On 17 April 2009, novel swine origin influenza A virus (S-OIV) cases appeared within the United States. Most influenza A diagnostic assays currently utilized in local clinical laboratories do not allow definitive subtype determination. Detailed subtype analysis of influenza A positive samples in our laboratory allowed early confirmation of a large outbreak of S-OIV in southeastern Wisconsin (SE...

"Segregated early weaning" (SEW) of pigs reduces exposure to pathogenic bacteria, but upon arrival at grower facilities pigs may be co-mingled regardless of farm of origin. The present study was designed to examine the effect of mixing (social) stress on populations of Salmonella enterica Typhimurium in SEW pigs. Piglets (7 days old; n = 28 in each of 2 replicates) were separated into 2 treatme...

Abstract. Riming, i.e., the accretion and freezing of supercooled liquid water (SLW) on ice particles in mixed-phase clouds, is an important pathway for precipitation formation. Detecting quantifying riming using ground-based cloud radar observations great interest; however, approaches based measurements mean Doppler velocity (MDV) are unfeasible convective orographically influenced systems. He...

In this paper, we develop a theory of stable dendritic growth in undercooled melts the presence conductive and convective heat mass transfer boundary conditions at solid/liquid interface dendrite. To simplify matter construct analytical theory, mechanisms are considered separately. Namely, laws for total undercooling selection criterion defining mode (dendrite tip velocity diameter) derived con...

In this paper, we describe a toolset for performance-based design and analysis of distributed realtime systems. The toolset is based on our design methodology, denoted Distributed Pipeline Scheduling [6, 7], that provides a set of rules that an engineer can follow to design near-optimal, distributed real-time systems with fully predictable, end-to-end performance properties. The methodology pro...