cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A study of pre-treatments in the drying of regrowth Eucalyptus obliqua L'Herit
Creators: name: Priadi, T
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study investigated the potential of pre-treatment techniques to produce high quality back-sawn boards from regrowth messmate stringybark (Eucalyptus obliqua L'Herit), which is very prone to collapse and checking. Saturated urea solution, one percent sodium hydroxide, four percent acetic acid, water, urea formaldehyde resin (UF), and polyvinyl acetate glue (PVA) were used. In Chapter 4, the experiment of chemical soaking pre-treatments showed that soaking in sodium hydroxide solution for up to 15 days caused almost double increase of boards' drying rate. However, this technique and soaking in acetic acid solution caused more collapse and checks. In Chapter 5 and 6, the surface coating experiment confirmed that coating with UF resin did not significantly improve the drying properties of the boards. In contrast, PVA coating prevented surface checking and considerably reduced edge checking and collapse. The check value of these P boards was only a quarter the check value of control boards. In Chapter 6, the pre-treatments trial proved that significant reductions of shrinkage and collapse were achieved mainly by urea soaking for eight weeks (SSW boards). Both tangential and radial shrinkages of S8W boards were less than half the shrinkages of control boards. The collapse free boards of S8W were almost double amount of that in control boards. However, this pretreatment caused more surface checks. One-day urea soaking followed by eight weeks close stacking (C treatment) reduced checking. The check free boards of C, W, and P were 38%, 25%, and 88%, while that of the control, S8W, and S2W boards were the same, 19%. The average drying rates of W, S8W, and S2W boards were respectively 1.3 times, 0.4 times, and 0.6 times the drying rate of the control boards. The average drying rates of P and C boards were almost the same as that of control boards (1.7 x 10-2 %/hour, in a four month drying trial). This study indicates the prominent benefit of PV A surface coating in improving the quality of dried back-sawn timber of regrowth messmate stringybark. Further research, combining PV A coating and different drying process, such as high temperature drying, is needed to produce high quality dried timber in a much shorter time. This study also recommends water soaking when collapse and check prone timbers cannot be kiln-dried immediately after sawing.
title: Risk Factors for Selected Health-Related Behaviors Among American Indian Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study
Creators: name: Williams, Amy Jo
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: Suicide and accidents are the leading causes of death among American Indian (AI) adolescents. Engaging in health-compromising behaviors (HCB) is higher among AI youth than among multicultural, national samples of adolescents. These HCBs include: smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, and delinquency. Studies that identify legitimate predictors of these behaviors among AI adolescents are needed to guide research and interventions.
Primary socialization theory (PST) suggests that peer groups, family, and school are the only areas where adolescents are directly taught to accept or reject deviant or normative behavior. Gateway theory indicates that use of certain drugs by adolescents, such as cigarettes or alcohol leads to the use of additional illicit drugs. Both of these theories were investigated in the current study as possible guides to identifying risk factors for HCBs among AI adolescents.
The behaviors investigated in this study were alcohol use, cigarette use, illicit drug use, delinquency, suicidality (i.e., ideation and behaviors), and self-protection (seatbelt and helmet use) at Time 2. Predictor variables included behaviors and intrapersonal factors at Time 1 (one year earlier). All variables came from measurements provided by the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Multiple linear regressions were calculated for all youth together, males only, and females only to determine which combination of predictors accounted for the most variance in the target behavior.
Support was found for PST across behaviors in that variables measuring the primary socialization sources (i.e., peer groups, family members, and involvement with school) were significantly predictive ofHCBs one year later in all regressions calculated. Little support was found for gateway theory regarding substance use, as experimentation with alcohol and cigarettes at Time 1 was not predictive of illicit drug use at Time 2.
There were 398 self-identified AI adolescents at Time 1, and 298 at Time 2, included in this study. There were 175 females and 123 males, ranging in age from 13 to 20 at Time 2. One limitation of this study is that all information was obtained via selfreport. Other limitations, implications for future research, and areas for prevention or intervention with AI youth are discussed.
title: Predictors of Graduation and Rearrest in a Contemporary Juvenile Drug Court Program
Creators: name: Tranchita, Anthony Phillip
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: Research on the efficacy of drug courts for substance-abusing criminal adult offenders has generally found reduced recidivism rates, and both actual and potential cost savings to the public. However , outcome research on juvenile drug courts has been limited. Furthermore , little research has examined variables that may be predictive of outcome in this population. This study reports graduation and rearrest rates for a sample of juvenile drug court participants in Salt Lake City, Utah. Also, this research assessed whether demographics, prior arrest history, attendance at drug education classes, serving detention time, or a preprogram measure of degree of substance abuse (SAS SI-A) help predict several important outcomes (i.e., graduation from the drug court program and number of rearrests per year after leaving drug court). The graduation rate in this sample was fairly high (84.2%). However, the rearrest rate was also relatively high, with slightly over 50% with an arrest for any offense, and 38. 7% with a drug-elated arrest during follow-up (average follow-up time 4.3 years). Serving detention and not attending prevention class predicted lower rates of program graduation, while younger age, male gender, not graduating drug court, non-Caucasian status, and past adjudication predicted higher rates of recidivism (rearrest).
title: Navajo Ethnic Identity and Acculturation: Discovering Connections Between Ethnic Identity, Acculturation, and Psychosocial Outcomes
Creators: name: Jones, Matthew D.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: American Indians are severely disadvantaged and yet known relationships among risk and protective factors and cultural identification are limited. The current study assessed associations among measures of acculturation, ethnic identity, and psychosocial outcomes among Navajo adolescents. Adjustment of Navajo adolescents in the domains of school bonding, social functioning, self-esteem, depression, delinquent behaviors, and substance use was assessed. Navajo adolescents, between the ages of 14 and 18, also completed a self-report questionnaire containing the Revised Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure, the Orthogonal Cultural Identification Scale, and the Native American Acculturation Scale. Measures of ethnic identity were positively associated with aspects of psychosocial functioning for Navajo adolescents, with stronger predictions of school bonding, self-esteem, and social functioning outcomes emerging for males. The students' sense of affirmation and belonging to their ethnic heritage emerged as the strongest predictor of positive outcomes.
title: Resistance to Change of Ethanol Self-Administration: Effects of Naltrexone and Extinction
Creators: name: Jimenez-Gomez, Corina
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: Drug self-administration has proven to be an adequate model for assessing variables that contribute to the maintenance of drug taking. The present experiment was concerned with the persistence of drug self-administration, a defining characteristic of drug dependence and abuse. Findings from studies of the resistance to change of food-maintained responding may contribute to a better understanding of the persistence of drug abuse and dependence. Using an animal model of alcohol self-administration, this study evaluated the effects of rate of reinforcement on the persistence of ethanol self-administration in rats in the face of behavioral (i.e., extinction) and pharmacological (i.e., naltrexone) disruptors. Four experimentally naive Long Evans rats were trained to respond for a 10% (vol/vol) ethanol solution on a multiple variable-interval (VI) 15-s VI 45-s schedule of reinforcement. Baseline response rates were higher in the component that provided higher rates of ethanol delivery. Consistent with behavioral momentum theory, responding was more resistant to extinction in the component with higher rates of ethanol delivery. Conversely, disruption with naltrexone (1.0, 3.0, 10.0 mg/kg, s.c.), injected one hour before the session, resulted in no differential resistance to change of responding. The results are interpreted in terms of the effect of naltrexone on the incentive-motivational properties of the stimulus context.
The development and evaluation of a nutrition education program for the third and fourth grades
Creators: name: MacKay, Joyce Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: A nutrition education program for the third and fourth grade levels was developed within a sound educational structure, namely a systematic approach involving the five dimensions of motivation, concepts and generalizations, behavioral objectives, learning experiences and evaluation. To test the effectiveness of the nutrition education program, 117 children in two Vancouver schools participated in an experimental program. Fifty eight of these children were treated as two control groups, one group from each school. The other 59 children were treated as two experimental groups, one group in each school. Both the control and the experimental groups were pre- and post-tested using tests designed to evaluate the competency level of learning (Krathwohl et al., 1964; Bloom, 1965). The control groups did not receive any nutrition education. The experimental groups actively participated in nutrition education learning experiences for forty minutes, twice each week for six weeks. Evaluation proceeded during the week immediately before and immediately after the nutrition education program. The nutrition education program was found to improve significantly nutrition knowledge and comprehension for both grades. Although results of a parent questionnaire indicated that there had been significant improvement in nutrition attitudes at home, there was no general tendency toward improvement of dietary patterns reflected in the remaining tests.
Effect of current corrugations on the stability of the tearing mode
Creators: name: Militello, F.
name: Romanelli, M.
name: Hastie, R. J.
name: Loureiro, N. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generation of zonal magnetic fields in laboratory fusion plasmas is predicted by theoretical and numerical models and was recently observed experimentally. It is shown that the modification of the current density gradient associated with such corrugations can significantly affect the stability of the tearing mode. A simple scaling law is derived that predicts the impact of small stationary current corrugations on the stability parameter $Δ'$. The described destabilization mechanism can provide an explanation for the trigger of the Neoclassical Tearing Mode (NTM) in plasmas without significant MHD activity.
description: Accepted to Physics of Plasmas
Anacroneuria
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Armitage, Brian J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Anacroneuria

description: Anacroneuria sp. PA-2
(Figs. 15–16)
 Material examined. PANAMA: Bocas del Toro Province: Cuenca 93 (Río Margarita) afluente Quebrada Rambala, Rambala Jungle Lodge, 8.91543°N, 82.15527°W, 3.74 km SE Rambala, 28 November 2014, E. Carlson, 2 ♀ (COZEM). Same site, 13 March 2015, E. Carlson, 1 ♀ (BPSC); Chiriqui Province, Cuenca 93 (Río Guabo), afluente Río Guabo, NNE Fortuna Dam, nr. Fortuna Cabins, 8.77806°N, 82.19359°W, 1128 m, UV light, B. and T. Armitage, 21 January 2017, 4 ♀ (COZEM).
 Adult habitus. General color yellow patterned with dark brown. Head mostly yellow but slightly darker yellow-brown on frons anterior to ocelli; lappets brown, antennae dark brown. Pronotum pale along median line, sublateral pigment bands brown with scattered rugosities (Fig. 15). Femora almost entirely yellow, but a narrow distal band dark brown. Tibiae yellow. Wing membrane pale amber brown except for paler costal band extending from wing base almost to cord, and except for a transparent circular “window” extending beyond cord and posteríor to R-vein but not reaching posteríor margin of wing.
 Male. Unknown.
 Female. Forewing length 14 mm. Subgenital plate 4-lobed, inner lobes slightly smaller than lateral lobes (Fig. 16). Abdominal sternum 9 bears a prominent T-shaped median setal patch.
 Larva. Unknown.
 Diagnosis. Only two species (A. exquisita Stark, 1998; A. ventana Stark, 1998), currently known from Mesoamerica, have a transparent “window” in the apical region of the wings, but another species known from Colombia (A. albimacula Klapálek) also shares this feature. The females of Anacroneuria exquisita and A. ventana are unknown and males of these species have a dark ocellar marking absent from these Bocas del Toro females. Anacroneuria albimacula also has a dark ocellar marking, slightly different subgenital plate shape, and the species is currently known from a neotype ♂ and an additional female specimen from Antioquia Province in Colombia (Stark et al. 1999).
description: Published as part of Stark, Bill P. & Armitage, Brian J., 2018, The Plecoptera of Panama. II. Two new species, one new country record, and additional locality records of Anacroneuria (Perlidae) from western Panama, pp. 315-326 in Zootaxa 4459 (2) on page 322, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1458661
Hormonal induction of ovulation in banded morwong, Cheilodactylus spectabilis, and greenback flounder, Rhombosolea tapirina, using LHRHa implantation and the embryonic and larval development of greenback flounder incubated under various temperature regimes
Creators: name: Pribadi, Tyas Agung
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: No description available
Derivation and analysis of a new 2D Green-Naghdi system
Creators: name: Israwi, Samer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We derive here a variant of the 2D Green-Naghdi equations that model the propagation of two-directional, nonlinear dispersive waves in shallow water. This new model has the same accuracy as the standard $2D $ Green-Naghdi equations. Its mathematical interest is that it allows a control of the rotational part of the (vertically averaged) horizontal velocity, which is not the case for the usual Green-Naghdi equations. Using this property, we show that the solution of these new equations can be constructed by a standard Picard iterative scheme so that there is no loss of regularity of the solution with respect to the initial condition. Finally, we prove that the new Green-Naghdi equations conserve the almost irrotationality of the vertically averaged horizontal component of the velocity.
title: Associations Between Parent-daughter Relationships, Individual Adolescent Psychological Functioning, and Female Adolescent Self-defeating Behaviors
Creators: name: Hunt, Sara M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: This study tested a mediation model by which daughters ' perceptions of poorer parent-adolescent relationship quality were expected to be directly associated with the individual psychological characteristics of low self-esteem and internalizing symptoms. In turn, individual psychological characteristics were hypothesized to predict self-defeating behavior, defined as deliberate self-harm and suicidal gestures, multiple sexual partners, and substance use. Additionally, the association between parent-adolescent relationship variables and self-defeating behaviors was posited to be largely indirect and mediated by symptoms of psychological distress . As predicted, perceived alienation from parents was directly associated with poor adolescent psychological functioning. Furthermore , individual psychological variables were found to partially mediate between parent alienation and deliberate self-harm /suicidal gestures. Full mediation was observed between mother alienation and risky sexual behaviors but not for fathers. No mediation effects were found between both mother and father alienation and daughters' reported substance use. Research and clinical implications are also discussed.
Anacroneuria
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Armitage, Brian J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Anacroneuria

description: Anacroneuria sp. PA-3
(Figs. 17–18)
 Material examined. PANAMA: Chiriqui Province: Cuenca 93 (Río Guabo), afluente of Río Guabo, NNE Fortuna Dam near Fortuna Cabins, 8.77806°N, 82.19359°W, 1128 m, UV light, 18 February 2018, B. and T. Armitage. 1 ♀ (BPSC).
 Adult habitus. General color yellow patterned with brown. Head mostly yellow around margins and dark brown over most of central frons (Fig. 17); lappets and antennae brown. Pronotum with mesal band dark brown and lateral and sublateral areas of disk mostly dark brown. Femora banded with basal half yellow and apical half dark brown; tibiae with distal and proximal areas dark brown, median tibial sections yellow. Wings transparent or tinted pale brown; most veins slightly darker except subcostal and apical half of costa pale.
 Male. Unknown.
 Female. Forewing length 20 mm. Subgenital plate 4-lobed; outer lobes slightly longer and about equal in width to inner lobes (Fig. 18). Sternum 9 bearing a T-shaped sclerite armed with setae; mediobasal setae short but numerous, longer setae set on apical part of T-shaped sclerite.
 Larva. Unknown.
 Diagnosis. The only known Anacroneuria female from Panama and Costa Rica with a 20 mm forewing length and a dark median pronotal band is A. divisa. This female is similar to A. divisa but the pronotal disc has significantly more diffuse brown pigment along the median band than other species that share this pattern.
description: Published as part of Stark, Bill P. & Armitage, Brian J., 2018, The Plecoptera of Panama. II. Two new species, one new country record, and additional locality records of Anacroneuria (Perlidae) from western Panama, pp. 315-326 in Zootaxa 4459 (2) on pages 322-323, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1458661
Dark soils of the Victoria area, British Columbia
Creators: name: Broersma, K.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Seven soils with deep surface horizons high in organic matter occurring in south-eastern Vancouver Island in an unique environment were elucidated. The climate is similar to that of the northern Mediterranean. The vegetation consists of a grass and Garry oak (Quercus garryana) parkland on the more xeric sites. This vegetation is believed to be part of a biosequence of grass, Garry oak and Douglas fir (Psuedotsuga menziesii). Four sites were located under vegetation consisting of grass and scattered Garry oak, two sites under Garry oak and one under Douglas fir. In the first paper, Dark Soils of the Victoria Area, Vancouver Island I Environment, Morphology and Genesis, the soils and the environment are described. All the soils were classified into the Canadian and American Systems of Soil Classification. The soils were all classified as Sombric Brunisols except for the one under Douglas fir which was classified as a Sombric Podzol according to the Canadian System of Soil Classification. In the second paper, Dark Soils of the Victoria Area, Vancouver Island, II Physical, Chemical, Mineralogical Properties and Genesis, the results of the physical, chemical and mineralogical analysis are discussed. The soils are coarse textured and are all characterized by high amounts of organic matter in the surface horizon. The organic matter has an influence on many of the soil properties. Most weathering in these soils occurs in the surface horizons. In the third paper. Natural Organo-Mineral Complexes in Some Sombric Soils of the Victoria Area, Vancouver Island, the natural complexes of surface horizons were separated and studied. The separates in this study included: coarse silt (50-20M), fine silt (20-2u), coarse clay (2-0.2y) and fine clay (<0.2y). Most of the soils organic matter was found to be associated with the fine silt and coarse clay fractions. The amount of organic matter per centimeter square in the coarse and fine clay was found to be nearly constant. The finer fractions were associated with the more humified organic matter. The importance of the binding or bridging cations were found to be in the order: Al, Ca, Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn = Mg in these soils.
Age and the visual speech benefit in noise (Beadle et al., 2021)
Creators: name: Beadle, Julie
name: Kim, Jeesun
name: Davis, Chris
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170204 Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 200404 Laboratory Phonetics and Speech Science
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Purpose: Listeners understand significantly more speech in noise when the talker’s face can be seen (visual speech) in comparison to an auditory-only baseline (a visual speech benefit). This study investigated whether the visual speech benefit is reduced when the correspondence between auditory and visual speech is uncertain and whether any reduction is affected by listener age (older vs. younger) and how severe the auditory signal is masked.Method: Older and younger adults completed a speech recognition in noise task that included an auditory-only condition and four auditory–visual (AV) conditions in which one, two, four, or six silent talking face videos were presented. One face always matched the auditory signal; the other face(s) did not. Auditory speech was presented in noise at −6 and −1 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Results: When the SNR was −6 dB, for both age groups, the standard-sized visual speech benefit reduced as more talking faces were presented. When the SNR was −1 dB, younger adults received the standard-sized visual speech benefit even when two talking faces were presented, whereas older adults did not.Conclusions: The size of the visual speech benefit obtained by older adults was always smaller when AV correspondence was uncertain; this was not the case for younger adults. Difficulty establishing AV correspondence may be a factor that limits older adults’ speech recognition in noisy AV environments.
Supplemental Material S1. Descriptions of all measures, conditions, data exclusions, and methods used to determine sample sizes.
Beadle, J., Kim, J., & Davis, C. (2021). Effects of age and uncertainty on the visual speech benefit in noise. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00495
Do climate leaders frack?: oil policy and climate policy in California
Creators: name: Duffy, Robert
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: In the U.S., states have been both an important source of climate policy innovation and the level of government at which most fossil fuel regulation takes place. I examine how fossil fuel policy complicates and reveals the shortcomings in climate policy via an analysis of policymaking regarding oil production in California. California self-identifies as a “climate leader” and is hyped up by climate policy literature and the press for this leadership—yet, at the same time, the state has been slow to regulate its oil industry, and as recently as the last decade has sought to expand this industry rather than winding it down. I ask why the state’s oil policies have often been inconsistent with its climate policies, answering this question primarily via archival analysis of hearings and documents from the legislative process of bills addressing oil production from 2011-2022, and via web materials posted by environmental and industry groups over this time period. In my findings, I describe how the oil industry has worked to make “keep it in the ground” approaches an untenable solution, even appropriating climate concern into the justification for continued oil production, and how the business support that has helped give rise to clean energy development has largely failed to get behind shutting down on-shore dirty energy development. Legislators, with a pragmatic focus on what might be conceivably accomplished in this context, “do what they can,” often resulting in modest regulatory approaches or long-term demand reduction measures rather than more direct antagonism of the oil industry. Activists have called out and attempted to shame the state for failing to live up to its climate ambitions, but their greatest successes have come via approaches that center issues other than climate. Overall, I find that climate concern does not necessarily translate into the political will to get tough on oil.
title: Victimization During the Middle School Years: Exploring the Relationship Between Emotion Regulation and Emotional/Behavioral Outcomes
Creators: name: Harlacher, Jason E.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: The present thesis examined emotion regulation differences among victims and non victims of bullying and its role as a mediator in the link between victimization and internalizing or externalizing outcomes. Participants from Grades 6 to 8 (n = 240) completed measures that assessed level of victimization, emotions felt relative to emotions expressed during bullying situations, and internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Weak victim-related differences revealed that boy victims reported feeling more shame and expressing more fear than nonvictims, whereas girl victims reported expressing more shame and feeling and expressing more anger and sadness. A new measure of emotional regulation did not reveal any victim -related differences , nor was emotional regulation found to play a mediating role. Discussion focuses on how antecedent- and response-focused regulation can account for victim-related differences found, and how victims' emotional regulation difficulties may be more attributable to antecedent-focused regulation and poor evaluation of consequences of expressing certain emotions than emotional inhibition during a bullying interaction.
title: Appalachian High School Students' Possible Selves As a Mediator of Continuing Their Education
Creators: name: Chenoweth, Erica
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: The Appalachian region has long been regarded as an economically disadvantaged area, with a lower percentage of individuals pursuing higher education than in the nation as a whole. Improving the educational status of residents of Appalachia may foster some economic transition in the region, shifting the employment focus from an unskilled labor emphasis to more professional and career opportunities. Better understanding of the influences in the decision processes of Appalachian students is needed in order to design and implement intervention programs to increase enrollment in higher education. The concept of possible selves is introduced as a way to examine individuals' goals and beliefs about themselves in future contexts. Other factors (academic preparation, family, and culture) influencing the decision regarding college attendance were considered and evaluated in relation to possible selves. A model was developed to examine the influences of academic preparation, family, and culture on Appalachian students' educational goals and aspirations, as they are mediated by possible selves. It was hypothesized that the mediated influences model sufficiently predicts students' plans for college attendance. Statistical analysis and a revision of the original model were conducted, and results indicate that the model was adequately supported. Interpretations for these results were offered, and implications and limitations of the study were discussed.
Sense of humour and teacher-student relationships in school-age children.
Creators: name: Price, Ken
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study investigated the relationship between dimensions of Sense of Humour in school-age children and their preferred teachers, with a focus on providing teachers with a basis for selecting appropriate humour for specific students. An instrument and process for measuring dimensions of Sense of Humour in school-age children, based on the Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale of Thorson and Powell (1993a), was developed, piloted and validated. Norms were derived from several groups of students across the upper primary to senior secondary age range (N=722), using a factor analysis approach. Using this instrument, multidimensional SOH (Sense of Humour) profiles of school-age children (N=420) and their preferred teachers were measured. The relationship between these dimensions for students and their preferred teachers were subjected to correlational analysis, to determine how SOH may contribute to the selection of preferred teacher by individual students and hence the aspects of sense of humour that individual students see as desirable in teachers. Research on friendship formation suggested that the humour profiles of students would be similar to that of their preferred teachers, dimension by dimension. This was shown not to be the case: the relationships were not, in general, simple similarity relationships between dimensions, but a set of associations, in several cases between different dimensions. While there are many other factors that contribute to the choice of a preferred teacher, Sense of Humour was found to be of higher importance for female students than for males: the dimension Personal Use of Humour in female students was associated with II III Personal Use of Humour in preferred teachers, and a similar relationship held for Social Use of Humour. The dimension Production of Humour in male teachers was negatively associated with three of the five dimensions of humour in female students. This confirms that, from a student's perspective, teachers dealing with female students who exhibit a strong sense of humour are best advised not to focus on being producers of humour, but rather should encourage and manage other sources of humour. The developed instrument is presented as a valuable tool for teachers, and has proven efficient and workable in deriving the SOH profiles of large numbers of students. The findings are highly relevant to teachers in general, but have particularly strong implications for teachers of female students, where humour has the potential to create significant negative as well as positive outcomes. The study also provides further explanation for the mixed results on the impact of humour on learning obtained by previous researchers, and provides additional tools for the analysis of this impact. Limitations of the study and suggestions for further research are given.
title: The Impact of Extracurricular Activities on Children's School Performance and Mental Health
Creators: name: Crews, Amber L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: The relationship between the amount of extracurricular activities and the school performance and mental health of children and adolescents was examined. One hundred thirty-three parents completed measures on extracurricular activity participation, academic performance, and mental health for their children in Grades 3-12. Results indicated one significant linear and one significant curvilinear relationship between extracurricular activity participation and school performance of adolescents. As adolescents were involved in additional extracurricular activities, their school performance improved (in a linear relationship), while median amounts of activity were related to the best grades (in a curvilinear relationship). Although these results were significant, their practical meaningfulness is limited due to a weak linear relationship and moderate curvilinear relationship. Significant relationships were not found between extracurricular activity participation and school performance of children or between extracurricular activity participation and the mental health of children or adolescents (52).
title: Occupational and Biopsychosocial Risk Factors for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Case-Control Study
Creators: name: Goodson, Jason Talley
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: The present study was designed to assess the risk factors associated with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Toward this end, a wide range of putative occupational, biological , and psychosocial correlates of CTS was investigated using a case-control methodology. Cases were 87 patients from an orthopedic clinic with clinical symptoms and electrodiagnostic testing results suggestive of CTS. Controls were 74 gender-matched patients from the same orthopedic clinic, without clinical symptoms of CTS and normal electrodiagnostic testing results. Participants completed a self-report questionnaire that included eight potential occupational correlates (i.e., repetition, force, vibration, typing, lifting heavy loads, and standing on feet), 10 potential personological correlates (i.e., obesity, advocational exercise levels, diabetes, thyroid problems, arthritis, gynecological surgery, and menstrual complications), and 11 potential psychosocial correlates (i.e., depression, anxiety, somatization, health locus of control job satisfaction, and physical and mental health indices). Results of multiple logistic regression analyses revealed that occupational repetition , vigorous exercise, physical activities with wrist strain, physical health, and job satisfaction were significant predictors of CTS. In addition, obesity was a borderline significant predictor of CTS. Plausible explanations for the current findings, along with implications, are discussed .
Comparative studies in curriculum change : the change from the 'Pacific series' English program to 'Our English series for Melanesia' English program in community schools in Papua New Guinea : its effects in the preparation of teachers in community teachers' colleges
Creators: name: Raki, N
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: English is the-official language and the medium of instruction in community schools and higher learning institutions in Papua New Guinea today. During the colonial rule of the two territories, the British in Papua and the Germans in New Guinea, different language policies existed according to the purposes of the colonial powers. In order to assist the teachers teachmg the approved medium of instructions, primers and rea,ders were produced. The Papuan Junior Readers were produced and used in the state schools in the Territory of Papua. During the post World War II period, English programs were developed for the two territories under the Australian administration. The Oxford English Course for Papua and New Guinea, the Minenda Series produced by the Jacaranda Press, and the Pacific Series published by the Oxford University Press, Melbourne. The present English program, Our English Series for Melanesia, was developed nationally and is used in the community schools, and in Community Teachers' Colleges. For the purposes of teacher preparation for teaching English in community schools, this dissertation focuses on the comparison of the underlying theories upon which the Pacific Series and Our English Series for Melanesia were designed and developed. The study seeks to identify the factors that determined the change from Pacific Series to Our English Series for Melanesia,, the approaches adopted with the goal of teaching English effectively at community schools, and the means in which student-teachers in Community Teachers' Colleges can be prepared to meet these goals (effective English teaching in PNG community schools). It is anticipated that results from the study will assist curriculum writers and policy makers to review present practices to improve English teaching and learning, as well as increasing students' knowledge and usage of English.
title: The Reliability and Validity of the Boatwright-Bracken Child Attention Deficit Scales: Child and Parent Versions
Creators: name: Thomas, Erica S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: This study examined the psychometric properties of a new measure of attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder (ADHD) symptoms , the Boatwright-Bracken Child Attention Deficit Scale (BCADS), self- and parent-report forms. Parents and children with and without ADHD completed the BCADS to determine the reliability and validity of the BCADS . The BCADS-Child and Parent had high internal consistency reliability . The total sample parent-selfratings were moderately correlated, indicating a typical level of cross informant agreement.
Results indicate that the BCADS differentiates children with ADHD from children without ADHD. Children and parents in the clinical sample reported more symptoms of ADHD than those in the comparison sample. Children with and without ADHD reported fewer symptoms of ADHD than their parents. Parents' ratings on the BCADS were moderately to highly correlated with an existing measure of ADHD. Overall, the results indicate the BCADS-Child and Parent forms are internally reliable and valid measures to use when assessing ADHD.
title: An Analysis of Bilingual Programs in the Context of a Schoolwide Reading Program
Creators: name: Stewart, Jonathan A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: There has been much controversy over the effectiveness of bilingual education in helping English language learning (ELL) students to become successful students. One variable overlooked in this literature has been the use of effective instruction in these programs. This investigation compared students in a schoolwide reading program that utilizes research-based practices, Success for All (SF A) and its Spanish counterpart Éxito Para Todos (EPT). Three groups of third-grade students were compared at 8-week intervals throughout the school year: English-speaking students in SF A, ELL (English language learning) students in SF A with ESL (English as a Second Language), and ELL students in EPT. All three groups experienced gains over the school year, with the gap between the EPT and SF A only groups narrowed and no statistically significant differences discovered between the EPT and SF A + ESL groups.
title: A Comparison of Rational Versus Empirical Methods in the Prediction of Psychotherapy Outcome
Creators: name: Spielmans, Glen I.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: Several systems have been designed to monitor psychotherapy outcome, in which feedback is generated based on how a client's rate of progress compares to an expected level of progress. Clients who progress at a much lesser rate than the average client are referred to as signal-alarm cases. Recent studies have shown that providing feedback to therapists based on comparing their clients' progress to a set of rational, clinically derived algorithms has enhanced outcomes for clients predicted to show poor treatment outcomes. Should another method of predicting psychotherapy outcome emerge as more accurate than the rational method, this method would likely be more useful than the rational method in enhancing psychotherapy outcomes. The present study compared the rational algorithms to those generated by an empirical prediction method generated through hierarchical linear modeling. The sample consisted of299 clients seen at a university counseling center and a psychology training clinic. The empirical method was significantly more accurate in predicting outcome than was the rational method. Clients predicted to show poor treatment outcome by the empirical method showed, on average, very little positive change. There was no difference between the methods in the ability to accurately forecast reliable worsening during treatment. The rational method resulted in a high percentage of false alarms, that is, clients who were predicted to show poor treatment response but in fact showed a positive treatment outcome. The empirical method generated significantly fewer false alarms than did the rational method. The empirical method was generally accurate in its predictions of treatment success, whereas the rational method was somewhat less accurate in predicting positive outcomes. Suggestions for future research in psychotherapy quality management are discussed.
title: Changes in Child Symptomatology Associated with Animal-Assisted Therapy
Creators: name: Woolley, Catherine C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2004

description: This study examined the changes in symptoms of anxiety, depression, and social ill dysfunction associated with a history of child trauma after adding animal-assisted therapy (AAT) to conventional psychotherapy for adolescents living in a residential treatment facility in northern California. Using a quasiexperimental design, participants were followed over a period of nine weeks, with both groups completing the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory , an abbreviated version of the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Youth Self-Report, and residential staff completing the Youth Outcome Questionnaire at three time points. In addition, the treatment group completed state anxiety and depression assessments before and after receiving the adjunctive AAT at each of these assessment points. Analyses suggest that the treatment group mean depression score was lower than the control group's score, but only at week 5. The significance of group differences in mean anxiety at posttest assessments could not be determined due to pretreatment group differences. Within-subjects analyses suggest that the treatment group experienced significant reductions in mean state anxiety scores after receiving the AAT at each of the three assessment points over the nine weeks. These reductions in anxiety were not, however, maintained between assessments. No significant changes in self- or other-reported social behaviors were found. Implications of these findings are discussed as well as suggestions for future research.
Data Science as a Service - Prototyping an integrated and consolidated IT infrastructure combining enterprise self-service platform and reproducible research
Creators: name: Laser, Hans
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90505 Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354516423_Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_patients_with_liver_cirrhosis-the_experience_of_a_tertiary_center_in_Germany
title: Maternal Diabetes, Related Biomarkers and Genes, and Risk of Orofacial Clefts
Creators: name: Maneerattanasuporn, Tiwaporn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: Orofacial clefts (OFCs) are among the most common congenital birth defects and are characterized by incomplete development of the lip or the palate or both. The lip and palate develop separately at different times during the first trimester of pregnancy. The etiology of OFCs is multifactorial and includes a combination of genetic and environmental factors. This project aims to examine role of maternal diabetes mellitus in orofacial clefts through studies of medical histories, biomarkers, and genes.
In a study of Utah birth certificates, mothers with pre-existing diabetes and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) had an increased risk of OFCs, and obese mothers also had an increased risk. Mothers of children with OFCs were more likely than mothers of unaffected children to develop obesity, metabolic syndrome and gestational diabetes mellitus later in life. These result were more strongly related to cleft palate than cleft lip. Many genes related to GDM were associated with OFCs through genetic effects alone and gene-environment interaction effects with periconceptional maternal multivitamin use, maternal smoking, and environmental tobacco smoke. These results support the hypothesis that GDM may be causally related to OFCs via multiple GDM susceptibility genes and interactions with environmental factors.
Individuals with OFCs face both physical and mental health problem, which require multi-specialty team care. OFC prevention and prediction are important to public health. This dissertation reported that maternal diabetes mellitus, maternal pre-pregnancy weight and genes related to GDM had an association with the risk of OFCs. Mothers having an OFC child had an increased risk of developing metabolic abnormalities later in life. Potential risk factors were reported in this dissertation that may be useful for OFC prevention. This dissertation also reported potential biomarkers for predicting OFCs. Moreover, mothers having an OFC child may require regular monitoring of metabolic abnormalities later in life.
Da Percepção Empírica à Avaliação de Risco Baseada em Evidências Científicas
Creators: name: Simoes, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Este artigo aborda a evolução da avaliação de riscos, partindo de uma perspectiva empírica e perceptível para uma fundamentada cientificamente, com ênfase na gestão de riscos na indústria alimentar. Iniciamos com a discussão sobre como o risco é inicialmente percebido e identificado através de observações e experiências práticas. Em seguida, exploramos a transição para uma avaliação mais rigorosa e quantitativa, baseada em métodos científicos. A definição de risco da ISO 31000 e o conceito de "risk source" são introduzidos como elementos cruciais na estruturação de uma gestão de riscos eficaz. Além disso, discutimos a importância de se adoptar uma abordagem que se paute pela precaução na estimativa do índice de gravidade do perigo, especialmente em casos que envolvem consequências sérias para a saúde pública: o artigo destaca a relevância do princípio da precaução, conforme adoptado pela União Europeia, como justificativa para uma abordagem mais cautelosa na tomada de decisões relacionadas com a gestão de riscos. Este trabalho visa oferecer uma visão integrada e abrangente sobre a avaliação e gestão de riscos, enfatizando a importância de equilibrar percepções empíricas com análises baseadas em evidências científicas, o princípio da precaução e as vulnerabilidades específicas de certos processos.
title: The Same Ten People (STPs) of Rockville: Volunteerism, Preservation, and Sense of Community in Small-town Southern Utah
Creators: name: Edwards, Tori
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: This thesis examines the central role that volunteerism plays in creating a strong sense of sense of place and community within the town of Rockville, Utah, located 4.7 miles from Zion National Park. Rockville has no commercial businesses within its boundaries and relies heavily upon the volunteer efforts of its residents to carry out the majority of civil services within the town. Drawing from interviews of the STP’s (a group of Rockville residents who volunteer on a regular basis), this thesis highlights how the act of volunteerism helps residents feel membership within their community. This thesis also looks at how the STPs’ participation in town socials, clean-ups, and helping neighbors affected by natural disasters, helps them feel a deeper sense of belonging within their community.