cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the Effectiveness of Acoustic BPE in Decoder-Only TTS
Creators: name: Li, Bohan
name: Shen, Feiyu
name: Guo, Yiwei
name: Wang, Shuai
name: Chen, Xie
name: Yu, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Discretizing speech into tokens and generating them by a decoder-only model have been a promising direction for text-to-speech (TTS) and spoken language modeling (SLM). To shorten the sequence length of speech tokens, acoustic byte-pair encoding (BPE) has emerged in SLM that treats speech tokens from self-supervised semantic representations as characters to further compress the token sequence. But the gain in TTS has not been fully investigated, and the proper choice of acoustic BPE remains unclear. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive study on various settings of acoustic BPE to explore its effectiveness in decoder-only TTS models with semantic speech tokens. Experiments on LibriTTS verify that acoustic BPE uniformly increases the intelligibility and diversity of synthesized speech, while showing different features across BPE settings. Hence, acoustic BPE is a favorable tool for decoder-only TTS.
description: 5 pages, 3 tables, 1 figures. accepted to Interspeech 2024
Effects of subclinical Theileria orientalis Ikeda genotype infection on average daily gain ratios and a satisfactory rating in the breeding soundness exam in bull test stations in Virginia
Creators: name: Guynn, S. R.
name: Currin, J. F.
name: Todd, S. M.
name: Greiner, S. P.
name: Lahmers, K. K.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Conference Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: Theileria orientalis Ikeda genotype is a tick borne hemoprotozo­an that typically causes economic losses in dairy and beef cattle in Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Acute clinical infections from T. orientalis Ikeda include anemia, icterus, ill-thrift and death. The acute phase of the infection has been associated with decreased libido in dairy bulls, decreased live weight gain in beef bulls and increased mortality in naïve adults and calves. A sequela to acute infections within a herd is persistent sub­clinical infections, which have been associated with decreased mean daily gain in suckling beef calves. In late 2017, T. orienta­lis Ikeda was detected in beef cattle from multiple counties in Virginia and was associated with anemia, weakness, late term abortions and death. As of 2022, T. orientalis Ikeda has been identified in beef cattle in 31 of 95 Virginia counties. Beef pro­duction, typically in naturally bred cow-calf operations, is the second largest agricultural commodity in Virginia. Central bull testing programs for performance evaluation and marketing of beef bulls has existed for over 60 years in Virginia. T. orienta­lis Ikeda was first detected at the Southwest bull test station in 2020 when screened at conclusion of the test. The objective of this study was to determine if subclinical infection with T. ori­entalis Ikeda affected the average daily gain (ADG) ratios of all bulls on test and the achievement of a satisfactory rating of the breeding soundness exam (BSE) for senior bulls.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings, No. 55 (2022): 2022 Annual Conference Proceedings
Additional file 4: Figure S1. of Tracking hematopoietic precursor division ex vivo in real time
Creators: name: Wang, Yuchen
name: Tian, Hong
name: Cai, Wenzhi
name: Lian, Zhaorui
name: Bhavanasi, Dheeraj
name: Wu, Chao
name: Sato, Tomohiko
name: Kurokawa, Mineo
name: Wu, Depei
name: Fu, Li
name: Wang, Hong
name: Shen, Hao
name: Liang, Dong
name: Huang, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: OP9 stromal cells contribute to the fate decision of precursors ex vivo. (a) The frequency of symmetric self-renewal, symmetric differentiation, and asymmetric division of GFP+ precursors from wild-type mouse treated with OP9 supernatant during 24Â h is shown. The data are a summary from three independent experiments. Error bars represent standard error of the mean (SEM). (b) The frequency of symmetric self-renewal, symmetric differentiation, and asymmetric division of GFP+ precursors from wild-type mouse seeded on irradiated OP9 cells during 24Â h is shown. The data are a summary from three independent experiments. Error bars represent SEM. (PDF 420Â kb)
title: Inclusive Virtual Reality Learning
title: Review and 'Best-Fit' Framework for Universal Learning
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Wehrmann, Frank
name: Zender, Raphael
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Inclusion
subject: Virtual reality
subject: Development
subject: Guidelines
subject: Design
subject: UDL
subject: 004 Informatik

description: The article processing charge was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – 491192747 and the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
description: The rise of Virtual Reality (VR) in educational contexts has highlighted the need to design Virtual Reality Learning Applications (VRLAs) that prioritize inclusivity, accommodating a spectrum of learner needs. Despite the surging interest, there is a noticeable gap in research that delves into the specifics of creating VRLAs that are rooted in inclusive educational theory. This research sought to extract insights and recommendations for the development of VRLAs tailored for diverse student populations. The intention was to scrutinize research focused on the inclusive design elements of VRLAs, leading to the establishment of preliminary Inclusion Guidelines for VR Learning (IGVRL). Adopting the "best-fit" framework synthesis technique, the research anchored its findings in the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. UDL was developed to mold learning experiences to meet the requirements of heterogenous learners. Using UDL as a coding framework, a comprehensive literature review was undertaken, adhering to the SPIDER search strategy. The review of literature revealed distinct design recommendations that facilitate inclusive learning within VRLAs. Information was systematically categorized based on UDL's nine classifications and subsequently distilled into the preliminary IGVRL. It's pertinent to note that these guidelines, while offering a foundational perspective, necessitate further in-depth evaluations for validation. The analytical process brought to the fore several themes that UDL did not adequately encompass, such as the nuances of embodied learning, the focus on VR contents and their immersive properties, and the pivotal role of collaboration and cooperation in VRLAs. These insights underscore the further need for research in these areas. Although some facets of VR accessibility were discussed, a deeper exploration into this domain was identified as crucial, reiterating the importance of accessibility in underpinning inclusive education. The research underscores the potential of VRLAs in promoting inclusivity within educational settings and introduces the preliminary IGVRL for VRLA design, specifically targeting K-12 contexts. This paper emphasizes the continuum of research required to refine and validate these guidelines, ensuring their applicability and efficacy in diverse educational scenarios.
Consistent estimation of panel data models with multifactor structures under short time dimension situations.
Creators: name: Peng, Bin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The thesis investigates three panel data models. For each model, we tend to use a multifactor struc-ture to capture the cross-sectional dependence and the correlation between regressors and errors. We focus on providing results which are available to the large N and small T cases (say T<10). There is no doubt that our set-ups violate the basic requirements of the ordinary least squares (OLS), nonlinear least squares (NLS) and two stage least squares (TSLS) estimators. Therefore, we provide alternative consistent estimators in each corresponding chapter and investigate their as-ymptotic properties. Since we never take a large T average, the complexities of the joint large N and T limits are bypassed and the assumptions on the time dimension are relaxed. In Chapter 3, we focus on the cases with homogeneous and heterogeneous slopes. Relevant mo-ments conditions and three corresponding estimators are given. Also, we show that three estimators have nice asymptotic properties for both homogeneous and heterogeneous slopes models. Since they all can be expressed in closed form, it is very easy to apply these estimators to the real data sets. Furthermore, we show that tests on the interest parameters can be constructed using standard t- and F- procedures. Then we follow Su and Jin (2012) and propose a single index panel data model in Chapter 4. Even though our model is less general than the nonparametric version in Su and Jin (2012), we believe it is a nice compromise between applicability and generality. In this chapter, some corresponding identification issues are addressed and a new estimation procedure is presented by using sieve estimation. To explain the new procedure clearly, we use NLS estimator as a benchmark. The numerical results show that our semiparametric estimator is close enough to the NLS estimator while we do not have too much information on the interest function. Finally, in Chapter 5, we introduce the multifactor structures to the structural equation panel data model. As we see, the existence of the multifactor structure causes the inconsistent estimation for the tradi-tional limited information maximum likelihood (LIML) and two stage least squares (TSLS) meth-ods. However, under proper transformation, we still can employ LIML and TSLS estimators to gain the consistent estimation and show that these two estimators are asymptotically identical. For the LIML estimator, we express the asymptotic results in an easy representation. The Monte Carlo studies are presented in each chapter to back up our theoretical results.
Dynamical Embedding of Single Channel Electroencephalogram for Artifact Subspace Reconstruction
Creators: name: Hazarika, Doli
name: KN, Vishnu
name: Ransing, Ramdas
name: Gupta, Cota Navin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This study introduces a novel framework to apply Artifact Subspace Reconstruction (ASR) algorithm on single-channel Electroencephalogram (EEG) data. ASR, renowned for its automated capability to effectively eliminate various artifacts like eye-blinks and eye movements from EEG signals. Importantly it has been implemented on android smartphones, but relied on multiple channels for principal component subspace calculations. To overcome this limitation, we incorporate the established dynamical embedding approach into the algorithm, naming it Embedded-ASR (E-ASR). In our proposed method, an embedded matrix is first constructed from a single-channel EEG data using series of delay vectors. ASR is then applied to this embedded matrix, and the resulting cleaned single-channel EEG is reconstructed by removing the time lag and concatenating the rows of the embedded matrix. Data was collected from four subjects in resting states with eyes open from pre-frontal (Fp1 and Fp2) electrodes using CameraEEG app. To assess the effectiveness of the E-ASR algorithm on an EEG dataset with artifacts, we employed performance metrics such as relative root mean square error (RRMSE), correlation coefficient (CC), average power ratio as well as estimated the number of eye-blinks with and without the E-ASR approach. E-ASR was able to reduce artifacts from the semi-simulated EEG data, with an RRMSE of 45.45% and a CC of 0.91. For real EEG data, the counted eye-blinks were manually cross-checked with ground truth obtained from CameraEEG video data across all subjects for individual Fp1 and Fp2 electrodes. In conclusion, our study suggests E-ASR framework can remove artifacts from single channel EEG data. This promising algorithm might have potential for smartphone-based natural environment EEG applications, where minimal number of electrodes is a critical factor.
Data Analysis Plan
Creators: name: Rueda, Luisa Fernanda Ramírez
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2021

description: We will use structural equation modeling to test predictors (3 support measures [1. current overall social support, 2. treatment by family members and healthcare providers during the pandemic, 3. treatment by healthcare system], positive age stereotypes, and negative age stereotypes, attitudes toward aging (5-item measure) each predicting outcomes (expected aging-related support in the future, aging anxiety, neglect or impact of pandemic on their lives (new measure that includes many different types of items), and physical and mental health (depression). The intervening roles of (1) religiosity and (2) self-efficacy or technology concerns will be tested. Age, marital status, SES, gender, and employment status (working full-time, part-time, retired, partially retired) will be controlled for in all model paths. The order of the measures is fixed in 4 blocks such that (1) all predictor measures (random order), (2) all the outcomes (random order), (3) intervening variables which are religiosity and self-efficacy technology (random order) (4) fixed order demographics (age, marital status, SES, gender, employment status (working full-time, part-time, retired, partially retired), vaccine status, whether they ever tested positive covid-19.
The proposed study has been approved by the IRB review board at Universidad del Rosario. Data collection will start in October 2021 until 306 good surveys are reached. Data analysis will take place immediately following data collection.
Additional file 5: Figure S2. of Tracking hematopoietic precursor division ex vivo in real time
Creators: name: Wang, Yuchen
name: Tian, Hong
name: Cai, Wenzhi
name: Lian, Zhaorui
name: Bhavanasi, Dheeraj
name: Wu, Chao
name: Sato, Tomohiko
name: Kurokawa, Mineo
name: Wu, Depei
name: Fu, Li
name: Wang, Hong
name: Shen, Hao
name: Liang, Dong
name: Huang, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Tet2 loss leads to increased hematopoietic stem cell in mouse bone marrow. (a) The representative data of FACS analysis of wild-type and Tet2 knockout HSCs. The cells were stained with antibodies to lineage, Sca1, and c-Kit markers. The lineage negative population was gated first. Numbers indicate percent cells within Lin-c-Kit+Sca1+ gates. (b) The representative FACS data of GFP+ population from wild-type and Tet2−/− mouse. The lineage, Sca1, and c-Kit markers were stained and gated first. The GFP+ population from Lin-Sca1+c-Kit+ was compared between wild-type and Tet2−/− mouse. (PDF 642 kb)
Scopaeus subfasciatus Kraatz 1859
Creators: name: Frisch, Johannes
name: Narakusumo, Raden Pramesa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Scopaeus
Scopaeus subfasciatus

description: Scopaeus subfasciatus Kraatz, 1859
This species was recorded for Java by Fauvel (1886: 147). Scopaeus subfasciatus is widespread across the Afrotropical and Oriental Regions and proven as far south as the Malay Peninsula (Frisch 2003: 680 – 682). Even though the presence in Sumatra is possible, I have not seen Indonesian specimens so far.
description: Published as part of Frisch, Johannes & Narakusumo, Raden Pramesa, 2022, Revision of Scopaeus Erichson, 1839 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae) of Indonesia, with description of 19 new species, pp. 23-73 in Soil Organisms 95 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.25674/so95iss1id311, http://zenodo.org/record/10724236
Effect of high pressure synthesis conditions on the formation of high entropy oxides
Creators: name: Aamlid, Solveig Stubmo
name: Kim, Minu
name: González-Rivas, Mario U.
name: Oudah, Mohamed
name: Takagi, Hidenori
name: Hallas, Alannah M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High entropy materials are often entropy stabilized, meaning that the configurational entropy from multiple elements sharing a single lattice site stabilizes the structure. In this work, we study how high-pressure synthesis conditions can stabilize or destabilize a high entropy oxide (HEO). We study the high-pressure and high-temperature phase equilibria of two well-known families of HEOs: the rock-salt structured compound (Mg,Co,Ni,Cu,Zn)O including some cation substitutions and the spinel structured (Cr,Mn,Fe,Co,Ni)$_3$O$_4$. Syntheses were performed at various temperatures, pressures, and oxygen activity levels resulting in dramatically different synthesis outcomes. In particular, in the rock salt HEO we observe the competing tenorite and wurtzite phases and the possible formation of a layered rock salt phase, while the spinel HEO is highly susceptible to decomposition into a mixture of rock-salt and corundum phases. At the highest tested pressures, 15 GPa, we discover the transformation of the spinel HEO into a metastable modified ludwigite-type structure with nominal formula (Cr,Mn,Fe,Co,Ni)$_4$O$_5$. The relationship between the synthesis conditions and the final reaction product is not straightforward. Nonetheless, we conclude that high-pressure conditions provide an important opportunity to synthesize high entropy phases that cannot be formed any other way.
description: This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing
Johne’s disease in beef cattle: Correlation of serum ELISA and fecal PCR results from clinical cases and herd surveillance
Creators: name: Magstadt, D.
name: Kreuder, A. J.
name: Hensley, L.
name: McKeen, L.
name: Baum, D.
name: Gimenez-Lirola, L.
name: Gauger, P. C.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Conference Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: Johne’s disease is caused by Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratu­berculosis (MAP) and can be a costly and frustrating disease in beef herds. Clinical Johne’s disease in cattle arises years after inoculation as diarrhea and progressive weight loss. Prior to reaching clinical status, subclinically infected cattle can shed bacteria into their environment, leading to continued spread of the disease within herds. The duration of subclinical infection is highly variable, and the humoral immune response and the amount of fecal shedding of MAP can vary greatly between in­dividuals and throughout the year. Currently available diagnos­tic tests (serum ELISA, fecal PCR, fecal culture) each have sig­nificant limitations. Assays may differ in their utility depending on whether they are used to confirm clinical cases of Johne’s disease or to screen healthy cattle for potential infection.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings, No. 55 (2022): 2022 Annual Conference Proceedings
Additional file 6: Figure S3. of Tracking hematopoietic precursor division ex vivo in real time
Creators: name: Wang, Yuchen
name: Tian, Hong
name: Cai, Wenzhi
name: Lian, Zhaorui
name: Bhavanasi, Dheeraj
name: Wu, Chao
name: Sato, Tomohiko
name: Kurokawa, Mineo
name: Wu, Depei
name: Fu, Li
name: Wang, Hong
name: Shen, Hao
name: Liang, Dong
name: Huang, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: The fluorescence intensity of dividing Tet2–/– and Tet2−/−;Flt3ITD dividing HSCs. (a) The GFP pixel intensity unit (PIU) of Tet2–/– dividing HSCs was compared with wild-type control. (b) The GFP PIU of Tet2–/–;Flt3ITD dividing HSCs was compared with wild-type control. (PDF 552 kb)
Exploring social cognition and mirror systems in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Creators: name: Andrews, Sophie Claire
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder show some overlap in genetics, epidemiology and clinical features. Individuals with these disorders often have poor social and vocational functional outcomes and reduced quality of life, even during times of symptom remission. Social cognition comprises a number of processes including emotion recognition, empathy and theory of mind (ToM), and recent research has indicated that these skills may be reduced in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and contribute to their reduced function. Despite this, the exact nature of these social cognitive deficits, their impact on quality of life, and possible underlying neural substrates, have not yet been established in these disorders. One brain network implicated in social cognition is the mirror system, however, research into this system in schizophrenia or bipolar disorder has been very limited to date. The goal of this thesis was to better understand the nature and impact of social cognitive deficits in schizophrenia and euthymic bipolar disorder, and comprehensively assess mirror system function as a possible contributor to these deficits. In this thesis, I first assessed a number of aspects of social cognition (emotion recognition, empathy and ToM), as well as cognitive, clinical, and quality of life variables in a schizophrenia, euthymic bipolar disorder, and healthy control group. The three groups were then compared using two putative measures of mirror system function (EEG and TMS). I found a significant reduction in cognitive ToM in both disorders, with the addition of a deficit in the recognition of anger in the schizophrenia sample, indicating some likely shared underlying brain pathology but also disorder-specific differences. Quality of life was not related to these social cognitive deficits in this sample, possibly due to other mediating factors. There was some evidence for underactive mirror systems in euthymic bipolar disorder but not schizophrenia, however, mirror system function was not strongly related to any of the social cognitive measures utilised in this study. The findings of this thesis make a valuable contribution to the understanding of social cognition in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and challenge the proposed importance of mirror systems for social cognition. Our findings indicate that social cognitive deficits should be considered in assessment and treatment planning in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In addition, this thesis highlights the need for further research aimed at understanding the neurobiology and true impact of social cognitive deficits. It is hoped that this knowledge will lead to better treatments targeting these deficits at both neurophysiological and behavioural levels, and ultimately improve patient outcomes and wellbeing.
Injuries in cricket: epidemiology and factors associated with lumbar spine injury in cricket fast bowlers
Creators: name: Kountouris, Alex
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The purpose of this thesis was to examine the nature and extent of cricket fast bowling injuries. In particular, the thesis investigated the risk factors for the lumbar bone stress injuries with particular emphasis on exploring whether paraspinal muscle asymmetry is a genuine risk factor and previously identified. A secondary aim was to determine if the previously published injury surveillance data that highlighted a high injury incidence, prevalence and severity of fast bowling injuries, such as lumbar bone stress injuries also existed in elite Sri Lankan fast bowlers. The results from this thesis confirm that elite level Sri Lankan fast bowlers have higher injury incidence and prevalence compared to other player positions. In particular, lumbar bone stress injuries were the most severe injury and resulted in the most game-days missed. A review of published literature demonstrated that lumbar bone stress injuries occur near the biomechanically vulnerable region of the pars interarticularis, at the posterior element of the vertebra. There were numerous risk factors identified, including bowling technique, workload and more recently quadratus lumborum (QL) muscle asymmetries. The latter part of the thesis explored the methods used to measure the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) derived QL cross-sectional areas that have been used to determine asymmetry. A method for measuring QL from MRI was proposed and tested in subsequent chapters, demonstrating reliable measurements. Finally, MRI scans performed in asymptomatic adolescent and adult fast bowlers were reviewed and QL asymmetries reported. As expected large QL asymmetries were found in both groups but the pattern of asymmetry differed, with adolescents having an even distribution of larger sized QL muscles on both sides, whereas adult fast bowlers had larger muscle size (asymmetry) favouring the QL on bowling-arm side. The differences between the groups were explained by potential age related factors such as chronic bowling workloads and possibly bowling technique differences. In the participants studied, QL asymmetries were not associated with increased risk of lumbar spine injury in either adult or adolescent bowlers. These results question the previously published links between QL asymmetry and lumbar spine injury in fast bowlers. More research is required to determine the relationship between bowling technique, bowling workloads, muscle asymmetry and lumbar spine injury. This may determine if there is an algorithm of factors that are related to lumbar spine injury in cricket fast bowlers.
Evaluating the efficacy of two footbath concentrates to control digital dermatitis in freestall dairy cows using a non-inferiority study
Creators: name: Ordaz, S.
name: Shepley, E.
name: Rendahl, A.
name: Dopfer, D.
name: Anklam, K.
name: Cramer, G.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Conference Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: Digital dermatitis (DD), an infectious hoof lesion, is prevalent in U.S. dairies and compromises cow health, welfare and profit­ability. Footbaths are the main form of DD prevention and con­trol. Understanding the comparative efficacies among commer­cial footbath products in preventing and controlling DD cases within a herd is necessary to provide farms with the informa­tion required when selecting a product for use. Digital derma­titis (DD), an infectious hoof lesion, is prevalent in U.S. dairies and can rapidly become endemic to a herd if not proactively controlled, compromising cow health, welfare and profitabil­ity. Footbaths are the main form of DD prevention and control. Understanding the comparative efficacies among commercial footbath products in preventing and controlling DD cases with­in a herd is necessary to provide farms with the information re­quired when selecting a product for use. Our primary objective was to determine if a commercial footbath concentrate (Heal­max®) was non-inferior to a copper sulfate concentrate in the prevention of new cases of digital dermatitis (DD). As a second­ary objective, we sought to investigate the comparative effica­cies of the 2 products in the control of chronic DD cases.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings, No. 55 (2022): 2022 Annual Conference Proceedings
Effectively working with immigrants: A model for school counselors
Creators: name: Dogan, Sabri
Publisher: name: American University of Bahrain
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The purpose of this grounded theory study was to explore school counselors’ experiences working with immigrants. Based on this exploration, the author proposes a model that explains the process of becoming effective school counselors in working with immigrants. This model relies on social justice, and it consists of four developmental stages: superficial awareness, growing awareness, application, and culturally competent school counselor. Implications for school counselors are provided.
A comparative analysis of immunogenicity and safety of an enterovirus 71 vaccine between children aged 3-5 years and infants aged 6-35 months
Creators: name: Gu, Wei
name: Zeng, Gang
name: Hu, Yue-mei
name: Hu, Yuan-Sheng
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Hu, Ya-ling
name: Wang, Yang
name: Li, Jing-Xin
name: Zhu, Feng-Cai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: The Sinovac enterovirus 71 (EV71) vaccine has shown good safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy in infants aged 6–35 months, whom are considered as the priority of the target population. However, 3–5 years old children accounted for approximately 30% of HFMD cases and are also worth our attention. Methods: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, batch-to-batch consistency clinical trial enrolling 1400 participants aged 6–59 months was performed. We pooled the participants receiving three batches of EV71 vaccine together and then stratified them into the 6–35 months and 3–5 years. The non-inferiority analysis of the geometric mean titer (GMT) of EV71 neutralizing antibody post-vaccination was the primary endpoint. Results: In the vaccine group, the GMT of 242 children aged 3–5 years was 132.72 (95% CI, 110.3–159.6), which was non-inferior to that generated in 717 infants aged 6–35 months. Following the vaccination, the incidence of adverse reactions was less frequent in children aged 3–5 years (47.0%) than that found in infants aged 6–35 months (60.1%) (p = 0.0026). Conclusions: Our study indicated that the EV71 vaccine was also safe in children aged 3–5 years, with non-inferior immunogenicity to that in infants aged 6–35 months.
Coordinated JWST Imaging of Three Distance Indicators in a SN Host Galaxy and an Estimate of the TRGB Color Dependence
Creators: name: Hoyt, Taylor J.
name: Jang, In Sung
name: Freedman, Wendy L.
name: Madore, Barry F.
name: Lee, Abigail J.
name: Owens, Kayla A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Boasting a 6.5m mirror in space, JWST can increase by several times the number of supernovae (SNe) to which a redshift-independent distance has been measured with a precision distance indicator (e.g., TRGB or Cepheids); the limited number of such SN calibrators currently dominates the uncertainty budget in distance ladder Hubble constant (H0) experiments. JWST/NIRCAM imaging of the Virgo Cluster galaxy NGC4536 is used here to preview JWST program GO-1995, which aims to measure H0 using three stellar distance indicators (Cepheids, TRGB, JAGB/carbon stars). Each population of distance indicator was here successfully detected -- with sufficiently large number statistics, well-measured fluxes, and characteristic distributions consistent with ingoing expectations -- so as to confirm that we can acquire distances from each method precise to about 0.05mag (statistical uncertainty only). We leverage overlapping HST imaging to identify TRGB stars, cross-match them with the JWST photometry, and present a preliminary constraint on the slope of the TRGB's F115W-(F115W}-F444W) relation equal to -0.99 +/- 0.16 mag/mag. This slope is consistent with prior slope measurements in the similar 2MASS J-band, as well as with predictions from the BASTI isochrone suite. We use the new TRGB slope estimate to flatten the two-dimensional TRGB feature and measure a (blinded) TRGB distance relative to a set of fiducial TRGB colors, intended to represent the absolute fiducial calibrations expected from geometric anchors such as NGC4258 and the Magellanic Clouds. In doing so, we empirically demonstrate that the TRGB can be used as a standardizable candle at the IR wavelengths accessible with JWST.
description: Revised version after submission to AAS journals; 20 pages, 12 figures; Fig. 1 compressed to reduce file size
A comparative analysis of immunogenicity and safety of an enterovirus 71 vaccine between children aged 3-5 years and infants aged 6-35 months
Creators: name: Gu, Wei
name: Zeng, Gang
name: Hu, Yue-mei
name: Hu, Yuan-Sheng
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Hu, Ya-ling
name: Wang, Yang
name: Li, Jing-Xin
name: Zhu, Feng-Cai
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: The Sinovac enterovirus 71 (EV71) vaccine has shown good safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy in infants aged 6-35 months, whom are considered as the priority of the target population. However, 3-5 years old children accounted for approximately 30% of HFMD cases and are also worth our attention. Methods: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, batch-to-batch consistency clinical trial enrolling 1400 participants aged 6-59 months was performed. We pooled the participants receiving three batches of EV71 vaccine together and then stratified them into the 6-35 months and 3-5 years. The non-inferiority analysis of the geometric mean titer (GMT) of EV71 neutralizing antibody post-vaccination was the primary endpoint. Results:In the vaccine group, the GMT of 242 children aged 3-5 years was 132.72 (95% CI, 110.3-159.6), which was non-inferior to that generated in 717 infants aged 6-35 months. Following the vaccination, the incidence of adverse reactions was less frequent in children aged 3-5 years (47.0%) than that found in infants aged 6-35 months (60.1%) (p=0.0026). Conclusions: Our study indicated that the EV71 vaccine was also safe in children aged 3-5 years, with non-inferior immunogenicity to that in infants aged 6-35 months.
Impact of the host transcriptome on bovine respiratory disease treatment during backgrounding
Creators: name: Green, M. M.
name: Woolums, A. R.
name: Karisch, B. B.
name: Harvey, K. M.
name: Scott, M. A.
name: Capik, S. F.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Conference Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) continues to be problematic across the beef cattle industry. Marketing strategies made prior to backgrounding may shift the initial treatment for BRD into a different phase of production, and the importance of host gene expression on BRD incidence is poorly understood. Whole blood transcriptomes measured on arrival could inform our ability to better manage these cattle and predict BRD risk. Our objective was to compare host transcriptomes as measured on arrival at a backgrounding facility on the probability of being treated for BRD during the following 45 days on feed.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings, No. 55 (2022): 2022 Annual Conference Proceedings
Züchtung auf Hitzetoleranz bei Milchkühen – neue Ansätze
Creators: name: Brade, Wilfried
Publisher: name: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft
Year: 2020

description: Zusammenfassung Hitzestress ist nicht nur in tropischen Ländern zu beobachten, sondern wird zunehmend auch in Ländern mit gemäßigtem Klima - infolge des zu beobachtenden Klimawandels - ein Problem. Rinder sind relativ kältestabil, aber nur wenig hitzeresistent. Hitzestress wirkt sich negativ auf die Leistung und die Gesundheit der Tiere aus; vor allem bei hochleistenden Tieren. Gewöhnlich ist der Tierhalter mit generellen Maßnahmen zur Linderung des Hitzestresses gut vertraut. Die in den letzten Jahren erzielten Leistungssteigerungen – in Verbindung mit weiter zu erwartenden Klimaänderungen – lassen diese Thematik jedoch auch in der Tierzüchtung immer wichtiger werden. Schlüsselwörter: Hitzestress, Milchkühe, Züchtung, Klimawandel Summary Breeding for heat tolerance in dairy cows Heat stress is not only observed in tropical countries, but is also increasingly a problem in temperate countries - due to the observed climate change. Cattle are relatively cold-resistant, but little heat-resistant. Heat stress has a negative effect on the performance and health of the animals; especially in high performing animals. Usually, the animal owner is well-versed in general measures to relieve heat stress. However, the performance improvements achieved in recent years - in conjunction with further expected climate changes - make this topic increasingly important in animal breeding. Keywords: heat stress, dairy cows, breeding, climate change
description: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft, Aktuelle Beiträge
Mechanical and antibacterial properties of benzothiazole-based dental resin materials
Creators: name: Zhu, Wenbin
name: Lao, Chonghui
name: Luo, Shuzhen
name: Liu, Fang
name: Huang, Qiting
name: He, Jingwei
name: Lin, Zhengmei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: A synthesized benzothiazole containing mono-methacrylate monomer BTTMA was incorporated into Bis-GMA/TEGDMA dental resin system with a series of mass concentration from 5 to 30 wt.% as an antibacterial agent. The influence of BTTMA on physicochemical properties of dental resin system, such as double bond conversion (DC), volumetric shrinkage (VS), flexural strength (FS) and modulus (FM), water sorption (WS) and solubility (SL) were investigated. Direct contact testing and agar diffusion testing were used to evaluate the antibacterial activity of BTTMA containing dental resin. The results showed that BTTMA could endow dental resin with significant antibacterial activity when its concentration reached a certain amount (20 wt.%), and the antibacterial activity of BTTMA containing dental resin was mainly attributed to the immobilized BTTMA instead of the unreacted leachable BTTMA. BTTMA had no negative effect on physicochemical properties of dental resin, and even some BTTMA containing dental resins had advantages like higher DC, lower VS and WS when compared with control resin. Therefore, BTTMA could be considered as a suitable antibacterial agent in dental material, but much more researches concerned about biocompatibility should be done in future to prove whether it could be applied in clinic.
Wie nutzen Weingüter touristische Elemente zur Diversifizierung?
Creators: name: Rüdiger, Jens
name: Hanf, Jon
Publisher: name: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft
Year: 2020

description: Immer mehr Veröffentlichungen im Agrarsektor beschäftigen sich mit dem Thema des Agrartou-rismus. Im Bereich des Weinbaus hat der Weintourismus Einzug in den akademischen Diskurs ge-funden. Dies folgt zum einen aus der Notwendigkeit der Weinbaubranche im Zuge von Struktur-veränderungen neue Absatzwege zu öffnen. Zum anderen wird dies vom Verbraucher infolge ei-ner neu entwickelten Sehnsucht nach „regionalen und authentischen“ Lebensmitteln und gepaart durch die Zunahme des Kurzzeittourismus, befeuert. Untersuchungen und Veröffentlichungen in diesem Themenbereich zeigen jedoch teilweise ein geringes theoretisches Fundament. So werden beim Gros der Publikationen die Grundlagen der Tourismusökonomie ausgespart. Ziel dieses Bei-trages ist es, erste theoretisch fundierte Herleitungen zur Einordnung des Leistungsbündels Wein-tourismus aufzuzeigen. Die Arbeit versucht, auf diesen Grundlagen anhand einer empirischen Un-tersuchung das Angebot von Weinbaubetrieben zu erheben, der Frage der Kooperationsbereit-schaft von Weingütern innerhalb dieses Leistungsbündels nachzugehen und die Ziele, die Wein-baubetriebe damit verfolgen, zu eruieren. Bei der Einordnung in einem literaturgestützten Kontext lässt sich Weintourismus, aus der Sicht-weise der Weinproduzenten als eine Strategie für das Vermarktungsziel von Wein eingruppieren. Die empirische Erhebung zeigt, dass sich eine Großzahl der Weinbaubetriebe unabhängig von der Betriebsgröße in diesem Bereich engagieren. Dabei kann das Ziel in drei unterschiedliche Bedeu-tungssegmente eingruppiert werden: zum einen als direktes, zum zweiten als indirektes Vermark-tungsinstrument oder als eigene strategische Geschäftseinheit. Hierbei besteht immer eine Ab-hängigkeit zwischen Weingut und Destination und keine der beiden Seiten kann isoliert betrachtet werden, da diese im Bereich des Weintourismus nur als Symbiose agieren können.
description: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft, Aktuelle Beiträge
title: Searching for Clooney
Creators: name: Swaminathan, Roopa
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2008

description: Searching for Clooney documents a decade of my life, beginning with my first trip to the U.S. in the early l 990s and culminating with my return in 2005. The manuscript takes a look at the many differences between American and Indian cultures. It also traces my attempt at trying to make it as a writer/ director in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
Context Embeddings for Efficient Answer Generation in RAG
Creators: name: Rau, David
name: Wang, Shuai
name: Déjean, Hervé
name: Clinchant, Stéphane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) allows overcoming the limited knowledge of LLMs by extending the input with external information. As a consequence, the contextual inputs to the model become much longer which slows down decoding time directly translating to the time a user has to wait for an answer. We address this challenge by presenting COCOM, an effective context compression method, reducing long contexts to only a handful of Context Embeddings speeding up the generation time by a large margin. Our method allows for different compression rates trading off decoding time for answer quality. Compared to earlier methods, COCOM allows for handling multiple contexts more effectively, significantly reducing decoding time for long inputs. Our method demonstrates a speed-up of up to 5.69 $\times$ while achieving higher performance compared to existing efficient context compression methods.
description: 10 pages
Evaluating the impact of marketing strategies on host response
Creators: name: Capik, S. F.
name: Woolums, A. R.
name: Karisch, B. B.
name: Harvey, K. M.
name: Scott, M. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Conference Proceedings
Year: 2023

description: Although there are differences in how cattle are weaned and marketed in the U.S., the impact of these commonly employed strategies on host response in terms of inflammation, immu­nity and metabolism remains unclear. Recent advances in ge­nomic sequencing allows for unparalleled evaluation of how cattle marketing strategies influence host gene expression. Our objective is to evaluate the impact of marketing cattle directly to a backgrounding operation versus traditional auction market and order buyer system prior to arrival at a backgrounding op­eration on host gene expression.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings, No. 55 (2022): 2022 Annual Conference Proceedings
Landwirtschaftliche Tierhaltung in den Medien
Creators: name: Kothe, Christina
Publisher: name: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft
Year: 2020

description: Allgemeiner Journalismus und Fachjournalismus beschäftigen sich in unterschiedlicher Weise mit der landwirtschaftlichen Tierhaltung. Die Verwendung und Entstehung von Medien-Frames ist dabei kennzeichnend für die mediale Berichterstattung. Die vorliegende Studie soll zeigen, wie in der Arbeit von Journalisten mit dem Thema Tierwohl im Kontext landwirtschaftlicher Tierhaltung umgegangen wird und welche Rolle Medien-Frames dabei spielen. Die Untersuchung geht von Journalisten als entscheidenden Akteuren im Mediengeschehen aus. Als empirische Methode kommen Experteninterviews mit 19 Journalisten von überregionalen, regionalen und fachlichen Medien, verbunden mit einer qualitaiv, strukturierenden Inhaltsanalyse zum Einsatz. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Herkunft und die Lebenswelt der Journalisten den Prozess des Framings beeinflussen. Großstädtisch lebende Journalisten der Allgemeinen Medien haben einen eher umfassend generalistischen Bezug zur landwirtschaftlichen Tierhaltung. Journalisten von Fachmedien sind hingegen stark in der landwirtschaftlichen Lebenswelt verwurzelt, verstehen sich als Ratgeber auf Augenhöhe und befinden sich in einem impliziten Bewertungskonsens mit ihrer Leserschaft. Journalisten kommt eine besondere Rolle als Strukturierungsinstanz des gesellschaftlichen und landwirtschaftlichen Diskurses zu. Mehr redaktionelle Diversität hinsichtlich der Lebenswelten von Journalisten würde die jeweils spezifische Sicht von Allgemein- und Fachmedien auf die landwirtschaftliche Tierhaltung erweitern. Reaktionelle Diversität könnte damit eine konstruktiv und lösungsorientierte Perspektive im gesellschaftlichen Diskurs zur Zukunft der landwirtschaftlichen Tierhaltung fördern.
description: Berichte über Landwirtschaft - Zeitschrift für Agrarpolitik und Landwirtschaft, Aktuelle Beiträge
Measuring the anisotropies in astrophysical and cosmological gravitational-wave backgrounds with Taiji and LISA networks
Creators: name: Zhao, Zhi-Chao
name: Wang, Sai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the capabilities of space-based gravitational-wave detector networks, specifically Taiji and LISA, to measure the anisotropies in stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB), which are characterized by the angular power spectrum. We find that a detector network can improve the measurement precision of anisotropies by at most fourteen orders of magnitude, depending on the angular multipoles. By doing so, we can enhance our understanding of the physical origins of SGWB, both in astrophysical and cosmological contexts. We assess the prospects of the detector networks for measuring the parameters of angular power spectrum. We further find an inevitable effect of cosmic variance, which can be suppressed by a better angular resolution, strengthening the importance of configuring detector networks. Our findings also suggest a potential detection of the kinematic dipole due to Doppler boosting of SGWB.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, minor revision. To be published in Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron