cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect of postpartum milking strategy on plasma calcium concentration and risk of subclinical hypocalcemia in dairy cows
Creators: name: Valldecabres, A.
name: Lopes, R.
name: Lago, A.
name: Blanc, C.
name: Silva-Del-Río, N.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Subclinical hypocalcemia affects most of multiparous dairy cows within the first 48 h after parturition. Most likely increased Ca requirements for colostrum synthesis at lactation onset drive the decrease in blood Ca concentration observed around parturition. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of different postpartum milking strategies on plasma Ca concentration and risk of subclinical hypocalcemia in multiparous dairy cows.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Extension groups of tautological bundles on symmetric products of curves
Creators: name: Krug, Andreas
Publisher: name: Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Extension groups
subject: Moduli of vector bundles
subject: Symmetric products of curves
subject: Tautological bundles
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::510 | Mathematik

description: We provide a spectral sequence computing the extension groups of tautological bundles on symmetric products of curves. One main consequence is that, if E≠ OX is simple, then the natural map Ext1(E,E)→Ext1(E[n],E[n]) is injective for every n. Along with previous results, this implies that E↦ E[n] defines an embedding of the moduli space of stable bundles of slope μ∉ [- 1 , n- 1] on the curve X into the moduli space of stable bundles on the symmetric product X(n). The image of this embedding is, in most cases, contained in the singular locus. For line bundles on a non-hyperelliptic curve, the embedding identifies the Brill–Noether loci of X with the loci in the moduli space of stable bundles on X(n) where the dimension of the tangent space jumps. We also prove that E[n] is simple if E is simple. © 2022, The Author(s).
Association between hyperketonemia in early lactation and culling and hyperketonemia in subsequent lactation in Holstein dairy cows
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Z. R.
name: Lukach, J.
name: Wynands, E.
name: Ferro, P. P. C.
name: Cramer, G.
name: Caixeta, L. S.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Hyperketonemia (HYK) is an early lactation metabolic disease frequently observed in high-producing dairy cattle and it has been associated with suboptimal reproductive performance, decreased milk yield, increase occurrence of other diseases, and increase in culling. The majority of the reports so far focused on the association of HYK and these outcomes during early lactation, however, the effect of HYK in the whole lactation and following lactations has not been as extensively characterized. Therefore, our primary objective was to evaluate the association of HYK occurring during the first 10 days after calving and culling in Holstein dairy cows throughout an entire lactation. Our secondary objective was to determine the likelihood of the occurrence of HYK in subsequent lactations in Holstein dairy cows.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Varieties of Necessity Entrepreneurship – New Insights From Sub Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Weber, Christiana
name: Fasse, Anja
name: Haugh, Helen M.
name: Grote, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publishing
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: capability approach
subject: cluster analysis
subject: endogenous switching regression
subject: life satisfaction
subject: necessity entrepreneurship
subject: resource endowments
subject: tanzania
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft

description: Necessity entrepreneurship (NE) describes the process of venturing a business out of need when alternative options are seemingly absent. Whereas prior research typically understands NE to be a homogenous construct, recent theorizing suggests the possibility of NE heterogeneity. In this paper we employ Sen’s capability approach to elicit NE variety. Using data gathered from 820 households in rural Tanzania, our cluster analysis generates four distinct types of NE that vary significantly regarding their entrepreneurial activities, determinants and outcomes. Our findings demonstrate the relevance of life satisfaction and reveal the role of choice in NE. Our study thereby advances a nuanced perspective of NE. © The Author(s) 2022.
An object-oriented framework for fractal image compression
Creators: name: Rees, Adrian.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Do trust and renewable energy use enhance perceived climate change efficacy in Europe?
Creators: name: Dirksmeier, Peter
name: Tuitjer, Leonie
Publisher: name: [S.l.] : Proquest
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Europe
subject: Mitigation
subject: Perceived personal climate change efficacy
subject: Perceived political climate change efficacy
subject: Renewable energy
subject: Trust
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft::333 | Boden- und Energiewirtschaft::333,7 | Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt

description: In the European Union, mitigation policies in the energy sector are one of the most important fields of political intervention for reducing emissions to achieve sustainability. Using renewable energy is moreover a central arena for perceived personal and political climate change efficacy, which describes an individual’s perceived ability to positively contribute to the fight against climate change and their belief in the effectiveness of government and society to tackle climate change collectively. In this paper, we distinguish between perceived personal and political efficacy beliefs. We use multilevel regression to investigate the relationship between these two dependent variables and trust in national governments as well as renewable energy use in 20 European countries for the first time. Our analysis first finds that socio-demographic predictors for perceived personal and political climate change efficacy operate almost diametrically. Second, we find that trust in governments is a much stronger predictor for perceived political efficacy. Third, we find that renewable energy use is a significant and positive predictor for perceived personal efficacy but correlates negatively with political efficacy. Finally, we find some cross-national variation in our European sample for both dimensions of efficacy beliefs. Understanding what shapes personal and political efficacy is salient to enhance public acceptance for sustainable energy transitions. © 2022, The Author(s).
Squeezing and quantum state engineering with Josephson traveling wave amplifiers
Creators: name: Grimsmo, Arne L.
name: Blais, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a quantum theory describing the input-output properties of Josephson traveling wave parametric amplifiers. This allows us to show how such a device can be used as a source of nonclassical radiation, and how dispersion engineering can be used to tailor gain profiles and squeezing spectra with attractive properties, ranging from genuinely broadband spectra to "squeezing combs" consisting of a number of discrete entangled quasimodes. The device's output field can be used to generate a multi-mode squeezed bath--a powerful resource for dissipative quantum state preparation. In particular, we show how it can be used to generate continuous variable cluster states that are universal for measurement based quantum computing. The favourable scaling properties of the preparation scheme makes it a promising path towards continuous variable quantum computing in the microwave regime.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures
Non-Equilibrium Random Matrix Theory : Transition Probabilities
Creators: name: Pedro, Francisco Gil
name: Westphal, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter we present an analytic method for calculating the transition probability between two random Gaussian matrices with given eigenvalue spectra in the context of Dyson Brownian motion. We show that in the Coulomb gas language, in large $N$ limit, memory of the initial state is preserved in the form of a universal linear potential acting on the eigenvalues. We compute the likelihood of any given transition as a function of time, showing that as memory of the initial state is lost, transition probabilities converge to those of the static ensemble.
description: REVTeX, 5 pages, 2 figures
Nonlocal elasticity near jamming
Creators: name: Baumgarten, Karsten
name: Vagberg, Daniel
name: Tighe, Brian P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the elasticity of jammed solids is nonlocal. By forcing frictionless soft sphere packings at varying wavelength, we directly access their transverse and longitudinal compliances without resorting to curve fitting. The observed wavelength dependence of the compliances is incompatible with classical (local) elasticity, and hence quantifies the amplitude of nonlocal effects. Three distinct length scales, two of which diverge, control the amplitude of both nonlocal effects and fluctuations about the mean response. Our results identify new, more accurate constitutive relations for weakly jammed solids, including emulsions, foams, and granulates.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Excess C/O and C/H in outer protoplanetary disk gas
Creators: name: Oberg, Karin I.
name: Bergin, Edwin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The compositions of nascent planets depend on the compositions of their birth disks. In particular, the elemental compositions of Gas Giant gaseous envelopes depend on the elemental composition of the disk gas from which the envelope is accreted. Previous models demonstrated that sequential freeze-out of O and C-bearing volatiles in disks will result in an supersolar C/O ratios and subsolar C/H ratios in the gas between water and CO snowlines. This result does not take into account, however, the expected grain growth and radial drift of pebbles in disks, and the accompanying re-distribution of volatiles from the outer to the inner disk. Using a toy model we demonstrate that when drift is considered, CO is enhanced between the water and CO snowline, resulting in both supersolar C/O and C/H ratios in the disk gas in the Gas Giant formation zone. This result appears robust to the details of the disk model as long as there is substantial pebble drift across the CO snowline, and the efficiency of CO vapor diffusion is limited. Gas Giants that accrete their gaseous envelopes exterior to the water snowline and do not experience substantial core-envelope mixing, may thus present both superstellar C/O and C/H ratios in their atmospheres. Pebble drift will also affect the nitrogen and noble gas abundances in the planet forming zones, which may explain some of Jupiter's peculiar abundance patterns.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL. 5 pages, including 3 figures
Understanding bovine mammary gland niches for staphylococci using different milk sampling techniques
Creators: name: Rivero, Luis A.
name: Witzke, Monica
name: Adkins, Pamela
name: Middleton, John
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Mastitis is usually caused by a bacterial intramammary infection (IMI) with Staphylococcus being the most commonly isolated genus. The standard method for diagnosing an IMI is to aseptically prepare the teat end and collect milk via the teat orifice into a sterile vial for bacterial culture. While this method has been advocated for decades, there has been debate about the importance of some bacteria isolated from such samples when the milk somatic cell count (SCC) in the mammary quarter is < 200,000 cells/ml (threshold for a healthy mammary gland). Recently, Hiitio et al. (2016) showed that milk samples collected directly from the gland cistern were less likely to contain staphylococcal DNA when using a commercial PCR diagnostic test kit than milk samples that were collected via the teat orifice. Unfortunately, the PCR only differentiated staphylococci into Staphylococcus spp. and Staphylococcus aureus, and so it is unknown which of the nonaureus staphylococcal (NAS) species may be more likely to inhabit the teat canal than those that cause a true IMI. These data provide preliminary evidence that some staphylococci in milk may be teat canal inhabitants and not intramammary pathogens that cause mastitis. The objective of this study was to determine if some species of staphylococci isolated from milk are only isolated when the sample is collected through the teat orifice and absent in cisternal milk collected using the method described by Hiitio et al. (2016).
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Pseudospin anisotropy of trilayer semiconductor quantum Hall ferromagnets
Creators: name: Miravet, D.
name: Proetto, C. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When two Landau levels are brought to a close coincidence between them and with the chemical potential in the Integer Quantum Hall regime, the two Landau levels can just cross or collapse while the external or pseudospin field that induces the alignment changes. In this work, all possible crossings are analyzed theoretically for the particular case of semiconductor trilayer systems, using a variational Hartree-Fock approximation. The model includes tunneling between neighboring layers, bias, intra-layer and inter-layer Coulomb interaction among the electrons. We have found that the general pseudospin anisotropy classification scheme used in bilayers applies also to the trilayer situation, with the simple crossing corresponding to an easy-axis ferromagnetic anisotropy analogy, and the collapse case corresponding to an easy-plane ferromagnetic analogy. An isotropic case is also possible, with the levels just crossing or collapsing depending on the filling factor and the quantum numbers of the two nearby levels. While our results are valid for any integer filling factor $ν$ (=1,2,3,...), we have analyzed in detail the crossings at $ν=3$ and $4$, and we have given clear predictions that will help in their experimental search. In particular, the present calculations suggest that by increasing the bias, the trilayer system at these two filling factors can be driven from an easy-plane anisotropy regime to an easy-axis regime, and then can be driven back to the easy-plane regime. This kind of reentrant behavior is an unique feature of the trilayers, compared with the bilayers.
Shipboard telecommunication networks : services, architectures, design & performance
Creators: name: Feramez, Michael.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Evaluation of heat and pH treatments on degradation of ceftiofur in whole milk
Creators: name: Garzon, A.
name: Pandey, P.
name: Tell, L.
name: Aly, S.
name: Pereira, R.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Waste milk feeding practices have been implicated as a potential source for disseminating antimicrobial resistant bacteria among animals and the environment. Feeding dairy heifers raw milk with low concentrations of antimicrobials increases the proportion of antimicrobial resistance. Two potential interventions to degrade antimicrobial drugs in milk are heat and pH treatment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of heat and pH treatments on the degradation of ceftiofur and ceftiofur free acid equivalents (CFAE) in milk at concentrations previously found in waste milk on dairy farms
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Stereotype threat in learning situations? An investigation among language minority students
Creators: name: König, Sabrina
name: Stang-Rabrig, Justine
name: Hannover, Bettina
name: Zander, Lysann
name: McElvany, Nele
Publisher: name: Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Netherlands
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Elementary school students
subject: Identification with the culture of residence
subject: Language minority students
subject: Stereotype threat
subject: Vocabulary learning
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::100 | Philosophie::150 | Psychologie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::370 | Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: Stereotype threat (ST) is a potential explanation for inequalities in language competencies observed between students from different language backgrounds. Language competencies are an important prerequisite for educational success, wherefore the significance for investigation arises. While ST effects on achievement are empirically well documented, little is known about whether ST also impairs learning. Thus, we investigated vocabulary learning in language minority elementary school students, also searching for potential moderators. In a pre-post design, 240 fourth-grade students in Germany who were on average 10 years old (MAge = 9.92, SD = 0.64; 49.8% female) were randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions: implicit ST, explicit ST without threat removal before posttest, explicit ST with threat removal before posttest, and a control group. Results showed that learning difficult vocabulary from reading two narrative texts was unaffected by ST. Neither students’ identification with their culture of residence and culture of origin nor stereotyped domain of reading were moderators. The findings are discussed with regard to content and methodological aspects such that a motivation effect might have undermined a possible ST effect. Implications for future research include examining the question at what age children become susceptible to ST and whether students have internalized negative stereotypes about their own group, which could increase the likelihood of ST effects occurring. © 2022, The Author(s).
Apéndice. Encuesta para analizar las necesidades con respecto al proceso de despliegue de las PyMES en Argentina.
Creators: name: Panizzi, Marisa Daniela
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cybersecurity and privacy not elsewhere classified

description: Apéndice. Encuesta para analizar las necesidades con respecto al proceso de despliegue de las PyMES en Argentina. 
Comparative pharmacokinetics of meloxicam between healthy postpartum versus mid-lactation dairy cows
Creators: name: Warner, R.
name: Ydstie, J.
name: Fonley, M.
name: Wulf, L. W.
name: Mochel, J. P.
name: Coetzee, J. F.
name: Gorden, P. J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Pain is a physiological response that cattle often experience as a result of pathological conditions or through implementation of common management procedures. There is a need for effective modalities of analgesia to manage pain and limit welfare concerns in lactating dairy cattle. Meloxicam has been shown to be an effective treatment to decrease lameness-associated pain related to udder edema in the postpartum period.1 To date, transdermal flunixin meglumine is the only available labeled product for bovine pain control in the United States. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAIDs) drugs, like meloxicam and flunixin meglumine, are commonly used by veterinarians. Previous work by our team has found differences in plasma and milk concentrations of oral meloxicam between postpartum and mid-lactation dairy cows.2 This work displayed an increased relative bioavailability in postpartum cows and longer milk residue. Due to this discovery, longer withdrawal periods for meat and milk are necessary in the postpartum cow following meloxicam therapy. This prior work has precipitated a need to further characterize the bioavailability of oral administration of meloxicam in various stages of lactation and establishment of withdrawal periods in the postpartum dairy cow. We hypothesize that meloxicam will be more bioavailable in postpartum relative to mid-lactation dairy cows and therefore require longer withdrawal times.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Efficacy of pain control strategies for caustic paste disbudding in very young dairy calves
Creators: name: Reedman, C. N.
name: Duffield, T. F.
name: DeVries, T. J.
name: Lissemore, K. D.
name: Karrow, N.
name: Winder, C. B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Dairy producers disbudding calves with caustic paste are less likely to provide pain control than those using cautery. Little research has been conducted on pain control for this method and no studies have speifically examined calves under a week of age although producers will commonly apply this product at this time. The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of local anesthesia and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) analgesia in very young dairy calves disbudded with caustic paste.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Selective dry cow therapy on US dairy farms
Creators: name: Rowe, S.
name: Godden, S.
name: Royster, E.
name: Timmerman, J.
name: Nydam, D.
name: Vasquez, A.
name: Gorden, P.
name: Lago, A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: There is an opportunity to reduce antibiotic (ABX) use at dry-off in US dairy farms, as approximately 80% of herds practice blanket dry cow therapy (BDCT), despite most quarters (~80%) being uninfected at that time. Selective dry cow therapy (SDCT) strategies use screening tests to determine which quarters or cows require ABX treatment at dry-off. A small number of trials conducted in North America recently found that SDCT reduced ABX use by up to 60% without negatively impacting udder health, culling risk or milk production when compared to BDCT. However, more research is needed to validate SDCT before it can be widely implemented. The objective of this study was to compare 2 SDCT approaches (Culture-based or Algorithm-based) against BDCT in a multiherd randomized, positively controlled, clinical trial for the following outcomes; reduction in ABX use at dry-off, clinical mastitis (CM) risk, culling risk, milk yield, and somatic cell count (SCC) in the first 120 days in milk (DIM).
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Life cycle costing in the Australian process industry
Creators: name: Delattre, Pierre-Arnaud.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: Konviviale Künstliche Intelligenz: Definition und Entwicklung eines Vorgehensmodells
Creators: name: Dusdal, Markus
name: Richard, Schulz
name: Haag, Christoph
name: Bartz-Beielstein, Thomas
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 000 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft

description: Die Arbeit beschreibt die Entwicklung und Verbreitung künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) und die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen und Chancen. Es wird hervorgehoben, dass trotz des offensichtlichen Nutzens von KI, Bedenken hinsichtlich unerwünschter Nebenwirkungen durch fehlerhafte oder missbräuchliche Anwendungen bestehen. Um diese Herausforderungen zu bewältigen, wird ein Ansatz vorgeschlagen, der als “konviviale künstliche Intelligenz” bezeichnet wird. Dieser Ansatz zielt auf ein harmonisches Zusammenspiel zwischen KI und Mensch ab und betont die Notwendigkeit einer menschenzentrierten Gestaltung bei der Entwicklung und Implementierung von KI-Modellen.
description: CIplus; 2/2023
Vitamin A and its association with inflammatory disease from dry off through the fresh period
Creators: name: Strickland, J. M.
name: Wisnieski, L. C.
name: Sordillo, L. M.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Vitamin A is an essential nutrient and is well established to be crucial for regulating hematopoiesis, epithelial integrity, vision, and embryogenesis. In humans, vitamin A deficiency is associated with increased risk of morbidity, mortality, and a decreased immune response to vaccines. However, despite being the first vitamin discovered, little is known about its role in these outcomes in dairy cows. Dairy cows experience a significant decrease in serum vitamin A concentrations at the time of calving when cows are most at risk for disease. Previous study findings show conflicting results as to the effects of vitamin A and diseases such as mastitis in dairy cows. However, many studies with negative results are limited by their small sample size and short study period. The objective of this study was to investigate the associations between vitamin A and known disease biomarkers for fresh cow diseases as well as incidents of disease.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Low flow frequency analysis : a comparison of a fixed kernel, non-parametric model with various parametric models for selected Victorian streams
Creators: name: Young, Gerrard Paul.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Dominant Modes of Agricultural Production Helped Structure Initial COVID-19 Spread in the U.S. Midwest
Creators: name: Bergmann, Luke
name: Chaves, Luis Fernando
name: O’Sullivan, David
name: Wallace, Robert G
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 90999
subject: Geomatic Engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 40699
subject: Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified

description: The spread of COVID-19 is geographically uneven in agricultural regions. Explanations proposed include differences in occupational risks, access to healthcare, racial inequalities, and approaches to public health. Here, we additionally explore the impacts of coexisting modes of agricultural production across counties from twelve midwestern U.S. states. In modeling COVID-19 spread before vaccine authorization, we employed and extended spatial statistical methods that make different assumptions about the natures and scales of underlying sociospatial processes. In the process, we also develop a novel approach to visualizing the results of geographically weighted regressions that allows us to identify distinctive regional regimes of epidemiological processes. Our approaches allowed for models using abstract spatial weights (e.g., inverse-squared distances) to be meaningfully improved by also integrating process-specific relations (e.g., the geographical relations of the food system or of commuting). We thus contribute in several ways to methods in health geography and epidemiology for identifying contextually sensitive public engagements in socio-eco-epidemiological issues. Our results further show that agricultural modes of production are associated with the spread of COVID-19, with counties more engaged in modes of regenerative agricultural production having lower COVID-19 rates than those dominated by modes of conventional agricultural production, even when accounting for other factors.
Synthetic genomics data generation and evaluation for the use case of benchmarking somatic variant calling algorithms
Creators: name: Styliani-Christina Fragkouli
name: Pechlivanis, Nikos
name: Agathangelidis, Andreas
name: Psomopoulos, Fotis
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2023

description: Somatic variant calling algorithms are widely used to detect genomic alterations associated with cancer. However, evaluating the performance of these algorithms can be challenging due to the lack of high-quality ground truth datasets. To address this issue, we developed a synthetic genomics data generation and evaluation framework for benchmarking somatic variant calling algorithms. We generated synthetic datasets based on data from the TP53 gene, using the NEAT simulator. We then thoroughly evaluated the performance of GATK-Mutect2 on these datasets, and compared the results to the bam files produced by NEAT that contain the true variations. Our results demonstrate that the synthetic datasets generated using our framework can accurately capture the complexity and diversity of real cancer genome data. Moreover, the synthetic datasets provide an excellent ground truth for evaluating the performance of somatic variant calling algorithms. Our framework provides a valuable resource for testing the performance of somatic variant callers, enabling researchers to evaluate and improve the accuracy of these algorithms for cancer genomics applications.
Influence of producers’ attitudes, perceived norms, and perceived behavioral control for practicing prudent use of antimicrobials on New York dairy farms
Creators: name: Vasquez, Amy
name: Foditsch, Carla
name: Duliepre, Stephie-Anne
name: Siler, Julie
name: Just, David
name: Warnick, Lorin
name: Nydam, Daryl
name: Sok, Jaap
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Targeted communication concerning the judicious use of antimicrobials is vital to address public health concerns such as residues and resistance. Understanding dairy farmers’ behavior, motivations, and barriers toward antimicrobial use can influence how veterinarians translate research into practice and guide effective ways of implementing protocols. A multidisciplinary team investigated behavioral tendencies toward antimicrobial use by administering a survey modeled with the Reasoned Action Approach (RAA). The RAA is a framework from social psychology containing the constructs attitude (A), perceived norms (PN), and perceived behavioral control (perception of the ease or difficulty of a behavior; PBC), and is used in combination with structural equation modeling (SEM) to determine what drives intentions (I). The objective of the survey was to provide direct and indirect measures of these constructs to determine importance of and associations with intention to use antimicrobials prudently.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Green Synthesis of Carbon Nanoparticles (CNPs) from Biomass for Biomedical Applications
Creators: name: Qasim, M
name: Clarkson, AN
name: Hinkley, Simon
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In this review, we summarize recent work on the “green synthesis” of carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) and their application with a focus on biomedical applications. Recent developments in the green synthesis of carbon nanoparticles, from renewable precursors and their application for environmental, energy-storage and medicinal applications are discussed. CNPs, especially carbon nanotubes (CNTs), carbon quantum dots (CQDs) and graphene, have demonstrated utility as high-density energy storage media, environmental remediation materials and in biomedical applications. Conventional fabrication of CNPs can entail the use of toxic catalysts; therefore, we discuss low-toxicity manufacturing as well as sustainable and environmentally friendly methodology with a focus on utilizing readily available biomass as the precursor for generating CNPs.
Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of bovine respiratory disease pathogen isolates submitted to the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory: 2008-2017
Creators: name: Holschbach, C. L.
name: Poulsen, K. P.
name: Aulik, N. A.
name: Ollivett, T. L.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Respiratory disease negatively impacts growth, reproductive performance, milk production, and longevity of adult cattle. Most calves diagnosed with clinical respiratory disease on dairy farms are treated with antibiotics. Treatment failure is not uncommon and although management factors likely contribute to these treatment failures, the role of antimicrobial resistance cannot be ruled out. Therefore, the objective of this study was to describe pathogen prevalence and antimicrobial resistance patterns for pathogens associated with respiratory disease isolated from samples submitted to the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory between 2008-2017.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Matter-Wave Fields for Double-Slit Atom Interferometry: Variational Versus Exact Solitons
Creators: name: Ngek, Isaiah Ndifon
name: Dikande, Alain M.
name: Moubissi, Alain Brice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A major challenge in the theoretical modeling of double-slit interferometry involving matter-wave fields is the appropriate waveform to be assigned to this field. While all the studies carried out to date on this issue deal with variational fields, experiments suggest that the optical field is generated by splitting a single-hump Bose-Einstein condensate into two spatially and temporally entangled pulses indicating the possibility of fully controlling the subsequent motion of the two output pulses. To probe the consistency of variational and exact soliton solutions to the field equation, we solve the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with an optical potential barrier assumed to act as a beam splitter, while including gravity. The exact solution is compared with the two most common variational wavefunctions, namely, the Hermite-Gaussian and super-sech modes. From numerical simulations, evidence is given of the exact solution as being the most appropriate matter-wave structure that provides a coherent description of the generation and spatio-temporal evolution of matter-wave optical fields in a hypothetical implementation of double-slit atom interferometry
description: 23 pages, 40 figures, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan (in print)
Systematic review and meta-analysis comparing arrival versus delayed vaccination of high-risk beef cattle with 5-way modified-live viral vaccines against BHV-1, BRSV, PI3, and BVD types 1 and 2
Creators: name: Snyder, E. R.
name: Credille, B. C.
name: Berghaus, R. D.
name: Heins, B. D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in North American beef cattle, and thus a major economic and welfare concern of individuals involved in the beef cattle industry. The most common viruses implicated in BRD are Bovine Herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1), Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (BRSV), Parainfluenza 3 (PI3), and Bovine Viral Diarrhea Viruses types 1 and 2 (BVD 1 and 2), and it is common practice to administer vaccines against these viruses to cattle entering feedlots and stocker operations at arrival. However, there have long been concerns that cattle may not mount an optimal immune response when vaccinated at this time. A number of studies have been conducted to evaluate the effects of vaccination timing on morbidity and mortality, but often include other interventions that might confound interpretation of the results. This can make an objective evaluation of the effects of only vaccination timing difficult. It is therefore our goal to provide a systematic review of these studies, and extract relevant data to perform a meta-analysis of vaccine timing on BRD morbidity, retreatment rate, and mortality.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
CRIRES-POP: a library of high resolution spectra from 1 to 5 microns II. Data reduction and the spectrum of the K giant 10 Leo
Creators: name: Nicholls, C. P.
name: Lebzelter, T.
name: Smette, A.
name: Wolff, B.
name: Hartman, H.
name: Käufl, H. -U.
name: Przybilla, N.
name: Ramsay, S.
name: Uttenthaler, S.
name: Wahlgren, G. M.
name: Bagnulo, S.
name: Hussain, G. A. J.
name: Nieva, M. -F.
name: Seeman, U.
name: Seifahrt, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. High resolution stellar spectral atlases are valuable resources to astronomy. They are rare in the $1 - 5\,μ$m region for historical reasons, but once available, high resolution atlases in this part of the spectrum will aid the study of a wide range of astrophysical phenomena. Aims. The aim of the CRIRES-POP project is to produce a high resolution near-infrared spectral library of stars across the H-R diagram. The aim of this paper is to present the fully reduced spectrum of the K giant 10 Leo that will form the basis of the first atlas within the CRIRES-POP library, to provide a full description of the data reduction processes involved, and to provide an update on the CRIRES-POP project. Methods. All CRIRES-POP targets were observed with almost 200 different observational settings of CRIRES on the ESO Very Large Telescope, resulting in a basically complete coverage of its spectral range as accessible from the ground. We reduced the spectra of 10 Leo with the CRIRES pipeline, corrected the wavelength solution and removed telluric absorption with Molecfit, then resampled the spectra to a common wavelength scale, shifted them to rest wavelengths, flux normalised, and median combined them into one final data product. Results. We present the fully reduced, high resolution, near-infrared spectrum of 10 Leo. This is also the first complete spectrum from the CRIRES instrument. The spectrum is available online. Conclusions. The first CRIRES-POP spectrum has exceeded our quality expectations and will form the centre of a state-of-the-art stellar atlas. This first CRIRES-POP atlas will soon be available, and further atlases will follow. All CRIRES-POP data products will be freely and publicly available online.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures, accepted to A&A
Evolution of the nasopharyngeal bacterial microbiota from spring processing to 40 days after arrival at the feedlot in beef calves
Creators: name: McMullin, C.
name: Orsel, K.
name: Alexander, T. W.
name: Van Der Meer, F. J.
name: Plastow, G.
name: Timsit, E.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: The stability of the bovine nasopharyngeal bacterial microbiota has been shown to play a crucial role in respiratory health. The combination of microbiota-based inhibitory effects and the protective effects of the host’s immune system creates a stable environment in the nasopharynx. However, a loss of stability in the microbiota may decrease the host’s ability to contain opportunistically pathogenic bacteria and increase the risk of foreign pathogens colonizing the upper respiratory tract. These pathogens can proliferate and progress into the lower respiratory tract, potentially leading to pneumonia. Different factors, including antimicrobial usage, commingling, stress, and concurrent viral infection can have an impact on the stability of nasopharyngeal microbiota. In humans, it has been shown that the respiratory bacterial microbiota evolves toward an adult-like profile within the first months of life. Certain bacterial profiles, once established, can remain stable over time, demonstrating a resiliency against respiratory infection. Previous longitudinal studies looking at the evolution of the nasopharyngeal bacterial microbiota in beef cattle have only centered around significantly stressful events, such as weaning and arrival at a feedlot, limiting our understanding of how respiratory microbiota evolve from an early age. Therefore, the objective of this study was to characterize the nasopharyngeal bacterial microbiota and its evolution from spring processing to 40 days after arrival at the feedlot.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Simultaneous Constraints on Cosmology and Photometric Redshift Bias from Weak Lensing and Galaxy Clustering
Creators: name: Samuroff, S
name: Troxel, MA
name: Bridle, SL
name: Zuntz, J
name: MacCrann, N
name: Krause, E
name: Eifler, T
name: Kirk, D
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the expected cosmological constraints from a combination of weak lensing and large-scale galaxy clustering using realistic redshift distributions. Introducing a systematic bias in the weak lensing redshift distributions (of 0.05 in redshift) produces a $>2σ$ bias in the recovered matter power spectrum amplitude and dark energy equation of state, for preliminary Stage III surveys. We demonstrate that these cosmological errors can be largely removed by marginalising over unknown biases in the assumed weak lensing redshift distributions, if we assume high quality redshift information for the galaxy clustering sample. Furthermore the cosmological constraining power is mostly retained despite removing much of the information on the weak lensing redshift distribution biases. We show that this comes from complementary degeneracy directions between cosmic shear and the combination of galaxy clustering with cross-correlation between shear and galaxy number density. Finally we examine how the self-calibration performs when the assumed distributions differ from the true distributions by more than a simple uniform bias. We find that the effectiveness of this self-calibration method will depend on the details of a given experiment and the nature of the uncertainties on the estimated redshift distributions.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Chipping away at the tough questions about bedding management and mastitis
Creators: name: Godden, Sandra
name: Royster, Erin
name: Rowe, Sam
name: Patel, Kruthika
name: Timmerman, Jennifer
name: Crooker, Brian
name: Fox, Larry
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Over the past several decades, the dairy industry and mastitis researchers have, collectively, made great progress in improving our understanding of the role of bedding selection and management as a determinant of mastitis risk. Increased bedding bacteria counts (BBC) are associated with increased bacteria loads on teat ends and with increased risk for infection caused by environmental mastitis pathogens. Benchmarks for BBC have been established. The use of recycled manure solids is, on average, associated with higher BBC and poorer udder health, compared to inorganic materials or organic non-manure materials. However, BBC and udder health measures are highly variable among herds, regardless of the bedding material used. Several factors have been identified that are related to the processing and management of unused bedding and the management of bedding in stalls, which are associated with reduced BBC. Producers using recycled manure solids or sand bedding should strive to increase bedding dryness, with a view to reducing BBC. However, many questions remain, including the need to better understand the significance of organic matter levels in sand bedding, and to evaluate the impact of various methods of processing recycled manure solids on bedding characteristics, udder health, and economics.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Cold expansion and/or interference fit of holes subjected to remote cyclic loads
Creators: name: Ratnayake, Pushpashantha A. N. (Pushpashantha Anandaraj Nanayakkara.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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EOSC-Life/Health-RI workshop: BBMRI-ERIC Quality Management Services and involvement in EU projects
Creators: name: Tauchert, Maike K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biobank
Quality management
Standardisation
Self-Assessment Survey
BBMRI-ERIC Academy
Biobanking training

description: Presentation for the EOSC-Life/Health-RI workshop Bridging the gap between researchers and the Health & Life Sciences research infrastructures - Showcasing EATRIS, BBMRI, ECRIN and ELIXIR tools & resources Date 13-14 June 2023, Utrecht, The Netherlands (hybrid meeting) Further information on BBMRI-ERIC Quality Management Services and Research: https://www.bbmri-eric.eu/services/quality-management/
New tools to select the right treatment
Creators: name: Winder, Charlotte B.
name: Sargeant, Jan M.
name: O'Connor, Annette M.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: We are fortunate to have several intramammary treatment products for clinical mastitis and dry-cow therapy available to us, but relatively few clinical trials compare these products head-to-head. Knowledge of relative efficacy of all available products is important for practitioners, where this information can be used to inform judicious antibiotic use. Network meta-analysis provides a method to synthesize evidence from all available trials and provide the relative efficacy of a network of treatments. This methodology is used extensively in human health and is becoming more common in animal health research.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019