cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effects of Feeding Omni Gen-AF® on Phagocytic Ability of Neutrophils Isolated from Dairy Cattle, Rats and Mice
Creators: name: Rowson, A. D.
name: Wang, Y.
name: Forsberg, N. E.
name: Puntenney, S. B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: In recent studies (Wang et al., 2007, 2009), we determined that feeding OmniGen-AF® (Prince Agri Products, Quincy, IL) to ruminant animals alters expression of markers of immunity. In a study with immunosuppressed sheep (Wang et al, 2007), feeding Omni Gen-AF® increased concentrations of neutrophil Lselectin and interleukin-1 beta. A subsequent study with dairy cattle (Wang et al, 2009) indicated that the product altered expression of a broad spectrum of neutrophil genes including interleukin-8 receptor and interleukin converting enzyme. While changes in gene expression are of interest academically, one might question whether this regulation results in a change in the physiology of neutrophils. As a result, the goal of this study was to assess effects offeeding OmniGen-AF® on the phagocytic ability of neutrophils. Ability of OmniGen-to elicit these changes was examined in three species (bovine, rat, mouse) against three bovine pathogens (Streptococcus uberis, E.coli, and Arcanobacterium pyogenes).
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
Examination of the Use of Intrauterine or Systemic Antimicrobial Therapy to Prevent Puerperal Metritis in Dairy Cows with Dystocia
Creators: name: Pinos-Rodriguez, J. M.
name: O'Boyle, N. J.
name: Sears, P. M.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Cows with dystocia are considered as abnormal calving if delivered by hand or with a calf puller, and as having risk factors for puerperal metritis (PM) if a discharge occurs following calving. In recent years, untreated cows with postpartum metritis have increased the debate over the need of intrauterine or systemic antibiotic in the treatment of PM. This is further complicated by the studies that lack good control groups of untreated cows. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of non-treatment, intrauterine antibiotic, and systemic antibiotics on PM incidence of dairy cows with abnormal calving.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
Simplified Frequency Offset Estimation for MIMO OFDM Systems
Creators: name: Jiang, Yanxiang
name: Minn, Hlaing
name: You, Xiaohu
name: Gao, Xiqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper addresses a simplified frequency offset estimator for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems over frequency selective fading channels. By exploiting the good correlation property of the training sequences, which are constructed from the Chu sequence, carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation is obtained through factor decomposition for the derivative of the cost function with great complexity reduction. The mean-squared error (MSE) of the CFO estimation is derived to optimize the key parameter of the simplified estimator and also to evaluate the estimator performance. Simulation results confirm the good performance of the training-assisted CFO estimator.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, IEEE TVT, 2008
Beyond Perception
Creators: name: Schuenemann, G. M.
name: Bas, S.
name: Workman, J. D.
name: Rajala-Schultz, P.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Continuing education programs (CEP) are critical for veterinary practitioners to update and improve their skills and services (Moore et al, 2004 JVME 31, 146; Di Croce et al, 2008 Reprod Fertil Dev 20:86). CEP must offer an educational environment where veterinarians can effectively rejuvenate their knowledge, skills, and learn about new practices. Assessing learning activities is an important component in any CEP not only for program accreditation but also for post-delivery assessments. Continued support through collaborative learning and decision-making processes may help veterinary practitioners feel motivated to incorporate new practices, thus enhancing dairy sustainability. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a CEP designed to enhance the flow of scientific-based reproductive techniques to dairy veterinary practitioners.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
title: Beyond diffusion-limited aggregation kinetics in microparticle suspensions
Creators: name: Erb, Randall M.
name: Krebs, Melissa D.
name: Alsberg, Eben
name: Samanta, Bappaditya
name: Rotello, Vincent M.
name: Yellen, Benjamin B.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: aggregation
subject: colloids
subject: diffusion
subject: free energy
subject: suspensions

description: Aggregation in nondiffusion limited colloidal particle suspensions follows a temporal power-law dependence that is consistent with classical diffusion limited cluster aggregation models; however, the dynamic scaling exponents observed in these systems are not adequately described by diffusion limited cluster aggregation models, which expect these scaling exponents to be constant over all experimental conditions. We show here that the dynamic scaling exponents for 10 μm particles increase with the particle concentration and the particle-particle free energy of interaction. We provide a semiquantitative explanation for the scaling behavior in terms of the long-ranged particle-particle interaction potential.
Systematics of E2 strength in the sd-shell with the valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group
Creators: name: Stroberg, S. R.
name: Henderson, J.
name: Hackman, G.
name: Ruotsalainen, P.
name: Hagen, G.
name: Holt, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Background: Recent developments in {\it ab initio} nuclear theory demonstrate promising results in medium- to heavy-mass nuclei. A particular challenge for many of the many-body methodologies, however, is an accurate treatment of the electric-quadrupole, $E2$, strength associated with collectivity. Purpose: The valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group (VS-IMSRG) is a particularly powerful method for accessing medium- and high-mass nuclei but has been found to underpredict $E2$ strengths. The purpose of this work is to evaluate the isospin dependence of this underprediction. Methods: We perform a systematic comparison of valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group (VS-IMSRG) calculations with available literature. We make use of isoscalar and isovector contributions to the $E2$ matrix elements to assess isoscalar and isovector contributions to the missing strength. Results: It is found that the $E2$ strength is consistent throughout $T_z=\left|\frac{1}{2}\right|$, $T_z=\left|1\right|$, $T_z=\left|\frac{3}{2}\right|$ and $T_z=2$ pairs within the $sd$-shell. Furthermore, no isovector contribution to the deficiency is identified. Conclusions: A comparison with toy-models and coupled-cluster calculations is used to discuss potential origins of the missing strength, which arises from missing many-particle, many-hole excitations out of the model space. The absence of any significant isovector contribution to the missing $E2$ strength indicates that the $E2$ strength discrepancy, and therefore any correction, is largely independent of the isospin of the nuclei in question.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2005.03796
Dynamics of warm power-law plateau inflation with a generalized inflaton decay rate: predicctions and constraints after Planck 2015
Creators: name: Jawad, Abdul
name: Videla, Nelson
name: Gulshan, Faiza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work we study the consequences of considering a new family of single-field inflation models, called power-law plateau inflation, in the warm inflation framework. We consider the inflationary expansion is driven by a standard scalar field with a decay ratio $Γ$ having a generic power-law dependence with the scalar field $ϕ$ and the temperature of the thermal bath $T$ given by $Γ(ϕ,T)=C_ϕ\,\frac{T^m}{ϕ^{m-1}}$. Assuming that our model evolves according to the strong dissipative regime, we study the background and perturbative dynamics, obtaining the most relevant inflationary observables as the scalar power spectrum, the scalar spectral index and its running, and the tensor-to-scalar ratio. The free parameters characterizing our model are constrained by considering the essential condition for warm inflation, the conditions for the model evolves according to the strong dissipative regime, and the 2015 Planck results through the $n_s-r$ plane. For completeness, we study the predictions in the $n_s-dn_s/d\ln k$ plane. The model is consistent with a strong dissipative dynamics and predicts values for the tensor-to-scalar ratio and for the running of the scalar spectral index consistent with current bounds imposed by Planck, and we conclude that the model is viable.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in EPJC
Flunixin Meglumine Residues and Injection Site Damage
Creators: name: Griffin, D. D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Did you know that flunixin meglumine (FM) residues are the second leading violative residue reported by the USDA-FSIS? Flunixin meglumine residue violations are surpassed only by the residue violations from over the counter (OTC) procaine penicillin G and are the leading prescription (Rx) drug residues in all food animals. The FDA-CVM, in the FDA Veterinarian Newsletter 2007, Volume XXII, Number 2, reminded all veterinarians to use FM correctly. In that newsletter, the FDA-CVM noted investigations of several residue reports which led the agency to believe that unapproved routes of administration, such as intramuscular use, were traced to violative residues. The agency reminded veterinarians that the drug was only approved for intravenous use and that the convenience of an alternate route of administration, such as intramuscular, was not an AMDUCA acceptable reason for extralabel drug use.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
title: Evolution of the total lipids in muscle and gonads of hake (Merluccius merluccius) during gonadal development
Creators: name: Gonçalves, Patrícia
name: Bandarra, Narcisa M.
name: Monteiro, Margarida
name: Costa, Ana
name: Cunha, Emília
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - K - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data
The sea and human culture and societies

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Hake is a migratory fish and the main spawning period off Portugal is from January to March. Those biological events required high energety inputs leading to remarkable seasonal changes in the energetic status, which in time produces changes in the lipid content and composition of muscle and gonads. This work consists into a preliminary evaluation in the changes of total lipid content, lipid classes, and fatty acid composition of hake female gonad and muscle (whithout skin) in different maturity stages along the 2003 – 2004 spawning season.
Bovine Veterinary Education
Creators: name: Thomson, John U.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: The implementation of outcomes based veterinary medicine will allow our profession to close the loop between clinical practice and academic veterinary medicine. This will define best practices and identify areas in need of research. It will provide the data that validates our profession's contribution to society.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
Face segmentation: A comparison between visible and thermal images
Creators: name: Mekyska, Jiri
name: Espinosa-Duró, Virginia
name: Faundez-Zanuy, Marcos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Face segmentation is a first step for face biometric systems. In this paper we present a face segmentation algorithm for thermographic images. This algorithm is compared with the classic Viola and Jones algorithm used for visible images. Experimental results reveal that, when segmenting a multispectral (visible and thermal) face database, the proposed algorithm is more than 10 times faster, while the accuracy of face segmentation in thermal images is higher than in case of Viola-Jones
description: 5 pages, published in 44th Annual 2010 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, 2010, pp. 185-189, 5-8 Oct. 2010 San Jose (California, USA)
Geographic Diversity in Public Code Contributions
Creators: name: Rossi, Davide
name: Zacchiroli, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We conduct an exploratory, large-scale, longitudinal study of 50 years of commits to publicly available version control system repositories, in order to characterize the geographic diversity of contributors to public code and its evolution over time. We analyze in total 2.2 billion commits collected by Software Heritage from 160 million projects and authored by 43 million authors during the 1971-2021 time period. We geolocate developers to 12 world regions derived from the United Nation geoscheme, using as signals email top-level domains, author names compared with names distributions around the world, and UTC offsets mined from commit metadata.We find evidence of the early dominance of North America in open source software, later joined by Europe. After that period, the geographic diversity in public code has been constantly increasing. We also identify relevant historical shifts related to the UNIX wars, the increase of coding literacy in Central and South Asia, and broader phenomena like colonialism and people movement across countries (immigration/emigration).
description: The 2022 Mining Software Repositories Conference, May 2022, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Fluorescence detection of single lithium atoms in an optical lattice using Doppler-cooling beams
Creators: name: Han, Hyok Sang
name: Lee, Hyun Gyung
name: Yoon, Seokchan
name: Cho, Donghyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate in situ fluorescence detection of $^7$Li atoms in a 1D optical lattice with single atom precision. Even though illuminated lithium atoms tend to boil out, when the lattice is deep, molasses beams without extra cooling retain the atoms while producing sufficient fluorescent photons for detection. When the depth of the potential well at an antinode is 2.4 mK, an atom remains trapped for 30 s while scattering probe photons at the rate of $1.7 \times 10^5$ s$^{-1}$. We propose a simple model that describes the dependence of the lifetime of an atom on well depth. When the number of trapped atoms is reduced, a clear stepwise change is observed in integrated fluorescence, indicating the detection of a single atom. At a photon-collecting efficiency of only 1.3% owing to small numerical aperture, the presence or absence of an atom is determined within 300 ms with an error of less than $5 \times 10^{-4}$.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
title: Abundance and distribution of the larval stages of the mesopelagic fish Maurolicus muelleri (Gmelin, 1788) in relation to the hydrography off the west coast of Ireland
Creators: name: Acevedo, Silvana
name: Fives, Julie M.
name: Mohn, Christian
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - K - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data
The sea and human culture and societies

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The distribution and abundance of the pearl-side, Maurolicus muelleri larvae were investigated as part of the EU-funded project ‘Ichthyoplankton-based indices of abundances of Spring-spawning commercial fish population in Western European waters’ (INDICES). The larvae were found to be the second most numerous species recorded and occurred mainly west of the Irish shelf break. Spawning occurred from March to July with a peak in early summer. Greatest larval abundances occurred in June-July, with the highest concentrations recorded north of the study area. Larval distribution patterns were investigated in relation to hydrographic conditions.
Factors Influencing Bovine Respiratory Disease in Stocker and Feeder Cattle
Creators: name: Smith, Robert A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) continues to be the major health problem of stocker and feeder cattle, despite many years of research and technological advances. Animal husbandry practices that reduce stress have long been shown to reduce BRD morbidity, such as reducing commingling, weaning/preconditioning, performing routine surgeries early in life, nutritional management, and biosecurity. These management practices complement vaccination programs by reducing stress, and ultimately morbidity rates. This paper is not an in-depth review of management practices that influence morbidity, but rather cites several examples of how animal husbandry practices can reduce stress and associated morbidity rates.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
title: ‘A Gothic Portrayal of Mothering in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’
Creators: name: Baughman, Makayla
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Frankenstein
subject: Mary Shelley
subject: Gothic Fiction
subject: Gothic Novel
subject: 19th Century
subject: Matrilineal
subject: Victor Frankenstein
subject: Frankenstein’s Monster
subject: Writing Flag Award

description: This analytical research paper evaluates Mary Shelley's depictions of complex parent-child relationships in her novel Frankenstein, as well as the essentiality of Gothic themes, forms, and devices in shaping these depictions. I argue that the relationship between Victor Frankenstein and his quasi-child mirrors the lived experience of the author, Mary Shelley, and serves as a theoretical allusion to Femininity and Matrilineal Trauma.
Photon-pair blockade in a Josephson-photonics circuit with two nondegenerate microwave resonators
Creators: name: Ma, Sheng-li
name: Xie, Ji-kun
name: Ren, Ya-long
name: Li, Xin-ke
name: Li, Fu-li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose to generate photon-pair blockade in a Josephson-photonics circuit that consists of a dc voltage-biased Josephson junction in series with a superconducting charge qubit and two nondegenerate microwave resonators. The two-level charge qubit is utilized to create anticorrelations of the charge transport; that is, the simultaneous Cooper pair tunneling events are inhibited. When the Josephson frequency matches the sum of resonance frequencies of the charge qubit and the two resonators, we demonstrate that the two resonators can release their energies in the form of antibunched pairs of two strongly correlated photons. The present work provides a practical way for producing a bright microwave source of antibunched photon pairs, with potential applications ranging from spectroscopy and metrology to quantum information processing.
description: Accepted for publication in New J. Phys
Spin injection into silicon detected by broadband ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy
Creators: name: Ohshima, Ryo
name: Klingler, Stefan
name: Dushenko, Sergey
name: Ando, Yuichiro
name: Weiler, Mathias
name: Huebl, Hans
name: Shinjo, Teruya
name: Goennenwein, Sebastian T. B.
name: Shiraishi, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the spin injection in a NiFe(Py)/Si system using broadband ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy. The Gilbert damping parameter of the Py layer on top of the Si channel was determined as a function of the Si doping concentration and Py layer thickness. For fixed Py thickness we observed an increase of the Gilbert damping parameter with decreasing resistivity of the Si channel. For a fixed Si doping concentration we measured an increasing Gilbert damping parameter for decreasing Py layer thickness. No increase of the Gilbert damping parameter was found Py/Si samples with an insulating interlayer. We attribute our observations to an enhanced spin injection into the low-resistivity Si by spin pumping.
description: 15 pages, 3 Figures, 2 Tables (to appear Applied Physics Letters)
Approaches to Enhancing the Gastrointestinal Health of Calves
Creators: name: McGuirk, Sheila M.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: The gastrointestinal tract (GIT), as the largest immunological organ of the body, plays a pivotal role in calf health, growth, and long-term productivity. Important contributors to optimal gastrointestinal function of calves include colostrum status, a balanced intestinal flora, nutrition, intestinal immune factors, motility, and transport of nutrients. The promotion of GIT health of young calves through dietary manipulations, nutritional supplements, addition of immune components, oral antibiotics, and vaccinations are discussed. Antibiotic alternatives to improve growth and reduce enteric disease are plasma proteins, immunoglobulins, probiotic bacteria, yeast cultures, and oligosaccharides. To ascertain health, growth, and profitability from measures taken to improve intestinal immune function, outcome measurements, intestinal health parameters, and dietary composition should be monitored closely.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
Fabrication of a centimeter-long cavity on a nanofiber for cavity QED
Creators: name: Keloth, Jameesh
name: Nayak, K. P.
name: Hakuta, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the fabrication of a 1.2 cm long cavity directly on a nanofiber using femtosecond laser ablation. The cavity modes with finesse value in the range 200-400 can still maintain the transmission between 40-60%, which can enable "strong-coupling" regime of cavity QED for a single atom trapped 200 nm away from the fiber surface. For such cavity modes, we estimate the one-pass intra-cavity transmission to be 99.53%. Other cavity modes, which can enable high cooperativity in the range 3-10, show transmission over 60-85% and are suitable for fiber-based single photon sources and quantum nonlinear optics in the "Purcell" regime.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Bovine Field Restraint
Creators: name: Miesner, Matt D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: Restraint of cattle is a vital portion of practice. Knowing and applying methods of basic physical restraint is a necessity. By combining physical restraint methods with multimodal chemical restraint, better patient cooperation and analgesia enhance results.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
Updates in transition cow health and nutrition
Creators: name: Overton, Thomas R.
name: Mann, Sabine
name: Leno, Brittanny M.
name: Nydam, Daryl V.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2016

description: Transition cow nutritional management strategies have evolved significantly over the past 10 years and continue to evolve. Management of subclinical hypocalcemia is important to support high milk yield, excellent reproduction, and decrease subclinical disease. Feeding anionic diets before calving, perhaps using more aggressive strategies, improves blood calcium status post-calving and increases post-calving dry matter intakes and milk yield. Controlling energy intake before calving improves postpartum energy balance and decreases subclinical ketosis; feeding adequate metabolizable protein before calving helps maintain high milk yield after calving. Excellent feeding management (managing chop length of bulky forage and moisture of the (total mixed ration) TMR) of transition rations is critical for on-farm success; many dairy farms have opportunities for improved feeding management. There may be interactions of starch levels pre- and post-calving; cows fed low starch pre-calving rations should be fed lower starch diets after calving, whereas cows fed moderate starch rations pre-calving can likely be fed starch levels more typical of high starch cow rations after calving. Furthermore, there may be opportunities to combine higher fermentability with higher bulk in fresh cow rations to improve feed intakes after calving, as well as to more critically consider metabolizable protein and amino acid formulation of the fresh diet.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2016
title: Distribution and abundance patterns of Pouting (Trisopterus luscus Linnaeus, 1758) in Portuguese continental waters (ICES Div. IXa)
Creators: name: Chaves, Corina
name: Cardador, Fátima
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - K - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data
The sea and human culture and societies

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The main objective of the present study is to analyse the trends of the abundance and biomass indices and the patterns of geographical distribution of pouting in Portuguese continental waters.
Metal load assessment in patient pulmonary lavages: towards a comprehensive mineralogical analysis including the nano-sized fraction
Creators: name: Forest, Valérie
name: Jean-Michel Vergnon
name: Guibert, Cyril
name: Bitounis, Dimitrios
name: Leclerc, Lara
name: Sarry, Gwendoline
name: Pourchez, Jérémie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Mineralogical analyses of clinical samples have been proved useful to identify causal relationship between exposure to airborne particles and pulmonary diseases. The most striking example is asbestosis where the assessment of asbestos bodies in patient lung samples has allowed defining values specific of pathologies. However, this type of analyses only considers the micro-sized fraction of the particles, neglecting the specific impact of nano-sized particles which have been otherwise shown to be reactive and able to induce biological effects. Similarly, in nanotoxicology, the mineralogical analysis of pulmonary fluids could be used as an indicator of exposure to inhaled nanoparticles and could help investigations on the relationship between exposure to these nanoparticles and lung diseases. We designed this study first to demonstrate the technical feasibility of this approach, then to get a clear picture of the metals present, and in what form, in patient lungs and finally to determine if indeed it is worth investigating separately the micro, sub-micro and nano fractions. Broncho-alveolar lavages were recovered from 100 patients suffering from interstitial lung diseases. A protocol was specifically developed to isolate three fractions containing respectively microparticles, sub-microparticles and nanoparticles with ions. The metal content in each fraction was qualitatively and quantitatively characterized. Results showed significant differences between the three fractions in terms of metal load confirming that the separate analysis of the fractions is relevant. It also means that the assessment of the micro-sized fraction alone, as commonly done in clinical practice, only gives a partial view of the mineralogical analysis.
Parameterized Shifted Combinatorial Optimization
Creators: name: Gajarský, Jakub
name: Hliněný, Petr
name: Koutecký, Martin
name: Onn, Shmuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Shifted combinatorial optimization is a new nonlinear optimization framework which is a broad extension of standard combinatorial optimization, involving the choice of several feasible solutions at a time. This framework captures well studied and diverse problems ranging from so-called vulnerability problems to sharing and partitioning problems. In particular, every standard combinatorial optimization problem has its shifted counterpart, which is typically much harder. Already with explicitly given input set the shifted problem may be NP-hard. In this article we initiate a study of the parameterized complexity of this framework. First we show that shifting over an explicitly given set with its cardinality as the parameter may be in XP, FPT or P, depending on the objective function. Second, we study the shifted problem over sets definable in MSO logic (which includes, e.g., the well known MSO partitioning problems). Our main results here are that shifted combinatorial optimization over MSO definable sets is in XP with respect to the MSO formula and the treewidth (or more generally clique-width) of the input graph, and is W[1]-hard even under further severe restrictions.
Current concepts in dairy cattle vaccinology
Creators: name: Chase, Christopher C. L.
name: Villegas, Nicholas Arias
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2016

description: Vaccination is an important component for the prevention and control of disease in the dairy herd. Modified-live vaccines (MLV) have been used because of the good antibody response, longer duration of immunity, fewer doses needed per animal, and lower cost. N on-adjuvanted MLV vaccines fail to booster well-vaccinated animals, as active vaccine-induced immunity neutralizes vaccine virus preventing the MLV from replicating and preventing a booster immune response. Improved adjuvants have increased the scope and duration of inactivated virus immunity. Prepartum vaccination aimed at colostrum development is critical. Inactivated viral vaccines aimed at reproductive disease have greatly improved and should be considered to be given in the dry period to provide maximum conception rate during the fresh period. The periparturient period (the last 3 weeks prior to calving and the first 3 weeks following calving) are poor times to initiate an immune response-hormonal, dietary and metabolic factors limit immune responsiveness. Post-partum is also a difficult time to vaccinate, as lactation energy demand supersedes immunity. Each vaccine program needs to be designed based on animal flow, actual "disease" threats, and labor on the farm.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2016
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.1 (début XIIIe siècle), Cart. 166 (11 H 64), 136 folios, f. 0043r
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.1 (début XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 166 (11 H 64), 136 folios, f. 0043r, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Cîteaux dit Cartulare Antiquum t.1 (début XIIIe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 166 (11 H 64), 136 folios, f. 0043r, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Effect of a ration change from a total mixed ration to pasture on production, health and rumen physiology of dairy cows
Creators: name: Schären, M.
name: Dieho, K.
name: Seyfang, G.
name: Dijkstra, J.
name: Meyer, U.
name: Breves, G.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2016

description: In temperate climate zones dairy cows need to be fed with conserved feed during winter, and are then often gradually transitioned to a pasture-based ration in spring. We hypothesized that the change from a confinement to a pasture-based system involves complex nutritional and metabolic adaptations with consequences on health and performance.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2016
Photoionization Models for the Inner Gaseous Disks of Herbig Be Stars: Evidence Against Magnetospheric Accretion?
Creators: name: Patel, P.
name: Sigut, T. A. A.
name: Landstreet, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the physical properties of the inner gaseous disks of the three, hot, Herbig B2e stars, HD 76534, HD 114981 and HD 216629, by modelling CFHT-ESPaDOns spectra using non-LTE radiative transfer codes. We assume that the emission lines are produced in a circumstellar disk heated solely by the photospheric radiation from the central star in order to test if the optical and near-IR emission lines can be reproduced without invoking magnetospheric accretion. The inner gaseous disk density was assumed to follow a simple power-law in the equatorial plane, and we searched for models that could reproduce observed lines of HI (H$α$ and H$β$), HeI, CaII and FeII. For the three stars, good matches were found for all emission line profiles individually; however, no density model based on a single power-law was able to reproduce all of the observed emission lines. Among the single power-law models, the one with the gas density varying as $\sim 10^{-10}\,(R_{*}/R)^3\, \rm g\,cm^{-3}$ in the equatorial plane of a 25 R$_{*}$ ($0.78$ AU) disk did the best overall job of representing the optical emission lines of the three stars. This model implies a mass for the H$α$-emitting portion of the inner gaseous disk of $\sim 10^{-9} M_*$. We conclude that the optical emission line spectra of these HBe stars can be qualitatively reproduced by a $\approx\,1$ AU, geometrically thin, circumstellar disk of negligible mass compared to the central star in Keplerian rotation and radiative equilibrium.
description: Accepted to be published in AAS Journals. 30 pages, 24 figures and 6 tables
In vitro efficacy of anti-protozoa! compounds as a novel treatment for Tritrichomonas foetus in bulls
Creators: name: Koziol, J. H.
name: Wolfe, D. F.
name: Edmondson, M. A.
name: Duran, S. H.
name: Passler, T.
name: Gard, J. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2016

description: Currently, there are no legal treatments in the United States for cattle infected with Tritrichomonas foetus. This obligate parasite of the reproductive tract of the bovid creates serious economic loss in the cattle industry in the United States. The hypothesis of this study was that benzimidazoles ( oxibendazole or oxfendazole) or ponazuril combined with a polymer enhancer, specifically polymer lecithin organogel (PLO), in a topical formulation may be an effective treatment for bulls infected with r foetus. Three in vitro experiments were performed to evaluate the antiprotozoal effects of the benzimidazole and ponazuril formulations, and all involved components on the growth of r foetus organisms.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2016
title: Intra-range boundaries in western African elasmobranch species as a reason for stock unit delimitation
Creators: name: Litvinov, Feodor
name: Kudersky, Sergey
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - K - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data
The sea and human culture and societies

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Several wide-distributed elasmobranch species don't occur in Moroccan waters northward of 32-34°N. Thus, Scyliorhinus canicula and Raja montagui don't occur northward 34°, three of four Centrophorus species don't occur northward 32°N. Gap in range of S. canicula separates west-african populations, with differently shaped teeth, from west-european and Mediterranean ones. The same time Torpedo marmorata, Raja clavata and Etmopterus pusillus are distributed evenly, and Etmopterus spinax is more abundant northward 34° than southward. In waters of Sierra-Leonia Squatina oculata, Sphyrna couardi and S. aculeata are extremely rare northward and Zanobatos schoenleinii southward of 8°N. Rhinobatos rhinobatos doesn’t occur southward 8°N from January to April, but lives there at the rest of year. These intra-ranges gaps (32-34°N and 8°N) correspond spatially to large-scale oceanographic phenomena. In Morocco upwelling waters flow is directed to ocean between capes Sim and Gir (30-33°N). Its movement southward is limited by permanent cyclonic circulation near Agadir Bay. Moreover, there is a boundary between Mediterranean and Atlantic water masses in intermediate water layers on these latitudes. Intra-tradewind counter-current moves from Brazil to Africa along 9°N at the depth of 50-500 m. This flow is divided in two oppositely directed currents: North branch of Intra-tradewind counter-current and South-West Guinea Current. Intra-range gaps coincided in several elasmobranch species and associated with large-scale oceanographic processes, may influence forming of stock units of the grade of populations, subspecies, species and communities, of other taxa included. It seems such boundaries to be taken into account when planning living resources exploitation and to be studied in more details for other areas.
Quantum corrections to the generalized Proca theory via a matter field
Creators: name: Amado, André
name: Haghani, Zahra
name: Mohammadi, Azadeh
name: Shahidi, Shahab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum corrections to the generalized Proca theory via matter loops. We consider two types of interactions, linear and nonlinear in the vector field. Calculating the one-loop correction to the vector field propagator, three- and four-point functions, we show that the non-linear interactions are harmless, although they renormalize the theory. The linear matter-vector field interactions introduce ghost degrees of freedom to the generalized Proca theory. Treating the theory as an effective theory, we calculate the energy scale up to which the theory remains healthy.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
SR-hyperSMURF.revision1.pdf
Creators: name: Valentini, Giorgio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 111716 Preventive Medicine
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110311 Medical Genetics (excl. Cancer Genetics)
subject: FOS: Basic medicine
subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: 80301 Bioinformatics Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80109 Pattern Recognition and Data Mining

description: Most of state-of-the-art ML-based methods do not adopt specific imbalance-aware learning techniques to deal with imbalanced data that naturally arise in several genome-wide variant scoring problems, thus resulting in a significant reduction of sensitivity and precision. We present a novel method that adopts imbalance-aware learning strategies based on resampling techniques and a hyper-ensemble approach that outperforms state-of-the-art methods in two different contexts: the prediction of non-coding variants associated with Mendelian and with complex diseases. We show that imbalance-aware ML is a key issue for the design of robust and accurate prediction algorithms and we provide a method and an easy-to-use software tool that can be effectively applied to this challenging prediction task.
Process Mining Analysis of Puzzle-Based Cybersecurity Training
Creators: name: Macak, Martin
name: Oslejsek, Radek
name: Buhnova, Barbora
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The hands-on cybersecurity training quality is crucial to mitigate cyber threats and attacks effectively. However, practical cybersecurity training is strongly process-oriented, making the post-training analysis very difficult. This paper presents process-mining methods applied to the learning analytics workflow. We introduce a unified approach to reconstruct behavioral graphs from sparse event logs of cyber ranges. Furthermore, we discuss significant data features that affect their practical usability for educational process mining. Based on that, methods of dealing with the complexity of process graphs are presented, taking advantage of the puzzle-based gamification of in-class training sessions.
title: Underwater tagging of deep-sea redfish
Creators: name: Sigurdsson, Thorsteinn
name: Thorsteinsson, Vilhjalmur
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - K - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data
The sea and human culture and societies

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The poster describes a tagging method using an Underwater Tagging Equipment (UTE), developed in collaboration between the Marine Research Institute in Iceland and the Marine Device Manufacturer STAR-ODDI. The tagging device can be attached either to a pelagic- or demersal trawl dorsally in front of the codend. Some of the fish that enters the trawl is diverted through the UTE where it enters an adjustable tagging cradle where the fish can be held, adjusted and released. The tagging equipment is controlled from the vessel through a cable wire where the researcher can view the fish on television by four video cameras. The person tagging the fish can adjust the cradle and move the tagging gun into place and tag the fish. The tags used in the UTE have been dummy tags that can in the future be replaced by active electronic tags that can give ambient environmental parameters e.g. temperature and depth profiles. The UTE has been used to tag redfish of size between 32-52 cm, but other species have entered the equipment, such as saithe, and have been tagged with success. The tagging equipment can therefore be used for tagging medium size round fish such as tusk, cod and haddock. The paper describes briefly the UTE device and it's including results of the first recaptured fish from tagging cruises in October 2003 and June 2004.
Preregistration
Creators: name: Branković, Marija
name: Petrović, Marija
name: Zezelj, Iris
name: Lazić, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2022
Subjects: Serbia
complementary and alternative medicine
content analysis
health communication
health psychology
media analysis
traditional medicine

description: Preregistration files for a content analysis of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine on Serbian news and lifestyle magazine websites (Jul–Dec 2021). The findings are published at https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.82189. Please cite accordingly.
Trial Coding and Inter-Coder Reliability Test
Creators: name: Branković, Marija
name: Petrović, Marija
name: Zezelj, Iris
name: Lazić, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2022
Subjects: Serbia
complementary and alternative medicine
content analysis
health communication
health psychology
media analysis
traditional medicine

description: Trial coding, inter-coder reliability test, and materials for the training of coders for a content analysis of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine on Serbian news and lifestyle magazine websites (Jul–Dec 2021). The findings are published at https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.82189. Please cite accordingly.
What bovine practitioners need to know about caseous lymphadenitis
Creators: name: Rowe, Joan Dean
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2016

description: Caseous lymphadenitis (CL) is one of the costliest, but most under-appreciated infectious diseases of sheep and goats, often leading to premature culling or death. Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis in sheep and goats results in lifelong infection, with reoccurring abscesses of the peripheral and/or internal lymph nodes and the associated clinical signs. Transmission is by direct contact and indirectly by contamination of feeders, equipment, and the environment. Diagnosis is by abscess culture or necropsy. The serologic test has limitations but can be used to detect exposure to the organism; it may be used to facilitate segregation or culling in herds with low incidence of CL or to exclude introduction of infected animals. Premises hygiene, vaccination, segregation of herd by disease status, and isolation of clinical animals during treatment are the main strategies used to control CL in heavily infected herds. Intensive management of clinical abscesses with early detection ofripening abscesses, animal isolation until the abscess is healed, lancing abscesses in an isolation environment, and preventing cross-contamination of premises and potential fomites are keys to successful management. Vaccination can be used to reduce the number of animals with abscesses and the number of abscesses per animal, thereby reducing the overall herd exposure in endemic herds. Control and eradication of CL requires longterm commitment to an integrated management approach to reduce environmental contamination and prevent direct transmission in the herd or flock.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2016