cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dehorning - Effects on Performance and Economics
Creators: name: Brazle, Frank K.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1994

description: There are many dehorning methods used today, from complete removal of the horn, to various degrees of tipping horns. The data presented in this paper will only deal with complete horn removal. When should we castrate calves? Because bull calves grow faster than steer calves, one might be led to believe that the longer we wait to castrate a calf, the quicker he will get to slaughter. Research data at Iowa showed that calves castrated at birth to 3 months of age reach slaughter 11.6 days earlier than calves castrated at weaning.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1994
Local government in Poland in the proces of systemic transformation
Creators: name: Scheffs, Łukasz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified

description: P. Antkowiak, T. Ludwicki, Ł. Scheffs, A. Siuda, Local government in Poland in the proces of systemic transformation, “Public Policy and Economic Development” 2017, 11(15), ss. 167-180, ISSN 2309-0863.
Feedlot Respiratory Disease
Creators: name: Griffin, Dee
name: Perino, Louis
name: Wittum, Thomas
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1994

description: Despite the development of new vaccines, and therapeutics, bovine respiratory disease (BRD) continues to be the primary health problem of feedlot cattle. Assessment of the entire feeding performance loss associated with BRD has not been studied. The Texas Ranch to Rail program includes the entire feeding disease loss. Their findings will be reviewed. Intervention of BRD includes the use of vaccines and timely therapeutics. Effort is given in feedlots to have properly trained employees daily evaluate the health of cattle in the belief that well timed therapy will alter the course of BRD. This paper will review two research projects designed to evaluate BRD intervention in ranch fresh weaning calves.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1994
title: Spatial differences and temporal trends in cephalopod populations along the Mediterranean
Creators: name: Keller, Stefanie
name: Bartolino, Valerio
name: Hidalgo, Manuel
name: Quetglas, Antoni
name: Bitetto, Isabella
name: Casciaro, Loredana
name: Esteban, Antonio
name: Garcia, Cristina
name: Garofalo, Germana
name: Iosifides, Marios
name: Jadaud, Angelique
name: Kallianiotis, Argyris
name: Lefkaditou, Evgenia
name: Maiorano, Porzia
name: Marceta, Bojan
name: Massuti, Enric
name: Mifsud, Roberta
name: Peristeraki, Panagiota
name: Sartor, Paolo
name: Spedicato, Maria Teresa
name: Tserpes, George
Publisher: name: ASC 2014 - Theme session P
Year: 2023
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. In this work we present spatio-temporal trends of cephalopod diversity across the entire Mediterranean Sea during the last 20 years, analyzing data from the annual MEDITS surveys conducted by 5 different Mediterranean countries using standardized gears and sampling protocols. Species diversity patterns will be presented encompassing both the shelf and slope grounds. The influence of local and regional environmental variability in different Mediterranean regions are analyzed using general additive models.
Making the Antibiotic Choice for Treating Bovine Respiratory Disease
Creators: name: Ames, T. R.
name: Srinand, S.
name: Maheswaran, S. K.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1994

description: BRD produces disease with morbidity peaking in 1-3 weeks and mortality peaking in 2-4 weeks after entering the feedlot.1,4 When an epidemic curve for BRD is constructed using fatal disease onset rather than mortality as the parameter, it can be seen that calves dying from BRD become ill within the first 2 weeks of entering the feedlot.4 The fact that calves become ill so quickly after entering the feedlot obviously puts great emphasis on the type of animal and its recent history. This will be important in determining the morbidity and mortality which may occur. Fall placed calves going into feedlots in Canada and the northern United States will have higher morbidity and mortality than older calves. The morbidity and mortality of fall placed calves in the northern United States will be similar to that seen in stocker calves in southern United States. Both types of calves are young, multiorigin, long haul sale barn calves whose age and handling result in higher BRD morbidity and mortality.5 Antimicrobial agents can be used in the feedlot in the traditional manner to control mortality and improve performance in sick calves experiencing BRD as well as prophylactically on arrival to limit both BRD morbidity and mortality.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1994
Modeling self-organizing traffic lights with elementary cellular automata
Creators: name: Gershenson, Carlos
name: Rosenblueth, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There have been several highway traffic models proposed based on cellular automata. The simplest one is elementary cellular automaton rule 184. We extend this model to city traffic with cellular automata coupled at intersections using only rules 184, 252, and 136. The simplicity of the model offers a clear understanding of the main properties of city traffic and its phase transitions. We use the proposed model to compare two methods for coordinating traffic lights: a green-wave method that tries to optimize phases according to expected flows and a self-organizing method that adapts to the current traffic conditions. The self-organizing method delivers considerable improvements over the green-wave method. For low densities, the self-organizing method promotes the formation and coordination of platoons that flow freely in four directions, i.e. with a maximum velocity and no stops. For medium densities, the method allows a constant usage of the intersections, exploiting their maximum flux capacity. For high densities, the method prevents gridlocks and promotes the formation and coordination of "free-spaces" that flow in the opposite direction of traffic.
description: 33 pages, 11 Figures, 3 Tables
Live Animal Sampling for Antibacterial Susceptibility Testing
Creators: name: Clarke, Cyril R.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1994

description: The value of in vitro antibacterial susceptibility testing depends on the relevancy of the microbiological samples collected. Those from the lower respiratory tract are most likely to contain etiologic pathogens but their collection requires a high level of expertise and specialized equipment. Therefore, collection of tracheal swabs is recommended. Samples should be refrigerated and desiccation should be avoided. Selection of antibacterial agents for initial therapy of BRD should be based on microbiological testing of samples collected from live animals prior to therapy. Selection of antibacterial agents to be used when initial treatment fails can be based on results of susceptibility testing conducted on treatment failures. Correct interpretation of agar disk diffusion or MIC data depends not only on an understanding of the correlation between in vitro susceptibility and in vivo efficacy, but also the origin of the samples from which offending bacteria are cultured. Ideally, samples collected for bacteriological culture and isolation should: (1) contain the etiologic pathogen and not be contaminated with inconsequential isolates; (2) be collected, preserved, packaged, and transported in such a manner that the viability of microorganisms is maintained; and (3) yield isolates that are representative etiologic agents of the disease condition. These requirements are sometimes difficult to satisfy in the managerial and physical environment in which feedlot cattle are maintained.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1994
The effect of applied lime and phosphorus on the competitiveness of Tuber melanosporum and other ectomycorrhizal fungi found in Tasmania
Creators: name: Brown, Daryl
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Hazel (Corylus avellana L.) seedlings inoculated with the Perigord black truffle fungus (Tuber melanosporum Vitt.) are being planted in Tasmania in an attempt to culture truffles. Competition from other ectomycorrhizal fungi has a significant impact on truffle production in Europe and can be expected to have some effect on the Tasmanian industry. This thesis examines ectomycorrhizal fungi occurring in Tasmania with respect to their ability to form mycorrhizas with hazel and compete with T melanosporum under various soil treatments. Stands of hazel previously established for nut production or as ornaments were surveyed for the sporocarps of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Several species were found ; including species that are new either to Australia or Tasmania. The endemic species Descomyces albus (Klotzsch) Bougher & Castellano and Podohydnangium sp., previously thought to. be Eucalyptus specific were. fruiting under hazel. T melanosporum occurs naturally on calcareous soils in Europe. Truffieres in Tasmania are heavily limed to create a calcareous soil environment. The response of selected introduced and endemic ectomycorrhizal fungi to applied lime was studied in a glasshouse experiment. Some of the endemic species, which would normally inhabit acidic soils, were unable to survive high rates of lime application and therefore should not pose a threat to the truffle industry. The introduced species were generally more tolerant to lime application. A subsequent glasshouse experiment sought to separate the effects of pH and calcium on colonisation by T melanosporum. Seedling hazels were inoculated with T melanosporum. After twelve months, they were transplanted using soil amended with fourteen rates of either CaCO3 , CaSO4, or MgCO3 . The seedlings were then exposed to spores of two endemic fungal species. Applied CaCO 3 and MgCO3 increased level of colonisation by T melanosporum, whereas CaSO4 had little or no effect. Soil pH appears to have a stronger influence on colonisation by T melanosporum than the level of applied or exchangeable calcium. Colonisation by endemic species was low and sporadic across all treatments. Another glasshouse experiment of similar design to that above was established to observe the effect of lime and phosphorus interaction. Applied lime significantly increased the level of colonisation of T melanosporum, but phosphorus had no effect, even at very high rates of application (150 mg P / Kg soil). A commercial truffiere was surveyed for the level of colonisation by T melanosporum and other ectomycorrhizal fungi. Descriptions were compiled of the mycorrhizas of fungal species found in the glasshouse and field experiments to assist in their future identification. The morphological identification of Tuber mycorrhizas was confirmed using PCR and RFLP of DNA extracted from single mycorrhizal tips.
K-theory Schubert calculus of the affine Grassmannian
Creators: name: Lam, Thomas
name: Schilling, Anne
name: Shimozono, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E05, 14N15

description: We construct the Schubert basis of the torus-equivariant K-homology of the affine Grassmannian of a simple algebraic group G, using the K-theoretic NilHecke ring of Kostant and Kumar. This is the K-theoretic analogue of a construction of Peterson in equivariant homology. For the case G = SL_n, the K-homology of the affine Grassmannian is identified with a sub-Hopf algebra of the ring of symmetric functions. The Schubert basis is represented by inhomogeneous symmetric functions, called K-k-Schur functions, whose highest degree term is a k-Schur function. The dual basis in K-cohomology is given by the affine stable Grothendieck polynomials, verifying a conjecture of Lam. In addition, we give a Pieri rule in K-homology. Many of our constructions have geometric interpretations using Kashiwara's thick affine flag manifold.
description: 38 pages
Use of In Vitro Susceptibility Data to Direct Antibacterial Therapy of Bovine Respiratory Disease
Creators: name: Clarke, Cyril R.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1994

description: In vitro susceptibility assays, such as the agar diffusion technique and determination of minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC), can be used to predict antibacterial activity of a drug against specific bacteria isolated from cattle suffering from bovine respiratory disease. Caution should be exercised in interpreting these data because they do not reflect the contribution of the host defenses to antibacterial efficacy nor do they take into account the effects of inflammatory responses and tissue damage on drug activity. Furthermore, the relevance of pharmacokinetic data used to classify the susceptibility of the isolate should be closely examined. Used appropriately, MIC data provided a more quantitative assessment of activity than the agar diffusion technique and can be used together with relevant kinetic data to guide selection of antibacterial agents and dosage regimens.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1994
Weakly bound nuclei and realistic NN interactions
Creators: name: van Dalen, E. N. E.
name: Gögelein, P.
name: Müther, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclei close to the neutron drip line are described employing an interaction model which is based on the low-momentum interaction $V_{lowk}$. This effective two-body interaction which is determined to reproduce the nucleon-nucleon (NN) scattering data at energies below the pion thresh-hold is supplemented by a density-dependent contact interaction fitted to reproduce the saturation properties of infinite nuclear matter within the Hartree-Fock approach. It is demonstrated that corresponding calculations for closed shell-nuclei using this interaction model reproduce the bulk properties of these nuclei, independent whether the wave functions are expanded in terms of harmonic oscillator waves or in a basis of plane waves discretized in a spherical box of appropriate size. This plane wave basis, however, is more appropriate to describe weakly bound nuclei and the transition from discrete nuclei to homogeneous matter which is supposed to occur e.g. in the crust of neutron stars. Properties of exotic nuclei are studied within a Hartree-Fock plus BCS approximation.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Mycoplasma and Hemophilus
Creators: name: Grotelueschen, Dale M.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1994

description: Respiratory disease causes the highest economic loss of feedlot diseases. Diagnosis of infectious diseases occurring in feedlot environments tends to focus primarily on respiratory pathogens. The role of viral entities, including infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR), bovine viral diarrhea (BVD), parainfluenza-3 (PI3), and bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV), in conjunction with Pasteurella hemolytica in respiratory disease is well documented. They are generally regarded by veterinary clinicians as the primary pathogens involved in feedlot respiratory disease. Presence and involvement of other pathogens has been acknowledged and documented. However, their importance, incidence, pathogenicity, and cost to the industry are less well understood. Diagnostic investigations involving feedlot pathogens of lesser overall economic importance are important in order to address issues including therapy, prevention, and prognosis. Unusually high morbidity and/or mortality in some animal populations give them critical importance in some cases. Client education is also important in order to communicate occurrence of losses that at times mimic more common disease entities or present new diagnostic challenges. Mycoplasma bovis and Hemophilus somnus are two organisms that produce clinical and subclinical disease resulting in feedlot morbidity and mortality, with accompanying economic loss.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1994
Mesoscale optical turbulence simulations at Dome C: refinements
Creators: name: Lascaux, Franck
name: Masciadri, Elena
name: Hagelin, Susanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper the authors presented an extended study aiming at simulating the classical meteorological parameters and the optical turbulence at Dome C during the winter with the atmospherical mesoscale model Meso-NH. A statistical analysis has been presented and the conclusions of that paper have been very promising. Wind speed and temperature fields revealed to be very well reconstructed by the Meso-NH model with better performances than what has been achieved with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) global model, especially near the surface. All results revealed to be resolution-dependent and it has been proved that a grid-nesting configuration (3 domains) with a high horizontal resolution (1km) for the innermost domain is necessary to reconstruct all the optical turbulence features with a good correlation to measurements. High resolution simulations provided an averaged surface layer thickness just ~14 m higher than what is estimated by measurements, the seeing in the free atmosphere showed a dispersion from the observed one of just a few hundredths of an arcsecond (~0.05"). The unique limitation of the previous study was that the optical turbulence in the surface layer appeared overestimated by the model in both low and high resolution modes. In this study we present the results obtained with an improved numerical configuration. The same 15 nights have been simulated, and we show that the model results now match almost perfectly the observations in all their features: the surface thickness, the seeing in the free atmosphere as well as in the surface layer. This result permits us to investigate now other antarctic sites using a robust numerical model well adapted to the extreme polar conditions (Meso-NH).
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Good environmental status for cephalopods in UK waters?
Creators: name: Pierce, G.J.
name: Hastie, L.C.
name: Shanawany, N. El
name: Valavanis, V.
name: Fernandez, J.
name: Arkhipkin, A.
name: Robin, J.-P.
name: Ellis, J.
name: Burns, F.
name: Greenstreet, S.P.R.
name: Roel, B.
Publisher: name: ASC 2014 - Theme session P
Year: 2023
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. Under Descriptor 1 of the EU’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive, indicators are required for abundance, range, distribution patterns and demography of marine taxa, along with community level indices. The status of most cephalopods in UK and adjacent waters is not well known, although survey and fishery data, and project databases are available for some species. As key ecosystem components, it is important to consider whether suitable indicators could be developed for cephalopods. We describe results from a recent UK-Defra funded project to develop and evaluate indicators for cephalopods in UK waters. Spatiotemporal patterns of abundance were modelled and potential indicators developed. Since cephalopods are sensitive to environmental variation, it is important to quantify environmental effects on distribution and abundance, which could provide a moving baseline, improving the likelihood of detecting effects of anthropogenic stressors such as fishing. Analyses focused on the best studied species, namely Sepia officinalis, Loligo forbesii and Eledone cirrhosa. We also obtained new age data to test the consistency of growth curves across seasons and years in Loligo forbesii, and reviewed other sources of relevant information on cephalopods. The feasibility of monitoring cephalopods under the MSFD is discussed.
Evaluation of Pasteurella and Haemophilus Vaccines
Creators: name: Confer, Anthony W.
name: Fulton, Robert W.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1994

description: The family Pasteurellaceae Pohl contains gramnegative, facultatively anaerobic and fermentative bacteria of the genera Pasteurella, Haemophilus, and Actinobacillus. Of these genera, Haemophilus somnus, Pasteurella multocida and Pasteurella haemolytica are prominent pathogens in domestic cattle causing severe diseases and major economic losses. Mechanisms of immunity to these bacteria have been difficult to determine, and efficacious vaccines have been a challenge to develop and evaluate. In this review, we will summarize current published data on antigens and immunity associated with H. somnus, P. multocida, and P. haemolytica. This will be followed by a discussion of experimental studies conducted in our laboratories using commercial P. haemolytica vaccines.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1994
Imaginary companions : their role in childhood development
Creators: name: Bouldin, Paula M
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Five studies were conducted to investigate the emotional and cognitive factors associated with the presence of imaginary companions in children aged 3 to 9 years. In Study 1 parents were asked to complete a questionnaire which sought information regarding the characteristics of children with and without imaginary companions. Overall, a significantly larger number of children with imaginary companions were reported to be very imaginative and to have an increased predisposition to fantasy compared to children without companions. Study two investigated the fearfulness, anxiety, and temperament characteristics of imaginary companion and non-imaginary companion children. Examination of maternal ratings on the Fear Survey Schedule for Children-H Parent (FSSC-BP), the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS), and the Short Temperament Scale for Children (STSC), found that a significantly larger number of imaginary companion than non-imaginary companion children were reported to experience internalised anxiety associated with sensitivity to the environment and the expectations of others. Study 3 further examined the predisposition to fantasy of imaginary companion and non-imaginary companion children by asking them a series of questions regarding their dreams, daydreams, and scary thoughts. Analysis of children's taped responses indicated that a significantly larger number of imaginary companion than non-imaginary companion children experienced vivid mental imagery that incorporated a fantasy element.
Animal Breeding, Disease and Welfare
Creators: name: Ott, Randall S.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1994

description: In the United States, people display two very different and conflicting attitudes towards the animals that they use. The pet paradigm evolves toward an anthropomorphic viewpoint in which the animal is seen as a dependent, obedient child. The production paradigm evolves towards a "machinomorphic" viewpoint in which the animal becomes an economic unit in a production system. An understanding of animals as animals leads to rejection of the extreme viewpoint of each paradigm. Such understanding is prerequisite to our attention to their welfare. Much of the disease experienced by domesticated animals is a result of 1) the environmental conditions of their confinement; 2) the management practices to which the animals are subjected or; 3) breeding practices that create genetic stock that is defective or predisposed to disease. Essential elements of animal health concern proper management and housing for animals and breeding programs that emphasize functional efficiency and disease resistance. Disease prevention should be a major concern of animal welfarists.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1994
Parity Dependence in Strong Lens Systems as a Probe of Dark Matter Substructure
Creators: name: Chen, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The amount of mass in small, dark matter clumps within galaxies (substructure) is an important test of cold dark matter. One approach to measuring the substructure mass fraction is to analyze the fluxes of images that have been strongly lensed by a galaxy. Flux ratios between images that are anomalous with respect to smooth (no substructure) models have previously suggested that there is a greater amount of substructure than found in dark matter simulations. One measure of anomalous flux ratios is parity dependence -- that the fluxes of different images of a source are perturbed differently. In this paper, we discuss parity dependence as a probe of dark matter substructure. We find that reproducing the observed parity dependence requires a significant alignment between concentrated dark matter clumps and images. The results may imply a larger fraction of mass in substructures than suggested by some dark matter simulations and that the observed parity dependence is unlikely to be reproduced by luminous satellites of lens galaxies.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures, submitted to A&A
Additional file 1 of Blocking siglec-10hi tumor-associated macrophages improves anti-tumor immunity and enhances immunotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Xiao, Nan
name: Zhu, Xiaodong
name: Li, Kangshuai
name: Chen, Yifan
name: Liu, Xuefeng
name: Xu, Bin
name: Lei, Ming
name: Xu, Jiejie
name: Sun, Hui-Chuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Flow chart of patient selection. Figure S2. Gating strategy for selection of Siglec-10hi macrophages. Figure S3. Representative images of CD8+ T cells by flow cytometry analysis. Table S1. Characteristics of HCC patients and relationship with intratumoral Siglec-10+ cell infiltration. Table S2. Immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence and flow cytometry antibodies.
Optimizing Cow Size, Milk, Calf Growth Rate and Reproduction in the Cow Herd
Creators: name: Lusby, Keith E.
name: Marston, Twig T.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1994

description: Type - mature size, milk producing ability, fatness - is extremely important to the cow/calf producer because it directly affects profitability. Type affects profitability because it influences (1) reproductive performance, (2) weaning weight of calves, (3) feed requirements of the cows, (4) market strategies, (5) selling price of calves and cull cows. Concern about type is not new. The following quotes taken from a booklet entitled Progressive Beef Cattle Raising, published by Armour and Co. in 1920 showed not only concern but a degree of understanding about type and efficiency of cows.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1994
title: Using statistical time series approaches in the characterization and monitoring of cephalopod fisheries
Creators: name: Prista, N.
name: Pereira, J.
name: Moreno, A.
Publisher: name: ASC 2014 - Theme session P
Year: 2023
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. The life-history characteristics and data limitations of many cephalopod stocks cause difficulties to their assessment and management. When formal advice based on sophisticated multivariate assessment models cannot be provided, available time series of commercial fisheries data may still be routinely monitored and categorized as being 'in-control' or 'out-of-control' so that minimal advice can be given to industry and management and used to set research priorities. In this study we used forecasts obtained from seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) models to monitor the behavior of >10 time series of monthly landings obtained from two Portuguese cephalopod fisheries: the common octopus and the European squid. We show that through a careful and ordered application of time series methods, SARIMA models can be quickly and appropriately fit to time series of monthly cephalopod landings with model parametrization being related to known life-cycle events and fishing strategies. Furthermore, we show that SARIMA models produce reasonable forecasts of future landings and are able to readily detect major events occurring in the cephalopod fisheries (e.g., a recruitment failure in the squid fishery), with their prediction intervals being useful as baseline advice for fishers and managers dealing with data-limited situations.
Elektrophysiologische Charakterisierung und Nachweis einer funktionellen Expression Barium-sensitiver Kaliumkanäle in Gliomzellen
Creators: name: Madadi, Annett
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Der einwärtsgleichrichtende Kaliumkanal Kir4.1 ist bedeutsam in der Regulation von Proliferation und Differenzierung von Glia und der Modulation neuronaler Erregbarkeit und somit ein interessantes Target im Hinblick auf tumorassoziierte Epilepsie. Daher wurden für diese Arbeit patient*innennahe Glioblastomzelllinien bezüglich der molekularen und funktionellen Kir4-1-Expression untersucht. Dabei zeigte sich eine differenzielle Expression zwischen den verschiedenen Zelllinien mit damit einhergehenden signifikanten Unterschieden der elektrophysiologischen Eigenschaften.
Fescue Toxicity
Creators: name: Miksch, Duane
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1994

description: An extensive list of potential toxicants extracted from endophyte-infected tall fescue has been compiled. Ergopeptine alkaloids, principally ergovaline, are believed responsible for the majority of fescue's adverse effects on cattle and other livestock.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1994
Carbohydrate partitioning and developmental physiology of Nerine bowdenii Will. Watson
Creators: name: Blake, Martin Richard
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Nerine spp. are a bulbous genus that is grown commercially in Australia on a limited scale. However, environmental conditions in the south-eastern region of the continent, including the island state of Tasmania, are ideal for production of cut-flowers. However, large scale cultivation of the genus has been precluded to some extent not only by unpredictable flowering under field conditions but also unsatisfactory inflorescence scape lengths for export markets. The objective of these studies was to begin to elucidate some of the factors involved in the control of flowering in Nerine bowdenii Will. Watson, and to investigate the process of scape elongation. The Nerine bulb consists of a number of recently initiated and previously emerged annual units. The concentric leaf bases are retained and serve as a source of carbohydrates for the development of the units. Dry weight analysis of the bulb components over time showed that all outer units were utilised for current season leaf and inflorescence growth. Photoassimilates and carbon from senescing leaves appeared to predominantly accumulate in these organs but were not critical to flowering under glasshouse conditions. The major carbohydrates detected in bulbs were starch, sucrose, fructose, glucose, and fructans. Sucrose was found to be the major form of carbon transport in the vascular tissue of mature leaves. Fructan was present in very high concentrations in all organs, and the presence of this polymer has not been previously reported in this genus. To investigate the role of the reserve carbohydrate supply in inflorescence abortion C-sucrose was applied to the outer scales of bulbs. Bulbs containing an aborting inflorescence showed increased sink activity by leaf/floral primordia. C data indicated that outer-scale derived sucrose rapidly became dispersed throughout the bulb, with accumulation of radio-actively soluble sugars in the roots and basal plate. Expansion of leaves and scape was shown to be initially dependant on cell divisions within a plate meristem located at the base of the organs. This was followed by expansion of the cells. Control of flower height was able to be manipulated by the imposition of shading on plants, which resulted in longer scape lengths as a consequence of increased cell divisions. The data also suggested a potential role of shading in the regulation of leaf number.
Laser cooling of solids
Creators: name: Nemova, Galina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Parallel to advances in laser cooling of atoms and ions in dilute gas phase, which has progressed immensely, resulting in physics Nobel prizes in 1997 and 2001, major progress has recently been made in laser cooling of solids. I compare the physical nature of the laser cooling of atoms and ions with that of the laser cooling of solids. I point out all advantages of this new and very promising area of laser physics. Laser cooling of solids (optical refrigeration) at the present time can be largely divided into three areas: laser cooling in ion doped glasses or crystals, laser cooling in semiconductors (bulk or confined, like quantum-well structures), and radiation-balanced lasers. All three areas, which are equally important and promising, are covered in the paper.
description: 26 pages, 6 figures
Macroscopic entanglement between a Bose Einstein condensate and a superconducting loop
Creators: name: Singh, Mandip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically study macroscopic entanglement between a magnetically trapped Bose-Einstein condensate and a superconducting loop. We treat the superconducting loop in a quantum superposition of two different flux states coupling with the magnetic trap to generate macroscopic entanglement. The scheme also provides a platform to investigate interferometry with an entangled Bose Einstein condensate and to explore physics at the quantum-classical interface.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Vaccination
Creators: name: Cravens, Ronald L.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1994

description: In light of current U.S. beef cattle economics, there is heightened awareness and scrutiny of all expenses. As a line item, animal health expenditures represent a relatively small percentage of overall cost and are often viewed as non-essential or optional expenses. This is understandable when you recognize that money spent on prevention results in reduced losses as opposed to increased output. It is difficult to determine lost potential or the cost savings of disease avoidance. However, from a business perspective, it does not matter whether improved operating performance comes from reducing losses or increasing output. What is important is how much was spent versus what was gain.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1994
Nonlinear Wigner solid transport over superfluid helium under AC conditions
Creators: name: Monarkha, Yuriy
name: Kono, Kimitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlinear transport properties of the two-dimensional Wigner solid of surface electrons on superfluid helium are studied for alternating current conditions. For time-averaged quantities like Fourier coefficients, the field-velocity characteristics are shown to be qualitatively different as compared to that found in the DC theory. For a spatially uniform current we found a general solution for the field-velocity relationship which appears to be strongly dependent on the current frequency. If the current frequency is much lower than the ripplon damping parameter, the Bragg-Cherenkov resonances which appear at high enough drift velocities acquire a distinctive saw-tooth shape with long right-side tails independent of small damping. For current frequencies which are close or higher than the ripplon damping coefficient, the interference of ripplons excited at different time intervals results in a new oscillatory (in drift velocity) regime of Bragg-Cherenkov scattering.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Use of Performance Ratios to Calculate The Economic Impact of Thin Cows in Beef Cattle Herds
Creators: name: Wikse, Steven E.
name: Field, Robert W.
name: Holland, Patricia S.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1994

description: Nutrition is the foundation of optimal livestock health and productivity. Veterinarians who provide consultation to beef herds make recommendations on nutrition programs to supply nutrients that meet animal requirements. Ranchers are often reluctant to implement recommendations to feed their cattle properly because feed costs are their greatest annual expense and they are uncertain of the economic outcome of increased feed costs vs improved herd performance. Many studies have been done on the reduced performance of cattle associated with poor body condition due to inadequate intakes of energy and/or protein. Thin cows are less productive than cows in good body condition due to: 1) lower pregnancy rates; 2) lower weaning weights of their calves; and 3) lower survivability of their calves.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1994
Quasi-elastic neutrino charged-current scattering off C-12
Creators: name: Butkevich, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charged-current quasi-elastic scattering of muon neutrino on a carbon target is calculated for neutrino energy up to 2.8 GeV using the relativistic distorted-wave impulse approximation with relativistic optical potential, which was earlier successfully applied to describe electron-nucleus data. We studied both neutrino and electron processes and have shown that the reduced exclusive cross section for neutrino and electron scattering are similar. We have also studied nuclear and axial vector mass effects on the shape of $Q^2$ distribution. The comparison of the (anti)neutrino total cross sections per (proton)neutron, calculated for the carbon and oxygen targets shows the cross sections for oxygen to be lower than those for carbon. We found significant nuclear model dependence of inclusive and total cross sections for energy about 1 GeV.
description: 27 pages, 12 figures
title: Thermal habitat compression and density-dependent overwintering mortality in longfin inshore squid: Theory, empirical support, and a possible application enhancing the flexibility of fisheries management
Creators: name: Manderson, John Pilling
name: Townsend, Howard
name: Kohut, Josh
name: Palamara, Laura
name: Churchister, Enrique
Publisher: name: ASC 2014 - Theme session P
Year: 2023
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. Most models of marine fish population dynamics, including those used for managing fisheries, are spatially implicit and assume that populations occupy habitats that remain effectively stationary over ecologically relevant time scales. When this assumption holds true density dependent mechanisms of population regulation (e.g. competition, cannibalism, disease transmission, predation mortality, fishing mortality, reproductive success) vary directly with changes in absolute population size. When the assumption that habitat is stationary is not true, however, density dependent processes can vary in strength with changes in the volume of suitable habitat as well as the absolute size of the population occupying that habitat. Under these circumstances density dependent feedbacks resulting from changes in absolute population size are modulated by changes in habitat volume.
Ferromagnetic Fractional Quantum Hall States in a Valley-Degenerate Two-Dimensional Electron System
Creators: name: Padmanabhan, Medini
name: Gokmen, T.
name: Shayegan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a two-dimensional electron system where the electrons occupy two conduction band valleys with anisotropic Fermi contours and strain-tunable occupation. We observe persistent quantum Hall states at filling factors $ν= 1/3$ and 5/3 even at zero strain when the two valleys are degenerate. This is reminiscent of the quantum Hall ferromagnet formed at $ν= 1$ in the same system at zero strain. In the absence of a theory for a system with anisotropic valleys, we compare the energy gaps measured at $ν= 1/3$ and 5/3 to the available theory developed for single-valley, two-spin systems, and find that the gaps and their rates of rise with strain are much smaller than predicted.
Practice Opportunities in Cow/Calf Health Management
Creators: name: Dargatz, David A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1994

description: With information from the Cow/Calf Health and Productivity Audit (CHAPA) veterinarians are in a position to demonstrate opportunities for improvement of beef production on cow/calf operations. Economic profitability associated with interventions will need to be determined for each operation. The veterinarian is highly regarded as a source of information by cow/calf producers. Few producers take advantage of available advanced reproductive technology in order to improve production efficiency. Furthermore, few producers use vaccination as a health management tool. The CHAPA would indicate that there is a large base of producers that may benefit from the advice and counsel of veterinarians in areas of breeding, calving, health, and nutritional management.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1994
W obronie marketingu politycznego
Creators: name: Scheffs, Łukasz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified

description: Ł. Scheffs, W obronie marketingu politycznego, „Refleksje” 2013, nr 7, ss. 171-186, ISSN 2081-8270.
Auditor quality and the presence of audit committees : an association with income smoothing
Creators: name: Adi, S
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Income smoothing is the intentional reduction of reported earnings fluctuations with respect to some \target\" level or trend. This study investigates whether auditor quality or the presence of audit committees is associated with income smoothing by managers of Australian firms. It is motivated by the lack of evidence of an association between income smoothing and corporate governance structures. Discretionary accruals estimated using a :- cross-sectional accruals model are used as a proxy for earnings management and smoothing is measured as the excess of (a) the difference between actual reported operating profit before taxes and targeted operating profit before taxes over (b) the difference between targeted operating profit before taxes and pre-managed earnings. The smaller the excess the more smoothing takes place. This study is mostly inconclusive about whether auditor quality is associated with income smoothing. In contrast the presence of an audit committee has no association with smoothing. While they are inconclusive the results generally do not support predictions that the more firms use audit committees and high quality auditors in combination the less likely they are to smooth reported income. Australian firms tend to smooth reported earnings more than their US counterparts. While the difference may be attributable to international differences in requirements for the use of an audit committee again the results are not conclusive."
MPEC 2025-G30 : 2025 FM20
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 FM20

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Environmental effects on Octopus vulgaris landings in northwest Spanish waters
Creators: name: Costas, Gersom
name: Bruno, Isabel
name: Pierce, Graham J.
Publisher: name: ASC 2014 - Theme session P
Year: 2023
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) is the target species of the cephalopod trap fishery in the NW Iberian Peninsula. Landings show wide inter and intra annuals fluctuations. We analyzed the logbook time series of the Spanish trap fishery from 2003 to 2012 to investigate its variability. There is a marked seasonality in the biomass index (catch per unit effort) with the highest value being reached place during the winter season, using generalized additive models (GAMs) we explore the potential effects of several environmental variables on time-series of octopus trap fishery. Results indicate significant effects of sea surface temperature (SST), NAO and the upwelling index on the octopus biomass index.
Tilting, deformations and representations of linear groups over Euclidean algebras
Creators: name: Bekkert, Viktor
name: Drozd, Yuriy
name: Futorny, Vyacheslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E47, 16G20, 18E30

description: We consider the dual space of linear groups over Dynkinian and Euclidean algebras, i.e. finite dimensional algebras derived equivalent to the path algebra of Dynkin or Euclidean quiver. We prove that this space contains an open dense subset isomorphic to the product of dual spaces of full linear groups and, perhaps, one more (explicitly described) space. The proof uses the technique of bimodule categories, deformations and representations of quivers.
description: 20 pages