cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Alterations in the fecal microbiome of lactating dairy cows during experimentally induced heat stress
Creators: name: Witzke, M. C.
name: Rodrigues, R. O.
name: Shangraw, E. M.
name: Ericsson, A. C.
name: McFadden, T. B.
name: Adkins, P. R. F.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Heat stress costs the dairy industry over $1.2 billion annually as a result of decreased milk production. Mastitis incidence is higher during the warmer months of the year, presumably due to a seasonal increase in Gram-negative organisms in the bedding of dairy cows. It is currently unknown if the increased environmental load of Gram-negative organisms during warmer months is associated with cows shedding more of these organisms in their feces, which has been documented in laying hens. Our objective was to evaluate the effects of heat stress on the fecal microbiome of lactating dairy cows. We hypothesized there would be a decrease in the relative abundance of Firmicutes and an increase in the relative abundance of Bacteroidetes in the feces of dairy cows during heat stress; specifically, an increase in Gram-negative environmental mastitis pathogens.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Mastitis causes negative reproductive performance similar to other genital diseases
Creators: name: Kitade, Yasuyuki
name: Tsukano, Kenji
name: Miyamoto, Yuichi
name: Sarashina, Shinya
name: Suzuki, Kazuyuki
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Reproductive efficiency is directly related to economic efficiency in dairy farms. Genital diseases affect reproductive performance, but it is not well known which diseases have reproductive effects. In this study, the most frequently occurring diseases from calving to pregnancy in cows at a tie-stall dairy farm were investigated as to whether they affected reproductive performance.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Hydraulic aspects pf ornamental fountains
Creators: name: Mitsch, Brett.
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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Epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in domestic animal species in South Africa
Creators: name: Sellge, Stephanie
name: Wolters, Rachael
name: Qekwana, Daniel Nenene
name: Oguttu, James
name: Odoi, Agricola
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: The problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in veterinary medicine is increasing globally. Unfortunately, little is known regarding the patterns of AMR in dairy farms in South Africa and how farming practices may be contributing to the problem. For instance, infection with mastitis-causing pathogens is an important problem in the dairy industry in South Africa and injudicious use of antimicrobials against these pathogens might contribute to development of AMR. Understanding non-therapeutic management practices used in mastitis control, as well as how farmers use antimicrobials both prophylactically and therapeutically due to these infections, is important in providing information to curb or slow down the development of AMR. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to assess: 1) management practices used by farmers to control mastitis in dairy farms in Gauteng Province, South Africa; 2) knowledge and antibiotic use practices among dairy farmers; and 3) antimicrobial resistance patterns among selected mastitis-causing pathogens.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Object-Related Research Data Workflows Within NFDI4Objects and Beyond
Creators: name: Thiery, Florian
name: Mees, Allard W.
name: Weisser, Bernhard
name: Baars, Stefanie
name: Potter, Sonja
name: Senst, Henriette
name: Von Rummel, Philipp
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: NFDI4Objects (N4O) represents a broad community dealing with material remains of human history from around 3 million years and involves numerous disciplines from the humanities, cultural studies and natural sciences with an archaeological and historical focus [1]. The objects examined include potsherds of common ware, artworks such as sculptures or jewellery, serially produced objects such as coins, organic remains such as wood, bones or pollen, inscribed clay tablets, papyri and stones, architectural remains, as well as human-modified landscapes. Modern research materials such as plaster casts, analogue photographs and drawings, archival documents, books and raw digital data are equally relevant.
A field study to investigate the effect of Zuprevo administered alone or in combination with Banamine Transdermal on the health and wellbeing of transported feedlot calves on arrival at the feedlot
Creators: name: Martin, M. S.
name: Kleinhenz, M.
name: Kleinhenz, K.
name: Reppert, E.
name: Parks, T.
name: Baysinger, A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Long distance transportation can be a significant source of stress to cattle and is associated with increased risk of bovine respiratory disease (BRD). The administration of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) has been shown to reduce stress following long distance transport. The objective of this study was to compare production parameters, morbidity, and mortality between calves receiving either tildipirosin alone or in combination with transdermal flunixin on arrival at the feedlot.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Multi-channel probe for mapping acupuncture points and meridians
Creators: name: Kwok, George Siew Loong.
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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Modeling the Nearly Isotropic Comet Population in Anticipation of LSST Observations
Creators: name: Silsbee, Kedron
name: Tremaine, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We run simulations to determine the expected distribution of orbital elements of nearly isotropic comets (NICs) in the outer solar system, assuming that these comets originate in the Oort Cloud at thousands of AU and are perturbed into the planetary region by the Galactic tide. We show that the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) should detect and characterize the orbits of hundreds to thousands of NICs with perihelion distance outside 5 AU. Observing NICs in the outer solar system is our only way of directly detecting comets from the inner Oort Cloud, as these comets are dynamically excluded from the inner solar system by the giant planets. Thus the distribution of orbital elements constrains the spatial distribution of comets in the Oort cloud and the environment in which the solar system formed. Additionally, comet orbits can be characterized more precisely when they are seen far from the Sun as they have not been affected by non-gravitational forces.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal
Thermally induced magnonic spin current, thermomagnonic torques and domain wall dynamics in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
Creators: name: Wang, X. -G.
name: Chotorlishvili, L.
name: Guo, G. -H.
name: Sukhov, A.
name: Dugaev, V.
name: Barnas, J.
name: Berakdar, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermally activated domain wall (DW) motion in magnetic insulators has been considered theoretically, with a particular focus on the role of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) and thermomagnonic torques. The thermally assisted DW motion is a consequence of the magnonic spin current due to the applied thermal bias. In addition to the exchange magnonic spin current and the exchange adiabatic and the entropic spin transfer torques, we also consider the DMI-induced magnonic spin current, thermomagnonic DMI field-like torque and the DMI entropic torque. Analytical estimations are supported by numerical calculations. We found that the DMI has a substantial influence on the size and the geometry of DWs, and that the DWs become oriented parallel to the long axis of the nanostrip. Increasing the temperature smoothes the DWs. Moreover, the thermallyinduced magnonic current generates a torque on the DWs, which is responsible for their motion. From our analysis it follows that for a large enough DMI the influence of DMI-induced field-like torque is much stronger than that of the DMI and the exchange entropic torques. By manipulating the strength of the DMI constant, one can control the speed of the DW motion, and the direction of the DW motion can be switched, as well. We also found that DMI not only contributes to the total magnonic current, but also it modifies the exchange magnonic spin current, and this modification depends on the orientation of the steady state magnetization. The observed phenomenon can be utilized in spin caloritronics devices, for example in the DMI based thermal diodes. By switching the magnetization direction, one can rectify the total magnonic spin current.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Serum iron concentration as a marker of inflammation in young cows that underwent dehorning surgery
Creators: name: Murakami, Y.
name: Shimamori, T.
name: Nishi, Y.
name: Otsuka, M.
name: Fukuda, T.
name: Tsukano, K.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: The systemic reaction to proinflammatory cytokines is the production and secretion of acute phase proteins (APPs) by the liver. The common APPs measured in cattle are haptoglobin (Hp), serum amyloid A (SAA), lipopolysaccharide binding protein, alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein, and transferrin. Iron (Fe) plays important roles in many enzymatic activities, and is an essential trace element for the host and pathogen. Previous studies have demonstrated that the serum Fe concentration decreases in acute traumatic reticuloperitonitis and mastitis in cows. Therefore, the relationship between inflammation and the serum Fe concentration may be useful for the evaluation of the host response to inflammation during surgery because measurement of the serum Fe concentration is cheap and easy to perform. However, comparative studies have not been conducted regarding the serum Fe concentration in cattle that underwent surgery. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to measure changes in the serum Fe concentration in cows that underwent dehorning surgery in order to assess the usefulness of the serum Fe concentration as a marker of inflammation.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Training agencies as intermediary organizations in apprentice training in Norway and Switzerland : General purpose or niche production tools?
Creators: name: Michelsen, Svein
name: Høst, Håkon
name: Leemann, Regula Julia
name: Imdorf, Christian
Publisher: name: Abingdon [u.a.] : Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::370 | Erziehung, Schul- und Bildungswesen

description: In recent years Norway and Switzerland have introduced local training agencies (TAs), local intermediary organisations consisting of firms involved in apprentice training. In both countries, the starting point for the formation of the TA was roughly similar: enabling more firms to participate in appren- tice training. Despite similar tasks, TAs have developed dif- ferently in the two countries. In Norway TAs have evolved as general-purpose tools in the governance of apprentice train- ing while in Switzerland they are restricted to small niches. The article investigates these different outcomes using the- ories of intermediary organisations in the governance of collective skill formation systems at the local level.
Multiloop Amplitudes of Light-cone Gauge NSR String Field Theory in Noncritical Dimensions
Creators: name: Ishibashi, Nobuyuki
name: Murakami, Koichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Feynman amplitudes of light-cone gauge superstring field theory are ill-defined because of various divergences. In a previous paper, one of the authors showed that taking the worldsheet theory to be the one in a linear dilaton background $Φ=-iQX^{1}$ with Feynman $i\varepsilon$ $(\varepsilon>0)$ and $Q^{2}>10$ yields finite amplitudes. In this paper, we apply this worldsheet theory to dimensional regularization of the light-cone gauge NSR superstring field theory. We concentrate on the amplitudes for even spin structure with external lines in the (NS,NS) sector. We show that the multiloop amplitudes are indeed regularized in our scheme and that they coincide with the results in the first-quantized formalism through the analytic continuation $Q\to0$.
description: 38 pages, 6 figures
Serum amyloid A concentration as an inflammatory marker in endotoxemic model calves
Creators: name: Otsuka, M.
name: Nishi, Y.
name: Tsuchiya, M.
name: Suzuki, K.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Serum amyloid A (SAA) is an acute phase protein that increases in concentration in the serum in the early stages of inflammation. SAA is used to diagnose inflammatory diseases in humans, cats, and horses. Such an inflammatory marker to diagnose inflammatory diseases needs to be investigated in cattle. Furthermore, the relationship between systemic inflammation and serum SAA concentrations needs to be examined in order to improve food animal health care. However, no studies have been reported on the sequential change in SAA in cattle with endotoxemia. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine serum SAA concentrations in cattle with systemic inflammation caused by endotoxin.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Is diamine oxidase, which is an indicator for disease assessment in diarrheal calves, influenced by the serum copper concentration?
Creators: name: Fukuda, T.
name: Tsukano, K.
name: Otsuka, M.
name: Nishi, Y.
name: Nishi, Y.
name: Suzuki, K.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Diarrhea remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in beef calves. Calf diarrhea is problematic because it reduces productivity at the production site. In the healthy state, the intestinal villi absorb water and glucose, but when the intestinal epithelium is impaired diarrhea develops, and damage to intestinal villi reduces productivity. It is known that diamine oxidase (DAO) is produced by mucosal epithelial cells of the small intestine and is involved in the control of cell proliferation. Therefore, DAO activity has been used as a biomarker of intestinal villi status. However, as DAO is a copper (Cu)-containing enzyme, it may be reduced by copper deficiency. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the serum DAO activity level and Cu concentration in diarrheal calves, and to examine whether DAO can be used to evaluate the pathological condition of diarrhea without being affected by the serum copper concentration. In addition, we examined the sequential changes in serum DAO activity in healthy calves according to the days after birth.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Precisamos falar sobre Violência Obstétrica: Uma proposta de reflexão
Creators: name: Fernandes, Júlia Monteiro
name: Tonhom, Sílvia Franco da Rocha
name: Peres, Cássia Regina Fernandes Biffe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Produto Técnico cujo objetivo principal é promover reflexões acerca da temática Violência Obstétrica com foco no momento de formação de profissionais de saúde.
Fixed points of Wegner-Wilson flows and many-body localization
Creators: name: Pekker, David
name: Clark, Bryan K.
name: Oganesyan, Vadim
name: Refael, Gil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many-body localization (MBL) is a phase of matter that is characterized by the absence of thermalization. Dynamical generation of a large number of local quantum numbers has been identified as one key characteristic of this phase, quite possibly the microscopic mechanism of breakdown of thermalization and the phase transition itself. We formulate a robust algorithm, based on Wegner Wilson flow (WWF) renormalization, for computing these conserved quantities and their interactions. We present evidence for the existence of distinct fixed point distributions of the latter: a flat "white noise" distribution in the ergodic phase, a "1/f" law inside the MBL phase, and scale-free distributions in the transition regime.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Trend of risk factors for cardiovascular diseases among young and middle-aged indians: Insights from a nationally representative survey
Creators: name: Yadav, Kartikey
name: Behera, Shyambhavee
name: Singh, Mitasha
name: Parashar, Mamta
name: Goel, Sonu
name: Jaswal, Nidhi
name: Gupta, Arpit
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023

description: Background: India, as a nation is witnessing epidemiological transition, which is taking place across all the states at different level, over past couple of decades. Owing to the long natural history of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), early identification of these risk factors can aid in understanding the distribution and future development of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Also, studying the trend of these risk factors over time can help in prediction of burden of various CVDs in future. Thus, the present study aims at understanding the trend of various risk factors for CVDs across rural and urban India, and states.Methods: The present study was conducted using secondary data from the third, fourth and fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) conducted in India. The surveys collected data for estimation of burden of the common modifiable risk factors of CVDs including tobacco and alcohol consumption overweight/obesity, raised blood pressure, and raised blood sugar. The analysis for the present study was done among interviewed males and females between 15 and 49 years. The weighted prevalence of these risk factors was computed and binary logistic regression was done to study the predictors for the same.Results: A declining trend of tobacco (29.2% in NFHS 3; 8.1%in NFHS 5) and alcohol consumption (14.2% in NFHS 3; 3.2%in NFHS 5) was observed from 2005 -06 to 2019–21. A rising trend of overall raised blood pressure (11.4% in NFHS 4; 12.2%in NFHS 5), raised blood sugar (6.2% in NFHS 4; 8.5%in NFHS 5), and overweight and obesity (11.4% in NFHS 3; 23.6%in NFHS 5) was observed from the three rounds of the survey. The odds of all the studied risk factors were significantly higher among older age across all the rounds of the survey. Except overweight/obesity, the odds of rest all studied risk factors was found to be higher among males compared to females. Also, higher odds of alcohol consumption, overweight/obesity, raised blood pressure, and raised blood sugar were found among the participants living in urban areas compared to rural areas, across all the rounds of the survey.Conclusion: The present highlights the rising burden of CVD risk factors, including overweight and obesity, raised blood pressure and raised blood sugar, and a declining trend of tobacco and alcohol consumption across the country. The study also highlights the need for in-depth assessment of predictors of these risk factors using longitudinal study designs.
The weakest nontrivial idempotent equations
Creators: name: Olšák, Miroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: An equational condition is a set of equations in an algebraic language, and an algebraic structure satisfies such a condition if it possesses terms that meet the required equations. We find a single nontrivial equational condition which is implied by any nontrivial idempotent equational condition.
The Hanle and Zeeman polarization signals of the solar Ca II 8542 Å line
Creators: name: Štěpán, Jiří
name: Bueno, Javier Trujillo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We highlight the main results of a three-dimensional (3D) multilevel radiative transfer investigation about the solar disk-center polarization of the Ca {\sc ii} 8542 Å line. First, we investigate the linear polarization due to the atomic level polarization produced by the absorption and scattering of anisotropic radiation in a 3D model of the solar atmosphere, taking into account the symmetry breaking effects caused by its thermal, dynamic and magnetic structure. Second, we study the contribution of the Zeeman effect to the linear and circular polarization. Finally, we show examples of the Stokes profiles produced by the joint action of atomic level polarization and the Hanle and Zeeman effects. We find that the Zeeman effect tends to dominate the linear polarization signals only in the localized patches of opposite magnetic polarity where the magnetic field is relatively strong and slightly inclined, while outside such very localized patches the linear polarization is often dominated by the contribution of atomic level polarization. We demonstrate that a correct modeling of this last contribution requires taking into account the symmetry breaking effects caused by the thermal, dynamic and magnetic structure of the solar atmosphere, and that in the 3D model used the Hanle effect in forward-scattering geometry (disk center observation) mainly reduces the polarization corresponding to the zero-field case. We emphasize that, in general, a reliable modeling of the linear polarization in the Ca {\sc ii} 8542 Å line requires taking into account the joint action of atomic level polarization and the Hanle and Zeeman effects.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Acoustic Pulse Therapy (APT) as non-antibiotic treatment and prevention for mastitis in dairy cows
Creators: name: Leitner, Gabriel
name: Eduard, Papirov
name: Sela, Shefy
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: The prevalence of clinical and subclinical mammary infections ranges between 20 to 40%. As of today, the excess drug treatment in clinical mammary infections are antibiotics given during lactation. In cases of subclinical infections, no treatment is used during lactation and treatment is delivered upon entry into the dry-off period. In recent years, the awareness of the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria led to legislative processes to reduce the use of antibiotics in animal farming, therefore there is a need for a non-antibiotic treatment for mastitis. Acoustic Pulse Therapy (APT), known as “shockwave treatment”, has been widely reported to be used in orthopedics, physiotherapy, sports medicine, urology, and veterinary medicine. APT produces various responses in biological tissues, such as angiogenesis and antiinflammatory effects. A new APT-based device developed specifically for treating dairy cows produces high power, deep penetration acoustic pulses distributed over a large treatment area. Previously a number of experiments with APT were conducted on 262 cows identified with clinical or subclinical mastitis and showed >70% success in curing the infected quarter. Significant milk yield increase, reduction in SCC as well as bacterial elimination was shown, with an 80% reduction in culling rate of clinically infected cows in the APT group compared to the control group. The specific objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of APT on SCC and milk yield when applied on cows at the dry-off period.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Using Choice Experiment Data to Estimate the Value of a Statistical Species
Creators: name: Forsythe, Emily Rae
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Agricultural economics

description: Wildlife species generate value through their consumptive and non-consumptive uses. Consumptive uses of these species include hunting and trapping, while wildlife watching is an example of a non-consumptive use. Understanding the value of various wildlife is imperative for public agencies’ management decisions regarding different wildlife areas (e.g., nature preserves, state forests/parks, reservoirs, county/city parks). Individuals’ values for wildlife interactions on public lands can depend on the context in which these interactions occur as well as the probability of an interaction occurring. We utilize a stated preference choice experiment to estimate Indiana residents’ willingness to pay (WTP) for a marginal increase in the chance of seeing white-tailed deer and five furbearing species (bobcat, coyote, river otter, raccoon, red fox) while engaging in their favorite activities at Indiana recreational areas. Our WTP estimates are analogous to value of statistical life (VSL) calculations, and hence we refer to them as the “value of a statistical species” (VSS). We find that the VSS of a bobcat ranges from $22.73 to $41.30, the VSS of a coyote ranges from -$1.94 to $9.74, the VSS of a raccoon ranges from $5.25 to $21.69, the VSS of a red fox ranges from $43.31 to $62.52, the VSS of a white-tailed deer ranges from $22.70 to $27.00, and the VSS of a river otter ranges from $23.18 to $45.98. Our analysis suggests that individuals’ values for wildlife depend on the activity they are undertaking when they see the wildlife.
Sequential changes in serum iron concentration and hepatic hepcidin mRNA expression in LPS-challenged calves
Creators: name: Nishi, Yasunobu
name: Tsukano, Kenji
name: Shimamori, Toshio
name: Fukuda, Tatsuya
name: Otsuka, Marina
name: Kitade, Yasuyuki
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Inflammatory diseases caused by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) are the most frequently observed diseases in dairy and feedlot cows. The acute-phase response to LPS may regulate transcription factors and the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines, including IL-6 and hepcidin. Iron is known to play roles in many enzymatic activities, and is an essential trace element for the host and pathogen. Previous reports demonstrated that serum Fe levels decrease in inflammatory diseases due to intestinal absorption and reduction of the release of Fe by reticuloendothelial cells. In this study, we measured sequential changes in the serum Fe concentration in calves after LPS challenge in order to clarify whether the serum Fe concentration is useful as a marker of inflammation. We also examined sequential changes in mRNA levels of IL-6 and hepcidin to evaluate the inflammatory response.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Comparison of the microbiota of healthy calf eyes compared to eyes with active pinkeye infection
Creators: name: Wiener-Mastbergen, Brittanny
name: Peters, Kelli
name: Parker, Kristen
name: Lawrence, Paul
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Pinkeye, also known as infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK), is a highly contagious disease, causing inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva of the eye that can lead to ulcerations and occasionally blindness. This is a multifactorial disease caused by Moraxella bovis, Moraxella bovoculi, bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV1), and multiple Mycoplasma species. Factors instrumental in causing eye irritation and allowing for infection include excessive ultraviolet light, face flies, wind, plant material, dust, and pollen. Agents involved in pinkeye infection colonize the eyes and nasal cavities of affected animals. Control and prevention of the disease includes vaccination, fly control, environmental management, and antibiotic treatment. The economic impact resulting from pinkeye infections includes decreased weight gain, decreased weaning weight, decreased milk production, and increased treatment costs, which were estimated to be $150 million in the United States alone in 1993. There are 8 commercially licensed pinkeye vaccines manufactured by 3 companies. These vaccines only include Moraxella bovis. There is little to no publically available data supporting the efficacy of these vaccines.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Evaluation of disease occurrence and production parameters of dairy cows treated with pegbovigrastim
Creators: name: Oliveira, M. X. S.
name: McGee, D. D.
name: Brett, J. A.
name: Stone, A. E.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Pegbovigrastim is a modified form of the naturally-occurring bovine granulocyte colony-stimulating factor. At the time of the study, pegbovigrastim was commercially available under veterinary prescription as Imrestor (Elanco Animal Health, Greenfield, Indiana). According to the product label, when the product is applied 7 days before calving and again at the day of calving, clinical mastitis incidence decreases by 28% in the first 30 days of lactation in dairy cows and heifers. The objective of this study was to further demonstrate the effectiveness of Imrestor at reducing clinical mastitis incidence, and to demonstrate the effectiveness at reducing metritis incidence in the first 30 days of lactation on a commercial dairy operation.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Prevalence of ‘Mycoplasma wenyonii’ and Candidatus Mycoplasma haemobos in Wisconsin and Michigan dairy cattle herds
Creators: name: Schambow, R. A.
name: Poulsen, K.
name: Bolin, S.
name: Krahn, D.
name: Norby, B.
name: Sockett, D.
name: Ruegg, P.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Mycoplasma wenyonii (fmr. Eperythrozoon wenyonii) is a hemotrophic, epicellular bacterial parasite of cattle and is associated with clinical disorders including hemolytic anemia, decreased milk yield, and scrotal, teat, and hindlimb edema. M. wenyonii and related organism, Candidatus Mycoplasma haemobos have been found in apparently healthy cattle in other countries, but little is known about their prevalence in the U.S. The objective of this prospective, cross-sectional study was to determine herd-level prevalence of M. wenyonii and C.M. haemobos in dairy cattle located in WI and MI.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Another look at the size of the low-surface brightness galaxy VCC 1661 in the Virgo Cluster
Creators: name: Koch, Andreas
name: Black, Christine S.
name: Rich, R. Michael
name: Longstaff, Francis A.
name: Collins, Michelle L. M.
name: Janz, Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new wide-field images of the low-surface brightness Virgo Cluster dwarf galaxy VCC 1661. The extant literature lists a broad range of radii for this object, covering a factor of more than four, depending on the filters used and the details of the analyses. While some studies find a radius typical of other Virgo dwarfs and note the normality of this object, any larger spatial extent, taken at face value, would render this galaxy the largest dwarf in the Virgo Cluster samples. Confirmation of a large extent of dwarf galaxies has often led to the discovery of tidal tails and would then, also in VCC 1661, indicate a severe state of tidal disruption. Given the importance of galactic sizes for assessing tidal interactions of the satellites with their hosts, we thus combine our surface brightness profile with data from the literature to investigate further the nature of this galaxy. However, our new characteristic radius for VCC 1661 of $r_e=24.1$"$\pm7.7$" and the previously noted smooth appearance of its isophotes are fully consistent with the remainder of the ACSVCS dwarf galaxy population without any need to invoke tidal perturbations.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten
Reduction of aflatoxin M1 in milk of Holstein cows administered a clay adsorbent
Creators: name: Allen, S. C.
name: Compart, D. M.
name: Russo, K. N.
name: Kelly, K. M.
name: Ward, S. H.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Aflatoxins (AF) are secondary metabolites commonly found in dairy feeds that can be transferred into the milk of lactating cows. Because of their negative effects on dairy cows and humans consuming contaminated milk, they are strictly regulated. The objective of the current study was to evaluate the efficacy of an aluminosilicate clay at reducing the transfer of aflatoxin M1 into the milk and its impact on production parameters of lactating dairy cows fed diets contaminated with aflatoxin B1. Additionally, the study aimed to determine the effects of the aluminosilicate clay on body condition, body weight, and respiratory rates of cows consuming aflatoxin B1-contaminated feed.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Observed Variability at 1um and 4um in the Y0 Brown Dwarf WISEP J173835.52+273258.9
Creators: name: Leggett, S. K.
name: Cushing, Michael C.
name: Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin K.
name: Trucks, Jesica L.
name: Marley, M. S.
name: Morley, Caroline V.
name: Saumon, D.
name: Carey, S. J.
name: Fortney, J. J.
name: Gelino, C. R.
name: Gizis, J. E.
name: Kirkpatrick, J. D.
name: Mace, G. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have monitored photometrically the Y0 brown dwarf WISEP J173835.52+273258.9 (W1738) at both near- and mid-infrared wavelengths. This ~1 Gyr-old 400K dwarf is at a distance of 8pc and has a mass around 5 M_Jupiter. We observed W1738 using two near-infrared filters at lambda~1um, Y and J, on Gemini observatory, and two mid-infrared filters at lambda~4um, [3.6] and [4.5], on the Spitzer observatory. Twenty-four hours were spent on the source by Spitzer on each of June 30 and October 30 2013 UT. Between these observations, around 5 hours were spent on the source by Gemini on each of July 17 and August 23 2013 UT. The mid-infrared light curves show significant evolution between the two observations separated by four months. We find that a double sinusoid can be fit to the [4.5] data, where one sinusoid has a period of 6.0 +/- 0.1 hours and the other a period of 3.0 +/- 0.1 hours. The near-infrared observations suggest variability with a ~3.0 hour period, although only at a
description: Accepted by ApJ July 26 2016. Twenty-six pages include 8 Figures and 5 Tables
A survey of gross pathologic conditions of cattle presented for slaughter in the southeastern United States
Creators: name: Mudd, Daniel L.
name: Caldwell, Marc
name: Collins, Samantha
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: According to the United States Department of Agriculture, cattle slaughtered in 2017 totaled 32.2 million animals and approximately 6.4 million animals were adult cull cattle (USDA 2016; USDA-NASS 2016). This harvest accounts for an estimated 5.4 billion pounds of beef or 20.7% of the 2017, US beef production. In the Southeastern US, the production of beef from cull cattle included 583,300 animals or approximately 90% of the total animals harvested in the region. Establishing the prevalence of diseases within this population is necessary for improving the quality and profitability of this sector of the industry. The objectives of this study were; 1) determine the prevalence of gross pathologic conditions, 2) characterize the type and frequency of conditions eliciting carcass condemnation, and 3) evaluate the extent of carcass bruising in cull cattle presented to slaughter and originating from farms in the southeastern United States.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Interrelationships between maternal and fetal mineral status
Creators: name: Van Saun, Robert J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Deficient mineral status of the developing fetus has been associated with potential risk for abortion and stillbirth. However, the relationship between maternal and fetal hepatic mineral concentrations is not simply a linear association and there are increasing concerns over mineral toxicity in the fetus or neonatal calf. The objective of this study is to utilize paired maternal and fetal liver mineral concentrations using a calculated ratio of fetal-to-maternal and maternal-to-fetal hepatic mineral concentrations to identify maternal-fetal relationships in hepatic mineral concentrations.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
Evaluation of the use of the California Mastitis Test, last test somatic cell count, or a computer automated algorithm for detecting intramammary infection at dry-off
Creators: name: Vasquez, Amy
name: Eicker, Steve
name: Godden, Sandra
name: Gorden, Patrick
name: Lago, Alfonso
name: Rowe, Sam
name: Nydam, Daryl
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2019

description: Selective dry cow therapy (SDCT), the identification and treatment of only cows or quarters that have or are at risk for an infection over the dry period, constitutes a prudent strategy when considering antibiotic use. Milk culture by a professional lab, which takes ≥ 1 day and may not be accessible to all dairies, is currently recognized as the gold standard for determining intramammary infections (IMI). Identification of cows or quarters for SDCT requires timely and cost-beneficial diagnostics with acceptable sensitivities (Se) and specificities (Sp) to decrease under, as well as overtreatment of animals at dry-off (DO). For this purpose, our objectives were to explore the test characteristics of the California Mastitis Test (CMT), use of the last-test DHIA somatic cell count (LTSCC), and use of an automated algorithm (ALG) based on sequential somatic cell count (SCC) and mastitis events to identify IMI in quarters and cows at DO using 2 categories of IMI (all or only major pathogens).
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2019
A kinetic regime of hydrodynamic fluctuations and long time tails for a Bjorken expansion
Creators: name: Akamatsu, Yukinao
name: Mazeliauskas, Aleksas
name: Teaney, Derek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a set of kinetic equations for hydrodynamic fluctuations which are equivalent to nonlinear hydrodynamics with noise. The hydro-kinetic equations can be coupled to existing second order hydrodynamic codes to incorporate the physics of these fluctuations. We first show that the kinetic response precisely reproduces the renormalization of the shear viscosity and the fractional power ($\propto ω^{3/2}$) which characterizes equilibrium correlators of energy and momentum for a static fluid. Then we use the hydro-kinetic equations to analyze thermal fluctuations for a Bjorken expansion, evaluating the contribution of thermal noise from the earliest moments and at late times. In the Bjorken case, the solution to the kinetic equations determines the coefficient of the first fractional power of the gradient expansion ($\propto 1/(τT)^{3/2}$) for the expanding system. Numerically, we find that the contribution to the longitudinal pressure from hydrodynamic fluctuations is larger than second order hydrodynamics for typical medium parameters used to simulate heavy ion collisions.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures
Turnover Risk Assessment Survey Associated with Remote Work [English Version] / Survey de avaliação do risco de Turnover associado ao trabalho remoto [Versão em português]
Creators: name: Anonymous For Blind Review
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: turnover
remote work
IT professionals

description: Instrumento criado para avaliação do risco de Turnover de profissionais de TI após a ascensão do trabalho remoto em período pandêmico.
Modeling Cellular Networks with Full Duplex D2D Communication: A Stochastic Geometry Approach
Creators: name: Ali, Konpal Shaukat
name: ElSawy, Hesham
name: Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Full-duplex (FD) communication is optimistically promoted to double the spectral efficiency if sufficient self-interference cancellation (SIC) is achieved. However, this is not true when deploying FD-communication in a large-scale setup due to the induced mutual interference. Therefore, a large-scale study is necessary to draw legitimate conclusions about gains associated with FD-communication. This paper studies the FD operation for underlay device-to-device (D2D) communication sharing the uplink resources in cellular networks. We propose a disjoint fine-tuned selection criterion for the D2D and FD modes of operation. Then, we develop a tractable analytical paradigm, based on stochastic geometry, to calculate the outage probability and rate for cellular and D2D users. The results reveal that even in the case of perfect SIC, due to the increased interference injected to the network by FD-D2D communication, having all proximity UEs transmit in FD-D2D is not beneficial for the network. However, if the system parameters are carefully tuned, non-trivial network spectral-efficiency gains (64 shown) can be harvested. We also investigate the effects of imperfect SIC and D2D-link distance distribution on the harvested FD gains.
Testing relationships between multiple regional features and biogeographic processes of speciation, extinction, and dispersal
Creators: name: Swiston, Sarah
name: Landis, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Phylogenetics
historical biogeography
SSE model
Liolaemus

description: The spatial and environmental features of regions where clades are evolving are expected to impact biogeographic processes such as speciation, extinction, and dispersal. Any number of regional features (such as altitude, distance, area, etc.) may be directly or indirectly related to these processes. For example, it may be that distances or differences in altitude or both may limit dispersal rates. However, it is difficult to disentangle which features are most strongly related to rates of different processes. Here, we present an extensible Multi-feature Feature-Informed GeoSSE (MultiFIG) model that allows for the simultaneous investigation of any number of regional features. MultiFIG provides a conceptual framework for incorporating large numbers of features of different types, including categorical, quantitative, within-region, and between-region features, along with a mathematical framework for translating those features into biogeographic rates for statistical hypothesis testing. Using traditional Bayesian parameter estimation and reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo, MultiFIG allows for the exploration of models with different numbers and combinations of feature-effect parameters, and generates estimates for the strengths of relationships between each regional feature and core process. We validate this model with a simulation study covering a range of scenarios with different numbers of regions, tree sizes, and feature values. We also demonstrate the application of MultiFIG with an empirical case study of the South American lizard genus Liolaemus, investigating sixteen regional features related to area, distance, and altitude. Our results show two important feature-process relationships: a negative distance/dispersal relationship, and a negative area/extinction relationship. Interestingly, although speciation rates were found to be higher in Andean versus non-Andean regions, the model did not assign significance to Andean- or altitude-related parameters. These results highlight the need to consider multiple regional features in biogeographic hypothesis testing.
description: The data files can be opened with any text editor. For visualization, trees and logfiles can be opened in Tracer. Plots can be opened by any PDF reader.Funding provided by: National Science Foundation
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001
Award Number: DGE 2139839, DEB 2040347
description: This dataset contains a simulation study performed using R and RevBayes. It consists of simulated regional feature values, simulated phylogenetic trees and present-day species ranges, and output from analyses with the MultiFIG model. The dataset also contains files relevant to a MultiFIG analysis of Liolaemus. Finally, the dataset contains PDF versions of figures and supplemental figures.