cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Comparison of Neurological Activation Patterns of Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders when Verbally Responding to a Pragmatic Task
Creators: name: Hartzheim, Daphne U.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: This study examined the neurological activation of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) while performing a pragmatic judgment task. In this study, children between the ages of 9 and 15 years responded to questions regarding a social situation, taken from the Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language, while concurrently having their brain activity measured. We targeted four brain regions for analysis: dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), superior temporal gyrus (STG), and the inferior parietal lobule (IPL).
Ten children with ASD and 20 typically developing (TD) children participated. Matching occurred in a bracketing manner with each child in the ASD group being matched to two control children to account for natural variability. Neuroimgaging was conducted utilizing functional Near‐Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). Oxygenated and deoxygenated blood concentration levels were measured through Near‐Infrared light cap with 44 channels. The cap was placed over frontal lobe and the left lateral cortex. The placement was spatially registered using the Polhemus.
Analysis indicated that children in the ASD group performed significantly poorer than their controls on the pragmatic judgment task. Mixed repeated measures analysis of variance of neurological data indicated that the children with ASD had lower concentration levels of oxygenated and total hemoglobin across the four regions. There were significantly higher concentration levels for oxygenated and total hemoglobin in the STG. Analysis of correct and incorrect responses revealed significantly more activation in the OFC when responses were correct. Additionally, there was a significant interaction of Accuracy and Group in left DLPFC. Children with ASD presented higher oxygenated hemoglobin concentration values when responding correctly, while children in the control group presented higher oxygenated hemoglobin concentration values for the incorrect items. Statistical Parametric Mapping was performed for each triad to assess the diffusion of neural activation across the frontal cortex and the left lateral cortex. Individual comparisons revealed that 7 out of 10 children with ASD demonstrated patterns consistent with more diffuse brain activation than their TD controls.
Findings from this study suggest that an fNIRS study can provide important information about the level and diffusion of neural processing of verbal children and adolescents with ASD.
Annealing effects on superconductivity in SrFe2-xNixAs2
Creators: name: Saha, Shanta R.
name: Butch, Nicholas P.
name: Kirshenbaum, Kevin
name: Paglione, Johnpierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconductivity has been explored in single crystals of the Ni-doped FeAs-compound SrFe2-xNixAs2 grown by self-flux solution method. The antiferromagnetic order associated with the magnetostructural transition of the parent compound SrFe2As2 is gradually suppressed with increasing Ni concentration x and bulk-phase superconductivity with full diamagnetic screening is induced near the optimal doping of x = 0.15 with a maximum transition temperature Tc ~9.8 K. An investigation of high-temperature annealing on as-grown samples indicate that the heat treatment can enhance Tc as much as ~50 %.
Sustainable Intensification Indicators: perspectives from European and African researchers
Creators: name: Rizzu, Margherita
name: Altea, Laura
name: Migheli, Quirico
name: Paulotto, Alessandra
name: Roggero, Pier Paolo
name: Seddaiu, Giovanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Poster published in the occasion of the Conference "50° Convegno della Società Italiana di Agronomia" held in Udine from September 15 to 17 2021
description: {"references": ["IPCC, 2019: Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems (pp. 1-874).", "Pretty, J.N. 1997. The sustainable intensification of agriculture. Natural Resources Forum. 21(4): 247-256.", "Mahon, N. et al. 2018. Towards a broad-based and holistic framework of Sustainable Intensification indicators. Land Use Policy, 77: 576-597.", "Polge, E. and Debolini, M. 2018. Assessing sustainable intensification at landscape scale: Four case studies in Europe. In Proceedings of the 13th European IFSA Symposium, Chania, Greece (pp. 1-5).", "Otekunrin, O. A., et al. 2020. Three decades of fighting against hunger in Africa: Progress, challenges and opportunities. World Nutrition, 11(3): 86-111."]}
Continual pattern replication
Creators: name: Munro, James Ian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis continues the studies of A. Waksman (1969) in the repeated generation of finite strings in a one dimensional array of finite automata. Waksman handles this problem by the use of a "modulo arithmetic" algorithm. This is shown to be very restrictive with regard to the number of characters permitted in the output string. In fact, it is shown that unless the length of the string which is to be repeated is of the form p(formula omitted) where p is prime, only one output character is permitted. This of course makes the process quite meaningless. For this reason, a new algorithm is developed. This is referred to as the wheel algorithm, since there is an obvious analogy between it and a wheel, with the output string on its circumference rolling along the array and leaving the imprint of the characters in the string behind it in the same way that a wheel leaves tire tracks. The number of states required for such an algorithm is large and so the binary wheel algorithm is introduced. By using this algorithm, in which an output state is represented as a string of bits in several cells, the number of states required, in addition to the n output states, can be reduced to about 4 log₂ n. Both the wheel and binary wheel algorithms are then extended to the two dimensional and finally the d-dimensional cases.
Statistical mechanics of Beltrami flows in axisymmetric geometry: Equilibria and bifurcations
Creators: name: Naso, Aurore
name: Thalabard, Simon
name: Collette, Gilles
name: Chavanis, Pierre-Henri
name: Dubrulle, Berengere
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We characterize the thermodynamical equilibrium states of axisymmetric Euler-Beltrami flows. They have the form of coherent structures presenting one or several cells. We find the relevant control parameters and derive the corresponding equations of state. We prove the coexistence of several equilibrium states for a given value of the control parameter like in 2D turbulence [Chavanis and Sommeria, J. Fluid Mech. 314, 267 (1996)]. We explore the stability of these equilibrium states and show that all states are saddle points of entropy and can, in principle, be destabilized by a perturbation with a larger wavenumber, resulting in a structure at the smallest available scale. This mechanism is therefore reminiscent of the 3D Richardson energy cascade towards smaller and smaller scales. Therefore, our system is truly intermediate between 2D turbulence (coherent structures) and 3D turbulence (energy cascade). We further explore numerically the robustness of the equilibrium states with respect to random perturbations using a relaxation algorithm in both canonical and microcanonical ensembles. We show that saddle points of entropy can be very robust and therefore play a role in the dynamics. We evidence differences in the robustness of the solutions in the canonical and microcanonical ensembles. A scenario of bifurcation between two different equilibria (with one or two cells) is proposed and discussed in connection with a recent observation of a turbulent bifurcation in a von Karman experiment [Ravelet et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 164501 (2004)].
description: 25 pages; 16 figures
Dynamical stability of strange quark stars
Creators: name: Negi, P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the mass-radius $(M-R)$ relation corresponding to the MIT bag models of strange quark matter (SQM) and the models obtained by Day et al (1998) do not provide the necessary and sufficient condition for dynamical stability for the equilibrium configurations, since such configurations can not even fulfill the necessary condition of hydrostatic equilibrium provided by the exterior Schwarzschild solution. These findings will remain unaltered and can be extended to any other sequence of pure SQM. This study explicitly show that although the strange quark matter might exist in the state of zero pressure and temperature, but the models of pure strange quark `stars' can not exist in the state of hydrostatic equilibrium on the basis of General Relativity Theory. This study can affect the results which are claiming that various objects like - RX J1856.5-3754, SAX J1808.4-3658, 4U 1728-34, PSR 0943+10 etc. might be strange stars.
description: 7 pages (including 6 tables and 1 figure) in MNRAS style
On the eigenvalues of Cayley graphs on the symmetric group generated by a complete multipartite set of transpositions
Creators: name: Cesi, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C25, 05C50, 60K35

description: Given a finite simple graph $\cG$ with $n$ vertices, we can construct the Cayley graph on the symmetric group $S_n$ generated by the edges of $\cG$, interpreted as transpositions. We show that, if $\cG$ is complete multipartite, the eigenvalues of the Laplacian of $\Cay(\cG)$ have a simple expression in terms of the irreducible characters of transpositions, and of the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. As a consequence we can prove that the Laplacians of $\cG$ and of $\Cay(\cG)$ have the same first nontrivial eigenvalue. This is equivalent to saying that Aldous's conjecture, asserting that the random walk and the interchange process have the same spectral gap, holds for complete multipartite graphs.
description: 29 pages. Includes modification which appear on the published version in J. Algebraic Combin
A tree-ring based reconstruction of Logan River streamflow, northern Utah
Creators: Allen, Eric B.
Rittenour, Tammy M.
DeRose, R. Justin
Bekker, Matthew F.
Kjelgren, Roger
Buckley, Brendan M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Paleoclimatology
Hydrology

description: We created six new tree-ring chronologies in northern Utah, which were used with preexisting chronologies from Utah and western Wyoming to reconstruct mean annual flow for the Logan River, the largest tributary of the regionally important Bear River. Two reconstruction models were developed, a “Local” model that incorporated two Rocky Mountain juniper chronologies located within the basin, and a “Regional” model that also included limber pine and pinyon pine chronologies from a larger area. The Local model explained 48.2% of the variability in the instrumental record and the juniper chronologies better captured streamflow variability than Douglas-fir collected within the Logan basin. Incorporating chronologies from the northern and southern margins of the transition zone of the western precipitation dipole increased the skill of the Regional model (r2 = 0.581). We suggest the increased Regional model skill indicates that both nodes of the western precipitation dipole influence northern Utah climate. The importance of Rocky Mountain juniper in both reconstructions of streamflow for this region suggests that future work should target these trees where more traditionally desirable species are not present. The reconstructions provide the first extended record of streamflow in northern Utah. Preinstrumental streamflows (1605–1921) exhibited considerable variability when compared to the instrumental period (1922–2005). Our findings confirm that the inherent uncertainty in contemporary water management and planning in the region is due to hydroclimatic variability that has persisted for at least the last four centuries.
Contro la malinconia Dal volume: Venezia vive. Dal presente al futuro e viceversa, Bologna 2017
Creators: name: Vettese, Angela
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2017
Subjects: Venezia
Book extract

description: An extract from the book Venezia Vive. Dal presente al futuro e viceversa, written by Angela Vettese and published by Il Mulino.
title: Salt and the Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha granulosa): Evolutionary Investigations of Local Adaptation to an Anthropogenic and Natural Stressor
Creators: name: Hopkins, Gareth Rowland
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Amphibians are osmotically-challenged due to their highly permeable skin and egg membranes. As such, biologists have mostly ignored their occurrence in saline habitats. The goal of this dissertation was to investigate the ability of amphibians to adapt to inhabit these osmotically-stressful environments. As freshwater resources are increasingly salinized due to a combination of anthropogenic and natural stressors, including road-deicing salt application, coastal storm events, and sea-level rise, it is important to understand the abilities and constraints of sensitive organisms, like amphibians, to persist in these environments. I began by exploring what is known about amphibians inhabiting saline habitats around the world, and reviewed information dating from the 1800s to the present, documenting over 100 species inhabiting inland and coastal environments. I then proceeded to investigate the evolutionary potential for one species in particular, the rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa) to adapt to increased salinity in its habitat. I documented the negative effects of salinity (both NaCl and MgCl2 – the two most commonly-used road deicers) on embryonic and larval survival and development through a series of experiments, and explored the importance of both developmental and evolutionary history with a stressor on survival. I investigated the evolutionary potential of salt-naïve populations through examining intrapopulation and interfamily variation in critical early life-history traits, and determined that there is high interfamily variation in the salt tolerances of offspring of individual females within a population, providing the raw material for natural selection and local adaptation. Finally, I discovered a population of newts living in the tidal area of a coastal stream, with a natural source of salinity. Through conducting a series of laboratory salt challenges and assays on osmotic, stress, and immune physiology, I was able to determine that newts in the tidal area appear to be physiologically adapted to increased salinity compared to newts in a freshwater area upstream. All this information suggests that amphibians, while still osmotically-challenged, may also not be helpless in the face of salinization, and populations may be able to locally adapt to habitats impacted by natural and anthropogenic sources of salinity.
Magical properties of 2540 Km baseline Superbeam Experiment
Creators: name: Raut, Sushant K.
name: Singh, Ravi Shanker
name: Sankar, S. Uma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lack of any information on the CP violating phase $\dcp$ weakens our ability to determine neutrino mass hierarchy. Magic baseline of 7500 km was proposed to overcome this problem. However, to obtain large enough fluxes, at this very long baseline, one needs new techniques of generating high intensity neutrino beams. In this letter, we highlight the {\it magical} properties of a 2540 km baseline. At such a baseline, using a narrow band neutrino superbeam whose flux peaks around the energy 3.5 GeV, we can determine neutrino mass hierarchy {\bf independent} of the CP phase. For $\sin^2 2 θ_{13} \geq 0.05$, a very modest exposure of 10 Kiloton-years is sufficient to determine the hierarchy. For $0.02 \leq \sin^2 2 θ_{13} \leq 0.05$, an exposure of about 100 Kiloton-years is needed.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure, version published in PLB
title: The Role of Diet, Erythrocyte Membrane Fatty Acid Composition, and Alzheimer's-related Genes in Systemic Inflammation in the Cache County Memory Study
Creators: name: Jalloun, Rola Adnan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: This project examined the association between dietary patterns, erythrocyte membrane fatty acids concentration, and Alzheimer’s-related genes in systemic inflammation, as indicated by C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, in order to achieve more comprehensive knowledge of how nutrition and genetics influence systemic inflammation among the elderly residents of Cache County, Utah.
First, the associations between dietary patterns defined by Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) and Mediterranean dietary patterns (MED) and the risk of having a high level of CRP were examined. This study showed that a healthy dietary pattern score was associated with CRP levels; a higher score reflecting the ideal DASH diet and MED diet was associated with a 26% and 27% reduction in the risk of having high CRP levels respectively. This association appeared stronger among overweight and obese individuals.
Second, the association between erythrocyte membrane fatty acids (EMFAs) and elevated serum C-reactive protein (CRP) levels was examined. Those that had high EMFAs composition of palmitoleic acid and nervonic acids, both monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs), and dihomo-y-linolenic acid (DGLA), docosapentaenoic acid (DPA-6), docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), all polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), had an increased risk of having CRP elevation. In contrast, risk of CRP elevation was reduced in those that have highest levels of saturated fatty acids (SFAs) of margaric acid, stearic acid, and arachidic acid. These associations were generally observed to be stronger among women compared to men.
Lastly, the study examined whether AD-related genes identified in previous genome-wide association studies are associated with elevated levels of inflammatory CRP. Results revealed a strong association between APOE-epsilon genotypes and CRP levels. Results also showed an association between major alleles of APOE rs439401, TOMM40 rs157580, and minor alleles MMP8 rs1892886, CR1 rs6656401, CR1 rs3818361, and CR1 rs4844609 that were associated with a risk of elevation of CRP. These associations were stronger among men compared to women.
Reduction in the prevalence of AD could have tremendous importance; the results of this dissertation may help identify factors important to AD etiology and, in turn, provide valuable targets for prevention.
title: Dreams End: A Young Adult Urban Fantasy with Critical Introduction
Creators: name: Leavitt, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: This two-section thesis explores the subjective nature of villainy. The larger section, "Dream’s End," is an urban-fantasy young-adult fiction piece I’ve written in epistolary form. I preface the fiction with a critical introduction in which I briefly examine existing definitional scholarship on 1) epistolary fiction, 2) the urban fantasy genre, and 3) the young adult genre. Epistolary fiction may be letters, diaries, or journal entries. Following this exploration, I examine the subjective nature of villains and antagonists in narratives. While "Dream’s End" does not specifically discuss or critique feminist theory, it considers criticism of existing female tropes in its portrayal of both the characters and their roles in relation to one another.
The second section of the thesis is comprised of a collection of journal entries, divided into six chapters, wherein protagonist Emma keeps a record of the experiences she has while traveling to another world in her dreams. In this alternate dream world, Emma finds community and purpose absent from her waking life, but must ultimately come to terms with a perceived betrayal and various moral quandaries when her two worlds begin to bleed together. The journal entries will eventually be incorporated into a novel as backstory, and so are presented with a brief explanation as to their significance to the larger narrative. Through the various characters in these journal entries, I explore the complex nature of protagonists and antagonists, and discuss how the classification of each is relative to the experience and perceptions of the characters within the narrative, as well as the readers outside it.
title: Conductivity enhancement within garnet‐rich polymer composite electrolytes via the addition of succinonitrile
Creators: name: Vanita, Vanita
name: Waidha, Aamir Iqbal
name: Yadav, Sandeep
name: Schneider, Jörg J.
name: Clemens, Oliver
Publisher: name: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2023

description: All‐solid‐state lithium‐ion batteries (ASSLIBs) are promising alternatives to conventional organic electrolyte‐based batteries due to their higher safety and higher energy densities. Despite advantages, ASSLIBs suffer from issues like high charge transfer resistances due to the brittleness of the inorganic solid electrolyte and chemical instabilities at the lithium/electrolyte interface. Within this work, we investigate composite electrolytes (CEs) based on garnet‐type Li₆.₄La₃Zr₁.₄Ta₀.₆O₁₂ (LLZTO), polyethylene oxide, and lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide, prepared via a solvent‐free cryo‐milling approach in contrast to conventional solvent‐mediated synthesis. Compositions ranging from polymer‐rich to garnet‐rich systems are investigated via X‐ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in order to determine the compatibility of the cryo‐milling process toward membrane fabrication along with the possible chemical interactions between the composite membrane components. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is used to study the role of ceramic to polymer weight fraction on ionic conductivity. It is shown that the addition of succinonitrile (SCN) to the garnet‐rich CEs can significantly improve the ionic conductivity compared to the SCN‐free CEs.
title: Interactive Computer Simulation and Animation Learning Modules: A Mixed-method Study of Their Effects on Students' Problem Solving in Particle Dynamics
Creators: name: Guo, Yongquing
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Computer simulation and animation (CSA) has been receiving growing attention and wide application in the engineering education community. The goal of this dissertation research was to improve students' conceptual understanding and procedural skills for solving particle dynamics problems, by developing, implementing and assessing 12 interactive computer simulation and animation learning modules. The developed CSA learning modules integrate visualization with mathematical modeling to help students directly connect engineering dynamics with mathematics. These CSA modules provide a constructivist environment where students can study physical laws, demonstrate mental models, make predictions, derive conclusions, and solve problems.
A mixed-method research was conducted in this study: quasi-experimental method (quantitative), and survey questionnaires and interviews (qualitative and quantitative). Quasi-experimental research involving an intervention group and a comparison group was performed to investigate the extent that the developed CSA learning modules improved students' conceptual understanding and procedural skills in solving particle dynamics problems. Surveys and interviews were administrated to examine students' learning attitudes toward and experiences with the developed CSA learning modules.
The results of quasi-experimental research show that the 12 CSA learning modules developed for this study increased students' class-average conceptual and procedural learning gains by 29% and 40%, respectively. Therefore, these developed CSA modules significantly improved students' conceptual understanding and procedural skills for solving particle dynamics problems. The survey and interview results show that students had a positive experience with CSA learning.
Additional file 2 of PCGF6/MAX/KDM5D facilitates MAZ/CDK4 axis expression and pRCC progression by hypomethylation of the DNA promoter
Creators: name: Zhu, Meng
name: Zhang, Ruo-Nan
name: Zhang, Hong
name: Qu, Chang-bao
name: Zhang, Xiao-chong
name: Ren, Li-Xin
name: Yang, Zhan
name: Gu, Jun-Fei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Fig. S1: A Correlation analysis was performed between MAZ and PCGF6 mRNA expression in pRCC tissues from the data of TCGA. Fig. S2: RT-qPCR and Western blot were used to verify MAZ expression. A Caki-2 cells were transfected with MAZ shRNAs and ACHN cells were transfected with MAZ overexpression vectors. RT-qPCR was conducted to measure the mRNA level of MAZ. B The indicated vectors were transfected into cells as A, and the expression of MAZ was measured using Western blotting. C Quantitative analysis of Western blotting from B. Fig. S3: Correlation analysis was performed between MAZ promoter hypo-methylation and PCGF6 mRNA expression in pRCC tissues. Fig. S4: ACHN cells co-transfected with the indicated vectors were used for the luciferase reporter assays. **p < 0.01 versus the corresponding controls. Fig. S5: Luciferase reporter assays were performed to detect CDK4 promoter activity in Caki-2 cells after cotransfected with indicated vectors.
title: A Chronostratigraphic Record of Arroyo Entrenchment and Aggradation in Kanab Creek, Southern Utah
Creators: name: Townsend, Kirk F.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Arroyos are entrenched channels characterized by near-vertical walls of alluvium and flat channel bottoms. Historic channel entrenchment in the southwest United States during the late AD 1800s and early 1900s has stimulated extensive research on these dynamic fluvial systems. The near-synchronous episodes of arroyo entrenchment and aggradation in Kanab Creek and other drainages in southern Utah during the last ~1 Ka has led many researches to argue that hydroclimatic forcings drive arroyo processes. These hypotheses remain largely untested, and there remains considerable uncertainty regarding the timing of these events and the specific mechanisms responsible for arroyo formations.
Previous work established an alluvial chronology for the kanab canyon reach of Kanab creek, but it remained unclear if arroyo events in this reach were continuous with those downstream or synchronous with events in the disconnected arroyo in the upper basin. Using deailed sedimentologic and stratigraphic descriptions coupled with AMS radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating, a new chronostratigraphic record of arroyo entrenchment and aggradation for kanab creek is produced in this study. Results suggest at least five periods of fluvial aggradation and episodic arroyo entrenchment during the middle-to late-Holocene, with aggradation occuring from ~6.2 to 3.67 ka (Qfl), ~3.2 to 2.5 ka (Qf2), ~2.2 to `.45 ka (Qf3), 1.4 to 0.8 ka (Qf4), and 0.75 to 0.14 ka (Qf5). This record is compared to regional alluvial and paleoclimate records to explore potential allogenic and autogenic forcing mechanisms. Rapid transitions from exceptional drought to pluvial periods are quasi-synchronous with regional arroyo entrenchment over the last ~1.5 Ka, but the lack of clear correlations amongst the regional alluvial records and between paleoclimate records beyond 1.5 Ka suggests that internal geomorphic thresholds are important controls on the timing of entrenchment in individual catchments.
Previous research on arroyo dynamics has largely focused on the timing of entrenchment. The few studies that have investigated the processes related to aggradation have used historic observations, and not the stratigraphic record of arroyo deposits. In this study, the alluvial records from three reaches of Kanab Creek are combined to test models of the processes and geometric patterns of paleoarroyo aggradation. Results indicate that aggradation initially propagates upstream and then transitions to synchronous vertical aggradation along the entire channel profile as arroyos approach complete filling.
Two-resonator circuit QED: Dissipative Theory
Creators: name: Reuther, Georg M.
name: Zueco, David
name: Deppe, Frank
name: Hoffmann, Elisabeth
name: Menzel, Edwin P.
name: Weißl, Thomas
name: Mariantoni, Matteo
name: Kohler, Sigmund
name: Marx, Achim
name: Solano, Enrique
name: Gross, Rudolf
name: Hänggi, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theoretical treatment for the dissipative two-resonator circuit quantum electrodynamics setup referred to as quantum switch. There, switchable coupling between two superconducting resonators is mediated by a superconducting qubit operating in the dispersive regime, where the qubit transition frequency is far detuned from those of the resonators. We derive an effective Hamiltonian for the quantum switch beyond the rotating wave approximation and study the dissipative dynamics within a Bloch-Redfield quantum master equation approach. We derive analytically how the qubit affects the quantum switch even if the qubit has no dynamics, and we estimate the strength of this influence. The analytical results are corroborated by numerical calculations, where coherent oscillations between the resonators, the decay of coherent and Fock states, and the decay of resonator-resonator entanglement are studied. Finally, we suggest an experimental protocol for extracting the damping constants of qubit and resonators by measuring the quadratures of the resonator fields.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures
Archivi impossibili. Un’ossessione dell’arte contemporanea Presentazione del volume (Monza 2016)
Creators: name: Baldacci, Cristina
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2017
Subjects: Contemporary art
Archives
Book extract
Gesto
Performance
Presence

description: An extract from the book Archivi impossibili. Un'ossessione dell'arte contemporanea, written by Cristina Baldacci and published by Johan & Levi Editore.
Improving the Excited Nucleon Spectrum in Hard-Wall AdS/QCD
Creators: name: Zhang, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the nucleon spectrum in a hard-wall AdS/QCD model can be improved by use of a relatively large IR cutoff. All of the spin-1/2 nucleon masses listed in PDG can be fit quite well within 11%. The average error is remarkably only 4.66%.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures. v2: references added. v3: add a section about the pion-nucleon coupling, published version
Analyses of growth rings of Pinus merkusii from Lao P.D.R.
Creators: Buckley, Brendan M.
Duangsathaporn, Khwanchai
Palakit, Kritsadapan
Butler, Sarah
Syhapanya, Vongphet
Xaybouangeun, Nakhonekham
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Pinus merkusii
Monsoons
Dendrochronology
Dendroclimatology

description: We present the first tree-ring chronologies of total ring width (RW), earlywood width (EWW) and latewood width (LWW) from Lao P.D.R., from 52 core samples from 26 mature pines (Pinus merkusii Junghuhn & De Vriese), from Phu Khao Khouay National Biodiversity Conservation Area northeast of Vientiane. The chronologies span the 262-year period from 1743 to 2005 a.d., and at least for RW and LWW exhibit strong signal strength back to the late 1700s. Correlation analyses with climate data from a composite of 13 nearby stations in Thailand indicate statistically significant (p ≤ 0.05) negative correlation with prior year June rainfall, and positive correlation with August–September maximum temperature. Annual radial increment is also significantly negatively correlated with percent cloud fraction, leading us to believe that growth may be adversely affected by light availability (i.e., reduced growth during periods of low light) and not positively affected by high temperature per se. Spatial correlation with sea surface temperature fields highlights the influence of the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, particularly for EWW. Wavelet analysis reveals multi-decadal scale variability between 30 and 60 years for all three indices, and higher frequency power for RW and LWW between 2 and 7 years, the typical range of ENSO. While RW, EWW and LWW all appear to respond to monsoon climate, we highlight the need for far more detailed ecophysiological response studies for this species, particularly with regard to the role of light availability and temperature during the peak monsoon.
Using NLP to Create Corpus-based Vocabulary Exercises in Latin Classes
Creators: name: Beyer, Andrea
name: Schulz, Konstantin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: data-driven learning
NLP
corpus-based exercises
technology enhanced language learning
Latin
language acquisition

description: The presentation gives a short introduction to the paper published in the INTED2020 Proceedings (doi: 10.21125/inted.2020.0562). It is shown how to enhance Latin vocabulary learning by focusing on corpus-based methods using a newly developed software (the so-called Machina Callida).
description: Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), project number 316618374.
$B\to Kη,Kη^{\prime}$ Decays
Creators: name: Pham, T. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonet symmetry scheme seems to describe rather well the masses and $η-η^{\prime}$ mixing angle of the ground state pseudo-scalar mesons and is thus expected to be also a good approximation for the matrix elements of the pseudo-scalar density operators which play an important role in charmless two-body B decays with $η$ or $η^{\prime}$ in the final state. In this talk, I would like to report on a recent work on the $B^{-}\to K^{-}η, K^{-}η^{\prime}$ decay using nonet symmetry for the matrix elements of pseudo-scalar density operators. We find that the branching ratio $B\to PP$, with an $η$ meson in the final state agrees well with data, while those with an $η^{\prime}$ meson are underestimated by $20-30%$. This could be considered as a more or less successful prediction for QCDF, considering the theoretical uncertainties involved. This could also indicate that an additional power-suppressed terms could bring the branching ratio close to experiment, as with the $B\to K^{*}π$ and $B\to K^{*}η$ decay for which the measured branching ratios are much bigger than the QCDF predictions.
description: Talk given at QCD08, the 14th International QCD Conference, 7-12th July 2008, Montpellier (France), LaTeX, 7 pages
The effects of secondary stressors, social identity, and social support on perceived stress and resilience: Findings from the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Ntontis, Evangelos
name: Blackburn, Angélique M.
name: Han, Hyemin
name: Stöckli, Sabrina
name: L. Milfont, Taciano
name: Tuominen, Jarno
name: Griffin, Siobhan
name: Ikizer, Gözde
name: Jeftić, Alma
name: Chrona, Stavroula
name: Nasheedha, Aishath
name: Liutsko, Liudmila
name: Vestergren, Sara
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Primary stressors are direct outcomes of extreme events (e.g., viruses, floodwater) whereas secondary stressors stem from pre-disaster life circumstances and societal arrangements (e.g., illness, problematic pre-disaster policies) or from inefficient responses to the extreme event. Secondary stressors can cause significant long-term damage to people affected but are also tractable and amenable to change. In this study we explored the association between secondary stressors, social identity processes, social support, and perceived stress and resilience. Pre-registered analyses of data from the COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey Round II (N = 14,600; 43 countries) show that secondary stressors are positively associated with perceived stress and negatively associated with resilience, even when controlling for the effects of primary stressors. Being a woman or having lower socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with higher exposure to secondary stressors, higher perceived stress, and lower resilience. Importantly, social identification is positively associated with expected support and with increased resilience and lower perceived stress. However, neither gender, SES, or social identification moderated the relationship between secondary stressors and perceived stress and resilience. In conclusion, systemic reforms and the availability of social support are paramount to reducing the effects of secondary stressors.
Universality of the Collins-Soper kernel in lattice calculations
Creators: name: Shu, Hai-Tao
name: Schlemmer, Maximilian
name: Sizmann, Tobias
name: Vladimirov, Alexey
name: Walter, Lisa
name: Engelhardt, Michael
name: Schäfer, Andreas
name: Yang, Yi-Bo
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: The Collins-Soper (CS) kernel is a nonperturbative function that characterizes the rapidity evolution of transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDPDFs) and wave functions. In this paper, we calculate the CS kernel for pion and proton targets and for quasi-TMDPDFs of leading and next-to-leading power. The calculations are carried out on the CLS ensemble H101 with dynamical Nf=2+1 clover-improved Wilson fermions. Our analyses demonstrate the consistency of different lattice extractions of the CS kernel for mesons and baryons, as well as for twist-two and twist-three operators, even though lattice artifacts could be significant. This consistency corroborates the universality of the lattice-determined CS kernel and suggests that a high-precision determination of it is in reach.
title: The Ecology of the Black-Bellied Tree Duck in Southern Texas
Creators: name: Bolen, Eric George
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1967

description: The black-bellied tree duck (Dendracygna autumnal is) 1 is one of eight tree ducks (whistling ducks) in the genus Dendracygna . This group shares enough characteris tics--reticulated tarsus and symmetrical syrinx structure, among others--with the swans and geese Ia warrant a cam man subfamily, Anserinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae. De Iacour and Mayr ( 1945) make a tribal distinction, however, between the tree ducks (Dendracygnini) and the swans and geese (Anserini) based, in part, an differences in size, vertebrae number, and downy plumage . These same authors remark that the tree ducks are the leas t known of the waterfowl largely because there are no life history studies for any of the species. Of the two species found in the continental United States, the fulvous (_Q . bicolor) and black-bellied tree ducks , the ecology of the last named seemed singularly unknown.
Aligning graphs and finding substructures by a cavity approach
Creators: name: Bradde, S.
name: Braunstein, A.
name: Mahmoudi, H.
name: Tria, F.
name: Weigt, M.
name: Zecchina, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce a new distributed algorithm for aligning graphs or finding substructures within a given graph. It is based on the cavity method and is used to study the maximum-clique and the graph-alignment problems in random graphs. The algorithm allows to analyze large graphs and may find applications in fields such as computational biology. As a proof of concept we use our algorithm to align the similarity graphs of two interacting protein families involved in bacterial signal transduction, and to predict actually interacting protein partners between these families.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Central Vietnam climate over the past five centuries from cypress tree rings
Creators: Buckley, Brendan M.
Stahle, Daniel K.
Luu, Hong Truong
Wang, S.-Y. Simon
Nguyen, Tran Quoc Trung
Le, Canh Nam
Thomas, Philip
Ton, That Minh
Bui, The Hoang
Nguyen, Van Thiet
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Rain forests
subject: Monsoons
subject: Dendrochronology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We present the first crossdated tree ring record from central Vietnam, derived from the growth rings of the rare cypress Fokienia hodginsii from the mountains of Quang Nam Province near the Laos border. The Quang Nam Fokienia hodginsii time series (QNFH), based on the crossdated sequences of 71 increment core samples from 37 mature trees, is the third published dendrochronological record from this species. The record extends 667 years from AD 1347 to 2013 and exhibits a mean series intercorrelation of 0.526, similarly significant with the first two published Fokienia hodginsii records: 0.474 for Mu Cang Chai (MCFH) and 0.578 for Bidoup-Nui Ba National Park (BDFH) in the north and south of Vietnam, respectively. The Expressed Population Signal (EPS) for the QNFH record exceeds the generally accepted threshold of 0.85 back to AD 1567, but remains above 0.8 back to 1550. Similar to the MCFH and BDFH records, QNFH expresses statistically significant linkages to regional hydroclimate metrics and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Here we present a reconstruction of the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index for the month of April, averaged over a large region of Southeast Asia. As with prior studies we demonstrate that cool phase (La Niña) and warm phase (El Niño) events are linked to regional wet and dry conditions, respectively, with linkages to modulation of the surface water temperature over the adjacent sea to the east of Vietnam as well as the Indian Ocean. A late eighteenth century megadrought that is expressed widely across South and Southeast Asia, and notably from the MCFH and BDFH records described above, is not as pronounced in Central Vietnam and we explore the reasons why.
Memorie della malinconia Editoriale di Engramma 144
Creators: name: Centanni, Monica; Pisani, Davide; Sacco, Daniela
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2017
Subjects: Melancholy
Warburg
Cassirer
Einstein
Mnemosyne Atlas
Durer

description: Engramma issue no. 144 “Memories od Melancholy” includes contributions by Monica Centanni, Daniele Pisani, Daniela Sacco, Emiliano De Vito, Cristina Baldacci, Angela Vettese.
Power series expansion connected with Riemann's zeta function
Creators: name: Allard, Gabriel Louis Adolphe
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: We consider the entire function [formula omitted] whose set of zeros includes the zeros of [formula omitted](s), expand it in an everywhere converging Maclauring series [formula omitted] Then we determine analytic expressions for the coefficients a[formula omitted] which will enable us to proceed with the numerical evaluation of some of these coefficients. To achieve this, we define an operator D[formula omitted] acting on a restricted class of power series and which we call the zeta operator. Using the operator D[formula omitted], we are able to express the coefficients a[formula omitted] as infinite n-dimensional integrals. Numerical values for the coefficients a₀ and a₁ are easily determined. For a₂ and a₃, we transform the multidimensional integrals into products of single integrals and obtain infinite series expressions for these coefficients. Although our method can also be used on the following coefficients, it turns out that the work involved to obtain an expression leading to a practical numerical evaluation of a₄, a₅, …,seems prohibitive at this stage. We then proceed with the numerical computation of a₂ and a₃ and we use these coefficients to calculate the sums of reciprocals of the zeros of [formula omitted](s) in the critical strip. Finally, assuming Riemann hypothesis, we calculate a few other quantities which may prove to be of interest.
title: Annotation Tools for Multivariate Gene Set Testing of Non-Model Organisms
Creators: name: Banks, Russell K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2015

description: Many researchers across a wide range of disciplines have turned to gene expression analysis to aid in predicting and understanding biological outcomes and mechanisms. Because genes are known to work in a dependent manner, it’s common for researchers to first group genes in biologically meaningful sets and then test each gene set for differential expression. Comparisons are made across different treatment/condition groups. The meta-analytic method for testing differential activity of gene sets, termed multi-variate gene set testing (mvGST), will be used to provide context for two persistent and problematic issues in gene set testing. These are: 1) gathering organism specific annotation for non-model organisms and 2) handling gene annotation ambiguities. The primary purpose of this thesis is to explore different gene annotation gathering methods in the building of gene set lists and to address the problem of gene annotation ambiguity. Using an example study, three different annotation gathering methods are proposed to construct GO gene set lists. These lists are directly compared, as are the subsequent results from mvGST analysis. In a separate study, an optimization algorithm is proposed as a solution for handling gene annotation ambiguities.
title: Special issue of IJACT honoring Prof. Ralf Riedel
Creators: name: Ionescu, Emanuel
name: Kroll, Peter
name: Sugahara, Yoshiyuki
name: Mathur, Sanjay
Publisher: name: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2023

description: The present Special Issue honors the career achievements of Prof. Ralf Riedel (TU Darmstadt, Germany), a world-wide renowned scholar in the field of ceramics research.
Population switching and charge sensing in quantum dots: A case for a quantum phase transition
Creators: name: Goldstein, Moshe
name: Berkovits, Richard
name: Gefen, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A broad and a narrow level of a quantum dot connected to two external leads may swap their respective occupancies as a function of an external gate voltage. By mapping this problem onto a multi-flavored Coulomb-gas we show that such population switching is not abrupt. However, trying to measure it by adding a third electrostatically coupled lead may render this switching an abrupt first order quantum phase transition. This is related to the interplay of the Mahan mechanism versus the Anderson orthogonality catastrophe, in similitude to the Fermi edge singularity. A concrete setup for experimental observation of this effect is also suggested.
description: 4.2 pages, 4 figures; v3: published version