cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lymph or Liberty': Responses to Smallpox Vaccination in the Eastern Australian Colonies
Creators: name: McWhirter, R
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The popularisation of smallpox vaccination from 1798 appeared to offer the opportunity to check the spread of one of the world's most feared infectious diseases, and the global dissemination of this new technology was rapid. Despite its popularity, vaccination also stimulated significant resistance, for a wide variety of reasons. This thesis is both a social and political history of the responses to vaccination in the eastern Australian colonies of New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, from the first Compulsory Vaccination Act in 1853 to Federation in 1901. Despite many cultural, geographical and ideological similarities, each colony followed a different course: Victoria both enacted and enforced compulsory vaccination; Tasmania passed, but failed to consistently enforce, similar legislation; and New South Wales never imposed compulsory vaccination. This work situates responses to vaccination and its compulsion within a broader framework of colonial perceptions of and experiences with smallpox, vaccine technology, and developments within the state, medicine and society. The colonies derived a great deal of natural protection from their geographical situation, and smallpox was never endemic to Australia, yet it was nevertheless considered a serious and preventable threat. No single factor can explain the different prophylactic strategies pursued by the colonies, and instead a wide range of influences must be assessed in their specific historical context to render these differences explicable. This highlights the significance of smallpox and vaccination in contributing to the development of national identity and the growth of expert bureaucratic structures. As the first state-sanctioned and subsidised medical procedure aimed at every single member of society, vaccination offered an important contribution to the contemporary processes of the professionalisation of medicine and the medicalisation of society. These processes are crucial to understanding medical responses to vaccination, even as vaccine technology, scientific theories of disease, and public opinion developed and changed. Public responses ranged from pro- to anti-vaccinationism, but the majority of people fell between these two extremes, altering their support over time in accordance with individual assessments of risk versus benefit. Issues of citizenship, political ideology, and expertise informed these decisions. The roles of, and relationships between, the state, the medical profession and the public both informed and were affected by the vaccination debate, as these groups negotiated the limits of state intervention, individual liberty, and medical expertise in relation to public health. Although Victoria and Tasmania introduced conscientious objection clauses, effectively repealing compulsion, the issues raised by vaccination continued to resonate within wider political and social debates.
Penicillin Concentrations in Serum and Milk Following Administration of Procaine Penicillin G By Different Route at Different Dosage
Creators: name: Daigneault, J.
name: Dubreuil, P.
name: Couture, Y.
name: Guay, P.
name: Boudreau, M.
name: Landry, D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: The aim of the clinician when using antimicrobials is to provide effective treatment while minimizing residues in milk and meat. Among all antibiotics used in food animals, procaine penicillin G (PPG) is one of the oldest and is still one of the most widely used. Over the years, the recommended dosage has increased from 7, 500 IU /kg I. M. (the label dosage) to the recommended, but not approved dosage of 11,000 to 22,000 IU/kg administered I.M. or s.c. (1). The subcutaneous route is easier to use when large volumes need to be administered. Because of the discrepancy between the approved dosage of PPG and the dosages currently used in clinical practice, the purposes of the present study were twofold: firstly to determine whether increasing doses of PPG would provide corresponding increases in efficacy, as measured by the peak serum concentration (Cmax) value and the length of time during which the serum concentration of PPG would exceed the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC); secondly to determine whether the two routes of administration are comparable as true alternatives. French and Spanish summaries on PDF
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 2
Hamiltonian formulation of General Relativity 50 years after the Dirac celebrated paper: do unsolved problems still exist?
Creators: name: Shestakova, T. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: About 50 years ago, in 1958, Dirac published his formulation of generalized Hamiltonian dynamics for gravitation. Several years later Arnowitt, Deser and Misner (ADM) proposed their description of the dynamics of General Relativity which became a basis of the Wheeler - DeWitt Quantum Geometrodynamics. There exist also other works where the Hamiltonian formulation of gravitational theory was discussed. In spite of decades passed from the famous papers by Dirac and ADM, there are unsolved problems. Namely, are the Dirac and ADM formulations equivalent to each other? Are these formulations equivalent to the original (Lagrangian) Einstein theory? Is the group of transformation in phase space the same as the group of gauge transformation of the Einstein theory? What are rules according to which a generator of transformations in phase space should be constructed? Let us mention also another approach based on extended phase space where gauge degrees of freedom are treated on the equal ground with physical degrees of freedom. Our purpose is to review the above questions and to demonstrate advantages of the extended phase space approach by the example of a simple model with finite number degrees of freedom.
description: 12 pages, talk presented at the International Conference "Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory - PIRT-2009", Bauman University, Moscow, July 2009, in the second version equation (4.19) is corrected
Predictors for prolonged and escalated perioperative antibiotic therapy after microvascular head and neck reconstruction: a comprehensive analysis of 446 cases
Creators: name: Schuderer, Johannes G.
name: Hoferer, Florian
name: Eichberger, Jonas
name: Fiedler, Mathias
name: Gessner, André
name: Hitzenbichler, Florian
name: Gottsauner, Maximilian
name: Maurer, Michael
name: Meier, Johannes K.
name: Reichert, Torsten E.
name: Ettl, Tobias
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Head neck surgery, Microvascular reconstruction, Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis, Surgical site infections
subject: 610 Medizin

description: Literature suggests that intravenous prophylaxis exceeding 48 h offers no additional benefit in preventing surgical site infections (SSI) in patients with microvascular head and neck reconstruction. However, protocols for antibiotic therapy duration post-reconstruction are not standardized. This study identifies factors predicting prolonged intravenous antibiotic use and antibiotic escalation in patients receiving free flap head neck reconstruction.

A retrospective analysis of 446 patients receiving free flap reconstruction was conducted, examining predictors for antibiotic therapy > 10 days and postoperative escalation. 111 patients (24.8%) experienced escalation, while 159 patients (35.6%) received prolonged therapy. Multivariate regression analysis revealed predictors for escalation: microvascular bone reconstruction (p = 0.008, OR = 2.0), clinically suspected SSI (p < 0.001, OR = 5.4), culture-positive SSI (p = 0.03, OR = 2.9), extended ICU stay (p = 0.01, OR = 1.1) and hospital-acquired pneumonia (p = 0.01, OR = 5.9). Prolonged therapy was associated with bone reconstruction (p = 0.06, OR = 2.0), preoperative irradiation (p = 0.001, OR = 1.9) and culture-positive SSI (p < 0.001, OR = 3.5).

The study concludes that SSIs are a primary factor driving the escalation of perioperative antibiotic use. Clinical suspicion of infection often necessitates escalation, even in the absence of confirmed microbiological evidence. Microvascular bone reconstruction was a significant predictor for both the escalation and extension of antibiotic therapy beyond 10 days. Furthermore, preoperative radiation therapy, hospital-acquired pneumonia, and prolonged ICU stay were associated with an increased likelihood of escalation, resulting in significantly extended antibiotic administration during hospitalization. Antibiotic stewardship programmes must be implemented to reduce postoperative antibiotic administration time.

Trial registration The study was registered approved by the local Ethics Committee (Nr: 18-1131-104).
Symmetries of supergravity black holes
Creators: name: Chow, David D. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate Killing tensors for various black hole solutions of supergravity theories. Rotating black holes of an ungauged theory, toroidally compactified heterotic supergravity, with NUT parameters and two U(1) gauge fields are constructed. If both charges are set equal, then the solutions simplify, and then there are concise expressions for rank-2 conformal Killing-Stackel tensors. These are induced by rank-2 Killing-Stackel tensors of a conformally related metric that possesses a separability structure. We directly verify the separation of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation on this conformally related metric, and of the null Hamilton-Jacobi and massless Klein-Gordon equations on the "physical" metric. Similar results are found for more general solutions; we mainly focus on those with certain charge combinations equal in gauged supergravity, but also consider some other solutions.
description: 36 pages; v2: minor changes; v3: slightly shorter
Supplementary Data - Notobatrachus Tadpole
Creators: name: Chuliver, Mariana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310410
subject: Phylogeny and comparative analysis
classificationCode: 310914
subject: Vertebrate biology

description: Data matrix for the phylogenetic analyses. R codes used for phylogenetic, morphological disparity and morphometric analysis of the manuscript entitled "THE OLDEST TADPOLE REVEALS EVOLUTIONARY STABILITY OF THE ANURAN LIFE CYCLE" authored by Chuliver M. et al. (2024).
Coexistence of quantum operations
Creators: name: Heinosaari, Teiko
name: Reitzner, Daniel
name: Stano, Peter
name: Ziman, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum operations are used to describe the observed probability distributions and conditional states of the measured system. In this paper, we address the problem of their joint measurability (coexistence). We derive two equivalent coexistence criteria. The two most common classes of operations - Luders operations and conditional state preparators - are analyzed. It is shown that Luders operations are coexistent only under very restrictive conditions, when the associated effects are either proportional to each other, or disjoint.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure, minor changes and corrections in v2
Evaluation of Animal Drug Residue Detection Methods
Creators: name: Bishop, J. Russell
name: Whittier, William D.
name: Duncan, Susan E.
name: Jones, Gerald M.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: Animal drug residues in milk have been a major source of concern in the United States for several years. Many new methods to detect various residues at low levels have been introduced, revised or improved. At present the only "official" method approved by federal regulatory officials is for the detection of beta-lactam type antibiotics and is the Bacillus Stearothermophilus disc assay. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) HPLC (High Pressure Liquid Chromatography) procedure is the "official" confirmatory method. A study was undertaken to evaluate 14 detection methods with 24 animal drug residues in milk to determine the sensitivity of each method and its ability to detect a residue at the FDA "recommended violative" level. No method tested is quantitative but give only a positive or negative indication of the presence of the drug. Milk samples were contaminated or "spiked" with known amounts of commonly available antimicrobial agents in 3 to 6 concentration levels. Fifteen replicates of each milk preparation were tested with applicable methods. The data revealed a total of 13 methods capable of detecting 23 drug residues at their respective levels of concern. Therefore, it would appear there exists adequate methodology for supplementation of the Bacillus stearothermophilus disc assay in regulatory milk testing.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 2
Allotments for all? Social–environmental values of urban gardens for gardeners and the public in cities: The example of Berlin, Germany
Creators: name: Haase, Dagmar
name: Gaeva, Dara
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: allotment gardens
subject: Berlin
subject: ecosystem services
subject: social–environmental values
subject: urban green space
subject: 333.7 Landflächen, Naturräume für Freizeit und Erholung, Naturreservate, Energie

description: The article processing charge was funded by the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
description: 1. Gardens in cities have been the focus of a wider public health debate in Europe's polluted and dense cities, for the elderly and considering the current COVID-19 pandemic. Many cities report rising demand for allotment gardens by people from all age groups including young couples and families. 2. This study aims at quantitatively examining the bundle of ecosystem services provided by allotment gardens in Berlin, Germany. It assesses the values related to those ecosystem services' benefits for gardeners and the wider urban public and compares perceptions of the social–environmental value of allotment gardens by gardeners and non-gardeners. 3. We also compare the frequency of garden visits and the perception of gardens as a crucial element of the urban ecosystem by men and women. We carried out a web-based survey, additionally a part of the questionnaires was handed out in paper form for respondents who did not have internet access. 4. The resulting sample of 466 gardeners and 80 non-gardeners shows that urban allotment gardens play an important role in food production, biodiversity conservation, but also social–environmental interactions. The variety of environmental management practices, such as installation of artificial nests for insects, sowing of special flower mixtures, leaving areas with wild vegetation, use of organic fertilizers, including crop residues, shows that most respondents among gardeners are aware of the methods aimed at maintaining biodiversity and soil fertility in their allotment. The sample's analysis further states that benefits are not only perceived by gardeners but also by non-gardeners. 5. We discuss our findings against the background of the savings and sustainable enhancement of ecosystem services benefits that are created by allotment gardens for all.
The SINS survey: modeling the dynamics of z~2 galaxies and the high-z Tully-Fisher relation
Creators: name: Cresci, G.
name: Hicks, E. K. S.
name: Genzel, R.
name: Schreiber, N. M. Foerster
name: Davies, R.
name: Bouche', N.
name: Buschkamp, P.
name: Genel, S.
name: Shapiro, K.
name: Tacconi, L.
name: Sommer-Larsen, J.
name: Burkert, A.
name: Eisenhauer, F.
name: Gerhard, O.
name: Lutz, D.
name: Naab, T.
name: Sternberg, A.
name: Cimatti, A.
name: Daddi, E.
name: Erb, D. K.
name: Kurk, J.
name: Lilly, S. L.
name: Renzini, A.
name: Shapley, A.
name: Steidel, C. C.
name: Caputi, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the modeling of SINFONI integral field dynamics of 18 star forming galaxies at z ~ 2 from Halpha line emission. The galaxies are selected from the larger sample of the SINS survey, based on the prominence of ordered rotational motions with respect to more complex merger induced dynamics. The quality of the data allows us to carefully select systems with kinematics dominated by rotation, and to model the gas dynamics across the whole galaxy using suitable exponential disk models. We obtain a good correlation between the dynamical mass and the stellar mass, finding that large gas fractions Mgas~M*) are required to explain the difference between the two quantities. We use the derived stellar mass and maximum rotational velocity Vmax from the modeling to construct for the first time the stellar mass Tully-Fisher relation at z ~ 2.2. The relation obtained shows a slope similar to what is observed at lower redshift, but we detect an evolution of the zero point. We find that at z ~ 2.2 there is an offset in log(M*) for a given rotational velocity of 0.41+-0.11 with respect to the local Universe. This result is consistent with the predictions of the latest N-body/hydrodynamical simulations of disk formation and evolution, which invoke gas accretion onto the forming disk in filaments and cooling flows. This scenario is in agreement with other dynamical evidence from SINS, where gas accretion from the halo is required to reproduce the observed properties of a large fraction of the z ~ 2 galaxies.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to ApJ
Tephra and ecological studies of Limnopolar Lake, Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island.
Creators: name: Agius, JT
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Limnopolar Lake, Livingston Island, situated close to the tip of the northern Antarctic Peninsula (62¬¨‚àû40'S, 61¬¨‚àû00'W), has experienced a long history of primary and secondary tephra inputs from nearby volcanic centres. Background levels of tephra in a sediment core collected from the lake were ~30,000-35,000 gdm-1, and were caused by the continual washing in of tephra deposited in the surrounding watershed. Tephra abundances above these levels were assigned to tephra horizons, of which 5 were identified to have occurred over the last 2000 years. Electron probe microanalysis of the tephra shards revealed that the predominant composition of the tephra was basaltic andesite, with few basalt and andesite pyroclasts. Limited numbers of shards with trachy-basalt and basaltic trachy-andesite compositions were also recorded. Deception Island was attributed as the most likely source of the tephra. Eight distinct biological communities were identified in the sediment core on the basis of abundance and distribution of organism remains. Most community shifts over the last ~2000 years appear to be due to direct or indirect effects of tephra deposition into the lake, with tephra abundance levels being an important factor. However, some community shifts can be attributed to climate variability and grazing pressures. The apparent lack of zooplankton species, with only a recent colonisation of the anostracan Branchinecta gainii and possibly the copepod Boeckella poppei, suggests that zooplankton species may not be adapted to surviving in lakes with continual tephral inputs or alternately have recently colonised the island.
Additional file 3 of Identification of hub genes and pathways in lung metastatic colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Dai, Wei
name: Guo, Caiyao
name: Wang, Yu
name: Li, Yumei
name: Xie, Renjian
name: Wu, Junhong
name: Yao, Baole
name: Xie, Dong
name: He, Ling
name: Li, Yingying
name: Huang, Hao
name: Wang, Yun
name: Liu, Shenglan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S3. qRT-PCR analyses of hub genes expression in mouse normal lung tissues, primary MC38 cells and lung metastatic MC38 cells.
Space- and time-like electromagnetic pion form factors in light-cone pQCD
Creators: name: Chen, Jiunn-Wei
name: Kohyama, Hiroaki
name: Ohnishi, Kazuaki
name: Raha, Udit
name: Shen, Yue-Long
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a combined analysis of the space- and time-like electromagnetic pion form factors in light-cone perturbative QCD with transverse momentum dependence and Sudakov suppression. Including the non-perturbative ``soft' QCD and power suppressed twist-3 corrections to the standard twist-2 perturbative QCD result, the experimental pion data available at moderate energies/momentum transfers can be explained reasonably well. This may help towards resolving the bulk of the existing discrepancy between the space- and time-like experimental data.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
Economic Evaluation of Antibiotic Therapy During the Treatment of Acute Coliform Mastitis
Creators: name: DeGraves, Fred J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: Mastitis is the most costly disease of dairy cattle. Traditionally, most of the cost of mastitis has been attributed to production losses from subclinical cases. Because of this, economic evaluations of the cost of mastitis have focused mainly on contagious mastitis. 1 The relative importance of acute coliform mastitis has recently increased. Acute coliform mastitis appears to be the major mastitis loss on many well managed dairies with a low incidence of contagious mastitis. The major impact of acute clinical coliform mastitis is production loss from udder and multiple organ system damage and deaths. Because of the sudden onset of severe clinical signs, most cases are generally treated aggressively and with great expense. Although a variety of drugs are used in the therapy of acute coliform mastitis, the economic impact and the efficacy of these treatments has received little research attention. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the economic impact of treating clinical cases of acute coliform mastitis with gentamicin or sodium ceftiofur and to examine the degree of therapeutic efficacy required for acute coliform mastitis to be treated economically.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 2
Factors in Cure of Subclinical S. Aureus After Dry Cow Therapy
Creators: name: Sol, J.
name: Harink, J.
name: Schukken, Y. H.
name: Snoep, J. J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: Drying off cows with antibiotics is carried out to cure subclinical mastitis and to prevent new infections. The cure rate of pathogenic streptococci in the udder is about 90% in the Netherlands. For S. aureus this is much lower (average about 60%). Various factors, which affect this rather low cure rate are already discussed (4,5). In this paper the results are presented of a detailed statistical analysis of the cure rate of 406 S. aureus infected quarters from 283 cows on 73 farms. French and German summaries on PDF
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 2
Finite size scaling of the de Almeida-Thouless instability in random sparse networks
Creators: name: Takahashi, Hisanao
name: Ricci-Tersenghi, Federico
name: Kabashima, Yoshiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study, in random sparse networks, finite size scaling of the spin glass susceptibility $χ_{\rm SG}$, which is a proper measure of the de Almeida-Thouless (AT) instability of spin glass systems. Using a phenomenological argument regarding the band edge behavior of the Hessian eigenvalue distribution, we discuss how $χ_{\rm SG}$ is evaluated in infinitely large random sparse networks, which are usually identified with Bethe trees, and how it should be corrected in finite systems. In the high temperature region, data of extensive numerical experiments are generally in good agreement with the theoretical values of $χ_{\rm SG}$ determined from the Bethe tree. In the absence of external fields, the data also show a scaling relation $χ_{\rm SG}=N^{1/3}F(N^{1/3}|T-T_c|/T_c)$, which has been conjectured in the literature, where $T_c$ is the critical temperature. In the presence of external fields, on the other hand, the numerical data are not consistent with this scaling relation. A numerical analysis of Hessian eigenvalues implies that strong finite size corrections of the lower band edge of the eigenvalue distribution, which seem relevant only in the presence of the fields, are a major source of inconsistency. This may be related to the known difficulty in using only numerical methods to detect the AT instability.
description: 8 figures, 2 tables
Epidemiology of Heifer Mastitis
Creators: name: Sischo, W. M.
name: Rogers, G. W.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: Until recently, it had been assumed that primigravid heifers were seldom affected by intramammary infections (IMI) at or near parturition. Recent research results now suggest that this assumption is false. A number of studies report a high rate of IMI in heifers at or near parturition.(1-3) Interestingly, the pathogens associated with these IMI's appear to have a regional distribution. A study in the southern United States found a high prevalence of IMI associated with Staphylococcus aureus.(2) Studies in the New England and Southeastern United States detected a high prevalence of IMI associated with coagulase negative staphylococci.(1,3) IMI's associated with Staphylococcus aureus are related to histopathologic lesions in the mammary gland which suggest that these infections may hamper the normal development of the lactating gland.(4) These findings have prompted research to investigate the use of antibiotic therapy to decrease the risk of IMI. This research has found that antibiotics administered prior to calving will decrease the prevalence of peripaturient IMI.(5,6) A question that has not been answered is: Do these infections in heifers, particularly IMI by the minor pathogens, warrant treatment? The objectives of this paper are to report preliminary data describing the incidence of IMI in heifers, the pathogens involved in the infections and the subsequent rates of clinical mastitis in first lactation heifers conditional on the IMI status at freshening.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 2
Promising Avenues in Mastitis Control
Creators: name: Sears, Philip
name: Blackburn, Peter
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: The control of bovine mastitis commonly relies on the use of antibiotics and chemical germicides to treat and prevent intramammary infections. The failure of antibiotics to eliminate mastitis pathogens in lactating cows can be attributed to microorganisms sequestered in microabcesses or within leukocytes where they lie dormant and inaccessible to antibiotics. There is an increasing consumer concern over the potential risk of residues in the milk supply from mastitis treatment. Advances in biotechnology have made available alternative compounds that can be used for the treatment and control of mastitis. Examples are the antimicrobial proteins, nisin and lysostaphin, that are bactericidal against dividing and dormant organisms, and against antibiotic resistant mastitis pathogens. These proteins are nontoxic and may be used in the prevention and therapy of mastitis infections while reducing the risk of hazardous milk residues. Spanish and French summaries on PDF
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 2
NLO Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion matched with shower in POWHEG
Creators: name: Nason, Paolo
name: Oleari, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a next-to-leading order calculation of Higgs boson production in vector-boson fusion processes interfaced to shower Monte Carlo programs, implemented according to the POWHEG method.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures. A few references and a new figure added
Imprints of the nuclear symmetry energy on gravitational waves from the axial w-modes of neutron stars
Creators: name: Wen, De-Hua
name: Li, Bao-An
name: Krastev, Plamen G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The eigen-frequencies of the axial w-modes of oscillating neutron stars are studied using the continued fraction method with an Equation of State (EOS) partially constrained by the recent terrestrial nuclear laboratory data. It is shown that the density dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy $E_{sym}(ρ)$ affects significantly both the frequencies and the damping times of these modes. Besides confirming the previously found universal behavior of the mass-scaled eigen-frequencies as functions of the compactness of neutron stars, we explored several alternative universal scaling functions. Moreover, the $w_{II}$-mode is found to exist only for neutron stars having a compactness of $M/R\geq 0.1078$ independent of the EOS used.
description: Version appeared in Phys. Rev. C80, 025801 (2009)
Accuracy of Repeated Pregnancy Diagnoses with a Battery-Operated Portable Ultrasonic Scanner in Dairy cattle
Creators: name: Szenci, Otto
name: Piros, Andras
name: Kovács, Laszlo
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: One of the most suitable techniques for early pregnancy diagnosis on the farm is the B-mode ultrasonography. There are only a limited number of reports dealing with the examination of the same animals at different intervals after breeding1-4.Except for two studies2,3, the accuracy of their pregnancy diagnoses was not reported. The present study was designed to determine the accuracy of repeated transrectal ultrasound scanning of the uterus, under field conditions, with a battery-operated, portable ultrasonic scanner. German and Spanish summaries on PDF.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 2
Stability of a spatial polling system with greedy myopic service
Creators: name: Leskelä, Lasse
name: Unger, Falk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K25

description: This paper studies a spatial queueing system on a circle, polled at random locations by a myopic server that can only observe customers in a bounded neighborhood. The server operates according to a greedy policy, always serving the nearest customer in its neighborhood, and leaving the system unchanged at polling instants where the neighborhood is empty. This system is modeled as a measure-valued random process, which is shown to be positive recurrent under a natural stability condition that does not depend on the server's scan range. When the interpolling times are light-tailed, the stable system is shown to be geometrically ergodic. The steady-state behavior of the system is briefly discussed using numerical simulations and a heuristic light-traffic approximation.
description: Revised content
Transmission of Bovine Leukemia Virus By Rectal Palpation
Creators: name: Divers, Thomas J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: Bovine Leukemia Virus (BLV), a C-type retrovirus, is horizontally spread in cattle by infected lymphocytes.[1] Infection with the BLV is lifelong. Several routine management procedures have been implicated in the transmission of BLV, especially manual dehoming and use of contaminated needles.[2,3) There are both questions and concern regarding the probability of transmitting BLV infections in cattle during rectal palpation.[4) This concern seems especially pertinent since almost all breeding-age cattle receive multiple rectal examinations to evaluate the reproductive tract, and rectal sleeves are often not changed when cattle in the same herd are being palpated. There have also been experiments which have shown that BLV infection in cattle can occur by transferring infected blood into the rectum.[5,6,7] In these studies, infective blood was either purposely infused into the rectum of cows and calves or was inoculated onto the rectal sleeve prior to palpating calves. The intent of this study was to determine if bovine leukemia virus could be transmitted by more routine rectal examination of BLV-negative, breeding age, cattle. German and French abstracts on PDF.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 2
Additional file 2 of Microfat exerts an anti-fibrotic effect on human hypertrophic scar via fetuin-A/ETV4 axis
Creators: name: Yu, Qian
name: Dai, Qiang
name: Huang, Zonglin
name: Li, Chen
name: Yan, Li
name: Fu, Xin
name: Wang, Qian
name: Zhang, Yi
name: Cai, Lei
name: Yang, Zhigang
name: Xiao, Ran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. The primer sequences for qRT-PCR
The information content of a new observable: the case of the nuclear neutron skin
Creators: name: Reinhard, P. -G.
name: Nazarewicz, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address two questions pertaining to the uniqueness and usefulness of a new observable: (i) Considering the current theoretical knowledge, what novel information does new measurement bring in? (ii) How can new data reduce uncertainties of current theoretical models? We illustrate these points by studying the radius of the neutron distribution of a heavy nucleus, a quantity related to the equation of state for neutron matter that determines properties of nuclei and neutron stars. By systematically varying parameters of two theoretical models and studying the resulting confidence ellipsoid, we quantify the relationships between the neutron skin and various properties of finite nuclei and infinite nuclear matter. Using the covariance analysis, we identify observables and pseudo-observables that correlate, and do not correlate, with the neutron skin. By adding the information on the neutron radius to the pool of observables determining the energy functional, we show how precise experimental determination of the neutron radius in $^{208}$Pb would reduce theoretical uncertainties on the neutron matter equation of state.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
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Creators: name: Strauch-Davey, Annette
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: FDM
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Additional file 1 of Microfat exerts an anti-fibrotic effect on human hypertrophic scar via fetuin-A/ETV4 axis
Creators: name: Yu, Qian
name: Dai, Qiang
name: Huang, Zonglin
name: Li, Chen
name: Yan, Li
name: Fu, Xin
name: Wang, Qian
name: Zhang, Yi
name: Cai, Lei
name: Yang, Zhigang
name: Xiao, Ran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. The ORF sequences of ETV4 and C-MYC, siRNAs sequences, and shRNA sequence for ETV4
Clinical Manifestations of Bovine Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency
Creators: name: Gilbert, Robert O.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: Bovine granulocytopathy (now recognized as bovine leukocyte adhesion deficiency or BLAD, a disease analogous to the human condition called leukocyte adhesion deficiency) was described in the U.S.A. in 1983 by Hagemoser et al.1 These authors described a Holstein heifer with a disease complex characterized by a generalized increase in susceptibility to infectious agents over the two year lifespan of the heifer. They documented impaired neutrophil function in this animal, which had persistent circulating neutrophilia, but seemed unable to mount a peripheral inflammatory response. Neutrophils appeared structurally normal when examined by electron microscopy (there were no lysosomal inclusions characteristic of Chediak-Higashi syndrome), but random migration, bacterial ingestion, nitroblue tetrazolium reduction and iodination were depressed relative to normal controls. Antibody-dependent, cell-mediated cytotoxicity was not affected.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 2
The induction of satiety in the rat
Creators: name: Ehman, Gerard Kevan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A number of peripheral changes possibly involved in the initiation of satiety were examined by injecting various substances into the duodenum. As neither the presence of food nor the pH was found to be important, it was concluded that entry of metabolites into the blood, hormone release, and bulk in the intestine are not significant events in the induction of satiety. It was found, however, that the tonicity of the injected material was important: hypertonic solutions produced a depression in food intake. The duration of the hypertonic effect was about 1½ hours, but this could be shortened considerably by intraperitoneal water injections. Finally, interference with normal digestion by blocking the passage of food and fluids from the stomach to the intestine produced marked and rapid inhibition of intake. These results strongly supported an interpretation for satiety initiation based upon changes in blood tonicity.
The active and passive populations of Extremely Red Objects
Creators: name: Fontanot, Fabio
name: Monaco, Pierluigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [abridged] The properties of galaxies with the reddest observed R-K colors (Extremely Red Objects, EROs), including their apparent division into passive and obscured active objects with roughly similar number densities, are a known challenge for models of galaxy formation. We produce mock catalogues generated by interfacing the predictions of the semi-analytical MORGANA model for the evolution of galaxies in a Lambda-CDM cosmology with the spectro-photometric + radiative transfer code GRASIL and Infrared (IR) template library to show that the model correctly reproduces number counts, redshift distributions and active fractions of R-K>5 sources. We test the robustness of our results against different dust attenuations and, most importantly, against the inclusion of TP-AGB stars in Simple Stellar Populations used to generate galaxy spectra, and find that the inclusion of TP-AGBs has a relevant effect, in that it allows to increase by a large factor the number of very red active objects at all color cuts. We find that though the most passive and the most obscured active galaxies have a higher probability of being selected as EROs, many EROs have intermediate properties and the population does not show bimodality in specific star formation rate (SSFR). We predict that deep observations in the Far-IR, from 100 to 500 micron, are the most efficient way to constrain the SSFR of these objects; we give predictions for future Herschel observations. Finally, we test whether a simple evolutionary sequence for the formation of z=0 massive galaxies, going through a sub-mm-bright phase and then a ERO phase, are typical in this galaxy formation model. We find that this sequence holds for ~25 per cent of z=0 massive galaxies, while the model typically shows a more complex connection between sub-mm, ERO and massive galaxies. [abridged]
description: 14 pages, 12 figures, MNRAS in press
Embedding the bicyclic semigroup into countably compact topological semigroups
Creators: name: Banakh, Taras
name: Dimitrova, Svetlana
name: Gutik, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22A15, 54C25, 54D35, 54H15

description: We study algebraic and topological properties of topological semigroups containing a copy of the bicyclic semigroup C(p,q). We prove that each topological semigroup S with pseudocompact square contains no dense copy of C(p,q). On the other hand, we construct a (consistent) example of a pseudocompact (countably compact) Tychonov semigroup containing a copy of C(p,q).
description: 14 pages
Epidemiological Investigations of Bovine Protozoal Abortion in California Dairy Herds
Creators: name: Anderson, Mark
name: Picanso, John
name: Thurmond, Mark
name: Blanchard, Pat
name: Layton, Bill
name: Palmer, Chuck
name: Case, Jim
name: Barr, Bradd
name: Dubey, J. P.
name: Conrad, Pat
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: Bovine protozoal abortion (BPA) is a newly recognized fetal infection caused by a Neospora- like protozoan parasite. Aborted fetuses have characteristic histologic lesions of focal nonsuppurative necrotizing encephalitis, nonsuppurative myocarditis and myositis. The diagnosis is confirmed by immunohistochemistry using antisera to Neospora caninum on the fetal tissues6,11. Neospora - like protozoa abortions were first reported from an abortion storm in a dairy in New Mexico14 and are now recognized as an important, widely distributed cause of abortion1-5,8,9,12-14. The infection has been identified in 413 fetal samples submitted to the California Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory for immunohistochemistry. These samples represented 224 herds in 10 states in the United States as well as Mexico and Canada The infection is common in California where it is the most frequently diagnosed cause of bovine abortion2,5. In this study, data from bovine abortion submissions to the California Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (CVDL) from the San Joaquin Valley over a 6 year period are examined. The objectives were to determine the prevalence rate and temporal and seasonal patterns of occurrence of BPA.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 2
Bovine Reproductive Health in the 21st Century
Creators: name: BonDurant, R. H.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: Predicting the future is a skill that is not taught in most veterinary curricula, and not practiced by most learned veterinarians. It is an endeavor fraught with hazard, the greatest of which being that a small but wicked minority of those who hear one's predictions will remember them at an importune moment in the future.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 2
Some Factors Influencing the Prognosis of Some Common Bovine Neurological Diseases With Particular Reference to the Concentration of Penicillin G Reached in Cerebrospinal Fluid
Creators: name: Scott, P. R.
name: Sutton, D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: Treatment of nine cases of acute bacterial meningitis with high dose penicillin G therapy was unsuccessful in all cases. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis demonstrated a markedly elevated protein concentration indicating disruption of the blood brain barrier. Two of five listeriosis cases, with slight elevation of CSF protein, and both cases of vestibular abscess responded well to antibiotic therapy.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 2
Secadera
Creators: name: Mullenax, C. H.
name: Baumann, L. E.
name: McDowell, L. R.
name: Norman, B. B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: Wasting diseases of nutritional origin in domestic livestock are infrequently seen under systems of modern management. They are seen, however, in animals grazed under extensive management systems, particularly in cattle maintained solely on tropical forages grown on low-fertility acidic soils. Secadera is one of the wasting diseases which occur in the South American tropics1,2,3,4. This report, which further characterizes the disease and its treatment, is based on research conducted in the oxisol savannas of the Altillanura, the least fertile area of the Llanos Orientales (Eastern Plains) of Colombia.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 2
Upper Limit on Dimming of Cosmological Sources by Intergalactic Grey Dust from the Soft X-ray Background
Creators: name: Dijkstra, Mark
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) produce a dominant fraction (~80%) of the Soft X-ray background (SXB) at photon energies 0.5
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
The Changing Pattern of Health Problems Since the Introduction of Mille Quotas
Creators: name: Kelly, J. M.
name: Whitaker, D. A.
name: Smith, E. J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1992

description: During the past 30 years the UK dairy industry has undergone many changes. Among the more dramatic has been the marked increase in milk production from individual cows, whereas the number of dairy herds in the country has decreased significantly and the size of the herds has increased accordingly. As a result before the introduction of milk quotas in 1984 there were nearly the same number of cows producing more milk on a smaller number of more intensively farmed units. Milk quotas have resulted on marked changes in the husbandry practices in many farms. Herd numbers are continuing to drop but cow numbers are also falling. The Dairy Herd Health and Productivity Service (DHHPS) (5) which over the past 15 years has involved some 300 veterinary practices and over 1000 dairy farms throughout the UK has provided regular information on disease occurrence and on the adequacy of nutrition and management in relation to health and productivity.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1992: Volume 2