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    Data for: Tree-planting programs in Himachal Pradesh India 2019

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    Data are derived from publicly released data produced by the forest department of the Government of Himachal Pradesh, India. Dataset-A comprising of 16,674 forest polygon is the result of a 4 year effort on the part of the Himachal Pradesh forest department, and covers 33 forest divisions of Himachal Pradesh. We could not use 1998 polygons in this dataset due to missing data. The digitization of polygons for the rest of the 10 forest divisions in the state of Himachal Pradesh is in process. The data has 31 predictor variables used in training a predictive model to estimate tree cover loss probabilities in these compartments based on ensemble-modeling. Outcome variable included in the dataset is tree cover loss/mortality (dummy; mortality =1, No mortality =0). Predictor variables include variables related to forest dependence, soil and biophysical characteristic, canopy cover and other management practices. For details about prediction algorithm model construction and model predictors, please refer to the readme section. Dataset-B comprises of 2147 forest polygons where plantations happened from 1 st Jan 2016 to 31 st July, 2019. Total 2809 tree plantations were carried out during this period. But, due to missing data, we could only use 2147 for construction of data. Finally, for our paper (under review), we used 2024 tree plantations for which we had budgetary data available. The dataset also has same predictor variables as in dataset-A. We used our selected ensemble model to predict tree cover loss probabilities for 2024 tree plantations and then compared budgetary allocations against these probabilities for our analysis.This dataset provides information on the tree plantation programs of the government of the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. Data were released publicly by the government in response to questions posed by Members of the State Legislative Assembly in 2019. We combined this data with other publicly available datasets to provide a more complete picture of plantation programs for the purpose of evaluating their effectiveness.“Impacts of Afforestation on the Provision of Ecosystem Services to Rural Communities in India (ROSES 15).” National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Award #NNX17AK14G.Rana, Pushpendra; Fleischman, Forrest; Ramprasad, Vijay; Lee, Kangjae. (2020). Data for: Tree-planting programs in Himachal Pradesh India 2019. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://doi.org/10.13020/8x0d-gb23

    PUSHPENDRA KUMAR's Quick Files

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    The Quick Files feature was discontinued and it’s files were migrated into this Project on March 11, 2022. The file URL’s will still resolve properly, and the Quick Files logs are available in the Project’s Recent Activity

    PUSHPENDRA KUMAR's Quick Files

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    The Quick Files feature was discontinued and it’s files were migrated into this Project on March 11, 2022. The file URL’s will still resolve properly, and the Quick Files logs are available in the Project’s Recent Activity

    In the pursuit of middle-classness

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    Much of the scholarly literature on urban politics in Delhi discusses how the neoliberal vision of transforming the city into a world class or global city has shaped policies towards the urban poor and translated into eviction of slum dwellers. The scholarship also foregrounds the contentious relationship shared by the poor with the city’s middle classes, where the latter have played a role in influencing urban governance. This chapter, however, tries to go beyond the narratives of exclusionary processes and explore how some sections of the poor aspire to carve a space for themselves and secure a sense of belonging in a city trying to be “world class”. The chapter explains their efforts towards acquiring the cultural capital they think has paved the way for middle classes’ success. © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Manish K Jha and Pushpendra; individual chapters, the contributor

    Sequence based DNA markers and genotyping for cereal genomics and breeding

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    The last three decades has seen the rapid evolution of a variety of DNA-based molecular markers that are powerful tools for genome analysis and marker-trait association (MTA) studies. Recently, high-throughput sequence-based methods have been developed for use in plant breeding. Sequence-based markers include simple sequence repeats (SSRs; also known as microsatellites) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which now dominate applications in modern genetic analysis. Insertion site-based polymorphisms (ISBPs), copy number variations (CNVs) and presence and absence variations (PAVs) constitute another group of markers that are being applied in a variety of plant systems. Markers may be used for a variety of purposes including diversity analysis, linkage-based QTL mapping, LD-based association mapping and marker assisted selection (MAS). Large sequence datasets (including both, genomic sequences and expressed sequences) are available for many cereals, enabling the mining for large numbers of SSRs, SNPs, ISBPs and CNVs/PAVs. Recombination bins are being used as markers for genotyping mapping populations and QTL analysis in crops such as rice, where reference genome sequences are available. In this chapter we describe the discovery and application of molecular markers using automated sequencing platforms including those based on next generation sequencing (NGS)

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Variations on the Author

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    “Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship

    A new fractional-order model for defining the dynamics of ending student strikes at a university

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    Kumar, Pushpendra/0000-0002-7755-2837Nowadays, different real-life phenomena are being modelled using fractional-order operators. In this paper, a Caputo-type fractional-order mathematical model is proposed for defining the dynamics of ending student strikes at a university by taking per-year constant admissions. We analyse the possible strategies to control the strikes on the university campus. We prove the existence of a unique global solution for the given fractional-order model using a new characteristic of the well-known Mittag-Leffler function and fixed-point theory. We derive the numerical solution of the proposed model via the Haar wavelet method, which is one of the efficient numerical algorithms. A number of plots are performed, taking different cases, for a good understanding of the proposed problem. The aim of this study is to understand how fractional derivatives are useful to capture memory effects in such problems. All results are given with supporting arguments.Emerging Sources Citation Inde

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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