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Grassland carbon sequestration and emissions following cultivation in a mixed crop rotation
No full textGrasslands are potential carbon sinks to reduce unprecedented increase in atmospheric CO2. Effect of age (1 to 4-yr-old) and management (slurry, grazing multispecies mixture) of a grass phase mixed crop rotation on carbon sequestration and emissions upon cultivation was compared with 17-yr-old grassland and a pea field as reference. Aboveground and root biomass were determined and soils were incubated to study CO2 emissions after soil disturbance. Aboveground biomass was highest in 1-yr-old grassland with slurry application and lowest in 4-yr-old grassland without slurry application. Root biomass was highest in 4-yr-old grassland, but all 1 to 4-yr-old grasslands were in between the pea field (0.81±0.094 g kg-1 soil) and the 17-yr-old grassland (3.17±0.22 g kg-1 soil). Grazed grasslands had significantly higher root biomass than cut grasslands. There was no significant difference in the CO2 emissions within 1 to 4-yr-old grasslands. Only the 17-yr-old grassland showed markedly higher CO2 emissions (4.9 ± 1.1 g CO2 kg-1 soil). Differences in aboveground and root biomass did not affect CO2 emissions, and slurry application did not either. The substantial increase in root biomass with age but indifference in CO2 emissions across the age and management in temporary grasslands, thus, indicates potential for long-term sequestration of soil C
Conference papers of Barc Scientists and engineers : a citation based study
No full textThis paper highlights the importance of conference papers in the scientific communication process. Carried out a citation analysis of 474 (8.52%) conference papers of BARC Scientists and Engineers published during 1999-2007 as per Scopus database. The highest number of papers (117) were published in 2004 and these papers have received the highest (183) number of citations. The average number of papers published per year was 52.66 and the average number of citations per paper was 1.81. Identified highly cited authors and highly cited conference papers. Concludes that conference literature has to be integrated with the databases so as to avoid the missing link in the knowledge development process
Fixing moduli in exact type IIA flux vacua
No full textType IIA flux compactifications with O6-planes have been argued from a four dimensional effective theory point of view to admit stable, moduli free solutions. We discuss in detail the ten dimensional description of such vacua and present exact solutions in the case when the O6-charge is smoothly distributed. In the localised case, the solution is a half-flat, non-Calabi-Yau metric. Finally, using the ten dimensional description we show how all moduli are stabilised and reproduce precisely the results of de Wolfe et al
BONDEFRIHED OG ANDRE VERDENSBILLEDER IDEHISTORISKE STUDIER AF B.S. INGEMANNS DANMARKSHISTORIE 1824-1836
No full textABSTRACTPeasants’ Freedom and other Ideas of History:Studies in the Historical Literature of B.S. Ingemann 1824-1836Using a New Historicist approach this article examines four worldviews imbedded in a reading of B.S. Ingemanns historical literature which was published between 1824-1836 in the genre of two poems and four historical novels. The worldview of the author-subject (1), a worldview related to the relationship between the monarchy and the people, largely conceived within the so called ‘myth of an original peasants freedom’, a founding myth within Danish historiography (2), a worldview related to the defense of the Danish version of monarchism, in particular the thoughts put forward by the Danish lawyer Jacob Mandix (3), and finally a worldview related to notions of the ideal ‘Rechtsstat’, where Ingemanns literature is read within the context of the discipline “Law and Literature” (4). The article displays personal experiences with monarchism which becomes the primary object of investigation in the context of empirical analysis of prose fiction
Kandel, Phoebe M., B.S. A.M.
No full textPhoebe Kandel was born in Greentown, Ohio in 1882. Ms Kandel received her diploma from Canton Actual Business College and was a graduate of the Lakeside Hospital Training School for Nurses (now the Frances Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University) in 1908. Ms Kandel received her both her B.S. (1923) and A.M. (1934) from The Teachers College, Columbia University. Ms Kandel was an Instructor at the Jewish Hospital School of Nursing, Cincinnati, Ohio from 1916-1918; Superintendent of City Hospital, Springfield, Ohio 1918 and Instructor of Nursing at the University of Cincinnati (1919-1924) and Director and Associate Professor of Nursing (1924-1926). Ms Kandel was State Director of Nursing Education for Nebraska from 1928-1930. Ms Kandel was Professor and Director of Nursing Education at Colorado State College, Greeley from 1930-1941. Ms Kandel came to the University as Professor of and Director of Nursing Education (1941-1943). Ms Kandel was later associated with the University of Georgia (1944-1949) and with the Mississippi State Board of Nurses Examiners and Registration (1949). Ms. Kandel was the author of the books, From Mud to Crystal (1923) and Hospital Economics for Nurses (1930). Phoebe Kandel died in 1982
J.Barnes, J.Fowles, and B.S. Johnson: case studies in the postmodern, the author, & text-editing
No full textThis thesis explores how practices of text-editing can shed new light on the utility of the terms ‘modernism’ and ‘postmodernism’ as ways of categorising mid- to late-twentieth-century fiction. The research does not aim to interrogate editorial theory or critical theory per se; but to bring these areas of the discipline into productive dialogue to further our understanding of what is meant by ‘radical’ or ‘subversive’ fiction, and the extent to which it resists interpretation. The thesis focuses on three works by three different authors: The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson, The Magus by John Fowles, and Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes. These three novels have complex relationships with postmodernism, a label which, this thesis argues, is losing precision through overuse. I contest the categorisation of these three works as postmodern, arguing that there is value to be found in recognising their differences as well as their similarities. I call for the reinscription of the figure of the author into the text as a way of opening up new avenues of interpretation for the reader. I explore how an understanding of authorial persona, authorial intention, and the author’s creative processes can be a source of elucidation, particularly when a work has become historically distanced from a modern-day readership. The practices of text-editing are employed to demonstrate how a work like The Magus is not as radical as the postmodern label suggests it to be; how The Unfortunates is more subversive than indicated by the accusations of gimmickry and pejorative connotations of experimentalism that have hovered around the work since its publication; and how Flaubert’s Parrot, although decisively postmodernist, has subtle nuances of meaning that may be overlooked if the concept of the author is disregarded. As part of this discussion, I explore the ethics and implications of each author’s use of source material via appropriation, translation, and revision; and I show how an awareness of such processes gives us new insight into an author’s intentions. The argument is supported by archival research undertaken at the Harry Ransom Center and the British Library into authorial manuscripts and autograph notes. The thesis concludes by making a case for critical editions of these novels, along with other late twentieth-century novels that are becoming increasingly historical, with the view to reinvigorating interest in them
Search for pair-production of vector-like quarks in lepton+jets final states containing at least one b-tagged jet using the Run 2 data from the ATLAS experiment
No full textSearch for R-parity violating supersymmetry via the LLE¯ couplings λ121, λ122 or λ133 in pp¯ collisions at s=1.96 TeV
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Search for anomalous Wtb couplings in single top quark production in pp collisions at √ s = 1.96 TeV
No full textWe present new direct constraints on a general Wtb interaction using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 fb−1 collected by the D0 detector at the Tevatron p¯p collider. The standard model provides a purely left-handed vector coupling at the Wtb vertex, while the most general, lowest dimension Lagrangian allows right-handed vector and left- or right-handed tensor couplings as well. We obtain precise limits on these anomalous couplings by comparing the data to the expectations from different assumptions on the Wtb coupling
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