cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 9 of Endogenous bacteria inhabiting the Ophiocordyceps highlandensis during fruiting body development
Creators: name: Li, Chengpeng
name: Tang, Dexiang
name: Wang, Yuanbing
name: Fan, Qi
name: Zhang, Xiaomei
name: Cui, Xiaolong
name: Yu, Hong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9: Table S8. Results of a pairwise permutational MANOVA on the beta diversity of the bacterial community composition in the fruiting body. ​P-values result from 999 permutations of a Bray-Curtis dissimilarity matrix. The bold values indicate statistically significant results.
Electron impact excitation of OII fine-structure levels
Creators: name: Kisielius, R.
name: Storey, P. J.
name: Ferland, G. J.
name: Keenan, F. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effective collision strengths for forbidden transitions among the 5 energetically lowest finestructure levels of O II are calculated in the Breit-Pauli approximation using the R-matrix method. Results are presented for the electron temperature range 100 to 100 000 K. The accuracy of the calculations is evaluated via the use of different types of radial orbital sets and a different configuration expansion basis for the target wavefunctions. A detailed assessment of previous available data is given, and erroneous results are highlighted. Our results reconfirm the validity of the original Seaton and Osterbrock scaling for the optical O II ratio, a matter of some recent controversy. Finally we present plasma diagnostic diagrams using the best collision strengths and transition probabilities.
description: 2009MNRAS.397..903K
title: Pruning Strategies for High Density ‘Montmorency' Tart Cherry
Creators: name: Hansen, Sheriden M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: The tart cherry (Prunus cerasus) is the most significant fruit tree crop in Utah, accounting for roughly 51% of the total statewide commercial fruit acreage. In order to accommodate harvesting equipment, tart cherries are grown in conventional orchards with large trees spaced up to 5.5 meters apart. New methods of harvest are adapted to smaller trees in tighter spaced high density (HD) orchards. HD orchards bear fruit earlier in the orchard life than conventional orchards, but likely require different pruning and management strategies, which have not yet been determined for tart cherry. Experimental HD orchards were used to determine the type of renewal pruning cuts to maintain orchard productivity, and to determine whether mechanical pruning (hedging) could be used to maintain tree size. It was found that when removing branches during pruning, leaving the branch stub at least 10 cm long greatly increases the likelihood of getting adequate renewal growth. Mechanical hedging at bloom or 45 days after bloom did not change yields or fruit quality when applied to a well-pruned and maintained orchard. Spray pattern analysis in these canopies suggested that hedging creates a more consistent canopy density than unhedged HD canopies. This research provides distinct guidelines on renewal pruning of tart cherry to maintain productivity, and shows that mechanical hedging strategies can be a viable option for maintaining tree size in HD plantings without increasing pruning costs.
title: The Relationships Among Body Satisfaction, Self-Esteem, and Social Support in Undergraduate Men and Women
Creators: name: Hodson, Sarah Murray
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1999

description: Significant levels of body dissatisfaction exist among college women. Research has also shown levels of body dissatisfaction among college men. Numerous studies have been conducted to investigate the relationship between body dissatisfaction and self-esteem as well as the relationship between self-esteem and social support. Past research, however, has neglected to determine if a relationship exists between body dissatisfaction and social support.
This study sought to determine if this relationship exists for college men and women. The present study was also developed to test the relationships that have been found between social support and self-esteem as well as between self-esteem and body dissatisfaction.
Significant correlations were found for all relationships investigated in the present study for both men and women. Strong relationships were found between self-esteem and body dissatisfaction for both men and women. Significant relationships were found between self-esteem and social support in both men and women. Significant, yet smaller, relationships were also found between social support and body dissatisfaction for both men and women.
These relationships shed light on the complex issue of body dissatisfaction. Health educators should be aware of the relationship that was found between social support and body dissatisfaction in college men and women, and use this information to increase the effectiveness of the intervention programs aimed at decreasing levels of body dissatisfaction.
Delta-baryon electromagnetic form factors in lattice QCD
Creators: name: Alexandrou, C.
name: Korzec, T.
name: Koutsou, G.
name: Leontiou, Th.
name: Lorcé, C.
name: Negele, J. W.
name: Pascalutsa, V.
name: Tsapalis, A.
name: Vanderhaeghen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop techniques to calculate the four Delta electromagnetic form factors using lattice QCD, with particular emphasis on the sub-dominant electric quadrupole form factor that probes deformation of the Delta. Results are presented for pion masses down to approximately 350 MeV for three cases: quenched QCD, two flavors of dynamical Wilson quarks, and three flavors of quarks described by a mixed action combining domain wall valence quarks and dynamical staggered sea quarks. The magnetic moment of the Delta is chirally extrapolated to the physical point and the Delta charge density distributions are discussed.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
title: Methods for the Aerostructural Design and Optimization of Wings with Arbitrary Planform and Payload Distribution
Creators: name: Taylor, Jeffrey D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: The design of an aircraft wing often involves the use of mathematical methods for simultaneous aerodynamic and structural design. The goal of many of these methods is to minimize the drag on the wing. A variety of computer models exist for this purpose, but some require the use of expensive time and computational resources to give meaningful results. As an alternative, some mathematical methods have been developed that give reason ably accurate results without the need for a computer. However, most of these methods can only be used for wings with specific shapes and payload distributions. In this thesis, a hybrid mathematical/computational approach to wing design is developed that can be used for wings of any shape with any payload distribution. Specific mathematical expressions are found to predict the weight and drag for tapered wings and elliptic-shaped wings. The new approach and mathematical expressions are used to find the best distribution of lift on a variety of aircraft wing configurations to minimize drag during flight.
H-band light curves of Milky Way Cepheids via Difference Imaging
Creators: name: Konchady, Tarini
name: Oelkers, Ryan J.
name: Jones, David O.
name: Yuan, Wenlong
name: Macri, Lucas M.
name: Peterson, Erik R.
name: Riess, Adam G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present H-band light curves of Milky Way Classical Cepheids observed as part of the DEHVILS survey with the Wide-Field Infrared Camera on the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope. Due to the crowded nature of these fields caused by defocusing the Camera, we performed difference-imaging photometry by modifying a pipeline originally developed to analyze images from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. We achieved a photometric precision in line with expectations from photon statistics, reaching 0.01 mag for 8 <= H <= 11 mag. We used the resulting Cepheid light curves to derive corrections to "mean light" for random-phase Hubble Space Telescope observations in F160W. We find good agreement with previous phase corrections based on VI light curves from the literature, with a mean difference of -1 +/- 6 millimag.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 14 pages, 6 figures
Influence of fluctuations on the superfluid density in low-temperature technologies
Creators: name: Tolbatov, Iogann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article the Ginzburg-Landau theory ideas are considered in their application to the description of fluctuations influence on the superfluid density in superconductor. The conclusion about the availability of two incompatible mathematical definitions of the superfluid density is made. That is why, it is suggested not to consider the fluctuating part of order parameter, while calculating the superconductor thermodynamical characteristics in the Mean Field Approximation.
description: 5 pages, 0 figures
Semi-local density functional for the exchange-correlation energy of electrons in two dimensions
Creators: name: Rasanen, E.
name: Pittalis, S.
name: Vilhena, J. G.
name: Marques, M. A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a practical and accurate density functional for the exchange-correlation energy of electrons in two dimensions. The exchange part is based on a recent two-dimensional generalized-gradient approximation derived by considering the limits of small and large density gradients. The fully local correlation part is constructed following the Colle-Salvetti scheme and a Gaussian approximation for the pair density. The combination of these expressions is shown to provide an efficient density functional to calculate the total energies of two-dimensional electron systems such as semiconductor quantum dots. Excellent performance of the functional with respect to numerically exact reference data for quantum dots is demonstrated.
description: to appear in Int. J. Quantum Chem. (2010)
title: Evaluating Water Filtration and Disinfection for Household, Using Slow Sand Filters plus Solar Disinfection
Creators: name: Demitry, Mariana
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: In this research, a household water treatment system was built and evaluated as a trial for improving the drinking water quality of the Nile River for the low-income communities. The system consisted of household-scale slow sand filters, and transparent polyethylene terephthalate-bottles for solar disinfection. The evaluation of the system depended on the removal/inactivation of some surrogates for the reference pathogens, and turbidity. The reference pathogens are pathogens specified by the World Health Organization to evaluate the efficiency of the household water treatment options. They were chosen to represent the classes of pathogens in water (bacteria, viruses, protozoa). The surrogates used in the evaluation of the system are Escherichia coli (E.coli), Clostridium perfringens and Escherichia coli bacteriophage (MS2). The candidate surrogates are also specified by the World Health Organization.
The designed household-scale slow sand filter was very efficient in removing the different turbidity levels to ≤0.4NTU. The evaluated system is classified as highly protective because it was able to achieve higher than 4 log removal for E.coli and Clostridium perfringens, and higher than 5 log removal for MS2.
Damped Lyman-alpha systems in high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations
Creators: name: Tescari, Edoardo
name: Viel, Matteo
name: Tornatore, Luca
name: Borgani, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the properties of Damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs) using high-resolution and large box-size cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of a LambdaCDM model. The numerical code used is a modification of GADGET-2 with a self consistent implementation of the metal enrichment mechanism (Tornatore et al. 2007). We explore the numerical convergence of some relevant physical quantities and we vary the parameters describing the properties of galactic winds; the initial stellar mass function; the linear dark matter power spectrum and the metal enrichment pattern of the IGM (Intergalactic Medium) around DLAs. We find that strong galactic winds with speed of about 600 km/s, in an energy-driven wind scenario, are needed in order to match the observed column density distribution function for DLAs and the evolution of the neutral hydrogen content with redshift. The momentum-driven implementation of the galactic wind model, that relates the speed and mass load in the wind to the properties of the dark matter haloes, shows a behaviour which is intermediate between the energy-driven galactic winds of small (100 km/s) and large (600 km/s) velocities. At z=3 the contribution of haloes of masses between 10^9 and 10^10 h^-1 M_sun, for DLAs below 10^20.8 cm^-2, to the column density distribution function, is significant. By interpolating physical quantities along line-of-sights through massive haloes we qualitatively show how different galactic wind models impact on the IGM around DLAs. Furthermore, we analyse statistics related to the velocity widths of SiII associated to DLAs: the metallicity in the wind seems to be rather clumpy and this produces an underestimation of the observed velocity widths. We outline possible solutions to this problem.
description: 21 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Structural-configurated magnetic plasmon bands in connected ring chains
Creators: name: Li, T.
name: Ye, R. X.
name: Li, C.
name: Liu, H.
name: Wang, S. M.
name: Cao, J. X.
name: Zhu, S. N.
name: Zhang, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic resonance coupling between connected split ring resonators (SRRs) and magnetic plasmon (MP) excitations in the connected SRR chains were theoretically studied. By changing the connection configuration, two different coupling behaviors were observed, and therefore two kinds of MP bands were formed in the connected ring chains, accordingly. These MPs were revealed with positive and negative dispersion for the homo- and anti-connected chain, respectively. Notably, these two MP modes both have wide bandwidth due to the conductive coupling. Moreover, the anti-connected chain is found supporting a novel negative propagating wave with a wide band starting from zero frequency, which is a fancy phenomenon in one-dimensional system.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures Band structures of magnetic plasmons in one-dimenstional metamaterails
Supplementary document for Enhancing chiroptical responses in nanoparticle system by manipulating the far-field and near-field couplings - 6301122.pdf
Creators: name: Zhao, Qian
name: Zhang, Houjiao
name: Zhou, Zhangkai
name: Wang, Xue-Hua
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Hubble Space Telescope observations of an extraordinary flare in the M87 jet
Creators: name: Madrid, Juan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HST-1, a knot along the M87 jet located 0.85 arcsec from the nucleus of the galaxy has experienced dramatic and unexpected flaring activity since early 2000. We present analysis of Hubble Space Telescope Near-Ultraviolet (NUV) imaging of the M87 jet from 1999 May to 2006 December that reveals that the NUV intensity of HST-1 has increased 90 times over its quiescent level and outshines the core of the galaxy. The NUV light curve that we derive is synchronous with the light curves derived in other wavebands. The correlation of X-ray and NUV light curves during the HST-1 flare confirms the synchrotron origin of the X-ray emission in the M87 jet. The outburst observed in HST-1 is at odds with the common definition of AGN variability usually linked to blazars and originating in close proximity of the central black hole. In fact, the M87 jet is not aligned with our line of sight and HST-1 is located at one million Schwarzchild radii from the super-massive black hole in the core of the galaxy.
description: April issue of AJ, 137, 3864 STScI press release http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/16/
Marginal likelihood for parallel series
Creators: name: McCullagh, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Suppose that $k$ series, all having the same autocorrelation function, are observed in parallel at $n$ points in time or space. From a single series of moderate length, the autocorrelation parameter $β$ can be estimated with limited accuracy, so we aim to increase the information by formulating a suitable model for the joint distribution of all series. Three Gaussian models of increasing complexity are considered, two of which assume that the series are independent. This paper studies the rate at which the information for $β$ accumulates as $k$ increases, possibly even beyond $n$. The profile log likelihood for the model with $k(k+1)/2$ covariance parameters behaves anomalously in two respects. On the one hand, it is a log likelihood, so the derivatives satisfy the Bartlett identities. On the other hand, the Fisher information for $β$ increases to a maximum at $k=n/2$, decreasing to zero for $k\ge n$. In any parametric statistical model, one expects the Fisher information to increase with additional data; decreasing Fisher information is an anomaly demanding an explanation.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/07-BEJ119 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
Expansion in $SL_d(O_K/I)$, $I$ square-free
Creators: name: Varjú, Péter P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let S be a fixed symmetric finite subset of SL_d(O_K) that generates a Zariski dense subgroup of SL_d(O_K) when we consider it as an algebraic group over Q by restriction of scalars. We prove that the Cayley graphs of SL_d(O_K/I) with respect to the projections of S is an expander family if I ranges over square-free ideals of O_K if d=2 and K is an arbitrary numberfield, or if d=3 and K=Q.
Spatial--temporal mesoscale modeling of rainfall intensity using gage and radar data
Creators: name: Fuentes, Montserrat
name: Reich, Brian
name: Lee, Gyuwon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Gridded estimated rainfall intensity values at very high spatial and temporal resolution levels are needed as main inputs for weather prediction models to obtain accurate precipitation forecasts, and to verify the performance of precipitation forecast models. These gridded rainfall fields are also the main driver for hydrological models that forecast flash floods, and they are essential for disaster prediction associated with heavy rain. Rainfall information can be obtained from rain gages that provide relatively accurate estimates of the actual rainfall values at point-referenced locations, but they do not characterize well enough the spatial and temporal structure of the rainfall fields. Doppler radar data offer better spatial and temporal coverage, but Doppler radar measures effective radar reflectivity ($Ze$) rather than rainfall rate ($R$). Thus, rainfall estimates from radar data suffer from various uncertainties due to their measuring principle and the conversion from $Ze$ to $R$. We introduce a framework to combine radar reflectivity and gage data, by writing the different sources of rainfall information in terms of an underlying unobservable spatial temporal process with the true rainfall values. We use spatial logistic regression to model the probability of rain for both sources of data in terms of the latent true rainfall process. We characterize the different sources of bias and error in the gage and radar data and we estimate the true rainfall intensity with its posterior predictive distribution, conditioning on the observed data.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOAS166 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Additional file 12 of Endogenous bacteria inhabiting the Ophiocordyceps highlandensis during fruiting body development
Creators: name: Li, Chengpeng
name: Tang, Dexiang
name: Wang, Yuanbing
name: Fan, Qi
name: Zhang, Xiaomei
name: Cui, Xiaolong
name: Yu, Hong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 12: Table S14. Taxonomic summary of 4 supercore microorganisms.
title: Bovine Mastitis Resistance: Novel Quantitative Trait Loci and the Role of Bovine Mammary Epithelial Cells
Creators: name: Kurz, Jacqueline P.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Bovine mastitis, or inflammation of the mammary gland, has substantial economic and animal welfare implications. A genetic basis for mastitis resistance traits is recognized and can be used to guide selective breeding programs. The discovery of regions of the genome associated with mastitis resistance, and knowledge of the underlying molecular mechanisms responsible, can facilitate development of efficient mastitis control and therapeutic strategies. The objectives of this dissertation research were to identify sites of genetic variation associated with mastitis resistance, and to define the contributions of the milk-secreting epithelial cells to mammary gland immune responses and mastitis resistance. Twenty seven regions of the bovine genome potentially involved in mastitis resistance were identified in Holstein dairy cattle. Additionally, this research demonstrates a role of bovine mammary epithelial cells in mastitis resistance, and provides guidance for the use of an in vitro model for mastitis studies. Primary bovine mammary epithelial cells from mastitis-resistant cows have differential expression of 42 inflammatory genes compared with cells from mastitis-susceptible cows, highlighting the importance of epithelial cells in mastitis resistance. Bovine mammary epithelial cells display both similarities and differences in pro-inflammatory gene expression compared to fibroblasts, and their expression of inflammatory genes is influenced by administration of the enzyme phospholipase A2. The growth potential of milk-derived bovine mammary epithelial cells in vitro can be extended, facilitating their use in mastitis studies, by transfection with a viral protein. Collectively, this research contributes to current knowledge on bovine mastitis resistance and in vitro models.
MTLTS: A Multi-Task Framework To Obtain Trustworthy Summaries From Crisis-Related Microblogs
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Rajdeep
name: Vishnu, Uppada
name: Peruri, Hari Chandana
name: Bhattacharya, Sourangshu
name: Rudra, Koustav
name: Goyal, Pawan
name: Ganguly, Niloy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.3

description: Occurrences of catastrophes such as natural or man-made disasters trigger the spread of rumours over social media at a rapid pace. Presenting a trustworthy and summarized account of the unfolding event in near real-time to the consumers of such potentially unreliable information thus becomes an important task. In this work, we propose MTLTS, the first end-to-end solution for the task that jointly determines the credibility and summary-worthiness of tweets. Our credibility verifier is designed to recursively learn the structural properties of a Twitter conversation cascade, along with the stances of replies towards the source tweet. We then take a hierarchical multi-task learning approach, where the verifier is trained at a lower layer, and the summarizer is trained at a deeper layer where it utilizes the verifier predictions to determine the salience of a tweet. Different from existing disaster-specific summarizers, we model tweet summarization as a supervised task. Such an approach can automatically learn summary-worthy features, and can therefore generalize well across domains. When trained on the PHEME dataset [29], not only do we outperform the strongest baselines for the auxiliary task of verification/rumour detection, we also achieve 21 - 35% gains in the verified ratio of summary tweets, and 16 - 20% gains in ROUGE1-F1 scores over the existing state-of-the-art solutions for the primary task of trustworthy summarization.
description: Accepted as a Full Paper at WSDM 2022; 9 pages; Codes: https://github.com/rajdeep345/MTLTS
Pseudo-viscous modeling of self-gravitating discs and the formation of low mass ratio binaries
Creators: name: Clarke, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present analytic models for the local structure of self-regulated self-gravit ating accretion discs that are subject to realistic cooling. Such an approach can be used to predict the secular evolution of self-gravitating discs (which can usefully be compared with future radiation hydrodynamical simulations) and to define various physical regimes as a function of radius and equivalent steady state accretion rate. We show that fragmentation is inevitable, given realistic rates of infall into the disc, once the disc extends to radii $> 70$ A.U. (in the case of a solar mass central object). Owing to the outward redistribution of disc material by gravitational torques, we also predict fragmentation at $> 70$ A.U. even in the case of low angular momentum cores which initially collapse to a much smaller radius. We point out that 70 A.U. is close to the median binary separation and propose that such delayed fragmentation, at the point that the disc expands to $> 70$ A.U., ensures the creation of low mass ratio companions that can avoid substantial further growth and consequent evolution towards unit mass ratio. We thus propose this as a promising mechanism for producing low mass ratio binaries, which, while abundant observationally, are severely underproduced in hydrodynamical models.
description: To appear in MNRAS
Interactive Visualization Recommendation with Hier-SUCB
Creators: name: Hu, Songwen
name: Rossi, Ryan A.
name: Yu, Tong
name: Wu, Junda
name: Zhao, Handong
name: Kim, Sungchul
name: Li, Shuai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Visualization recommendation aims to enable rapid visual analysis of massive datasets. In real-world scenarios, it is essential to quickly gather and comprehend user preferences to cover users from diverse backgrounds, including varying skill levels and analytical tasks. Previous approaches to personalized visualization recommendations are non-interactive and rely on initial user data for new users. As a result, these models cannot effectively explore options or adapt to real-time feedback. To address this limitation, we propose an interactive personalized visualization recommendation (PVisRec) system that learns on user feedback from previous interactions. For more interactive and accurate recommendations, we propose Hier-SUCB, a contextual combinatorial semi-bandit in the PVisRec setting. Theoretically, we show an improved overall regret bound with the same rank of time but an improved rank of action space. We further demonstrate the effectiveness of Hier-SUCB through extensive experiments where it is comparable to offline methods and outperforms other bandit algorithms in the setting of visualization recommendation.
title: Evaluating the Impact of External Carbon Source in Laboratory-Based Denitrification Rate Experiments
Creators: name: Richens, Jared
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Limitations in the quality of transformation rates used with water quality models such as QUAL2K have led to the need to identify methods that can effectively and accurately determine these rates. During the early stages of method development of a Utah Department of Environmental Quality (Utah DEQ) funded project seeking to identify such methods, it was determined that under certain situations external carbon amendment may be required to successfully determine denitrification rates.
The focus of this study was to evaluate the potential impacts that introducing external carbon sources may have on estimating the laboratory denitrification rates resulting from these methods. Ultimately it was shown that, carbon amendment does not negatively impact the comparability of laboratory-generated rates to those that could be measured using in-situ methods. Additionally, it was determined that the Substrate Chemical Product method discussed herein should be used along with a no carbon, glucose, and sodium acetate amended treatments. After analysis of the data, the highest rate should be used if differences caused by carbon amendment can be identified.
La ricerca empirica in educazione: questioni aperte
Creators: name: Mortari, Luigina
Publisher: name: Studi sulla Formazione
Year: 2010

description: Currently facing the issue of empirical research in education is about being faced with a reality decades and a number of open questions. It is these issues that focuses the attention of the author. This is because it is impossible to develop a rigorously scientific discourse on the recent past empirical research in education in Italy because of lack of analytical studies for reconstruction of the processes so far developed. And also because we are in the midst of a transition, characterized to speeches by the presence of a culture able to problematize the history of education. The author follows the suggestion made effective by Rorty and tries to promote the conversation as a method for keeping an open dialogue within the research community is the condition necessary to fertilize the culture of research.
description: Studi sulla Formazione, Anno XII, I/II-2009
Author's Proof correlation flie of the manuscript (ID: 1104137) (title: A tumor mutational burden (TMB)-derived immune computational framework selects sensitive immunotherapy/chemotherapy for lung adenocarcinoma populations with different prognoses)
Creators: name: Wei, Chuzhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Genomics and transcriptomics

description: Author's Proof correlation flie of the manuscript (ID: 1104137) (title: A tumor mutational burden (TMB)-derived immune computational framework selects sensitive immunotherapy/chemotherapy for lung adenocarcinoma populations with different prognoses)
title: Three Environmental Fluid Dynamics Papers
Creators: name: Furtak-Cole, Eden
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Three papers are presented, applying computational fluid dynamics methods to fluid flows in the geosciences. In the first paper, a numerical method is developed for single phase potential flow in the subsurface. For a class of monotonically advancing flows, the method provides a computational savings as compared to classical methods and can be applied to problems such as forced groundwater recharge. The second paper investigates the shear stress reducing action of an erosion control roughness array. Incompressible Naiver-Stokes simulations are performed for multiple wind angles to understand the changing aerodynamics of individual and grouped roughness elements. In the third paper, a 1D analytical flow model is compared with multiphase Navier-Stokes simulations in a parabolic fissure. Sampling the numerical results allows the isolation of flow factors such as surface tension, which are difficult to measure in physical experiments.
Radio Detection of 18 Rass BL Lac Objects
Creators: name: Anderson, M. W. B.
name: Filipović, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the radio detection of 18 BL Lac objects from our survey of over 575 square degrees of sky. These 18 objects are located within 20 arcsec of the X-ray position, of which 11 have a measured red-shift. All candidates are radio emitters above ~1 mJy and fall within the range of existing samples on the two colour, alpha_ro vs alpha_ox, diagram with a transitional population of three (3) evident. Two unusual sources have been identified, a candidate radio quiet BL Lac, RX J0140.9-4130, and an extreme HBL, RX J0109.9-4020, with Log(nu_peak)~19.2. The BL Lac Log(N)-Log(S) relation is consistent with other samples and indicates the ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS) could contain (2000+-400) BL Lac objects.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Serbian Astronomical Journal
Additional file 1 of Monte Carlo simulation of linac using PRIMO
Creators: name: Li, Yang
name: Sun, Xingru
name: Liang, Ying
name: Hu, Yuchao
name: Liu, Chenbin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biochemistry
Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Hematology

description: Additional file 1. The transport parameters configuration in PRIMO and gamma passing rates for PDD and OAR.
Competition between electronic cooling and Andreev dissipation in a superconducting micro-cooler
Creators: name: Rajauria, Sukumar
name: Gandit, Philippe
name: Hekking, F. W. J.
name: Pannetier, Bernard
name: Courtois, Hervé
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss very low temperature experiments on superconducting micro-coolers made of a double Normal metal - Insulator - Superconductor junction. We investigate with a high resolution the differential conductance of the micro-cooler as well as of additional probe junctions. There is an explicit crossover between the single quasi-particle current and the phase-coherent Andreev current. We establish a thermal model by considering the thermal contribution due to the Andreev current. The related increase of the electron temperature is discussed, including the influence of several parameters like the phase-coherence length or the tunnel junction transparency.
Time--Splitting Schemes and Measure Source Terms for a Quasilinear Relaxing System
Creators: name: Gosse, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M06, 65M12, 35F25

description: Several singular limits are investigated in the context of a $2 \times 2$ system arising for instance in the modeling of chromatographic processes. In particular, we focus on the case where the relaxation term and a $L^2$ projection operator are concentrated on a discrete lattice by means of Dirac measures. This formulation allows to study more easily some time-splitting numerical schemes.
Measuring Consumption Externalities
Creators: name: Randon, Emanuela
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: SECS-P/03 Scienza delle finanze

description: Estimation and measurement of consumption externalities are still challenging problems in applied research. In this paper, externalities as Nash equilibrium are estimated using consumer demand theory and a large data set. We estimate Nash equilibrium consumption externalities in petrol budget shares of households living in a metropolitan area in UK. The reaction curves are derived from an Almost Ideal Demand
System (AIDS) with externalities. A continuous set of ten year cross sections from the Family Expenditure Surveys is used. In each year, income decile cohorts are created. Results of 2SLS with Panel Data are presented after 2SLS estimates with pooling cross sections have been discussed. Results give evidence that the household petrol consumption pattern is explained by income and externality variables.
We also suggest that in order to internalise the negative externality effect, households should be taxed independently of household income.
Sequence-level self-learning with multiple hypotheses
Creators: name: Kumatani, Kenichi
name: Dimitriadis, Dimitrios
name: Gaur, Yashesh
name: Gmyr, Robert
name: Eskimez, Sefik Emre
name: Li, Jinyu
name: Zeng, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this work, we develop new self-learning techniques with an attention-based sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model for automatic speech recognition (ASR). For untranscribed speech data, the hypothesis from an ASR system must be used as a label. However, the imperfect ASR result makes unsupervised learning difficult to consistently improve recognition performance especially in the case that multiple powerful teacher models are unavailable. In contrast to conventional unsupervised learning approaches, we adopt the \emph{multi-task learning} (MTL) framework where the $n$-th best ASR hypothesis is used as the label of each task. The seq2seq network is updated through the MTL framework so as to find the common representation that can cover multiple hypotheses. By doing so, the effect of the \emph{hard-decision} errors can be alleviated. We first demonstrate the effectiveness of our self-learning methods through ASR experiments in an accent adaptation task between the US and British English speech. Our experiment results show that our method can reduce the WER on the British speech data from 14.55\% to 10.36\% compared to the baseline model trained with the US English data only. Moreover, we investigate the effect of our proposed methods in a federated learning scenario.
description: Published in Interspeech 2020: https://www.isca-speech.org/archive_v0/Interspeech_2020/pdfs/2020.pdf
Mesoscopic simulations of the counterion-induced electroosmotic flow - a comparative study
Creators: name: Smiatek, Jens
name: Sega, Marcello
name: Holm, Christian
name: Schiller, Ulf D.
name: Schmid, Friederike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present mesoscopic simulations of the counterion-induced electroosmotic flow in different electrostatic coupling regimes. Two simulation methods are compared, Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) and coupled Lattice-Boltzmann/Molecular Dynamics (LB/MD). A general mapping scheme to match DPD to LB/MD is developed. For the weak-coupling regime, analytic expressions for the flow profiles in the presence of partial-slip as well as no-slip boundary conditions are derived from the Poisson-Boltzmann and Stokes equations, which are in good agreement with the numerical results. The influence of electrofriction and partial slip on the flow profiles is discussed.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, additional references and minor changes in the text
title: Evaluation of Oocyte Developmental Competence and Potential Strategies to Improve Oocyte Quality
Creators: name: Yang, Min
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have now been extensively used to promote reproductive efficiency as a fertility treatment not only in human medicine but also animal reproduction. ARTs serve as an important tool to advance the fundamental knowledge of reproductive processes. The quality of female’s eggs defines its ability to undergo maturation, fertilization, and development. This quality is determined by various factors and is crucial for the success of ARTs. Any alternations happening during the egg growth and maturation process can result in the decreased quality, which could have long-lasting effects on development. Improving the developmental efficiency of the egg is quite challenging due to the limited knowledge on the underlying mechanism of how the egg regulates biological processes during the growth and maturation phase. We compared good-quality and poor-quality eggs to detect the key players in determining the egg quality at the molecular level. Our finding also provides information that benefits the understanding of how the nutrients in culture medium facilitate oocyte maturation, which will eventually help optimize the condition for oocyte culture. Based on the results from these comparative studies, we proposed a potential strategy for improving egg quality. The knowledge obtained from our research offers promise for many applications in the treatment of infertility and improvement of ART efficiency.
Bayesian Analysis and Constraints on Kinematic Models from Union SNIa
Creators: name: Guimarães, A. C. C.
name: Cunha, J. V.
name: Lima, J. A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The kinematic expansion history of the universe is investigated by using the 307 supernovae type Ia from the Union Compilation set. Three simple model parameterizations for the deceleration parameter (constant, linear and abrupt transition) and two different models that are explicitly parametrized by the cosmic jerk parameter (constant and variable) are considered. Likelihood and Bayesian analyses are employed to find best fit parameters and compare models among themselves and with the flat $Λ$CDM model. Analytical expressions and estimates for the deceleration and cosmic jerk parameters today ($q_0$ and $j_0$) and for the transition redshift ($z_t$) between a past phase of cosmic deceleration to a current phase of acceleration are given. All models characterize an accelerated expansion for the universe today and largely indicate that it was decelerating in the past, having a transition redshift around 0.5. The cosmic jerk is not strongly constrained by the present supernovae data. For the most realistic kinematic models the $1σ$ confidence limits imply the following ranges of values: $q_0\in[-0.96,-0.46]$, $j_0\in[-3.2,-0.3]$ and $z_t\in[0.36,0.84]$, which are compatible with the $Λ$CDM predictions, $q_0=-0.57\pm0.04$, $j_0=-1$ and $z_t=0.71\pm0.08$. We find that even very simple kinematic models are equally good to describe the data compared to the concordance $Λ$CDM model, and that the current observations are not powerful enough to discriminate among all of them.
description: 13 pages. Matches published version
title: Thrust Augmented Nozzle for a Hybrid Rocket with a Helical Fuel Port
Creators: name: Marshall, Joel H.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2018

description: A thrust augmented nozzle for hybrid rocket systems is investigated. The design lever-ages 3-D additive manufacturing to embed a helical fuel port into the thrust chamber of a hybrid rocket burning gaseous oxygen and ABS plastic as propellants. The helical port significantly increases how quickly the fuel burns, resulting in a fuel-rich exhaust exiting the nozzle. When a secondary gaseous oxygen flow is injected into the nozzle downstream of the throat, all of the remaining unburned fuel in the plume spontaneously ignites. This secondary reaction produces additional high pressure gases that are captured by the nozzle and significantly increases the motor’s performance. Secondary injection and combustion allows a high expansion ratio (area of the nozzle exit divided by area of the throat) to be effective at low altitudes where there would normally be significantly flow separation and possibly an embedded shock wave due. The result is a 15 percent increase in produced thrust level with no loss in engine efficiency due to secondary injection. Core flow efficiency was increased significantly. Control tests performed using cylindrical fuel ports with secondary injection, and helical fuel ports without secondary injection did not exhibit this performance increase. Clearly, both the fuel-rich plume and secondary injection are essential features allowing the hybrid thrust augmentation to occur. Techniques for better design optimization are discussed.
A UV completion of scalar field theory in arbitrary even dimensions
Creators: name: Ho, Pei-Ming
name: Lin, Xue-Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following a previous work (hep-th/0410248), where a scalar field theory with a modified propagator and phi^4 interaction in 4 dimensions is constructed to be UV-finite, unitary and Lorentz invariant, we discuss in this paper general phi^n theory in arbitrary even space-time dimensions. We show that the theory is still UV-finite, unitary and Lorentz invariant if the propagators are chosen to meet certain simple conditions depending on the space-time dimension but independent of n. We also comment that our model is reminiscent of string theory in the way UV divergence is avoided.
description: 18 pages
title: Historical Study of Net Migration for Utah, 1870-1960
Creators: name: Huntsman, Rulon J
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1968

description: This is an historical study of the volume and direction of intercensal net migration for Utah, from 1870 to 1960. Some of the demographic characteristics of net migrants are also estimated and some inferences of the impact of net migration on Utah's socio-economic development is considered.
Of necessity, indirect methods of migration estimation are used. Those used are: (1) Place-of-birth method, (2) Census survival ratio method and (3) Place-of-birth census survival ratio method.
The results of this study reveal, for the first time, detailed demographic characteristics as to the age, sex and origin of the net migrants for Utah from 1870 to 1960. Such knowledge can prove useful in intrepretations of Utah's history and in extrapolating future trends.