OBJECTIVE To determine outcome of Standardbred racehorses with moderate to severe midbody suspensory ligament desmitis (MSD) treated by means of ultrasound-guided intralesional injection of a single dose of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) followed by a program of gradually increased exercise. DESIGN Nonrandomized clinical trial. ANIMALS 9 Standardbred racehorses. PROCEDURES Following injection...

introduction: the formalin test is the most accepted chemical test for evaluation of nociception. it requires the injection of an adequate amount of formalin into the surface of the hindpaw. formalin test consists of phase 1 (0-7 min) and phase 2 (15-60) in which the animal shows painful behaviors. these phases are separated with a quiet phase named interphase, in which the nociceptive response...

The JHU HLTCOE participated in the Entity Linking and Cold Start Knowledge Base tasks in this year’s Text Analysis Conference Knowledge Base Population evaluation. We have previously participated in TAC-KBP evaluations in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. Our primary focus this year was on the Cold Start task; improvements to our existing KELVIN system included consolidating slot values for an entity...

there is nothing quite so helpless in this world as a baby broiler chick which has been snatched from the warmth of its surrogated mother, carted umpteen kilometers in a box dumped unceremoniously in a broiler shed and then told to get on with the job of making the boss a wealthy man. yet within the space of 14 days, that same chick, under optimum conditions, will have increased its day-old bod...

Non-inductive current start-up experiments by using electron cyclotron heating and current drive (ECH/ECCD) technique has been conducted in the Compact Plasma-wall-interaction experimental Device (CPD), which is a small spherical tokamak device. By applying 8.2 GHz RF under steady external fields, plasma currents are generated and closed flux surface configurations are formed spontaneously. Two...

To make rating predictions, one of the most commonly used approach in recommender systems is the latent factor model. Despite its popularity, one of its drawbacks is that it only makes use of numeric ratings but ignores other resources, such as review texts. McAuley et al. [1] proposed a general framework to employ both numeric ratings and review texts, and showed their model can outperform the...

Résumé. Des travaux récents (Pilaszy et al., 2009) suggèrent que les métadonnées sont quasiment inutiles pour les systèmes de recommandation, y compris en situation de cold-start : les données de logs de notation sont beaucoup plus informatives. Nous étudions, sur une base de référence de logs d'usages pour la recommandation automatique de DVD (Netflix), les performances de systèmes de recomman...