This is a preliminary version of lecture notes based on a 6 hour course given at the workshop Dynamics Beyond Uniform Hyperbolicity held in Provo, Utah June 2017. The goal of this course is two-fold. First we will present a number of tools and results in the smooth ergodic theory of actions of higher-rank abelian groups including Lyapunov exponents, metric entropy, and the relationship between ...

Long-range two-dimensional superstructure in the superconducting electron-doped cuprate Pr0.88LaCe0.12CuO4 B. J. Campbell,1,* S. Rosenkranz,2,† H. J. Kang,3 H. T. Stokes,1 P. J. Chupas,2,4 S. Komiya,5 Y. Ando,6 Shiliang Li,7,8 and Pengcheng Dai9 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA 2Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonn...

Background Economic and social hardships have worsened food insecurity, particularly among low income racial-ethnic minority groups. Given the core goal of 150+ member Houston Health Equity Collective (HEC) to reduce insecurity by 5% in 2025, we explored organizations' capacity challenges faced screening responding through care coordination efforts. Methods A twice-administered Qualtrics XM sur...

Previously, we reported that primary cultures of human stromal vascular (SV) cells containing newly differentiated adipocytes treated with 30 uM trans-10, cis-12 CLA for 24 h had greater gene expression and protein secretion of IL-6 and IL-8 than vehicle controls (Brown et al. 2004). In addition, cultures treated with 30 uM trans-10, cis-12 CLA had decreased mRNA levels of PPARγ2 and several of...

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Because of its accessibility, skin was one of the first organs to be examined by gene technologies. Mircoarray/mRNA techniques have demonstrated the valuable aspects of this methodology for the elucidation of and the quantification for changes in human skin related-genes. It is important to review/understand how botanicals influence human skin gene expression (by stimulation or inhibition of ce...

A few ambitious research projects in volve attempts to quantify the qualitative aspects of spontaneous classroom be havior. A research team working with ele mentary teachers in Provo, Utah, (Romney and Hughes, 1958, 1961) believes that patterns of spontaneous teacher action can be identified and that more effective patterns can be distinguished from less effective patterns. The 1958 progress re...

Regression discontinuity studies of the effects of union representation rely on quasi-random variation in vote tallies near the majority-rule threshold. It is precisely in the closest elections, however, that incentives may be most powerful for manipulation. This study shows evidence for such contaminating selection in close union elections. First, unions lost close elections at an unexpectedly...