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Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts
No full textCitation: K-State First (2016). Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts [Flier]. Manhattan, Kansas: K-State First.Flyer advertising Joshua Davis's author talk at Kansas State University
Steven Johnson Author Talk Poster
No full textK-State Book NetworkA poster advertising an author talk by Steven Johnson at Kansas State University on September 3, 2014. Steven Johnson's book "The Ghost Map" was the 2014-2015 common book
The Ellrott grab: A small, lightweight sediment sampler for collecting undisturbed sandy sediments
No full textSampling sandy surface sediments is an important first step in understanding biogeochemical processes in these dynamic environments. However, sampling such sediments poses several challenges, especially when undisturbed samples with porewater are required. Several grab samplers are commercially available, but they are either prone to sample loss, too heavy or bulky for use in small vessels, or those with spring-loaded mechanisms present safety issues. Here, we present the Ellrott grab, a lightweight sediment sampler designed for collecting undisturbed surface sediments including porewater and overlying bottom seawater. The sampler consists of a frame and a rotating bowl that can collect 370 cm2 of surface sediments up to 10 cm deep (2.5 liters total volume). The instrument is 40 x 60 cm in size, has a basic weight of 10 kg, with up to 20 kg additional weights for stability in sandy sediments. Two persons can operate the grab and it can be used on small boats with a crane and winch system or a hand winch. The grab is now in routine use in the Wadden Sea and in Isfjorden, Svalbard. The samples obtained from the grab were suitable for various geochemical and microbial analyses. Using microelectrodes, we found that in situ oxygen profiles were similar to ex situ profiles in cores subsampled from the grab, confirming that the grab causes minimal disturbance to the sample. Although the grab was designed for collecting sandy sediments, it could also be applied to silty sediments, allowing straightforward and efficient sampling of various sediment types
PROSPECT II: protein structure prediction program for genome-scale applications
No full textA new method for fold recognition is developed and added to the general protein structure prediction package PROSPECT (http://compbio.ornl.gov/PROSPECT/). The new method (PROSPECT II) has four key features. (i) We have developed an efficient way to utilize the evolutionary information for evaluating the threading potentials including singleton and pairwise energies. (ii) We have developed a two-stage threading strategy: (a) threading using dynamic programming without considering the pairwise energy and (b) fold recognition considering all the energy terms, including the pairwise energy calculated from the dynamic programming threading alignments. (iii) We have developed a combined z-score scheme for fold recognition, which takes into consideration the z-scores of each energy term. (iv) Based on the z-scores, we have developed a confidence index, which measures the reliability of a prediction and a possible structure-function relationship based on a statistical analysis of a large data set consisting of threadings of 600 query proteins against the entire FSSP templates. Tests on several benchmark sets indicate that the evolutionary information and other new features of PROSPECT II greatly improve the alignment accuracy. We also demonstrate that the performance of PROSPECT II on fold recognition is significantly better than any other method available at all levels of similarity. Improvement in the sensitivity of the fold recognition, especially at the superfamily and fold levels, makes PROSPECT II a reliable and fully automated protein structure and function prediction program for genome-scale applications
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Meat products with different contents of fat and dietary fibre - Effects on body weight and cardiovascular risk factors
No full textReplacement of meat products and sausages with the usual fat content by fat-reduced and dietary fibre (Inulin) enriched products has been found to lead to a low, but significant weight reduction and reduction of cardiovascular risk factors in men with high consumption of high-fat sausages under ad-libitum conditions within 8 weeks. According to the most recent guidelines of the German Obesity Society, reducing fat intake is the first-line strategy in the dietary treatment of overweight and obesity. In persons with a high consumption of sausages, dietary-fibre enriched products may lead to a relevant increase of dietary fibre intake and thus help to reach the D-A-CH recommendation of 30 g/day dietary fibre
Meat products with different contents of fat and dietary fibre - Effects on body weight and cardiovascular risk factors
No full textReplacement of meat products and sausages with the usual fat content by fat-reduced and dietary fibre (Inulin) enriched products has been found to lead to a low, but significant weight reduction and reduction of cardiovascular risk factors in men with high consumption of high-fat sausages under ad-libitum conditions within 8 weeks. According to the most recent guidelines of the German Obesity Society, reducing fat intake is the first-line strategy in the dietary treatment of overweight and obesity. In persons with a high consumption of sausages, dietary-fibre enriched products may lead to a relevant increase of dietary fibre intake and thus help to reach the D-A-CH recommendation of 30 g/day dietary fibre
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Effects of leptin on platelet aggregation in morbidly obese compared to lean individuals
No full textExpanding “Communities and Collections” in the K-State Research Exchange (K-REx) to benefit the K-State Community and Beyond
No full textKansas State University has used its institutional repository, the K-State Research Exchange (K-REx), to store and share its first year experience program, K-State First, and notably its common reading program, K-State First Book. We have done so with the aim that the accessibility and preservation of these documents ensures program stability, promotes engagement with first year programming, and provides the ability to foster growth,educational opportunities, and community building outside of K-State. Moving away from research concentrated repositories and taking a more holistic approach to scholarship, especially when realizing the pedagogical significance of collaborative campus programming, institutions can showcase, discover, preserve, and grow programs that shape campus communities and engagement.
This session will provide an overview of K-REx and spotlight the digital archive of the university’s first year experience program and common reading program, K-State First Book. We will discuss the benefits and challenges to expanding the purview of your repositories. We talkthrough the types of materials we decide to host in our repository and why we share what we do. We will also provide recommendations on new ways to evaluate what belongs in institutional repositories and how this diversity can benefit your program, your institution, the community, and others
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