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Large landscape conservation partnerships: A social network analysis of the Appalachian Trail landscape

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Using social network analysis, this study examines the structure of conservation partnerships in the Appalachian Trail Landscape, focusing on how organizational characteristics shape network centrality and roles. Results reveal a large, low‐density network with a modest core‐periphery structure, where natural resource agencies and conservation non ...
Sammie L. Powers, Hung‐Ling (Stella) Liu, Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers, Nate Trauntvein, Elizabeth Covelli Metcalf   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Considerations on measurement frequency of electromagnetic sensors for soil water content determination

Geoderma
Electromagnetic (EM) sensors are widely used to measure soil water content for different applications. The dielectric response of soil over the operational frequency of EM sensors in the megahertz to gigahertz range can be affected by a number of factors
Wenyi Sheng, Wenfeng Ni, Juan D. González-Teruel, Jinghui Xu, Scott B. Jones, David A. Robinson   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Concurrent validity of skin carotenoid status as a concentration biomarker of vegetable and fruit intake compared to multiple 24-h recalls and plasma carotenoid concentrations across one year: a cohort study

Nutrition Journal, 2019
Background Biological markers of vegetable and fruit (VF) intake are needed both for nutrition surveillance and for the evaluation of nutrition interventions.
Lisa Jahns, LuAnn K. Johnson, Zach Conrad, Michael Bukowski, Susan K. Raatz, Stephanie Jilcott Pitts, Youfa Wang, Igor V. Ermakov, Werner Gellermann   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ramadan intermittent fasting is associated with ameliorated inflammatory markers and improved plasma sphingolipids/ceramides in subjects with obesity: lipidomics analysis

Scientific Reports, 2023
Intermittent fasting (IF) is associated with enormous metabolic alterations that underpin its diverse health effects. Changes in lipid metabolism, particularly ceramides, and other sphingolipids, are among the most notable of these alterations.
Mohamed Ibrahim Madkour, Md Torikul Islam, Trevor S. Tippetts, Kamrul H. Chowdhury, Lisa A. Lesniewski, Scott A. Summers, Falak Zeb, Dana N. Abdelrahim, Refat AlKurd, Husam M. Khraiwesh, Katia H. AbuShihab, Asma AlBakri, Khaled Obaideen, MoezAlIslam E. Faris   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Equality\u27s Future: An Introduction [PDF]

, 2008
We stand at an extraordinary moment: never before have so many powerful men wished to be women. For the first time in history, a massive number of male and female voters--18 million in fact--cast their ballots to nominate a woman, Senator Hillary Clinton,
Nourse, Victoria
core   +1 more source

Political Partisanship and State‐Level Bank Efficiency

Financial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between political partisanship and commercial bank efficiency in the United States from 1972 to 2020, assessing the persistent influence of political affiliations at the state and District of Columbia levels. Bank efficiency scores are estimated using a double‐bootstrap approach, and the analysis is conducted within
Jeremy Eng‐Tuck Cheah, Tapas Mishra, Sofia Johan, Thao Ngoc Nguyen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shp-1 regulates the activity of low-affinity T cells specific to endogenous self-antigen during melanoma tumor growth and drives resistance to immune checkpoint inhibition

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer
Background The presence of activated CD8 T cells in the tumor microenvironment is correlated with an effective immune response to immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy.
Joseph G Matous, Jeremy P Snook, Nico A Contreras, Andrew G Ramstead, Krystal R Charley, Elizabeth M Kolawole, Jacob N Kisiolek, Kaitlyn A Flint, Ashleigh J Soedel, Breyana Robinson, Anaiya B Mendoza, Yohichi Kumaki, Brian D Evavold, Matthew A Williams   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Comparison of Over-Snow Vehicles Produced at Utah State Agricultural College

, 1955
Travel over snow by vehicle in Arctic and mountainous terrain is one of the most difficult problems of our Armed Forces and other public and private agencies. agencies whose services demand over-snow travel find little or no adequate means of transport. Those vehicles which are available, are either economically infeasible in construction and operating
openaire   +2 more sources

Telecom Expansion and Internal Migrants in Indian Cities

Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates the impact of mobile phone service expansion on migration to and between cities of India during 2001–2011. We show that the number of cross‐state migrants living in urban areas of India increased significantly due to telecommunications infrastructure growth. The increased migration reflects better labor and marriage market
Arnab Dutta, Gregory Randolph
wiley   +1 more source

“If you aren’t White, Asian or Indian, you aren’t an engineer”: racial microaggressions in STEM education

International Journal of STEM Education, 2020
Background Race and gender disparities remain a challenge in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. We introduce campus racial climate as a framework for conceptualizing the role of racial microaggressions (RMAs) as a ...
Meggan J. Lee, Jasmine D. Collins, Stacy Anne Harwood, Ruby Mendenhall, Margaret Browne Huntt   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source