cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
IRM
Creators: name: Absher, Curtis W.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: IRM orignally stood for Integrated Reproduction Management (IRM) and identifies a national trust in budget development, program planning and implementation, program evaluation, experimentation in public and industry partnerships, and program accountability. More pragmatically, IRM has developed as a concerted effort to get agencies, programs and people working toward common goals of problem solving. The first problem attacked was that of reproductive efficiency in food producing animals but early recongnition was given to the fact that the concept, and not necessarily the problem was the heart of the IRM effort. Therefore, there has been general endorsement of the change from "Reproductive" to "Resource" Management. IRM has also evolved as a model concept for a broader systems approach to problem solving in Agriculture.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
An ab initio study of magneto-electric coupling of $\rm YMnO_3$
Creators: name: Varignon, J.
name: Petit, S.
name: Gellé, A.
name: Lepetit, M. -B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present paper proposes the direct calculation of the microscopic contributions to the magneto-electric coupling, using ab initio methods. The electrostrictive and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya contributions were evaluated individually. For this purpose a specific method was designed, combining DFT calculations and embedded fragments, explicitely correlated, quantum chemical calculations. This method allowed us to calculate the evolution of the magnetic couplings as a function of an applied electric field. We found that in $\rm YMnO_3$ the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya contribution to the magneto-electric effect is three orders of magnitude weaker than the electrostrictive contribution. Strictive effects are thus dominant in the magnetic exchange evolution under an applied electric field, and by extension on the magneto-electric effect. These effects remain however quite small and the modifications of the magnetic excitations under an applied electric field will be difficult to observe experimentally. Another important conclusion is that the amplitude of the magneto-electric effect is very small. Indeed, it can be shown that the linear magneto-electric tensor is null due to the inter-layer symmetry operations.
description: J. Phys. Cond. Matter 2013
Comparing Spaying Techniques and Performance of Heifers Grazing and In the Feedlot
Creators: name: Edwards, Alvin J.
name: Laudert, Scott B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Several different techniques for spaying have been developed recently and these have sparked the interest of veterinarians and cattlemen alike. The most dramatic advancement in the area of spaying came with the development of the Kimberling-Rupp technique. Research conducted comparing the K-R method with the conventional flank spaying method suggests that heifers undergo less stress and that performance is slightly improved. The main advantage is that the K-R technique is fast with less likelihood of infection, and hide damage is eliminated.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Quantum Field Theory Analysis of Polarizations Correlations, Entanglement and Bell's Inequality: Explicit Processes
Creators: name: Yongram, N.
name: Manoukian, E. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper provides explicit and detailed quantum field theory (QFT) computations of polarizations correlations of emerging particles in several processes in QED, Electroweak Theory, and even in particle productions from strings, and hence are based on dynamical theries. The novel properties observed in the computations of such polarizations correlations, as predicted by QFT, is that they depend on the speed of the colliding particles, and, in some cases, even on coupling parameters ratios as well as on mass ratios of the underlying theory. These investigations clearly show that arguments based simply on combining spins to generate probabilities of such polarization correlations are not reliable. The novel properties obtained, with details of derivations provided here, hopefully would call for experiments on polarizations correlations which would monitor speeds of colliding particles, and, would, in turn, lead to new tests of the fundamental interactions of QFT such as of QED and of the Electroweak Theory.
description: 16 pages
Techniques for Spaying Heifers
Creators: name: Simons, John
name: Johnson, Rich
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Over the past 80-90 years a number of techniques have evolved for spaying heifers. Such techniques include the following: 1. Flank spaying, lateral recumbency. 2. Flank spaying, standing in a branding chute. 3. Vaginal spaying, using a Kimberling-Rupp (KR) instrument. 4. Vaginal spaying, using a Willis instrument. 5. Flank spaying, using an ovarian auto graft.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Phonon and Thermal Properties of Exfoliated Tantalum Diselenide Thin Films
Creators: name: Yan, Z.
name: Jiang, C.
name: Pope, T. R.
name: Tsang, C. F.
name: Stickney, J. L.
name: Goli, P.
name: Renteria, J.
name: Salguero, T. T.
name: Balandin, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the phonon and thermal properties of thin films of tantalum diselenide (2H-TaSe2) obtained via the graphene-like mechanical exfoliation of crystals grown by chemical vapor transport. The ratio of the intensities of the Raman peak from the Si substrate and the E2g peak of TaSe2 presents a convenient metric for quantifying film thickness. The temperature coefficients for two main Raman peaks, A1g and E2g, are -0.013 and -0.0097 cm-1/oC, respectively. The Raman optothermal measurements indicate that the room temperature thermal conductivity in these films decreases from its bulk value of ~16 W/mK to ~9 W/mK in 45-nm thick films. The measurement of electrical resistivity of the field-effect devices with TaSe2 channels indicates that heat conduction is dominated by acoustic phonons in these van der Waals films. The scaling of thermal conductivity with the film thickness suggests that the phonon scattering from the film boundaries is substantial despite the sharp interfaces of the mechanically cleaved samples. These results are important for understanding the thermal properties of thin films exfoliated from TaSe2 and other metal dichalcogenides, as well as for evaluating self-heating effects in devices made from such materials.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures
Why Spay Heifers?
Creators: name: Rupp, Gary P.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: The price spread between steers and heifers is the most important reason buyers purchase market heifers. To illustrate this price difference consider the following information summarized from a marketing study reported in 1979 comparing steer and heifer prices:1 1. The average heifer calf was worth about $58.00 less than the average steer calf due to weight and price. 2. Feeder heifers sold for about 15% less than feeder steers of similar quality. 3. Fat heifers sold for approximately 4% less than fat steers of comparative quality. 4. Heifer carcasses were valued at approximately 5% less than steer carcasses. This price differential is a strong indication that most stocker and feeder cattle buyers have a strong preference for steers. A further look at market prices also shows that slaughter steers consistently sell for more per hundred weight than comparative fat heifers. Why?
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Factors Associated with Late Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation among Adults in Mozambique
Creators: name: Lahuerta Sanau, Maria
name: Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha, Harriet
name: Okamura, Mie
name: Alvim, Maria Fernanda
name: Fernandes, Rufio
name: Assan, Americo
name: Hoos, David
name: Elul, Batya O.
name: El-Sadr, Wafaa Mahmoud
name: Nash, Denis
name: Lima, Josue
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Medicine

description: Despite recent changes to expand the ART eligibility criteria in sub-Saharan Africa, many patients still initiate ART in the advanced stages of HIV infection, which contributes to increased early mortality rates, poor patient outcomes, and onward transmission. To evaluate individual and clinic-level factors associated with late ART initiation in Mozambique, we conducted a retrospective sex-specific analysis of data from 36,411 adult patients who started ART between January 2005 and June 2009 at 25 HIV clinics in Mozambique. Late ART initiation was defined as CD4 count>100 cells/µL or WHO stage IV. Mixed effects models were used to identify patient- and clinic-level factors associated with late ART initiation.The risk of starting ART late remained persistently high. Efforts are needed to ensure identification and enrollment of patients at earlier stages of HIV disease. Individual and clinic level factors identified may provide clues for upstream structural interventions.
A Kentucky Practitioner's Experience with Fescue Toxicity
Creators: name: Cole, J. L.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Kentucky 31 Tall Fescue even though it has been incriminated and now found guilty in various problems in animal health and production is still a very valuable forage crop for our beef and dairy farmers in South Central Kentucky. My practice is located in three counties in South Central Ky. (Monroe, Metcalfe, and Barren) in which we have a primary clinic at Tompkinsville in Monroe County and a branch clinic at Edmonton in Metcalfe County. Practice from both clinics extends into a large portion of Barren County which is the largest livestock county in Ky. (#1 in Dairy Cattle and #2 in Beef cattle). Monroe county is sixteenth and Metcalfe county is thirty-ninth in cattle numbers in Kentucky. Our practice is approximately 80% cattle practice with this being about 60% dairy cattle and 40% beef cattle. Our dairy clients average 60 cows in production with the majority of them on the increase in numbers. Most of our dairy clients are semi-drylot operations so we don't see the fescue problem in many dairy herds. Almost 100% of our beef cattle practice involves cow-calf herds which are mostly small herds of less than 40 mature cows. Most of the cow-calf herds are side-line operations that have no organized calving season or any planned marketing programs.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
The large-g observability of the low-lying energies in the strongly singular potentials $V(x)=x^2+g^2/x^6$ after their PT-symmetric regularization
Creators: name: Znojil, Miloslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The elementary quadratic plus inverse sextic interaction containing a strongly singular repulsive core in the origin is made regular by a complex shift of coordinate $x = s-{\rm i}\varepsilon$. The shift $\varepsilon>0$ is fixed while the value of $s$ is kept real and potentially observable, $s \in (-\infty,\infty)$. The low-lying energies of bound states are found in closed form for the large couplings $g$. Within the asymptotically vanishing ${\cal O}(g^{-1/4})$ error bars these energies are real so that the time-evolution of the system may be expected unitary in an {\em ad hoc} physical Hilbert space.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
Hamilton-Jacobi method for molecular distribution function in a chemical oscillator
Creators: name: Nakanishi, Hiizu
name: Sakaue, Takahiro
name: Wakou, Jun'ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Hamilton-Jacobi method, we solve chemical Fokker-Planck equations within the Gaussian approximation and obtain a simple and compact formula for a conditional probability distribution. The formula holds in general transient situations, and can be applied not only for a steady state but also for a oscillatory state. By analyzing the long time behavior of the solution in the oscillatory case, we obtain the phase diffusion constant along the periodic orbit and the steady distribution perpendicular to it. A simple method for numerical evaluation of these formulas are devised, and they are compared with Monte Carlo simulations in the case of Brusselator as an example. Some results are shown to be identical to previously obtained expressions.
description: 25 pages, 5 figures
On linear combinations of Chebyshev polynomials
Creators: name: Stankov, Dragan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11B83, Secondary 11R09, 12D10

description: We investigate an infinite sequence of polynomials of the form: \[a_0T_{n}(x)+a_{1}T_{n-1}(x)+\cdots+a_{m}T_{n-m}(x)\] where $(a_0,a_1,\ldots,a_m)$ is a fixed m-tuple of real numbers, $a_0,a_m\ne0$, $T_i(x)$ are Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind, $n=m,m+1,m+2,\ldots$ Here we analyse the structure of the set of zeros of such polynomial, depending on $A$ and its limit points when $n$ tends to infinity. Also the expression of envelope of the polynomial is given. An application in number theory, more precise, in the theory of Pisot and Salem numbers is presented.
description: 19 pages, 1 figure
Nonparaxial accelerating Bessel-like beams
Creators: name: Chremmos, Ioannis D.
name: Efremidis, Nikolaos K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new class of nonparaxial accelerating optical waves is introduced. These are beams with a Bessel-like profile that are capable of shifting laterally along fairly arbitrary trajectories as the wave propagates in free space. The concept expands on our previous proposal of paraxial accelerating Bessel-like beams to include beams with subwavelength lobes and/or large trajectory angles. Such waves are produced when the phase at the input plane is engineered so that the interfering ray cones are made to focus along the prespecified path. When the angle of these cones is fixed, the beams possess a diffraction-free Bessel profile on planes that stay normal to their trajectory, which can be considered as a generalized definition of diffractionless propagation in the nonparaxial regime. The analytical procedure leading to these results is based on a ray optics interpretation of Rayleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction and is presented in detail. The evolution of the proposed waves is demonstrated through a series of numerical examples and a variety of trajectories.
description: submitted work
Fescue Toxicosis in Commercial Cattle Feeding Operations
Creators: name: Jordan, Tim
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Tall Fescue (Festuca Arundinacea Schreb.) accounts for approximately 35 million acres of grassland in the U.S. Fescue pastures continue to be a major cattle grazing staple in the transition zone of the U.S. including the south central regions of the country. Research has shown that fescue can contain the endophytic fungus Acrenonium coenophialum which is reported to contain toxic factors that cause various disease conditions in cattle that are grazing contaminated pastures (1). The conditions or disorders associated with the grazing of endophyte infested fescue include fescue foot, summer syndrome, fat necrosis, agalactia, and decreased reproductive efficiency (1, 2, 3, 4).
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Animal Response to Toxic and Non-Toxic Tall Fescue
Creators: name: Boling, James A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.J is currently grown on about 35 million acres in the United States. It has been utilized extensively for grazing cattle, especially in the south central and southeastern regions. Performance of cattle grazing tall fescue has been quite variable, especially during the warm summer season. Reduced performance during this time is often referred to as the summer syndrome, summer slump or summer fescue toxicosis. This syndrome is characterized by reduced gains, elevated body temperature, increased respiration rate, excess salivation, long rough hair coat, decreased milk production and standing in the shade and wet places.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Sampling and Testing for the Endophyte
Creators: name: Lacefield, Garry
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Several states now have service laboratories available for endophyte testing. Variations do exist among states in specific details on sampling. Within each state one should consult the Extension service for necessary details on sampling. The following information is restricted to the Kentucky program and is excerpted from University of Kentucky publication PPA-30 written by Dr. W. C. Nesmith and colleagues.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Rapid Spread and Genetic Diversification of HIV Type 1 Subtype C in a Rural Area of Southern Mozambique
Creators: name: Lahuerta Sanau, Maria
name: Aparicio, Ester
name: Bardaji, Azucena
name: Marco, Sandra
name: Sacarlal, Jahit
name: Mandomando, Inacio
name: Alonso, Pedro
name: Martinez, Miguel Angel
name: Menendez, Clara
name: Naniche, Denise
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Medicine

description: In this study, we analyzed the human immunodeficiency type 1 (HIV-1) viruses circulating between 1999 and 2004 in antiretroviral-naive women from a rural area of southern Mozambique. Nucleotide sequencing of the HIV-1 long terminal repeat (LTR) U3, envelope (env) C2V3C3, and protease (pr) genomic regions was performed from women sera samples collected in 1999 and 2004. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that all amplified sequences belonged to subtype C. Although env sequences were predominantly CCR5-tropic (R5), CXCR4-tropic (X4) variants were also identified (13%). Both 1999 and 2004 sequences were widely dispersed across multiple clusters and were related to different reference sequences from neighboring countries. Sequences from 2004 showed significantly more nucleotide genetic diversity than sequences from 1999. Importantly, genetic diversification was also observed at the pr and env amino acid level, suggesting that positive selection forces were implicated in the viral diversification. These results indicate the rapid spread and diversification of subtype C virus in Mozambique where HIV-1 prevalence in the Manhiça antenatal clinic reached 23% in 2004.
Evidence for a charge collective mode associated with superconductivity in copper oxides from neutron and x-ray scattering measurements of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$
Creators: name: Park, S. R.
name: Fukuda, T.
name: Hamann, A.
name: Lamago, D.
name: Pintschovius, L.
name: Fujita, M.
name: Yamada, K.
name: Reznik, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In superconducting copper oxides some Cu-O bond-stretching phonons around 70meV show anomalous giant softening and broadening of electronic origin and electronic dispersions have large renormalization kinks near the same energy. These observations suggest that phonon broadening originates from quasiparticle excitations across the Fermi surface and the electronic dispersion kinks originate from coupling to anomalous phonons. We measured the phonon anomaly in underdoped (x=0.05) and overdoped (x=0.20,0.25) La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ by inelastic neutron and x-ray scattering with high resolution. Combining these and previously published data, we found that doping-dependence of the magnitude of the giant phonon anomaly is very different from that of the ARPES kink, i.e. the two phenomena are not connected. We show that these results provide indirect evidence that the phonon anomaly originates from novel collective charge excitations as opposed to interactions with electron-hole pairs. Their amplitude follows the superconducting dome so these charge modes may be important for superconductivity.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in PRB Rapid Communications
Managing and Replacing Toxic Fescue
Creators: name: Lacefield, Garry
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Research from many states has demonstrated conclusively that the endophyte is associated with quality problems in tall fescue. Interdisciplinary teams of researchers at different locations are presently engaged in studies attempting to provide answers to many of the remaining questions concerning the endophyte. A cause-effect relationship between the endophyte and a toxin has not been shown conclusively.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Optimising the Model of Pulmonary Rehabilitation Following Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Creators: name: Wageck, Bruna Borges
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
Optical tweezers for vortex rings in Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Yakimenko, A. I.
name: Bidasyuk, Yu. M.
name: Vilchinskii, O. O. Prikhodko S. I.
name: Ostrovskaya, E. A.
name: Kivshar, Yu. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study formation and stabilization of vortex rings in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. We suggest a novel approach for generating and trapping of vortex rings by 'optical tweezers'--two blue-detuned optical beams forming a toroidal void in the bulk of a magnetically or optically confined condensate cloud. We demonstrate that matter-wave vortex rings trapped within the void are energetically and dynamically stable. Our theoretical findings suggest the possibility for generation, stabilization, and nondestructive manipulation of quantized vortex rings in experimentally feasible trapping configurations.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Fescue Toxicity Syndrome
Creators: name: Trimble, Richard L.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: This morning you have been exposed to a great deal of information concerning toxic fescue. What makes fescue toxic? How does the toxicity impact animals that consume the fescue? And much more!! The major question that is probably left to be examined and which I will address in my presentation, involves that of economics. Is there an economic method by which producers can attempt to solve the problems associated with fescue toxicity? As will become obvious shortly, I believe there is an economic method by which producers can solve their fescue toxicity problems. However, there are a few "ground rules" that have to be established before we can examine the economics of the solution.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
title: HMinfo Annual Report 2019/2020
Creators: name: Home Modification Information Clearinghouse
Publisher: name: Home Modification Information Clearinghouse
Year: 2020

description: This report outlines the Clearinghouse's research activities, financial status and activity plan for the 2019/2020 financial year.
description: INTRODUCTION OUR PEOPLE DIRECTOR’S REPORT HMINFO WORKPLAN 2019-2020 HMINFO ACTIVITIES 2019-2020 WEBSITE STATISTICS FINANCE REPORT LOOKING AHEAD INTO THE FUTURE GLOSSARY
Fescue Toxicity
Creators: name: Lacefield, Garry D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.) is the most important cool-season grass grown in the United States providing the primary ground cover on approximately 35 million acres. It is a versatile plant used for livestock feed, lawns, turf and conservation purposes, and is adapted to a wide range of soil and climatic conditions. Tall fescue is relatively easy to establish, persistent, relatively free of disease and insect pests, produces high dry matter yields when properly fertilized and compares favorably to many other cool-season grasses when analyzed chemically. Despite all the many positive attributes of this grass, animal performance on Kentucky 31 has been erratic and oftentimes less than desired by producers and reseachers.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
NMR spectra of publication
Creators: name: Mekkattu Tharayil, Sreelakshmi
name: Mahawaththa, Mithun Chamikara
name: Loh, Choy-Theng
name: Adekoya, Ibidolapo
name: Otting, Gottfried
Publisher: name: The Australian National University Data Commons
Year: 2020

description: NMR spectra
description: NMR spectral data used to create the figures of the article submitted to the journal Magnetic Resonance.
Using DHI Records in Reproductive Management
Creators: name: Butcher, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: The famous black baseball player, Satchel Page, once said, "If you don't know where you 're going, you might end up somewhere else." Good dairy records are essential to "know where you're going" in managing a dairy herd. A commitment to accurate cow identity and day-to-day recording of all events, coupled with modern computer record systems, will pay a high return per dollar invested.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Importance of Body Condition Scoring in Dairy Cattle
Creators: name: Braun, R. K.
name: Donovan, G. A.
name: Tran, T. Q.
name: Mohammed, H. O.
name: Webb, D. W.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: It is doubtful that many of today's dairy herds, fed rations balanced to NRC standards, experience reproductive problems solely because of nutrition. Nutrients and how their deficiencies and excesses affect reproduction have been reviewed.1,6 Further research is needed to investigate combinations of nutrients and the subsequent effect on reproduction. Some veterinary practitioners are convinced that there are profound interrelationships between the nutritional status of dairy cattle and their reproductive performance. This clinical impression was fostered because in many cases regular reproductive tract examinations alone were not adequate to ensure good herd reproductive health and reproductive efficiency. In some cases this impression is justified, but in many cases nutrition is the scapegoat for environment, stress, disease and the main problem of missed heats and other poor reproductive management practices. This paper will discuss body condition scoring cows on a large dairy farm in north Florida, and its effect upon reproductive performance and 305-day mature equivalent four percent fat-corrected milk (ME 305).
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
The Problem of Late ART Initiation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Transient Aspect of Scale-up or a Long-term Phenomenon?
Creators: name: Lahuerta Sanau, Maria
name: Hoffman, Susie
name: Elul, Batya O.
name: Kulkarni, Sarah Gorrell
name: Wu, Yingfeng
name: Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha, Harriet
name: Remien, Robert H.
name: El-Sadr, Wafaa Mahmoud
name: Nash, Denis
name: Ue, Frances
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Medicine

description: Efforts to scale-up HIV care and treatment have been successful at initiating large numbers of patients onto antiretroviral therapy (ART), although persistent challenges remain to optimizing scale-up effectiveness in both resource-rich and resource-limited settings. Among the most important are very high rates of ART initiation in the advanced stages of HIV disease, which in turn drive morbidity, mortality, and onward transmission of HIV. With a focus on sub-Saharan Africa, this review article presents a conceptual framework for a broader discussion of the persistent problem of late ART initiation, including a need for more focus on the upstream precursors (late HIV diagnosis and late enrollment into HIV care) and their determinants. Without additional research and identification of multilevel interventions that successfully promote earlier initiation of ART, the problem of late ART initiation will persist, significantly undermining the long-term impact of HIV care scale-up on reducing mortality and controlling the HIV epidemic.
Evaluating Herd Reproductive Status
Creators: name: Williamson, Norman B.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: The realization that herd reproductive performance limits herd production and profits has made reproductive herd health programs increasingly popular with dairy clients for the last 25 years. We must ensure that reproductive health programs continue to contribute to farm profits. To do this we must continually measure and monitor herd reproductive performance. Many indices of reproductive performance have been described, so it may be difficult and confusing to decide which indices to use and how to use them. This paper describes relationships between reproductive performance, production and farm incomes. It considers some indices of reproduction and how they are used to monitor herd reproductive performance to keep it profitable. To provide a benchmark for normal values of these indices, average 1984 / 5 indices for 21 typical Minnesota and Wisconsin herds are presented. These herds had used the DairyCHAMP Computerized Health and Management Program for a sufficient time to allow a correct analysis in 1986.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Artificial Insemination Technique Needs Attention
Creators: name: Senger, P. L.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Significant variation exists among inseminator conception rates, (Graham, 1966; Senger et al., 1981 , Ron et al., 1983; Senger et al., 1983 and Uw1and, 1983). This variation is due at least in part to differences in skill levels of inseminators. During the last 15 years , artificial insemination responsibility has been transferred from professional technicians to herdsman-inseminators (H-1). Current estimates report that approximately 65 percent of semen is sold directly to dairy and beef herds resulting in producers performing the majority of inseminations. Often, poor insemination skills on the part of herdsman-inseminators are not recognized and the deficiencies may translate into poor reproductive performance. Until recently several major problems have existed regarding the evaluation of insemination technique. They are: I) Errors in inseminating technique specific to an individual inseminator have not been described critically; 2) there is a significant amount of misunderstanding among inseminators regarding reproductive tract anatomy. This paper will summarize several previously published reports which deal with problems in A. I. technique.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Breeding Cows Without Estrous Detection
Creators: name: Elmore, R. G.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Estrous detection is a major management problem on many dairy farms. It has been estimated that approximately 40 to 50 percent of all estrous periods of lactating dairy cows are not detected (1,2). It has also been estimated that 16 to 20 percent of all dairy cows presented for insemination are not in estrous as evidenced by high levels of milk progesterone at the time of breeding (3,4). Many errors are made in not "detecting" cows that are actually not in heat. Both of these problems can be very costly errors. Methods to improve or eliminate the necessity of estrous detection should be of interest to all dairymen and their veterinarians. The use of rapid progesterone assays may be of benefit to dairymen with estrous detection problems.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Injection of thermal and suprathermal seed particles into coronal shocks of varying obliquity
Creators: name: Battarbee, Markus
name: Vainio, Rami
name: Laitinen, Timo
name: Hietala, Heli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Diffusive shock acceleration in the solar corona can accelerate solar energetic particles to very high energies. Acceleration efficiency is increased by entrapment through self-generated waves, which is highly dependent on the amount of accelerated particles. This, in turn, is determined by the efficiency of particle injection into the acceleration process. Aims: We present an analysis of the injection efficiency at coronal shocks of varying obliquity. We assessed injection through reflection and downstream scattering, including the effect of a cross-shock potential. Both quasi-thermal and suprathermal seed populations were analysed. We present results on the effect of cross-field diffusion downstream of the shock on the injection efficiency. Methods: Using analytical methods, we present applicable injection speed thresholds that were compared with both semi-analytical flux integration and Monte Carlo simulations, which do not resort to binary thresholds. Shock-normal angle and shock-normal velocity were varied to assess the injection efficiency with respect to these parameters. Results: We present evidence of a significant bias of thermal seed particle injection at small shock-normal angles. We show that downstream isotropisation methods affect the theta-dependence of this result. We show a non-negligible effect caused by the cross-shock potential, and that the effect of downstream cross-field diffusion is highly dependent on boundary definitions. Conclusions: Our results show that for Monte Carlo simulations of coronal shock acceleration a full distribution function assessment with downstream isotropisation through scatterings is necessary to realistically model particle injection. Based on our results, seed particle injection at quasi-parallel coronal shocks can result in significant acceleration efficiency, especially when combined with varying field-line geometry.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, 3 Appendices. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics on 30.8.2013
Supplemental Instruction
Creators: name: Watty, Shannon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education

description: Supplemental Instruction is known as a nontraditional method of learning which uses tutoring by peers to pinpoint group studying and communication with other students to aid in difficult courses which in the past are deemed to be more challenging. Supplemental instruction was created based on the need to increase efficiency and improve the scholastic implementation of students in a high-risk course. SI is indeed an effective program promotes increased understanding in education, providing opportunities for the students to develop study techniques and increase socialization amongst peers, reducing isolation
Disease Transmission by Embryo Transfer in Cattle
Creators: name: Bowen, R. A.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: The number of calves born in North America from commercial embryo transfer has increased from zero in 1970 to approximately 100,000 in 1985. Improvements in basic embryo transfer procedures, as well as in ancillary techniques such as embryo freezing, have resulted in a significant demand for international transport of bovine embryos. Any technique for dispersing genetically valuable germplasm must also be shown to be relatively free of the risk of transmitting pathogenic microorganisms.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Approximating the Bethe partition function
Creators: name: Weller, Adrian
name: Jebara, Tony
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Computer science

description: When belief propagation (BP) converges, it does so to a stationary point of the Bethe free energy F, and is often strikingly accurate. However, it may converge only to a local optimum or may not converge at all. An algorithm was recently introduced for attractive binary pairwise MRFs which is guaranteed to return an ϵ-approximation to the global minimum of F in polynomial time provided the maximum degree Δ=O(logn), where n is the number of variables. Here we significantly improve this algorithm and derive several results including a new approach based on analyzing first derivatives of F, which leads to performance that is typically far superior and yields a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for attractive models without any degree restriction. Further, the method applies to general (non-attractive) models, though with no polynomial time guarantee in this case, leading to the important result that approximating log of the Bethe partition function, logZB=−minF, for a general model to additive ϵ-accuracy may be reduced to a discrete MAP inference problem. We explore an application to predicting equipment failure on an urban power network and demonstrate that the Bethe approximation can perform well even when BP fails to converge.
A Practitioner's Approach to Nutrition
Creators: name: Byers, David I.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: A dairyman's success depends on a number of factors. Among these are genetic improvement, accounting principles, forage production, ration formulation, replacement heifer rearing, economic awareness, labor management, disease prevention and parasite control, quality milk production, marketing concepts, and reproductive efficiency. Any attempt to rank these is debatable; however, I believe Dr. Charlie Jarrett, professor emeritus, University of Georgia, is correct when he says, "The success of any dairy operation depends on the ability of a farmer to grow, harvest, and preserve high quality forage and to supplement it with the right 'balance' of grains that will support efficient and economical milk production." Here two key areas of management are stressed: 1. "To grow, harvest, and preserve high quality forage" 2. "To supplement it with the 'balance' of grains that will support efficient and economical milk production."
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Almost Lipschitz-continuous wavelets in metric spaces via a new randomization of dyadic cubes
Creators: name: Hytönen, Tuomas
name: Tapiola, Olli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30L99, 42C40, 41A15, 60D05

description: In any quasi-metric space of homogeneous type, Auscher and Hytönen recently gave a construction of orthonormal wavelets with Hölder-continuity exponent $η>0$. However, even in a metric space, their exponent is in general quite small. In this paper, we show that the Hölder-exponent can be taken arbitrarily close to 1 in a metric space. We do so by revisiting and improving the underlying construction of random dyadic cubes, which also has other applications.
Superdeformed structures and low $Ω$ parity doublet in Ne$-$S nuclei near neutron drip-line
Creators: name: Singh, Shailesh K.
name: Patra, S. K.
name: Praharaj, C. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of Ne, Na, Mg, Al, Si, P and S nuclei near the neutron drip-line region is investigated in the frame-work of relativistic mean field theory and non-relativistic Skyrme Hartree-Fock formalism. The recently discovered nuclei $^{40}$Mg and $^{42}$Al, which are beyond the drip-line predicted by various mass formulae are located within these models. We find many largely deformed neutron-rich nuclei, whose structures are analyzed. From the structure anatomy, we find that at large deformation, low $Ω$ orbits of opposite parities (e.g. $\frac{1}{2}^+$ and $\frac{1}{2}^-$) occur close to each other in energy.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, 7 tables. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1002.0654
Trace Mineral Nutrition and Interrelationships as Applied to Dairy Cattle
Creators: name: Miller, W. Jack
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 1986

description: Some 15 trace minerals elements have been shown to be essential for animals including dairy cattle (Mills, 1985; Underwood, 1977, 1981). Deficiencies of seven have been observed under some practical condition. These are cobalt, copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium and zinc. Although some of the others can be important practical problems as toxic elements, interest in them as essential nutrients is primarily academic. They are chromium, fluorine, molybdenum, nickel silicon, tin, vanadium, and arsenic. As is true of all nutrients, every essential trace element can be harmful when fed in too great numbers.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1986
Ultrafast nonlocal control of spontaneous emission
Creators: name: Jin, Chao-Yuan
name: Johne, Robert
name: Swinkels, Milo Y.
name: Hoang, Thang B.
name: Midolo, Leonardo
name: van Veldhoven, Peter J.
name: Fiore, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solid-state cavity quantum electrodynamics systems will form scalable nodes of future quantum networks, allowing the storage, processing and retrieval of quantum bits, where a real-time control of the radiative interaction in the cavity is required to achieve high efficiency. We demonstrate here the dynamic molding of the vacuum field in a coupled-cavity system to achieve the ultrafast nonlocal modulation of spontaneous emission of quantum dots in photonic crystal cavities, on a timescale of ~200 ps, much faster than their natural radiative lifetimes. This opens the way to the ultrafast control of semiconductor-based cavity quantum electrodynamics systems for application in quantum interfaces and to a new class of ultrafast lasers based on nano-photonic cavities.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
Regions of possible motion in mechanical systems
Creators: name: Kharlamov, Mikhail P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37J15, 70E05

description: A method to study the topology of the integral manifolds basing on their projections to some other manifold of lower dimension is proposed. These projections are called the regions of possible motion and in mechanical systems arise in a natural way as the regions on a space of configuration variables. To classify such regions we introduce the notion of a generalized boundary of a region of possible motion and give the equation to find the generalized boundaries. The inertial motion of a gyrostat (the Euler--Zhukovsky case) is considered as an example. Explicit parametric equations of generalized boundaries are obtained. The investigation gives the main types of connected components of the regions of possible motion (including the sets of the admissible velocities over each point of the region). From this information, the phase topology of the case is established.
description: LaTex, 4 pages, 2 figures
Possible candidate of 0^+ s\bar{s}s\bar{s} state
Creators: name: Li, Bing An
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of the $0^+$ $ηη$ resonance $f_0(2100)$ as a candidate of the $Q^2\bar{Q}^2$ state $C^{ss}(36)$ is explored. The $ηη$ channel of $f_0(2100)$ is the dominant decay mode, $ηη'$ channel has less decay rate, the decay rate of the $η'η'$ channel is very small. The $ππ,\;K\bar{K},\;4π$ modes are at next leading order in $N_C$ expansion. Other possible decay modes are discussed.
description: 14 pages