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Letter from Mayor Douglas C. Sharp
No full textA letter from Mayor Sharp thanking James Hearst for his work as honorary chairman of the Fund Drive for the Cedar Falls Public Library.https://scholarworks.uni.edu/hearst_documents/1014/thumbnail.jp
Earthquake and tsunami impact analysis for coastal Lane, Douglas, and Coos counties, Oregon
No full textReport -- Coos Countywide Tables -- Douglas Countywide Tables -- Lane Countywide Tables.by Jonathan C. Allan and Fletcher E. O'Brien.Title from PDF cover (viewed on September 23, 2022)."This report evaluates a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake (MW 9.0) and tsunami (M1, L1, and XXL1 scenarios) affecting coastal Lane, Douglas, and Coos counties, Oregon, to understand the degree of potential destruction, including building losses, debris generated, fatalities and injuries, and estimated numbers of the displaced populations. The goal is to help coastal communities prepare for this inevitable disaster"--Page ii.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Argyres-Douglas theories and S-duality
No full textThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are creditedM.B. and T.N. are partly supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under grants DOE-SC0010008, DOE-ARRA-SC0003883, and DOE-DE-SC0007897.
This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.
NSF PHY11-25915. S.G. is partially supported by the ERC Advanced Grant “SyDuGraM”,
by FNRS-Belgium (convention FRFC PDR T.1025.14 and convention IISN 4.4514.08) and by the “Communaut´e Francaise de Belgique” through the ARC progra
Serum total hCGβ level is an independent prognostic factor in transitional cell carcinoma of the urothelial tract
No full textBackground: serum total human chorionic gonadotrophin β subunit (hCGβ) level might have prognostic value in urothelial transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) but has not been investigated for independence from other prognostic variables.Methods: we utilised a clinical database of patients receiving chemotherapy between 2005 and 2011 for urothelial TCC and an independent cohort of radical cystectomy patients for validation purposes. Prognostic variables were tested by univariate Kaplan-Meier analyses and log-rank tests. Statistically significant variables were then assessed by multivariate Cox regression. Total hCGβ level was dichotomised at < vs ≥2 IU l-1.Results: a total of 235 chemotherapy patients were eligible. For neoadjuvant chemotherapy, established prognostic factors including low ECOG performance status, normal haemoglobin, lower T stage and suitability for cisplatin-based chemotherapy were associated with favourable survival in univariate analyses. In addition, low hCGβ level was favourable when assessed either before (median survival not reached vs 1.86 years, P=0.001) or on completion of chemotherapy (4.27 vs 0.42 years, P=0.000002). This was confirmed in multivariate analyses and in patients receiving first-and second-line palliative chemotherapy, and in a radical cystectomy validation set.Conclusions: serum total hCGβ level is an independent prognostic factor in patients receiving chemotherapy for urothelial TCC in both curative and palliative settings.</p
SHARP: Exploring Version Control Systems in Live Coding Music
No full textVersion control systems, which have proven essential for software engineering, can also provide value to creative and artistic practices. In this paper, we explore version control in the creative domain of live coding music, a generative performance practice where programmers edit and run code live to generate audiovisual artifacts. To that end, we developed SHARP, a lightweight version control system that live coders can use during performances as well as in preparation or practice sessions. We conducted a user study where live coders used SHARP for several weeks, wrote diary entries reflecting on their sessions, recorded a performance using SHARP, and participated in exit interviews. We found that SHARP enabled participants to engage with musical form on the fly in novel ways. In addition, the study revealed multifaceted perspectives on how and when versioning can be useful in the context of live coding. Our results inform the design of versioning systems for live coding and more generally for performance and generative arts practices.Published versio
Intercalation of poly[oligo(ethylene glycol) oxalate] into vanadium pentoxide xerogel: Preparation, characterization and conductivity properties
No full textInternet Identifiability and Beyond: A Model of the Effects of Identifiability on Communicative Behavior
No full textK.M. Douglas and C. McGarty (in press) demonstrated that being identifiable to an ingroup
audience in a computer-mediated communication (CMC) setting leads people to describe
anonymous outgroup targets in more abstract, or stereotypical ways. Based on these findings,
and on the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE: S.D. Reicher, R. Spears,
& T. Postmes, 1995), we aimed to test a model of the effects of identifiability on
communicative behavior, in and beyond CMC. Participants in three studies, one CMC and
two pen/paper, were asked to write responses to controversial messages. In all three studies,
communicators who were identifiable to an ingroup audience used more stereotypical
language to describe anonymous outgroup targets. Although Study 1 suggested that this
increase in stereotypical language use may be strategic, Studies 2 and 3 suggested instead that
it may result from more subtle, or implicit communicative processes. These results are
discussed in relation to the revised SIDE model and a final model is proposed
On spherically symmetric Finsler metrics with vanishing Douglas curvature
No full textWe obtain the differential equation that characterizes the spherically symmetric Finsler metrics with vanishing Douglas curvature. By solving this equation, we obtain all the spherically symmetric Douglas metrics. Many explicit examples are included. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Mathematics, AppliedMathematicsSCI(E)1ARTICLE6746-7583
The effect of feeding frequency and alternative proteins in milk replacer on growing Holstein calves
No full textMilk proteins (more specifically whey proteins) typically are the primary component of milk replacers (MR) and have been considered to be the gold standard for calves, because the lack of anti-nutritional factors and high digestibility that allows for growth rate similar to that of a calf consuming its mother’s milk. Milk replacers containing whey protein, although more cost-effective than whole milk, still represent a substantial cost for producers raising calves. Alternative protein sources have been in the forefront of research on MR for many years in the search for more cost-effective feeds for calves. In particular, a blend of bovine plasma protein (PP) and modified wheat protein might be a good replacement for some of the whey protein. Usually, MR is fed twice daily, but some recent research has indicated that feeding three times daily might increase efficiency of calf’s nutrient use. Feeding three times daily might be even more beneficial for MR containing alternate proteins such as bovine plasma and wheat. Therefore, the objective of this experiment was to determine the effects of two MR, containing either entirely whey protein or a combination of whey protein, bovine PP, and modified wheat protein, when fed either two or three times daily on calf growth, development, and health of dairy calves.
Female and male Holstein calves (n = 103) were studied for the first 63 d of life, with additional measurements obtained at wk 12 of life. The two MR were formulated to contain 25% CP, 17% fat, and a Lys: Met ratio of 3.1:1. Individual treatments arising from the 2 × 2 factorial arrangement of MR formulation and frequency of feeding were as follows: 2XCON = control all milk protein MR, fed two times daily; 2XWBP = MR containing whey protein plus modified wheat and bovine PP, fed two times daily; 3XCON = control all milk protein MR, fed three times daily; and 3XWBP = MR containing whey protein plus modified wheat and bovine PP, fed three times daily. Following colostrum consumption, calves were fed MR (12.5% solids) at rates of dry matter (DM) dependent upon age. During the first 2 d after birth all calves were fed a baseline MR (Excelerate, Milk Specialties Global Animal Nutrition) at 0.52 kg/d (DM basis), divided into two or three feedings daily according to treatment assignment. Treatment MR then were fed in the following daily amounts of MR (DM basis): d 3 to 10 = 0.52 kg/d (2X = 0.259 kg, 3X = 0.173 kg per feeding); d 11 to 20 = 0.68 kg/d (2X = 0.341 kg, 3X = 0.227 kg per feeding); d 21 to 42 = 0.84 kg/d (2X = 0.42 kg, 3X = 0.28 kg; d 43 to 46, 47, 49, and 51 = 0.42 kg/d, with both 2X and 3X changed to one feeding daily with skip days (d 48 and 50) in-between where calves were not given MR; and on d 52 calves were weaned. Starter was fed from d 1 until d 63. Intakes, health scores, attitude scores, and fecal scores were measured daily. Body weight and growth measurements were obtained weekly. Blood samples were obtained at 0, 24, and 48 h and then on d 5, 14, 28, and 42 of age.
During wk 1 to 4, calves fed 3XWBP consumed the lowest amount of MR (663 g/d) on average compared with calves fed 2XCON, 3XCON, and 2XWBP (667, 665, and 665 g/d, respectively) because calves fed 3XWBP had greater refusals than their counterparts. For wk 5 to 8, calves fed 3XWBP had the lowest MR consumption (549 g/d) when compared to the other three treatments that had equal consumption on average (551 g/d) for the same reason. As designed, there were no differences in MR intake for wk 6, 7, and 8 among treatments. Starter intake was higher (P = 0.03) for calves fed WBP versus CON, particularly in wk 8 and 9. There was a tendency (P = 0.06) for final BW at d 56 to be greater (+3.9 kg) for calves fed WBP than for calves fed CON. Calves fed WBP gained more BW than calves fed CON, from d 56 (wk 8) to d 84 (wk 12). For all ADG measurements there was no significant difference (P > 0.10) due to diet, frequency, or their interaction. For feed efficiency (gain:feed), the interaction of diet and frequency was significant (P = 0.01), where treatment 2XCON had the highest efficiency. The MR by frequency interaction also was significant (P = 0.04) for hip width, with the 3XWBP calves having the greatest hip width. All other growth measurements were not significantly different (P > 0.10) for the main effects, with the exception of body length for which 2X calves were greater (P = 0.01). There were several significant differences or tendencies according to main effects of diet and frequency for all blood variables except total globulin and BHBA. Scours occurred at a higher frequency for calves fed diet CON versus those fed WBP, and was greater for 2X versus 3X. Respiratory and attitude score did not (P > 0.10) differ among treatments. However, there was a greater rectal temperature variation for calves fed 2X versus those fed 3X. Overall calves fed WBP had increased starter intake and greater BW gains later in the study than calves fed CON; however, the only apparent advantage to feeding 3X versus 2X was the decrease in scours occurrence, potentially due to the decrease in MR intake by 3X calves.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2019-12-01The student, Kaylin Sharp, accepted the attached license on 2017-12-02 at 19:56.The student, Kaylin Sharp, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2017-12-02 at 20:04.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-12-06 at 08:28.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11816 on 2018-03-13 at 09:56:45Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-13T15:25:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Against recycling nature - Carl Douglas considers buildings beyond site
No full text‘Ecology’ sounds like something to do with science and solar panels, animal liberationists and atmospheric chemists. But Timothy Morton, author of Ecology without Nature (2007) and The Ecological Thought (2010) claims otherwise. Rather than being a topic or an area of study, he suggests ecology is simply exploring the consequences of a single thought: that everything is connected. Because there is no outside, ecology, in Morton’s eye, has little use for the concept of Nature. To imagine that our projects are sited in Nature is to fantasise about disconnection: to imagine that there is a world out there separate and unaffected by the world within the borders of the project
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