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Interview with Henry 'Pete' Erbe
No full textHenry 'Pete' Erbe joined the U.S. infantry in 1958 after graduating from Middlebury College in Vermont. He completed basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, also going through Ranger and Airborne school. He was assigned as a second lieutenant platoon leader in Erlangen, Germany, during the construction of the Berlin Wall. After his return to the U.S., Erbe taught leadership and tactics at Fort Benning until he left to serve in Vietnam as a sub-sector and battalion adviser to the Vietnamese military army. After serving in Vietnam, he earned a master's degree in American History from American University in Washington, D.C, and went on to become an associate professor of American History at West Point, helping to establish an American History curriculum there. Erbe also became involved in establishing the recruiting program for the all-volunteer army in the early 70s. Afterwards, he served in Korea as the Chief Operations Officer for a combat support coordination team. When he returned to the states, Erbe was asked to return to teaching at West Point during the 1976 integration of women into the corps cadets. Before he retired, Erbe served as chief of the Readiness Group, working with the National Guard and Reserve in New England
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Tom Erbe Interviewed by Theodore Gordon
No full textIn this interview, Tom Erbe reflects on his three decades as a developer of computer music software and hardware, both freeware and commercial. Tom met with Theodore Gordon on 8 December 2021 and discussed the beginnings of SoundHack and its roots in experimental music studio practice and hacker culture, ideas behind the design of sound processor interface and the shift from experimental software development to Eurorack modular hardware design
Estimation of genetic parameters for novel functional traits in Brown Swiss cattle
No full textThe aim of this study was to estimate genetic parameters and accuracies of breeding values for a set of functional, behavior, and conformation traits in Brown Swiss cattle. These traits were milking speed, udder depth, position of labia, rank order in herd, general temperament, aggressiveness, milking temperament, and days to first heat. Data of 1,799 phenotyped Brown Swiss cows from 40 Swiss dairy herds were analyzed taking the complete pedigree into account. Estimated heritabilities were within the ranges reported in literature, with results at the high end of the reported values for some traits (e.g., milking speed: 0.42±0.06, udder depth: 0.42±0.06), whereas other traits were of low heritability and heritability estimates were of low accuracy (e.g., milking temperament: 0.04±0.04, days to first heat: 0.02±0.04). For most behavior traits, we found relatively high heritabilities (general temperament: 0.38±0.07, aggressiveness: 0.12±0.08, and rank order in herd: 0.16±0.06). Position of labia, arguably an indicator trait for pathological urovagina, was genetically analyzed in this study for the first time, and a moderate heritability (0.28±0.06) was estimated
Solonaima nielseni Erbe & Hoch, 2004, n.sp.
No full textSolonaima nielseni n.sp. (Figs 1 –4, 6– 11) Type material. Holotypemale: 7 mls. West of Rosebank, NSW, 4.March 1965, M.S. Upton, in ANIC; Paratypes — 1 male: Lamington National Park, Queensland, 28. Jan.– 3. Feb. 1963, G. Monteith, in U.Q.I.C.; 1 female: same data as holotype. Description. Body generally dark brown. Tegmen translucent, with dark brown markings along distal and proximal crossveins and inner apical cell, pterostigma distinct. Total length. Holotype: 7.8 mm; male paratype: 7.7 mm; female paratype: 9.1 mm. Head. Anterior portion of vertex nearly pentagonal, about as long in midline as basally wide. Frons twice as long as maximum width, with median carina sharply ridged; area of frons concave. Post and anteclypeus together only slightly shorter than frons. Second antennal segment about 3 times as long as first. Thorax. Pronotum about as long as anterior portion of vertex, and 1.4 times as wide as maximum width of head. Mesonotum in midline about 9.3 times the length of pronotum. Basal tarsal segment of hind leg with 7, second tarsal segment with 6 to 7 apical teeth. Tegmen about 2.4 times as long as maximally wide. Longitudinal veins inconspiciously papillate. Male genitalia. Genital segment in lateral aspect relatively broad with laterodorsal margins rounded. Anal segment in dorsal aspect nearly ovate, distal part broadened and slightly bent ventrad. Parameres slender, apically dilated, with dorsal tip acute and directed cephalad. Basal part of aedeagus with laterally on each side with a short terete spine directed caudad. Basal part of aedeagus with dorsal portion differentiated into a subapical earshaped lobe and a more acute process, both forming a groove through which a long and slender, terete spine which arises subapically on the right side of the aedeagal basis, is lead to the left side. Distal part of aedeagus bispinose, with both spines arising at midlength of membraneous distal part: the longer spine in repose curved basoventrad, the shorter one curved dorsobasad. Distal part of aedeagus apically granulate. Female genitalia: as in other congeners with complete ensiform ovipositor and median dorsoventral division of waxsecreting area of the 9 th tergite (see Hoch & Howarth 1989). Etymology. Named in honor of the late Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen, former director of the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra. Distribution. Known from localities in Queensland and New South Wales, the species expands the range of the genus to NSW.Published as part of Erbe, Petra & Hoch, Hannelore, 2004, Two new species of the Australian planthopper genus Solonaima Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), pp. 1-7 in Zootaxa 536 on pages 2-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15797
Field free line magnetic particle imaging
No full textMarlitt Erbe provides a detailed introduction into the young research field of Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) and field free line (FFL) imaging in particular. She derives a mathematical description of magnetic field generation for FFL imaging in MPI. To substantiate the simulation studies on magnetic FFL generation with a proof-of-concept, the author introduces the FFL field demonstrator, which provides the world's first experimentally generated rotated and translated magnetic FFL field complying with the requirements for FFL reconstruction. Furthermore, she proposes a scanner design of cons
Replication Data for: Superoxide intermediate in the oxygen reduction on a zinc hydroxide model corrosion product
No full textThis dataset contains data from a study of the electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on zinc hydroxide based model corrosion products electrodeposited on germanium(100). The core of the study is an in situ and operando study of the ORR by attenuated total reflection infrared (ATR-IR) spectroscopy, which is complemented by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Interpretation relies also on the characterisation of the electrodeposited model corrosion products, which is included here. The following data is included: (i) cyclic voltammograms and ATR-IR spectra recorded during chronoamperometric measurements, (ii) optimised structures and vibrational spectra obtained from DFT calculations of cluster models, (iii) scanning electron micrographs (SEM) of the deposited films before and after electrochemical experiments, including energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy characterisation of selected samples, (iv) x-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS), and (v) x-ray diffraction data (XRD) of model corrosion products. An absorption at ~1180 cm-1 only in oxygen purged solution indicates the presence of superoxide (hyperoxide) as ORR intermediate. A detailed interpretation of the results, and the experimental details associated with the dataset is available in the associated article
Estimation of genetic parameters for individual udder quarter milk content traits in Brown Swiss cattle
No full textThe aim of this study was to estimate genetic parameters and accuracies of breeding values for milk content traits of individual udder quarters in Brown Swiss cattle. Data of 1,799 phenotyped cows from 40 Swiss dairy herds were analyzed, taking the complete pedigree into account. Fat, protein, lactose, and urea contents, somatic cell score (SCS), and information about hyperkeratosis were available for each udder quarter. The milk of rear udder quarters was found to have significantly higher lactose content and significantly lower fat content than milk of the front udder quarters. The same trend found for fat content was observed for protein content, whereas no differences between the udder quarters were observed for urea content, SCS, or hyperkeratosis. Heritabilities for each udder quarter were in the following ranges: fat content 0.09 ± 0.06 to 0.14 ± 0.06, protein content 0.20 ± 0.09 to 0.33 ± 0.07, lactose content 0.04 ± 0.03 to 0.16 ± 0.07, urea content 0.13 ± 0.07 to 0.22 ± 0.08, SCS 0.18 ± 0.06 to 0.32 ± 0.07, and hyperkeratosis 0.12 ± 0.04 to 0.26 ± 0.05. In our study, hyperkeratosis, protein content, and SCS showed higher heritabilities in the front udder quarters, fat content had higher heritabilities in the rear udder quarters, and no systematic pattern in heritability was observed for lactose content or urea content. Additive genetic correlations between all udder quarters were >0.90 for protein and urea contents, whereas they were remarkably low (<0.60) for SCS. For fat and lactose contents, the genetic correlations between the 2 front or between the 2 rear quarters, respectively, were notably higher than correlations between 1 front and 1 rear quarter, suggesting that the front and the rear udders could be considered as partly genetically different organs. The variability within the udder as such was found to be of low heritability (<0.10) in general, but repeatability was moderate to high for some traits (lactose content: 0.33 ± 0.05, protein content: 0.53 ± 0.05). Some of these findings can be explained by differences in the physiological background of the traits
L'uso delle erbe vegetali spontanee nella preparazioni delle zuppe di magro in Lucchesia (LU)
No full textSolonaima monteithia Erbe & Hoch, 2004, n. sp.
No full text<i>Solonaima monteithia</i> n. sp. <p>(Figs 5, 13–18)</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> Holotype – male (head missing), Lamington Nationalpark, Queensland, 28. Jan.– 3. Feb., G. Monteith, U.Q.I.C. Female unknown.</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> Generally dark brown. Tegmen translucent, with conspicuous dark brown markings along distal and proximal crossveins and inner apical cell, pterostigma distinct. Total length is not measurable since in the only known specimen of the species the head is missing. Body length (anterior margin of pronotum to tip of abdomen: 3.6 mm).</p> <p>Thorax. Mesonotum in midline about 6.3 times the length of pronotum. Hind legs missing. Tegmen about 2.6 times as long as wide. Longitudinal veins inconspiciously papillate.</p> <p>Male genitalia. Genital segment in lateral aspect relatively broad with all margins rounded. Anal segment nearly ovate, hood­like and slender. Parameres comparatively broad at base, apically dilated, dorsal tip acute and directed cephalad. Basal part of aedeagus ventrally with two prominent terete spines arising from a common basis, directed basad. Basal part of aedeagus with dorsal portion differentiated into a subapical fold and a bulbous protrusion basad of it, both forming a groove for a long, slender, terete spine, which arises subapically on the right side of the aedeagal basis, in repose passing through the groove to the left side. Distal part of the aedeagus with a long, massive spine, arising at midlength of distal part and is curved basolaterad to the left side. Distal part of aedeagus apically granulate.</p> <p>Female genitalia. Female unknown.</p> <p>Etymology. Named in honor of our colleague Geoff Monteith, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, who collected the only known specimen of this species.</p> <p> Remarks. We base our decision to describe this taxon as a new species on the configuration of the male genitalia which does not appear to lie inside the range of variability of any of the other <i>Solonaima</i> species where male specimens are available. <i>S. ornata</i> Hoch, 1988, the only <i>Solonaima</i> species which was described on the basis of a single female differs from other congeners by an obsolete median carina of the frons and a distinct color pattern of the tegmina. Although the head configuration is unknown in <i>S. monteithia</i>, the color pattern of the tegmina differs significantly; thus we assume that <i>S. monteithia and S. ornata</i> belong to separate reproductive entities.</p>Published as part of <i>Erbe, Petra & Hoch, Hannelore, 2004, Two new species of the Australian planthopper genus Solonaima Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), pp. 1-7 in Zootaxa 536</i> on pages 4-7, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/157979">10.5281/zenodo.157979</a>
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