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Data supporting the manuscript : \u3cem\u3eAssessing Global Wildfire Seasonality Variations Using Daily Satellite Data from 2001 to 2022\u3c/em\u3e
No full textDescription of the dataset: This dataset is for the paper Assessing Global Wildfire Seasonality Variations Using Daily Satellite Data from 2001 to 2022 . The datasets contain the global 0.25-degree grid daily mean FRP value from 2001-2022 (grouped by year). The datasets originated from Blended Global Biomass Burning Emissions Product-Extended (GBBEPx), which can also be found at https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/products/land/gbbepx/.
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Strategic Use of Growth Promotant Levels of Dietary Zinc and Copper During Nursery Periods and its Effects on Pig Growth Performance until Market
No full textInteractive Effects of Dietary Protein and Fiber Levels on Nutrient Digestibility, Fermentation Products, and Microbiome Profile in Pigs Fed a Blend of Branched-Chain Volatile Fatty Acids
No full textDairy and Food Science News, Sept 2025
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Influence of Finishing Systems on Carcass Characteristics and Composition of Bison Heifers
No full textAsteraceae: Antennaria parvifolia
No full textAntennaria parvifolia is a perennial herb in the Asteraceae family. It grows from a fibrous root system and spreads asexually by slender, above-ground stolons, often forming low, dense mats. Stems are simple, unbranched, and erect to ascending, typically 5–20 cm tall, and are densely covered with soft, woolly hairs (notable pubescence). Basal leaves are numerous, forming a rosette; they are oblanceolate to spatulate, usually 1–4 cm long and 2–7 mm wide, with entire margins, a green upper surface, and a grayish, woolly underside. Cauline leaves are few, much smaller, linear to narrowly lanceolate, and reduced up the stem. This species is dioecious, with male and female flower heads on separate plants. Flowering occurs from May to July. Inflorescences are clusters of 2–7 terminal flower heads, each about 5–8 mm across. Male heads have creamy white, tubular florets with conspicuous anthers; female heads have white, hairlike pistillate florets. The involucre bracts are white or tinged with pink, giving the flower clusters a soft, “pussytoe” appearance. The fruit is a tiny, one-seeded achene (about 1 mm long) with a tuft of white pappus bristles for wind dispersal, maturing in early to midsummer. Small-leaf pussytoes is native to South Dakota, found in dry prairies, grasslands, open pine woods, and rocky or sandy sites, and is widespread but more abundant in western and central parts of the state.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/nativeplant/1262/thumbnail.jp
Lamiaceae: Glechoma hederacea
No full textGlechoma hederacea is a perennial, creeping herbaceous plant that spreads by stolons, forming dense mats on the ground. Stems are square in cross-section, typically reaching 10–50 cm in length, hairy, and spreading laterally or creeping along the soil surface, often rooting at nodes. Leaves are opposite, rounded to kidney-shaped with scalloped edges, 2–4 cm across, and aromatic when crushed. Flowering occurs from spring to early summer (April–June). The flowers are small, tubular, and bilaterally symmetrical, borne singly or in small clusters from leaf axils. They are typically light purple to bluish with darker purple markings on the lower lip. Each flower has five sepals and five petals. The sepals form a tubular calyx about 0.5–1 cm long, with five pointed lobes that are lanceolate in shape. The petals are fused into a two-lipped corolla about 1–1.5 cm long: the upper lip is hooded and two-lobed, while the lower lip spreads out and is three-lobed with a slightly notched center lobe. Flowers are bisexual with four stamens and a single, superior ovary formed from two fused carpels, which develops into a four-lobed schizocarp fruit that splits into four one-seeded nutlets that mature in late summer. Ground ivy is introduced and widespread in South Dakota, found in lawns, gardens, roadsides, and shaded disturbed areas.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/nativeplant/1310/thumbnail.jp
Asteraceae: Heliopsis helianthoides
No full textHeliopsis helianthoides is a perennial herbaceous plant that grows from a fibrous root system with creeping rhizomes that form dense clumps or colonies over time. The stems are erect, branching and typically reach 60 to 150 cm tall. Leaves are opposite or alternate, ovate to lanceolate, measuring 7 to 15 cm long and 3 to 7 cm wide. The leaf margins are serrated with coarse teeth, and the surface is rough to the touch. Leaves have pointed tips and tapering bases, attaching via short petioles. The plant has a bushy habit. Flowering occurs from mid to late summer (July–September). Inflorescences consist of bright yellow, daisy-like flower heads about 4–7 cm across. Each flower head is surrounded by several series of green, lanceolate to ovate involucral bracts about 10 to 15 mm long, often with fine hairs. The ray florets number about 10 to 20, with petals that are oblong to spatulate, measuring 2.5 to 4 cm long and 5 to 10 mm wide, with smooth edges. Disc florets are tubular, perfect (bisexual), about 3 to 5 mm long, with five lobes at the corolla tip. Stamens are fused into a tube around the style, which divides into two stigmatic branches. The fruit is a small, dry achene, 3 to 4 mm long, with no pappus or with a pappus of short hairs, that matures in late summer. Smooth oxeye is native to South Dakota and commonly found in prairies, open woodlands, and along roadsides and disturbed sites across the state.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/nativeplant/1315/thumbnail.jp
Fabaceae: Medicago sativa
No full textMedicago sativa is a perennial herbaceous plant growing 30 to 100 cm tall, often forming dense stands. It has a deep, extensive taproot system that allows it to access deep soil moisture. The stems are erect to ascending, slender, and typically glabrous or sparsely hairy. Leaves are alternate and trifoliate, with three oval to oblong leaflets measuring about 1.5 to 4 cm long and 0.8 to 2 cm wide; leaflets have smooth or slightly serrated margins and a fine, soft pubescence on the surface. Leaflets are petiolulate with short stalks about 2 to 5 mm long, and stipules are small and lanceolate at the base of the leaf stalks. The inflorescence is a raceme or spike-like cluster of 10 to 40 pea-shaped flowers blooming from late spring through summer (May–August). Each flower is subtended by a calyx of five sepals fused at the base into a tubular cup about 5 to 8 mm long, with five pointed lobes that are lanceolate to ovate and often covered with fine hairs. Flowers are about 10 to 15 mm long. The corolla’s standard petal is broadly ovate and measures approximately 9 to 14 mm long and 7 to 10 mm wide; the wing petals are about 8 to 12 mm long and 3 to 5 mm wide; the keel, formed by two fused petals, is about 8 to 13 mm long and 3 to 5 mm wide. Flowers are typically purple to violet, sometimes pink or white. Flowers have ten stamens, nine of which are fused, and a superior ovary. The fruit is a spiral coiled pod about 2 to 4 cm long containing several seeds, maturing from late summer to early fall. Alfalfa is native to southwestern Asia but widely cultivated and naturalized in North America, including South Dakota. Primarily used as a forage crop, it is occasionally found naturalized along roadsides and disturbed sites.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/nativeplant/1329/thumbnail.jp
Semantic Think-on-Graph (SemToG) : Enhancing GraphRAG through Semantic Community Detection
No full textGraph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by grounding their reasoning in structured knowledge graphs, making them more reliable for multi-hop reasoning and factual QA. A central mechanism in Think-on-Graph systems such as ToG[14] and FastToG[7] is community detection, which groups locally related nodes into compact subgraphs so that LLMs can reason over focused, information-rich neighborhoods instead of traversing the entire graph. However, these methods rely purely on structural connectivity, often scattering semantically related entities across different communities and weakening the evidence provided to the LLM. We propose Semantic Think-on-Graph (SemToG), a semantic-aware extension of FastToG[7] that integrates node and relation embeddings directly into community detection through relation-query similarity, entity relevance, hop-aware propagation, and answer-type intent. By combining structural connectivity with semantic alignment, SemToG constructs query-relevant communities that deliver more coherent evidence for LLM reasoning. We evaluate SemToG on six benchmark datasets : CWQ [15], WebQSP[19], QALD[12],ZSRE[13], TREx [3], and Creak [10]-measuring answer accuracy and reasoning steps. SemToG achieves consistent gains of 2-5% accuracy over FastToG[7] while requiring fewer community-expansion steps, demonstrating improved retrieval precision, semantic consistency, and computational efficiency. These results highlight the significance of incorporating semantic-aware community formation into GraphRAG pipelines and point toward more robust and contextually aligned knowledge-grounded LLM systems