cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Clinical and molecular epidemiological features of tuberculosis after the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami
Creators: name: Takeuchi, M.
name: Endo, S.
name: Uchiyama, B.
name: Hirakata, Y.
name: Kaku, M.
name: Kanamori, H.
name: Weber, D.J.
name: Hatakeyama, T.
Publisher: name: International Union against Tubercul. and Lung Dis.
Year: 2016

description: OBJECTIVE : To investigate clinical characteristics and prognosis in tuberculosis (TB) patients and the transmission dynamics of TB after the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. METHOD: This was a retrospective observational cohort study. Data were analyzed among 93 pulmonary TB patients (tsunami-Affected areas 25, non-Tsunami areas 68) hospitalized during March 2011-March 2012 with 1-year follow-up since treatment commencement. Variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) typing was conducted for 38 TB strains (tsunami-Affected areas 21, non-Tsunami areas 17). RESULT S : Patients from tsunami-Affected areas were significantly more likely to be refugees (OR 12.8, 95%CI 2.45-67.20), receive oxygenation (OR 5.0, 95%CI 1.68-14.85), and have a unique VNTR (OR 4.6, 95%CI 1.14-18.41). Patients who died within 1 year were significantly more likely to be older (OR 9.8, 95%CI 1.85-180.26), partially dependent or dependent (OR 11.9, 95%CI 4.28-37.62), and to require oxygenation (OR 4.3, 95%CI 1.47-12.89), and had lower serum albumin levels (OR 11.1, 95%CI 2.97-72.32). CONCLUS ION: Risk factors for prognosis of TB after the earthquake were associated with advanced age, low serum albumin level, functional status at admission, and oxygen requirement. The VNTR results suggest that most of the cases with pulmonary TB experienced reactivation of latent tuberculous infection, likely due to the impact of the earthquake and tsunami.
PR - Incentives And Socioeconomic Factors Influencing Investment Behaviour In Agriculture
Creators: name: Olsen, Jakob Vesterlund
name: Lund, Mogens
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agricultural Finance

description: Investment decisions in Danish agriculture donâ€™t always comply with the classical investment theory. This provides the motivation to analyze how socioeconomic factors and investment incentives affect farmersâ€™ investment behavior. The analysis is accomplished by investigating three research questions concerning the relationships between different socioeconomic factors, investment incentives and farmersâ€™ investment behavior. The results are obtained from a survey among Danish pig producers that has been analyzed by the use of logistic regression. The results show that young farmers with a high production and high debt are more likely to invest in real agricultural assets than other farmers. Furthermore, differences in socioeconomic factors are found to have a significant influence on the investment incentives among farmers. One implication is that advisors have to be more aware of the goals of the individual farmer when new investments are evaluated. Another implication is the need for an improved knowledge about how to differentiate the investment policies implemented to enhance the commercial opportunities for rural people.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Physico-chemical properties of bacteriophage OW-14 deoxyribonucleic acid
Creators: name: Kropinski, Andrew Maitland Boleslaw
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The nucleic acid of Pseudomonas acidovorans bacteriophage 0W-14 was isolated and characterized as double-stranded DNA. Unlike normal DNA molecules, a great disparity was found between the moles % GC calculated from CsCl buoyant density gradient data and Tm determination. The buoyant density in neutral CsCl was 1.666 g/cm³ (4.5 moles % GC) and the Tm in SSC was 99.3 C (72.9 moles % GC). The buoyant density in Cs₂SO₄ was also unusually low (1.415 g/cm³). Acid hydrolysates contained five bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and an unknown. The concentration of thymine was approximately half that of adenine. Assuming that the unknown base made up for this deficiency in thymine, the moles % GC in 0W-14 DNA was calculated to be 56.2. The unknown base, a pyrimidine, was isolated and purified by column chromatography. It was characterized by chemical analysis, NMR, IR and mass spectroscopy as N-thyminyl-putrescine: [5-(4-aminobutylamino methy1)uracil]. Chemical synthesis confirmed the structure of the compound.
PR - Does Biofuel Demand Increase Food Prices? Impacts Of Energy Crops On Food Production And Commodity Prices In Eastern Germany
Creators: name: Zeller, H.
name: HÃ¤Ring, A.M.
name: Khachatryan, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: energy crops
subject: spatial equilibreum analysis
subject: interregional trade

description: Renewable resources are gaining importance in modern society due to their expected positive effects on agriculture, the environment and the economy. To support renewable energy from biomass the EU promotes the cultivation of energy crops. A spatial equilibrium model is applied based on the concept of maximizing net welfare, to provide information whether energy crop production competes with food production for land area and to show the effects of increased biofuel demand on food prices. The Model of Interregional Trade of Energy Crops (ITEC) refers to Eastern Germany and adjacent areas of Poland. Results show that the regions produce enough feedstocks to meet the demand for food and biofuel production. In many cases both food crops and biofuels are either traded on interregional basis or exported to "Rest of Europe" indicating that there is no competition between food and energy crops. The assumed demand shift for biofuels has almost no effect on prices for wheat and rye.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
PR - Economically Optimal Pig Delivery Scheduling And The Design Of Meat Pricing Schemes When Pig Group Is Heterogeneous
Creators: name: Niemi, Jarkko K.
name: SevÃ³n-Aimonen, Marja-Liisa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Dynamic optimization
subject: stochasticity
subject: growth model

description: This paper represents a model for optimizing the timing of delivery of pigs to the slaughterhouse when the pig group is heterogeneous. We examine the value of having the option to split deliveries into two or more days, and management and income implications of different meat pricing schemes. These schemes penalize producers delivering heavier or lighter carcasses than some specified weight range, and reward for delivering low-fat carcasses. Different feeding regimes and genetic lines are considered. Weight-based pricing has large impact on the optimal harvest weight. It is optimal to harvest the fastest growing pigs before they suffer price discount due to heavy carcass, whereas pigs with the poorest daily gain are harvested at a much lower weight. Results suggest that the utilization rate of facility capacity is important for the timing of delivery of the least productive pigs. The benefits from the split harvest are approximately â‚¬5 per pig space unit per year.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
PR - Factors Influencing The Long-term Competitiveness Of Commercial Milk Producers In South Africa
Creators: name: Du Toit, Justin P.
name: Ortmann, Gerald F.
name: Ramroop, Shaun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: milk production
subject: South Africa
subject: competitiveness

description: This study investigates factors influencing the long-term competitiveness, based on a unit cost ratio analysis, of 11 commercial milk producers from East Griqualand (EG), South Africa, using unbalanced panel data for the period 1990 â€“ 2006. Results of a Ridge regression analysis show that dairy herd size, the level of farm debt, production per cow, technological and policy changes over time, and the proportion of trading income to total milk income influence the long-term competitiveness of these milk producers. To enhance their competitiveness in a deregulated agricultural market, relatively small and profitable EG milk producers should consider increasing herd sizes as the importance of herd size in explaining competitiveness suggests that size economies exist. All EG milk producers should also consider utilising more pasture and other forages to lower production costs and select dairy cattle of superior genetic merit to improve milk yields.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
PR - Farm Level Modeling Of Bio-fuel And Bio-power Policy Scenarios For Polish Agriculture
Creators: name: Majewski, Edward
name: Was, Adam
name: Hamulczuk, Mariusz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: biomass
subject: bio-fuel
subject: bio-power

description: The aim of the paper is to examine the impacts of introducing policies fostering the use agricultural raw materials for energy production. Basing on results of the partial equilibrium model Agmemod an LP farm optimization model was run for 252 farm types representing the variety of Polish farms and approximately 90% of the agricultural sector in Poland. Results from farm level modelling were aggregated to the country scale. The models for different policy scenarios show that farming sector would respond to a growing demand with increased area of bio-mass crops.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
PR - Market Orientation, Organizational Learning, And Positional Advantage: Are These Concepts Relevant In Production Agriculture Systems?
Creators: name: Micheels, Eric T.
name: Gow, Hamish R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Agriculture
subject: innovation
subject: market orientation

description: Marketing and strategy scholars have long established the importance of a market orientation in determining firm performance. More recently, scholars have studied the effect of a market orientation in agriculture. This study extends this work by examining the concept of a positional advantage and its effect on performance in an agricultural setting. Using a sample of 347 Illinois beef producers, we empirically measure the construct of positional advantage and test the relationship between positional advantage and subjective performance. Our results indicate that market orientation, entrepreneurship, innovation and organizational learning are first-order indicators of positional advantage and that the positional advantage of a firm is positively related to firm performance.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
The rates of Type Ia Supernovae. II. Diversity of events at low and high redshift
Creators: name: Greggio, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper investigates on the possible systematic difference of Supernovae Ia (SN Ia) properties related to the age and masses of the progenitors that could introduce a systematic bias between low and high redshift SN Ia's. The relation between the main features of the distribution of the delay times (DTD) and the masses of the progenitors is illustrated for the single (SD) and double degenerate (DD) models. Mixed models, which assume contributions from both the SD and DD channels, are also presented and tested versus the observed correlations between the SN Ia rates and the parent galaxy properties. It is shown that these correlations can be accounted for with both single channel and mixed models, and that the rate in S0 and E galaxies may effectively provide clues on the contribution of SD progenitors to late epoch explosions. A wide range of masses for the CO WD at the start of accretion is expected in almost all galaxy types; only in galaxies of the earliest types the properties of the progenitors are expected to be more uniform. For mixed models, late type galaxies should host SD and DD explosions in comparable fractions, while in early type galaxies DD explosions should largely prevail. Events hosted by star forming galaxies span a wide range of delay times; \textit{prompt} events could dominate only in the presence of a strong star-burst. It is concluded that nearby SN Ia samples should well include the young, massive and hot progenitors that necessarily dominate at high redshift.
description: 22 pages, 15 figures, MNRAS accepted
PR - Needs For Risk Hedging In Crop Production Exemplified For Northeast Germany
Creators: name: Fuchs, Clemens
name: Fock, Theodor
name: Kasten, Joachim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Yield fluctuations as a result of climatic influences can be a significant risk for farms. Marginal soils with a low yield potential in connection with comparatively unfavorable climatic conditions, as found in parts of Northeastern Germany, are particularly affected. The analysis of individual and field-related revenues demonstrates that fluctuations are much higher than regionalized yield averages show. Since farmers know their fields, it is assumed that typical operating strategies to avoid risk, such as rotation planning and adopted cultivation practice, already exist. This study analyzes crop insurance schemes, which currently are not offered in Germany, as an additional tool for risk management. The results of the ex-post analysis and ex-ante simulations show that risk management crop insurance schemes may have significantly positive effects, especially on marginal sites. Such insurance could help to avoid bankruptcy. For the insurance industry crop insurance policies are quite interesting business areas. In particular a revenue insurance scheme could be offered for marginal locations with severe fluctuating yields. Agricultural policy must take into account that the yield insurance scheme discussed here, which claims a yield loss exceeding 30%, is of interest only for a few locations, because such high yield losses were rarely observed at the better sites. For the marginal sites the grant of 60% of insurance premiums is a subsidy of about 10 â‚¬/ha, which a company is not likely to refuse.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
PR - Sheep's Back To Mill: The Case Of The South African Wool Industry
Creators: name: Cloete, P.C.
name: Taljaard, P.R.
name: Van Schalkwyk, H.D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: wool fibers
subject: cost structure
subject: benchmark

description: South Africa has a strong interest in maintaining its position in the international wool market. The low level of uniqueness between different wool producers internationally makes it difficult for countries to oppose the challenges and to remain competitive in the rather homogeneous wool market. Hence, structuring domestic cost information in a way thatâ€™s globally comparable, presents a methodology through which managerial information could be gathered for both individuals and the industry. This will allow the South African industry to benchmark itself against the leading world producers. A survey approach was employed to determine the cost structure of the South African wool industry. Results indicated that although South Africa has a competitive advantage in the primary production phases, marketing cost and the countries location in relation to the main wool markets prohibit the local industry from obtaining a competitive advantage over its Australian counterpart.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Chemical characterization by GC/MS analysis of Lactuca tatarica (L.) C.A.Mey. aerial parts and seeds
Creators: name: Shukurlu, Emil Namik
name: Vitalini, Sara
name: Iriti, Marcello
name: Garzoli, Stefania
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Lactuca tatarica is a wild species belonging to Asteraceae family omnipresent in Southern Caucasus region including Azerbaijan. Previous studies on the chemical content of some extracts obtained from its different organs have reported the presence of lactone sesquiterpenes, triterpenoids and flavonoids. For the first time, we investigated the volatile composition of L. tatarica aerial parts and seeds by GC/MS technique. The results showed the predominant presence of fatty acids, both saturated and unsaturated. Palmitic acid was prevalent in the aerial parts (up to 89.9%) while linoleic acid (up to 82.6%) was the most abundant component in the seeds. Other minor components were terpene and hydrocarbon derivatives. Some of the detected constituents in L. tatarica have already demonstrated antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activity. Therefore, this species could be better studied for its biological properties and considered as a source of active ingredients useful in various fields including the pharmaceutical one.
PR - Small Scale Ethanol Production - Study On Micro And Macro Economical Efficiency
Creators: name: Illes, B. Csaba
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Exhaustion of the stocks of tradition energy bases, increasing demand on energy, enhancement of atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gas effect mean also hence toward global challenges where works directed to their solution can not come to a sudden stop in spite of the economic crisis. The fictions price decrease and demand decrease originating from it which may to experienced on the mineral oil market as well as the restricted national system of tools for subsidization may throw back the earlier high-rate of growth. The subject of the present study is meant by Hungarian application of bioethanol, which may be ranked amongst agro fuels of first generation. The production in small scale system is justified by the possibility of reaching the optimum of logistic costs of the basic material, end- and by-products. Further by the possibility of the development of regional â€“ and through this, the national equilibrium of annual breeding crop production and food supply. As another advance, it may be mentioned that a low capacity plant (up to 10 t/year output) can more elastically adapt itself to macro-environmental changes and by means of supplementary technologies (biogas power plant) may be transformed into self-supplying unit from point of view of energetics. Taking for basis a system keeping in view complexity requirement features of return of investment. The fluctuation of demand associated with the change in price of mineral oil means the connecting link between the macro and micro economic sides: in the former case its effect on the return of investment utile in the later justification of implication and effects of tax proceeds on constituted the subject of the analysis.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Scoparia meyi Nuss 1998
Creators: name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Scoparia
Scoparia meyi

description: Scoparia meyi Nuss, 1998
Figs. 02, 58, 120.
Scoparia meyi Nuss, 1998, pp. 492–494, figs. 4, 13–16, 25.
MATERIAL
Holotype: ♂ (specimen identifier coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_9114be, genitalia on slide GU 750 prep. Nuss 1996). PHILIPPINES: Mindanao, Mt Agtuuganon, 1050 m, 28.v-7.vi.1996, leg. Mey.
Paratypes: 5 ♂ (specimen identifiers MTD11416, coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_9cf218, 3a5d91, 4dd260, faeb8a), 1 unsexed (detailed information in Table S1; https://doi.org/ 10.5061/dryad.b8gtht7mh).
Other specimens examined: 11 ♂, 4 ♀ (detailed information in Table S1; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.b8gtht7mh).
SIMILAR SPECIES
Scoparia tenuispina sp. n.
DIAGNOSIS
The predominantly white color of the forewing (Fig. 02) separates this species from the other Scoparia species of the Philippines except Scoparia tenuispina sp. n. The latter species has larger forewings lacking the antemedian discoidal and cubital black blotches observed in S. meyi. In male genitalia (Fig. 58), the absent or strongly reduced uncus is unique to this species. The slender, elongate juxta and the group of about 30 large cornuti (150 μm) constitute additional characters to identify this species. In female genitalia (Fig. 120), the antrum is funnel-shaped, the ductus bursae is very short and is sclerotized at corpus opening. In the corpus bursae, the numerous conspicuous spines increasing in length towards corpus opening are unique to this species.
DISTRIBUTION
PHILIPPINES: Luzon (Laguna, Mountain Province, Nueva Vizcaya), Mindanao (Davao oriental), Mindoro (Occidental Mindoro). Collected at altitudes between 815 and 1650 m.
DNA BARCODING
Specimens from Luzon, Mindoro, and Negros were recovered in a different MOTU than the one including specimens from Mindanao in the species delimitation analysis. A maximum intraspecific p-distance of 3.1% is found between samples MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL07-G01 from Luzon Nueva and MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL09-B04 from Mindanao Davao.
REMARKS
The species is newly recorded from Luzon and Mindoro.
description: Published as part of Léger, Théo, 2024, Half of the Diversity Undescribed: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals 32 New Species and a High Cryptic Diversity in the Scopariinae and Crambinae of the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), pp. 1-93 in Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3 (2) on pages 4-5, DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9527, http://zenodo.org/record/15116964
PR - Sustainable Production: Transporting Animals Or Meat?
Creators: name: Baltussen, W.H.M.
name: Spoolder, H.A.M.
name: Lambooij, E.
name: Backus, G.B.C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: For the EU the impact of a ban on international transport of pigs and horses is assessed, based on three sustainability criteria. The paper concludes that the risks of welfare problems will be reduced, the CO2 emission and transport costs will be lowered but that there will be substantial shifts in regional production, slaughtering and employment within the EU. Transporting meat instead of live animals is more sustainable for these species.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
PR - The Economic Impact Of Ethanol Production On The South African Animal Feed Industry
Creators: name: Strydom, D.B.
name: Taljaard, P.R.
name: Willemse, B.J.
name: Meyer, F.
name: Strauss, P.G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Biofuels are becoming an increasingly important source of energy globally. The international biofuels industry experienced tremendous industry growth mainly driven by: increased energy demand and more specific petroleum prices, reliability of traditional crude oil exporters along with political motives, adverse pollution affects (Methyl tertiary butyl ether - MTBE) and more specific, emission gases from fossil fuels leading to environmental pressure for the use of cleaner burning fuels. By-products such as Distillers Grains from ethanol production can be a substitute for numerous protein rich raw materials such as oilcakes in animal feed rations which result in relative price changes and changes in consumption patterns of these raw materials. The possible impact on the animal feed industry is analyzed by using the BFAP and APR models. The results indicate that numerous relative price changes take place along with various changes in raw material consumption and that the total animal feed costs decrease with 2%.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
CS - Alternative Strategic Responses To The Animal Welfare Advocacy: The Case Of PETA, Merino Wool And Practice Of Mulesing
Creators: name: Bowmar, R.K.
name: Gow, H.R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Animal welfare is becoming an issue of increasing concern to consumers, managers and policy makers alike and the strategic responses to these issues by different stakeholders can have important implications for an industryâ€™s short-term performance and long-term viability. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a comparative institutional analysis of the alternative strategies taken by two different national agricultural industries with respect to the same animal welfare issue, mulesing, and the resulting outcomes and implications of these actions. The practice of mulesing involves the surgical removal of skin folds from around the breech of Merino sheep in order to prevent flystrike. Since the early 2000â€™s animal rights advocacy groups have increasingly demanded that farmers abandon the use of this practice. Wool industry stakeholders developed different opinions, with groups both supporting and rejecting the call. The Australian and New Zealand Merino Wool Industries adopted two different strategic responses to PETAâ€™s demands. Using a grounded theory approach, we conduct a comparative institutional analysis to examine outcomes and impacts of these two different strategic responses. This paper contributes to our understanding of differing strategic responses available to industry to diffuse animal welfare confrontations and provides critical insights into different outcomes.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Immunomodulation of Langerhans cells by chemical carcinogens : implications for tumour development
Creators: name: Qu, Miaomiao
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Application of the chemical carcinogen 7 ,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA) to murine skin causes tumour development as well as damaging the skin immune system (SIS). Langerhans cells (LC), the major component of the SIS are depleted from DMBA treated skin. The overall aim of this thesis was to analyse the interaction of chemical carcinogens with the LC and to determine the significance of this carcinogen-caused LC depletion in tumour development. Analysis of the immune response to DMBA revealed similarities to a normal antigen. Although BALB/c (H-2d) mice responded poorly to DMBA, this carcinogen induced a contact hypersensitivity response (CHS) in C3H/HeN(H-2k) mice, was trapped by the LC in the skin and cells bearing DMBA were detected in the draining lymph nodes. The tumour promoter 12-0-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) was also found to be antigenic as it induced a strong CHS response in BALB/c mice as did the contact sensitisers (antigens). A significant decrease in LC number was caused by the chemical carcinogens DMBA and TPA as well as by the antigens. This LC depletion was found to be dose dependent and immune tolerance was induced following application of a second antigen through skin depleted of LC. Consequently carcinogen and antigen induced depletion both lead to tolerance. This suppression was cell mediated, because it was adoptively transferred by spleen cells to naive syngeneic mice. The effect of LC depletion on the pathogenesis of skin cancer was evaluated. A low dose (initiating dose) of DMBA that did not cause LC depletion also failed to cause tumour development. This initiating dose of DMBA followed by multiple applications of LC depleting doses of the antigen TNCB or the promoter TP A induced tumour growth. Consequently the LC depleting dose of antigen functioned as a tumour promoter. An application of the depleting dose of TNCB, when followed by a large dose of DMBA (a complete carcinogen) accelerated tumour development. Thus LC depletion, irrelevant to the causes, may impair immunosurveillance.
Multi-band conductivity and multi-gap superconductivity in V3Si from optical measurements on films at terahertz frequencies
Creators: name: Perucchi, A.
name: Nicoletti, D.
name: Ortolani, M.
name: Marini, C.
name: Sopracase, R.
name: Lupi, S.
name: Schade, U.
name: Putti, M.
name: Pallecchi, I.
name: Tarantini, C.
name: Ferretti, M.
name: Ferdeghini, C.
name: Monni, M.
name: Bernardini, F.
name: Massidda, S.
name: Dore, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of multi-band conductivity and multi-gap superconductivity is explored in oriented V3Si thin films by means of reflectance and transmittance measurements at terahertz frequencies. The temperature dependence of the transmittance spectra in the normal state gives evidence of two bands contributing to the film conductivity. This outcome is consistent with electronic structure calculations performed within density functional theory. On this basis, we performed a detailed data analysis and found that all optical data can be consistently accounted for within a two-band framework, with the presence of two optical gaps in the superconducting state corresponding to 2D=kTc values close to 1.8 and 3.8.
description: 6 pages with 4 figures
CS - Excellence Model, A Tool For Sustainable Livelihoods, Development And Entrepreneurship
Creators: name: Mokhatla, P.K.
name: Nell, W.T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
Agricultural and Food Policy

description: It has become increasingly important for Africa to play a major role to combat world food shortage as the world population continues to increases; this goes also for the ability of the continent to provide alternative energy sources. The challenge will be how food security and energy requirements will be harnessed in a sustainable and economic way. The Creating sustainable farming business is the key to attain sustainable development in Africa and around the world. To promote sustainable farming businesses and entrepreneurs with the potential to combat food shortages, are encouraged, hence the introduction of the Excellence Model. The Excellence Model provides potential benefits for businesses to enhance business skills, service delivery and performance excellence. The Excellence Model identifies business strengths and areas for improvement based upon well established internationally accepted theoretical frameworks and recognised criteria for performance excellence.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
In reply
Creators: name: Weber, D.J.
name: Rutala, W.A.
Publisher: name: American Medical Association
Year: 2015

description: To the Editor In their study, Dr Epstein and colleagues1 found
that multiresistant bacterial strains were transmitted via endoscopic
instruments, even though proper cleaning and disinfecting
procedures were being followed. In an accompanying
Editorial, Drs Rutala and Weber2 raised the question of
whether such findings implythat sterilization rather than highlevel
disinfection should become the standard for the processing
of complex, multichannel devices.
Gastrointestinal endoscopes a need to shift from disinfection to sterilization?
Creators: name: Weber, D.J.
name: Rutala, W.A.
Publisher: name: American Medical Association
Year: 2014

description: More than 10 million gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures
are performed annually in the United States for diagnostic purposes,
therapeutic interventions, or both.1 Because gastrointestinal
endoscopescontactmucosal surfaces, use of acontaminated
endoscope may lead to patient-to-patient transmission
of potential pathogens with a subsequent risk of infection.
Bloodstream infections in community hospitals in the 21st century: A multicenter cohort study
Creators: name: Anderson, D.J.
name: Fowler Jr., V.G.
name: Smathers, E.
name: Weber, D.J.
name: Schmader, K.E.
name: Moehring, R.W.
name: Sloane, R.
name: Sexton, D.J.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2014

description: Background: While the majority of healthcare in the US is provided in community hospitals, the epidemiology and treatment of bloodstream infections in this setting is unknown. Methods and Findings: We undertook this multicenter, retrospective cohort study to 1) describe the epidemiology of bloodstream infections (BSI) in a network of community hospitals and 2) determine risk factors for inappropriate therapy for bloodstream infections in community hospitals. 1,470 patients were identified as having a BSI in 9 community hospitals in the southeastern US from 2003 through 2006. The majority of BSIs were community-onset, healthcare associated (n = 823, 56%); 432 (29%) patients had community-acquired BSI, and 215 (15%) had hospital-onset, healthcare-associated BSI. BSIs due to multidrug-resistant pathogens occurred in 340 patients (23%). Overall, the three most common pathogens were S. aureus (n = 428, 28%), E. coli (n = 359, 24%), coagulase-negative Staphylococci (n = 148, 10%), though type of infecting orgaism varied by location of acquisition (e.g., community-acquired). Inappropriate empiric antimicrobial therapy was given to 542 (38%) patients. Proportions of inappropriate therapy varied by hospital (median = 33%, range 21-71%). Multivariate logistic regression identified the following factors independently associated with failure to receive appropriate empiric antimicrobial therapy: hospital where the patient received care (p,0.001), assistance with $3 ADLs (p = 0.005), Charlson score (p = 0.05), community-onset, healthcare-associated infection (p = 0.01), and hospital-onset, healthcareassociated infection (p = 0.02). Important interaction was observed between Charlson score and location of acquisition. Conclusions: Our large, multicenter study provides the most complete picture of BSIs in community hospitals in the US to date. The epidemiology of BSIs in community hospitals has changed: community-onset, healthcare-associated BSI is most common, S. aureus is the most common cause, and 1 of 3 patients with a SI receives inappropriate empiric antimicrobial therapy. Our data suggest that appropriateness of empiric antimicrobial therapy is an important and needed performance metric for physicians and hospital stewardship programs in community hospitals.
CS - Space And Coordination In Strategy: The Case Of The GMO In France
Creators: name: Hannachi, Mourad
name: Coleno, Francois-Christophe
name: Assens, Christophe
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: GMO
subject: France
subject: stretegic management

description: In France, organizing the coexistence of GM and non-GM crop production areas requires the setting up of a governance of the land involving all the parties concerned. The form of governance has to allow coordination between rival grain elevator companies so that coordinated collective strategies are set up which allow coexistence. Today, we find various methods of organization developing around these situations, resulting in the creation of coordination and commitment by those involved. We will present two differing case studies, one from Alsace and another from south-western France, to illustrate this, and show the importance of space in strategic management generally, and in the relations between firms in particular.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
The role of negative buoyancy in convective Cepheid models. Double-mode pulsations revisited
Creators: name: Smolec, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The longstanding problem of modeling double-mode behaviour of classical pulsators was solved with the incorporation of turbulent convection into pulsation hydrocodes. However, the reasons for the computed double-mode behaviour were never clearly identified. In our recent papers (Smolec & Moskalik 2008a,b) we showed that the double-mode behaviour results from the neglect of negative buoyancy effects in some of the hydrocodes. If these effects are taken into account, no stable non-resonant double-mode behaviour can be found. In these proceedings we focus our attention on the role of negative buoyancy effects in classical Cepheid models.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, contributed talk presented at the HELAS Workshop "Interpretation of Asteroseismic Data" (Wroclaw, June 2008), Communications in Asteroseismology, in press
Scoparia monticola Nuss 1998
Creators: name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Scoparia
Scoparia monticola

description: Scoparia monticola Nuss, 1998
Figs. 03, 59, 121.
Scoparia monticola Nuss, 1998, pp. 486–467, figs. 1, 2, 9–10, 24.
Type locality: Philippines, Mindanao, Mt Agtuuganon, 1050 m.
MATERIAL
Holotype: ♂ (specimen identifier coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_1cbd79). PHILIPPINES: Mindanao, Mt Agtuuganon, 1050 m, 28.v-7.vi.1996, (W. Mey).
Paratypes: 7 ♂ (specimen identifiers coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_3b82f9, 93e28f, 3e27b1, 3c37a7, 65f297, 8160cf), 6 ♀ (specimen identifiers coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_41c7ec, 52c1ca, 854cb9, ed1647, 983640, e3a965), 1 unsexed (detailed information in Table S1; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.b8gtht7mh)
Other specimens examined: 7 ♂, 3 ♀, 4 unsexed (detailed information in Table S1; https://doi.org/10.5061/ dryad.b8gtht7mh)
DIAGNOSIS
This species (Fig. 03) is best separated by examination of the genitalia. In male genitalia (Fig. 59), the single, large, straight cornutus on the vesica separates this species from other Scoparia of the Philippines. In female genitalia (Fig. 121), the colliculum lacks a sclerotized tube-like ring, the ductus bursae is very long, and the corpus bursae bears a narrow elongate signum.
DISTRIBUTION
CHINA: Jiangxi (W. Li & Liu, 2013); INDONESIA: Sumatra; PHILIPPINES: Luzon (Laguna, Mountain Province), Leyte, Mindanao (Davao oriental), Mindoro. Collected at altitudes between 650 and 1650 m.
DNA BARCODING
Specimens from Luzon differ from those of Mindanao by a p-distance of 1.6-2.4%. Within Luzon, a p-distance of 1.5% is observed between specimens from Mount Makiling and the specimen from the Cordillera mountain range. A maximum intraspecific p-distance of 3.6% is found between samples MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL09-G02 from Mindoro Oriental and PYRG590-11 from Sumatra.
REMARKS
The species is recorded here for the first time from the islands of Luzon, Leyte, and Mindoro.
description: Published as part of Léger, Théo, 2024, Half of the Diversity Undescribed: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals 32 New Species and a High Cryptic Diversity in the Scopariinae and Crambinae of the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), pp. 1-93 in Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3 (2) on page 5, DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9527, http://zenodo.org/record/15116964
Stable multiquark states with heavy quarks in a diquark model
Creators: name: Lee, Su Houng
name: Yasui, Shigehiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the color-spin interaction in diquarks, we argue why some multiquark configurations could be stable against strong decay when heavy quarks are included. After showing the stability of previously discussed states we identify new possible stable states. These are the $T^0_{cb}(ud \bar{c}\bar{b})$ tetraquark, the $Θ_{bs}(udus \bar{b})$ pentaquark and the $H_c(udusuc)$ dibaryon, and so forth.
Nontuberculous mycobacteria: II: Nested-cohort study of impact on cystic fibrosis lung disease
Creators: name: Weber, D.J.
name: Molina, P.L.
name: Lee, J.-H.
name: Tudor, G.
name: Knowles, M.R.
name: Olivier, K.N.
name: Handler, A.
name: Tomashefski, J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: The prevalence of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is high (approximately 13%) in sputum of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), but the impact on lung disease is unknown. We followed 60 incident NTM-positive and 99 culture-negative patients with CF for 15 months and assessed clinical impact of NTM by FEV1 and high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the chest. Mycobacterium avium complex was seen in 75% of NTM-positive subjects. The annual rate of decline in FEV1 was not different among control versus NTM-positive subjects who did not, or did, meet American Thoracic Society microbiologic criteria for NTM disease (3 ± 1, 3 ± 2, and 5 ± 2%, respectively). More subjects with three or more positive cultures for NTM had two or more characteristic findings on entry HRCT (60%, 9/15) as compared with subjects with two positive cultures or less (32%) or negative cultures (19%; p < 0.02). All subjects with three or more positive cultures and exit HRCTs (n = 6) showed progression of HRCT findings, whereas only 17% of subjects with two positive cultures or less had progression (p = 0.0006). In summary, no significant short-term effect on FEV1 was detected in patients with multiple positive NTM cultures, but an abnormal HRCT was predictive of progression. Patients with CF and multiple positive NTM cultures, characteristic HRCT findings, and progression of HRCT changes should be monitored closely and considered for antimycobacterial therapy.
Cryptosporidiosis
Creators: name: Rutala, W.A.
name: Weber, D.J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: To the Editor: We wish to elaborate on the risks and prevention
of nosocomial cryptosporidiosis, briefly discussed
in the review of cryptosporidiosis by Chen and colleagues
(May 30 issue).1 Multiple nosocomial outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis
have resulted from direct and indirect person-to-
person transmission; one outbreak was due to spread of
the parasite from an ice chest contaminated by a patient.2
Cryptosporidiosis in adults should be managed with the use
of standard precautions; in incontinent or diapered children
less than six years of age, it should be managed with contact
precautions. This recommendation of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention was recently validated in a retrospective
cohort study of 37 hospitalized patients that failed
to identify roommate-to-roommate transmission of
cryptosporidia
Recognition and management of anthrax [3] (multiple letters)
Creators: name: McGovern, T.W.
name: Rutala, W.A.
name: Weber, D.J.
name: Swartz, M.N.
name: Fishman, N.O.
name: Nokton, S.A.
name: Lo Re III, V.
name: King, P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: To the Editor:
In his timely review of anthrax, Swartz
(Nov. 29 issue)
1
states that “incision or débridement of
such early [cutaneous] lesions should be avoided, since this
may increase the possibility of bacteremia.” We believe that
this prohibition does not apply to diagnostic skin biopsies.
CS - Complexity Of Transition To Alternative Farming Systems
Creators: name: Palaniappan, Gomathy
name: King, Christine A.
name: Cameron, Don
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Farm Management

description: This paper reports on aspects of doctoral research that explores ways of enhancing farmersâ€™ capacity for transition towards more sustainable farming systems. The study was conducted in Australia and India to explore the learning experiences of those who had pursued a transition to sustainable food production. The research was conducted using action research methodology in which qualitative data were collected using convergent interviewing methods. The themes that emerged suggest that a mere substitute of inputs may not be sufficient for making transitions to sustainable systems. Effective transition requires a fundamental change in the way soil is viewed.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
CS - De Tolakker Organic Dairy Farm At The Faculty Of Veterinary Medicine In Utrecht
Creators: name: Vernooij, L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Farm Management

description: â€˜De Tolakkerâ€™ is the educational research farm of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine from the Utrecht University in the Netherlands with separate stables for dairy cows, pigs and sheep. The dairy farm of the Tolakker is an organic farm and the concepts of organic farming are structurally integrated in its farm management. Within the European Union, organic farming is bound to strict regulations on for example roughage production, housing, grazing management, nutrition, animal reproduction and veterinary drug use. The integration of the organic programme with the educational function of the research offers students the opportunity to understand the differences between organic and conventional farms. Apart from this, the dairy farm of the Tolakker plays an important role in the education of veterinary students on farm animal (health) management by means of practicals, the â€œadoption cow conceptâ€ and rotational training. In this paper, special attention is finally paid to legislative rules concerning veterinary drug use on organic farms. Organic farming requires a restricted and responsible application of antibiotics on dairy farms, but transparency and efficiency in veterinary drug use are also of great concern for conventional dairy farms. Therefore, a project on the transparent and efficient use of veterinary drugs on dairy farms has been initiated by joint action of various organizations involved in the dairy sector in the Netherlands. The dairy farm of the Tolakker is also actively participating in this project.
description: Seventeenth International Farm Management Congress, Illinois State University, USA, July 19-24, 2009
Positronium-like states from supergravity
Creators: name: Colgáin, Eoin Ó
name: Yavartanoo, Hossein
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study semi-classical rotating open strings ending on a probe Dp-brane close to a stack of extremal, non-extremal Dp-branes and Dp-branes with $B$-fields. These states may be interpreted as positronium-like bound states of spinning W-bosons in an $SU(N+1) \to SU(N) \times U(1)$ theory. In each case, we describe the behaviour of the strings and examine the relation between the energy and the angular momentum of the bound state.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, Minor corrections and added references
Computational Analysis of Intrastriatal Delivery of Collagen
Creators: name: Syntouka, Ioanna Marina
name: Riches, Philip
name: McDonald, Alexis
name: Kazakidi, Asimina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a degenerative disorder that affects dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra. Recently, cell therapy has emerged as a promising therapeutic strategy, with biomaterials being used to facilitate the cell deposition through intrastriatal injection. However, the existing delivery approaches have shown limited success in clinical translation. This study aims to develop a device for the delivery of a cell-embedded in situ forming collagen hydrogel. Here, computational approaches on the delivery of collagen to the striatum are presented, to gain insight into different parameters affecting the delivery.