cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ab initio design of drug carriers for zoledronate guest molecule using phosphonated and sulfonated calix[4]arene and calix[4]resorcinarene host molecules
Creators: name: Jang, Yong-Man
name: Yu, Chol-Jun
name: Kim, Jin-Song
name: Kim, Song-Un
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monomolecular drug carriers based on calix[n]-arenes and -resorcinarenes containing the interior cavity can enhance the affinity and specificity of the osteoporosis inhibitor drug zoledronate (ZOD). In this work we investigate the suitability of nine different calix[4]-arenes and -resorcinarenes based macrocycles as hosts for the ZOD guest molecule by conducting {\it ab initio} density functional theory calculations for structures and energetics of eighteen different host-guest complexes. For the optimized molecular structures of the free, phosphonated, sulfonated calix[4]-arenes and -resorcinarenes, the geometric sizes of their interior cavities are measured and compared with those of the host-guest complexes in order to check the appropriateness for host-guest complex formation. Our calculations of binding energies indicate that in gaseous states some of the complexes might be unstable but in aqueous states almost all of the complexes can be formed spontaneously. Of the two different docking ways, the insertion of ZOD with the \ce{P-C-P} branch into the cavity of host is easier than that with the nitrogen containing heterocycle of ZOD. The work will open a way for developing effective drug delivering systems for the ZOD drug and promote experimentalists to synthesize them.
Subacute ruminal acidosis and ruminal lactic acidosis
Creators: name: Chako, Clemence Z.
name: Step, Douglas L.
name: Malayer, Jerry R.
name: Krehbiel, Clinton R.
name: Desilva, Udaya
name: Streeter, Robert N.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2015

description: Subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) is a digestive disorder associated with systemic inflammation that affects both dairy and beef cattle. The effects of grain-induced SARA have been extensively studied in dairy and beef cattle, but information on diagnosing SARA in beef cattle is limited. Beef cattle on soluble carbohydrate diets experience SARA and have higher morbidity for bovine respiratory disease, despite extensive preventive measures. Monitoring for SARA is important for developing strategies to prevent its related morbidities in both beef and dairy cattle.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 49, No. 2 (2015 Summer)
DRCIPC 2.10 user's manual
Creators: name: Luiz A. V. Lea╠âo
name: Carnegie Mellon University.Engineering Design Research Center.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: technical report
DRAM-Aware Last-Level Cache Writeback: Reducing Write-Caused Interference in Memory Systems
Creators: name: Lee, Chang Joo
name: Veynu  Narasiman
name: Eiman  Ebrahimi
name: Mutlu, Onur
name: Yale N. Patt
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Read and write requests from a processor contend for the main memory data bus. System performance depends heavily on when read requests are serviced since they are required for an application’s forward progress whereas writes do not need to be performed immediately. However, writes eventually have to be written to memory because the storage required to buffer them on-chip is limited. In modern high bandwidth DDR (Double Data Rate)-based memory systems write requests significantly interfere with the servicing of read requests by delaying the more critical read requests and by causing the memory bus to become idle when switching between the servicing of a write and read request. This interference significantly degrades overall system performance. We call this phenomenon write-caused interference. To reduce write-caused interference, this paper proposes a new last-level cache writeback policy, called DRAM-aware writeback. The key idea of the proposed technique is to aggressively send out writeback requests that are expected to hit in DRAM row buffers before they would normally be evicted by the last-level cache replacement policy and have the DRAM controller service as many writes as possible together. Doing so not only reduces the amount of time to service writes by improving their row buffer locality but also reduces the idle bus cycles wasted due to switching between the servicing of a write and a read request. DRAM-aware writeback improves system performance by 7.1% and 12.8% on single and 4-core systems respectively. The performance benefits of the mechanism increases in systems with prefetching since such systems have higher contention between reads and writes in the DRAM system
Zoosphaerium analavelona : Wesener 2009
Creators: name: Wesener, Thomas
name: Bespalova, Ioulia
name: Sierwald, Petra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Sphaerotheriida
Arthrosphaeridae
Zoosphaerium
Zoosphaerium analavelona

description: Zoosphaerium analavelona Wesener, 2009
 Zoosphaerium analavelona: Wesener 2009: 122.
Material examined: MADAGASCAR: 1^(FMNH-INS 7886) Forêt de Analavelona, nr source of Manasy R., 16 km NW d’Andranoheza, rainforest, 1250 m, 22°38.5'S: 44°10.3'E, S.M. Goodman, pitfall traps, 2– 10.xi.2000.
Distribution: Another record from the type locality (Wesener 2009).
description: Published as part of Wesener, Thomas, Bespalova, Ioulia & Sierwald, Petra, 2010, Madagascar's living giants: discovery of five new species of endemic giant pill-millipedes from Madagascar (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida: Arthrosphaeridae: Zoosphaerium), pp. 133 in African Invertebrates 51 (1) on page 159, DOI: 10.5733/afin.051.0102, http://zenodo.org/record/7911071
Ergot toxicosis causing death in weaned beef calves
Creators: name: Leuschen, Bruce
name: Ensley, Steve
name: Plummer, Paul
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2014

description: Eight bull beef calves weighing approximately 500 lb (227 kg) died following consumption of toxic levels of ergot alkaloids during the summer of 2012. Survivors demonstrated chronic effects of ergot alkaloid toxicosis, including poor growth and hyperthermia. All 60 calves on the farm had been weaned for 3 weeks at the time of the incident, and were consuming a free-choice pelleted creep feed which was identified as the source of the toxin. Two common sources of ergot alkaloid in livestock in the United States are tall fescue grass infected by the fungal endophyte Neotyphodium coenophialum, and Claviceps purpurea-associated sclerotia on seed heads of grasses or cereal grains. Toxic levels of ergot alkaloids in commercial feed as found in this case is not common.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 48, No. 2 (2014 Summer)
Comparison of milk production changes in adult Holstein cows vaccinated with a 5-way modified-live virus vaccine containing a Mannheimia haemolytica toxoid versus a 5-way modified-live virus vaccine containing a 5-way Leptospira bacterin
Creators: name: Kleinhenz, Michael D.
name: Miller, Brian E.
name: Zuidhof, Sjoert
name: Gorden, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2014

description: A total of 105 Holstein cows 21 to 31 days-in-milk were vaccinated with a 5-way modified-live virus (MLV) vaccine containing bovine herpesvirus-1, bovine viral diarrhea virus (types 1 and 2), parainfluenza-3 virus, and bovine respiratory syncytial virus combined with either a Mannheimia haemolytica toxoid or a 5-way Leptospira bacterin. Milk production was monitored for 3 days pre- and 3 days post-vaccination. There was a 0.52 lb (0.24 kg) increase in mean milk production for the group vaccinated with the 5-way MLV vaccine plus 5-way Leptospira bacterin. There was a 0.32 lb (0.15 kg) decrease in mean milk production in the group vaccinated with the 5-way MLV vaccine plus M. haemolytica toxoid. The difference in mean milk production between the 2 groups was 0.85 lb (0.38 kg) (P=0.4076). There was no statistical difference in mean daily milk production changes between treatment groups when parity was taken into account. Vaccination during lactation using a M. haemolytica toxoid in combination with a 5-way MLV vaccine resulted in a small, but insignificant, decrease in milk production.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 48, No. 2 (2014 Summer)
Quantum Mechanics on Noncommutative Spacetime
Creators: name: Calmet, Xavier
name: Selvaggi, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider electrodynamics on a noncommutative spacetime using the enveloping algebra approach and perform a non-relativistic expansion of the effective action. We obtain the Hamiltonian for quantum mechanics formulated on a canonical noncommutative spacetime. An interesting new feature of quantum mechanics formulated on a noncommutative spacetime is an intrinsic electric dipole moment. We note however that noncommutative intrinsic dipole moments are not observable in present experiments searching for an EDM of leptons or nuclei such as the neutron since they are spin independent. These experiments are sensitive to the energy difference between two states and the noncommutative effect thus cancels out. Bounds on the noncommutative scale found in the literature relying on such intrinsic electric dipole moment are thus incorrect.
description: 8 pages
Dynamics of vaccination in a time-delayed epidemic model with awareness
Creators: name: Agaba, G. O.
name: Kyrychko, Y. N.
name: Blyuss, K. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper investigates the effects of vaccination on the dynamics of infectious disease, which is spreading in a population concurrently with awareness. The model considers contributions to the overall awareness from a global information campaign, direct contacts between unaware and aware individuals, and reported cases of infection. It is assumed that there is some time delay between individuals becoming aware and modifying their behaviour. Vaccination is administered to newborns, as well as to aware individuals, and it is further assumed that vaccine-induced immunity may wane with time. Feasibility and stability of the disease-free and endemic equilibria are studied analytically, and conditions for the Hopf bifurcation of the endemic steady state are found in terms of system parameters and the time delay. Analytical results are supported by numerical continuation of the Hopf bifurcation and numerical simulations of the model to illustrate different types of dynamical behaviour.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
A remark on Leclerc's Frobenius categories
Creators: name: Kalck, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Leclerc recently studied certain Frobenius categories in connection with cluster algebra structures on coordinate rings of intersections of opposite Schubert cells. We show that these categories admit a description as Gorenstein projective modules over an Iwanaga-Gorenstein ring of virtual dimension at most two. This is based on a Morita type result for Frobenius categories.
description: 5 pages, extended abstract for a talk at the Workshop Homological Bonds between Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory at CRM Barcelona, February 2015, comments welcome
Additional file 1: of Retrovirus insertion site analysis of LGL leukemia patient genomes
Creators: name: Li, Weiling
name: Yang, Lei
name: Harris, Robert
name: Lin, Lin
name: Olson, Thomas
name: Hamele, Cait
name: Feith, David
name: Loughran, Thomas
name: Poss, Mary
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Methods and Data. Figures S1-S4. are embedded. (DOCX 3556 kb)
SCORPIO-II: Spectral indices of weak Galactic radio sources
Creators: name: Cavallaro, F.
name: Trigilio, C.
name: Umana, G.
name: Franzen, T. M. O.
name: Norris, R. P.
name: Leto, P.
name: Ingallinera, A.
name: Buemi, C. S.
name: Marvil, J.
name: Agliozzo, C.
name: Bufano, F.
name: Cerrigone, L.
name: Riggi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the next few years the classification of radio sources observed by the large surveys will be a challenging problem, and spectral index is a powerful tool for addressing it. Here we present an algorithm to estimate the spectral index of sources from multiwavelength radio images. We have applied our algorithm to SCORPIO (Umana et al. 2015), a Galactic Plane survey centred around 2.1 GHz carried out with ATCA, and found we can measure reliable spectral indices only for sources stronger than 40 times the rms noise. Above a threshold of 1 mJy, the source density in SCORPIO is 20 percent greater than in a typical extra-galactic field, like ATLAS (Norris et al. 2006), because of the presence of Galactic sources. Among this excess population, 16 sources per square degree have a spectral index of about zero, suggesting optically thin thermal emission such as Hii regions and planetary nebulae, while 12 per square degree present a rising spectrum, suggesting optically thick thermal emission such as stars and UCHii regions.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Survival of dairy cattle presumptively suffering from idiopathic pericardial hemorrhage using parenteral dexamethasone or isofluprednone acetate
Creators: name: Gaska, Jerome
name: McGuirk, Sheila M.
name: Peek, Simon F.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2014

description: A total of 81 female dairy cows were treated with corticosteroids for presumed hemorrhagic idiopathic pericardial effusion over a 34-month period on a 2,200 cow dairy in southern Wisconsin. Individual cattle were treated with either dexamethasone or isofluprednone acetate based upon pregnancy status. The median age and days-in-milk at the time of diagnosis was 49 months and 181 days for those receiving dexamethasone (n=51), and 47 months and 316 days for those receiving isofluprednone acetate (n=30), respectively. Mean survival time from time of diagnosis for the non-pregnant group was 131 days +/- 101 days, which did not differ significantly from the slightly shorter mean survival time of 114 days +/- 111 days in the pregnant cow group. Mean mature equivalent milk production for the lactation at the time of diagnosis also did not differ between groups (27,792ñ6,096 lb (12,633ñ2,771 kg) in the group receiving dexamethasone, compared to 30,970ñ4,325 lb (14,077ñ1,966 kg) in the group receiving isofluprednone). Previous accounts of this condition have documented extended survival times following hospital-based treatment that has typically included pericardial drainage. However, our findings underscore the possibility that commercial cattle can be treated on-farm with corticosteroids without the need for drainage, and that extended survival times, reproductive, and lactational performance can still be achieved.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 48, No. 2 (2014 Summer)
The Michigan state university food systems fellowship program
Creators: name: Render, Chelsea
name: Roney, Heather
name: Grooms, Daniel
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2014

description: The Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine Summer Food Systems Fellowship Program is a collaboration with industry partners aimed at providing value added experiences to veterinary students with a food animal industry career goal. By providing relevant non-clinical experiences in a variety of food industry areas, students gain experiences that will complement and strengthen their traditional veterinary training and help them to meet the needs of a changing agriculture landscape. We describe the experience of 2 students employed as Legislative Fellows for the US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry as an example of how this program has an impact on students.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 48, No. 2 (2014 Summer)
Hydrogen Lyman-alpha Absorption Predictions by Boltzmann Models of the Heliosphere
Creators: name: Wood, Brian E.
name: Mueller, Hans-Reinhard
name: Zank, Gary P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use self-consistent kinetic/hydrodynamic models of the heliosphere to predict H I Lyman-alpha absorption profiles for various lines of sight through the heliosphere. These results are compared with Lyman-alpha absorption lines of six nearby stars observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The directions of these lines of sight range from nearly upwind (36 Oph) to nearly downwind (Epsilon Eri). Only three of the Lyman-alpha spectra (36 Oph, Alpha Cen, and Sirius) actually show evidence for the presence of heliospheric absorption, which is blended with the ubiquitous interstellar absorption, but the other three spectra still provide useful upper limits for the amount of heliospheric absorption for those lines of sight. Most of our models use a Boltzmann particle code for the neutrals, allowing us to estimate neutral velocity distributions throughout the heliosphere, from which we compute model Lyman-alpha absorption profiles. In comparing these models with the data, we find they predict too much absorption in sidewind and downwind directions, especially when higher Mach numbers are assumed for the interstellar wind. Models created assuming different values of the interstellar temperature and proton density fail to improve the agreement. Somewhat surprisingly, a model that uses a multi-fluid treatment of the neutrals rather than the Boltzmann particle code is more consistent with the data, and we speculate as to why this may be the case.
description: 25 pages, 10 figures; AASTEX v5.0 plus EPSF extensions in mkfig.sty; to appear in ApJ
A Field study to evaluate the effects of meloxicam NSAID therapy and calving assistance on newborn calf vigor, improvement of health and growth in pre-weaned Holstein calves
Creators: name: Murray, Christine F.
name: Haley, Derek B.
name: Duffield, Todd F.
name: Pearl, David L.
name: Deelen, Sam M.
name: Leslie, Ken E.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2015

description: The objective of this research was to evaluate the usefulness of a novel calf VIGOR assessment tool to measure birth trauma and associations with future health and growth. In addition, pain management therapy using meloxicam injectable solution was evaluated for calves suffering from birth trauma and reduced vigor. A total of 842 heifer and bull calves from 10 commercial dairy herds were enrolled in a randomized, double-blind clinical field trial. At birth, newborn VIGOR was evaluated by the dairy producer to assess the Visual appearance, Initiation of movement, General responsiveness, Oxygenation, as well as heart and respiration Rate of the calf. Subsequently, calves were administered either a 1.0 mL subcutaneous injection of meloxicam or placebo solution. Each calf was measured for growth and assessed using a standardized clinical score for health at 1, 2, 3, and 6 weeks of age. Compared to unassisted calvings, calves born with assistance had lower vigor. Assisted calves treated with meloxicam had improved weight gain in the first week compared to placebo-treated calves. In contrast, treatment with meloxicam resulted in lower gains in observed but unassisted calves. Calves with improved newborn vigor and better health had significantly greater weight gain up to 6 weeks of age. Meloxicam-treated calves had better health from birth to 6 weeks of age. Overall, the calf VIGOR score is a good indicator of trauma at calving. Meloxicam therapy shows promise for improving health and growth, particularly for calves born with assistance.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 49, No. 1 (2015 Spring)
Towards an empirical unified crust-core description of neutron stars
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Debarati
name: Gulminelli, Francesca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the properties of the crust and the core as well as its interface is essential for accurate astrophysical modeling of phenomena such as glitches, X-ray bursts or oscillations in neutron stars. To study the crust-core properties, it is crucial to develop a unified and consistent scheme to describe both the clusterized matter in the crust and homogeneous matter in the core. The low density regime in the neutron star crust is accessible to terrestrial nuclear experiments. In order to develop a consistent description of the crust and the core of neutron stars within the same formalism, we use a density functional scheme, with the model coefficients in homogeneous matter related directly to empirical nuclear observables. In this work, we extend this scheme to non-homogeneous matter to describe nuclei in the crust. We then test this scheme against nuclear observables.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in PASA
Dr. Thevenin : an intelligent tutoring system for electrical circuits
Creators: name: Eswaran  Subrahmanian
name: Sarosh  Talukdar
name: Mullen, William
name: Carnegie Mellon University.Engineering Design Research Center.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Science and Engineering course contain one or two topics that are bottlenecks" in that they are brief, very difficult and important. Students often fail to master these topics and encounter difficulty in future performance and learning. Thevenin Equivalents in electrical circuits is one such topic. In this paper, we have presented an architecture of a tutoring system based on artificial intelligence techniques of pattern matching and, divide and conquer for teaching Thevenin equivalents. The architecture consists of several modules that communicate through a common data base or blackboard.The modules are problem solver, problem generator, instructor, scheduler-input recognizer, and Thevenin expert. The system is implemented in OPS5, Lisp and C. The system uses the Andrew window manager system for providing graphical capabilities to represent and manipulate the circuit. The paper also presents an illustration of interaction between the student and the current implementation of the system."
Interferometric detection of spin-polarized transport in the depletion layer of a metal-GaAs Schottky barrier
Creators: name: Salis, G.
name: Alvarado, S. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the Kerr rotation of spin-polarized electrons is modulated by the distance of the electrons from the sample surface. Time-resolved Kerr rotation of optically-excited spin-polarized electrons in the depletion layer of n-doped GaAs displays fast oscillations that originate from an interference between the light reflected from the semiconductor surface and from the front of the electron distribution moving into the semiconductor. Using this effect, the dynamics of the photogenerated charge carriers in the depletion layer of the biased Schottky barrier is measured.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Health and performance of calves fed fresh colostrum from their dams compared to those fed stored colostrum from non-dams
Creators: name: Sims, L. Judd
name: Pinedo, Pablo J.
name: Donovan, G. Arthur
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2015

description: The objective of this study was to assess the preweaning performance, health, and survival of calves fed fresh colostrum from their dams compared to calves receiving colostrum that was not from their dams, and had been stored frozen or refrigerated. A total of 182 Holstein heifer calves born during July and August 2010 at a north-central Florida dairy farm were included. Explanatory variables included colostrum source, adjusted colostrum score, total estimated IgG intake, time to colostrum feeding, and calf-serum total protein determination as a measure of colostral immunoglobulin absorption. Control variables comprised birth weight and dam parity number. Average daily weight gain (ADG) was not affected by colostrum source. Number of disease events was the only variable showing a significant negative association with ADG (P=0.001), but there was a tendency to significance for lower-birth weight to be associated with a higher number of disease events; P=0.08. Source of colostrum did not affect the number of disease events or the total number of days on treatment. Similarly, no significant association with calf mortality was found for colostrum source. Time to event analyses did not indicate any significant association between morbidity and mortality and any of the explanatory variables, including colostrum source. We concluded that colostrum source was not significantly associated with performance, health, and survival in this population of dairy calves.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 49, No. 1 (2015 Spring)
Gauging Flavour in Meta-Stable Susy Breaking Models
Creators: name: Forste, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We modify the first ISS model (hep-th/0602239) by gauging a diagonal flavour symmetry. We add additional multiplets transforming as fundamentals and anti-fundamentals under the gauged flavour group. Their number is chosen such that the microscopic theory is asymptotically free whereas in the Seiberg dual (w.r.t. the colour group) it changes to an infrared free theory. Non perturbative effects within the flavour group can correct the location of the supersymmetric vacuum. Statements about meta-stability of the susy breaking vacuum would require a two loop calculation. For general couplings, the question whether gauging flavour destabilises susy breaking remains open.
description: 11 pages, v3: factor in matching relation fixed
Acute puerperal metritis
Creators: name: Credille, Brent C.
name: Giguere, Steeve
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2015

description: Acute puerperal metritis is a common disease in postpartum dairy cattle. This disease causes significant economic losses as affected cows experience reduced milk production, increased culling risk, and impaired reproductive performance. Acute puerperal metritis is invariably associated with bacterial colonization and infection of the uterus. As a result, antimicrobials are a mainstay of therapy for this disease. Optimal dosing of antimicrobial agents is essential to therapeutic success, and designing dosing regimens requires an integration of both pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles. The goals of this article are to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of antimicrobial treatment options in cattle with acute puerperal metritis, and review the principles of antimicrobial pharmacodynamics.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 49, No. 1 (2015 Spring)
Clinical examination, diagnostic testing, and treatment options for neonatal calves with diarrhea
Creators: name: Dawes, Maisie E.
name: Tyler, Jeff W.
name: Hostetler, Douglas E.
name: Nagy, Dusty W.
name: Tessman, Ronald K.
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2013

description: Primary diarrhea and septicemia are the 2 most common disease syndromes in neonatal calves. Differentiating between the 2 is difficult but vital, in order to determine prognosis and appropriate treatment. Both syndromes generally present with watery diarrhea, acidbase derangements, and/or negative energy balance. Depressed mentation and recumbency can occur with either disease if acidosis, hypoglycemia, hypokalemia, or dehydration is severe. In this review, we discuss criteria that distinguish primary diarrhea from diarrhea secondary to septicemia and present guidelines for the assessment, care, and management of diarrheic calves. Physical examination is the single-most powerful tool in differentiating the syndromes in individual calves. Therefore, particular emphasis is placed on the assessment of the calf's demeanor, including mentation and suckling ability, its ability to stand, and the presence or absence of systemic infection. The value of laboratory diagnostics that assess acid-base and hydration status, and the adequacy of passive transfer are described. Strategies for fluid and electrolyte therapy and the use of antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and anticonvulsant medications are also discussed. Whether aggressive diagnostic techniques and therapeutic interventions are employed depends on the value of the individual animal and the case prognosis. This review provides the basis for optimal decision-making, thus ensuring that optimal care is provided for the calf while meeting the goals of the owner.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2014 Spring)
The Mg II and Lyman-alpha Lines of Nearby K Dwarfs: ISM Components and Flux Measurements
Creators: name: Wood, Brian E.
name: Ambruster, Carol W.
name: Brown, Alexander
name: Linsky, Jeffrey L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze local ISM absorption observed in the Lyman-alpha and Mg II h & k lines of six nearby K dwarf stars, using UV spectra of these stars obtained with the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. For four of the six stars, we detect an absorption component with a velocity and column density consistent with the Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC). For HD 197890, there is no observed component at the expected LIC velocity, or at the projected velocity of the G cloud, which is a nearby cloud in the general direction of the Galactic Center. It also seems doubtful that either of the two components seen toward HD 82558 are LIC or G cloud absorption. The total H I column density toward HD 82558 (d=18.3 pc) is extremely high (log N(H)=19.05 +/- 0.15), representing the largest average H I density detected for any line of sight through the nearby LISM (n(H)=0.2 cm^-3). This is particularly remarkable considering that this star is only 39 degrees from the "interstellar tunnel" toward Epsilon CMa, where column densities are an order of magnitude lower than this toward stars which are an order of magnitude farther away.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures; AASTEX v5.0 plus EPSF extensions in mkfig.sty; accepted by ApJ
Anomalous dispersion relations in the staggered flux state
Creators: name: Tsuchiura, Hiroki
name: Ogata, Masao
name: Yamazaki, Kunito
name: Asaoka, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quasiparticle properties in the d-wave superconductivity, antiferromagnetism, and the staggered flux state within a renormalized mean-field theory based on the two-dimensional t-J model. In particular, we focus on the anomalous quasiparticle dispersion relations around the antinodal region of the Brillouin zone argued in Hashimoto et al., Nature Phys. 6, 414 (2010). We obtain the qualitatively consistent results with their observations when we take account of the SF state. The present analysis shows that the SF order can be a possible candidate of symmetry-breaking pseudogap states coexisting with the dSC.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Distributed systems of control specialists for power system operations
Creators: name: Sarosh  Talukdar
name: V. C. Ramesh
name: Nixon, James C.
name: Carnegie Mellon University.Engineering Design Research Center.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1992
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: technical report
Phase coherent splitting of Bose-Einstein condensates with an integrated magnetic grating
Creators: name: Günther, A.
name: Kraft, S.
name: Zimmermann, C.
name: Fortágh, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the phase coherent splitting of Bose-Einstein condensates by means of a phase grating produced near the surface of a micro-electronic chip. A lattice potential with a period of $4μ$m is generated by the superposition of static and oscillating magnetic fields. Precise control of the diffraction is achieved by controlling the currents in the integrated conductors. The interference of overlapping diffraction orders is observed after 8ms of propagation in a harmonic trap and subsequent ballistic expansion of the atomic ensemble. By analyzing the interference pattern we show a reproducible phase relation between the diffraction orders with an uncertainty given by the resolution of the diffraction grating.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures. accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Distributed Sequential Detection for Gaussian Binary Hypothesis Testing
Creators: name: Anit Kumar Sahu
name: Soummya Kar
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper studies the problem of sequential Gaussian binary hypothesis testing in a distributed multi-agent network. A sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) type algorithm in a distributed framework of the consensus+innovations form is proposed, in which the agents update their decision statistics by simultaneously processing latest observations (innovations) sensed sequentially over time and information obtained from neighboring agents (consensus). For each pre-specified set of type I and type II error probabilities, local decision parameters are derived which ensure that the algorithm achieves the desired error performance and terminates in finite time almost surely (a.s.) at each network agent. Large deviation exponents for the tail probabilities of the agent stopping time distributions are obtained and it is shown that asymptotically (in the number of agents or in the high signal-to-noise-ratio regime) these exponents associated with the distributed algorithm approach that of the optimal centralized detector. The expected stopping time for the proposed algorithm at each network agent is evaluated and characterized in terms of network connectivity. Finally, simulation studies are presented which illustrate and verify the analytical findings
Additional file 2: of Genome-wide association study of important agronomic traits within a core collection of rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Creators: name: Zhang, Peng
name: Zhong, Kaizhen
name: Zhong, Zhengzheng
name: Tong, Hanhua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Table S1. Accessions, variety names, origin and germplasm types of 150 rice varieties in Tingâ s core collection. Table S2. Re-sequencing average read depth and coverage in Tingâ s core collection. Table S3. Summary of categorized SNPs and InDels. (DOC 246 kb)
title: Using secondary data sources to identify industrial synergies among Precision Manufacturing firms in the Pioneer Valley
Creators: name: Renski, Henry C
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Growth and Development
subject: Urban, Community and Regional Planning
subject: Urban Studies and Planning

description: The purpose of this memo is to report the findings from an exploratory analysis of trade and occupational relationships among businesses in the Pioneer Valley’s Precision Manufacturing sector. The motivation for this work is the interest among economic development professionals in developing an information system that can identify local companies with common interest and needs by examining underlying commonalities in their workforce skills, technological foundations, markets and other types of complimentary attributes. These commonalities may then serve as a common platform upon which to build future inter-firm partnerships. One possible application for this information system is to design more effectively targeted business networking events. Another possible application is to produce lists of businesses that might benefit from participation in targeted support initiatives: such as new workforce training opportunities, technical assistance programs, or upcoming grant opportunities. Most data source group similar companies based upon their primary product or service. However, many new market opportunities and innovations arise from the cross-fertilization of ideas among firms that may make different things, yet share other common characteristics. Research into inter-firm collaborations, networks, and cluster-based economic development emphasize common production technologies, trade (buyer-supplier) associations, and workforce skills as likely sources of complementary activities. Furthermore, local companies that offer similar products or services often belong to the same trade association and may already be aware of one another, reducing the need for an information system to help bring these companies together. Similarities among firms in different industries are often not as immediately apparent. Armed with a database that matches firms based upon key characteristics, economic developers can more effectively fulfill their role as information brokers and network facilitators – improving the likelihood of bringing the right people together at the right time. Collecting this kind of information through surveys and interviews can be extremely time consuming, costly, and may be viewed as overly obtrusive by some businesses. There are publicly available data sources that, while imperfect, may reduce the burden of compiling this information. In April of 2009, Dr. Renski volunteered to conduct a preliminary analysis to assess whether publicly available datasets could beused identify potential opportunities for fruitful collaborations among businesses. This memo reports the findings from my investigation.
Search for excited states in $^{25}$O
Creators: name: Jones, M. D.
name: Fossez, K.
name: Baumann, T.
name: DeYoung, P. A.
name: Finck, J. E.
name: Frank, N.
name: Kuchera, A. N.
name: Michel, N.
name: Nazarewicz, W.
name: Rotureau, J.
name: Smith, J. K.
name: Stephenson, S. L.
name: Stiefel, K.
name: Thoennessen, M.
name: Zegers, R. G. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical calculations suggest the presence of low-lying excited states in $^{25}$O. Previous experimental searches by means of proton knockout on $^{26}$F produced no evidence for such excitations. We search for excited states in $^{25}$O using the ${ {}^{24}\text{O} (d,p) {}^{25}\text{O} }$ reaction. The theoretical analysis of excited states in unbound $^{25,27}$O is based on the configuration interaction approach that accounts for couplings to the scattering continuum. We use invariant-mass spectroscopy to measure neutron-unbound states in $^{25}$O. For the theoretical approach, we use the complex-energy Gamow Shell Model and Density Matrix Renormalization Group method with a finite-range two-body interaction optimized to the bound states and resonances of $^{23-26}$O, assuming a core of $^{22}$O. We predict energies, decay widths, and asymptotic normalization coefficients. Our calculations in a large $spdf$ space predict several low-lying excited states in $^{25}$O of positive and negative parity, and we obtain an experimental limit on the relative cross section of a possible ${ {J}^π = {1/2}^{+} }$ state with respect to the ground-state of $^{25}$O at $σ_{1/2+}/σ_{g.s.} = 0.25_{-0.25}^{+1.0}$. We also discuss how the observation of negative parity states in $^{25}$O could guide the search for the low-lying negative parity states in $^{27}$O. Previous experiments based on the proton knockout of $^{26}$F suffered from the low cross sections for the population of excited states in $^{25}$O because of low spectroscopic factors. In this respect, neutron transfer reactions carry more promise.
Note on counterterms in asymptotically flat spacetimes
Creators: name: Astefanesei, Dumitru
name: Mann, Robert B.
name: Stelea, Cristian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider in more detail the covariant counterterm proposed by Mann and Marolf in asymptotically flat spacetimes. With an eye to specific practical computations using this counterterm, we present explicit expressions in general $d$ dimensions that can be used in the so-called `cylindrical cut-off' to compute the action and the associated conserved quantities for an asymptotically flat spacetime. As applications, we show how to compute the action and the conserved quantities for the NUT-charged spacetime and for the Kerr black hole in four dimensions.
description: 13 pages, v. 2 added references
Designing a mobile application for field use on dairies experiencing a toxicologic event
Creators: name: Gallego, Steven
name: Kinde, Hailu
Publisher: name: The Bovine Practitioner
Year: 2013

description: Large-scale toxic events on dairies can be difficult emotionally and financially. Many diseases of animals manifest over predicable time frames, whereas toxic events can appear quite suddenly and unexpectedly. Severity of toxic signs can range from non-clinical to clinical. Mortality rates can vary, but in today's concentrated animal feeding units high mortalities can be quite devastating. In addition to the potential disruption of milk shipped and cows lost, a toxic event also presents a possible food safety and public health issue that potentially erodes consumer confidence. Quick and accurate assessment of a toxic event is crucial for the health of both the animals and people consuming products derived from affected animals. The objective of this paper is to describe a smartphone or tablet application (app) that can be downloaded to assist field personnel investigating a toxic event.
description: The Bovine Practitioner, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2014 Spring)
Tropidion boliviensis Galileo and Martins 2010, new species
Creators: name: Galileo, Maria Helena M.
name: Martins, Ubirajara R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Tropidion
Tropidion boliviensis

description: Tropidion boliviensis Galileo and Martins, new species
(Figure 5)
 Description. Head black, densely pubescent. Upper ocular lobes with three rows of ommatidia. Vertex punctate between the antennal tubercles and upper ocular lobes. Antennae (female) reach elytral apices approximately at the tip of antennomere VII. Scape reddish-black, finely punctuate, pyriform, grooved at base.
Prothorax black and reddish at the base. Pronotum densely pubescent, except at the anterior onefourth portion (where the pubescence is very sparse) and on the central tubercle. Five pronotal tubercles slightly apparent on a dorsal view, with the exception of the central tubercle, more visible through a side view. Prothorax sides pubescent, anterior margin shining. Prosternum with “V-shaped” pubescence at the posterior half. Mesosternum and metasternum reddish, covered by a whitish pubescence.
Elytra (Figure 5) with a reddish anterior half and black apical half; each having a whitish, oblique, dorsal spot on the anterior half and an oblique band between the dominant colours; this band turns forward near the margin, through a short prolongation. Rough punctures near the scutellum and along the suture. The reddish portion of the elytra is also punctate. Each elytron with five longitudinal rows of hairs. Elytral apices with an external long spine.
Femora reddish. Tips of metafemora slightly projecting. Tibiae and tarsi black. Urosternite I reddish; II to V black.
Measurements in mm. Total length, 11.4; prothorax length, 2.6; largest prothoracic width, 1.9; elytra length, 7.8; humeral width, 2.5.
 Type material. Female holotype, BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz: Buena Vista (Hotel Flora and Fauna, 4,6 km SSE) 22-25.X.2007, Galileo and Martins col. (MNKM).
 Etymology. The epithet is a Latin adjective referring to the native country (Bolivia).
 Diagnosis. Tropidion boliviensis sp. nov. is similar to Tropidion fairmairei (Gounelle, 1909) by the coloring pattern and dense pronotum pubescence. It differs through its upper ocular lobes, with three rows of ommatidia, pronotum glabrous near the anterior margin, with a pronounced and glabrous centroposterior tubercle, elytra with rough punctures and its anterior spot on the elytra, which prolongs towards the margin without reaching it.
In T. fairmairei, the superior ocular lobes present four rows of ommatidia, the pronotum is pubescent on the sides of the anterior one-third, the central tubercle is barely projecting, the elytra do not present rough punctures and the anterior elytra spot is rounded.
description: Published as part of Galileo, Maria Helena M. & Martins, Ubirajara R., 2010, New species of Cerambycinae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from South America, pp. 1-9 in Insecta Mundi 2010 (115) on pages 5-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5164338