers and an annotated bibliography written throughout the course of the program that support the teaching philosophy statement.
title: MaRey Sue: Perpetuating Mary Sue Stereotype in the Star Wars Trilogy
Creators: name: Wiser, Samantha
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: My Plan B thesis addresses the gendered portrayal of the female character Rey in the most recent three Star Wars films released between 2015 and 2019. The latest trilogy is comprised of The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and The Rise of Skywalker. These films present the character Rey, who brings many firsts to the series. She is the first woman to be the central character in a Star Wars trilogy, she is the first woman to use the Force, and she is also the first woman to wield a lightsaber. Despite her firsts, Rey still draws criticism for her gendered portrayal. Fans and critics have called Rey a “Mary Sue” character in the first two films. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a Mary Sue is “a type of idealized female character, typically a young woman, unrealistically lacking in flaws or weaknesses.” My argument builds on this recent criticism of Rey as a “Mary Sue” character and challenges it by exploring The Rise of Skywalker, which was released in 2019 after scholars’ criticism appeared. Rise took two approaches with creating conflict in Rey in response to criticism from scholars and fans alike. The first approach is that Rey becomes the Angry Woman, whose rage must be contained in order for her arc to be considered complete. The second approach is in the Ultimate Evil Mary Sue. Because the Star Wars fans haven’t seen this transition from Mary Sue to Angry Woman, is Rey still ultimately a Mary Sue throughout Rise? The answer is that she is at once Mary Sue and Angry Woman. As another form of scholarly critique, it is discussed what Star Wars fans are saying on various social media sites. Fans echo what the scholars are saying, but are also challenging Rey’s status at a Mary Sue. Rey can be used in later Star Wars materials as a stepping stone for even more well-rounded female characters in the franchise’s future.
Modified Electron Beam Induced Deposition of Metal Nanostructure Arrays using a Parallel Electron Beam
Creators: name: Basu, Joysurya
name: Carter, C. Barry
name: Divakar, R.
name: Shenoy, Vijay B.
name: Ravishankar, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A modified electron beam induced deposition method using a parallel beam of electrons is developed. The method relies on the build-up of surface potential on an insulating surface exposed to an electron beam. Presence of sharp edges on the insulating surface implies presence of large electric fields that lead to site-specific nucleation of metal vapor on those regions. Feature sizes as small as 20 nm can be deposited without the need to use fine probes and thus the limitation of probe size imposed on the resolution is overcome. The use of pure metal vapor also renders the process inherently clean.
description: 14 Pages, 3 figures, to appear in Applied Physics Letters
Impurity-induced states on the surface of 3D topological insulators
Creators: name: Biswas, Rudro R.
name: Balatsky, Alexander V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the modification of the local electronic structure caused by a local impurity on the surface of a 3D Topological Insulator. We find that the LDOS around the Dirac point of the electronic spectrum at the surface is significantly disrupted near the impurity by the creation of low-energy resonance state(s) -- however, this is not sufficient to (locally) destroy the Dirac point. We also calculate the non-trivial spin textures created near the magnetic impurities and discover anisotropic RKKY coupling between them.
description: Final published version
Stirring trapped atoms into fractional quantum Hall puddles
Creators: name: Baur, Stefan K.
name: Hazzard, Kaden R. A.
name: Mueller, Erich J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically explore the generation of few-body analogs of fractional quantum Hall states. We consider an array of identical few-atom clusters (n=2,3,4), each cluster trapped at the node of an optical lattice. By temporally varying the amplitude and phase of the trapping lasers, one can introduce a rotating deformation at each site. We analyze protocols for coherently transferring ground state clusters into highly correlated states, producing theoretical fidelities in excess of 99%.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures (13 subfigures) -- v2: published version
Neural Population Coding is Optimized by Discrete Tuning Curves
Creators: name: Nikitin, Alexander P.
name: Stocks, Nigel G.
name: Morse, Robert P.
name: McDonnell, Mark D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The sigmoidal tuning curve that maximizes the mutual information for a Poisson neuron, or population of Poisson neurons, is obtained. The optimal tuning curve is found to have a discrete structure that results in a quantization of the input signal. The number of quantization levels undergoes a hierarchy of phase transitions as the length of the coding window is varied. We postulate, using the mammalian auditory system as an example, that the presence of a subpopulation structure within a neural population is consistent with an optimal neural code.
description: 7 pages total, including 2 figures, published by Physical Review Letters
title: A Teacher's Guide in Creating Linguistic Diverse Classroom: Code-Meshing and Translingual Practice in First-Year Composition
Creators: name: Liu, Yvonne
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis and portfolio are inspired by the recent code-meshing pedagogy movement to promote linguistic justice in the composition classroom along with the author’s personal journey in English learning. The traditional, monolingual practice in the composition classroom often isolates international students who have multilingual abilities above the rest of the students. The idea that there is only one correct use of English—standard English—assumes that one type of English is better than others. However, most native speakers cannot explain the rules and mechanism of standard English, which leaves international students often feeling frustrated and lowers their confidence in English writing and speaking. Code-meshing and translingual pedagogies advocate that all Englishes are equally important, and the rhetorical practices of the language should be the focus of English language learning.
This project focuses on three principles for teachers to practice code-meshing pedagogy and translingualism in their own classroom. First, students are language experts that can navigate through their own language learning journey. Second, teachers can offer opportunities for students to perform their language abilities and reflect on the practice of monolingualism. Lastly, assigning low stake, self-directed writing and reading assignments can develop students’ rhetorical sensibility and explore the rhetorical purpose of the author.
Exceptional Points and Stability in Nonlinear Models of Population Dynamics having $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry
Creators: name: Felski, Alexander
name: Kunst, Flore K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlinearity and non-Hermiticity, for example due to environmental gain-loss processes, are a common occurrence throughout numerous areas of science and lie at the root of many remarkable phenomena. For the latter, parity-time-reflection ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry has played an eminent role in understanding exceptional-point structures and phase transitions in these systems. Yet their interplay has remained by-and-large unexplored. We analyze models governed by the replicator equation of evolutionary game theory and related Lotka-Volterra systems of population dynamics. These are foundational nonlinear models that find widespread application and offer a broad platform for non-Hermitian theory beyond physics. In this context we study the emergence of exceptional points in two cases: (a) when the governing symmetry properties are tied to global properties of the models, and, in contrast, (b) when these symmetries emerge locally around stationary states--in which case the connection between the linear non-Hermitian model and an underlying nonlinear system becomes tenuous. We outline further that when the relevant symmetries are related to global properties, the location of exceptional points in the linearization around coexistence equilibria coincides with abrupt global changes in the stability of the nonlinear dynamics. Exceptional points may thus offer a new local characteristic for the understanding of these systems. Tri-trophic models of population ecology serve as test cases for higher-dimensional systems.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Dark Matter Axions, Non-Newtonian Gravity and Constraints on them from Recent Measurement of the Casimir Force in the Micrometer Separation Range
Creators: name: Klimchitskaya, Galina L.
name: Mostepanenko, Vladimir M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider axionlike particles, as the most probable constituents of dark matter, the Yukawa-type corrections to Newton's gravitational law and constraints on their parameters following from astrophysics and different laboratory experiments. After a brief discussion of the results by Prof. Yu. N. Gnedin in this field, we are coming to the recent experiment on measuring the differential Casimir force between Au-coated surfaces of a sphere and the top and bottom of rectangular trenches. In this experiment, the Casimir force was measured over an unusually wide separation region from 0.2 to 8~mcm and compared with the exact theory based on first principles of quantum electrodynamics at nonzero temperature. We use the measure of agreement between experiment and theory for obtaining constraints on the coupling constant of axionlike particles to nucleons and on the interaction strength of Yukawa-type interaction. The obtained constraints on the axion-to-nucleon coupling constant and on the strength of Yukawa interaction are stronger by the factors of 4 and 24, respectively, than those found previously from gravitational experiments and measurements of the Casimir force, but weaker than the constraints following from the differential measurement where the Casimir force was nullified. Some other already performed and planned experiments directed to the search of axions and non-Newtonian gravity are discussed and their prospects are evaluated.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures. Special issue "Advances in the Physics of Stars - In Memory of Prof. Yu. N. Gnedin
On multivariate contribution measures of systemic risk with applications in cryptocurrency market
Creators: name: Wen, Limin
name: Li, Junxue
name: Pu, Tong
name: Zhang, Yiying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Conditional risk measures and their associated risk contribution measures are commonly employed in finance and actuarial science for evaluating systemic risk and quantifying the effects of risk interactions. This paper introduces various types of contribution ratio measures based on the MCoVaR, MCoES, and MMME studied in Ortega-Jiménez et al. (2021) and Das & Fasen-Hartmann (2018) to assess the relative effects of a single risk when other risks in a group are in distress. The properties of these contribution risk measures are examined, and sufficient conditions for comparing these measures between two sets of random vectors are established using univariate and multivariate stochastic orders and statistically dependent notions. Numerical examples are presented to validate these conditions. Finally, a real dataset from the cryptocurrency market is used to analyze the spillover effects through our proposed contribution measures.
The quadratic Fock functor
Creators: name: Accardi, Luigi
name: Dhahri, Ameur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct the quadratic analogue of the boson Fock functor. While in the first order case all contractions on the 1--particle space can be second quantized, the semigroup of contractions that admit a quadratic second quantization is much smaller due to the nonlinearity. Within this semigroup we characterize the unitary and the isometric elements.
description: 24
Finite-size effects on small-$x$ evolution and saturation in proton and nuclear targets
Creators: name: Mäntysaari, Heikki
name: Penttala, Jani
name: Salazar, Farid
name: Schenke, Björn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the Color Glass Condensate effective field theory, we assess the importance of including a finite size for the target on observables sensitive to small-$x$ evolution. To this end, we study the Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) equation with impact-parameter dependence in the initial condition. We demonstrate that neglecting the dependence on the impact parameter can result in overestimated saturation effects for protons, while it has little effect for heavy nuclei at the energies available at current experiments. When fixing the nonperturbative parameters to the energy dependence of the exclusive $J/ψ$ photoproduction cross section with proton targets, predictions for lead targets are not sensitive to the applied running-coupling prescription, the scheme chosen to resum large transverse logarithms in the BK equation, or the infrared regulator in the evolution.
description: 16 pages, 19 figures; v2: updated Fig. 8, matches published version