cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Model analysis of magnetic susceptibility of Sr$_2$IrO$_4$ - 2D $J_{\rm eff}$ = 1/2 Heisenberg system with competing interlayer couplings
Creators: name: Takayama, Tomohiro
name: Matsumoto, Akiyo
name: Jackeli, George
name: Takagi, Hidenori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the analysis of magnetic susceptibility $χ$($T$) of Sr$_2$IrO$_4$ single crystal in the paramagnetic phase. We formulate the theoretical susceptibility based on isotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnetism incorporating the Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction exactly, and include the interlayer couplings in a mean-field approximation. $χ$($T$) above $T_{\rm N}$ was found to be well described by the model, indicating the predominant Heisenberg exchange consistent with the microscopic theory. The analysis points to a competition of nearest and next-nearest neighbor interlayer couplings, which results in the up-up-down-down configuration of the in-plane canting moments identified by the diffraction experiments.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Associations of serum biomarkers of stress and inflammation measured at arrival with bovine respiratory disease incidence, mortality, and growth of calves transported within the first 4 days of life
Creators: name: Celestino, M. L. K.
name: Menta, P. R.
name: Fernandes, L.
name: Poit, D.
name: Neves, R. C.
name: Caixeta, L. S.
name: Machado, V. S.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is 1 of the major causes of mortality and growth delay in pre-weaned calves. Stressful events, such as commingling and transportation, are predisposing factors to BRD. Elevation in circulating concentrations of the inflammatory biomarker haptoglobin (Hp), and stress biomarkers cortisol and l-lactate, have been observed in calves after long-distance transportation. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate the association between circulating levels of Hp, cortisol, and lactate at day of arrival and BRD incidence, mortality, and growth of calves transported within the first 4 days of life. We hypothesized that higher levels of Hp, cortisol, and lactate are associated with higher BRD incidence and mortality, and with delayed growth during the pre-weaning period.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
MPEC 2023-S86 : 2022 UV24
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Hidden in Plain Sight: the Nat Images of Myanmar
Creators: name: Bamford, Sally Jane
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 2017
Subjects: nat
nats
images
Myanmar
Burma
art
art history

description: Supernatural beings known as ‘nats’ are widely represented in Myanmar art. Until now they have been a neglected area of research, overshadowed by an academic focus on the country’s Buddhist art and architecture. The research for this thesis analyses why the nats are depicted in particular ways, how this has changed over the centuries, and why they are placed in certain contexts. Close examination of primary sources highlights the disconnect between Western and local understanding of the different kinds of nat and their role in Myanmar culture. Clarification of the different typologies of nat is a crucial part of the research. The findings presented highlight the limitations of the resources currently available on the nats, and dispel the misconceptions and ambiguity around the different types. This is particularly important in relation to the pantheon generically known as the ‘Thirty-Seven Nats’. For the first time, a formal art historical analysis of the imagery of Myanmar’s nats is provided. Images of the nats are examined in light of their different typologies, to identify the iconography used in their creation. An analysis of the stylistic development of nat imagery from the 11th century is established for the main media used in their artistic representations. It is argued that the different typologies of the nats reflect their fundamental role as guardians spirits of very different physical and conceptual spaces. Art is used to frame this narrative, and as nats have been made in such a wide variety of media and across all time periods, their imagery reflects how devotees have interacted with their temporal and spiritual worlds throughout history.
Minimum energy loss waterways, design and numerical performance modelling
Creators: name: Winston, Frank Brian.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Whole blood RNA-Seq analysis of stocker calves reveals insights into BRD
Creators: name: Scott, M. A.
name: Woolums, A. R.
name: Swiderski, C. E.
name: Perkins, A. D.
name: Nanduri, B.
name: Smith, D. R.
name: Karisch, B. B.
name: Epperson, W. B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in stocker cattle. It is difficult to predict which cattle will develop BRD. Improved prediction could facilitate more responsible and rational use of antimicrobials and vaccines to limit BRD. We hypothesize that altered transcriptional profiles in the blood of stocker calves on arrival represent regulatory pathways including biomarkers useful to improve prediction of BRD risk.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
GECEA: A cost-effective modeling study of treatments for advanced esophageal cancer in Spain
Creators: name: Santero, Marilina
name: Alonso-Coello, Pablo
name: Lazo, Camila Ignacia Quirland
name: De La Torre-Pérez, Laura
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: supportive care
subject: advanced cancer
subject: esophageal cancer
subject: health economics

description: This study aims to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of different treatment alternatives for advanced EC in Spain, using a modeling approach. The results of this study could inform clinical decision-making and resource allocation, ultimately improving patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs.
Ferromagnetic resonance study of composite Co/Ni - FeCoB free layers with perpendicular anisotropy
Creators: name: Devolder, T.
name: Liu, E.
name: Swerts, J.
name: Couet, S.
name: Lin, T.
name: Mertens, S.
name: Furnemont, A.
name: Kar, G.
name: De Boeck, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the properties of composite free layers with perpendicular anisotropy. The free layers are made of a soft FeCoB layer ferromagnetically coupled by a variable spacer (Ta, W, Mo) to a very anisotropic [Co/Ni] multilayer embodied in a magnetic tunnel junction meant for spin torque memory applications. For this we use broadband ferromagnetic resonance to follow the field dependence of the acoustical and optical excitation of the composite free layer in both in-plane and out-of-plane applied fields. The modeling provides the interlayer exchange coupling, the anisotropies and the damping factors. The popular Ta spacer are outperformed by W and even more by Mo, which combines the strongest interlayer exchange coupling without sacrificing anisotropies, damping factors and transport properties.
description: To appear the Applied Physics Letters, 2016
Comparison of the nasopharyngeal bacterial microbiota of beef calves raised without the use of antimicrobials between healthy calves and those diagnosed with bovine respiratory disease
Creators: name: McMullin, C.
name: Orsel, K.
name: Alexander, T. W.
name: Van Der Meer, F. J.
name: Plastow, G.
name: Timsit, E.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: It has been shown that the composition of the nasopharyngeal bacterial microbiota plays a role in respiratory health. However, the role of this microbiota in the development of bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is still not well defined. What we know about the composition of the bovine nasopharyngeal bacterial microbiota mainly comes from beef calves that have received mass medication (metaphylaxis) with an antimicrobial on arrival at a feedlot. Unfortunately, antimicrobials do not just target pathogenic bacteria, and antimicrobial use can have an impact on the entire respiratory microbiota, including commensals. There are currently no data on the composition of the nasopharyngeal microbiota of healthy feedlot cattle and those diagnosed with BRD that are raised without antimicrobials (i.e. natural cattle), limiting our understanding of the disease. As the beef industry begins to move away from the use of antimicrobials, this information will become increasingly valuable. Therefore, the objective of this study was to characterize and compare the nasopharyngeal bacterial microbiota in feedlot cattle raised without antimicrobials that were healthy or diagnosed with BRD.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Beyond Movie Recommendations: Solving the Continuous Cold Start Problem in E-commerceRecommendations
Creators: name: Kiseleva, Julia
name: Tuzhilin, Alexander
name: Kamps, Jaap
name: Mueller, Melanie J. I.
name: Bernardi, Lucas
name: Davis, Chad
name: Kovacek, Ivan
name: Einarsen, Mats Stafseng
name: Hiemstra, Djoerd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many e-commerce websites use recommender systems or personalized rankers to personalize search results based on their previous interactions. However, a large fraction of users has no prior inter-actions, making it impossible to use collaborative filtering or rely on user history for personalization. Even the most active users mayvisit only a few times a year and may have volatile needs or different personas, making their personal history a sparse and noisy signal at best. This paper investigates how, when we cannot rely on the user history, the large scale availability of other user interactions still allows us to build meaningful profiles from the contextual data and whether such contextual profiles are useful to customize the ranking, exemplified by data from a major online travel agentBooking.com.Our main findings are threefold: First, we characterize the Continuous Cold Start Problem(CoCoS) from the viewpoint of typical e-commerce applications. Second, as explicit situational con-text is not available in typical real world applications, implicit cues from transaction logs used at scale can capture essential features of situational context. Third, contextual user profiles can be created offline, resulting in a set of smaller models compared to a single huge non-contextual model, making contextual ranking available with negligible CPU and memory footprint. Finally we conclude that, in an online A/B test on live users, our contextual ranker in-creased user engagement substantially over a non-contextual base-line, with click-through-rate (CTR) increased by 20%. This clearly demonstrates the value of contextual user profiles in a real world application.
FiSH: fair spatial hot spots
Creators: name: Deepak, P.
name: Sundaram, Sowmya S.
Publisher: name: Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fairness in AI
subject: Hot spot detection
subject: Unsupervised learning
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::400 | Sprache, Linguistik

description: Pervasiveness of tracking devices and enhanced availability of spatially located data has deepened interest in using them for various policy interventions, through computational data analysis tasks such as spatial hot spot detection. In this paper, we consider, for the first time to our best knowledge, fairness in detecting spatial hot spots. We motivate the need for ensuring fairness through statistical parity over the collective population covered across chosen hot spots. We then characterize the task of identifying a diverse set of solutions in the noteworthiness-fairness trade-off spectrum, to empower the user to choose a trade-off justified by the policy domain. Being a novel task formulation, we also develop a suite of evaluation metrics for fair hot spots, motivated by the need to evaluate pertinent aspects of the task. We illustrate the computational infeasibility of identifying fair hot spots using naive and/or direct approaches and devise a method, codenamed FiSH, for efficiently identifying high-quality, fair and diverse sets of spatial hot spots. FiSH traverses the tree-structured search space using heuristics that guide it towards identifying noteworthy and fair sets of spatial hot spots. Through an extensive empirical analysis over a real-world dataset from the domain of human development, we illustrate that FiSH generates high-quality solutions at fast response times. Towards assessing the relevance of FiSH in real-world context, we also provide a detailed discussion of how it could fit within the current practice of hot spots policing, as read within the historical context of the evolution of the practice.
Charge density wave modulation and gap measurements in CeTe$_3$
Creators: name: Ralevic, Uros
name: Lazarevic, Nenad
name: Baum, Andreas
name: Eiter, Hans-Martin
name: Hackl, Rudi
name: Giraldo-Gallo, Paula
name: Fisher, Ian R.
name: Petrovic, Cedomir
name: Gajic, Rados
name: Popovic, Zoran V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of charge density wave (CDW) ordering in CeTe$_3$ at room temperature using a scanning tunneling microscope and Raman spectroscopy. Two characteristic CDW ordering wavevectors obtained from the Fourier analysis are assessed to be $|{\bf \textbf{c}}^\ast-{\bf q}|=4.19\,{\rm nm}^{-1}$ and $|{\bf q}|=10.26\,{\rm nm}^{-1}$ where $|{\bf c}^\ast| = 2π/c$ is the reciprocal lattice vector. The scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements, along with inelastic light (Raman) scattering measurements, show a CDW gap $Δ_{\rm max}$ of approximately 0.37 eV. In addition to the CDW modulation, we observe an organization of the Te sheet atoms in an array of alternating V- and N- groups along the CDW modulation, as predicted in the literature.
Four-body Central Configurations with Adjacent Equal Masses
Creators: name: Deng, Yiyang
name: Li, Bingyu
name: Zhang, Shiqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For any convex non-collinear central configuration of the planar Newtonian 4-body problem with adjacent equal masses $m_1=m_2\neq m_3=m_4$, with equal lengths for the two diagonals, we prove it must possess a symmetry and must be an isosceles trapezoid; furthermore, which is also an isosceles trapezoid when the length between $m_1$ and $ m_4$ equals the length between $m_2$ and $ m_3$.
Comparison of whole-genome sequencing and pulsed field gel electrophoresis for characterizing relationships in Mannheimia haemolytica
Creators: name: Snyder, E. R.
name: Logue, C. M.
name: Credille, B. C.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: It has long been presumed that cattle developing BRD tend to become sick from their own native strains of Mannheimia haemolytica. Previous work by others has demonstrated that the diversity of Mannheimia haemolytica, as evaluated by PFGE, within a pen of cattle remains high during BRD outbreaks. Prior to the development of whole genome sequencing (WGS), pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) had been considered the gold standard for characterizing outbreaks of bacterial disease. Recently, many studies from the human literature have raised question regarding the accuracy of PFGE as WGS has become more widely implemented. Studies investigating Acinetobacter baumanii, Clostridium difficile, and vancomycin resistant Enterococci outbreaks in hospitals have shown WGS to have superior discernment and more accurately classify strains when compared to PFGE. Considering the superiority of WGS in characterizing outbreaks in all of these species, if may be that relationships inferred in Mannheimia haemolytica based on PFGE could be inaccurate. It is therefore our goal to compare the discernment ability of PFGE and WGS for Mannheimia haemolytica isolates collected from beef cattle.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Hypertension and its correlates among pregnant women consuming tobacco in India: Findings from the National Family health Survey-4
Creators: name: Grover, Shekhar
name: Anand, Tanu
name: Kishore, Jugal
name: Sinha, D.N.
name: Malhotra, Sumit
name: Dhawan, Priyanka
name: Goel, Sonu
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Background: Hypertension (high blood pressure) during pregnancy has significant implications on maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Tobacco use during pregnancy amplifies this burden and increases the risk of hypertensive disorders along with adverse birth outcomes. The current study aimed to evaluate the joint risk atpopulation-level of tobacco use and hypertension among pregnant women in India. Methodology: Data of 32,428 “currently pregnant” women aged 15–49 years was obtained from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16to estimate bivariate (tobacco user vs. non-user) and binomial logistic regression analysis in order to get odds ratios of having hypertension. The analysis included socio-demographic variables such as the respondent’s age, type of residence, wealth index, and education status. Results: Prevalence of hypertension among pregnant tobacco users (7.5%) was significantly higher than that of non-users (6.1%). The unadjusted odds of having hypertension were 1.17 (95% CI: 1.02–1.35) times among tobacco users than non-users and increased with age (p < 0.001) and in rural areas (p = 0.02) after adjusting for other covariates. However, it varied inversely with education status (p > 0.05; NS) and wealth quintile (p = 0.01).Conclusion: The present study identifies the higher co-existence of hypertension among tobacco-using pregnant women and highlights the need for tobacco control/cessation and hypertension prevention and management during pregnancy considering socio-demographic disparities.
Non-destructive Evaluation of Workpiece Properties along the Hybrid Bearing Bushing Process Chain
Creators: name: Fricke, Lara Vivian
name: Thürer, Susanne Elisabeth
name: Kahra, Christoph
name: Bährisch, Susanne
name: Herbst, Sebastian
name: Nürnberger, Florian
name: Behrens, Bernd-Arno
name: Maier, Hans Jürgen
name: Klose, Christian
name: Barton, Sebastian
Publisher: name: New York, NY : Springer
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: aluminum
subject: bond evaluation
subject: hybrid bulk metal component
subject: non-destructive testing
subject: process chain monitoring
subject: steel
subject: tailored forming
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::660 | Technische Chemie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::670 | Industrielle und handwerkliche Fertigung

description: To combine the advantages of two materials, hybrid bulk metal workpieces are attractive for subsequent processes such as metal forming. However, hybrid materials rely on the initial bond strength for the effective transfer of applied loads. Thus, a non-destructive evaluation of the bonding along the production process chain is of high interest. To evaluate to what extent non-destructive testing can be employed to monitor the bonding quality between the joining partners steel and aluminum and to characterize the age hardening condition of the aluminum component, ultrasonic testing and electrical conductivity measurements were applied. It was found that a lateral angular co-extrusion process can create homogeneous bonding although the electrical conductivity of the aluminum is altered during processing. A previous bonding before the subsequent die forging process leads to a sufficient bonding in areas with little deformation and is therefore, advantageous compared to unjoined semi-finished products, which do not form a bonding if the deformation ratio is too small. An influence of the subsequent heat treatment on the bonding is not visible in the ultrasonic testing signals though a homogenized electrical conductivity can be detected, which indicates uniform artificial aging conditions of the aluminum alloy
Investigation of a simplified method for including joint flexibility in the determination of static behaviour of braced frames
Creators: name: McCarthy, Christopher Brian.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Antimicrobial resistance in bovine respiratory disease
Creators: name: Wennekamp, Trent R.
name: Campbell, John R.
name: Waldner, Cheryl L.
name: Larson, Kathy
name: Windeyer, Claire
name: Trokhymchuk, Anatoliy
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Antimicrobials are important tools in modern beef production. Antimicrobial drugs are often used for metaphylaxis to prevent and treat early cases of bovine respiratory disease complex (BRD) as well as for therapeutic purposes in feedlot cattle. Antimicrobial resistance of bovine respiratory pathogens can result in treatment failures and losses associated with increased treatment costs and mortalities. Mixing of cattle from multiple sources within auction markets has always been a significant risk factor for BRD. The stress of establishing a social dominance hierarchy along with the mixing of pathogens from a variety of farm sources can increase the risk of BRD in weaned calves. One method feedlots have used to mitigate this risk is to reduce mixing stress by purchasing calves directly from the ranch rather than through the auction market. The objective of this study was to describe the prevalence and antimicrobial sensitivity of 3 major bovine respiratory disease (BRD) bacterial pathogens at arrival and again later in the feeding period in feedlot calves derived from the auction market and from a single ranch source.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
title: Sound Pedagogy – Teaching the Audible Dimensions of Poetry: A Conversation (plus clips and sample syllabus) with Chris Mustazza
Creators: name: Mustazza, Chris
Publisher: name: SpokenWeb
Year: 2020

description: In 2018 I had the opportunity to visit one of Chris Mustazza's interdisciplinary literature classes taught at the University of Pennsylvania, a course called Poetry Audio Lab: Modernism & Sound Studies. I was amazed at how seamlessly he had woven questions of poetics, performance, media history, and digital approaches to listening and analysis into his syllabus. As one of the early experimenters in teaching poetry through a major audio poetry archive (PennSound), and as a regular collaborator with Al Filreis, another innovator in this area who draws upon the audio archive in his wide-reaching ModPo MOOC, talking to Chris about teaching proved a unique opportunity to think about rationale, methods and effects of teaching poetry with sound.
Observations of three young gamma-ray pulsars with the Gran Telescopio Canarias
Creators: name: Mignani, R. P.
name: Rea, N.
name: Testa, V.
name: Marelli, M.
name: De Luca, A.
name: Pierbattista, M.
name: Shearer, A.
name: Torres, D. F.
name: Wilhelmi, E. De Ona
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the analysis of the first deep optical observations of three isolated $γ$-ray pulsars detected by the {\em Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope}: the radio-loud PSR\, J0248+6021 and PSR\, J0631+1036, and the radio-quiet PSR\, J0633+0632. The latter has also been detected in the X rays. The pulsars are very similar in their spin-down age ($τ\sim$40--60 kyrs), spin-down energy ($\dot{E} \sim10^{35}$ erg s$^{-1}$), and dipolar surface magnetic field ($B \sim 3$--$5\times10^{12}$ G). These pulsars are promising targets for multi-wavelength observations, since they have been already detected in $γ$ rays and in radio or X-rays. None of them has been detected yet in the optical band. We observed the three pulsar fields in 2014 with the Spanish 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). We could not find any candidate optical counterpart to the three pulsars close to their most recent radio or {\em Chandra} positions down to $3 σ$ limits of $g'\sim27.3$, $g'\sim27$, $g'\sim27.3$ for PSR\, J0248+6021, J0631+1036, and J0633+0632, respectively. From the inferred optical upper limits and estimated distance and interstellar extinction, we derived limits on the pulsar optical luminosity. We also searched for the X-ray counterpart to PSR\, J0248+6021 with \chan\ but we did not detect the pulsar down to a 3$σ$ flux limit of $5 \times 10^{-14}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ (0.3--10 keV). For all these pulsars, we compared the optical flux upper limits with the extrapolations in the optical domain of the $γ$-ray spectra and compared their multi-wavelength properties with those of other $γ$-ray pulsars of comparable age.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Genotyping and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Mannheimia haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida and Histophilus somni isolated from the upper and lower respiratory tract of feedlot cattle
Creators: name: Timsit, E.
name: Alexander, T. W.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: In the last 10 years, the prevalence of Pasteurellaceae resistant against drugs typically used for bronchopneumonia (BP) control has increased in feedlot cattle. Surprisingly, it is not clear whether this increase in the prevalence of multidrug resistant (MDR) bacteria is due to the spread of 1 or few multiple MDR clones among cattle during the feeding period (i.e. horizontal spread) or due to the recrudescence of MDR clones already present in the respiratory tract of cattle upon arrival at feedlots. Recently, we reported a high prevalence of MDR M. haemolytica, P. multocida, and H. somni isolated from cattle with BP in 4 feedlots in Western Canada. Unfortunately, as we did not genotype these isolates, it was not possible to determine whether a few or a large number of MDR clones were present in these feedlots, supporting either a horizontal spread of MDR clones among cattle or a recrudescence from carriers. Therefore, the objective was to genotype M. haemolytica, P. multocida, and H. somni isolates using pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE).
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
The parcel hub scheduling problem with limited conveyor capacity and controllable unloading speeds
Creators: name: Bugow, Stefan
name: Kellenbrink, Carolin
Publisher: name: Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, NY : Springer
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetic algorithms
subject: MIP
subject: Parcel hubs
subject: Scheduling policies
subject: Simulation
subject: Truck scheduling
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::650 | Management

description: We investigate a specific truck scheduling problem at cross-docks in the postal service industry on an operational level aiming to maximise the number of duly parcels assuming fixed departure times of the outbound trucks. The inbound gates and the conveyors as means of transportation inside the hub constitute the bottleneck resources. As a novel extension, we propose flexible unloading speeds to efficiently utilise the scarce resources. We formalise the problem with a mixed integer program and explicitly incorporate controllable unloading speeds of the inbound trucks. We determine the computational complexity and develop a genetic algorithm to efficiently solve the problem. Our investigation focuses on both the performance of the genetic algorithm and the applicability of the results in a real-world environment by implementing scheduling policies in a simulation model that considers individual parcel interactions. Based on our experimental results, we can state that especially in problem settings with scarce conveyor capacities, our approach to incorporate controllable unloading speeds has the potential of significantly increasing the number of duly parcels.
Association of lung lesions measured by thoracic ultrasonography at first diagnosis of bronchopneumonia with relapse rate and growth performance in feedlot cattle
Creators: name: Timsit, E.
name: Tison, N.
name: Booker, C. W.
name: Buczinski, S.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Severity of lung lesions quantified by thoracic ultrasonography (TUS) at time of bronchopneumonia (BP) diagnosis predicted death among feedlot steers non-treated for this condition. Further research is now needed to confirm that lung lesions detected by TUS can be associated with negative outcomes in cattle with BP that were subsequently treated for this condition. Therefore, the objective was to quantify effects on relapse rate and average daily gain (ADG) of lung lesions detected by TUS at first BP diagnosis in feedlot cattle.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Comparison of thoracic ultrasonography and thoracic radiography to detect lung lesions in hospitalized dairy calves
Creators: name: Berman, J.
name: Fecteau, G.
name: Francoz, D.
name: Buczinski, S.
name: Masseau, I.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: The detection of lung lesions in dairy calves is commonly achieved using thoracic ultrasonography (TUS) and radiography (TR). However, it remains unclear from the literature if one diagnostic procedure is superior to another. The main objective of this study was therefore to evaluate the sensitivity (Se) and specificity (Sp) of TUS and TR to detect lung lesions in dairy calves with the hypothesis that TUS and TR have similar Se and Sp.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Temporal variability from the two-component advective flow solution and its observational evidence
Creators: name: Dutta, Broja G.
name: Chakrabarti, Sandip K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the propagating oscillatory shock model, the oscillation of the post-shock region, i.e., the Compton cloud, causes the observed low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs). The evolution of QPO frequency is explained by the systematic variation of the Compton cloud size, i.e., the steady radial movement of the shock front, which is triggered by the cooling of the post-shock region. Thus, analysis of energy-dependent temporal properties in different variability time scales can diagnose the dynamics and geometry of accretion flows around black holes. We study these properties for the high inclination black hole source XTE J1550-564 during its 1998 outburst and the low-inclination black hole source GX 339-4 during its 2006-07 outburst using RXTE/PCA data, and we find that they can satisfactorily explain the time lags associated with the QPOs from these systems. We find a smooth decrease of the time lag as a function of time in the rising phase of both sources. In the declining phase the time lag increases with time. We find a systematic evolution of QPO frequency and hard lags in these outbursts. In XTE J1550-564, the lag changes from hard to soft (i.e., from a positive to a negative value) at a crossing frequency ($ν_C$) of $\sim 3.4$ Hz. We present possible mechanisms to explain the lag behavior of high and low-inclination sources within the framework of a single two-component advective flow model (TCAF).
description: 8 pages, 8 figure
The healthful plant-based diet index as a tool for obesity prevention—The healthy lifestyle community program cohort 3 study
Creators: name: Koeder, Christian
name: Alzughayyar, Dima
name: Anand, Corinna
name: Kranz, Ragna-Marie
name: Husain, Sarah
name: Schoch, Nora
name: Hahn, Andreas
name: Englert, Heike
Publisher: name: Chichester : Wiley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: cardiovascular disease
subject: healthy diet
subject: lifestyle medicine
subject: obesity prevention
subject: plant-based diet
subject: weight loss
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::610 | Medizin, Gesundheit

description: Background: World-wide the prevalence of obesity is high, and promoting a shift toward more healthful and more plant-based dietary patterns appears to be one promising strategy to address this issue. A dietary score to assess adherence to a healthy plant-based diet is the healthful plant-based diet index. While there is evidence from cohort studies that an increased healthful plant-based diet index is associated with improved risk markers, evidence from intervention studies is still lacking. Methods: A lifestyle intervention was conducted with mostly middle-aged and elderly participants from the general population (n = 115). The intervention consisted of a 16-month lifestyle program focusing on a healthy plant-based diet, physical activity, stress management, and community support. Results: After 10 weeks, significant improvements were seen in dietary quality, body weight, body mass index, waist circumference, total cholesterol, measured and calculated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, oxidized LDL particles, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, remnant cholesterol, glucose, insulin, blood pressure, and pulse pressure. After 16 months, significant decreases were seen in body weight (−1.8 kg), body mass index (−0.6 kg/m2), and measured LDL cholesterol (−12 mg/dl). Increases in the healthful plant-based diet index were associated with risk marker improvements. Conclusions: The recommendation of moving toward a plant-based diet appears acceptable and actionable and may improve body weight. The healthful plant-based diet index can be a useful parameter for intervention studies.
Transient vs persistent subclinical hypocalcemia
Creators: name: McArt, J. A. A.
name: Neves, R. C.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Decreased blood calcium (Ca) concentration in the early postpartum period, often diagnosed as subclinical hypocalcemia (SCH), is a common occurrence in Holstein cows. Our objectives were to evaluate the association of SCH duration with the risk of early lactation negative events and milk production.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
The potential of continuous hydrologic modelling for design flood estimation
Creators: name: Muncaster, Steven Huia.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Psychological distance towards COVID-19: Geographical and hypothetical distance predict attitudes and mediate knowledge
Creators: name: Blauza, Simon
name: Heuckmann, Benedikt
name: Kremer, Kerstin
name: Büssing, Alexander Georg
Publisher: name: New York, NY : Springer
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Attitudes
subject: Behavior
subject: COVID-19
subject: Knowledge
subject: Psychological distance
subject: Warning-app
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::100 | Philosophie::150 | Psychologie

description: While different antecedents have been examined to explain peoples’ reactions towards COVID-19, there is only scarce understanding about the role of the subjective closeness and distance to the pandemic. Within the current study, we applied the concept of psychological distance to understand the distance towards COVID-19 and investigated its (1) connection with preventive attitudes and proactive behaviors, (2) context-specific antecedents, and its (3) mediating effect of knowledge on attitudes. Using an online sample from a German quantitative cross-sectional study (N = 395, M = 32.2 years, SD = 13.9 years, 64.3% female) in July 2020, a time with a general low incidence of people infected with Sars-CoV2, we measured relevant socio-psychological constructs addressing COVID-19 and included further information from external sources. Based on a path model, we found geographical distance as a significant predictor of cognitive attitudes towards COVID-19. Furthermore, hypothetical distance (i.e., feeling to be likely affected by COVID-19) predicted not only participants’ affective, cognitive, and behavioral attitudes, but also the installation of a corona warning-app. While several variables affected the different dimensions of psychological distance, hypothetical and geographical distance mediated the effect of knowledge on attitudes. These results underline the role of geographical and hypothetical distance for health-related behaviors and education. For example, people will only comply with preventive measures if they feel geographically concerned by the disease, which is particularly challenging for fast-spreading global diseases such as COVID-19. Therefore, there is a need to clearly communicate the personal risks of diseases and address peoples’ hypothetical distance. © 2021, The Author(s).
Modeling Opinion Dynamics: Theoretical analysis and continuous approximation
Creators: name: Pinasco, Juan Pablo
name: Semeshenko, Viktoriya
name: Balenzuela, Pablo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Frequently we revise our first opinions after talking over with other individuals because we get convinced. Argumentation is a verbal and social process aimed at convincing. It includes conversation and persuasion. In this case, the agreement is reached because the new arguments are incorporated. In this paper we deal with a simple model of opinion formation with such persuasion dynamics, and we find the exact analytical solutions for both, long and short range interactions. A novel theoretical approach has been used in order to solve the master equations of the model with non-local kernels. Simulation results demonstrate an excellent agreement with results obtained by the theoretical estimation.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
Naming Methods Automatically after Refactoring Operations
Creators: name: Abad, Juan Carlos Recio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Method naming
Extract method refactoring
Natural language processing

description: In Object-oriented Programming (OOP), the Cognitive Complexity (CC) of software is a metric of the difficulty associated with understanding and maintaining the source code. This is usually measured at the method level, taking into account the number of control flow sentences and their nesting level. One way to reduce the CC associated to a method is by extracting code into new methods without altering any existing functionality. However, this involves deciding on new names that are representative of the functionality of the extracted code.
 This work focuses on large language models to automate the process of assigning new methods names after refactoring operations in software projects. We use the OpenAI Chat API with the text-davinci-003 model in orer to perform coding tasks. This work studies the capability of this technique for assigning names to new extracted methods during the evolution of a code base. Such evolution comprises continuous extraction operations to study how the method name semantics stability evolves. We found the precision of the model to be highly acceptable, achieving in many cases a level similar to that of a human. However, there are also a few cases in which it fails to provide appropriate names or does not even provide a name inside the indicated standards.
Hybrid clustering-classification neural network in the medical diagnostics of reactive arthritis
Creators: name: Bodyanskiy, Yevgeniy
name: Vynokurova, Olena
name: Savvo, Volodymyr
name: Tverdokhlib, Tatiana
name: Mulesa, Pavlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The hybrid clustering-classification neural network is proposed. This network allows increasing a quality of information processing under the condition of overlapping classes due to the rational choice of a learning rate parameter and introducing a special procedure of fuzzy reasoning in the clustering process, which occurs both with an external learning signal (supervised) and without the one (unsupervised). As similarity measure neighborhood function or membership one, cosine structures are used, which allow to provide a high flexibility due to self-learning-learning process and to provide some new useful properties. Many realized experiments have confirmed the efficiency of proposed hybrid clustering-classification neural network; also, this network was used for solving diagnostics task of reactive arthritis.
The Headphone and Loudspeaker Test – Part I: Suggestions for controlling characteristics of playback devices in internet experiments
Creators: name: Wycisk, Yves
name: Kopiez, Reinhard
name: Bergner, Jakob
name: Sander, Kilian
name: Preihs, Stephan
name: Peissig, Jürgen
name: Platz, Friedrich
Publisher: name: New York, NY : Springer
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Confounding variables
subject: Control variables
subject: Internet experiment
subject: Level adjustment
subject: Mono/stereo playback
subject: Playback characteristics
subject: Remote testing
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::100 | Philosophie::150 | Psychologie

description: In internet experiments on auditory perception, playback devices may be a confounding variable reducing internal validity. A procedure to remotely test multiple characteristics of playback devices does not currently exist. Thus, the main goals of this study were to (i) develop and (ii) evaluate a comprehensive, efficient, and easy-to-handle test procedure for the reliable control and identification of playback device characteristics in online experiments. Based on a counting task paradigm, the first part of the Headphone and Loudspeaker Test (HALT–Part I) was developed with which researchers can standardize sound level adjustments, detect stereo/mono playback, and assess lower frequency limits. In a laboratory study (N = 40), HALT–Part I was evaluated with four playback devices (circumaural and intra-aural headphones; external and laptop loudspeakers). Beforehand, the acoustical properties of all playback devices had been measured (e.g., sound pressure level, frequency response, total harmonic distortion). The analysis suggested that HALT–Part I has high test–retest reliability (rtt =.90 for level adjustment and rtt =.79 for stereo/mono detection) and is an efficient (3.5 minutes for completion) method to remotely test playback devices and listening conditions (sound level, stereo/mono playback). The procedure can help improve data quality in internet experiments. © 2022, The Author(s).
A randomized clinical trial assessing the effect of 3 different commercial oral calcium supplementation bolus on calcium dynamics and urine pH after calving
Creators: name: Ferro, P. P. C.
name: Antunes, A. M.
name: Neves, R. C.
name: Caixeta, L. S.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Calcium (Ca) homeostasis is one of the many metabolic challenges faced by a dairy cow during her transition from the dry period into lactation. The use of anionic salts during the dry period is an effective strategy to prevent clinical hypocalcemia, yet subclinical hypocalcemia (SCH) has been reported to affect up to 70% of multiparous cows. Although the use of oral calcium supplements immediately after calving is a commonly adopted method to prevent and treat SCH in multiparous cows, there is a shortage of information comparing different oral calcium products. Thus, the overall goal of this project is to evaluate the effect of different commercially available oral calcium products on postpartum serum calcium profiles of dairy cows. Additional objectives are: determine milk production, urine pH, and Ca concentrations during the first 5 days after oral calcium supplementation. This study is ongoing, with serum and urine samples currently being analyzed to determine Ca concentrations.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Effect of storage time and temperature on total calcium concentrations in bovine blood
Creators: name: Bach, K. D.
name: Neves, R. C.
name: Stokol, T.
name: McArt, J. A. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Subclinical hypocalcemia (SCH), a reduction in blood calcium concentrations without apparent clinical signs of milk fever, occurs in 25 to 50 % of early-postpartum dairy cows. Compared to their normocalcemic counterparts, these cows have an increased risk of subsequent disease developments, reduced milk production, and poorer reproductive performance. Due to the absence of an economical and accurate on-farm test, the mainstay of individual cow testing and herd-level monitoring is done through total calcium (tCa) analysis performed at regional laboratories or veterinary clinics. Due to practicality reasons, this often results refrigeration of whole blood for various lengths of time prior to centrifugation or prolonged storage of frozen plasma or serum. In order to provide bovine practitioners and researchers with the optimal method of handling samples for tCa testing, our objective was to examine the effect of storage time and temperature on tCa concentrations in bovine blood.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019