202 research outputs found
The Distribution and Importance of Arthropods Associated with Agriculture and Forestry in Chile
Farm Management,
Decreased electrophysiologic responsiveness to catecholamines in an experimental model of heart failure in the dog
Metabolic syndrome and weight management programs in primary care: a comparison of three international healthcare systems
Lifestyle behaviours are contributing to the increasing incidence of chronic disease across all developed countries. Australia, Canada and the UK have had different approaches to the role of primary care in the prevention and management of lifestyle-related diseases. Both obesity and metabolic syndrome have been targeted by programs to reduce individual risk for chronic disease such as type 2 diabetes. Three interventions are described- for either obesity or metabolic syndrome - that have varying levels of involvement of GPs and other primary care professionals. The structure of a healthcare system for example, financing and physical locations of primary care clinicians, shapes the development of primary care interventions. The type of clinicians involved in interventions, whether they work alone or in teams, is influenced by the primary care setting and resource availability. Australian clinicians and policymakers should take into account the healthcare system where interventions arc developed when translating interventions to the Australian context
Are Layout-Infused Language Models Robust to Layout Distribution Shifts? A Case Study with Scientific Documents
Recent work has shown that infusing layout features into language models
(LMs) improves processing of visually-rich documents such as scientific papers.
Layout-infused LMs are often evaluated on documents with familiar layout
features (e.g., papers from the same publisher), but in practice models
encounter documents with unfamiliar distributions of layout features, such as
new combinations of text sizes and styles, or new spatial configurations of
textual elements. In this work we test whether layout-infused LMs are robust to
layout distribution shifts. As a case study we use the task of scientific
document structure recovery, segmenting a scientific paper into its structural
categories (e.g., "title", "caption", "reference"). To emulate distribution
shifts that occur in practice we re-partition the GROTOAP2 dataset. We find
that under layout distribution shifts model performance degrades by up to 20
F1. Simple training strategies, such as increasing training diversity, can
reduce this degradation by over 35% relative F1; however, models fail to reach
in-distribution performance in any tested out-of-distribution conditions. This
work highlights the need to consider layout distribution shifts during model
evaluation, and presents a methodology for conducting such evaluations.Comment: To appear in ACL Findings 202
The Effect of Energy Patches on Substrate Utilization in Collegiate Cross-Country Runners
It is well established that an increased capacity of skeletal muscle to oxidize fatty acids can spare glycogen and delay the onset of fatigue in mild- to moderate-intensity exercise. The purpose of the following study was to examine the effect of LifeWave® energy patches on non-protein substrate utilization in Division-1 cross-country runners. To determine the effect of the patches subjects were pretested to establish baselines and randomly assigned to an experimental (EX) or placebo (PL) group. Twenty-two trained male (n = 11; mean ± SD, age = 21.1 ± 2.6years, height = 179.6 ± 4.2cm, body mass = 71.4 ± 7.4kg, VO2max = 72.6 ± 7.1mL•kg-1•min-1) and female (n = 11; mean ± SD, age = 21.5 ± 2.4years, height = 166.7 ± 5.7cm, body mass = 53.7 ± 3.2kg, VO2max = 63.6 ± 6.9mL•kg-1•min-1) cross-country runners volunteered to participate in the study. Dependent variables included maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max), rating of perceived exertion (RPE), respiratory exchange ratio (RER), maximum heart rate (HRmax), and time to exhaustion (TTE). Results indicated there were no significant differences between the EX and PL groups at posttesting for RPE, TTE, HRmax, or VO2max. RER was found to be significantly higher for the EX group compared to the PL group during stage 1 of the Bruce-protocol graded exercise test (p = 0.02). Based on the limited available research regarding LifeWave® energy patches effect on non-protein substrate utilization during aerobic exercise there appears to be no performance enhancing benefits
EC94-872-S Nebraska Crop Budgets
Resource Persons • Crops Budgeting Procedure • Prices Used for 1994
Panhandle • Gravity Irrigated Crops • Sugar Beets • Dry Edible Beans • Corn for Grain • Corn for Silage • Establish Alfatfa with Oats • Alfalfa Hay Gravity Irrigated • Center Pivot Irrigated Crops • Sugar Beets • Dry Edible Beans • Corn for Grain • Winter Wheat • Alfalfa Hay • Non-Irrigated Crops • Winter Wheat Stubble Much Fallow • Winter Wheat, Eco-Fallow (Chemical and Tillage Combination) • Sunflower, Wheat-Sunflower-Fallow Rotation • Millet, Wheat, Fallow, Millet, Fallow
Southwest • Corn for Grain, Gravity Irrigated • Corn for Silage, Gravity Irrigated • Corn for Grain, Ditch Irrigated, Platte Valley • Corn for Grain, Ridge Planted, Gravity Irrigated • Corn for Grain, Center Pivot Irrigated, Fine Texture Soil • Corn for Grain, Center Pivot Irrigated, Sandy Soil • Pinto Beans, Center Pivot Irrigated • Soybeans, Center Pivot Irrigated • Fall Seed Alfalfa, Center Pivot Irrigated • Alfalfa Hay, Center Pivot Irrigated • Alfalfa Hay, Sub-Irrigated, Platte Valley • Fall Seed Grass, Center Pivot Irrigated • Pasture, Center Pivot Irrigated • Wheat, Center Pivot Irrigated • Wheat, Stubble Mulch Fallow • Wheat, Clean Till Fallow • Wheat, Continuous, Chemical Weed Control • Wheat, Followed by Corn, 3 Year Rotation, Eco-Fallow • Corn, Following Eco-Fallow Wheat • Grain Sorghum, Non-Irrigated • Grain Sorghum, Non-Irrigated, No-TUI Continuous • Cane Hay, Non-Irrigated
North • Corn for Grain, Center Pivot Irrigated • Corn for Silage, Center Pivot Irrigated • Establish Alfalfa, Center Pivot Irrigated • Alfalfa Hay, Center Pivot Irrigated • Establish Grass, Center Pivot Irrigated • Pasture, Center Pivot Irrigated • Native Hay, Wet Meadow • Native Hay, Upland
Central • Corn for Grain Center Pivot Irrigated • Corn for Silage Center Pivot Irrigated • Grain Sorghum for Grain, Limited Irrigation, Center Pivot • Corn for Grain, Gravity Irrigated • Corn for Silage Gravity Irrigated • Soybeans, Gravity Irrigated , • Establish Alfalfa, Gravity Irrigated • Alfalfa for Hay, Gravity Irrigated • Corn for Grain, Non-Irrigated • Corn for Grain, Eco-Fallow, Follows Wheat in 3 Year Rotation • Corn for Silage, Non-Irrigated • Grain Sorghum for Grain, Non-Irrigated • Grain Sorghum for Grain, Eco-Fallow, Follows Wheat in 3 Year Rotation • Grain Sorghum for Grain, Continuous, No Till, Non-Irrigated • Soybeans, Non-Irrigated • Wheat for Grain, Continuous Cropped, Non-Irrigated • Wheat for Grain, Continuous, No Till, Non-Irrigated • Wheat for Grain, Fallow Every Third Year • Establish Alfalfa, Non-Irrigated • Alfalfa for Hay, Non-Irrigated • Establish and Maintain Cover Crop on Set Aside Acres
Northeast • Corn for Grain, Center Pivot Irrigated, Sandy Soils • Corn for Grain, Center Pivot Irrigated, Rolling Hills • Corn for Grain, Till-Plant, Rolling Hills • Soybeans, Non-Irrigated • Soybeans, Center Pivot Irrigated • Oats, Non-Irrigated 8 • Oats With Spring Alfalfa Seeding • Alfalfa Seeding • Establish Alfalfa, Sandy Soil, Fall Seeding • Alfalfa Hay, Large Round Baler • Alfalfa Hay Small Square Baler • East Central • Corn for Grain, Center Pivot Irrigated • Soybeans, Center Pivot Irrigated • Corn tor Grain, Non-Irrigated • No-Till Com in Soybean Residue • Grain Sorghum, Non-Irrigated • Soybeans, Non-Irrigated • Soybeans, After Corn Reduced Till • Wheat • Establish Alfalfa, Fall Seeded • Establish Alfalfa, Spring With Herbicide • Alfalfa Hay, Large Round Baler • Alfalfa Hay, Field Stacker • Oats, Non-Irrigated
Southeast • Corn for Grain, Center Pivot Irrigated • Corn for Silage, Center Pivot Irrigated • Corn for Grain, Non-Irrigated • Grain Sorghum, Non-Irrigated • Forage Sorghum Silage, Non-Irrigated • Soybeans, Non-Irrigated • Wheat • Alfalfa Hay, Large Round Bale
Fundamental differences between SPH and grid methods
We have carried out a hydrodynamical code comparison study of interacting
multiphase fluids. The two commonly used techniques of grid and smoothed
particle hydrodynamics (SPH) show striking differences in their ability to
model processes that are fundamentally important across many areas of
astrophysics. Whilst Eulerian grid based methods are able to resolve and treat
important dynamical instabilities, such as Kelvin-Helmholtz or Rayleigh-Taylor,
these processes are poorly or not at all resolved by existing SPH techniques.
We show that the reason for this is that SPH, at least in its standard
implementation, introduces spurious pressure forces on particles in regions
where there are steep density gradients. This results in a boundary gap of the
size of the SPH smoothing kernel over which information is not transferred.Comment: 15 pages, 13 figures, to be submitted to MNRAS. For high-resolution
figures, please see http://www-theorie.physik.unizh.ch/~agertz
Multi-Temporal Analysis and Scaling Relations of 100,000,000,000 Network Packets
Our society has never been more dependent on computer networks. Effective
utilization of networks requires a detailed understanding of the normal
background behaviors of network traffic. Large-scale measurements of networks
are computationally challenging. Building on prior work in interactive
supercomputing and GraphBLAS hypersparse hierarchical traffic matrices, we have
developed an efficient method for computing a wide variety of streaming network
quantities on diverse time scales. Applying these methods to 100,000,000,000
anonymized source-destination pairs collected at a network gateway reveals many
previously unobserved scaling relationships. These observations provide new
insights into normal network background traffic that could be used for anomaly
detection, AI feature engineering, and testing theoretical models of streaming
networks.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures,3 tables, 49 references, accepted to IEEE HPEC
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Documenting ---- in Bloomington-Normal: A Community Report on Intolerance, Segregation, Accessibility, Inclusion, and Progress, and Improvement
For the local chapter of Not In Our Town, we document intolerance, discrimination, segregation, disparities of access, and disparities in the criminal justice system in Bloomington-Normal, IL. Using archival material, secondary data, and primary data, we examine these issues from the mid-1990s to the present. We also assess the position of the organization in the community and provide strategies for future success. In sum, Bloomington-Normal was and is intolerant; discrimination did and does take place in this community; there are disparities of access and in the criminal justice system; we are segregated. The community is also less of these things than it used to be and is less of these things than other places. Fifteen undergraduate students in Sociology 300, twelve graduate students in Sociology 477, a teaching assistant, and an instructor conducted this study in spring 2017
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