bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Influence of leash side and handlers on pressure mat analysis of gait characteristics in small-breed dogs
Authors: Keebaugh Audrey E. , Redman-Bentley Donna , Griffon Dominique J. 
Published: May 2015

Abstract
Objective—To characterize the gait of small-breed dogs walked on a pressure walkway by handlers moving at a metronome-set tempo and to determine the influence of handler and leash side on gait characteristics.
Design—Prospective study.
Animals—5 healthy adult small-breed dogs weighing < 11.4 kg (25 lb).
Procedures—Dogs were walked by each of 5 handlers moving at a metronome-set tempo (100 beats/min). Velocity, cadence, stance time, number of activated sensors, total pressure index (TPI), left or right hind reach, and symmetry indices were obtained with the leash on the left and right sides of each dog for each handler.
Results—Coefficients of variation for TPI and stance time approximated 30%, whereas coefficients of variation for symmetry indices remained < 20%. Changing handlers and leash side did not influence hind limb variables. Changing handlers influenced the TPI of the forelimbs, inducing changes of up to 8%. Leash side accounted for 12% and 14% of the variation in symmetry indices of TPI and number of sensors activated between forelimbs, respectively (mean alterations for recorded variables, 9%).
Conclusions and Clinical Relevance—Symmetry indices appeared to vary less than variables obtained for individual dog limbs, and it may therefore be advantageous to determine those indices during large trials. Handlers or leash side may be changed in studies focusing on dogs’ hind limbs without affecting results. Use of symmetry indices is recommended in forelimb studies requiring multiple handlers. Pressure walkway analyses of the forelimbs should include equal distribution of left- and right-sided leash-led trials, given that small-breed dogs tended to shift weight toward the forelimb opposite the leash.
Clinical effects of vinorelbine administration in the management of various malignant tumor types in dogs: 58 cases (1997–2012)
Authors: Wouda Raelene M. , Miller Mairin E. , Chon Esther , Stein Timothy J. 
Published: May 2015

Abstract
Objective—To evaluate the effectiveness of vinorelbine in the management of various malignant tumor types in dogs.
Design—Retrospective case series.
Animals—58 dogs with malignant tumors, including pulmonary carcinoma (n = 31), histiocytic sarcoma (9), mast cell tumor (5), lymphoma (4), melanoma (2), and 7 other tumor types (1 each).
Procedures—Medical records of dogs treated with vinorelbine from December 1997 to December 2012 were reviewed for data regarding signalment, clinical signs, physical examination findings, clinicopathologic test results, diagnostic imaging results, vinorelbine doses and dose frequency, surgery and radiotherapy details when applicable, other chemotherapeutics administered, and outcomes. Descriptive, comparative, and survival statistics were computed for all dogs and for dogs by histologic subgroup of tumors.
Results—Vinorelbine was administered palliatively to 44 (76%) dogs. One (2%) dog had a complete response for 162 days, 5 (11%) dogs had a partial response for a median duration of 91 days, 19 (43%) dogs had stable disease for a median duration of 68 days, and 19 (43%) dogs developed progressive disease after a median duration of 21 days. Clinical benefit was more difficult to assess in the remaining 14 (24%) dogs that received vinorelbine as an adjuvant treatment. Overall median time to tumor progression was 103 days (range, 5 to 1,533 days).
Conclusions and Clinical Relevance—Vinorelbine appeared to be effective in the treatment of several tumor types in dogs. Follow-up prospective studies of the clinical benefit of the drug in specific clinical scenarios will be necessary to support this conclusion.
Retinopathy associated with ivermectin toxicosis in five cats
Authors: Meekins Jessica M. , Guess Sarah C. , Rankin Amy J. 
Published: May 2015

Abstract
Case Description—5 cats from the same household were examined because of a sudden onset of tremors, obtundation, blindness, and dilated pupils. Approximately 12 hours prior to evaluation, the owner had attempted to treat the cats for suspected ear mite (Otodectes cynotis) infestation by aural administration of a dose of an ivermectin paste intended for oral administration to horses (approx 22 mg/cat; half of the dose was administered into each ear canal).
Clinical Findings—None of the cats had a menace response; all cats had dilated pupils and decreased pupillary light reflexes. Findings of fundic examination were unremarkable. Electroretinography was performed for 4 cats, and b-wave responses were identified as diminished. Toxicological assay results for serum samples from 2 cats confirmed the presence of ivermectin (450 and 610 μg/L).
Treatment and Outcome—All 5 cats made a complete recovery. Neurologic abnormalities resolved, electroretinographic responses improved, and vision was restored with no residual pathological changes detected during fundic examination.
Clinical Relevance—To the authors’ knowledge, the information reported here provided the first description of ophthalmic and electroretinographic findings in cats with ivermectin toxicosis resulting from transdermal administration. Clinical signs, including blindness, resolved with time, without additional medical intervention.
Usability of Thermal Cameras in Monitoring People in a Smoked Environment
Authors: Jánošík Ladislav , Bernatíková Šárka 
Published: May 2015

Abstract
The article presents results from the use of a thermal camera in experimental monitoring people in a smoked environment during exercise tests under heavy conditions in gas-tight chemical protective clothing. Experiments were carried out on the ground of former barracks, at present the training ground of Fire and Rescue Service of the Vysočina Region in Jihlava. The article describes the place and the procedure of the experiment, gas-tight chemical protective clothing and a range of usage of the thermal camera. Measured values of temperature field are stated and discussed. In the conclusion, recommendations for measurements using the thermal camera in further experiments, aimed at acquiring more accurate knowledge of external manifestations of strain on firefighters when using gas-tight clothing, are presented.
Comparation of Effects Generated by Shock Waves of Selected Explosives
Authors: Boc Kamil , Jangl Štefan , Vidriková Dagmar , Vysocký Martin 
Published: May 2015

Abstract
Article deals with assessment of exactly acquired values of shock wave effects generated in the course of explosion of an explosive device and with comparation of the current options for determination of magnitude of their effect by the means of mathematic models using experimentally measured values.
Larger Washing Machines and Smaller Household Size – How Can They Fit Together? Simulation of a Sustainable Use of Washing Machines
Authors: Lasic Emir , Stamminger Rainer 
Published: May 2015

Abstract
In order to simulate the usage of washing machines by the consumer, a concept of a “virtual washing household” is developed that, to some extent, behaves as a real life household. As essential part of this virtual household is the virtual washing machine in which washing cycles are conducted in dependence of the washing parameters, household size and behavioral parameters. The concept stipulates that a washing cycle is conducted only when the household has enough laundry collected, so that the loading capacity of the washing machine is used, otherwise the houshold waits. Houshold, however, washes the laundry despite the loading capacity restrictions when a certain, waiting time (defined by the houshold) is elapsed. The consequences of all washing cycles during one year are calculated in terms of CO2 equivalent emissions caused by the energy, water and detergent consumed for reaching a well-defined level of washing performance. This model offers a high range of possibilities to simulate some of the consumer's behavioral patterns and so helps to identify an optimal washing behavior for different sizes of washing machines.
Le rôle de l’identité nationale dans le républicanisme critique
Authors: Guérard de Latour Sophie 
Published: May 2015

Contre les récupérations idéologiques du thème de « l’identité nationale », ce texte mobilise la perspective du néo-républicanisme afin de réhabiliter la portée philosophique de cette notion controversée. Le concept de non-domination y opère comme un vecteur critique susceptible d’articuler l’identification à une communauté politique et l’intégration des minorités ethnoculturelles. Sur cette base philosophique, le texte défend la légitimité d’une éducation qui inculque aux futurs citoyens une vision multiculturelle de leur identité nationale.
L’hétérologie de l’Europe : crise identitaire ou défi altéritaire ?
Authors: Ballangé Aliénor 
Published: May 2015

À l’heure où l’avenir de l’Europe semble des plus incertains – percée des mouvements « ethno-populistes », accentuation de la fracture Nord-Sud, refus des « uns » de payer pour les « autres » – la tentation est grande d’en appeler à un discours rassembleur vantant les mérites d’une « identité européenne » singulière. Toutefois, il s’agit là d’une attitude risquée : non seulement cela tend à effacer les divisions internes aux peuples européens, mais, de surcroît, cela dresse une frontière culturelle, civilisationnelle, voire spirituelle, entre ceux qui incarnent l’Europe et ceux qui sont voués à en demeurer exclus. Dès lors, faut-il continuer à mobiliser l’idée d’une identité européenne et, si oui, comment reconnaître son caractère hétérologique ?
La métaphysique des forces et les formes du psychisme Deleuze, Sartre et les autres
Authors: Fruteau de Laclos Frédéric 
Published: May 2015

La pensée française a beaucoup perdu à se couper de la « psycho-philosophie » de l’entre-deux-guerres. Non seulement les injections massives de phénoménologie ont occulté les possibilités de jonction entre psychologie positive et métapsychologie, mais la nature des thèses inventées par Sartre et relayées par Deleuze, d’une individuation toujours solitaire et solipsiste, ont rendu incompréhensibles les processus de cogenèse des consciences.
A Computation with the Connes–Thom Isomorphism
Authors: Sundar S. 
Published: May 2015

AbstractLet A ∊ Mn(ℝ) be an invertible matrix. Consider the semi-direct product ℝn ⋊ ℤ where the action of ℤ on ℝn is induced by the left multiplication by A. Let (α, τ) be a strongly continuous action of ℝn ⋊ ℤ on a C*-algebra B where α is a strongly continuous action of ℝn and τ is an automorphism. The map τ induces a map . We show that, at the K-theory level, τ commutes with the Connes–Thom map if det(A) > 0 and anticommutes if det(A) < 0. As an application, we recompute the K-groups of the Cuntz–Li algebra associated with an integer dilation matrix.
Eastern European Exilic Trajectories in Post-1989 Life Writing
Authors: Luca Ioana 
Published: May 2015

My article offers a comparative analysis of autobiographical works by Susan Suleiman, Andrei Codrescu and Kapka Kassabova with a three-pronged interest. First, I aim to further the discussion about exilic identities emerging from Eastern Europe; second, I show the “shifting national, global imaginaries” that post-1989 Eastern European exiles’ life writing registers; and third, I analyze how Suleiman, Codrescu and Kassabova negotiate affective attachments withtheir “native” Eastern European countries in the aftermath of the Cold War. I consider their life writing important as it captures the overlappings and complicities between apparently opposite regimes — nazism, communism and/or post-communism — and in so doing they animate a historical imaginary of the recent past in Eastern Europe. Their trajectories of exile and return become a lens for the larger variations of exilic subjectivity in post-cold war Eastern Europe.
Application of artificial neural networks as a tool for moisture prediction in microbially colonized halite in the Atacama Desert
Authors: Wierzchos K. , Cancilla J. C. , Torrecilla J. S. , Díaz‐Rodríguez P. , Davila A. F. , Ascaso C. , Nienow J. , McKay C. P. , Wierzchos J. 
Published: May 2015

AbstractThe Atacama Desert is the driest and one of the most life‐limiting places on Earth. Despite the extreme conditions, microbial endolithic communities have been found inside halite rocks. The presence of these microbial communities is possible due to the hygroscopic properties of evaporitic rocks composed of sodium chloride. It is important to elucidate every possible water source in such a hyperarid environment. Therefore, in the present study, an artificial neural network (ANN) based model has been designed to predict the presence of liquid water on the surface of halite pinnacles. The model predicts the moisture formation using two basic meteorological variables, air temperature, and air relative humidity. ANNs have been successfully employed for the first time as a tool for predicting the appearance of liquid water, a key factor for the endolithic microbial communities living in the driest part of the Atacama Desert. The model developed is able to correctly predict the formation of water on the surface of the halite pinnacles 83% of the cases. We anticipate the future application of this model as an important tool for the prediction of the water availability and therefore potential habitability of lithic substrates in extreme environments on Earth and perhaps elsewhere.
Isotopic identification of soil and permafrost nitrate sources in an Arctic tundra ecosystem
Authors: Heikoop Jeffrey M. , Throckmorton Heather M. , Newman Brent D. , Perkins George B. , Iversen Colleen M. , Roy Chowdhury Taniya , Romanovsky Vladimir , Graham David E. , Norby Richard J. , Wilson Cathy J. , Wullschleger Stan D. 
Published: May 2015

AbstractThe nitrate (NO3−) dual isotope approach was applied to snowmelt, tundra active layer pore waters, and underlying permafrost in Barrow, Alaska, USA, to distinguish between NO3− derived from atmospheric deposition versus that derived from microbial nitrification. Snowmelt had an atmospheric NO3− signal with δ15N averaging −4.8 ± 1.0‰ (standard error of the mean) and δ18O averaging 70.2 ± 1.7‰. In active layer pore waters, NO3− primarily occurred at concentrations suitable for isotopic analysis in the relatively dry and oxic centers of high‐centered polygons. The average δ15N and δ18O of NO3− from high‐centered polygons were 0.5 ± 1.1‰ and −4.1 ± 0.6‰, respectively. When compared to the δ15N of reduced nitrogen (N) sources, and the δ18O of soil pore waters, it was evident that NO3− in high‐centered polygons was primarily from microbial nitrification. Permafrost NO3− had δ15N ranging from approximately −6‰ to 10‰, similar to atmospheric and microbial NO3−, and highly variable δ18O ranging from approximately −2‰ to 38‰. Permafrost ice wedges contained a significant atmospheric component of NO3−, while permafrost textural ice contained a greater proportion of microbially derived NO3−. Large‐scale permafrost thaw in this environment would release NO3− with a δ18O signature intermediate to that of atmospheric and microbial NO3. Consequently, while atmospheric and microbial sources can be readily distinguished by the NO3− dual isotope technique in tundra environments, attribution of NO3− from thawing permafrost will not be straightforward. The NO3− isotopic signature, however, appears useful in identifying NO3− sources in extant permafrost ice.
Model‐based analysis of the influence of catchment properties on hydrologic partitioning across five mountain headwater subcatchments
Authors: Kelleher Christa , Wagener Thorsten , McGlynn Brian 
Published: May 2015

AbstractUngauged headwater basins are an abundant part of the river network, but dominant influences on headwater hydrologic response remain difficult to predict. To address this gap, we investigated the ability of a physically based watershed model (the Distributed Hydrology‐Soil‐Vegetation Model) to represent controls on metrics of hydrologic partitioning across five adjacent headwater subcatchments. The five study subcatchments, located in Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest in central Montana, have similar climate but variable topography and vegetation distribution. This facilitated a comparative hydrology approach to interpret how parameters that influence partitioning, detected via global sensitivity analysis, differ across catchments. Model parameters were constrained a priori using existing regional information and expert knowledge. Influential parameters were compared to perceptions of catchment functioning and its variability across subcatchments. Despite between‐catchment differences in topography and vegetation, hydrologic partitioning across all metrics and all subcatchments was sensitive to a similar subset of snow, vegetation, and soil parameters. Results also highlighted one subcatchment with low certainty in parameter sensitivity, indicating that the model poorly represented some complexities in this subcatchment likely because an important process is missing or poorly characterized in the mechanistic model. For use in other basins, this method can assess parameter sensitivities as a function of the specific ungauged system to which it is applied. Overall, this approach can be employed to identify dominant modeled controls on catchment response and their agreement with system understanding.
Temporal dynamics of catchment transit times from stable isotope data
Authors: Klaus Julian , Chun Kwok P. , McGuire Kevin J. , McDonnell Jeffrey J. 
Published: May 2015

AbstractTime variant catchment transit time distributions are fundamental descriptors of catchment function but yet not fully understood, characterized, and modeled. Here we present a new approach for use with standard runoff and tracer data sets that is based on tracking of tracer and age information and time variant catchment mixing. Our new approach is able to deal with nonstationarity of flow paths and catchment mixing, and an irregular shape of the transit time distribution. The approach extracts information on catchment mixing from the stable isotope time series instead of prior assumptions of mixing or the shape of transit time distribution. We first demonstrate proof of concept of the approach with artificial data; the Nash‐Sutcliffe efficiencies in tracer and instantaneous transit times were >0.9. The model provides very accurate estimates of time variant transit times when the boundary conditions and fluxes are fully known. We then tested the model with real rainfall‐runoff flow and isotope tracer time series from the H.J. Andrews Watershed 10 (WS10) in Oregon. Model efficiencies were 0.37 for the 18O modeling for a 2 year time series; the efficiencies increased to 0.86 for the second year underlying the need of long time tracer time series with a long overlap of tracer input and output. The approach was able to determine time variant transit time of WS10 with field data and showed how it follows the storage dynamics and related changes in flow paths where wet periods with high flows resulted in clearly shorter transit times compared to dry low flow periods.
Simultaneous Pi2 observations by the Van Allen Probes inside and outside the plasmasphere
Authors: Ghamry E. , Kim K.‐H. , Kwon H.‐J. , Lee D.‐H. , Park J.‐S. , Choi J. , Hyun K. , Kurth W. S. , Kletzing C. , Wygant J. R. , Huang J. 
Published: May 2015

AbstractPlasmaspheric virtual resonance (PVR) model has been proposed as one of source mechanisms for low‐latitude Pi2 pulsations. Since PVR‐associated Pi2 pulsations are not localized inside the plasmasphere, simultaneous multipoint observations inside and outside the plasmasphere require to test the PVR model. Until now, however, there are few studies using simultaneous multisatellite observations inside and outside the plasmasphere for understanding the radial structure of Pi2 pulsation. In this study, we focus on the Pi2 event observed at low‐latitude Bohyun (BOH, L = 1.35) ground station in South Korea in the postmidnight sector (magnetic local time (MLT) = 3.0) for the interval from 1730 to 1900 UT on 12 March 2013. By using electron density derived from the frequency of the upper hybrid waves detected at Van Allen Probe‐A (VAP‐A) and Van Allen Probe‐B (VAP‐B), the plasmapause is identified. At the time of the Pi2 event, VAP‐A was outside the plasmasphere near midnight (00:55 MLT and L =∼ 6), while VAP‐B was inside the plasmasphere in the postmidnight sector (02:15 MLT and L =∼ 5). VAP‐B observed oscillations in the compressional magnetic field component (Bz) and the dawn‐to‐dusk electric field component (Ey), having high coherence with the BOH Pi2 pulsation in the H component. The H‐Bz and H‐Ey cross phases at VAP‐B inside the plasmasphere were near −180° and −90°, respectively. These phase relationships among Bz, Ey, and H are consistent with a radially standing oscillation of the fundamental mode reported in previous studies. At VAP‐A outside the plasmasphere, Bz oscillations were highly correlated with BOH Pi2 pulsations with ∼−180° phase delay, and the H‐Ey cross phase is near −90°. From these two‐satellite observations, we suggest that the fundamental PVR mode is directly detected by VAP‐A and VAP‐B.
Local water mass modifications by a solitary meander in the Agulhas Current
Authors: Leber Greta M. , Beal Lisa M. 
Published: May 2015

AbstractWe present full‐depth hydrographic and velocity observations across a solitary meander within the Agulhas Current, and assess the degree to which the meander causes upwelling, cross‐frontal mixing, and diapycnal transport. These events can input nutrients onto the continental shelf as well as advect larvae offshore. We find that the meander drives inshore upwelling with vertical velocities of at least 13 m d−1. The meander also causes diapycnal transport resulting in 1°C cooler and 0.25 fresher central waters and 1°C warmer, 0.25 saltier intermediate waters below the thermocline. We introduce a new coordinate system that separates these changes into kinematic changes due to meandering and property changes along transport streamlines. This reveals that most of the observed diapycnal transport below the thermocline is due to property changes. We find a small amount of enhanced cross‐frontal mixing associated with solitary meanders of the Agulhas Current, but it is statistically insignificant. We believe this is due to the strongly barotropic nature of the meandering Agulhas Current, which maintains a deep steering level that inhibits mixing.