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Spatial Distribution and Risk Factors of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in China
(PLoS Pathogens, 2011-03-03)
Author Summary The geographical distribution of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 and agro-ecological risk factors have been studied in a number of countries in Southeast Asia. However, little is know of its ...
Improving Estimations of Spatial Distribution of Soil Respiration Using the Bayesian Maximum Entropy Algorithm and Soil Temperature as Auxiliary Data
(PLos One, 2016-01-25)
Soil respiration inherently shows strong spatial variability. It is difficult to obtain an accurate characterization of soil respiration with an insufficient number of monitoring points. However, it is expensive and ...
Examining Vulnerability to Tornadoes Using Census Tract-Level Demographic Data and Tornado Damage Survey Paths
(2019-01)
Tornadoes pose a substantial risk to life and property and while advancements in understanding of hazard evolution and forecast communication increases community resiliency, better understanding and quantification of social ...
Do Birds of a Feather Cheat Together? How Personality and Relationships Affect Student Cheating
(2017)
Academic misconduct is widespread in schools, colleges, and universities and it appears to be an international phenomenon that also spills over into the workplace (Nonis and Swift 2001; Sims 1993; Stone et al. 2011). To ...
Affective Suffrage: Social Media, Street Protests, and Theatre as Alternative Spaces for Political Self-Representation in the 2012 Mexican Presidential Elections
(2017)
This article examines alternative forums for democratic self-representation as a response to state corruption, especially the social movement #YoSoy132, which emerged online and on the streets during Mexico’s 2012 electoral ...
Process Induced Defects in Liquid Molding Processes of Composites
(2017-11)
Liquid Composite Molding (LCM) processes are cost efficient manufacturing alternatives to traditional autoclave technology for producing near-net shape structural composite parts. However, process induced defects often ...
Medical Students’ Views and Ideas About Palliative Care Communicatio Training
(American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2010-02-01)
This study focused on the undergraduate medical student to identify views and ideas held toward palliative care communication training, pedagogical approaches to this training, and its perceived effectiveness and use in ...
Gay and Lesbian Individuals’ Attitudes Toward the Death Penalty: An Exploratory Study of the Roles of Empathic Concern and Political Beliefs
(Criminal Justice Review, 2012-06-01)
Why So Many Repositories? Examining the limitations and possibilities of the IR landscape
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Academic libraries fail to take advantage of the network effect because they manage too many digital repositories locally. While this argument applies to all manner of digital repositories, this article examines the ...
Intrinsic challenges in ancient microbiome reconstruction using 16S rRNA gene amplification
(2015-11-13)
To date, characterization of ancient oral (dental calculus) and gut (coprolite) microbiota has been primarily accomplished through a metataxonomic approach involving targeted amplification of one or more variable regions ...