cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The shape of low energy configurations of a thin elastic sheet with a single disclination
Creators: name: Olbermann, Heiner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49Q10, 74K20

description: We consider a geometrically fully nonlinear variational model for thin elastic sheets that contain a single disclination. The free elastic energy contains the thickness $h$ as a small parameter. We give an improvement of a recently proved energy scaling law, removing the next-to leading order terms in the lower bound. Then we prove the convergence of (almost-)minimizers of the free elastic energy towards the shape of a radially symmetric cone, up to Euclidean motions, weakly in the spaces $W^{2,2}(B_1\setminus B_ρ;\mathbb{R}^3)$ for every $0
description: 18 pages, 3 figures
A rodent model for visual masking
Creators: name: KATRINA LOUISE RICHARDS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience

description: Visual masking is an illusion in which the visibility of a briefly presented stimulus is reduced or eliminated. Thus, even though a stimulus is physically present, it is not visually perceived. The phenomenon provides the opportunity to investigate the neuronal mechanisms associated with the development of visual perception. This thesis examines the neuronal and perceptual consequences of visual masking in a rodent model. It reports that the properties of perceptual masking in rodents are different to those observed in humans.
title: Assessment of mortality and skin injury of Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) that escape from trawl codend under commercial fishing conditions
Creators: name: Suuronen, Petri
name: Lehtonen, Esa
name: Kurkilahti, Mika
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - V - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Assessment of mortality and skin injury of Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) that escape from trawl codend under commercial fishing conditions
Cytotoxicity of new secondary metabolites, fatty acids and tocols composition of seeds of Ducrosia anethifolia (DC.) Boiss
Creators: name: Med Habib Oueslati
name: Jalloul Bouajila
name: Med Amine Belkacem
name: Harrath, Abdel Halim
name: Alwasel, Saleh H.
name: Jannet, Hichem Ben
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
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: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Two new monoterpene Ducrosin A (1) and sesquiterpene Ducrosin B (2) were isolated along with three known compounds, stigmasterol (3) and two furanocoumarins (4 and 5), from the dichloromethane extract of the seeds of Ducrosia anethifolia (DC.) Boiss. Their structures were determined using extensive 1D and 2D NMR, (ES)-HRMS and IR spectroscopic analyses and by comparison with literature data. Gas chromatography analysis of the fatty acids (FAs) of D. anethifolia seed oils (DAOs) showed high percentages of elaidic acid (C18:1 Δ9t) 65% and oleic acid (C18:1 Δ9c) 15%. The total tocopherol (tocols) content in DAOs was found to be 164 mg/100 g. The cytotoxic effect of the isolates was also evaluated using the MTT assay against the HCT-116 and SKOV-3 cell lines. The results showed that compound 2 was the most cytotoxic agent followed by compounds 1 and 4, which has an epoxide moiety that most likely contributes to its activity.
Symmetry in Software Synthesis
Creators: name: Goens, Andrés
name: Siccha, Sergio
name: Castrillon, Jeronimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the surge of multi- and manycores, much research has focused on algorithms for mapping and scheduling on these complex platforms. Large classes of these algorithms face scalability problems. This is why diverse methods are commonly used for reducing the search space. While most such approaches leverage the inherent symmetry of architectures and applications, they do it in a problem-specific and intuitive way. However, intuitive approaches become impractical with growing hardware complexity, like Network-on-Chip interconnect or heterogeneous cores. In this paper, we present a formal framework that can determine the inherent symmetry of architectures and applications algorithmically and leverage these for problems in software synthesis. Our approach is based on the mathematical theory of groups and a generalization called inverse semigroups. We evaluate our approach in two state-of-the-art mapping frameworks. Even for the platforms with a handful of cores of today and moderate-size benchmarks, our approach consistently yields reductions of the overall execution time of algorithms, accelerating them by a factor up to 10 in our experiments, or improving the quality of the results.
description: 31 pages, 18 figures
Photo-induced SU(3) topological material of spinless fermions
Creators: name: Ray, Sayonee
name: Ghatak, Ananya
name: Das, Tanmoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generation of topological phases of matter with SU(3) symmetry in a condensed matter setup is challenging due to the lack of an intrinsic three-fold chirality of quasiparticles. We uncover two salient ingredients required to express a three-component lattice Hamiltonian in a SU(3) format with non-trivial topological invariant. We find that all three SU(3) components must be entangled via a gauge field, with opposite chirality between any two components, and there must be band inversions between all {\it three} components in a given eigenstate. For spinless particles, we show that such chiral states can be obtained in a tripartite lattice with three inequivalent lattice sites in which the Bloch phase associated with the nearest neighbor hopping acts as $k$-space gauge field. The second and a more crucial criterion is that there must also be an odd-parity Zeeman-like term, i.e. $\sin(k)σ_z$ term where $σ_z$ is the third Pauli matrix defined in any two components of the SU(3) basis. Solving the electron-photon interaction term in a periodic potential with a modified tight-binding model, we show that such a term can be engineered with site-selective photon polarization. Such site selective polarization can be obtained in multiple ways, such as using Sisyphus cooling technique, polarizer plates, etc. With the $k$-resolved Berry curvature formalism, we delineate the relationship between the SU(3) chirality, band inversion, and $k$-space monopoles, governing finite Chern number without breaking the time-reversal symmetry. The topological phase is affirmed by edge state calculation, obeying the bulk-boundary correspondence.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
ENHANCING QUALITY OF LIFE ON URBAN RESIDENTIAL STREETS BY CREATING PLACES FOR PEOPLE AND TREES
Creators: name: PARKER, PAMELA
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Landscape architecture
subject: autonomous vehicles
subject: quality of life
subject: rowhouse
subject: social
subject: trees
subject: urban streetscape

description: Lower income urban rowhouse neighborhoods are often treeless with only narrow sidewalks separating the front door from the street. This thesis explores the opportunity to capitalize on the predicted shift from private automobile ownership to fleets of autonomous vehicles and the subsequent significant drop in parking demand. Space previously designated as parking lanes can be converted into continuous tree planting strips and social spaces along inner-city residential streets. In this thesis, I propose three streetscape models utilizing the space no longer needed for parking: 1) the James Street Private Model that designs a 10’ wide continuous tree planting strip, allowing trees, gardens and patios to be installed along the foot of the rowhouse steps; 2) the James Street Public Model that creates the same tree strip design but positions it between the sidewalk and the street; and 3) the Shared Street Model, set along a narrower alley street, that forms a meandering road shared with pedestrians, public spaces and trees. These streetscape improvements directly address the quality of life of the residents by enhancing their safety and security, physical surroundings, social relations and health.
The theory of filtrations of subalgebras, standardness and independence
Creators: name: Vershik, Anatoly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37A20, 28C10, 46L05, 05C65

description: The survey is devoted to the combinatorial and metric theory of filtrations, i.\,e., decreasing sequences of $σ$-algebras in measure spaces or decreasing sequences of subalgebras of certain algebras. One of the key notions, that of standardness, plays the role of a~generalization of the notion of the independence of a~sequence of random variables. We discuss the possibility of obtaining a~classification of filtrations, their invariants, and various links to problems in algebra, dynamics, and combinatorics.
description: 82 pp, 11 fg
Jet and heavy flavor production in heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Kang, Zhong-Bo
name: Ringer, Felix
name: Vitev, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent progress in the theoretical description of hard probes in heavy-ion collisions within the framework of Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET). Firstly, we consider the inclusive production of heavy flavor mesons and jets with a small radius parameter in proton-proton collisions. Secondly, we describe how in-medium effects can be incorporated consistently with the proton-proton baseline calculations. The in-medium interactions are described by Glauber gluon interactions. We present results for the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ which is most commonly used to study the quenching of hadron or jet production yields in heavy-ion collisions and we compare to recent data from the LHC.
description: Hard Probes 2016 proceedings contribution, Sep. 23-27, Wuhan, China. 4 pages, 2 figures
CREATING A WEAVING URBANISM FOR THE WEAVERS WHO WEAVE FOR LIVELIHOOD
Creators: name: Dobariya, Mohit Ramniklal
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Area planning & development
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Handloom
subject: Livelihood
subject: Silk Farming
subject: Silk Weaving
subject: Weaving Urbanism

description: This thesis proposes that the holistic traditions and ancient way of life of weavers in the village of Sualkuchi, Assam, India are a forward-thinking model for sustainable urbanism. And will explore strategies to revitalize the traditional weaving heritage of a village (Sualkuchi, Assam, India) by providing a more robust platform to generate economic opportunities. The approach chosen for the benefit of the weavers’ community by taking inspirations from the past and implementing in the future, thus increasing potential. It is an institution within itself which benefits the entire complex as one unified whole. This handloom center, informal and accommodating of the weavers’ language is an interactive platform for the welfare of the weavers’ community, and for understanding of the entire country. The main objective of the project is to promote the development and sustainability of the traditional textiles and its products by creating a handloom element for the weavers of the country with proper civic arrangements and functions. It is an attempt to preserve the rich heritage of the textiles of India and save it from the clutches of extinction.
title: An Estimation Of The Cod (Gadus Morhua) Catch In The Bottom Gill Nets Lost Along The Southern Coast Of Sweden
Creators: name: Tschernij, Vesa
name: Larsson, P.-O.
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - V - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.According to a survey of the Swedish cod gillnet fleet operating in the Baltic Sea, 3.6 – 3.8 gill nets are lost per vessel every year, corresponding to 156 – 165 km of netting. An experiment with deliberately lost nets showed some catching efficiency left still after 27 months. A considerable amount of nets are retrieved by trawlers, but still some nets continue fishing for a long time. In this paper an attempt is done to estimate the unaccounted cod mortality caused by gillnets lost by the Swedish fishing fleet. In the model used, cod catch was assumed to depend on 1) the length of lost nets in two categories (newly lost and accumulating), 2) the relative catching efficiency of the lost nets (from the experiment mentioned above) in the same two categories, 3) CPUE during the corresponding period for the gillnet fleet and 4) the retrieval (by trawlers) rate of lost nets. Of the total number of nets used during a 28-month period, 157 000 km, the model estimated 145 – 158 km to have been lost. Two retrieval rate scenarios were applied, giving 24 and 100 km nets left and continuing fishing (no lost nets assumed at the start). Total catch of cod by those nets during the 28-month period was estimated to 76 and 162 tonnes (with large confidence intervals), compared to 8445 tonnes landed by the fleet during the same period. Considering the total gillnet fishery in the Baltic, everything should be made to avoid this unaccounted cod mortality.
SWEET-Cat update and FASMA. A new minimization procedure for stellar parameters using high-quality spectra
Creators: name: Andreasen, D. T.
name: Sousa, S. G.
name: Tsantaki, M.
name: Teixeira, G. D. C.
name: Mortier, A.
name: Santos, N. C.
name: Suarez-Andres, L.
name: Delgado-Mena, E.
name: Ferreira, A. C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Thanks to the importance that the star-planet relation has to our understanding of the planet formation process, the precise determination of stellar parameters for the ever increasing number of discovered extrasolar planets is of great relevance. Furthermore, precise stellar parameters are needed to fully characterize the planet properties. It is thus important to continue the efforts to determine, in the most uniform way possible, the parameters for stars with planets as new discoveries are announced. Aims: In this paper we present new precise atmospheric parameters for a sample of 50 stars with planets. The results are presented in the catalogue: SWEET-Cat. Methods: Stellar atmospheric parameters and masses for the 50 stars were derived assuming local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) and using high-resolution and high signal-to-noise spectra. The methodology used is based on the measurement of equivalent widths with ARES2 for a list of iron lines. The line abundances were derived using MOOG. We then used the curve of growth analysis to determine the parameters. We implemented a new minimization procedure which significantly improves the computational time. Results: The stellar parameters for the 50 stars are presented and compared with previously determined literature values. For SWEET-Cat, we compile values for the effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, and stellar mass for almost all the planet host stars listed in the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia. This data will be updated on a continuous basis. The data can be used for statistical studies of the star-planet correlation, and for the derivation of consistent properties for known planets.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, accepted A&A
Antimutagenic activity of flavonoids from Sozuku
Creators: name: Okuno, Yoshiharu
name: Marumoto, Shinsuke
name: Miyazawa, Mitsuo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Pinocembrin (1) and cardamonin (2) from Sozuku showed a suppressive effect on umu gene expression of SOS response in Salmonella typhimurium TA1535/pSK1002 against the mutagen furylfuramide. Compounds 1 and 2 suppressed 52% and 36% of SOS-inducing activity at a concentration of 0.20 μmol/mL. The ID50 value of 1 was 0.18 μmol/mL. These compounds showed the suppression of 2-amino-3,4-dimethylimidazo-[4,5-f]quinolone (MeIQ) and UV irradiation-induced SOS response. Pinostrobin (3) and 5,7-dimethoxyflavanone (4), methyl ethers of 1, showed similar activity to 1 against MeIQ-induced SOS response, but that of furylfuramide and UV irradiation were decreased. On the other hand, compounds 1–4 did not show the suppression of activated MeIQ-induced SOS response. Furthermore, compounds 1–4 showed potent antimutagenic activity against MeIQ mutagenesis in Ames test using the S. typhimurium TA100 and TA98 strains.
Chemical Compositions of the Selected Cold-pressed Seed Flours and Their Free Radical Scavenging and Anti-proliferative Capacities
Creators: name: Song, Zhangyi
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Food science
subject: antioxidant
subject: anti-proliferation
subject: chemical composition
subject: LC-MS
subject: seed flour

description: The cold-pressed blackberry, broccoli, carrot, cucumber, and milk thistle seed flours were extracted with 100% ethanol and examined for their phytochemical compositions, total phenolic contents, ABTS•+ and relative DPPH• scavenging capacities, and anti-proliferative activities in HCT116 and SW480 colon cancer cells. Eleven, eight, ten, and thirteen compounds were tentatively identified in the blackberry, broccoli, carrot, and milk thistle seed flour extracts, with ellagic acid, glucoraphanin, kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside, and silychristin isomers being the primary components in each, respectively. Milk thistle seed flour extract had the greatest total phenolic content. Blackberry seed flour extract possessed the strongest free radical scavenging capacities against both DPPH• and ABTS•+. Milk thistle seed flour extract was the only extract capable of significantly suppressing the growth of SW480 colon cancer cells, but not HCT116 cells.
Invariant graphs of a family of non-uniformly expanding skew products over Markov maps
Creators: name: Walkden, Charles
name: Withers, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37C70, 37D25, 37C45

description: We consider a family of skew-products of the form $(Tx, g_x(t)) : X \times \mathbb{R} \to X \times \mathbb{R}$ where $T$ is a continuous expanding Markov map and $g_x : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is a family of homeomorphisms of $\mathbb{R}$. A function $u: X \to \mathbb{R}$ is said to be an invariant graph if $\mathrm{graph}(u) = \{(x,u(x)) \mid x\in X\}$ is an invariant set for the skew-product; equivalently if $u(T(x)) = g_x(u(x))$. A well-studied problem is to consider the existence, regularity and dimension-theoretic properties of such functions, usually under strong contraction or expansion conditions (in terms of Lyapunov exponents or partial hyperbolicity) in the fibre direction. Here we consider such problems in a setting where the Lyapunov exponent in the fibre direction is zero on a set of periodic orbits. We prove that $u$ either has the structure of a `quasi-graph' (or `bony graph') or is as smooth as the dynamics, and we give a criteria for this to happen.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures
title: Evidence of sampling induced biases in mortality estimates from experiments investigating mortality in fish escaping from towed fishing gears
Creators: name: Breen, Mike
name: Sangster, Graham
name: O'neill, Barry
name: Kynoch, Rob
name: Jones, Emma
name: Soldal, Aud
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - V - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.When studying escapes from trawl codends and other selective devices, the most common method of capturing or ‘sampling’ escaping fish is using a codend cover (Figure 1). This paper will summarise a programme of work providing evidence for two potential problems with codend covers, when sampling fish for use in survival experiments.
Effect of Agave americana L. on the human, and Aspergillus oryzae S2 α-amylase inhibitions
Creators: name: Sahnoun, Mouna
name: Bejar, Samir
name: Lobna Daoud
name: Ayadi, Leila
name: Faiçal Brini
name: Saibi, Walid
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Among phenolic compounds, Agave americana L. extract contained puerarin (38.4%) and p-coumaric acid (12.29%) (pCa). From the Lineweaver–Burk plots, pCa and puerarin demonstrated a competitive and a non competitive inhibitions towards human α-amylase activity, respectively. PCa exhibited a higher human inhibitory activity with an IC50 of 98.8 μM which was about 2.3 times than acarbose. Puerarin (IC50 = 3.87 μM) and pCa (IC50 = 10.16 μM) also showed an excellent inhibition for Aspergillus oryzae S2 α-amylase activity. The inhibitions of the described biocatalysts compounds towards both amylases were significantly decreased when they were pre-incubated with starch. The binding modes of these compounds were evaluated in silico. The binding efficiency order of these molecules in terms of polar contact numbers for both enzymes was in agreement with the in vitro studies. These findings provided a rational reason to establish the isolated compounds capability as therapeutic target for hyperglycaemia modulation and antifungal therapy.
Additional file 5 of De novo assembly and analysis of Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua and identification of genes involved in polysaccharide and saponin biosynthesis
Creators: name: Li, Dandan
name: Wang, Qing
name: Chen, Songshu
name: Liu, Hongchang
name: Pan, Keqin
name: Li, Jinling
name: Luo, Chunli
name: Wang, Hualei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S4. Species distribution annotated in the NR database for P. cyrtonema.
title: Inclusion of Discard and Escape Mortality Estimates in Stock Assessment Models and its likely impact on Fisheries Management
Creators: name: Breen, Mike
name: Cook, Robin
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - V - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Traditional stock assessments within ICES assume that all fish passing through a towed fishing gear survive. Experiments in recent years have shown that at least some fish do not survive the rigours of the capture process even if they ultimately escape from the gear. Although estimates of escape mortality are very variable even for the same species, for example for haddock estimates vary from 3.5% to 52% mortality (Sangster et al, 1996, Lowry et al, 1996 and Wileman et al, 1999). Moreover, these experiments indicate that this mortality may be dependent upon the size, age and physical condition of the fish. If the survival is low there may be important implications for current assessments since they will tend to underestimate fishing mortality and stock size. Furthermore, such assessments may result in biased estimates of biological reference points and misleading calculations on the benefits of changes in mesh size. To date experiments on escape survival have been limited to examining the proportion of fish, which die after escaping from the gear. In order to make use of this information in the assessment arena, these data need to be translated into a mortality rate. However, this process is complicated by the fact that many of the mortality and associated selectivity estimates are length based while stock assessments traditional work with age based data. This paper proposes a method for such a calculation and illustrates its use in North Sea haddock assessments.
Detecting Friedel oscillations in ultracold Fermi gases
Creators: name: Riechers, Keno
name: Hueck, Klaus
name: Luick, Niclas
name: Lompe, Thomas
name: Moritz, Henning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Investigating Friedel oscillations in ultracold gases would complement the studies performed on solid state samples with scanning-tunneling microscopes. In atomic quantum gases interactions and external potentials can be tuned freely and the inherently slower dynamics allow to access non-equilibrium dynamics following a potential or interaction quench. Here, we examine how Friedel oscillations can be observed in current ultracold gas experiments under realistic conditions. To this aim we numerically calculate the amplitude of the Friedel oscillations which a potential barrier provokes in a 1D Fermi gas and compare it to the expected atomic and photonic shot noise in a density measurement. We find that to detect Friedel oscillations the signal from several thousand one-dimensional systems has to be averaged. However, as up to 100 parallel one-dimensional systems can be prepared in a single run with present experiments, averaging over about 100 images is sufficient.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Effect of manual rupture of ovarian cysts on reproductive parameters in dairy cattle
Creators: name: Villarroel, A.
name: Krahn, B. J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2012

description: Ovarian cysts are common pathologic structures that interfere with reproduction in dairy cattle. Studies in the 1970's effectively used manual rupture to eliminate cysts without hormonal treatment in about 45% of cases. However, reports of ovarian injuries after manual rupture deters of its wide implementation. Hormonal protocols can achieve resolution in up to 70% to 80% of cases. The objective of this study was to determine if the combination of manual rupture and hormonal treatment can help improve resolution of cystic ovarian disease in dairy cattle, compared with that of hormonal treatment alone.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2012
title: The impact of hydraulic dredging on ocean quahog populations
Creators: name: Thorarinsdóttir, Gudrun G.
name: Ragnarsson, Stefan Áki
name: Gunnarsson, Karl
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - V - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.In the present study three experiments were carried out out to measure the overall efficiency of a commercial hydraulic dredge used to surway ocean quahog in Icelandic waters. Direct effects of hydraulic dredging activity on ocean quahog populations by estimating size selectivity of the dredge and rate of shell breakage were evaluated. The mean dredge efficiency was variable, estimated between 20 and 86 %. The dredge was highly selective towards clams greater than 70 mm in shell length as 70-85% of the clams caught had the shell length between 70-90 mm. The rate of the shell breakage of ocean quahog in the catch was 25-37% and of those left behind in the dredge track 11-32%. Ocean quahog was the only species visible on underwater photographs and almost no bycatch was observed from the dredge.
Buckling-Induced Kirigami
Creators: name: Rafsanjani, Ahmad
name: Bertoldi, Katia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the mechanical response of thin sheets perforated with a square array of mutually orthogonal cuts, which leaves a network of squares connected by small ligaments. Our combined analytical, experimental and numerical results indicate that under uniaxial tension the ligaments buckle out-of-plane, inducing the formation of 3D patterns whose morphology is controlled by the load direction. We also find that by largely stretching the buckled perforated sheets, plastic strains develop in the ligaments. This gives rise to the formation of kirigami sheets comprising periodic distribution of cuts and permanent folds. As such, the proposed buckling-induced pop-up strategy points to a simple route for manufacturing complex morphable structures out of flat perforated sheets.
Economic coping strategies and food security in poor rural households
Creators: name: Junaidi Junaidi
name: Amril Amril
name: Riski, Hernando
name: Junaidi Junaidi
name: Amril Amril
name: Riski, Hernando
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: cutting back expenses
subject: economic coping
subject: food security
subject: income-generating

description: Purpose. This study aims to analyze economic coping strategies and their relationship to the food security of poor rural households. Methodology / approach. This research was conducted by comparing food crop farming households with those who farm plantation crops. The used data were sourced from surveys in four sample rural areas in two districts of Jambi Province, Indonesia, namely Merangin Regency and Tanjung Jabung Timur Regency. The used analysis tool was Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Results. The results show that poor rural households’ economic coping strategies are still low, both in the context of a passive strategy (cutting back expenses) and an active strategy (generating income). Plantation households have a lower economic coping strategy than food crop farming households. The level of food security in food crop households is relatively good compared to that of plantation crop households. Nearly half of food crop households are categorized as having good food security, while only around 20 % of plantation crop households are so categorized. Family characteristics and coping strategies significantly influence household food security in plantation crop households. On the other hand, the level of household food security in food crop households is not influenced by coping strategies, but only by family characteristics. Originality / scientific novelty. The scientific novelty of the study is in a study approach that links household food security with coping strategies and family socio-economic conditions. Furthermore, this study specifically conducted a comparative study of households of food crop farmers and plantation crop farmers, considering that these are the two main livelihood commodities for rural residents. Practical value / implications. Through this research, it is hoped that the concept/theory of improving the food security of poor households (especially in rural areas) can be developed based on the potential and real conditions of the households themselves, so that the formulated policies can be more effective and sustainable.
Strain-gradient-induced magnetic anisotropy in straight-stripe mixed-phase bismuth ferrites: An insight into flexomagnetic phenomenon
Creators: name: Lee, Jin Hong
name: Kim, Kwang-Eun
name: Jang, Byung-Kweon
name: Ünal, Ahmet A.
name: Valencia, Sergio
name: Kronast, Florian
name: Ko, Kyung-Tae
name: Kowarik, Stefan
name: Seidel, Jan
name: Yang, Chan-Ho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Implementation of antiferromagnetic compounds as active elements in spintronics has been hindered by their insensitive nature against external perturbations which causes difficulties in switching among different antiferromagnetic spin configurations. Electrically-controllable strain gradient can become a key parameter to tune the antiferromagnetic states of multiferroic materials. We have discovered a correlation between an electrically-written straight-stripe mixed-phase boundary and an in-plane antiferromagnetic spin axis in highly-elongated La-5%-doped BiFeO$_{3}$ thin films by performing polarization-dependent photoemission electron microscopy in conjunction with cluster model calculations. Model Hamiltonian calculation for the single-ion anisotropy including the spin-orbit interaction has been performed to figure out the physical origin of the link between the strain gradient present in the mixed phase area and its antiferromagnetic spin axis. Our findings enable estimation of the strain-gradient-induced magnetic anisotropy energy per Fe ion at around 5$\times$10$^{-12}$ eV m, and provide a new pathway towards an electric-field-induced 90$^{\circ}$ rotation of antiferromagnetic spin axis at room temperature by flexomagnetism.
description: 32 pages, 5 figures
IDEXX Milk Pregnancy Test
Creators: name: Velek, K.
name: Lawrence, J.
name: Egli, C.
name: Pearse, H.
name: Hildreth, R.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2012

description: Accurate and timely detection of pregnancy in dairy cows is an essential component of any bovine reproductive management program. Veterinarians and farmers use detection of non-pregnant (open) cows to make decisions regarding re-breeding of cattle and to manage calving intervals, thereby maximizing milk production and revenue for the farm. Increased profits result from many areas, including decreased average days-in-milk for the lactating herd, additional milk yield, less culling of cows due to reproductive failure, and less variation in lengths of lactation and dry period. Currently, pregnancy is determined by rectal palpation, transrectal ultrasound of the cow, or laboratory-based testing of blood samples. IDEXX has recently developed an enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA) for the detection of pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAGs) in milk samples to provide another laboratory-based method for the accurate detection of pregnancy, which could provide an important tool for the identification of open cows in dairy herds.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2012
Anti-Lenz Supercurrents in Superconducting Spin Valves
Creators: name: Chacón, Ury D.
name: Fontes, Magda B.
name: Baggio-Saitovich, E.
name: Sousa, Marcos A.
name: Enderlein, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here, we present a study on Si(111)/\-Ta($150$Å)/\-IrMn($150$Å)/\-NiFe($50$Å)/\-Nb($x$)/\-NiFe($50$Å)/\-Ta($50$Å) and Si(111)/\-Ta($150$Å)/\-NiFe($50$Å)/\-Nb($x$)/\-NiFe($50$Å)/\-IrMn($150$Å)/\-Ta($50$Å) spin-valves with $x=100$ to $500$Å. For both sample families, above a specific critical thickness of the Nb-layer and below $T_c$, the superconducting Nb-layer contributes strongly to the magnetization. These systems show an anomalous hysteresis loop in the magnetization of the superconducting layer; the hysteresis loop is similar to what is generally expected from hard superconductors and many superconductor/ferromagnet hybrid systems, but the direction of the hysteresis loop is inverted, compared to what is generally observed (paramagnetic for up sweeping fields and diamagnetic for down sweeping fields). This means that the respective samples exhibit a magnetization, which is contrary to what should be expected from the Lenz' rule.
title: Discard Studies, Engaging Fishers In Support Of Management
Creators: name: Lart, W. J.
Publisher: name: ASC 2002 - V - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.This paper describes two innovative studies, which have aimed to increase the utility of discard data. The first involved a European partnership. It was predicated on the involvement of fish stock modellers describing their needs in terms of data presentation and the elucidation of the drivers, which determine discarding activity at vessel level. The work centred on the Celtic Sea but describes all significant towed gear métiers for Spanish and UK fleets from northern Portugal to the Irish Sea and northwest Ireland. The results combine gear specifications and the seasonality and distribution of effort with wholesale market prices by EU grade at the ports of landing. The discard data also shows the influence of changes in technical regulations on fishers' behaviour. The costs and benefits of various technical conservation options are discussed. This study also examined the possibility of sampling discarded benthos in order to gain a very broad view of the potential impacts of towed gears on different grounds. The second study looked at the feasibility of fisher self sampling of discards. A scheme was established which gave fishers a sampling protocol to follow against payment for a specified number of bagged samples. A shore-based discard officer then analysed the discarded catch composition. This study considers possible sampling strategies and the raising factors required to make use of the data at fleet level. Cost comparisons are also made between self-sampling schemes and those operated exclusively by sea going discard officers.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les domaines de Beaune (XVe siècle), Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0287
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les domaines de Beaune (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0287, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d’Izeure (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0287, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Development of a pneumatic artificial muscle driven by low pressure and its application to the unplugged powered suit
Creators: name: Ogawa, Kazunori
name: Chetan Thakur
name: Ikeda, Tomohiro
name: Tsuji, Toshio
name: Kurita, Yuichi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Assistive suits reduce human muscle effort by improving human motion. However, most assistive suits are bulky, are expensive, need external power sources, and are impractical to carry everywhere. We present the development of the pneumatic gel muscle, which can be actuated by very low air pressure, and its characteristics by comparing with a commercially available artificial muscle. We also discuss the design of an unplugged powered suit for walking assist that unloads the muscle effort using the pneumatic gel muscle, demonstrating that assistive forces can be applied without the use of a compressor or air tanks. We performed experiments to measure characteristics of the pneumatic gel muscle, such as the actuation and applied force, for various pressure ranges. We measured surface EMG of the lower limb with and without an unplugged powered suit to identify the unloading effect of the suit.
Additional file 4: of Prevalence of intestinal helminth infections in Jiangsu Province, eastern China; a cross-sectional survey conducted in 2015
Creators: name: Dai, Yang
name: Xu, Xiangzhen
name: Liu, Jianfeng
name: Jin, Xiaolin
name: Shen, Mingxue
name: Wang, Xiaoting
name: Cao, Jun
name: Yang, Haitao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S3. Questionnaire results from participants in rural areas. (DOCX 15 kb)
Lymphatic vessel puncture of the bovine udder
Creators: name: Rae, D. Owen
name: Khol, Johannes L.
name: Pinedo, Pablo J.
name: Neumann, Laura M.
name: Buergelt, Claus D.
name: Baumgartener, Walter
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2012

description: Paratuberculosis or Johne's disease (JD), caused by Mycobacteriumavium subsp paratuberculosis (MAP), is a costly and important disease of ruminants in all developed countries. Diagnosis of paratuberculosis is challenging during the early stages of the disease, and currently available laboratory tests do not have satisfactory sensitivity when used to test MAP-infected cows before the onset of clinical signs. The lymphatic system plays a major role in the defence against infection and is an important part of the immune system. The superficial lymph vessels of the bovine udder are accessible for collection of lymphatic fluid by lymph vessel puncture in lactating cows. The objectives of the study were to: 1) evaluate the feasibility of lymph collection from the bovine udder under field conditions, 2) investigate the potential for detection of MAP in the collected lymphatic fluid of cows infected with MAP, and 3) evaluate lymphatic fluid use as a diagnostic medium for detection of MAP-infected animals in the subclinical stages of JD.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2012
3D magnetic reconnection and its application to solar flares
Creators: name: Janvier, Miho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar flares are powerful radiations occuring in the Sun's atmosphere. They are powered by magnetic reconnection, a phemonenon that can convert magnetic energy into other forms of energy such as heat and kinetic energy, and it is believed to be ubiquitous in the universe. With the ever increasing spatial and temporal resolutions of solar observations, as well as numerical simulations benefiting from increasing computer power, we can now probe into the nature and the characteristics of magnetic reconnection in 3D to better understand its consequences during eruptive flares in our star's atmosphere. We review in the following the efforts made on different fronts to approach the problem of magnetic reconnection. In particular, we will see how understanding the magnetic topology in 3D helps locating the most probable regions for reconnection to occur, how the current layer evolves in 3D and how reconnection leads to the formation of flux ropes, plasmoids and flaring loops.
description: 48 pages, 17 figures, Accepted for publication in Journal of Plasma Physics Special Collection on New Perspectives in Plasma Astrophysics
The association between blood β-hydroxybutyric acid in postparturient dairy cows and the incidence of clinical diseases, milk yield, milk components, reproduction, and culling during early lactation
Creators: name: Lago, Alfonso
name: Manuel Valle, José
name: Antonio Pico, José
name: Rodríguez, Cándido
name: Morales, Manuel
name: Goris, Alfonso
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2012

description: The objectives of this study was to a) evaluate the association between subclinical ketosis (SCK) and the subsequent incidence of various clinical diseases; b) evaluate the association between various clinical diseases and the subsequent incidence of SCK; and c) evaluate the association between SCK and milk yield (MILK), fat content (FAT), protein content (PROT), fat:protein ratio (FPR), linear somatic cell count (LSCC) at first test, conception at first breeding (CFB), and culling before 60 DIM (CULL60).
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2012
First confirmed ultra-compact dwarf galaxy in the NGC 5044 group
Creators: name: Faifer, Favio R.
name: Escudero, Carlos G.
name: Scalia, María C.
name: Castelli, Analía V. Smith
name: Norris, Mark
name: de Rossi, María E.
name: Forte, Juan C.
name: Cellone, Sergio A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Ultra-compact dwarfs (UCDs) are stellar systems displaying colours and metallicities between those of globular clusters (GCs) and early-type dwarf galaxies, as well as sizes of Reff <= 100 pc and luminosities in the range -13.5 < MV < -11 mag. Although their origin is still subject of debate, the most popular scenarios suggest that they are massive star clusters or the nuclei of tidally stripped dwarf galaxies. Aims. NGC 5044 is the central massive elliptical galaxy of the NGC 5044 group. Its GC/UCD system is completely unexplored. Methods. In Gemini+GMOS deep images of several fields around NGC 5044 and in spectroscopic multi-object data of one of these fields, we detected an unresolved source with g'~20.6 mag, compatible with being an UCD. Its radial velocity was obtained with FXCOR and the penalized pixel-fitting (pPXF) code. To study its stellar population content, we measured the Lick/IDS indices and compared them with predictions of single stellar population models, and we used the full spectral fitting technique. Results. The spectroscopic analysis of the UCD revealed a radial velocity that agrees with the velocity of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5044. From the Lick/IDS indices, we have obtained a luminosity-weighted age and metallicity of 11.7+/-1.4 Gyr and [Z/H] = -0.79 +/- 0.04 dex, respectively, as well as [alpha/Fe] = 0.30 +/- 0.06. From the full spectral fitting technique, we measured a lower age (8.52 Gyr) and a similar total metallicity ([Z/H] = -0.86 dex). Conclusions. Our results indicate that NGC 5044-UCD1 is most likely an extreme GC (MV ~ -12.5 mag) belonging to the GC system of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5044.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. Accepted to be published in A&A