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Microbial biomass and soil chemical properties under different land use systems in northeastern Pará

Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2011
The increase in agricultural production in the Brazilian Amazon region is mostly a result of the agricultural frontier expansion, into areas previously influenced by humans or of native vegetation.
Elessandra Laura Nogueira Lopes, Antonio Rodrigues Fernandes, Maria de Lourdes Pinheiro Ruivo, José Henrique Cattanio, Gladys Ferreira de Souza   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Business Process Management Maturity and Digital Transformation: Evidence From a Financial Institution in an Emerging Economy

Knowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how business process management (BPM) maturity shapes digital transformation in a large financial institution operating in a highly regulated, emerging‐economy context. Drawing on a qualitative single case study, the research applies Rosemann and De Bruin's BPM Maturity Model to analyse how different maturity dimensions ...
Shirley Xavier Segala, Sérgio Nogueira Seabra, André Rehbein Sathler Guimarães   +2 more
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A Versatile Distribution Based on the Incomplete Gamma Function: Characterization and Applications

Mathematics
In this study, we introduce a novel distribution related to the gamma distribution, referred to as the generalized incomplete gamma distribution. This new family is defined through a stochastic representation involving a linear transformation of a random
Jimmy Reyes, Carolina Marchant, Karol I. Santoro, Yuri A. Iriarte   +3 more
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Forest Conversion Reduces Soil Water Retention in Tropical Rainforest

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Extensive primary forests are being converted to secondary forests and plantations owing to human activities in recent decades, which have substantial effects on soil hydrological processes. However, the potential impact of forest conversion on soil water retention remains poorly understood.
Qiaoyan Chen, Siyuan Cheng, Shuting Yu, Xiaowei Guo, Zhongyi Sun, Zhongmin Hu, Licong Dai   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Robust modeling of differential gene expression data using normal/independent distributions: a Bayesian approach.

PLoS ONE, 2015
In this paper, the problem of identifying differentially expressed genes under different conditions using gene expression microarray data, in the presence of outliers, is discussed. For this purpose, the robust modeling of gene expression data using some
Mojtaba Ganjali, Taban Baghfalaki, Damon Berridge   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Crisis Preparation, Capacity Building, and Community Resilience: Lessons From Maui

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2023 Maui wildfires provide a unique context to explore the impact of nonprofit crisis networks taking a proactive role in community crisis response, leveraging resources, expertise, and networks. The Hawaiʻi Community Foundation (HCF) has been a key player in Maui's local response, providing critical support, mobilizing volunteers, and ...
Lauren Azevedo, Kaila Witkowski, Ratna Dougherty, Christa Remington   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
wiley   +1 more source

Transforming a Poaching Hotspot: Embedded NGO Governance Between State and Community in Southern China

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how a local environmental NGO in southern China transformed Guantouling Hill, once a prominent poaching hotspot along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, into a recognised model of community‐based biodiversity conservation.
Zheng Lin, Miao Chen
wiley   +1 more source

MTSC-Net: A Semi-Supervised Counting Network for Estimating the Number of Slash pine New Shoots

Plant Phenomics
The new shoot density of slash pine serves as a vital indicator for assessing its growth and photosynthetic capacity, while the number of new shoots offers an intuitive reflection of this density. With deep learning methods becoming increasingly popular,
Zhaoxu Zhang, Yanjie Li, Yue Cao, Yu Wang, Xuchao Guo, Xia Hao   +5 more
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Unveiling the health‐promoting potential of Sudanese sorghum landraces: A legacy rooted in Eastern Sudan, Kassala, and the Red Sea States

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Sorghum is a staple food for hundreds of millions of people in dry regions worldwide, and improving its nutritional quality is vital for global food and health security under climate change. In this study, we evaluated traditional Sudanese sorghum varieties grown in eastern deltas to better understand their natural health‐promoting properties. We found
Khitma A. Sir Elkhatim, Manhal Gobara Hamid, Ahmed Khalifa, Mahbubjon Rahmatov, Mohammed Elsafy, Tilal Abdelhalim   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source