cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamics of Tritrichomonas foetus Infection in Bulls Used for Natural Service in a Florida Dairy Farm
Creators: name: Pena, G.
name: Riso, C.
name: Rae, O.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: The economic impact of bovine trichomonosis has been well reported for beef and grazing livestock. However, in dairy farms the extensive use of artificial insemination (AI) has reduced its prevalence. The one exception is those herds where natural service (NS) is a part of the reproductive management and the potential for venereal disease transmission exist. In the US, a considerable number of dairies use bulls in their reproductive program. In the Southeast, de Vries et al, (2005) reported that 70% of herds used NS along with an AI program. Worldwide trichomonosis is considered a major cause of infertility in cattle bred by natural service. Tritrichomonas foetus (T. foetus) is a flagellate, obligate, anaerobic protozoa which causes venereal disease in domestic animals. The transmission of T. foetus occurs at coitus when an infected bull breeds a susceptible female or vice versa. In bulls, the infection is asymptomatic. In females, the protozoa cause embryonic death during early stages of pregnancy and temporary infertility. However, pyometra or abortions are the only clinical signs that may be observed. The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of T. foetus in dairy bulls used for natural service in Florida dairy farm.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
MOESM3 of MFAP5 promotes basal-like breast cancer progression by activating the EMT program
Creators: name: Wu, Yanmei
name: Wu, Ping
name: Zhang, Quan
name: Chen, Wenjin
name: Liu, Xishui
name: Zheng, Weiqiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2. The inhibitory effect ofSB431542 and ly-411575 on TGF-β and Notch signaling pathways at different concentrations. BT20-LV-vehicle and BT20-LV-MFAP5 cells were treated with SB431542 or ly-411575 as indicated for 6 and 24 h, then the cells were collected to detect the expression of p-Smad2/Smad3, Hes1 and Hes5. (A) Immunofluorescence showed that SB431542 dose-dependently decreased the level of p-Smad2/Smad3 which was elevated by MFAP5. And at the concentration of 10 μM, SB431542 exhibited the largest inhibitory effect. (B) ly-411575 dose-dependently decreased the level of Hes1 and Hes5 induced by MFAP5 and the inhibitory effect was similar and more effective at 0.1 and 1 μM. **P < 0.01 vs corresponding LV-vehicle; ##P < 0.01 vs corresponding LV-MFAP5.
Giant ultrafast Kerr effect in type-II superconductors
Creators: name: Robson, Charles W.
name: Fraser, Kieran A.
name: Biancalana, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the ultrafast Kerr effect and high-harmonic generation in type-II superconductors by formulating a new model for a time-varying electromagnetic pulse normally incident on a thin-film superconductor. It is found that type-II superconductors exhibit exceptionally large $χ^{(3)}$ due to the progressive destruction of Cooper pairs, and display high-harmonic generation at low incident intensities, and the highest nonlinear susceptibility of all known materials in the THz regime. Our theory opens up new avenues for accessible analytical and numerical studies of the ultrafast dynamics of superconductors.
Policy preferences and the diversity of instrument choice for mitigating climate change impacts in the transport sector
Creators: name: Stead, Dominic
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Different policy approaches and responses to common environmental challenges, such as climate change, exist between countries, and sometimes even within countries. This situation arises because public policy-makers are not only driven by concerns of theoretical purity but are also influenced by a range of social, political, economic, cultural and administrative matters when selecting techniques or instruments to achieve specific policy goals. This article examines whether the diversity of stated policy instruments to tackle climate change mitigation in the transport sector can be explained according to national policy preferences in a European context. It also investigates whether the mix of national climate change policy instruments for transport exhibits temporal stability, even after national changes in political power. To do so, the article reviews a series of national policy documents that address climate change in the transport sector in four European countries with contrasting administrative traditions – France, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
A congruence sum and rational approximations
Creators: name: Bettin, Sandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11A55 (primary), 11A07, 11A15, 11N37, 11J70 (secondary)

description: We give a reciprocity formula for a two-variable sum where the variables satisfy a linear congruence condition. We also prove that such sum is a measure of how well a rational is approximable from below and show that the reciprocity formula is a simple consequence of this fact.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo, II. Ser
Vanishing viscosity limit of navier-stokes equations in gevrey class
Creators: name: Cheng, Feng
name: Li, Wei-Xi
name: Xu, Chao-Jiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we consider the inviscid limit for the periodic solutions to Navier-Stokes equation in the framework of Gevrey class. It is shown that the lifespan for the solutions to Navier-Stokes equation is independent of viscosity, and that the solutions of the Navier-Stokes equation converge to that of Euler equation in Gevrey class as the viscosity tends to zero. Moreover the convergence rate in Gevrey class is presented.
Generation of Histophilus somni Mutants Deficient in Biofilm Formation or Attenuated in Virulence
Creators: name: Sandal, I.
name: El-Hadidy, M.
name: Inzana, T. J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: Histophilus somni is an etiologic agent of bovine respiratory disease and various systemic diseases. A variety of virulence factors have been identified in H. somni, such as the lipooligosaccharide phase variation, the filamentous hemagglutinin, biofilm formation, and others, which act primarily to protect the pathogen against host defense mechanisms. Thorough investigation of the role of these virulence factors has been compromised because mutagenesis of H. somni using allelic exchange is difficult due to the apparently tight restriction modification system in virulent strains.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) in the United States, France, Spain and the United Kingdom
Creators: name: Winslow, Frank
name: Egli, Christoph
name: Newcomb, Caroline
name: Djuranovic, Nevena
name: Welles, Peter
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2010

description: IDEXX Laboratories manufactures and sells diagnostic tests used to detect bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) in cattle. The purpose of this study was to better understand BVDV vaccination and testing practices among veterinarians in the United States (US), France (FR), Spain (ES) and the United Kingdom (UK). The study examined similarities and differences in the four countries in several areas: use, cost, satisfaction, and turnaround time for current of BVDV tests and estimated impact of BVDV on cattle productivity.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2010
Estrous characteristics of dairy heifers treated at different stages of the estrous cycle with two prostaglandin formulations
Creators: name: Veronese, Anderson
name: Marques, Odinei
name: Moreira, Rafael
name: Belli, Anna
name: Bilby, Todd R.
name: Chebel, Ricardo C.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2017

description: Prostaglandin (PG) F2a is commonly used to synchronize the estrus of dairy heifers, but its effectiveness is dependent on the phase of the estrous cycle (PEC) at treatment. Cloprostenol sodium (CLO) is a synthetic analogue of PGF2a, which may have differential effects on luteolysis and estrus behavior compared with natural PGF2a molecules [i.e. dinoprost tromethamine (DIN)]. We hypothesized that treatment of heifers in early diestrus (ED; 4 to 6 d) with CLO would improve estrous detection rate, shorten the interval from treatment to onset of estrous, and enhance estrous characteristics compared with DIN treatment.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2017
Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communication in mmWave-Enabled Massive MIMO Networks
Creators: name: Vu, Trung Kien
name: Liu, Chen-Feng
name: Bennis, Mehdi
name: Debbah, Mérouane
name: Latva-aho, Matti
name: Hong, Choong Seon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2.1

description: Ultra-reliability and low-latency are two key components in 5G networks. In this letter, we investigate the problem of ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) in millimeter wave (mmWave)-enabled massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks. The problem is cast as a network utility maximization subject to probabilistic latency and reliability constraints. To solve this problem, we resort to the Lyapunov technique whereby a utility-delay control approach is proposed, which adapts to channel variations and queue dynamics. Numerical results demonstrate that our proposed approach ensures reliable communication with a guaranteed probability of 99.99%, and reduces latency by 28.41% and 77.11% as compared to baselines with and without probabilistic latency constraints, respectively.
description: Accepted May 12, 2017 by IEEE Communications Letters. Topic is Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communication in 5G mmWave Networks
Efficient quantum computation in a network with probabilistic gates and logical encoding
Creators: name: Borregaard, Johannes
name: Sørensen, Anders S.
name: Cirac, Ignacio
name: Lukin, Mikhail D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new approach to efficient quantum computation with probabilistic gates is proposed and analyzed in both a local and non-local setting. It combines heralded gates previously studied for atom or atom-like qubits with logical encoding from linear optical quantum computation in order to perform high fidelity quantum gates across a quantum network. The error-detecting properties of the heralded operations ensure high fidelity while the encoding makes it possible to correct for failed attempts such that deterministic and high-quality gates can be achieved. Importantly, this is robust to photon loss, which is typically the main obstacle to photonic based quantum information processing. Overall this approach opens a novel path towards quantum networks with atomic nodes and photonic links.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1: of Drug resistance profiling of a new triple negative breast cancer patient-derived xenograft model
Creators: name: Matossian, Margarite
name: Burks, Hope
name: Elliott, Steven
name: Hoang, Van
name: Bowles, Annie
name: Sabol, Rachel
name: Wahba, Bahia
name: Anbalagan, Muralidharan
name: Rowan, Brian
name: Abazeed, Mohamed
name: Bunnell, Bruce
name: Moroz, Krzysztof
name: Miele, Lucio
name: Rhodes, Lyndsay
name: Jones, Steven
name: Martin, Elizabeth
name: Collins-Burow, Bridgette
name: Burow, Matthew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Within the human population (HLA+) of TU-BCx-2 K1 explants, there were low populations of both CD31, a marker for angiogenesis, and CD14, a marker for granulocytes. Within mouse populations (HLA−), there was a significantly higher population of CD14. Data was obtained using flow cytometry techniques. N = 2; *** p < 0.005 * p < 0.05. (DOCX 29 kb)
Evolutionary games on cycles with strong selection
Creators: name: Altrock, Philipp M.
name: Traulsen, Arne
name: Nowak, Martin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60J10, 92D25

description: Evolutionary games on graphs describe how strategic interactions and population structure determine evolutionary success, quantified by the probability that a single mutant takes over a population. Graph structures, compared to the well-mixed case, can act as amplifiers or suppressors of selection by increasing or decreasing the fixation probability of a beneficial mutant. Properties of the associated mean fixation times can be more intricate, especially when selection is strong. The intuition is that fixation of a beneficial mutant happens fast (in a dominance game), that fixation takes very long (in a coexistence game), and that strong selection eliminates demographic noise. Here we show that these intuitions can be misleading in structured populations. We analyze mean fixation times on the cycle graph under strong frequency-dependent selection for two different microscopic evolutionary update rules (death-birth and birth-death). We establish exact analytical results for fixation times under strong selection, and show that there are coexistence games in which fixation occurs in time polynomial in population size. Depending on the underlying game, we observe inherence of demographic noise even under strong selection, if the process is driven by random death before selection for birth of an offspring (death-birth update). In contrast, if selection for an offspring occurs before random removal (birth-death update), strong selection can remove demographic noise almost entirely.
description: 5 Figures. Accepted for publication (Physical Review E)
Rice ERECT LEAF 1 acts in an alternative brassinosteroid signaling pathway independent of the receptor kinase OsBRI1
Creators: name: Sakamoto, Tomoaki
name: Kitano, Hidemi
name: Fujioka, Shozo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: ERECT LEAF 1 (ELF1) was previously identified as a component of brassinosteroid signaling in rice. A double mutant obtained by crossing elf1-1 (a null mutant of ELF1) with d61-1 (a leaky mutant of OsBRI1) showed a more severe phenotype than did the elf1-1 single mutant, resembling that of a severe brassinosteroid-deficient mutant. Microarray analysis showed that the gene expression profile of elf1-1 was distinct from that of d61-12 (a leaky mutant of OsBRI1 with a phenotype similar to that of elf1-1), and fewer than half of genes differentially expressed between the wild-type and elf1-1 showed similar differences in d61-12 relative to the wild-type. These results indicate that less than half of ELF1-regulated genes in rice seedlings are affected by OsBRI1, and suggest that ELF1 acts in a rice brassinosteroid signaling pathway different from that initiated by OsBRI1. Gene expression analysis showed that some stress response-related genes were induced in elf1-1 but not in d61-12, and 8 of 9 genes oppositely regulated in elf1-1 and d61-12 were significantly up- or down-regulated in both elf1-1 and jasmonic acid-treated wild-type. These results imply that ELF1 suppresses stress-induced signalling, and that jasmonic acid signaling is stimulated in elf1-1; therefore, ELF1 may be involved in the brassinosteroid-mediated suppression of jasmonic acid response in rice.
title: Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) trammel net artisanal fishery in the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean)
Creators: name: Mas, X.
name: Renones, O.
name: Goni, R.
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - CC - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The aim of this study is to evaluate the common cuttlefish artisanal fisheries in the Balearic Islands in terms of: a) its spatial and temporal dynamics (yield, size and sex structure of the cuttlefish catch) and b) the fishery and its ecological efficiency (ratio of commercialised and discarded overall and target species catch).
Pregnancy loss attributable to mastitis in primiparous Holstein cows
Creators: name: Dahl, M.
name: Maunsell, F.
name: De Vries, A.
name: Galvao, K.
name: Risco, C.
name: Hernandez, J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2017

description: Several observational studies have produced different levels of strength of evidence indicating that mastitis can be a predisposing factor for pregnancy loss (PL) in dairy cows. In some of those studies, clinical mastitis before or after AI, subclinical mastitis before AI, and clinical mastitis during early lactation in combination with low BCS increased the risk of subsequent PL. Some studies, however, failed to identify a relationship between PL and clinical or subclinical mastitis after AI in dairy cows. To our knowledge, no studies have simultaneously examined the relationships between PL and exposures to clinical, subclinical, or clinical and subclinical mastitis during different exposure periods (for instance, before breeding and during gestation) in dairy cows. The objective of the study reported here was to examine the association between PL and previous exposure to clinical or subclinical mastitis before breeding or during gestation in primiparous Holstein cows.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2017
title: Mail à Pierre Bergé, copie à Christian Rochet
Creators: name: Leibowitch, Jacques
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111132541126
Affine sphere relativity
Creators: name: Minguzzi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate spacetimes whose light cones could be anisotropic. We prove the equivalence of the structures: (a) Lorentz-Finsler manifold for which the mean Cartan torsion vanishes, (b) Lorentz-Finsler manifold for which the indicatrix (observer space) at each point is a convex hyperbolic affine sphere centered on the zero section, and (c) pair given by a spacetime volume and a sharp convex cone distribution. The equivalence suggests to describe {\em (affine sphere) spacetimes} with this structure, so that no algebraic-metrical concept enters the definition. As a result, this work shows how the metric features of spacetime emerge from elementary concepts such as measure and order. Non-relativistic spacetimes are obtained replacing proper spheres with improper spheres, so the distinction does not call for group theoretical elements. In physical terms, in affine sphere spacetimes the light cone distribution and the spacetime measure determine the motion of massive and massless particles (hence the dispersion relation). Furthermore, it is shown that, more generally, for Lorentz-Finsler theories non-differentiable at the cone, the lightlike geodesics and the transport of the particle momentum over them are well defined though the curve parametrization could be undefined. Causality theory is also well behaved. Several results for affine sphere spacetimes are presented. Some results in Finsler geometry, for instance in the characterization of Randers spaces, are also included.
description: Latex, 56 pages, one figure
title: The spatio-temporal pattern of Argentine shortfin squid Illex argentinus abundance in the Spanish bottom-trawl fishery in the southwest Atlantic
Creators: name: Sacau, M.
name: Wang, J.
name: Arkhipkin, A. I.
name: Portela, J.
name: Pierce, G. J.
name: Brickle, P.
name: Santos, M.B.
name: Cardoso, X.
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - CC - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The Argentine shortfin squid (Illex argentinus) is a common neritic species occurring in waters off Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, and the Falkland/Malvinas Islands in the southwest Atlantic. Illex is the most important cephalopod species in the area and plays a significant role in the ecosystem. It is object of major fisheries using both trawlers (mostly from European countries) and jigging vessels (mainly from Asian countries) and the actual total annual catch could reach up to 700 thousand tons. Fishery and biological information collected by scientific observers aboard commercial trawlers between 1988 and 2003 was analysed in relation to physical and environmental factors to establish the spatio-temporal pattern of the species distribution. The data included 26 168 fishing haul records, of which 11103 were positive. CPUE (Catch Per Unit Effort, kg⋅hr-1) was used as abundance index. The analyses of the general spatio-temporal pattern of fish abundance, and the influence of environmental factors, such as SST, SBT and depth on squid abundance and distribution, was based on correlation, variograms, and time-series maps created using GIS. The areas of the highest densities were found in deep waters of the High Seas between 44.5º S – 47.0º S outside the Argentinean EEZ and to the north-west of the Islands in February–May. The correlations between squid abundance and cloud index at different moon phases were also analyzed.
A partial differential equation for the strictly quasiconvex envelope
Creators: name: Abbasi, Bilal
name: Oberman, Adam M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In a series of papers Barron, Goebel, and Jensen studied Partial Differential Equations (PDE)s for quasiconvex (QC) functions \cite{barron2012functions, barron2012quasiconvex,barron2013quasiconvex,barron2013uniqueness}. To overcome the lack of uniqueness for the QC PDE, they introduced a regularization: a PDE for $\e$-robust QC functions, which is well-posed. Building on this work, we introduce a stronger regularization which is amenable to numerical approximation. We build convergent finite difference approximations, comparing the QC envelope and the two regularization. Solutions of this PDE are strictly convex, and smoother than the robust-QC functions.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Integrated process of extraction and purification of betanin from Opuntia ficus-indica using aqueous two-phase systems based on THF and sodium salts
Creators: name: Santos, Ricardo P.
name: Souza, Luana M.
name: Acenini L. Balieiro
name: Cleide M. F. Soares
name: Lima, Álvaro S.
name: Ranyere L. Souza
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: This research present an integrated process for the extraction and purification of betanin from fruit of Opuntia ficus-indica. The extraction process was evaluated using different solvents (water, acetonitrile, ethanol and tetrahydrofuran), and then integrated into the purification process using aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS). The optimum conditions for extraction was with THF and the purification conditions determined to be 43 wt% of THF and 6 wt% of sodium citrate buffer (pH 5.5) at 25°C. A purification factor of 13.7 ± 0.5 fold, with a partition coefficient of betanin for salt-rich phase and the antioxidant capacity was increased ≈ 65%.
Click-based porous cationic polymers for enhanced carbon dioxide capture
Creators: name: Dani, Alessandro
name: Magistris, Valentina Crocella Claudio
name: Santoro, Valentina
name: Yuan, Jiayin
name: Bordiga, Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Imidazolium based porous cationic polymers were synthesized using an innovative and facile approach, which takes advantage of the Debus Radziszewski reaction to obtain meso- and microporous polymers following click chemistry principles. In the obtained set of materials, click based porous cationic polymers have the same cationic backbone, whereas they bear the commonly used anions of imidazolium poly(ionic liquid)s. These materials show hierarchical porosity and a good specific surface area. Furthermore, their chemical structure was extensively characterized using ATR FTIR and SS NMR spectroscopies, and HR MS. These polymers show good performance towards carbon dioxide sorption, especially those possessing the acetate anion. This polymer has an uptake of 2 mmol per g of CO2 at 1 bar and 273 K, a value which is among the highest recorded for imidazolium poly(ionic liquid)s. These polymers were also modified in order to introduce N-heterocyclic carbenes along the backbone. Carbon dioxide loading in the carbene-containing polymer is in the same range as that of the non-modified versions, but the nature of the interaction is substantially different. The combined use of in situ FTIR spectroscopy and microcalorimetry evidenced a chemisorption phenomenon that brings about the formation of an imidazolium carboxylate zwitterion.
description: 29 page, 33 figures
Accuracy of color flow doppler ultrasonography to diagnose nonpregnancy in dairy cows 21 days after last insemination
Creators: name: Houle, J.
name: Buczinski, S.
name: Dubuc, J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2017

description: A previous study demonstrated that the doppler ultrasonography could be used to identify cows not pregnant 20 days after last insemination (DALI). Unfortunately, such study was not repeated and it remains unclear if this diagnostic tool could also be used 21 DALI. Therefore, the objective of this study was to quantify the accuracy of using Doppler ultrasonography to diagnose nonpregnancy (NPG) in lactating dairy cows 21 DALI.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2017
title: Detection of domoic acid, the amnesic shellfish toxin, in the digestive gland of Eledone cirrhosa and E. moschata (Cephalopoda, Octopoda) from the Portuguese coast
Creators: name: Costa, Pedro R.
name: Rosa, Rui
name: Pereira, João
name: Sampayo, Maria A.M.
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - CC - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Domoic acid (DA), the toxin responsible for the illness amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP), is a food web transferred algal toxin produced naturally by some species of the diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia, that has been detected in many marine organisms from copepods to whales. Cephalopods, which are important members of the food chain and active predators of known toxin vectors such as bivalves, crabs and some fishes, have just recently been implicated in DA transfer or accumulation. Here we present data showing relevant values of DA detected by HPLC-UV and also confirmed by HPLCMS in two octopus species collected along the Portuguese continental coast: Eledone cirrhosa and E. moschata. Domoic acid was frequently detected in the digestive gland of E. moschata occasionally reaching concentrations exceeding 100 μg.g-1, which reveals this species as a potential vector for higher predators in the Portuguese coastal marine food web. On the other hand E. cirrhosa showed lower concentrations of DA in the few times that it was detected. These data, combined with known aspects of the life history of the species, are a necessary step towards achieving an understanding of the accumulation of phycotoxins in cephalopods.
Additional file 2: of Drug resistance profiling of a new triple negative breast cancer patient-derived xenograft model
Creators: name: Matossian, Margarite
name: Burks, Hope
name: Elliott, Steven
name: Hoang, Van
name: Bowles, Annie
name: Sabol, Rachel
name: Wahba, Bahia
name: Anbalagan, Muralidharan
name: Rowan, Brian
name: Abazeed, Mohamed
name: Bunnell, Bruce
name: Moroz, Krzysztof
name: Miele, Lucio
name: Rhodes, Lyndsay
name: Jones, Steven
name: Martin, Elizabeth
name: Collins-Burow, Bridgette
name: Burow, Matthew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Figure S2. Cell lines generated from the TU-BCx-2â K1 tumor were capable of forming spheres in 3D culture conditions. (DOCX 204 kb)
What veterinarians need to know about producers' perceptions in order to optimize their role as advisors for key animal care issues in dairy herds
Creators: name: Croyle, S. L.
name: Khosa, D. K.
name: LeBlanc, S. J.
name: Kelton, D. F.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2017

description: Animal care concerns, and thus animal care assessments have been increasing within the dairy industry. In Canada, a national Animal Care Assessment has just been implemented which utilizes animal based measures such as lameness and hock injuries. Veterinarians and producers in Canada agree that the top management issue on dairy farms is animal welfare and the number one health concern on dairy farms is lameness, and they agree that 'supporting animal health and welfare decisions' are major roles of the veterinarian. However, to date, there are no in depth qualitative publications investigating dairy producer's expectations on the role of veterinarians as advisors for animal welfare issues (i.e. lameness, hock injuries). The objective of this study was to explore dairy farmer’s perceptions of the role of the veterinarian as it pertains to communicating and consulting on animal care, and to gain insight into barriers that prevent animal care improvement through veterinarians.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2017
title: The cephalopods in the small-scale fishery in the eastern Thracian Sea (NE Mediterranean)
Creators: name: Lefkaditou, E.
name: Haralabous, J.
name: Sarikas, D.
name: Karamelidou, S.
name: Kavadas, S.
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - CC - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Landings data of the Fisheries Co-operative of Alexandroupolis “Evros' for the period 1998-2002 indicate that cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) and octopus (Octopus vulgaris) consist an important resource for the small scale fishery in the coastal zone of the eastern Thracian Sea. Cuttlefish is targeted by specific trammel nets (32-36 mm mesh size) during late winter and spring, whereas it is fished as by-catch by trammel nets targeting shrimp (Penaeus kerathurus) and sole (Solea vulgaris) in summer and autumn. Octopus is the target species of pots used mainly in autumn and by catch of trammel nets. Variation of total landings and LPUE are examined considering vessel-day as the common unit of fishing effort for all fishing gears. LPUE for gears fishing octopus and cuttlefish as by-catches is generally very low. Octopus LPUE for pots shows a seasonal peak in June, whereas the cuttlefish LPUE for specific trammel nets in March-April, both reflecting the availability of the species in the coastal fishing grounds and probably depending on the size composition of the catches. Monthly variation of total landings by gear is clearly dependent on the fishing strategy followed, as well as, on the LPUE variation of the targeted species.
R Package ASMap: Efficient Genetic Linkage Map Construction and Diagnosis
Creators: name: Taylor, Julian
name: Butler, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Although various forms of linkage map construction software are widely available, there is a distinct lack of packages for use in the R statistical computing environment. This article introduces the ASMap linkage map construction R package which contains functions that use the efficient MSTmap algorithm for clustering and optimally ordering large sets of markers. Additional to the construction functions, the package also contains a suite of tools to assist in the rapid diagnosis and repair of a constructed linkage map. The package functions can also be used for post linkage map construction techniques such as fine mapping or combining maps of the same population. To showcase the efficiency and functionality of ASMap, the complete linkage map construction process is demonstrated with a high density barley backcross marker data set.
description: Conditionally accepted for publication in Journal of Statistical Software
Evaluating the effect of two hoof trimming techniques on lesion incidence in dairy cattle
Creators: name: Stoddard, G.
name: Cook, N.
name: Wagner, S.
name: Cramer, G.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2017

description: Lameness is detrimental to the well-being and productivity of dairy cattle. One recommended procedure to prevent lameness is hoof trimming (HT). The research surrounding the efficacy of HT however is currently limited. The objective of this project was to compare the functional HT method (LIT) to more modeling of the weight bearing claw (BIG) on lesion presence at mid-lactation.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2017
Study to measure the effect of implanting Holstein steers at various stages of growth and the impact on weight gain and interference with subsequent implants
Creators: name: Gawthrop, J. C.
name: McKaig, C. M.
name: Funk, K. K.
name: Budzinski, A. C.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2017

description: The objective of this study is to quantify the effect of using Component E-C and Component E-S implants in Holstein steers from 50 days of age to 210 days of age. The use of growth promoting implants has been shown to be a beneficial practice in increased rate of gain, increased feed efficiency, and improvement in carcass quality. There are many techniques and schemes for using the various implants to their best advantage. There have not been many published studies concerning the use of implants in young Holstein steers. It has not been established that young Holstein steers benefit from this practice. It has been argued that early implants will lessen the effect of later implants given to Holstein steers.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2017
A ray-based IPDG method for high-frequency time-domain acoustic wave propagation in inhomogeneous media
Creators: name: Chung, Eric T.
name: Lam, Chi Yeung
name: Qian, Jianliang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The numerical approximation of high-frequency wave propagation in inhomogeneous media is a challenging problem. In particular, computing high-frequency solutions by direct simulations requires several points per wavelength for stability and usually requires many points per wavelength for a satisfactory accuracy. In this paper, we propose a new method for the acoustic wave equation in inhomogeneous media in the time domain to achieve superior accuracy and stability without using a large number of unknowns. The method is based on a discontinuous Galerkin discretization together with carefully chosen basis functions. To obtain the basis functions, we use the idea from geometrical optics and construct the basis functions by using the leading order term in the asymptotic expansion. Also, we use a wavefront tracking method and a dimension reduction procedure to obtain dominant rays in each cell. We show numerically that the accuracy of the numerical solutions computed by our method is significantly higher than that computed by the IPDG method using polynomials.Moreover, the relative errors of our method grow only moderately as the frequency increases.
A Counterexample to a Conjecture of Gomory and Johnson
Creators: name: Basu, Amitabh
name: Conforti, Michele
name: Cornuejols, Gerard
name: Zambelli, Giacomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C10, 90C34, 46E10, 46N10

description: In Mathematical Programming 2003, Gomory and Johnson conjecture that the facets of the infinite group problem are always generated by piecewise linear functions. In this paper we give an example showing that the Gomory-Johnson conjecture is false.
Chemical Segregation in Hot Cores With Disk Candidates: An investigation with ALMA
Creators: name: Allen, V.
name: van der Tak, F. F. S.
name: Sánchez-Monge, Á.
name: Cesaroni, R.
name: Beltrán, M. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the study of high-mass star formation, hot cores are empirically defined stages where chemically rich emission is detected toward a massive YSO. It is unknown whether the physical origin of this emission is a disk, inner envelope, or outflow cavity wall and whether the hot core stage is common to all massive stars. We investigate the chemical make up of several hot molecular cores to determine physical and chemical structure. We use high spectral and spatial resolution Cycle 0 ALMA observations to determine how this stage fits into the formation sequence of a high mass star. We observed the G35.20-0.74N and G35.03+0.35 hot cores at 350 GHz. We analyzed spectra and maps from four continuum peaks (A, B1, B2 and B3) in G35.20, separated by 1000-2000 AU, and one continuum peak in G35.03. We made all possible line identifications across 8 GHz of spectral windows of molecular emission lines and determined column densities and temperatures for as many as 35 species assuming local thermodynamic equilibrium. In comparing the spectra of the four peaks, we find each has a distinct chemical composition expressed in over 400 different transitions. In G35.20, B1 and B2 contain oxygen- and sulfur-bearing organic and inorganic species but few nitrogen-bearing species whereas A and B3 are strong sources of O, S, and N-bearing species (especially those with the CN-bond). CH$_2$DCN is clearly detected in A and B3 with D/H ratios of 8 and 13$\%$, respectively, but is much weaker at B1 and undetected at B2. No deuterated species are detected in G35.03, but similar molecular abundances to G35.20 were found in other species. We also find co-spatial emission of HNCO and NH$_2$CHO in both sources indicating a strong chemical link between the two species. The chemical segregation between N-bearing organic species and others in G35.20 suggests the presence of multiple protostars, surrounded by a disk or torus.
description: 14 pages with 13 figures main text, 54 pages appendix
Superovulation and embryo transfer in Wagyu donors and cross-bred recipients
Creators: name: Gomes, G. C.
name: Rae, D. O.
name: Block, J.
name: Risco, C. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2017

description: Embryo Transfer (ET) is a technology applied to accelerate the genetic progress of herds. Research on bovine ET has mainly focused on a few popular breeds, but the extrapolation of those results to less explored breeds might be questionable. The objective of this study was to determine the main factors associated with embryo production in Wagyu embryo donor cows and gestation performance in cross-bred embryo recipients through retrospective data analysis.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2017
Elevated storage temperatures and concentration of large animal pharmaceuticals
Creators: name: Ondrak, J. D.
name: Jones, M. L.
name: Fajt, V. R.
name: Mays, T. P.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2017

description: Most veterinary pharmaceuticals are labelled to be stored at or below 77°F or 86°F. Previous work showed that temperatures in ambulatory veterinary practice vehicles exceeded those temperatures for 67-100% of days in the summer of 2013. The project objective was to determine the effect on the active ingredient concentrations of drug products exposed to temperatures above their recommended upper storage limit.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2017
Sorting via chip-firing
Creators: name: Hopkins, Sam
name: McConville, Thomas
name: Propp, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C57

description: We investigate a variant of the chip-firing process on the infinite path graph: rather than treating the chips as indistinguishable, we label them with positive integers. To fire an unstable vertex, i.e. a vertex with more than one chip, we choose any two chips at that vertex and move the lesser-labeled chip to the left and the greater-labeled chip to the right. This labeled version of the chip-firing process exhibits a remarkable confluence property, similar to but subtler than the confluence that prevails for unlabeled chip-firing: when all chips start at the origin and the number of chips is even, the chips always end up in sorted order. Our proof of sorting relies upon an independently interesting lemma concerning unlabeled chip- firing which says that stabilization preserves a natural partial order on configurations. We also discuss some extensions of this sorting phenomenon to other graphs (variants of the infinite path), to other initial configurations, and to other Cartan-Killing types.
description: 18 pages
title: The effect of time of hatching in age and size at maturity of Loligo vulgaris
Creators: name: Moreno, Ana
name: Pereira, João
name: Da Cunha, Manuela Morais
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - CC - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Loligo vulgaris shows a complex population structure in Portuguese waters, strongly influenced by continuous spawning. Squid were sampled in order to determine age and size at maturity. Differences in these parameters and reproductive investment in distinct cohorts as an indication of environmental influences in sexual maturity were evaluated. Maturity ogives by age class were well fitted to the observed data indicating t50% of 7.6 months in males and 8.7 months in females and an ML50% of 17.6cm in the latter. A much higher complexity in size at maturity than in age at maturity was observed, especially in males. Significant differences in life cycle parameters were found between squid hatched under colder and warmer water regimes, the Cold and Warm Cohorts. The variability in age and size at maturity observed for the whole population, decreases when splitting squid by cohorts, but the variability in size at maturity in males is not as well explained by hatching cohort. An account of significant differences between the two cohorts of each sex in important life cycle parameters is fully exploited, indicating possible improvements to the utilization of biological data in assessment models if this knowledge is incorporated.
Additional file 4: of Structural organization and functional divergence of high isoelectric point Îą-amylase genes in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)
Creators: name: Ju, Liangliang
name: Deng, Guangbing
name: Liang, Junjun
name: Zhang, Haili
name: Li, Qiao
name: Pan, Zhifen
name: Yu, Maoqun
name: Long, Hai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Table S2. Estimation of Amy1 genetic distances in grass. (DOCX 16 kb)
Investigation of a reported increase in clinical disease attributed to anaplasmosis and babesiosis in Costa Rican dairy herds
Creators: name: Hines, S. A.
name: Corbett, R.
name: Ueti, M. W.
name: Johnson, W. C.
name: Vega, R.
name: Adams, D. S.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2017

description: Anaplasmosis and babesiosis have been recognized as significant disease entities in Latin America for many decades. As in the United States, seroprevalence varies widely within the country of Costa Rica, dependent on altitude, temperature, vegetation, and other factors. Infection with multiple hemoparasites (Anaplasma marginale, Babesia bovis, and/or Babesia bigemina), along with other comorbidities and management factors, may influence manifestation of clinical disease. This study was undertaken as a field investigation in response to reported concerns of increased sudden death and severe clinical disease in adult animals, as well as unexpected serious disease in younger animals. The aim was to evaluate the infection status and epidemiology of these herds to determine what organisms might be playing a role in disease and identify potential changes in management that could help mitigate the impact.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2017