cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Regional Variation in Rental Costs for Larger Households
Creators: name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Sourell, Robert
name: Aitken, Andrew
name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Sourell, Robert
name: Aitken, Andrew
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Public Economics
subject: house rents
subject: deprivation
subject: regional disparities

description: Housing costs comprise a major part of most household budgets. Larger households require greater space than do smaller households but do not necessarily have larger incomes. The cost of extra housing space (e.g. the cost of an extra bedroom) may vary across different locations, both absolutely (dollars per week) and proportionately (percentage of overall costs). If this is the case, differential regional costs of additional space may provide an incentive for different sized households to locate in particular areas where housing costs most appropriately fit their needs. Our analysis uses tenancy bond rental data to analyse the cost of renting an extra bedroom in different locations throughout New Zealand. It discusses the theory of what determines rents. We then examine the nature of regional rental costs, testing whether the documented patterns fit with theoretical predictions. Finally, we reflect on what the results may imply for social outcomes and housing policy in New Zealand. To give a flavour of the issues, consider the following. In 2003, the average weekly rental cost of a two bedroom dwelling in Auckland was $37 more than for a one bedroom dwelling. The cost of a third bedroom was an extra $50 and the cost of a fourth bedroom was an additional $90. Thus weekly rental cost for a four bedroom dwelling exceeded that of a one bedroom dwelling by $177. In Manawatu-Wanganui, the cost of a two bedroom dwelling was $38 more than for a one bedroom dwelling - almost identical to the margin in Auckland. But the cost of additional bedrooms was much lower than in Auckland: $29 for a third bedroom and $33 for a fourth bedroom. This raw data might suggest that it would be beneficial for larger households to locate in Manawatu-Wanganui and for smaller households to locate in Auckland. However, the interaction with other factors has to be taken into account before such a conclusion can be reached. At the minimum, the data suggests there is a material issue to be addressed relating to disparities in regional housing costs for different sized households.
Report to the Members of the TEI-C at the Business Meeting in Graz, 2019 Sept. 19th
Creators: name: Tomasek, Kathrin
name: Scholger, Martina
name: Cayless, Hugh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: TEI-C
Text Encoding Initiative

description: Slides from the TEI-C members meeting at the TEI conference 2019 (http://graz-2019.uni-graz.at)
Trapping and Wiggling: Elastohydrodynamics of Driven Microfilaments
Creators: name: Wiggins, Chris H.
name: Riveline, Daniel X.
name: Ott, Albrecht
name: Goldstein, Raymond E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general theoretical analysis of semiflexible filaments subject to viscous drag or point forcing. These are the relevant forces in dynamic experiments designed to measure biopolymer bending moduli. By analogy with the ``Stokes problems" in hydrodynamics (fluid motion induced by that of a wall bounding a viscous fluid), we consider the motion of a polymer one end of which is moved in an impulsive or oscillatory way. Analytical solutions for the time-dependent shapes of such moving polymers are obtained within an analysis applicable to small-amplitude deformations. In the case of oscillatory driving, particular attention is paid to a characteristic length determined by the frequency of oscillation, the polymer persistence length, and the viscous drag coefficient. Experiments on actin filaments manipulated with optical traps confirm the scaling law predicted by the analysis and provide a new technique for measuring the elastic bending modulus. A re-analysis of several published experiments on microtubules is also presented.
description: RevTex, 24 pages, 15 eps figs, uses cite.sty, Biophysical J
The succinct synthesis of AT13387, a clinically relevant Hsp90 inhibitor
Creators: name: Kaur, Jatinder
name: Bhardwaj, Atul
name: Melancon, Bruce J.
name: Blagg, Brian S. J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: AT13387 is an orally bioavailable clinical candidate developed to inhibit heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90). This article describes a modified synthetic route for the multi-gram production of AT13387 in 46% overall yield. The modified synthetic route is short, avoids stringent reaction conditions and difficult purifications, which led to an increase in overall yield.
Supersymmetry of Anti-de Sitter Black Holes
Creators: name: Caldarelli, Marco M.
name: Klemm, Dietmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine supersymmetry of four-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) dyonic black holes in the context of gauged N=2 supergravity. Our calculations concentrate on black holes with unusual topology and their rotating generalizations, but we also reconsider the spherical rotating dyonic Kerr-Newman-AdS black hole, whose supersymmetry properties have previously been investigated by Kostelecký and Perry within another approach. We find that in the case of spherical, toroidal or cylindrical event horizon topology, the black holes must rotate in order to preserve some supersymmetry; the non-rotating supersymmetric configurations representing naked singularities. However, we show that this is no more true for black holes whose event horizons are Riemann surfaces of genus $g>1$, where we find a nonrotating extremal solitonic black hole carrying magnetic charge and permitting one Killing spinor. For the nonrotating supersymmetric configurations of various topologies, all Killing spinors are explicitly constructed.
description: 27 pages, revtex, no figures. Minor errors corrected. Final version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
Kalenga ansorgei
Creators: name: Mbata, Keith J.
name: Prins, Jurate De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Thyrididae
Kalenga
Kalenga ansorgei

description: Kalenga ansorgei (Warren, 1899b)
COMMON NAME(S): Picture-winged leaf moth.
SYNONYM(S): Banisia discata Warren, 1905c; Banisia pusillata Warren, 1902.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mwinilunga, in Northwestern Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.
description: Published as part of Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-503 in Zootaxa 5354 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
Active Deep Q-learning with Demonstration
Creators: name: Chen, Si-An
name: Tangkaratt, Voot
name: Lin, Hsuan-Tien
name: Sugiyama, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent research has shown that although Reinforcement Learning (RL) can benefit from expert demonstration, it usually takes considerable efforts to obtain enough demonstration. The efforts prevent training decent RL agents with expert demonstration in practice. In this work, we propose Active Reinforcement Learning with Demonstration (ARLD), a new framework to streamline RL in terms of demonstration efforts by allowing the RL agent to query for demonstration actively during training. Under the framework, we propose Active Deep Q-Network, a novel query strategy which adapts to the dynamically-changing distributions during the RL training process by estimating the uncertainty of recent states. The expert demonstration data within Active DQN are then utilized by optimizing supervised max-margin loss in addition to temporal difference loss within usual DQN training. We propose two methods of estimating the uncertainty based on two state-of-the-art DQN models, namely the divergence of bootstrapped DQN and the variance of noisy DQN. The empirical results validate that both methods not only learn faster than other passive expert demonstration methods with the same amount of demonstration and but also reach super-expert level of performance across four different tasks.
Synthesis and molecular docking studies of some new thiosemicarbazone derivatives as HCV polymeraseinhibitors
Creators: name: Sroor, Farid M.
name: Khatab, Tamer K.
name: Basyouni, Wahid M.
name: Khairy A. M. El-Bayouki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Series of new thiosemicarbazones was prepared and molecular studied as inhibitors of HCV 4WTG polymerase. Thus, the thiosemicarbazone derivatives (3a–k) were synthesized by two different ways, from reacting thiosemicarbazides with aldehydes and by one-pot three component reaction using ZnCl2/SiO2 as a catalyst under solvent free conditions. Molecular docking analysis of the synthesized products predicted that the thiosemicarbazone derivatives 3c, 3g, and 3k were the most promised as a highly inhibitors for HCV 4WTG polymerase in comparison with Sofosbuvir drug.
Supplemental Figure 1.pdf
Creators: name: Upners, Emmie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Figure 1 A) Length velocity (SDS) divided into tertiles, based on mean length velocity (SDS) for each infant from 0-16 months, according to age. B) IGF-I (SDS) divided into tertiles, based on mean IGF-I (SDS) for each infant from 0-16 months, according to age. Red, yellow and blue lines represent the lowest tertiles, middle and highest tertiles, respectively.
Asset Pricing in Created Markets for Fishing Quotas
Creators: name: Newell, Richard
name: Papps, Kerry
name: Sanchirico, James
name: Newell, Richard
name: Papps, Kerry
name: Sanchirico, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: trade permits
subject: individual transferable fishing quota
subject: asset pricing
subject: fisheries
subject: policy

description: We investigate the applicability of the present-value asset pricing model to fishing quota markets by applying instrumental variable panel data estimation techniques to 15 years of market transactions from New Zealand’s individual fishing quota market. In addition to the influence of current fishing rents (as measured by lease prices), we explore the effect of market interest rates, risk, and expected changes in future rents on quota asset prices. Controlling for these other factors, the results support a fairly simple relationship between quota asset and contemporaneous lease prices. Consistent with theoretical expectations, the results indicate that quota asset prices are positively related to declines in interest rates, lower levels of risk, expected increases in future fish prices, and expected cost reductions from rationalization under the quota system. However, the magnitude of some interrelationships is muted relative to what theory suggests, possibly due to measurement error.
Symplana longicephala Chou, Yuan et Wang 1994
Creators: name: Gnezdilov, Vladimir M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Caliscelidae
Symplana
Symplana longicephala

description: Symplana longicephala Chou, Yuan et Wang, 1994
 Symplana longicephala Chou, Yuan & Wang, 1994: 47, Fig. 2 a–c, e–f.
 Symplana longicephala: CHEN et al. 2014: 173, Figs 2 –99 a–k.
 Symplana longicephala: ZHANG et al. 2020: 149, Fig. 39, Pl. VII g–i.
 Note. The species is known from Yunnan Province in China (CHOU et al. 1994, CHEN et al. 2014). It is well distinguished within long­headed species of the genus by its style with very short capitulum, which brings it closer to S. vieta sp. n., while in furcating apically fused endogonocoxal lobes the species is close to S. maurici sp. n.
description: Published as part of Gnezdilov, Vladimir M., 2022, Revision Of The Genus Symplana Kirby, 1891 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Caliscelidae), With Notes On Genitalic Morphology Of Augilini And Description Of Three New Species From Vietnam And Sumatra, pp. 23-44 in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 68 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.17109/AZH.68.1.23.2022, http://zenodo.org/record/7160947
Examining Changes in the Value of Rural Land in New Zealand between 1989 and 2003
Creators: name: Stillman, Steven
name: Stillman, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: land use
subject: land value
subject: New Zealand
subject: Rural areas

description: This paper uses valuation data from Quotable Value New Zealand to examine changes in the value of the rural land in New Zealand between 1989 and 2003. The value of rural land reflects the profitability of agriculture as well as the returns to alternative land uses, and has a large impact on the prosperity of rural areas. The paper highlights the importance of both changes in land use and changes in the value of land in different uses in explaining overall changes in land values. It also examines the relationship among productive characteristics of the land, the local climate, various local amenities, and changes in land values and land use to better understand what factors have been driving overall changes in the value of rural land across New Zealand. We find that the real value of rural land in all uses increased substantially over the years being examined. Land use in rural areas also changed considerably during this period, but these changes in land use were essentially uncorrelated with changes in land values. Our regression results indicate that rural land values increased the most in less populated areas with good climates and local amenities. Initial land use also plays an important role in explaining the variation in changes in rural land values with greater increases in land values found in areas with more land initially devoted to urban uses and commercial forestry, and less land initially devoted to horticulture and lifestyle uses.
title: An X-ray Search for the Missing Population of Period-Bounce Cataclysmic Variables
Creators: name: Muñoz Giraldo, Daniela
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 520

description: Cataclysmic variables are interacting binaries composed of a white dwarf that is accreting mass from a low-mass donor, evolving from longer to shorter orbital periods through angular momentum loss. Short-period cataclysmic variables with brown dwarf donors represent the final stage in the evolution of cataclysmic variables. Due to continuous mass loss, the donor in these short-period systems can not sustain hydrogen burning and becomes degenerate. The degeneracy of the donor reverses the orbital period evolution back towards longer periods, where such systems are, therefore, dubbed period-bouncers. According to population studies, the majority of cataclysmic variables, between 40 % and 80 %, are predicted to be period-bouncers, however, only 18 of these systems have been observed and confidently identified so far. The main focus of this thesis is to uncover the missing population of period-bouncers in order to provide observational support to the evolutionary theories of cataclysmic variables. An X-ray detection of period-bouncers is a powerful tool in order to identify this underrepresented sub-type of cataclysmic variables, as it provides proof of the accretion in the system as the individual X-ray emission coming from either the white dwarf or the brown dwarf is below the sensitivity of current instruments. In order to identify the missing population of period-bouncer a three-step approach was implemented. First, a detailed X-ray study of a pilot-sample of magnetic period-bouncers was performed, leading to the first ever detection of period-bouncers using the extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array (eROSITA) onboard the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma spacecraft (SRG) reported by Muñoz-Giraldo et al. (2023). Hereby, specific X-ray characteristics of this elusive class of cataclysmic variables were established. Second, a literature catalog of known cataclysmic variables around the period-bounce was compiled, including the 18 previously known period-bouncers, in order to produce a “scorecard” reported by Muñoz-Giraldo et al. (2024) which assigns to each system the probability of being a period-bouncer. The X-ray data from the recent all-sky surveys carried out with eROSITA was systematically analysed to confirm 12 new period-bouncers, leading to a ∼66 % increase in the population of period-bouncers. After the confirmation of new period-bouncers from the last step this sub-type of cataclysmic variables still corresponds to only ∼11 % of the overall cataclysmic variable population. In the third step, a catalog of new period-bounce candidates was compiled from cool white dwarf candidates with an eROSITA detection that have a high likelihood of being a period-bouncer according to a “reduced” version of the scorecard. Confirmation from follow-up surveys of these period-bounce candidates could lead to the identification of the missing population of period-bouncers.
title: Praktikumsrichtlinien für die Studiengänge Maschinenbau, Elektrotechnik, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen Studienrichtung Maschinenbau, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen Studienrichtung Elektrotechnik
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Braunschweig, Fachbereich 7
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Richtlinie
subject: 379

description: Hochschulöffentliche Bekanntmachungen der Technischen Universität Braunschweig, vol. 132
On the Euler-Alignment system with weakly singular communication weights
Creators: name: Tan, Changhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the pressureless Euler equations with nonlocal alignment interactions, which arises as a macroscopic representation of complex biological systems modeling animal flocks. For such Euler-Alignment system with bounded interactions, a critical threshold phenomenon is proved by Tadmor-Tan in 2014, where global regularity depends on initial data. With strongly singular interactions, global regularity is obtained by Do-Kiselev-Ryzhik-Tan in 2018, for all initial data. We consider the remaining case when the interaction is weakly singular. We show a critical threshold, similar to the system with bounded interaction. However, different global behaviors may happen for critical initial data, which reveals the unique structure of the weakly singular alignment operator.
description: 18 pages
title: Studienordnung mit Studienführer für den intergrierten Studiengang Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen Studienrichtung Maschinenbau
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Braunschweig, Fachbereich 7
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Studienordnung
subject: 379

description: Hochschulöffentliche Bekanntmachungen der Technischen Universität Braunschweig, vol. 133
Characteristics and challenges of companion animal rescue organisations in New Zealand
Creators: name: Roseveare, C
name: Gates, MC
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To describe the characteristics of companion animal rescue organisations (CARO) in New Zealand; to describe current capacity, resource limitations and challenges of CARO with a particular focus on cats and dogs; and to explore support for creating a national database of CARO in New Zealand. A cross-sectional survey was administered to CARO in New Zealand in May 2022. The survey asked about organisational characteristics, types and numbers of animals cared for, services provided, policies, staffing, funding sources, challenges, and attitudes towards a national database for rescue organisations. Descriptive statistics were provided for all quantitative study variables and free-text comments were analysed for common themes. The survey was completed by 106/208 (51%) known CARO distributed across the country. These CARO provided services to an estimated 59,874 homeless animals annually with 86/106 (81%) providing services to cats and/or dogs. Primary services provided by CARO who cared for cats or dogs included rehoming (72/86; 84%) and housing (70/86; 81%) animals. Intake was managed through a combination of strategies. Donations (72/86; 82%) were the main funding source. The 62 registered charities were more likely to report being funded by grants than the 23 non-charities (39/62 (63%) vs. 1/23 (4%); p < 0.001), and non-charities were more likely to self-fund (18/23 (78%) vs. 20/62 (32%); p < 0.001). Nearly half of the CARO that provided workforce information (35/72; 49%) had a workforce of 10 or fewer including volunteers. A total of 5,699 people worked for 86 CARO that care for cats or dogs of whom 4,847 (85%) were part-time volunteers. Of the 72 cat and dog CARO who provided workforce information, 57/72 (79%) relied solely on volunteers. The majority of all 106 CARO respondents (78/106; 73%) indicated they were likely to register on a national database of CARO, subject to addressing concerns about time required and information security. CARO respondents described challenges of insufficient funding, access to veterinary services, and a shortage of volunteers and foster homes, with additional concerns including a lack of public awareness, supportive legislation, and resources. Financial support (90/106; 85%) and policy change (76/106; 72%) were preferred support options. This study highlights the significant role played by CARO in New Zealand and the challenges they face, emphasising the need for financial support, legislation, and initiatives extending beyond the rescue sector to reduce the number of animals being surrendered. The findings also suggest a willingness among CARO to participate in a national database.
Reflection and reflecting on football coach education in connection with identity, process and practice
Creators: name: Pielichaty, Hanya
name: Lawrence, Dave
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2025
Subjects: C610 - Sport coaching

description: In this chapter, practical guidance for coach educators and coaches in women’s football are provided, regarding how to embed effective, reflective practice into coach development. Even though the popularity of women’s football has grown significantly, there remains a lack of information for coaches working in women’s football. The importance and placement of reflective practice is considered as a professional learning strategy for women’s football coaches. A critical review of how coach identity is influenced and positioned through and due to reflective practice is also presented. The evaluation of primary data collected from women’s football coaches via one focus group and four semi-structured interviews is utilised and then substantiated by the author’s own experiences as a football coach and player, respectively. Key findings are discussed under the themes of: (Un)taught reflective practice, informal learning and self-esteem. In the final section of the chapter, we present a brief “how-to guide” on embedding reflective practice as a learning strategy into coach education programmes as a means to develop educators and coaches alike.
Effects of Lorentz boosts on Dirac bispinor entanglement
Creators: name: Bittencourt, Victor A. S. V.
name: Bernardini, Alex E.
name: Blasone, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we describe the transformation properties of quantum entanglement encoded in a pair of spin 1/2 particles described via Dirac bispinors. Due to the intrinsic parity-spin internal structure of the bispinors, the joint state is a four-qubit state exhibiting multipartite entanglement, and to compute global correlation properties we consider the averaged negativities over each possible bi-partition. We also consider specific bipartitions, such as the spin-spin and the particle-particle bipartitions. The particle-particle entanglement, between all degrees of freedom of one particle and all degrees of freedom of the other particle, is invariant under boosts if each particle has a definite momentum, although the spin-spin entanglement is degraded for high speed boosts. Correspondingly, the mean negativities are not invariant since the boost drives changes into correlations encoded in specific bipartitions. Finally, the results presented in the literature about spin-momentum entanglement are recovered by considering the projection of bispinorial states into positive intrinsic parity, and some striking differences between the appropriate approach for this case and the one usually treated in the literature are discussed.
description: Talk delivered by one of us (VASVB) at the XVII Workshop Symmetries in Sciences, Bregenz, Austria 3/08/2017; 17 pages, 9 figures,
title: Änderung der Grundordnung der TU Braunschweig
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Braunschweig
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Grundordnung
subject: 379

description: Hochschulöffentliche Bekanntmachungen der Technischen Universität Braunschweig, vol. 134
General-Relativistic Thomas-Fermi model
Creators: name: Bilic, Neven
name: Viollier, Raoul D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A system of self-gravitating massive fermions is studied in the framework of the general-relativistic Thomas-Fermi model. We study the properties of the free energy functional and its relation to Einstein's field equations. A self-gravitating fermion gas we then describe by a set of Thomas-Fermi type self-consistency equations.
description: 7 pages, LaTex, to appear in Gen. Rel. Grav
Farm-level risk factors and treatment protocols for lameness in New Zealand dairy cattle
Creators: name: Mason, WA
name: Müller, KR
name: Laven, LJ
name: Huxley, JN
name: Laven, RA
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: To identify farm-level risk factors for dairy cow lameness, and to describe lameness treatment protocols used on New Zealand dairy farms. One hundred and nineteen farms from eight veterinary clinics within the major dairying regions of New Zealand were randomly enrolled into a cross-sectional lameness prevalence study. Each farmer completed a questionnaire on lameness risk factors and lameness treatment and management. Trained observers lameness scored cattle on two occasions, between October–December (spring, coinciding with peak lactation for most farms) and between January–March (summer, late lactation for most farms). A four-point (0–3) scoring system was used to assess lameness, with animals with a lameness score (LS) ≥2 defined as lame. At each visit, all lactating animals were scored including animals that had previously been identified lame by the farmer. Associations between the farmer-reported risk factors and lameness were determined using mixed logistic regression models in a Bayesian framework, with farm and score event as random effects. A lameness prevalence of 3.5% (2,113/59,631) was reported at the first LS event, and 3.3% (1,861/55,929) at the second LS event. There was a median prevalence of 2.8% (min 0, max 17.0%) from the 119 farms. Most farmers (90/117; 77%) relied on informal identification by farm staff to identify lame animals. On 65% (75/116) of farms, there was no external provider of lame cow treatments, with the farmer carrying out all lame cow treatments. Most farmers had no formal training (69/112; 62%). Animals from farms that used concrete stand-off pads during periods of inclement weather had 1.45 times the odds of lameness compared to animals on farms that did not use concrete stand-off pads (95% equal-tailed credible interval 1.07–1.88). Animals from farms that reported peak lameness incidence from January to June or all year-round, had 0.64 times odds of lameness compared to animals from farms that reported peak lameness incidence from July to December (95% equal-tailed credible interval 0.47–0.88). Lameness prevalence was low amongst the enrolled farms. Use of concrete stand-off pads and timing of peak lameness incidence were associated with odds of lameness. Veterinarians should be encouraging farmers to have formal lameness identification protocols and lameness management plans in place. There is ample opportunity to provide training to farmers for lame cow treatment. Management of cows on stand-off pads should consider the likely impact on lameness.
Parity Invariant Lattice Regularization of Three-Dimensional Gauge-Fermion System
Creators: name: Narayanan, Rajamani
name: Nishimura, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In three dimensions, the effective action for the gauge field induced by integrating out a massless Dirac fermion is known to give either a parity-invariant or a parity-violating result, depending on the regularization scheme. We construct a lattice formulation of the massless Dirac fermion using the overlap formalism. We show that the result is parity invariant in contrast to the formulation using Wilson fermions in the massless limit. This facilitates a non-perturbative study of three-dimensional massless Dirac fermions interacting with a gauge field in a parity invariant setting with no need for fine-tuning.
description: 22 pages, TeX, 3 eps figures; Conclusions on the global gauge anomaly has changed following a recent paper by Kikukawa and Neuberger (hep-lat/9707016). Infinite mass limit clarified
Zero-energy pinning of topologically-trivial bound states in multi-band semiconductor-superconductor nanowires
Creators: name: Woods, Benjamin D.
name: Chen, Jun
name: Frolov, Sergey M.
name: Stanescu, Tudor D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent tunneling conductance measurements on semiconductor-superconductor nanowires find zero-bias peaks to be ubiquitous across wide ranges of chemical potential and Zeeman energy. Motivated by this, we demonstrate that topologically-trivial Andreev abound states (ABSs) pinned near zero energy are produced rather generically in inhomogeneous systems with multi-band occupancy in the presence of inter-band coupling. We first investigate the inter-band coupling mechanism responsible for the pinning within a multi-band 1D toy model, then we confirm the findings using a 3D Schrödinger-Poisson approach that incorporates the geometric and electrostatic details of the actual device. Our analysis shows that level-repulsion generated by inter-band coupling can lead to a rather spectacular pinning of the lowest-energy mode near zero energy in systems (or regions) characterized by very-short length scales ($\sim100~$nm).We show that level repulsion between the lowest energy levels can mimic the gap opening feature (simultaneous with the emergence of a near-zero energy mode) predicted to occur in Majorana hybrid systems. We also demonstrate that nearly-zero bias differential conductance features exhibiting particle-hole asymmetry are due to the presence of (topologically-trivial) ABSs pinned near zero-energy by level repulsion, not to Majorana zero modes, quasi-Majoranas, or any other low-energy mode that involves (partially) separated Majorana bound states. Our findings demonstrate the importance of understanding in detail multi-band physics and electrostatic effects in the context of the ongoing search for Majorana modes in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures.
description: 16 pages, 14 figures
Ordered level spacing probability densities
Creators: name: Srivastava, Shashi C. L.
name: Lakshminarayan, Arul
name: Tomsovic, Steven
name: Bäcker, Arnd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectral statistics of quantum systems have been studied in detail using the nearest neighbour level spacings, which for generic chaotic systems follows random matrix theory predictions. In this work, the probability density of the closest neighbour and farther neighbour spacings from a given level are introduced. Analytical predictions are derived using a $3 \times 3$ matrix model. The closest neighbour density is generalized to the $k-$th closest neighbour spacing density, which allows for investigating long-range correlations. For larger $k$ the probability density of $k-$th closest neighbour spacings is well described by a Gaussian. Using these $k-$th closest neighbour spacings we propose the ratio of the closest neighbour to the second closest neighbour as an alternative to the ratio of successive spacings. For a Poissonian spectrum the density of the ratio is flat, whereas for the three Gaussian ensembles repulsion at small values is found. The ordered spacing statistics and their ratio are numerically studied for the integrable circle billiard, the chaotic cardioid billiard, the standard map and the zeroes of the Riemann zeta function. Very good agreement with the predictions is found.
Pathological Evidence Exploration in Deep Retinal Image Diagnosis
Creators: name: Niu, Yuhao
name: Gu, Lin
name: Lu, Feng
name: Lv, Feifan
name: Wang, Zongji
name: Sato, Imari
name: Zhang, Zijian
name: Xiao, Yangyan
name: Dai, Xunzhang
name: Cheng, Tingting
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Though deep learning has shown successful performance in classifying the label and severity stage of certain disease, most of them give few evidence on how to make prediction. Here, we propose to exploit the interpretability of deep learning application in medical diagnosis. Inspired by Koch's Postulates, a well-known strategy in medical research to identify the property of pathogen, we define a pathological descriptor that can be extracted from the activated neurons of a diabetic retinopathy detector. To visualize the symptom and feature encoded in this descriptor, we propose a GAN based method to synthesize pathological retinal image given the descriptor and a binary vessel segmentation. Besides, with this descriptor, we can arbitrarily manipulate the position and quantity of lesions. As verified by a panel of 5 licensed ophthalmologists, our synthesized images carry the symptoms that are directly related to diabetic retinopathy diagnosis. The panel survey also shows that our generated images is both qualitatively and quantitatively superior to existing methods.
description: to appear in AAAI (2019). The first two authors contributed equally to the paper. Corresponding Author: Feng Lu
An observational study of farmer-reported clinical mastitis in New Zealand dairy ewes
Creators: name: Chambers, G
name: Laven, R
name: Grinberg, A
name: Ridler, A
name: Velathanthiri, N
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: To describe the incidence, aetiology, treatment, and outcomes of farmer-reported clinical mastitis on New Zealand dairy sheep farms. A prospective cohort study was conducted on 20 spring-lambing New Zealand sheep milking farms over the 2022–2023 season. Clinical mastitis was defined as a change in the appearance of milk and/or signs of inflammation in the gland. Farmers were required to report all cases of clinical mastitis and collect information on affected ewes’ demographics, clinical features, treatments (where applicable), and outcomes. Milk samples from mastitic glands were submitted for microbiological culture and identification by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF). Partial or complete clinical mastitis data were available for 236 cases from 221 ewes on 18/20 study farms. Clinical mastitis was diagnosed in 0–6% of ewes at the farm level, with an overall incidence of 1.8 (95% CI = 1.0–3.2)% using the study data, or 2.3 (95% CI = 1.6–3.3)% using the study data and farmer estimates that included unreported cases. Cases occurred mostly in early lactation, with 59% detected during the lambing period (August–October), at a median of 7 (IQR 3, 40) days in milk. The majority of cases featured clots in the milk (59%), swelling (55%), and unevenness (71%) of the glands. Pyrexia (rectal temperature ≥ 40.0°C) was diagnosed in 25% of cases and depression (lethargy, inappetence, or inability to stand) in 26% of cases. Treatment was given to 46% of cases, with tylosin being the most commonly used treatment (50% of treated cases). The most common outcome was immediate drying off to be culled without treatment (32%), followed by still milking and recovered but with lasting problems (25%). Nearly half of all the milk samples submitted were culture negative. Streptococcus uberis (14%), non-aureus staphylococci (12%), and Staphylococcus aureus (11%) were the most common isolates, found on 12, 8 and 8 of the 16 farms with microbiological data, respectively. Clinical mastitis affected up to 6% of ewes at the farm level. Systemic signs were observed in one quarter of affected ewes, suggesting a role for supportive treatment. Clinical mastitis can be severe and challenging to fully resolve in New Zealand dairy sheep. This is the first systematic study of clinical mastitis in New Zealand dairy ewes. It provides baseline information specific to New Zealand conditions for farmers, veterinarians, and other advisors to guide the management of mastitis for the relatively new dairy sheep industry in New Zealand.
Cu-mediated selective bromination of aniline derivatives and preliminary mechanism study
Creators: name: Zhao, Hong-Yi
name: Yang, Xue-Yan
name: Lei, Hao
name: Minhang Xin
name: San-Qi Zhang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: A simple and efficient bromination of aniline, aniline derivatives, and analogs have been developed. Forty three examples were given and the highest yield reached was 98%. Different substrates including substituted aniline, pyridin-amine, N-substituted aniline, N,N-disubstituted aniline, N-phenyl-amide, N-phenyl-sulfonamide, and nitrogen-containing heterocycles were all reactive and selectively generated desired bromo-products. The method can be applied to synthesize drug intermediate and quinoxaline derivatives.
title: Organisationsplan für die Technische Universität Braunschweig: Neustrukturierung der Fachbereiche 9 und 10
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Braunschweig
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Organisationsplan
subject: 379

description: Hochschulöffentliche Bekanntmachungen der Technischen Universität Braunschweig, vol. 135
Massive-Scalar Effective Actions on Anti-de Sitter Spacetime
Creators: name: Kamela, M.
name: Burgess, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Closed forms are derived for the effective actions for free, massive spinless fields in anti-de Sitter spacetimes in arbitrary dimensions. The results have simple expressions in terms of elementary functions (for odd dimensions) or multiple Gamma functions (for even dimensions). We use these to argue against the quantum validity of a recently-proposed duality relating such theories with differing masses and cosmological constants.
description: 23 pages, plain TeX, one figure
Supplemental Table 1
Creators: name: Upners, Emmie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Table 1 IGF-I reference. L, M, S and Standard Deviations (SD) for infants 0-1.2 years.
IMPERАTIV АLGORITMIK TАFАKKURNI RIVOJLАNTIRISHGNING KOMPONENTLARI
Creators: name: Xushvaqtov, Umar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur maqolada talabalarga algoritmik tillar va dasturlash asoslari fanini oʼqitishning umumiy xususiyatlari shu bilan birga dasturlash asoslari taʼlimida metodik innovatsiyalarning mazmun-mohiyati haqida fikirlar yuritilgan, Аlgoritmik faoliyatni oʼzlashtirish, algoritmlarni yaratish va ularni bajarish koʼnikmasini shakllantirish oʼquvchi mustaqil ravishda hal qila oladigan amaliy masalalar sinfini kengaytirish imkonini berishi, algoritmik tillarga oid manbalarning nazariy va amaliy aspektlari atroflicha tahlil qilingan.
Boundary effects in extended dynamical systems
Creators: name: Eguiluz, V. M.
name: Hernandez-Garcia, E.
name: Piro, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of spatially extended dynamical systems, we present three examples in which the presence of walls lead to dynamic behavior qualitatively different from the one obtained in an infinite domain or under periodic boundary conditions. For a nonlinear reaction-diffusion model we obtain boundary-induced spatially chaotic configurations. Nontrivial average patterns arising from boundaries are shown to appear in spatiotemporally chaotic states of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky model. Finally, walls organize novel states in simulations of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation.
description: Proceedigs of LAWNP'99. To be published in Physica A. Uses the Elsart style. This short paper is intended as a summary of our recent work on boundary influences in extended dynamical systems, with links to more detailed papers. Related material at http://www.imedea.uib.es/PhysDept/
Prototype Analog Front-end for Negative-ion Gas and Dual-phase Liquid-Ar TPCs
Creators: name: Nakazawa, Miki
name: Kishishita, Tetsuichi
name: Shoji, Masayoshi
name: Sakashita, Ken
name: Ikeda, Tomonori
name: Ishiura, Hirohisa
name: Battat, James B. R.
name: Nicoloff, Catherine
name: Tanaka, Manobu M.
name: Hasegawa, Takuya
name: Miuchi, Kentaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the recent development of a versatile analog front-end compatible with a negative-ion $μ$-TPC for a directional dark matter search as well as a dual-phase, next-generation $\mathcal{O}$(10~kt) liquid argon TPC to study neutrino oscillations, nucleon decay, and astrophysical neutrinos. Although the operating conditions for negative-ion and liquid argon TPCs are quite different (room temperature \textit{vs.} $\sim$88~K operation, respectively), the readout electronics requirements are similar. Both require a wide-dynamic range up to 1600 fC, and less than 2000--5000 e$^-$ noise for a typical signal of 80 fC with a detector capacitance of $C_{\rm det} \approx 300$~pF. In order to fulfill such challenging requirements, a prototype ASIC was newly designed using 180-nm CMOS technology. Here, we report on the performance of this ASIC, including measurements of shaping time, dynamic range, and equivalent noise charge (ENC). We also demonstrate the first operation of this ASIC on a low-pressure negative-ion $μ$-TPC.
description: accepted by JINST
Catch-Quota Balancing in Multispecies Individual Fishing Quotas
Creators: name: Sanchirico, James
name: Holland, Daniel
name: Quigley, Kathryn
name: Fina, Mark
name: Sanchirico, James
name: Holland, Daniel
name: Quigley, Kathryn
name: Fina, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: natural resources
subject: created markets
subject: tradable permits

description: Individual fishery quotas (IFQs) are an increasingly prevalent form of fishery management around the world, with more than 170 species currently managed with IFQs. Yet, because of the difficulties in matching quota holdings with catches, many argue that IFQs are not appropriate for multispecies fisheries. Using on-the-ground-experience with multispecies IFQ fisheries in Iceland, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada, we assess the design and use of catch-quota balancing mechanisms. Our methodology includes a mix of interviews with fishery managers, industry representatives, and brokers, literature review, and data analysis. We find that a combination of incentives and limits on use rates for the mechanisms provide sufficient flexibility to the quota owner without the fishery manager incurring excessive levels of overexploitation risk. Contrary to some opinions, these programs are evidence that it is possible to implement IFQ programs for multispecies fisheries and that they can be profitable and sustainable.