cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia comparing adult critical-care populations
Creators: name: Weber, D.J.
name: Hanson, L.C.
name: Broadhead, W.E.
name: Rutala, W.A.
name: Cunnion, K.M.
name: Pieper, C.F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1996

description: The purpose of the study was to examine risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia in the surgical and medical/respiratory intensive care unit (ICU) populations. In a public teaching hospital, all cases of nosocomial pneumonia in the surgical and medical/respiratory ICUs (n = 20, respectively) were identified by prospective surveillance during a 5-yr period from 1987-1991. Each group of ICU cases was compared with 40 ICU control patients who did not acquire pneumonia, and analyzed for 25 potential risk factors. Surgical ICU patients were found to have consistently higher rates of nosocomial pneumonia than medical ICU patients (RR = 2.2). The strongest predictor for nosocomial pneumonia in both the surgical and medical/respiratory ICU groups was found to be prolonged mechanical ventilation (> 1 d) resulting in a 12-fold increase in risk over nonventilated patients. APACHE III score was found to be predictive of nosocomial pneumonia in the surgical ICU population, but not in the medical/respiratory ICU population. We conclude that certain groups deserve special attention for infection control intervention. Surgical ICU patients with high APACHE scores and receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation may be at the greatest risk of acquiring nosocomial pneumonia of all hospitalized patients.
Typology of smallholder’s pig production systems in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: Challenges and opportunities
Creators: name: Mugumaarhahama, Yannick
name: Mutwedu, Valence Bwana
name: Kazamwali, Léonard Muzee
name: Mushagalusa, Arsène Ciza
name: Bantuzeko, Fabrice Kwankanaba
name: Ndjadi, Serge Shakanye
name: Ndeko, Adrien Byamungu
name: Cirezi, Nadège Cizungu
name: Azine, Pascaline Ciza
name: Ayagirwe, Rodrigue Basengere-Balthazar
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: breeding practices
subject: feeding strategies
subject: hierarchical clustering on principal components
subject: multiple correspondence analysis
subject: pig farming systems
subject: 630
subject: Schweinehaltung
subject: Kleinbauer
subject: Züchtungstechnik
subject: Fütterung
subject: Sud-Kivu

description: Gedruckte Ausgabe im Verlag kassel university press erschienen.
CS - Farm Management, Quality Food And Energy In Practise In The Netherlands
Creators: name: Van Kempen, Joris
name: Kuipers, Abele
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: farm
subject: management
subject: food safety

description: This paper describes a farm situation in a lowland area in The Netherlands having attention for labour efficiency, energy collection, and food safety and medicine use. The region is heavily populated by wind turbines. The farm has dairy and arable farming and also offers bed & breakfast services. The slatted floor is kept clean by the robotic barn cleaner, and milking is done with the fully automatic Voluntary Milking System. The farm is involved in a quality assurance scheme for milk of the dairy cooperative that guarantees the way in which the milk is produced with specific attention to safety and quality. Also attention is given to a good and hygienic production process, the avoidance of foreign substances on the farm, the well-being and welfare of the animals and of course the safety of the product. The farm participates in a national project in which the medicine use in the herd and data transfer in the chain are topics of care and improvement. This will be explained.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Adults – A Review of 493 Episodes
Creators: name: Durand, M.L.
name: Miller, S.I.
name: Southwick, F.S.
name: Calderwood, S.B.
name: Weber, D.J.
name: Swartz, M.N.
name: Caviness, V.S., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: To characterize acute bacterial meningitis in adults, we reviewed the charts of all persons 16 years of age or older in whom acute bacterial meningitis was diagnosed at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1962 through 1988. We included patients who were admitted after initial treatment at other hospitals. During the 27-year period, 445 adults were treated for 493 episodes of acute bacterial meningitis, of which 197 (40 percent) were nosocomial. Gram-negative bacilli (other than Haemophilus influenzae) caused 33 percent of the nosocomial episodes but only 3 percent of the community-acquired episodes. In the 296 episodes of community-acquired meningitis, the most common pathogens were Streptococcus pneumoniae (37 percent), Neisseria meningitidis (13 percent), and Listeria monocytogenes (10 percent); these organisms accounted for only 8 percent of the nosocomial episodes. Only 19 of the 493 episodes of meningitis (4 percent) were due to H. influenzae. Nine percent of all patients had recurrent meningitis; many had a cerebrospinal fluid leak. Seizures occurred in 23 percent of patients with community-acquired meningitis, and 28 percent had focal central nervous system findings. Risk factors for death among those with single episodes of community-acquired meningitis included older age ( ≥ 60 years), obtunded mental state on admission, and seizures within the first 24 hours. Among those with single episodes, the in-hospital mortality rate was 25 percent for community-acquired and 35 percent for nosocomial meningitis. The overall case fatality rate was 25 percent and did not vary significantly over the 27 years. In our large urban hospital, a major proportion of cases of acute bacterial meningitis in adults were nosocomial. Recurrent episodes of meningitis were frequent. The overall mortality rate remained high., Few studies of bacterial meningitis have focused on the clinical and pathologic features of the illness in adults1–5. Most large series have included both children and adults, with children accounting for 45 to 87 percent of cases6–16. Results have rarely been reported according to age group in these studies. To characterize acute bacterial meningitis in adults, we reviewed our experience at Massachusetts General Hospital over a 27-year period, from 1962 through 1988.
CS - Growing Your Farm Profits 2008 Pilot Project: Developing A Farm Business Management Assessment, And Next Steps Action Plan
Creators: name: Fletcher, Carl
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agribusiness
Farm Management

description: The 2008 Growing Your Farm Profits Pilot Project proved that the Ontario Environmental Farm Plan model could be successfully adapted to facilitate 118 English and French speaking Ontario farmers assess their current level of farm business management, prioritize farm business management goals and create next step actions to achieve these goals. Farmers completed 162 assessment questions in eight worksheets in Business Strategy, Marketing, Production, Human Resources, Financial Management, Social Responsibility, Succession Planning, and Business Structure. Evaluation respondents indicated that, in regard to planning, the Growing Your Farm Profits process had increased their planning capacity self confidence level, knowledge and understanding, and their opinion of the value of planning in achieving their farm goals. Seventy â€“one per cent indicated they had identified one or more next step action items for their farm business. Based on the success of the pilot project 30 workshops will be held in 2009.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Partner Notification in Cases of HIV Infection
Creators: name: Wykoff, R.F.
name: Landis, S.E.
name: Schoenbach, V.J.
name: Daniell, F.D.
name: Weber, D.J.
name: Jones, J.L.
name: Skelly, R.R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1992

description: To the Editor: Landis et al. (Jan. 9 issue)1 have provided additional support for the concept and practice of partner notification — specifically, the provider-referral approach used in cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Our experiences2 were quite similar to those of Landis et al., and involved a quite different and more heterogeneous population that has been described elsewhere.3 The standardized approach combining referrals by patients and by providers that our staff routinely used with patients closely resembled the provider-referral approach described by Landis et al.
Taxonomic revision of the genus Philonotis for North America, north of Mexico
Creators: name: Zales, William Milton
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The genus Philonotis (Musci) is revised for North /America, north of Mexico, and exclusive of Greenland, following the last revision for this region by Seville Flowers in 1935. Collections and field observations of all but two of the recognized taxa were made from a wide diversity of habitats throughout most of their geographic range in North America. Numerous collections were cultured in a uniform environment to determine the stability of taxonomically diagnostic morphological characters. The position of papillae on the leaf cells, the structure of marginal cells, and to some degree the leaf shape and leaf cell shape are stable characters that are not modified by the environment. All other morphological characters examined are ecophenic and cannot be utilized to segregate taxa. The present revision recognizes seven species and two varieties; Philonotis glaucescens (Hornsch.) Broth., P. longiseta (Rich, in Michx.) Britt., P. sphaerocarpa (Hedw.) Brid., P. mavohioa (Hedw.) Brid., P. capillaris Lindb. ex Hartm., P. fontana (Hedw.) Brid. var. fontana, P. fontana var. amevicana (Dism.) Flow, ex Crum, P. fontana var. pumila (Turn.) Brid., and P. yezoana Besch. et Card, in Card, (new to North America). Chromosome counts of n = 6 for P. glaucescens and n = 12 for P. longiseta are new reports. Keys, descriptions, illustrations, and distribution maps are provided for identification of the species.
CS - Improved Water Use Efficiency With New Irrigation Systems And Strategies In Potatoes: A Case Study From Serbia
Creators: name: Boesen, Mads Vejlby
name: Jovanovic, Zorica
name: Pedersen, SÃ¸Ren Marcus
name: Ã˜Rum, Jens Erik
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: In this paper it is analysed if a tax on water may give farmers an incentive to shift to more water efficient irrigation systems and strategies. Two irrigation systems and three strategies for irrigation in potatoes are investigated. It is found that by changing from the present system and strategy it will be possible to save water significantly. With increased taxes on water it may also be possible to give incentives for the farmers to change to new systems and strategies. However the results also indicate that the water taxes should be very high. Therefore a tax on water quantity would not necessarily be a relevant solution from a farm management point of view.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Tensor-optimized shell model with bare nucleon-nucleon interaction for 4He
Creators: name: Myo, Takayuki
name: Toki, Hiroshi
name: Ikeda, Kiyomi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pion exchange between nucleons generates a strong tensor interaction, which provides a large attractive contribution for the binding energy of nucleus. This non central tensor interaction is difficult to handle in the shell model framework, which hinders full understanding of nuclear structure. We develop the tensor-optimized shell model (TOSM) for the strong tensor interaction and now we are able to use bare nucleon-nucleon interaction with the help of the unitary correlation operator method (UCOM) for the short-range hard core. We adopt the nucleon-nucleon interaction, AV8', and calculate explicitly the ground state of $^4$He and make a detailed comparison with rigorous few-body model calculations. We show a large amount of success of the tensor-optimized shell model with bare nucleon-nucleon interaction for 4He.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures
CS - Investing In The Future Of The Rural Community
Creators: name: Howard, Ryan
name: Harty, J.J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: LEADER
subject: European
subject: rural

description: From 1991 the European Commission established a new rural development approach called â€˜LEADERâ€™. Through this initiative funding was given to community led, autonomous, local action groups that could invest in local projects of their choice based on a multi-annual plan within a framework of rules and regulations. Another major departure from previous programmes of this nature was that all sectors of the rural community, including but not exclusive to the farming sector, were to be included as potential beneficiaries of support. In 2007 the LEADER approach became one of the four main axis of the European Rural Development Programme. In this paper the authors focus on the features of one of the most successful local action groups in the South of Ireland, its structure, experience and extraordinary impact to date and outline the organisations plans for the coming years against a background of growing economic uncertainty.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
CS - Lost Rivers Grazing Academy: Sustainable Livestock Education
Creators: name: Jensen, K. Scott
name: Cheyney, Charles
name: Hawkins, James
name: Gray, C. Wilson
name: Shewmaker, Glenn
name: Williams, Shannon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The Lost Rivers Grazing Academy (LRGA) was developed to improve the sustainability of livestock grazing operations. A mixture of classroom and handson instruction provides participants with training in Management-intensive Grazing, a goal driven, flexible method of managing grazing for improved sustainability. Increased efficiency has also helped these producers to reduce winter feed costs, leading to greater economic stability. The LRGA utilizes a variety of teaching techniques to facilitate learning. These techniques include traditional classroom instruction, experiential learning, games, and simulations.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Translation Invariance, Commutation Relations and Ultraviolet/Infrared Mixing
Creators: name: Galluccio, Salvatore
name: Lizzi, Fedele
name: Vitale, Patrizia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the Ultraviolet/Infrared mixing of noncommutative field theories with the Gronewold-Moyal product, whereby some (but not all) ultraviolet divergences become infrared, is a generic feature of translationally invariant associative products. We find, with an explicit calculation that the phase appearing in the nonplanar diagrams is the one given by the commutator of the coordinates, the semiclassical Poisson structure of the non commutative spacetime. We do this with an explicit calculation for represented generic products.
description: 24 pages, 1 figure
CS - Moving Towards Boar Taint-free Meat: An Overview Of Alternatives To Surgical Castration From A Chain Perspective
Creators: name: Valeeva, N.I.
name: Backus, G.B.C.
name: Baltussen, W.H.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Due to the public concern over the effects of surgical castration on pig welfare, castration, in particularly performed without pain relief, is now increasingly regarded as unacceptable in the EU. Therefore, developing acceptable alternatives to surgical castration has become a central topic for the pig meat sector. This paper reviews important issues in boar taint prevention without surgical castration, namely possible alternatives to surgical castration, factors influencing boar taint development and economic considerations associated with the presently feasible alternatives to surgical castration. Potential alternatives considered are genetic selection and gender selection for â€˜low-taintâ€™ pigs, immunocastration, altering management strategies, slaughter at a younger age and lower weight, detection of boar taint at slaughter line, mixing of tainted with untainted meat and masking unpleasant odors and flavors with spices. Prevention of boar taint itself without surgical castration is vary difficult. Basically, at present there is no totally valid and reliable alternative guaranteeing entire elimination of boar taint. The paper concludes that prevention of boar taint is a challenge for the entire pig production chain and an integrating approach would be useful to define the best alternative.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Testing Models of Accretion-driven Coronal Heating and Stellar Wind Acceleration for T Tauri Stars
Creators: name: Cranmer, Steven R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Classical T Tauri stars are pre-main-sequence objects that undergo simultaneous accretion, wind outflow, and coronal X-ray emission. The impact of plasma on the stellar surface from magnetospheric accretion streams is likely to be a dominant source of energy and momentum in the upper atmospheres of these stars. This paper presents a set of models for the dynamics and heating of three distinct regions on T Tauri stars that are affected by accretion: (1) the shocked plasmas directly beneath the magnetospheric accretion streams, (2) stellar winds that are accelerated along open magnetic flux tubes, and (3) closed magnetic loops that resemble the Sun's coronal active regions. For the loops, a self-consistent model of coronal heating was derived from numerical simulations of solar field-line tangling and turbulent dissipation. Individual models are constructed for the properties of 14 well-observed stars in the Taurus-Auriga star-forming region. Predictions for the wind mass loss rates are, on average, slightly lower than the observations, which suggests that disk winds or X-winds may also contribute to the measured outflows. For some of the stars, however, the modeled stellar winds do appear to contribute significantly to the measured mass fluxes. Predictions for X-ray luminosities from the shocks and loops are in general agreement with existing observations. The stars with the highest accretion rates tend to have X-ray luminosities dominated by the high-temperature (5-10 MK) loops. The X-ray luminosities for the stars having lower accretion rates are dominated by the cooler accretion shocks.
description: 20 pages (emulateapj style), 13 figures, ApJ, in press (v. 706, December 1, 2009)
CS - Potential For Use Of Kochia Prostrata And Perennial Grasses For Use In Rangeland Rehabilitation In Jordan
Creators: name: Bailey, Derek W.
name: Tabini, Raed Al
name: Horton, Howard
name: Libbin, James
name: Al-Khalidi, Khalid
name: Alqadi, Ahmad
name: Oun, Mohammad Al
name: Waldron, Blair
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Six varieties of forage kochia [Kochia prostrata (L.) Shad.], three native shrubs, two introduced Atriplex shrub species native to cold deserts in the western United States and drought-tolerant perennial grass varieties were seeded and evaluated under arid rangeland conditions in Jordan. Varieties were seeded in December 2007 evaluated in August 2008 at two sites in arid rangeland areas of southern and northern Jordan. Precipitation was below normal with the southern site (Ghrain) receiving 110 mm and the northern site (Tal Rimah) receiving 58 mm. Plants were more abundant and taller (P < 0.001) at wetter Ghrain site than the drier Tal Rimah site. Only a few native and Atriplex shrubs emerged. Frequency measurement of forage kochia demonstrated that plants emerged and survived the summer in about half of each row. Abundance of KZ-6X, Octavny select and Sahro varieties of forage kochia were greater (P < 0.05) than the BC-118, Immigrant and Pustiny varieties. Height was similar (P > 0.10) among forage kochia varieties. Abundance and height of perennial grass varieties were similar (P > 0.10) when evaluated across both sites. However, the higher frequencies of Kazak Siberian wheatgrass (21 Â± 3%) and Hycrest crested wheatgrass (20 Â± 4%) at the drier Tal Rimah site suggested that these varieties might be superior toValivov Siberian wheatgrass (4 Â± 3%) and Bozoiksky Russian wildrye (6 Â± 4%) in very arid conditions. Based on this study, forage kochia appears to have great potential for establishing palatable perennial shrubs through direct seeding in arid rangeland conditions of Jordan, and except in extremely dry conditions arid-adapted perennial grass varieties may also be useful for direct seeding in rangeland restoration efforts.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
In Reply
Creators: name: Rutala, W.A.
name: Weber, D.J.
name: Samsa, G.P.
name: Hoffman, K.K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1992

description: In Reply - When comparing the infection risks of transparent
vs gauze dressings used on central venous catheters, the
RRs were 1.78 for catheter-tip infection, 1.63 for bacteremia,
and 1.69 for catheter sepsis. These RRs represent the best
assessment of the overall risk associated with the use of
transparent dressings. (For catheter-tip infection, P<.001;
for catheter sepsis, P=.06.) In our discussion we used the
word "trend" in discussing this level of significance. The
choice of .05 as the level of "statistical significance" is arbitrary,
and given the RRs demonstrated in the meta-analysis,
further studies are warranted before accepting transparent
dressings as safe.
INNOVATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Creators: name: Sodiqova, Yulduz
name: Khaknazarova, Sevara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The article clarifies about the types of innovative technologies for learning a foreign language and the methods of using them in the classroom, as well as the importance of effective use of methods. Also, special information is given about the fact that these methods will help the students to learn a foreign language thoroughly and be able to speak that language easily.
Photoionized gas in hydrostatic equilibrium: the role of gravity
Creators: name: Ascasibar, Y.
name: Diaz, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method to include the effects of gravity in the plasma physics code Cloudy. More precisely, a term is added to the desired gas pressure in order to enforce hydrostatic equilibrium, accounting for both the self-gravity of the gas and the presence of an optional external potential. As a test case, a plane-parallel model of the vertical structure of the Milky Way disk near the solar neighbourhood is considered. It is shown that the gravitational force determines the scale height of the disk, and it plays a critical role in setting its overall chemical composition. However, other variables, such as the shape of incident continuum and the intensity of the Galactic magnetic field, strongly affect the predicted structure.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, MNRAS in press
CS - Size And Non-size Effects On The Profitability Of Farms In English Less Favoured Areas
Creators: name: Franks, Jeremy R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: English hill farms
subject: business viability
subject: diversification

description: Farms from English less favoured areas (LFA) are separated into size quartiles (measured by grazing livestock units (GLU)/farm) and ranked within these size quartiles by Farm Business Income (FBI)/farm to show size and non-size effects respectively. FBI increases with farm size but some small farms are highly profitable and large farms loss making, showing size is not an insurmountable barrier to or guarantee of business profitability. There is more variability in performance among smaller farm, showing they have better non-scale opportunities for improving performance than larger farms. Business growth by increasing herd/flock size leads to an initial fall in profits because revenues fall faster than costs, suggesting growth trajectories need to either (i) expand GLUs quickly or (ii) increase value added per GLU. Benchmarking clubs are considered better than comparative analysis against industry standards because they reveal more process-type details and afford better insights to developing diversification activities: where diversified income streams cannot be developed the future of small upland hill farms appears bleak.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Infectious waste — mismatch between science and policy
Creators: name: Rutala, W.A.
name: Weber, D.J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1991

description: Disposal of medical waste has emerged as a major problem in the United States. The problem was brought to public attention by recent episodes of medical waste washing ashore in some coastal states and the perceived threat of contracting the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome from it. This has led to restrictive rules governing the disposal of medical waste in most states and to more waste being defined as infectious. Coincidentally with the broadening of the definition of infectious waste, the options for the treatment and disposal of medical waste are diminishing because of lack of space and environmental concerns.
Examining the Psychometric Network Structure of Social Anxiety: Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Andreoli, Giovanbattista
name: Nishiuchi, Motohiro
name: Noda, Shota
name: Hofmann, Stefan G.
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Scoping Review
CS - Sustainable Agriculture: Conservation Through Production
Creators: name: Baker, John R.
name: Ivey, Brantley
name: Ivey, Whitney
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Introduction: River Ridge Land and Cattle Company is located in the Blue Ridge mountain range in the South West Virginia. Many of the farms in this area have been in the same family for more than generations and the farming heritage is a source of pride for local residents. This heritage has contributed to hesitancy in changing farming practices. Charlotte and Philip Hanes have owned River Ridge Land and Cattle Company (RRLCC) for the past twenty-three years. They are philanthropists who have devoted their time, effort and resources to created sustainable communities. Philipâ€™s projects include revitalizing downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Charlotte has worked to create economic sustainability in rural Grayson County and to develop RRLCC as a model of conservation and a sustainable agricultural enterprise. The current farm manager was hired in 2007 and has begun implementing managerial practices and establishing enterprises to achieve the vision of a sustainable agricultural enterprise. Sustainable agriculture is defined as that farm business that sustains the environment, the farm operator and family, the community and is capable of being transitioned to another generation.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Non existence of group structure on some quantum spaces
Creators: name: Soltan, Piotr M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L89, 81R60, 17B37

description: We prove that some well known compact quantum spaces like quantum tori and some quantum two-spheres do not admit a compact quantum group structure. This is achieved by considering existence of traces, characters and nuclearity of the corresponding $\mathrm{C}^*$-algebras.
description: Short and simple
The Decaying Near-Surface Boundary Layer of a Retreating Alpine Glacier
Creators: name: Shaw, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Open Access Publication in Geophysical Research Letters.

Abstract: The presence of a developed boundary layer decouples a glacier's response from ambient conditions, suggesting that sensitivity to climate change is increased by glacier retreat. To test this hypothesis, we explore six years of distributed meteorological data on a small Swiss glacier in the period 2001–2022. Large glacier fragmentation has occurred since 2001 (−35% area change up to 2022) coinciding with notable frontal retreat, an observed switch from down-glacier katabatic to up-glacier valley winds and an increased sensitivity (ratio) of on-glacier to off-glacier temperature. As the glacier ceases to develop density-driven katabatic winds, sensible heat fluxes on the glacier are increasingly determined by the conditions occurring outside the boundary layer of the glacier, sealing the glacier's demise as the climate continues to warm and experience an increased frequency.

Associated Dataset: https://zenodo.org/records/7554648
Outpatient Antibiotic Therapy for Osteomyelitis
Creators: name: Cohen, M.S.
name: Weber, D.J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1987

description: To the editor - The March 28, 1986, issue of JAMA contained an article
offering an economic analysis of outpatient
therapy for osteomyelitis.1 This
article is now being distributed by
representatives of the Smith Klein &
French pharmaceutical company for the
purpose of encouraging the use of the
cephalosporin antibiotic cefonicid (Monocid)
in this setting. In their introduction,
the authors justify their analysis
by noting that "a new. . . cephalosporin
antibiotic, cefonicid sodium, has
been shown to be effective in treating
osteomyelitis in the outpatient setting."
Impaired Immunogenicity of Hepatitis B Vaccine in Obese Persons
Creators: name: Weber, D.J.
name: Samsa, G.P.
name: Bradshaw, S.E.
name: Lemon, S.M.
name: Rutala, W.A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1986

description: To the Editor: The plasma-derived hepatitis B vaccine (Heptavax B, Merck Sharp & Dohme) is currently recommended for medical personnel at high risk of acquiring hepatitis B.
Genome properties and non-productive infections of herpesviruses
Creators: name: Mosmann, Timothy Richard
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Herpesvirus infections have been studied with the purpose of establishing conditions under which control of latent infection could be investigated. Several relevant properties of the viruses were also studied. Murine cytomegalovirus (MCV) preparations grown in vitro in mouse embryo cells contained large numbers of multiple capsid virions. These multiples were apparently infectious, but were not the main cause of the unusual enhancement of infectivity of MCV caused by application of centrifugal force during adsorption. The DNA of three herpesviruses was studied. Herpes simplex (HSV) DNA did not contain a significant number of cross-links. By comparison with bacteriophage T4-DNA (molecular weight 110 x 10⁶) after neutral sucrose gradient sedimentation, the molecular weights of MCV and HSV-DNA's were calculated as 132 x 10⁶ and 85 x 10⁶ respectively. Both these viral DNA's contained alkali sensitive single strand interruptions, and in the case of MCV-DNA it was found that the number of interruptions was dependent on the purification procedure, and preparations were obtained in which some molecules were free, of alkali sensitive regions in both strands. Human cytomegalovirus preparations contained a DNA component with an approximate molecular weight of 3 x 10⁸. MCV-DNA was analyzed by centrifugation to equilibrium in cesium chloride solution, and evidence obtained for a heterogeneous distribution of density along the molecule. Intact molecules banded at a single density corresponding to a G + C content of 59%, whereas fragmented molecules of 18 x 10⁶ molecular weight banded as two components, at densities corresponding to 57.5 and 61.5% G + C. This heterogeneity was confirmed by analysis of UV-absorbance/ temperature profiles of MCV-DNA, which provided evidence for two or possibly three components present in unequal amounts. Evidence was obtained from DNA-RNA hybridization studies to suggest that there was differential transcription or degradation of the viral RNA synthesized during infection, from the two DNA components separated on cesium chloride gradients. After infection of a continuous line of human cells with MCV, the titre of infectious virus rapidly declined to undetectable levels. The growth rate of the infected cells decreased, and the morphology of the cells was altered. Both these changes lasted for a few weeks, after which the cultures reverted to the normal growth rate and morphology. DNA-DNA annealing was used in an attempt to detect the presence and synthesis of viral DNA in these cells. In most cases, neither the presence nor absence of MCV-DNA at the level of one genome per cell genome, could be established, but in one experiment, synthesis of viral DNA apparently occurred in MCV infected cells lU days after infection. Viral RNA synthesis in these cells was undetectable, i.e. less than two parts in 10⁵ of the total RNA synthesis.
CS - Technical And Organizational Innovation: A Collaboration Between Private And Public Sector; The Case Of The ArianeÂ® Apple
Creators: name: ColÃ©No, F.C.
name: Ahmed, S.M. Ould
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Innovations that allow the development of new product are often linked to collaboration between private companies and public research laboratories. This collaboration mostly involves big companies, which have the most important absorptive capacity. To increase this capacity Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) can get closer to the public research by working in technological parks or by cooperating to establish joint ventures in R&D. This second solution is generally chosen by companies involved in the same supply chain. We present the case of an association between rival companies in the plant breeding sector for fruit production. The initiative for this association came from a public sector laboratory which persuaded these SMEs to cooperate in order to be able to work with it. This example of organizational and technical innovation allows us to investigate the specific features of public sector research that allow it to take part in private sector innovation.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
CS - Three Phase Feed-mix Optimization For Growing Pigs
Creators: name: Zgajnar, Jaka
name: Kavcic, Stane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: The ability to be adaptable in the process of daily ration formulation demands handy tools to support their calculation. This paper presents an example of such a tool, which is based on a three phase optimization approach. In the first phase, a common linear program is utilized to formulate rations on a least-cost basis. In the second stage, a sub-model, which is based on weighted goal programming and supported by a system of penalty functions, is used to formulate a nutritionally balanced and economically acceptable ration. This ration relies upon the ration cost calculated in the first phase. In the last stage, the tool runs the first and the second phases several times with the intent of finding the most â€œefficientâ€ energy content of the ration. The obtained results confirm the benefits of the applied approach. This model enables decision makers to find the optimal energy content of the pigsâ€™ diets, which changes frequently due to rapidly fluctuated economic circumstances.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Cryptosporidiosis in Immunocompetent Patients
Creators: name: Mccarthy, D.M.
name: Weber, D.J.
name: Wolfson, J.S.
name: Hopkins, C.C.
name: Richter, J.M.
name: Waldron, M.A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1985

description: The intestinal protozoan cryptosporidium is known to cause diarrhea in immunocompromised patients, but few cases have been reported in detail in immunocompetent persons. During a 12-month period, we identified cryptosporidium in the stools of 43 immunocompetent patients. The numbers of cases were increased in those under 4 years old and in those from 30 to 39 years old. Of 30 index cases, 23 (77 per cent) were diagnosed in the late summer or the fall. Fifteen of the 43 patients (35 per cent) had other gastrointestinal pathogens, of which only Giardia lamblia was statistically associated with cryptosporidium. In the 28 patients in whom other gastrointestinal pathogens were not identified, the clinical manifestations were predominantly watery, nonbloody diarrhea and, less commonly, abdominal discomfort, anorexia, fever, nausea, and weight loss. The infection was self-limited in all 43 patients. Clustering of cases occurred in a day-care center and in two families. These clinical observations confirm worldwide findings and suggest that cryptosporidium is a relatively common nonviral cause of self-limited diarrhea in immunocompetent persons in the northeastern United States. (N Engl J Med 1985; 312:1278–82.).
CS - Argentine Commercial Farm/ranch Management Information Systems: Design, Capabilities, Costs And Benefits
Creators: name: Hughes, David
name: AbellÃ³, Francisco
name: McGrann, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The integration of financial, tax and production data in a Management Information System can optimize the business productivity. Linking up farms across counties with a central headquarters and having on line up to date information can be obtained with todayÂ´s technology. A Management Information System was set up for farm/ranch business entities whose properties were settled from 150 km to 1,200 km from each headquarters. Its main objective was to have auditable field and accrual and tax accounting records, daily processed business, financial and production information for all the farms and ranches that were administrated. It was also found to be an important tool for developing Standard Operating Procedures and Good Agricultural Practices. More over, now all information is available to decision makers in real time, with instant adjustments for all production and financial data. Costs and Benefits were analyzed, being the second ones more difficult to measure it was found totally necessary with todayâ€™s standards to manage and administrate a business.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
The calculation of nucleon strangeness form factors from N_f=2+1 clover fermion lattice QCD
Creators: name: Doi, Takumi
name: Deka, Mridupawan
name: Dong, Shao-Jing
name: Draper, Terrence
name: Liu, Keh-Fei
name: Mankame, Devdatta
name: Mathur, Nilmani
name: Streuer, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the strangeness electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon from the N_f=2+1 clover fermion lattice QCD calculation. The disconnected insertions are evaluated using the Z(4) stochastic method, along with unbiased subtractions from the hopping parameter expansion. In addition to increasing the number of Z(4) noises, we find that increasing the number of nucleon sources for each configuration improves the signal significantly. We obtain G_M^s(0) = -0.017(25)(07), where the first error is statistical, and the second is the uncertainties in Q^2 and chiral extrapolations. This is consistent with experimental values, and has an order of magnitude smaller error. We also study the strangeness second moment of the partion distribution function of the nucleon, _{s-\bar{s}}.
description: Talk given at 27th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2009), Beijing, China, 25-31 Jul 2009, 7 pages, 3 figures
CS - Benchmarking Recommendations Using A Sample Of Kansas Farms
Creators: name: Yeager, Elizabeth
name: Langemeier, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The purpose of this paper was to develop recommendations for benchmarking. The operating profit margin ratio and the asset turnover ratio were the chosen benchmarks. These ratios were computed for each farm in the data set using one-year average data through five-year average data. Farms were examined at the state level, regional level, and by using the percent of labor devoted to crop and livestock production. Results suggest that five years worth of data should be used to benchmark and that farms should be compared to those that are similar in terms of whether they devote more labor to crop or livestock production. It is also recommended that evaluations are made by categorizing farms into quartiles based on the financial ratio used to benchmark.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Pasteurella multocida infections: Report of 34 cases and review of the literature
Creators: name: Hooper, D.C.
name: Weber, D.J.
name: Wolfson, J.S.
name: Swartz, M.N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1984

description: Pasteurella multocida, a small gram-negative coccobacillus, is part of the normal oral flora of many animals, including the cat and dog. P. multocida is a major pathogen in wound infections due to animal bites and can cause cellutitis, abscess, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, or a variety of other infectious syndromes (Table 1). Over the years, P. multocida has been the subject of a number of short general reviews (74, 80, 91, 96, 158). More recently, reviews have focused on selected aspects of P. multocida infection including meningitis (44), empyema (112), spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (160), bone and joint infections (56), and septicemia (111). A large series of cases with a comprehensive review, however, has not been published. We therefore report here 34 cases from the Massachusetts General Hospital and review the English literature.
An Association between Cryptosporidium and Giardia in Stool
Creators: name: Mccarthy, D.M.
name: Weber, D.J.
name: Hopkins, C.C.
name: Wolfson, J.S.
name: Waldron, M.A.
name: Richter, J.M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1984

description: To the Editor: Cryptosporidium species have recently been recognized as a cause of gastrointestinal disease in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent persons.1 2 Since February 1, 1983, all stool specimens submitted to our Clinical Parasitology Laboratory for ova and parasite examination have been screened for cryptosporidium by a modified acid-fast method.3 We wish to report an association between the presence of cryptosporidium and Giardia lamblia in stool. As of November 1, 1983, cryptosporidium had been identified in stool specimens from 33 of 1290 patients (2.6 per cent). For five patients, positive findings were verified by Sheather's sugar-flotation method.4 Five of the 33.
CS - Economic Analysis Of Anaerobic Digestion (AD) - A Case Study Of Green Power Biogas Plant In The Netherlands
Creators: name: Gebrezgabher, S.A.
name: Meuwissen, M.P.M.
name: Lansink, A.G.J.M. Oude
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Anaerobic digestion
subject: biogas plant
subject: methane yield

description: One of the key concerns of biogas plants is the disposal of comparatively large amounts of digestates in an economically and environmentally sustainable manner. This paper analyses the economic performance of anaerobic digestion of a given biogas plant. A scenario analysis is carried out based on a linear programming model to identify feedstocks that optimize electricity production and to determine the optimal application of digestate. The economic analysis is also based on NPV and IRR concepts, to assess the cost-effectiveness of the biogas system. In addition to a default scenario, management and policy scenarios were investigated. Our findings show that treating RO as green fertilizer as opposed to manure (default scenario) is not only lucrative for the plant but also lessens the environmental burden of long distance transportation of concentrates. This paper also concludes that given the uncertainty of regulations concerning RO and the currently low values of digestate and heat, high investment and operating costs limit the feasibility of anaerobic digestion of wastes of farm origin and other co-substrates unless subsidies are provided.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Training Agricultural Economists for Work In International Development
Creators: name: Fienup, Darrell F.
name: Riley, Harold M.
name: Fienup, Darrell F.
name: Riley, Harold M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1980
Subjects: International Development
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: A Report Based on a Study Sponsored by the American Agricultural Economics Association and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development