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Livestock grazing: A tool for removing phosphorus from irrigated meadows
Get PDFElevated phosphorus (P) loading of wetlands, streams, lakes, and reservoirs
can occur from nonpoint sources such as grazing of irrigated or
naturally wet meadows and palustrine wetlands. The water entering
Cascade Reservoir of west-central Idaho sometimes has elevated P concentrations
(>0.050 ppm) and provides a P load of 54 tons P/yr. The use
of best management practices such as rotational grazing, buffer strips next
to wetlands, and proper irrigation management should reduce overland
flow and streambank erosion. Livestock grazing should harvest and
remove a significant amount of P from the ecosystem from incorporation
into hone and tissue mass of growing animals and beef export from the
basin. About 44,000 ac of mostly flood-irrigated pasture land exists in the
Cascade Reservoir watershed. The Phosphorus Uptake and Removal from
Grazed Ecosystem (PURGE) model uses three separate methods to
estimate P retention in cattle and using limits of the input variables,
predicted that from 4 to 57 tons P could be removed annually from the
Cascade watershed. With proper grazing management, cattle should be
part of a long term solution to P loading and improvement of water quality
in Cascade Reservoir
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Seasonal changes in forage quality of C-3 grasses on sagebrush grasslands
Get PDFAnnual and perennial grasses growing in the semiarid, west-central
North American continent mature by early to midsummer. Forage
mineral concentrations in these C-3 grasses decrease curvilinearly
as the season advances from day of year (DOY) 75 to 300. Total
digestible dry matter (TDDM) and digestible cell wall (DCW)
decrease linearly with DOY while neutral detergent fiber (NDF)
increases curvilinearly. By midsummer; energy, N, P, and Zn usually
become deficient for ruminant nutrition
Plant attributes that affect livestock selection and intake
Get PDFGrazing animals depend on a variety of physical
and chemical cues when selecting which plants they will
eat. The soluble energy in the plant may serve as a primary
factor for selection. Management and plant breeding
strategies should use soluble carbohydrate levels as
likely indicators of animal grazing responses
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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