cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Chlorophyll and Productivity in a Mountain River
Creators: name: McConnell, William J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1958

description: Investigation of primary production in streams and rivers has lagged behind similar investigations in marine and lacustrine environments. Recently, however, Odum (1956) has demonstrated methods that allow the estimation of productivity of most moving waters. For reasons discussed later in this paper, Odum's method is not satisfactory for shallow, very rapid rivers as typified by Logan River. The present investigation then was primarily an exploration of a method possibly applicable to measurement of productivity in shallow rapid rivers.
Investigation of phases of the ecology and distribution of the main contributors to primary production, the benthic algae, was a necessary corollary to intelligent measurement of primary production in Logan River. A recent review of the knowledge of ecology of river algae (Blum, 1956) summarizes this topic.
Most quantitative investigations of river algae have been directly or indirectly concerned with indices of pollution rather than productivity (Jones, 1951) (Reese, 1937) (Patrick, 1949) (Butcher, 1932, 1940, 1945, and 1947). The growth of algae on slides has been a frequently used method of quantitative study, but it is difficult to relate values attained in this fashion to total productivity or standing crop. Statements concerning algal succession and seasonal variation based on counts of algae growing on glass slides in very rapid water appear questionable.
Six more quasars at redshift 6 discovered by the Canada-France High-z Quasar Survey
Creators: name: Willott, C. J.
name: Delorme, P.
name: Reyle, C.
name: Albert, L.
name: Bergeron, J.
name: Crampton, D.
name: Delfosse, X.
name: Forveille, T.
name: Hutchings, J. B.
name: McLure, R. J.
name: Omont, A.
name: Schade, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present imaging and spectroscopic observations for six quasars at z>5.9 discovered by the Canada-France High-z Quasar Survey (CFHQS). The CFHQS contains sub-surveys with a range of flux and area combinations to sample a wide range of quasar luminosities at z~6. The new quasars have luminosities 10 to 75 times lower than the most luminous SDSS quasars at this redshift. The least luminous quasar, CFHQS J0216-0455 at z=6.01, has absolute magnitude M_1450=-22.21, well below the likely break in the luminosity function. This quasar is not detected in a deep XMM-Newton survey showing that optical selection is still a very efficient tool for finding high redshift quasars.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, AJ, in press
The Role of Education in Promoting Peace and Countering Terrorism.
Creators: name: Esmailzadeh, Yaser
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Political science not elsewhere classified

description: This article explores the vital role of education in promoting peace and countering terrorism, emphasizing the importance of understanding the complex relationship between education and terrorism. Education nurtures critical thinking, empathy, and tolerance, which reduces extremist ideologies' appeal and fosters unity among diverse communities. The connection between education and terrorism is multifaceted; while inadequate access to quality education can fuel terrorist recruitment, comprehensive educational policies can encourage social harmony and discourage extremism. The article highlights pedagogical approaches integrating peace education, promoting intercultural dialogue, and creating inclusive learning environments, which contribute to a more peaceful society equipped to address terrorism and ensure global stability. Investing in education for peace has far-reaching implications, leading to safer communities, long-term economic growth, and social development, while helping countries meet international obligations, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4. In conclusion, education is a powerful force for positive change, and leveraging its potential is essential for creating a more peaceful and harmonious global society.
title: Live-Load Test and Finite-Element Model Analysis of a Steel Girder Bridge
Creators: name: Morrill, Jake L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: The Utah Transportation Center, in conjunction with the Mountain Plains Consortium, sponsored a study that investigated the distribution factors and load ratings of a continuous, steel I-girder bridge. The SH-52 Bridge over the Snake River is located on the Idaho-Oregon border near Payette, Idaho. The bridge was built in the 1950’s and presently supports two lanes of traffic.
A finite-element model of the bridge was calibrated with the results from a liveload test. For the live-load test, the bridge was instrumented at nine longitudinal cross section locations with 62 strain gauges attached on the girders, stringers, and intermediate diaphragms. The live-load was applied with two heavy trucks that were driven along three predetermined load paths.
The calibrated finite-element model was used to quantify moment distribution factors and load ratings for the bridge. The finite-element distribution factors were compared to those calculated according to the AASHTO Standard and AASHTO LRFD Specifications. The distribution factors from both AASHTO codes were found to be unconservative for the girders and overly conservative for the stringers.
The model was also used to quantify the effect of the transverse diaphragm members on the live-load distribution. Distribution factors were calculated with and without the diaphragm members. The diaphragms were found to increase the distribution of moments by over 20% for both positive and negative moments.
title: Suicide and Disability: Three Different Analyses of a Nation-Wide Sample of American Adults
Creators: name: Lund, Emily M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Suicidality is a major public health issue and is more common among people with disabilities. However, relatively little is known about the context and specifics of suicidality among adults with disabilities compared to their peers without disabilities. This dissertation presents three different analyses of suicidality and disability using a sample of American adults. Chapter I introduces the topic and dataset. Chapter II presents an analysis of the internal consistency, mean scores, and response patterns on the Suicidal Behavior Questionnaire—Revised (SBQ-R) by disability status in order to establish the internal of the measure in people with disabilities and explore the uniformity of suicidality in people with and without disabilities. Participants with disabilities tended to more frequently endorse response choices consistent with increased past, current, and perceived future suicidality. Chapter III presents an analysis of the relationship between suicidality, disability, and psychiatric disability. Disability remained a significant predictor of suicidality even when depressive symptoms were included in the analysis, and psychiatric disability predicted greater suicidality within the disability subsample, even when depressive symptoms were controlled for via statistical analysis. Chapter IV presents an analysis of suicidality and disability within the context of both depressive symptoms and sociodemographic risk and protective factors for suicidality. Participants with disabilities experienced more sociodemographic risk factors than participants without disabilities; however, disability status remained a significant predictor of suicidality even when sociodemographic risk and protective factors, as well as depressive symptoms, were included in the analysis. Chapter V summarizes and concludes the dissertation, including our consistent and major finding that disability is linked to significantly higher suicidality, even when depression and sociodemographic risk factor are accounted for in statistical analysis.
Synchronization and clustering of synthetic genetic networks: A role for cis-regulatory modules
Creators: name: Zhang, Jiajun
name: Yuan, Zhanjiang
name: Zhou, Tianshou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The effect of signal integration through cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) on synchronization and clustering of populations of two-component genetic oscillators coupled by quorum sensing is in detail investigated. We find that the CRMs play an important role in achieving synchronization and clustering. For this, we investigate 6 possible cis-regulatory input functions (CRIFs) with AND, OR, ANDN, ORN, XOR, and EQU types of responses in two possible kinds of cell-to-cell communications: activator-regulated communication (i.e., the autoinducer regulates the activator) and repressor-regulated communication (i.e., the autoinducer regulates the repressor). Both theoretical analysis and numerical simulation show that different CRMs drive fundamentally different cellular patterns, such as complete synchronization, various cluster-balanced states and several cluster-nonbalanced states.
description: 30 pages, 8 figures
Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacepede 1804
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Cetacea
Balaenopteridae
Balaenoptera
Balaenoptera acutorostrata

description: 102. Common Minke Whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Subspecies: B. a. acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804.
Status: Occasional; stranded dead on the southern coast of Banias (Al-Khrab) (Ibrahim et al. 2020). (Fig. 111)
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Towards Battery-Free Machine Learning and Inference in Underwater Environments
Creators: name: Zhao, Yuchen
name: Afzal, Sayed Saad
name: Akbar, Waleed
name: Rodriguez, Osvy
name: Mo, Fan
name: Boyle, David
name: Adib, Fadel
name: Haddadi, Hamed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper is motivated by a simple question: Can we design and build battery-free devices capable of machine learning and inference in underwater environments? An affirmative answer to this question would have significant implications for a new generation of underwater sensing and monitoring applications for environmental monitoring, scientific exploration, and climate/weather prediction. To answer this question, we explore the feasibility of bridging advances from the past decade in two fields: battery-free networking and low-power machine learning. Our exploration demonstrates that it is indeed possible to enable battery-free inference in underwater environments. We designed a device that can harvest energy from underwater sound, power up an ultra-low-power microcontroller and on-board sensor, perform local inference on sensed measurements using a lightweight Deep Neural Network, and communicate the inference result via backscatter to a receiver. We tested our prototype in an emulated marine bioacoustics application, demonstrating the potential to recognize underwater animal sounds without batteries. Through this exploration, we highlight the challenges and opportunities for making underwater battery-free inference and machine learning ubiquitous.
description: 6 pages, HotMobile '22, March 9-10, 2022, Tempe, AZ, USA
Recovery in cadmium
Creators: name: Hamre, Edmond Charles
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The recovery of mechanical properties following deformation of single crystal cadmium has been studied. Such recovery has been observed above 0.26 TM [subscript omitted] (-120°C). Crystals covering a range of orientation were deformed in tension at -196°C and recovered at elevated temperatures. Transmission electron microscopy to relate tensile and recovery behaviour to dislocation structures was found to be impossible. It was observed that work hardening during the initial portion of the easy glide region is completely recoverable. At higher strains in easy glide, a portion of the work hardening was not recoverable. It is believed that in this latter section, dislocations are generated on the second order pyramidal system {1122} <1123>. These dislocations will combine with basal dislocations to form stable obstacles in the lattice which will be responsible for the non-recoverable work hardening. The end of easy glide was found to occur at x = 20°, independent of recovery or initial orientation. This phenomenon is associated with flow on the second order pyramidal system which will produce a much higher density of obstacles at this point, resulting in a higher work hardening rate. Recovery in stage II was observed to increase the amount of strain attainable. It was also observed that while recovery up to intermediate strains in stage II affected only basal dislocations, both basal and pyramidal dislocations appear to be recovered at high strains. Pyramidal dislocations may recover by the processes observed by Price. The rate controlling mechanism for yield and flow of cadmium single crystals is thought to be one of the non-conservative motion of jogs. An attempt was made to calculate an activation energy for the recovery process, but the data did not yield any meaningful numbers. This may be a result of the definition of recovery adopted for this work.
Tiling by rectangles and alternating current
Creators: name: Prasolov, M.
name: Skopenkov, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 52C20, 94C05, 31C20, 30C15, 60J10

description: This paper is on tilings of polygons by rectangles. A celebrated physical interpretation of such tilings due to R.L. Brooks, C.A.B. Smith, A.H. Stone and W.T. Tutte uses direct-current circuits. The new approach of the paper is an application of alternating-current circuits. The following results are obtained: - a necessary condition for a rectangle to be tilable by rectangles of given shapes; - a criterion for a rectangle to be tilable by rectangles similar to it but not all homothetic to it; - a criterion for a generic polygon to be tilable by squares. These results generalize the ones of C. Freiling, R. Kenyon, M. Laczkovich, D. Rinne and G. Szekeres.
description: In English and in Russian; 21 pages; 6 figures; minor improvement of exposition, Russian translation added
Conformally curved binary black hole initial data including tidal deformations and outgoing radiation
Creators: name: Johnson-McDaniel, Nathan K.
name: Yunes, Nicolas
name: Tichy, Wolfgang
name: Owen, Benjamin J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) By asymptotically matching a post-Newtonian (PN) metric to two tidally perturbed Schwarzschild metrics, we generate approximate initial data (in the form of a 4-metric) for a nonspinning black hole binary in a circular orbit. We carry out this matching through O(v^4) in the binary's orbital velocity v, so the resulting data are conformally curved. Far from the holes, we use the appropriate PN metric that accounts for retardation, which we construct using the highest-order PN expressions available to compute the binary's past history. The data set's uncontrolled remainders are thus O(v^5) throughout the timeslice; we also generate an extension to the data set that has uncontrolled remainders of O(v^6) in the purely PN portion of the timeslice (i.e., not too close to the holes). The resulting data are smooth, since we join all the metrics together by smoothly interpolating between them. We perform this interpolation using transition functions constructed to avoid introducing excessive additional constraint violations. Due to their inclusion of tidal deformations and outgoing radiation, these data should substantially reduce the initial spurious ("junk") radiation observed in current simulations that use conformally flat initial data. Such reductions in the nonphysical components of the initial data will be necessary for simulations to achieve the accuracy required to supply Advanced LIGO and LISA with the templates necessary for parameter estimation.
description: 48 pages, 23 figures
Morphological awareness in primary school children
Creators: name: Kunz, AK
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Children develop morphological awareness, or the understanding of words, throughout the primary school years and this helps them understand and use grammatical rules. It is possible that children gain a large part of this understanding from general years of experience with language or alternatively, from developing their reading skills. The aim of the current study was to explore how children use morphological awareness in reading and spelling, as well as how children with different reading abilities use morphological awareness. The main hypothesis was that the development of morphological awareness is influenced more by a child's reading ability than by their experience with language. Seventy-one primary school students from Grades 3, 4, and 5 from schools in the Hobart area (age M = 10 years, 2 months; SD = 10.7 months) completed the Word Identification reading subtest from the WRMT and the spelling subtest from the WRAT as well as experimental tests of real words and pseudowords along with a morphological awareness task. The results show that children with similar reading abilities tended to have similar scores across experimental measures, and that children with higher morphological awareness performed better on the reading and spelling tasks. This seems to support the assertion that it is reading ability, not experience with language, which contributes most to the development of morphological awareness.
GraphNLI: A Graph-based Natural Language Inference Model for Polarity Prediction in Online Debates
Creators: name: Agarwal, Vibhor
name: Joglekar, Sagar
name: Young, Anthony P.
name: Sastry, Nishanth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Online forums that allow participatory engagement between users have been transformative for public discussion of important issues. However, debates on such forums can sometimes escalate into full blown exchanges of hate or misinformation. An important tool in understanding and tackling such problems is to be able to infer the argumentative relation of whether a reply is supporting or attacking the post it is replying to. This so called polarity prediction task is difficult because replies may be based on external context beyond a post and the reply whose polarity is being predicted. We propose GraphNLI, a novel graph-based deep learning architecture that uses graph walk techniques to capture the wider context of a discussion thread in a principled fashion. Specifically, we propose methods to perform root-seeking graph walks that start from a post and captures its surrounding context to generate additional embeddings for the post. We then use these embeddings to predict the polarity relation between a reply and the post it is replying to. We evaluate the performance of our models on a curated debate dataset from Kialo, an online debating platform. Our model outperforms relevant baselines, including S-BERT, with an overall accuracy of 83%.
description: To appear at The ACM Web Conference 2022
Energy spectrum of cosmic ray muons in ~ 100 TeV energy region reconstructed from the BUST data
Creators: name: Bogdanov, A. G.
name: Kokoulin, R. P.
name: Novoseltsev, Yu. F.
name: Novoseltseva, R. V.
name: Petkov, V. B.
name: Petrukhin, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Differential and integral energy spectra of cosmic ray muons in the energy range from several TeV to ~ 1 PeV obtained by means of the analysis of multiple interactions of muons (pair meter technique) in the Baksan underground scintillation telescope (BUST) are presented. The results are compared with preceding BUST data on muon energy spectrum based on electromagnetic cascade shower measurements and depth-intensity curve analysis, with calculations for different muon spectrum models, and also with data of other experiments.
description: minor revision of the text and some of the pictures, 13 pages, 11 figures
title: The Effects of Rootstock, Scion, Grafting Method and Plant Growth Regulators on Flexural Strength and Hydraulic Resistance of Apple
Creators: name: Adams, Stuart W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: The apple rootstock ‘Geneva® 41’ (‘G.41’), is desirable for its resistance to fire blight, Erwinia amylovora, while producing high yields. However, ‘G.41’ and other Geneva® selections tend to form weak graft unions in the nursery that are susceptible to breaking in the wind, at harvest, or during shipment. In order to understand and remedy this graft union weakness, six scions (‘Fuji’, ‘Gala’, ‘Honeycrisp’, ‘McIntosh’, ‘Pink Lady’, and ‘Scilate’) by seven rootstocks (‘G.41’, ‘G.935’, ‘G.214’, ‘G.11’, ‘M.9-NIC 29’, ‘B.9’ and ‘EMLA 26’), by two grafting methods (chip bud and saddle graft) in a factorial design were tested for graft union flexural strength and flexibility. Additionally, plant growth regulators (PGR) were applied to trees with ‘G.41’ as rootstock as a solution to overcome graft union weakness. Transpiration rate and hydraulic resistance were measured for comparison of a weak graft forming rootstock (‘G.41’) to a strong graft forming rootstock (‘M.9-NIC 29’). ‘G.41’ consistently formed a weaker graft union regardless of scion or grafting method. Scions such as ‘McIntosh’ and ‘Pink Lady’ formed stronger graft unions, while ‘Scilate’ and ‘Honeycrisp’ form weaker graft unions. Saddle grafting did not improve graft union strength. Nurseries that graft on ‘G.41’ should choose scions that form stronger graft unions. Benzyl adenine (BA) in a latex paint increased the strength and flexibility of the graft union relative to scion cross sectional area (SCSA), but further research is needs to identify more efficient methods of application. Rootstock effect on transpiration rate was different between years. No detectable differences were found for hydraulic resistance through the graft union of different rootstocks, suggesting weaker graft unions did not limit hydraulic conductance or transpiration rate. Thus graft union weakness is not an indicator of poor vascular connection.
Strengthening mechanisms in aluminum alloys
Creators: name: Sahoo, Maheswar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The substructure of pure aluminum and over-aged Al-4Cu has been varied by mechanical and thermal treatments. The nature of this substructure and its resistance to annealing has been studied, together with the effect of the substructure on tensile strength at ambient and elevated temperatures. It has been found that in at least some respects the response of the strength of the over-aged Al-4Cu to mechanical and thermal processing is very comparable to that of oxide-dispersion-strengthened alloys such as S.A.P. and Ni-ThO₂. The over-aged Al-4Cu is strengthened appreciably by cold work. Much of this incremental room-temperature strengthening can be removed by annealing at relatively low temperatures; i.e. temperatures at which the strength of cold worked pure aluminum is not lowered. In common with oxide-dispersion hardened alloys, the yield strength of cold-worked Al-4Cu at elevated temperatures (300°C or 0.62 Tm) is actually improved by a static anneal at 300°C before testing. This benefit increases with increasing amounts of prior cold work. Similar studies have been carried out with an S.A.P. extruded alloy (10 wt. % A1₂O₃) and comparable results have been obtained. Pure aluminum, Al-4Cu and S.A.P. materials have been examined by X-ray line profile analysis to determine the distribution of nonuniform lattice strain and the coherently-diffracting crystallite domain size. The X-ray data have been interpreted in terms of dislocation densities and configurations, and compared with direct observations made by transmission electron microscopy. An attempt has been made to account semiquantitatively for the strength of the deformed and annealed materials at ordinary and elevated temperatures in terms of available strengthening mechanisms. The 0.2 pet yield strengths of simple aged Al-4Cu alloys (no substructure) was found to be consistent with the Orowan model of dispersion-strengthening both at R.T. and at 300°C. The room temperature yield strength (ϭ0.2) of cold worked and annealed pure aluminum and A1-4Cu alloys was related to the subgrain diameter [symbol omitted] by the Hall-Petch equation: °0 2 = ϭ₀ + kg⁻½ where and k are constants. In such cases it was not believed that there was a contribution to strength from the Orowan mechanism. Similarly the 20°C yield strength of the S.A.P. alloy was associated with the fine dislocation substructure produced by thermo-mechanical treatments. The high temperature yield strength of Al-4Cu and S.A.P. was related to the polygonized substructure produced by static annealing, which was much finer and more stable in the case of the oxide dispersion-strengthened alloy.
Actions of Maximal Growth
Creators: name: Bahturin, Yuri
name: Olshanskii, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20E05;20F50;20F65;16D10;20C10;16S10;16S34;20M20

description: We study acts and modules of maximal growth over finitely generated free monoids and free associative algebras as well as free groups and free group algebras. The maximality of the growth implies some other specific properties of these acts and modules that makes them close to the free ones; at the same time, we show that being a strong "infiniteness" condition, the maximality of the growth can still be combined with various finiteness conditions, which would normally make finitely generated acts finite and finitely generated modules finite-dimensional.
The biology of Southern Ocean predators
Creators: name: Hindell, MA
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis is a synthesis of over 20 years research on Southern Ocean marine mammals and seabirds. While drawing on a number of biological disciplines, these studies are united by the common theme of understanding how predators populations respond to environmental variability, and how this knowledge can be used to investigate the implications of anthropogenic change (in the form of commercial fisheries or climate change) for Southern Ocean birds and mammals.
Wavelength scaling of high-order harmonic yield from an optically prepared excited state atom
Creators: name: Chen, Jing
name: Cheng, Ya
name: Xu, Zhizhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wavelength scaling law for the yield of high-order harmonic emission is theoretically examined for excited state atoms which are optically prepared by simultaneously exposing to an extreme ultraviolet pulse at the resonant wavelength and an infrared pulse at a variable wavelength in the range of 0.8\mum-2.4\mum. Numerical simulations are performed based on the three-dimensional time-dependent Schrodinger equation (3D TDSE) for Ne and H. We confirm that the harmonic yield follows a λ^-{4-6} scaling with the single fundamental driving laser pulse; whereas for the optically prepared excited state atoms, a λ^-{2-3} scaling for the harmonic yield is revealed.
description: 20 pages, 3 figures
MOESM9 of MicroRNAs and their regulatory networks in Chinese Gushi chicken abdominal adipose tissue during postnatal late development
Creators: name: Chen, Yi
name: Zhao, Yinli
name: Jin, Wenjiao
name: Li, Yuanfang
name: Zhang, Yanhua
name: Ma, Xuejie
name: Sun, Guirong
name: Han, Ruili
name: Tian, Yadong
name: Li, Hong
name: Kang, Xiangtao
name: Li, Guoxi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 9: Table S3. Details of the significant differentially expressed miRNAs identified in this study.
Estimates of childhood behavioural problems in Malaysia and their relationship with parenting behaviour
Creators: name: Hj Suhaimi, AF
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study examined estimates of different types of childhood behavioural problems based on reports from 1407 parents of primary school children aged 5 to 13 years from Klang Valley, Malaysia using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). It also examined the mean and standard deviation scores for the scales in the SDQ, and how these scores are influenced by age and gender. Additionally, it examined the relationship of childhood behavioural problems with parental warmth and rejection. The results indicated that the percentages of children within the borderline and abnormal bands were 12.8% for Emotional Symptoms, and 23.7% for Peer Problems. The percentages were 14.2% for Conduct Problems and 13.2% for Hyperactivity. The percentage of Malaysian children within the abnormal and borderline band for the Prosocial was 16.0%. The current study did not find any differences in age and gender for Emotional Symptoms, Peer Problems, Conduct Problems and Hyperactivity. Nonetheless, Prosocial had significant effect for age. Conforming to previous studies, the findings also revealed that Total Difficulties scores (comprising the scores for Emotional Symptoms, Peer Problems, Hyperactivity and Conduct Problems), and the scale scores for Emotional Symptoms, Peer Problems, Hyperactivity and Conduct problems were all positively and significantly associated with parental rejection, and negatively and significantly associated with parental warmth. Prosocial was negatively correlated with parental rejection and positively correlated with parental warmth. The findings provide important new data on the behavioural and emotional problems of Malaysian school aged children, and how these problems are associated to parenting styles. It also provided used normative data that can facilitate the use of the SDQ for screening behavior and emotion problems in Malaysian children.
title: Characterization of the Substrate Interactions and Regulation of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase
Creators: name: Morales, Yalemi
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Protein arginine methylation is a posttranslational modification catalyzed by the family of proteins known as the protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs). Thousands of methylated arginines have been found in mammalian cells. Many targets of arginine regulation are involved in important cellular processes like transcription, RNA transport and processing, translation, cellular signaling, and DNA repair. Since PRMT dysregulation has been linked to a variety of disease states, understanding how the activity of the PRMTs is regulated is of paramount importance. PRMT1 is the predominant PRMT, responsible for about 85% of all arginine methylation in cells, but very little is known about how PRMT1 is regulated. Although a few methods to regulate PRMT1 activity have been reported, the details of interaction and regulatory mechanisms remain largely unknown.
To better understand how PRMT1 is able to bind its substrates and how PRMT1 activity is regulated, we followed a mechanistic and structural biology approach to better understand how PRMT1 interacts with its substrates and protein regulators. In this study the regulation of Hmt1 methyltransferase activity by the Air1 and Air2 proteins was analyzed and only one was determined to affect Hmt1 activity. The posttranslational phosphorylation of Hmt1 had also been reported to affect Hmt1 activity in vivo and our preliminary studies suggest that additional factors may help influence the regulatory effect of phosphorylation. Lastly, we report a new method of PRMT regulation through the reversible oxidation of key PRMT1 cysteine residues. We are also able to show that this regulation occurs in cells and affects several PRMT isoforms.
Efficient Bayesian Learning in Social Networks with Gaussian Estimators
Creators: name: Mossel, Elchanan
name: Olsman, Noah
name: Tamuz, Omer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider a group of Bayesian agents who try to estimate a state of the world $θ$ through interaction on a social network. Each agent $v$ initially receives a private measurement of $θ$: a number $S_v$ picked from a Gaussian distribution with mean $θ$ and standard deviation one. Then, in each discrete time iteration, each reveals its estimate of $θ$ to its neighbors, and, observing its neighbors' actions, updates its belief using Bayes' Law. This process aggregates information efficiently, in the sense that all the agents converge to the belief that they would have, had they access to all the private measurements. We show that this process is computationally efficient, so that each agent's calculation can be easily carried out. We also show that on any graph the process converges after at most $2N \cdot D$ steps, where $N$ is the number of agents and $D$ is the diameter of the network. Finally, we show that on trees and on distance transitive-graphs the process converges after $D$ steps, and that it preserves privacy, so that agents learn very little about the private signal of most other agents, despite the efficient aggregation of information. Our results extend those in an unpublished manuscript of the first and last authors.
description: Added coauthor. Added proofs for fast convergence on trees and distance transitive graphs. Also, now analyzing a notion of privacy
Electrical resistivity of hot-pressed compacts
Creators: name: Ramanan, Thiagarajan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: An attempt has been made to study the change in the electrical resistivity of a powder compact during the initial stages of hot-pressing. Theoretical models have been formulated on the basis of plastic deformation of spheres in a compact. The resistivity change during densification has been derived for various packing arrangements. For small deformation of spheres, the final equation is [formula omitted] and the more generalized equation for larger deformation is [formula omitted] where ơm and ơc are the conductivities of a compact of spheres having a relative density D, and at the theoretical density (D = 1), respectively. Do is the initial relative density of the compact before deformation. α is a constant depending on geometry and R is the radius of spheres at any stage of deformation in arbitrary units. The derived relationship was tested by: (a) measuring the electrical resistivity as a function of density during hot-pressing of compacts of glass spheres, (b) measuring the electrical resistivity of different compacts of nickel spheres at room temperature, and (c) comparing previous resistivity data with the theoretical equation.
Simulations of Recoiling Massive Black Holes in the Via Lactea Halo
Creators: name: Guedes, Javiera
name: Madau, Piero
name: Kuhlen, Micheal
name: Diemand, Jürg
name: Zemp, Marcel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coalescence of a massive black hole (MBH) binary leads to the gravitational-wave recoil of the system and its ejection from the galaxy core. We have carried out N-body simulations of the motion of a MBH = 3.7x10^6 Msun MBH remnant in the Via Lactea I simulation, a Milky Way sized dark matter halo. The black hole receives a recoil velocity of Vkick = 80, 120, 200, 300, and 400 km/s at redshift 1.5, and its orbit is followed for over 1 Gyr within a live host halo, subject only to gravity and dynamical friction against the dark matter background. We show that, owing to asphericities in the dark matter potential, the orbit of the MBH is hightly non-radial, resulting in a significantly increased decay timescale compared to a spherical halo. The simulations are used to construct a semi-analytic model of the motion of the MBH in a time-varying triaxial Navarro-Frenk-White dark matter halo plus a spherical stellar bulge, where the dynamical friction force is calculated directly from the velocity dispersion tensor. Such a model should offer a realistic picture of the dynamics of kicked MBHs in situations where gas drag, friction by disk stars, and the flattening of the central cusp by the returning black hole are all negligible effects. We find that MBHs ejected with initial recoil velocities Vkick > 500 km/s do not return to the host center within Hubble time. In a Milky Way-sized galaxy, a recoiling hole carrying a gaseous disk of initial mass ~MBH may shine as a quasar for a substantial fraction of its wandering phase. The long decay timescales of kicked MBHs predicted by this study may thus be favorable to the detection of off-nuclear quasar activity.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures, published in ApJ. Minor changes to match published version
Balaenoptera physalus
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Cetacea
Balaenopteridae
Balaenoptera
Balaenoptera physalus

description: 103. Fin Whale, Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)
(IUCN Red List: VU)
Subspecies: B. p. physalus Linnaeus, 1758.
Status: Regular; stranded dead on the coast of Al-Hamidiyah/Khrabih in 2010 (Ibrahim 2011a). Recent records: 12 km southwest of Latakia (2021) (Fig. 112).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Browsing of Eucalyptus nitens seedlings by marsupial herbivores
Creators: name: Marsh, NR
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Browsing by marsupials on Eucalyptus nitens (Shining gum) was studied in two newly-planted forestry plantations in north west Tasmania, Australia. Sodium monofluoracetate (1080) poison was used at one site (Pearsefield), but not the other (Clipper West). Five seedlots of E. nitens sourced from Southern New South Wales (NSW), Toorongo, Northern NSW, Macalister and Glen Tunnel were planted at each coupe to identify any seedlot preferences by herbivores and to assess differences in levels of damage. Initial heights of the seedlots differed. Three components of seedling damage were analysed: impact of browsing on seedling height, severity of damage and type of damage. Herbivores in the area were recorded in spotlighting surveys. Five months after planting, 55% of seedlings at Clipper West sustained over 50% damage to their foliage and stem. Glen Tunnel and Macalister seedlings were significantly more damaged than the Southern NSW seedlings. At Pearsefield, only 28% of the seedlings sustained over 50% damage. Glen Tunnel and Toorongo seedlings were significantly more damaged than the other three seedlots at this plantation. At Clipper West, 78% of the damaged seedlings had their apical buds removed, compared with only 50% at Pearsefield. Five months after planting, mean height of all seedlings was less than at planting due to browsing. Reductions in height were greater at Clipper West than at Pearsefield. In terms of the amount of stem eaten, herbivores preferred the Toorongo and Glen Tunnel seedlots at both plantations. The Southern NSW seedlings were the least preferred. The Tasmanian pademelon (Thylogale billardierii) was the most frequenfly observed herbivore at Clipper West (7.0/hectare (ha)), compared to 1.2/ha for the Bennett's wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) and 0.7/ha for the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). Herbivore densities were lower at Pearsefield, and the brushtail possum (0.4/ha) was the most frequently observed. 1080 poison was presumably effective in reducing herbivore numbers, but its effect appeared to be temporary. Feeding trials, using a captive colony of Tasmanian pademelons, also examined preference and damage to seedlots of the five seedlots E. nitens. Tasmanian pademelons preferred Glen Tunnel seedlings on the basis of the amount of stem eaten, and damaged them more than any other seedlot. This study suggests that smaller sized seedlings may be more prone to damage, because removal of even a small amount of plant represents a large reduction in a seedling's total biomass. Planting larger seedlings may be a simple means of reducing the impact of herbivores. Management implications of all results are discussed with respect to forestry in Australia.
title: A Comprehensive Safety Analysis of Diverging Diamond Interchanges
Creators: name: Lloyd, Holly
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: As the population grows and the travel demands increase, alternative interchange designs are becoming increasingly popular. The diverging diamond interchange is one alternative design that has been implemented in the United States. This design can accommodate higher flow and unbalanced flow as well as improve safety at the interchange. As the diverging diamond interchange is increasingly considered as a possible solution to problematic interchange locations, it is imperative to investigate the safety effects of this interchange configuration. This report describes the selection of a comparison group of urban diamond interchanges, crash data collection, calibration of functions used to estimate the predicted crash rate in the before and after periods and the Empirical Bayes before and after analysis technique used to determine the safety effectiveness of the diverging diamond interchanges in Utah. A discussion of pedestrian and cyclist safety is also included. The analysis results demonstrated statistically significant decreases in crashes at most of the locations studied. This analysis can be used by UDOT and other transportation agencies as they consider the implementation of the diverging diamond interchanges in the future.
Spectral properties of the renormalization group at infinite temperature
Creators: name: Yin, Mei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The renormalization group (RG) approach is largely responsible for the considerable success that has been achieved in developing a quantitative theory of phase transitions. Physical properties emerge from spectral properties of the linearization of the RG map at a fixed point. This article considers RG for classical Ising-type lattice systems. The linearization acts on an infinite-dimensional Banach space of interactions. At a trivial fixed point (zero interaction), the spectral properties of the RG linearization can be worked out explicitly, without any approximation. The results are for the RG maps corresponding to decimation and majority rule. They indicate spectrum of an unusual kind: dense point spectrum for which the adjoint operators have no point spectrum at all, only residual spectrum. This may serve as a lesson in what one might expect in more general situations.
description: 12 pages
Dynamics and thermodynamics of a nonlocal Polyakov--Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with running coupling
Creators: name: Hell, T.
name: Roessner, S.
name: Cristoforetti, M.
name: Weise, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A nonlocal covariant extension of the two-flavor Nambu and Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model is constructed, with built-in constraints from the running coupling of QCD at high-momentum and instanton physics at low-momentum scales. Chiral low-energy theorems and basic current algebra relations involving pion properties are shown to be reproduced. The momentum-dependent dynamical quark mass derived from this approach is in agreement with results from Dyson-Schwinger equations and lattice QCD. At finite temperature, inclusion of the Polyakov loop and its gauge invariant coupling to quarks reproduces the dynamical entanglement of the chiral and deconfinement crossover transitions as in the (local) PNJL model, but now without the requirement of introducing an artificial momentum cutoff. Steps beyond the mean-field approximation are made including mesonic correlations through quark-antiquark ring summations. Various quantities of interest (pressure, energy density, speed of sound etc.) are calculated and discussed in comparison with lattice QCD thermodynamics at zero chemical potential. The extension to finite quark chemical potential and the phase diagram in the $(T,μ)$-plane are also discussed.
description: 25 pages, 10 figures
title: Exploring Trends in Middle School Students' Computational Thinking in the Online Scratch Community: a Pilot Study
Creators: name: Lawanto, Kevin N.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Teaching computational thinking has been a focus of recent efforts to broaden the reach of computer science (CS) education for today’s students who live and work in a world that is heavily influenced by computing principles. Computational thinking (CT) essentially means thinking like a computer scientist by using principles and concepts learned in CS as part of our daily lives. Not only is CT essential for the development of computer applications, but it can also be used to support problem solving across all disciplines. Computational thinking involves solving problems by drawing from skills fundamental to CS such as decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithm design.
The present study examined how Dr. Scratch, a CT assessment tool, functions as an assessment for computational thinking. This study compared strengths and weaknesses of the CT skills of 360 seventh- and eighth-grade students who were engaged in a Scratch programming environment through the use of Dr. Scratch. The data were collected from a publicly available dataset available on the Scratch website. The Mann-Whitney U analysis revealed that there were specific similarities and differences between the seventh- and eighth-grade CT skills. The findings also highlight affordances and constraints of Dr. Scratch as a CT tool and address the challenges of analyzing Scratch projects from young Scratch learners. Recommendations are offered to researchers and educators about how they might use Scratch data to help improve students’ CT skills.