cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Serum and ovarian follicular fluid concentrations of interleukin (IL)- © 1 beta, glucose, and NEFA in lactating dairy cows with cystic ovarian follicles
Creators: name: Egan, T. R.
name: Acosta, D. A. V.
name: Skenandore, C.
name: Sulzberger, S.
name: Corrêa, M. N.
name: French, D.
name: Cardoso, F. C.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: Follicular cysts are an important disorder affecting 5 to 30% of dairy cows that leads to abnormal estrous cycle behavior and economic losses due to infertility. The underlying causes of follicular cysts are not fully understood, and responses to therapeutic strategies have been inconsistent. Therefore, veterinarians face challenges in treating cystic ovarian follicles in dairy cattle. The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of the pro-inflammatory mediator IL-1-beta (IL1B) and select metabolites found in blood and follicular fluid from 2 groups of cows.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
“NOI” E IL SECONDO WITTGENSTEIN
Creators: name: PENCO, CARLO
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2020
Subjects: Wittgenstein, Quine, First Person Plural, Anthropology, Language Games

description: In this paper, after a short introduction on the use of the indexical “we”, I discuss Andronico’s stance on transcendental and empirical inter-pretations of “we” in the late Wittgenstein. Besides a fundamental agreement, I raise some doubts on her stance of considering “we” as the viewpoint of philosophical analysis. Although her interpretation is more solid than the previous ones, it runs the risk of forgetting the variety of uses of the expression “we” in Wittgenstein’s texts.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume VIII, numero 1, 2020
The core collapse supernova rate from 24 years of data of the Large Volume Detector
Creators: name: Bruno, G.
name: Molinario, A.
name: Fulgione, W.
name: Vigorito, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Large Volume Detector (LVD) at INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy is a 1 kt liquid scintillator neutrino observatory mainly designed to study low energy neutrinos from Gravi- tational Stellar Collapses (GSC) with 100% efficiency over the entire Galaxy. Here we summarize the results of the search for supernova neutrino bursts over the full data set lasting from June 1992 to May 2016 for a total live time of 8211 days. In the lack of a positive observation, either in standalone mode or in coincidence with other experiments, we establish the upper limit to the rate of GSC event in the Milky Way: 0.1/year at 90% c.l.
description: XXV ECRS 2016 Proceedings - eConf C16-09-04.3
Absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of mTOR kinase inhibitor CC-223 in rats, dogs, and humans
Creators: name: Tong, Zeen
name: Atsriku, Christian
name: Yerramilli, Usha
name: Wang, Xiaomin
name: Nissel, Jim
name: Li, Yan
name: Surapaneni, Sekhar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: 1. The absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of CC-223 were studied following a single oral dose of [14C]CC-223 to rats (3 mg/kg; 90 μCi/kg), dogs (1.5 mg/kg; 10 μCi/kg), and healthy volunteers (20 mg; 200 nCi). 2. CC-223-derived radioactivity was widely distributed in rats. Excretion of radioactivity was rapid and nearly complete from rats (87%), dogs (78%), and humans (97%). Feces was the major excretion pathway for rats (67%) and dogs (70%), whereas urine (57.6%) was the major elimination route for humans. Urine and bile each contained approximately 20% administered radioactivity in rats, whereas bile (20%) played a more important role than urine (<10%) in the excretion of absorbed radioactivity in dogs. Based on excretion data, CC-223 had good absorption, with greater than 56%, 29%, and 57% of the oral dose absorbed in rats, dogs, and humans, respectively. 3. CC-223 was the prominent radioactive component in circulation of rats (>71% of the exposure to total radioactivity) and dogs (≥45.5%), whereas M1 (76.5%) was the predominant circulating metabolite in humans. M1 and M1-derived metabolites accounted for >66% of human dose. CC-223 was extensively metabolized in rats, dogs, and humans through glucuronidation, O-demethylation, oxidation, and combinations of these pathways.
Erasing the orbital angular momentum information of a photon
Creators: name: Nape, Isaac
name: Ndagano, Bienvenu
name: Forbes, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum erasers with paths in the form of physical slits have been studied extensively and proven instrumental in probing wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics. Here we replace physical paths (slits) with abstract paths of orbital angular momentum (OAM). Using spin-orbit hybrid entanglement of photons we show that the OAM content of a photon can be erased with a complimentary polarization projection of one of the entangled pair. The result is the (dis)appearance of azimuthal fringes based on whether the \which-OAM" information was erased. We extend this concept to a delayed measurement scheme and show that the OAM information and fringe visibility are complimentary.
Existence and non-existence of length averages for foliations
Creators: name: Nakano, Yushi
name: Yokoyama, Tomoo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Since the pioneering work of Ghys, Langevin and Walczak among others, it has been known that several methods of dynamical systems theory can be adopted to study of foliations. Our aim in this paper is to investigate complexity of foliations, by generalising existence problem of time averages in dynamical systems theory to foliations: It has recently been realised that a positive Lebesgue measure set of points without time averages only appears for complicated dynamical systems, such as dynamical systems with heteroclinic connections or homoclinic tangencies. In this paper, we introduce the concept of length averages to singular foliations, and attempt to collect interesting examples with/without length averages. In particular, we demonstrate that length averages exist everywhere for any codimension one $\mathscr{C}^1 $ orientable singular foliation without degenerate singularities on a compact surface under a mild condition on quasi-minimal sets of the foliation, which is in strong contrast to time averages of surface flows.
DIMENTICARE WITTGENSTEIN?
Creators: name: MARCONI, DIEGO
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2020
Subjects: Wittgenstein, Conceptual Analysis, McGee, Williamson, Andronico.

description: After presenting a brief historical reconstruction of how the later Wittgenstein’s thought came to be excluded from the analytic mainstream, I argue (with the help of Timothy Williamson’s discussion of Vann McGee’s counterexample to Modus Ponens) that it is far from clear that the later Wittgenstein’s philosophical method conforms to the model of conceptual analysis as described and criticized by Williamson.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume VIII, numero 1, 2020
title: Modelled distribution of salmon lice in a Norwegian fjord
Creators: name: Asplin, Lars
name: Boxaspen, Karin
name: Sandvik, Anne D.
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - P - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Salmon lice is a huge problem for both wild and farmed salmonid fish in fjords. An assessment of salmon lice in a fjord system will bring forward the knowledge of wild salmonid fish stocks and help manage salmonid fish farming. Numerical models have been used to produce time series of salmon lice distribution in the Norwegian fjord Sognefjorden. Currents and hydrography were calculated from a high resolution, three-dimensional ocean model. Inside the fjords, detailed wind forcing was necessary, and these winds were produced by a meso-scale atmospheric model. The distribution of salmon lice was calculated by a three-dimensional particle advection model including temperature dependent growth. The model results show that the variability in salmon lice distribution is huge for the Norwegian fjord areas, with spreading of lice with the currents ranging from 0 to 100 km within only a few days. We will show the simulated encounter rate of salmon smolt on its way to the ocean and salmon lice, and show how different locations of fish farms affect this.
An evaluation of the agreement between digital dermatitis scoring methods in the parlor, pen and hoof-trimming chute
Creators: name: Winders, T.
name: Socha, M.
name: Cramer, G.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: Digital dermatitis (DD) is 1 of the most common causes of lameness in dairy cattle with prevalence levels of approximately 20% at the time of hoof trimming. The disease is characterized by a variety of clinical signs including hyperkeratosis and ulceration predominately affecting the interdigital cleft or skin surrounding the interdigital space on the plantar aspect of the foot. The disease has a significant impact on milk production, profitability, and the welfare of dairy cattle. To minimize the effects of DD on the animal and the farm there is a need for rapid detection methods. In addition, an accurate rapid scoring method would allow for a mechanism to evaluate the impact of a change in management practices at the herd level. Currently, the gold standard in detecting cows with DD lesions is the hoof trimming chute. Scoring in the hoof trimming chute is time consuming, and other scoring methods have been developed to identify cows with digital dermatitis in the milking parlor. The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of a 5 point DD scoring method in 3 different parlor types and in 3 alternative locations on dairy farms.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
Luminous Infrared Galaxies with the Submillimeter Array V: Molecular Gas in Intermediate to Late-stage Mergers
Creators: name: Sliwa, Kazimierz
name: Wilson, Christine D.
name: Matsushita, Satoki
name: Peck, Alison B.
name: Petitpas, Glen R.
name: Saito, Toshiki
name: Yun, Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new high-resolution ALMA (13CO J=1-0 and J= 2-1) and CARMA (12CO and 13CO J=1-0) observations of two Luminous Infrared Galaxies (LIRGs): Arp 55 and NGC 2623. The new data are complementary to published and archival Submillimeter Array observations of 12CO J=2-1 and J=3-2. We perform a Bayesian likelihood non-local thermodynamic equilibrium analysis to constrain the molecular gas physical conditions such as temperature, column and volume densities and the [12CO]/[13CO] abundance ratio. For Arp 55, an early/intermediate staged merger, the line measurements are consistent with cold (~10-20 K), dense (>10$^{3.5}$ cm$^{-3}$) molecular gas. For NGC 2623, the molecular gas is warmer (~110 K) and less dense (~10$^{2.7}$ cm$^{-3}$). Since Arp 55 is an early/intermediate stage merger while NGC 2623 is a merger remnant, the difference in physical conditions may be an indicator of merger stage. Comparing the temperature and volume density of several LIRGs shows that the molecular gas, averaged over ~kpc scale, of advanced mergers is in general warmer and less dense than early/intermediate stage mergers. We also find that the [12CO]/[13CO] abundance ratio of NGC 2623 is unusually high (>250) when compared to the Milky Way; however, it follows a trend seen with other LIRGs in literature. This high [12CO]/[13CO] value is very likely due to stellar nucleosynthesis enrichment of the interstellar medium. On the other hand, Arp 55 has a more Galactic [12CO]/[13CO] value with the most probable [12CO]/[13CO] value being 20-30. We measure the CO-to-H2 conversion factor, $α_{CO}$, to be ~0.1 and ~0.7 (3x10$^{-4}$/x$_{CO}$) M$_{\odot}$ (K km s$^{-1}$ pc$^{2}$)$^{-1}$ for Arp 55 and NGC 2623, respectively. Since Arp 55 is an early/intermediate , this suggests that the transition from a Galactic conversion factor to a LIRG value happens at an even earlier merger stage.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
A descriptive study on hoof trimming methods in North America
Creators: name: Scherping, M.
name: Klehr, K.
name: Stoddard, G.
name: Cramer, G.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: Hoof trimming is a routine procedure done to dairy cows, but no data exists to determine appropriate trimming methods. In the literature, functional hoof trimming is commonly described as the method of choice. However, other methods are commonly reported in the field. This has resulted in a continuous debate within the hoof health industry with respect to what is the appropriate trimming method. To address this question, there is a need for more scientific data on the prevalence of different trimming methods, the effect of these methods on key hoof measurements, and ultimately on the welfare of the cow. The objective of this study was to describe the effect of different trimming methods on key hoof measurements taken on cadaver hind feet of dairy cattle.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
title: Vertical distribution of feeding- and mortality rates of Calanus finmarchicus in the Norwegian Sea
Creators: name: Torgersen, Thomas
name: Fiksen, Øyvind
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - P - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.From net-catches and echo-sounder data, we estimate the vertical distribution of environmental parameters and potential food and predators for Calanus finmarchicus at a station in the Norwegian Sea. These profiles are combined with mechanistic models of prey- and predator encounter- and feeding rates to produce vertical profiles of growth- and mortality rates of C. finmarchicus. The mortality rate varied by orders of magnitude through the water column, while modest variation in temperature and food availability led to moderate differences in growth rate between depths. Herring was pointed out as the most important predator, while blue whiting, lanternfish and krill were the main predators below 120 m. We argue that combining mechanistic models of feeding processes with real data of in situ situations is an approach that could increase our understanding of ecosystem functioning.
DISTANCE, CONTIGUITY AND IMAGINATION IN MANDEVILLE’S ACCOUNT OF PASSIONS
Creators: name: BRAGA, JOAQUIM
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2020
Subjects: Art, Contiguity-Remoteness, Expression, Imagination, Passions.

description: More than a matter confined to Mandevillean thought, the discourse on the relationship between imagination and sensibility is a significant theoretical framework of eighteenth-century philosophical thought. Sensibility and imagination appear in Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Beesas antithetical concepts, because they are fully articulated according to a natural and deterministic criterion of the expression of passions. Such a materialist understanding of the passions places a premium upon the proximity of stimulus and accordingly problematizes the responsive role of imagination. I intend to show in this paper that the primacy of expression takes place, at first instance, regarding the imagination, which, as we can detect in all Mandeville’s oeuvre, is well exemplified by the mimetic function that art itself earns.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume VIII, numero 1, 2020
L'ARCHITETTURA DI MIES VAN DER ROHE, FRA KANDINSKIJ E EJZENŠTEJN. UNA POSSIBILE RILETTURA DEL PADIGLIONE DI BARCELLONA
Creators: name: GRESLERI, JACOPO
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mies van der Rohe, Kandinskij, Ejzenštein, German Pavillon, Cinematographic architecture.

description: Following the principle of contamination of the arts, this text explores the artistic affinity between the work of Mies van der Rohe and that of Kandinskij and Ejzenštejn. The three masters, in their respective fields of expression, have investigated the different conceptions of space, coming to surprisingly similar conclusions. In support of this thesis, a universally recognized masterpiece of the Miesian production is analyzed here: the German Pavilion created for the International Exhibition in Barcelona (1929). The two volumes Punto, linea e superifice and Lezioni di regia, constitute the framework through which the reasoning is here developed.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume VIII, numero 1, 2020
Topological nodal line states and a potential catalyst of hydrogen evolution in the TiSi family
Creators: name: Li, Jiangxu
name: Ma, Hui
name: Feng, Shaobo
name: Ullah, Sami
name: Li, Ronghan
name: Dong, Junhua
name: Li, Dianzhong
name: Li, Yiyi
name: Chen, Xing-Qiu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological nodal line (DNL) semimetals, formed by a closed loop of the inverted bands in the bulk, result in the nearly flat drumhead-like surface states with a high electronic density near the Fermi level. The high catalytic active sites associated with the high electronic densities, the good carrier mobility, and the proper thermodynamic stabilities with $ΔG_{H^*}$$\approx$0 are currently the prerequisites to seek the alternative candidates to precious platinum for catalyzing electrochemical hydrogen (HER) production from water. Within this context, it is natural to consider whether or not the DNLs are a good candidate for the HER because its non-trivial surface states provide a robust platform to activate possibly chemical reactions. Here, through first-principles calculations we reported on a new DNL TiSi-type family with a closed Dirac nodal line consisting of the linear band crossings in the $k_y$ = 0 plane. The hydrogen adsorption on the (010) and (110) surfaces yields the $ΔG_{H^*}$ to be almost zero. The topological charge carries have been revealed to participate in this HER. The results are highlighting that TiSi not only is a promising catalyst for the HER but also paves a new routine to design topological quantum catalyst utilizing the topological DNL-induced surface bands as active sites, rather than edge sites-, vacancy-, dopant-, strain-, or heterostructure-created active sites.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
LA DIGITALIZZAZIONE DELL’EDUCAZIONE: POSSIBILITÀ DI ANALISI E CRITICA DEL FENOMENO CON TERMINI FOUCAULTIANI
Creators: name: GARDENGHI, CRISTINA
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2020
Subjects: Digital Education; Digital Governance; Subjection’s Processes; Normativity; Education’s Practices; Career Guidance; Neoliberal logic.

description: The aim of this paper is to discuss the new methods and goals of the digital education system and to highlight their connection with the economics and politics powers using Foucauldian concepts. In the first part, I provide a brief analysis of the normative power and of the constitution of the subject in the disciplinary system, with a focus on the relationship between the capitalistic form of economy, the power implied by the structure of normative practices and discourses, and the process of subjection. In the second one, following recent studies on the digital education, I try to point out the process of subjection implicated using digital devices in schools. At this regard, particular attention is on the career guidance promoted by these technologies, the constant exposure to performance feedbacks in education, and the type of subjectivity encouraged by these phenomena. Conclusively, I focus on the connection between these aspects of the digital governance of education and the neoliberal logic of nowadays.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume VIII, numero 1, 2020
Prior-preconditioned conjugate gradient method for accelerated Gibbs sampling in "large $n$ & large $p$" Bayesian sparse regression
Creators: name: Nishimura, Akihiko
name: Suchard, Marc A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In a modern observational study based on healthcare databases, the number of observations and of predictors typically range in the order of $10^5$ ~ $10^6$ and of $10^4$ ~ $10^5$. Despite the large sample size, data rarely provide sufficient information to reliably estimate such a large number of parameters. Sparse regression techniques provide potential solutions, one notable approach being the Bayesian methods based on shrinkage priors. In the "large n & large p" setting, however, posterior computation encounters a major bottleneck at repeated sampling from a high-dimensional Gaussian distribution, whose precision matrix $Φ$ is expensive to compute and factorize. In this article, we present a novel algorithm to speed up this bottleneck based on the following observation: we can cheaply generate a random vector $b$ such that the solution to the linear system $Φβ= b$ has the desired Gaussian distribution. We can then solve the linear system by the conjugate gradient (CG) algorithm through matrix-vector multiplications by $Φ$; this involves no explicit factorization or calculation of $Φ$ itself. Rapid convergence of CG in this context is guaranteed by the theory of prior-preconditioning we develop. We apply our algorithm to a clinically relevant large-scale observational study with n = 72,489 patients and p = 22,175 clinical covariates, designed to assess the relative risk of adverse events from two alternative blood anti-coagulants. Our algorithm demonstrates an order of magnitude speed-up in posterior inference, in our case cutting the computation time from two weeks to less than a day.
description: 36 pages, 7 figures + Supplement; Software package available --- see documentation at https://bayes-bridge.readthedocs.io and source code at https://github.com/aki-nishimura/bayes-bridge
Characterization of Vps13b-mutant mice reveals neuroanatomical and behavioral phenotypes with females less affected.
Creators: name: Montillot, Charlotte
name: Skutunova, Emilia
name: Ayushma
name: Dubied, Morgane
name: Lahmar, Adam
name: Nguyen, Sylvie
name: Peerally, Benazir
name: Prin, Fabrice
name: Duffourd, Yannis
name: Thauvin-Robinet, Christel
name: Duplomb, Laurence
name: Wang, Heng
name: Ansar, Muhammad
name: Faivre, Laurence
name: Navarro, Nicolas
name: Minocha, Shilpi
name: Collins, Stephan C
name: Yalcin, Binnaz
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: Imaging
subject: Imaging

description: The vacuolar protein sorting-associated protein 13B (VPS13B) is a large and highly conserved protein. Disruption of VPS13B causes the autosomal recessive Cohen syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by microcephaly and intellectual disability among other features, including developmental delay, hypotonia, and friendly-personality. However, the underlying mechanisms by which VPS13B disruption leads to brain dysfunction still remain unexplained. To gain insights into the neuropathogenesis of Cohen syndrome, we systematically characterized brain changes in Vps13b-mutant mice and compared murine findings to 235 previously published and 17 new patients diagnosed with VPS13B-related Cohen syndrome. We showed that Vps13b is differentially expressed across brain regions with the highest expression in the cerebellum, the hippocampus and the cortex with postnatal peak. Half of the Vps13b-/- die during the first week of life. The remaining mice have a normal lifespan and display the core phenotypes of the human disease, including microcephaly, growth delay, hypotonia, altered memory, and enhanced sociability. Systematic 2D and 3D brain histo-morphological analyses reveal specific structural changes in the brain starting after birth. The dentate gyrus is the brain region with the most prominent reduction in size, while the motor cortex is specifically thinner in layer VI. The fornix, the fasciculus retroflexus, and the cingulate cortex remain unaffected. Interestingly, these neuroanatomical changes implicate an increase of neuronal death during infantile stages with no progression in adulthood suggesting that VPS13B promotes neuronal survival early in life. Importantly, whilst both sexes were affected, some neuroanatomical and behavioral phenotypes were less pronounced or even absent in females. We evaluate sex differences in Cohen patients and conclude that females are less affected both in mice and patients. Our findings provide new insights about the neurobiology of VPS13B and highlight previously unreported brain phenotypes while defining Cohen syndrome as a likely new entity of non-progressive infantile neurodegeneration.
CONTAGIO E CONTATTO. UN’ESPERIENZA DELLA REVERSIBILITÀ
Creators: name: ROGOZINSKI, JACOB
Publisher: name: Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Università di Ferrara
Year: 2020
Subjects: Epidemic, contamination, threat, foreign, reversibility.

description: In epidemic time, it is not uncommon for relationships with other people to become highly ambiguous. During the covid emergency people have experienced and suffered a triple ban: it was forbidden to touch others, to be touched by others, and to touch ourselves. People have experienced what phenomenologists call “the experience of reversibility”. Starting from the analysis of the bodily experience of reversibility, the papers argues about the implications of that phenomenon regarding both the sphere of individual behavior and of politics.
description: I castelli di Yale online, volume VIII, numero 1, 2020
title: The effect of terrain structures and environmental factors on the distribution marine habitats
Creators: name: Bekkby, T.
name: Rinde, E.
name: Rosenberg, R.
name: Bakkestuen, V.
name: Erikstad., L.
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - P - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The coastal areas of the West coast of both Norway and Sweden are characterised by complex relief and environmental and habitat variability, both in time and space. To get a better understanding of ecosystems, ecological functions and the physical-biological interactions, we need to get basic information on the habitats and the factors determining their distribution and abundance. Several studies, mostly terrestrial, have documented that terrain structures and environmental factors influence the distribution of habitats. Hence, we developed integrated GIS-models for the West coast of Norway and for the Gullmarsfjord at the West coast of Sweden as a basis for spatial analyses of the distribution of habitats. Using these models, we analysed the relationships between depth, slope, terrain variability, sea-bed substrate, the degree of wind exposure and the distribution of biotope building species, such as macroalgaes and eelgrass meadows. The results show the usefulness of non-biological factors as indicators of habitat distributions. Knowledge of the relationship between physical factors and habitat distribution may be used to develop predictive models for use in habitat mapping.
Effect of injectable trace minerals (zinc, manganese, selenium, and copper) on the humoral and cell-mediated immune responses to vaccine antigens following administration of a modified-live viral vaccine in dairy calves
Creators: name: Palomares, R. A.
name: Moliere, F.
name: Havenga, L. J.
name: Woolums, A. R.
name: Norton, N. A.
name: Credille, B.
name: Clifton, S. J.
name: Sigmund, A. B.
name: Barber, C. E.
name: Berger, M. L.
name: Clark, M. J.
name: Fratto, M. A.
name: Hurley, D. J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: The benefits of administering injectable trace minerals (ITM; Zn, Mn, Cu, and Se) on animal health and performance have been previously assessed in dairy and beef cattle. Previous studies demonstrated that ITM improved humoral immune response to bovine herpesvirus l(BHV-l) following administration of a modified live virus (MLV) vaccine in cattle. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of an ITM supplement containing zinc, manganese, selenium, and copper on the humoral and cell mediated immune (CMI) responses to individual vaccine antigens in dairy calves receiving a MLV vaccine containing bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), BHV1, parainfluenza virus 3 (PI3V), and bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV).
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
Advanced Rich Transcription System for Estonian Speech
Creators: name: Alumäe, Tanel
name: Tilk, Ottokar
name: Asadullah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper describes the current TTÜ speech transcription system for Estonian speech. The system is designed to handle semi-spontaneous speech, such as broadcast conversations, lecture recordings and interviews recorded in diverse acoustic conditions. The system is based on the Kaldi toolkit. Multi-condition training using background noise profiles extracted automatically from untranscribed data is used to improve the robustness of the system. Out-of-vocabulary words are recovered using a phoneme n-gram based decoding subgraph and a FST-based phoneme-to-grapheme model. The system achieves a word error rate of 8.1% on a test set of broadcast conversations. The system also performs punctuation recovery and speaker identification. Speaker identification models are trained using a recently proposed weakly supervised training method.
description: Published in Baltic HLT 2018 (putting it on arXiv because Google Scholar doesn't index it properly)
Electrical Detection of Individual Skyrmions in Graphene Devices
Creators: name: Finocchiaro, Francesca
name: Lado, Jose Luis
name: Fernandez-Rossier, Joaquin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a graphene Hall probe located on top of a magnetic surface as a detector of skyrmions, using as working principle the anomalous Hall effect produced by the exchange interaction of the graphene electrons with the non-coplanar magnetization of the skyrmion. We study the magnitude of the effect as a function of the exchange interaction, skyrmion size and device dimensions. Our calculations for multiterminal graphene nanodevices, working in the ballistic regime, indicate that for realistic exchange interactions a single skyrmion would give Hall voltages well within reach of the experimental state of the art. The proposed device could act as an electrical transducer that marks the presence of a single skyrmion in a nanoscale region, paving the way towards the integration of skyrmion-based spintronics and graphene electronics.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Constant Time Graph Neural Networks
Creators: name: Sato, Ryoma
name: Yamada, Makoto
name: Kashima, Hisashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The recent advancements in graph neural networks (GNNs) have led to state-of-the-art performances in various applications, including chemo-informatics, question-answering systems, and recommender systems. However, scaling up these methods to huge graphs, such as social networks and Web graphs, remains a challenge. In particular, the existing methods for accelerating GNNs either are not theoretically guaranteed in terms of the approximation error or incur at least a linear time computation cost. In this study, we reveal the query complexity of the uniform node sampling scheme for Message Passing Neural Networks, including GraphSAGE, graph attention networks (GATs), and graph convolutional networks (GCNs). Surprisingly, our analysis reveals that the complexity of the node sampling method is completely independent of the number of the nodes, edges, and neighbors of the input and depends only on the error tolerance and confidence probability while providing a theoretical guarantee for the approximation error. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to provide a theoretical guarantee of approximation for GNNs within constant time. Through experiments with synthetic and real-world datasets, we investigated the speed and precision of the node sampling scheme and validated our theoretical results.
description: TKDD 2022
Sub-picosecond spin dynamics of excited states in the topological insulator Bi$_2$Te$_3$
Creators: name: Sánchez-Barriga, J.
name: Battiato, M.
name: Krivenkov, M.
name: Golias, E.
name: Varykhalov, A.
name: Romualdi, A.
name: Yashina, L. V.
name: Minár, J.
name: Kornilov, O.
name: Ebert, H.
name: Held, K.
name: Braun, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using time-, spin- and angle-resolved photoemission, we investigate the ultrafast spin dynamics of hot electrons on the surface of the topological insulator Bi$_2$Te$_3$ following optical excitation by fs-infrared pulses. We observe two surface-resonance states above the Fermi level coexisting with a transient population of Dirac fermions that relax in about $\sim$2 ps. One state is located below $\sim$0.4 eV just above the bulk continuum, the other one at $\sim$0.8 eV inside a projected bulk band gap. At the onset of the excitation, both states exhibit a reversed spin texture with respect to that of the transient Dirac bands, in agreement with our one-step photoemission calculations. Our data reveal that the high-energy state undergoes spin relaxation within $\sim$0.5 ps, a process that triggers the subsequent spin dynamics of both the Dirac cone and the low-energy state, which behave as two dynamically-locked electron populations. We discuss the origin of this behavior by comparing the relaxation times observed for electrons with opposite spins to the ones obtained from a microscopic Boltzmann model of ultrafast band cooling introduced into the photoemission calculations. Our results demonstrate that the nonequilibrium surface dynamics is governed by electron-electron rather than electron-phonon scattering, with a characteristic time scale unambiguously determined by the complex spin texture of excited states above the Fermi level. Our findings reveal the critical importance of detecting momentum and energy-resolved spin textures with fs resolution to fully understand the sub-ps dynamics of transient electrons on the surface of topological insulators.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Extending the interval from presynch to initiation of ovsynch in a presynch-ovsynch protocol did not reduce fertility of lactating dairy cows not detected in estrus that received timed artificial insemination
Creators: name: Thomas, M. J.
name: Giordano, J. O.
name: Curler, M. D.
name: Catucuamba, G.
name: Wijma, R.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: Remarkably, no large scale field study has been conducted to evaluate the reproductive performance of cows synchronized with Presynch-Ovsynch with a 12 versus a 14 d interval from Presynch to the beginning of Ovsynch when cows are inseminated in estrus after Presynch. Thus, the specific objective of this study was to determine if increasing the interval between the Presynch and Ovsynch portion of the Presynch-Ovsynch protocol from 12 to 14 d would reduce the fertility of lactating dairy cows not detected in estrus after Presynch and receiving TAI after completing the Ovsynch protocol.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
title: The role of physical processes for biomass dispersion over submarine banks: a study at two locations in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean
Creators: name: Mohn, Christian
name: White, Martin
name: Beckmann, Aike
name: Mottram, Gareth
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - P - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The effect of the circulation at Porcupine Bank and Rockall Bank, two submarine banks in the Northeast Atlantic, are investigated for implications for the marine ecosystem, using a combination of observations and results from numerical ocean circulation modeli simulations. Passive tracers confirm the idea that there exist areas over the banks which a isolated from its surroundings. Lagrangian particle trajectories are used to test and quantify the potential for retention. We find that passively advected organisms are more likely to remain in the near surface layers above the banks than actively migrating organisms, who might escape from the area. Finally, the response to extreme wether events is illustrated and typical time scales of retention are quantified.
Comparison of efficacy of various Mannheimia-Pasteurella vaccines against pneumonic pasteurellosis in young Holstein calves
Creators: name: Taylor, K. L.
name: McKaig, C. M.
name: Riad, A. W.
name: Gawthrop, J. C.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: The objective of this study is to determine if vaccination with a commercial Mannheimia-Pasteurella (M-P) vaccine is effective in reducing the incidence of respiratory disease and in improving average daily gain (ADG) in Holstein steers post-weaning. Pneumonic pasteurellosis is an economically important condition in cattle. In young cattle, Mannheimia haemolyticia and Pasteurella multocida are commonly cultured from cases of bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC); however, the nidus for colonization of the lower respiratory tract is not well understood. Stressors, such as, weaning, shipping, and weather changes have a strong correlation with colonization of the lower respiratory tract by these organisms. Protecting young, high risk cattle, such as Holstein steers, against respiratory insult from M. haemolyticia and P. multocida would be economically beneficial to the cattle industry. There are several commercially available vaccines available; however, their efficacy in this high risk population is not well known.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
Automorphisms of pure braid Groups
Creators: name: Bardakov, Valeriy G.
name: Neshchadim, Mikhail V.
name: Singh, Mahender
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we investigate the structure of the automorphism groups of pure braid groups. We prove that, for $n>3$, $\Aut(P_n)$ is generated by the subgroup $\Aut_c(P_n)$ of central automorphisms of $P_n$, the subgroup $\Aut(B_n)$ of restrictions of automorphisms of $B_n$ on $P_n$ and one extra automorphism $w_n$. We also investigate the lifting and extension problem for automorphisms of some well-known exact sequences arising from braid groups, and prove that that answers are negative in most cases. Specifically, we prove that no non-trivial central automorphism of $P_n$ can be extended to an automorphism of $B_n$.
description: 17 pp
title: The role of mesoscale features on the carbon budget of the photic layer in the north subtropical Atlantic
Creators: name: Mouriño, Beatriz
name: Fernández, Emilio
name: Pingree, Robin
name: Sinha, Bablu
name: Escánez, José
name: De Armas, Demetrio
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - P - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technologies and data
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The Azores II cruise was carried out in the subtropical NE Atlantic in April 1999 with the aim of investigating the role of the Azores Current, the Storm cyclonic eddies and the Great Meteor Tablemount to trigger phytoplankton production. The information obtained during this cruise combined with previous studies allowed us to constrain the role of these features on the carbon budget of the photic layer in this oligotrophic region. The results presented in this investigation show that mesoscale dynamics modify hydrographic characteristics and phytoplankton spatial distribution, however, it does not appear to significantly affect primary production in the NE subtropical Atlantic. This observation contrasts with results obtained in the most dynamic NW subtropical Atlantic and points out to regional differences in the role of eddy pumping in subtropical regions.
Preliminary Investigation of the Association between Feeding Starch-based Ethanol Co-Products and Salmonella Species Shedding in Commercial Feedlots
Creators: name: Osterstock, J. B.
name: Kahl, J. E.
name: Lawhon, S. D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Fecal shedding of Salmonella spp in feedlot cattle is an important component of pre-harvest food safety. Prevalence of salmonella in feedlot cattle varies and may be influenced by factors affecting hindgut and environmental ecology. Feedlots in the Texas Panhandle have begun to incorporate wet corn distiller's grains (WDGS) in their rations due to the increase in starch-based ethanol production in the region. Previous research has identified an association between feeding distiller's grains and shedding of E.coli O157:H7. These findings indicate that changes in starch, fiber, and fat composition of rations containing WDGS may impact hindgut ecology favoring the colonization and shedding of specific microorganisms. The objective of this study was to estimate the association between feeding WDGS and fecal shedding of Salmonella spp in feedlot cattle.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
The generalized Auslander-Reiten duality on a module category
Creators: name: Jiao, Pengjie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16G70, 16D90

description: We characterize the generalized Auslander--Reiten duality on the category of finitely presented modules over some certain Hom-finite category. Examples include the category FI of finite sets with injections, and the one VI of finite dimensional vector spaces with linear injections over a finite field.
description: final version
Determining the Prevalence of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Persistently Infected Calves Originating from a Number of Modem Western Well-vaccinated Dairy Herds
Creators: name: Shelton, T.
name: Hoffman, B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: All arriving heifer calves and some additional bull calves were tested for bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) persistently infected (PI) status when received by the calf ranch to determine incidence of occurrence across individual dairies contributing calves to this calf ranch. After confirmation of positive status, these animals were removed to eliminate potential for infection in subsequent breeding populations. In addition, 40 random positive PI samples were submitted for typing and genetic characterization to create a dendogram for comparison among PI calves and existing vaccination programs.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
Unconvergence of Very Large Scale GI Simulations
Creators: name: Hosono, Natsuki
name: Iwasawa, Masaki
name: Tanikawa, Ataru
name: Nitadori, Keigo
name: Muranushi, Takayuki
name: Makino, Junichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The giant impact (GI) is one of the most important hypotheses both in planetary science and geoscience, since it is related to the origin of the Moon and also the initial condition of the Earth. A number of numerical simulations have been done using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. However, GI hypothesis is currently in a crisis. The "canonical" GI scenario failed to explain the identical isotope ratio between the Earth and the Moon. On the other hand, little has been known about the reliability of the result of GI simulations. In this paper, we discuss the effect of the resolution on the results of the GI simulations by varying the number of particles from $3 \times10^3$ to $10^8$. We found that the results does not converge, but shows oscillatory behaviour. We discuss the origin of this oscillatory behaviour.
description: Accepted to PASJ, an animation is available at https://vimeo.com/194156367
Emergence via non-existence of averages
Creators: name: Kiriki, Shin
name: Nakano, Yushi
name: Soma, Teruhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Inspired by a recent work by Berger, we introduce the concept of pointwise emergence. This concept provides with a new quantitative perspective into the study of non-existence of averages for dynamical systems. We show that high pointwise emergence on a large set appears for abundant dynamical systems: Any continuous maps on a compact metric space with the specification property have super-polynomial pointwise emergence on a residual subset of the state space. Furthermore, there is a dense subset of any Newhouse open set each element of which has super-polynomial pointwise emergence on a positive Lebesgue measure subset of the state space.
description: 25 pages. Updated introduction, reorganised the paper, strengthened main theorem. Accepted for publication in Advances in Mathematics
The Association of Level of Milk Production with Reproductive Performance in Dairy Cattle
Creators: name: Campbell, M. S.
name: Hand, K.
name: Kelton, D. F.
name: Miglior, F.
name: LeBlanc, S. J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: There is debate about possible antagonism between high milk production and reproductive performance in dairy cattle. However, many studies have used biased measures of reproduction or inappropriate statistical methods. The objectives were to examine the association of the level of production with reproductive performance at the herd and individual cow levels.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009