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Kevin Blanke, Petitioner, V. Utah Board Of Pardons And Parole, Respondent. : Reply Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Reply Brief of Appellant

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UTAH COURT OF APPEALS

State Of Utah, Plaintiff And Appellee, V. Frank Val Modes, Defendant/Appellant. : Reply Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Reply Brief of Appellant Frank Val Modes

Appeal from the Third District Court- Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, from a
conviction of one First Degree Felony before the Honorable Judge Keith Kelly

Young Chinese Wechat Users' Brand Following Behavior, Wonsun Shin, Yan Huo

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

Brand-following of consumers on social media constitutes an important return on investment (ROI) index in digital marketing. However, little is known to date regarding brand-following behaviors of young Chinese social media users on Chinese social media platforms, in addition to the factors associated with them. In this study, our in-depth interviews with 20 emerging adults who followed brands through WeChat indicated that materialistic values, brand-related peer communication, and parents’ opinions regarding different product categories impact the brand-following behaviors of young consumers. The interviews also demonstrated that young people’s brand-following affected their intentions to post brand-related messages that were pertinent to …

Percieved Threat Of Homosexuals In Indonesia: Construct, Measurement, And Correlates, Susana Tjipto, Elisabeth Haksi Mayawati, Allan B. I. Bernardo

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

In Indonesia, homonegativity still exists and acts of violence against homosexual groups still happen, but there has not been much research on aspects of this homonegativity beyond inquiring into general attitudes towards homosexuals. This study has several aims: to qualitatively explore dimensions of perceived threat, to develop a measure of perceived threat of homosexuals, and to study some correlates and perceived threat of homosexuals in Indonesian samples. We used a mixed-method approach (qualitative-quantitative) to gather the data. Study 1 is a qualitative study that seeks to identify expressions and dimensions of perceived threat of homosexuals using thematic analysis of responses …

Personality, Polyculturalism, And Cultural Intelligence: A Cross-Cultural Survey Study, Allan B. I. Bernardo

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

The ability to function effectively in intercultural contexts is increasingly important in our globalized world. This ability has been conceptualized as cultural intelligence (or CQ), and many studies have focused on the factors associated with high CQ. The present study explored personality traits and the lay theory of polyculturalism as factors that predict CQ in two cultural groups (300 Chinese, 247 Filipinos) of university students. The respondents completed a questionnaire that included scales measuring the Big Five personality factors, polyculturalism, and CQ. Hierarchical regression analyses of questionnaire responses from the two samples indicated that consistent with the previous literature, openness …

Assalamualaikum Bejing Repackaged: Habitus, Symbolic Power And Indonesian Cultural Production, Alberta Natasia Adji

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

This article explores the adaptation of Asma Nadia’s Assalamualaikum Beijing from novel to film to comic book as the reproduction of symbolic cultural goods. According to Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, people are conditioned to perform repetitive acts devoid of any preceeding consideration or deliberation, while symbolic power represents the tacit modes of social/cultural domination ingrained and preserved through everyday social practices. Taking a sociology of literature approach, this study discovers that the habitus of the Indonesian canon literary tradition has hindered contemporary literary works from achieving the same level of legitimacy through the boundary work performed by literary awards. Contemporary …

Attracting And Retaining Young Workforce In Indonesia: Does Person-Organization (P-O) Fit Matter?, Dina Sartika

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

Rooted in the similarity−attraction−attrition paradigm, Cable and Judge’s framework has been one of the leading models in explaining Person−Organization fit. It associates perceived value congruence with employee work attitudes pre and post their entry. This study extends the model and findings by looking at the specific, underlying value dimensions that cause these effects. Drawing on a sample of 800 Indonesian jobseekers, I applied polynomial regression to test the model. Results showed that congruence between personal and organizational social responsibility value was the strongest and most consistent dimension predicting employee job satisfaction and organizational commitment.

Isolation Of Anticancer And Anti-Trypanosome Secondary Metabolites From The Endophytic Fungus Aspergillus Flocculus Via Bioactivity Guided Isolation And Ms Based Metabolomics, Mohamed Ali Farag

Faculty Journal Articles

This study aims to identify bioactive anticancer and anti-trypanosome secondary metabolites from the fermentation culture of Aspergillus flocculus endophyte assisted by modern metabolomics technologies. The endophyte was isolated from the stem of the medicinal plant Markhamia platycalyx and identified using phylogenetics. Principle component analysis was employed to screen for the optimum growth endophyte culturing conditions and revealing that the 30-days rice culture (RC-30d) provided the highest levels of the bioactive agents. To pinpoint for active chemicals in endophyte crude extracts and successive fractions, a new application of molecular interaction network is implemented to correlate the chemical and biological profiles of …

Manufacturing Of Wood–Plastic Composite Boards And Their Mechanical And Structural Characteristics,, Passant Youssef, Khaled Nassar, Mohamed Darwish, Salah El Haggar

Faculty Journal Articles

Engineered wood products including wood-plastic composites have been manufactured with different mix designs and different manufacturing techniques within the last years. However, there are still some materials that are not used to manufacture such composites, like recycled high-density polyethylene and camphor wood, although they are available in good quantities as industrial by-products. In this research, wood-plastic composite (WPC) panels were manufactured from high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic waste at 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, and 40% of total weight together with camphor wood waste. Physical, mechanical, and structural properties of the panels were studied and compared according to current standards. The results …

Marine Natural Products: A Source Of Novel Anticancer Drugs, Mohamed Ali Farag

Faculty Journal Articles

Cancer remains one of the most lethal diseases worldwide. There is an urgent need for new drugs with novel modes of action and thus considerable research has been conducted for new anticancer drugs from natural sources, especially plants, microbes and marine organisms. Marine populations represent reservoirs of novel bioactive metabolites with diverse groups of chemical structures. This review highlights the impact of marine organisms, with particular emphasis on marine plants, algae, bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi, sponges and soft corals. Anti-cancer effects of marine natural products in in vitro and in vivo studies were first introduced; their activity in the prevention of …

Measurement Of D0 -Meson + Hadron Two-Dimensional Angular Correlations In Au+ Au Collisions At Snn =200 Gev, Ahmad Hamed

Faculty Journal Articles

Open heavy-flavor hadrons provide unique probes of the medium produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. Due to their increased mass relative to light-flavor hadrons, long lifetime, and early production in hard-scattering interactions, they provide access to the full evolution of the partonic medium formed in heavy-ion collisions. This paper reports two-dimensional (2D) angular correlations between neutral D mesons and unidentified charged particles produced in minimum-bias Au+Au collisions at sNN=200GeV. D0 and D¯0 mesons are reconstructed via their weak decay to Kπ± using the Heavy Flavor Tracker in the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC experiment. Correlations on relative pseudorapidity and azimuth (Δη,Δφ) are …

Design Considerations Of Highly Efficient D-Shaped Plasmonic Biosensor, Mohamed Swillam

Faculty Journal Articles

Design considerations of photonic crystal fiber (PCF) surface plasmon biosensor with high sensitivity to monitor glucose concentration is reported and studied. Based on a well-known large mode area (LMA) single mode PCF, two different configurations have been studied to investigate the impact of the etching process on the biosensor sensitivity. Furthermore, the possibility of infiltrating one hole by a plasmonic material to increases the biosensor sensitivity is studied. A full vectorial finite element method (FVFEM) is used to carry out the analysis of the reported biosensor. In addition, the geometrical parameters of the suggested biosensors have been optimized to obtain …

Eco-Friendly, One-Step Synthesis Of Cobalt Sulfide-Decorated Functionalized Graphene For High-Performance Supercapacitors, Dalia M. El-Gendy, Israa M. Afifi, Nageh Khalaf Allam

Faculty Journal Articles

A simple approach is demonstrated to prepare functionalized spongy graphene/cobalt sulfide (FG-CoS)nanocomposites as interconnected, porous 3-dimensional (3D)network crinkly sheets. Such crinkly sheets contain the reduced spongy graphene oxide (SGO)sheets and the intercalated CoS nanoparticles within the spongy graphene. The fabricated FG-CoS composites were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and Raman spectroscopy. The synthesized materials were tested as supercapacitor materials in 3 M KOH using cyclic voltammetry (CV)at different potential scan rates, and galvanostatic charge/discharge tests at different current densities. The FG-CoS electrodes showed a maximum specific capacitance of 1072 F/g at a …

Effect Of Ni-Ferrite And Ni-Co-Ferrite Nanostructures On Biogas Production From Anaerobic Digestion, Muhammed S. Abdallah, Fatma Y. Hassaneen, Yasmin Faisal, Mohy S. Mansour, Hanadi Ahmed Salem

Faculty Journal Articles

Many Nanoparticles (NPs) were reported to significantly enhance the production of biogas from the anaerobic digestion of organic wastes. Herein, two types of NPs (Ni-Ferrite and Ni-Co-Ferrite) were synthesized using the co-precipitation method and characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) techniques. Three different concentrations (20, 70 and 130 mg/l) of each type were added to separate biogas reactors to study their effect on the biogas production compared to blank reactor. A pressure-based biogas reactor was designed and manufactured specifically to test the effect of the NPs on the anaerobic …

Effective Capacity Optimization For Cognitive Radio Networks Under Primary Qos Provisioning, Karim Gomaa Seddik

Faculty Journal Articles

Cognitive radios have emerged as a key enabler for opportunistic spectrum access, in order to tackle the wireless spectrum scarcity and under utilization problems over the past two decades. In this paper, we aim to enhance the secondary user (SU) performance while maintaining the desired average packet delay for the primary user (PU). In particular, we investigate the trade-off between delay-constrained primary and secondary users in cog- nitive radio systems. In the first part of this work, we use the hard-sensing scheme to make a decision on the PU activity and maximize the SU effective capacity subject to an average …

Methods Of Making Polypeptides, Donghui Zhang, Jinbao Cao, Brandon Chan, David Siefker

College of Science Patents

Various embodiments disclosed relate to a method of forming a polypeptide. The method includes contacting a first amino acid-derived N-thiocarboxyanhydrosulfide monomer as a crystalline solid with a polymerization initiator (e.g., in an alkane suspension) to give a polypeptide product. The method further includes contacting the polypeptide product with a second amino acid-derived N-thiocarboxyanhydrosulfide monomer in an alkane suspension.

A New Interpretation Of The √7×√7 R19.1° Structure For P Adsorbed On A Ni(111) Surface, Elizabeth Barrow, Grant S. Seuser, Hiroko Ariga-Miwa, Donna A. Chen, Jochen A. Lauterbach, Kiyotaka Asakura

Faculty Publications

We have studied P adsorption on Ni(111), a system which shows complex adsorbate structures. We determined the phase diagram of the surface P adsorbed on Ni(111). At low coverage, amorphous P was observed. At temperatures between 373 and 673 K and coverages above 0.1 monolayer, we found a √7×√7 R19.1° structure, but above 673 K, other complex structures were created. These structures seemed to correlate with each other and we reinterpret a √7×√7 R19.1° structure of P adsorbed on Ni(111) based on the similarities of these surface structures. The new rectangular structure for the √7×√7 19.1° is discussed in relation …

Effect The Use Of Steel Fibers (Dramix) On Reinforced Concrete Slab, Faisal Ananda, Oni Febriani, Juli Ardita Pribadi, Junaidi Junaidi, Gunawan Saroji

CSID Journal of Infrastructure Development

Currently concrete technology continues to grow and continue to innovate one of them using fibers. Fiber concrete has advantages over non-fiber concrete, among others: strong against the effect of shrinkage, ability to reduce crack, fire resistance, etc. In this study, concrete mix design using the procedures listed on SNI 03-2834-2000. The sample used is a cylinder with a height of 30 cm and a width of 15cm in diameter, which is used for compression and tensile testing, while the slab is 400cm x 100cm x 15cm. The fiber used is steel fiber (dramix), with the addition of 2/3 of the …

Technology And Innovative Ambidexterity Towards Digital Infrastructure Development In Indonesia, Farrah Tya Resty, Yudi Aziz, Umi Kaltum

CSID Journal of Infrastructure Development

The increasingly rapid industrial environment triggers companies to explore their potential optimally, one of them is with technology. Based on the report of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on the 2017-2018 Global Competitiveness Index, it states that Indonesia's global competitiveness index is 45th out of 140 countries. In 2030, Indonesia is targeted to become the fourth-largest economy in the world. One way is to revitalize Indonesia's manufacturing sector in the industry 4.0 phenomenon, namely through technological developments. The company must continue to innovative ambidexterity to survive in this rapidly changing environment. This technology development and innovative ambidexterity planning are prepared …

Internet Screen Time And Related Factors: Threat To Adolescence In Indonesia, Kristiana Kurniasanti, Karina Firdaus, Hans Christian, Tjhin Wiguna, Martina Wiwie, Raden Ismail

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

The widespread use of the internet has produced both positive and negative impacts. Among the latter is internet addiction (IA). The worldwide prevalence of this addiction has been measured at approximately 6%, although the specific prevalence in Indonesia is uncertain because no validated instrument to measure IA has been developed for the Indonesian context. Hence, screen time was used in this study as an alternative measure of the magnitude of IA in Indonesia, where more than 6 hours is considered risk for IA. Researchers measured internet screen time (IST) and potential related factors in adolescents. The subjects of this cross-sectional …

Lessons Learned In Establishing A Quality International Journal: Mission Impossible?, Corina D. Riantoputra

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

No abstract provided.

National Identity As Predicted By Ethnic Identity And Social Distance With Multiculturalism As Mediator: A Study Involving Chinese Indonesian Students In Jakarta, Angela Oktavia Suryani, Bernadette Setiadi, Nani Nurrachman, Hana Panggabean, Dhevy Setya Wibawa

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

As a large multiethnic country, Indonesia has limited studies regarding factors that may influence the national identity of Indonesians of Chinese descent. This study examined the relations between four variables—ethnic identity, multiculturalism, social distance, and Indonesian national identity—between Chinese (n = 159) and non-Chinese Indonesian university students (n = 158) in Jakarta. A multiple-group path analysis was conducted to analyze data from Chinese and non-Chinese samples. The results revealed that structural covariance invariance was the best fit, describing ethnic identity’s direct prediction of national identity and social distance’s indirect prediction of national identity, fully mediated by multiculturalism. The mean score …

Newborn And Childhood Differential Dna Methylation And Liver Fat In School-Age Children, Madelon L. Geurtsen, Vincent W.V. Jaddoe, Lucas A. Salas, Susana Santos, Janine F. Felix

Dartmouth Scholarship

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is the most common chronic liver disease in children in western countries. Adverse early-life exposures are associated with higher liver fat percentages in children. Differential DNA methylation may underlie these associations. We aimed to identify differential DNA methylation in newborns and children associated with liver fat accumulation in childhood. We also examined whether DNA methylation at 22 cytosine-phosphate-guanine sites (CpGs) associated with adult non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with liver fat in children. Within a population-based prospective cohort study, we analyzed epigenome-wide DNA methylation data of 785 newborns and 344 10-year-old children in relation …

The Role Of Personality Characteristics Of Leader In Business Organizations Entrepreneurship With Strategic Flexibility Mediated (A Field Research), Sana Abdul Saeed Abadi, Farah Hussien Ali Aliqabi

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The personality characteristics of the Leader are considered one of the main elements to reach into business organizations entrepreneurship; and because of the development of the organizations of the continuous transformations as result of huge Competition in private High Education sector, there is a great need for Leaders characterized of certain personality capable of managing their organizations and can positively effect on them. Also these organizations' success to reach into entrepreneurship requires a main significant element that is (strategic flexibility) which is considered one of the important elements for success. Accordingly, this research is trying to find the effective role …

Fusion Proteins Of Collagen-Binding Domain And Parathyroid Hormone, Robert C. Gensure, Joshua Sakon, Osamu Matsushita, Tulasi Ponnapakkam

Patents Granted

Fusion proteins containing active agonist or antagonist fragments of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and parathyroid hormone related peptide (PTHrP) coupled to a collagen-binding domain are presented. The fusion proteins can be used to promote bone growth, to promote hair growth, to prevent cancer metastasis to bone, to promote immune reconstitution with a bone marrow stem cell transplant, to promote mobilization of bone marrow stem cells for collection for autologous stem cell transplant, and to treat renal osteodystrophy. Pharmaceutical agents comprising a collagen-binding polypeptide segment linked to a non-peptidyl PTH/PTHrP receptor agonist or antagonist are also presented.

Response Of U.S. Rice Cultivars Grown Under Non-Flooded Irrigation Management, Anna M. Mcclung, Jai S. Rohila, Christopher G. Henry, Argelia Lorence

Arkansas Biosciences Institute

Achieving food security along with environmental sustainability requires high yields with reduced demands on irrigation resources for rice production systems. The goal of the present investigation was to identify traits and germplasms for rice breeding programs that target effective grain production (EGP) under non-flooded field systems where the crop can be subjected to intermittent water stress throughout the growing season. A panel of 15 cultivars was evaluated over three years regarding phenological and agronomic traits under four soil moisture levels ranging from field capacity (29% volumetric water content; VWC) to just above the wilting point (16% VWC) using subsurface drip …

Comparative Metabolite Profiling Of Four Citrus Peel Cultivars Via Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography Coupled With Quadrupole-Time-Of-Flight-Mass Spectrometry And Multivariate Data Analyses, Mohamed Ali Farag

Faculty Journal Articles

Citrus plants are one of the most economical fruit bearing trees grown worldwide for their medicinal use as well as for the flavor and food industry. This study attempts to characterize the metabolome difference in polyphenols of four Citrus species fruit peels; C. reticulata Blanco cv. Egyptian, C. sinensis (L.) Osbeck cv. Olinda Valencia, C. aurantiifolia Swingle cv. Mexican and C. paradisi Macfad. cv. Duncan via ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole-time-of-flight-mass spectrometry platform. A total of 163 metabolites were characterized of which 28 were detected for the first time in Citrus cultivars including eight coumarin derivatives, three cinnamic acids …

Comparative Metabolome-Based Classification Of Senna Drugs: A Prospect For Phyto-Equivalency Of Its Different Commercial Products, Mohamed Ali Farag

Faculty Journal Articles

The demand to develop efficient and reliable analytical methods for the quality control of nutraceuticals is on the rise, together with an increase in the legal requirements for safe and consistent levels of its active principles. Objective: To establish a reliable model for the quality control of widely used Senna preparations used as laxatives and assess its phyto-equivalency. Methods: A comparative metabolomics approach via NMR and MS analyses was employed for the comprehensive measurement of metabolites and analyzed using chemometrics. Results: Under optimized conditions, 30 metabolites were simultaneously identified and quantified including anthraquinones, bianthrones, acetophenones, flavonoid conjugates, naphthalenes, phenolics, and …

Computational Design Of Novel Hydrogen-Doped, Oxygen-Deficient Monoclinic Zirconia With Excellent Optical Absorption And Electronic Properties, Sarah A. Tolba, Nageh Khalaf Allam

Faculty Journal Articles

Monoclinic ZrO2 has recently emerged as a new highly efficient material for the photovoltaic and photocatalytic applications. Herein, first-principles calculations were carried out to understand how Hydrogen doping can affect the electronic structure and optical properties of the material. The effects of Hydrogen interstitial and substitutional doping at different sites and concentrations in m-ZrO2 were examined by an extensive model study to predict the best structure with the optimal properties for use in solar energy conversion devices. Hydrogen interstitials (Hi) in pristine m-ZrO2 were found to lower the formation energy but without useful effects on the electronic or optical properties. …

Low-Complexity Semi-Blind Channel Estimation Algorithms For Vehicular Communications Using The Ieee 802.11 P Standard, Moustafa M. Awad, Karim Gomaa Seddik, Ayman Elezabi

Faculty Journal Articles

The vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications channel is highly time-varying, making reliable communication difficult. This problem is particularly challenging because the de facto standard for V2V communications, the IEEE 802.11p standard, is based on the IEEE 802.11a standard, which was designed for the indoor and relatively stationary wireless LAN channel. In particular, the frame structure, which allows large packets and has low pilot density makes channel estimation difficult. In this paper, we propose several semi-blind channel estimation and tracking algorithms that are suitable for highly time-varying channels using the 802.11p frame structure. Two of the proposed schemes utilize the finite alphabet property …