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Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes September 23, 2024
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Faculty Senate Minutes November 4, 2024
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Forest Defoliation by and Invasive Outbreak Insect: Catastrophic Consequences for a Charismatic Mega Moth
Get PDFEarth is now experiencing declines in insect abundance and diversity unparalleled in human history. The drivers underlying those declines are many, complex, and incompletely known. Here, using a natural experiment, we report the first test of the hypothesis that forest defoliation by an invasive outbreak insect compromises the fitness of a native insect via damage-induced increases in toxicity of the forest canopy. We demonstrate that defoliation by the invasive spongy moth (Lymantria dispar) elicits an average 8.4-fold increase in foliar defense expression among aspen (Populus tremuloides) genotypes. In turn, elevated defense dramatically reduces survivorship, feeding, and growth of a charismatic mega moth (Anthereae polyphemus). This work suggests that changes to the phytochemical landscape of forests, mediated by invasive outbreak insects, are likely to negatively impact native insects, with potential repercussions for community diversity and ecosystem function across expansive scales
Utah Farmers Market Manager Handbook
Get PDFWelcome to the Utah Farmers Market Manager Handbook, designed by the Utah Farmers Market Network for market managers like you! We’re thrilled to support you in your job as a market manager by providing this Handbook of information and tools you’ll need to start a market from scratch or to grow your market, along with helpful links and resources, tips, and best practices for running a successful market
2023 Utah Farmers Market Data
Get PDFIn 2023, the Utah Farmers Market Network collected customer, vendor, and manager data from three Utah markets. This data is shared for public use in an infographic style for ease of interpretation
Skills to Support Mental Health in Uncertain Times, Part 1: Being Open
Get PDFThis fact sheet describes the skill of being open, an important component of psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility, being able to respond to uncomfortable thoughts and feelings in a flexible and values-aligned way, can help protect and improve an individual\u27s quality of life. Openness includes learning to accept uncomfortable thoughts and sensations rather than pushing them away. The fact sheet includes exercises that research has shown can help increase openness. Two other fact sheets are part of this Skills to Support Mental Health in Uncertain Times series, including Part 2: Cultivating Awareness, and Part 3: Being Engaged
Program Evaluation of Online and Face-to-Face College and Career Readiness and its Effect on Degree Utilization in Community College Graduates
Get PDFSalt Lake Community College has adopted the Pathway initiative as a part of its long-term strategic plan. Pathway is a student-centered approach to redesigning the college experience by assessing student experience to reorganize and re-present degree programs. Currently, SLCC focuses on adjusting class pedagogy and curriculum to equip students with core college and career readiness (CCR) skills and determine if graduates are utilizing their degree. The Gail Miller School of Business offers students the option of completing their degree online or face-to-face and choosing between degrees aimed at transferring to other institutions or entering a career. However, they are currently missing data on their graduates\u27 CCR and degree utilization for both delivery methods and degree types. This study examines self-assessed CCR among online and face-to-face business graduates to assess and benchmark the Gail Miller School of Business programs. This study also assesses what factors contribute to graduates utilizing their degree for its intended purpose or not. Frequencies, percentages, Mann-Whitney U, two-way ANOVA, multiple regression, Kendall\u27s Tau correlations, and linear regression are statistics used to compare online to face-to-face graduates to determine what factors influence whether a business school graduate will utilize their degree. The results found differences in the online and face-to-face respondents from this study in CCR skill development. The results also indicated that GPA was a factor that influenced CCR development, and that degree utilization was affected by experiential learning and self-determination
The Path of Least Resistance: Optimizing Metadata Practices Through User Assessment
Get PDFAs part of a multi-faceted research project examining user engagement with various types of descriptive metadata to improve metadata services, Utah State University Libraries Cataloging and Metadata Services unit investigated user search behavior in library catalog (MARC) records, Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids, and most recently in digital collection metadata. The authors used web log analysis to determine how users interacted with CONTENTdm, categories of search terms used, and where search terms were found in a record. Key findings included that navigation through CONTENTdm using clickable queries (links) is a prominent user search pattern, dates are an important faceting tool and date ranges as a clickable link are heavily used, users demonstrated a more engaged research pattern when searching with geographic terms, and subject and transcription metadata fields match user search terms at a significant rate and are likely to be high drivers of search results
Data From: Unveiling the Physical Properties Predictive of Oil Binding Capacity in an Interesterified Palm-Based Fat
No full textThis paper identifies physical properties of an interesterified palm-based fat (EIEPO) that predict oil binding capacity (OBC). A 100% EIEPO sample, 50% EIEPO sample diluted with 50% soybean oil (SBO), and a 20% EIEPO sample diluted with 80% SBO were used to test how saturation level impacts OBC. All samples were crystallized using either a fast (6.4°C/min) or slow (0.1°C/min) cooling rate as well as with or without the application of high-intensity ultrasound (HIU; 20kHz) to generate a wide range of physical properties. Immediately after crystallization, the sample\u27s physical properties, including crystal microstructure, solid fat content (SFC), viscoelasticity (G\u27, G , and d), melting behavior, hardness, and OBC (centrifuge method) were quantified. The samples were then stored for 48 h at 22 °C and 5 °C and the aforementioned physical properties were measured again, with one additional measurement for the samples stored at 5 °C - OBC using a filter paper method (OBCp). The results indicate that OBC can be optimized in a palm-based fat by modifying the physical properties which was achieved via the processing conditions. Both measurements of OBC were significantly correlated with SFC, hardness, d, and enthalpy. A model was developed to predict a sample\u27s OBCc using the following dominant variables - SFC, hardness, peak temperature, enthalpy, and the number of crystals. These results suggest that OBC can be predicted using a sample\u27s SFC, hardness, peak temperature, enthalpy, and number of crystals and that SFC, hardness, and enthalpy are main drivers of OBC
Academic Standards Subcommittee Minutes December 19, 2024
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