The Clarens web services architecture

Clarens is a uniquely flexible web services infrastructure providing a unified access protocol to a diverse set of functions useful to the HEP community. It uses the standard HTTP protocol combined with application layer, certificate based authentication to provide single sign-on to individuals, organizations and hosts, with fine-grained access control to services, files and virtual organization (VO) management. This contribution describes the server functionality, while client applications are described in a subsequent talk.Comment: Talk from the 2003 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP03), La Jolla, Ca, USA, March 2003, 6 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures, PSN MONT00

Clarens Client and Server Applications

Several applications have been implemented with access via the Clarens web service infrastructure, including virtual organization management, JetMET physics data analysis using relational databases, and Storage Resource Broker (SRB) access. This functionality is accessible transparently from Python scripts, the Root analysis framework and from Java applications and browser applets.Comment: Talk from the 2003 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP03), La Jolla, Ca, USA, March 2003, 4 pages, LaTeX, no figures, PSN TUCT00

State of Art of meat inspection of pigs in the EU

The current meat inspection in the European Union (EU) is based on principles that are around 100 years old. However, the zoonotic hazards have shifted and the production systems for livestock are changing. This makes it necessary to look at whether the present way of conducting meat inspection is efficient or not

Control methods for Dermanyssus gallinae in systems for laying hens: results of an international seminar

This paper reports the results of a seminar on poultry red mite (PRM), Dermanyssus gallinae. Eighteen researchers from eight European countries discussed life cycle issues of the mite, effects of mites on hens and egg production, and monitoring and control methods for PRM in poultry facilities. It was determined that PRM probably causes more damage than envisaged, with the cost in The Netherlands alone reaching 11 million euro per annum. However a great deal is still unknown about PRM (e.g. reproduction, survival methods, etc.) and that PRM monitoring is an important instrument in recognising and admitting the problem and in taking timely measures. Currently, the most promising control method combines heating the hen house in combination with chemical treatments. Future areas of development which show promise include the use of entomopathogenic fungi, vaccination and predatory mites. The final aim is to solve the problem of D. gallinae in housing systems for laying hens

Grid enabled data analysis on handheld devices

The requirement for information on portable, handheld devices demands the realization of increasingly complex applications for increasingly small and ubiquitous devices. This trend promotes the migration of technologies that were originally developed for desktop computers to handheld devices. With the onset of grid computing, users of handheld devices should be able to accomplish much more complex tasks, by accessing the processing and storage resources of the grid. This paper describes the development, features, and performance aspects of a grid enabled analysis environment designed for handheld devices. We also describe some differences in the technologies required to run these applications on desktop machines and handheld devices. In addition, we propose a prototype agent-based distributed architecture for carrying out high-speed analysis of physics data on handheld devices

THE PATIENT-SPECIFIC INJURY SCORE: PRECISION MEDICINE IN TRAUMA PATIENTS PREDICTS ORGAN DYSFUNCTION AND OUTCOMES

poster abstractIntroduction: Current injury scoring systems in polytraumatized patients are limited at predicting patient outcomes. We present a novel method that quantifies mechanical tissue damage and cumulative hypoperfusion using a precision medicine approach. We hypothesized that a Patient-Specific Injury score formulated from individualized injury indices would stratify patient risk for developing organ dysfunction after injury. We compared correspondence between PSI and the Injury Severity Score with outcomes of organ dysfunction and MOF. Methods: Fifty Multiply-injured-patients (MIPs) were studied. Tissue Damage Volume scores were measured from admission pan-axial CT scans using purpose-designed post-processing software to quantify volumetric magnitude and distribution of injuries. Ischemic injury was quantified using Shock Volumes. SV is a time-magnitude integration of shock index. Values above 0.9 were measured in the 24-hours after injury. Metabolic response was quantified by subtracting the lowest first 24 hr pH from 7.40. PSI combines these indices into the formula: PSI=[0.2TDV+SV]*MR. Correspondence coefficients from regression modeling between PSI and organ dysfunction, measured by the Marshall Multiple Organ Dysfunction score averaged from days 2-5 post-injury, were compared to similar regression models of ISS vs. day 2-5 MOD-scores. We compared PSI and ISS in patients that did or did not develop MOF. Results: PSI demonstrated better correlation to organ dysfunction (r2=0.576) in comparison to ISS (r2=0.393) using the MOD-score on days 2-5. Mean PSI increased 3.4x(58.5vs.17.0;p<0.02) and ISS scores increased 1.4x(39.0vs.28.0;p=0.10) in patients that developed MOF versus those that did not. Conclusions: This study shows that a precision medicine approach that integrates patient-specific indices of mechanical tissue damage, ischemic tissue injury, and metabolic response better corresponds to phenotypic changes including organ dysfunction and MOF compared to ISS in MIPs. The PSI-score can be calculated within 24 hours of injury, making it useful for stratifying risk and predicting the magnitude of organ dysfunction to anticipate

OVI Absorption in the Milky Way Disk, and Future Prospects for Studying Absorption at the Galaxy-IGM Interface

We present a brief summary of results from our FUSE program designed to study OVI absorption in the disk of the Milky Way. As a full analysis of our data has now been published, we focus on the improvements that FUSE afforded us compared to Copernicus data published thirty years ago. We discuss FUSE's limitations in studying OVI absorption from nearby galaxies using background QSOs, but present FUSE spectra of two probes which indicate the absence of OVI (but the presence of Lyman-beta) absorption 8 and 63 kpc from a foreground galaxy. Finally, we discuss the need for a more sensitive UV spectrograph to map out the physical conditions of baryons around galaxies.Comment: Invited review to appear in the proceedings of "Future Directions in Ultraviolet Spectroscopy" meeting, held Oct 20-22, 2008, Annapolis, MD. To appear as an AIP Conference Proceedin

Risk Assessment for Supply Chain Meat Inspection of Danish Finisher Pigs

The food safety value of routine incision into the major mandibular lymph nodes and the heart was assessed in finisher pigs from integrated production systems in Denmark. A risk assessment was conducted following international guidelines as a joint effort between university, industry and veterinary services. It was concluded that omission of routine incisions into the mandibular lymph nodes and the heart was not associated with a significant increase in the risk for human health. The main reason is that Denmark is officially free from bovine tuberculosis since 29 years, and the pathogens causing granulomatous lymphadenitis and endocarditis are not likely to be food-borne. The new way of conducting meat inspection is called supply chain meat inspection - the Danish way. The system will gradually be implemented on all slaughterhouses in Denmark during 2009