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Prevalence, prediction and risk factors of enteropathogens in normal and non-normal faeces of young Dutch dairy calves by Bartels, Chris J.M., Holzhauer, Menno, Jorritsma, Ruurd, Swart, Wim A.J.M., Lam, Theo J.G.M.

“…Between January and April 2007, 424 calves under 22 days of age from 108 Dutch dairy herds were sampled to estimate the prevalence of non-normal faeces…”
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Economic Considerations for Advancement Through the Progressive Control Pathway: Cost-Benefit Analysis of an FMD Disease-Free Zone in Punjab Province, Pakistan by Lyons, Nicholas A, Afzal, Muhammed, Toirov, Farrukh, Irshad, Aamer, Bartels, Chris J M, Rushton, Jonathan

“…Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a priority disease of livestock in Pakistan, which was classified in stage 2 of the Progressive Control Pathway (PCP-FMD) in…”
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Comparison of vaccination schedules for foot-and-mouth disease among cattle and sheep in Mongolia by Ulziibat, Gerelmaa, Raizman, Eran, Lkhagvasuren, Amarsanaa, Bartels, Chris J M, Oyun-Erdene, Orgikhbayar, Khishgee, Bodisaikhan, Browning, Clare, King, Donald P, Ludi, Anna B, Lyons, Nicholas A

“…Vaccines are a critical tool for the control strategy for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Mongolia where sporadic outbreaks regularly occur. A two-dose primary…”
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Smoothness Constraints in Recursive Search Motion Estimation for Picture Rate Conversion by Bartels, Chris, de Haan, Gerard

“…Many motion compensation algorithms are based on block matching. The quality of the block correlation depends on the validity of the brightness constancy…”
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Livestock mortality and offtake in sheep and goat flocks of livestock owners making use of services offered by paravets in West Afghanistan by Bartels, Chris J.M., Fakhri, A. Qader, Shams, M. Hamed, Briscoe, Raymond P., Schreuder, Bram E.C.

“…In the present study, we quantified the effect of livestock services provided through paravets (intermediate-level training in veterinary medicine) on…”
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Clinical course of digital dermatitis lesions in an endemically infected herd without preventive herd strategies by Holzhauer, Menno, Bartels, Chris J.M., Döpfer, Dörte, van Schaik, Gerdien

“…Lactating Holstein-Friesian dairy cows in four separately housed groups in a herd with endemic digital dermatitis (DD) were monitored weekly for 4 weeks in…”
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Editorial: Bridging Science and Policy for Surveillance, Economics and Social Sciences: ICAHS and ISESSAH 2020 by Alban, Lis, Sauter-Louis, Carola, Brookes, Victoria J., Bartels, Chris J. M., Vosough Ahmadi, Bouda, Rushton, Jonathan, Dürr, Salome

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Creating non-minimal triangulations for use in inference in mixed stochastic/deterministic graphical models by Bartels, Chris D., Bilmes, Jeff A.

“…We demonstrate that certain large-clique graph triangulations can be useful for reducing computational requirements when making queries on mixed…”
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The effect of an acidified, ionized copper sulphate solution on digital dermatitis in dairy cows by Holzhauer, Menno, Bartels, Chris J., Bergsten, Christer, van Riet, Miriam M.J., Frankena, Klaas, Lam, T.J.G.M.

“…Digital dermatitis (DD) is the most important infectious claw disorder in dairy cattle and herd-based foot bathing with antibacterials, such as 4% formalin, is…”
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No long-term influence of movement restriction regulations on the contact-structure between and within cattle holding types in the Netherlands by Brouwer, Henriëtte, Bartels, Chris J M, Stegeman, Arjan, van Schaik, Gerdien

“…More and more countries hold databases on cattle movements. The primary purpose of the registration of cattle movements is to provide data for quick tracing of…”
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Quantification of vertical and horizontal transmission of Neospora caninum infection in Dutch dairy herds by Bartels, Chris J.M., Huinink, Irene, Beiboer, Marten L., van Schaik, Gerdien, Wouda, Willem, Dijkstra, Thomas, Stegeman, Arjan

“…Ninety-six of 108 randomly selected Dutch dairy herds had one or more cows with a positive serostatus for N. caninum. In these 96 herds, we have quantified the…”
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Effect of Neospora caninum-serostatus on culling, reproductive performance and milk production in Dutch dairy herds with and without a history of Neospora caninum-associated abortion epidemics by Bartels, Chris J.M., van Schaik, Gerdien, Veldhuisen, Jaap P., van den Borne, Bart H.P., Wouda, Willem, Dijkstra, Thomas

“…We quantified the effect of Neospora caninum (NC)-serostatus on culling and (re)production in 83 herds randomly selected from the Dutch dairy herd population…”
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Graphical models for integrating syllabic information by Bartels, Chris D., Bilmes, Jeff A.

“…We present graphical model based methodology that enhances a speech recognizer with information about syllabic segmentations. The segmentations are specified…”
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Use of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in bulk milk to estimate the prevalence of Neospora caninum on dairy farms in Prince Edward Island, Canada by Wapenaar, Wendela, Barkema, Herman W, O'Handley, Ryan M, Bartels, Chris J M

“…This study evaluated the use of bulk milk as a diagnostic tool for estimation of herd-level Neospora caninum exposure in Atlantic Canada; it was used to…”
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Factors associated with variation in Neospora caninum bulk-milk S/P ratios in initially bulk-milk negative testing Dutch dairy herds by Bartels, Chris J.M., van Schaik, Gerdien, van Maanen, Kees, Wouda, Willem, Dijkstra, Thomas

“…We conducted a study on 81 initially bulk-milk ELISA negative dairy herds taken from a random sample of Dutch dairy herds to evaluate variation in bulk-milk…”
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Articulatory Feature-Based Methods for Acoustic and Audio-Visual Speech Recognition: Summary from the 2006 JHU Summer workshop by Livescu, Karen, Cetin, Ozgur, Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark, King, Simon, Bartels, Chris, Borges, Nash, Kantor, Arthur, Lal, Partha, Yung, Lisa, Bezman, Ari, Dawson-Haggerty, Stephen, Woods, Bronwyn, Frankel, Joe, Magimai-Doss, Mathew, Saenko, Kate

“…We report on investigations, conducted at the 2006 Johns Hopkins Workshop, into the use of articulatory features (AFs) for observation and pronunciation models…”
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Submodular subset selection for large-scale speech training data by Kai Wei, Yuzong Liu, Kirchhoff, Katrin, Bartels, Chris, Bilmes, Jeff

“…We address the problem of subselecting a large set of acoustic data to train automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. To this end, we apply a novel data…”
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Detecting Emotion Primitives from Speech and Their Use in Discerning Categorical Emotions by Kowtha, Vasudha, Mitra, Vikramjit, Bartels, Chris, Marchi, Erik, Booker, Sue, Caruso, William, Kajarekar, Sachin, Naik, Devang

“…Emotion plays an essential role in human-to-human communication, enabling us to convey feelings such as happiness, frustration, and sincerity. While modern…”
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Articulatory Information and Multiview Features for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition by Mitra, Vikramjit, Wang, Wen, Bartels, Chris, Franco, Horacio, Vergyri, Dimitra

“…This paper explores the use of multi-view features and their discriminative transforms in a convolutional deep neural network (CNN) architecture for a…”
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Considerations for design and implementation of vaccine field trials for novel foot-and-mouth disease vaccines by Lyons, Nicholas A., Knight-Jones, Theodore J.D., Bartels, Chris, Paton, David J., Ferrari, Giancarlo, Vermillion, Meghan S., Brooks, Abdullah W., Motroni, Roxann, Parker, Elizabeth, Hefferin Berquist, Melissa L., Sumption, Keith J., Klement, Eyal

“…Vaccines are commonly used to control Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) in endemic regions and form an important part of contingency plans for FMD-free countries…”
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