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    Box hygiëne bij melkkoeien

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    Op melkveebedrijf Custers is een onderzoek uitgevoerd omtrent box hygiëne en het verbeteren hiervan. Als eerste is er een onderzoek gestart naar de aanleiding en ziektegeschiedenis van het destijds spelende uiergezondheidheids problematiek. Nadat er vastgesteld werd om welke vorm van mastitis het precies ging kon er verder actie ondernomen worden. De E-coli bacterie was de veroorzaker voor de uiergezondheidsproblematiek op melkveebedrijf Custers. Samen met de ondernemer is er vervolgens een onderzoek gestart naar de oorzaak voor het binnendringen en het verder verspreiden van deze vorm van mastitis. Eerst zijn er enkele oorzaken onderzocht zoals: afstelling melkrobots, weerstand koeien, droogstandsmanagement, reinheid water drinkbakken en als laatste box vulling. Alle mogelijke infectiebronnen zijn onderzocht en met goed resultaat uit het onderzoek gekomen. Alleen de box vulling voldeed niet aan de normen van het onderzoek. De box vulling beschikte over een dermate hoge concentratie aan bacteriën die de oorzaak zouden kunnen zijn voor de mastitisproblematiek

    Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt

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    Handwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.

    Handwritten biographical information on Paulina T. McClung Merritt

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    A handwritten biography of Paulina T. McClung Merritt by an unknown author, 1892.

    Heterogeneous and tissue-specific regulation of effector T cell responses by IFN-gamma during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection.

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    IFN-γ and T cells are both required for the development of experimental cerebral malaria during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection. Surprisingly, however, the role of IFN-γ in shaping the effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cell response during this infection has not been examined in detail. To address this, we have compared the effector T cell responses in wild-type and IFN-γ(-/-) mice during P. berghei ANKA infection. The expansion of splenic CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells during P. berghei ANKA infection was unaffected by the absence of IFN-γ, but the contraction phase of the T cell response was significantly attenuated. Splenic T cell activation and effector function were essentially normal in IFN-γ(-/-) mice; however, the migration to, and accumulation of, effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells in the lung, liver, and brain was altered in IFN-γ(-/-) mice. Interestingly, activation and accumulation of T cells in various nonlymphoid organs was differently affected by lack of IFN-γ, suggesting that IFN-γ influences T cell effector function to varying levels in different anatomical locations. Importantly, control of splenic T cell numbers during P. berghei ANKA infection depended on active IFN-γ-dependent environmental signals--leading to T cell apoptosis--rather than upon intrinsic alterations in T cell programming. To our knowledge, this is the first study to fully investigate the role of IFN-γ in modulating T cell function during P. berghei ANKA infection and reveals that IFN-γ is required for efficient contraction of the pool of activated T cells

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more sophisticated methods

    Pelevin’s Trinity in the novel “t”: author – protagonist – reader

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    The article attempts to interpret Pelevin's artistic strategy in the novel "T" by exploring its subject organization and addressing the key problems of the author, the protagonist, and the reader as they are seen by the researcher. The article analyzes the peculiarities of constructing the narrative reality in the novel "T", and goes on to discuss Pelevin's philosophic models of the development of the humankind, and the emergence of his new anthropology

    Low-temperature resistivity and Hall effect measurements of the Kondo insulator CeRu4Sn6

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    Low-temperature resistivity and Hall effect measurements of the Kondo insulator CeRu4Sn6 Poster 1st International Workshop: The New Generation in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems By: Karl-Anton Lorenzer From: Vienna University of Technology When: 20.-26.06.2010, Lanzarote, Spain Authors: K.-A. Lorenzer, H. Winkler, J. Custers, A. Prokofiev, and S. Paschen Abstract: Recently, specific heat and magnetization measurements on single crystalline CeRu4Sn6 revealed pronounced anisotropies [1], suggesting that this compound may be a nodal Kondo insulator. Amazingly, strong anisotropy was not only found along the fundamental crystal directions (tetragonal a- and c-direction) but also within a quasi cubic cell arising in this compound due to the lattice parameter in the [0 0 1] direction (c) almost matching the lattice spacing in the [1 1 0] direction (c'). Here, we present and discuss results of electrical resistivity measurements on single crystalline CeRu4Sn6 samples down to 25 mK for different magnetic fields up to 15 T aligned parallel to the tetragonal a- and cdirection and to the quasi-cubic c'-direction. [1] S. Paschen, H. Winkler, T. Nezu, M. Kriegisch, G. Hilscher, J. Custers, and A. Prokofiev 2010 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. (to be published) We acknowledge financial support from the European Research Council/ERC Advanced Grant No. 227378 and from the Austrian Science Fund/FWF project P19458-N16

    Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling method

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    In this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, we compare these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names. Our text-based profile methodology performs significantly better than a random matching of patents and publications, suggesting that text-based profiling is a valuable complementary tool to the name searches used in previous studies.innovation; industry-science links; text-based profiling;

    Wave turbulence of a rotating array of quantized vortices in the T → 0 temperature limit

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    The dynamics of quantized vortices in the zero temperature limit T0T \rightarrow 0 is currently of great interest, particularly in the case of the Fermi superfluid 3^3He-B. Here we study wave turbulence, generated by the librating motion of a rotating cylindrical container filled with 3^3He-B, in the limit of vanishing viscous forces at temperatures T0.2TcT \leq 0.2 T_{c}. The polarization of the quantized vortices with respect to the axis of rotation is measured using non-invasive NMR techniques. We observe a decrease of the polarization when the librating motion is started, and a two-stage relaxation process when the modulation of the rotation velocity is stopped. The first relaxation process is associated with the dissipation of large-scale flow stored in inertial waves and the solid body rotation of the vortex array. From the decay of these energy reservoirs we determine the rate of energy dissipation of large-scale flow. The later second process is related to the relaxation of Kelvin waves on individual vortices. This process is monitored by the recovery of the polarization. The existence of a Kelvin wave cascade at the lowest temperatures is currently a central open question. We supply some evidence for the cascade
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