cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Interpretation of the bovine CBC and chemistry
Creators: name: Jones, Meredyth
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Conference Proceedings
Year: 2023
Subjects: CBC
chemistry
bloodwork

description: The complete blood count (CBC) and serum chemistry can be an important extension of the physical examination and may be used to suggest certain disease processes when exam find­ings are vague and can be useful for establishing a prognosis in many cases. The CBC is of greatest value in ruminants for char­acterizing anemia and in cases where inflammatory processes are suspected. The serum chemistry may be used to provide a direct diagnosis of organ dysfunction, but is also useful in help­ing to determine supportive care, prognosis and progression of a case over time.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings, No. 55 (2022): 2022 Annual Conference Proceedings
Bovine physical examination
Creators: name: Jones, Meredyth
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Conference Proceedings
Year: 2023
Subjects: exam
physical
bovine

description: The physical examination is the foundation of the diagnostic workup in cattle. The physical exam begins with a distance exam where the animal is observed prior to restraint where pa­rameters such as mental status, abdominal contour and lame­ness are best evaluated. With completion of the distance exam, the hands-on examination begins. It has been said that you miss more by not looking than by not knowing. For this reason, a systematic physical examination in which the examining veterinarian follows a standard pattern for every animal exam­ined is to be followed.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings, No. 55 (2022): 2022 Annual Conference Proceedings
Additional file 6: of Apple endophytic microbiota of different rootstock/scion combinations suggests a genotype-specific influence
Creators: name: Liu, Jia
name: Abdelfattah, Ahmed
name: Norelli, John
name: Burchard, Erik
name: Schena, Leonardo
name: Droby, Samir
name: Wisniewski, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The fungal and bacterial genera that were significantly present at different abundance, according to Kruskal-Wallis comparisons. Description - Table S5. The fungal and bacterial genera that were significantly present at different abundance between “Golden Delicious” when grafted on M.M.111 and M.9. Table S6. The fungal and bacterial genera that were significantly present at different abundance between “Royal Gala” when grafted on M.M.111 and M.9. Table S7. The fungal and bacterial genera that were significantly present at different abundance between “Honey Crisp” when grafted on M.M.111 and M.9. (DOCX 18 kb)
Hypotheses Study 2
Creators: name: Blech, Christine
name: Gaschler, Robert
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2018

description: 1) We expect that the instructed feature color is used by all participants (manipulation check).
2) We expect that with increasing practice there will be an increasing usage of the second feature position in addition to the usage of the feature color.
3) We expect age-related interindividual differences in the usage of the covarying feature position vs. the instructed feature color:
3a) Old adults are expected to most strongly adhere to the instructed feature color (rather than to the learned feature position, see Touron & Hertzog, 2004)
3b) Children/adolescents are expected to adhere least strongly to the instructed feature color and to use most strongly the covarying feature position (compare Decker et al., 2015)
3c) Young adults are expected to show intermediate usage.
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Association of thyroid nodules with adiposity: a community-based cross-sectional study in China
Creators: name: Song, Bin
name: Zuo, Zhihua
name: Tan, Juan
name: Guo, Jianjin
name: Teng, Weiping
name: Lu, Yibing
name: Liu, Chao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Analysis of associations of thyroid nodules with different BMI cut-offs. (DOCX 19Â kb)
Recueil des édits, déclarations, lettres patentes, arrêts et règlements du roi registrés en la Cour du Parlement de Normandie, depuis l'année 1740 jusqu'en 1754, Rouen, Lallemand, 1774
Creators: name: N.R.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017

description: Source: Bibliothèque universitaire du Tertiaire de Rouen, Faculté de droit.BB3274-8
description: Relation: vignette : https://www.nakala.fr/data/11280/c4a23665
Ordonnance du conseil souverain, portant Règlement touchant la taxe des dépens des causes & procédures instruites en la Cour
Creators: name: Plouvain, Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph (1754-1832)
name: Six, Philippe-Josse-Auguste-Joseph (1732-1793)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: Justice royale
Organisation judiciaire
Décision de justice
Taxe extraordinaire d'Ancien Régime

description: Source: http://nordnum.univ-lille.fr/ark:/72505/a0115224001360im5Ol/from/a011522400136ypxWl2
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre
description: created: 25/06/2018
description: created: 13/05/1676
Additional file 2: Table S2. of Association of thyroid nodules with adiposity: a community-based cross-sectional study in China
Creators: name: Song, Bin
name: Zuo, Zhihua
name: Tan, Juan
name: Guo, Jianjin
name: Teng, Weiping
name: Lu, Yibing
name: Liu, Chao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Associations of thyroid nodules with different BMI cut-offs in subgroups of subjects stratified by gender, age, TSH or UIC. (DOCX 16Â kb)
Hypotheses Study 1
Creators: name: Blech, Christine
name: Gaschler, Robert
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2018

description: 1) We expect that across all test sessions the instructed feature color is used by all participants (manipulation check).
2) We expect that the second feature position is used in addition to the feature color by most of the participants in most of the trials and most of the sessions.
3) We expect that usage of the stimulus feature position increases with practice.
Three dimensional cloud and dynamical structure of Southern Hemisphere extra- tropical cyclones in observations and in a model
Creators: name: Govekar, Pallavi Devidas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study, for the first time, investigates the three-dimensional cloud and dynamical structure of extratropical cyclones over the Southern Ocean using both observations and model simulations. The three-dimensional structure of clouds associated with Southern Hemisphere extratropical cyclones is constructed using active observations from the CLOUDSAT and CALIPSO satellites. First, a composite cyclone is constructed from cyclones in 400S - 500S in the years 2007 and 2008 using the cyclone center as the composite reference point. It is shown that the three-dimensional cloud distribution around a composite cyclone captures well-known features of conceptual models of extratropical cyclones with thick high top clouds in the frontal region and low clouds of varying depth behind the system. Composite mean fields of sea level pressure, vertical motion, potential temperature and relative humidity are superposed on the three dimensional cloud structure to identify key links of the cyclone dynamical structure with the cloud field. Further, the relationship between dynamical and cloud processes in full three dimensions around cyclones is quantified. The change in relationship between clouds and dynamical fields with cyclone strength and life cycle are investigated. The ACCESS (Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator) model is compared to CloudSat/ CALIPSO observations. Model fields for MSLP, omega, relative humidity and cloud fraction are examined. The model cyclones were tracked using the MSLP field of the model. The overall cloud structure is qualitatively reproduced by the model. However, high-level cloud occurrence is overestimated while low-level cloud occurrence is severely underestimated. There are too few clouds behind the system and too many high clouds in the warm frontal region, compared to observations. It is found that the range of most dynamical variables in the composite cyclone is smaller than observed, indicating that the dynamical properties of the model cyclones are not well simulated. The possible implications this has for the simulation of clouds around cyclones are discussed.
The role of auxin response in patterning the thallus of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha
Creators: name: Flores Sandoval, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, the phytohormone auxin controls the development of specific organs in different developmental stages. Pharmacological experiments show that in the haploid generation young gemmalings develop rhizoids in response to auxin, while in a mature thallus, auxin promotes the growth of gemmae cup rims, controls the spacing of gemmae cups and affects the formation of air chambers. A phylogenetic evaluation of genes involved in auxin biology across land plants indicates that most major families involved in auxin synthesis, transport, conjugation and response exist in Marchantia as single representatives, possibly resembling the genome of the common ancestor of all land plants. Auxin insensitive plants were created by overexpression of a chimeric protein consisting of the endogenous TOPLESS (MpTPL) co-repressor fused to protein-protein interaction domains 3 and 4 (D34) encoded by AUX/IAA or ARF genes of 6 Marchantia loci. Overexpression of these fusion proteins creates extremely small plants that lack a clear establishment of dorsi-ventral polarity and exhibit an overall disorganized patterning. Only the D34 of MpARF3 did not produce aberrant patterning phenotypes, suggesting that the MpARF3 protein has low interaction affinities with MpARF1, MpARF2 and MpAUX/IAA. In Marchantia, TPL likely acts as a co-repressor in the auxin signaling pathway, as ectopic expression of TOPLESS inhibits the formation of gemma cups, while a dominant negative version of TPL (TPLN176H) promotes meristem production (bifurcation), as well as abnormal gemmae cups in the thallus. To begin the dissection of specific roles of ARFs, we focus on MpARF3, a transcription factor orthologous to class C ARFs (ARF10/16/17) of Arabidopsis and which is regulated by microRNA160. Overexpression of the endogenous MpmiR160 greatly inhibits meristem bifurcation and produces gemmae-less plants. Conversely, expression of miR-resistant MpARF3 transforms the thallus into juvenile undifferentiated tissue, and when expressed at only low doses increases bifurcation rates of the thallus. Thus, miR160-regulation of class C ARFs existed in the common ancestor of all land plants and it is plausible that the ancestral role of class C ARFs was the promotion undifferentiated developmental stages, as this is a shared character with Arabidopsis. Taken together, my experiments demonstrate a crucial role of auxin as a morphogenetic trigger across all land plants. In addition, I assign specific roles for auxin in nearly all life stages and tissues of the gametophyte of Marchantia, a member of the basal most lineage of land plants.
Exploring the use of dye-sensitisation by visible light and the lotus effect as new approaches to self-cleaning textiles
Creators: name: Afzal, Shabana
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The primary motivation of the research work presented in this thesis is to develop dye-sensitised textiles capable of showing self-cleaning properties in daylight and indoor light environments. The photocatalytic degradation of organic contaminants by means of photoactive materials is one of the most effective and environmental-friendly methods for reducing the environmental pollution. Among the photoactive materials, anatase titanium dioxide is extensively investigated for a wide range of applications such as air purification, water treatment and self-cleaning surfaces. With high consumer demand for hygienic and contamination-free coatings, self-cleaning textiles based on anatase titanium dioxide photocatalysis have been of particular interest. However, the photocatalytic activity of anatase titanium dioxide is limited to ultraviolet region of the solar spectrum. To utilise the major portion of the solar spectrum, visible-light active photocatalytic systems are required in fabricating self-cleaning coatings. Chapter 1 introduces the topic by giving an account on the chemistry behind the photo-catalytic effect, dye-sensitisation, the use of porphyrins and examples of self-cleaning textiles that are state-of-the-art in the field. The chapter finishes by discussing the lotus effect and stating the thesis aims. By using meso-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin (TCPP) for sensitisation of TiO2, visible-light driven self-cleaning cotton has successfully been developed, that exhibited superior photocatalytic self-cleaning properties to that of titanium dioxide or the dye in isolation (Chapter 2). A complete degradation of methylene blue was achieved under visible-light irradiation for 110 min. In addition, decolourisation of coffee and red wine stains was observed under visible-light irradiation for 16 h. Chapter 3 and 4 investigate the use of metal complexes of TCPP (Fe, Co, Zn & Cu) as means of optimising the performance of our system on pristine cotton. In view of the practical applications of self-cleaning textiles, the stability of a photocatalyst is an important constraint. The results shown in this thesis indicate that meso-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)-porphyrinato copper(II) (CuTCPP) showed enhanced photostability as compared to the high performing free-base porphyrin (TCPP). To enhance the performance of these new materials further, the concept of lotus effect has been combined within the visible-light photocatalysis to prepare better self-cleaning textiles (Chapter 5). The dual functional textiles exhibited a superhydrophobic effect, in addition to the photodegradation of organic contaminants by visible-light photocatalysis. Superhydrophobic and photocatalytic self-cleaning textiles offer great potential for indoor and outdoor self-cleaning applications. Chapter 6 briefly summarises the thesis and adds future perspectives to this research.
The dominance of conservative protestant values in an American small town: institutional continuity among home, church, and school
Creators: name: Smith, Catherine
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This is an ethnographic case study of a small community in the American Midwest, concerning the relationship between small-town Conservative Protestants and their local schools. This study is based on interviews with parents, teachers, students, and other community members. It focuses on their identities as “small-town” residents, as well as on their concerns about public education in American and how these related to their perceptions of the state of education in their local schools. This study engages with scholarship concerning the imaginings of the American small town, and with popular debates regarding the presence of Christianity in public education. Via a case study of one small town, this thesis will interrogate and extend existing scholarship on Christianity in public education in the USA, as well as critically scrutinizing popular imaginings of how Conservative Protestants perceive public education in their community. I look particularly at the Conservative Protestant concerns about sex education in public schools, as well as the place of prayer and other religious observances. This study does this by examining how residents of one small community, where local schools and teachers are imagined to “belong” to the community rather than to the state, position themselves in relation to education. I argue that the participants in this study and their views of schooling challenge common understandings regarding Conservative Protestants in scholarly research in education. For instance, while Conservative Protestants are often imagined to be fighting for a return to “traditional values” in schools, and for the return of a Christianity-based curriculum, Conservative Protestants in the small town I study firmly believe that they are still experiencing this reality in their local schools. These Conservative Protestants are more concerned with secularism entering their schools from “the outside” than with turning back the clock from it. This study also looks at the mechanisms by which small towns maintain control over dominant values in their communities and reinforce them in local schools. I focus on values concerning sex and sexuality, as these were of particular concern to my participants and played the most active role in producing community insiders and outsiders. This study examines the way that sexual values, which have their roots in the Church and home, are reinforced in the local school through the community’s high level of institutional continuity. Further, I look at how one set of values – “traditional” Conservative Protestant values – maintain their dominance in the community and subjugate other value systems. Placing particular focus on the school, this thesis examines the ways that dominant community values and norms produce insiders and outsiders, and what spaces are permitted to these groups. I specifically look at the fate of student outsiders, both socially and academically.
A stereoselective isoprenoid synthetic methodology and the preparation of a mycobacterial antigen
Creators: name: Cao, Jia
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis describes two separate research projects. The first one focused on the development of a new asymmetric synthetic methodology to construct isoprenoid moieties, which are present in a range of important bioactive natural products. Then the developed methodology was applied to the synthesis of several selected natural products, including a sex pheromone, fragrances, the side chain of zaragozic acid C, an intermediate of tuberculostearic acid, and the side chain of vitamin E. A purported natural product, with antibacterial and antifungal activities, (R)-2-methylheptyl isonicotinate, was also prepared. The second project focused on the preparation of a mycobacterial antigen, BbGLIIc, for evaluation of its immunological response.
Allowing the world to resist: a postconstructivist enlarged mentality
Creators: name: Acreman, Stephen Ronald
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Contemporary democratic theory focuses primarily on questions of intersubjective and intergroup negotiation, participation and deliberation. The politics of environmental and technoscientific issues are increasingly revealing the limitations of this intersubjective focus. Attention to the fairness of democratic procedure, or to the norms of deliberation, is necessary but insufficient when the ‘facts of the matter’ play such a central role in political judgement and debate. The limiting emphasis on intersubjectivity exists despite the marked influence of Hannah Arendt, for whom legitimate political judgements arise from the perspective of the world, not from subjective attitudes towards it. This thesis argues that Arendt fruitfully focuses on what she called the ‘enlarged mentality’ as ensuring the representativeness of political judgements, and the thesis further contends that the concept of ‘enlarged mentality’ has been incorrectly adopted by subsequent political theorists as a subject-oriented rather than an object-oriented principle. Enlarging the mind requires exposure to, and acceptance of, multiple object-oriented stories in which a thing or event in the world is revealed from a mediated and situated viewpoint. The novelty of every occurrence, as revealed in this particular type of storytelling, has the potential to break through various forms of intersubjective anaesthesia or habituation toward the world so that it can be accepted and judged as it is. Even when read as an object-oriented principle, however, Arendt’s enlarged mentality is still limited in its capacity to approximate the perspective of the world because of her anti-modern tendencies. Taking up pragmatistic, postphenomenological and postconstructivist insights, it is clear that politically-relevant stories are told by everything and about everything, inclusive of technoscientific domains. The thesis proposes that the ‘facts of the matter’ can be restored, in democratic theory and practice, through a postconstructivist reformulation of the enlarged mentality, in which democratic judgement is responsive to multiply situated and mediated stories that can detect and consider the resistance of the world to the preconceived desires of the privileged.
An investigation of divided attention impairments in Huntington’s disease and ageing
Creators: name: Vaportzis, Eleftheria
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Divided attention, the ability to attend and respond simultaneously to two or more stimuli or tasks, has been typically investigated using dual task paradigms. Dual task paradigms have been extensively used to examine attentional demands in healthy people, including various age and patient groups. The effect of ageing on dual task performance is well-documented; however, dual task research on Huntington’s disease (HD) is very limited, despite evidence suggesting poor dual task performance in this disease. The overarching aim of this thesis was to investigate dual task performance in HD, and in younger (18-30 years) and older (> 60 years) healthy adults. To achieve this aim, we used a battery of dual tasks that varied in their input (e.g., visual, auditory) and output (e.g., motor, verbal) modalities. Each task was examined under two difficulty levels: easy and hard. Tasks were chosen based on past dual task research in HD and ageing, and divided attention theories (e.g., resource allocation theories). Overall, our results showed that HD participants were slower and less accurate across all task conditions compared with controls. Similarly, older adults were slower and less accurate compared with younger adults. With a few exceptions, differences reached statistical significance either in terms of speed or accuracy within each set of tasks. Our findings suggest differential effects of dual task performance in people with HD compared to healthy individuals, and between younger and older adults. Findings also highlight the importance of taking into account different measures of performance (e.g., speed, accuracy, dual task costs, etc.) since relationships between groups may differ across measures. In regards to the effect of difficulty, overall, dual tasks were performed slower and less accurately than single tasks, and harder levels were performed slower and less accurately than easier levels. A key outcome of our research is that HD participants and older adults may adopt differential behavioural strategies depending on the type of concurrent task, compared with controls and younger adults, respectively. Further investigation of dual tasking in HD and ageing, in conjunction with other tasks, will contribute to better understanding of attentional impairments that manifest with disease progression and older age. Consequently, this knowledge will assist with the development of adaptive strategies or treatments to improve functioning in people with HD and in the elderly.
Stress myocardial perfusion imaging using computed tomography in stable coronary artery disease
Creators: name: Ko, Brian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Over the past decade, CT coronary angiography (CCTA) has emerged as a non-invasive diagnostic imaging modality that directly visualises the coronary anatomy with a reportedly high diagnostic accuracy when compared with invasive angiography. Given the high accuracy, it remains plausible that CCTA may serve as an effective gatekeeper for invasive angiography and revascularisation in patients with symptomatic stable coronary artery disease. However it is important to note that in its current form, CCTA is limited in assessing the functional significance of coronary stenoses. CT stress myocardial perfusion imaging is a novel method to assess myocardial ischemia and when used in combination with CCTA may allow cardiac CT to have the unique ability to assess coronary anatomy and myocardial perfusion in a single examination. The aim of the thesis is first to outline the current increasing role of cardiac CT and fractional flow reserve in the contemporary assessment and management of patients with stable coronary artery disease (chapter 2), to evaluate the use of CCTA as a gatekeeper for invasive angiography and revascularisation (chapter 3), to review the basics of CT stress myocardial perfusion imaging and the literature supporting its accuracy (chapter 4), to determine the accuracy of CT stress perfusion imaging when applied in patients considered for coronary revascularisation (chapter 5), to determine the accuracy of CT stress perfusion imaging when combined with CT coronary angiography when applied in a patients with suspected CAD (chapter 6), and to finally review the role of functional coronary assessment using CT in interventional cardiology (chapter 7). 3
Analysis of the interaction between α2-antiplasmin and plasmin(ogen)
Creators: name: Lu, Bernadine Gueh Cheng
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Plasminogen is a multi-domain molecule which consists of a pan-apple domain, five kringles and a serine protease domain. Activation of plasminogen to plasmin converts the zymogen to a potent enzyme which dissolves blood clots. α2-antiplasmin is the physiological inhibitor of plasmin. In addition to the conserved serpin core, α2-antiplasmin also possesses two unique N- and C-terminal extensions. The conserved lysine residues (Lys427, Lys434, Lys441, Lys448 and Lys464) in the C-terminus are essential in mediating binding with plasmin kringle domains. Disrupting the interaction of the C-terminus to plasmin has been shown to decrease plasmin inhibition resulting in increased fibrinolysis. To better understand the interaction that occurs between α2-antiplasmin and plasmin, this thesis explored the basic biochemical and binding properties of these multi-domain molecules.
Defining conditions required for the derivation of midbrain dopaminergic neurons from embryonic stem cells using stem cell reporter lines
Creators: name: Hartley, Brigham Jay
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The efficient and robust derivation of midbrain dopaminergic (mbDA) cells from embryonic stem cells (ESCs) may pave the way for cell replacement therapy (CRT) for Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients whose disease is refractory to current pharmacotherapy. It may also facilitate investigation of the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of PD through in vitro modeling. However, a major hindrance to the application of ESC-derived cells for in vitro and in vivo applications is the observation that current differentiation protocols yield heterogeneous cultures. Reporter cell lines offer the ability to isolate cells from differentiating cultures. The LIM homeobox transcription factor 1 α (LMX1A) is a prominent regulator of early mbDA and forebrain GABAergic specification. In this thesis I utilize both mouse and human ESCs expressing EGFP under the control of the endogenous LMX1A promoter to investigate aspects of fate specification following derivation under a chemically defined monolayer (CDML) or PA6 stromal cell differentiation protocols. ESC differentiation under PA6 conditions results in a population of mbDA progenitors that can be isolated based on EGFP expression, which subsequently gives rise to high yields of mbDA neurons. ESCs differentiating under CDML neural induction cues only, default to an anterior neuroectoderm phenotype. However, timed exposure to morphogens that mimic in vivo mbDA developmental conditions (SHH & WNT signalling) derives functional DA neurons with a protein profile indicative of a midbrain phenotype. The cultivation and subsequent subtype specification of these defined neural progenitors holds promise for the derivation of mbDA cells for PD CRT, in vitro disease modelling and pharmacotherapeutic screening platforms.
MOESM10 of A feedback regulatory model for RifQ-mediated repression of rifamycin export in Amycolatopsis mediterranei
Creators: name: Lei, Chao
name: Wang, Jingzhi
name: Liu, Yuanyuan
name: Liu, Xinqiang
name: Zhao, Guoping
name: Wang, Jin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10: Table S2. Primers used in this study.
Field rumen fistula surgery (indications and procedure)
Creators: name: Rademacher, Ryan D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Conference Proceedings
Year: 2023
Subjects: feedlot
rumen fistula
bloat surgery

description: Rumen fistulation (bloat surgery) is a valuable procedure to manage chronic bloat in cattle. Case selection and proper pre­operative assessment is imperative as this procedure should be reserved for animals that have chronic recurring free gas bloat and will remain in the production phase for a sufficient period to warrant the invasiveness of the procedure. Not all animals with chronic bloat are ideal candidates for a rumen fistula; however, in those that are, the procedure is relatively simple and quick to perform. Postoperative care includes analgesia and broad-spec­trum antimicrobials, and if the animal does not succumb to the underlying condition that may be contributing to chronic bloat, the prognosis for these animals is generally good.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings, No. 55 (2022): 2022 Annual Conference Proceedings
Feasibility study of near-duplicate video retrieval based on clustering techniques
Creators: name: Wang, Yandan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis studies the feasibility of clustering-based Near-Duplicate Video Retrieval (NDVR), which makes use of clustering techniques to pre-process video dataset into Near Duplicate Video (NDV) groups and conducts NDVR on the representatives of clusters. Content based NDVR has been explored for decades. Traditionally, researchers improve the NDVR performance in terms of accuracy and speed through: i) the video feature representation; ii) matching approach; iii) indexing structure. The proposed clustering-based NDVR approach could increase retrieval speed on one hand and achieves equivalent or even better accuracy compared to non-clustering based NDVR on the other hand. The difference of proposed clustering-based approach from the traditional non-clustering based NDVR is that the unsupervised clustering techniques are considered as the prior dataset process step offline. By such a process, the dataset is well organized into corresponding NDV clusters. It then selects only one video or use cluster centroid (mean vector) to represent the cluster. Instead of comparing the query video to all videos in data collections, it only has to compare to the cluster representatives. All the videos in the cluster will be retrieved when the query video that is compared to the representatives meet the specified threshold. Theoretically, it is impossible to know that the performance of clustering-based NDVR in terms of retrieval accuracy compared to that of non-clustering based approach. Accordingly, this thesis evaluates the performance of clustering-based NDVR compared to that of non-clustering based under the same criteria. The evaluation starts with analyzing the clustering algorithms in literature with illustrations as well as the experimental study on what the impact of incorporating these clustering algorithms to pre-cluster the dataset offline for NDVR. After that, a novel clustering framework based on multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is proposed to process video dataset into NDV clusters, and NDVR is conducted on formed clusters. Compared to the other clustering algorithms in literature, the proposed method caters to the variable length of video sequence representation. Finally, it evaluates the MSA clustering-based NDVR by using ordinal, global, and local features respectively. The empirical results show that incorporating clustering algorithms for enhancing NDVR is promising and feasible.
MOESM1 of A feedback regulatory model for RifQ-mediated repression of rifamycin export in Amycolatopsis mediterranei
Creators: name: Lei, Chao
name: Wang, Jingzhi
name: Liu, Yuanyuan
name: Liu, Xinqiang
name: Zhao, Guoping
name: Wang, Jin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Sequence alignment analysis of RifQ and its homologue Streptomyces virginiae VarR (BAB32408.1).
Liver biopsy procedure and indications
Creators: name: Tessman, Ronald K.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Conference Proceedings
Year: 2023
Subjects: liver
biopsy
cattle
copper
selenium

description: Liver biopsy sampling and subsequent analysis for mineral content can be a valuable diagnostic tool for micronutrient associated illness in cattle. Although there may be some ap­prehension when using the blind technique, the procedure has little risk of adverse consequences. Utilizing proper biopsy site preparation and appropriate landmarks reduces risk of compli­cations while optimizing the probability of obtaining a sample large enough for micronutrient evaluation. Liver samples are appropriate for evaluating toxicity associated with cobalt, cop­per, manganese, selenium and zinc and deficiency associated with copper, manganese, selenium and zinc.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings, No. 55 (2022): 2022 Annual Conference Proceedings
title: Évaluation projet LiDAR 2013
Creators: name: LabexMed
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019

description: Évaluation du projet « Nouvelles techniques de prospections LiDAR appliquées à l’étude de deux environnements littoraux méditerranéens : Loron-Busuja (Croatie) / golfe de Fos (France)» , réalisée en 2013.
Alternative meats and alternative facts
Creators: name: Van Eenennaam, Alison L.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Conference Proceedings
Year: 2023
Subjects: sustainability
alternative meat
culture meat
plantbased meat
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

description: The alternative animal product arena is complex and quite var­ied. Some plant-based alternative meat products are derived entirely from plants. Other entrepreneurs are using cultivated cells of animal origin to derive a product structurally similar to meat and milk and comprised of animal proteins. Many of these endeavors use a combination of both approaches with the plant-based product providing filler for the cultivated meat or milk product. Most of the discussion around alternative meats has focused on bovine alternatives because of the iconic position of cattle in many climate and sustainability discussions. A consid­erable amount of capital has been raised based on the


envisioned market share of these products, although estimates vary widely, and the high profile initial public offering of Beyond Meat shares in May 2019 which saw share prices soar from $75 to $235, has this year seen share prices plummet to about one-tenth of that highest price. Proponents of alternative meats suggest these production systems are more sustainable based on antici­patory greenhouse gas emission (GHG) and land use life-cycle assessment (LCA)/kilogram (kg) of product, as compared to LCA metrics for ruminant meat. Much of the rationale


invokes a simplistic narrative around GHG/kg of protein. The GHG “sustainability” metric will invariably reflect poorly on ruminants as they are uniquely able to digest cellulose through their rumen microbes, and the methanogens produces methane which is a potent but short-lived greenhouse gas. And because ruminants are typically grazing in marginal land unsuitable for producing crops, they also have a high land use m2/kg of protein. However, there is no reason to conclude that food production on well-managed pasture and rangeland is, a priori, less sustainable than food production of well-managed arable cropland. More­over, the other sustainability externalities of ruminant meat production systems such as the provision of ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation, the consumption of inedible food waste and cellulose, manure, transportation, contributions to the livelihoods and food security of 1.3 billion livestock keepers, the fact that meat provides nutrients in addition to protein, and that existing harvesting systems utilize everything but the “moo” are often ignored or simply disregarded.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings, No. 55 (2022): 2022 Annual Conference Proceedings
A mycotic aneurysm related to Salmonella Rissen infection: a case report.
Creators: name: Nagrodzki, Jakub
name: Sharrocks, Katherine E
name: Wong, Vanessa K
name: Carmichael, Andrew J
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mycotic Aneurysm
Salmonella Rissen
Endovascular Infection

description: BACKGROUND:Salmonella species commonly causes infection in humans and on occasion leads to serious complications, such as mycotic aneurysms. Here, we present the first case reported of a patient with a mycotic aneurysm likely secondary to Salmonella Rissen infection. CASE PRESENTATION:The patient presented with 4 weeks of lower back pain, chills and a single episode of diarrhoea 2 months prior during a 14-day trip to Hong Kong and Taiwan. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed an aneurysmal left internal iliac artery with adjacent left iliacus rim-enhancing collection. A stool culture was positive for Salmonella Rissen ST 469 EBG 66 on whole genome sequencing. The patient underwent an emergency bifurcated graft of his internal iliac aneurysm and was successfully treated with appropriate antibiotics. CONCLUSIONS:This case highlights the importance of considering the diagnosis of a mycotic aneurysm in an unusual presentation of back pain with features of infection.
Environmental impact of feed additives in cattle production
Creators: name: Kebreab, Ermias
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Conference Proceedings
Year: 2023
Subjects: methane
feed additives
mitigation
climate change

description: Cattle production is one of the main contributors to methane emissions globally. Although there are nutritional, genetic and other methods to reduce methane emissions from cattle operations, feed additives have the potential to substantially decrease emissions. These can be broadly categorized based on their mode of action into 2 main groups. Feed additives can either directly inhibit methanogens that are responsible for methanogenesis or modify the rumen environment to reduce the amount of methane produced. In general, inhibitors such as 3-nitrooxypropanol and macroalgae reduce emissions by 30 to 80%. Feed additives that work indirectly generally reduce emis­sions by less than 25%. However, a combination of the 2 types may increase the level of anti-methanogenic effectiveness. Some of the most effective feed additives are expected to be available commercially in 2022-2023 in some parts of the world contributing to methane mitigation efforts.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings, No. 55 (2022): 2022 Annual Conference Proceedings
New microeconometric approaches to estimating models with endogeneity
Creators: name: Chisholm, Cameron James
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This dissertation consists of three stand-alone chapters, each of which investigates a specific endogeneity problem commonly arising in applied microeconometrics. The first chapter focuses on the multivariate probit model, a framework with a flexible structure that can be used to control for endogeneity in discrete variables. Because the likelihood function is difficult to evaluate numerically, the model is typically estimated by maximizing a simulated likelihood function. This can be a time-consuming process and in many cases the estimator does not converge. This chapter discusses an alternative estimator of the multivariate probit model in which the parameters of each equation are estimated sequentially. The estimator runs significantly faster and rarely fails to converge. The second chapter looks at the problem of endogenous control variables when estimating a treatment effect. Including the endogenous control variables leads to an endogeneity bias that affects the estimated treatment effect, but excluding the endogenous controls causes an omitted variable bias. In the absence of valid instruments, the treatment effect cannot be identified by conventional means. Focusing primarily on a simple model with a treatment variable and a single endogenous control variable, this chapter proposes assuming the endogenous variable’s parameter is a random draw from a normal distribution with a mean and variance specified by the researcher. The treatment effect can then be estimated by ordinary least squares, but the estimated variance is inflated to account for uncertainty about the endogenous variable’s parameter. As a result of this, the estimator is named variance-inflated least squares. The properties of this estimator compare favorably to those of other approaches such as ignoring the endogeneity, excluding the endogenous control variable, and using an instrumental variable. The third chapter is an applied piece that investigates the effectiveness of a public health insurance scheme in Indonesia. Noting that many people do not use medical care, this chapter assesses whether the policy has had any effect on those individuals who would not have used health care in the absence of the policy. By estimating a model that incorporates a two-stage decision for health care demand, this analysis suggests that any increase in the utilization of outpatient care due to the policy in Indonesia is highly concentrated among those who were already users of health care. While the treatment variable is endogenous, as it is not randomly allocated, economic theory is used to derive the likely direction of the bias in the estimated treatment effect. This bias does not affect the causal test conclusion about the effectiveness of the policy on non-users of medical care.
The future of dairy-beef in cattle production
Creators: name: Jim, G. Kee
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Conference Proceedings
Year: 2023
Subjects: alignment
conversion
cutability

description: Beef-on-dairy (BOD) cattle constitute a meaningful and grow­ing percentage of North American fed beef production. The transition to BOD programs by dairy producers has been fa­cilitated in part by sexed semen technologies, which may ulti­mately result in over 3.5 million BOD cattle entering the US fed beef supply on an annual basis. This class of cattle presents unique opportunities for vertical alignment of the value chain, but packer concerns remain about carcass conformation and consistency as well as liver abscess rates and precocious lacta­tion in BOD heifers. The future of BOD production will hinge on participants’ ability to efficiently distribute data and the associ­ated value up and down the BOD value chain.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings, No. 55 (2022): 2022 Annual Conference Proceedings
title: 03_0134
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
We need to think about data governance for dementia research in a digital era.
Creators: name: Milne, Richard
name: Brayne, Carol
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ethics
data sharing
Dementia
Digital Health
Data Governance
Data Trust

description: BACKGROUND:Research into Alzheimer's disease and other dementias increasingly involves large-scale data-sharing initiatives. The development of novel digital tools and assessments is likely to increase the need for these. This presents ethics and governance challenges to ensure the use of these data is able to maximise the benefit to patients and the public. DISCUSSION:We consider the challenges associated with informed consent and governance in the context of dementia research. We set out the potential of novel data governance approaches for the future of data sharing for dementia. The data trust model proposed in discussions of data governance may have potentially valuable application for dementia research. Such inclusive approaches to trustworthy data governance should be considered as data-sharing initiatives are established and develop.