cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
BioPRYN®, a Measure of Pregnancy-specific Protein B for Detection of Pregnancy in Run1inant Anilllals
Creators: name: Sasser, R. G.
name: Branen, J.
name: Howard, J.
name: Passavant, C.
name: Pals, D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Pregnancy-specific protein B (PSPB) was discovered in 1979 by immunological methods and was found by molecular cloning to be a sub-group of the aspartic acid protease family of proteins. The original protein isolate had several immunoreactive, molecular weight, and isoelectric variants. Chemical characteristics were studied. Subsequently, similar protein isolates of PSPB of cattle were given a different name. These are pregnancy-associated glycoprotein (PAG) and pregnancy serum protein 60. Precise and accurate radioimmunoassay (RIA) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for PSPB have been used to detect pregnancy in ruminant animals. BioPRYN is an ELISA assay, using the PSPB protein isolate, for detection of pregnancy in ruminants. Radioimmunoassay or ELISA ( the BioPRYN test), specifically using PSPB as the molecule for standard and antigen for obtaining antibodies, equaled or exceeded transrectal sonography, PAG-1 or palpation in comparative tests for pregnancy detection. Development of tests for molecular variants that appear early in gestation can improve on the technology. BioPRYN is available on a commercial basis for livestock breeders or those managing wildlife species. Several affiliate laboratories across the USA and internationally conduct the BioPRYN test with kits offered by BioTracking LLC, Moscow, Idaho. Over 498,115 cattle tests were sold in 2008.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
Economic Concepts Regarding Early Pregnancy Testing
Creators: name: Galligan, David
name: Ferguson, James
name: Munson, Robert
name: Remsburg, Darren
name: Skidmore, Andy
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Early pregnancy testing plays a key role in determining the reproductive success of a dairy herd and thus its economic efficiency. Fundamentally, early pregnancy determination defines how quickly cows which fail to conceive to a breeding are identified and re-inseminated. Due to the relatively low conception rates, this technology impacts the majority of cows within a herd several times within a lactation cycle. The sensitivity and specificity of tests (attributes of test accuracy) will vary with tests as well as when they are applied post breeding. Pregnancy testing must be coordinated with the herd breeding program so that cows testing open are bred on a timely basis to ensure maximizing the economic value of testing. The value of testing is highly dependent on how soon successful rebreeding can occur. Embryonic death occurs relatively early post breeding and thus can influence the economic attributes of early pregnancy determination. Understanding the underlying structure of the decision process can help in estimating the value of various components of the test in the field application.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
title: Critical review of the Spanish capability in marine research and its representation in research projects, scientific journals and marine councils
Creators: name: Valdés, Luis
name: López-Urrutia, A.
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - Q - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast (ICES Ecoregion)

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Marine research in Spain has experienced an important development in recent years that has resulted in a better mobilization and coordination of human resources, improvement of capabilities, participation in large integrated research projects and sustained increase in scientific productivity. However, the success in the scientific production indices is not followed neither by the citation indices or by the national presence in the top positions of marine research councils (e.g. ICES). A critical review of the Spanish capability in marine research is presented here and the results compared with the Spanish economical position, the priorities of inversion in other scientific research and other indices.
Application of "Pregnancy Specific Protein B" Testing Technology in a Commercial Dairy
Creators: name: Prather, Richard C.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Our world and particularly our profession changes around us daily. Regardless of whether we choose to embrace change, or choose not to embrace change, it will occur. Our physical features and abilities are constant reminders of change. This brief presentation addresses one practitioner's attempt to keep up with change and stay ahead of the aging process. Data sets presented demonstrate current trends in lab testing for pregnancy diagnosis, as well as comparisons between laboratory results and rectal palpation. Protocols for personnel implementing synchronization and testing are discussed.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
Herschel observations of planetary nebulae
Creators: name: Van de Steene, Griet C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article presents an overview of the published results for planetary nebulae based on images and spectroscopy from the PACS, SPIRE, and HIFI instruments on board the Herschel satellite.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures Invited review to appear in the Proceedings of the IAU Symp. 323: "Planetary nebulae: Multi-wavelength probes of stellar and galactic evolution". Eds. X.-W. Liu, L. Stanghellini and A. Karakas
title: Consistency of the acoustic spring surveys off the Iberian Peninsula
Creators: name: Marques, Vitor
name: Carrera, Pablo
name: Morais, Alexandre
name: Miquel, Juan
name: Porteiro, Carmela
name: Stratoudakis, Yorgos
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - Q - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast (ICES Ecoregion)

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Annual acoustic surveys targeted at sardine have been routinely performed by both Spain and Portugal in Atlantic waters of the Iberian Peninsula since 1983. To ensure comparability of the estimates, several meetings have taken place with the aim of co-ordinating the methods and analyses used. During the 1980s, both countries followed almost the same schedule to improve the abundance estimation. The whole distribution area of the Atlanto-Iberian sardine stock in spring has been covered since 1996 using two research vessels and, in order to combine the abundance estimates obtained from the two vessels, both vessels covered a common area located off North Portugal during three years. In addition, another common area, the Gulf of Cadiz, was also covered with two research vessels but this time with a difference of one month. This paper describes the results obtained during these exercises. The possibility of combining the estimates from the two national surveys in a single abundance index and its potential effect on the assessment of the sardine stock is discussed.
A Less-palpation Dairy Practice?
Creators: name: Vlietstra, Robert J.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: West Michigan Veterinary Service began offering clients the in-house BioPRYN laboratory test for pregnancy diagnosis in February 2008. Previous, the WMVS veterinarians utilized the test in individual cases plagued with uterine adhesions, peri-rectal abscesses or other abnormalities which made trans-rectal examination of the uterus too risky or impossible. It became obvious that the test had the potential for a much broader application and WMVS needed to address the following question: How can we utilize the test on a herd program basis? A four-month study was conducted on a 1,200-cow Michigan dairy to discover the best practical application of the test within the context of our reproduction program and its protocols. A comprehensive reproductive program was the result of the study, which led to a dramatic increase in conception rates. The conclusion of the study left one emotion-packed question unanswered: Now, what do I do?
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
General technique for analytical derivatives of post-projected Hartree-Fock
Creators: name: Tsuchimochi, Takashi
name: Ten-no, Seiichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In electronic structure theory, the availability of analytical derivative is one of the desired features for a method to be useful in practical applications, as it allows for geometry optimization as well as computation of molecular properties. With the recent advances in the development of symmetry-projected Hartree-Fock (PHF) methods, we here aim at further extensions by devising the analytic gradients of post-PHF approaches with a special focus on spin-extended (spin-projected) configuration interaction with single and double substitutions (ECISD). Just like standard single-reference methods, the mean-field PHF part does not require the corresponding coupled-perturbed equation to be solved, while the correlation energy term needs the orbital relaxation effect to be accounted for, unless the underlying molecular orbitals are variationally optimized in the presence of the correlation energy. We present a general strategy for post-PHF analytical gradients, which closely parallels that for single-reference methods, yet addressing the major difference between them. The similarity between ECISD and multi-reference CI not only in the energy but also in the optimized geometry is clearly demonstrated by the numerical examples of ozone and cyclobutadiene.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
title: Soil Nutrient Detection for Precision Agriculture Using Handheld Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and Multivariate Regression Methods (PLSR, Lasso and GPR)
Creators: name: Erler, Alexander
name: Riebe, Daniel
name: Beitz, Toralf
name: Löhmannsröben, Hans-Gerd
name: Gebbers, Robin
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020

description: Precision agriculture (PA) strongly relies on spatially differentiated sensor information. Handheld instruments based on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) are a promising sensor technique for the in-field determination of various soil parameters. In this work, the potential of handheld LIBS for the determination of the total mass fractions of the major nutrients Ca, K, Mg, N, P and the trace nutrients Mn, Fe was evaluated. Additionally, other soil parameters, such as humus content, soil pH value and plant available P content, were determined. Since the quantification of nutrients by LIBS depends strongly on the soil matrix, various multivariate regression methods were used for calibration and prediction. These include partial least squares regression (PLSR), least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression (Lasso), and Gaussian process regression (GPR). The best prediction results were obtained for Ca, K, Mg and Fe. The coefficients of determination obtained for other nutrients were smaller. This is due to much lower concentrations in the case of Mn, while the low number of lines and very weak intensities are the reason for the deviation of N and P. Soil parameters that are not directly related to one element, such as pH, could also be predicted. Lasso and GPR yielded slightly better results than PLSR. Additionally, several methods of data pretreatment were investigated.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 815
Weak*-continuity of invariant means on spaces of matrix coefficients
Creators: name: de Laat, Tim
name: Zadeh, Safoura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: With every locally compact group $G$, one can associate several interesting bi-invariant subspaces $X(G)$ of the weakly almost periodic functions $\mathrm{WAP}(G)$ on $G$, each of which captures parts of the representation theory of $G$. Under certain natural assumptions, such a space $X(G)$ carries a unique invariant mean and has a natural predual, and we view the weak$^*$-continuity of this mean as a rigidity property of $G$. Important examples of such spaces $X(G)$, which we study explicitly, are the algebra $M_{\mathrm{cb}}A_p(G)$ of $p$-completely bounded multipliers of the Figà-Talamanca-Herz algebra $A_p(G)$ and the $p$-Fourier-Stieltjes algebra $B_p(G)$. In the setting of connected Lie groups $G$, we relate the weak$^*$-continuity of the mean on these spaces to structural properties of $G$. Our results generalise results of Bekka, Kaniuth, Lau and Schlichting.
description: 19 pages, minor clarifications
Candidate members of the Pal 5, GD-1, Cetus Polar, and Orphan tidal stellar halo streams from Sdss DR9, Lamost DR3 and APOGEE catalogues
Creators: name: Li, Guang-Wei
name: Yanny, Brian
name: Zhang, Hao-Tong
name: Bai, Zong-rui
name: Wu, Yue
name: Dong, Yi-qiao
name: Lei, Ya-juan
name: Yuan, Hai-long
name: Hou, Yong-Hui
name: Wang, Yue-Fei
name: Zhang, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present candidate members of the Pal 5, GD-1, Cetus Polar, and Orphan tidal stellar streams found in LAMOST DR3, SDSS DR9 and APOGEE catalogs. In LAMOST DR3, we find 20, 4, 24 high confidence candidates of tidal streams GD-1, Cetus Polar and Orphan respectively. We also list from the SDSS DR9 spectroscopic catalog 59, 118, 10 high confidence candidates of tidal streams Cetus Polar, Orphan and Pal 5, respectively. Furthermore, we find 7 high confidence candidates of the Pal 5 tidal stream in APOGEE data. Compared with SDSS, the new candidates from LAMOST DR3 are brighter, so that together, more of the color-magnitude diagram, including the giant branch can be explored. Analysis of SDSS data shows that there are 3 metallicity peaks of the Orphan stream and also shows some spatial separation. LAMOST data confirms multiple metallicities in this stream. The metallicity, given by the higher resolution APOGEE instrument, of the Pal 5 tidal stream is [Fe/H] $\sim -1.2$, higher than that given earlier by SDSS spectra. Many previously unidentified stream members are tabulated here for the first time, along with existing members, allowing future researchers to further constrain the orbits of these objects as they move within the Galaxy's dark matter potential.
description: 17pages, 19 figures, 3 tables
title: 02_0995
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
title: Sardine tagging off the Iberian peninsula: laboratory experiments and operations at sea
Creators: name: Peleteiro, Benito
name: Marçalo, Ana
name: Olmedo, Mercedes
name: Pousão-Ferreira, Pedro
name: Sanchez, Javier
name: Garrido, Susana
name: Santos, M. Begoña
name: Porteiro, Carmela
name: Stratoudakis, Yorgos
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - Q - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast (ICES Ecoregion)

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Within the EU project SARDYN, tagging laboratory experiments and operations at sea were designed to study the movements of sardine (Sardina pilchardus) off the Iberian peninsula. In the summer of 2003, around 2500 fish were caught and transferred alive to aquaculture tanks (IEO - Vigo and IPIMAR - Olhão). Mortality ranged between 10-30% in the first week, mainly due to stress and scale loss associated to fishing and handling. Feeding (dry pellets) and schooling was soon assumed in the tanks and subsequent mortality has been close to zero for almost a year. Three tags (T-bar in the dorsal fin, Streamer in the operculum and the tail and Fingerling in the tail) were tested in several trials. All tags produced low mortality (< 5%), and the final choice for tagging at sea (Streamer in the tail) was based on the rate of detachment, tag visibility, interference with swimming and feeding behaviour and easiness of operation. In the summer of 2004, up to 30000 sardine are aimed to be tagged off the Iberian Peninsula (southern and northwestern Portugal, western Galicia and central Cantabria). A publicity strategy has been devised, aiming to enhance the probability of tag recoveries
Temporal dissipative structures in optical Kerr resonators with transient loss fluctuation
Creators: name: Chen, Yuanyuan
name: Liu, Tuo
name: Sun, Suwan
name: Guo, Hairun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dissipative structures are the result of spontaneous symmetry breaking in a dynamic open system, which is induced by either the nonlinear effect or loss fluctuations. While optical temporal dissipative solitons in nonlinear Kerr cavities has been widely studied, they are operated in a red-detuned regime that is non-trivial to access. Here, we demonstrate an emergent dissipative soliton state in optical cavities in the presence of loss fluctuations, which is accessible by self-evolution of the system and is operated in resonance. We numerically investigate both the effect of loss modulation and the effect of saturable absorption, based on a standard dissipative and Kerr-nonlinear microresonator model, and observe stable soliton states in a close-to-zero detuning region. The self-starting soliton state working in resonance is potentially of wide interest, which would not only ease the operation for ultrafast temporal soliton generation, but also imply a high conversion efficiency for soliton micro-combs.
Survey of Water and Ammonia in Nearby galaxies (SWAN): Resolved Ammonia Thermometry, Water and Methanol Masers in the Nuclear Starburst of NGC 253
Creators: name: Gorski, Mark
name: Ott, Jürgen
name: Rand, Richard
name: Meier, David S.
name: Momjian, Emmanuel
name: Schinnerer, Eva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Karl G Jansky Very Large Array molecular line observations of the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253, from SWAN: "Survey of Water and Ammonia in Nearby galaxies". SWAN is a molecular line survey at centimeter wavelengths designed to reveal the physical conditions of star forming gas over a range of star forming galaxies. NGC 253 has been observed in four 1GHz bands from 21 to 36 GHz at 6" ($\sim100$pc) spatial and 3.5 km s$^{-1}$ spectral resolution. In total we detect 19 transitions from seven molecular and atomic species. We have targeted the metastable inversion transitions of ammonia (NH$_{3}$) from (1,1) to (5,5) and the (9,9) line, the 22.2 GHz water (H$_2$O) ($6_{16}-5_{23}$) maser, and the 36.1 GHz methanol (CH$_3$OH) ($4_{-1}-3_{0}$) maser. Utilizing NH$_{3}$ as a thermometer, we present evidence for uniform heating over the central kpc of NGC 253. The molecular gas is best described by a two kinetic temperature model with a warm 130K and a cooler 57K component. A comparison of these observations with previous ALMA results suggests that the molecular gas is not heated in photon dominated regions or shocks. It is possible that the gas is heated by turbulence or cosmic rays. In the galaxy center we find evidence for NH$_{3}$(3,3) masers. Furthermore we present velocities and luminosities of three water maser features related to the nuclear starburst. We partially resolve CH$_3$OH masers seen at the edges of the bright molecular emission, which coincides with expanding molecular superbubbles. This suggests that the masers are pumped by weak shocks in the bubble surfaces.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
title: Stock discrimination and temporal and spatial genetic variation of sardine (Sardina pilchardus) in northeastern Atlantic, with a combined analysis of nuclear (microsatellites and allozymes) and mitochondrial DNA markers
Creators: name: Kasapidis, Panagiotis
name: Planes, Serge
name: Laurent, Veronique
name: Quinta, Ricardo
name: Teia, Ana
name: Lenfant, Philippe
name: Darivianakis, Stelios
name: Terzoglou, Vasso
name: Kotoulas, Giorgos
name: Magoulas, Antonios
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - Q - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast (ICES Ecoregion)

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Within the context of EU project SARDYN, we assess genetic variability of sardine in northeastern Atlantic and compare it with the extremes of the species distribution. Three different types of genetic markers are used: allozymes, microsatellites and mitochondrial DNA RFLP’s. The spatial and temporal stability of genetic properties will be evaluated by comparing results from different adult samples from 2000 and 2003 spawning season, adult samples from 2003 feeding season, as well as egg and larvae samples from 2003 spawning season. For the present contribution adult samples from the 2000 and 2003 spawning seasons were scored for 5 microsatellite loci, while adult samples from the 2003 spawning and feeding seasons were scored for 27 allozyme loci (10 of them being highly polymorphic). The first results indicate that the sardine populations from the Gulf of Cadiz along the continental shelf till the Celtic Sea and the English Channel most likely comprise a single stock, which is distinct from the Azores and Madeira populations as well as the Mauritania population.
Greedy-layer Pruning: Speeding up Transformer Models for Natural Language Processing
Creators: name: Peer, David
name: Stabinger, Sebastian
name: Engl, Stefan
name: Rodriguez-Sanchez, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fine-tuning transformer models after unsupervised pre-training reaches a very high performance on many different natural language processing tasks. Unfortunately, transformers suffer from long inference times which greatly increases costs in production. One possible solution is to use knowledge distillation, which solves this problem by transferring information from large teacher models to smaller student models. Knowledge distillation maintains high performance and reaches high compression rates, nevertheless, the size of the student model is fixed after pre-training and can not be changed individually for a given downstream task and use-case to reach a desired performance/speedup ratio. Another solution to reduce the size of models in a much more fine-grained and computationally cheaper fashion is to prune layers after the pre-training. The price to pay is that the performance of layer-wise pruning algorithms is not on par with state-of-the-art knowledge distillation methods. In this paper, Greedy-layer pruning is introduced to (1) outperform current state-of-the-art for layer-wise pruning, (2) close the performance gap when compared to knowledge distillation, while (3) providing a method to adapt the model size dynamically to reach a desired performance/speedup tradeoff without the need of additional pre-training phases. Our source code is available on https://github.com/deepopinion/greedy-layer-pruning.
description: Accepted at Pattern Recognition Letters
Status of the South Magnet Mapping Analysis
Creators: name: Velissaris, Christos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: rhic
phenix
magnet

description: In this document the current status of the South Magnet Mapping analysis is described. After a brief description of the mapping methodology, we present a comparison between the measured magnetic field values and the ones calculated by the finite element program TOSCA. Finally, we comment on the results and we point out possible reasons for discrepancy between the measured and calculated values.
Bad Primes in Computational Algebraic Geometry
Creators: name: Boehm, Janko
name: Decker, Wolfram
name: Fieker, Claus
name: Laplagne, Santiago
name: Pfister, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 13P10 (Primary) 68W10, 52C05 (Secondary)

description: Computations over the rational numbers often suffer from intermediate coefficient swell. One solution to this problem is to apply the given algorithm modulo a number of primes and then lift the modular results to the rationals. This method is guaranteed to work if we use a sufficiently large set of good primes. In many applications, however, there is no efficient way of excluding bad primes. In this note, we describe a technique for rational reconstruction which will nevertheless return the correct result, provided the number of good primes in the selected set of primes is large enough. We give a number of illustrating examples which are implemented using the computer algebra system Singular and the programming language Julia. We discuss applications of our technique in computational algebraic geometry.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
Low-efficiency long gamma-ray bursts: A case study with AT2020blt
Creators: name: Sarin, Nikhil
name: Hamburg, Rachel
name: Burns, Eric
name: Ashton, Gregory
name: Lasky, Paul D.
name: Lamb, Gavin P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Zwicky Transient Facility recently announced the detection of an optical transient AT2020blt at redshift $z=2.9$, consistent with the afterglow of an on-axis gamma-ray burst. However, no prompt emission was observed. We analyse AT2020blt with detailed models, showing the data are best explained as the afterglow of an on-axis long gamma-ray burst, ruling out other hypotheses such as a cocoon and a low-Lorentz factor jet. We search \textit{Fermi} data for prompt emission, setting deeper upper limits on the prompt emission than in the original detection paper. Together with KONUS-\textit{Wind} observations, we show that the gamma-ray efficiency of AT2020blt is $\lesssim 0.3 - 4.5\%$. We speculate that AT2020blt and AT2021any belong to the low-efficiency tail of long gamma-ray burst distributions that are beginning to be readily observed due to the capabilities of new observatories like the Zwicky Transient Facility.
description: Published in MNRAS. 11 pages, 4 figures
title: Zooplankton Composition, distribution and abundance in the Bay of Biscay and adjacent Atlantic waters from cetacean sighting survey
Creators: name: Miranda, Ana
name: Fernandez, G.
name: Eirin, C.
name: Lens, S.
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - Q - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast (ICES Ecoregion)

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.In 1989 a Spanish shipboard sighting survey was carried out as part of a combined international cetacean´s survey in the North Atlantic ( NASS-89). The cruise had taken place during July- August covering the Bay of Biscay and adjacent Atlantic waters between 42º- 52º N and 25º W. Zooplankton samples obtained during that cruise has recently being processed and analysed. Due to the relative scarce information available about the zooplankton of the area surveyed it was considered useful to present now this information. Data about the composition, distribution and abundance of the zooplankton fraction between 200 μm and 2 mm were obtained. The dominant groups in the oceanic area were Acantharia, Radiolaria and Amphipoda. In some stations these groups represented more than 50% on the plankton community. In the Bay of Biscay, apart from the groups found in the oceanic area, they also appeared Doliolida and the copepod Calanoides carinatus ( Krøyer, 1848). Abundances had range between 2 and 27 785 ind/m3 accounting for the wide extension and different thermohaline characteristics of the area sample. The groups with more than 500 ind/m3 were the Radiolaria, Acantharia, Chaetognatha and the copepod Calanoides carinatus. The last two groups were more abundant in the coastal zone
Testing of Cattle Ear Notch Samples Using a Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus NS3 Antigen ELISA Kit for Detection of Persistently Infected Animals
Creators: name: Guillossou, S.
name: Thomson, D.
name: Thomson, C.
name: Stevens, E.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2008

description: Identification and elimination of persistently infected (PI) cattle is important to controlling bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) in herds. Compared to many diagnostic laboratory techniques, ELISA (enzyme linked immunosorbent assay) is convenient due to the ability to test large number of samples rapidly and consistently. A virus can be detected by probing for a specific nonstructural antigen like the NS3 (p80 in former nomenclature) or a structural antigen like the glycoprotein Erns (E0 or gp48 in former nomenclatures). Ear notch samples can be obtained easily and quickly from cattle. Another important advantage of ear notch skin biopsy samples is that they contain a high concentration of BVDV antigen. Few publications can be found describing the detection of NS3 in ear notches from cattle. The objective of this study was to compare the performance of a current commercial ELISA which specifically detects the NS3 antigen on ear notches from cattle to other tests utilized in diagnostic laboratories.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2008
Development of a Quantification Method to Specific Anti-NS3 Antibody Against Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) Using a Blocking ELISA
Creators: name: Guillossou, S.
name: Thomson, D.
name: Thomson, C.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2008

description: There are numerous published epidemiological models in Europe concerning the control of the bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) in cattle by identifying and removing persistently infected (PI) cattle from herds. It is difficult to adapt these models in countries that routinely vaccinate cattle for BVDV. Vaccination interferes with previous models when measuring total or serum neutralizing antibodies. An alternative approach could be to measure a subpopulation such as antibody targeting nonstructural proteins that can be found only during virus replication. The objective of the study was to develop a quantitative serum antibody test for BVDV with a commercially available test (SERELISA® BVD Ab Mono Blocking, Synbiotics Corporation) that is based on a blocking ELISA which allows specific detection of anti-NS3 antibodies against the BVDV. The blocking format alone does not allow a straightforward approach for developing quantification methods because of the usual lack of linearity of these tests. Therefore, statistical applications were explored to develop a quantitative extension of the blocking format.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2008
Local weak solutions to a Navier-Stokes-nonlinear-Schrödinger model of superfluidity
Creators: name: Jayanti, Pranava Chaitanya
name: Trivisa, Konstantina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a 1959 paper by Pitaevskii, a macroscopic model of superfluidity was derived from first principles, to describe the interacting dynamics between the superfluid and normal fluid phases of Helium-4. The model couples two of the most fundamental PDEs in mathematics: the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) and the Navier-Stokes equations (NSE). In this article, we show the local existence of weak solutions to this system (in a smooth bounded domain in 3D), by deriving the required a priori estimates. (We will also establish an energy inequality obeyed by the weak solutions constructed in Kim's 1987 paper for the incompressible, inhomogeneous NSE.) To the best of our knowledge, this is the first rigorous mathematical analysis of a bidirectionally coupled system of the NLS and NSE.
description: 48 pages; added some references in the Introduction section
On Kac's Jordan superalgebra
Creators: name: Cordova-Martinez, Alejandra S.
name: Darehgazani, Abbas
name: Elduque, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17C40 (Primary), 17C70, 17C30 (Secondary)

description: The group-scheme of automorphisms of the ten-dimensional exceptional Kac's Jordan superalgebra is shown to be isomorphic to the semidirect product of the direct product of two copies of SL2 by the constant group scheme C2. This is used to revisit, extend, and simplify, known results on the classification of the twisted forms of this superalgebra and of its gradings.
description: 7 pages
Livestock Disease Surveillance
Creators: name: Van Metre, David C.
name: Salman, M. D.
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: As a result of the expansion of global trade and travel, livestock disease surveillance has rapidly evolved from a stance of looking at and within our borders for threats to looking more intensively across the globe for threats. The projected intensification of livestock production in developing nations will likely broaden the scale, diversity, and consequences of disease outbreaks. Numerous challenges face the development and implementation of effective global and domestic livestock disease surveillance. Our profession is well-positioned to advocate, develop, and utilize novel technologies, novel strategies, and novel sources of human resources to meet these challenges.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
Training Bovine Health Professionals for the Future
Creators: name: Garry, Franklyn
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Livestock production systems have changed dramatically in the last several decades and continue to evolve. This has led to a much greater diversity in the potential demands for animal health care delivery, assurance of production animal well-being, and delivery of safe food products to the consuming public. One response to these changes is the current discussion about the potential need for more food animal veterinarians. It seems highly desirable to improve the supply of well-trained and highly skilled food animal professionals. Looking at the analogous problem of the need to provide primary health care and rural health systems in human medicine, maybe we need to rethink the nature of the challenge. Perhaps the salient question is how to provide for appropriate livestock health and well-being in a changing agricultural production environment. The veterinary profession needs to consider not just how to improve the supply of veterinarians but also how to incorporate animal health paraprofessionals into a more diversified health care delivery system.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
title: THEME 4. Processus de soumission des projets
Publisher: name: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Year: 2024

description: Familiarisez-vous avec le processus de soumission des projets, comprenez comment utiliser la plateforme Funding & Tenders, découvrez le processus d'évaluation des projets, et explorez même comment devenir expert évaluateur pour la Commission européenne.
Billiard tables with rotational symmetry
Creators: name: Bialy, Misha
name: Tsodikovich, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37C05

description: We generalize the following simple geometric fact: the only centrally symmetric convex curve of constant width is a circle. Billiard interpretation of the condition of constant width reads: a planar curve has constant width, if and only if, the Birkhoff billiard map inside the planar curve has a rotational invariant curve of $2$-periodic orbits. We generalize this statement to curves that are invariant under a rotation by angle $\frac{2π}{k}$, for which the billiard map has a rotational invariant curve of $k$-periodic orbits. Similar result holds true also for Outer billiards and Symplectic billiards. Finally, we consider Minkowski billiards inside a unit disc of Minkowski (not necessarily symmetric) norm which is invariant under a linear map of order $k\ge 3$. We find a criterion for the existence of an invariant curve of $k$-periodic orbits. As an application, we get rigidity results for all those billiards.
description: 33 pages, 8 figures
SI: Informing Circularity-Focused Design Optimization Using Parametric Lifecycle Engineering Simulation Models
Creators: name: Ramanujan, Devarajan
name: Aher, Gaurav
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330314
subject: Sustainable design
classificationCode: 401408
subject: Manufacturing processes and technologies (excl. textiles)

description: Supplementary Information for the paper "Informing Circularity-Focused Design Optimization Using Parametric Lifecycle Engineering Simulation Models"
Prescriptions and Drug Distribution
Creators: name: Arck, Shirley
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Laws concerning drug distribution involving veterinarians vary from state to state. The best ones are created when both veterinarians and pharmacists creating the laws understand each other. This manuscript discusses how state pharmacy statutes and regulations pertain to veterinarians and veterinary practice, and how to make sure veterinarians have a voice in the process.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
SI: A Modelling Framework for Integrating Circular Economy and Sustainability Assessments Into Simulation Based Design Exploration and Optimization
Creators: name: Ramanujan, Devarajan
name: Aher, Gaurav
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330314
subject: Sustainable design
classificationCode: 401408
subject: Manufacturing processes and technologies (excl. textiles)

description: Supplementary Information for the paper "A Modelling Framework for Integrating Circular Economy and Sustainability Assessments Into Simulation Based Design Exploration and Optimization"
Veterinary Prescriptions and Drug Distribution
Creators: name: Lust, Elaine
Publisher: name: American Association of Bovine Practitioners  Proceedings of the Annual Conference
Year: 2009

description: Veterinarians have come to expect reliable and predictable services from wholesale drug distributors. Due to valid concerns regarding counterfeit human medications and the security of the drug supply chain, changes at the federal and state levels have directly affected veterinary wholesale drug distributors. This manuscript will highlight state and federal regulations that influence production animal medicine business models where veterinary prescription drugs are sold/delivered to end users upon the valid order of a veterinarian within the context of a veterinarian-client-patient relationship (VCPR). This presentation will review federal acts and state statutes and regulations that affect the sale and distribution of prescription drugs used in production animal medicine. Additionally, it focuses on regulatory affairs and regulatory compliance issues that impact practicing veterinarians and veterinary drug distributors.
description: American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 2009
Driving chemical reactions with polariton condensates
Creators: name: Pannir-Sivajothi, Sindhana
name: Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo, Jorge A.
name: Martínez-Martínez, Luis A.
name: Sinha, Shubham
name: Yuen-Zhou, Joel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When molecular transitions strongly couple to photon modes, they form hybrid light-matter modes called polaritons. Collective vibrational strong coupling is a promising avenue for control of chemistry, but this can be deterred by the large number of quasi-degenerate dark modes. The macroscopic occupation of a single polariton mode by excitations, as observed in Bose-Einstein condensation, offers promise for overcoming this issue. Here we theoretically investigate the effect of vibrational polariton condensation on the kinetics of electron transfer processes. Compared with excitation with infrared laser sources, the condensate changes the reaction yield significantly due to additional channels with reduced activation barriers resulting from the large accumulation of energy in the lower polariton, and the many modes available for energy redistribution during the reaction. Our results offer tantalizing opportunities to use condensates for driving chemical reactions, kinetically bypassing usual constraints of fast intramolecular vibrational redistribution in condensed phase.
description: Published in Nature Communications
Annealing stability of magnetic tunnel junctions based on dual MgO free layers and [Co/Ni] based thin synthetic antiferromagnet fixed system
Creators: name: Devolder, T.
name: Couet, S.
name: Swerts, J.
name: Liu, E.
name: Lin, T.
name: Mertens, S.
name: Kar, G.
name: Furnemont, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the annealing stability of bottom-pinned perpendicularly magnetized magnetic tunnel junctions based on dual MgO free layers and thin fixed systems comprising a hard [Co/Ni] multilayer antiferromagnetically coupled to thin a Co reference layer and a FeCoB polarizing layer. Using conventional magnetometry and advanced broadband ferromagnetic resonance, we identify the properties of each sub-unit of the magnetic tunnel junction and demonstrate that this material option can ensure a satisfactory resilience to the 400$^\circ$C thermal annealing needed in solid-state magnetic memory applications. The dual MgO free layer possesses an anneal-robust 0.4 T effective anisotropy and suffers only a minor increase of its Gilbert damping from 0.007 to 0.010 for the toughest annealing conditions. Within the fixed system, the ferro-coupler and texture-breaking TaFeCoB layer keeps an interlayer exchange above 0.8 mJ/m$^2$, while the Ru antiferrocoupler layer within the synthetic antiferromagnet maintains a coupling above -0.5 mJ/m$^2$. These two strong couplings maintain the overall functionality of the tunnel junction upon the toughest annealing despite the gradual degradation of the thin Co layer anisotropy that may reduce the operation margin in spin torque memory applications. Based on these findings, we propose further optimization routes for the next generation magnetic tunnel junctions.
title: Abnormal Domination Of Gilt Sardine (Abnormal Domination Of Gilt Sardine (Sardinellasardinellaauritaaurita) In The Middle Shelf ) In The Middle Shelf Ichthyoplankton Community Of Gulf Of Cádiz (Sw Iberian Peninsulichthyoplankton Community Of Gulf Of Cádi
Creators: name: Rubín, Juan P.
name: Mafalda, Paulo
Publisher: name: ASC 2004 - Q - Theme session
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics
Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast (ICES Ecoregion)

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The ‘Ictio.Alboran-Cádiz’multidisciplinary oceanographic surveys are carried out in summer (July), during 1994 and 1995, by the IEO (1,2). This research was developed with the aim of describing species composition, abundance and distribution patterns of mesozooplanktonand fish larvae community and their relationships to oceanographic regimes.(Figure 1).
Rethinking $(k,\ell)$-anonymity in social graphs: $(k,\ell)$-adjacency anonymity and $(k,\ell)$-(adjacency) anonymous transformations
Creators: name: Mauw, Sjouke
name: Ramírez-Cruz, Yunior
name: Trujillo-Rasua, Rolando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper treats the privacy-preserving publication of social graphs in the presence of active adversaries, that is, adversaries with the ability to introduce sybil nodes in the graph prior to publication and leverage them to create unique fingerprints for a set of victim nodes and re-identify them after publication. Stemming from the notion of $(k,\ell)$-anonymity, we introduce $(k,\ell)$-anonymous transformations, characterising graph perturbation methods that ensure protection from active adversaries levaraging up to $\ell$ sybil nodes. Additionally, we introduce a new privacy property: $(k,\ell)$-adjacency anonymity, which relaxes the assumption made by $(k,\ell)$-anonymity that adversaries can control all distances between sybil nodes and the rest of the nodes in the graph. The new privacy property is in turn the basis for a new type of graph perturbation: $(k,\ell)$-adjacency anonymous transformations. We propose algorithms for obtaining $(k,1)$-adjacency anonymous transformations for arbitrary values of $k$, as well as $(2,\ell)$-adjacency anonymous transformations for small values of $\ell$.