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Land cover conversion and land use change combine to reduce grazing

Journal of Land Use Science, 2022
Land cover and land use changes cause global environmental degradation yet changes in cover may have different impacts than changes in use. Here, we examine changes in land cover (rangeland conversion to vineyard) and land use (assocaited grazing loss on
Matthew Shapero, Katherine Siegel, John A. Gallo, Justin Brice, Van Butsic   +4 more
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Radio is effective in teaching nutrition to Latino families

California Agriculture, 1996
A series of five nutrition education lessons was broadcast over Spanish-language radio in a major metropolitan and a semirural area of southern California.
Joan Wright, Eunice Romero-Gwynn, Anne Cotter, Carol Powell, Constance Garrett, Myriam Grajales-Hall, Saundra Parnell, Gwendolyn Stanford, Barbara Turner, Norma Wightman, Eunice Williamson   +10 more
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Bayesian inverse ensemble forecasting for COVID‐19

Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract Variations in strains of COVID‐19 have a significant impact on the rate of surges and on the accuracy of forecasts of the epidemic dynamics. The primary goal for this article is to quantify the effects of varying strains of COVID‐19 on ensemble forecasts of individual “surges.” By modelling the disease dynamics with an SIR model, we solve the ...
Kimberly Kroetch, Don Estep
wiley   +1 more source

Government affiliation and innovation in emerging market firms: The role of international diversification

Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This study examines how international diversification interacts with government affiliation to shape innovation outcomes in emerging market firms. We reconceptualize government affiliation as a resource‐structuring mechanism that varies across hierarchical levels and influences the coherence of firms' dominant logics of ...
Danielle R. Combs, Fiona Kun Yao, Chunlin Liu, Ting Xiao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detection of Nematophagous Fungi from Heterodera schachtii Females Using a Baiting Experiment with Soils Cropped to Brassica Species from California’s Central Coast

PhytoFrontiers, 2021
Until the early 1990s, cyst nematodes were abundant pathogens in fields where hosts of Heterodera spp. were frequent members of crop rotations along California’s Central Coast. To mitigate damage caused by Heterodera schachtii and H. cruciferae, the soil
Ying-Yu Chen, Steven T. Koike, Geoffrey D. Logan, Christopher Drozd, Juliana De Oliveira Silva, Nicole B. Colindres, Beth B. Peacock, Jennifer Smith Becker, Angelo Loffredo, Haiyan Wu, Paul M. Ruegger, J. Ole Becker, James Borneman   +12 more
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Brief Communication: An electrifying atmospheric river – understanding the thunderstorm event in Santa Barbara County during March 2019 [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2020
On 5 March 2019 12:00 UTC, an atmospheric river (AR) made landfall in Santa Barbara, CA, and lasted approximately 30 h. While ARs are typical winter storms in the area, the extraordinary number of lightning strikes observed near coastal ...
D. Nash, L. M. V. Carvalho, L. M. V. Carvalho   +2 more
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Serving Those Who Have Served: Santa Barbara County Veterans Assessment [PDF]

, 2017
This assessment focuses on the veteran population of Santa Barbara County. This assessment presents a comprehensive review of the pertinent demographic and landscape data, for important context, and provides observations about qualitative findings that ...
Nancy Berglass, Phillip Carter
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The Local Spillover Effect of Marijuana Liberalization: Evidence From Material Misstatements

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study documents an organizational spillover effect of marijuana liberalization on corporate financial reporting quality. Exploiting the staggered adoption of state‐level medical marijuana legalization (MML) laws, we find that firms headquartered in states adopting MMLs experience a higher likelihood of material misstatements.
Ting‐Chiao Huang, Jin Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Experience and self‐interest: Diverging responses to global warming

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract People are increasingly feeling global warming's effects through extreme heat and natural disasters. How do these climate shocks affect political attitudes? We argue that the effect of climate‐related experiences depends significantly on self‐interest.
Alexander F. Gazmararian, Helen V. Milner   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source