cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gazella dorcas
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Bovidae
Gazella
Gazella dorcas

description: 95. Dorcas Gazelle, Gazella dorcas (Linnaeus, 1758)
(IUCN Red List: VU)
Subspecies: G. d. dorcas (Linnaeus, 1758).
Distribution: Status uncertain; possibly extinct in the wild, this species was extirpated from many parts in Arabia 30–40 years ago (Habibi &Williamson 1997) and is probably extinct in the wild in Syria (Fig. 104).
Previous records: Historical records are available from the vicinity of Tell Abiad (Misonne 1957), east of Sweida (Habibi 1998), and the Yarmuk Valley (Masseti 2004).
Remarks: The species was previously assigned to the Saudi Gazelle Gazella saudiya Carruthers & Schwarz, 1935 but it turned out to be a different taxon (see Groves 1988, Hammond et al. 2001, and Mallon & Kingswood 2001 for a taxonomic revision).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Popular political documentaries : case studies of magnetic media
Creators: name: McIver, DJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The last decade has witnessed an astonishing increase in the popularity and profitability of documentary film. Nine of the top ten grossing documentaries ever have been made since 2002 and a common feature across many of them is their distinct political focus. These films, which include the likes of Fahrenheit 9/11, Super Size Me and An Inconvenient Truth, offer a provocative blend of entertainment and political advocacy while also achieving unprecedented levels of commercial success. This thesis investigates how these popular political documentaries contribute to public knowledge. Utilising methods drawn from textual analysis and media sociology, this research is structured around three case studies focusing on the films listed above. It analyses the production of these films, their textual qualities, and the way they interact with other media, particularly the Australian press. Such an approach brings both a trans-media and trans-national perspective to these films which is sensitive to the increasingly chaotic and convergent media environment we now experience (Jenkins 2006; McNair 2006). The findings of this research suggest that the contribution popular political documentaries make to public knowledge is defined not so much by what the films themselves contain, but by the type of discussion and debate they trigger within the broader media environment. The commercial success of these films and the way they interact with other media encourages new ways of thinking about the relationships between popular culture and political culture, between audiences and media, and between different media forms. In this thesis, the term magnetic media is introduced to describe the complex and ambivalent ways that these films have come to occupy prominent and influential positions within our culture.
title: Serum Alpha-Tocopherol, Cholesterol, and Total Lipid Values and Unsaturation of Lipids in 33- To 60-Year Old Adults on Self-Selected Diets at Different Levels of Polyunsaturated Fat
Creators: name: Christiansen, Marjorie Miner
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1967

description: The levels and weekly variations of certain lipid components were investigated in healthy adults, 33 to 60 years of age, on self-selected diets under home-living conditions with and without an increased proportion of polyunsaturated fats for a period of 26 weeks. Ten individuals served as controls and 16 were assigned to the experimental diet. Each of the groups contained an equal number of men and women. The experimental diet provided a ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acids of approximately one, with the substitution of vegetable oils for animal fats within the normal eating patterns of the participants. The control subjects made no dietary changes.
Dietary intakes were calculated from records reported by the subjects for two days each week, using a food composition table constructed from all available sources of material. The amount of calories as fat was approximately 38 percent for all subjects.
Analyses to determine the alpha-tocopherol, cholesterol and total lipid values, unsaturation of the lipids, and arythrocyte hemolysis were performed on blood collected by finger-tip puncture before breakfast weekly.
Serum alpha-tocopherol and cholesterol values were within normal limits at the start of the study. Initial alpha-tocopherol levels for men and women were approximately the same (mean 0.52 mg per 100 ml.) Cholesterol values for women were higher than those for men (201 and 174 mg per 100 ml, respectively). Total lipids were higher in men than in women (767 and 685 per 100 ml, respectively).
The experimental diet, consisting of highly unsaturated fats, commercially-available, increased the serum tocopherol slightly decreased the serum total lipids slightly, but had no significant effect upon the serum cholesterol despite a significant increase in dietary P:S ratio and a significant decrease in dietary cholesterol. Erythrocyte hemolysis did not increase in the experimental subjects. No linear relationship was found between serum alpha-tocopherol and erythrocyte hemolysis. The dietary vitamin E: polyunsaturated fatty acid ratio decreased in the experimental group but increased in the control group, the difference between the means being significant. No relationship was found between levels of serum cholesterol and serum tocopherol. Unsaturation of the lipids increased for all subjects, the increase being significant with time but not with the diet.
Wide variations in tocopherol and cholesterol were found in sera from the same individual. Increased serum cholesterol levels appeared to coincide with stress or anticipation of stressful situations in several of the subjects.
Momentum flow in black-hole binaries: II. Numerical simulations of equal-mass, head-on mergers with antiparallel spins
Creators: name: Lovelace, Geoffrey
name: Chen, Yanbei
name: Cohen, Michael
name: Kaplan, Jeffrey D.
name: Keppel, Drew
name: Matthews, Keith D.
name: Nichols, David A.
name: Scheel, Mark A.
name: Sperhake, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Research on extracting science from binary-black-hole (BBH) simulations has often adopted a "scattering matrix" perspective: given the binary's initial parameters, what are the final hole's parameters and the emitted gravitational waveform? In contrast, we are using BBH simulations to explore the nonlinear dynamics of curved spacetime. Focusing on the head-on plunge, merger, and ringdown of a BBH with transverse, antiparallel spins, we explore numerically the momentum flow between the holes and the surrounding spacetime. We use the Landau-Lifshitz field-theory-in-flat-spacetime formulation of general relativity to define and compute the density of field energy and field momentum outside horizons and the energy and momentum contained within horizons, and we define the effective velocity of each apparent and event horizon as the ratio of its enclosed momentum to its enclosed mass-energy. We find surprisingly good agreement between the horizons' effective and coordinate velocities. To investigate the gauge dependence of our results, we compare pseudospectral and moving-puncture evolutions of physically similar initial data; although spectral and puncture simulations use different gauge conditions, we find remarkably good agreement for our results in these two cases. We also compare our simulations with the post-Newtonian trajectories and near-field energy-momentum. [Abstract abbreviated; full abstract also mentions additional results.]
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Diapycnal advection by nonlinear processes in the ocean
Creators: name: Klocker, Andreas
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The nonlinear nature of the equation of state of seawater leads to numerous interesting processes in the ocean. Two of the more well-known processes caused by nonlinearities in the equation of state are cabbeling and thermobaricity. Other nonlinearities lead to difficulties in analyzing water-mass transformation on continuous 'density' surfaces due to the ill-defined nature of neutral surfaces. This ill-defined nature of neutral surfaces describes the problem of not being able to globally connect neutral tangent planes, i.e. planes which describe the local mixing direction of fluid particles in the absence of diapycnal mixing, to form a well-defined surface in three-dimensional space. All these processes have been known to exist for quite some time but their impact on ocean circulation and its analysis remains elusive. In this work an algorithm is introduced which improves the description of existing density surfaces to ensure that the resulting surfaces are as close to approximating neutral tangent planes as possible. Because of the remaining slope errors between these continuous 'density' surfaces and the neutral tangent planes, even in the absence of diapycnal mixing processes fluid trajectories penetrate through any continuous 'density' surfaces. This leads to a fictitious diapycnal diffusivity and an extra physical mechanism that achieves mean vertical advection in the ocean through any continuous 'density' surface. Using these accurate density surfaces, the effects of cabbeling, thermobaricity and the diapycnal advection due to the ill-defined nature of neutral surfaces are quantified. It is shown that these processes cause a significant downward diapycnal transport on the order of 6 Sv, concentrated in the Southern Ocean. This additional production of dense water has implications on the ocean's energetics which is discussed in this work. A new form of vertical advection, similar to the diapycnal advection due to the ill-defined nature of neutral surfaces but caused by temporal changes of the ocean's hydrography instead of spatial changes, is also introduced here. Another consequence of the ill-defined nature of neutral surface is the non-existence of a geostrophic streamfunction. New approximate expressions for the geostrophic streamfunction are also developed and are shown to be significantly more accurate than previously available expressions. All the algorithms described and the used to quantify the diapycnal velocities caused by nonlinearities in the equation of state are implemented in Matlab. This code including a user manual is part of this work.
title: Venison Flavor: The Free Fatty Acid Content of Fat from Lean Meat Tissue
Creators: name: Mendenhall, Von T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1967

description: Millions of pounds of venison are harvested each year in the United States. Over 12,000,000 pounds of dressed venison are harvested during the regular season each year in the State of Utah. The hunters of venison contribute approximately 10 1/2 billion dollars to the economy of the state for licenses, lodging, transportation, and other expense of hunting. In many cases this source of meat is a significant part of the household meat supply. Venison is often wasted, however, because of its undesirable flavor. The lack of knowledge as to the causes of variation in venison flavor has prompted this study.
Research into tho causes of variation in venison flavor can contribute significantly to the problems of undesirable flavors and waste by determining the cause and distribution of factors which are responsible for these variations. This primary basic information may aid the hunter in his selection of animals to harvest. Suggestions as to age, sex, season of harvest, and physical condition of the animal may be applicable.
title: Serum Lipid Components of University Women During the Menstrual Cycle
Creators: name: Sang, Hih-min
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1967

description: Four healthy university women students (age 21-26) while on self-selected diets and living under normal living conditions served as experimental subjects in a study of changes of serum total lipids, distribution of lipid classes, and the fatty acid composition of lipid fractions during the menstrual cycle. Effect of meal frequency (2 meals vs 3 meals with no breakfast) was also included.
Total lipids were extracted from serum. Chemical determinations of total lipids, total and free cholesterols, and lipid phosphorous were made on these extracts. Concentration of cholesterol esters and phospholipids were calculated and triglycerides plus free fatty acids were calculated by difference. The total lipids were separated into lipid classes by thin-layer chromatographic method while the methyl esters of fatty acids were analyzed by Gas-Liquid chromatographic method.
The variation between the individual subjects was quite great in this study. Further work using a greater number of subjects, analyses for more days to obtain maximum peaks, and selection of subjects who have menstrual cycles of the same length, such as 28 days, are recommended to clearly identify changes of serum lipid metabolism during the menstrual cycle. Relating these basic data to endocrine excretion values should give information needed for future studies relating abnormal metabolism of lipids to atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease.
title: Lipid Composition of Human Red Blood Cells and White Blood Cell-Platelets with and without Administration of Nicotinic Acid
Creators: name: Tara, Nuggehalli Narayan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1967

description: Five normal, healthy, men (age 33-42) served as experimental subjects. The subjects were on self-chosen diets and received a test-dose of buffered nicotinic acid (Nico-Span in capsule form) of 2 gm daily for three weeks, from the second through the fourth weeks, of the six and one-half week test period. About 30 ml of venous blood was obtained twice weekly from each subject, after an overnight fast of at least 12 hours. Each subject collected a 24-hour urine sample of the day prior to the blood sampling and also kept a record of food eaten.
The blood was separated into serum, red cell, and white cell-platelet samples. Total lipids were extracted from red cells and white cell-platelets. Chemical determinations of total lipids, free and total cholesterol, and lipid phosphorus were made on these extracts. Concentrations of cholesterol ester, and phospholipids were calculated and triglyceride plus free fatty acid were found by difference.
In red cells, on the average, total lipids were increased by 34 mg per 100 ml of red cells during treatment and after discontinuation of the treatment were further increased by 3 mg. Cholesterol esters were decreased by 1 per cent and increased by less than 1 per cent during and after treatment, respectively. Free cholesterol values dropped in the treatment period and then rose in the post-treatment period by small amounts. Triglyceride plus free fatty acids and phospholipid values showed a rise and then drop during and after the treatment respectively, but these changes were slight.
For white cell-platelets, total lipids, on the average, showed a rise of 132 g and a further rise of 90 mg per 100 gm of white cell-platelets during and after the treatment period, respectively. Cholesterol ester showed a drop and a rise of 1 per cent both during and after the treatment; whereas free cholesterol values showed the reverse, an increase first and then a drop of 1 per cent both in treatment and post-treatment period. Mean triglyceride plus free fatty acids values dropped by 1 per cent during treatment and remained the same when the treatment was started, but were increased by 1 per cent when the treatment was discontinued.
It was concluded that total lipid and its components in red cells and white cell-platelets were not affected to a great degree when 2 gm doses of nicotinic acid were administered for a short period of time.
Further work using a greater number of subjects, with a longer study period and increased doses of nicotinic acid is recommended to clearly define the relationship of administration of nicotinic acid and lipid composition of red ells and white cell-platelets.
Functional limit theorems for sums of independent geometric Lévy processes
Creators: name: Kabluchko, Zakhar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $ξ_i$, $i\in \mathbb {N}$, be independent copies of a Lévy process $\{ξ(t),t\geq0\}$. Motivated by the results obtained previously in the context of the random energy model, we prove functional limit theorems for the process \[Z_N(t)=\sum_{i=1}^N\mathrm{e}^{ξ_i(s_N+t)}\] as $N\to\infty$, where $s_N$ is a non-negative sequence converging to $+\infty$. The limiting process depends heavily on the growth rate of the sequence $s_N$. If $s_N$ grows slowly in the sense that $\liminf_{N\to\infty}\log N/s_N>λ_2$ for some critical value $λ_2>0$, then the limit is an Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process. However, if $λ:=\lim_{N\to\infty}\log N/s_N\in(0,λ_2)$, then the limit is a certain completely asymmetric $α$-stable process $\mathbb {Y}_{α;ξ}$.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/10-BEJ299 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
Lattice simulation of a center symmetric three-dimensional effective theory for SU(2) Yang-Mills
Creators: name: Smith, Dominik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform simulations of an effective theory of SU(2) Wilson lines in three dimensions. Our action includes a kinetic term, the one-loop perturbative potential for the Wilson line, a non-perturbative "fuzzy-bag" contribution and spatial gauge fields. We determine the phase diagram of the theory and confirm that, at moderately weak coupling, the non-perturbative term leads to eigenvalue repulsion in a finite region above the deconfining phase transition.
description: To appear in the proceedings of "Strong and Electroweak Matter", Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 26-29, Nucl. Phys. A, in print
The Effective Theory of Inflation in the Standard Model of the Universe and the CMB+LSS data analysis
Creators: name: Boyanovsky, D.
name: Destri, C.
name: de Vega, H. J.
name: Sanchez, N. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inflation is part of the Standard Model of the Universe supported by CMB and large scale structure LSS datasets. This review presents new developments of inflation in three main chapters. (I): The effective theory of inflation a la Ginsburg-Landau (GL): the inflaton potential is a polynomial with universal form making explicit the inflation energy scale M, the Planck mass and the inflation e-folds number N ~ 60. The slow-roll expansion becomes a systematic 1/N expansion and the inflaton couplings are naturally small as powers of (M/M_{Pl})^2. The spectral index (n_s - 1) and the ratio of tensor/scalar fluctuations r are O(1/N), the running index is O(1/N^2). M ~ 0.7 10^{16} GeV is completely determined by the scalar adiabatic fluctuations amplitude. (II): A Monte Carlo Markov Chains (MCMC) analysis of the CMB+LSS data (including WMAP5) with our analytic theoretical results yields: a lower bound for r (new inflation): r > 0.023 (95%CL), r > 0.046 (68%CL); the preferred inflation potential is a double well, even function of the field yielding as most probable values n_s ~ 0.964, r ~ 0.051. This value for r is within reach of forthcoming CMB observations. Slow-roll inflation is generically preceded by a short fast-roll stage which leads to a suppression of the CMB quadrupoles. MCMC analysis of the WMAP+SDSS data shows that fast-roll fits the TT, TE and EE modes well reproducing the quadrupole suppression and fixes the total number of efolds of inflation to be N_{total} ~ 64. (III) Quantum loop corrections are very small and controlled by powers of (H /M_{Pl})^2 ~ 10^{-9} which validates the effective theory of inflation. We show how powerful is the GL theory of inflation in predicting observables.
description: Review article, 134 pages, 41 figures. Int. J. Mod. Phys. A24, 3669-3864 (2009). A few last improvements
title: Effects of Dehydration Processes with Special Reference to Microwave Irradiation on Selected Biochemical and Physical Changes in Apples (Pyrus malus)
Creators: name: Nury, Fredoon Shahin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1967

description: Many innovations have been attempted to shorten drying time or improve dehydration techniques for foods. Despite the recent advances in science and technology the bulk of dried fruit production throughout the world, over 1 1/2 billion tons (dry basis), is prepared by the energy of the sun (Copley and Van Arsdel, 1964), However, other techniques and processes for food dehydration and preservation are occupying more prominent positions in the overall production of dehydrated foods, particularly in the more advanced countries. Economics notwithstanding, it is readily apparent that dehydration as compared to sun-drying offers at least two main advantages. It is more sanitary and it is independent of inclement weather and thus of geographies. These two reasons arc perhaps among the chief ones for the increasing technical developments in dehydration by procedures such as cabinet drying (Beavens, 1944), vacuum drying (Schroeder and Schwarz, 1949), freeze drying (Lawler, 1963) and foam-mat drying (Morgan and Ginnette, 1960). They are perhaps also the reason for continuing research on new and improved dehydration processes which may be adaptable to certain types of products. In this continuing search, electromagnetic waves, which are similar to the more familiar light or radiowaves but differ in frequency and wavelength, have received little attention.
Spectral Formation in X-Ray Pulsars and Associated Identities Involving the Laguerre Polynomials
Creators: name: Becker, Peter A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The partial differential equation governing the formation of the radiation spectrum in the shocked plasma accreting onto an x-ray pulsar is solved to obtain the associated Green's function describing the scattering of monochromatic radiation injected into the plasma at a fixed altitude above the star. Collisions between the photons and the infalling electrons cause both the ordered and random components of the plasma energy to be transferred to the radiation, which escapes by diffusing through the walls of the accretion column. The analytical solution for the Green's function provides important physical insight into the formation of the observed spectra in x-ray pulsars. Interesting mathematical aspects of the problem include the establishment of a new summation formula involving the Laguerre polynomials, based on the calculation of the photon number density via integration of the Green's function.
description: published in JMP
Gazella gazella
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Bovidae
Gazella
Gazella gazella

description: 96. Mountain Gazelle, Gazella gazella (Pallas, 1766)
(IUCN Red List: EN)
Subspecies: G. g. gazella (Pallas, 1766).
Distribution: Uncertain status, apparently rare; confined to the mountainous habitat in northwest and southwest of Syria (Fig. 105).
Previous records: Khneiz (Misonne 1957); Jabal Druze (Houran mount) (Groves & Lay 1985), and Mount Hermon (Evans 1994).
Remarks: This species may still exist in southwestern Syria (see Evans 1994). Unverified record of a hunted G. gazella was reported south of Hadar in 1991. It is worth mentioning that this species still occurs in Hatay Province (Iskenderun) in eastern Turkey (see Çoğala & Sözenb 2017) which may have occurred in northwestern Syria in the past.
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
title: The Basis of Browsing Tolerance in Shrubs of the Intermountain West: Growth Rates and Meristematic Potential
Creators: name: Wandera, Jackson L
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1990

description: Relative growth rates (RGRs) and meristematic potential of big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata, in some experiments ssp. tridentata Nutt. and in other experiments ssp. vaseyana [Rydb] Beetls), bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata [Pursh] DC), serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia Nutt.), birchleaf mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus montanus Raf.), curlleaf mountain mahogany (C. ledifolius Nutt.) and big tooth maple (Acer grandidentatum Nutt.) were quantified under both glasshouse and field conditions. The relationships between the RGRs, meristematic potential and regrowth capacity of the shrub species were then determined. Sagebrush exhibited a significantly higher RGR than the other species at both high and low nutrient levels under glasshouse conditions. Four of the other shrub species had similar RGRs. The shrub species also exhibited different patterns of biomass and nutrient allocation. Sagebrush allocated most of its resources to leaf production, and in contrast, the other species tended to allocate similar amounts of resources to both leaf and root production. In the glasshouse experiment, neither RGRs nor patterns of biomass and nutrient allocation were related to growth form. Under field conditions, curlleaf and birchleaf mountain mahogany exhibited similar RGRs while both serviceberry and maple had similar but significantly lower growth rates. Except for sagebrush, which died following simulated browsing, four other shrub species exactly compensated for lost tissues. The mean RGRs of those shrub species were correlated significantly with compensatory growth capacity. Loss of 90% of buds on previous year's growth did not cause a meristematic constraint to regrowth production. Instead, it stimulated regrowth production. The shrub species we evaluated also exhibited differences in meristematic potential. Curlleaf and birchleaf mountain mahogany had a greater number of buds and long shoots per plant but a lower percentage of long shoots at the basal position on twigs. In contrast, serviceberry and maple had fewer buds and long shoots per plant but a higher percentage of long shoots at the basal position on twigs. The meristematic potential of the shrub species correlated with regrowth capacity.
Irreducible tensor-form of the relativistic corrections to the M1 transition operator
Creators: name: Nemouchi, M.
name: Godefroid, M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relativistic corrections to the magnetic dipole moment operator in the Pauli approximation were derived originally by Drake (Phys. Rev. A 3(1971)908). In the present paper, we derive their irreducible tensor-operator form to be used in atomic structure codes adopting the Fano-Racah-Wigner algebra for calculating its matrix elements.
description: 26 pages
title: The Effects of Reprimands and Work Observation with Pay Loss on the Maintenance and Generalization of High-Quality Work by Developmentally Disabled Adults in Community Work Settings
Creators: name: Lignugaris/Kraft, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1987

description: The purpose of these studies was to examine the effects of reprimands, a mild disciplinary procedure, and work observation and pay loss, a severe disciplinary procedure on the maintenance of high-quality work among mild developmentally disabled individuals employed as housekeepers. In general, participants were more responsive to reprimands after work observation and pay loss was applied. In addition, the increased sensitivity to reprimands appeared to generalize to other work settings for one participant. While participants' work quality varied across conditions, their work rate was relatively stable. These results are discussed in terms of other research that examined the use of reprimands in work settings.
Appraisal of raw material resource position for meeting the demands of the Indian pulp and paper industry with emphasis on intensive management of bamboo forests in Andhra Pradesh
Creators: name: Yeada, Ramomohan Rao
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Andhra Pradesh is one of the seventeen states of India, occupying about 8.5 per cent of the total geographical area of the nation and supporting the same percentage of population and forests. The per capita consumption of paper and paper products in India was 1.5 kg in 1965 and was planned to be raised to 7.0 kg by the end of the sixth five-year plan (1980-81). The expected growth of the pulp and paper industry appears to be much less than the probable future demand will be. This industry has grown slowly because of inadequate profit margins and lack of an assured supply of raw material. Although bamboo is the conventional raw material used for making writing paper in India, it is possible to produce a satisfactory grade of writing paper with a 20:80 mixture of bamboo and hard wood pulp. The provincial government (through its Forest Department) should attract capital and stimulate growth in the pulp and paper industry by offering incentives such as long leases on bamboo forests and tax concessions for improved utilization of land and raw material. The Forest Department also should initiate large scale bamboo plantations to bridge the widening gap between supply and demand. All the budget allotment towards plantations of quick growing species would have to be devoted to bamboo plantations to achieve the provincial targets of the fifth five-year plan in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
title: Feathers and Steel: A Folkloric Study of Cockfighting in Northern Utah
Creators: name: Walker, Jesse Lloyd
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1986

description: The scope of this thesis is to make a statement on the sport of cockfighting as it is practiced in the counties of northern Utah. It is a sport that has a long and colorful history, a unique body of lore and is practiced by serious, dedicated men.
Cockfighting history emanated from the Manu code of India through the Greek and Roman civilizations, spreading from there both east and west till it girdled the globe. The Roman traditions largely influenced the English Cockers who brought their sport to the American colonies. The southern gentry were quick to adopt the sport, where it continues to flourish to this day.
The sport spread west with the frontier and found its way to Utah early in the state's history. The Utah cockers follow the traditions of the southern cockers with some influence from the Mexican methods.
I was introduced to cockfighting at age fourteen and have been a devotee since. Through my studies in folklore I developed a keen interest in the body of folklore inherent in the sport. The methods of feeding, conditioning and fighting the battle cock are greatly influenced by folk practice. The concept I have labeled "folklaw" is also present as it applies to cockfighting.
The folklaw concept is the way the tension is resolved between the folk group engaged in an illegal sport and the law enforcement arm of the parent society. The code of the cockers is also protected in some degree by the same enforcement arm.
The cockers function as a folk group by passing tradition, craft ways and tales from one generation to the next. Because of the illegality of their sport, the cocker groups have a natural insularity. This makes for group coherence and integrity.
The cocker groups have a rich body of lore and ways that needs to be observed in the light of reason and impartiality rather than in the glare of media sensationalism. This study attempts to fulfill that purpose.
Sheaves on T-topologies
Creators: name: Edmundo, Mario J.
name: Prelli, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18F20, 18F10

description: The aim of this paper is to give a unifying description of various constructions (subanalytic, semialgebraic, o-minimal site) using the notion of T-topology. We then study the category of T-sheaves.
description: 31 pages, uses xy-pic, revised version
title: Path Following by a Quadrotor Using Virtual Target Pursuit Guidance
Creators: name: Manjunath, Abhishek
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Quadrotors, being more agile than fixed-wing vehicles, are the ideal candidates for autonomous missions in small, compact spaces. The immense challenge to navigate such environments is fulfilled by the concept of path following. Path following is the method of tracking/tracing a fixed, pre-defined path with minimum position error while exerting the lowest possible control effort.
In this work, the missile guidance technique of pure pursuit is adopted and modified for a 3D quadrotor model to follow fixed, compact trajectories. A specialized hardware testing platform is developed to test this algorithm. The results obtained from simulation and flight tests are compared to results from another technique called differential flatness. A small part of this thesis also deals with the stability analysis of the modified 3D pure pursuit algorithm to track trajectories expending lower control effort.
Additional file 1 of Hypoxia-cleavable and specific targeted nanomedicine delivers epigenetic drugs for enhanced treatment of breast cancer and bone metastasis
Creators: name: Li, Zhaofeng
name: Liu, Peixin
name: Chen, Wei
name: Liu, Xueying
name: Tong, Fan
name: Sun, Junhui
name: Zhou, Yang
name: Lei, Ting
name: Yang, Wenqin
name: Ma, Dong
name: Gao, Huile
name: Qin, Yi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
title: Geologists and the British Raj, 1870-1910
Creators: name: Tolman, Aja B.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: The Geological Survey of India (GSI) was a government institution that was created to map the geography and mineral resources of colonial India. British geologists Thomas Oldham and Valentine Ball used the GSI in order to affect policy changes regarding museum ownership, environmental conservation, and railroad construction. All of these policies were intended to impose order on the landscape and streamline the resource extraction process. Their goal was to enrich the British Empire. An Indian geologist named Pramatha Nath Bose, who also worked for the GSI for a time, also worked to enact policy changes regarding education and production. But instead of trying to make the British Empire stronger, he wanted to push it out of India. He left the GSI since he found it too restrictive, and, together with other Indians, restructured geological education at the university level and set up a successful steel manufacturing mill. Both the British geologists and Bose helped lay the economic foundation of India's independence. The GSI gave geologists power in some situations, but in others it restricted the advancement of the field.
title: Control of Large Stands of Phragmites australis in Great Salt Lake, Utah Wetlands
Creators: name: Cranney, Chad R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Phragmites australis (hereafter Phragmites) often forms dense monocultures, which displace native plant communities and alter ecosystem functions and services. Managers tasked with controlling this plant need science-backed guidance on how to control Phragmites and restore native plant communities. This study took a large-scale approach - to better match the scale of actual restoration efforts - to compare two herbicides (glyphosate vs. imazapyr) and application timings (summer vs. fall). Five treatments were applied to 1.2 ha plots for three consecutive years: 1) summer glyphosate; 2) summer imazapyr; 3) fall glyphosate; 4) fall imazapyr; and 5) untreated control. Dead Phragmites following herbicide treatments was mowed in the first two years. Efficacy of treatments and the response of native plant communities were monitored for three years. We report that fall herbicide applications were superior to summer applications. No difference was found between the two herbicides in their ability to reduce Phragmites cover. Plant communities switched from emergent to open water communities and were limited by Phragmites litter and water depth. Although, some plant communities showed a slow trajectory towards one of the reference sites, cover of important native emergent plants did not increase until year three and remained below 10%. These results suggest that fall is the best time to apply herbicides for effective large-scale control of Phragmites. Active restoration (e.g. seeding) may be needed to gain back important native plant communities. Methods to reduce Phragmites litter after herbicide applications should be considered.
title: Confirmation of a New Geometric and Kinematic Model of the San Andreas Fault at Its Southern Tip, Durmid Hill, Southern California
Creators: name: Markowski, Daniel K.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: The southern - 100 km long Coachella section of the San Andreas fault is the only section of the fault in southern California that has not experienced a historical earthquake, and it may be the most overdue section of the fault. Numerical models of rupture propagation shows that a large earthquake with a nucleation one in the Durmid Hill field area would produce particularly destructive and deadly ground shaking in southern California. This is used as the model earthquake for the ShakeOut exercises in southern California because it is may represent the worst-case scenario for southern California but does not appear to be a very likely scenario following this research.
Building on existing geologic mapping that shows major Pleistocene to Holocene contraction near the hypothesized nucleation, we use geologic mapping to develop and validate a competing geometric and kinematic model for the southern tip of the San Andreas Fault. A ladder-like-fault model explains the widespread contraction in the Durmid Hill study area as the result of contraction between the main strand of the San Andreas fault and East Shoreline strand. The East Shoreline strand of the San Andreas fault is the newly discovered fault and is dispersed across a zone between 0.5 to 1 km wide, and encompasses an area on the northeast shore of the Salton Sea. There is persistent and strong contraction across the entire - 1.5 to 3.5 km wide San Andreas fault zone because both dextral "side-rail" faults are counterclockwise, and in a contractional bend, relative to current plate motions. This contractional bend was previously documented for the main strand of San Andreas fault.
A new digital geologic map and field studies document the stratigraphy and structures at a range of scales between Bombay Beach and Salt Creek. Numerous folds, narrow strike-slip and oblique-slip faults, and sheared damaged rocks in latest Miocene (?) to Holocene sediment lie within the wide and very complex damage zone of the main strand of the San Andreas fault zone. The East Shoreline strand of the San Andreas fault system buffers the main strand from major stress changes produced by deformation along the sinistral to sinistral-normal Extra fault array under the Salton Sea.
Sub-Planck scale structures in the P{ö}schl-Teller potential and their sensitivity to perturbations
Creators: name: Roy, Utpal
name: Ghosh, Suranjana
name: Panigrahi, P. K.
name: Vitali, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find the existence of sub-Planck scale structures in the P{ö}schl-Teller potential, which is an exactly solvable potential with both symmetric and asymmetric features. We analyze these structures in both cases by looking at the Wigner distribution of the state evolved from an initial coherent state up to various fractional revival times. We also investigate the sensitivity to perturbations of the P{ö}schl-Teller potential and we verify that, similar to the harmonic oscillator, the presence of sub-Planck structure in phase space is responsible for a high sensitivity to phase-space displacements.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, replaced with revised version. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A
Finite-dimensional vertex algebra modules over fixed point differential subfields
Creators: name: Tanabe, Kenichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B69

description: Let $K$ be a differential field over $\C$ with derivation $D$, $G$ a finite linear automorphism group over $K$ which preserves $D$, and $K^G$ the fixed point subfield of $K$ under the action of $G$. We show that every finite-dimensional vertex algebra $K^G$-module is contained in some twisted vertex algebra $K$-module.
description: 26 pages, some mistakes are corrected
An investigation into the vibrational response of structural components : with particular reference to reinforced concrete
Creators: name: Mickleborough, NC
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Two very important structural engineering areas, the design and analysis of reinforced concrete and vibration analysis, have been linked in this thesis. The thesis presents an understanding of the mechanism of the response for reinforced concrete to vibration forces. The formulation of the equations of motion for structural elements have been presented together with some of the methods of solution for these equations. A technique of vibration functions for the solution of resonant frequency and mode shape has been developed for structures and structural elements. Together with these functions, a linearisation technique to aid in the solution is given. The use of these functions is illustrated by comprehensive examples worked in full and comparisons of results for steel frames under test. The responses to vibration of five reinforced concrete beams and two reinforced concrete portal frames have been studied. The adjustable magnitude of vibration and continuously variable excitation frequency enabled the response of the structures to be studied under variable control parameters. The variation of resonant frequency with amplitude for the structures tested is presented and comparisons are made throughout with suitable analysis and design methods. The computational problems associated with non-linear vibrations of reinforced concrete are discussed. The study of the crack propagation,during the vibration of reinforced concrete beams, indicates that the criteria governing crack height and spacing is substantially the same as for the beam subjected to statically loaded conditions. The vibration conditions imposed on the two reinforced concrete portal frames indicate in some cases severe cracking and problems associated with the spalling of concrete. In particular the corner details of frames subject to vibration require careful detailing and close supervision in construction to minimise the occurence of cracking and spalling. Measured values of damping for the reinforced concrete beams vary from less than 1% to approximately 5%, of critical viscous damping, with the majority of values lying between 1% and 3%. Magnitudes of damping were marginally higher for the portal frames, varying between approximately 2% and 8% of critical viscous damping for the two mode shapes investigated. Damping was shown to be dependent on the variation of the magnitude of resonant frequency and consequently depend-ent on the extent of crack formation. The greater the crack formation, the higher the value of damping.
title: Effects of Environmental Water Rights Purchases on Dissolved Oxygen, Stream Temperature, and Fish Habitat
Creators: name: Mouzon, Nathaniel R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Human impacts from land and water development have degraded water quality and altered the physical, chemical, and biological integrity of Nevada's Walker River. Reduced instream flows and increased nutrient concentrations affect native fish populations through warm daily stream temperatures and low nightly dissolved oxygen concentrations. Environmental water purchases are being considered to maintain instream flows, improve water quality, and enhance habitat for native fish species, such as Lahontan cutthroat trout. This study uses the River Modeling System (RMSv4), an hourly, physically-based hydrodynamic and water quality model, to estimate streamflows, temperatures, and dissolved oxygen concentrations in the Walker River. Stream temperature and dissolved oxygen changes were simulated from potential environmental water purchases to prioritize the time periods and locations that water purchases most enhance stream temperatures and dissolved oxygen concentrations for aquatic habitat. Environmental water purchases ranged from 0.03 cms to 1.41 cms average daily increases. Modeling results indicate that increased water purchases generally affect dissolved oxygen in two ways. First, environmental water purchases increase the thermal mass of the river, cooling daily stream temperatures and warming nightly temperatures. This prevents conditions that cause the lowest nightly dissolved oxygen concentrations (moderate production impairment thresholds are
title: Exploiting Adaptive Techniques to Improve Processor Energy Efficiency
Creators: name: Chen, Hu
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Rapid device-miniaturization keeps on inducing challenges in building energy efficient microprocessors. As the size of the transistors continuously decreasing, more uncertainties emerge in their operations. On the other hand, integrating more and more transistors on a single chip accentuates the need to lower its supply-voltage. This dissertation investigates one of the primary device uncertainties - timing error, in microprocessor performance bottleneck in NTC era. Then it proposes various innovative techniques to exploit these opportunities to maintain processor energy efficiency, in the context of emerging challenges. Evaluated with the cross-layer methodology, the proposed approaches achieve substantial improvements in processor energy efficiency, compared to other start-of-art techniques.