Journal articles: 'Northeastern Case studies'

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Vedachalam, Sridhar, and Susan J. Riha. "Desalination in northeastern U.S.: Lessons from four case studies." Desalination 297 (July 2012): 104–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2012.04.008.

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Walter, J., G. Hamann, E. Lück, C. Klingenfuss, and J. Zeitz. "Stratigraphy and soil properties of fens: Geophysical case studies from northeastern Germany." CATENA 142 (July 2016): 112–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.02.028.

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Gao, Chengkang, Hanmei Tang, Menghui Zhang, Yuming Zou, and Hao Zhang. "Investigation and analysis of college's water system: the case of Northeastern University." Water Policy 17, no. 6 (March 26, 2015): 1224–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wp.2015.201.

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To date there have been many studies of water system optimization which were focused on the water use performance of industrial, regional, and urban areas from a macro-perspective. However, water system optimization colleges and universities are rare, though the amount of water consumption is huge in higher education institutions. We applied a water extended input–output model to investigate and analyze the water system of Northeastern University. Results showed that the water consumption at Northeastern University is 106.72 m3/year per capita; 74.44% of the total water consumption at Northeastern University takes place in dormitories and other school buildings. In contrast with industrial and agricultural sewage, the pollutants in campus sewage are simple and are easy to render harmless or eliminate. Analyzed results showed that the rate of water recycling is low. In this paper, we present an optimization project for improving water efficiency at Northeastern University. Through measures such as dormitory toilets that reuse washroom sewage, our proposed plan will reduce water consumption per capita by 2.13 m3/year. If our proposed plan is adopted at other higher education institutions whose size is the same as Northeastern University all over the country, 7,842.77 × 105 m3/year of water will be saved, which is equivalent to 3.45 × 106 yuan.

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Karmanov, V. N., A. V. Chernov, N. E. Zaretskaya, A. V. Panin, and A. V. Volokitin. "Paleochannel Studies in Archaeology: The Case of The Vychegda River, Northeastern European Russia." Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia 41, no. 2 (June 2013): 83–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aeae.2013.11.008.

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Tenser, Anton. "Semantic Map Borrowing – Case Representation in Northeastern Romani Dialects." Journal of Language Contact 9, no. 2 (April 29, 2016): 211–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19552629-00902001.

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Recent studies in contact linguistics have emphasized the aspect of language-internal grammaticalization that is triggered by accommodation to an external (contact-language) model (e.g. Heine and Kuteva, 2005). This is based on the notion that speakers make use of the available resources in order to match them to those of the target language. A problematic issue is contact-induced change in the domain of case representation. Synthetic case markers are usually thought of as fully grammaticalized morphemes. If contact-induced grammaticalization is, as Heine and Kuteva suggest, much like monolingual grammaticalization, unidirectional, how do we treat instances of rearrangement of the semantic meaning and scope of case markers? I will discuss this problem by examining a sample of Romani dialects, belonging to the so-called Northeastern dialect group (see Matras, 2002). Relying on specific constructions, like Subject of Negative Existence, External Possession, Privative, Partitive etc., I will compare and contrast the Northeastern dialects with their respective contact languages (Russian and Polish). Using semantic maps, I will demonstrate how the Romani dialects in question restructure their case representation system to accommodate to the systems of the model languages, and will discuss what it is exactly that gets equated when two languages come into contact.

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Boatman, J. F., N. Laulainen, J. Ray, C. Van Valin, L. Gunter, R. Lee, D. Luecken, and K. Busness. "Acid precursor concentrations above the northeastern United States during summer 1987: Three case studies." Journal of Geophysical Research 95, no. D8 (1990): 11831. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/jd095id08p11831.

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Hampson, Jamie. "The Materiality of Rock Art and Quartz: a Case Study from Mpumalanga Province, South Africa." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23, no. 3 (October 2013): 363–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774313000498.

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A San rock-art site in northeastern South Africa includes several intriguing features, including rubbed patches of pigment and a red line painted on top of a quartz vein. This article interrogates the relationships between hunter-gatherer beliefs, materiality and rock paintings, and suggests that San painters and viewers engaged with the unique Mpumalangan site for specific ritualistic purposes.

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Lessa, Ines, Dilcineia Moraes, Luciana Moura, and Aílton Melo. "HTLV-1 and myelopathy in Salvador (Northeastern Brazil): a case control study." Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria 51, no. 4 (November 1993): 447–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0004-282x1993000400004.

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The principal aim of the study was to determine the degree of association between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that is positive for HTLV-1 and myelopathy in Salvador, Brazil. From the same hospital, twenty-eight cases of myelopathy and twenty-eight cases showing no neurological disorder were studied using blind selection matched 1:1 by age and sex. The twenty-eight pairs underwent HTLV-1 serology tests. In those with a positive result, anti-HTLV-1 antibodies were investigated in the CSF. The ELISA method was used, complemented by the Western-blot test. Myelopathy was considered associated with HTLV-1 only when the CSF was positive indicating neurotropism of the virus. The mean age of the cases was 44.6 ± 15.6 years and the control group was 43.5 ± 16.0 (p>0.05). An OR of 9.0 was detected with a reability interval (95%) of 1.652-48.866 and chi-square significant at the 0.02 level. Despite a strong degree of association and considering the low level of precision, there is a need for analytical studies with larger samples which besides improving the precision will allow for greater control of the confounding variables.

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Blaauw, Maarten, Ronald Bakker, J. Andres Christen, Valerie A. Hall, and Johannes van der Plicht. "A Bayesian Framework for Age Modeling of Radiocarbon-Dated Peat Deposits: Case Studies from the Netherlands." Radiocarbon 49, no. 2 (2007): 357–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200042296.

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Recently, Bayesian statistical software has been developed for age-depth modeling (“wiggle-match dating”) of sequences of densely spaced radiocarbon dates from peat cores. The method is described in non-statistical terms, and is compared with an alternative method of chronological ordering of 14C dates. Case studies include the dating of the start of agriculture in the northeastern part of the Netherlands, and of a possible Hekla-3 tephra layer in the same country. We discuss future enhancements in Bayesian age modeling.

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Karmalkar, Ambarish V., Jeanne M. Thibeault, Alexander M. Bryan, and Anji Seth. "Identifying credible and diverse GCMs for regional climate change studies—case study: Northeastern United States." Climatic Change 154, no. 3-4 (April 13, 2019): 367–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02411-y.

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Caple, Jane. "Feeling Apart: Relations of Belonging in Tibetan Buddhist Lay-Monastic Communities." Numen 68, no. 5-6 (September 20, 2021): 463–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341636.

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Abstract Studies of belonging and community formation often emphasize commonality of values, emotions, and feelings. This article highlights the importance of practices that create relations of distance between members as well as closeness. Drawing on fieldwork in institutionalized Tibetan Buddhist communities in northeastern Tibet (Amdo/Qinghai), I focus on everyday practices of respect and faith that materialize community by putting monks, reincarnate lamas, and laity “in their place.” This can include the most quotidian of acts, such as standing when someone enters a room. I argue that such practices of “feeling apart” and their refusal are central to individual negotiations of religious belonging and to the dynamic, ongoing process of community formation. The importance of these practices becomes particularly apparent when, as is the case in northeastern Tibet, seemingly taken-for-granted relations of belonging and the emotional style that enacts and creates these relations are felt to be precarious.

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Rădoane, Maria, Constantin Nechita, Francisca Chiriloaei, Nicolae Rădoane, Ionel Popa, Cătălin Roibu, and Delia Robu. "Late Holocene fluvial activity and correlations with dendrochronology of subfossil trunks: Case studies of northeastern Romania." Geomorphology 239 (June 2015): 142–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.02.036.

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Yao, Xinyu, Siyu Hao, and Pei Yu. "Association Study of the Caspase Gene Family and Psoriasis Vulgaris Susceptibility in Northeastern China." BioMed Research International 2019 (February 17, 2019): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2417612.

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Background. Abnormal apoptosis of keratinocytes is one of the pathological changes of psoriasis. Caspases (CASPs) are the central engines of apoptosis. Studies to date have shown that some SNPs alter the expression of related genes and lead to changes in disease risk. However, no studies have investigated the associations between gene polymorphisms and the risk of psoriasis in Han population in northeast China. Therefore, we conducted a case-control study to explore this question in Han population of northeastern China. Methods. 540 patients with PsV and 612 healthy age- and sex-matched controls were enrolled in this study. We determined the genotypes of 17 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 11 genes of caspase family by the improved multiplex ligation detection reaction (iMLDR) method. A model-based single SNP frequentist test and haplotype association studies were performed to evaluate the association between SNPs and PsV. Results. In the single SNP tests, rs6704688 in CASP8 was significantly associated with psoriasis vulgaris (PsV) in Han population of northeastern China (P = 0.0169, P’ = 0.0179 under the additive model; P = 0.0126, P’ = 0.0149 under the heterozygous model). In haplotype analyses, the CASP7 haplotype GC was found to be associated with PsV risk (case group versus control group, 47.2% versus 54.4%, respectively, p = 0.0149). Conclusions. Our study presented that the gene polymorphisms of CASP7 and CASP8 were significantly associated with PsV in Han population of northeastern China, which implied the functional relationship between PsV and caspase genes. CASP8 and CASP7 SNPs could be new potential biomarkers for risk stratification and prevention of PsV.

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Иванов, Sergey Ivanov, Коротков, Sergey Korotkov, Киселева, Vera Kiseleva, Стоноженко, Leonid Stonozhenko, Найденова, and Ekaterina Naydenova. "To the trends in the forest forming process in northeastern Moscow region." Forestry Engineering Journal 5, no. 3 (November 15, 2015): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/14152.

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Case studies of 75 permanent sample plots examine the directions of species composition change in different tree formations in case of normal evolution of biocoenoses and mass spruce decline. In case of natural development of forest biocoenoses, only on 5 plots of total 75 species composition of new tree generations is similar to that of the upper tree layer. On other 5 plots, the restoration of conditionally indigenous mixed spruce and lime forests proceeds. In all other cases, the forests develop towards the formation of broad-leaved communities with the predomination of lime. The expansion of maple in the undergrowth layer is observed on some plots. The change from spruce to lime forests is the most pronounced in the stands where the decline of spruce element occurred after bark beetle invasion.

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Morin, Roger H., and William Z. Savage. "Effects of crustal stresses on fluid transport in fractured rock: case studies from northeastern and southwestern USA." Hydrogeology Journal 11, no. 1 (January 15, 2003): 100–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10040-002-0235-3.

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ESTOQUE, MARIANOA. "Further studies of a lake breeze: Part 1- Observational study." MAUSAM 36, no. 3 (April 6, 2022): 301–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v36i3.1918.

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The three-dimensional structure and bebaviour of a lake-land breeze circulation system induced by lake Ontario for a selected 24-hour period is presented. The structure is determined from observations made during the International Field Year of the Great Lakes. The case which has been studied occurred when the large scale prevailing flow was blowing from the south at relatively low speeds. The study shows that the lake induces a broad belt of easterlies over the lake in the afternoon and the early evening. It also indicates that the lake breeze; is more likely to occur over the southwestern coastal regions than over the southeastern coastal regions. During the early morning hours, surface wind convergence occurs over the northeastern shoreline but not over the northwestern shoreline.

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Sheridan, Michael J. "The Environmental and Social History of African Sacred Groves: A Tanzanian Case Study." African Studies Review 52, no. 1 (April 2009): 73–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0149.

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Abstract:Sacred groves figure prominently in efforts to create community-based conservation in Africa. Although they are often conceptualized in functionalist terms as relics of climax forest and peak cultural florescence, attention to the intersections of ecological and social dynamics offers a framework for understanding African sacred groves that avoids assumptions of steady states of habitat and culture. This article, based on a case study from the North Pare Mountains of northeastern Tanzania, demonstrates that the sacredness of these groves is embedded in social institutions, and that the deeply contested nature of these meanings produces African landscapes. It concludes that sacred groves, as examples of cultural and ecological co-evolution, require research based on hybrid social and natural scientific methods. The implication for conservation policy is that sacred groves are not simply local forms of conservation, and that their management demands cooperation among local, national, and global institutions.

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Soldati, Gustavo Taboada, and Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque. "Ethnobotany in Intermedical Spaces: The Case of the Fulni-ô Indians (Northeastern Brazil)." Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2012 (2012): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/648469.

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We analyzed the Fulni-ô medical system and introduced its intermedical character based on secondary data published in the literature. Then we focused on the medicinal plants known to the ethnic group, describing the most important species, their therapeutic uses and the body systems attributed to them. We based this analysis on the field experience of the authors in the project Studies for the Environmental and Cultural Sustainability of the Fulni-ô Medical System: Office of Medicinal Plant Care. This traditional botanical knowledge was used to corroborate the hybrid nature of local practices for access to health. We show that intermedicality is a result not only of the meeting of the Fulni-ô medical system with Biomedicine but also of its meeting with other traditional systems. Finally, we discuss how traditional botanical knowledge may be directly related to the ethnogenesis process led by the Fulni-ô Indians in northeastern Brazil.

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Broderick, D., C. Moritz, J. D. Miller, M. Guinea, R. I. T. Prince, and C. J. Limpus. "Genetic studies of the Hawksbill turtle Eretmochelys imbricata: evidence for multiple stocks in Australian waters." Pacific Conservation Biology 1, no. 2 (1994): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc940123.

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The hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, is endangered and currently declining in many parts of its global distribution. Efforts to manage the species are hampered by the lack of knowledge of the appropriate geographic units of management and the relationship among breeding populations and feeding assemblages. The Australian populations are among the few remaining large assemblages in the world, but may be under threat from harvesting in neighbouring countries. We use patterns of mitochondrial DNA variation to determine the geographic scale of breeding populations and to compare the genetic composition of turtles in feeding populations to those nesting at nearby major rookeries. Four of the major Australian rookeries were sampled, two on the western coast and two in northeastern Australia, as were turtles at two foraging sites. Significant differences in the frequency of two divergent mitochondrial DNA types separated the turtles nesting at major rookeries sampled on the northeastern versus western coasts of Australia, demonstrating that these populations are not connected by significant amounts of gene flow and should be considered as separate entities for management. There was no significant difference between the turtles nesting at two western rookeries 100 km apart, nor between those using the two northeastern rookeries separated by 750 km. This indicates that the size of the interbreeding unit for the hawksbill turtle is likely to be a region consisting of a group of islands rather than an individual island. Feeding populations were screened with a gene amplification test that discriminates between the two major DNA types. In each case, there was a significant difference in allele frequency between feeding populations and the nearest major rookery. This, together with previous reports of long distance migrations from tag returns, suggests that individual foraging areas support hawksbill turtles from distant breeding populations.

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Panta, Genisson, João Paulo da Hora Nascimento, and Kleython de Araújo Monteiro. "Eroded topography in Proterozoic Basement: the case of Capiá river watershed, Semi‐arid Northeastern Brazil." Revista Brasileira de Geomorfologia 23, no. 4 (October 1, 2022): 1929–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.20502/rbg.v23i4.2159.

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: It is a consensus that the semi-arid depressions created in Atlantic Proterozoic Shield underwent intense denudational processes, especially during the Cenozoic. However, there are still no studies on quantifying and spatializing the fluvial incision for the Southern Sertaneja Depression, low course of the São Francisco river. Then, this study sought to quantify and spatialize the fluvial incision over the Proterozoic basement in the Capiá river basin through the integration of geoprocessing and geostatistical techniques (ordinary kriging), based on a Digital Elevation Model. Correlations were drawn between lithological resistance, basement structures and geomorphological aspects. More than half of the analyzed watershed mass has already been removed by denudational processes and the minimum bulk erosion per corresponding area is in contrast with other regions of the planet. The reconstitution of the topography allowed the delimitation of two large morphostructural compartments in the basin. Finally, apatite fission track data from studies already published in the study area were presented.

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Hylton, Leo. "Trauma, Spirituality, and Healing: A Journey through the Lens of an Incarcerated Person." Religions 13, no. 3 (March 5, 2022): 222. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13030222.

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This article examines the case study of Joseph, an incarcerated man in a northeastern state who experienced myriad traumas over the course of his life and attained healing through spirituality. We follow his story from his abusive childhood home to the foster care system, where he was further traumatized through repeated forced separations. Then, through his adolescent years and his witnessing the deaths of two integral people in his life, we see Joseph’s spiritual struggles that led him into a life of violence and into an adulthood that found him quickly transitioned from the foster care system to the prison system. It is not until years into his prison sentence that we see Joseph begin attaining some semblance of spiritual clarity and grounding—and this through the providential intervention of a man of faith who himself is incarcerated. Interwoven in Joseph’s case study is a thread of extant literature pertaining to the overarching themes of this article: Trauma, Spirituality, and Healing. To honor Joseph’s faith and to most accurately represent his voice and experience, the author’s references to God are almost exclusively in relation to the Judeo–Christian faith tradition, while acknowledging the much wider application of the term “spirituality”.

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Sang-arun, Nattapon. "Development of regional growth centres and impact on regional growth: A case study of Thailand’s Northeastern region." Urbani izziv 24, no. 1 (2013): 160–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2013-24-01-005.

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Canali, Massimo, Maurizio Aragrande, Andrea Angheben, Gioia Capelli, Michele Drigo, Federico Gobbi, Francesca Tamarozzi, and Rudi Cassini. "Epidemiologic-economic models and the One Health paradigm: echinococcosis and leishmaniasis, case studies in Veneto region, Northeastern Italy." One Health 9 (June 2020): 100115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2019.100115.

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Bae, Jin Hee, and Jae-Su Lee. "The Effects of Housing Markets Regulation on Housing Price in Seoul : Case Studies of Southeastern and Northeastern Submarkets." Journal of Korea Real Estate Analysists Association 28, no. 4 (September 30, 2022): 71–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.19172/kreaa.28.4.5.

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Ximenes, Ricardo Arraes Alencar, Maria Eugênia Novinsk Gallo, and Maria de Fátima de Medeiros Brito. "Retreatment in leprosy: a case-control study." Revista de Saúde Pública 41, no. 4 (August 2007): 632–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0034-89102006005000037.

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OBJECTIVE: To assess risk factors for retreatment of leprosy patients. METHODS: A case-control study with patients from two reference care units in Recife, northeastern Brazil, in 2003. The case group included retreated patients (N=155) and the control group comprised those patients who were not retreated (N=155) matched by year of diagnosis and health care unit. Univariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to test the associations and odds ratios and related 95% confidence intervals were estimated. RESULTS: The following factors were found to be significantly associated (p<0.05) with retreatment: occurrence of adverse immunological reactions after treatment completion (OR=2.3; 95% CI=1.18;4.83), final bacterial index > 1 (OR=6.43; 95% CI=1.67;24.74), therapeutic regimen consisting of sulfone monotherapy (OR=10; 95% CI=0.01;0.78) and reports of household contacts (OR=2.2; 95% CI=0.24;0.85). CONCLUSIONS: The study findings reinforce that the use of dapsone monotherapy should be discontinued, and highlight the need for epidemiological monitoring of specific groups of leprosy patients after treatment completion through periodical clinical and laboratory evaluation. Further studies to explore the association between final bacterial index and retreatment are strongly recommended.

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Feitler, Bruno. "Four chapters in the history of crypto-Judaism in Brazil: the case of the northeastern New Christians (17th–21st centuries)." Jewish History 25, no. 2 (December 30, 2010): 207–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10835-010-9131-x.

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Herzfeld, Ute C., Sheldon Drobot, Wanli Wu, Charles Fowler, and James Maslanik. "Spatiotemporal Climate Model Validation—Case Studies for MM5 over Northwestern Canada and Alaska." Earth Interactions 11, no. 20 (December 1, 2007): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/ei208.1.

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Abstract The Western Arctic Linkage Experiment (WALE) is aimed at understanding the role of high-latitude terrestrial ecosystems in the response of the Arctic system to global change through collection and comparison of climate datasets and model results. In this paper, a spatiotemporal approach is taken to compare and validate model results from the fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University–National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model (MM5) with commonly used analysis and reanalysis datasets for monthly averages of temperature and precipitation in 1992–2000 and for a study area at 55°–65°N, 160°–110°W in northwestern Canada and Alaska. Objectives include a quantitative assessment of similarity between datasets and climate model fields, and identification of geographic areas and seasons that are problematic in modeling, with potential causes that may aid in model improvement. These are achieved by application of algebraic similarity mapping, a simple yet effective method for synoptic analysis of many (here, 45) different spatial datasets, maps, and models. Results indicate a dependence of model–data similarity on seasonality, on climate variable, and on geographic location. In summary, 1) similarity of data and models is better for temperature than for precipitation; and 2) modeling of summer precipitation fields, and to a lesser extent, temperature fields, appears more problematic than that of winter fields. The geographic distribution of areas with best and worst agreement shifts throughout the year, with generally better agreement between maps and models in the northeastern and northern inland areas than in topographically complex and near-coastal areas. The study contributes to an understanding of the geographic complexity of the Arctic system and modeling its diverse climate.

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Offutt, Leslie S. "Defending Corporate Identity on New Spain's Northeastern Frontier: San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala, 1780-1810." Americas 64, no. 3 (January 2008): 351–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tam.2008.0018.

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In 1808, confronted with the latest in a lengthy series of legal challenges to its corporate landholdings, the municipal council of the Indian town of San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala, in the northeastern province of Coahuila in New Spain, dispatched a blistering note to its counterpart in the adjoining Spanish town of Saltillo. The question of the moment concerned the right of Saltillo residents José Miguel and Juan González to route water they claimed in one place to property San Esteban had earlier allowed them to farm in another. But to do so meant that the water would be directed across lands belonging to San Esteban. When the Indian town denied them this right, the brothers protested vigorously. They contended that agriculture was, after all, the mainstay of the local economy. It benefited the public, the king, the church, and particularly the families of the pueblo itself. To deny these two farmers access to their water was to jeopardize agricultural production in the area. Further, they argued, San Esteban possessed much uncultivated arid land; perhaps the pueblo should consider renting some of the Gonzálezes' water as it flowed across the town's properties. Implicit in this suggestion was the assumption that San Esteban residents could not deal with what they had, that they were wasteful in utilizing their resources, and that Spaniards, in this particular case the brothers González, were better equipped to exploit the resources of the community.

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Sillman, Sanford, Perry J. Samson, and Jeffrey M. Masters. "Ozone production in urban plumes transported over water: Photochemical model and case studies in the northeastern and midwestern United States." Journal of Geophysical Research 98, no. D7 (1993): 12687. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/93jd00159.

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Stolyarov, Alexander A. "Problems of identity and separatism of ethnic minorities in the global world: case of Assam, India." Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost, no. 6 (2022): 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s086919080023354-6.

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The article is dedicated to the study of the problem of separatist and protest movements among ethnic minorities in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, seeking to maintain their identity. Over the centuries, migration trends in the state have shaped a complex multiethnic and multicultural population. Amendments to the Citizenship Law in the 2000s led to an even greater unification of the local population in protest groups for political reasons. The first part of the article provides a brief overview of the historical prerequisites influencing the destabilization of the Assamese society in the modern world. The second part focuses on specifics of the protests in 1950s–60s. The third part revolves around the current state of affairs in the Assam society, tracing various forms of protest and identifying sides of the conflicts between: a) tribal communities in their struggle for inclusion in the category of Scheduled Tribes; b) tribes and non-tribal populations; c) tribes and immigrants; d) the unification of tribes against the state. A parallel between ethnic separatism in the Indian northeastern states and the European version is drawn. The article is based on publications in the English-language media and academic works of Indian researchers, in which a view of the problem from within the state is traced. The study concludes that before the problem with illegal immigrants, there was a number of several other reasons, due to which, over the centuries, many ethnic groups have sought to obtain autonomy.

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Martin, Jean-Philippe, and Daniel Germain. "Late-glacial and Holocene evolution as a driver of diversity and complexity of the northeastern North American alpine landscapes: a synthesis." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 53, no. 5 (May 2016): 494–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2016-0004.

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Mid-altitude, mid-latitude mountains are complex environments owing to their Pleistocene glacial heritage, the importance of geomorphic processes on the steep slopes, and the climatic conditions that are often close to periglacial. These factors, along with the fragmentation of the alpine habitats, enhance the topographic and floristic diversity of these environments in northeastern North America. Through case studies, this synthesis underlines the interactions between the geosphere (glacial, paraglacial, and periglacial processes), the atmosphere (climatic fluctuations), and the biosphere (vegetation establishment and evolution to the present day) that explain the low elevation of the northeastern North American alpine environment and that testify to its complexity. Vegetation established earlier in the southern ranges, following the same general trend as the Laurentian Ice Sheet recession. However, local factors such as ice retreat, response to global-scale climate changes, and paraglacial processes acted in synergy to increase the resilience and to influence the occurrence of alpine landscapes. The establishment of the latter environment can therefore be considered to be azonal. Finally, our findings highlight the lack of a conceptual framework, systemic studies, and multi-proxy reconstructions of alpine environments located at the limit of bioclimatic zones controlled by the equilibrium between biostatic and rhexistatic regimes.

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Jangi, Majid, Hamed Tabesh, Mahin Ghorban Sabbagh, Ebrahim Khaleghi Baigi, Sayyed Mostafa Mostafavi, and Mahmoud Tara. "A survey of waiting lists for kidney transplantation in northeastern Iran." Journal of Preventive Epidemiology 5, no. 2 (December 15, 2020): e20-e20. http://dx.doi.org/10.34172/jpe.2020.20.

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Introduction: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) continues to be a public health challenge. In ESRD patients, renal replacement therapy is essential. Kidney transplantation is considered as an effective therapeutic procedure for ESRD. On the advice of a qualified nephrologist, ESRD patients are registered on a waiting list, seeking organ transplantation. Objectives: This study aimed to report the status of the waiting list for kidney transplantation in the northeastern Iran region, with data covering the time period until 2017. Patients and Methods: The study was conducted at Montaserie hospital in Mashhad, Iran. We reviewed the clinical records of all ESRD patients referred to the hospital, retrospectively. Patients’ data were completed using a data linkage method and analyzed using SPSS version 23. Results: A total of 1956 patients were studied from the waiting list with a mean age of 44.7 ± 14.4 years (3-80 years). The described etiology reveals that the main causes of ESRD were unknown sources (44.1%), diabetes (18.4%) and hypertension (10.9%). Hemodialysis therapy was conducted for 91.1% of the patients. The maximum registered waiting time was 295 months and the minimum was one month, with an average of 63 months. The proportion of patients waiting for the first, second and third kidney transplantation was 86%, 13.2% and 0.7%, respectively. Conclusion: This study highlights that in the population under study, the number of registered patients on the waiting list followed an increasing pattern, while the age of patients decreased. Unfortunately, in most case studies in Iran, the true etiology of nephrology diseases is still unknown. More effort to define the ESRD causes is necessary. The most likely reason for reported cases with unknown etiology is delays in referral problems.

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Herrick, Owen W., and David A. Gansner. "Changes in Forest Condition Associated With Gypsy Moth on New Frontiers of Infestation." Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 5, no. 1 (March 1, 1988): 59–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/njaf/5.1.59.

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Abstract Changes in forest condition associated with gypsy moth have now been measured for two infestations: northeastern Pennsylvania (1971-79) and central Pennsylvania (1978-85). Despite the variation in changes inflicted across both affected areas, average damage levels were very similar in these case studies. Measurements taken before and after infestation indicate that changes in average plot volume were 8 and 9%, respectively. Before outbreaks in the respective areas, 87 and 86% of the plots were fully stocked or overstocked; afterward, 79 and 83% were in this condition but with a reduced oak component. North. J. Appl. For. 5:59-61, March 1988.

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Banacos, Peter C., and Michael L. Ekster. "The Association of the Elevated Mixed Layer with Significant Severe Weather Events in the Northeastern United States*." Weather and Forecasting 25, no. 4 (August 1, 2010): 1082–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010waf2222363.1.

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Abstract The occurrence of rare but significant severe weather events associated with elevated mixed-layer (EML) air in the northeastern United States is investigated herein. A total of 447 convective event days with one or more significant severe weather report [where significant is defined as hail 2 in. (5.1 cm) in diameter or greater, a convective gust of 65 kt (33 m s−1) or greater, and/or a tornado of F2 or greater intensity] were identified from 1970 through 2006 during the warm season (1 May–30 September). Of these, 34 event days (7.6%) were associated with identifiable EML air in regional rawinsondes preceding the event. Taken with two other noteworthy events in 1953 and 1969, a total of 36 significant severe weather events associated with EML air were studied via composite and trajectory analysis. Though a small percentage of the total, these 36 events compose a noteworthy list of historically significant derechos and tornadic events to affect the northeastern United States. It is demonstrated that plumes of EML air emanating from the Intermountain West in subsiding, anticyclonically curved flows can reinforce the capping inversion and maintain the integrity of the EML across the central United States over a few days. The EML plume can ultimately become entrained into a moderately fast westerly to northwesterly midtropospheric flow allowing for the plume’s advection into the northeastern United States. Resultant thermodynamic conditions in the convective storm environment are similar to those more typically observed closer to the EML source region in the Great Plains of the United States. In addition to composite and trajectory analysis, two case studies are employed to demonstrate salient and evolutionary aspects of the EML in such events. A lapse rate tendency equation is explored to put EML advection in context with other processes affecting lapse rate.

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Palermo, Rocco. "Over the Frontier. Remote Sensing Analysis of the Roman Eastern Borderland in Mesopotamia through Declassified Satellite and Aerial Imagery." Asia Anteriore Antica. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures 4 (January 25, 2023): 89–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/asiana-1659.

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This paper discusses the spatial configuration of the Roman easternmost borderland in Mesopotamia through several case studies and, particularly, with the aid of declassified aerial and satellite imagery. Satellite pictures from the 1960s and 1970s have proved to be of incredible value for the archaeological research in the Near East, contributing to a solid advancement in the understanding of large-scale phenomena on long-term periods. This is particularly true for the so-called late periods of Mesopotamian history which – traditionally – suffer from an inexplicable lack of terrain data. Although the research has consistently improved in the las decade or so, the support of remote-sensing techniques has open new and fruitful research trajectories on the matter. I will employ legacy aerial data, CORONA and HEXAGON declassified satellite imagery and U2 aerial data to assess some case studies in the region and to provide new insights on such a contested space, now roughly comprised between northeastern Syria and northwestern Iraq.

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Lovrinović, Ivan, Alessandro Bergamasco, Veljko Srzić, Chiara Cavallina, Danko Holjević, Sandra Donnici, Joško Erceg, Luca Zaggia, and Luigi Tosi. "Groundwater Monitoring Systems to Understand Sea Water Intrusion Dynamics in the Mediterranean: The Neretva Valley and the Southern Venice Coastal Aquifers Case Studies." Water 13, no. 4 (February 23, 2021): 561. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w13040561.

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Sea water intrusion (SWI) has been widely recognized as a global problem, significantly influencing coastal aquifers, mostly through reduced water quality and agricultural production indicators. In this paper, we present the outcomes of the implementation of two independent real-time monitoring systems, planned and installed to get insights on groundwater dynamics within the adjacent coastal aquifer systems, one located in the Neretva Valley, southeastern Croatia, the other located south of the Venice lagoon, northeastern Italy. Both systems are presented with technical details and the capacity to observe, store, and transmit (Neretva site) observed values in real-time. Analysis of time series reveals the significant influence of the sea level oscillations onto the observed groundwater electrical conductivity (EC) and piezometric head values, while precipitation rate is detected as a driving mechanism for groundwater parameters in shallow geological units. The installed monitoring systems are shown to be of great importance to provide qualitative and quantitative information on the processes influencing groundwater and surface water dynamics within two coastal systems.

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Aguiar, Wagner José de, and Ricardo Augusto Pessoa Braga. "Entre la descentralización y la desconcentración de la gestión ambiental: alcances y límites en la actuación de consejos municipales de medio ambiente en el Semiárido Nordestino." Revista Eletrônica em Gestão, Educação e Tecnologia Ambiental 22 (August 23, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/2236117030452.

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The Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988 had an important role in the induction of political-administrative decentralization as in the elevation of municipalities as a federated entity. In environmental policy, these results have been expressed through the dissemination of municipal environmental councils. In the Northeast of Brazil, a region that has the fewest municipalities with established environmental councils and researches focused on their dynamics, new collegiate instances have been created, without a critical evaluation, among other factors, of the institutional capacity of small municipalities. In this sense, this article discusses the reaches and the limits identificated in the perfomance of municipal councils of environment in the Northeastern Semiarid, taking as an analytical reference the logics of the decentralization and the desconcentration. Through a bibliographical survey and a case study carried out in the semi-arid municipalities of Pernambuco, it is possible to identify reaches but, above all, limits that hinder the deliberative autonomy of the councils, even in large and economically dynamic municipalities. New studies are suggested, considering the pioneering and new environmental councils, especially in the northeastern states that exhibit the lowest levels of environmental management instruments implemented.

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Solari, Ana, Anne Marie Pessis, Gabriela Martin, and Niede Guidon. "Fetal Bioarchaeology: A Case-study of a Premature Birth from Burial 2 in Toca do Enoque (Middle Holocene, Northeastern Brazil)." Childhood in the Past 13, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 8–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2020.1738629.

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Gomes, Kelly Cristiane, Sandro Marden Torres, Zaqueu Ernesto da Silva, Normando Perazzo Barbosa, and Marçal Rosas Florentino Lima Filho. "Alkaline Activation of Aluminum and Iron Rich Precursors." Key Engineering Materials 600 (March 2014): 329–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.600.329.

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The alkaline activation of aluminosilicates materials has been motivated by their enhanced thermomechanical properties. Despite the majority of studies comprise the evaluation industrial byproduct of precursors (fly ash and slag), metakaolin (Al2O3.2SiO2) is acknowledged to have structure and chemical composition characteristics that make it very reactive as far as alkaline activation is concerned. In tropical regions of the earth, as is the case in northeastern Brazil, there are some waste (kaolin waste, red brick waste and weathered tropical soils) whose alkaline activation potential have not yet been fully studied. These sources are known to have other metals such as iron in its structure, which might affect the alkaline activation. This paper aims to evaluate the potential of alkaline activation of these wastes. Chemical and structural characterization were performed by means of x-ray fluorescence, x-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy and compressive strength. The results indicate that all studied waste presented significant potential as precursor material for alkaline activation.

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Zubanych, Laslov, and Attila Józsa. "Zsigmond II Druget (? -1684) – sketches from the unknown life path." Scientific Visnyk V. O. Sukhomlynskyi Mykolaiv National University. Historical Sciences 48, no. 2 (2019): 98–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.33310/2519-2809-2019-48-2-98-102.

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On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the Drugeth (of Italian origin) family’s arrival to Northeastern Hungary (in our case, to the Ung Сounty), a significant growth of interest is observed in the family as a whole as well as in some of its members who dominated the region for almost three centuries. This interest is not accidental, since the Drugeth family except the state-level dignitaries (palatines, royal judges, Transylvanian governors, commanders), enriched the history of the Hungarian kingdom with writers, poets, school founders, robber knights, and forgers. However, history often plays a strange game with its participants, since, while memories of some individuals are kept unchanged for dozens of succeeding generations, but for some others we have to assemble the "historical mosaic" depicting heroes of that time, practically from small fragments. In almost every scholarly work on the history of Northeastern Hungary (present-day Zakarpattia), special attention is paid to representatives of the Drugeth family, but biographical data of its individual members are rare. Scientific researches that began during the last decade at the Uzhhorod National University gave a serious “impetus for the intensification of “studies concerning the Drugeths” in the Ukrainian historiography”. The scientific work covers the life path and activity of a little-known representative of the Northeastern Hungarian nobility, statesman and writer Zsigmond Drugeth (? –1684). He has been paid little attention by the Hungarian historical science paid, although during his 27 years long life he graduated from university, participated in major historical events, and published 2 books. Unfortunately, Zsigmond Drugeth became a “victim” of the historical science. Science accepted the “mistake” of one of the historians as a historical fact, therefore the life path of Zsigmond Drugeth in most publications ends with a shameful execution on the scaffold. The aim of our scientific work is to show the real person who has left a powerful but still unknown mark in the history of Northeastern Hungary based on available resources.

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Li, Minhui, Redmond R. Shamshiri, Cornelia Weltzien, and Michael Schirrmann. "Crop Monitoring Using Sentinel-2 and UAV Multispectral Imagery: A Comparison Case Study in Northeastern Germany." Remote Sensing 14, no. 17 (September 5, 2022): 4426. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14174426.

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Monitoring within-field crop variability at fine spatial and temporal resolution can assist farmers in making reliable decisions during their agricultural management; however, it traditionally involves a labor-intensive and time-consuming pointwise manual process. To the best of our knowledge, few studies conducted a comparison of Sentinel-2 with UAV data for crop monitoring in the context of precision agriculture. Therefore, prospects of crop monitoring for characterizing biophysical plant parameters and leaf nitrogen of wheat and barley crops were evaluated from a more practical viewpoint closer to agricultural routines. Multispectral UAV and Sentinel-2 imagery was collected over three dates in the season and compared with reference data collected at 20 sample points for plant leaf nitrogen (N), maximum plant height, mean plant height, leaf area index (LAI), and fresh biomass. Higher correlations of UAV data to the agronomic parameters were found on average than with Sentinel-2 data with a percentage increase of 6.3% for wheat and 22.2% for barley. In this regard, VIs calculated from spectral bands in the visible part performed worse for Sentinel-2 than for the UAV data. In addition, large-scale patterns, formed by the influence of an old riverbed on plant growth, were recognizable even in the Sentinel-2 imagery despite its much lower spatial resolution. Interestingly, also smaller features, such as the tramlines from controlled traffic farming (CTF), had an influence on the Sentinel-2 data and showed a systematic pattern that affected even semivariogram calculation. In conclusion, Sentinel-2 imagery is able to capture the same large-scale pattern as can be derived from the higher detailed UAV imagery; however, it is at the same time influenced by management-driven features such as tramlines, which cannot be accurately georeferenced. In consequence, agronomic parameters were better correlated with UAV than with Sentinel-2 data. Crop growers as well as data providers from remote sensing services may take advantage of this knowledge and we recommend the use of UAV data as it gives additional information about management-driven features. For future perspective, we would advise fusing UAV with Sentinel-2 imagery taken early in the season as it can integrate the effect of agricultural management in the subsequent absence of high spatial resolution data to help improve crop monitoring for the farmer and to reduce costs.

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Friedberger, Mark. "Rural Gentrification and Livestock Raising: Texas as a Test Case, 1940–1995." Rural History 7, no. 1 (April 1996): 53–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956793300000960.

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One characteristic of an affluent society is that wealthy individuals often seek a place in the country to spend weekends and summer vacations. In the United States second homes in rural areas first became popular in the Gilded Age when elites in the northeast tried to ape English patterns of leisured country living. Americans, however, had to contend with hot and humid summers. As a result, access to water became a vital ingredient in any choice of a country retreat. An alternative motivation for migration to the countryside in the late nineteenth century came when elites desired to take part in field sports, especially foxhunting. In New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and of course, Virginia, where reasonably mild winters permitted activities to continue with some frequency throughout the winter, foxhunting became part of the yearly ritual of small numbers of urban based elites. Horse ownership went hand in hand with livestock raising. By the twenties cattle breeding had become another hobby pursuit of the gentry in northeastern states; herds of Angus or other breeds grazed in paddocks on either side of a long driveway which led up to a large country home.

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Guo, Liying, Liping Di, Chen Zhang, Li Lin, and Yahui Di. "Influence of urban expansion on Lyme disease risk: A case study in the U.S. I-95 Northeastern corridor." Cities 125 (June 2022): 103633. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103633.

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FERGUSON, Crystal, and Florin PENDEA. "Identifying glacio–isostatic rebound processes using testate amoeba as palaeohydrological proxies; a case study from subarctic Québec, Canada." Revista de Geomorfologie 20, no. 1 (December 28, 2018): 5–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.21094/rg.2018.008.

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Glacio–isostatic rebound is one of the most important landscape processes affecting the northern and northeastern coast of Canada and, therefore, reconstruction of postglacial rebound rates is critical for a better understanding of landscape evolution in this region. Yet, studies reconstructing coastal palaeogeography in Northern Canadaare constrained by the limitation of shell–based radiocarbon chronologies used in dating shoreline displacementand palaeo–sea levels. This study proposes an alternative methodology for the reconstruction and dating of palaeo–sea levels, which uses testate amoeba microfossils from coastal sediments as palaeoecological markers of coastal water table shifts linked to sea level change. Our results indicate that testate amoeba–inferred water table reconstruction is a good indicator of water table drawdown due to isostatic uplift on affected coastlines. Furthermore, radiocarbon dating of distinct plant macrofossils within the transitional marine/freshwater stratigraphy avoids the inherent reservoir effect issues associated with dating of marine shells.

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Gok, Ilhami, and Ozkan Ozden. "Examination of RAD51 gene G135C polymorphism in gastric cancer patients in northeastern Anatolia." Archives of Biological Sciences 71, no. 2 (2019): 209–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/abs181121002g.

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Polymorphisms of DNA repair and genome integrity genes are associated with DNA repair capacity and elevated cancer risk. To establish an association between the pattern of polymorphism and the incidence of any type of cancer, studies across different populations are required. Polymorphic regions have been identified in the RAD51 repair gene in various cancer types; however, the influence of specific genetic variants on gastric cancer prevalence has not been empirically demonstrated. We conducted a case-control study with 76 gastric cancer patients and 78 healthy individuals from northeastern Anatolia to examine the association between polymorphism and gastric cancer. We genotyped the previously identified G135C polymorphism of RAD51 in all individuals and estimated the allele and genotype frequencies in the two groups. Our results indicated that the two groups differed both in allele and genotype frequencies. Additionally, a significant and elevated odd ratio (3.53) of gastric cancer for the C allele of RAD51 was observed. The genotypes GC and CC had also significant and high odd ratios (>3.75). Our results indicate that G135C polymorphism of the RAD51 gene was associated with an increased risk of gastric cancer in the examined population.

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Sabouri, Taraneh, Chris Cale, Sunddip Panesar-Aguilar, and Michelle McCraney. "Exploring the Use of Learner-Centered Instruction with English Language Learners in Social Studies Classrooms." World Journal of Educational Research 8, no. 2 (March 14, 2021): p36. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/wjer.v8n2p36.

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Despite English Language Learner (ELL) supplemental instruction on Saturdays and evenings and professional development for teachers, learner-centered instructional strategies in social studies are currently ineffective in meeting the learning needs of the ELL population in an urban school in the northeastern United States. The instructional approaches being used to deliver curriculum have a marginal effect on learning for ELL students, and the local school board supports the importance of exploring this problem. The purpose of this instrumental case study was to explore the learner-centered instructional practices used at the study site and how teachers are using Weimer’s framework to engage ELLs in social studies. Guided by Weimer’s learner-centered instruction theory, the research questions focused on exploring how teachers use Weimer’s learner-centered instructional strategies and how teachers plan their instruction for ELLs and social studies using Weimer’s framework. As a case study, this qualitative research involved gathering data during 1 academic year through observations and interviews of 10 teacher participants. Research data collected through observations and interviews were coded into an Excel document to assign and filter codes. A 3-day professional development opportunity and monthly follow-up sessions were the results of the analysis of data collected from interviews and classroom observations of 10 ELL social studies teachers in Grades 9-12. The results of this study may lead to positive social change if social studies teachers modify their learner-centered instructional approaches to increase students’ motivation and satisfaction in learning.

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Gaidajis, Georgios, and Ilias Kakanis. "Life Cycle Assessment of Nitrate and Compound Fertilizers Production—A Case Study." Sustainability 13, no. 1 (December 25, 2020): 148. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13010148.

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The production and utilization of fertilizers are processes with known and noteworthy environmental impacts. Direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and a high contribution to water eutrophication due to the nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) derivatives are some of the most crucial impacts derived from the overall life cycle of fertilizer use. The life cycle assessment (LCA) has been reliable and analytical tool for the identification, quantification, and evaluation of potential environmental impacts of fertilizers related to the products, production processes, or activities throughout their lifecycle. In this paper, a gate-to-gate LCA approach was applied in order to identify and evaluate the impacts derived from the production processes of nitrate and compound fertilizers the production industry in Northeastern Greece. The results from this study prove that compound fertilizers have a greater impact compared with nitrate fertilizers, contributing up to 70% of the total production impacts. Furthermore, climate change, freshwater eutrophication, and fossil fuel depletion were identified as the most crucial impact categories. Finally, a comparison with relevant LCA studies was conducted, in order to identify the possibility of a consistency pattern of the fertilizer production impacts in general.

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Grundy, Anne, Michelle Cotterchio, Victoria A. Kirsh, Victoria Nadalin, Nancy Lightfoot, and Nancy Kreiger. "Rotating shift work associated with obesity in men from northeastern Ontario." Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada 37, no. 8 (August 2017): 238–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.37.8.02.

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Introduction While some studies have suggested associations between shift work and obesity, few have been population-based or considered multiple shift schedules. Since obesity is linked with several chronic health conditions, understanding which types of shift work influence obesity is important and additional work with more detailed exposure assessment of shift work is warranted. Methods Using multivariate polytomous logistic regression, we investigated the associations between shift work (evening/night, rotating and other shift schedules) and overweight and obesity as measured by body mass index cross-sectionally among 1561 men. These men had previously participated as population controls in a prostate cancer case-control study conducted in northeastern Ontario from 1995 to 1999. We obtained information on work history (including shift work), height and weight from the existing self-reported questionnaire data. Results We observed an association for ever (vs. never) having been employed in rotating shift work for both the overweight (OR [odds ratio] = 1.34; 95% CI [confidence interval]: 1.05–1.73) and obese (OR = 1.57; 95% CI: 1.12–2.21) groups. We also observed nonsignificant associations for ever (vs. never) having been employed in permanent evening/night shifts. In addition, we found a significant trend of increased risk for both overweight and obesity with increasing duration of rotating shift work. Conclusion Both the positive association between rotating shift work and obesity and the suggested positive association for permanent evening/night shift work in this study are consistent with previous findings. Future population-based research that is able to build on our results while examining additional shift work characteristics will further clarify whether some shift patterns have a greater impact on obesity than others.

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Singh, P. Narendra, K. Ranjana, Y. Indiver Singh, K. Priyokumar Singh, S. Surchandra Sharma, M. Kulachandra, Y. Nabakumar, et al. "Indigenous Disseminated Penicillium marneffeiInfection in the State of Manipur, India: Report of Four Autochthonous Cases." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 37, no. 8 (1999): 2699–702. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jcm.37.8.2699-2702.1999.

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We describe four cases of disseminated infection caused by endemicPenicillium marneffei in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients from the Manipur state of India. The most common clinical features observed were fever, anorexia, weight loss, hepatosplenomegaly, and, more importantly, skin lesions resembling molluscum contagiosum. The diagnosis in each of the four cases was achieved by direct examination of smears, observance of intracellular yeast-like cells multiplying by fission in biopsied tissue from skin lesions, and isolation of the dimorphic P. marneffei in pure culture in each case. In one case, fluorescent antibody studies allowed specific diagnosis. This report documents a new area in whichP. marneffei is endemic, located in eastern India, and describes the first occurrence in India of P. marneffei in HIV-infected patients as well as the extension of the areas of P. marneffei endemicity westward to the northeastern state of Manipur.

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Marquardt Collow, Allison B., Michael G. Bosilovich, and Randal D. Koster. "Large-Scale Influences on Summertime Extreme Precipitation in the Northeastern United States." Journal of Hydrometeorology 17, no. 12 (December 1, 2016): 3045–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-16-0091.1.

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Abstract Observations indicate that over the last few decades there has been a statistically significant increase in precipitation in the northeastern United States and that this can be attributed to an increase in precipitation associated with extreme precipitation events. Here a state-of-the-art atmospheric reanalysis is used to examine such events in detail. Daily extreme precipitation events defined at the 75th and 95th percentile from gridded gauge observations are identified for a selected region within the Northeast. Atmospheric variables from the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, version 2 (MERRA-2), are then composited during these events to illustrate the time evolution of associated synoptic structures, with a focus on vertically integrated water vapor fluxes, sea level pressure, and 500-hPa heights. Anomalies of these fields move into the region from the northwest, with stronger anomalies present in the 95th percentile case. Although previous studies show tropical cyclones are responsible for the most intense extreme precipitation events, only 10% of the events in this study are caused by tropical cyclones. On the other hand, extreme events resulting from cutoff low pressure systems have increased. The time period of the study was divided in half to determine how the mean composite has changed over time. An arc of lower sea level pressure along the East Coast and a change in the vertical profile of equivalent potential temperature suggest a possible increase in the frequency or intensity of synoptic-scale baroclinic disturbances.

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