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Intestinal gas results in low quality imaging in abdominal ultrasound in domestic animals. On dogs, suggested preparation protocols are varied and low studied. The aim of this work was comparing the efficacy between two preparations in improving the complete abdominal ultrasound exam and pancreas preview. 40 dogs were enrolled in this study. They were separated in two groups (NS diet: fasting; WS diet: fasting added to simethicone). The pancreas images were taken from left lateral decubitus. A score of one to three (1: bad, 2: fair and 3: good) measured separately the quality of the complete exam, left and right limbs and pancreatic body. In both treatments, there were results above 50% of good images of the complete exam and right limb of the pancreas. Otherwise, there were results above 90% of bad images of the right limb and pancreatic body. According to the fact of there is no statistically significant difference between the diets, as well submitted animals to the NS diet as the WS diet, all the results obtained from this work (bad or good images) could be acquired from any of both diets. The good abdominal exam preview as well submitted animals to the simethicone as those without the medication refute this medicine requirement to the abdominal ultrasound exam, but not to the evaluation of the left limb and pancreatic body.

Human and animal fungal pathogens are a growing threat worldwide leading to emerging infections and creating new risks for established ones. There is a growing need for a rapid and accurate identification of pathogens to enable early diagnosis and targeted antifungal therapy. Morphological and biochemical identification methods are time-consuming and require trained experts. Alternatively, molecular methods, such as DNA barcoding, a powerful and easy tool for rapid monophasic identification, offer a practical approach for species identification and less demanding in terms of taxonomical expertise. However, its wide-spread use is still limited by a lack of quality-controlled reference databases and the evolving recognition and definition of new fungal species/complexes. An international consortium of medical mycology laboratories was formed aiming to establish a quality controlled ITS database under the umbrella of the ISHAM working group on "DNA barcoding of human and animal pathogenic fungi." A new database, containing 2800 ITS sequences representing 421 fungal species, providing the medical community with a freely accessible tool at http://www.isham.org/ and http://its.mycologylab.org/ to rapidly and reliably identify most agents of mycoses, was established. The generated sequences included in the new database were used to evaluate the variation and overall utility of the ITS region for the identification of pathogenic fungi at intra-and interspecies level. The average intraspecies variation ranged from 0 to 2.25%. This highlighted selected pathogenic fungal species, such as the dermatophytes and emerging yeast, for which additional molecular methods/genetic markers are required for their reliable identification from clinical and veterinary specimens. © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The International Society for Human and Animal Mycology.

Gamow-Teller (1{sup +}) strength was studied in {sup 38}K with the analog reactions {sup 38}Ar({ital p},{ital n}){sup 38}K and {sup 38}Ca({beta}{sup +}){sup 38}K. The ({ital p},{ital n}) reaction was performed at 135 MeV using the beam swinger facility at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility. Excitation-energy spectra were measured at 15 angles between 0{degree} and 63{degree}. Neutron energies were measured by the time-of-flight method using a large-volume plastic scintillator array at a flight path of 131.0 m. The overall energy resolution was 280 keV. Gamow-Teller (GT) strength was extracted from the measured angular distributions to discrete 1{sup +} final states. The {beta}-decay experiment was performed with the ISOLDE on-line mass separator facility at CERN. The {beta}-decay branching ratios were determined by observing the delayed {gamma} decays of {sup 38}K. These decay measurements provide an increased sensitivity over earlier measurements and are able to extract transitions down to {approximately} 10{sup {minus}4} of the strongest branches. The {ital B}(GT) values obtained from the two experiments are generally in good agreement, except for the transition to the first 1{sup +} state at 0.46 MeV, which is observed to be much weaker in the ({ital p},{ital n}) measurements. The {beta}-decay measurements provide good resolution andmore » high sensitivity while the ({ital p},{ital n}) measurements extend the {beta}-decay measurements to higher excitation energies. The summed {ital B}(GT) strength is {approximately}50{percent} of the simple Ikeda sum rule. The distribution of GT strength is in reasonable agreement with that predicted from a shell-model calculation using {open_quote}{open_quote}effective{close_quote}{close_quote} GT operators. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}« less

The {sup 20}Ne({ital p},{ital n}){sup 20}Na reaction at 135 MeV was studied experimentally using the beam-swinger neutron time-of-flight facility at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility. Backgrounds {similar_to}10{times} lower than an earlier experiment were obtained using the ``stripper loop`` storage ring to achieve {similar_to}2 {mu}s between beam bursts. We were able to see a weakly excited state at 2.65 MeV in {sup 20}Na with a {Delta}{ital l}=2 angular distribution. The angular distribution is consistent with a DWIA calculation assuming a 3{sup +} final state. The characteristics of this state are important to know for considerations of possible breakout in the hot CNO cycle in supernovae explosions.

Neutron time-of-flight spectra were measured for the [sup 14]C([ital p],[ital n])[sup 14]N reaction at 135 MeV with the beam-swinger system at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility. Excitation-energy spectra and differential cross sections for the observed excitations in this reaction were extracted over the momentum transfer range from 0 to 2.5 fm[sup [minus]1]. The goal of this work is to identify the 4[sup [minus]] states in [sup 14]N and to determine the isovector transition strengths. The identification of the 4[sup [minus]] states is based on comparisons of the theoretical differential cross sections, performed in a DWIA formalism, with the experimental cross sections and with information from the [sup 14]C([ital e],[ital e][prime]) reaction. Isospin assignments are based primarily on comparisons of the measured ([ital p],[ital n]) and ([ital e],[ital e][prime]) isovector strengths. Candidate 4[sup [minus]] states are identified at excitation energies of 8.49 MeV ([ital T]=0), 13.76 MeV and 19.49 MeV ([ital T]=1), and 26.61 MeV ([ital T]=2) in the [sup 14]C([ital p],[ital n])[sup 14]N reaction, and the isovector strengths for the transitions leading to these states re extracted. The observed excitation energies and isovector strengths are in good agreement with the analog [ital T]=1 and [ital T]=2 4[sup [minus]] states observedmore » in the ([ital e],[ital e][prime]) reaction. The experimental results are compared with results from shell-model calculations.« less

A new method for calibrating the hadron response of a segmented calorimeter is developed and successfully applied to beam test data. It is based on a principal component analysis of energy deposits in the calorimeter layers, exploiting longitudinal shower development information to improve the measured energy resolution. Corrections for invisible hadronic energy and energy lost in dead material in front of and between the calorimeters of the ATLAS experiment were calculated with simulated Geant4 Monte Carlo events and used to reconstruct the energy of pions impinging on the calorimeters during the 2004 Barrel Combined Beam Test at the CERN H8 area. For pion beams with energies between 20GeV and 180GeV, the particle energy is reconstructed within 3% and the energy resolution is improved by between 11% and 25% compared to the resolution at the electromagnetic scale. © 2011 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration, published under license by IOP Publishing Ltd and SISSA.

High-spin, stretched-state excitations were studied in the $^{38}\mathrm{Ar}$(p,n${)}^{38}$K reaction at 135 MeV with the beam-swinger system at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility. Neutron kinetic energies were measured by the time-of-flight technique with large-volume plastic-scintillator neutron detectors at flight paths ranging from 81 to 131 m. Overall time resolutions of about 825 ps provided energy resolutions from 320 to 450 keV. The target was a 4-cm-long gas cell filled to \ensuremath{\sim}3 atm absolute. Angular distributions were extracted for the low-lying excitations observed at wide angles. A known ${7}^{+}$ state at ${\mathit{E}}_{\mathit{x}}$=3.5 MeV was observed, plus two states at 5.3 and 5.9 MeV, which are tentatively identified as ${6}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}}$ excitations, based on comparisons with distorted wave Born approximation and sdpf shell-model calculations. The $^{38}\mathrm{K}$ spectrum is in reasonable agreement with the shell-model calculations. In contrast to the analysis of 80 MeV $^{40}\mathrm{Ca}$(d,\ensuremath{\alpha}${)}^{38}$Ar measurements, these results do not indicate a significant problem for the nuclear shell model near A=40.

A new balloon instrument, the advanced thin ionization calorimeter (ATIC), is currently under development by an international collaboration involving researchers in the U.S., Germany, Korea, Russia and the Ukraine. The instrument will be used, in a series of long duration balloon flights, to investigate the charge composition and energy spectra of primary cosmic rays over the energy range from about 1010 to 1014 eV. The ATIC instrument is designed around a new technology, fully active Bismuth Germanate (BGO) ionization calorimeter that is used to measure the energy deposited by the cascades formed by particles interacting in an approximately 1 proton interaction length thick carbon target. The charge module comprises a highly segmented, triply redundant set of detectors (scintillator, silicon matrix and Cherenkov) that together give good incident charge resolution plus rejection of the 'backscattered' particles from the interaction. Trajectory information is obtained both from scintillator layers and from the cascade profile throughout the BGO calorimeter. This instrument is specifically designed to take advantage of the existing NASA long duration balloon flight capability in Antarctica and/or the Northern Hemisphere. The ATIC instrumentation is presented here, while a companion paper at this conference discusses the expected performance.© (1996) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

We designed, tested and calibrated a medium‐energy neutron polarimeter of a new design, which we call the ‘‘2π’’ polarimeter because of its symmetric coverage of all 2π of azimuth for double‐scattered neutrons. During calibration tests at the IUCF we observed an over all neutron time‐of‐flight resolution of 360 ps. The measured analyzing power is typically 39% for neutrons of both 130 and 165 MeV for optimum software cuts. The efficiency is typically 0.3%.

We compare density-dependent distorted-wave impulse-approximation (DD-DWIA) calculations with experimental (p,n) cross-section angular distributions at 135 MeV for ten nuclei from A=14 to 208. The DD-DWIA calculations use a G-matrix interaction based on the Bonn one-boson-exchange potential and empirical optical-model parameters. The agreement between the calculations and the experimental results is excellent with normalization factors required that are within 10% of unity; these factors are within the experimental scale uncertainties.