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Changes In The Physiology Of Tall Fescue During Regrowth, Danny J. Donaghy, Lydia R. Turner, K. A. Adamczewski, L. L. Burkitt

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Mechanical And Non-Mechanical Functions Of Filamentous And Non-Filamentous Vimentin, Alison E. Patteson, Amir Vahabikashi, Robert D. Goldman, Paul A. Janmey

Physics - All Scholarship

Intermediate filaments (IFs) formed by vimentin are less understood than their cytoskeletal partners, microtubules and F-actin, but the unique physical properties of IFs, especially their resistance to large deformations, initially suggest a mechanical function. Indeed, vimentin IFs help regulate cell mechanics and contractility, and in crowded 3D environments they protect the nucleus during cell migration. Recently, a multitude of studies, often using genetic or proteomic screenings show that vimentin has many non-mechanical functions within and outside of cells. These include signaling roles in wound healing, lipogenesis, sterol processing, and various functions related to extracellular and cell surface vimentin. Extracellular vimentin …

Carbon Taxes And The Composition Of New Passenger Car Sales In Europe, Orkhan Nadirov, Jana Vychytilová, Bruce Dehning

Accounting Faculty Articles and Research

This paper examines the effectiveness of implementing carbon taxes to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from transport. Using the system Generalized Method of Moments estimator, we utilize cross-country analysis for the first time to study the impact of carbon taxes on the composition of petrol versus diesel passenger cars sold in 17 countries over the period 2013–2017. The results suggest that increasing carbon taxes affects consumer behavior, causing a significant shift from petrol to diesel fuel vehicles, controlling for factors such as the price of passenger cars, fuel price, interest rates, income level, population density, inflation, and vehicle stock.

Improvement Of Manure Quality And Crop Yields By Cattle Supplementation, Maimouna Cissé, M. Diaye, C. M. Dione

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Measurement At Pasture Of Intake, Digestibility And Chemical Composition Of The Diet Of Nursing Ewes, Using Faecal Nirs, Maryline Boval, A. Fanchone, E. Ortega‐Jimenez, G. Alexandre

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Sward Structure And Foraging Behaviour Of Cattle Grazing Reproductive Tropical Pastures, Marcelo A. Benvenutti, I. J. Gordon, Dennis P. Poppi

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Grazing On The Vegetation Of Typical Steppe In Mongolia Plateau, Xiuxia Bao, Jin Yi, Qimuge Wuren, Yong Lian, Buda Su

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Simple Unequal Allocation Procedure For Ranked Set Sampling With Skew Distributions, Dinesh Bhoj, Girish Chandra

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

A practical unbalanced Ranked Set Sampling (RSS) model is proposed to estimate the population mean of positively skewed distributions. The gains in the relative precisions of the population mean based on the proposed model for chosen distributions are uniformly higher than those based on balanced RSS and the t-model proposed in Kaur et al. (1997). The relative precisions of the simple unequal allocation model are, with one exception, better than (s, t)-model which is better than t-model. The relative precision of the proposed model is very close or equal to the optimal Neyman allocation model.

Mapping The Immediate And Prolonged Impacts Of, And Adaptations To, Fire In The Kenai River Fishery, Jordan Smith

Funded Research Records

No abstract provided.

Gw190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger With A Total Mass Of 150  M⊙, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, Marco Cavaglia, For Full List Of Authors, See Publisher's Website.

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

On May 21, 2019 at 03:02:29 UTC Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observed a short duration gravitational-wave signal, GW190521, with a three-detector network signal-to-noise ratio of 14.7, and an estimated false-alarm rate of 1 in 4900 yr using a search sensitive to generic transients. If GW190521 is from a quasicircular binary inspiral, then the detected signal is consistent with the merger of two black holes with masses of 85⁺²¹₋₁₄  M⊙ and 66⁺¹⁷₋₁₈  M⊙ (90% credible intervals). We infer that the primary black hole mass lies within the gap produced by (pulsational) pair-instability supernova processes, with only …

Determining The Structure And Function Of Newly Discovered Immune Systems, Ryan N. Jackson

Funded Research Records

No abstract provided.

Analytic Provenance For Software Reverse Engineers, Wayne C. Henry

Theses and Dissertations

Reverse engineering is a time-consuming process essential to software-security tasks such as malware analysis and vulnerability discovery. During the process, an engineer will follow multiple leads to determine how the software functions. The combination of time and possible explanations makes it difficult for the engineers to maintain a context of their findings within the overall task. Analytic provenance tools have demonstrated value in similarly complex fields that require open-ended exploration and hypothesis vetting. However, they have not been explored in the reverse engineering domain. This dissertation presents SensorRE, the first analytic provenance tool designed to support software reverse engineers. A …

Directional Limits On Persistent Gravitational Waves Using Data From Advanced Ligo’S First Two Observing Runs, Tiffany Summerscales, Ligo Scientific Collaboration And The Virgo Collaboration

Faculty Publications

We perform an unmodeled search for persistent, directional gravitational wave (GW) sources using data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO. We do not find evidence for any GW signals. We place limits on the broadband GW flux emitted at 25 Hz from point sources with a power law spectrum at F_α,Θ<(0.05–25)×10⁻⁸  erg cm⁻² s⁻¹ Hz⁻¹ and the (normalized) energy density spectrum in GWs at 25 Hz from extended sources at Ω_α(Θ)<(0.19–2.89)×10⁻⁸  sr⁻¹ where α is the spectral index of the energy density spectrum. These represent improvements of …

Intake Rate Oscillations At The Meal Scale: The Dynamics Of Feeding Choices For Coping With Diversity On Rangelands, Cyril Agreil, Pascal Monestiez, Juan Villalba

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Recording The Prehensive Bite Diversity In Cows For A Dynamic Analysis Of Foraging Behavior On Diversified Vegetation, Cyril Agreil, Michel Meuret

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Interactions Of Forage Quality And Physiological State On Forage Intake Of Grazing Beef Cows In Autumn, Elaine E. Grings, A. J. Roberts

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Pasture Cropping‐Integrating Livestock And Crop Production For Sustainable Management Of Rangelands In South East Australia, Warwick B. Badgery, C. Seis, Geoff D. Millar

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Precision Pastoralism‐Advanced Systems For Management And Integration Of Livestock And Forage Resources In The Semi‐Arid Rangelands In South Eastern Australia, Ronald B. Hacker, T. J. Thompson, W. K. Murray, Yohannes Alemseged, P. K. Timmers

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Opportunities To Use Secondary Plant Compounds To Manage Diet Selection And Gut Health Of Grazing Herbivores, Dean K. Revell, Andrew Kotze, D. T. Thomas

IGC Proceedings (1993-2023)

No abstract provided.

Direct P-Wave Anisotropy Measurements At Homestake Mine: Implications For Wave Propagation In Continental Crust, James Atterholt, Sarah J. Brownlee, Gary L. Pavlis

Environmental Science and Geology Faculty Research Publications

We measured anisotropic seismic properties of schists of the Homestake Formation located at a depth of 1478 m in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in the Black Hills of South Dakota, USA. We deployed a 24-element linear array of three-component geophones in an area in the Homestake Mine called 19-ledge. An airless jackhammer source was used to shoot two profiles: (1) a walkaway survey to appraise any distance dependence and (2) a fan shot profile to measure variations with azimuth. Slowness estimates from the fan shot profile show a statistically significant deviation with azimuth with the expected 180° variation …

Size Dependence In Chord Characteristics From Simulated And Observed Continental Shallow Cumulus, Philipp J. Griewank, Thijs Heus, Neil P. Lareau, Roel A. J. Neggers

Physics Faculty Publications

© 2020 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved. In this study we compare long-Term Doppler and Raman lidar observations against a full month of large eddy simulations of continental shallow cumulus clouds. The goal is to evaluate if the simulations can reproduce the mean observed vertical velocity and moisture structure of cumulus clouds and their associated subcloud circulations, as well as to establish if these properties depend on the size of the cloud.We propose methods to compare continuous chords of cloud detected from Doppler and Raman lidars with equivalent chords derived from 1D and 3D model output. While …

Novel Antibacterial Compounds And Methods Of Making And Using Same, Amit Basu, Christopher W. Reid, Michael Saladino

Science and Technology Department Faculty Journal Articles

The invention provides novel antibacterial diamide compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds and methods for treating or preventing an infection in a subject using the compounds.

Resummation Of Non-Global Logarithms In Cross Sections With Massive Particles, Marcel Balsiger, Thomas Becher, Andrea Ferroglia

Publications and Research

A factorization formalism for jet processes involving massive colored particles such as the top quark is developed, extending earlier results for the massless case. The factorization of soft emissions from the underlying hard process is implemented in an effec tive field theory framework, which forms the basis for the resummation of large logarithms. The renormalization group evolution giving rise to non-global logarithms is implemented into a parton shower code in the large-Nc limit. After a comparison of the massive and massless radiation patterns, the cross section for t¯ t production with a veto on additional central jet activity is computed, …

Investigation Of The Interaction Of Gadolinium With Several Organic Ligands And Humic Acid By Ligand Competition Using 4-(2-Pyridylazo)-Resorcinol (Par), Spencer Steinberg, Vernon Hodge, Luis Becerra-Hernandez

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Research

Gd3+ forms a strongly colored complex with 4-(2-pyridylazo)-resorcinol (PAR) in aqueous solutions. We characterized the Gd3+-PAR complex in order to use it as a probe of Gd3+ speciation in the presence of environmentally relevant ligands. The formation of the Gd3+-PAR complex was investigated from pH 5 to 8 in the presence of excess PAR. The absorbance of the Gd3+-PAR complex dramatically increased from pH 5 to 8 and application of the method of continuous variation indicates that the complex was primarily 1:2 Gd(PAR)2 at pH 8. Stability constants for Gd3+ with other ligands can be quantified by competitive displacement of …

All-Carbon Conductors For Electronic And Electrical Wiring Applications, Federico Cesano, M. Jasim Uddin, Karen Lozano, Marco Zanetti, Domenica Scarano

Chemistry Faculty Publications and Presentations

Electrical conductors based on carbons have recently attracted a growing interest due to the prospect of replacing metals. Electrical conductors without metals could represent not only an alternative for traditional wiring, but also a step forward in the progress and advancing of technology. This result can be achieved by combining high electrical conductivity with other properties, that are dexterity, light weight, environmental stability, high strength and flexibility. As the best mechanical properties, high electrical/thermal conductivity of the assembled fibers are all generally associated with low concentration of defects in the fiber backbone and in the individual carbon “building blocks”, a …

Synthesis Of Biologically Active Phosphorus Heterocycles, Giri Gnawali

Dissertations

This dissertation work is divided into two parts. The first part is focused in the development of methodology for the synthesis of phostones and phosphonosugars and advancement thereof. The second part is focused in the development of affinity probes based on analogs of natural products cyclophostin and the cyclipostins.

Phostone (3) and phosphonosugars are cyclic phosphonates. The anomeric carbon of sugar is replaced by a phosphorus atom. The synthesis of phostones has been achieved starting form the key intermediate, γ,δ-epoxy vinyl phosphonate (1). The palladium catalyzed ring opening of γ,δ-epoxy vinyl phosphonates by a nucleophile results …

Ansible: Select-To-Edit For Physical Widgets, Benjamin M. Crowder

Theses and Dissertations

Ansible brings select-to-edit functionality to physical widgets. When programming sets of physical widgets, it can be bothersome for a programmer to remember the name of the software object that corresponds to a specific widget. Click-to-edit functionality in GUI programming provides a physical action--moving the mouse to a widget and clicking a button on the mouse--to select a virtual widget. In a similar vein, when programming physical widgets, it is natural to point at a widget and think, "I want to program that one." Ansible allows physical user interface programmers to "click" on a physical widget by making a physical action: …

Simulation Of Grid-Connected Solar Micro-Inverter Based On Fuzzy Pi Controller And Feed-Forward Compensation, Weiliang Liu, Changliang Liu, Huichao Zhang, Yongjun Lin, Liangyu Ma

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Grid-connected solar micro-inverter is a highly nonlinear and time-varying system, so it is difficult to achieve good control effect using traditional PI controller. Small signal analysis model of micro-inverter was established, grid-connected current control strategy composed of fuzzy PI controller and grid voltage feed-forward was put forward, and the initial parameters of PI controller was optimized using the genetic algorithm. Simulation results show that the control strategy has the virtues of good robustness, small dynamic deviation, and could reduce the harmonic content of grid-connected current.

Mitochondrial Oxidative And Nitrosative Stress And Alzheimer Disease, D. Allan Butterfield, Debra Boyd-Kimball

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Oxidative and nitrosative stress are widely recognized as critical factors in the pathogenesis and progression of Alzheimer disease (AD) and its earlier stage, amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI). A major source of free radicals that lead to oxidative and nitrosative damage is mitochondria. This review paper discusses oxidative and nitrosative stress and markers thereof in the brain, along with redox proteomics, which are techniques that have been pioneered in the Butterfield laboratory. Selected biological alterations in—and oxidative and nitrosative modifications of—mitochondria in AD and MCI and systems of relevance thereof also are presented. The review article concludes with a section …

Research Overview On Modeling And Solution Of Aerospace Tt&C Scheduling Problem, Qingqing Yan, Huairong Shen, Qiongling Shao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The research of Aerospace TT&C Scheduling (ATT&CS) is very important, because of its support for TT&C scheme decision-making and TT&C resource net constructing. The classification and resolution flow of the ATT&CS problem were introduced. Then, the modeling methods and related key techniques, such as designing of object function, analysis of constraints, and priority determining, were analyzed. The solving algorithms and conflict resolution methods were summed up, and the major categories of algorithm were evaluated. The main content of scheduling evaluation research was summarized. The possible future researches for related techniques were discussed based on the analysis of development and …