cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Links between the recent increase in pelagic fishes and environmental changes on the Scotian Shelf
Creators: name: Drinkwater, K.F.
name: Frank, K.T.
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - O - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Multi-variate ordination techniques reveal that the fish community structure on the Scotian Shelf has changed dramatically during the past thirty years, shifting from relatively large-bodied groundfish to smaller pelagic and demersal species. Some of the species contributing to this change include herring, sandlance, capelin and mackerel whose abundances have increased sharply during the past decade. We examined the possibility that environmental changes were responsible for this shift in community structure. Comparative studies across several geographic areas have shown that higher temperatures combined with increased stratification are associated with fish communities dominated by pelagic species. Phytoplankton decomposition and sedimentation rates are functions of temperature and stratification, and ultimately energy flux to the benthos. We therefore focused on trends in temperature and stratification as potential explanatory variables for the shift in finfish dominance structure on Scotian Shelf. Stratification anomalies were much higher throughout the 1990s, coincident with the increase in abundance of pelagic species. On the other hand, shelf-wide trends in surface water temperatures only showed a significant positive trend in the very late 1990s, after the shift in community structure had occurred.
title: Multi-scale Impact of North Atlantic Oscillation on Georges Bank and Gulf of Maine Cod Populations
Creators: name: De Fatima Borges, Maria
name: Gangopadhay, Avijit
name: Mesias, Jorge
name: Brunner, Anne-Marie
name: Bisagni, James J.
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - O - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Question to adress: Are we observing large scale and global changes, with local specific geographical responses, and different impact by species?
title: 2002 land cover maps with 30m and 50m spatial resolution
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Jeangros, Nicolás
name: Hering, Amanda S.
name: Kaiser, Timothy
name: McCray, John E.
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2017
Subjects: big data
land cover product
parallel computing
spatiotemporal categorical data

description: SCaMF-RM fuses the information of six land intermediate to high resolution land cover products in the Rocky Mountains (RM) at two high spatial resolutions, 30 and 50 meters, and a yearly frequency for the period 1983 – 2012. The development of the fused products is based on the Spatiotemporal Categorical Map Fusion (SCaMF) methodology
description: Land cover classification: 1. Open water -- 2. Perennial ice/snow -- 3. Developed - Low Intensity -- 4. Developed - Medium/High Intensity -- 5. Barren -- 6. Forest - Deciduous -- 7. Forest - Evergreen -- 8. Forest - Mixed -- 9. Shrubland -- 10. Herbaceous -- 11. Agricultural - Pasture -- 12. Agricultural - Crops -- 13. Wetland - Herbaceous -- 14. Wetland - Woody
On edge exchangeable random graphs
Creators: name: Janson, Svante
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study a recent model for edge exchangeable random graphs introduced by Crane and Dempsey; in particular we study asymptotic properties of the random simple graph obtained by merging multiple edges. We study a number of examples, and show that the model can produce dense, sparse and extremely sparse random graphs. One example yields a power-law degree distribution. We give some examples where the random graph is dense and converges a.s. in the sense of graph limit theory, but also an example where a.s. every graph limit is the limit of some subsequence. Another example is sparse and yields convergence to a non-integrable generalized graphon defined on $(0,\infty)$.
description: 40 pages
Lensing of Fast Radio Bursts by Plasma Structures in Host Galaxies
Creators: name: Cordes, J. M.
name: Wasserman, I.
name: Hessels, J. W. T.
name: Lazio, T. J. W.
name: Chatterjee, S.
name: Wharton, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Plasma lenses in the host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) can strongly modulate FRB amplitudes for a wide range of distances, including the $\sim $ Gpc distance of the repeater FRB121102. To produce caustics, the lens' dispersion-measure depth (${\rm DM}_{\ell}$), scale size ($a$), and distance from the source ($d_{\rm sl}$) must satisfy ${\rm DM}_{\ell} d_{\rm sl} / a^2 \gtrsim 0.65~ {\rm pc^2 \ AU^{-2} \ cm^{-3}}$. Caustics produce strong magnifications ($\lesssim 10^2$) on short time scales ($\sim$ hours to days and perhaps shorter) along with narrow, epoch dependent spectral peaks (0.1 to 1~GHz). However, strong suppression also occurs in long-duration ($\sim$ months) troughs. For geometries that produce multiple images, the resulting burst components will arrive differentially by $< 1~μ$s to tens of ms and they will show different apparent dispersion measures, $δ{\rm DM}_{\rm apparent} \sim 1$ pc cm$^{-3}$. Arrival time perturbations may mask any underlying periodicity with period $\lesssim 1$ s. When arrival times differ by less than the burst width, interference effects in dynamic spectra are expected. Strong lensing requires source sizes smaller than $({\rm Fresnel~scale)^2} / a$, which can be satisfied by compact objects such as neutron star magnetospheres but not by AGNs. Much of the phenomenology of the repeating fast radio burst source FRB121102 is similar to lensing effects. The overall picture can be tested by obtaining wideband spectra of bursts (from $<1$ to 10 GHz and possibly higher), which can also be used to characterize the plasma environment near FRB sources. A rich variety of phenomena is expected from an ensemble of lenses near the FRB source. We discuss constraints on densities, magnetic fields, and locations of plasma lenses related to requirements for lensing to occur.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
title: 2012 land cover maps with 30m and 50m spatial resolution
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Jeangros, Nicolás
name: Hering, Amanda S.
name: Kaiser, Timothy
name: McCray, John E.
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2017
Subjects: big data
land cover product
parallel computing
spatiotemporal categorical data

description: SCaMF-RM fuses the information of six land intermediate to high resolution land cover products in the Rocky Mountains (RM) at two high spatial resolutions, 30 and 50 meters, and a yearly frequency for the period 1983 – 2012. The development of the fused products is based on the Spatiotemporal Categorical Map Fusion (SCaMF) methodology
description: Land cover classification: 1. Open water -- 2. Perennial ice/snow -- 3. Developed - Low Intensity -- 4. Developed - Medium/High Intensity -- 5. Barren -- 6. Forest - Deciduous -- 7. Forest - Evergreen -- 8. Forest - Mixed -- 9. Shrubland -- 10. Herbaceous -- 11. Agricultural - Pasture -- 12. Agricultural - Crops -- 13. Wetland - Herbaceous -- 14. Wetland - Woody
title: ADCO, Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 1403
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 1403, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 1403, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
System mass constraints for the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1814-338 using Bowen fluorescence
Creators: name: Wang, L.
name: Steeghs, D.
name: Casares, J.
name: Charles, P. A.
name: Muñoz-Darias, T.
name: Marsh, T. R.
name: Hynes, R. I.
name: O'Brien, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present phase-resolved spectroscopy of the millisecond X-ray pulsar XTE J1814-338 obtained during its 2003 outburst. The spectra are dominated by high-excitation emission lines of HeII $λ$4686, H$β$, and the Bowen blend CIII/NIII 4630-50Å. We exploit the proven Bowen fluorescence technique to establish a complete set of dynamical system parameter constraints using bootstrap Doppler tomography, a first for an accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar binary. The reconstructed Doppler map of the NIII $λ$4640 Bowen transition exhibits a statistically significant (>4$σ$) spot feature at the expected position of the companion star. If this feature is driven by irradiation of the surface of the Roche lobe filling companion, we derive a strict lower limit to the true radial velocity semi-amplitude $K_2$. Combining our donor constraint with the well constrained orbit of the neutron star leads to a determination of the binary mass ratio: q = $0.123^{+0.012}_{-0.010}$. The component masses are not tightly constrained given our lack of knowledge of the binary inclination. We cannot rule out a canonical neutron star mass of 1.4 $M_{\odot}$ (1.1 $M_{\odot}$ < $M_1$ < 3.1 $M_{\odot}$; 95%). The 68/95% confidence limits of $M_2$ are consistent with the companion being a significantly bloated, M-type main sequence star. Our findings, combined with results from studies of the quiescent optical counterpart of XTE J1814-338, suggest the presence of a rotation-powered millisecond pulsar in XTE J1814-338 during an X-ray quiescent state. The companion mass is typical of the so-called 'redback' pulsar binary systems ($M_2$ ~ 0.2 $M_{\odot}$).
description: 12 pages, 11 figures,. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Measurement of Cardiac Troponin in Calves Affected with Respiratory Disease
Creators: name: Anderson, D. E.
name: White, Brad
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2008

description: Troponin may prove useful as a field test to more accurately select calves with cardiopulmonary disease. This may be useful in determining the severity, response to therapy, and prognosis of these calves. Early, accurate diagnosis will, in turn, direct therapy that may lessen distress associated with respiratory disease in cattle.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2008
MapReduce Algorithms for Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks from Time-Series Microarray Data Using an Information-Theoretic Approach
Creators: name: Abduallah, Yasser
name: Turki, Turki
name: Byron, Kevin
name: Du, Zongxuan
name: Cervantes-Cervantes, Miguel
name: Wang, Jason T. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Gene regulation is a series of processes that control gene expression and its extent. The connections among genes and their regulatory molecules, usually transcription factors, and a descriptive model of such connections, are known as gene regulatory networks (GRNs). Elucidating GRNs is crucial to understand the inner workings of the cell and the complexity of gene interactions. To date, numerous algorithms have been developed to infer gene regulatory networks. However, as the number of identified genes increases and the complexity of their interactions is uncovered, networks and their regulatory mechanisms become cumbersome to test. Furthermore, prodding through experimental results requires an enormous amount of computation, resulting in slow data processing. Therefore, new approaches are needed to expeditiously analyze copious amounts of experimental data resulting from cellular GRNs. To meet this need, cloud computing is promising as reported in the literature. Here we propose new MapReduce algorithms for inferring gene regulatory networks on a Hadoop cluster in a cloud environment. These algorithms employ an information-theoretic approach to infer GRNs using time-series microarray data. Experimental results show that our MapReduce program is much faster than an existing tool while achieving slightly better prediction accuracy than the existing tool.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
Perrona pretiosa
Creators: name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Landau, Bernard
name: Janssen, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Clavatulidae
Perrona
Perrona pretiosa

description: Perrona pretiosa (Bellardi, 1847)
 * Pleurotoma pretiosa Bell. — Bellardi 1847: 40, pl. 2, fig. 17.
 Pleurotoma pretiosa Bellardi, 1847 — Bellardi 1877: 185, pl. 5, fig. 9.
 Clavatula pretiosa (Bellardi, 1847) — Ferrero Mortara et al. 1981: 78, pl. 15, fig. 2.
 non Clavatula pretiosa (Bellardi, 1847) — Bałuk 2003: 37, pl. 7, fig. 6.
 Type material. Syntype: BS.011.07.045, Burdigalian, Colli Torinesi (Italy), illustrated in Bellardi (1847, pl. 2, fig. 17), stored in the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Torino (Italy).
 Discussion. A single fragmentary specimen was identified by Bałuk (2003) as Perrona pretiosa. However, the Polish specimen differs from P. pretiosa in its more concave whorls, more prominent beads along the abapical suture on the early teleoconch whorls, and the prominent spiral cords. We were not able to identify this specimen.
 Distribution. Perrona pretiosa is known from the Burdigalian of Italy, but is unknown so far from the Central Paratethys Sea.
description: Published as part of Harzhauser, Mathias, Landau, Bernard & Janssen, Ronald, 2022, The Clavatulidae (Gastropoda, Conoidea) of the Miocene Paratethys Sea with considerations on fossil and extant Clavatulidae genera, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 5123 (1) on page 151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5123.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6399827
title: The Mean Sea Level Pressure (MSLP) Gradient across the Denmark Strait as Index for the Oceanographic Conditions in North Icelandic Waters
Creators: name: Blindheim, Johan
name: Malmberg, Svend-Aage
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - O - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The oceanographic conditions in Icelandic waters are closely related to atmospheric forcing. In the present paper winter means of the atmospheric sea level pressure gradient across the Denmark Strait are correlated to a time series of temperature at station S3 off North Iceland. These data show that variations in North Icelandic shelf waters are closely related to the gradient. The correlation between 3-years moving averages of the gradient and the temperature at S3, one year delayed, was 0.73. This climatic relation clearly reflected the abrupt change from Atlantic to Arctic conditions on the North Icelandic shelf in the 1960s and the variability since then. Further, the effects of the variations on water mass properties in the southern Norwegian Sea are discussed. Biological effects have been observed on all levels in the food web. Various authors describe related biological variations, from the primary production level to cod and herring. The cod responded to the climatic variability and the associated narrowing habitat with a decline in abundance. The stock of herring that earlier was grazing north of Iceland, changed its migration pattern, and has not yet returned.
Assessment of L-lactatemia as a predictor of bovine respiratory disease incidence and severity in feedlot steers
Creators: name: Buczinski, S.
name: Rademacher, R.
name: Edmonds, M.
name: Tripp, H.
name: Edwards, E. G.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2013

description: Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is the leading cause of morbidity and death in feedlot cattle. Prognostic tools for the prediction of morbidity and severity of BRD are currently lacking. Blood L-lactate (LAC) is a metabolite that increases because of various conditions including stress and cellular hypoxia, which frequently accompany severe forms of BRD. Results of another study conducted in feedlot cattle indicate that low LAC concentration at processing was associated with a greater risk of developing BRD during the early feeding period. Investigators of other studies in double-muscled calves and in hospital settings have demonstrated that a single measurement LAC can be predictive of death. The objectives of this study were to assess the clinical usefullness of evaluation of LAC concentration at processing as a predictor of BRD during the early feeding period and to assess serial measurement of LAC concentration in feedlot steers with BRD.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2013
title: 2011 land cover maps with 30m and 50m spatial resolution
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Jeangros, Nicolás
name: Hering, Amanda S.
name: Kaiser, Timothy
name: McCray, John E.
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2017
Subjects: big data
land cover product
parallel computing
spatiotemporal categorical data

description: SCaMF-RM fuses the information of six land intermediate to high resolution land cover products in the Rocky Mountains (RM) at two high spatial resolutions, 30 and 50 meters, and a yearly frequency for the period 1983 – 2012. The development of the fused products is based on the Spatiotemporal Categorical Map Fusion (SCaMF) methodology
description: Land cover classification: 1. Open water -- 2. Perennial ice/snow -- 3. Developed - Low Intensity -- 4. Developed - Medium/High Intensity -- 5. Barren -- 6. Forest - Deciduous -- 7. Forest - Evergreen -- 8. Forest - Mixed -- 9. Shrubland -- 10. Herbaceous -- 11. Agricultural - Pasture -- 12. Agricultural - Crops -- 13. Wetland - Herbaceous -- 14. Wetland - Woody
Use of thoracic ultrasonography for the evaluation of lung pathology in beef cattle with acute bovine respiratory disease
Creators: name: Rademacher, Ryan
name: Buczinski, Sébastien
name: Edmonds, Matthew
name: Tripp, Holt
name: Johnson, Edward
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2013

description: Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is the most economically important disease of feedlot cattle. To enhance management of individual feedlot cattle with BRD there is a need to better determine the extent and duration of lung pathology on a real-time basis. Development of an objective ultrasound (U/S) scoring system that allows for better interpretation of the disease pathogenesis may improve individual case management. Although the peer-reviewed literature contains multiple reports on the use of thoracic U/S for the evaluation of BRD in dairy cattle, reports of its use in feedlot cattle are limited. The purpose of this study was to describe the use of thoracic U/S for the evaluation of BRD in feedlot cattle.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2013
title: 1987 land cover maps with 30m and 50m spatial resolution
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Jeangros, Nicolás
name: Hering, Amanda S.
name: Kaiser, Timothy
name: McCray, John E.
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2017
Subjects: big data
land cover product
parallel computing
spatiotemporal categorical data

description: SCaMF-RM fuses the information of six land intermediate to high resolution land cover products in the Rocky Mountains (RM) at two high spatial resolutions, 30 and 50 meters, and a yearly frequency for the period 1983 – 2012. The development of the fused products is based on the Spatiotemporal Categorical Map Fusion (SCaMF) methodology
description: Land cover classification: 1. Open water -- 2. Perennial ice/snow -- 3. Developed - Low Intensity -- 4. Developed - Medium/High Intensity -- 5. Barren -- 6. Forest - Deciduous -- 7. Forest - Evergreen -- 8. Forest - Mixed -- 9. Shrubland -- 10. Herbaceous -- 11. Agricultural - Pasture -- 12. Agricultural - Crops -- 13. Wetland - Herbaceous -- 14. Wetland - Woody
Private Broadcasting: an Index Coding Approach
Creators: name: Karmoose, Mohammed
name: Song, Linqi
name: Cardone, Martina
name: Fragouli, Christina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Using a broadcast channel to transmit clients' data requests may impose privacy risks. In this paper, we address such privacy concerns in the index coding framework. We show how a malicious client can infer some information about the requests and side information of other clients by learning the encoding matrix used by the server. We propose an information-theoretic metric to measure the level of privacy and show how encoding matrices can be designed to achieve specific privacy guarantees. We then consider a special scenario for which we design a transmission scheme and derive the achieved levels of privacy in closed-form. We also derive upper bounds and we compare them to the levels of privacy achieved by our scheme, highlighting that an inherent trade-off exists between protecting privacy of the request and of the side information of the clients.
Effect of surgical castration at different stages of maturity with or without analgesia on growth performance and acute-phase response
Creators: name: Powell, J. G.
name: Hughes, H. D.
name: Richeson, J. T.
name: Kegley, E. B.
name: Burdick Sanchez, N. C.
name: Carroll, J. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2013

description: Although castration is a commonly practiced management procedure, it causes pain and stress that can temporarily reduce performance. Currently, there is no approved medication for analgesia in cattle. Meloxicam is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) approved by the FDA for analgesic use in companion animal species. The objective of this study was to determine whether surgical castration at birth or weaning with or without concurrent analgesia by administration of meloxicam impacts growth performance or the acute-phase response (APR).
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2013
Galaxy Evolution in the Radio Band: The Role of Starforming Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Mancuso, Claudia.
name: Lapi, A.
name: Prandoni, I.
name: Obi, I.
name: Gonzalez-Nuevo, J.
name: Perrotta, F.
name: Bressan, A.
name: Celotti, A.
name: Danese, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the astrophysics of radio-emitting star-forming galaxies and ac- tive galactic nuclei (AGNs), and elucidate their statistical properties in the radio band including luminosity functions, redshift distributions, and number counts at sub-mJy flux levels, that will be crucially probed by next-generation radio continuum surveys. Specifically, we exploit the model-independent approach by Mancuso et al. (2016a,b) to compute the star formation rate functions, the AGN duty cycles and the conditional probability of a star-forming galaxy to host an AGN with given bolometric luminosity. Coupling these ingredients with the radio emission properties associated to star formation and nuclear activity, we compute relevant statistics at different radio frequencies, and disentangle the relative con- tribution of star-forming galaxies and AGNs in different radio luminosity, radio flux, and redshift ranges. Finally, we highlight that radio-emitting star-forming galaxies and AGNs are expected to host supermassive black holes accreting with different Eddington ratio distributions, and to occupy different loci in the galaxy main sequence diagrams. These specific predictions are consistent with current datasets, but need to be tested with larger statistics via future radio data with multi-band coverage on wide areas, as it will become routinely achievable with the advent of the SKA and its precursors.
description: 50 pages, 16 figures, Accepted by ApJ
Are environmental innovators persistent?
Creators: name: Bas, Christian Le
name: Poussing, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: A growing body of literature concerns innovation persistence, but does not deal with environmental innovation, which is an important topic in the context of global warming. In this paper, we contribute to this literature by testing whether environmental innovators are persistent. Our empirical approach rests on the use of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2008 and CIS 2010 data for firms from Luxembourg. Due to the lack of harmonisation, we are obliged to carry out a consistent statistical retreatment related to the data. Our probit models show that environmental technological innovators are persistent. The phenomenon of environmental innovation persistence is also positively affected by regulation and voluntary measures.
title: Sexual maturation of the southern Baltic herring and sprat (1980-2001)
Creators: name: Grygiel, Włodzimierz
name: Wyszyński, Mirosław
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - O - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The basic aim of the investigations was to estimate the percentage of sexually mature males and females of herring (coastal spring spawning population) and sprat in the Polish fishery at age groups and length classes, according to aggregated years and the location of two main basins of the southern Baltic. Long-term (1980-2001) changes in the proportion (% of numbers) of mature clupeids at age groups in the Bornholm Basin were also analysed. Moreover, the length of herring and sprat at first sexual maturity for particular year classes was calculated, and logistic curves of maturity ogives were elaborated. The possible influence of stock size, mean weight, mean length, body condition, seawater and air temperatures on the percentage of mature clupeoids is discussed. The results of the investigations indicated that there was a larger numerical share of mature herring and sprat in younger age groups than the one assumed by ICES working groups. In the 1990s the mean percentage of sprat from age group 1, which begin spawning for the first time, in comparison with the 1980s, increased from 25.8 to 38.4% in the Bornholm Basin and from 14.5 to 18.2% in the Gdansk Basin. In those decades the fraction of herring from age group 2, which begin spawning for the first time, decreased from 79.5 to 74.8% in the Bornholm Basin and from 91.8 to 82.2% in the Gdansk Basin. A decreasing tendency in the mean weight at age of sprat and herring, an increasing trend in Baltic sprat stock size and a decreasing trend in herring stock size were all recorded in the period 1980-1999
Fast Resampling of 3D Point Clouds via Graphs
Creators: name: Chen, Siheng
name: Tian, Dong
name: Feng, Chen
name: Vetro, Anthony
name: Kovačević, Jelena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To reduce cost in storing, processing and visualizing a large-scale point cloud, we consider a randomized resampling strategy to select a representative subset of points while preserving application-dependent features. The proposed strategy is based on graphs, which can represent underlying surfaces and lend themselves well to efficient computation. We use a general feature-extraction operator to represent application-dependent features and propose a general reconstruction error to evaluate the quality of resampling. We obtain a general form of optimal resampling distribution by minimizing the reconstruction error. The proposed optimal resampling distribution is guaranteed to be shift, rotation and scale-invariant in the 3D space. We next specify the feature-extraction operator to be a graph filter and study specific resampling strategies based on all-pass, low-pass, high-pass graph filtering and graph filter banks. We finally apply the proposed methods to three applications: large-scale visualization, accurate registration and robust shape modeling. The empirical performance validates the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed resampling methods.
Performance of an IDEXX Bovine Pregnancy Test adapted for visual-read results and designed for in-clinic use
Creators: name: Rice, A. M.
name: Fabbricante, M. J.
name: Koller, S. I.
name: Lemieux, L.
name: Welles, P.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2013

description: While bovine pregnancy diagnosis today is predominately done by palpation and ultrasound, blood testing for pregnancy is growing in popularity as producers and veterinarians identify ways to incorporate it into their practices. Many veterinary clinics that are interested in adopting blood testing, however, find the up-front investment in instrumentation required for an ELISA setup to be cost-prohibitive. To address this need, IDEXX is developing a pregnancy test designed for veterinary clinics that does not require ELISA instrumentation. The plate ELISA is washed manually with a wash bottle and read visually; pregnant samples appear blue, while open samples have no color. This technological advance enables veterinarians to offer cost-effective blood-based pregnancy testing in addition to the palpation and ultrasound services they already provide.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2013
Clinical study to assess the level of unconsciousness in cattle fallowing the administration of high doses of xylazine hydrochloride
Creators: name: Dewell, R. D.
name: Bergamasco, L. L.
name: Kelly, C. K.
name: Shearer, J. K.
name: Dewell, G. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2013

description: Achieving anesthesia without DEA controlled drugs prior to administration of IV potassium chloride (KCl) is a limiting factor for humane euthanasia. The use of an overdose of xylazine hydrochloride (XH) is thought by some practitioners to induce unconsciousness and is commonly administered prior to IV KCl injection. The purpose of this study was to determine the level of unconsciousness achieved from an overdose of XH in cattle.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2013
Ladders and lifting: How gender affects safety behaviors in the fire service
Creators: name: Khan, Yasin A.
name: Davis, Andrea L.
name: Taylor, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This research explores the degree to which gender affects safety behaviors and outcomes in the fire service. Semistructured focus groups and interviews were conducted based on findings from the literature on women and gender in the fire service. Four focus groups (N = 22) and eight interviews were recorded, transcribed, and coded using NVivo 10 software. This methodology explored if female gender improves safety behaviors through (1) weighing the risks and benefits of dangerous situations, (2) focusing on biomechanics and technique, (3) asking for help, (4) being motivated to report injuries, (5) being heard by colleagues, and (6) illuminating a hostile work environment’s contribution to safety. Participants report that women have less of a “tough guy” attitude than their male colleagues and felt that deviating from the modernist American hyper-masculine norm may have a positive impact on their work practices and injury outcomes. If women in the fire service perceive risk differently than their male colleagues, perhaps strengthening efforts to recruit women and creating a culture that values their perspective will improve the occupation’s overall safety outcomes. Further research is necessary to quantify these gender differences and their relationship to safety outcomes.
Genomic variation in innate immunity and susceptibility to uterine diseases in Holstein cows
Creators: name: Pinedo, P. J.
name: Galvao, K. N.
name: Seabury, C. M.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2013

description: Fertility is crucial for efficient dairy production, and adequate uterine health is a key element that allows for rapid resumption of reproductive function after calving. The challenge of uterine contamination with microorganisms at parturition is unavoidable. Some cows respond to this challenge successfully; however, approximately 20% of cows will develop metritis or clinical endometritis. Subsequently, the prevalence of subclinical endometritis will range from 25% to 75%. Innate immunity provides the first line of defense against infection by eliciting host responses to invading pathogens without requiring prior exposure. This response depends mainly on the action of neutrophils (PMNs) and macrophages with pattern recognition receptors that recognize molecular ligands from microbial species, which then initiate signaling pathways that result in the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines. One important group of receptors is the toll-like receptors (TLR), which regulate the activation of both innate and adaptive immunity. Likewise, the initial defense of the endometrium against invading microbes is dependent on the innate immune system, including initial recognition by host TLR proteins. Genetic selection for increased disease resistance in cattle has been proposed, and current molecular technologies provide the opportunity for exploring genomic variation related to health. We hypothesized that naturally occurring variation within the bovine TLR genes may be associated with differential susceptibility to reproductive diseases in Holstein cattle. The objective of this study was to test for associations between bovine single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and insertion-deletion (indel) mutations occurring in 7 bovine TLR genes (TLRsl, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10) that are known to recognize bacterial ligands and uterine diseases in dairy cows including metritis (MET), clinical endometritis (CE), and cytologic endometritis (CYE).
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2013
Clavatula kovalevskii Ali-Zade & Ribina
Creators: name: Harzhauser, Mathias
name: Landau, Bernard
name: Janssen, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Clavatulidae
Clavatula
Clavatula kovalevskii

description: Clavatula kovalevskii Ali-Zade & Ribina in Ali-Zade, 1974
 * Clavatula kovalevskii A. Ali-Zade et Ribina sp. nov. Ali-Zade 1974: 105, pl. 32, fig. 7.
 Type material. We are not aware of the whereabout of the specimens.
 Discussion. The illustrated holotype represents a Nassariidae.
 Distribution in Eastern Paratethys. Sarmatian (Bessarabian): Caspian Basin: Chakhmagdag (Azerbaijan) (Ali-Zade 1974).
description: Published as part of Harzhauser, Mathias, Landau, Bernard & Janssen, Ronald, 2022, The Clavatulidae (Gastropoda, Conoidea) of the Miocene Paratethys Sea with considerations on fossil and extant Clavatulidae genera, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 5123 (1) on page 151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5123.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6399827
Role of veterinary practitioners in industry-led dairy health and quality programs in Ontario
Creators: name: Godkin, M. A.
name: MacNaughton, G.
name: Barratt, K.
name: Church, C.
name: Kelton, D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2013

description: The Ontario dairy industry has recently embarked on a series of health and quality improvement programs for dairy producers as mandated by the national organization, Dairy Farmers of Canada. Uniquely, in Ontario 3 of these programs have been delivered via successful partnerships with private veterinary practitioners. The objective of this research was to illustrate the role private veterinarians can play in industry-led programs, and demonstrate the positive impact of such collaborations.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2013
title: 2006 land cover maps with 30m and 50m spatial resolution
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Jeangros, Nicolás
name: Hering, Amanda S.
name: Kaiser, Timothy
name: McCray, John E.
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2017
Subjects: big data
land cover product
parallel computing
spatiotemporal categorical data

description: SCaMF-RM fuses the information of six land intermediate to high resolution land cover products in the Rocky Mountains (RM) at two high spatial resolutions, 30 and 50 meters, and a yearly frequency for the period 1983 – 2012. The development of the fused products is based on the Spatiotemporal Categorical Map Fusion (SCaMF) methodology
description: Land cover classification: 1. Open water -- 2. Perennial ice/snow -- 3. Developed - Low Intensity -- 4. Developed - Medium/High Intensity -- 5. Barren -- 6. Forest - Deciduous -- 7. Forest - Evergreen -- 8. Forest - Mixed -- 9. Shrubland -- 10. Herbaceous -- 11. Agricultural - Pasture -- 12. Agricultural - Crops -- 13. Wetland - Herbaceous -- 14. Wetland - Woody
Loading Ultracold Gases in Topological Floquet Bands: Current and Center-of-Mass Responses
Creators: name: Dauphin, A.
name: Tran, D. -T.
name: Lewenstein, M.
name: Goldman, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological band structures can be designed by subjecting lattice systems to time-periodic modulations, as was recently demonstrated in cold atoms and photonic crystals. However, changing the topological nature of Floquet Bloch bands from trivial to non-trivial, by progressively launching the time-modulation, is necessarily accompanied with gap-closing processes: this has important consequences for the loading of particles into a target Floquet band with non-trivial topology, and hence, on the subsequent measurements. In this work, we analyse how such loading sequences can be optimized in view of probing the topology of Floquet bands through transport measurements. In particular, we demonstrate the robustness of center-of-mass responses, as compared to current responses, which present important irregularities due to an interplay between the micro-motion of the drive and inter-band interference effects. The results presented in this work illustrate how probing the center-of-mass displacement of atomic clouds offers a reliable method to detect the topology of Floquet bands, after realistic loading sequences.
description: 18 pages, 16 color figures (incl. appendices)
A Scavenger Hunt into The Maple Tree Species Diversity
Creators: name: Oyamaguchi, Hilton
name: Leonard, Richard
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2024

description: This lesson plan aims to provide students with an interactive experience with nature, focusing on maple trees' diversity and ecological importance in urban forests. Maple trees, belonging to the genus Acer in the family Sapindaceae, are significant in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Autumn. Students engage with nature through an interactive scavenger hunt using identification cards and the iNaturalist app to document and analyze leaf characteristics. This lesson plan focuses on five common species found on the East Coast: Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum), Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum), Red Maple (Acer rubrum), Norway Maple (Acer platanoides), and Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum). The goal is to enhance students' understanding of tree diversity, leaf identification, evolutionary relationships, and ecological roles. This lesson plan results from the collaboration between Chestnut Hill College and Our Mother of Consolation School in Philadelphia, PA, funded by the Connelly Foundation.
title: Long-term change across different environmental indices in the Black Sea
Creators: name: Daskalov, Georgi M.
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - O - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Various hydroclimatic, biological and anthropogenic data-series were studied in relation to fish stocks, in order to describe and compare the main trends and fish-environment relationships in the Black Sea. Long-term patterns were analysed on different temporal scales: interdecadal, decadal and interannual variation. The results showed evidence of coherent patterns across different indices. Temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind and river run-off series were significantly correlated with most of the biological, anthropogenic and fish stock indices. Anthropogenic factors such as eutrophication and hypoxia were responsible for degradation of the coastal ecosystems, but they can also have negative impacts on open sea populations. The correlations established allow formulation of hypotheses on the causal links between the abiotic environment, productive processes and resource population dynamics. The physical environment was recognized as being the main factor driving the biological productivity and essentially influencing all processes in the sea. Other factors responsible for a great part of the observed variability in marine data were biological interactions and anthropogenic impact. The rise in overall productivity after 1970 might be explained by several factors acting simultaneously: a favourable climatic regime, increased eutrophication, and the effect of trophic cascades attributable to overfishing of predators. The indices and relationships studied can be useful for integrating environmental information in the fisheries and ecosystem management.
title: 1983 land cover maps with 30m and 50m spatial resolution
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Jeangros, Nicolás
name: Hering, Amanda S.
name: Kaiser, Timothy
name: McCray, John E.
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2017
Subjects: big data
land cover product
parallel computing
spatiotemporal categorical data

description: SCaMF-RM fuses the information of six land intermediate to high resolution land cover products in the Rocky Mountains (RM) at two high spatial resolutions, 30 and 50 meters, and a yearly frequency for the period 1983 – 2012. The development of the fused products is based on the Spatiotemporal Categorical Map Fusion (SCaMF) methodology
description: Land cover classification: 1. Open water -- 2. Perennial ice/snow -- 3. Developed - Low Intensity -- 4. Developed - Medium/High Intensity -- 5. Barren -- 6. Forest - Deciduous -- 7. Forest - Evergreen -- 8. Forest - Mixed -- 9. Shrubland -- 10. Herbaceous -- 11. Agricultural - Pasture -- 12. Agricultural - Crops -- 13. Wetland - Herbaceous -- 14. Wetland - Woody
Transcatheter versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients with Moderate to Severe Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review and Analysis
Creators: name: Hemang B. Panchal
name: Leon, Martin B.
name: Kirtane, Ajay J.
name: Susheel K. Kodali
name: McCarthy, Patrick
name: Davidson, Charles J.
name: Thourani, Vinod
name: Nirat Beohar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Background: Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and aortic stenosis (AS) have poor prognosis after both transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). The objective of our study was to assess the outcomes of TAVR versus SAVR for severe AS among patients with moderate to severe CKD (stage ≥3). Methods: PubMed, Cochrane Center Register of Controlled Trials and clinical trial registry were searched through April 2017. Seven studies comparing TAVR (n = 878) and SAVR (n = 2531) in patients with CKD stage ≥3 were included. End points were clinical and qualitative outcomes. Odds ratio (OR) or mean difference (MD) with 95% confidence interval (CI) was computed and p Results: There was no difference in all-cause mortality (p = 0.7), cerebrovascular accidents (p = 0.28), myocardial infarction (p = 0.55) or new permanent pacemaker placement (p = 0.06) with TAVR compared with SAVR. Post-procedural worsening renal failure or acute kidney injury (AKI), new dialysis and length of intensive care unit stay were lower with TAVR compared with SAVR (OR:0.47, CI:0.33–0.68, p p = 0.002 and MD: −68.32 hours, CI: −86.35 to −50.28 hours, p p = 0.01 and OR:0.39, CI:0.18–0.82, p = 0.01 respectively). Conclusion: The results of our meta-analysis comparing TAVR with SAVR in patients with severe AS and moderate to severe CKD suggest that TAVR is comparable to SAVR with the advantage of a decreased incidence of worsening of renal failure or AKI, new dialysis, and intensive care unit stay.
Reforming research assessment: CoARA action plan Radboud University
Creators: name: Radboud University
name: Van der Molen, Franke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: CoARA
research assessment
Radboud University
action plan

description: This document describes the actions that Radboud University (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) has taken and is taking in the context of CoARA and the reform of research assessment.