cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Daring or Dangerous: A Political Determination on Drugs
Creators: name: Sharma, Shivali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Drugs
Addiction
Covid-19
Legalities
Political
Historical

description: This paper contains a political determination and analysis of the status of drugs in the current world. Politics and legalities overlap with almost every facet of life, and reflects that fact while still attempting to stay true to the pertinence and import of the political sphere. Considered is the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the problem of microdosing as well as the similarities between tobacco, alcohol, and drugs. The political and historical significance of drugs and their impact on people of all walks of life are critically analyzed.
Haptics-based simulation tools for teaching and learning digital rectal examinations
Creators: name: Granados Martinez, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: Anorectal and prostate abnormalities are commonly diagnosed via Digital Rectal Examinations (DRE). DRE is challenging to learn as opportunities for practice are limited, it is hard to standardise, there is a lack of feedback and ineffective assessment since visual cues are minimal, and there is vague information as to what constitutes adequate performance. Traditionally, trainees learn initially on plastic benchtop models and on patients later on. However, models are reported to have severe limitations and awareness of ethical issues has curtailed training opportunities. In order to overcome these limitations, a quantitative approach to better understand DREs via a visualization and analysis framework based on position and pressure sensors is presented, together with a series of progressive haptics-enabled learning tools for knowledge acquisition, procedural skills rehearsal and confidence development that aim to fill the existing gap in traditional teaching methods. These tools allow a trainee to literally see-through whilst practicing on benchtop models, visualise anatomical variability of MRI-scanned healthy volunteers, playback of expert performance, execute a series of Cognitive Task Analysis-based steps, rehearse procedural skills via haptics and deformation modelling of patient-specific anatomy, provide formative and summative feedback, and build up communication skills on a hybrid simulator. Experimental studies to validate the visualisation and analysis framework on both benchtop models and real subjects, and to quantify performance of experts from different specialties are presented. Results of evaluation studies with experts to validate the feedback tool and the haptics-based simulator are discussed, and a pre-evaluation study related to the learning tools with medical students is presented. The proposed quantitative analysis has the potential for enhancing the understanding of DRE, and thus to improve learning. The presented body of knowledge, together with the input from the various clinical specialties that routinely perform DRE, relevant educational theory and innovative technology design, constitute an important contribution that may help overcome limitations of current DRE training methods.
The Reception of Don Chisciotte in Italy
Creators: name: Ruta, Maria Caterina
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description: Within the research promoted by the collection “Recreaciones Quijotescas en Europa” whose aim is to disseminate critical editions and translations of rewritings or reassessments of Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes, three librettos of Italian operas from the first half of the 18th century have been published. The operas were performed at the Viennese court of Charles VI, where the poets Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati, authors of the libretto Don Quixote in Sierra Morena, and Claudio Pasquini, author of Don Quixote in court of the Duchess and Sancio Panza governor of the island Barattaria, had been invited to work. In the essays preceding these editions, the specialists involved in the research describe the cultural and social environment the operas were intended for, deepen the relationships between Cervantes’ novel and the adaptations of the librettos, also commenting on their changes in the light of the new context.
description: Rassegna iberistica
Unruh-DeWitt detectors as mirrors: Dynamical reflectivity and Casimir effect
Creators: name: Lin, Shih-Yuin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the Unruh-DeWitt harmonic-oscillator detectors in (1+1) dimensions derivative-coupled with a massless scalar field can mimic the atom mirrors in free space. Without introducing the Dirichlet boundary condition to the field, the reflectivity of our detector/atom mirror is dynamically determined by the interaction of the detector's internal oscillator and the field. When the oscillator-field coupling is strong, a broad frequency range of the quantum field can be mostly reflected by the detector mirror at late times. Constructing a cavity model with two such detector mirrors, we can see how the quantum field inside the cavity evolves from a continuous to a quasi-discrete spectrum which gives a negative Casimir energy density at late times. In our numerical calculations, the Casimir energy density in the cavity does not converge until the UV cutoff is sufficiently large, with which the two internal oscillators are always separable.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures; v2: minor changes, published version
Additional file 1: of Real-time feedback, debriefing, and retraining system of cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests: a study protocol for a cluster parallel-group randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Hirakawa, Akihiro
name: Hatakeyama, Toshihiro
name: Kobayashi, Daisuke
name: Nishiyama, Chika
name: Kada, Akiko
name: Kiguchi, Takeyuki
name: Kawamura, Takashi
name: Iwami, Taku
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: SPIRIT 2013 Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents. (It is strongly recommended that this checklist be read in conjunction with the SPIRIT 2013 Explanation & Elaboration for important clarification on the items. Amendments to the protocol should be tracked and dated. The SPIRIT checklist is copyrighted by the SPIRIT Group under the Creative Commons â Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unportedâ license2) (DOC 126 kb)
title: Josephine Baker in the Transatlantic World
Creators: name: Gerund, Katharina
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 800 Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric
subject: 810 American literature in English
subject: 830 German literature and literatures of related languages

description: Josephine Bakers anhaltende star power zeigt sich global in der Populärkultur sowie im Gedenken an sie. Vor diesem Hintergrund skizziert Katharina Gerund Bakers öffentliches Leben und ihre Karriere – von ihrer Rolle als moderner Superstar, über die als Heldin und Spionin, bis hin zu der als Aktivistin und Mutter. Gerund konzentriert sich dabei auf die transatlantische Dimension von Bakers Kunst und Aktivismus. Sie deutet ihre Bedeutung für den kulturellen Austausch und für die Konstruktion nationaler Identitäten an und geht auf ihr (militärisches) Heldentum während des Zweiten Weltkriegs und ihren lebenslangen Kampf gegen Faschismus und Rassismus auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks ein.
description: Josephine Baker’s lasting star power can be observed in popular culture and memorialization around the world. Against this backdrop, Katharina Gerund outlines Baker’s public life and career – from modern superstar to heroine and spy to activist and mother. She focuses on the transatlantic dimension of Baker’s art and activism (incl. her role in cultural exchanges and national identity constructions), her military heroism during World War II, and her life-long fight against fascism and racism on both sides of the Atlantic.
Between Rigor and Reverence. Yu Dafu and His Views on Translation
Creators: name: Magagnin, Paolo
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

Despite his prominence in modern Chinese literature and the significant role played by translation in his literary career, Yu Dafu’s (1896-1945) activity as a translation theorist and practitioner remains largely unexplored. Yu translated into Chinese a number of short stories, treatises, and poems by such authors as Wilde, Twain, Sinclair, Nietzsche, and Rousseau; he also devoted several essays to the issue of translation and its practice. Through an analysis of Yu’s theoretical writings, I aim to provide a brief account of his reflections on the subjectivity of the translator, the principles of a desirable translating practice, the relation between translation and original writing, and the cultural significance of translation. By doing so, I wish to highlight the seminal role played by such a reflection in Yu’s artistic career, as well as the specificity of his contribution within the intellectual debate on translation in his time.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Novel silanised silicas for a new generation of green passenger tyre elastomers
Creators: name: Ngeow, Yen Wan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: The thesis presents a study into the surface properties of silica and determining the silica surface thermodynamic. The effect of silica surface energies on the disperbility of silica in the elastomer phase has been computed for the first time, this is made possible by silanising the silica sample with a series of coupling and non-coupling organosilanes having a range of functional groups. The relationship between the surface chemistry and surface energies, as determined by thermogravimetry combined with an infrared spectroscopy (TGA-IR) and Inverse Gas Chromatography (IGC) respectively is investigated, resulting in a coherent understanding of the modified silica surface thermodynamics of various organosilanes. IGC analysis enabled the determination of the specific surface energy/ dispersive surface energy profiles of modified silicas at different surface coverage. A property of particular interest is the work of cohesion of silica particles, which is found to be correlating well with silica microdispersion in the elastomer phase, as determined using a TEM-network visualisation method and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) where the hysteresis effects were greatly reduced for silanised silica-filled vulcanisates. From this study, it is clear that surface energy measurements could be used as a good indication and explanation of the dispersibility of silica in the elastomer phase. From all the silica-filled vulcanisates considered in this study, it is observed that significant improvements in tensile strength, reinforcement index, angle tear and DIN abrasion resistance were shown by silicas modified with coupling organosilanes. Both types of organosilanes improved the less abrasive Akron abrasion resistance compared to untreated silica-filled vulcanisate, but there was no clear difference between the two types. This investigation opens up some possible routes to improving tyre tread compound design.
COSMOLOGICAL GAMMA RAY BURSTS AND THE HIGHEST ENERGY COSMIC RAYS
Creators: name: Waxman, Eli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a scenario in which the highest energy cosmic rays (CR's) and cosmological $γ$-ray bursts (GRB's) have a common origin. This scenario is consistent with the observed CR flux above $10^{20}\text{eV}$, provided that each burst produces similar energies in $γ$-rays and in CR's above $10^{20}\text{eV}$. Protons may be accelerated by Fermi's mechanism to energies $\sim10^{20}\text{eV}$ in a dissipative, ultra-relativistic wind, with luminosity and Lorentz factor high enough to produce a GRB. For a homogeneous GRB distribution, this scenario predicts an isotropic, time-independent CR flux.
description: Phys. Rev. Lett. in press (Received: March 22, 1995; Accepted: May 17, 1995)
Climate Change 2022 - How to Secure a Liveable Future For All - Summary For All
Creators: name: Löschke, Sina
name: Mintenbeck, Katja
name: Poloczanska, Elvira
name: Alegría, Andrés
name: Pörtner, Hans-Otto
name: Roberts, Debra C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Climate Change
Transformation
Climate Resilience
Sustainable Development
IPCC
Summary
Climate Resilient Development
CRD

description: This “Summary For All” is a plain language summary of the Working Group II report (released in February 2022) of the Sixth Assessment Cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It explains Climate Resilient Development and how all of us can act to pursue it, which barriers are waiting along the way and how to overcome them. It presents key findings and scientific concepts regarding the required transformations to inform non-scientists and decision-makers who are working to plan and implement transitions toward a secure, resilient, and sustainable future for all.
The ageing sensorimotor control system and falls in the elderly
Creators: name: Lin, Chin-Hsuan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: During ageing, degeneration undergoes at all levels of the sensorimotor system and causes unfavourable consequences, including falls. Falls are the predominant cause of unintentional injuries in the elderly and constitute a significant threat to our ageing societies. While extensive research on falls has been done, the relationship between sensorimotor variability, sensorimotor control and falls in elderly has not been investigated. We hypothesise that both sensory and motor noise increases with age and results in more variable movement. This leads to a higher probability of trips while walking, the main causes of falls in the elderly. My research uses motor and sensory psychophysics and computational modelling to characterise sensorimotor variability across age. I pinpoint specific system changes that cause it. Crucially, the experimental tasks we design and use have shared biomechanics of walking and obstacle avoidance and can, therefore, be referred to observed age-related changes in human locomotion. I show that sensorimotor variability in foot placement increases with age and the degree of increase positively correlates with higher foot placement. Sensory psychophysics indicates that increased sensory noise is one cause underlying more variable movement in ageing. Notably, elderly participants rely more on their vision to judge their own foot’s height compared with the young. This could be related to their impaired proprioception. Thus, the multi-sensory integration strategy shifts with age to compensate for increased sensory noise. By developing and using a simple but powerful cortico-spinal-motor model, I also demonstrate that an increase of motor noise in ageing can well be explained by motor neuron loss in the primary motor cortex. In summary, my results provide a first computational and psychophysics driven investigation into how increased sensory and motor noise can lead to falls in the elderly.
A new structure for difference matrices over abelian $p$-groups
Creators: name: van Greevenbroek, Koen
name: Jedwab, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05B20 (Primary) 05B10 (Secondary)

description: A difference matrix over a group is a discrete structure that is intimately related to many other combinatorial designs, including mutually orthogonal Latin squares, orthogonal arrays, and transversal designs. Interest in constructing difference matrices over $2$-groups has been renewed by the recent discovery that these matrices can be used to construct large linking systems of difference sets, which in turn provide examples of systems of linked symmetric designs and association schemes. We survey the main constructive and nonexistence results for difference matrices, beginning with a classical construction based on the properties of a finite field. We then introduce the concept of a contracted difference matrix, which generates a much larger difference matrix. We show that several of the main constructive results for difference matrices over abelian $p$-groups can be substantially simplified and extended using contracted difference matrices. In particular, we obtain new linking systems of difference sets of size $7$ in infinite families of abelian $2$-groups, whereas previously the largest known size was $3$.
description: 27 pages. Discussion of new reference [LT04]
Effects of intranasal or parenteral respiratory vaccination administered on-arrival or delayed in auction-derived feedlot heifers
Creators: name: McAllister, Hudson
name: Powledge, Sherri
name: Parks, Timothy
name: Streeter, Marshall
name: Hutcheson, John
name: Richeson, John
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2023
Subjects: beef heifers
intranasal
parenteral
vaccine

description: The objective was to evaluate health, performance and serum antibody responses of auction-derived heifers to an intranasal or parenteral MLV administered on d 0 or 28. Three arrival blocks of heifers, initial BW = 459 lb ± 1.7 lb (208 kg ± 27kg; n = 600), were randomly assigned to treatments consisting of 15 pens/treatment with pen as the experimental unit and 10 heifers/pen. Treatments were: 1) Bovilis® Nasalgen® 3 and Bovilis® Vista® BVD on d 0 (NAS0); 2) Bovilis® Vista® 5 SQ on d 0 (VIS0); 3) Bovilis® Nasalgen® 3 and Bovilis® Vista® BVD on d 28 (NAS28); 4) Bovilis® Vista® 5 SQ on d 28 (VIS28). Body weight and blood samples were collected on d 0, 28 and 56. Activity (351.4 vs 354.3 min/d) and rumination time (282.6 vs 285.4 min/d) was less (P < 0.01) for delayed vs arrival vaccinated heifers. A timing χ vaccine χ day interaction existed (P < 0.01) for BRSV- and IBRV-specific antibody titers; VIS28 had the greatest (P < 0.01) BRSV antibody titer on d 56. For IBRV antibody titer on d 28, VIS0 was greatest, NAS0 was intermediate, and VIS28 and NAS28 were least (P < 0.01). Percentage of chronically ill heifers were reduced for arrival vs delayed (1.3 vs 4.7%; P = 0.02) and arrival vaccinated had a reduction in antimicrobial treatment cost ($4.63 vs $7.31; P = 0.02). Data indicate improvement in some health outcomes for the parenteral route and arrival timing of MLV, but performance was not affected.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 57 No. 1 (2023)
Additional file 1: of Targeted gluteal exercise versus sham exercise on self-reported physical function for people with hip osteoarthritis (the GHOst trial â Gluteal exercise for Hip Osteoarthritis): a protocol for a randomised clinical trial
Creators: name: Semciw, Adam
name: Pizzari, Tania
name: Woodley, Stephanie
name: Zacharias, Anita
name: Kingsley, Michael
name: Green, Rod
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) 2013 Checklist: recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents*. (DOC 135 kb)
Federico García Lorca’s Theatre in Italy
Creators: name: Londero, Renata
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description: Taking as a departing point the great tradition of Lorca studies and the vast number of versions of his poetry and theatre in Italy, this article analyses the most recent bilingual edition (prepared by Enrico Di Pastena, Pisa, ETS, 2019) of Lorca’s last tragedy, La casa de Bernarda Alba, written in 1936 and staged for the first time on March 8th, 1945 in Buenos Aires. This work is Lorca’s dramatic masterpiece and the most translated and staged among his plays, even in Italy, where Amedeo Recanati translated it for the first time in 1946. Di Pastena’s edition is considered as regards its effective translation, the study of its main topics and the accurate description of a good number of its European performances (particularly in Spain and Italy) from the forties onwards.
description: Rassegna iberistica
The Extinction Towards the GRB970228 Field
Creators: name: Castander, F. J.
name: Lamb, D. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the local galactic extinction towards the field of gamma-ray burst GRB970228 using a variety of methods. We develop a maximum likelihood method for measuring the extinction by comparing galaxy counts in the field of interest to those in a field of known extinction, and apply this method to the GRB970228 field. We also measure the extinction by comparing the observed stellar spectral energy distributions of stars in the GRB970228 field to the spectral energy distribution of library spectra of the same spectral type. Finally we estimate the extinction using the Balmer emission line ratios of a galaxy in the GRB970228 field, and the neutral hydrogen column density and amount of infrared dust emission toward this field. Combining the results of these methods, we find a best-fit galactic extinction in the optical of $A_V=1.19^{+0.10}_{-0.17}$, which implies a a substantial dimming and change of the spectral slope of the intrinsic GRB970228 afterglow.
description: 22 pages, including 7 figures. Submitted to ApJ
Aspects of the Christian Missionary in Nationalist China: Mrs. Jiang Jieshi and the Missions
Creators: name: Capristo, Vincenza Cinzia
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The present essay, beginning with Catholic press and various authors known in the sector of Missiology, underlines a connection between Song Meiling and Mission in general, particularly the Catholic ones. This work aims at adding a further piece to complete the already well-known Song Meiling’s career, after her marriage to Chiang Kai-shek. Further on, it will be clearly underlined the way she managed to established relationships with representatives of Missions, both Catholic and Protestant, thanks to the reform movement “New Life”, which brought Chinese people closer to Christian values. All this was possible by starting from the family dimension, thus enhancing the link between civil and religious society. Song Meiling’s strong point was the way she promoted social inclusion of the religious confessions, especially of the Catholic Missions, through solidarity initiatives, considering the religious community on the same level as the social community. This was a factor of potential development for the Church in China.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Dirichlet Process Mixtures of Order Statistics with Applications to Retail Analytics
Creators: name: Pitkin, James
name: Ross, Gordon
name: Manolopoulou, Ioanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The rise of "big data" has led to the frequent need to process and store datasets containing large numbers of high dimensional observations. Due to storage restrictions, these observations might be recorded in a lossy-but-sparse manner, with information collapsed onto a few entries which are considered important. This results in informative missingness in the observed data. Our motivating application comes from retail analytics, where the behaviour of product sales is summarised by the price elasticity of each product with respect to a small number of its top competitors. The resulting data are vectors of order statistics, due to only the top few entries being observed. Interest lies in characterising the behaviour of a product's competitors, and clustering products based on how their competition is spread across the market. We develop nonparametric Bayesian methodology for modelling vectors of order statistics that utilises a Dirichlet Process Mixture Model with an Exponentiated Weibull kernel. Our approach allows us added flexibility for the distribution of each vector, while providing parameters that characterise the decay of the leading entries. We implement our methods on a retail analytics dataset of the cross-elasticity coefficients, and our analysis reveals distinct types of behaviour across the different products of interest.
title: ADCO, Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491) (11 H 1179), f. 00084
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: comptes
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1179). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Comptes du Petit-Cîteaux (1477-1491), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1179), f. 00084, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Between Miguel Ángel Asturias and Mario Vargas Llosa: A History (Histories) of Guatemala
Creators: name: Regazzoni, Susanna
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description: This article analyses two works written about the same topic. Miguel Ángel Asturias wrote Week-end en Guatemala in 1956 and Mario Vargas Llosa published Tiempos recios in 2019. These texts narrate in different ways, the coup led by the so-called ‘Army of Liberation’, and instigated by the CIA, that in 1954 overthrew the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. Asturias publishes a volume of stories; the last one is titled “Torotumbo” and it is a poetic narration of an indigenous community that suffers the rape and death of a girl by a ladino. Vargas Llosa in Tiempos recios writes a historical novel that presents the main events and actors who starred in the coup.
description: Rassegna iberistica
Probing unitary two-time correlations in a neutral atom quantum simulator
Creators: name: Uhrich, Philipp
name: Gross, Christian
name: Kastner, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measuring unitarily-evolved quantum mechanical two-time correlations is challenging in general. In a recent paper [P.~Uhrich {\em et al.}, Phys.\ Rev.~A {\bf 96}, 022127 (2017)], a considerable simplification of this task has been pointed out to occur in spin-$1/2$ lattice models, bringing such measurements into reach of state-of-the-art or near-future quantum simulators of such models. Here we discuss the challenges of an experimental implementation of measurement schemes of two-time correlations in quantum gas microscopes or microtrap arrays. We propose a modified measurement protocol that mitigates these challenges, and we rigorously estimate the accuracy of the protocols by means of Lieb-Robinson bounds. On the basis of these bounds we identify a parameter regime in which the proposed protocols allow for accurate measurements of the desired two-time correlations.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
Urolithiasis: Review and case description of a Wagyu feeder steer with struvite crystalluria and urolithiasis treated with calcium boluses
Creators: name: Armstrong, Pamela M.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2023
Subjects: bovine struvite crysalluria
bovine urolithiasis
finisher steers
calcium bolus

description: Bovine urolithiasis, or formation of calculi in the urinary tract of cattle due to struvite crystalluria, is a life-threatening and painful disease. Clinical signs often go unnoticed until the prognosis of the animal is poor and immediate euthanasia is necessary. The author reports a treatment used to disrupt the disease process. The treatment allowed a valuable beef animal to comfortably complete its finishing stage without using medications that require a withdrawal period prior to harvest. A 27-month-old Wagyu steer in the finishing phase presented with inappetence, polyuria, dysuria and depression. Urinalysis showed an abundance of struvite crystals. Serum chemistry revealed a calcium:phosphorus ratio of 1.2:1. To avoid early harvest and progression of the disease, the steer was treated with over-the-counter calcium boluses, which were successful in dissolving the crystals. Daily urinalysis was used to determine
the frequency of treatment needed. The author proposes an alternative method for treating struvite crystalluria and preventing subsequent urolithiasis in feeder steers.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 57 No. 1 (2023)
The Confluent System Formalism: I.The Mass Function of Objects in the Peak Model
Creators: name: Manrique, Alberto
name: Salvador-Sole, Eduard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is the first paper of a series of two devoted to develop a practical method to describe the growth history of bound virialized objects in the gravitational instability scenario without resorting to $N$-body simulations. Here we present the basic tool of this method, ``the confluent system formalism'', which allows us to follow the filtering evolution of peaks in a random Gaussian field of density fluctuations. This is applied to derive the theoretical mass function of objects within the peak model framework. Along the process followed for the derivation of this function, we prove that the Gaussian window is the only one consistent with the peak model ansatz. We also give a well justified derivation of the density of peaks with density contrast upcrossing a given threshold in infinitesimal ranges of scale and correct this scale function for the cloud-in-cloud effect. Finally, we characterize the form of the mass vs. scale and the critical overdensity vs. collapse time relations which are physically consistent with the peak model in an Einstein-de Sitter universe with density field endowed with different power spectra. The result is a fully justified semianalytical mass function which is close to the Press \& Schechter (1974) one giving good fits to $N$-body simulations. But the interest of the confluent system formalism is not merely formal. It allows us to distinguish between accretion and merger events, which is essential for the detailed modelling of the clustering process experienced by objects.
description: 24 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript file including 4 figures (164 kb). To be published in ApJ, 1st November issue
China’s ‘CivilOlympic’ Performances and (Re)gained Global Visibility
Creators: name: Puppin, Giovanna
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

This article investigates how China fantasised about itself and the Beijing 2008 Olympics through the award-winning TV public service announcements (PSAs) of the Beijing Opera Series, with a focus on visibility. By drawing on theories of the spectacle, I perform a semiotic analysis of the most recurrent signs, organising them according to the main themes that emerge. The theatre stage – which represents the Olympic stage – is closely linked to China’s dream of owning the Games and its desire for global visibility. The performance includes the theatrical performance of the Beijing Opera and the performance of civilisation, which semiotically over-determines the Games. The protagonists include famous actors and roles of Beijing Opera (i.e. Dan, who is an anthropomorphic metaphor for China), as well as ordinary people, who are extraordinary for their high degree of civilisation. The spectators, especially through the intradiegetic presence of a Western male Other, validate the country’s performative success and confirm its achieved global visibility.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
A Photometric Investigation of the GRB970228 Afterglow and the Associated Nebulosity
Creators: name: Castander, F. J.
name: Lamb, D. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carefully analyze the WFPC2 and STIS images of GRB970228. We measure magnitudes for the GRB970228 point source component in the WFPC2 images of $V=26.20^{+0.14}_{-0.13}$, $I_c=23.94^{+0.10}_{-0.09}$ and $V=26.52^{+0.16}_{-0.18}$, $I_c=24.31^{+0.15}_{-0.11}$ on March 26 and April 7, respectively; and $R_c=27.09^{+0.14}_{-0.14}$ on September 4 in the STIS image. For the extended component, we measure magnitudes of $R_c=25.48^{+0.22}_{-0.20}$ in the combined WFPC2 images and $R_c=25.54^{+0.33}_{-0.22}$ in the STIS image, which are consistent with no variation. This value is fainter than previously reported (Galama et al. 98) and modifies the previously assumed magnitudes for the optical transient when it faded to a level where the extended source component contribution was not negligible, alleviating the discrepancy to a power-law temporal behavior. We also measure a color of $V_{606}-I_{814}=-0.18^{+0.51}_{-0.61}$ for the extended source component. Taking into account the extinction measured in this field (Castander & Lamb 1998), this color implies that the extended source is most likely a galaxy with ongoing star formation.
description: 21 pages, including 8 figures. Submitted to ApJ
Determination of protection provided by two modified live bovine herpesvirus-1 vaccines against bovine herpesvirus-1 conjunctivitis in calves
Creators: name: Cortese, Victor S.
name: Walz, Paul H.
name: Scruggs, Daniel
name: Short, Thomas H.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2023
Subjects: bovine herpesevirus-1
conjunctivitis
vaccination

description: A study was performed in 2 phases to determine the ability of 2 different modified live (MLV) bovine herpesvirus-1 (BoHV-1)
vaccines to protect against conjunctivitis caused by a recent field isolate of BoHV-1. In phase I, BoHV-1 isolates were used to
determine the ability of the isolates to cause conjunctivitis and to establish a challenge model for phase II. Fifteen calves were
randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups: 5 calves received 5 mL containing 107 tissue culture infectious dose (TCID)50/mL of BoHV-1
adminisered intraocularly (topically) for 2 days, 5 calves received 5 mL of inoculum consisting of 107
TCID50/mL of BoHV-1 administered intranasally for 2 days, and 5 calves served as unchallenged sentinels and received phosphate
buffered saline, 5 mL administered by the intranasal and 5 mL by the intraocular route for 2 days. All 15 calves developed
pyrexia (rectal temperature greater than 103.5°F (39.7°C)), were BoHV-1 virus isolation positive from ocular swabs
and 10/15 calves had increased ocular discharge and conjunctivitis. In phase II, 10 calves were intranasally vaccinated with
a MLV BoHV-1, 10 calves were parenterally vaccinated with a MLV BoHV-1, and 5 calves were unvaccinated. All 25 calves
were challenged by receiving 5 mL ntraocularly of 107 TCID50/mL of BoHV-1 for 2 consecutive days. Following challenge, calves were examined daily, and blood (serum), nasal swabs, and conjunctival swab samples were obtained on study days 0, 3-7, 10, 14 and 28. Both vaccines significantly decreased post challenge ocular lesions, clinical scores, and quantity of virus isolated.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 57 No. 1 (2023)
Sinitic Poetry in Early Heian Japan: Kidendō Literacy, Banquet Culture, and the Sugawara House
Creators: name: Minguzzi, Dario
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

In this paper, I explore the intimate connection between the Sugawara House and the composition of Sinitic poetry for institutionalised poetry banquets in early Heian Japan. While poetry remained a marginal occupation for the Confucian scholars trained at the Bureau of Education, its performance at banquets constituted a prestigious niche that could be occupied by those who sought to exploit it as an autonomous form of cultural capital. Here I sketch the contours of this connection and analyse a number of anthologizing strategies at work in the personal collection of the renowned early Heian scholar and poet Sugawara no Michizane (845-903) known as Kanke bunsō (Literary Drafts of the Sugawara House).

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Should I stay or should I go – a qualitative assessment of experiences of recent veterinary graduates in bovine practice
Creators: name: Gibbons, Pippa M. S.
name: Koziol, Jennifer H.
name: Schmidt, Marcelo
name: Cummings, Daniel B.
name: Sacquitne, Cody
name: Hake, Marissa
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2023
Subjects: recent graduates
veterinary practice
mentorship
injury

description: Twenty-three recent graduates (< 8 years in practice) participating in the 2022 AABP Recent Graduate Conference or practicing in the Texas Panhandle were recruited for participation in focus groups to engage in dialogue about why they choose to remain in bovine practice, why they might leave bovine practice, and challenges that they face in bovine practice. All focus groups were recorded and transcribed. Transcription was performed by a commercial source and anonymized for analysis. Full coding and thematic analysis were performed utilizing NVivo software.


Recent graduates report that they choose to stay in bovine practice because they love the industry and the associated people. They have a deep respect for their clients and how they care for their animals. However, participants did voice concerns about a career-ending injury causing them to completely leave bovine practice. Multiple participants had already sustained injuries due to the physical demands of bovine practice including a back injury, numbness of arms and hands, and diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome. Other
concerns that were voiced by the participants included unmet needs for mentorship, a feeling of loneliness and isolation, percentage of time spent on-call, and gender inequities in practice.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 57 No. 1 (2023)
Paz Battaner Arias y Carmen López Ferrero, Introducción al léxico, componente transversal de la lengua
Creators: name: Del Barrio De La Rosa, Florencio
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:
Review of: Battaner Arias, P.; López Ferrero, P. (2019). Introducción al léxico, componente transversal de la lengua. Madrid: Cátedra, pp. 441.

description: Rassegna iberistica
Methods of processing recycled manure solids bedding on Midwest dairy farms I: Associations with bedding bacteria counts, milk quality, udder health and milk production
Creators: name: Godden, Sandra
name: Royster, Erin
name: Crooker, Brian
name: Timmerman, Jenny
name: Peña Mosca, Felipe
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2023
Subjects: recycled manure solids bedding
bacteria
milk quality
udder health

description: This observational study investigated the relationships between method of processing recycled manure solids (RMS) bedding and 1) bacteria counts in RMS bedding, 2) bacteria counts in bulk tank milk, and 3) udder health and milk production. A convenience sample of 29 farms in Minnesota and Wisconsin were recruited to represent 4 RMS processing systems; green (GRN, n = 7), anaerobic digestion (DIG, n = 6), composting (COM, n = 4), and hot air drying (DRY, n = 12). Premises were visited twice (summer/winter) to collect fresh bedding and bulk tank milk (BTM) samples for culture, test day records, and a herd management questionnaire.


Coliform and Klebsiella spp. counts were lower, or tended to be lower in DRY, COM or DIG versus GRN RMS samples. Counts of Streptococci and Strep-like organisms (SSLO) were statistically or numerically lower in COM or DRY as compared to GRN or DIG RMS samples. Coliform and SSLO counts in BTM were lower, or tended to be lower, in DIG, COM or DRY as compared to GRN RMS samples. Test-day average linear score, proportion of cows with infection, and proportion of cows with chronic infection was lower, or tended to be lower, in herds using DRY or COM versus GRN RMS bedding. Average 305ME was higher, or tended to be higher, for herds using DRY versus GRN or DIG RMS. Adoption of COM or DRY processing could allow producers to mitigate the negative impacts of high bacteria levels in GRN RMS bedding, though more research is needed.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 57 No. 1 (2023)
Case report: Diagnostic findings of bovine neurological cases at the Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory between January 2017 and May 2021
Creators: name: Villar, David
name: Gomez-Beltrán, David
name: Radke, Scott
name: Schwartz, Kent
name: Magstadt, Drew
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2023
Subjects: bovine
neurological disease
toxicosis
infectious agents
recommendations

description: This study reviews the Iowa State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (ISU-VDL) computer records of bovine neurological cases submitted from January 2017 to May 2021. There were 236 cases diagnosed as follows: listeriosis (83), polioencephalomalacia (44), thrombomeningoencephalitis (23), miscellaneous bacteria (22), lead toxicosis (21), nitrate toxicosis (18), urea toxicosis (9), nervous coccidiosis (5), hypomagnesemia (5), sodium toxicosis (3), rabies (1), herpesvirus type 6 (1), and epsilon toxin from Clostridium perfringens type D (1). Most histories did not provide specific descriptions of the type of neurological signs, which could better target diagnostic investigation. However, each condition had specific peculiarities relevant from a post-mortem diagnostic perspective. For listeriosis, confirmation of Listeria monocytogenes using IHC was considered superior to bacterial culture, with 16/19 (84%) positive by IHC compared to 23/59 (38.9%) of cases positive by culture. In 44/83 (53.0%) of cases, histopathological examination mentioned that cerebellum and cerebrum were unremarkable, implying that without submission of the entire brain, particularly brain stem and obex, listeriosis cannot be ruled out. In 44 cases histologically diagnosed as polioencephalomalacia, when ultraviolet light (Wood’s lamp) was performed, it revealed multifocal areas of apple-green autofluorescence in 13/21 (61.9%) of brains, indicating that false negatives can occur with this technique. A substantial number of submissions were toxicoses that required specific sample types to confirm a diagnosis. For lead, whole blood, liver or kidney was necessary. For nitrate and urea toxicosis, appropriate samples were ocular fluid or the incriminating feed/water source. Confirmation of sodium toxicosis relied on sodium analysis of brain tissue.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 57 No. 1 (2023)
Jesús Ponce Cárdenas (ed.), La escritura religiosa de Lope de Vega
Creators: name: Sánchez Jiménez, Antonio
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:
Review of: Ponce Cárdenas, J. (ed.) (2020). La escritura religiosa de Lope de Vega. Entre lírica y epopeya. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 258 pp.

description: Rassegna iberistica
Symmetry and symmetry breaking in coupled oscillator communities
Creators: name: Skardal, Per Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the recent development of analytical methods for studying the collective dynamics of coupled oscillator systems, the dynamics of communities of coupled oscillators have received a great deal of attention in the nonlinear dynamics community. However, the majority of these works treat systems with a number of symmetries to simplify the analysis. In this work we study the role of symmetry and symmetry-breaking in the collective dynamics of coupled oscillator communities, allowing for a comparison between the macroscopic dynamics of symmetric and asymmetric systems. We begin by treating the symmetric case, deriving the bifurcation diagram as a function of intra- and inter-community coupling strengths. In particular we describe transitions between incoherence, standing wave, and partially synchronized states and reveal bistability regions. When we turn our attention to the asymmetric case we find that the symmetry-breaking complicates the bifurcation diagram. For instance, a pitchfork bifurcation in the symmetric case is broken, giving rise to a Hopf bifurcation. Moreover, an additional partially synchronized state emerges, as well as a new bistability region.
Fabrication of a controllable anti-peeping device with a laminated structure of microlouver and polymer dispersed liquid crystals film
Creators: name: Han, Cheng
name: Zhou, LE
name: Ma, Haipeng
name: Li, Chenyue
name: Zhang, Shuaifeng
name: Cao, Hui
name: Zhang, Lanying
name: Yang, Huai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biophysics
Space Science
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Display devices with the narrow viewing angle (NVA) and the wide viewing angle (WVA) characteristics can simultaneously meet the demands for privacy protection and information sharing. Herein, we propose a novel method for fabricating a controllable anti-peeping device with a laminated structure of microlouver and polymer dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs) film, and this device can be reversibly switched between a wider viewing angle range (VAR) for the WVA mode and a narrower viewing angle range (VAR) for the NVA mode at 0 V and 8 V, respectively. Also, the VARs of the controllable anti-peeping device can be dynamically tuned by varying dimensions of the microlouver structures and applying various voltages across the PDLCs film from 0 V to 8 V. The as-fabricated device provides display devices with controllable viewing angle characteristics, which can be applied in the display field with fascinating and practical functions.
Additional file 1: of Switching iron sucrose to ferric carboxymaltose associates to better control of iron status in hemodialysis patients
Creators: name: Hofman, Jesse
name: Eisenga, Michele
name: Adry Diepenbroek
name: Nolte, Ilja
name: Dam, Bastiaan Van
name: Westerhuis, Ralf
name: Bakker, Stephan
name: Franssen, Casper
name: Gaillard, Carlo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Hematology

description: Table S1. Effects of switch, anemia at baseline, and iron deficiency at baseline in individual patients, as analyzed with mixed models analyses. This table shows the model used for the analysis of the effects of the medication switch, iron deficiency at baseline, and anemia at baseline on all parameters. (DOCX 21 kb)