cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Changes in the productivity of the southeastern North Sea as reflected in the growth of plaice and sole
Creators: name: Rijnsdorp, A.D.
name: Van Keeken, O.A.
name: Bolle, L.J.
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - K - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data
The sea and human culture and societies

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Flatfish landings in the North Sea have decreased considerably since the late 1980s, mainly due to a decrease in plaice. In this paper changes in growth of plaice Pleuronectes platessa L. and sole Solea solea (L.) are analysed to explore changes in the productivity of the North Sea. Under the assumption that variations in the productivity of the ecosystem will be reflected in variations in the growth rate, the time trends in mean length at age and condition are determined using market sampling information and research vessel data. Both length at age and condition factor increased since the mid 1960s to reach a highest level in the mid 1970s. Since the mid 1980s, length at age and condition decreased to a level intermediate between the low level around 1960 and the high level around 1975. Growth rate of the juvenile age groups was negatively affected by intra-specific competition. Length of 0-group fish attained in autumn showed a positive relationship with the temperature in the 2nd and 3rd quarter, but for the older fish no temperature effect could be detected. Also, no correlation could be detected with the NAO-index. The overall pattern of the increase in growth and the later decline correlated with the temporal patterns in eutrophication, in particular the discharge of dissolved phosphates by the Rhine. It is concluded that the productivity of the southeastern North Sea for flatfish has decreased over the last two decades, possibly in relation to a decrease in the inflow of nutrients and an overall change in the North Sea ecosystem.
Dark jets in the soft X-ray state of black hole binaries?
Creators: name: Drappeau, S.
name: Malzac, J.
name: Coriat, M.
name: Rodriguez, J.
name: Belloni, T. M.
name: Belmont, R.
name: Clavel, M.
name: Chakravorty, S.
name: Corbel, S.
name: Ferreira, J.
name: Gandhi, P.
name: Henri, G.
name: Petrucci, P. -O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: X-ray binary observations led to the interpretation that powerful compact jets, produced in the hard state, are quenched when the source transitions to its soft state. The aim of this paper is to discuss the possibility that a powerful dark jet is still present in the soft state. Using the black hole X-ray binaries GX339-4 and H1743-322 as test cases, we feed observed X-ray power density spectra in the soft state of these two sources to an internal shock jet model. Remarkably, the predicted radio emission is consistent with current upper-limits. Our results show that, for these two sources, a compact dark jet could persist in the soft state with no major modification of its kinetic power compared to the hard state.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Metagenomic evaluation of the dairy farm environment and facilities for evidence of digital dermatitis-associated bacteria
Creators: name: Rock, C.
name: Krull, A.
name: Gorden, P.
name: Shearer, J.
name: Plummer, P. J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2016

description: Bovine digital dermatitis is a common polybacterial disease process and a leading cause of lameness in dairy and beef cattle. Mature lesions are associated with a very high abundance of Treponema spp organisms, while developing lesions have a larger diversity with different populations of organisms. This study was designed to utilize 16S-based phylogenomics to evaluate a variety of environmental samples obtained from various areas of a dairy farm for the presence of bacterial organisms associated with digital dermatitis lesions.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2016
Clazosentan: First Approval
Creators: name: Lee, Arnold
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine

description: Declarations Funding The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding. Authorship and Conflict of interest During the peer review process the manufacturer of the agent under review was offered an opportunity to comment on the article. Changes resulting from any comments received were made by the authors on the basis of scientific completeness and accuracy. Arnold Lee is a salaried employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature, and declares no relevant conflicts of interest. All authors contributed to the review and are responsible for the article content. Ethics approval, Consent to participate, Consent to publish, Availability of data and material, Code availability Not applicable.
Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here

Abstract Clazosentan (PIVLAZ™) is a small molecule, endothelin (ET) A receptor-selective antagonist being developed by Idorsia Pharmaceuticals. ETA receptor inhibition by clazosentan decreases ET-related cerebral vasospasm, which may occur after an aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. Clazosentan has been approved in Japan for use in the prevention of cerebral vasospasm, vasospasm-related cerebral infarction and cerebral ischaemic symptoms after aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage, following the results from the JapicCTI163369 and JapicCTI163368 phase III trials. This article summarizes the milestones in the development of clazosentan leading to this first approval in this indication.
Heteroleptic ruthenium bioflavonoid complexes: From synthesis to in vitro biological activity
Creators: name: Zahirović, Adnan
name: Kahrović, Emira
name: Cindrić, Marina
name: Pavelić, Sandra Kraljević
name: Hukić, Mirsada
name: Harej, Anja
name: Turkušić, Emir
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Heteroleptic ruthenium(II) bioflavonoid complexes of quercetin, morin, chrysin and 3-hydroxyflavone were prepared and their interaction with CT DNA and BSA along with antioxidant and in vitro anticancer and antimicrobial activities was investigated. The formulation and characterization of complexes were achieved through elemental and thermal analysis, mass spectrometry, 1H NMR spectroscopy along with infrared, electronic absorption and emission spectroscopy as well as square-wave voltammetry, and magnetic and conductivity measurements. Ruthenium(II) is octahedrally coordinated in cationic complex species to two bidentate diimine ligands (2,2’-bipyridine or 1,10-phenanthroline) and one bidentate monobasic flavonoid ligand through 3,4-site of quercetin, morin and 3-hydroxyflavone or 4,5-site of chrysin. Complexes bind CT DNA by intercalation and binding constants comparable to ethidium bromide or ten times higher. Binding constants of complexes to BSA were several times higher compared to ibuprofen and diazepam, and suggest that the complexes have a strong affinity to BSA. Antioxidant activity tests showed that the complexes are more potent in terms of radical inhibition compared to the parent flavonoids. Cytotoxic testing revealed that the Ru(II) complex of quercetin with 2,2’-bipyridine co-ligand has good selectivity to breast adenocarcinoma, while the complex of 3-hydroxyflavone with 2,2’-bipyridine co-ligand showed strong cytotoxicity toward all tested cell lines with IC50 ~ 1 μM. All complexes showed moderate activity toward Acinetobacter baumannii, while the Ru(II) complex of 3-hydroxyflavone with 2,2’-bipyridine showed excellent activity toward MRSA and Candida albicans.
title: Measuring life-his tory parameters of Antarctic krill using upper-trophic level predators
Creators: name: Reid, Keith
name: Murphy, Eugene J.
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - K - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data
The sea and human culture and societies

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Limitations in the availability of sampling methods for commercially fished species can be a particular problem in regions where the timing and intensity of conventional (i.e. ship based) sampling are severely constrained by logistic and resource limitations.
Deep sequencing metagenomic analysis of experimentally induced bovine digital dermatitis lesions
Creators: name: Krull, A.
name: Shearer, J. K.
name: Gorden, P.
name: Cooper, V.
name: Plummer, P. J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2016

description: Bovine digital dermatitis (DD) is a leading cause of lameness in both dairy and beef cattle in the US and much of the world. Previous work by our laboratory and others has demonstrated that metagenomic analysis of naturally occurring digital dermatitis biopsies yields evidence of a complex polymicrobial disease process. We have demonstrated that lesions develop through a systematic progression of morphologic changes that are each associated with significantly different microbial communities. While these studies have provided insights into the pathogenesis of the disease process, they are often complicated by confounding associated with temporal differences in the time or season of biopsy collection, chronicity of the lesion, and the lack of baseline metagenomic data for each foot prior to lesion development. The goal of this study was to utilize a recently developed and highly reliable experimental lesion induction model of digital dermatitis to collect a large number of metagenomic samples with minimal confounding.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2016
Estrus detection intensity and accuracy and optimal timing of insemination with automated activity monitors for dairy cows
Creators: name: Leroy, Craig
name: LeBlanc, Stephen
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2016

description: The use of automated activity monitoring (AAM) systems for estrus detection is increasing rapidly in the dairy industry in North America. While there is some peer-reviewed published information about the performance of these tools for management of reproduction, large-scale field studies in commercial dairy herds are needed to inform realistic expections of the performance of AAM systems and implementation of management practices to optimize their utility. The objectives were to assess the ability of AAM to detect estrus for first insemination, the accuracy of detection, and the optimum interval from the onset of estrus to insemination.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2016
Phenolic profiles of Serbian autochthonous variety ‘Prokupac’ and monovarietal international wines from the Central Serbia wine region
Creators: name: Pantelić, Milica
name: Zagorac, Dragana Dabić
name: Uroš Gašić
name: Jović, Sonja
name: Bešlić, Zoran
name: Todić, Slavica
name: Natić, Maja
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Phenolic profiles of young monovarietal white and red wines from the Central Serbia were investigated. Quantification of phenolics was done using ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) coupled with a diode array detector and a triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer. Generally, red wines were characterised with higher phenolics content when compared to the white wines. This applies also for the total phenolics content (TPC) and radical scavenging activity (RSA) values. Among all the samples, the red wine from autochthonous Serbian variety ‘Prokupac’ stood out with unique composition, showing the highest TPC, RSA and the highest concentration of the individual phenolics. Finally, based on a specific phenolic pattern, principal component analysis (PCA) indicated clustering of red and white wines, with the ‘Prokupac’ as a prominent outlier.
Energy Efficient Power Allocation in Massive MIMO Systems based on Standard Interference Function
Creators: name: Zhang, Jiadian
name: Jiang, Yanxiang
name: Li, Peng
name: Zheng, Fuchun
name: You, Xiaohu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, energy efficient power allocation for downlink massive MIMO systems is investigated. A constrained non-convex optimization problem is formulated to maximize the energy efficiency (EE), which takes into account the quality of service (QoS) requirements. By exploiting the properties of fractional programming and the lower bound of the user data rate, the non-convex optimization problem is transformed into a convex optimization problem. The Lagrangian dual function method is utilized to convert the constrained convex problem into an unconstrained convex one. Due to the multi-variable coupling problem caused by the intra-user interference, it is intractable to derive an explicit solution to the above optimization problem. Exploiting the standard interference function, we propose an implicit iterative algorithm to solve the unconstrained convex optimization problem and obtain the optimal power allocation scheme. Simulation results show that the proposed iterative algorithm converges in just a few iterations, and demonstrate the impact of the number of users and the number of antennas on the EE.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, IEEE VTC 2016-S
title: Analyses Of Ices Stock Assessment Reliability And Proposal For Methodological Improvement
Creators: name: Rouyer, Tristan
name: Gascuel, Didier
name: Chassot, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - K - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data
The sea and human culture and societies

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Although stock assessment is a central issue in European fisheries management and it has been used for a long time, a very few studies deal with its reliability. We here analysed the assessment quality for ten fish stocks. We quantified the impacts of errors on the main parameters, and we then used a tuning method based on the best CPUE indices that can be obtained with the tuning fleets available. This approach produced good results. Assessments for 1998 with 2003 data were compared to 1998 assessments, for some stocks said to be badly assessed and for others that did not present any serious problem. We first detailed the haddock (VIA) stock and then we presented general results. TACs for 1999 were calculated for the 1998 and 2003 assessments for comparison purpose. The errors found were decomposed into effects caused by the main factors. Results show variable quality from stock to stock. We found stocks with high differences between the two assessments and with important TAC errors, whereas other ones displayed little differences and low errors on TACs. Decomposing the error into different parameters puts into relief the parameters highly sensitive relatively to the stock assessed. The new method used for tuning the VPA allowed in a general way to reduce the assessment errors by improving fishing mortality and stock number estimates. This underlines that few quality data lead to better estimates than important data set of variable quality. The approach presented appears very useful and promising to improve stock assessment.
Disposition
Creators: name: Busby, Darrell
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: Disposition or temperament of cattle is a measure of the animal's relative docility, wildness, and handling ability during processing in the pen as well as in the handling facilities. Easily excitable animals compromise both their own safety and the safety of handlers. The Iowa Tri-County Steer Carcass Futurity collects sires, dams, and birth dates from cow-calf producers who retain ownership, as well as growth data, health treatments, disposition scores, and complete carcass data on steers and heifers. In the last 10 years data has been collected on 66,620 head of cattle from 23 states and Manitoba. Cattle are disposition scored at on-test, reimplant, and first sort; the cattle in the second harvest group are scored one additional time. Based on their average disposition score, the cattle were grouped as docile, restless, and aggressive. When compared to docile cattle, aggressive cattle gained less in the feedlot (2.91 vs 3.17 lb/day; 1.32 vs 1.44 kg/day), produced fewer Choice carcasses (58.1 vs 72.4%), more Select carcasses (36.2 vs 23.3%), and the black-hided cattle produced a lower percentage of Certified Angus Beef (CAB) carcasses (14.3 vs 29.1 %). Morbidity rates were similar across disposition scores; however, death loss increased significantly as disposition scores increased. Non-replacement heifers had higher disposition scores than steer mates, as cow-calf producers selected for more docile replacement heifers. Average profit for docile cattle was $46.63 per head compared to $7.62 per head for aggressive cattle.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
Collaboration Agreement Template
Creators: name: L. Michelle Bennett
name: Cardenas, Edgar
name: O'Rourke, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: collaboration
collaboration agreement
team science
science of team science
Toolbox dialogue method

description: The Collaboration Agreement Template is designed to help crossdisciplinary research teams be explicit about the details of their collaboration. It is important for research teams to devote effort early to designing their collaboration so that they are set up for success and can focus on the technical details of the project. This template contains questions in several topic areas that guide team reflection on what is working and not working, discussion of strategies for working together successfully, and development of approaches for preemptively addressing potential conflicts. It is intended to facilitate dialogue about shared rules and norms of collaboration and open pathways for anticipating, identifying, and addressing obstacles as they arise. Crossdisciplinary research teams include a diversity of disciplines and professions, personalities, and work and communication styles and this template can surface and elucidate these differences. Teams that are willing to acknowledge, examine, and develop a shared understanding of how to address these differences can move more quickly and efficiently toward successful project outcomes.
description: This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. OIA-2114321.
Oscillation modes of rapidly rotating neutron stars in scalar-tensor theories of gravity
Creators: name: Yazadjiev, Stoytcho S.
name: Doneva, Daniela D.
name: Kokkotas, Kostas D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform the first study of the oscillation frequencies of rapidly rotating neutron stars in alternative theories of gravity, focusing mainly on the fundamental $f$-modes. We concentrated on a particular class of alternative theories - the (massive) scalar-tensor theories. The generalization to rapid rotation is important because on one hand the rapid rotation can magnify the deviations from general relativity compared to the static case and on the other hand some of the most efficient emitters of gravitational radiation, such as the binary neutron star merger remnants, are supposed to be rotating close to their Kepler (mass-shedding) limits shortly after their formation. We have constructed several sequences of models starting from the nonrotating case and reaching up to the Kepler limit, with different values of the scalar-tensor theory coupling constant and the scalar field mass. The results show that the deviations from pure Einstein's theory can be significant especially in the case of nonzero scalar field mass. An important property of the oscillation modes of rapidly rotating stars is that they can become secularly unstable due to the emission of gravitational radiation, that is so-called Chandrasekhar-Friedman-Schutz instability. Such unstable modes are efficient emitters of gravitational radiation. Our studies show that the inclusion of nonzero scalar field would decrease the threshold value of the normalized angular momentum where this instability stars to operate, but the growth time of the instability seems to be increased compared to pure general relativity.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
Talking with Friends and Clients about their Concerns with Animal Agriculture
Creators: name: Smith, David R.
name: Slattery, Racheal G.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: It is not unusual these days for popular media stories to voice concerns about how food is produced, particularly food from animals. Important societal concerns are about how cattle production systems affect the health and well-being of humans, animals, and the environment. It takes effort to stay current on the worries of society associated with cattle production, and what to tell friends and clients when asked. It is also difficult to know which sources of information on these topics are accurate and reliable. The objective of this paper is to help veterinarians and technicians become better aware of the issues being discussed by society about how cattle production systems affect the health and well-being of the cattle, the public, and the world so they can help their friends and clients become more informed. It is a paradox that in an era with information so readily available, what we read and hear is so hard to trust.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
title: Control of assessment for demersal fish stocks in ICES area: analysis for 36 stocks and investigation of some potential bias sources
Creators: name: Lesueur, Marie
name: Gascuel, Didier
name: Rouyer, Tristan
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - K - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data
The sea and human culture and societies

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.We analyzed here the reliability of assessments performed between 1997 and 2001 for 36 demersal stocks evaluated by ICES. Taking as a starting point the metrics of bias and variability defined by Jónsson and Hjörleifsson (2000), we highlighted stocks for which parameters of fishing mortality or spawning stock biomass were significantly over or underestimated. Then we explored the possible causes of these assessment biases by examining three hypotheses: i) assessments were biased when the exploitation rate or stock biomass was variable; ii) assessments were biased when parameters F or SSB presented a pronounced trend over the studied period; iii) the years of increasing trend of F or SSB (reciprocally decreasing) led to underestimate (reciprocally to overestimate) this mortality or this biomass. For a large majority of stocks we observed an underestimation of F and an overestimation of SSB. On average, diagnostics were therefore 'excessively optimistic'. A logical negative correlation between the two types of biases was found. Significant errors on F were observed for the third of the studied stocks and also the third of the stocks were found to show significant errors on SSB. Average biases indicated that assessment errors reached 50% over the 5-years period for the fifth of the studied stocks. Moreover, certain stocks presented extremely variable biases reflecting sometimes important but non-systematic biases in the assessment.
Probing quantum fluctuation theorems in engineered reservoirs
Creators: name: Elouard, C.
name: Bernardes, N. K.
name: Carvalho, A. R. R.
name: Santos, M. F.
name: Auffèves, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fluctuation Theorems are central in stochastic thermodynamics, as they allow for quantifying the irreversibility of single trajectories. Although they have been experimentally checked in the classical regime, a practical demonstration in the framework of quantum open systems is still to come. Here we propose a realistic platform to probe fluctuation theorems in the quantum regime. It is based on an effective two-level system coupled to an engineered reservoir, that enables the detection of the photons emitted and absorbed by the system. When the system is coherently driven, a measurable quantum component in the entropy production is evidenced. We quantify the error due to photon detection inefficiency, and show that the missing information can be efficiently corrected, based solely on the detected events. Our findings provide new insights into how the quantum character of a physical system impacts its thermodynamic evolution.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
title: Food composition and distribution of demersal elasmobranches on shelf and upper slope of North-West Africa
Creators: name: Patokina, F.A.
name: Litvinov, F.F.
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - K - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data
The sea and human culture and societies

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.There are presented data on diet of 19 shark, 12 skates and rays and 1 chimaeras species in waters of Western Sahara and Morocco on the data collected in 7 trawl surveys of AtlantNIRO on the shelf and upper slope from 1972 to 1984. There were examined 1585 stomach contents in total. The vertical and horizontal distribution of the species is described; the tables (33 in total) of food composition (up to 80 prey items in one species) and its seasonal variations are presented. In Scyliorhinus canicula sexual dimorphism in feeding was observed, related to different shape of teeth in males and females and their spatial segregation. Thus, females of the small-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula consume mainly fish and males feed mainly on crustaceans and polychaets, the difference in teeth shape is drastic. The ways of origin of oceanic species from shelf forms are discussed on the examples of Prionace glauca and Dasyatis violacea.
Roles for Veterinary Technicians in Preventing Metabolic Diseases in Dairy Herds
Creators: name: Oetzel, Garrett R.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: Dairy technicians can play an essential role in preventing and monitoring metabolic diseases in dairy herds. Routine herd-level monitoring of eating space, resting space, pen moves, urinary pH before calving, blood non-esterified fatty acid (NEFA) before calving, blood calcium at calving, and blood ketones after calving can be performed by technicians. The use of technicians in these roles can greatly enhance the partnership between veterinarians, nutritionists, and dairy producers that is needed to prevent metabolic diseases.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
Injection Sites
Creators: name: Schnackel, John
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: Cattle are injected with a variety of animal health products including vaccines, bacterins, antibiotics, anthelmintics, analgesics, and vitamins. Giving proper injections improves animal welfare, product response, and beef quality. Current Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) recommendations are to give products in the neck. Injections should be four or more inches apart. No more than 10 mL of a product should be given at any one injection site when giving products labeled for intramuscular administration; label instructions should be carefully followed when administering products labeled for subcutaneous use. When given a choice, the subcutaneous route of administration should be used. Needles should be sharp and changed often. Damaged needles should be discarded. Veterinarians, technicians, and others giving injections should follow BQA recommendations.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
Rationalizing Change in Merger & Acquisition (M&A) Announcements
Creators: Smayda, Nicole
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

The purpose of this study is to examine the use of strategic communication as a means of rationalizing organizational change through mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in selected news releases. The approach draws on literature reviews examining the link between communication approaches and M&A success. From the reviews, key themes emerged and formed the basis for the design of this study. This study applies discourse analysis methods to selected news releases in the energy sector to analyze the way the organization legitimizes the rationale or case for change through M&As. Findings reveal organizational strategy was the salient theme in rationalizing the M&As. This study also found vision, reason, identity and timing as well as use

or reference to strategy, outcomes, preferred senders, and purposeful messaging were defining characteristics of M&As from a strategic communication and organizational change management perspective. This study contributes to advancing the understanding of strategic communication as a means to facilitate transformative change and how communication effectiveness may directly impact M&A success.
How does feedback from patients impact upon healthcare student clinical skill development and learning? A systematic review
Creators: name: Finch, Emma
name: Lethlean, Jennifer
name: Rose, Tanya
name: Fleming, Jennifer
name: Theodoros, Deborah
name: Cameron, Ashley
name: Coleman, Adele
name: Copland, David
name: McPhail, Steven M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: A key feature of health professionals’ training, irrespective of discipline, is the acquisition and application of clinical and communication skills. Despite this, little is known about the potential role of patient feedback on this process. This systematic review aimed to answer the question: How does feedback from patients impact upon healthcare student clinical skill development and learning? Design: Systematic review of published literature. Methods: Electronic databases were searched for studies that explored the effects of patient feedback on student learning and were published before March 2016. Eligible articles underwent methodological evaluation using the McMaster University Critical Evaluation Forms and data extraction. Results: A total of 237 articles were retrieved following searches of electronic databases and hand searches of reference lists. Twelve (7 quantitative, 2 qualitative, 3 mixed methods) studies met the inclusion criteria. Eleven studies reported that patient feedback improved students’ clinical skills. Conclusion: Minimal research has explored the impact of patient feedback on student learning. The research to date suggests that direct feedback from patients may be beneficial for the development of students’ communication and clinical skills; however, the wide variety of evaluation methods and the lack of validated tools for patients to provide feedback suggest that further exploration is warranted.
Health Strategies for Organic Dairy Farms
Creators: name: Karreman, Hubert J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: The number of dairy farms which manage their livestock as certified organic is increasing. Common animal health conditions that farmers and practitioners see often have a bacterial, viral or parasitic basis. The USDA Certified Organic program specifies livestock feed, living conditions, health care, and pasture standards as well as providing a list of synthetic inputs allowed for use for health care. With restrictions on treatments allowed, it would help farmers, technicians, and practitioners to know how to approach problems on organic farms and also to know what is allowable to use when needing to treat cases. This presentation aims to provide veterinarians and technicians with an awareness of the general philosophy towards raising animals on organic dairy farms as well as utilization of alternative therapies which are understandable to medically trained professionals.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
Assessment of the bioactive compounds, antioxidant and antibacterial activities of Isodon rubescens as affected by drying methods
Creators: name: Jiang-Lian Duan
name: Wu, Ya-Lu
name: Xu, Jian-Guo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The influence of natural drying (ND), hot-air drying (HD), vacuum drying (VD), infrared drying (ID) and freeze drying (FD) on bioactive compounds and bioactivities of Isodon rubescens (Hemsl.) was investigated in this study. The results showed that different drying methods resulted in the differences in bioactive compositions’ content, antioxidant and antibacterial activities of extracts from I. rubescens. FD sample possessed the highest content of total phenolics, total flavonoids and several main phenolic compounds, as well as the stronger antioxidant and antibacterial activities, followed by ND, HD and VD, the lowest for ID samples. For this reason, freeze drying would seem to be more advisable for the drying I. rubescens, and future studies could focus on the quality evaluation and optimising various drying parameters.
A geometric approach to cut-generating functions
Creators: name: Basu, Amitabh
name: Conforti, Michele
name: Di Summa, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C10, 90C11, 52C07, 52C17, 52C22, 52A41, 52A07, 46E10

description: The cutting-plane approach to integer programming was initiated more that 40 years ago: Gomory introduced the corner polyhedron as a relaxation of a mixed integer set in tableau form and Balas introduced intersection cuts for the corner polyhedron. This line of research was left dormant for several decades until relatively recently, when a paper of Andersen, Louveaux, Weismantel and Wolsey generated renewed interest in the corner polyhedron and intersection cuts. Recent developments rely on tools drawn from convex analysis, geometry and number theory, and constitute an elegant bridge between these areas and integer programming. We survey these results and highlight recent breakthroughs in this area.
Eye-tracking technology in medical education: A systematic review
Creators: name: Hajra Ashraf
name: Sodergren, Mikael H.
name: Merali, Nabeel
name: Mylonas, George
name: Harsimrat Singh
name: Darzi, Ara
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Eye-tracking technology is an established research tool within allied industries such as advertising, psychology and aerospace. This review aims to consolidate literature describing the evidence for use of eye-tracking as an adjunct to traditional teaching methods in medical education. Methods: A systematic literature review was conducted in line with STORIES guidelines. A search of EMBASE, OVID MEDLINE, PsycINFO, TRIP database, and Science Direct was conducted until January 2017. Studies describing the use of eye-tracking in the training, assessment, and feedback of clinicians were included in the review. Results: Thirty-three studies were included in the final qualitative synthesis. Three studies were based on the use of gaze training, three studies on the changes in gaze behavior during the learning curve, 17 studies on clinical assessment and six studies focused on the use of eye-tracking methodology as a feedback tool. The studies demonstrated feasibility and validity in the use of eye-tracking as a training and assessment method. Conclusions: Overall, eye-tracking methodology has contributed significantly to the training, assessment, and feedback practices used in the clinical setting. The technology provides reliable quantitative data, which can be interpreted to give an indication of clinical skill, provide training solutions and aid in feedback and reflection. This review provides a detailed summary of evidence relating to eye-tracking methodology and its uses as a training method, changes in visual gaze behavior during the learning curve, eye-tracking methodology for proficiency assessment and its uses as a feedback tool.
Small Ruminants for Technicians
Creators: name: Roberson, Jerry R.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: Goats and sheep have traditionally been production animals and continue to provide meat, milk, and clothing worldwide. However, the pet sheep and especially the pet goat have become much more common than even 10 years ago. Basic husbandry, handling, and common diseases of goats and sheep are discussed.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
title: A Bayesian Hierarchical Meta-analysis of Growth for the Genus Sebastes in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
Creators: name: Helser, Thomas E.
name: Lai, Han-Lin
name: Stewart, Ian J.
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - K - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data
The sea and human culture and societies

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Variability in growth across species or among populations within species is of keen interest to population ecologists wishing to understand the inherent patterns across species and explore meaningful environmental covariates. Yet most studies investigating growth of animals over taxonomic groups are usually analyzed in isolation from, or at best, compared qualitatively across species or populations. Here, we introduce statistical methods that permit simultaneous quantitative analysis of the growth for 46 species of the genus Sebastes in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Growth in length at age is modeled using a nonlinear mixed effect model and we used Bayesian hierarchical meta-analysis as a natural approach to estimate parameters, to investigate growth variability among species and to elucidate meaningful biological covariates for species in this genus. Growth of species in the genus Sebastes in the eastern Pacific Ocean varied by more than 120% in terms of maximum attainable size (L􀀀; 12 cm to 80 cm) and by almost an order of magnitude in terms of instantaneous growth rates (K; 0.04 yr-1 to 0.36 yr-1). Results from this method also confirm the theoretical, but often untested, view that growth parameters L􀀀 and K are negatively correlated among species of fish; Bayesian credibility intervals ranged from – 0.2 to –0.7 with the posterior median of –0.4. The Bayesian hierarchical growth model showed less variability in growth parameters and lower correlations among parameters than those from standard techniques used in population ecology suggesting that the absolute value of the correlation between L􀀀 and K may be lower than the general perception in the ecological literature, often in the range of -0.8 to -0.9. Finally, exploration of several covariates revealed that asymptotic size varied positively as a function of the size at 50% maturity while K declined, and that depth showed little predictive power for any growth parameters.
Fundamental Quantal Paradox and its Resolution
Creators: name: Lev, Felix M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The postulate that coordinate and momentum representations are related to each other by the Fourier transform has been accepted from the beginning of quantum theory. As a consequence, coordinate wave functions of photons emitted by stars have cosmic sizes. This results in a paradox because predictions of the theory contradict observations. The reason of the paradox and its resolution are discussed.
description: 16 pages, no figures
A Day in the Life of a Large Animal Veterinary Technician
Creators: name: White, David P.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: A veterinary technician can be an asset to a large animal practice. One benefit to having a large animal technician is that they can help a veterinarian to become more efficient throughout the day. The use of a technician allows the veterinarian to focus more of their time to the technical aspects of veterinary medicine. There are also many advantages to being a large animal technician, which include a variety of duties involving an outside work environment.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
A critical scoping review of the connections between social mission and medical school admissions: BEME Guide No. 47
Creators: name: Ellaway, Rachel H.
name: Malhi, Rebecca
name: Bajaj, Sameer
name: Walker, Ian
name: Myhre, Douglas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Background: Despite a growing focus on the social accountability of medical schools, there has been no substantive review of admissions related to the social mission of medical schools. This paper reports on a critical scoping review of the connections between social mission and medical school admissions. Methods: Searches of seven bibliographic databases identified 1258 unique articles. After filtering for relevance, 71 articles were considered for final review. The results of the data extraction were synthesized using a combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques. Results: Five reviewers conducted 149 data extractions from 71 papers. Social missions tended to focus either on access and equity issues for applicants from underrepresented populations or on the career choices of medical graduates and how they meet particular social needs. The connection between social missions and admissions was often implied but rarely considered or evaluated directly. There was a notable absence of empirical evidence, with calls for reform or program descriptions far outweighing the number of papers based on empirical findings. Conclusions: Despite the move to social missions in medical education, there remains little direct connection between missions and admissions and little evidence reflecting the efficacy or impacts of making this connection.
Lameness Wetlab
Creators: name: Osterstock, Jason B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: Lameness is one of the most common causes of morbidity in beef and dairy cattle operations and represents an important threat to the well-being of cattle in all types of operations. Critical to the success of lameness management is preventive and therapeutic trimming of the bovine hoof. The purpose of this document is to supplement a lameness and hoof trimming wetlab presented at the 2010 American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) Annual Conference. This wetlab is presented by the AABP Lameness Committee, and taught by the subject-matter experts represented within this group. This laboratory will focus on review of anatomy of the bovine hoof and approaches to routine hoof trimming.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
Emergent structures and dynamics of cell colonies by contact inhibition of locomotion
Creators: name: Smeets, Bart
name: Alert, Ricard
name: Pesek, Jiri
name: Pagonabarraga, Ignacio
name: Ramon, Herman
name: Vincent, Romaric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Cells in tissues can organize into a broad spectrum of structures according to their function. Drastic changes of organization, such as epithelial-mesenchymal transitions or the formation of spheroidal aggregates, are often associated either to tissue morphogenesis or to cancer progression. Here, we study the organization of cell colonies by means of simulations of self-propelled particles with generic cell-like interactions. The interplay between cell softness, cell-cell adhesion, and contact inhibition of locomotion (CIL) yields structures and collective dynamics observed in several existing tissue phenotypes. These include regular distributions of cells, dynamic cell clusters, gel-like networks, collectively migrating monolayers, and 3D aggregates. We give analytical predictions for transitions between noncohesive, cohesive, and 3D cell arrangements. We explicitly show how CIL yields an effective repulsion that promotes cell dispersal, thereby hindering the formation of cohesive tissues. Yet, in continuous monolayers, CIL leads to collective cell motion, ensures tensile intercellular stresses, and opposes cell extrusion. Thus, our work highlights the prominent role of CIL in determining the emergent structures and dynamics of cell colonies.