cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Processing parameters
Creators: name: Dematteis, Erika Michela
name: Cuevas, Fermin
name: Latroche, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: hydrogen storage
intermetallic compound
TiFe
industrial production
metal hydride

description: Summary of deliverable D2.3. After the studies conducted at CNRS, the optimised composition was selected by the consortium for the HyCARE project, owing to its easy activation, good thermodynamics, kinetics, high reversible capacity at 55 °C and good cycling performances, as shown in Deliverable 2.2. A first 5 kg industrial batch was produced by GKN. Here details on processing parameters and characteristics of the industrially produced alloy are resumed thanks to a muti-laboratory testing of the material.
Impact of Intramammary Infection of Serratia Species on Milk Production, Somatic Cell Count, and Survival in Dairy Cattle
Creators: name: Chuff, M. G.
name: Zadoks, R. N.
name: Welcome, F. L.
name: Santisteban, C. G.
name: Zurakowski, M. J.
name: Schukken, Y. H.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Serratia species are gram-negative bacilli commonly found in soil and water. They have been associated with disease in humans, companion animals, and dairy cattle. In dairy cattle, infections have originated in the dry or lactation period in both small and large herds. The infection can result in clinical and subclinical mastitis. Clinical cases occasionally cause severe symptoms such as hard, hot quarters and systemic signs of illness or death; however, subclinical cases are more common. Individual infections have been reported to last as long as 10 months. Although some reports have suggested successful treatment with neomycin, most studies suggest that a majority of Serratia spp infections cure spontaneously. Most studies have described individual herds and focus on the source of the organism. Little is known about the long-term impact of intramammary infections of Serratia spp on milk production, milk quality, and herd life of affected cows. The goal of our study is to analyze the effect of Serratia spp detection on milk production, somatic cell count (SCC), and survival across multiple herds.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
In vitro stimulation of B cells with mycobacterial glycolipids
Creators: name: Folkesson, Elin
name: Källenius, Gunilla
name: Gower, Maia
name: Kleberg, Linn
name: Mousavian, Zaynab
name: Sundling, Christopher
name: Bruchfeld, Judith
name: Silva, Carolina
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024

description: Investigating the effect of mycobacterial glycolipids on purified B cells in vitro.
B cells are purified from healthy blood donors and subsequently stimulated and analyzed using flow cytometry. Additionally, IL-6 produced by the cells is measured using ELISA.
title: Spatial distribution of cod in the Baltic Sea in relation to abiotic factors - a question of fish-age and area
Creators: name: Hjelm, J.
name: Simonsson, J.
name: Cardinale, M.
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - L - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Baltic Sea (ICES Ecoregion)
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The eastern Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) is the main piscivore in the Baltic Sea. Unfortionatly, it has decreased during the last two decades. The decrease is thought to be due to a combination of high fishing pressure and possibly suboptimal environmental conditions. One specific problem in the Baltic Sea is that inflows from the North Sea determine the water turnover and oxygen and saline concentrations, but also the yearly nutrient loading. During the last 15 years only two major inflows have occurred and as a consequence, areas with hypoxic and anoxic conditions have commonly occurred. In this study, we investigate the distribution of 1-, 3- and 5-year old cod in relation to oxygen, salinity, and temperature between 1988 and 2004 (first quarter) in subdivisions 25-28 in the Baltic Sea. We explored the spatial distribution of cod analytically but also graphically. The highest abundance of cod of all ages during all years was found in Subdivision 25, independently of oxygen and total biomass of cod (based on XSA estimates). At a smaller spatial scale, within subdivision 25, 3- and 5-year old cod had similar distributions, offshore in deep waters, whereas 1-year old cod occurred at more coastal areas. Within the other three subdivisions explored, no clear patterns could be detected. We found a positive relationship between oxygen concentration, as well as salinity, and the total abundance of cod (all age-classes), independently of total biomass of cod and recruits. An additional exploration confirmed oxygen to be the main factor affecting cod density and distribution. Furthermore, there is a negative correlation between oxygen concentration and a scaled abundance measure of 3- and 5-year old cod indicating that oxygen affects the survey abundance index used in cod assessment. Therefore, an increased awareness of the Baltic cod distributional response to a decreasing abundance and fluctuations of hydrographical conditions may enable an increase accuracy of stock size estimations, which may ensure the future of the Baltic cod and the Baltic cod fishery.
A study of halo and relic radio emission in merging clusters using the Murchison Widefield Array
Creators: name: George, L. T.
name: Dwarakanath, K. S.
name: Johnston-Hollitt, M.
name: Intema, H. T.
name: Hurley-Walker, N.
name: Bell, M. E.
name: Callingham, J. R.
name: For, Bi-Qing
name: Gaensler, B.
name: Hancock, P. J.
name: Hindson, L.
name: Kapińska, A. D.
name: Lenc, E.
name: McKinley, B.
name: Morgan, J.
name: Offringa, A.
name: Procopio, P.
name: Staveley-Smith, L.
name: Wayth, R. B.
name: Wu, Chen
name: Zheng, Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied radio haloes and relics in nine merging galaxy clusters using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The images used for this study were obtained from the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) Survey which was carried out at 5 frequencies, viz. 88, 118, 154, 188 and 215 MHz. We detect diffuse radio emission in 8 of these clusters. We have estimated the spectra of haloes and relics in these clusters over the frequency range 80-1400 MHz; the first such attempt to estimate their spectra at low frequencies. The spectra follow a power law with a mean value of $α= -1.13\pm0.21$ for haloes and $α= -1.2\pm0.19$ for relics where, $S \propto ν^α$. We reclassify two of the cluster sources as radio galaxies. The low frequency spectra are thus an independent means of confirming the nature of cluster sources. Five of the nine clusters host radio haloes. For the remaining four clusters, we place upper limits on the radio powers of possible haloes in them. These upper limits are a factor of 2-20 below those expected from the $L_{\rm X}-P_{\rm 1.4}$ relation. These limits are the lowest ever obtained and the implications of these limits to the hadronic model of halo emission are discussed.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Exploring Body Texture from mmW Images for Person Recognition
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Sosa, E.
name: Fierrez, J.
name: Vera-Rodriguez, R.
name: Alonso-Fernandez, F.
name: Patel, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Imaging using millimeter waves (mmWs) has many advantages including the ability to penetrate obscurants such as clothes and polymers. After having explored shape information retrieved from mmW images for person recognition, in this work we aim to gain some insight about the potential of using mmW texture information for the same task, considering not only the mmW face, but also mmW torso and mmW wholebody. We report experimental results using the mmW TNO database consisting of 50 individuals based on both hand-crafted and learned features from Alexnet and VGG-face pretrained Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) models. First, we analyze the individual performance of three mmW body parts, concluding that: i) mmW torso region is more discriminative than mmW face and the whole body, ii) CNN features produce better results compared to hand-crafted features on mmW faces and the entire body, and iii) hand-crafted features slightly outperform CNN features on mmW torso. In the second part of this work, we analyze different multi-algorithmic and multi-modal techniques, including a novel CNN-based fusion technique, improving verification results to 2% EER and identification rank-1 results up to 99%. Comparative analyses with mmW body shape information and face recognition in the visible and NIR spectral bands are also reported.
description: Published at IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science
In and out star formation in z~1.5 quiescent galaxies from rest-frame UV spectroscopy and the far-infrared
Creators: name: Gobat, Raphael
name: Daddi, Emanuele
name: Strazzullo, Veronica
name: Garilli, Bianca
name: Mignoli, Marco
name: Ma, Zhongyang
name: Jin, Shuowen
name: Maraston, Claudia
name: Magdis, Georgios
name: Béthermin, Matthieu
name: Cappellari, Michele
name: Carollo, Marcella
name: Cimatti, Andrea
name: Feruglio, Chiara
name: Moresco, Michele
name: Onodera, Masato
name: Pozzetti, Lucia
name: Renzini, Alvio
name: Sargent, Mark
name: Valentino, Francesco
name: Zanella, Anita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a sample of 34 spectroscopically confirmed BzK-selected ~1e11 Msun quiescent galaxies (pBzK) in the COSMOS field. The targets were initially observed with VIMOS on the VLT to facilitate the calibration of the photometric redshifts of massive galaxies at z >~ 1.5. Here we describe the reduction and analysis of the data, and the spectrophotometric properties of these pBzK galaxies. In particular, using a spatially resolved median 2D spectrum, we find that the fraction of stellar populations with ages <1 Gyr is at least 3 times higher in the outer regions of the pBzK galaxies than in their cores. This results in a mild age gradient of ~<0.4 Gyr over ~6 kpc and suggests either the occurrence of widespread rejuvenation episodes or that inside-out quenching played a role in the passivization of this galaxy population. We also report on low-level star formation rates derived from the [OII]3727A emission line, with SFR_OII = 3.7-4.5 Msun/yr. This estimate is confirmed by an independent measurement on a separate sample of similarly-selected quiescent galaxies in the COSMOS field, using stacked far-infrared data (SFR_FIR = 2-4 Msun/yr). This second, photometric sample also displays significant excess at 1.4 GHz, suggestive of the presence of radio-mode AGN activity.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Risk of New Intramammary Infections during the Dry Period in Holstein Dairy Cattle Enrolled in the CBMRN National Cohort of Dairy Farms
Creators: name: Calloway, C. D.
name: Dohoo, I. R.
name: Keefe, G. P.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Intramammary infections acquired during the dry period are difficult to diagnosis and tend to lead to decreased production in the subsequent lactation. In addition, the use of dry cow therapies (DCT) have virtually eliminated major pathogens, such as Streptococcus agalactiae. However, use of dry cow therapy or teat sealants may have questionable efficacy against other pathogens. Selective dry cow therapy, based on farm- or cow-specific pathogen profiles, tend to decrease usage of antimicrobial products. However, to generate farm-specific pathogen profiles, knowledge of incidence of intramammary pathogens is needed. The objectives of this observational study were to determine the incidence of new intramammary infections (NIMI) in dairy cattle during the dry period and risk factors associated with NIMI incidence risk.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
Tolerance Induced by Mycobacterial Glycolipids
Creators: name: Folkesson, Elin
name: Gower, Maia
name: Källenius, Gunilla
name: Kleberg, Linn
name: Mousavian, Zaynab
name: Sundling, Christopher
name: Bruchfeld, Judith
name: Silva, Carolina
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024

description: Investigating mycobacterial glycolipids' effect of tolerization on myeloid cells
Effect of the Treatment of Clinical Mastitis Based on On-farm Culture on Secondary Therapy, Days to Clinical Cure, Days out of Tank, Mastitis Recurrence, Somatic Cell Count, Milk Yield, and Culling
Creators: name: Lago, A.
name: Godden, S.
name: Bey, R.
name: Ruegg, P.
name: Leslie, K.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Lago et al (2008) reported that the adoption of an on-farm culture (OFC) system to guide strategic treatment decisions resulted in a reduction in antibiotic use, but no decrease in bacteriological cure risk for mild or moderate cases of clinical mastitis (CM). The objective of this abstract is to describe the effect of the aforementioned treatment program on other short and long term outcomes after CM.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
An Investigation into the Coliform Growth of Digested Manure Solids on a Large Commercial Michigan Dairy
Creators: name: Tulloch, J. S. P.
name: O'Boyle, N. J.
name: Sears, P. M.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Anaerobic digesters are a potential solution for increasing sustainability while reducing the environmental impact of dairy farms. Many farms utilize the digester's solid waste product as freestall bedding. It provides good cow comfort and is readily available at a low cost to the producer. However, concerns have been raised about the relationship of this bedding to udder health and milk quality. Currently, little is known about the ideal management of digested manure solids, its use as bedding, and its influence on environmental mastitis. We set out to qualify and quantify the levels of coliform bacteria in the bedding, as well as aspects which would influence management in the freestall by measuring changes over time, surface and deep differences, composting and influence of the cow (i.e., inoculation of the bedding).
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
Criteria for the Blue hole selection and raw data figure. from Low-latitude zooplankton pigmentation plasticity in response to multiple threats
Creators: name: Lee, Marcus
name: Zhang, Huan
name: Sha, Yongcui
name: Hegg, Alexander
name: Ugge, Gustaf Ekelund
name: Vinterstare, Jerker
name: Skerlep, Martin
name: Pärssinen, Varpu
name: Herzog, Simon David
name: Björnerås, Caroline
name: Gollnisch, Raphael
name: Johansson, Emma
name: Hu, Nan
name: Nilsson, P. Anders
name: Hulthén, Kaj
name: Rengefors, Karin
name: Brian Langerhans, R.
name: Brönmark, Christer
name: Hansson, Lars-Anders
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019

description: Geographical location, turbidity measurements and predation risk of the selected lakes plus the figure displaying the variation of the experiment.
Efficacy of Two Fresh Cow Subclinical Mastitis Treatment Programs on Antibiotic Use, Days out of Tank, Bacteriological Cure, Clinical Mastitis, Somatic Cell Count, Milk Yield, Reproduction, and Culling
Creators: name: Lago, A.
name: Godden, S.
name: Bey, R.
name: Ruegg, P.
name: Leslie, K.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of using the California Mastitis Test (CMT) alone, or the CMT and on-farm culture (OFC) in series, to diagnose and treat subclinical mastitis after calving.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
Ovsynch versus Ultrasynch
Creators: name: McArt, J. A. A.
name: Caixeta, L.
name: Machado, V.
name: Guard, C. L.
name: Bicalho, R. C.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: The steady decrease in reproductive efficiency of dairy cattle and increase in use of synchronization protocols have generated interest in development of a synchronization program that improves pregnancy rate while decreasing the number of hormone treatments. The purpose of this study was to determine if the reproductive efficacy of a synchronization program, ultrasynch, based on functionality of the corpus luteum (CL), was greater than a standard ovsynch protocol.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
1D van der Waals Material Tellurium: Raman Spectroscopy under Strain and Magneto-transport
Creators: name: Du, Yuchen
name: Qiu, Gang
name: Wang, Yixiu
name: Si, Mengwei
name: Xu, Xianfan
name: Wu, Wenzhuo
name: Ye, Peide D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental demonstrations of 1D van der Waals material tellurium have been presented by Raman spectroscopy under strain and magneto-transport. Raman spectroscopy measurements have been performed under strains along different principle axes. Pronounced strain response along c-axis is observed due to the strong intra-chain covalent bonds, while no strain response is obtained along a-axis due to the weak inter-chain van der Waals interaction. Magneto-transport results further verify its anisotropic property, resulting in dramatically distinct magneto-resistance behaviors in terms of three different magnetic field directions. Specifically, phase coherence length extracted from weak antilocalization effect, L$_Φ$ ~ T$^{-0.5}$, claims its 2D transport characteristics when an applied magnetic field is perpendicular to the thin film. In contrast, L$_Φ$ ~ T$^{-0.33}$ is obtained from universal conductance fluctuations once the magnetic field is along c-axis of Te, indicating its nature of 1D transport along the helical atomic chains. Our studies, which are obtained on high quality single crystal tellurium thin film, appear to serve as strong evidences of its 1D van der Waals structure from experimental perspectives. It is the aim of this paper to address this special concept that differs from the previous well-studied 1D nanowires or 2D van der Waals materials.
Milk Production and Reproductive Performance in Postpartum Dairy Cows Diagnosed and Treated for Metritis Using a Health Monitoring Program
Creators: name: Rabaglino, M. B.
name: Santos, J. E.
name: Fuentes, C.
name: Risco, C. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: After calving, uterine health can be compromised by bacterial contamination that may result in metritis which lowers milk production, fertility and can be life threatening. Early treatment of metritis is justified on the basis of animal welfare and from an economical aspect of returning affected cows to their expected level of production. Postpartum (PP) health monitoring strategies are popular in many dairies because it allows the opportunity to identify sick cows early and provide therapy for metritis. However, it is not known if PP cows that undergo a health monitoring program and are diagnosed and treated for metritis have comparable reproductive performance and milk production to cows without metritis. Objectives were to determine milk production and reproductive performance in PP dairy cows diagnosed and treated for metritis using a health monitoring program.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
title: Life cycle of Pseudocalanus acuspes in the Baltic Sea
Creators: name: Renz, Jasmin
name: Hirche, Hans-Jürgen
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - L - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Baltic Sea (ICES Ecoregion)
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Seasonal and spatial distribution of Pseudocalanus acuspes was studied from March 2002 to May 2003 in the Bornholm Basin of the Central Baltic Sea. During the same time, egg-production was de-termined by in-situ incubations. Highest abundances were reached in May 2002 and April 2003 (618*10³ and 869*10³ n m-2, respec-tively), a peak in egg production rate was observed in April 2002 (3.6 female-1 day-1) and April 2003 (2.5 female-1 day-1). According to the hydrographic conditions, P. acuspes showed a pronounced onto-genetic vertical distribution. During spring, nauplii were distributed almost exclusively above the halo-cline, while older copepodites inhabited the lower part of the water column under the halocline. During summer, when the thermocline had build up, the ontogenetic vertical distribution was weak-ened but still existent. Highest proportion of the population was found in the water body between the thermo- and the halocline. During the year a clear stage shift from nauplii to older copepodites was seen, but proportion of adult stages never exceeded 19.5 %.
High efficiency transmission grating for the ESO CUBES UV spectrograph
Creators: name: Zeitner, U. D.
name: Dekker, H.
name: Burmeister, F.
name: Flügel-Paul, T.
name: Bianco, A.
name: Zanutta, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: CUBES is the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph, a high-efficiency instrument operating in the UV spectral range between 300nm and 400nm with a resolution not less than 20000. CUBES is to be installed at a Cassegrain focus of the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory. The paper briefly reviews various types of devices used as dispersing elements in astronomical spectrographs to achieve high resolution, before identifying binary transmission gratings produced by microlithography as the best candidate technology for the CUBES instrument. We describe the lithographic fabrication technology in general, two different design considerations to achieve the required high-resolution transmission grating, its prototyping by a direct-write lithographic fabrication technology, and the characterization of the achieved optical performance. An outlook to the realization of the grating for the final instrument, taking the most recent developments of lithographic writing capabilities into consideration is given.
description: Exp Astron (2022)
Dirichlet form for virtual perturbed infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold (Japanese)
Creators: name: Yagisita, Hiroki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15254424 

For the formally given Gibbs measure $(\prod_{\Lambda}g_\Lambda(\{x_k\}_{k\in\Lambda}))(\prod_{k}dx_k)$, if for any $k$, the set of all sets $\Lambda$ such that $k\in \Lambda$ holds is a finite set, then regular conditional probability measures are defined.
City ant, desert ant: investigating the changing dynamics of ant-tree cholla mutualisms along an urbanization gradient in Albuquerque, NM
Creators: name: Lynch, Shannon C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Anthropogenic modifications are impacting ecosystems across the globe. Urbanization, possibly the most widespread and multifaceted, can have significant influence over species coping with anthropogenic stressors. Mutualistic interactions play important roles in the reproduction and survival of many plants and animals, thus it is imperative we understand how urbanization can influence these interactions. I investigated the effect of urbanization through the lens of an ant-plant mutualism between tree cholla cacti and their ant defenders. Specifically, I first examined how plant size, ant species richness & composition, and ant activity varied on tree cholla cacti across an urbanization gradient from Albuquerque, NM to the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge. I experimentally assessed how nectar supplementation influenced ant aggressive encounters with proxy prey on tree cholla across open spaces and desert wildlands. The questions this study investigated were: 1) how do plant traits and ant communities (richness, composition, and activity) differ across the urbanization gradient? 2) how do the defensive services provided by ants vary across open spaces and desert remnants? Ant communities significantly varied across site type while tree cholla size showed no effect. I found that desert ant communities were very distinct; they had the highest activity with the lowest richness and most dissimilar composition. Ant aggression varied similarly across site types with desert ants being the most aggressive for all behaviors (discovery, attack, and removal) while only discovery and attack occurred at quicker rates for supplemented plants. Ant aggression varied a lot less across nectar supplementation, with supplemented ants being the most aggressive for only removal while discovery and attack occurred at quicker rates for supplemented plants. Examination of the nectar quality and herbivorous arthropod abundance may help explain why this strong difference in ant composition and defense is not correlated with lower plant fitness (i.e. size traits). Nevertheless, this study provides unique insight into the growing body of work demonstrating that mutualisms vary significantly across urbanization gradients.
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on User Interfaces for Theorem Provers
Creators: name: Autexier, Serge
name: Quaresma, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The UITP workshop series brings together researchers interested in designing, developing and evaluating user interfaces for automated reasoning tools, such as interactive proof assistants, automated theorem provers, model finders, tools for formal methods, and tools for visualising and manipulating logical formulas and proofs. The twelth edition of UITP took place in Coimbra, Portugal, and was part of the International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR'16). The workshop consisted of an invited talk, six presentations of submitted papers and lively hands-on session for reasoning tools and their user-interface. These post-proceedings contain four contributed papers accepted for publication after a second round of reviewing after the workshop as well as the invited paper.
title: The feeding-growth relationship in post-larval Baltic sprat (Sprattus sprattus L.): Comparison of somatic, nucleic acid- and otolith-based growth rates
Creators: name: Peck, Myron A.
name: Clemmesen, Catriona
name: Herrmann, Jens-Peter
name: Stäcker, Sven
name: Temming, Axel
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - L - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Baltic Sea (ICES Ecoregion)
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Since rates of mortality and growth during early ontogeny are inversely related in marine fish species, understanding recruitment dynamics will require robust estimates of growth rates for field-caught fish. We conducted a series of laboratory experiments using post-larval sprat (~30 to 40 mm standard length) to describe the relationship between rates of feeding and growth, and compare the utility of two commonly used indicators of in situ growth (RNA/DNA and otolith microstructure analysis) to track changes in somatic growth. The growth–feeding relationship at 18°C was linear, and robust estimates of starvation metabolism, the rate of feeding at maintenance (zero) growth, maximum food consumption, and gross growth efficiency were obtained. When exposed to a variety of changing feeding regimes, RNA/DNA in muscle of post-larval sprat was always tightly coupled to growth in somatic weight regardless of feeding history. In contrast, the response of otolith growth (increment widths) was tightly coupled to growth in fish length but not always to growth in weight, especially after a period of prolonged starvation. In sprat post-larvae, the response time of RNA/DNA to changes in feeding conditions was ~ 3 to 4 days compared to ~ 10 days for otolith increment widths. Our laboratory experiments and results provide a link between indices of in situ growth and estimates of in situ food consumption. Despite the trophodynamic importance of clupeids in many aquatic ecosystems, this is, to our knowledge, the first study to quantify the growth–feeding relationship in post-larvae of this group.
Evaluation of Techniques for Diagnosis of Endometritis in Dairy Cows
Creators: name: Dubuc, J.
name: Duffield, T. F.
name: Leslie, K. E.
name: Walton, J. S.
name: LeBlanc, S. J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Endometritis in postpartum dairy cows has been shown to decrease reproductive performance. Endometritis has been classified as clinical (CE; visible purulent discharge on vaginal examination or by measurement of cervical diameter) or subclinical (SCE; inflammation measured with endometrial cytology). Various techniques have been proposed for their diagnosis, including the Metricheck™ (MTCK) device (Simcrotech, New Zealand) and measuring cervical diameter (CERV) by rectal palpation for diagnosing CE, and the cytobrush technique (CYBR) for SCE. It has been assumed that cows with CE are a more severe or evident subset of cows with SCE but little is known about the relationship of CE to SCE. The objectives of this study were to compare the findings of vaginal discharge and cervical diameter with endometrial cytology and to assess the relationship between these results and subsequent reproductive performance.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
Dirichlet form for virtual perturbed infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold (Japanese)
Creators: name: Yagisita, Hiroki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: [Maintext] https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15243570 

[Relatext] https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15254424
Mendeley readership as a filtering tool to identify highly cited publications
Creators: name: Zahedi, Zohreh
name: Costas, Rodrigo
name: Wouters, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study presents a large scale analysis of the distribution and presence of Mendeley readership scores over time and across disciplines. We study whether Mendeley readership scores (RS) can identify highly cited publications more effectively than journal citation scores (JCS). Web of Science (WoS) publications with DOIs published during the period 2004-2013 and across 5 major scientific fields have been analyzed. The main result of this study shows that readership scores are more effective (in terms of precision/recall values) than journal citation scores to identify highly cited publications across all fields of science and publication years. The findings also show that 86.5% of all the publications are covered by Mendeley and have at least one reader. Also the share of publications with Mendeley readership scores is increasing from 84% in 2004 to 89% in 2009, and decreasing from 88% in 2010 to 82% in 2013. However, it is noted that publications from 2010 onwards exhibit on average a higher density of readership vs. citation scores. This indicates that compared to citation scores, readership scores are more prevalent for recent publications and hence they could work as an early indicator of research impact. These findings highlight the potential and value of Mendeley as a tool for scientometric purposes and particularly as a relevant tool to identify highly cited publications.
title: Phytoplankton and nutrient dynamics in the Bornholm Basin 2002-2003 during the German GLOBEC Project
Creators: name: Van Beusekoma, J.
name: Boersmab, M.
name: Dibbernc, M.
name: Mengedohtd, D.
name: Schillinge, M.
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - L - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Baltic Sea (ICES Ecoregion)
Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.From March 2002 until April 2003 we investigated the seasonal nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics in the Bornholm Basin within the framework of the German GLOBEC Project. We choose for a nested approach consisting of vertical fluorescence profiles at each of 45 stations, nutrients profiles at 9 focus stations and phytoplankton counts at selected stations but with a focus on the central Bornholm Basin. The fluorescence sonde (MultiProbe, BBE Moldaenke) is capable of distinguishing four algal groups (Cryptophyceae, Cyanophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Diatoms + Dinoflagellates). Winter concentrations were about 5 μM NO3 and 0.5 μM PO4 in the central Basin. The diatom dominated spring bloom reached its maximum before the onset of the seasonal stratification and reached a biomass of about 6 μg Chla. During summer, a subsurface maximum developed near the thermocline consisting of diatoms and cryptophycea. Nutrient concentrations point towards a nitrogen limitation during this period. The paper presents the main results of this data set. Advantages and limitations of the chosen sampling design will be shortly addressed.
Effect of High Somatic Cell Counts on Reproductive Performance of Chilean Dairy Cattle
Creators: name: Pinedo, P. J.
name: Melendez, P.
name: Villagomez-Cortes, J. A.
name: Risco, C.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Mastitis is caused by environmental or contagious bacteria related to poor milking procedures or hygiene, and continues as an economically important disease. Clinical mastitis may affect the interestrus interval and cause abortion by stimulating the release of inflammatory mediators and pyrexia. Subclinical mastitis results in lower reproductive performance, and a negative effect of a linear somatic cell count on embryo survival has been reported. Still, a paucity of research exists on the magnitude of the effect of subclinical mastitis on reproductive performance of lactating dairy cows. The hypothesis was that subclinical mastitis, diagnosed by an elevated somatic cell count (SCC), affects fertility and reproductive performance of dairy cattle by a reduction in conception and an increase on the risk of abortion. The objectives were to evaluate the effect of high SCC during early lactation on reproductive performance, and to determine the association between a high linear SCC (LNSCC) and the risk of abortion in a population of central-southern Chilean dairy cattle.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
Improved tetrahedron method for the Brillouin-zone integration applicable to response functions
Creators: name: Kawamura, Mitsuaki
name: Gohda, Yoshihiro
name: Tsuneyuki, Shinji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We improve the linear tetrahedron method to overcome systematic errors due to overestimations (underestimations) in integrals for convex (concave) functions, respectively. Our method is applicable to various types of calculations such as the total energy, the harge (spin) density, response functions, and the phonon frequency, in contrast with the Blöchl correction, which is applicable to only the first two. We demonstrate the ability of our method by calculating phonons in MgB$_2$ and fcc lithium.
description: 9pages, 8 figures
Effect of bath temperature on the decoherence of quantum dissipative systems
Creators: name: Wu, Wei
name: Lin, Hai-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report an anomalous decoherence phenomenon of a quantum dissipative system in the framework of a stochastic decoupling scheme along with a hierarchical equations-of-motion formalism without the usual Born-Markov or weak coupling approximations. It is found that the decoherence of a two-qubit spin-boson model can be reduced by increasing the bath temperature in strong-coupling regimes. For the weak-coupling situation, we find that the bath temperature may enhance the decoherence. This result is contrary to the common recognition that a higher bath temperature always induces a more severe decoherence and suggests that a decoherence dynamical transition occurs in this two-qubit spin-boson model. We also demonstrate that the critical transition point can be characterized by the behavior of the frequency spectrum of the quantum coherence indicator.
Fabrication of silicone foam/polytitanosiloxane composite with enhanced flame retardancy
Creators: name: Du, Weining
name: Yin, Chaolu
name: Huang, Hao
name: Ge, Xinguo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In this research, a series of silicone foam/polytitanosiloxane composites (SF-pTS) were fabricated with hydroxy-, vinyl-, hydrogen-containing polydimethylsiloxanes, and polytitanosiloxane filler in the presence of a platinum catalyst under ambient conditions. The effect of the amount of polytitasiloxane on the micromorphology and flame retardancy of silicone foam was studied, and a relative flame retardancy mechanism was proposed. It could be found that the polytitanosiloxane exhibited a good dispersion level in the silicone foam, thus improving the flame retardancy of the composite. When the content of polytitanosiloxane is 9 wt%, the limiting oxygen index and UL-94 grade of the SF-pTS9 composite are increased to 29.2% and FV-0, respectively. Cone experiment results suggested that the SF-pTS9 possessed relative balanced PHRR (148.9 kW/m2), THR (58.5 MJ/m2), TSP (0.6 m2), and mass residue (83.9%) among the prepared silicone foam materials. This work provides a new avenue to fabricate a silicone foam composite with enhanced flame retardancy.
On the representation of capsizing in iceberg models
Creators: name: Wagner, Till J. W.
name: Stern, Alon A.
name: Dell, Rebecca W.
name: Eisenman, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although iceberg models have been used for decades, they have received far more widespread attention in recent years, in part due to efforts to explicitly represent icebergs in climate models. This calls for increased scrutiny of all aspects of typical iceberg models. An important component of iceberg models is the representation of iceberg capsizing, or rolling. Rolling occurs spontaneously when the ratio of iceberg width to height falls below a critical threshold. Here we examine previously proposed representations of this threshold, and we find that there have been crucial errors in the representation of rolling in many modeling studies to date. We correct these errors and identify an accurate model representation of iceberg rolling. Next, we assess how iceberg rolling influences simulation results in a hierarchy of models. Rolling is found to substantially prolong the lifespan of individual icebergs and allow them to drift farther offshore, although it is found to have relatively small impacts on the large-scale freshwater distribution in comprehensive model simulations. The results suggest that accurate representations of iceberg rolling may be of particular importance for operational forecast models of iceberg drift, as well as for regional changes in high-resolution climate model simulations.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Cow-level analysis of bovine leukemia virus infection and milk production in Michigan dairy cows
Creators: name: Norby, Bo
name: Bartlett, Paul C.
name: Byrem, Todd M.
name: Erskine, Ron J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: Enzootic bovine leukosis is a chronic infectious disease of cattle caused by bovine leukemia virus (BLV), a deltaretrovirus. The main route of BLV transmission among cattle appears to be hematogenous transfer of infected B cells. A persistent lymphocytosis (PL) phenotypic state is observed in approximately 30% of infected cattle. Cattle that do not become PL remain aleukemic (AL) with normal lymphocyte counts. About 0.1 to 10% of BLV-infected cows progress to develop lymphoma. Little has been done to limit the spread of BLV in the US dairy herd. In a 1996 National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) survey of dairy herds in the US, the herd-level prevalence was 89%. A similar herd-level prevalence of 83.9% based on bulk-tank testing was reported in the 2007 NAHMS dairy study, and in a 2010 study of 113 Michigan dairy herds, the mean within-herd prevalence was 32.8%. Bovine leukemia virus infection has been shown to reduce milk production at the herd level. The direct losses associated with BLV infections to the dairy industry and consumers have been estimated to be in excess of $500 million yearly. The objective of this paper was to determine the association between the predicted 305-day mature equivalent (ME305) milk of cows in their lactation following BLV milk-ELISA testing and BLV status.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
Faceted classification: management and use
Creators: name: Slavic, Aida
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper discusses issues related to the use of faceted classifications in an online environment. The author argues that knowledge organization systems can be fully utilized in information retrieval only if they are exposed and made available for machine processing. The experience with classification automation to date may be used to speed up and ease the conversion of existing faceted schemes or the creation of management tools for new systems. The author suggests that it is possible to agree on a set of functional requirements for supporting faceted classifications online that are equally relevant for the maintenance of classifications, the creation of classification indexing tools, or the management of classifications in an authority file. It is suggested that a set of requirements for analytico-synthetic classifications may be put forward to improve standards for the use and exchange of knowledge organization systems.
Descriptive epidemiology of bovine leukemia virus among herds enrolled in a national study of the impacts of infection on dairy cow longevity and production
Creators: name: LaDronka, R. M.
name: Norby, B.
name: Byrem, T. M.
name: Erskine, R. J.
name: Grooms, D. L.
name: Bartlett, P. C.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2015

description: Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is a deltaretrovirus prevalent in approximately 80% of US dairy herds and 30% of US dairy cattle. Previous work by our research group and others has shown that BLV infection leads to decreased milk production, impaired immune response, and decreased longevity among positive dairy cattle. Much of this work was part of a 2010 study of 113 Michigan dairy herds. Our research group is currently undertaking a nationwide study of bovine leukemia virus, in which we will be enrolling 120 herds from 11 states. The objective of this study is to confirm our findings from Michigan on a broader national scope. The descriptive epidemiology of bovine leukemia virus among herds enrolled in this study are presented here.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2015
МЕТОДИЧЕСКИЕ АСПЕКТЫ АНАЛИЗА И ОЦЕНКИ РЕЗУЛЬТАТИВНОСТИ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ КОММЕРЧЕСКОЙ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ
Creators: name: Жиганова Татьяна Викторовна
name: Прудникова Людмила Викторовна
Publisher: name: Вестник Витебского государственного технологического университета
Year: 2020
Subjects: РЕЗУЛЬТАТИВНОСТЬ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ
РЕЗУЛЬТАТ
ДОБАВЛЕННАЯ СТОИМОСТЬ
ПОТРЕБЛЕННЫЕ РЕСУРСЫ
ПРИМЕНЕННЫЕ РЕСУРСЫ
ИНТЕНСИВНЫЕ И ЭКСТЕНСИВНЫЕ ФАКТОРЫ
ДИНАМИЧЕСКИЕ ЗАВИСИМОСТИ
ПОКАЗАТЕЛИ РЕЗУЛЬТАТИВНОСТИ

description: В работе обоснована необходимость анализа и оценки результативности деятельности коммерческой организации. На основе комплексного подхода разработана методика анализа и оценки результативности деятельности коммерческой организации, включающая: оценку и анализ динамики отдельных показателей, характеризующих результат от текущей, финансовой и инвестиционной деятельности, так и их динамические зависимости; оценку преобладания интенсивных и экстенсивных факторов в динамике соответствующих результатов деятельности организации; выявление соблюдения установленных нормативных динамических зависимостей между показателями, характеризующими результативность деятельности организации и ее ресурсами; оценку и анализ динамики показателей, характеризующих результативность исследуемых видов деятельности организации; оценку и анализ влияния факторов на динамику результативности деятельности организации. В результате апробации методики в организациях Витебской области, занимающихся производством текстильных изделий, продуктов питания, вычислительной аппаратуры, определены ключевые проблемы результативности деятельности.
Molecular Structuring and Percolation Transition in Hydrated Sulfonated Poly(ether ether ketone) Membranes
Creators: name: Tripathy, Madhusmita
name: Kumar, P. B. Sunil
name: Deshpande, Abhijit P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The extent of phase separation and water percolation in sulfonated membranes are the key to their performance in fuel cells. Toward this, the effect of hydration on the morphology and transport characteristics of sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone), sPEEK, membrane is investigated using atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulation at various hydration levels (λ: number of water molecules per sulfonate group) between 4 and 15. At the molecular level, the evolution of local morphology is investigated in terms of structural pair correlations and minimum pair distances, and the transport properties are studied in terms of mean squared displacements (MSDs) and diffusion coefficients. The water-sulfur interaction in sPEEK is found to be stronger than that in Nafion, as observed in experiments. As opposed to Nafion, a weaker interaction of hydronium, with sulfonate, than water is observed. The behavior of water in sPEEK membrane is found to remain far from bulk as indicated by its diffusion coefficient. Analysis of simulation data indicate that at low λ, the largest water cluster forms a narrow connected path of water molecules and hydronium ions. With increasing λ, larger water domains appear, spanning more than half of the simulation box at λ = 15. Small isolated clusters are present at all hydration levels, demonstrating the extent of phase separation in sPEEK to be lesser than that in Nafion. Various analyses, both at molecular and collective level, suggest the occurrence of a percolation transition between λ = 8 and 10, which leads to a connected network of water channels in the membrane, thereby boosting the mobility of hydronium ions.