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Tillage Legacy, Grasses And Soil Texture Shape Soil Organic Carbon Recovery In Semi-Arid Woodland, Samantha Colunga, Alejandro Fierro-Cabo, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Engil Pereira

School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Soil degradation from intensive tillage poses a critical barrier to carbon sequestration, particularly in semi-arid regions where low rainfall limits ecosystem recovery. As climate change expands arid zones globally, understanding the long-term potential for soil organic carbon (SOC) recovery in degraded lands becomes increasingly urgent. Here, we analyze reforested chronosequences (4–36 years post-abandonment) in formerly cultivated subtropical thornscrub woodlands to assess SOC dynamics across gradients of soil texture and degradation. We introduce a novel degradation index (DI), integrating SOC deficit and grass dominance, to evaluate how invasive grasses, commonly overlooked in restoration metrics, impede nitrogen (N2)-fixing tree establishment and, consequently, …

The Rider (2025-10-06), Daniela Martinez Salazar

The Rider Archives

Vol. 11, No. 6

Isothermal Sloshing In A Circular Tank (Ccp-Wsi Test Case 017 Dataset), Scott Brown, Stuart Colville, Yeaw Chu Lee, Deborah Greaves

Faculty of Science and Engineering Datasets

Physical modelling dataset used for CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 5. The description is available on the CCP-WSI catalogue under "Test Case ID 017": https://ccp-wsi.ac.uk/catalogue/test_cases/test_case_017

Follow Me Into Math: Near-Peer Influencers Take The Stage, Aaron T. Wilson, Sergey Grigorian, Mayra Ortiz Galarza, Xiaohui Wang

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

Young people like to be entertained, and to entertain others. What if students were to invest enough of their time and effort into learning topics from our mathematics courses to become experts in the eyes of their peers? In this study we positioned college students and high school students as mathematical performers on the stage in front of their nearpeers, for whom they became math influencers, developing and presenting MathShows. The paper shows readers how we positioned students on the stage, using a 7-step MathShow Design Process informed by a Neer-peer Mathematical Mentoring framework. Of import for educators, researchers and …

Investigating Factors Influencing Organic Chemistry Learners' Explanation Sophistication And Representational Competence, Caroline J. Crowder

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The research presented in this dissertation has two themes: organic chemistry learners’ written explanations and representational competence. Chapters 3 and 4 explore how organic chemistry learners construct explanations of reaction mechanisms, specifically focusing on electrophile and nucleophile components. Chapter 5 investigates organic chemistry learners’ representational competence skills and the relationship between these skills and their performance in the course.

Understanding reaction mechanisms is critical for success in organic chemistry, yet learners often struggle to reason beyond explicit, surface-level features. Constructed-response prompts that ask learners to explain what is happening in a reaction mechanism and why it occurs can provide insight …

Static Malware Analysis For Incident Response: Developing A Tactical Aid With Ember, Joel Meoak, Shengjie Xu

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Incident responders face a variety of challenges when identifying malware using existing solutions, particularly when rapid tactical decisions are needed. Traditional malware detection methods are often signature-based, limiting their effectiveness to previously known threats detected by anti-virus (AV) engines. Online analysis tools introduce confidentiality risks, potentially alerting adversaries that their actions are under scrutiny. While free sandbox environments offer useful capabilities, they often require substantial setup time and hardware resources that may not be available in the field. This research leverages the Elastic Malware Benchmark for Empowering Researchers (EMBER) dataset to develop a lightweight, portable tactical decision aid that enables …

Re: Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Final Reclamation Improvement Sites Field Sampling And Investigation Plan (Fsp): Bres No. 45 – Garfield, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

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The Taxonomy And Origins Of Folia: A Brief Review, Donald G. Davis, Louise D. Hose, Harvey R. Duchene

International Journal of Speleology

All folia demonstrate a few common elements: folia (singular, folium) are planar or sub-planar speleothems, slanting downward and away from cave walls and ceilings, and genetically associated with fluctuating environmental interfaces. They were first identified and named from examples in western USA hypogenic caves but have since been identified elsewhere in the world. Folia shelves are typically composed of calcite and interweave smoothly along sub-horizontal contours. Calcite accretion, both chemical and mechanical from suspended particles, follows water-surface fluctuations to form protrusions in arrays along walls and ceilings where new accretion tends to follow the water-surface downward during descending phases, gradually …

The Assessment Of Prosodic Writing Skills Among The Students Of The Arabic Language Bachelor Program In The Light Of The Variables Of Gender And Cumulative Average At King Khalid University, Fatimah Shaaban Asiri

University of Bisha Journal for Educational Sciences

The research aimed to identify the level of prosodic writing skills among the students of the Arabic language bachelor program. To achieve the objectives of the research, the descriptive approach was used. The researcher prepared a prosodic writing skills test. The research sample consisted of (187) male and female undergraduate students in the Arabic language major, males and females, at King Khalid University in its various branches. The results resulted in a list of (10) prosodic writing skills. The results showed that the percentage of mastery of students of the Arabic language program at King Khalid University in prosody writing …

Level Of The Teaching Practices Promoting Collective Mathematical Argumentation In The Intermediate Stage Mathematics Classrooms, Ibrahim Alhussain Khalil

University of Bisha Journal for Educational Sciences

This study aimed to evaluate the teaching practices that promote collective mathematical argumentation in middle school mathematics classrooms. It adopted the descriptive method. The sample consisted of 24 teachers of mathematics in the middle-school stage in the Middle Education Office of the Bisha Education Directorate. Quantitative observation was used as a data collection tool, which consisted of 26 teaching practices divided into four categories. The study reached several results the most notable of which is that the level of teaching practices that promote mathematical argumentation in general amounted to (2.75 - 4.00) at an average level, in the following order: …

A Suggested Conception Of A Training Program Based On Mathematical Prowess Skills For Primary School Mathematics Teachers, Mohammed Barjas Alshahrani

University of Bisha Journal for Educational Sciences

The current research aims to build a proposed training program for the development of mathematical dexterity skills for primary school mathematics teachers, and to achieve the research objectives, a list of indicators was prepared to achieve the appropriate mathematical dexterity skills for the primary stage, which amounted to (15) indicators distributed over the five mathematical dexterity skills, and through the application of the search tool on Primary school teachers, where the sample amounted to 35 teachers, it was found that there is a great need for these needs, and in light of this, the proposed training program was prepared, and …

Teachers' Conceptions Of Mathematics Fluency And Teaching Practices That Support Creativity And Their Relationship To Teaching Efficiency, Metab Zazoo Al-Enezi

University of Bisha Journal for Educational Sciences

The study aimed to identify the correlation between mathematics teachers’ concepts of fluency in mathematics(MTCF) and teaching efficiency, as well as their teaching practices that support creativity(TPSC) and teaching efficiency, and whether gender (male-female) is a moderator variable in this relationship. The study sample consisted of (170) teachers divided into (103) male and (67) female. The results of the study concluded that there is a weak, positive, and significant correlation between teachers’ concepts of fluency in mathematics and their teaching efficiency, as well as a medium, positive, and significant correlation between teaching practices that support creativity and their teaching efficiency, …

A Proposed Program In Earth And Space Based On The Next Generation Science Standards (Ngss) To Develop Some Habits Of Mind For Kindergarten Children, Mona Hashim Alzahrani

University of Bisha Journal for Educational Sciences

The study aimed to prepare a list of (NGSS) standards that must be available in the content of the kindergarten curriculum, with determining the level of inclusion of the three dimensions of the (NGSS) standards in the content of kindergarten curricula, and to develop some habits of reasoning and performance skills among kindergarten students, and the descriptive approach was used. And the experimental approach to achieve the study through application on consisting of 15 children in the kindergarten stage, whose ages range from (4-6) years. The dimensions and sum of the performance skills test and the dimensions and sum of …

The Level Of Teaching Ppractices Of Faculty Members In The Department Of Curriculum And Instruction In Saudi Universities In Light Of E-Learning Standards, Manei Ali Mohammad Al-Shehri

University of Bisha Journal for Educational Sciences

The study aimed to determine the level of teaching practices of faculty members in the Department of Curricula and Teaching Methods in Saudi universities in the light of e-learning standards. It relied on the analytical descriptive approach, and the study sample consisted of (54) randomly selected. The results of the study showed that the level of teaching practices among faculty members in the light of e-learning came to a large extent, and the field (treatment of courses interactively) came in the first place, and the fourth field (Technical and artistic dimension) ranked second, and the first field related to educational …

Engagement By Design: Belongingness, Cultural Value Orientations, And Pathways Into Emerging Technologies, Daisuke Akiba, Michael Perrone, Caterina Almendral, Rebecca Garte

Publications and Research

This theoretical article examines how belongingness, defined as the sense that one’s participation is legitimate and valued, interacts with cultural value orientations to help explain persistent disparities in U.S. technology engagement, including emerging technologies, across racial and ethnic groups. While structural barriers (e.g., racism, poverty, linguistic bias, etc.) remain essential to understanding such inequity, we argue that engagement patterns in technology also reflect how different cultural communities may define and experience belongingness in relation to digital domains. Drawing on Triandis and Gelfand’s framework, and focusing specifically on educational contexts, we propose the Belongingness through Cultural Value Alignment (BCVA) model, whereby …

Causal Ai-Based Clinical And Radiomic Analysis For Optimizing Patient Selection In Combined Immunotherapy And Sabr In Early-Stage Nsclc: A Secondary Analysis Of The Phase Ii I-Sabr Trial, Maliazurina B Saad, Eman Showkatian, Vivek Verma, Qasem Al-Tashi, Muhammad Aminu, Xinyan Xu, Muhamed Qayati Mohamed, Morteza Salehjahromi, Sheeba J Sujit, Yuliya Kitsel, Steven H Lin, Zhongxing Liao, Saumil Gandhi, David Qian, David Jaffray, Caroline Chung, Natalie I Vokes, Jianjun Zhang, J Jack Lee, John V Heymach, Jia Wu, Joe Y Chang

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background: The recent phase II randomized stereotactic ablative radiotherapy with and without immunotherapy (I-SABR) trial has shown improved event-free survival (EFS) when adding immunotherapy to stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) for early-stage inoperable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, optimizing patient selection thereof is critical, because not every patient benefits from immunotherapy. Leveraging the powerful use of artificial intelligence, this secondary analysis of the I-SABR trial developed a modeling system (named "I-SABR-SELECT") based on clinical and radiomic factors to address which patients should receive additional immunotherapy.

Methods: The discovery/validation cohorts were from the I-SABR trial, with external validation from the single-arm …

Moving Beyond Traditional Legal Scholarship Impact Rankings, John Cannan

Faculty Publications

Legal academia is likely stuck with law faculty scholarly impact rankings—that is, using citation counts to judge a law faculty’s reputation and influence. But why can’t we produce better, more useful studies? Current rankings rely on outdated methods. Moreover, these rankings—touted by their creators as objective—suffer from long-standing flaws. They are also grounded in limited understandings of legal citations as sources of information. This paper calls on law librarians to advance legal citation research by adopting methodologies from other information sciences and developing legal citation taxonomies and theories.

Introduction To Analysis: Theorems And Examples, Hidefumi Katsuura

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This book focuses on the theoretical aspects of calculus. The book begins with a chapter on set theory before thoroughly discussing real numbers, then moves onto sequences, series, and their convergence. The author explains why an understanding of real numbers is essential in order to create a foundation for studying analysis. Since the Cantor set is elusive to many, a section is devoted to binary/ternary numbers and the Cantor set. The book then moves on to continuous functions, differentiations, integrations, and uniform convergence of sequences of functions. An example of a nontrivial uniformly Cauchy sequence of functions is given. The …

Enhancing 6g Network Security With Quantum Key Distribution: A Comprehensive Review, Bassma M. Kamil

Al-Esraa University College Journal for Engineering Sciences

With the considerable progress of sixth-generation (6G) networks further on the horizon, security has attracted much attention in the face of increasingly sophisticated threats, especially from quantum computing. Classical cryptographic schemes based on computational hardness are becoming more and more brittle, as they can easily be attacked with a quantum computer. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) arises as a promising tool for information-theoretic security through quantum mechanics to obtain an unbreakable key by exchanging unknown bit sequences. In this paper, we provide an extensive survey on the integration of QKD both in the envisioned 6G architecture, including current implementations, technical feasibility, …

Design Of A Hybrid System For Powering Wireless Communication Units, Samer Rabih, Ahed Alboody

Al-Esraa University College Journal for Engineering Sciences

Wireless and optical communication units are becoming more widespread nowadays, especially in rural areas. Therefore, feeding electricity has become essential for the continuity of services. As a result of economic and social development, there has been an urgent need to supply electrical power for the basic requirements of wired and wireless telecommunications equipment. This is linked to public safety, long life, and connection to uninterruptible power systems to ensure continuous power supply, whether from renewable energy sources or traditional diesel systems. This research studies and designs a renewable energy (solar) power system to power telecommunications equipment. The proposed power system …

Dynamic Ris-Enabled Massive Mimo Noma Systems Power Allocation Optimization For 6g Using Machin Learning Approach, Mohamed Hassan, Khalid Hamid, Salah Hagahmoodi, Elmuntaser Hassan

Al-Esraa University College Journal for Engineering Sciences

This study examines spectral efficiency (SE) and throughput throughout a spectrum of user densities (from 50 to 1000 users), user mobility speeds (0 to 350 km/h), latency, packet loss, and fairness index, within a wide range of signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). The analysis includes a number of different situations, such as (i) cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) with massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO), (ii) mMIMO cooperative NOMA integrated with cognitive radio (CR), and (iii) CR-assisted mMIMO cooperative NOMA enhanced with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). All of these are part of 6G millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks. The study investigates the enhancement of latency, packet …

Harnessing Waste Heat From Solar Cells Using Advanced Energy Storage Systems, Hayder Ibrahim Ismael

Al-Esraa University College Journal for Engineering Sciences

Renewable energy is largely produced by photovoltaic (PV) solar cells, but such a process is greatly impacted with thermal buildup as the solar cells work. Redundant heat not only lowers the level of electrical production, but also hastens deterioration and decreases the life-time of PV modules. In this study, we suggest a hybrid system which combines high-performance energy storage devices, namely, super-capacitors, and PV modules coupled with the use of waste heat as a source of useful energy and which increases efficiency of the system in conjunction. In order to estimate the potential amount of thermal energy recovery, as well …

Foundations Of Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare Diagnostics: A Systematic Survey, Raghad Tariq Al-Hassani

Al-Esraa University College Journal for Engineering Sciences

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming the cornerstone of the future of healthcare diagnostics, that has to ability to change the healthcare diagnostic landscape in terms of diagnostic accuracy, speed, and availability. This systematic review investigates the basic methods, tools, applications, and challenges involved in the integration of AI in diagnostic medicine. It emphasizes the using of machine learning models, deep learning networks (e.g., CNNs), NLP for clinical documentation, and smart computing infrastructures, such as edge device and IoMT. They are making possible real-time, data-driven decision making that is already at human-expert-level performance or, in some cases, even better (in the …

Secure Gif Files Based On Zuc Stream Cipher And Present Algorithm, Suhad Fakhri Hussein

Al-Esraa University College Journal for Engineering Sciences

Some important security needs include authentication, confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, and user privacy. Many security systems include these required protections for information transmission. The encryption process is one of the most important security measures. Many secure encryption algorithms are based on different keys and key lengths to ensure a high degree of security. GIF file format is common file format that is used in several application, securing these files through transmission is imperative. In this paper, an efficient method for encryption GIF file is proposed based on using modified present algorithm, modified ZUC stream cipher, and an efficient method for key …

The Effects Of Plastic Mulch And Irrigation On Hemp Chemistry And Leaf Endophytes, Allison Rietman, Connor Morozumi, Robert C. Pearce, Natalie Christian

Journal of Agricultural Hemp Research

As an emerging crop, cultivation techniques for industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) are still being developed and optimized. For example, irrigation and plastic mulching are some management practices that have been touted for their benefits in improving crop quality. Both techniques ensure ample water availability, which has often been attributed to improving hemp cannabinoid and terpene composition. In this study, we examined how supplemental irrigation implemented in a plastic mulch system influenced the cannabinoid and terpene profiles of one cultivar of CBD hemp, Lifter. We grew industrial hemp in field with plastic mulch and applied regular irrigation to one group …

Exploring The Nature Of Little Red Dots: Constraints On Active Galactic Nucleus And Stellar Contributions From Primer Miri Imaging, Gene C.K. Leung, Steven L. Finkelstein, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Alexa M. Morales, Anthony J. Taylor, Guillermo Barro, Dale D. Kocevski, Hollis B. Akins, Adam C. Carnall, Óscar A. Chávez Ortiz, Nikko J. Cleri, Fergus Cullen, Callum T. Donnan, James S. Dunlop, Richard S. Ellis, Norman A. Grogin, Michaela Hirschmann, Anton M. Koekemoer, Vasily Kokorev, Ray A. Lucas, Derek J. Mcleod

Pacific Faculty Work

JWST has revealed a large population of compact, red objects at z > 4 known as Little Red Dots (LRDs). We analyze the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 88 LRDs from the JWST PRIMER survey with complete photometric coverage from 1 to 18 μm using NIRCam and MIRI imaging, representing the most extensive SED analysis on a large LRD sample with long-wavelength MIRI data. We examine SED models in which either galaxy or active galactic nucleus (AGN) emission dominates the rest-frame UV or optical continuum, extracting physical properties to explore each scenario’s implications. In the galaxy-only model, we find massive, dusty …

A Review Of Research And Practices On Teaching Data Visualizations For Blind And Visually Impaired Students, Shiya Cao

Statistical and Data Sciences: Faculty Publications

Around 36 million people in the world are blind and an additional 217 million have moderate to severe vision impairment. In higher education, four percent of 54,204 undergraduates who participated in the 2022 American College Health Association survey reported to be blind or have low vision. Those students frequently do not have access to data visualizations we generally teach and use in postsecondary statistics and data science classes. The design of those visualizations is premised on implicit assumptions about the user’s visual ability. Making data visualizations accessible to blind and visually impaired (BVI) people would help improve equity in higher …

Pathlength, Altitude And Angle Of Incidence Dependence Of Remote Water Raman Scattering, Whitney E. Schuler, Paige K. Williams, Zechariah B. Kitzhaber, Caitlyn M. English, Tammi L. Richardson, Nikos Vitzilaios, Michael L. Myrick

Faculty Publications

A small remote Raman sensor was used to measure the Raman scattering signal from clear, still water as a function of water depth (12 cm and 396 cm depth), sensor distance above the water surface (20–300 cm), and angle of incidence (0–80°) to the normal of the water surface. Under thick- and thin-sample conditions, the signal depends on either the inverse, or the inverse square, of sensor distance from the water surface, respectively. A model is derived that fits data for different sensor distances, water depths, and angles of incidence. Fits to the measured data are consistent with the known …