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drought-induced mortality locations
No full text<p>Includes the locations, dates, references used for the publication "Is drought-induced forest dieback globally increasing?" by Steinkamp & Hickler</p>
<p>The locations are based on Allen et al. (2010): A global overview of drought and heat-induced<br>tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 259(4), 660-684. and Scholes, R. et al., (2014): Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems. In C. Field et al., eds. Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Available at: http://ipcc-wg2.gov/AR5/images/uploads/WGIIAR5-Chap4_FGDall.pdf [Accessed March 31, 2014].</p>
<p>Plus some additional information derived from model simulation by the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS</p>
<p>This work is published in Steinkamp & Hickler (accepted): Is drought-induced forest dieback globally increasing? Journal of Ecology.</p
The CHAOS/DIALIGN WWW server for multiple alignment of genomic sequences
No full textCross-species sequence comparison is a powerful approach to analyze functional sites in genomic sequences and many discoveries have been made based on genomic alignments. Herein, we present a WWW-based software system for multiple alignment of large genomic sequences. Our server utilizes the previously developed combination of CHAOS and DIALIGN to achieve both speed and alignment accuracy. CHAOS is a fast database search tool that creates a list of local sequence similarities. These are used by DIALIGN as anchor points to speed up the final alignment procedure. The resulting alignment is returned to the user in different formats together with a list of anchor points found by CHAOS. The CHAOS/DIALIGN software is freely available at http://dialign.gobics.de/chaos-dialign-submission
Influence of modelled soil biogenic NO emissions on related trace gases and the atmospheric oxidizing efficiency
No full textThe emission of nitric oxide (NO) by soils (SNOx) is an important source of oxides of nitrogen (NO<sub>x</sub>=NO+NO<sub>2</sub>) in the troposphere, with estimates ranging from 4 to 21 Tg of nitrogen per year. Previous studies have examined the influence of SNOx on ozone (O<sub>3</sub>) chemistry. We employ the ECHAM5/MESSy atmospheric chemistry model (EMAC) to go further in the reaction chain and investigate the influence of SNOx on lower tropospheric NO<sub>x</sub>, O<sub>3</sub>, peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN), nitric acid (HNO<sub>3</sub>), the hydroxyl radical (OH) and the lifetime of methane (&tau;<sub>CH<sub>4</sub></sub>). We show that SNOx is responsible for a significant contribution to the NO<sub>x</sub> mixing ratio in many regions, especially in the tropics. Furthermore, the concentration of OH is substantially increased due to SNOx, resulting in an enhanced oxidizing efficiency of the global troposphere, reflected in a ~10% decrease in &tau;<sub>CH<sub>4</sub></sub> due to soil NO emissions. On the other hand, in some regions SNOx has a negative feedback on the lifetime of NO<sub>x</sub> through O<sub>3</sub> and OH, which results in regional increases in the mixing ratio of NO<sub>x</sub> despite lower total emissions in a simulation without SNOx. In a sensitivity simulation in which we reduce the other surface NO<sub>x</sub> emissions by the same amount as SNOx, we find that they have a much weaker impact on OH and &tau;<sub>CH<sub>4</sub></sub> and do not result in an increase in the NO<sub>x</sub> mixing ratio anywhere
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
AUGUSTUS: a web server for gene finding in eukaryotes
No full textWe present a www server for AUGUSTUS, a novel software program for ab initio gene prediction in eukaryotic genomic sequences. Our method is based on a generalized Hidden Markov Model with a new method for modeling the intron length distribution. This method allows approximation of the true intron length distribution more accurately than do existing programs. For genomic sequence data from human and Drosophila melanogaster, the accuracy of AUGUSTUS is superior to existing gene-finding approaches. The advantage of our program becomes apparent especially for larger input sequences containing more than one gene. The server is available at http://augustus.gobics.de
Multiple alignment of genomic sequences using CHAOS, DIALIGN and ABC
No full textComparative analysis of genomic sequences is a powerful approach to discover functional sites in these sequences. Herein, we present a WWW-based software system for multiple alignment of genomic sequences. We use the local alignment tool CHAOS to rapidly identify chains of pairwise similarities. These similarities are used as anchor points to speed up the DIALIGN multiple-alignment program. Finally, the visualization tool ABC is used for interactive graphical representation of the resulting multiple alignments. Our software is available at Göttinge
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