cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Prevalence and risk factors for corkscrew claw syndrome in dairy cattle
Creators: name: Cook, N. B.
name: Strebe, A.
name: Karlen, K.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors for an emerging hoof lesion in growing heifers and adult dairy cattle with no prior reports in the peer-reviewed literature. Corkscrew claw syndrome (CCS) is not the corkscrew claw that we used to see affecting the rear lateral claws of multiparous cows who were victims of poor housing and hoof care. Nor is it the mild corkscrew of the front medial claw that we commonly recognize. Rather, corkscrew claw syndrome is the combination of corkscrew deformities of the medial claws of both the rear and front feet in combination, and it occurs in heifers predominantly, rather than older cows. The condition can be so severe by the time that the heifer calves, the rear medial claw is the dominant weight bearing claw. The anatomical changes that result in this condition appear to be permanent and unrepairable. The pedal bones are irreversibly changed, developing bony exostoses and becoming narrower and rotated within the claw capsule. For that reason, affected herds will see this syndrome affecting all age groups, starting in growing age heifers and following through all the way to the oldest cows in the herd.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it”
Creators: name: Belage, Emile
name: Croyle, Stephanie L.
name: Jones-Bitton, Andria
name: Dufour, Simon
name: Kelton, David F.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: A large part of preventing mastitis on dairy farms is achieved through the use of recommended milking practices (RMPs) that have been established and promoted by industry and milk quality organizations such as the National Mastitis Council and the Canadian Bovine Mastitis and Milk Quality Research Network. These practices include use of milking gloves, foremilk stripping, use of pre and post milking teat disinfectants, drying teats prior to milking, and use of automatic takeoffs on milking machines. However, many producers do not adopt these measures, or they only do so partially. This study aimed to explore the attitudes and perceptions of Ontario dairy farmers towards barriers for implementation of RMPs, and to investigate what motivates behavior change in relation to milking hygiene.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Variance-corrected Michaelis-Menten equation predicts transient rates of single-enzyme reactions and response times in bacterial gene-regulation
Creators: name: Pulkkinen, O.
name: Metzler, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many chemical reactions in biological cells occur at very low concentrations of constituent molecules. Thus, transcriptional gene-regulation is often controlled by poorly expressed transcription-factors, such as E.coli lac repressor with few tens of copies. Here we study the effects of inherent concentration fluctuations of substrate-molecules on the seminal Michaelis-Menten scheme of biochemical reactions. We present a universal correction to the Michaelis-Menten equation for the reaction-rates. The relevance and validity of this correction for enzymatic reactions and intracellular gene-regulation is demonstrated. Our analytical theory and simulation results confirm that the proposed variance-corrected Michaelis-Menten equation predicts the rate of reactions with remarkable accuracy even in the presence of large non-equilibrium concentration fluctuations. The major advantage of our approach is that it involves only the mean and variance of the substrate-molecule concentration. Our theory is therefore accessible to experiments and not specific to the exact source of the concentration fluctuations.
description: 22 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX
Scale vs Conformal invariance from Entanglement Entropy
Creators: name: Naseh, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a generic conformal field theory (CFT) in four dimensions, the scale anomaly dictates that the universal part of entanglement entropy across a sphere ($\mathcal{C}_{\text{univ}}(S^{2})$) is positive. Based on this fact, we explore the consequences of assuming positive sign for $\mathcal{C}_{\text{univ}}(S^{2})$ in a four dimensional scale invariant theory (SFT). In absence of a dimension two scalar operator $\mathcal{O}_{2}$ in the spectrum of a SFT, we show that this assumption suggests that SFT is a CFT. In presence of $\mathcal{O}_{2}$, we show that this assumption can fix the coefficient of the nonlinear coupling term $\int\hspace{-.5mm} d^{4}x\sqrt{g} R\mathcal{O}_{2}$ to a conformal value.
description: 6 pages, no figures
Assessing the risk of subclinical infections in cows with clinical mastitis
Creators: name: Scillieri Smith, Jessica C.
name: Morrill, Kimberley M.
name: Gauthier, Heather M.
name: Dann, Heather M.
name: Ballard, Catherine S.
name: Rauch, Bradley J.
name: Virkler, Paul D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: The objective of this project was to evaluate the risk of SCM in NCQs of cows with CM in comparison to animals with normal milk. Our hypothesis is that cows with CM in one quarter are at a higher risk of SCM in NCQs when compared to low and high somatic cell count (SCC) control groups.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Effect of bi-modal milk letdown on milk production
Creators: name: Erskine, R. J.
name: Thomson, R. S.
name: Norby, B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: The dairy industry is relying more on hired labor to milk cows and many dairy operations are increasing pressure on employees to maintain high levels of milking parlor throughput. This management emphasis negatively impacts milking protocols that are aligned with milk quality. Parlor efficiency is often defined in terms of cows milked per hour. However, we need to consider milking efficiency to include milk quality, milk flow, and employee performance (Moore-Foster et al., 2019; Erskine et al., 2019). The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of poor pre-milking preparation (as evidenced by bi-modal milk letdown) on subsequent milk production. Erskine, RJ, B Norby, LM Neuder, et al. 2019. Decreased milk yield is associated with delayed milk ejection. J. Dairy Sci. (in press) Moore-Foster R, B Norby, RL Schewe, et al. 2019. Herd-level variables associated with delayed milk ejection in Michigan dairy herds. J. Dairy Sci. 102:696-705.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Structural Transitions and Hysteresis in Clump- and Stripe-Forming Systems Under Dynamic Compression
Creators: name: McDermott, D.
name: Reichhardt, C. J. Olson
name: Reichhardt, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using numerical simulations, we study the dynamical evolution of particles interacting via competing long-range repulsion and short-range attraction in two dimensions. The particles are compressed using a time-dependent quasi-one dimensional trough potential that controls the local density, causing the system to undergo a series of structural phase transitions from a low density clump lattice to stripes, voids, and a high density uniform state. The compression proceeds via slow elastic motion that is interrupted with avalanche-like bursts of activity as the system collapses to progressively higher densities via plastic rearrangements. The plastic events vary in magnitude from small rearrangements of particles, including the formation of quadrupole-like defects, to large-scale vorticity and structural phase transitions. In the dense uniform phase, the system compresses through row reduction transitions mediated by a disorder-order process. We characterize the rearrangement events by measuring changes in the potential energy, the fraction of sixfold coordinated particles, the local density, and the velocity distribution. At high confinements, we find power law scaling of the velocity distribution during row reduction transitions. We observe hysteresis under a reversal of the compression when relatively few plastic rearrangements occur. The decompressing system exhibits distinct phase morphologies, and the phase transitions occur at lower compression forces as the system expands compared to when it is compressed.
An investigation of the strength of anchorage zones in post-tensioned high strength concrete members
Creators: name: Stolz, Andrew Daniel.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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ELIXIR RDM trainer network building a stronger community of trainers
Creators: name: Pérez Sitjà Xènia
name: Andrews Robert
name: Nazeefa, Fatima
name: Nils-Christian, Lübke
name: Poterlowicz Krzysztof
name: Schnitzer Helena
name: Wibberg Daniel
name: ELIXIR-CONVERGE WP2 Leads
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2023

description: The ELIXIR Research Data Management (RDM) Trainer Network brings together individuals from national (ELIXIR Nodes) and local (research institutes, and higher education) organisations, who are committed to promoting good practices in data management among researchers. Network members collaborate to develop training materials, share best practices and offer support to one another. By joining the ELIXIR RDM Trainer Network, members can expand their training knowledge and skills in RDM, connect with peers and contribute to promoting best practices.

 Currently, the Network is cemented on three central pillars: establish and sustain the Network, organise and implement knowledge-sharing activities to support the development of the Network through regular gatherings and events, and capture its outcomes and impact by utilising ELIXIR’s training impact metrics. As part of the ELIXIR-CONVERGE WP2, the Network has already organised several informational gatherings and a series of hackathons revolving around data management plans, data management/data stewardship training, reproducibility, and FAIR data.

 Further, the Network is improving synergies with the work carried out by the WP1 of the ELIXIR-CONVERGE project to become a part of the emerging ELIXIR RDM Community. Combining forces, the emerging Community will host an expert and a trainer network to offer best practices expertise and capacity building across ELIXIR and beyond. ELIXIR RDM training network will also stay tightly connected to the ELIXIR Training Platform and other relevant ELIXIR Platforms and Communities.
MPEC 2023-S83 : 2016 FA13
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
A single predator charging a herd of prey: effects of self volume and predator-prey decision-making
Creators: name: Schwarzl, M.
name: Godec, A.
name: Oshanin, G.
name: Metzler, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the degree of success of a single predator hunting a herd of prey on a two dimensional square lattice landscape. We explicitly consider the self volume of the prey restraining their dynamics on the lattice. The movement of both predator and prey is chosen to include an intelligent, decision making step based on their respective sighting ranges, the radius in which they can detect the other species (prey cannot recognise each other besides the self volume interaction): after spotting each other the motion of prey and predator turns from a nearest neighbour random walk into direct escape or chase, respectively. We consider a large range of prey densities and sighting ranges and compute the mean first passage time for a predator to catch a prey as well as characterise the effective dynamics of the hunted prey. We find that the prey's sighting range dominates their life expectancy and the predator profits more from a bad eyesight of the prey than from his own good eye sight. We characterise the dynamics in terms of the mean distance between the predator and the nearest prey. It turns out that effectively the dynamics of this distance coordinate can be captured in terms of a simple Ornstein-Uhlenbeck picture. Reducing the many-body problem to a simple two-body problem by imagining predator and nearest prey to be connected by a Hookean bond, all features of the model such as prey density and sighting ranges merge into the effective binding constant.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures, IOPLaTeX
Analytical solutions of the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations for the three-species Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Liu, Y. M.
name: Bao, C. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations for the g.s. of the three-species condensates (3-BEC) have been solved analytically under the Thomas-Fermi approximation. Six types of spatial configurations in miscible phase are found. The whole parameter-space has been divided into zones each supports a specific configuration (miscible or immiscible). The borders of the zones are described by analytical formulae. Due to the division, the variation of the spatial configuration against the parameters can be visualized, and the effects of the parameters can be thereby understood. There are regions in the parameter-space where the configuration is highly sensitive to the parameters. These regions are tunable and valuable for the determination of the parameters.
description: 7 pages,3 figures
Formation of Non-uniform Double Helices for Elastic Rods under Torsion
Creators: name: Li, Hongyuan
name: Zhao, Shumin
name: Xia, Minggang
name: He, Siyu
name: Yang, Qifan
name: Yan, Yuming
name: Zhao, Hanqiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spontaneous formation of double helices for filaments under torsion is common and significant. For example, the research on the supercoiling of DNA is helpful for understanding the replication and transcription of DNA. Similar double helices can appear in polymer chains, carbon nanotube yarns, cables, telephone wires and so forth. We noticed that non-uniform double helices can be produced due to the surface friction induced by the self-contact. Therefore an ideal model was presented to investigate the formation of double helices for elastic rods under torque. A general equilibrium condition which is valid for both the smooth surface and the rough surface situations is derived by using the variational method. Based on this, by adding further constraints, the smooth and rough surface situations are investigated in detail respectively. Additionally, the model showed that the specific process of how to twist and slack the rod can determine the surface friction and hence influence the configuration of the double helix formed by rods with rough surfaces. Based on this principle, a method of manufacturing double helices with designed configurations was proposed and demonstrated. Finally, experiments were performed to verify the model and the results agreed well with the theory.
description: 31 pages, 14 figures
Intramammary infusion of casein hydrolysate for involution of single mastitic mammary quarters that are elevating cow-level somatic cell count
Creators: name: Wilson, D. J.
name: Britten, J. E.
name: Rood, K. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Mastitis in a single quarter can cause high somatic cell counts (SCC), clinical mastitis, and death in dairy cows. Casein hydrolysate (CH) is an intramammary (IMM) infusion treatment reported to induce mammary involution. Objectives were to study cessation of milk production in one mastitic quarter per cow following CH IMM infusion, 3-quartered cow milk production and cow-level SCC for the remainder of lactation, and after calving, whether the mastitic quarter resumed milk production, cow and quarter-level milk production, SCC and elimination of previously isolated mastitis pathogens.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Anisotropy and memory during cage breaking events close to a wall
Creators: name: Kohl, Matthias
name: Härtel, Andreas
name: Schmiedeberg, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The slow dynamics in a glassy hard-sphere system is dominated by cage breaking events, i.e., rearrangements where a particle escapes from the cage formed by its neighboring particles. We study such events for an overdamped colloidal system by the means of Brownian dynamics simulations. While it is difficult to relate cage breaking events to structural mean field results in bulk, we show that the microscopic dynamics of particles close to a wall can be related to the anisotropic two-particle density. In particular, we study cage-breaking trajectories, mean forces on a tracked particle, and the impact of the history of trajectories. Based on our simulation results, we further construct two different one-particle random-walk models - one without and one with memory incorporated - and find the local anisotropy and the history-dependence of particles as crucial ingredients to describe the escape from a cage. Finally, our detailed study of a rearrangement event close to a wall not only reveals the memory effect of cages, but leads to a deeper insight into the fundamental mechanisms of glassy dynamics.
Casimir Self-Entropy of an Electromagnetic Thin Sheet
Creators: name: Li, Yang
name: Milton, K. A.
name: Kalauni, Pushpa
name: Parashar, Prachi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Casimir entropies due to quantum fluctuations in the interaction between electrical bodies can often be negative, either caused by dissipation or by geometry. Although generally such entropies vanish at zero temperature, consistent with the third law of thermodynamics (the Nernst heat theorem), there is a region in the space of temperature and separation between the bodies where negative entropy occurs, while positive interaction entropies arise for large distances or temperatures. Systematic studies on this phenomenon in the Casimir-Polder interaction between a polarizable nanoparticle or atom and a conducting plate in the dipole approximation have been given recently. Since the total entropy should be positive according to the second law of thermodynamics, we expect that the self-entropy of the bodies would be sufficiently positive as to overwhelm the negative interaction entropy. This expectation, however, has not been explicitly verified. Here we compute the self-entropy of an electromagnetic $δ$-function plate, which corresponds to a perfectly conducting sheet in the strong coupling limit. The transverse electric contribution to the self-entropy is negative, while the transverse magnetic contribution is larger and positive, so the total self-entropy is positive. However, this self-entropy vanishes in the strong-coupling limit. In that case, it is the self-entropy of the nanoparticle that is just sufficient to result in a nonnegative total entropy.
Intramammary casein hydrolysate compared with other dry treatments in dairy cattle
Creators: name: Wilson, D. J.
name: Britten, J. E.
name: Rood, K. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Consumers and the dairy industry are interested in alternatives to standard antibiotic dry cow therapy (DCT) for dairy cows. Objectives were comparison of intramammary (IMM) casein hydrolysate (CH) alone or combined with DCT and/or internal teat sealant (TS) with DCT + TS (Control) dry treatments. Comparisons between treatments included change in mammary involution markers bovine lactoferrin (bLf) and bovine serum albumin (BSA) in milk during the first 10 d dry and the intramammary infection (IMI) outcomes Cure, Chronic or New IMI following calving.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Properties and evolution of anisotropic structures in collisionless plasmas
Creators: name: Karimov, A. R.
name: Yu, M. Y.
name: Stenflo, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new class of exact electrostatic solutions of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations based on the Jeans's theorem is proposed for studying the evolution and properties of two-dimensional anisotropic plasmas that are far from thermodynamic equilibrium. In particular, the free expansion of a slab of electron-ion plasma into vacuum is investigated.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure
Active Matter in Lateral Parabolic Confinement: From Subdiffusion to Superdiffusion
Creators: name: Ribeiro, H. E.
name: Potiguar, F. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we studied the diffusive behavior of active brownian particles under lateral parabolic confinement. The results showed that we go from subdiffusion to ballistic motion as we vary the angular noise strength and confinement intensity. We argued that the subdiffusion regimes appear as consequence of the restricted space available for diffusion (achieved either through large confinement and/or large noise); we saw that when there are large confinement and noise intensity, a similar configuration to single file diffusion appears; on the other hand, normal and superdiffusive regimes may occur due to low noise (longer persistent motion), either through exploring a wider region around the potential minimum in the transverse direction (low confinement), or by forming independent clusters (high confinement).
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Physica A
MPEC 2023-S84 : 2019 UC4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The effect of prepartum negative dietary cation-anion difference and serum calcium concentration on blood neutrophil function in the transition period of dairy cows
Creators: name: Serrenho, R. C.
name: Morrison, E. I.
name: Pascottini, O. B.
name: LeBlanc, S. J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Hypocalcemia and impaired immune function are recognized risk factors for clinical disease in the transition period of dairy cows. At the onset of lactation, calcium homeostasis is disrupted by redirection of calcium for colostrum production, which triggers a substantial decrease in the blood calcium concentration for 1 to 4 days. Blood calcium concentration is associated with neutrophil function, which turn is associated with the risk of retained placenta, metritis, and mastitis. Negative Dietary CationAnion Difference (DCAD) diets fed during the prepartum period increase postpartum blood calcium concentrations and reduce the risk of disease. Our objectives were to assess the effects of a negative dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) on phagocytosis (P) and oxidative burst (OB) function of circulating neutrophils and to determine the associations of serum ionized (iCa) and total calcium concentrations (tCa) with P and OB. We hypothesized that multiparous cows fed a negative DCAD prepartum would have greater serum ionized (iCa) and total calcium concentrations (tCa), and thus improved P and OB.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Molecular Profiling of Circulating Tumour DNA in Aggressive Lymphoid Malignancies
Creators: name: Trethewey, Christopher S.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) can be used to profile, detect, and monitor cancers. Technical advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) strategies to address limitations in ctDNA detection and the precise classification of lymphoid cancers, using mutational features and bioinformatics tools, may help diagnosis and have predictive value for treatment. Despite these advances, application of ctDNA in current clinical practice is absent, with translational studies yet to be carried out in the U.K. for patient stratification. This study describes the development of an effective NGS workflow, comprising design of a pan-lymphoma, targeted panel focusing upon molecular characteristics specific to B-cell and T-cell malignancies for profiling ctDNA, coupled with custom bioinformatic workflow ‘Deep-sequencing and Evaluation of Lymphoid Variant Effects' (DELVE). DELVE enables detection of aberrant somatic hyper-mutation (aSHM) sites including immunoglobulin heavy chain locus (IGH), fusions and clonal immunoglobulin repertoire detection. Clinical utility of ctDNA and mutational profiling by pan-lymphoma targeted panel / DELVE were investigated in Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma (DLBCL), primary cutaneous diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (PCDLBCL-LT) and peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL). A DLBCL discovery cohort of six patients comparing FFPE and baseline ctDNA was followed by a validation cohort and longitudinal analysis during treatment. 14/15 DLBCL exhibited detectable ctDNA at baseline. Sequencing of tissue and plasma revealed significant aSHM, with detectable HMRN and LymphGen classifications. In a case of PCDLBCL-LT, limitations in use of ctDNA to monitor treatment response were evidenced with no detectable ctDNA throughout clinical course, including following 2 systemic relapses and ctDNA was detectable only when the patient was treated with BTKi. Finally, in PTCL (n=6), proof of principle and comparison with Ion Torrent sequencing was performed. This work demonstrated the feasibility of using a pan-lymphoma targeted panel and the DELVE pipeline to profile tumours and monitor residual disease and set the basis for larger scale studies.
Milk residues following multiple doses of meloxicam and gabapentin in postpartum and mid-lactation dairy cows
Creators: name: Mzyk, D. A.
name: Bublitz, C. M.
name: Baynes, R. E.
name: Smith, G. W.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Management of pain is a significant welfare concern for lactating dairy cattle. There is a lack of approved pain medications for lactating dairy cattle. A combination therapy of gabapentin, a GABA analog and meloxicam, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, are commonly used for analgesia in cattle in an extra-label manner. The objective of this study was to determine the number of days milk residues could be detected when meloxicam was administered alone or in combination with gabapentin in both postpartum and midlactation cows following multiple doses.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
A survey of dairy cattle veterinarians’ perspectives on timely management and euthanasia for common adult cow conditions
Creators: name: Cramer, M. Caitlin
name: Dietsch, Alia M.
name: Shearer, Jan K.
name: Proudfoot, Kathryn L.
name: Pairis-Garcia, Monique D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Timely euthanasia of compromised animals on dairy farms can reduce the poor welfare outcomes when recovery is prolonged or impossible. However, little to now research exists regarding euthanasia decision-making. The veterinarian is often involved in euthanasia decision-making, but it is not clear if there is consensus amongst dairy veterinarians on which conditions warrant euthanasia or appropriate timelines. The objectives of this study were 1) to determine dairy veterinarians’ perspectives on euthanasia decisions in response to 13 common adult cow conditions, 2) to assess preferred timelines for euthanasia for each condition, and 3) determine if gender or age of the veterinarians influenced their decision-making.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Survey investigating cattle veterinarian and producer perceptions of pain experienced by beef and dairy cattle undergoing castration and dehorning
Creators: name: Johnstone, E. C. S.
name: Coetzee, J. F.
name: Pinedo, P. J.
name: Edwards-Callaway, L. N.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Despite the recognition that many livestock management practices cause pain in cattle, the routine use of pain management at the time of these procedures in dairy and beef cattle remains limited. The decision to use pain management requires identification and evaluation of the significance of the pain experienced by cattle during procedures, such as castration and dehorning. The objective of this study was to evaluate how cattle veterinarians and producers qualify the pain experienced by beef and dairy cattle and how this qualification relates to their use of pain mitigation.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
The "preventive use of force"- debate within international law
Creators: name: Reis, João Franco
Publisher: name: Gaudium Sciendi
Year: 2024

description: This paper examines the legal discussion within international law regarding the use of "preventive" force with an eye to its more innovative and controversial dimensions, and analyses its likely impacts on the law regulating the use of force and its underlying norms. We will show the evolution of the academic debate, especially within the scope of application of article 51 of the U. N. Charter and argue that it seems reasonable to empower states to lawfully use force "pre-emptively" but only under very restrictive circumstances, such as facing "imminent" attacks under the "Caroline" formula. The so called "Bush doctrine" and the "preventive" use of force against a "non-imminent" threat, seem to remain outside of the legal scope.
description: Gaudium Sciendi, n. 20 (2021)
MuSIC: delivering the world's most intense muon beam
Creators: name: Cook, S.
name: D'Arcy, R.
name: Edmonds, A.
name: Fukuda, M.
name: Hatanaka, K.
name: Hino, Y.
name: Kuno, Y.
name: Lancaster, M.
name: Mori, Y.
name: Ogitsu, T.
name: Sakamoto, H.
name: Sato, A.
name: Tran, N. H.
name: Truong, N. M.
name: Wing, M.
name: Yamamoto, A.
name: Yoshida, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new muon beamline, muon science innovative channel (MuSIC), was set up at the Research Centre for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University, in Osaka, Japan, using the 392 MeV proton beam impinging on a target. The production of an intense muon beam relies on the efficient capture of pions, which subsequently decay to muons, using a novel superconducting solenoid magnet system. After the pion-capture solenoid the first $36^\circ$ of the curved muon transport line was commissioned and the muon flux was measured. In order to detect muons, a target of either copper or magnesium was placed to stop muons at the end of the muon beamline. Two stations of plastic scintillators located upstream and downstream from the muon target were used to reconstruct the decay spectrum of muons. In a complementary method to detect negatively-charged muons, the X-ray spectrum yielded by muonic atoms in the target were measured in a germanium detector. Measurements, at a proton beam current of 6 pA, yielded $(10.4 \pm 2.7) \times 10^5$ muons per Watt of proton beam power ($μ^+$ and $μ^-$), far in excess of other facilities. At full beam power (400 W), this implies a rate of muons of $(4.2 \pm 1.1) \times 10^8$ muons s$^{-1}$, amongst the highest in the world. The number of $μ^-$ measured was about a factor of 10 lower, again by far the most efficient muon beam produced. The set up is a prototype for future experiments requiring a high-intensity muon beam, such as a muon collider or neutrino factory, or the search for rare muon decays which would be a signature for phenomena beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Such a muon beam can also be used in other branches of physics, nuclear and condensed matter, as well as other areas of scientific research.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. ST-Acc. Beams
Survey of veterinary student attitudes toward animal welfare and pain
Creators: name: Martin, M. S.
name: Baysinger, A.
name: Viscardi, A.
name: Kleinhenz, M.
name: Edwards-Callaway, L.
name: Johnstone, E.
name: Coetzee, J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Discrepancies in the background and training of veterinarians regarding the painfulness of procedures across species may impact their decision to use analgesia. The objective of this study was to investigate veterinary student attitudes toward pain and animal welfare.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Grinding force models for creep feed grinding using electroplated cubic boron nitride grinding wheels
Creators: name: Lee, Joon.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The effects of handling intensity at time of processing on physiological response, immune response, and vaccination status in beef cattle at the feedlot
Creators: name: Bourek, J. R.
name: Torres, S.
name: Welsh, J.
name: Terrell, S. P.
name: Lukasiewicz, K.
name: Taylor, L. M.
name: Thomson, D. U.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Newly received feeder calves are often experience stress upon arrival at the feedlot due to weaning, commingling, transportation, marketing, nutrition, handling and others. Many of these factors are out of the control of the feedlot receiving the cattle, however cattle handling upon arrival and at processing is a controllable aspect. The objectives of this study was to determine the effects of cattle handling intensity at processing had an effect on stress markers in newly received feeder calves relating to the physiological, inflammatory and the immune response.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
US Electricity System Futures, Wind Energy, and Digitalization
Creators: name: Lantz, Eric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: 2023 DOE stakeholder engagement workshop

description: This presentation focuses on a renewable energy future. It outlines100% clean energy by 2035 scenarios, unique and wind grand challenges, adding that digitalization in the form of hardware, data, and 21st century software solutions will be critical in meeting these goals.
description: {"references": ["Denhold, Brown et al. 100% by 2035 https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/81644.pdf"]}
Updated determination of $α_s(m_τ^2)$ from tau decays
Creators: name: Pich, Antonio
name: Sánchez, Antonio Rodríguez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the most recent release of the ALEPH $τ$ decay data, we present a very detailed phenomenological update of the $α_s(m_τ^2)$ determination. We have exploited the sensitivity to the strong coupling in many different ways, exploring several complementary methodologies. All determinations turn out to be in excellent agreement, allowing us to extract a very reliable value of the strong coupling. We find $α_{s}^{(n_f=3)}(m_τ^2) = 0.328 \pm 0.012$ which implies $α_{s}^{(n_f=5)}(M_Z^{2}) = 0.1197\pm 0.0014$. We critically revise previous work, and point out the problems flawing some recent analyses which claim slightly smaller values.
description: Invited contribution to the MITP workshop on Determination of the Fundamental Parameters in QCD (Mainz, 7-11 March 2016). 15 pages, 8 figures
MPEC 2023-S85 : 2021 JH7
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
On a relation between roughening and coarsening
Creators: name: Corberi, Federico
name: Lippiello, Eugenio
name: Zannetti, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that a strict relation exists between two in principle unrelated quantities: The size of the growing domains in a coarsening system, and the kinetic roughening of an interface. This relation is confirmed by extensive simulations of the Ising model with different forms of quenched disorder, such as random bonds, random fields and stochastic dilution.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. To appear on EPL
Current State of Digital Transformation
Creators: name: Stapleton, Jamie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: 2023 DOE Stakeholder Engagement Workshop

description: This presentation outlines the current state of digital transformation in the EU including objectives, an overview of use cases & technologies, case studies and a roadmap toward a digital wind sector by 2030.
description: {"references": ["Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Council and the Committee of the 2 Regions - State of the energy Union 2022.", "https://windeurope.org/intelligence-platform/product/wind-energy-3 digitalisation-towards-2030"]}
Chute behavior of cattle handled using acclimation and low-stress handling techniques
Creators: name: Lieman, S.
name: DiRusso, G.
name: Dewell, R. D.
name: Parsons, R. L.
name: Millman, S. T.
name: Dewell, G. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Bovine Respiratory Disease is a multifactorial syndrome, which negatively impacts performance and welfare among cattle on feed. BRD is associated with viral and bacterial pathogens; but other causal factors include management techniques and environmental stresses. Immune systems of many species, including bovids, have the capability to become compromised by stress. Low-stress cattle handling (LSCH) and acclimation methods are thought to lower stress and may potentially benefit the health and performance of feedlot cattle. Low stress handling methods use the natural behavior and innate responses of cattle to minimize negative consequences due to handler interactions. Acclimation methods familiarize cattle with their environment and, therefore, decrease stress. It was hypothesized that cattle that were acclimated and handled with LSCH techniques would vocalize less and display calmer behavior in a squeeze chute compared to cattle that had not been acclimated and had been handled conventionally.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
From Colonisation to My Generation: An Aboriginal Historian's Family History Research from Past to Present
Creators: name: Bostock-Smith, Shauna
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2021

description: I am an Aboriginal historian, and this thesis is a narrative of my personal research journey. Figuratively speaking, I travelled into the past as a genealogist and traced my four Aboriginal grandparents' family lines to as far back as I could go in the written historic record, which was just after the settlement of northern New South Wales. But it was the historian who slowly returned from the past to the present, unearthing interesting, turbulent and surprising histories to be placed within the context of Australian and Aboriginal history. The scope of this thesis spans five generations and examines my ancestors' lived experience, from witnessing the continuing encroachment of white settlement, to segregation on Australian Government Aborigines reserves, to the control of the Aborigines Protection Board, to the eventual exodus to the city, to radicalisation and the fight for land rights, to Aboriginal advancement and creative expression, and onwards. The connection of this past chronology to present times culminates with my own historian's ego-histoire, thus creating an unbroken umbilical and historical connection to time immemorial. The key contribution of this thesis is the disclosure of copious amounts of (previously unaccessed) archives. These Aborigines Protection Board (later the Aborigines Welfare Board) archives detail the reprehensible maltreatment of Aboriginal people and the astounding incompetence of these Australian Government bodies in their destructive determination to control Aboriginal lives. Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation files reveal that government surveillance of my family members did not end after the Aborigines Welfare Board was abolished in 1969. The primary achievement of this thesis is the illumination of the long-term struggle of Aboriginal people to wrest a living free from Australian Government control and surveillance. To finally live in this country on equal footing, with the same rights and conditions as non-Indigenous Australians. Scholarly, multi-generational Aboriginal family history research, with intense archival research on Aboriginal individuals and their entire experience through time, illuminates much more than what we already know about Aboriginal history. Additionally, it is only when this kind of historical research is placed into the cosmic, big-history context that we fully understand both the cataclysmic effect of colonisation on Indigenous Australians and their tremendous survival efforts, struggle and continuing recovery.
MPEC 2023-N45 : 2023 NT
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 NT

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Pollination and chemical ecology of Pterostylis (Orchidaceae)
Creators: name: Hayashi, Tobias
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2022

description: Pollination by sexual deception has evolved multiple times within the Orchidaceae, with these orchids known to exploit a wide variety of male insects from the Hymenoptera, Diptera and Coleoptera. Fungus gnats (Diptera; Sciaroidea) have been predicted to be the pollinators of many species of sexually deceptive orchid, yet unlike orchids that sexually attract bees and wasps (Hymenoptera), the pollination and floral chemistry of fungus gnat-pollinated orchids has received relatively little attention. One such example is Pterostylis (Orchidaceae), a diverse terrestrial orchid genus from Australasia. In Chapter 1, I investigate the pollination of Pterostylis cycnocephala and confirm, for the first time in Pterostylis, pollination by sexual deception of male black fungus gnats (Sciaridae). Pollinator baiting and floral dissection experiments revealed that floral odour is responsible for long-range pollinator attraction, but appropriate morphology, in the form of an intricate labellum appendage, is required to elicit the copulatory behaviour needed for pollination. In Chapter 2, I test the long-standing hypothesis that sexual deception is taxonomically widespread in Pterostylis, using pollinator baiting as a tool to investigate the pollination mechanisms of a representative subset of species. My results show that pollination by sexual deception of male fungus gnats is likely to be the dominant pollination mechanism in Pterostylis, although food rewarding systems are also likely to be present. In Chapter 3, I uncover the chemical basis for the sexual deception of male Mycomya sp. (Mycetophilidae) by Pterostylis orbiculata flowers. Using preparatory-GC in combination with laboratory and field bioassays, I show that (6Z,9Z)-1,6,9-tricosatriene, an unusual polyunsaturated hydrocarbon (polyene), is crucial for male fungus gnat attraction and therefore pollination. In Chapter 4, I build on the findings from Chapter 3 by conducting (1) a genus-wide survey of floral volatiles to investigate patterns of polyene presence and abundance across the genus, and (2) a detailed survey of P. orbiculata and five closely related species in the section Urochilus to investigate if closely related species produce different polyenes. Polyenes were present primarily in the labellum extracts of Pterostylis species confirmed or predicted to sexually attract male Mycetophilidae, but not other fungus gnat families. In addition, each of the species in the section Urochilus either produced different polyenes or showed evidence of chemotypic variation associated with polyenes. Overall, this thesis represents the first extensive investigation of the pollination and chemical ecology of Pterostylis orchids, providing new insights into the evolution of pollination by sexual deception of male fungus gnats.