cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A liturgical-repertorial study of 16th-century polyphonic music in "Bartfa MS 8"
Creators: name: Huncik, Kata
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Music.

description: Along with the other volumes of the Bartfa Collection , the 16th-century MS 8 was discovered in the Lutheran town of Bartfa (today Slovakia). While the manuscripts and prints of the Bartfa Collection have been somewhat neglected by Western scholars, the present study shows that this topic is worthy of attention. In examining the historical context, the role of the schoolmaster, Leonard Stockel stands out as particularly interesting; his life-time friendship with Luther and Melanchthon directly links Bartfa to the German Lutheranism. The German link is also apparent in MS 8 itself, as according to Muranyi, it was copied in Southern Germany ca. 1555. In this research, a thorough watermark study has also been carried out, the results of which challenge the established date and may shift it to as early as 1545. Furthermore, a reportorial study focusing on the anonymous compositions has been taken into consideration along with Bartfa's unique Lutheran liturgical practice.
Ochetostethus sahlbergi WAGNER 1952
Creators: name: Lis, Jerzy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Ochetostethus
Ochetostethus sahlbergi

description: Ochetostethus sahlbergi WAGNER, 1952
MATERIAL EXAMINED
JORDAN: S. Jordan, Petra, 400m, 2 males, 2.5.1959, J. Klapperich, det. as O. sahlbergi by I.M. Kerzhner (NMPC).
NOTE
New to Jordan; previously recorded only from Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey (LIS 1999a).
description: Published as part of Lis, Jerzy A., 2001, Byrsinus setosus n. sp. from Flores and new records of some other Old World Cydnidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 13-22 in Genus 12 on page 21
Parasitism in Feedlot Cattle
Creators: name: Davis, George V.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1978

description: Anthelmintics were administered during processing at the Garden City Experiment Station. Four trials were conducted to evaluate the efficacy of: levamisole (boluses, cattle wormer pellets and injectable solution); and thiabendazole boluses. Levamisole hydrochloride injectable solution (18.2%) was administered at 2 cc/cwt. Levamisole wormer pellets were mixed with other ration ingredients at 0.1 lb./cwt. of animal body weight at the a.m. feeding and all of the mix was consumed within 4 hours. Some very meaningful conclusions can be made from these data. In general, rate of gain, feed efficiency and cost of gain were similar for both thiabendazole and levamisole. Therefore, an overall summary showing the percent improvement in performance obtained with anthelmintics (results composited for thiabendazole and levamisole) in four trials involving 936 stressed calves is shown in Table 7. In all perimeters shown here, the use of anthelmintics improved performance of stressed calves resulting in a substantial savings (9 .8 percent) in cost of gain. However, cost of gain data did not include death losses. In these trials, death losses were higher for calves that received levamisole (bolus or injectable) than for untreated animals. As noted earlier, death losses involved only a small percentage of the animals, so more data need to be obtained on death losses before conclusions can be drawn relating to death losses (if any) associated with anthelmintics.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1978
Molecular characterization of glioblastoma vessels: Identification of insulin-like growth factor binding protein 7 (IGFBP7) as modulator of angiogenesis and tumor growth
Creators: name: Pen, Ally
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.
subject: Biology, Cell.

description: Angiogenesis is a major requirement for tumor growth. Inhibition of angiogenesis is considered a promising strategy for the treatment of highly vascularized tumors, such as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Tumor vessels exhibit an aberrant molecular and functional phenotype; therefore, identification and functional characterization of molecular differences between normal and tumor vessels could lead to the development of more targeted and effective anti-angiogenic therapies. The objective of this thesis was to identify molecular biomarkers of GBM vessels and evaluate their potential role in angiogenesis. Molecular differences between GBM and non-malignant brain vessels were identified using a combination of laser capture microdissection of brain vessels, RNA amplification and transcriptional profiling using microarray technology. Among differentially expressed genes, insulin-like growth factor binding protein 7 (IGFBP7) was validated as a selective biomarker of GBM vessels, induced in and secreted by tumor endothelial cells, and deposited into the vascular basement membrane. Analyses of tumor microenvironment properties and mediators revealed that IGFBP7 induction in human brain endothelial cells (HBEC) is triggered by members of TGF-beta family released by GBM cells through ALK5/Smad-2 signaling pathway, associated with the late phase angiogenesis. Functional in vitro and in vivo studies using a chicken chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) tumor model indicated that IGFBP7 has pericyte-recruiting and tumor suppressive roles in GBMs. The findings presented in this thesis demonstrated novel functions of IGFBP7 in angiogenesis and tumorigenesis that may lead to future development of diagnostic or anti-angiogenic/anti-tumorigenic therapeutic approaches to treat GBMs.
DiLightNet: Fine-grained Lighting Control for Diffusion-based Image Generation
Creators: name: Zeng, Chong
name: Dong, Yue
name: Peers, Pieter
name: Kong, Youkang
name: Wu, Hongzhi
name: Tong, Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a novel method for exerting fine-grained lighting control during text-driven diffusion-based image generation. While existing diffusion models already have the ability to generate images under any lighting condition, without additional guidance these models tend to correlate image content and lighting. Moreover, text prompts lack the necessary expressional power to describe detailed lighting setups. To provide the content creator with fine-grained control over the lighting during image generation, we augment the text-prompt with detailed lighting information in the form of radiance hints, i.e., visualizations of the scene geometry with a homogeneous canonical material under the target lighting. However, the scene geometry needed to produce the radiance hints is unknown. Our key observation is that we only need to guide the diffusion process, hence exact radiance hints are not necessary; we only need to point the diffusion model in the right direction. Based on this observation, we introduce a three stage method for controlling the lighting during image generation. In the first stage, we leverage a standard pretrained diffusion model to generate a provisional image under uncontrolled lighting. Next, in the second stage, we resynthesize and refine the foreground object in the generated image by passing the target lighting to a refined diffusion model, named DiLightNet, using radiance hints computed on a coarse shape of the foreground object inferred from the provisional image. To retain the texture details, we multiply the radiance hints with a neural encoding of the provisional synthesized image before passing it to DiLightNet. Finally, in the third stage, we resynthesize the background to be consistent with the lighting on the foreground object. We demonstrate and validate our lighting controlled diffusion model on a variety of text prompts and lighting conditions.
description: Accepted to SIGGRAPH 2024. Project page: https://dilightnet.github.io/
BioExcel Webinar #26 - High-Confidence Protein−Ligand Complex Modeling by NMR Guided Docking Enables Early Hit Optimization
Creators: name: Proudfoot, Andrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: webinar

description: Structure-based drug design is routinely used in modern day drug discovery. However, the success of this process is very much dependent upon the ability to generate protein-ligand co-structures. While NMR and EM can be used to obtain these structures, such techniques can often be labor intensive and are limited to certain subsets of targets. X-ray crystallography is therefore routinely the method of choice for obtaining co-structures but also contains caveats in that the success rates, when working with dynamic proteins or solubility limited ligands, is often variable. The lack of structural information obtained for these scenarios makes optimization of the ligand challenging and impacts the diversity of chemical space explored, since such chemical scaffolds are generally not pursued. To address this, we have developed a robust NMR restraint guided docking protocol which uses HADDOCK to generate high-quality models of protein−ligand complexes. The use of highly methyl labeled protein facilitates the experimental determination of intermolecular distance restraints between the protein and bound small molecule, which can be used to both drive the docking process and to determine the correct conformation of the ligand in the bound state. In addition, we show that the models produced by this method are of sufficient accuracy to drive a structure-based drug campaign through the successful optimization of crystallographically intractable fragment hits into more potent binders.
Activating transcription factor 2 in mesenchymal tumors
Creators: name: Endo, Makoto
name: Su, Le
name: Nielsen, Torsten
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2021

description: Activating transcription factor 2 (ATF2) is a member of activator protein 1 superfamily, which can heterodimerize with other transcription factors regulating cell differentiation and survival. ATF2 assembles into a complex with the synovial sarcoma translocation, chromosome 18 (SS18)-synovial sarcoma, X breakpoint (SSX) fusion oncoprotein and the transducin-like enhancer of split 1 (TLE1) corepressor, driving oncogenesis in synovial sarcoma. The fusion oncoproteins in many other translocation-associated sarcomas incorporate transcription factors from the ATF/cAMP response element binding (CREB) or E-twenty six (ETS) families, which potentially form heterodimers with ATF2 to regulate transcription. ATF2 may therefore play an important role in the oncogenesis of many mesenchymal tumors, but as yet little is known about its protein expression in patient specimens. Herein we perform immunohistochemical analyses using a validated specific antibody for ATF2 expression and intracellular localization on a cohort of 594 malignant and 207 benign mesenchymal tumors representing 47 diagnostic entities. Melanoma served as a positive control for nuclear and cytoplasmic staining. High nuclear ATF2 expression was mainly observed in translocation-associated and/or spindle cell sarcomas including synovial sarcoma, desmoplastic small round cell tumor, endometrial stromal sarcoma, gastrointestinal stromal tumor, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, and solitary fibrous tumor. Cytoplasmic ATF2 expression was less frequently seen than nuclear expression in malignant mesenchymal tumors. Benign mesenchymal tumors mostly showed much lower nuclear and cytoplasmic ATF2 expression.
The Consultant's Role in Feedlot Practice
Creators: name: Edwards, Alvin J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1978

description: The feedlot industry has made dramatic changes over the past ten years. Far greater numbers of cattle are being fed in areas where few cattle grazed some years ago. Many of these cattle are hauled great distances to arrive at feedlots and fed rations that are totally foreign to their ruminant digestion systems, exposed to conditions and infective agents totally foreign to their systems, and thus present problems to their owners that are quite unlike any problems that may exist in the local cattle population. This whole phenomenon illustrates some of the problems that exist today between practicing veterinarians and the feedlot industry. For a busy practitioner, many of these changes may come about so subtly that it is very difficult to realize that a change has taken place. The rapid expansion of the feedlot industry that was experienced in the early 1970's left many veterinarians very confused as to what interest to take in the industry. Professional consultants can make a very worthwhile contribution to a progressive feedlot industry. It seems that one of the big challenges facing the veterinary consultant is acceptance by the veterinary profession and then keeping qualified to provide sound advice for the industry. The adaptability the veterinarian has exhibited in the past is good evidence that the same "ability to adjust to the situation" will prevail with the veterinarian and the feedlot industry.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1978
Navigation sensor for collaborative mobile robots
Creators: name: Brind'Amour, Francois
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: This thesis presents a possible inexpensive and simple solution for humanitarian demining in developing countries. It consists of a group of mobile robots that can advance and interact collaboratively with each other in a mine field. A base station controls the group and can map their position with the aid of a long range positioning system, thus, identify the landmine position when one is detected by a robot. A short range positioning system is used within the group to measure the distance separating them from one another and the geometry of the formation. A prototype battery powered mobile robot platform has been developed and tested. Electronic hardware and software was designed and built to allow for low level control of the movements of the vehicle and for wireless communications with a base station. The base station exercises high level control over the mobile robot. A positioning system consisting of a long and a short range positioning system has been designed. The short range positioning system, which uses sonic waves within the audible frequency range, has been implemented and tested. Operating within the audible frequency range reduces the sensory system cost and results in an omni-directional range measuring system. The system provides sub-wavelength precision with an absolute error less than 2 cm for distances from 1 m to 4 m at a 5 KHz frequency.
Pulmonary Emphysema in Newly Weaned Calves
Creators: name: Hibbs, Clair M.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1978

description: Bovine pulmonary emphysema has been recognized in many countries for a number of years. There is confusion as to the cause and the nomenclature of the various diseases of cattle which have pulmonary emphysema as a major lesion. The term "pulmonary emphysema" is used as the name of a disease and as lesion identification, which adds to the confusion. The lung can respond to an irritant in only a few ways, which allows for lesions to appear similar even though there are different causes. The cause of pulmonary emphysema in newly weaned calves can only be postulated at this time. Circumstantial evidence suggests a relationship to consumption of silage or moldy hay by the calves. Corn silage is more often a major part of the diet in our area. Calves on silage do not have the clinical signs until approximately 4 weeks after weaning and change of diet, so there may be some change in bacterial flora which could change the biochemical constituents of the rumen liquor. On the other hand, there may be some infectious cause such as syncytial virus. Thirdly, the cause may be a combination of biochemical toxin and infectious agent. Only controlled research will resolve the question of etiology. This paper is not to answer the question of etiology but to emphasize the clinical signs, lesions, relationship to diet and weaning, as well as the economic importance.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1978
Sehirus cypriacus DOHRN, Cypern Bellardi 1860
Creators: name: Lis, Jerzy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Sehirus
Sehirus cypriacus

description: Sehirus cypriacus DOHRN,1860
MATERIAL EXAMINED
CYPRUS: Syntype female: Cypern; typus; Cipro; Typus; cypriacus DOHRN, Cypern Bellardi; Mus. Zool. Polonicum, Warszawa 12/45 (ZMPA).
NOTE
The type material was regarded as lost for a long time (LIS 1999a); fortunately a few months ago I traced the specimen originally labelled by A. DOHRN and matching the original description of the species (DOHRN 1860).
description: Published as part of Lis, Jerzy A., 2001, Byrsinus setosus n. sp. from Flores and new records of some other Old World Cydnidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 13-22 in Genus 12 on page 21
คุณภาพบริการอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ และการยอมรับเทคโนโลยีที่มีอิทธิพลต่อการตัดสินใจใช้บริการกระเป๋าเงินดิจิทัลของผู้บริโภคกลุ่มเจนเนอเรชั่นวายในเขตพระนคร จังหวัดกรุงเทพมหานคร
Creators: name: พรรณวดี เลิศลุมพลีพันธุ์
Publisher: name: Thonburi University
Year: 2024
Subjects: คุณภาพบริการอิเล็กทรอนิกส์
การยอมรับเทคโนโลยี
การตัดสินใจใช้บริการ
กระเป๋าเงินดิจิทัล

description: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Thonburi University, 18, 1, 127-138
Amaurocoris curtus
Creators: name: Lis, Jerzy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Amaurocoris
Amaurocoris curtus

description: Amaurocoris curtus (Brullé, 1838)
MATERIAL EXAMINED
JORDAN: Amman (Abdoun), 1 male, 31 May 1991, R.D. WARD (CMNH).
NOTE
Well known West Palaearctic species; new to Jordan.
description: Published as part of Lis, Jerzy A., 2001, Byrsinus setosus n. sp. from Flores and new records of some other Old World Cydnidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 13-22 in Genus 12 on page 22
Autonomous tasks allocation and path generation of UAV's
Creators: name: Cocaud, Cedric
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Mechanical.

description: The feasibility and survivability of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV's) in field applications have been demonstrated during many of the recent conflicts. UAV's have the potential to reduce costs and personnel while performing certain missions such as surveillance and reconnaissance with higher efficiency and lower risks. Since it is now recognized that a single UAV cannot achieve all tasks required during a mission, the option of using fleets of UAV's with complementary capabilities is now explored. However, controlling and coordinating such fleets will be almost impossible when considering the overwhelming number of degrees of freedom and their associated constraints, if individual UAV do not possess a high level of autonomy. Addressing the need for intelligent controllers, this work presents a new approach for on-line trajectory planning of a single UAV. The approach uses a genetic algorithm and integrates constraints of different types including specific times of arrival, vectors of approach close to target points, multiple objectives, weather conditions and behavioural guidelines with respect to speed, altitude and obstacle distance. The UAV's controller is divided into three modules. The first one is a trajectory generator that uses an analytical model to simulate the dynamics of UAV's. It is used to compute new trajectories in 3D as well as to assess the feasibility of existing ones. The second module is a knowledge base that uses a hybrid octree structure to represent terrain in 3D. The octree compresses digital elevation data by setting the resolution of the UAV's internal map to different levels based on the homogeneity of the terrain. The third module is a Genetic Algorithm that finds and optimizes candidate trajectories which fulfill all objectives of a mission while taking in account a variable number of constraints with varying preponderance. Simulations have shown that the intelligent controller could find viable trajectories within 10 to 20 seconds for missions with a single objective, demonstrating the feasibility of using this control scheme for real-time path planning for UAV's. Dynamically feasible trajectories satisfying all constraints could also be found for missions with up to three objectives. However, real time capabilities were severely reduced for such complex missions, the average computing time varying from 200 to 450 seconds. In all cases, all resulting trajectories were dynamically feasible, and could be readily used by the autopilot.
Preconditioning
Creators: name: Herrick, John B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1978

description: The Veterinary Extension Service programmed a preconditioning program in Iowa with the Iowa Veterinary Medical Association and the Iowa Cattlemen's Association which has been available for Iowa cattlemen for the last ten years and over 600,000 calves are processed through this program annually. The program involves certifying that the calves have been weaned, vaccinated, treated for grubs, wormed and identified with a green tag. A certificate accompanies the calf. Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota also have programs underway.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1978
แนวทางการพัฒนากลุ่มออมทรัพย์เพื่อการผลิตที่เหมาะสมกับกลุ่มชาติพันธุ์กะเหรี่ยงชุมชนแห่งหนึ่งตำบลบ้านบึง อำเภอบ้านคา จังหวัดราชบุรี
Creators: name: อัศวลักษ์ ราชพลสิทธิ์
Publisher: name: Thonburi University
Year: 2024
Subjects: แนวทางการพัฒนา
กลุ่มออมทรัพย์เพื่อการผลิต
กลุ่มชาติพันธุ์กะเหรี่ยง

description: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Thonburi University, 18, 1, 139-150
Sediment dynamics and stratigraphic architecture of a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic ramp: The Upper Ordovician (Hirnantian) Ellis Bay Formation, Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada
Creators: name: Farley, Claude
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Geology.

description: The Upper Ordovician (Hirnantian) Ellis Bay Formation on Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada provides a unique opportunity to study the stratigraphic architecture of mixed carbonate-siliciclastic deposits that formed during a period of major glaciation on a storm-influenced, slowly subsiding tropical ramp. The west-east-trending Ellis Bay outcrop belt is ∼180 km long, slightly oblique to the paleoshoreline, and offers superb coastal exposure at both ends of the island. The western sections (90 m thick) consist of stacked cycles of mid- to outer-ramp, storm-dominated carbonates with argillaceous mudstones. Inner-ramp oncolitic and reefal carbonates are also present in the uppermost part of the formation. The thinner eastern sections (45 m thick) are composed of basal sandstone and argillaceous mudstone units forming a continuous succession from (1) incised-valley fill to (2) storm-influenced delta to (3) storm-dominated strandplain deposits. Overlying these basal sandstones are mid- to outer-ramp, mixed carbonate-siliciclastic tempestites capped by pure carbonate tempestites and, finally, oncolitic and reefal units that correlate with those in the western section. The gradual upward decrease in siliciclastic content in the eastern sections is attributed to the incremental migration (avulsion) of a siliciclastic-supplying delta confined to the eastern Anticosti Platform. Alternatively, it could result from river avulsion coupled with a gradual shift from relatively humid to more arid climatic conditions. Despite these important lateral facies changes, the recognition of four major transgressive-regressive sequences allows a precise correlation between the western and eastern sections. These sequences (or cycles) are likely driven by glacio-eustasy in association with the end-Ordovician Gondwanan glaciation.
Developing quantum dot broadband materials for telecommunications and other applications
Creators: name: Roy-Guay, David
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Physics, Quantum.
subject: Physics, Condensed Matter.

description: Recently, InAs/lnP quantum dot lasers operating in the telecommunications wavelength range showed promising properties such as low threshold, high external efficiency, high bandwidth, multiwavelength emission and passive mode-locking. The photoluminescence of quantum dot layers is investigated, in the scope of improving InAs/InP quantum dot lasers performance operating in the telecommunications range. Stacking of layers with GaP underlayer reduces the full width at half maximum of the emission, improving the laser performances to a competitive alternative to quantum well lasers. Polarization photoluminescence of sample edge emission is investigated to aim for the development of a polarization insensitive semiconductor optical amplifier operating at 1.55 mu m. Polarization properties are studied for a stack period between 5 and 30 nm and for single quantum dot layers rapid thermal annealed from 600 to 700°0. Decreasing the period lowers the degree of polarization of side emission from 80 to 40%, suggesting modification of polarization properties by coupling between the layers.
Human Rights and the Involuntary Psychiatric Patient: Scientific, Legal and Philosophical Issues in the Scott Starson Case
Creators: name: Neutel, C. Ineke
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Philosophy.

description: Two options to human right protection for involuntary schizophrenic inpatients refusing treatment are compared: First, forced treatment until improvement in the illness makes commitment unnecessary, thus, emphasizing dispositional freedom; second, allowing treatment refusal even if it means long-term commitment, thus, emphasizing occurrent freedom. Reviews of relevant issues in psychiatry, Canadian legislation, neuroscience and mind-body issues prepare the ground for an analysis of the two approaches in the light of Gewirth's human rights philosophy. Gewirth examines the dilemma of capable agents using their occurrent freedom to limit their dispositional freedom. Appealing to the responsibility of community agents, he suggests a three-step process in which the second step involves a trial period of treatment. The process suggested by Gewirth resembles the first of the two options, and has the advantages of the treatment preventing irreversible deterioration, and the potential for earlier release with its increase in both personal and situational freedom.
Starting Rations and Procedures for Stressed Calves
Creators: name: Davis, George V.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1978

description: Many interstate and intrastate shipments of yearlings and calves occur each year throughout the United States. Because they have been exposed to a wide range of conditions, it is difficult to decide on which rations and management techniques should be used to obtain efficient, economical gains. These studies were designed to help develop procedures and starting rations for stressed calves so that some of the above management decisions could be made with a higher degree of confidence. In summary, calves performed better when fed a ground alfalfa hay ration. Yearlings performed best on the corn silage ration. Therefore, results from these trials substantiate results from other studies that suggest that prior nutrition (feeding regime) of cattle greatly influence their adaptability to various rations. These results indicate that stressed calves undergoing weaning stress seem to adapt and perform better on ground hay rations while cattle past the stresses of weaning appear to perform well on either corn silage or ground hay rations.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1978
Superconducting Electronic Device Response Linearity Calculation Method Using Discrete Fourier Analysis
Creators: name: Kolotinskiy, Nikolay V.
name: Kornev, Victor K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method for estimating the linearity of superconducting electronic devices is discussed. The method allows the obtaining of expected spurious-free dynamic range values based on the results of preliminary numerical modeling and solving optimization problems. A description of the method and an analysis of measurement errors are provided.
description: v2: Incorrect reference [3] changed; subsection 4.3 added; Appedix A title added; typos corrected. No changes have been made based on the comments from any peer-review process
sKATP channels protect skeletal muscle against fibre damage during fatigue by preventing excessive increases in [calcium 2+]i
Creators: name: Gariepy-Boudreault, Louise
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Biology, Molecular.

description: Opening sarcolemmal ATP-sensitive potassium channels (sK ATP channels) contributes to increasing the rate of fatigue in skeletal muscle by reducing action potential amplitude. However, in previous studies, when sKATP channel activity was abolished, the rate of fatigue was not decreased; rather, the muscles developed significant contractile dysfunctions including greater unstimulated force, reduced force recovery and fibre damage. The aim of this study was to determine how abolishing sKATP channel activity during fatigue results in a faster rate of fatigue compared to wild type muscle. Single fibres and small bundles from the flexor digitorum brevis (FDB) muscle were utilized. sKATP channel activity was abolished pharmacologically using glibenclamide and genetically using Kir6.2 -/- mice. This study demonstrated for the first time that abolishing sKATP channel activity at 37°C resulted in faster decreases in peak Ca2+i and tetanic force than in wild type fibres. Furthermore, several contractile dysfunctions were observed in sKATP channel deficient muscle fibres. They included partially or completely supercontracted single muscle fibres, large membrane depolarizations, greater increases in unstimulated Ca2+i and unstimulated force, and lower force recovery. The application of verapamil prevented the development of several of the contractile dysfunctions by reducing [Ca2+] influx. Furthermore, application of ROS scavengers in sKATP channel deficient muscle reduced the extent of the contractile dysfunctions, suggesting that the rise in [Ca2+]i can lead to deleterious ROS production. This study also demonstrated a novel phenomenon in which one fatigue bout at 37°C improves, within 30 min, fatigue resistance during a second fatigue bout. Furthermore, muscles no longer depended on sKATP channels to protect them against functional impairment and fibre damage during the second fatigue bout. The phenomenon was defined as 'fatigue pre-conditioning', and does not follow the same signaling pathway as ischemic preconditioning (IPC) observed in heart and skeletal muscle. Thus, it appears that sKATP channels are necessary for myoprotection during a single fatigue bout, and blocking channel activity leads to development of contractile dysfunctions and an apparent faster fatigue rate. However, during subsequent fatigue bouts separated by short time periods, the reliance on sKATP channels for myoprotection is abolished.
Research proposal to explore a gravity neutral state.
Creators: name: Branton, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Quantum matter
subject: Gravity neutral
subject: Specific Gravity
subject: Gravity, Altered

description: This research protocol outlines an experimental strategy to investigate the possibility of gravitationally neutral mass using advanced quantum-coherent materials and multi-particle entangled lattice architectures. Unlike traditional concepts of antigravity or gravitational repulsion, this approach focuses on minimizing or nullifying a material's gravitational interaction by decoupling it from the quantum field structures believed to underpin gravitational coupling. The central material used in this experiment is a hydrogen-based quantum matter known as Coherium-H.
Capturing social value: an empirical contribution to theory-making and practice in social entrepreneurship
Creators: name: Gillin, Loris O.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: As a society we have recently heard about the Buffet and Gates Foundation intentions. Coupled with this are the claims that poverty, hunger and treatable illness can be relieved, albeit on a grand scale. Conversely, the research community has been slow to capture social value in a comprehensible form. Volunteers have always created social value, but the elements which contribute to this have been unexplained. Austin, Stevenson and Wei-Skillern (2006) drew from extant 'for-profit' theory to build a bridgehead across to theory-making about Social Entrepreneurship. This paper offers empirical data which is necessary if Social Entrepreneurship theory-making is to proceed.
ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อความสำเร็จในการฝึกประสบการณ์วิชาชีพครูของนักศึกษาครูมหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏ
Creators: name: เมษา นวลศรี
Publisher: name: Thonburi University
Year: 2024
Subjects: การฝึกประสบการณ์วิชาชีพครู
นักศึกษาครู
มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏ

description: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Thonburi University, 18, 1, 151-160
Estrogen Receptor Beta and Atherogenesis: Role of Receptor Related Proteins NM23-H2 and HSP27
Creators: name: Rayner, Katey
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Chemistry, Biochemistry.

description: There exists an obvious gender disparity in the incidence of cardiovascular disease, with more women over the age of 60 years dying each year compared to their male counterparts. However, pre-menopausal women appear to be spared from developing this disease. Naturally occurring female hormones such as estrogen are thought to provide the cardiovascular system with some form of protection from atherosclerosis. However, the mechanisms behind this protection are poorly understood, and large clinical trials failed to demonstrate any significant cardiovascular benefit for women receiving hormone replacement therapy. Estrogen acts through two primary receptors, ERalpha and ERbeta, and evidence is emerging to suggest that ERbeta is a key mediator of estrogen action in the vessel wall. The objective of this doctoral thesis was to understand more about ERbeta in atherosclerosis by elucidating novel molecular mechanisms of ERbeta action. Two novel proteins were discovered to interact with ERbeta in the vessel wall: (i) non-metastatic protein-23 (NM23-H2) and (ii) heat shock protein 27 (HSP27). The first portion of this study demonstrated that NM23-H2 and ERbeta interact in vascular cells in vitro and NM23-H2 can act as a modest co-activator of estrogen-mediated transcriptional signaling via ERbeta. The expression of NM23-H2 is diminished with progression of atherosclerosis in human coronary arteries, indicating that with advancing disease, the regulation of important estrogen and ERbeta-mediated events may be impaired. The second portion of this study showed that over-expression of HSP27 in a mouse model of atherosclerosis can protect from the development of atherosclerotic lesions, but is dependent on the presence of estrogen. HSP27 release from macrophages is induced by estrogen, where it may serve to protect against atherosclerosis by binding the scavenger receptor-A and preventing the uptake of atherogenic lipoproteins and the ensuing inflammation. The release of this atheroprotective HSP27 is mediated preferentially by ERbeta both in vitro and in vivo, uncovering a novel mechanism of ERbeta-mediated protection in the vessel wall. In summary, this doctoral work reveals two novel ERbeta-associated proteins that can modulate the response to estrogen both in vitro and in vivo, and may be the target of future therapeutics designed to treat and prevent cardiovascular disease in both men and women.
For Better Health, Ship Them Full
Creators: name: Cope, Gene E.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1978

description: Shipping fever is the number one health problem confronting the stocker cattle producer. This problem increases production costs and affects the consumer as the overall costs change. Historically, records show in our area that 40% of these cattle become sick, 5% die and 1 % remains chronically ill. A question frequently asked all of you is, "How much money do I lose when an animal becomes sick?" Death loss costs are easy to figure. We know there is some loss from morbidity, but determining a dollar and cents value is difficult. In order to obtain some facts upon which to determine costs, we conducted three trials involving 224 head.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1978
Hospitals as a 'risk environment' : An ethno-epidemiological study of voluntary and involuntary discharge from hospital against medical advice among people who inject drugs
Creators: name: McNeil, Ryan, 1982-
name: Small, Will
name: Wood, Evan
name: Kerr, Thomas
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2017

description: People who inject drugs (PWID) experience high levels of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C (HCV) infection that, together with injection-related complications such as non-fatal overdose and injection-related infections, lead to frequent hospitalizations. However, injection drug-using populations are among those most likely to be discharged from hospital against medical advice, which significantly increases their likelihood of hospital readmission, longer overall hospital stays, and death. In spite of this, little research has been undertaken examining how social-structural forces operating within hospital settings shape the experiences of PWID in receiving care in hospitals and contribute to discharges against medical advice. This ethno-epidemiological study was undertaken in Vancouver, Canada to explore how the social-structural dynamics within hospitals function to produce discharges against medical advice among PWID. In-depth interviews were conducted with thirty PWID recruited from among participants in ongoing observational cohort studies of people who inject drugs who reported that they had been discharged from hospital against medical advice within the previous two years. Data were analyzed thematically, and by drawing on the ‘risk environment’ framework and concepts of social violence. Our findings illustrate how intersecting social and structural factors led to inadequate pain and withdrawal management, which led to continued drug use in hospital settings. In turn, diverse forms of social control operating to regulate and prevent drug use in hospital settings amplified drug-related risks and increased the likelihood of discharge against medical advice. Given the significant morbidity and health care costs associated with discharge against medical advice among drug-using populations, there is an urgent need to reshape the social-structural contexts of hospital care for PWID by shifting emphasis toward evidence-based pain and drug treatment augmented by harm reduction supports, including supervised drug consumption services.
Panel Discussion
Creators: name: Bovine Practitioners, American Association Of
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1978

description: Panel discussion on use of curette in treating retroarticular abscess, the method of preparing teaser bulls using the so-called unwedding ring, criteria to evaluate preventing a lateral luxation of the patella in large calves, the calf with the lateral subluxation, treatment of abscesses of the sole, deformities as calving problems.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1978
Context aware layout manager for video conferencing systems
Creators: name: Hamdan, Sadek
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical.

description: In videoconferencing systems, the views of remote participants need to be laid out on the display according to context/importance of each view, and to the existing display setup. Current approaches require the user to be involved in the control process of videoconferencing systems, and consequently cause an increase of time and cost when using this technology. We propose a novel approach based on the real estate market theory to automatically manage the layout of any type of display setup in videoconferencing systems while being aware of the context of the videoconference. We analyze the suitability of the proposed approach by comparing it to another layout manager approach, namely rule-based approach. The major advancement of this approach is that it gets the videoconferencing technology closer to its goal: to make participants able to communicate as if they were located in the same room.
The role of translation in the westernization of Russia in the eighteenth century
Creators: name: Tyulenev, Sergey
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Language, Rhetoric and Composition.

description: In the eighteenth century, Russia passed through a period of sweeping social reforms. Russia was modernized, and modernization was viewed as westernization. Russia had to accomplish the modernization as quickly as possible and catch up with the rest of Europe, a formidable task requiring transfers of Western European knowledge and values on a massive scale. Translation became the sole means of carrying out these transfers in the least time-consuming fashion. My research focuses on the social role of translation. I applied Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory as well as some concepts from works by Pierre Bourdieu and Lev Gumilev. Luhmann's theory provided a stimulating theoretical basis for analyzing major translation flows, the place of translation in the overall social system of the Russian Empire as well as the contribution translation made to the process of Russia's unfolding westernization. Bourdieu's concepts helped consider the role of agency in the translation 'field' and explain the distribution of symbolic capital in society that led to foregrounding translation as a major means of westernization. Gumilev's ideas about ethnogenetic evolution made it clear that the eighteenth century was the acmetic stage of the evolving superethnos and that is why became such a pivotal period in Russian history. Translation was regarded as a boundary phenomenon of the system (in this case, the Russian Empire). Serving as the system's boundary, translation opened the system to influences from the environment. In eighteenth-century Russia, intrasystemically, translation became a crucial means of introducing new ideas, helping to change the official discourse by introducing a heterodoxa (an alternative social discourse). Translation came to the fore of the social stage and became a principal means of renegotiating the systemic communication. Intersystemically, translation also was instrumental for the system's projecting information about itself into the environment. Finally, translation played a crucial global-systemic role. Europe integrated into a global functional super-system (Luhmann) where law, economy, science, and art formed international functional subsystems, no longer divided by national frontiers. Translation was a sine qua non enabling Russia to become part of this global system.
Arthrodesis of the Bovine Distal Interphalangeal Joint
Creators: name: Greenough, Paul R.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1978

description: Intractable infection of the distal interphalangeal joint or of structures closely associated with that articulation is a common sequela to several diseases affecting the digital region. Amputation of the affected digit has been the most common line of treatment but is one that cannot always be justified on economic grounds. Arthrodesis of the bovine distal interphalangeal joint is a practical alternative to amputation. This paper discusses the principles involved in considering and facilitating this line of treatment. The writer's experience in treating cases of articular or periartical infection has been encouraging. The technique varied to some extent throughout the series treated, but the most rapid resolution has been observed in instances in which drainage tracks were laid directly through the focus of infection. It should be noted that surgical interference in cases where natural resolution is already occurring is likely to initiate an acute reaction.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1978
รูปแบบการบริการและนวัตกรรมการบริการของโรงแรมอัจฉริยะสำหรับนักท่องเที่ยวเพื่อธุรกิจชาวไทยในยุคดิจิทัล
Creators: name: พรนภา ธนโพธิวิรัตน์
Publisher: name: Thonburi University
Year: 2024
Subjects: รูปแบบการบริการ
นวัตกรรมการบริการ
โรงแรมอัจฉริยะ
นักท่องเที่ยวเพื่อธุรกิจ

description: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Thonburi University, 18, 1, 161-178
Procedure Decisions in Bovine Dystocia
Creators: name: Armstrong, K. R.
name: Janzen, E. D.
name: Adams, W. M.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1978

description: The mechanics of relieving dystocia are well described in the veterinary texts (1,2,3,4). In our opinion, the procedure decisions are not clearly presented. I hope to stimulate some response from you experienced practitioners to give your guidelines for decisions in bovine dystocia. I would like to stress I do not believe our way is the only way to make these decisions. I would like to emphasize if a practitioner is not capable in the management of dystocia, he is not likely to be a successful bovine practitioner because dystocia is about 20-25% of the caseload of bovine practice.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1978
Registered Reports: The File Drawer Wars
Creators: name: Plomp, Esther
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Registered reports
Open Science
Preprints
Preregistration

description: Registered Reports are a publication format that prevents the publication bias of negative results and questionable research practices (such as low statistical power and selective reporting of results). In this session (Open Science Utrecht Coffee, 29th of May) we’ll discuss if this format can be applied to your research and how you can get started. You can find more information here: https://cos.io/rr/.