cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enabling the Virtual Phones to remotely sense the Real Phones in real-time: A Sensor Emulation initiative for virtualized Android-x86
Creators: name: Santhanam, Raghavan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Computer science

description: Smartphones nowadays have the ground-breaking features that were only a figment of one’s imagination. For the ever-demanding cellphone users, the exhaustive list of features that a smartphone supports just keeps getting more exhaustive with time. These features aid one’s personal and professional uses as well. Extrapolating into the future the features of a present-day smartphone, the lives of us humans using smartphones are going to be unimaginably agile. With the above said emphasis on the current and future potential of a smartphone, the ability to virtualize smartphones with all their real-world features into a virtual platform, is a boon for those who want to rigorously experiment and customize the virtualized smartphone hardware without spending an extra penny. Once virtualizable independently on a larger scale, the idea of virtualized smartphones with all the virtualized pieces of hardware takes an interesting turn with the sensors being virtualized in a way that’s closer to the real-world behavior. When accessible remotely with the real-time responsiveness, the above mentioned real-world behavior will be a real dealmaker in many real-world systems, namely, the life-saving systems like the ones that instantaneously get alerts about harmful magnetic radiations in the deep mining areas, etc. And these life-saving systems would be installed on a large scale on the desktops or large servers as virtualized smartphones having the added support of virtualized sensors which remotely fetch the real hardware sensor readings from a real smartphone in real-time. Based on these readings the lives working in the affected areas can be alerted and thus saved by the people who are operating the at the desktops or large servers hosting the virtualized smartphones.
Engineered Management in Housing
Creators: name: Graves, Robert E.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Two titles were considered for this paper, "Engineered Management in Housing" and "Free Stalls and Cattle Health / Comfort." Being somewhat self-conscious about talking to veterinarians about health, the author chose the first title. Light (1973) defined engineered management as " ... the process of physical design of individual elements of any housing system to have them function in accord with management decisions." He further indicated that the decisions made during the design of a housing system affects how the system will function. The designer, through the ultimate design, imposes upon the operation of the unit a set of management routines which will have to be followed for the life of the unit; management has been "engineered" into the system ( or out of it). In simple terms, this paper will discuss observations as to the affect of barn design and construction on the health and well-being of animals and your ability to keep them healthy.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Determinants of Mortality and Loss to Follow-Up among Adults Enrolled in HIV Care Services in Rwanda
Creators: name: Mugisha, Veronicah
name: Teasdale, Chloe A.
name: Wang, Chunhui
name: Lahuerta Sanau, Maria
name: Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha, Harriet
name: Tayebwa, Edwin
name: Ingabire, Eugenie
name: Ingabire, Pacifique
name: Sahabo, Ruben
name: Twyman, Peter
name: Abrams, Elaine J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Medicine

description: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) improves morbidity and mortality in patients with HIV, however high rates of loss to follow-up (LTF) and mortality have been documented in HIV care and treatment programs. We analyzed routinely-collected data on HIV-infected patients ≥15 years enrolled at 41 healthcare facilities in Rwanda from 2005 to 2010. LTF was defined as not attending clinic in the last 12 months for pre-ART patients and 6 months for ART patients. For the pre-ART period, sub-distribution hazards models were constructed to estimate LTF and death to account for competing risks. Kaplan-Meier (KM) and Cox proportional hazards models were used for patients on ART. Low rates of LTF and death were founds among pre-ART and ART patients in Rwanda but greater efforts are needed to retain patients in care prior to ART initiation, particularly among those who are healthy at enrollment.
Fast Multi-Instance Multi-Label Learning
Creators: name: Huang, Sheng-Jun
name: Zhou, Zhi-Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In many real-world tasks, particularly those involving data objects with complicated semantics such as images and texts, one object can be represented by multiple instances and simultaneously be associated with multiple labels. Such tasks can be formulated as multi-instance multi-label learning (MIML) problems, and have been extensively studied during the past few years. Existing MIML approaches have been found useful in many applications; however, most of them can only handle moderate-sized data. To efficiently handle large data sets, in this paper we propose the MIMLfast approach, which first constructs a low-dimensional subspace shared by all labels, and then trains label specific linear models to optimize approximated ranking loss via stochastic gradient descent. Although the MIML problem is complicated, MIMLfast is able to achieve excellent performance by exploiting label relations with shared space and discovering sub-concepts for complicated labels. Experiments show that the performance of MIMLfast is highly competitive to state-of-the-art techniques, whereas its time cost is much less; particularly, on a data set with 20K bags and 180K instances, MIMLfast is more than 100 times faster than existing MIML approaches. On a larger data set where none of existing approaches can return results in 24 hours, MIMLfast takes only 12 minutes. Moreover, our approach is able to identify the most representative instance for each label, and thus providing a chance to understand the relation between input patterns and output label semantics.
Carrier-envelope phase stability of hollow-fibers used for high-energy, few-cycle pulse generation
Creators: name: Okell, William A.
name: Witting, Tobias
name: Fabris, Davide
name: Austin, Dane
name: Bocoum, Maïmouna
name: Frank, Felix
name: Ricci, Aurelien
name: Jullien, Aurelie
name: Walke, Daniel
name: Marangos, Jonathan P.
name: Lopez-Martens, Rodrigo
name: Tisch, John W. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) stability of a hollow-fiber setup used for high-energy, few-cycle pulse generation. Saturation of the output pulse energy is observed at 0.6 mJ for a 260 um inner-diameter, 1 m long fiber, statically filled with neon, with the pressure adjusted to achieve an output spectrum capable of supporting sub-4fs pulses. The maximum output pulse energy can be increased to 0.8mJ by using either differential pumping, or circularly polarized input pulses. We observe the onset of an ionization-induced CEP instability, which does not increase beyond an input pulse energy of 1.25 mJ due to losses in the fiber caused by ionization. There is no significant difference in the CEP stability with differential pumping compared to static-fill, demonstrating that gas flow in differentially pumped fibers does not degrade the CEP stabilization.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Regarding the English: The Certificate in ELS Language Center Certified at Level 9. (Siming Zheng_for HKUST)
Creators: name: Siming Zheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200303 English as a Second Language
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Supporting English document:
The Certificate of Nine-level Certified Intensive Programme in English, ELS Language Center.
1. This ELS certificate is divided into the levels 3 to 9, and the highest level is 9.
2. I passed the final exam at level 9 and obtained the ELS certificate, which was certified at level 9.
Status: Passed and Awarded
Location: ELS Language Center, Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia
Thank you for your reference.

Best regards,
Applicant: Siming Zheng
Phase growth control in low temperature PLD Co:TiO2 films by pressure
Creators: name: Rout, S.
name: Popovici, N.
name: Dalui, S.
name: Paramês, M. L.
name: Silva, R. C.
name: Silvestre, A. J.
name: CondE, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports on the structural and optical properties of Co-doped TiO2 thin films grown onto (0001) Al2O3 substrates by non-reactive pulsed laser deposition (PLD) using argon as buffer gas. It is shown that by keeping constant the substrate temperature at as low as 310 C and varying only the background gas pressure between 7 Pa and 70 Pa, it is possible to grow either epitaxial rutile or pure anatase thin films, as well as films with a mixture of both polymorphs. The optical band gaps of the films are red shifted in comparison to the values usually reported for undoped TiO2, which is consistent with n-type doping of the TiO2 matrix. Such band gap red shift brings the absorption edge of the Co-doped TiO2 films into the visible region, which might favour their photocatalytic activity. Furthermore, the band gap red shift depends on the films phase composition, increasing with the increase of the Urbach energy for increasing rutile content.
description: 29 pages, 9 figures, 1 table
Adjusted Corrected Milk
Creators: name: Nordlund, Ken
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Production medicine programs need a better yardstick. Production medicine programs need a basic unit of measurement. We need something precise, something as discrete as an inch, a fetal membrane slip, or a beta-hemolytic zone. It isn't that we don't have numbers. No, our OHi reports have plenty of numbers. We have rolling herd averages, standardized mature equivalents, and income over feed costs. We have heat detection indexes. That isn't the problem. The problem is that some of these numbers seem to lack immediacy, directness, and sometimes accuracy. My purpose here is not to belittle. Rather, I want to comment on using average milk production per day as a monitor of response to production medicine programs.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
A Numerical Method for the Two Layer Shallow Water Equations with Dry States
Creators: name: Mandli, Kyle T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M08, 86-08, 76B15, 76B55

description: A numerical method is proposed for solving the two layer shallow water equations with variable bathymetry in one dimension based on high-resolution f-wave-propagation finite volume methods. The method splits the jump in the fluxes and source terms into waves propagating away from each grid cell interface. It addresses the required determination of the system's eigenstructure and a scheme for evaluating the flux and source terms. It also handles dry states in the system where the bottom layer depth becomes zero, utilizing existing methods for the single layer solution and handling single layer dry states that can exist independently. Sample results are shown illustrating the method and its handling of dry states including an idealized ocean setting.
Herd Mastitis Problems Caused by Unusual Pathogens
Creators: name: Eberhart, R. J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Until recently most mastitis was caused by two species of bacteria-Streptococcus agalactiae and Staphylococcus aureus. Today, these two bacteria are controllable in most herds by combined regimens of teat dipping and dry cow treatment. However, these control methods are less efficacious against other pathogens which may become, or appear to become, more important as the prevalence of Str. agalactiae and S. aureus is reduced. Usually such problems are caused by bacteria endemic in the cows environment, the so-called environmental pathogens. Occasionally a point source of infection may develop that leads to an outbreak of disease caused by a single unusual organism. In this paper, we will consider current thinking about environmental mastitis and then discuss herd mastitis problems caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Serratia marcescens.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Enhancing Rigor in Developmental Education
Creators: name: Barragan, Melissa
name: Cormier, Maria Scott
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges

description: How can instructors prepare students for college-level courses and beyond when many students enter the classroom in need of significant support to develop their academic skills and knowledge? This issue of Inside Out, a publication of CCRC’s Scaling Innovation project, addresses this question by describing how community college faculty are working to increase rigor within reformed developmental education classrooms. The authors focus on three strategies instructors have utilized to create a more rigorous curriculum and new instructional approaches, and they describe faculty and student experiences with these strategies in developmental courses.
Udder Hygiene in the Control of Mastitis
Creators: name: Pankey, J. W.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Bovine mastitis persists as the most expensive disease in dairy cows. Losses can reach more than $180 per cow annually. Decreased milk production, due to subclinical mastitis, accounts for approximately 70% of the economic losses. Discarded milk, cost of antibiotics, premature culling, and veterinary expenses are responsible for the remaining 30% (4). Prevention of the disease is the most economically feasible method of control. The 5 point plan for mastitis control will reduce mastitis losses and increase profits: I) Dry cow therapy, 2) proper treatment procedures for clinical cases, 3) use of recommended milking practices, and 4) effective culling contribute to a complete mastitis control program. The fifth point, udder hygiene, is probably the single most effective control procedure in the prevention of udder infections (2, 4). Rate of new udder infections is highly correlated to the number of mastitis pathogens on the teat end. Every effort must be made to maintain minimal bacterial load at the teat end. Good udder hygiene practices assure this goal. The hygiene program should be a 24 hour program; not only at milking time.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
A search for magnetic fields on central stars in planetary nebulae
Creators: name: Leone, F.
name: Corradi, R. L. M.
name: González, M. J. Martínez
name: Ramos, A. Asensio
name: Sainz, R. Manso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the possible mechanisms responsible for the panoply of shapes in planetary nebulae is the presence of magnetic fields that drive the ejection of ionized material during the proto-planetary nebula phase. Therefore, detecting magnetic fields in such objects is of key importance for understanding their dynamics. Still, magnetic fields have not been detected using polarimetry in the central stars of planetary nebulae. Circularly polarized light spectra have been obtained with the Focal Reducer and Low Dispersion Spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory and the Intermediate dispersion Spectrograph and Imaging System at the William Herschel Telescope. Nineteen planetary nebulae spanning very different morphology and evolutionary stages have been selected. Most of central stars have been observed at different rotation phases to point out evidence of magnetic variability. In this paper, we present the result of two observational campaigns aimed to detect and measure the magnetic field in the central stars of planetary nebulae on the basis of low resolution spectropolarimetry. In the limit of the adopted method, we can state that large scale fields of kG order are not hosted on the central star of planetary nebulae.
description: Paper accepted to be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics on 20/01/2014
title: Universitätsbibliothek Marburg, Ms. 27: Aḥmad Ibn-Sirin - Geomantik - Druck u. a.
Creators: name: Guilelmus De Aragonia
name: Aḥmad Ibn-Sirin
name: Thomas Von Aquin, Heiliger
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 1500
Subjects: Library and information sciences
Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft

description: Elektronische Reproduktion der Handschrift: UB Marburg, Ms 27: Aḥmad Ibn-Sīrīn - Geomantik - Druck u. a., lat. - Erschienen: [Deutschland], [Anfang 16. Jahrhundert]. - Standort: Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek. - Signatur: Ms. 27. - Ausführliche Beschreibung: HEYNE, Sirka: Die mittelalterlichen Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2002. S. 83-86. - Digitalisiert 2020
description: 1r : INHALTSVERZEICHNIS von der Hand Clausers. 6 1 2r-10v : GUILELMUS DE ARAGONIA: [DE SOMNIIS ET VISIONUM PROGNOSTICATIONIBUS]. 10 2 11r-118r : AHMAD IBN-SĨRIN: ONEIROCRITICON, transl. Leo Tuscus. 28 11 Druck: 119r-124v : Somniorum Interpretatio Luculentissima. Straßburg: Mathias Huppfuff, 1506, VD 16, S. 7007. 244 119 125r-156r : GEOMANTICA: Kurztraktate, Verse und geomantische Schemata. 256 125 156v-160v : BREVILOQUIUM GEOMANTIAE AD GUILHELMUM VALENTINUM, 11 Kapitel. 319 156 161r-169r : [Ps.-THOMAS DE AQUINO: DE ESSENTIIS ESSENTIARUM]. 328 161 169r-172v : ALCHEMISTISCHE UND FARBREZEPTE, lat. u. dt. 344 169
5d transition metal oxide IrO2 as a material for spin current detection
Creators: name: Fujiwara, Kohei
name: Fukuma, Yasuhiro
name: Matsuno, Jobu
name: Idzuchi, Hiroshi
name: Niimi, Yasuhiro
name: Otani, YoshiChika
name: Takagi, Hidenori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Devices based on a pure spin current (a flow of spin angular momentum) have been attracting increasing attention as key ingredients for low-dissipation electronics. To integrate such spintronics devices into charge-based technologies, an electric detection of spin current is essential. Inverse spin Hall effect converts a spin current into an electric voltage through spin-orbit coupling. Noble metals such as Pt and Pd, and also Cu-based alloys, owing to the large direct spin Hall effect, have been regarded as potential materials for a spin-current injector. Those materials, however, are not promising as a spin-current detector based on inverse spin Hall effect. Their spin Hall resistivity rho_SH, representing the performance as a detector, is not large enough mainly due to their low charge resistivity. Here we demonstrate that heavy transition metal oxides can overcome such limitations inherent to metal-based spintronics materials. A binary 5d transition metal oxide IrO2, owing to its large resistivity as well as a large spin-orbit coupling associated with 5d character of conduction electrons, was found to show a gigantic rho_SH ~ 38 microohm cm at room temperature, one order of magnitude larger than those of noble metals and Cu-based alloys and even comparable to those of atomic layer thin film of W and Ta.
Distributed Space-Time Coding for Full-Duplex Asynchronous Cooperative Communications
Creators: name: Liu, Yi
name: Xia, Xiang-Gen
name: Zhang, Hailin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose two distributed linear convolutional space-time coding (DLC-STC) schemes for full-duplex (FD) asynchronous cooperative communications. The DLC-STC Scheme 1 is for the case of the complete loop channel cancellation, which achieves the full asynchronous cooperative diversity. The DLC-STC Scheme 2 is for the case of the partial loop channel cancellation and amplifying, where some loop signals are used as the self-coding instead of treated as interference to be directly cancelled. We show this scheme can achieve full asynchronous cooperative diversity. We then evaluate the performance of the two schemes when loop channel information is not accurate and present an amplifying factor control method for the DLC-STC Scheme 2 to improve its performance with inaccurate loop channel information. Simulation results show that the DLC-STC Scheme 1 outperforms the DLC-STC Scheme 2 and the delay diversity scheme if perfect or high quality loop channel information is available at the relay, while the DLC-STC Scheme 2 achieves better performance if the loop channel information is imperfect.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
The Geometry of Black Hole singularities
Creators: name: Stoica, Ovidiu Cristinel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Recent results show that important singularities in General Relativity can be naturally described in terms of finite and invariant canonical geometric objects. Consequently, one can write field equations which are equivalent to Einstein's at non-singular points, but in addition remain well-defined and smooth at singularities. The black hole singularities appear to be less undesirable than it was thought, especially after we remove the part of the singularity due to the coordinate system. Black hole singularities are then compatible with global hyperbolicity, and don't make the evolution equations break down, when these are expressed in terms of the appropriate variables. The charged black holes turn out to have smooth potential and electromagnetic fields in the new atlas. Classical charged particles can be modeled, in General Relativity, as charged black hole solutions. Since black hole singularities are accompanied by dimensional reduction, this should affect Feynman's path integrals. Therefore, it is expected that singularities induce dimensional reduction effects in Quantum Gravity. These dimensional reduction effects are very similar to those postulated in some approaches to making Quantum Gravity perturbatively renormalizable. This may provide a way to test indirectly the effects of singularities, otherwise inaccessible.
description: To appear in Advances in High Energy Physics
Regarding the English: The Certificate in ELS Language Center Certified at Level 9. (Siming Zheng)_for HKUST
Creators: name: Siming Zheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200303 English as a Second Language
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Supporting English document:
The Certificate of Nine-level Certified Intensive Programme in English, ELS Language Center.
1. This ELS certificate is divided into the levels 3 to 9, and the highest level is 9.
2. I passed the final exam at level 9 and obtained the ELS certificate, which was certified at level 9.
Status: Passed and Awarded
Location: ELS Language Center, Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia
Thank you for your reference.

Best regards,
Applicant: Siming Zheng

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lnterpretating Bulk Tank Somatic Cell Counts
Creators: name: Thurmond, M. C.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: During the past few years veterinarians have begun to appreciate some of the benefits in monitoring bulk tank somatic cell counts (BTSCC). Although it is a measure of milk quality and not udder inflammation, the BTSCC does provide an estimate of the herd udder health. Because there is little confusion as to where cells constituting the BTSCC originate, changes in BTSCC can be more directly attributable to changes in udder inflammation than can be changes in bulk tank bacteria counts. Moderate correlations between BTSCC and quarter infection rates provide further support for the use of BTSCC as a proxy for herd udder health (Dohoo and Meek, 1982).
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Staph Aureus and Corynebacterium Pyogenes Mastitis in a Free Stall Dairy
Creators: name: Glore, Reilly
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: After sitting through so many mastitis lectures, one easily gets the impression that all practitioners who talk about mastitis really do is sit around doodling the time away at their desks with their nose in the latest journal until that fateful moment when the phone rings. On the other end of the line is a dairyperson in distress (vapid DAPID), calling all your expertise out to solve a mastitis problem. At that moment you mobilize, just like the SWAT team, grabbing your detco recorder, flowmeter, culture tubes and CMT paddle as you fly out the door and proceed code 3 to the scene of the crime. In real life the scenario goes more like this. You have just finished palpating 50 or 60 head with 2 more herds to go. The office has just called on the radio and asked if you could pick up an OB on the way. They report that the calf should be ready to come out because its tail has been showing for 2 days already. As you are hurriedly washing off your boots preparing to roar off in search of "the aroma", your dairyman casually asks, "Say doc, have you got anything good for mastitis?"
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Fannie Mae's National Housing Survey Monthly Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI) and Key Indicators-January, 2023 (a subset of the complete monthly Fannie Mae National Housing Survey)
Creators: name: Foundation, Fannie Mae
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2023

description: Economy on right/wrong track (1); personal financial situation (1); good/bad time to buy a house (1); good/bad time to sell a house (1); home price changes (3); rental price changes (3); mortgage interest rate changes (1); ability to obtain a home mortgage today (1); current homeownership status (1); renting vs. buying a home in the future (1); concern about unemployment (1); change in income (1).
High Bulk Tank Bacteria Counts Without Udder Disease in Two Dairy Herds
Creators: name: Gardner, Charles E.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: I have been interested in mastitis control in dairy herds for many years. Until recently, however, I did not concern myself with high bulk tank bacteria counts, unless leukocytes were also elevated. I was convinced that if leukocyte counts were normal, then high bacteria counts were due to either improper sanitation of milk handling equipment, or improper cooling of the milk. I reasoned that if the cows themselves were not involved, then high bacteria counts were not the concern of the herd veterinarian.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
The Strep. Agalactiae Herd
Creators: name: Parr, Boyd H.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Strep. agalactiae as the causative agent in problem mastitis, elevated somatic cell count (SCC), and/or high tank standard plate count (SPC) herds has been around for some time. It is not as new and exotic as are some of the more recently identified pathogens, yet it remains a significant contributor to the number of problem mastitis herds throughout the country, despite its relative ease of control. Therefore, it is important that we not bypass Strep. Ag. in a discussion of Quality Milk Production. This case is typical of the way a Strep. ag. problem herd has presented itself during my clinical experience.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Structural, electrical and magnetic studies of Co:SnO2 and (Co,Mo):SnO2 films prepared by pulsed laser deposition
Creators: name: Dalui, S.
name: Rout, S.
name: Silvestre, A. J.
name: Lavareda, G.
name: Pereira, L. C. J.
name: Brogueira, P.
name: Conde, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we report on the structural, optical, electrical and magnetic properties of Co-doped and (Co,Mo)-codoped SnO2 thin films deposited on r-cut sapphire substrates by pulsed laser deposition. Substrate temperature during deposition was kept at 500 C. X-ray diffraction analysis showed that the undoped and doped films are crystalline with predominant orientation along the [101] direction regardless of the doping concentration and doping element. Optical studies revealed that the presence of Mo reverts the blue shift trend observed for the Co-doped films. For the Co and Mo doping concentrations studied, the incorporation of Mo did not contribute to increase the conductivity of the films or to enhance the ferromagnetic order of the Co-doped films.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Quality Milk Production
Creators: name: McClary, David G.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: An on farm evaluation including examination of facilities, observation of cow environment, analysis of milking equipment, examination of milking technique, and evaluation of treatment procedures for lactating and dry cows was conducted. Numerous problems and deficiencies were noted in several areas. Appropriate recommendations were made in an attempt to correct those problem areas.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Electronic transport through ordered and disordered graphene grain boundaries
Creators: name: Vancsó, Péter
name: Márk, Géza I.
name: Lambin, Philippe
name: Mayer, Alexandre
name: Kim, Yong-Sung
name: Hwang, Chanyong
name: Biró, László P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution of electronic wave packets (WPs) through grain boundaries (GBs) of various structures in graphene was investigated by the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. WPs were injected from a simulated STM tip placed above one of the grains. Electronic structure of the GBs was calculated by ab-initio and tight-binding methods. Two main factors governing the energy dependence of the transport have been identified: the misorientation angle of the two adjacent graphene grains and the atomic structure of the GB. In case of an ordered GB made of a periodic repetition of pentagon-heptagon pairs, it was found that the transport at high and low energies is mainly determined by the misorientation angle, but the transport around the Fermi energy is correlated with the electronic structure of the GB. A particular line defect with zero misorientation angle (Lahiri et al, Nat Nanotechnol 2010,5:326) behaves as a metallic nanowire and shows electron-hole asymmetry for hot electrons or holes. To generate disordered GBs, found experimentally in CVD graphene samples, a Monte-Carlo-like procedure has been developed. Results show a reduced transport for the disordered GBs, primarily attributed to electronic localized states caused by C atoms with only two covalent bonds.
description: Carbon (2013)
How to Conduct and Interpret Field Trials
Creators: name: Erb, Hollis N.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Some bovine practitioners are beginning to conduct their own field trials in order to test new drugs, surgical techniques, feed additives, management programs, and the like. Other practitioners are being asked by scientists in universities or industry to participate in trials, and all practitioners should be reading reports of field trials in journals. There is a science to field trials. Trials that are bad science shouldn't be conducted or believed. In this essay I will discuss 6 of the major issues in the design of field trials: controls, sample size, informed consent, baseline measurements, assignment of treatments, and blindness. I will not discuss statistical issues other than some general comments regarding sample size. I'll generally take the point of view of the practitioner trying to design his or her own trial, but these same issues may be used to evaluate the quality of other people's trials. (For further reading, there's an excellent recent article by Dohoo and Waltner-Toews (1), and a very good, non-statistical introductory textbook by Friedman et al. (2).)
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Ethnic Inequalities in Mortality: The Case of Arab-Americans
Creators: name: El-Sayed, Abdulrahman M.
name: Tracy, Melissa S.
name: Scarborough, Peter
name: Galea, Sandro
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Epidemiology
Public health

description: Although nearly 112 million residents of the United States belong to a non-white ethnic group, the literature about differences in health indicators across ethnic groups is limited almost exclusively to Hispanics. Features of the social experience of many ethnic groups including immigration, discrimination, and acculturation may plausibly influence mortality risk. We explored life expectancy and age-adjusted mortality risk of Arab-Americans (AAs), relative to non-Arab and non-Hispanic Whites in Michigan, the state with the largest per capita population of AAs in the US.
Methodology/Principal Findings: Data were collected about all deaths to AAs and non-Arab and non-Hispanic Whites in Michigan between 1990 and 2007, and year 2000 census data were collected for population denominators. We calculated life expectancy, age-adjusted all-cause, cause-specific, and age-specific mortality rates stratified by ethnicity and gender among AAs and non-Arab and non-Hispanic Whites. Among AAs, life expectancies among men and women were 2.0 and 1.4 years lower than among non-Arab and non-Hispanic White men and women, respectively. AA men had higher mortality than non-Arab and non-Hispanic White men due to infectious diseases, chronic diseases, and homicide. AA women had higher mortality than non-Arab and non-Hispanic White women due to chronic diseases. Conclusions/Significance: Despite better education and higher income, AAs have higher age-adjusted mortality risk than non-Arab and non-Hispanic Whites, particularly due to chronic diseases. Features specific to AA culture may explain some of these findings.
Cattle Behavior and Cattle Handling
Creators: name: Grandin, Temple
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Reducing stress during handling is important because excitement and other handling stresses can lower conception rate and suppress immune function (Stoebel and Moberg, 1982; Hixon et al, 1981; Kelley et al, 1981 and Blecha et al, 1984). An animal's previous experiences will affect its response to handling (Grandin, 1984). Animals raised in close contact with people will have less intense physiologic responses to handling than animals raised on pasture (Reid & Mills, 1962). Livestock remember painful and frightening experiences. Sheep will remember a bad experience when they enter the corrals a year later (Huston, 1985) and cattle will remember an aversive event such as electro-immobilization for at least nine months (Pascoe, 1986). There is an old saying "You can tell what kind of stock man a man is by looking at the behavior of his cattle." Cattle which have had previous experiences with gentle handling will be less excitable when they are handled in the future. Providing a feed reward immediately after handling will facilitate movement through the corrals in the future (Hutson, 1982). Animals with previous experiences with gentle handling and a feed reward can be trained to voluntarily accept restraint (Grandin, 1985). Wythes and Shorthose (1984) found that calves accustomed to regular gentle handling had fewer bruises during marketing. Calves handled quietly in good facilities will have lower heartrates compared to calves handled roughly in poor facilities (Stermer et al, 1981). An understanding of basic cattle behavior principles will help you and your clients to reduce stress on the animals and improve handling safety for both people and animals.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Social patterning of obesity in Spain: A systematic review of the relationship between education and obesity
Creators: name: Cohen, Alison K.
name: Christine, Paul J.
name: El-Sayed, Abdulrahman M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Epidemiology
Public health

description: Introduction: In high-income countries around the world, there appears to be an inverse association between educational attainment and obesity. However, the literature about this association in Spain remains disorganized and disparate. Material and Methods: We systematically reviewed peer-reviewed English- or Spanish language studies of this association in Spain from 10 databases from all periods of time available. Results: Our search identified twenty-four studies. In both nationally representative and subnational studies, women with less education had higher odds of obesity than their more educated counterparts. Men, despite exhibiting greater variability in the education-body weight relationship, also demonstrated a similar social patterning of body weight in many studies, with those at lower levels of educational attainment having higher odds of obesity relative to their more-educated counterparts. These associations in men and women were fairly consistent across time and place, though some regional variations did exist. Discussion and conclusions: We encourage future researchers to move towards more meaningful, unbiased estimates of the association between educational attainment and obesity by measuring height and weight with physical exams, controlling for a more robust set of possible confounders, and exploring potential modifying factors of the association. Additionally, when possible, we encourage researchers to employ prospective study designs that facilitate causal inference with respect to this association.
Ein Fall von ausgedehnter marantischer Thrombose im Gebiete der Vena cava superior; 1893
Creators: name: Heiligenthal, Rudolph
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2008

description: Tübingen, Univ., Med. Fak., Diss., 1893
Regarding the English: The Certificate in ELS Language Center Certified at Level 9. (Siming Zheng)_for HKUST
Creators: name: Siming Zheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200303 English as a Second Language
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Supporting English document:
The Certificate of Nine-level Certified Intensive Programme in English, ELS Language Center.
1. This ELS certificate is divided into the levels 5 to 9, and the highest level is 9.
2. I passed the final exam at level 9 and obtained the ELS certificate, which was certified at level 9.
Status: Passed and Awarded
Location: ELS Language Center, Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia
Thank you for your reference.

Best regards,
Applicant: Siming Zheng

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gpu-tracker-tutorial
Creators: name: huckvale, erik
name: Moseley, Hunter N. B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460611
subject: Performance evaluation

description: The purpose of this figshare is for reproducing the examples in the tutorial portion of the documentation for the version of the gpu-tracker python package corresponding to the manuscript published in a scientific journal.
A Nanoscale Shape Memory Oxide
Creators: name: Zhang, Jinxing
name: Ke, Xiaoxing
name: Gou, Gaoyang
name: Seidel, Jan
name: Xiang, Bin
name: Yu, Pu
name: Liang, Wen-I
name: Minor, Andrew M.
name: Chu, Ying-hao
name: Van Tendeloo, Gustaaf
name: Ren, Xiaobing
name: Ramesh, Ramamoorthy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stimulus-responsive shape memory materials have attracted tremendous research interests recently, with much effort focused on improving their mechanical actuation. Driven by the needs of nanoelectromechnical devices, materials with large mechanical strain particularly at nanoscale are therefore desired. Here we report on the discovery of a large shape memory effect in BiFeO3 at the nanoscale. A maximum strain of up to ~14% and a large volumetric work density can be achieved in association with a martensitic-like phase transformation. With a single step, control of the phase transformation by thermal activation or electric field has been reversibly achieved without the assistance of external recovery stress. Although aspects such as hysteresis, micro-cracking etc. have to be taken into consideration for real devices, the large shape memory effect in this oxide surpasses most alloys and therefore demonstrates itself as an extraordinary material for potential use in state-of-art nano-systems.
description: Accepted by Nature Communications
New Technologies for Manipulating Bovine Reproduction
Creators: name: Seidel, G. E.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: The reproductive process is a continuum of events that occur cyclically throughout the life of an animal, starting with fertilization, and continuing through embryonic and fetal development, parturition, the neonatal development period (including lactation), puberty, ovulation, and establishment of pregnancy once again. A number of malfunctions and technological interventions can be superimposed on this sequence, including post-partum anestrus, such technologies of selective breeding as artificial insemination and embryo transfer, and such management techniques as inducing twin pregnancies and decreasing intervals between calving. Many aspects of reproduction can be manipulated: induction of parturition, lactation, puberty, ovulation, twinning, abortion, etc. Detection of ovulation, diagnosis of pregnancy, and determining or manipulating the sex of offspring also are of obvious value. In addition, many things can go wrong in the reproductive process, including mastitis, dystocia, venereal disease, embryonic death, cystic ovaries, and dozens of other pathological conditions. Many approaches exist for manipulating reproduction and dealing with reproductive pathology, including more or less new technologies. I have chosen to concentrate on three items. The first is getting the cow pregnant; the second, in vitro oogenesis; and the third, adding genes to embryos.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Digging the Crowd: the future for archaeology in the digital and collaborative economy
Creators: name: Wilkins, Brendon
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis draws together a collection of peer-review papers and nonspecialist articles published over the course of the authors enrolment on the PhD in ‘Museum, Gallery and Heritage Practice’ at the University of Leicester School of Museum Studies. Collectively these papers propose a platform or peer-to-peer approach to archaeological work – a collaborative method of working with citizens, businesses, organisations, and government that creates research ‘with’ people, not ‘for’ them. Variously described as crowdsourcing, citizen science, collective intelligence, and the collaborative or share economy, the thesis will describe how a range of digital tools can be used to harness the crowd’s passion for archaeology, helping to fund, identify, dig, record, and research sites. Addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by technologyenabled participation – financial, political, ethical and methodological – this research is the first investigation of its type to assess the implications of a networked peer-to-peer approach for archaeology. The term Social Impact Archaeology has been coined to describe this digitally-enabled model of public participation. This definition is mobilised through severalempirical studies drawing on quantitative and qualitative analysis of peer participants, arguing that a crowd-based model can create mutually beneficial outcomes – for both archaeological research and instrumental outcomes for participants and communities. The Digging the Crowd project has built incrementally over the course of a six-year enrolment, leading to the completion of six peer review papers drawing on empirical evidence from six substantial field projects, nine conference presentations, three non-specialist professional publications, a practice report and the production of a feature length documentary. The thesis draws all these previously published outputs together, alongside additional chapters situating the research context and overall knowledge contribution of the project. It concludes by assessing the wider applicability of this, and whether a crowdfunded and sourced model of archaeology represents a coherent alternative or complimentary practice.
Thermal expansion of CaFe2As2: effect of cobalt doping and post-growth thermal treatment
Creators: name: Bud'ko, Sergey L.
name: Ran, Sheng
name: Canfield, Paul C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report thermal expansion measurements on Ca(Fe_(1-x)Co_x)_2As_2 single crystals with different thermal treatment, with samples chosen to represent four different ground states observed in this family. For all samples thermal expansion is anisotropic with different signs of the in-plane and c-axis thermal expansion coefficients in the high temperature, tetragonal phase. The features in thermal expansion associated with the phase transitions are of opposite signs as well, pointing to a different response of transition temperatures to the in-plane and the c-axis stress. These features, and consequently the inferred pressure derivatives, are very large, clearly and substantially exceeding those in the Ba(Fe_(1-x)Co_x)_2As_2 family. For all transitions the c-axis response is dominant.