cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Estimated prevalence of lameness in 53 Northwest US dairy herds
Creators: name: Hoffman, Alea C.
name: Wenz, John R.
name: Vanegas, Jorge
name: Moore, Dale A.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2014

description: Lameness is an important disease that can be quantified subjectively by locomotion scoring. The prevalence of lameness in dairy cattle has been measured in some areas of North America, but has not previously been measured in the northwest United States. In this study, 53 dairy farms in Washington and Oregon were visited, and herd lameness prevalence was estimated by locomotion scoring (using a 5-point system) using a systematically obtained sample of the lactating herd, distributed across the lactating cow pens. Over all herds, the prevalence of any gait abnormality was 21%, and just over 4% for cows that limped or refused to bear weight. Jersey herds had lower prevalence than Holstein herds, and the eastern part of the region had lower prevalence than the western part of the region. Estimating lameness prevalence on dairy farms can serve as a point of comparison or starting point for making herd and regional progress.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 48, No. 2 (2014 Summer)
Diverse outcomes of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) infections in a herd naturally infected during pregnancy
Creators: name: Fulton, Robert W.
name: Rezabek, Grant B.
name: Grant, Ryan
name: Ridpath, Julia F.
name: Burge, Lurinda J.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2014

description: A beef producer purchased pregnant Angus crossbred cows with nursing calves. The purchased cattle, their nursing calves, and subsequent born calves were not initially tested for bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), nor was there a history of vaccination. Bovine viral diarrhea virus subtype 2a was later isolated from an aborted bovine fetus estimated to be 6.5 months gestational age. The fetus had multiple congenital malformations including arthrogryposis, kyphosis, scoliosis, polydactylism, and cardiac overriding aorta. Testing by immunohistochemistry and virus isolation resulted in the detection of potentially persistently infected cattle, including a yearling and a calf born during the same calving season as the aborted fetus. Viruses isolated from the malformed fetus, the yearling, and the calf born during the same calving season were identical. The malformations observed in the aborted fetus were similar to arthrogryposis multiplexa (AM) and contractural arachnodactyly (CA), diseases associated with genetic defects in the Angus breed. The fetus was tested and found negative for the genetic defect linked with AM and CA. This case illustrates that suspect malformations should also be tested for BVDV, and underscores the potential for disease after failed or inadequate biosecurity.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 48, No. 2 (2014 Summer)
Distributed Detection over Noisy Networks: Large Deviations Analysis
Creators: name: Dusan  Jakovetic
name: Moura, José M. F.
name: Joao  Xavier
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We study the large deviations performance of consensus+innovations distributed detection over noisy networks, where agents at a time step cooperate with their immediate neighbors (consensus) and assimilate their new observations (innovation.) We show that, under noisy communication, all agents can still achieve an exponential error rate, even when certain (or most) agents cannot detect the event of interest in isolation. The key to achieving this is the appropriate design of the time-varying weight sequence {αk = b0/(a + k)} by which agents weigh their neighbors' messages. We and a communication payoff threshold on the communication noise power, i.e., the critical noise power below which cooperation among neighbors improves detection performance and above which the noise in the communication among agents overwhelms the distributed detector performance. Numerical examples illustrate several tradeoffs among network parameters and between the time (or number of measurements) needed for a reliable decision and the transmission power invested by the agents.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0114v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0114v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome V, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 189 (11 H 74), 316 folios, f. 0114v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
On Standard Model Higgs and Superstring Theories
Creators: name: Abbas, Afsar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that in the Standard Model, the property of charge quantization holds for a Higgs with arbitrary isospin and hypercharge. These defining quantum numbers of the Higgs remain unconstrained while the whole basic and fundamental structure of the Standard Model remains intact. Hence it is shown that the Higgs cannot be a physical particle. Higgs is the underlying `vacuum' over which the whole edifice of the Standard Model stands. Also on most general grounds it is established here that as per the Standard Model there is no electric charge above the electro-weak phase transition temperature. Hence there was no electric charge present in the Early Universe. The Superstring Theories are flawed in as much as they are incompatible with this requirement.
description: Latex file, 6 pages. Talk presented at International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS'99), Lake Tahoe, California, Dec 1999. To appear in the the Proceedings
Increased stability of CuZrAl metallic glasses prepared by physical vapor deposition
Creators: name: Bokas, G. B.
name: Zhao, L.
name: Morgan, D.
name: Szlufarska, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carried out molecular dynamics simulations (MD) using realistic empirical potentials for the vapor deposition (VD) of CuZrAl glasses. VD glasses have higher densities and lower potential and inherent structure energies than the melt-quenched glasses for the same alloys. The optimal substrate temperature for the deposition process is 0.625$\times T_\mathrm{g}$. In VD metallic glasses (MGs), the total number of icosahedral like clusters is higher than in the melt-quenched MGs. Surprisingly, the VD glasses have a lower degree of chemical mixing than the melt-quenched glasses. The reason for it is that the melt-quenched MGs can be viewed as frozen liquids, which means that their chemical order is the same as in the liquid state. In contrast, during the formation of the VD MGs, the absence of the liquid state results in the creation of a different chemical order with more Zr-Zr homonuclear bonds compared with the melt-quenched MGs. In order to obtain MGs from melt-quench technique with similarly low energies as in the VD process, the cooling rate during quenching would have to be many orders of magnitude lower than currently accessible to MD simulations. The method proposed in this manuscript is a more efficient way to create MGs by using MD simulations.
title: Dünnglas - Prüfverfahren für Architekturanwendungen
Creators: name: Peters, Timon Alexander
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2024

description: Aufgrund von großen Verformungen und den damit einhergehenden Änderungen des mechanischen Verhaltens ist dünnes Glas für Anwendungen im Bauwesen nur begrenzt mit den Prüfverfahren der Normen EN 1288-2 (Doppelringbiegeversuch mit Druckluftunterstützung), EN 1288-3 (Vierschneidenbiegeversuch für einachsige Prüfung) und EN 1288-5 (Doppelringbiegeversuch an kleinen Prüfflächen) prüfbar. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es daher alternative Prüfverfahren zu untersuchen, die eine vergleichbare statistische Aussagekraft wie die Normversuche haben. Dazu wird zuerst das mechanische Verhalten unter großen Verformungen, der Einfluss von Imperfektionen bei den Prüfverfahren und eine mögliche Verschiebung der Anwendungsgrenzen der unveränderten Normversuche untersucht. Anschließend werden eine Reihe von Prüfverfahren, sowohl aus der Literatur als auch Eigenentwicklungen, vorgestellt und analysiert. Auf Basis der Ergebnisse kann die Arbeit Empfehlungen für Dünnglasprüfung in unterschiedlichen Anwendungsbereichen geben. Es wird gezeigt, dass eine normgerechte, mit dickerem Glas vergleichbare Bemessung für Dünnglas möglich und praktisch umsetzbar ist.
Distributed Approach for DC Optimal Power Flow Calculations
Creators: name: Mohammadi, Javad
name: Soummya Kar
name: Hug, Gabriela
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The trend in the electric power system is to move towards increased amounts of distributed resources which suggests a transition from the current highly centralized to a more distributed control structure. In this paper, we propose a method which enables a fully distributed solution of the DC Optimal Power Flow problem (DC-OPF), i.e. the generation settings which minimize cost while supplying the load and ensuring that all line flows are below their limits are determined in a distributed fashion. The approach consists of a distributed procedure that aims at solving the first order optimality conditions in which individual bus optimization variables are iteratively updated through simple local computations and information is exchanged with neighboring entities. In particular, the update for a specific bus consists of a term which takes into account the coupling between the neighboring Lagrange multiplier variables and a local innovation term that enforces the demand/supply balance. The buses exchange information on the current update of their multipliers and the bus angle with their neighboring buses. An analytical proof is given that the proposed method converges to the optimal solution of the DC-OPF. Also, the performance is evaluated using the IEEE Reliability Test System as a test case
Exploring Food Detection using CNNs
Creators: name: Aguilar, Eduardo
name: Bolaños, Marc
name: Radeva, Petia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the most common critical factors directly related to the cause of a chronic disease is unhealthy diet consumption. In this sense, building an automatic system for food analysis could allow a better understanding of the nutritional information with respect to the food eaten and thus it could help in taking corrective actions in order to consume a better diet. The Computer Vision community has focused its efforts on several areas involved in the visual food analysis such as: food detection, food recognition, food localization, portion estimation, among others. For food detection, the best results evidenced in the state of the art were obtained using Convolutional Neural Network. However, the results of all these different approaches were gotten on different datasets and therefore are not directly comparable. This article proposes an overview of the last advances on food detection and an optimal model based on GoogLeNet Convolutional Neural Network method, principal component analysis, and a support vector machine that outperforms the state of the art on two public food/non-food datasets.
Considerations for control of helminths in stocker cattle
Creators: name: Yazwinski, T. A.
name: Tucker, C. A.
name: Powell, J.
name: Jones, L.
name: Wray, E.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2013

description: Many factors influence the spectrum and magnitude of helminth populations in stocker cattle. Calves are placed into stocker operations during all seasons, from all regions of the country, and with a broad range of prior parasite exposure and parasiticide treatment. This makes it unlikely that a generalized or generic parasite control program will be effective for all animals at receiving. Follow-up treatment recommendations are equally problematic, contingent upon the success of the treatment protocol utilized when cattle arrived at the stocker operation, residual activity of the anthelmintic(s) used at arrival, parasite challenge during the stocker phase, general animal health, and producer expectations. At the farm or ranch level, the more troublesome and conflicted considerations regarding parasite control are often ignored, and treatments are based on what appears to have worked in the past or the current cost of treatment options. This paper is not intended to make detailed recommendations about worm control, but is instead a discussion of factors at play in stocker cattle, including the species of the parasites, biology of the parasites, parasiticides, and the interaction and effect of these factors on the health and productivity of stocker cattle.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 47, No. 2 (2013 Summer)
Systematic thoracic ultrasonography in acute bovine respiratory disease of feedlot steers
Creators: name: Rademacher, Ryan D.
name: Buczinski, Sebastien
name: Tripp, Holt M.
name: Edmonds, Matthew D.
name: Johnson, Edward G.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2013

description: A study was conducted to evaluate the diagnostic and prognostic value of thoracic ultrasonography (TUS) in feedlot calves with clinical signs attributable to bovine respiratory disease (BRD). Twenty-nine BRD cases and 15 asymptomatic controls were evaluated using systematic TUS on the day of initial pull (day 0), and days 3, 6, 9, and 15. Four-second ultrasound loops were saved at 46 locations per animal and later evaluated off-line for evidence of lung pathology. Five TUS indicators of lung lesions and 4 indices of consolidation were evaluated for ability to differentiate between healthy controls and BRD cases, as well as predict death (negative outcome) among non-treated BRD cases. The number of sites with consolidation (SITES), number of sites with pleural irregularities (PIRR), maximal depth of consolidation (DEPTH), maximal area of consolidation (AREA), and total consolidated area (TCA) were found to be significantly higher in BRD cases than controls at enrollment (P less than 0.05). These same parameters (SITES, PIRR, DEPTH, AREA, TCA) were found to be significantly higher at enrollment for BRD cases that died before the end of the 15-day observation period (P less than 0.05). Among BRD cases, 9 of 46 sites examined had an odds ratio of negative outcome significantly greater than 1 when consolidation was present at enrollment (P less than 0.05). This study demonstrates that TUS may prove useful in feedlot cattle for determining the extent of lung lesions and predict outcome in BRD cases.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2014 Spring)
Generalised ballooning theory of two dimensional tokamak modes
Creators: name: Abdoul, P. A.
name: Dickinson, D.
name: Roach, C. M.
name: Wilson, H. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, using solutions from a local gyrokinetic flux-tube code combined with higher order ballooning theory, a new analytical approach is developed to reconstruct the global linear mode structure with associated global mode frequency. In addition to the isolated mode (IM), which usually peaks on the outboard mid-plane, the higher order ballooning theory has also captured other types of less unstable global modes: (a) the weakly asymmetric ballooning theory (WABT) predicts a mixed mode (MM) that undergoes a small poloidal shift away from the outboard mid-plane, (b) a relatively more stable general mode (GM) balloons on the top (or bottom) of the tokamak plasma. In this paper, an analytic approach is developed to combine these disconnected analytical limits into a single generalised ballooning theory (GBT). This is used to investigate how an IM behaves under the effect of sheared toroidal flow. For small values of flow an IM initially converts into a MM where the results of WABT are recaptured, and eventually, as the flow increases, the mode asymptotically becomes a GM on the top (or bottom) of the plasma. This may be an ingredient in models for understanding why in some experimental scenarios, instead of large edge localised modes (ELMs), small ELMs are observed. Finally, our theory can have other important consequences, especially for calculations involving Reynolds stress driven intrinsic rotation through the radial asymmetry in the global mode structures. Understanding the intrinsic rotation is significant because external torque in a plasma the size of ITER is expected to be relatively low.
description: 4 figures, 13 pages
Additional file 2 of Identification of proteins associated with development of psoriatic arthritis in peripheral blood mononuclear cells: a quantitative iTRAQ-based proteomics study
Creators: name: Zhu, Jie
name: Han, Ling
name: Liu, Ruilai
name: Zhang, Zhenghua
name: Huang, Qiong
name: Fang, Xu
name: Yang, Ke
name: Huang, Guiqin
name: Zheng, Zhizhong
name: Yawalkar, Nikhil
name: Deng, Hui
name: Yan, Kexiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Characteristics of patients for western blotting analysis.
Distributed Algorithm for Graph Signal Inpainting
Creators: name: Siheng  Chen
name: Sandryhaila, Aliaksei
name: Kovacevic, Jelena
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We present a distributed and decentralized algorithm for graph signal inpainting. The previous work obtained a closed-form solution with matrix inversion. In this paper, we ease the computation by using a distributed algorithm, which solves graph signal inpainting by restricting each node to communicate only with its local nodes. We show that the solution of the distributed algorithm converges to the closed-form solution with the corresponding convergence speed. Experiments on online blog classification and temperature prediction suggest that the convergence speed of the proposed distributed algorithm is competitive with that of the centralized algorithm, especially when a graph tends to be regular. Since a distributed algorithm does not require to collect data to a center, it is more practical and efficient.
A Review of host pulmonary defenses with reference to cattle
Creators: name: Banse, Heidi
name: Wollums, Amelia
name: Step, D. L.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2013

description: Bovine respiratory disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality for the cattle industry. Cattle can be protected from respiratory disease by both structural and dynamic defense mechanisms of the respiratory tract, which are critical for prevention of pathogen entry and colonization. Dynamic defenses include those mediated by the innate and adaptive branches of the immune response. The immune response to pathogens is complex, and requires immune cell migration, proliferation, and adaptation. Secretion of molecules, including cytokines, host defense peptides, and opsonins, by cells within the respiratory tract promotes respiratory defense, including pathogen neutralization and phagocytosis. Ongoing discoveries in the field of immunology should guide the development of novel immunotherapeutic interventions for the prevention and treatment of bovine respiratory disease.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2014 Spring)
A Survey of veterinarians in 6 US states regarding their experience with nursing beef calf respiratory disease
Creators: name: Woolums, Amelia R.
name: Berghaus, Roy D.
name: Smith, David R.
name: White, Brad J.
name: Engelken, Terry J.
name: Irsik, Max B.
name: Matlik, Darin K.
name: Jones, A. Lee
name: Smith, Isaiah J.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2013

description: Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is the leading cause of death of nursing beef calves 3 weeks of age and older, but little is known regarding risk factors for calf BRD. The objective of this survey was to describe observations and practices relevant to calf BRD by veterinarians in cow-calf practice. Recipients in Eastern (Georgia, Florida, and West Virginia) and Plains (Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska) states were asked to complete an on-line questionnaire regarding events occurring between August 2011 and July 2012. A total of 574 veterinarians were solicited to participate; 61 (10.6%) returned responses suitable for inclusion, with an equivalent proportion responding from both regions. Respondents reported that 18% of their cow-calf clients recognized cases of nursing-calf BRD in the previous year, and 14% of their clients had at least 1 calf die of BRD. Infectious agents identified by antemortem or postmortem testing included Mannheimia haemolytica (60% of respondents); Pasteurella multocida (53%); Mycoplasma bovis (37%); bovine respiratory syncytial virus (33%); and bovine viral diarrhea virus (33%). Of responding veterinarians, 80% recommended or administered treatment for an outbreak of nursing-calf BRD in the previous year. Routine administration of respiratory vaccines to nursing beef calves was recommended by 87% of respondents. Respondents identified a variety of risk factors as potentially associated with calf BRD. Two of these, "introduction of cattle from outside sources" and "occurrence of diarrhea in calves", were also significantly associated with nursing-calf BRD in a previous survey of producers in the same states.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2014 Spring)
Shape Invariant Potential and Semi-Unitary Transformations (SUT) for Supersymmetric Harmonic Oscillator in T4-Space
Creators: name: Bisht, P. S.
name: Negi, O. P. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Constructing the Semi - Unitary Transformation (SUT) to obtain the supersymmetric partner Hamiltonians for a one dimensional harmonic oscillator, it has been shown that under this transformation the supersymmetric partner loses its ground state in T^{4}- space while its eigen functions constitute a complete orthonormal basis in a subspace of full Hilbert space. Keywords: Supersymmetry, Superluminal Transformations, Semi Unitary Transformations. PACS No: 14.80Lv
Discrete Signal Processing on Graphs: Sampling Theory
Creators: name: Siheng  Chen
name: Varma, Rohan
name: Sandryhaila, Aliaksei
name: Kovacevic, Jelena
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We propose a sampling theory for signals that are supported on either directed or undirected graphs. The theory follows the same paradigm as classical sampling theory. We show that the perfect recovery is possible for graph signals bandlimited under the graph Fourier transform, and the sampled signal coefficients form a new graph signal, whose corresponding graph structure is constructed from the original graph structure, preserving frequency contents. By imposing a specific structure on the graph, graph signals reduce to finite discrete-time signals and the proposed sampling theory works reduces to classical signal processing. We further establish the connection to frames with maximal robustness to erasures as well as compressed sensing, and show how to choose the optimal sampling operator, how random sampling works on circulant graphs and Erdos-R ˝ enyi graphs, ´ and how to handle full-band graph signals by using graph filter banks. We validate the proposed sampling theory on the simulated datasets of Erdos-R ˝ enyi graphs and small-world graphs, and a ´ real-world dataset of online blogs. We show that for each case, the proposed sampling theory achieves perfect recovery with high probability. Finally, we apply the proposed sampling theory to semi-supervised classification of online blogs and digit images, where we achieve similar or better performance with fewer labeled samples compared to the previous work.
Mothers’ adherence to optimal infant and young child feeding practices in Uganda: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Frank, Kiwanuka
name: Nabirye Zabinah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Questionnaire used for a study to assess adherence to Infant and Young child practices in Uganda
Generalized crystalline evolutions as limits of flows with smooth anisotropies
Creators: name: Chambolle, Antonin
name: Morini, Massimiliano
name: Novaga, Matteo
name: Ponsiglione, Marcello
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to anisotropic and crystalline mean curvature flows, obtained as limit of the viscosity solutions to flows with smooth anisotropies.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1702.03094
title: Corridor Study Alvord Street Corridor
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Master Plan
subject: Connecticut River
subject: Buildout
subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Resource Economics
subject: Economics
subject: Growth and Development
subject: Urban, Community and Regional Planning
subject: Urban Studies and Planning

description: The Center for Economic Development at the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, is part of the Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Department, and is funded by the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the University of Massachusetts.
description: This report aims to update the Master Plan for the town of South Hadley, Massachusetts. The report goes on to examine Alvord Street, which is located in the south west area of town next to the Connecticut River, and has historically been used as agricultural land for the past eight years.
Testing the AGN-Starburst Connection in Seyfert Galaxies
Creators: name: Ivanov, Valentin D.
name: Rieke, George H.
name: Groppi, Christopher E.
name: Alonso-Herrero, Almudena
name: Rieke, Marcia J.
name: Engelbracht, C. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the CO band at 2.3 micron to constrain the populations of young stars in the central regions of Seyfert galaxies. We report new CO band spectroscopy of 46 Seyfert galaxies. In most cases, the observed CO indices appear diluted by the presence of a non-stellar component (most likely, warm dust surrounding the active nucleus). We used JHKL aperture photometry to estimate the non-stellar contribution at 2.3 micron. We successfully corrected the CO band for the dilution for 16 galaxies which were not dominated by the non-stellar component. Comparing with CO indices measured in elliptical and purely starbursting galaxies, we find no evidence for strong starbursts in the majority of these galaxies.
description: 34 pages (including 4 figures), accepted for publication in ApJ Final version. Minor changes in figure captions, auffiliations
Evaluation of FTA cards as a sample collection method for detection of BVDV in persistently infected beef cattle
Creators: name: Foster, Celeste
name: Hoar, Bruce
name: Hessman, Bill E.
name: Crossley, Beate
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2013

description: The accuracy of test outcome is directly related to the quality of samples arriving at the diagnostic laboratory. However, in certain field situations sample storage conditions may be less than optimal. Flinders Technology Associates (FTA) cards are a sample collection and storage tool suitable for field conditions. For the evaluation of FTA cards, nasal swabs and EDTA blood samples were collected by traditional methods from a group of known bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) persistently infected (PI) animals, as well as from animals in a herd never diagnosed with BVDV infection. Diagnostic performance parameters of the reverse transcription real-time PCR assay (RT-r PCR) were compared between whole-blood and nasal-swab samples collected onto FTA cards from the same animals taken at the same time. Sensitivity and specificity based on the dichotomous classification of BVDV-positive or negative were 100% for the samples collected using traditional methods, and for those collected onto FTA cards. Real-time PCR cycle threshold values demonstrated a lower analytic sensitivity for samples collected onto FTA cards, although samples from FTA cards correctly identified all PI animals tested. One animal from the PI group tested BVDV-positive only in the nasal specimen, suggesting the positive resulted from contact exposure rather than from systemic viral production. To further evaluate the potential of the FTA cards, a subset of BVDV-positive samples (n=29) were sub-typed by direct sequencing of the BVDV qRT PCR products obtained from the case material. BVDV-1 was detected in 75.9% (22/29) of cases, BVDV-2 in 13.8% (4/29) of cases, and both serotypes were simultaneously detected in the remaining 10.3% (3/29) cases. Time savings associated with use of FTA cards for sample collection was calculated to be 23.5 seconds per blood sample. The FTA cards provide a method for diagnostic sample handling that helps overcome sample quality issues associated with improper storage conditions and shipping concerns.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2014 Spring)
Discrete Signal Processing on Graphs: Frequency Analysis
Creators: name: Sandryhaila, Aliaksei
name: Moura, José M. F.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Signals and datasets that arise in physical and engineering applications, as well as social, genetics, biomolecular, and many other domains, are becoming increasingly larger and more complex. In contrast to traditional time and image signals, data in these domains are supported by arbitrary graphs. Signal processing on graphs extends concepts and techniques from traditional signal processing to data indexed by generic graphs. This paper studies the concepts of low and high frequencies on graphs, and low-, high-, and band-pass graph filters. In traditional signal processing, there concepts are easily defined because of a natural frequency ordering that has a physical interpretation. For signals residing on graphs, in general, there is no obvious frequency ordering. We propose a definition of total variation for graph signals that naturally leads to a frequency ordering on graphs and defines low-, high-, and band-pass graph signals and filters. We study the design of graph filters with specified frequency response, and illustrate our approach with applications to sensor malfunction detection and data classification.
The 2015 super-resolution microscopy roadmap
Creators: name: Hell, Stefan
name: Sahl, Steffen
name: Bates, Mark
name: Zhuang, Xiaowei
name: Heintzmann, Rainer
name: Booth, Martin J
name: Bewersdorf, Joerg
name: Shtengel, Gleb
name: Hess, Harald
name: Tinnefeld, Philipp
name: Honigmann, Alf
name: Jakobs, Stefan
name: Testa, Ilaria
name: Cognet, Laurent
name: Lounis, Brahim
name: Ewers, Helge
name: Davis, Simon J
name: Eggeling, Christian
name: Klenerman, David
name: Willig, Katrin
name: Vicidomini, Giuseppe
name: Castello, Marco
name: Diaspro, Alberto
name: Cordes, Thorben
name: Sahl, Steffen J
name: Tinnefeld, Philip
name: Klenerman, David
name: Willig, Katrin I
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Far-field optical microscopy using focused light is an important tool in a number of scientific disciplines including chemical, (bio)physical and biomedical research, particularly with respect to the study of living cells and organisms. Unfortunately, the applicability of the optical microscope is limited, since the diffraction of light imposes limitations on the spatial resolution of the image. Consequently the details of, for example, cellular protein distributions, can be visualized only to a certain extent. Fortunately, recent years have witnessed the development of 'super-resolution' far-field optical microscopy (nanoscopy) techniques such as stimulated emission depletion (STED), ground state depletion (GSD), reversible saturated optical (fluorescence) transitions (RESOLFT), photoactivation localization microscopy (PALM), stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM), structured illumination microscopy (SIM) or saturated structured illumination microscopy (SSIM), all in one way or another addressing the problem of the limited spatial resolution of far-field optical microscopy. While SIM achieves a two-fold improvement in spatial resolution compared to conventional optical microscopy, STED, RESOLFT, PALM/STORM, or SSIM have all gone beyond, pushing the limits of optical image resolution to the nanometer scale. Consequently, all super-resolution techniques open new avenues of biomedical research. Because the field is so young, the potential capabilities of different super-resolution microscopy approaches have yet to be fully explored, and uncertainties remain when considering the best choice of methodology. Thus, even for experts, the road to the future is sometimes shrouded in mist. The super-resolution optical microscopy roadmap of Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics addresses this need for clarity. It provides guidance to the outstanding questions through a collection of short review articles from experts in the field, giving a thorough discussion on the concepts underlying super-resolution optical microscopy, the potential of different approaches, the importance of label optimization (such as reversible photoswitchable proteins) and applications in which these methods will have a significant impact.
Contribution of matter fields to the Gell-Mann-Low function for N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, regularized by higher covariant derivatives
Creators: name: Stepanyantz, K. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contribution of matter fields to the Gell-Mann-Low function for N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, regularized by higher covariant derivatives, is obtained using Schwinger-Dyson equations and Slavnov-Tailor identities. A possible deviation of the result from the corresponding contribution in the exact Novikov, Shifman, Vainshtein and Zakharov $β$-function is discussed.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures
The Transient Growth of Ammonium Chloride Dendrites
Creators: name: Dougherty, Andrew
name: Nunnally, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements of the initial growth and subsequent transient response of dendritic crystals of ammonium chloride grown from supersaturated aqueous solution. Starting from a small, nearly spherical seed held in unstable equilibrium, we lower the temperature to initiate growth. The growth speed and tip radius approach the same steady state values independent of initial seed size. We then explore the response of the growing dendrite to changes in temperature. The crystal adjusts quickly and smoothly to the new growth conditions, maintaining an approximately constant value of $v ρ^2$ throughout. Dissolving dendrites, on the other hand, are not characterized by the same value of $v ρ^2$.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, LaTeX
Additional file 3 of Identification of proteins associated with development of psoriatic arthritis in peripheral blood mononuclear cells: a quantitative iTRAQ-based proteomics study
Creators: name: Zhu, Jie
name: Han, Ling
name: Liu, Ruilai
name: Zhang, Zhenghua
name: Huang, Qiong
name: Fang, Xu
name: Yang, Ke
name: Huang, Guiqin
name: Zheng, Zhizhong
name: Yawalkar, Nikhil
name: Deng, Hui
name: Yan, Kexiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Raw Western blotting images for Fig.5 in manuscript. (A) Raw western blotting image for GAPDH (used as a loading control, 37 kDa); (B) Raw western blotting image for p-p38 (43 kDa); (C) Raw western blotting image for SIRT2 (43 kDa).
Apelaunothrips longidens Zhang & Tong 1990
Creators: name: Dang, Li-Hong
name: Qiao, Ge-Xia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Thysanoptera
Phlaeothripidae
Apelaunothrips
Apelaunothrips longidens

description: 3.2.11 Apelaunothrips longidens Zhang & Tong (Fig. 110)
 Apelaunothrips longidens Zhang & Tong, 1990b: 102.
Specimens examined. Guangdong (Fengkai County), paratypes 2 females and 1 male from leaf-litter, 3–4 July 1987, Xiao-Li Tong (SCAU).
Distribution. China (Guangdong).
description: Published as part of Dang, Li-Hong & Qiao, Ge-Xia, 2014, Key to the fungus-feeder Phlaeothripinae species from China (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), pp. 313-358 in Zoological Systematics 39 (3) on page 321, DOI: 10.11865/zs20140301
Survey of veterinarians and hoof trimmers on methods applied to treat claw lesions in dairy cattle
Creators: name: Kleinhenz, Katie E.
name: Plummer, Paul J.
name: Danielson, Jared
name: Burzette, Rebecca G.
name: Gorden, Patrick J.
name: Coetzee, Johann
name: Schleining, Jennifer A.
name: Cooper, Vickie
name: Leuschen, Bruce
name: Krull, Adam
name: Shearer, Leslie
name: Shearer, Jan K.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2013

description: A survey was administered to members of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) and the Hoof Trimmers Association (HTA) to identify various treatment methods for claw horn lesions. A total of 345 people responded to the survey, of which 196 identified themselves as members of AABP, 111 as members of HTA, 9 as having membership in both organizations, and 29 providing no information as to affiliation with either of these organizations. A total of 307 respondents were included in the final analysis. The majority of veterinarians (80%) indicated that their knowledge about foot care was part of their veterinary education, 34% developed or refined their skills and understanding through experience and attendance at various continuing education programs, and 9% cited additional training from attendance at a formalized foot care program. Training cited by hoof trimmers included the following: 65% apprenticeship with another trimmer, 41% professional hoof care training program, and 30% learning primarily through experience. Sixty-eight percent of veterinarians reported removing all loose horn adjacent to the lesion without causing it to bleed, compared to 86% of hoof trimmers (P less than 0.01). Seventy-six percent of veterinarians reported routine application of a foot block to the sound (healthy) claw when treating sole ulcers compared to 86% of hoof trimmers (P less than 0.05). Topical medications for ulcers and abscessed claw horn lesions were used by 59% of veterinarians and 53% of hoof trimmers. The medication used most frequently was the powder form of tetracycline or oxytetracycline (48% by veterinarians and 81% by hoof trimmers). The majority of survey participants did not recommend withholding milk following topical treatment with tetracycline or oxytetracycline. Both survey groups agreed that sole ulcers were a painful condition, but the majority of veterinarians did not recommend analgesics for the treatment of sole ulcer lesions.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2014 Spring)
Entropy function and attractors for AdS black holes
Creators: name: Morales, Jose F.
name: Samtleben, Henning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply Sen's entropy formalism to the study of the near horizon geometry and the entropy of asymptotically AdS black holes in gauged supergravities. In particular, we consider non-supersymmetric electrically charged black holes with AdS_2 xS^{d-2} horizons in U(1)^4 and U(1)^3 gauged supergravities in d=4 and d=5 dimensions, respectively. We study several cases including static/rotating, BPS and non-BPS black holes in Einstein as well as in Gauss-Bonnet gravity. In all examples, the near horizon geometry and black hole entropy are derived by extremizing the entropy function and are given entirely in terms of the gauge coupling, the electric charges and the angular momentum of the black hole.
description: 27 pages, no figures, references added
Mirror protected Dirac fermions on a Weyl semimetal NbP surface
Creators: name: Zheng, Hao
name: Chang, Guoqing
name: Huang, Shin-Ming
name: Guo, Cheng
name: Zhang, Xiao
name: Zhang, Songtian
name: Yin, Jiaxin
name: Xu, Su-Yang
name: Belopolski, Ilya
name: Alidoust, Nasser
name: Sanchez, Daniel S.
name: Bian, Guang
name: Chang, Tay-Rong
name: Neupert, Titus
name: Jeng, Horng-Tay
name: Jia, Shuang
name: Lin, Hsin
name: Hasan, M. Zahid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first Weyl semimetal was recently discovered in the NbP class of compounds. Although the topology of these novel materials has been identified, the surface properties are not yet fully understood. By means of scanning tunneling spectroscopy, we find that NbPs (001) surface hosts a pair of Dirac cones protected by mirror symmetry. Through our high resolution spectroscopic measurements, we resolve the quantum interference patterns arising from these novel Dirac fermions, and reveal their electronic structure, including the linear dispersions. Our data, in agreement with our theoretical calculations, uncover further interesting features of the Weyl semimetal NbPs already exotic surface. Moreover, we discuss the similarities and distinctions between the Dirac fermions here and those in topological crystalline insulators in terms of symmetry protection and topology.
DILAND: An Algorithm for Distributed Sensor Localization with Noisy Distance Measurements
Creators: name: Khan, Usman A.
name: Soummya Kar
name: Moura, José M. F.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this correspondence, we present an algorithm for distributed sensor localization with noisy distance measurements (DILAND) that extends and makes the DLRE more robust. DLRE is a distributed sensor localization algorithm in Rm (m≥1) introduced in \cite{usman_loctsp:08}. DILAND operates when (i) the communication among the sensors is noisy; (ii) the communication links in the network may fail with a non-zero probability; and (iii) the measurements performed to compute distances among the sensors are corrupted with noise. The sensors (which do not know their locations) lie in the convex hull of at least m+1 anchors (nodes that know their own locations.) Under minimal assumptions on the connectivity and triangulation of each sensor in the network, this correspondence shows that, under the broad random phenomena described above, DILAND converges almost surely (a.s.) to the exact sensor locations.
Perception of lameness management, education, and effects on animal welfare of feedlot cattle by consulting nutritionists, veterinarians, and feedlot managers
Creators: name: Terrell, S. P.
name: Thomson, D. U.
name: Reinhardt, C. D.
name: Apley, M. D.
name: Larson, C. K.
name: Stackhouse-Lawson, K. R.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2013

description: Consulting nutritionists (n=37), consulting veterinarians (n=47), and feedlot managers (n=63) from the United States and Canada participated in a feedlot cattle lameness survey. The majority of participants either manage or consult open-air, dirt-floor feedyard facilities (98.4%). Participants were directed to an online survey to answer questions pertaining to the incidence, management, perception, and economics of feedlot lameness. The median response of estimated lameness incidence in the feedyard was 2%, with a mode of 1% and a mean of 3.8%. Of survey participants, 81% estimated the contribution of lameness to total feedyard mortality as less than 10%. Similarly, 64% of participants estimated the contribution of lameness to the overall chronic and realizer loss in the feedyard to be less 10%. Forty-one percent of participants believed that 50% or more of cattle suffering from lameness require treatment. Participants indicated that footrot (42% of participants), injury (35% of participants), and toe abscesses (10% of participants) were the most common causes of lameness. The major contributing factors associated with non-infectious causes of lameness, such as upper limb injuries, toe abscesses or ulcers, and lacerations include cattle handling before and after arrival, pen surface and condition, and cattle temperament. Important contributing factors for infectious causes of lameness, such as footrot, were identified as pen surface and condition, cattle handling prior to arrival, and weather. Lameness was considered an animal welfare concern by 58% of participants. This survey provides insight into the perception of lameness and potential management factors which contribute to lameness through the perspective of multiple participants in feedlot cattle production systems.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2014 Spring)