cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Robust optimization of NURBs metamodels for engineering design
Creators: name: Steuben, John C.
name: Turner, Cameron J.
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2007

description: Engineering design is generally characterized as an activity where a designer compares alternative solutions to an engineering challenge in order to meet some required level of performance. Almost invariably this involves the selection of values for design variables such that the design meets performance requirements. Unfortunately, in many modern engineered products and systems the number of these design variables exceeds what an engineer may comfortably contemplate using traditional tools. Optimization tools which allow engineers to quantify and maximize performance in high-dimensional design spaces will become increasingly indispensable to the engineer if they can perform two tasks. These tools obviously must be able to search the design space for design variable values that maximize performance. Simultaneously, they must locate and quantify designs that provide robustness, or insensitivity in performance with respect to uncertainty or variation in design parameters. The considerations of modern manufacturing and control systems force this second requirement, as no machine component can be produced without variation, nor can any system be controlled with arbitrary accuracy. When optimizing a design, a common difficulty is encountered. Many, if not most, engineering challenges are represented by system models of great complexity. Adequate analysis and optimization of the model is subsequently impossible due to time and computation limitations. As a result, surrogate models termed "metamodels" are used in place of the actual system model. These metamodels are far more computationally efficient and allow the optimization of otherwise intractable problems. Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBs) have emerged as a powerful metamodeling technique capable of addressing the twin challenges posed above. Previous research has resulted in the development of algorithms capable of fitting NURBs metamodels to design spaces of many input variables and performance indicies, and performing various discreet optimizations upon these metamodels. In the present research we expand upon this basis by illustrating the development of robust optimization algorithms that leverages the unique properties of NURBs metamodels. This optimization is conducted in a general fashion by considering both optimality and various robustness metrics as global or local model properties, and illustrates the tradeoffs between them using a novel graphical approach.
title: Screening of Alga Extracts as Potential Stiumulants of Chemotaxis and Respiratory Burst Activity of Macrophages from Sole (Solea senegalensis)
Creators: name: Diaz-Rosales, P.
name: Burmeister, A.
name: Arijo, S.
name: Chabrillon, M.
name: Figueroa, F. L.
name: Aguilera, J.
name: Balebona, M. C.
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - R - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Use of irnrnunostirnulants in fish disease control in aquaculture may compensate the antibiotic-resistance and the lack of effective vaccines against some pathogens. Photobacterium damselae ssp. piscicida is a bacterial pathogen responsible for important economical losses in the aquaculture industry, affecting fish species such as sole (Solea senegalensis), Earlier observations have demonstrated that vegetal extracts may act as irnrnunostirnulants enhancing the non-specific defence mechanisms in fish. The aim of this work is the evaluation of potential immunostimulant activities of alga extracts and purified substances for their ability to induce phagocytic respiratory burst and chemotaxis of sole macrophages.
Growth Rates of Solutions of Superlinear Ordinary Differential Equations
Creators: name: Appleby, John A. D.
name: Patterson, Denis D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34C11, 34E10

description: In this letter we obtain sharp estimates on the growth rate of solutions to a nonlinear ODE with a nonautonomous forcing term. The equation is superlinear in the state variable and hence solutions exhibit rapid growth and finite-time blow-up. The importance of ODEs of the type considered here stems from the key role they play in understanding the asymptotic behaviour of more complex systems involving delay and randomness.
description: 7 pages
title: Predicted response of microstructure, distortion, and residual stress in carburized steels cooled via oil and high intensity quenching
Creators: name: Baker, Daniel
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2007

description: Heat treatment simulations provide a new capability to understand and predict complicated responses, where thermal, mechanical, and microstructural effects are coupled. Simulations using DANTE® compared the response of carburized and non-carburized 4120, 4320, and 8620 to oil and high intensity quenching. High intensity quenching involves high heat transfer rates and has the potential to reduce alloy content and carburization level compared to hot oil quenching. The simulations utilized a simple rod shape in order to minimize part geometry effects. The development of the microstructure, residual stress, and distortion are compared to understand the differences between high intensity quenching and oil quenching. The simulations predicted compressive residual hoop stresses at the surface for all high intensity quench conditions. In contrast, oil quenching produced compressive residual hoop stresses at the surface in the carburized condition and tensile residual hoop stresses in the non-carburized condition.
Motives for Patent Pledges: A Qualitative Study
Creators: name: Ehrnsperger, Jonas Fabian
name: Tietze, Frank
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: : intellectual property, patent, pledge, motives

description: Patent Pledges are initiatives of patent owners in which they announce the free or reasonable availability of active patents. Many firms struggle to understand the rationales behind these strategies, making it difficult to decide whether or not to trust them. After all, respective patent owners could also let the patents lapse to make them available. So, what do patent owners hope to achieve through these initiatives? Existing literature suggests motives for patent pledges, but lacks academic rigor and empirical evidence. To further our understanding of patent pledges, we conducted 30 expert interviews, including people directly involved in the decision to initiate and to execute patent pledges. As a complementary data source, we qualitatively analysed 50 public patent pledge statements with respect to their underlying motives. We found 13 distinct motives belonging to three general categories, the primary motive being ‘Driving Technology Diffusion’. We contribute to existing knowledge by providing novel insights into the phenomenon of patent pledges and empirical evidence to what the literature has suggested. We argue that all motives of free patent pledges link to the overarching goal of fostering technology diffusion.
Transmission time and resonant tunneling through barriers using localized quantum density soliton waves
Creators: name: Mirza, Babur M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the interaction and transmission time of quantum density solitons waves representing particles passing through finite barrier potentials is investigated. Using the conservation of energy and of quantum density, it is first demonstrated that these waves have finite de Broglie wavelength and represent particles in quantum theory. The passage of the quantum density solitons (particles) through barriers of finite energies is then shown to lead to the phenomena of resonant tunneling and, in Josephson-like configurations, to the quantization of magnetic flux. A precise general measure for barrier tunneling time is derived which is found to give a new interpretation of the quantum indeterminacy principles.
IP Strategies for Green Innovations - An Analysis of European Inventor Awards
Creators: name: Vimalnath, Pratheeba
name: Tietze, Frank
name: Jain, Akriti
name: Prifti, Viola
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: intellectual property strategy, patent, licensing, collaboration, green innovation, circular economy, sustainability, European inventor award

description: To drive sustainability transitions on a global scale for a carbon neutral future, green innovations are needed. In this study, we are keen to understand the role of intellectual property (IP) and particularly, its usage by firms innovating for a sustainable future. Unfortunately, little is known about how IP impacts sustainability transitions. To contribute to a better understanding, we chose to investigate IP usage by award - winning green innovators. We study the winners of the European Inventor Award, a highly prestigious international prize, awarded annually by the European Patent Office since 2006. Among all 210 awardees, we identified 52 winners that we classified as green innovators. Our analysis shows that closed and semi-open IP, particularly non-exclusive licensing, are the preferred IP strategies for green innovations. The IP strategy preferences seem to vary across technology domains. These findings are discussed along with their implications.
Where are we with Pain Recognition and Management in Cattle?
Creators: name: Whay, Helen R.
name: Hudson, Chris
name: Huxley, Jon N.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2008

description: Pain is both a sensory and emotional experience, and while no absolute insight into an animal's pain experience is possible, studies of physiology, behavior and responsiveness to analgesia all indicate that animals, including cattle, are likely to sense pain in similar ways to humans.7 While there has been considerable research into both pain recognition and management in cattle, practical application of this knowledge on-farm has not progressed as rapidly. Failure to acknowledge and manage pain is likely to lead to slower healing, decreased productivity and compromised animal welfare. Recognition of pain is a key determinant of whether pain management is likely to be implemented. A survey examining analgesia use by UK veterinary practitioners4 revealed that respondents who assigned lower pain scores to a range of procedures and conditions seen in cattle were less likely to give analgesia.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2008
title: A novel system for the production of essential PUFA for fish hatcheries using cultured polychaetes
Creators: name: Olive, Peter J. W.
name: Islam, Monirul D.
name: Smith, Barney
name: Cowin, Peter B.D.
name: Craig, Stephen
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - S - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.A system for the culture of the polychaete worms Arenicola marina and A. defodiens on a variety of organic by products, and the fatty acid (as FAMEs) profiles of the cultured materials, are described. Organic inputs include spent brewery yeast, an entirely terrestrial food resource. Culture of worms on the yeast by-product (not initially containing poly-unsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) leads to a net biosynthesis and accumulation of PUFA. Currently the aquaculture feed market relies on marine resources for essential fatty acids; this novel polychaete culture system introduces a method for their sustainable production. Polychaetes cultured on these materials offer a complete dietary source containing all essential fatty acids for juvenile fish production that is not reliant on capture fisheries in any way. The implications and significance of this bioreactor system are discussed in relation to environmentally sustainable aquaculture and the failure of fisheries to meet human demand for fish.
Indirect Searches of the Degenerate MSSM
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Debtosh
name: Patel, Ketan M.
name: Tata, Xerxes
name: Vempati, Sudhir K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A degenerate sfermionic particle spectrum can escape constraints from flavor physics, and at the same time evade the limits from the direct searches if the degeneracy extends to the gaugino-higgsino sector. Inspired by this, we consider a scenario where all the soft terms have an approximately common mass scale at $M_{\text{SUSY}}$, with splittings $\lesssim \mathcal{O}(10\%)$. As a result, the third generation sfermions have large to maximal (left-right) mixing, the same being the case with charginos and some sectors of the neutralino mass matrix. We study this scenario in the light of discovery of the Higgs boson with mass $\sim$ 125 GeV. We consider constraints from $B$-physics, the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and the dark matter relic density. We find that a supersymmetric spectrum as light as 600 GeV could be consistent with all current data and also account for the observed anomalous magnetic moment of the muon within $2σ$. The neutralino relic density is generally too small to saturate the measured cold dark matter relic density. Direct detection limits from XENON100 and LUX put severe constraints on this scenario which will be conclusively probed by XENONnT experiment.
description: 27 pages, 8 figures; Comments welcome
Lameness in Dairy Cattle
Creators: name: Weary, Daniel M.
name: Flower, Frances C.
name: Von Keyserlingk, Marina A. G.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2008

description: This paper reviews recent research on lameness in dairy cows, with special focus on our work at the University of British Columbia addressing the scientific assessment of impaired gait, and how such impairments can be prevented through improvements in housing. Subjective gait scores can vary considerably between observers, but the reliability of these scores can be much improved with training and the use of well-defined scoring criteria. Some variation in gait relates to hoof pathologies and pain, factors typically considered central to the problem of cattle lameness. However, many cows with impaired gait have no visible sole lesions, and vice versa, and treating lame cows with analgesics has a significant but minor effect on gait. Gait also varies with features of the cow not related to lameness (e.g. udder fill) and with features of the environment (e.g. walking surface). Most importantly, lameness (as evidenced by impaired gait) can be dramatically reduced through improvements in housing conditions, including access to pasture or to more comfortable free stalls.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2008
title: Hydrogen peroxide dynamics in an agricultural headwater stream: evidence for significant biological production
Creators: name: Dixon, Taylor C.
name: Voelker, Bettina M.
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2007

description: Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is known to play key roles in aquatic systems, including metal redox cycling and degradation of organic matter into bioavailable forms. Detailed knowledge of the cycling of H2O2 in natural waters thus fosters the understanding of important aquatic biogeochemical processes. Although biological production of H2O2 has been observed in culture studies, the significance of this process to the H2O2 budget in freshwater systems remains unknown. In this study, isotopically-labeled H2O2 (H218O2) was added to novel in-stream mesocosm systems exposed to light and dark periods. By measuring total H2O2 and H218O2 in tandem, we inferred absolute rates of H2O2 production and decay, which were occurring simultaneously. The results indicate rates of H2O2 production up to several-fold the photo-production rates observed in filtered water samples, and suggest biological production as the dominant control on the H2O2 budget in the agricultural headwater stream studied. The potential implications of this work include enhanced understanding of freshwater metal and organic matter bioavailability, and natural attenuation of aquatic contaminants.
title: The use of calcein as a fry mark for evaluating restoration and culture programs of Atlantic salmon
Creators: name: Millard, Michael
name: Mohler, Jerre
name: Perkins, David
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - S - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Fry stocking is a major component of the Atlantic salmon restoration program in the northeast United States. Evaluating the performance of stocked fry has been hampered by the lack of a mark with nonlethal detection properties. Oxytetracycline has been used to mark teleost otoliths for subsequent age assessment, but fish must be sacrificed for mark determination. We used the fluorochrome calcein (C30H26N2O13) to batch-mark Atlantic salmon fry, thereby opening up a wide variety of studies regarding the performance and survival of fry spawned, reared, or stocked under different treatment regimes. Calcein chemically binds with calcified structures and shows a marked increase in flourescence when complexed with alkaline earth metals. The marking solution is non-lethal to fish and can be used for immersion marking techniques. An advantage to immersion marking is that the mark can be applied to large numbers of fry simultaneously; this process may be useful for marking aquaculture species where a need or desire exists to validate the origin of fry at later life stages.
Perspectives on Animal Welfare from a Dairy Practitioner
Creators: name: Homan, Terry
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2008

description: Animal welfare continues to be an important issue in production animal agriculture. The veterinary profession has significant responsibility advocating for the welfare of animals in agriculture and can be an important voice to the consuming public on this issue, provided we maintain our credibility by fulfilling the responsibility our profession has taken.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2008
title: Development of a directionally independent roller measurement value
Creators: name: Facas, Norman
name: Mooney, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2007

description: Continuous Compaction Control (CCC) and Intelligent Compaction (IC) rollers promise large potential improvements for earthwork construction. CCC rollers provide a spatial measure of soil properties (e.g., stiffness) over the earthwork surface. CCC rollers can be used for quality control/quality assurance (QC/QA) to enable compaction based feedback control and to create as-built documentation. CCC rollers offer great promise for QC/QA by enabling 100% evaluation of an earthwork area during every roller pass, in contrast to current quantitative QC/QA which evaluates less than 1% of the earthwork after a few roller passes. Experimental data has shown that vibratory roller compactors often exhibit rotational kinematics in addition to translation during operation. This rotation is not considered in the current generation of roller measurement values. A new roller/soil model that allows for rotational kinematics was developed. Using the model, the influence of sensor position on roller measurement values is examined. The influence of drum rotation is shown to be significant. Building upon these findings, a new technique is developed for computing roller measurement values while negating the influence of rotation. This new technique is shown to be directionally independent. The new measurement technique is compared verse the current measurement technique for common CCC roller tasks.
Relativistic Newtonian Dynamics for Objects and Particles
Creators: name: Friedman, Yaakov
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relativistic Newtonian Dynamics (RND) was introduced in a series of recent papers by the author, in partial cooperation with J. M. Steiner. RND was capable of describing non-classical behavior of motion under a central attracting force. RND incorporates the influence of potential energy on spacetime in Newtonian dynamics, treating gravity as a force in flat spacetime. It was shown that this dynamics predicts accurately gravitational time dilation, the anomalous precession of Mercury and the periastron advance of any binary. In this paper the model is further refined and extended to describe also the motion of both objects with non-zero mass and massless particles, under a conservative attracting force. It is shown that for any conservative force a properly defined energy is conserved on the trajectories and if this force is central, the angular momentum is also preserved. An RND equation of motion is derived for motion under a conservative force. As an application, it is shown that RND predicts accurately also the Shapiro time delay - the fourth test of GR.
description: 5 pages , 1 figure
Caregiver Contribution to Cattle Well-Being
Creators: name: Noffsinger, Tom
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2008

description: Cattle caregivers have exciting obligations, responsibilities, and opportunities to contribute to cattle well-being. Shifting caregiver priorities from disease detection to performance enhancement results in new levels of cattle welfare.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2008
Electromagnetic Force and Momentum
Creators: name: Mansuripur, Masud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article was published as Sec.4 of the "Roadmap on Structured Light" in Journal of Optics 19 (2017) 013001. Section 4 describes the essential elements of the classical theory of electromagnetic force and momentum.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, 13 equations, 16 references
National Cattlemen's Beef Association
Creators: name: Reynolds, Scott
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2008

description: The NCBA Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) program was started in the 1980s, and emphasizes such things as residue avoidance, proper injections, beef quality and animal well-being. Widespread educational programs have resulted in good producer and veterinary buy-in. The complete BQA program is both broad and complex, and all people working with cattle must know and understand it. In order to determine understanding and compliance with the program, the cattle industry has developed the Beef Quality Assurance Feedyard Assessment. This detailed document provides the framework for assessing BQA practices in a feedyard, and as a result the feedyard management can identify strengths, weaknesses and areas that need improvement to satisfy BQA standards. This document will be showcased and released to the industry at the January 2009 National Cattlemen's Beef Association Annual Conference and Trade Show in Phoenix, Arizona.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2008
On-farm Animal Welfare Assessments and Audits in the UK
Creators: name: Whay, Helen R.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2008

description: Other than in a research context, the route through which welfare assessments and audits are implemented for production animals is farm assurance. Farm assurance can affect the welfare of animals through encouraging improvements in welfare by setting good standards of provision for animals, through excluding systems which are inherently bad for welfare from certification or through discouraging the very poorest farmers from continuing in business. However, as farm assurance originated in response to changes in UK food safety legislation, conflicts can exist between requirements of food safety measures, environmental protection and animal welfare. To date, the evidence that farm assurance is actively improving the welfare of animals within systems is not compelling, although the more extensive management practices required by the Soil Association organic farming scheme have recently been shown to result in less lameness and hock damage.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2008
title: Study of microalloy precipitation in hot charged slabs
Creators: name: Dyer, Myra S.
name: Speer, J. G.
name: Matlock, David K.
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2007

description: As the demand for high strength and toughness of steel increases, the alloy design for HSLA grades is constantly being modified and tailored to available processing configurations. The effects of microalloy precipitation and (tunnel furnace) dissolution during Compact Strip Production (CSP) are explored relative to position within the slab (i.e. thermal profile of the slab), and alloy content. Niobium solute and precipitation fractions are quantified using electrochemical extraction and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) techniques. The results are relevant in the content of cost effective alloying and increasing alloying efficiency.
Designing Welfare-friendly Housing for Dairy Cows
Creators: name: Cook, Nigel B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2008

description: This article attempts to use our available knowledge of how environmental factors impact the dairy cow to create biological thresholds for housing design, which enable her to have adequate time for eating, drinking, socializing and rest. Thresholds for herd and group size, stocking density, pen layout, stall design, ventilation and cooling are discussed to describe a facility for 1,400 dairy cows, housed in groups of 150 cows, milked three times a day through a double 20 parlor in a freestall barn with two-row pens, with stalls sized to accommodate the type of cow using them, with sand bedding, and adequate cooling and access to water and feed.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2008
title: Energetic explanations for differential growth rates in summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) larvae and juveniles
Creators: name: Bengtson, David A.
name: Katersky, Robin S.
name: Koelbl, Markus
name: Simlick, Tessa L.
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - S - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Summer flounder, a potentially valuable aquaculture species along the USA Atlantic coast, exhibit a high degree of variability in growth rate during the late larval period. Growth differences lead to an extended period of metamorphosis and settlement, with subsequent cannibalism. We examined the energy budgets of larvae and newly settled juveniles to determine whether growth differences resulted from differential food consumption, differential metabolic losses, or both. Juveniles that had been fast- or slow-growing larvae, from each of several crosses of individual parents, were placed in small chambers for determinations of food consumption, oxygen consumption and ammonia excretion and calculations of scope-for-growth. Differences in scope-for-growth were due almost exclusively to differences in food consumption and were more pronounced in offspring from different parents than in fast- vs. slow-growing offspring from the same parents, which augurs well for selective breeding programs. In a separate experiment, larvae from two sets of parents were raised individually in small bowls and measured repeatedly to show that larval growth variability increases greatly at about 20-22 days post-hatch (dph). Finally, food (Artemia) consumption of individually raised larvae was monitored and correlated with larval growth for three groups of larvae. Food consumption accounted for 72-93% of the variability in larval size at 26 dph. Furthermore, we were able to identify a period from 17-20 dph when some larvae begin to ingest greater amounts of food than do other larvae, leading to the growth variability. Our current focus is to identify factors that might explain the increased ingestion rates by the fast-growing larvae.
Time-of-Flight Three Dimensional Neutron Diffraction in Transmission Mode for Mapping Crystal Grain Structures
Creators: name: Cereser, Alberto
name: Strobl, Markus
name: Hall, Stephen
name: Steuwer, Axel
name: Kiyanagi, Ryoji
name: Tremsin, Anton
name: Knudsen, Erik Bergbäck
name: Shinohara, Takenao
name: Willendrup, Peter
name: Fanta, Alice Bastos da Silva
name: Iyengar, Srinivasan
name: Larsen, Peter Mahler
name: Hanashima, Takayasu
name: Moyoshi, Taketo
name: Kadletz, Peter M.
name: Krooß, Philip
name: Niendorf, Thomas
name: Sales, Morten
name: Schmahl, Wolfgang W.
name: Schmidt, Søren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physical properties of polycrystalline materials depend on their microstructure, which is the nano-to-centimeter-scale arrangement of phases and defects in their interior. Such microstructure depends on the shape, crystallographic phase and orientation, and interfacing of the grains constituting the material. This article presents a new non-destructive 3D technique to study bulk samples with sizes in the cm range with a resolution of hundred micrometers: time-of-flight three-dimensional neutron diffraction (ToF 3DND). Compared to existing analogous X-ray diffraction techniques, ToF 3DND enables studies of samples that can be both larger in size and made of heavier elements. Moreover, ToF 3DND facilitates the use of complicated sample environments. The basic ToF 3DND setup, utilizing an imaging detector with high spatial and temporal resolution, can easily be implemented at a time-of-flight neutron beamline. The technique was developed and tested with data collected at the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility of the Japan Proton Accelerator Complex (J-PARC) for an iron sample. We successfully reconstructed the shape of 108 grains and developed an indexing procedure. The reconstruction algorithms have been validated by reconstructing two stacked Co-Ni-Ga single crystals and by comparison with a grain map obtained by post-mortem electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD).
description: Submitted
Distribution of the number of particles in the final state of hadron-nucleus collisions
Creators: name: Dominé, Laura
name: Lorcé, Cédric
name: Munier, Stéphane
name: Pekar, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, Liou, Mueller and Munier have argued that proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC may give access to the full statistics of the event-by-event fluctuations of the gluon density in the proton. Indeed, the number of particles produced in an event in rapidity slices in the fragmentation region of the proton may, under some well-defined assumptions, be directly related to the number of gluons which have a transverse momentum larger than the nuclear saturation scale present in the proton at the time of the interaction with the nucleus. A first calculation of the probability distribution of the number of gluons in a hadron was performed, using the color dipole model. In this talk, we review this proposal, and present preliminary numerical calculations which support the analytical results obtained so far.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. Talk presented at DIS 2017
Theoretical analysis of the electron bridge process in $^{229}$Th$^{3+}$
Creators: name: Müller, Robert A.
name: Volotka, Andrey V.
name: Fritzsche, S.
name: Surzhykov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the deexcitation of the $^{229}$Th nucleus via the excitation of an electron. Detailed calculations are performed for the enhancement of the nuclear decay width due to this so called electron bridge (EB) compared to the direct photoemission from the nucleus. The results are obtianed for triply ionized thorium by using a B-spline pseudo basis approach to solve the Dirac equation for a local $x_α$ potential. This approach allows for an approximation of the full electron propagator including the positive and negative continuum. We show that the contribution of continua slightly increases the enhancement compared to a propagator calculated by a direct summation over bound states. Moreover we put special emphasis on the interference between the direct and exchange Feynman diagrams that can have a strong influence on the enhancement.
Improving client profitability by increasing veterinary services in the sheep and goat production cycle
Creators: name: Bowen, Joan S.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2013

description: Bovine veterinarians frequently advise cattlemen regarding management practices and herd health procedures that improve the economic success and productivity of the cattle enterprise. Small-scale sheep and goat producers are often unaware of these routine veterinary practices that would similarly increase their success in livestock production. Bovine practitioners can increase small-scale client profitability by educating them about routine procedures that should be undertaken prior to breeding season, routine parturition, and neonatal care. Areas where increasing on site veterinary services improve profitability include breeding soundness examination, establishment of the veterinary-client-patientrelationship, use of controlled intravaginal drug release devices in sheep, pregnancy diagnosis, recommendations for the dry period, treatment of dystocia and creation of standard operating protocols for producers. Both bovine veterinarians and sheep and goat producers benefit from increased use of veterinary services.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2013
title: ADMIRE: Autonomous Dam Monitoring with Integrated Real-time Evaluation
Creators: name: Stone, Kerri
name: Camp, Tracy
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2007

description: Dams have a large impact on public safety in the United States. Dam failures are far reaching and may result in loss of property, loss of life, and loss of water storage. Despite this fact, dam inspections occur infrequently and are performed unevenly across the structure. As such, current dam monitoring practice is often incapable of detecting internal erosion - a primary failure mode in dams. The inability to detect internal erosion results in increased risk of catastrophic failure. This research focuses on the development of a wireless sensor network (WSN) application to autonomously and continuously monitor embankment dams for signs of internal erosion. To date, a WSN has not been used to assess dam integrity. The use of a WSN to autonomously and continuously monitor dams will improve the ability to detect structural issues before failure occurs. This research develops ADMIRE - Autonomous Dam Monitoring with Integrated Real-time Evaluation, which will continually assess dam integrity through minimally invasive geophysical sensing techniques integrated into a WSN. ADMIRE will implement a machine learning algorithm to calculate the probability of internal erosion based on geophysical sensor measurements. Upon calculating a high probability of internal erosion, the WSN will employ a distributed algorithm to localize the occurrence of internal erosion. ADMIRE will allow for autonomous and continuous monitoring of embankment dams. ADMIRE will contribute significant technological advancements to dam inspection practice.
Interlaced capsules by self-assembly of cavitands substituted with tripeptides and tetrapeptides
Creators: name: Szymański, Marek P.
name: Czajka, Jakub S.
name: Cmoch, Piotr
name: Iwanek, Waldemar
name: Szumna, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
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: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: A strategy that utilizes macrocyclic resorcin[4]arenes for the pre-positioning of peptides to form cavitands that subsequently self-assemble through hydrogen bonds was used for the formation of molecular capsules. Hydrophobic tri- and tetrapeptides were attached via their C-termini to tetraformylresorcin[4]arene using acylhydrazone linkers. The resulting cavitands self-assemble in relatively non-polar environments (chloroform or chloroform-methanol) forming non-covalent dimers through hydrogen bonding motifs resembling beta-sheets. NMR studies (ROESY and DOSY) indicate that the binding motif involves C-terminal amino acids from the peptide strands, while the N-terminal parts are positioned outside of the cavity. The capsules possess stable porous structures and they are able to quantitatively complex fullerenes C60 and C70.
Milk bacteriology
Creators: name: Erskine, R. J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2013

description: Bacteriological culture of milk provides fundamental information to veterinarians, their support staff, and dairy producers who want to improve milk quality on dairy farms. In-clinic or on-farm culture cannot achieve the degree of sophistication of an accredited diagnostic laboratory. Nonetheless, non-diagnostic laboratory culture of milk samples can help identify opportunities in farm management, as well as therapeutic decisions. The fundamentals of milk bacteriology are not difficult, and numerous resources are available to help veterinary personnel establish basic milk bacteriology laboratories. Care should be taken to avoid common pitfalls in interpretation and application of the culture results.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2013
title: Inter-individual differences in rates of routine energy loss and growth in early juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)
Creators: name: Peck, Myron A.
name: Buckley, Lawrence J.
name: Bengtson, David A.
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - S - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Young juvenile cod, Gadus morhua, within the same cohort exhibit marked growth variability, the physiological mechanisms of which are poorly understood. We evaluated whether differences in routine energy loss by juvenile Atlantic cod contributed to observed growth differences. The rates of respiration (O2 consumption, CO2 production) and ammonia (TAN) excretion were measured for 64 individual juveniles of the same cohort within a narrow size range (25 to 40 mm standard length, LS, ages 79 to 112 days-post-hatch) growing at different rates. The relationships between body size and rates of O2 consumption, CO2 production, and TAN excretion were determined via regression analysis. Residuals from some of these regressions were significantly related to growth rate such that faster-growing juveniles had relatively lower rates of routine energy loss. Fish condition factor, weight (LS)-3, also significantly decreased with increasing growth rate. Results of this study indicated differences in both the rates of routine energy loss and the patterns of growth allocation among individuals within the same cohort. Since these physiological attributes were positively correlated with growth rate, they may be indicative of survivors in field populations.
Sample subinissions to a diagnostic laboratory
Creators: name: Clowser, Sharon L.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2013

description: The quality and appropriateness of samples submitted to a veterinary diagnostic laboratory have a significant effect on the quality of the test results obtained. A veterinary technician can be of valuable assistance with veterinary diagnostic sample submission. Specimens that are properly collected and preserved are beneficial in helping to establish a diagnosis. Prior to collecting samples, it is important to know what type of sample is needed for the suspected diagnostic differentials, size or quantity of sample needed, type of storage container, shipping requirements, and any special handling recommendations. The technician may assist the veterinarian in collecting specimens, consult with animal owners on sample collection, contact the diagnostic laboratory if needed, complete submission forms, and pack and ship samples.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2013
Migration reversal of soft particles in vertical flows
Creators: name: Förtsch, Andre
name: Laumann, Matthias
name: Kienle, Diego
name: Zimmermann, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-neutrally buoyant soft particles in vertical microflows are investigated. We find, soft particles lighter than the liquid migrate to off-center streamlines in a downward Poiseuille flow (buoyancy-force antiparallel to flow). In contrast, heavy soft particles migrate to the center of the downward (and vanishing) Poiseuille flow. A reversal of the flow direction causes in both cases a reversal of the migration direction, i. e. heavier (lighter) particles migrate away from (to) the center of a parabolic flow profile. Non-neutrally buoyant particles migrate also in a linear shear flow across the parallel streamlines: heavy (light) particles migrate along (antiparallel to) the local shear gradient. This surprising, flow-dependent migration is characterized by simulations and analytical calculations for small particle deformations, confirming our plausible explanation of the effect. This density dependent migration reversal may be useful for separating particles.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Ferramenta da Terapia do Esquema (TE): Prática de Autoperdão e Compaixão
Creators: name: Brandl, Edenilson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Prática de Autoperdão e Compaixão
Ferramenta da Terapia do Esquema (TE)
Terapia do Esquema (TE)
Enciclopédia da Conscienciologia

description: Definologia: A Prática de Autoperdão e Compaixão é uma técnica terapêutica da Terapia do Esquema (TE), utilizada no processo de autoexploração e autotransformação, caracterizada pelo desenvolvimento da capacidade de perdoar a si mesmo e cultivar a compaixão em relação às próprias dificuldades e falhas, visando promover a aceitação e o autocuidado emocional.
title: Effects of Photoperiod and Light Intensity on Growth and Activity of Juvenile Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)
Creators: name: Trippel, Edward A.
name: Neil, Steven R. E.
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - S - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Effects of Photoperiod and Light Intensity on Growth and Activity of Juvenile Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)
title: Model for the envelopes of spin waves in magnetic film feedback rings, A
Creators: name: Anderson, Justin
name: Carr, Lincoln D.
name: Wu, Mingzhong
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2007

description: Experimental observation of spin wave envelopes(SWE) in magnetic thin films necessarily occurs in non-conservative systems. The generation of time-stable results is realized by approximating conservation through active feedback, or otherwise driving the system into equilibrium with its major linear loss mechanisms. A rich variety of SWE nonlinear dynamics have successfully been observed in "conservative" systems of this form, including chaos, soliton formation, and more recently, a chaotic modulation of solitary wave train envelopes. The dynamics of these "conservative" systems have often been modeled by a 1D Ginzburg-Landau Equation (GLE) of the general form, -d_t Phi=(Dd_xx+N|Phi|^2)Phi, where D and N are real parameters corresponding to the system's inherit dispersion and nonlinearity, respectively, and Phi is the SWE wavefunction. Extension to multiple dimensions is the trivial introduction of a Lapacian operator in place of the spatial derivative. The GLE is a fully conservative equation which has succeeded in modeling SWE solitons in these dissipative systems. However, the cubic GLE does not yield chaos and the severity of the nonlinear term, which is a function of the wavefunction normalization, exhibits time dependence in any dissipative system due to loss and gain. A driven damped model is proposed to overcome the shortcomings of the traditional GLE and is studied numerically in the context of the chaotic modulation of solitary waves. The model is a cubic, quintic complex GLE (CGLE) with constant gain, -d_t Phi=(Dd_xx+(N+iG) |Phi|^2-iL-(Q+iS)|Phi|^4)Phi, where all constants, D, N, G, L, Q, S, are real. This modification of the GLE introduces higher order nonlinearity and a gain/loss mechanism at linear, cubic, and quintic orders. A preliminary investigation of the CGLE is reported and a qualitative agreement of simulations with experimental observation is demonstrated. A saturation of cubic nonlinearity, of the four-wave process, is suggested as the driving force behind the chaotic modulation of magnetic SWE solitary waves, and predictions of experimentally achievable chaotic domains are presented. This work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Changes in rectal temperature, sacrosciatic ligament relaxation, and plasma progesterone concentration 24 hours before parturition in Holstein-Friesian cattle
Creators: name: Hiew, M. H. W.
name: Megahed, A.
name: Townsend, J. R.
name: Horstman, L. A.
name: Constable, P. D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2013

description: Accurate prediction of parturition permits more frequent observation of periparturient dairy cattle and minimizes dystocia-related injuries that lead to animal pain and suffering. The objective of this study was to evaluate the predictive ability of changes in rectal temperature, sacrosciatic ligament relaxation, and plasma progesterone concentration as indicators of parturition within 24 hours in dairy cattle.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2013