cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Using a geospatial approach to document and analyse locational points in face-to-face conversation
Creators: name: Possemato, Francesco
name: Blythe, Joe
name: De Dear, Caroline
name: Dahmen, Josua
name: Gardner, Rod
name: Stirling, Lesley
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2021

description: This paper presents a geospatial framework for the documentation and analysis of naturally-occurring locational points in interaction. This novel approach aims to provide a set of methods and procedures for interrogating geographically-enriched interactional data. GPS and GIS metadata and satellite imagery are brought to bear on video-recorded multiparty interactions to situate pointing gestures within the broader topographic setting, allowing the directionality of points to be determined to within a few degrees. The methods illustrated in this paper primarily aim to assist research on the relationship between language, gesture, and spatial cognition. By examining and comparing naturally-occurring locational points produced by speakers of typologically different languages (namely English, Gija, Murrinhpatha, and Jaru) this paper demonstrates how a geospatial approach may facilitate systematic comparisons of pointing styles across languages, contexts, and cultures, and support investigations into universals of human conduct.
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 20 (2021)
title: Aviation Support Tables
Creators: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91987
subject: Airlines
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97194
subject: Domestic
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97195
subject: Foreign
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92589
subject: Airports
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96717
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97484
subject: Tables (Data)
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97205
subject: States
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97202
subject: Countries

description: This record preserves the intellectual content of the Aviation Support Tables webpages as of December 7, 2021.
description: The Aviation Support Tables database provides comprehensive information about U.S. and foreign air carriers, carrier entities, worldwide airport locations, and other geographic data.  This is information is developed and maintained by the Office of Airline Information, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and is updated on an on-going basis. This database is frequently used to provide support information for Aviation databases.
Conceptual Design for a Polarized Proton-Antiproton Collider Facility at GSI
Creators: name: F. Bradamante
name: I. Koop
name: A. Otboev
name: V. Parkhomchuk
name: V. Reva
name: P. Shatunov
name: Yu. Shatunov
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2005

description: Two possible options of polarized proton-antiproton collider at the future HESR storage ring are considered. It is shown that the modifications of the present HESR project which are needed to arrange for the polarized proton-antiproton collisions are relatively moderate. An achievable luminosity of 5*10^31 cm^{-2}*sec^{-1} will provide a possibility to carry out experiments in the CM energy range 10-30 GeV, a particularly interesting option for Drell-Yan physics.
A Fiber Optic Air Backed Mandrel Hydrophone to Detect High Energy Hadronic
Creators: name: M. Anghinolfi
name: A. Calvi
name: A. Cotrufo
name: M. Ivaldi
name: O. Yershova
name: F. Parodi
name: D. Piombo
name: A. Plotnikov
name: L. Repetto
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2006

description: We have studied the design of an air-backed optic fiber hydrophone. With respect to the previous models, this prototype is optimized to provide a band width sufficiently large to detect acoustic signals produced by high energy hadronic showers in water. After a discussion on the geometrical configuration and on the choice of the materials we evaluate the expected performances on the basis of simple analytical calculations.
Searching for Triple Coincidences among the Resonant Gravitational Wave Detectors AURIGA, EXPLORER and NAUTILUS in the year 2005: A Study on the Coincidence Window
Creators: name: G. Giordano
name: G. Pizzella
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2007

description: We report here the results of a study on the search for triple coincidences among the resonant gravitational wave detectors AURIGA, EXPLORER and NAUTILUS in the year 2005. The main problem we have studied  has been how to choose the coincidence window for the best search of triple coincidences. If the window is too small we may loose real coincidences, if the window is too large, we do get all real coincidences, but they are imbedded in a large background of accidental coincidences. We find that the best choice is a window not greater than two or three standard deviations of the time uncertainty of each event.
title: A Multimedia Intervention to Increase the Likelihood That University Students in Need Will Utilize Counseling Services
Creators: name: Lindsley, Todd W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: The primary objective of this study was to create and test an intervention designed to increase students’ positive attitudes toward utilizing mental health services. A review of the literature was conducted to establish the guidelines for creating an intervention that would effectively influence attitudes while being relatively easy to customize and adapt to different settings. The content of the intervention was informed by the literature, reviewed by a panel of experts, and tested with a focus group of students before being finalized. In order to test the effectiveness of the intervention, and experimental study was designed which included an experimental and control group. The control group had the same experience as the experimental group except for the content of the intervention. The control group intervention provided general health information related to topics such as diet and exercise.Student underutilization of counseling services on college campuses is a well- recognized phenomenon. By improving student attitudes toward seeking counseling, it is hypothesized that more students who could benefit from such services would indeed seek them out. This is particularly important as the rates of suicide and serious mental illness on college campuses has increased over the years. Students who receive appropriate treatment for mental health concerns often experience significant improvement. Those students whose mental health is improved may perform better academically than those who remain untreated. Healthier students have the opportunity to be more productive and successful members of the campus community.The intervention was designed to be low cost so that it could be updated and tailored for different institutions. It was also created to be disseminated over the internet to reduce obstacles for students who may wish to view it. The intervention included music, narration, pictures, and animated text to capture the attention of the viewer. The production was accomplished using low-cost software that does not require expert skills to operate. The intervention showed significant effects on the first two subscales of the attitude measure (i.e., psychological openness and help-seeking propensity), but did not show statistical significance on the third (i.e., indifference to stigma) or on the intent to seek counseling measure (ISCI). Future studies could explore improvements to the current intervention and could examine the effects of the intervention over time (i.e., longitudinal design).
Linguistic diversity in the Tibetan regions: a set of Language Snapshots
Creators: name: Lawa, Yulha
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2021

description: This paper presents language profiles (or Language Snapshots) for each of the minority languages currently known to be used by Tibetans on the Tibetan Plateau in the People’s Republic of China, providing an overview of the extensive research that has been carried out on these languages by linguists and others. Many of the languages are spoken in the Sino-Tibetan frontier region: a large, complex, and diverse transitional region between Tibetan and Chinese cultural realms. Numerous communities with various and complex inter-connections during different historical periods have fostered great degrees of linguistic diversity in this region. Documentation of these languages has historically been a low priority, for a variety of reasons, including physical accessibility to these communities, recognition of the languages at local and state levels, and so on. This paper is a step forward in recognizing and describing the region’s minority languages and collating information on the existing work on these languages, with the aim of supporting their maintenance and revitalization, and providing data for further research and applied work. Minority languages on the Tibetan Plateau are linguistically distinct from Tibetic or Sinitic (Chinese) languages, even though they are all genetically related. The common Tibetan saying saying ལུང་པ་རེ་ལ་ཆུ་རེ།སེ་བ་རེ་ལ་སྐད་རེ། ‘Every...
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 20 (2021)
Multi-Streamer Studies on Gas Mixtures for the OPERA RPCs
Creators: name: Paoloni, Alessandro
name: Denni, Ubaldo
name: Felici, Giulietto
name: Frani, Maria Antonietta
name: Mengucci, Alessandro
name: Papalino, Giuseppe
name: Spinetti, Mario
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 2008

description: Resistive Plate Chambers with bakelite electrodes are employed in the spectrometers of the OPERA experiment. The RPCs are operated in streamer mode with the gas mixture Ar/C_2H_2F_4/i-C_4H_{10}/SF_6=75.4/20.0/4.0/0.6. The studies performed in order to choose the operating gas mixture have been already published. In this note the results of additional tests on the multi-streamer probability are presented.
Gizey (Cameroon and Chad) - Language Snapshot
Creators: name: Guitang, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2021

description: Gizey is a Masa languoid spoken in Cameroon and Chad. It has often been described as a dialect of Masana (ISO 639-3: mcn), however, recent findings have highlighted several linguistic features which may warrant its classification as a distinct language within Masa. So far, there has been only a fragmentary attempt at a description of Gizey. The languoid is currently under active description and aspects of the language practices of its speakers are being documented.
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 20 (2021)
title: Constraints on Patterns of Abundance and Aggregation in Biological Systems
Creators: name: Locey, Kenneth J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: Understanding the mechanisms that structure biological systems is a primary goal of biology. My research shows that the biological structure is constrained in important ways by general variables such as the number of base pairs in a genome and the number of individuals and species in a community. I used a combination of macroecology, bioinformatics, statistics, mathematics, and advanced computing to pursue my research and published several peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and open-source software as a result.I was funded through a combination of fellowships and scholarships awarded by the Utah State University School of Graduate Studies, College of Science, and Department of Biology, as well as teaching assistantships awarded through the Department of Biology at Utah State University, and research assistantships funded through a CAREER grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB-0953694) awarded to my advisor, Dr. Ethan White. With the help of my advisor, I also obtained a computing grant from Amazon Web Services in the amount of $7,500. Altogether, funding for my research and education totaled approximately $123,500.
Using over 9000 communities of plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms, I demonstrated that the forms of empirical species abundance distributions (SADs) are constrained by total abundance and species richness. Using over 300 microbial genomes, I demonstrate that nucleotide aggregation is constrained by genome length and differs between regions of coding and noncoding DNA. General state variables of genomes and ecological communities (i.e. genome length, total abundance and species richness) constrain simple structural properties of each system.
The Spatially Resolved Star Formation Law from Integral Field Spectroscopy: VIRUS-P Observations of NGC 5194
Creators: name: Blanc, Guillermo A.
name: Heiderman, Amanda
name: Gebhardt, Karl
name: Evans, Neal J.
name: Adams, Joshua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the relation between the star formation rate surface density (Sigma_SFR) and the mass surface density of gas (Sigma_gas) in NGC 5194. VIRUS-P integral field spectroscopy is used to measure H-alpha, H-beta [NII]6548,6584, and [SII]6717,6731 emission line fluxes for 735 regions ~170 pc in diameter, and derive extinction corrected Sigma_SFRs. HI 21cm and CO maps are used to measure the HI and H_2 gas surface density for each region. We present a new method for fitting the Star Formation Law (SFL), which includes the intrinsic scatter in the relation as a free parameter, allows the inclusion of non-detections, and is free of the systematics involved in performing linear correlations over incomplete data in logarithmic space. We use the [SII]/H-alpha ratio to separate the H-alpha flux contribution from the diffuse ionized gas (DIG). After removing the DIG, we measure a slope N=0.82+/-0.05, and an intrinsic scatter epsilon=0.43+/-0.02 dex for the molecular gas SFL. We also measure a typical depletion timescale tau~2 Gyr, in good agreement with Bigiel et al. (2008). The HI density shows no correlation with the SFR, and the total gas SFL closely follows the molecular gas SFL. We assess the validity of corrections applied in narrow-band H-alpha measurements to overcome issues related to continuum subtraction, underlying photospheric absorption, and contamination by the [NII] doublet. The disagreement with the super-linear molecular SFL measured by Kennicutt et al. (2007) is due to differences in the fitting method. Our results support a low and close to constant star formation efficiency (SFE = 1/tau) in the molecular ISM. The data shows excellent agreement with the model of Krumholz et al (2009). The large intrinsic scatter may imply the existence of other important parameters setting the SFR.
description: 23 pages, 19 figures, 14 pages of tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ. (Figure 16 has been corrected from the first submitted version.)
Lexical variation in Namaqualand: Some evidence from ethnobotany
Creators: name: Christie, Camilla Rose
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2021

description: Although endangered, the Khoekhoe-branch languages Nama and Damara (standardised together as Namibian Khoekhoe) are well-documented. By contrast, the dialect of Nama spoken in the Namaqualand region of South Africa is understudied, and the extent to which it diverges from standardised Namibian Khoekhoe is not fully understood. In an effort to assess potential lexical variation, this article reviews a number of botanical and ethnobotanical surveys carried out in the Namaqualand region over the last forty years. The majority of these surveys did not make use of standardised Namibian Khoekhoe orthography when recording Nama plant names, instead employing idiosyncratic spelling conventions when recording click consonants. Nevertheless, they offer preliminary evidence that a regionalised Namaqualand botanical lexis did historically exist. A total of twenty-six regionalised plant names, unaccounted for in the standardised Namibian Khoekhoe reference materials, are retrieved from the ethnobotanical record, suggesting that further undocumented lexical variation may be present in Nama as spoken within South Africa. Immediate and comprehensive language documentation projects within Namaqualand are recommended in order to forestall the loss of a regional variety.
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 20 (2021)
THE USE OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF TRAINING FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION STUDENTS IN THE CONDITIONS OF WAR, THEORY, AND PRACTICE
Creators: name: Gorikhovskyi, Maksym
name: Oganesyan, Valerik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Professional education and training

description: Our research reveals the problems of vocational education in wartime conditions, in particular the organization of the educational process, the use of different forms of education, and the study of the level of satisfaction with the educational process among students of vocational education. The purpose of the study is to research the impact of armed conflict in Ukraine on the development of vocational education, the relocation of vocational institutions from the temporarily occupied territories by Russia was analyzed. The study was conducted on changes in the number of teaching staff in Khmelnytskyi region, and changes in the composition of the contingent of education seekers. The comparison was made to forms of education; the main resources of distance education were analyzed. It was concluded that to continue the educational process in the conditions of armed conflict, it is possible to use different forms of training, which the administration of institutions, deputies for academic affairs, and related specialists can consider in accordance with each specific situation, as well as studying the level of potential threat, both for teaching staff and for students. In addition to physical violence, the war brought a number of psychological problems that need to be solved, as well as building an educational process under the constant threat of missile strikes, artillery, or bombing. The norms of full-time education change depending on the institution’s ability to provide conditions for the protection of participants in the educational process during air raids. Institutions are recommended to conduct the educational process in mixed forms of education, introduce shift training and plan large winter vacations, to avoid an economic collapse due to the heating of the educational facilities, increase the working hours for teaching staff to 60 hours per week, continue the educational process after June 30. The Ministry of Education and Science, international organizations, regional military administrations, and the international community are putting a lot of effort into developing recommendations and mechanisms to protect participants in the educational process and planning the educational process in emergency situations and military operations. When planning the educational process, in addition to the recommendations of the authorities, it is necessary for institutions of vocational education to independently study the work of other scientists in which military actions took place, to analyze the experience that updates the analysis of valid international documents and practices.
Tichurong (Nepal) - Language Snapshot
Creators: name: Budha, Jag Bahadur
name: Daurio, Maya
name: Turin, Mark
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2021

description: Tichurong is an unwritten Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 2,700 people across eighteen villages in the Tichurong valley in the northwestern district of Dolpa in Nepal. It is also known as Poike, Poinke, Rongke, and Tichurongke; it continues to be used in everyday interactions, but differs in usage according to age and gender. It is one of two languages native to the Tichurong valley, the other being Kaike (ISO 639-3 code: kzq and Glottolog Code: kaik1246). Almost all residents of the Tichurong valley also speak Nepali and Tibetan, and some also speak Kaike, making the community decidedly multilingual. Through Nepal’s Language Commission, a sociolinguistic survey of Tichurong was conducted in 2018, and the language is one of 15 recently identified by the Central Department of Linguistics as warranting further research. While Tichurong is unaccounted for in all previous censuses and linguistic surveys, it has been highlighted by linguists studying Kaike. The Nepal Magar Writers Association hosted a study seminar in 2021 facilitated by two linguists to identify prominent phonological and morphological features of the Tichurong language.
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 20 (2021)
Sartang (West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, India) - Language Contexts
Creators: name: Bodt, Timotheus A.
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2021

description: Sartang is a recently coined name for a Scheduled Tribe inhabiting four villages and their associated hamlets in West Kameng district of the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India. Sartang also refers to the four linguistic varieties that the people belonging to this Scheduled Tribe speak. Sartang is a Trans-Himalayan language belonging to the Western Kho-Bwa languages of the Kho-Bwa cluster. Because of low speaker numbers and rapid socio-economic developments in the area, Sartang may be considered vulnerable. This paper provides an initial overview of the four Sartang varieties, their purported origin, their history, their genetic classification, their contact languages, the language use, and attitudes, and two characteristic aspects of the Sartang culture.
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 20 (2021)
title: Optimizing Systems for Cold-Climate Strawberry Production
Creators: name: Maughan, Tiffany L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: Producing fruits and vegetables in the Intermountain West can be challenging due a short growing season, extreme temperatures, and limited availability of irrigation water. This is particularly true of strawberries, where commercial production is limited due to late fall and early spring frosts that shorten the growing season. With the increasing demand for local produce as urban populations grow and as consumer buying habits change, growers are looking for ways to overcome these climatic challenges. High tunnels are one option growers can use. High tunnels are similar to greenhouses, but less expensive to construct and to maintain. Another way to protect crops against adverse climatic conditions is with low tunnels. As the name implies, they are a smaller version of a high tunnel, usually only tall enough to cover the canopy of the plant. Low tunnels can be used by themselves or in conjunction with (inside) a high tunnel. Adding heat is another option. However, heating can be expensive and may not be profitable. Targeting heat additions in the root zone may decrease cost of heat but still provide protection to the plant.These protection methods were evaluated in Cache Valley, Utah for effectiveness of increasing strawberry yield. High tunnels increased total yield, as did high tunnels used in conjunction with low tunnels. However, low tunnels by themselves were not able to increase yield in comparison to unprotected plants in the field. Targeted root zone heating was evaluated in both high and low tunnel with two target temperatures: 7 and 15 °C. There was no difference in total yield between the two temperatures, but both increased yield above the high tunnel alone and the 15 °C heating treatment moved the harvest season approximately 6.5 weeks earlier than unheated tunnels and approximately 12 weeks earlier than field production. The additional cost associated with using supplemental heat was offset by the increased yields and the higher value of early fruit.Separate experiments were carried out to determine susceptibility of strawberry leaves to damage from cold temperatures, which can then be used to provide guidelines for temperature management in high tunnels. Strawberry leaves were not significantly damaged when exposed to -3 °C, but significant damage occurred once leaves were exposed to -5 °C. To maximize the advantages of protected cultivation, growers should manage tunnels and heating to keep leaf temperatures above -3 °C. These results provide improved guidelines for growers interested in using protected cultivation strategies to provide fruit for local consumption in the Intermountain West.
Asymptotically, Free ϕ^4 Theory with Even Elements of a Grassmann Algebra
Creators: name: F. Palumbo
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 1994

description: Bilinear composities of anticommuting constituents are even elements of a Grassmann algebra, which are nilpotent commuting (NC) variables. We study a ϕ^4 theory where the ϕ field has NC Fourier components and we find that it is asymptotically free.
Parents' Classroom Safety Cues Study 3a
Creators: name: Izilda Pereira-Jorge
name: Chaney, Kimberly
name: Oswald, Flora
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The present study seeks to determine LGBTQ+ parents’ perceptions of appropriateness for LGBTQ+ safety cues in the classroom, and if the presence (or absence) of a safety cue impacts downstream consequences for anticipated identity safety of their child in the classroom.
UVA/persulfate-driven nonylphenol polyethoxylate degradation: effect of process conditions
Creators: name: Nunes, R. F.
name: Tominaga, F. K.
name: Borrely, S. I.
name: Teixeira, A. C. S. C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: UV/persulfate (UV/PS) technologies have gained increased attention as efficient alternatives for removing pollutants from different classes, although processes based on the UVA-driven S2O82− (PS) activation have not yet been discussed in the literature for the removal of the nonionic surfactant nonylphenol polyethoxylate (NPEO). The present study investigated the simultaneous effect of the initial persulfate concentration ([PS]0) and specific photon emission rate (EP,0) on NPEO degradation by UVA/PS following a Doehlert experimental design. The results for [NPEO]0 = (4.65 ± 0.15) mg L−1 indicated more than 97.8% NPEO removal after 2 h, with pseudo first-order specific degradation rate (kobs) of 0.0320 min−1, for [PS]0 = 7.75 mmol L−1 and EP,0 = 0.437 μmol photons L−1 s−1. Under these conditions, NPEO half-life time was about 22 min, and the EC50-48 h (% v/v) values for Daphnia similis before and after treatment did not differ significantly. Higher values of EP,0 would influence NPEO removal for [PS]0 not higher than 8–10 mmol L−1, although lower degradation efficiencies were obtained with higher [NPEO]0 or real wastewater, except for longer reaction times. Additionally, UVA/PS showed to be efficient for tensoactivity removal, despite the negligible total organic carbon (TOC) removal achieved. Finally, UVC and UVA resulted in NPEO degradation higher than 96% and similar tensoactivity removals when UVA/PS was conducted under optimal conditions ([PS]0 = 10 mmol L−1; EP,0 = 0.324 μmol photons L−1 s−1), suggesting that UVA radiation available in solar light could be advantageously employed for NPEO removal at concentrations usually found in wastewater.
title: An Algorithm to Recognize Multi-Stable Behavior From an Ensemble of Stochastic Simulation Runs
Creators: name: Monzon, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: Synthetic biological designers are demanding tools to help with the design and verification process of new biological models. Some of the most common tools available aggregate multiple simulation results into one “clean” trajectory that hopefully is representative of the system’s behavior. However, for systems exhibiting multiple stable states, these techniques fail to show all the possible trajectories of the system. This work introduces a method capable of detecting the presence of more than one “typical” trajectory in a system, which can also be integrated with other available simulation tools.
Carcass Characteristics and Meat Quality of Two Populations of Tunisian Local Hens
Creators: name: Nour Elhouda FEHRI
name: Mohamed AROUA
name: Safa BEJAOUI
name: Mohamed Amine FERCHICHI
name: Gabriele BRECCHIA
name: Bayrem JEMMALI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The aim of this study was to analyze the meat quality of two populations of Tunisian local hens (Gallus gallus domesticus). Twenty hens were selected from different farmers: the first phenotype (P1LC) consisted of large hens, while the second (P2SC) included small hens of the same age and same area. Physical analysis, including pH and color, showed no significant differences in pH and color were observed. For P1LC, pH = 5.90 ± 0.124, a*(redness) = 12.76 ± 3.449, b*(yellowness) = 13.31 ± 6.369, and L*(lightness) = 32.71 ± 6.854. For P2SC, pH = 5.98 ± 0.062, a* = 12.45 ± 1.397, b* = 14.09 ± 1.140, and L* = 33.27 ± 0.868. Chemical analysis of water loss during cooking (WL) and water-holding capacity (WHC) revealed that for P1LC, WL = 24.2 ± 1.517% and WHC = 24.2 ± 1.517%, whereas for P2SC, WL = 18.67 ± 0.704% and WHC = 73.67 ± 2.867%. The dry matter content is strongly correlated with the lipid content. Our results revealed a significant difference (p > 0.05) in the Dry Matter (DM) for the two populations. Indeed, the results presented in the table showed DM rates equal to 25.467 ± 0.957 % for P1LC and 25.033 ± 1.05 % for P2SC (p > 0.05) there is a significant difference. Nutritional analysis showed similar protein and fat content for both phenotypes, with P1LC showing higher dry matter and mineral content. These results provide valuable insights for improving meat quality and promoting sustainable poultry systems for smallholders and rural families.
Intervention, Regionalism, Engagement: New Forms of Security Management in the South Pacific?
Creators: name: Hegarty, David
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2004

description: Recent assessments of the economic and political situation in the South Pacific depict a region of small island countries facing considerable challenge and stress. An Asian Development Bank discussion paper, for example, suggests that from a once reasonably promising economic position, the Pacific is now falling behind other developing regions (ADB 2004). Economic growth (it says) has not kept pace with high population growth rates, job creation for youth has been minimal, and poverty is now a significant issue. A review of the premier regional organisation, the Pacific Islands Forum, undertaken by an ‘eminent persons group’ from within the region itself, found that variable standards of governance had impacted adversely on Islanders’ living standards and in some had contributed to instability, conflict, corruption and a weakening of democratic processes (EPG Review 2004). An Australian Senate committee report on Australia’s relations with the region concluded that Pacific countries would likely continue to suffer political, ethnic and social tensions brought about by continuing economic decline and poor governance (Australian Senate 2003).
Thermonuclear explosions of rapidly rotating white dwarfs - II. Detonations
Creators: name: Pfannes, J. M. M.
name: Niemeyer, J. C.
name: Schmidt, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Superluminous type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) may be explained by super-Chandrasekhar-mass explosions of rapidly rotating white dwarfs (WDs). In a preceding paper, we showed that the deflagration scenario applied to rapidly rotating WDs generates explosions that cannot explain the majority of SNe Ia. Aims: Rotation of the progenitor star allows super-Chandrasekhar-mass WDs to form that have a shallower density stratification. We use simple estimates of the production of intermediate and iron group elements in pure detonations of rapidly rotating WDs to assess their viability in explaining rare SNe Ia. Methods: We numerically construct WDs in hydrostatic equilibrium that rotate according to a variety of rotation laws. The explosion products are estimated by considering the density stratification and by evaluating the result of hydrodynamics simulations. Results: We show that a significant amount of intermediate mass elements is produced for theoretically motivated rotation laws, even for prompt detonations of WDs. Conclusions: Rapidly rotating WDs that detonate may provide an explanation of rare superluminous SNe Ia in terms of both burning species and explosion kinematics.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication by A&A
Sensitivity Limits of a Capacitive Transducer for Gravitational Wave Resonant Antennas
Creators: name: M. Bassan
name: G. Pizzella
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 1995

description: We analyze the performance of a resonant gravitational wave antenna equipped with a resonant, d.c. biased capacitive transducer, an untuned superconducting matching circuit and a d.c. Squid. We derive simple relations for the detector energy sensitivity that serve as guidelines for device development and we show that, with reasonable improvements in Squid technology, an effective temperature for burst detection of 2 μK can be achieved.
A quantum cluster algebra of Kronecker type and the dual canonical basis
Creators: name: Lampe, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E10 (Primary) 17B37, 13F60 (Secondary)

description: The article concerns the dual of Lusztig's canonical basis of a subalgebra of the positive part U_q(n) of the universal enveloping algebra of a Kac-Moody Lie algebra of type A_1^{(1)}. The examined subalgebra is associated with a terminal module M over the path algebra of the Kronecker quiver via an Weyl group element w of length four. Geiss-Leclerc-Schroeer attached to M a category C_M of nilpotent modules over the preprojective algebra of the Kronecker quiver together with an acyclic cluster algebra A(C_M). The dual semicanonical basis contains all cluster monomials. By construction, the cluster algebra A(C_M) is a subalgebra of the graded dual of the (non-quantized) universal enveloping algebra U(n). We transfer to the quantized setup. Following Lusztig we attach to w a subalgebra U_q^+(w) of U_q(n). The subalgebra is generated by four elements that satisfy straightening relations; it degenerates to a commutative algebra in the classical limit q=1. The algebra U_q^+(w) possesses four bases, a PBW basis, a canonical basis, and their duals. We prove recursions for dual canonical basis elements. The recursions imply that every cluster variable in A(C_M) is the specialization of the dual of an appropriate canonical basis element. Therefore, U_q^+(w) is a quantum cluster algebra in the sense of Berenstein-Zelevinsky. Furthermore, we give explicit formulae for the quantized cluster variables and for expansions of products of dual canonical basis elements.
description: 32 pages
Reo Ra’ivavae (Ra’ivavae, Austral Archipelago, French-occupied Polynesia) - Language Snapshot.
Creators: name: Hancock-Teed, J. Drew
name: Walworth, Mary
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2021

description: Reo Ra’ivavae is the autochthonous language of the people of Ra’ivavae, in the Austral Islands of French-occupied Polynesia. It is also spoken in the administrative centre of French-occupied Polynesia, Tahiti, by the Ra’ivavae diaspora. Historically, the language is considered an Eastern Polynesian language that exhibits some unique sound changes, not found elsewhere in the subgroup. The Ra’ivavae population is undergoing language shift to Tahitian and there exists some degree of multilingualism on the island with French as well. While the exact degree of endangerment is unclear, the language is under threat and urgently requires significant study as there is as of yet very little documentation or description of the language.
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 20 (2021)
title: Characterization of the Hydrogen Peroxide Stress Responses of Bifidobacterium longum and Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. Lactis
Creators: name: Oberg, Taylor S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: Probiotics are living organisms which exert a beneficial health effect when consumed in sufficient numbers. Consumer interest in probiotics has increased dramatically in recent years prompting an increase in production and development of functional foods. One major problem is the decreased viability of probiotic bacteria during functional food production and storage and subsequent digestion due to environmental stresses. The most common probiotic strains belong to the genus Lactobacillus or Bifidobacterium. Due to the anaerobic nature of these bacteria, they lack the required defense mechanisms for oxidative stress inherent in aerobic microorganisms. This study examined the oxidative stress responses of six strains of Bifidobacterium, which are commonly used as probiotics in functional foods.The first phase of the study investigated the innate and inducible hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) stress response of Bifidobacterium longum strains NCC2705 and D2957, Bifidobacterium longum ssp. infantis ATCC 15697, and Bifidobacterium animalis ssp. lactis strains BL-04, DSM10140 and RH-1. Strains were screened for survival at increasing concentrations of H2O2 and lethal and sublethal concentrations were determined for each. In the second phase, B. animalis ssp. lactis strains BL-04 and DSM10140 and B. longum strains NCC2705 and D2957 were treated with a sublethal H2O2 concentration and RNA samples were collected for transcriptome analysis after 5 min and either 20 or 60 min. Statistical analysis was performed to identify genes that increased or decreased in expression during H2O2 treatment compared to control cells.Results showed that survival was species and strain dependent and that strains which naturally survived higher H2O2 concentrations had a larger number of differentially expressed genes early on during H2O2 exposure. Some of the protective genetic systems that were activated during H2O2 stress are mechanisms which perform basic cellular functions under normal conditions such as deoxuynucleotide synthesis. Under stress conditions, these systems can be used to detoxify oxidative free radicals. Also a number of genes involved in sugar transport and energy production for the cell showed increased expression, which reveals the increased energy needs of the cells during oxidative stress.During testing, it was found that two B. animalis ssp. lactis strains, BL-04 and DSM10140, had differing levels of survival and gene expression during H2O2 exposure despite having almost identical genome sequences. It was determined that one possible cause of the differences was a genetic deletion in a gene that allows the cell to incorporate extracellular fatty acids into the cell membrane instead of synthesizing them.Results from this project have increased the understanding of oxidative stress responses in bifidobacteria and highlighted possible methods to increase bacterial survival during food manufacture, storage, and human digestion.
Experimental Status of the E/l Puzzle
Creators: name: A. Lanaro
Publisher: name: INFN Open Access Repository
Year: 1996

description: Despite the prolonged experimental effort devoted to the spectroscopy of the E/i mesons, and the intense theoretical debate around this subject, many puzzling issues still prevent from a full understanding of the true scenario. The advent of new and more precise experimental measurements motivates a review on this topic.
Nukuoro (Nukuoro Atoll, Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia) - Language Snapshot
Creators: name: Drummond, Emily
name: Rudolph, Johnny
Publisher: name: Language Documentation and Description
Year: 2021

description: Nukuoro is an endangered Polynesian Outlier language spoken on Nukuoro Atoll, an outer island of Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia. While Nukuoro is acquired as a first language by children and widely spoken in the home, nearly all speakers are multilingual in Pohnpeian, the local lingua franca, and English. Diasporic migration for education and employment has led Nukuoro speakers to settle all over the world, with large communities living in Kolonia, Pohnpei and the United States, particularly in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Oregon. As a result, the Nukuoro diaspora community is at least seven times larger than the in-situ community on the atoll. This distribution of speakers places particular challenges on language vitality, especially in smaller communities in the U.S. There are ongoing efforts to document and revitalize Nukuoro language and culture, and speakers have turned to online resources to connect across the globe.
description: Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 20 (2021)
UVA/Persulfate-Driven Nonylphenol Polyethoxylate Degradation: Effect of Process Conditions
Creators: name: Nunes, R. F.
name: Tominaga, F. K
name: Borrely, S. I.
name: Teixeira, A. C. S. C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: UV/persulfate (UV/PS) technologies have gained increased attention as efficient alternatives for removing pollutants from different classes, although processes based on the UVA-driven S2O8 2− (PS) activation have not yet been discussed in the literature for the removal of the nonionic surfactant nonylphenol polyethoxylate (NPEO). The present study investigated the simultaneous effect of the initial persulfate concentration ([PS]0) and specific photon emission rate (E P,0) on NPEO degradation by UVA/PS following a Doehlert experimental design. The results for [NPEO]0 = (4.65 ± 0.15) mg L−1 indicated more than 97.8% NPEO removal after 2 h, with pseudo first-order specific degradation rate (k obs) of 0.0320 min−1, for [PS]0 = 7.75 mmol L−1 and E P,0 = 0.437 μmol photons L−1 s−1. Under these conditions, NPEO half-life time was about 22 min, and the EC50-48 h (% v/v) values for Daphnia similis before and after treatment did not differ significantly. Higher values of E P,0 would influence NPEO removal for [PS]0 not higher than 8-10 mmol L−1, although lower degradation efficiencies were obtained with higher [NPEO]0 or real wastewater, except for longer reaction times. Additionally, UVA/PS showed to be efficient for tensoactivity removal, despite the negligible total organic carbon (TOC) removal achieved. Finally, UVC and UVA resulted in NPEO degradation higher than 96% and similar tensoactivity removals when UVA/PS was conducted under optimal conditions ([PS]0 = 10 mmol L−1; E P,0 = 0.324 μmol photons L−1 s−1), suggesting that UVA radiation available in solar light could be advantageously employed for NPEO removal at concentrations usually found in wastewater.
title: Are criminals better lie detectors? Investigating offenders' abilities in the context of deception detection
Creators: name: Schindler, Simon
name: Wagner, Laura K.
name: Reinhard, Marc-André
name: Ruhara, Nico
name: Pfattheicher, Stefan
name: Nitschke, Joachim
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: beliefs about deception
subject: dark triad
subject: deception detection
subject: offenders
subject: 150
subject: Vorstellung
subject: Täuschung
subject: Erkennung
subject: Dunkle Triade
subject: Täter
subject: Lügendetektor

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
title: A Longitudinal Study of English Narrative Discourse Development in Young Spanish-English Bilinguals
Creators: name: Olszewski, Abbie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2013

description: Producing oral narratives is the best predictor of later literacy functioning. The ability to use performance on oral narratives as a way to identify children who may be at- risk for academic and language problems is helpful for educators. For example, it is likely that children who are identified with language impairments or who are learning English as a second language may have difficulty creating narratives due to the inherent language complexity of creating narratives. Research has demonstrated that similar to English monolingual children, narrative ability has been shown to underlie literacy development for bilingual children. Although there are numerous studies examining English narrative structure for Spanish-English bilingual (SEB) students, the literature is limited in examining episodic structure (initiating event, action, obstacle, and consequence) over time for SEB students.The purpose of this study is to examine the narratives of one hundred eighty-nine SEB children’s English narrative growth from fall of kindergarten through spring of second grade. Children’s narrative retells were examined at six different time points in the fall and spring of each academic year for their ability to recall story grammar elements and to impose a structure on these elements.The results of this study are potentially useful to educators to understand thedistinct narrative growth trajectories for young SEB children from kindergarten through second grade. Specifically, how the effect of gender, time, and initial English language proficiency impact narrative development. Findings have the potential to inform educators who make decisions regarding the need to provide additional assistance for children who may be at-risk for English language and literacy development.
Type IIB Flux Vacua from M-theory via F-theory
Creators: name: Valandro, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study in detail some aspects of duality between type IIB and M-theory. We focus on the duality between type IIB string theory on K3 x T^2/Z_2 orientifold and M-theory on K3 x K3, in the F-theory limit. We give the explicit map between the fields and in particular between the moduli of compactification, studying their behavior under the F-theory limit. Turning on fluxes generates a potential for the moduli both in type IIB and in M-theory. We verify that the type IIB analysis gives the same results of the F-theory analysis. In particular, we check that the two potentials match.
description: 24 pages; reference corrected