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Adaptation strategies to counter climate change impact on sheep
No full textClimate change has proved to impose potential negative effects on species survival, ecosystems stability and sustainable livestock production around the globe. Among the various environmental factors, heat stress is well known for its harmful effects on livestock and related production losses. Sheep exposed to heat stress show lower body growth and hide quality and compromised reproductive functions in both males and females. Adapting to the changing climate requires appropriate manipulations in the production system by taking into account the positive effects and attempting to diminish the negative effects of climate change. The highly adapted indigenous breeds identified by marker-assisted selection can be used as an efficient tool for developing thermotolerant breeds through improved breeding programmes. Promotion of such breeds can improve production efficiency and may lead to fewer greenhouse gas emissions. Further, the local people, especially women, are good managers of natural resources and possess excellent skills to utilize the natural resources efficiently. Hence, occasional training and a participatory research approach into the roles of women assist the tackling of climate change in the rural areas. In addition, well-organized early warning systems avoid severe damage due to unexpected disasters by providing sufficient time to prepare effective responses. Development of skilled disease surveillance supported with effective health services may effectively control the spread of climate change-related diseases in sheep. Furthermore, the production system requires improved water resource management to provide sufficient water for sheep production in the arid and semi-arid regions. Cultivation of drought-tolerant fodder varieties in extremely hot areas is an efficient adaptive strategy to ensure sufficient supply of feed during scarcity periods. Finally, strengthening extension services and building awareness through capacity-building programmes helps the livestock keepers to improve their adaptive capacities against climate change. Adaptation strategies related to cold stress include advanced cold-tolerant breeding programmes, migration in extreme winter and adoption of proper cold management practices. According to the predictions by various international bodies, the consequences of climate change will be on the rise in the future. Hence, adequate cost-effective management strategies appear to be the immediate need of the hour for adapting sheep production systems to the changing climate
Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan to enhance productivity in the coming seasons: ICAR Sakshi Post dated 4th July 2025
Full text linkRaghavendra Bhatta, Deputy Director General (Animal Science) of ICAR, has said that the Central government is committed to enhancing farmers’ income by increasing production across crops in agriculture and allied sectors. The ongoing ‘lab to land’ initiative under the Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan would significantly enhance productivity in the coming seasons. A substantial rise in output is expected across crops, animal husbandry and fisheries, he said. He was speaking at a special session of the Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan (VKSA) campaign at ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan to enhance productivity in the coming seasons: ICAR Social News XYZ dated 4th July 2025
Full text linkRaghavendra Bhatta, Deputy Director General (Animal Science) of ICAR, has said that the Central government is committed to enhancing farmers’ income by increasing production across crops in agriculture and allied sectors. The ongoing ‘lab to land’ initiative under the Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan would significantly enhance productivity in the coming seasons. A substantial rise in output is expected across crops, animal husbandry and fisheries, he said. He was speaking at a special session of the Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan (VKSA) campaign at ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
Centre aims to enhance farmers' income by increasing production The Hindu Business Line dated 5th June 2025
Full text linkRaghavendra Bhatta, Deputy Director General (Animal Science) of ICAR, has said that the Central government is committed to enhancing farmers’ income by increasing production across crops in agriculture and allied sectors. The ongoing ‘lab to land’ initiative under the Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan would significantly enhance productivity in the coming seasons. A substantial rise in output is expected across crops, animal husbandry and fisheries, he said. He was speaking at a special session of the Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan (VKSA) campaign at ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Lab to Land initiative will help farmers improve income The New Indian Express dated 5th June 2025
Full text linkRaghavendra Bhatta, Deputy Director General (Animal Science) of ICAR, has said that the Central government is committed to enhancing farmers’ income by increasing production across crops in agriculture and allied sectors. The ongoing ‘lab to land’ initiative under the Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan would significantly enhance productivity in the coming seasons. A substantial rise in output is expected across crops, animal husbandry and fisheries, he said. He was speaking at a special session of the Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan (VKSA) campaign at ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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