cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Topology of Asymptotically Conical Calabi–Yau and G2 Manifolds and Desingularization of Nearly Kähler and Nearly G2 Conifolds
Creators: name: Schiemanowski, Lothar
Publisher: name: New York, NY : Springer
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Asymptotically conical manifolds
subject: Einstein manifolds
subject: Special holonomy
subject: 510

description: A natural approach to the construction of nearly G2 manifolds lies in resolving nearly G2 spaces with isolated conical singularities by gluing in asymptotically conical G2 manifolds modelled on the same cone. If such a resolution exits, one expects there to be a family of nearly G2 manifolds, whose endpoint is the original nearly G2 conifold and whose parameter is the scale of the glued in asymptotically conical G2 manifold. We show that in many cases such a curve does not exist. The non-existence result is based on a topological result for asymptotically conical G2 manifolds: if the rate of the metric is below - 3 , then the G2 4-form is exact if and only if the manifold is Euclidean R7. A similar construction is possible in the nearly Kähler case, which we investigate in the same manner with similar results. In this case, the non-existence results is based on a topological result for asymptotically conical Calabi–Yau 6-manifolds: if the rate of the metric is below - 3 , then the square of the Kähler form and the complex volume form can only be simultaneously exact, if the manifold is Euclidean R6.
Maximizing the impact of faculty development through deliberate design
Creators: name: Ugwu, Lydia
name: Hanks, Jessica
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2023

description: Faculty development plays an essential role in equipping medical instructors with the knowledge and skills required to perform optimally in their diverse roles. However, a major challenge for faculty development is ensuring skills are transferred to the workplace and sustained over time. While a substantial body of literature exists on the design and implementation of faculty development in medical education, little has been published about training transfer. These slides share the evidence-backed approach adopted by a major public medical school in the US in its effort to create faculty development resources that achieve maximum impact.
Approximability of convex bodies and volume entropy in Hilbert geometry
Creators: name: Vernicos, Constantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C60, 53C24, 58B20, 53A20

description: The approximability of a convex body is a number which measures the difficulty to approximate that body by polytopes. We prove that twice the approximability is equal to the volume entropy for a Hilbert geometry in dimension two end three and that in higher dimension it is a lower bound of the entropy. As a corollary we solve the entropy upper bound conjecture in dimension three and give a new proof in dimension two from the one found in Berck-Bernig-Vernicos (arXiv:0810.1123v2, published).
description: 33 pages, 7 figures. Exposition improved, paper accepted for publication in pacific
Expectation Propagation in Gaussian Process Dynamical Systems: Extended Version
Creators: name: Deisenroth, Marc Peter
name: Mohamed, Shakir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Rich and complex time-series data, such as those generated from engineering systems, financial markets, videos or neural recordings, are now a common feature of modern data analysis. Explaining the phenomena underlying these diverse data sets requires flexible and accurate models. In this paper, we promote Gaussian process dynamical systems (GPDS) as a rich model class that is appropriate for such analysis. In particular, we present a message passing algorithm for approximate inference in GPDSs based on expectation propagation. By posing inference as a general message passing problem, we iterate forward-backward smoothing. Thus, we obtain more accurate posterior distributions over latent structures, resulting in improved predictive performance compared to state-of-the-art GPDS smoothers, which are special cases of our general message passing algorithm. Hence, we provide a unifying approach within which to contextualize message passing in GPDSs.
Breaking a chaotic image encryption algorithm based on modulo addition and XOR operation
Creators: name: Li, Chengqing
name: Liu, Yuansheng
name: Zhang, Leo Yu
name: Chen, Michael Z. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68P25

description: This paper re-evaluates the security of a chaotic image encryption algorithm called MCKBA/HCKBA and finds that it can be broken efficiently with two known plain-images and the corresponding cipher-images. In addition, it is reported that a previously proposed breaking on MCKBA/HCKBA can be further improved by reducing the number of chosen plain-images from four to two. The two attacks are both based on the properties of solving a composite function involving the carry bit, which is composed of the modulo addition and the bitwise OR operations. Both rigorous theoretical analysis and detailed experimental results are provided.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Antioxidant, Antimicrobial and Cytotoxic Activities of Amides and Aristolactams from Piper wallichii (Miq.) Hand.-Mazz. Stems
Creators: name: Lertnitikul, Nonthalert
name: Suttisri, Rutt
name: Sitthigool, Supotchana
name: Pattamadilok, Chutichot
name: Piewpong, Kanyanat
name: Khanboon, Ariya
name: Liangsakul, Jatupol
name: Boonyong, Cherdsak
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Four amides, namely, piperine (1), pellitorine (2), piperiline (5) and N-trans-p-coumaroyltyramine (7), and three aristolactams, i.e., piperolactams D (3), B (4) and A (6), were isolated from the methanol extract of Piper wallichii stems. Piperiline, piperolactams B and D were obtained from this plant for the first time. Compounds 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7 were evaluated for their antioxidant, antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities. Piperine (1) displayed the highest antioxidant activity in scavenging DPPH radicals with an IC50 value of 94.51 ± 11.91 μM. Piperolactams D (3) and A (6) showed antibacterial activity against Gram-positive bacteria (B. subtilis and S. aureus) with MICs of between 500-1000 μM. All test compounds were cytotoxic to breast cancer (MCF-7) cells, while the aristolactams were more toxic to colon cancer (Caco-2) cells than the amides. Compounds 1, 3, 6 and 7 were moderately cytotoxic to the doxorubicin-resistant MCF-7 subline (MCF-7/DOX). All compounds were non-toxic to normal human fibroblast (NIH/3T3) cells.
Harassment during a central line insertion: A pilot study of bystander intervention with videos and simulation
Creators: name: Byunghoon T Ahn
name: Johnson, Myriam
name: Matin, Negar
name: Xinran Zhang
name: Byul Han
name: Ning-Zi Sun
name: Harley, Jason
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2023

description: Background
 Little empirical research exists on education addressing harassment in medical education, especially in regards to education that integrates simulations. Our study’s purpose is to investigate a newly developed training program that incorporates video lectures and simulation that teaches bystander intervention techniques. We examined whether our training helped residents improve their knowledge of harassment bystander interventions.

 Summary of Work
 Our videos covered defining and reporting harassment in addition to bystander intervention strategies. Our simulation asked learners to complete a central line insertion on a manikin while a medical student (actor) observed and a senior resident (actor) supervised. The senior resident verbally harassed the medical student. The learner was briefed of the incoming harassment incident and was asked to intervene as a bystander while completing the line insertion on the manikin.
 Our report is based on preliminary data from an ongoing study involving internal medicine residents (n = 17): 6 were randomly assigned to complete the simulation first, and then watch the videos, while the order was reversed for the others. We assessed knowledge of harassment with counter-balanced 15-item multiple-choice tests.

 Results
 Our results indicated significant increase in knowledge scores for both the simulation-first group, M = -.311, t(5) = -3.98, p = .011, and the video-first group, M = -.152, t(10) = -3.24, p = .009.

 Discussion and Conclusion
 Our preliminary results support our intervention’s effectiveness. Further data collection and analysis is ongoing (39 more residents scheduled to participate) which we expect will help strengthen our findings. Further exploration will include data analyses with video recordings to evaluate learners’ performance in the simulation itself, along with exploring whether the order of learning activities given has any impact on learning outcomes. Our study stands to help illuminate how educators can tackle the issue of harassment and mistreatment education in the health sciences.

 Take Home Messages
 There is a lack of empirical research in what kind of training can address the problem of harassment in medical education. Our research shows budding support for videos and simulations being effective tools in increasing medical trainees’ knowledge of how to be a helpful bystander in harassment situations.
Unveiling the Anti-cancer Potential of Bergenia ciliata (haw.) Sternb: A Mechanistic Study on UPR Modulation and ROS Generation
Creators: name: Qadri, Ozaira
name: Hilal, Nazia
name: Fazili, Khalid Majid
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Bergenia ciliata (haw.) Sternb, a well-known medicinal plant, has traditionally been used to treat various ailments, such as diabetes, microbial infections, and kidney stones, owing to its anti-inflammatory and anti-tussive properties. Here we aimed to evaluate the anti-cancer potential of the plant extract and deduce the molecular pathways involved. To investigate this, we used the MTT assay to determine the IC50 values of the methanolic extract of B. ciliata (BcME) in MDA-MB-231 and C6-Glioma cell lines. After treating the cancer cell lines with BcME for 18 hours, we evaluated the UPR signalling markers, including pIRE1, Xbp1, ATF6, eIF2α, ATF4, and CHOP, using Immunoblotting. We also used RT-PCR to determine the mRNA levels of ATF4 and performed enzyme assays using Spectrophotometric techniques to measure ROS levels. Our results indicate that B. ciliata has potent anti-cancer properties due to its ability to modulate UPR and ROS pathways. Specifically, the plant extract effectively repressed the cytoprotective UPR by blocking IRE1-Xbp1 and ATF6 pathways while enhancing the PERK-ATF4-CHOP pathway, which is known to switch UPR towards apoptosis. Furthermore, our study revealed that B. ciliata significantly caused the accumulation of ROS in cancer cells and inhibited the antioxidant enzymes catalase and superoxide dismutase. These results conclusively suggest that BcME works synergistically on both UPR and ROS pathways to promote apoptosis and eliminate cancerous cells and thus serves as a potential primary source for bioactive molecules, selectively targeting cancer cells.
A society of migration: Poststructuralist perspectives on the constitution of society and the production of migration
Creators: name: Delitz, Heike
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Society, sociological theory, migration, problematization, poststructuralism
subject: 400 Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik

description: This article addresses the gap in sociological theory concerning the politics of ‘migration’ – even though this area of politics and the debates surrounding it are of social salience and relevance. Both in social theory (the question of what society actually is or how it is constituted) and in the social analysis of modernity, the topic of migration plays a role no more than en passent. Nevertheless, there are sociological theories that allow us to shed light on debates, practices, institutions, and infrastructures of migration. The article focuses on poststructuralist and postcolonial theories in order to think modern society as ‘society of migration’, i.e. as a society which is constituted by the production of migration and migrants, as well as by the migrant subjects themselves.
Cytotoxic Activity of Alkaloids Isolated from Stephania glandulifera Miers
Creators: name: Dhungel, Jhalnath
name: Marasini, Bishnu P.
name: Manandhar, Erendra
name: Rathnayaka, Rajitha K.
name: Samarakoon, Sameera R.
name: Shyaula, Sajan L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 59999
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: From the caudex of Stephania glandulifera Miers, five alkaloids were isolated using a cold percolation method with 90% methanol. The methanol extract was fractionated into three different fractions from where the alkaloids were purified using preparative HPLC. Structure elucidations were performed by modern spectral analysis including Mass and 1D and 2D-NMR spectroscopy. The purified compounds were tested against the LN-229 human brain glioblastoma cell line by performing a Sulforhodamine B assay (SRB). The isolated compounds were confirmed to be tetrahydropalmatine (1), palmatine (2), stepharanine (3), stepholidine (4), and stepharine (5). Compound 5 showed anticancer activity in the LN-229 human brain glioblastoma cell line with an IC50 value of 8.1 μg/mL. In this study, five alkaloids belonging to three classes namely proaporphine, protoberberine, and tetrahydroprotoberberine were isolated for the first time from Stephania glandulifera Miers. Among them, stepharine showed anticancer activity in the LN-229 human brain glioblastoma cell line which can be further developed as a potential anticancer agent.
Description of feedlot animals culled for slaughter, revenue received, and associations with reported US beef market prices
Creators: name: Horton, Lucas M.
name: Depenbusch, Brandon E.
name: Pendell, Dustin L.
name: Renter, David G.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2021

description: Our objectives were to describe revenue received for feedlot cattle culled for slaughter and associations with reported weekly prices from US beef markets. Observational data on feedlot culls (N = 2,992) were collected from 4 Kansas feedlots over 2 years (2018 to 2020). Weekly prices from various US beef markets were used to evaluate correlations with prices received for culled animals. Descriptive statistics, and linear and generalized linear mixed models, were used to evaluate characteristics of feedlot culls. Musculoskeletal/trauma (49.7%) and respiratory disease (40.9%) were the most common reasons for culling. Culls returned revenue 98.1% of the time; those culled for respiratory disease or “other” reasons returned revenue significantly less frequently (96.7 or 96.3%, respectively) than those culled for musculoskeletal/trauma (99.1%). Mean revenue received [± 95% CI] was 434.81 [427.22 to 442.40] $/animal (culls returning no revenue included); and mean carcass price was 87.40 [86.70 to 88.10] $/hundredweight. Revenue was significantly correlated with several market indices, but most correlations were relatively weak. In this population, national cull cow (Breaker [75% lean]; over 500 lb [227 kg]) prices appeared to be the overall best indicator of feedlot cull prices, with feedlot cull carcasses averaging 74.6% of the weekly cull cow carcass price.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 55, No. 1 (2021)
Two-dimensional, homogeneous, isotropic fluid turbulence with polymer additives
Creators: name: Gupta, Anupam
name: Perlekar, Prasad
name: Pandit, Rahul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the most extensive direct numerical simulations, attempted so far, of statistically steady, homogeneous, isotropic turbulence in two-dimensional fluid films with air-drag-induced friction and with polymer additives. Our study reveals that the polymers (a) reduce the total fluid energy, enstrophy, and palinstrophy, (b) modify the fluid energy spectrum both in inverse- and forward-cascade regimes, (c) reduce small-scale intermittency, (d) suppress regions of large vorticity and strain rate, and (e) stretch in strain-dominated regions. We compare our results with earlier experimental studies; and we propose new experiments.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
The association between Whisper® lung scores and feedlot performance in crossbred steer calves
Creators: name: Funk, Jenna L.
name: Dewell, Grant A.
name: Meyer, Brent D.
name: Engelken, Terry J.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2021

description: A cohort study was conducted in a population of crossbred feeder steers to assess the relationship between Whisper® lung scores taken at feedlot arrival and subsequent health and performance. The primary outcome of interest was average daily gain. Other feeding performance outcomes included feed efficiency, hot carcass weight, dressing percentage, marbling score, fat thickness, and ribeye area. Health performance outcomes included treatment for bovine respiratory disease (BRD), death due to BRD, being diagnosed with chronic BRD, and dying after treatment for BRD. The only significant association between arrival lung score (ALS) and feeding performance was improvement in feed efficiency for those calves with an ALS of 4 (p = 0.02) or 5 (p = 0.005), where feed efficiency was determined by backcalculation using individual carcass weight and yield obtained at harvest. There was a significant increase in the odds ratio for treatment for BRD for calves with an ALS of 5 (OR 1.27, 95% CI 1.03-1.57, p = 0.005), as well as a significant increase in the odds ratio for death due to BRD for calves with an ALS of 4 (OR 1.06, 95% CI 1.00-1.13, p = 0.02). This study demonstrates that higher ALS may be associated with increased risk of treatment for BRD and death due to BRD along with improved feed efficiency, but further research is warranted.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 55, No. 1 (2021)
Fine motor skills and their link to receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, and narrative language skills
Creators: name: Winter, Rebecca E.
name: Stoeger, Heidrun
name: Suggate, Sebastian P.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fine motor skills, receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, oral narrative skills, language development
subject: 370 Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: A growing body of research suggests that fine motor skills (FMS) are associated with language development. In this study, we examined 76 children aged 3–6 years assessing the link between language and FMS. Specific measures included receptive and expressive vocabulary, oral narrative skills, and various fine motor tasks. Hierarchical linear regressions revealed that FMS predicted receptive and expressive vocabulary as well as oral narrative skills. Overall, FMS were most strongly linked to children’s oral narrative skills. Educational implications, as well as limitations and the need for further studies on the link between language and FMS, are discussed.
A second order differential equation for a point charged particle
Creators: name: Torromé, Ricardo Gallego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 58A20, 81V20

description: A model for the dynamics of a classical point charged particle interacting with higher order jet fields is introduced. In this model, the dynamics of the charged particle is described by an implicit ordinary second order differential equation. Such equation is free of run-away and pre-accelerated solutions of Dirac's type. The theory is Lorentz invariant, compatible with the first law of Newton and Larmor's power radiation formula. Few implications of the new equation in the phenomenology of non-neutral plasmas is considered.
description: Several arguments simplified; accepted version to appear in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics
Failure of a novel surface polysaccharide-targeting vaccine to prevent Tritrichomonas infection in beef cattle
Creators: name: Hairgrove, Thomas B.
name: Thompson, James A.
name: Rocha, Joana N.
name: Vinacur, Mariana
name: Roberts, Casey
name: Pier, Gerald B.
name: Cywes-Bentley, Colette
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2021

description: Tritrichomonas foetus (T. foetus) is the causative agent of bovine trichomoniasis that has a major impact on production costs for beef cattle producers. Immunization strategies to effectively protect against T. foetus are a high priority. Tritrichomonas foetus expresses a surface polysaccharide, beta 1-6 poly-N-acetyl glucosamine (PNAG), that is synthesized by a broad range of microbial pathogens. Vaccination with a PNAG-specific vaccine has demonstrated protection in pigs and horses. This study attempted to protect pregnant cows from an experimental T. foetus infection by prior vaccination with a PNAG-specific vaccine. Acceptable PNAG-specific antibody titers were achieved after vaccination, but antibodies elicited were non-protective against experimental challenge with T. foetus and in in vitro antibody functional bacterial killing assays.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 55, No. 1 (2021)
Transverse field muon-spin rotation signature of the skyrmion-lattice phase in Cu2OSeO3
Creators: name: Lancaster, Tom
Publisher: name: Durham University
Year: 2016
Subjects: skyrmions
muon spin rotation
magnetism

description: We present the results of transverse field (TF) muon-spin rotation measurements on Cu2OSeO3, which has a skyrmion lattice (SL) phase.
Topical salicylic acid treatment of digital dermatitis in dairy cows
Creators: name: Wirt, Kelsey M.
name: Young, Jennifer M.
name: Cramer, Gerard
name: Wagner, Sarah A.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2021

description: Salicylic acid (SA) provides similar treatment efficacy to tetracycline-class antibiotic drugs for the treatment of digital dermatitis (DD) in dairy cows. No milk withholding time following SA treatment has been established in the United States. The objective of this study was to generate data about drug residues in milk following topical treatment of DD lesions with SA. Cows with active (M2 stage) DD lesions were assigned to 1 of 3 treatments: salicylic acid paste, salicylic acid powder, or tetracycline powder. Lesions were photographed digitally and thermographically and scored using the M-stage scoring system before treatment and at 7 and 28 d post-treatment. Milk samples were collected before treatment and at 4 h, 8 h, 24 h, 36 h, and 48 h afterward. Most cows did not have detectable salicylic acid in their milk more than 24 hours after treatment; however, 3 cows had detectable levels of SA at 36 hours post treatment. Treatments did not differ in their effects on DD lesions. These data suggest that milk from treated cows should not be used or sold for at least 48 hours following the topical treatment of DD lesions with salicylic acid.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 55, No. 1 (2021)
Semantic Interoperability on the Horizon: AURIN's Progressive Journey.
Creators: name: Chen, Hao
name: Clough, Josh
name: Perez, Pascal
name: Rahimi, Masoud
Publisher: name: ARDC
Year: 2023
Subjects: Vocabularies
Terminologies
Semantic

description: The Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) has garnered over 13 years of experience in pioneering digital research infrastructure to empower cutting-edge urban and social research. In the face of escalating challenges posed by climate change, energy transition, and demographic shifts, AURIN has emerged as a pivotal force in supporting Australia's response tothese critical issues. This strategic evolution positions AURIN as the cornerstone of Australian Urban Digital Twins (UDTs) through a range of capabilities being offered within the broader research community. The foundation of this evolution rests on the creation of a next-generation digital research infrastructure, underpinned by standardised and interoperable data and analytics delivery methods.To elevate its suitability for UDT applications, AURIN acknowledges the necessity for substantial enhancements to its existing data and metadata storage and management practices. The proposed enhancements encompass pivotal areas such as ensuring the FAIRness of AURIN's data, the unification of shared contextual information across diverse records and dataset versions, streamliningdata integration through ontological frameworks, transitioning towards a centralised approach for scripting Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes, and recognising the intrinsic value of machine-interpretable semantic metadata in enhancing the accessibility, findability, and interconnectedness of datasets.In response to these challenges, AURIN is actively progressing toward the implementation of an encompassing semantic knowledge base. This knowledge base is designed to facilitate the creation, management, integration, and utilisation of AURIN data and metadata, leveraging semantic data models including controlled vocabularies and relevant ontologies. This strategic move aims toenhance the interoperability of AURIN's data and empower advanced semantic-driven searches, inquiries, and analyses. The outcomes of these efforts extend to fostering sustainable and intelligent urban development. These initiatives stem from AURIN's involvement in national initiatives such as the Integrated Research Infrastructure for Social Science (IRISS) and internal research anddevelopment efforts such as AURIN's UDT Testbed.AcknowledgementsAURIN is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
A Point-process Response Model for Spike Trains from Single Neurons in Neural Circuits under Optogenetic Stimulation
Creators: name: Luo, Xi
name: Gee, Steven
name: Sohal, Vikaas S.
name: Small, Dylan S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Optogenetics is a new tool to study neuronal circuits that have been genetically modified to allow stimulation by flashes of light. We study recordings from single neurons within neural circuits under optogenetic stimulation. The data from these experiments present a statistical challenge of modeling a high frequency point process (neuronal spikes) while the input is another high frequency point process (light flashes). We further develop a generalized linear model approach to model the relationships between two point processes, employing additive point-process response functions. The resulting model, Point-process Responses for Optogenetics (PRO), provides explicit nonlinear transformations to link the input point process with the output one. Such response functions may provide important and interpretable scientific insights into the properties of the biophysical process that governs neural spiking in response to optogenetic stimulation. We validate and compare the PRO model using a real dataset and simulations, and our model yields a superior area-under-the- curve value as high as 93% for predicting every future spike. For our experiment on the recurrent layer V circuit in the prefrontal cortex, the PRO model provides evidence that neurons integrate their inputs in a sophisticated manner. Another use of the model is that it enables understanding how neural circuits are altered under various disease conditions and/or experimental conditions by comparing the PRO parameters.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures. R package pro implementing the proposed method is available on CRAN at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=pro . Published by Statistics in Medicine at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sim.6742/full
Survey of veterinary involvement in management decisions on Mississippi cow-calf operations
Creators: name: Jumper, W. Isaac
name: Huston, Carla L.
name: Wills, Robert W.
name: Wills, David R.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2021

description: The objective of this study was to describe veterinary involvement in management decisions on Mississippi cowcalf operations. Anonymous surveys were mailed to 1,275 members of the Mississippi Cattlemen’s Association. Multivariable logistic regression using manual forward variable selection was used to test demographic and management factors for association with veterinary involvement outcomes. Significance was defined at alpha=0.05. Three-hundred eight surveys (24%) were returned, with 292 (95%) respondents being active in cow-calf production. Fifty-three (18%) of 289 respondents were located in a county contained in a rural area food animal medicine shortage area designated by the USDA-NIFA in 2020. One-hundred seventeen of 285 (41%) indicated regular veterinary involvement in management decisions on their operation. Of these 117, 56 (48%) said their veterinarian uses their cattle health and production records to provide management recommendations. Seventy-five (27%) of 283 respondents indicated they would consider paying their veterinarian to provide cattle health and production record management services. Factors associated with regular veterinary involvement in management decisions on cow-calf operations were regularly recording of antibiotic treatments (OR=3.2) and herd size (50-99 head: OR= 1.6; ≥100 head: OR=2.5, compared to 1-49 head). Opportunity exists for veterinarians to be more involved in management decisions on Mississippi cow-calf operations.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 55, No. 1 (2021)
Survey of the cattle health and production record-keeping methods and opinions of cow-calf producers in Mississippi
Creators: name: Jumper, W. Isaac
name: Huston, Carla L.
name: Wills, Robert W.
name: Smith, David R.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2021

description: The objective of this study was to identify characteristics of Mississippi cow-calf producers associated with their use of cattle health record-keeping systems. Anonymous surveys were mailed to 1,275 cow-calf members of the Mississippi Cattlemen’s Association. Multivariable logistic regression using manual forward variable selection was used to test factors for association with cattle health and production record-keeping outcomes. Significance was defined at alpha=0.05. Three-hundred eight surveys (24%) were returned. Of these, 292 (95%) were actively involved in cow-calf production, with 221 (75.7%), 29 (9.9%), and 42 (14.4%) being commercial, seedstock, or both, respectively. Two-hundred nineteen of 290 (75.5%) owned <100 head, and 207 of 292 (70.9%) were >55 years old. Two-hundred forty-five of 289 (84.8%) used individual animal identification. Two-hundred fifteen (73.6%) and 76 (26%) of 292 used hand-written and electronic records, respectively. Using electronic cattle records was associated with computer access (OR=7.6, 95%CI=2.3 to 25.8), smartphone ownership (OR=6.9, 95%CI=2.0 to 23.6), and Bachelor’s degree or higher (OR=2.0, 95%CI=1.1 to 3.7). Producer interest in using a smartphone-based cattle record-keeping system was associated with smartphone ownership (OR=6.0, 95%CI=2.1 to 16.6), and being ≤55 years old (OR=2.9, 95%CI=1.5 to 5.4). Access to technology and producer demographics influence the record-keeping practices of Mississippi cow-calf producers.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 55, No. 1 (2021)
Resolving sets and semi-resolving sets in finite projective planes
Creators: name: Héger, Tamás
name: Takáts, Marcella
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C12, 05B25

description: We show that the metric dimension of a finite projective plane of order $q\geq 23$ is $4q-4$, and describe all resolving sets of that size. Let $τ_2$ denote the size of the smallest double blocking set in $\mathrm{PG}(2,q)$, the Desarguesian projective plane of order $q$. We prove that for a semi-resolving set $S$ in the incidence graph of $\mathrm{PG}(2,q)$, $|S|\geq \min \{2q+q/4-3, τ_2-2\}$ holds. In particular, if $q\geq9$ is a square, then the smallest semi-resolving set in $\mathrm{PG}(2,q)$ has size $2q+2\sqrt{q}$.
description: 21 pages, 3 figures. Version 3 contains clarifications and minor corrections regarding the list and the figure of the 32 types of smallest resolving sets, and a supplementary page explaining these modifications
Brownfield land dataset
Creators: name: Bambra, Clare
name: Robertson, Steve
name: Kasim, Adetayo
name: Smith, Joe
name: Cairns, Jo
name: Copeland, Alison
name: Finlay, Nina
name: Johnson, Karen
Publisher: name: Durham University
Year: 2017
Subjects: public health
engineering
geography

description: This dataset contains the relative proportion of brownfield land (or previously developed land) at Census Statistical Ward Level in England taken from 2009 National Land Use Database, age and sex standardised morbidity (from 2001 UK Census) and age and sex standardised all-cause premature mortality (below 75 years) from the Office for National Statistics (1998-2003)
Sağlık Turizminde İş Birliğine Yönelik Yapılmış Makalelerin Bibliyometrik Analizi
Creators: name: ÇAVUŞ, Özlem
name: ÖZCAN KORKMAZ, Zişan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Bu çalışmada, sağlık turizminde iş birliği ile ilgili 2007-2025 yılları arasında yapılan makalelerin bibliyometrik analiz ile incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmacılar tarafından, araştırmanın konusuna uygun kod; “(("health tourism" or "medical tourism") and ("partnership" or "cooperation" or "business"))” şeklinde oluşturulmuştur. Elde edilen kod ile Web Of Science platformunda tarama yapılmış, 239 adet makaleye ulaşılarak, bibliyometrik analiz gerçekleştirilmiştir.

2007 ile 2025 yılları arasında yapılan sağlık turizminde iş birliğine yönelik makaleler incelenmiştir. İlgili makalelerin 189 kaynakta yayınlandığı, konunun literatür hacminde ortalama yıllık büyüme oranının %1.61 olduğu, ortalama yaşının 7.63 olduğu, ortalama atıf sayısının 11.04 olduğu, toplam 8421 referansa atıf yapıldığı görülmektedir. Yayınlarda 375 anahtar kelime kullanıldığı, 794 yazar anahtar kelimesi olduğu, toplamda 593 yazarın alana katkı sunduğu, uluslararası iş birliği yapılan yayın oranının %22.59 olduğu saptanmıştır. Konu ile ilgili en çok maklenin 2021 yılında gerçekleştiği, en çok yayın yapan derginin “Sustainability” dergisi olduğu belirlendi.

Veriler, sağlık turizmi alanındaki iş birliğinin giderek arttığını ve global ölçekte önem kazandığını göstermektedir. Gelecek çalışmaların, uluslararası iş birliği modelleri, sağlık hizmetleri kalitesi ve yönetim stratejilerine odaklanarak, sektördeki boşlukları doldurması ve pratik uygulamalara dönüştürülmesi açısından önem arz etmektedir. Zira farklı coğrafyalarda yapılacak karşılaştırmalı çalışmalar, sağlık turizminin küresel ölçekteki dinamiklerini daha iyi anlamamıza katkı sağlayacaktır.
Learning From Language: Strategies for Building CAREful Vocabularies
Creators: name: Anderson, Theresa Dirndorfer
name: Marshall, Ruth
Publisher: name: ARDC
Year: 2023
Subjects: Vocabularies
Terminologies
Semantic

description: Language is, as Capak notes "…one of the most intimate and most political of human activities. The power of naming in fact shapes and defines the institutions that structure so much of our lives" (Capak, 1987, xvi). The challenges of inclusion and diverse representation in our language and naming activities are not new. However, in an age when automation and AI play increasing roles in our data and information systems, it becomes even more critical to address the oft-invisible power of language to include or exclude. Building FAIR vocabularies for all therefore requires us to take up the ongoing challenge of maintaining vocabularies that are inclusive as well as actionable.
Paying attention to ethical considerations of vocabulary construction and use is a vital aspect of building FAIR vocabularies sufficiently representative of community diversity. Language is dynamic and diverse and transversing communities are more the norm than the exception. Consequently, our vocabularies need to be crafted through ongoing engagement with communities. Drawing on insights gained through training we have provided in cross-disciplinary contexts such as global health and government services, this presentation shares ideas about how to capture and locate language to accommodate its mutability. Our approach is strongly influenced by Bowker and Star (1999), who propose keeping political and organizational dimensions shaping a classification's creation accessible while responding to institutional arrangements necessitated by new contexts and emerging understandings. We will also demonstrate how the CARE principles emerging from indigenous data governance (Carroll et al, 2020) serve as valuable guides for more inclusive and participatory practice for all communities.
Designing with communities enables us to make space for the learning that emerges through practice and language use. By sharing some of the techniques we use in our work, we hope to help others build FAIR vocabularies connected to the representative richness of the communities represented in that language.
References -
1. Capek, Mary Ellen S., ED. 1987. A women's thesaurus. New York: Harper & Row.
2. Bowker, G.C. & Star, S. 1999. Sorting things out: classification and its consequences.Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
3. Carroll, S. R. et al. 2020. The CARE principles for Indigenous data governance. Data Science Journal. 19, 1–12.
Description of the considered validated indicators among the identified ones and associated methodology, Laying hens welfare in alternative housing systems
Creators: name: EURCAW-Poultry-SFA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: laying hen
indicators
methods of assessment

description: The indicators and methods of assessment are evaluated according to their validity, feasibility and reliability to deliver useful information for official controls.
description: {"references": ["10.5281/zenodo.7436924"]}
Anomalous Transport from Kubo Formulae
Creators: name: Landsteiner, Karl
name: Megias, Eugenio
name: Pena-Benitez, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chiral anomalies have profound impact on the transport properties of relativistic fluids. In four dimensions there are different types of anomalies, pure gauge and mixed gauge-gravitational anomalies. They give rise to two new non-dissipative transport coefficients, the chiral magnetic conductivity and the chiral vortical conductivity. They can be calculated from the microscopic degrees of freedom with the help of Kubo formulae. We review the calculation of the anomalous transport coefficients via Kubo formulae with a particular emphasis on the contribution of the mixed gauge-gravitational anomaly.
description: 36 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; to appear in Lect. Notes Phys. "Strongly interacting matter in magnetic fields" (Springer), edited by D. Kharzeev, K. Landsteiner, A. Schmitt, H.-U. Yee; v2 small changes in introduction, added references; v3 corrected eq. (21) and added eq. (77), added references
Outcomes following facilitated ankylosis to treat septic arthritis of the distal interphalangeal joint in beef bulls
Creators: name: Jordan, Brianna A.
name: Lozier, Jospeh W.
name: Parker, Elizabeth M.
name: Niehaus, Andrew J.
name: Baker, Madison R.
name: Lakritz, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2021

description: Facilitated ankylosis (FA) is a procedure performed to treat septic arthritis of the distal interphalangeal joint (DIPJ) in ruminants. The aim of this procedure is to restore function to the affected digit, providing improved long-term positive outcome. This study describes the outcome of FA in 22 client-owned midwestern beef breeding bulls due to DIPJ sepsis between January 1, 2006 and July 31, 2018. Follow up information was obtained by telephone questionnaire. Signalment, treatment history, diagnostic data, surgical data, postoperative treatment and complications, and long-term outcomes were recorded and described. Of the 22 beef bulls that underwent a FA, follow-up information was provided for 19. Fourteen of the 19 bulls were successfully used as breeders post-operatively. Increased age and weight were positively correlated with successful breeding long term. Forelimb vs hindlimb disease and laterality of digit affected did not significantly affect outcome. Overall, client satisfaction was high. In conclusion, beef bulls undergoing a FA of the DIPJ have a good prognosis for long-term breeding regardless of history and clinical presentation. FA should be considered for treatment of septic arthritis in beef bulls.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 55, No. 1 (2021)
$^{35,37,39}$S isotopes in $sd-pf$ space : Shell-model interpretation
Creators: name: Saxena, Archana
name: Srivastava, P. C.
name: Hirsch, Jorge G.
name: Kota, V. K. B.
name: Ermamatov, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of $^{35,37,39}$S isotopes is described by performing comprehensive shell model calculations with SDPF-U and SDPFMW interactions. Protons and neutrons are restricted to the $sd$-shell for $N < 20$, neutrons start to fill the $pf$-shell for $N > 20$. Natural parity states are described by only in-shell mixing, unnatural parity states with 1p-1h inter-shell neutron excitations. With SDPF-U interaction, reported are the results for natural parity states only because this interaction is not suitable for cross shell excitations. Calculated energy levels, electromagnetic properties and spectroscopic factors are in good agreement with the recently available experimental data.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables; Accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics A
Using GitBook for user-friendly documentation of a vocabulary
Creators: name: Musgrave, Simon
name: Sefton, Peter
Publisher: name: ARDC
Year: 2023
Subjects: Vocabularies
Terminologies
Semantic

description: The Language Data Commons of Australia project has developed a metadata vocabulary based on the previous work of the Open Language Archive Community (OLAC) [1]. The primary documentation of this vocabulary is located in a github repository (https://github.com/Language-Research-Technology/language-data-commons-vocabs), but this is not an ideal form for providing information to users. Firstly, github may be seen as an intimidating venue by less technically-minded users. Secondly, the presentation there is (necessarily) formal and technical which is also a barrier for some usersWe have therefore decided to create a more accessible account of the vocabulary. We are using the GitBook platform to do this (Metadata for Language Data - Metadata for Language Data (gitbook.io)) which provides a more familiar format for non-specialists. This approach also allows us to provide explanations of key concepts and recommendations for the usage of vocabulary items. Our aim is to create a resource which is a stand-alone source on good metadata practice for language data and also a suitable target for links from our portal and help pages which gives users useful and accessible information.AcknowledgementsThe Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) project received investment ([https://doi.org/10.47486/HIR001](https://doi.org/10.47486/HIR001)) from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). The ARDC is funded by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).Reference[1] Steven Bird and Gary Simons. 2001. The OLAC metadata set and controlled vocabularies. In Proceedings of the ACL 2001 workshop on sharing tools and resources. Retrieved from https://aclanthology.org/W01-1506
Efficacy of a combination modified-live IBR-BVD-PI3- BRSV vaccine + Mannheimia haemolytica toxoid against challenge with virulent bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) in young calves 60 days of age
Creators: name: Masic, Aleksandar
name: Sobecki, Brian
name: Mahan, Suman
name: Brice, Chadwick
name: Mattern, Sally
name: Meinert, Todd
name: Correas, Ignacio
name: Moulin, Véronique
name: Ellis, John
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2021

description: Efficacy of attenuated (att) bovine respiratory syncytial virus (attBRSV) as an antigen fraction in a multivalent 6-way vaccine containing modified-live virus and an inactivated Mannheimia haemolytica bacterin-toxoid was given as a single subcutaneous injection, and evaluated by an aerosol challenge by nebulization in young calves with virulent BRSV strain 21 d after vaccination. A total of 32 Holstein calves, seronegative to BRSV and 60 days-of-age at the time of vaccination, were used in the study. Calves were allocated to 2 treatment groups with 16 animals per group, and received either a single dose of a modified-live bovine herpes virus-1, bovine viral diarrhea virus, parainfluenza 3 virus, bovine respiratory syncytial virus vaccine + M. haemolytica bacterin-toxoid, or corresponding placebo formulation without targeted BRSV antigen. Administration of the 6-way vaccine containing BRSV fraction induced significantly higher virus-neutralizing antibody (p=0.0003) and anti-BRSV IgG titers (p=0.0006) in vaccinated animals compared to the placebo group. Consequently, BRSV-vaccinated calves had significantly (p<0.0001) higher arterial partial pressures of oxygen (PaO2), significantly (p<0.0001) lower percentage of lung lesions, and significantly reduced mortality rate (p<0.0001) than did placebo vaccinated calves subsequent to BRSV challenge. Furthermore, there was a 61.2% reduction in virus shedding and duration of shedding (p<0.0001), indicating strong vaccine efficacy.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 55, No. 1 (2021)