Journal articles: 'Variegated landscape'

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Keever, G. J., G. S. Cobb, and J. C. Stephenson. "Interior Performance of Temperate Zone Landscape Plants." Journal of Environmental Horticulture 6, no. 3 (September 1, 1988): 84–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.24266/0738-2898-6.3.84.

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Cleyera (Ternstroemia gymnanthera), spreading lilyturf (Liriope spicata), Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), heavenly bamboo (Nandina domestica), mondo grass (Ophiopogon japonicus), climbing fig (Ficus pumila), and variegated waxleaf privet (Ligustrum japonicum ‘Variegatum ’) grown under 3 production light levels and shade-grown golden Japanese euonymus (Euonymus japonica ‘Aureomarginata’), plantain lily (Hosta ventricosa), King's Ransom Oregon grapeholly (Mahonia aquifolium ‘King' Ransom’), dwarf gold-dust plant (Aucuba japonica ‘Variegata Nana’), Wood's Dwarf heavenly bamboo (Nandina domestica ‘Wood's Dwarf’), Japanese anise-tree (Illicium parviflorum), and Pink Lady Indian hawthorn (Raphiolepis indica ‘Pink Lady’) adapted well to interior conditions following productlon. Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans) and variegated wintercreeper euonymus (Euonymus fortunei ‘Varietgata’) grown under 64% light exclusion were of acceptable quality while plants grown in full sun and under 47% light exclusion were of poor quality. Quality of Wintergreen Korean boxwood (Buxus microphylla koreana ‘Wintergreen’) grown under all production light levels was unacceptable after 15 weeks in the interior environment.

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Kulik, Thomas J., and Eric D. Austin. "Pulmonary hypertension’s variegated landscape: a snapshot." Pulmonary Circulation 7, no. 1 (January 2017): 67–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2045893216686930.

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Rivera, Jose D., Benigno Gómez, Darío A. Navarrete-Gutiérrez, Lorena Ruíz-Montoya, Leonardo Delgado, and Mario E. Favila. "Mechanisms of diversity maintenance in dung beetle assemblages in a heterogeneous tropical landscape." PeerJ 8 (September 8, 2020): e9860. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9860.

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Background Anthropized landscapes play a crucial role in biodiversity conservation, as they encompass about 90% of the remaining tropical forest. Effective conservation strategies require a deep understanding of how anthropic disturbances determine diversity patterns across these landscapes. Here, we evaluated how attributes and assembly mechanisms of dung beetle communities vary across the Selva El Ocote Biosphere Reserve (REBISO) landscape. Methods Community attributes (species diversity, abundance, and biomass) were assessed at the landscape scale, using spatial windows and vegetation classes. Windows were categorized as intact, variegated, or fragmented based on their percent cover of tropical forest. The vegetation classes analyzed were tropical forest, second-growth forest, and pastures. Results We collected 15,457 individuals and 55 species. Variegated windows, tropical forests, and second-growth forests showed the highest diversity values, while the lowest values were found in intact windows and pastures. Landscape fragmentation was positively and strongly related to dung beetle diversity and negatively related to their abundance; biomass was positively associated with forest cover. Beta diversity was the primary driver of the high dung beetle diversity in the landscape analyzed. Discussion The landscape heterogeneity and its biodiversity-friendly matrix facilitate the complementarity of dung beetle assemblages in the Selva El Ocote Biosphere Reserve. Random processes govern beta diversity patterns in intact and variegated windows. Therefore, vegetation cover in the region is sufficient to maintain a continuous flow of dung beetles between forested landscape segments. However, intense anthropic disturbances acted as deterministic environmental filters in fragmented windows and pastures sites, leading to biotic homogenization processes. Our results suggest that increasing habitat variegation in highly fragmented sites is an effective strategy to prevent or buffer homogenization processes in the REBISO landscape.

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Mukherjee, Madhuja. "Variegated Qissa: (Divided) landscape of (multiple) longings." Studies in South Asian Film & Media 7, no. 1 (April 1, 2016): 45–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/safm.7.1-2.45_1.

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Numa, Catherine, José R. Verdú, and Pedro Sánchez-Palomino. "Phyllostomid bat diversity in a variegated coffee landscape." Biological Conservation 122, no. 1 (March 2005): 151–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2004.07.013.

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Costa, Cristiane, Victor Hugo F. Oliveira, Rafaella Maciel, Wallace Beiroz, Vanesca Korasaki, and Julio Louzada. "Variegated tropical landscapes conserve diverse dung beetle communities." PeerJ 5 (April 4, 2017): e3125. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3125.

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BackgroundConserving biodiversity in tropical landscapes is a major challenge to scientists and conservationists. Current rates of deforestation, fragmentation, and land use intensification are producing variegated landscapes with undetermined values for the conservation of biological communities and ecosystem functioning. Here, we investigate the importance of tropical variegated landscapes to biodiversity conservation, using dung beetle as focal taxa.MethodsThe study was carried out in 12 variegated landscapes where dung beetles were sampled using six pitfall traps, 30 m apart from each other, along a transect in each studied landscape use and cover classes—LUCC (forest fragment and corridor, coffee plantation, and pasture). We baited each pitfall trap with 30 g of human feces and left open for a 48 h period. We also measured three environmental variables reflecting structural differences among the studied classes: canopy cover, local vegetation heterogeneity and soil sand content.ResultsWe collected 52 species and 2,695 individuals of dung beetles. We observed significant differences in the mean species richness, abundance and biomass among classes, with forest fragments presenting the highest values, forest corridors and coffee plantations presenting intermediate values, and pastures the lowest values. Regarding community structure, we also found significant differences among classes. Canopy cover was the only variable explaining variation in dung beetle species richness, abundance, biomass, and community structure. The relative importance of spatial turnover was greater than nestedness-resultant component in all studied landscapes.DiscussionThis study evaluated the ecological patterns of dung beetle communities in variegated tropical landscapes highlighting the importance of these landscapes for conservation of tropical biodiversity. However, we encourage variegation for the management of landscapes that have already been fragmented or as a complementary initiative of current conservation practices (e.g., protection of natural habitats and establishment of reserves).

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Kaban, Aronika, Ani Mardiastuti, and Lilik Budi Prasetyo. "Landscape structure affects bird community in Bogor, West Java." Jurnal Penelitian Kehutanan Wallacea 7, no. 2 (August 31, 2018): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.18330/jwallacea.2018.vol7iss2pp109-118.

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Birds have different responses to landscape modification, depends on its adaptation to the environment. The purposes of this study were to identify bird communities in several landscape types and to analyze the landscape structures that affect bird communities. The study was conducted from April to August 2016 at 29 landscapes in the city of Bogor. The landscapes were categorized into four types based on their fragmentation stages: intact, variegated, fragmented, and relict. Birds were surveyed using point count. Bird diversity was calculated using Shanon-Wienner Index, followed by Kruskal-Wallis statistical analysis, the similarity of communities was tested using Bray-Curtis. The landscape structures were quantified using 7 variables and measured using ArcGis patch analyst. Total 8,967 individuals from 75 species and 36 families were recorded. Similarity analysis of the bird community suggested that intact landscapes were clustered separately, while other three types were clustered together. The results showed that the abundance and species richness were higher in intact landscape. Bird diversity in Bogor becomes higher when the total edge, the mean shape index, and the shannon evenness index become smaller.

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Shifter, Michael, and Vinay Jawahar. "Latin America's Populist Turn." Current History 104, no. 679 (February 1, 2005): 51–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/curh.2005.104.679.51.

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Latin America's political landscape, highly complex and variegated, defies easy categorization and raises fundamental questions—including whether it might be better to jettison the term ‘left’ altogether.

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Bullock, Philip Ross. "Lyric and Landscape in Rimsky-Korsakov's Songs." 19th-Century Music 40, no. 3 (2017): 223–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2017.40.3.223.

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Observing the use of landscape as a category of reception, whether in nineteenth-century debates about artistic realism or Soviet-era criticism, this article examines the uses of landscape in several songs by Rimsky-Korsakov and replaces a persistent emphasis in criticism on questions of representation with a focus on how music generates a sense of subjectivity. Three approaches facilitate a more subtle and variegated understanding of Rimsky-Korsakov's “soundscapes” than has been proposed so far. First, landscape is interpreted as a facet of Russian national identity in the second half of the nineteenth century. Second, the evocation of the sounds of the natural world is seen as a metapoetic commentary on the creative act, providing an “internal” commentary on landscape to match the “external” one of the nation. Intertwined with these two themes is a series of parallels between music, literature, and the visual arts, which together show that Rimsky-Korsakov's songs are indicative of a tension between dynamism and stasis that is characteristic of musical representation of landscapes, and that has often been seen as characteristic of Russian music more generally.

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Walker, Kyle E., and Helga Leitner. "The Variegated Landscape of Local Immigration Policies in the United States." Urban Geography 32, no. 2 (February 2011): 156–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2747/0272-3638.32.2.156.

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Benedetto, Adalberto Di, Claudio Galmarini, and Jorge Tognetti. "Differential growth response of green and variegated Ficus benjamina to exogenous cytokinin and shade." Ornamental Horticulture 26, no. 2 (June 2020): 259–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2447-536x.v26i2.2089.

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Abstract Benjamin fig (Ficus benjamina) is an important foliage and landscape crop species comprising green and variegated genotypes. The latter develop leaves with yellow and white leaf areas which may impose lower photosynthetic activity, thus resulting in slower growth than green genotypes. In many species, the exogenous supply of cytokinin to pot-grown plants promotes growth, mainly due to enhanced carbon fixation. In this work, we analyze the effect of spraying the cytokinin 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP) on growth and development of green and variegated Ficus benjamina genotypes. Two experiments were carried out in a greenhouse, in which either different number of BAP applications (Experiment 1) or different BAP concentrations (Experiment 2) were tested. In Experiment 2, plants were grown under three different light intensities. BAP sprays promoted rate of leaf appearance, leaf expansion and whole-plant growth, and the effect was stronger in variegated than in green plants. The relative growth rate promotion by BAP was associated with increased net assimilation rate rather than with variation in the leaf area ratio. On the other hand, shading had a more negative impact on growth and development of variegated plants than in green ones. Variegated plants, unlike green ones, developed leaves with high specific leaf area under the lowest light intensity. This led to high leaf area ratio values, which helped to maintain relative growth rates close to those of plants under moderate shading.

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Balaji S. Kulkarni, S. Seemanthini, and Rajiv Kumar Amreen Taj. "Characterization of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. Genotypes by using DUS Test Guidelines." International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 11, no. 6 (June 10, 2022): 168–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2022.1106.018.

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Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. is one of the important minor flower crops in India. It is used extensively as loose flower, specimen and hedge planting in commercial landscape. But hibiscus used extensively in pharmaceutical and confectionary industry. The presentation investigation was carried out at the Department of Floriculture and landscape Architecture, College of Horticulture, Bengaluru during 2018-2020 by considering the DUS Guidelines developed by Community Plant variety Office, the International Union for the protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) in Geneva, Switzerland. A total of 30 Hibiscus rosa-siensis L. genotypes were accessed for thirty traits which includes both vegetative and floral parameters. Considering the growth habit, 10 accessions were belonging to semi-upright group, 7 were to spreading habit, 9 grouped into upright growth habit and four of them showed drooping habit. Among thirty genotypes, BHC 18 is having variegated leaf type all others were non-variegated. In the same manner BHC 27 got double flower type and rest of them are single flower type.

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Drielsma, Michael, and Simon Ferrier. "Rapid evaluation of metapopulation persistence in highly variegated landscapes." Biological Conservation 142, no. 3 (March 2009): 529–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2008.11.018.

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Siu, Helen F. "Financing China's engagement in Africa: new state spaces along a variegated landscape." Africa 89, no. 4 (November 2019): 638–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972019000834.

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AbstractRecent studies on Chinese investment in Africa have particularly focused on the hardware of development – infrastructure – and its impact. China's vision to forge a new global order was made explicit when Xi declared his ‘One Belt, One Road’ policy in 2013. Underlying the grand infrastructural schemes and political posturing are hidden financial manoeuvres, the soft side of power, unspoken sociality and value contestations. This article focuses on the variegated landscape of China–Africa trade/finance infrastructure centring on Hong Kong. It highlights top-down state orchestration but also explores historical contingencies that have shaped the strategies of those whose footprints unexpectedly straddle continental divides.

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Sun, Man, Tao Song, Weidong Liu, and Zhe Cheng. "Rejuvenating SEZs through Internationalization: A Case Study of Chinese Domestic and International SEZs." Land 11, no. 5 (April 19, 2022): 596. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11050596.

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China’s special economic zones have been hailed as a flagship of her policy on ‘opening up’ to the outside world, as well as the China-led global Belt and Road Initiative. In this paper, we conceptualize the internationalization of Chinese SEZs, and frame the genealogy and underpinning dynamics of China’s international SEZs, both domestically and overseas. The paper critically probes the underlying logics of three parallel international developments of Chinese SEZs: (1) capital-oriented land expansion in the form of international SEZs combining both ‘bring in’ and ‘going out’, especially since BRI; (2) different industrial landscapes at various timelines and sites; (3) variegated transnational SEZs governance, bilateral central governments governance, marketized state or entrepreneurship state, or private ventures. We contribute to the SEZ land literature by delivering a novel framework which encompasses variegated internationalization trends among China’s vast domestic and overseas SEZs. These internationalization trajectories in turn contour and entrench global variegated capitalism.

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McIntyre, S. "Integrating agricultural land-use and management for conservation of a native grassland flora in a variegated landscape." Pacific Conservation Biology 1, no. 3 (1994): 236. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc940236.

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Management of variegated landscapes (in which the native vegetation still forms the matrix but has been modified in a variable way) requires strategies to maintain or enhance existing vegetation within the context of human land-uses such as agriculture. Using rangelands in the New England region of New South Wales as an example, spatial patterns of land-use and modification are described. Management principles for conservation of herbaceous communities in areas of pastoral production are suggested, based on the following assumptions: 1) low intensity pasture utilization and management (i.e., limited fertilization, soil disturbance and grazing) is conducive to the maintenance of species richness at a local and regional scale; 2) stratification of management intensity on farms is compatible with viable grazing operations; 3) landscape context is important as effects of management may spread beyond the managed area; 4) spatial arrangement of land-uses could be optimized to maintain or increase diversity. Although our understanding of these issues is incomplete, there is general observational and theoretical support for them. Incorporation of principles derived from these assumptions in the farm planning process is a useful strategy for preserving grassland vegetation in landscapes where opportunities for reserve conservation are limited.

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Walker, Anders. "New Takes on Jim Crow: A Review of Recent Scholarship." Law and History Review 36, no. 1 (February 2018): 173–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248017000566.

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More than half a century has passed since C. Vann Woodward penned his iconic monograph, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, and legal segregation continues to compel. Recent works have reassessed Jim Crow's birth, its life, and its aftermath, suggesting that the system was at once more implicated in the reproduction of racist ideas than had been previously assumed, and also more fluid: a variegated landscape of rules and norms that lent themselves to various forms of political, legal, and cultural resistance.

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Suro, Roberto. "California Dreaming: The New Dynamism in Immigration Federalism and Opportunities for Inclusion on a Variegated Landscape." Journal on Migration and Human Security 3, no. 1 (March 2015): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/233150241500300101.

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Suro, Roberto. "California Dreaming: The New Dynamism in Immigration Federalism and Opportunities for Inclusion on a Variegated Landscape." Journal on Migration and Human Security 3, no. 1 (2014): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.14240/jmhs.v3i1.41.

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Teugels, Lieve. "Cruciale Teksten: De Brede Hagada: Een oud boek in een eigentijdse jas." NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 69, no. 1 (February 18, 2015): 57–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/ntt2015.69.057.teug.

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The new Dutch Passover Haggadah (2011) is broad in a double sense: its Hebrew text and Dutch translations include variations that suit the different forms of variegated Dutch Judaism. In a literal sense, it is designed in a ‘landscape’ format and includes many visual features that make it an easy and attractive tool. Besides introducing this new Haggadah, this article offers an introduction to the Passover seder and its Biblical and rabbinic sources. It includes a detailed discussion of the midrash of Deuteronomy 26:5‐8 that is central in the Haggadah, and its relation to the early Christian interpretation of the Pesach traditions.

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Rodríguez-Fdez, Sonia, Lucía Fernández-Nevado, L. Francisco Lorenzo-Martín, and Xosé R. Bustelo. "Lysine Acetylation Reshapes the Downstream Signaling Landscape of Vav1 in Lymphocytes." Cells 9, no. 3 (March 4, 2020): 609. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells9030609.

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Vav1 works both as a catalytic Rho GTPase activator and an adaptor molecule. These functions, which are critical for T cell development and antigenic responses, are tyrosine phosphorylation-dependent. However, it is not known whether other posttranslational modifications can contribute to the regulation of the biological activity of this protein. Here, we show that Vav1 becomes acetylated on lysine residues in a stimulation- and SH2 domain-dependent manner. Using a collection of both acetylation- and deacetylation-mimicking mutants, we show that the acetylation of four lysine residues (Lys222, Lys252, Lys587, and Lys716) leads to the downmodulation of the adaptor function of Vav1 that triggers the stimulation of the nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT). These sites belong to two functional subclasses according to mechanistic criteria. We have also unveiled additional acetylation sites potentially involved in either the stimulation (Lys782) or the downmodulation (Lys335, Lys374) of specific Vav1-dependent downstream responses. Collectively, these results indicate that Nε-lysine acetylation can play variegated roles in the regulation of Vav1 signaling. Unlike the case of the tyrosine phosphorylation step, this new regulatory layer is not conserved in other Vav family paralogs.

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McLaurin, Wayne J., and Gary L. Wade. "Lime and Lavender: The Ornamental Sweetpotato Wins Respect in the Landscape." HortScience 33, no. 3 (June 1998): 508d—508. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.33.3.508d.

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Impressive its first several seasons on the market, the ornamental sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) provides nearly carefree cascades of fade-proof yellow-green, purple, or variegated foliage that looks equally good on banks, in beds, or in hanging baskets. A foil for both bright and subdued flowering plants, such as abelmoschus or petunias, ornamental sweetpotatoes add both dramatic color contrasts and dimension to plantings of all kinds. As demonstrated at the 1996 Summer Olympics, large containers filled with ornamental sweetpotatoes, such as `Margarite' and `Blackie', and the muted greys, greens, purples, and golds of artemesia, fountain grass, and lantana create an unusual and dependable planting that holds up to heat and humidity and is generally pest-free. Cultivation requirements are minimal. Ipomea performs best in full sun with good drainage and regular garden soil. However, it will tolerate poor soil, dry conditions, even semi-shade as well. In spite of its horticultural and aesthetic qualitites, Ipomea has still to be utilized fully in home and commercial plantings. As new varieties are introduced and the spectrum of color increases, Ipomea should become a true mainstay of the ornamental industry.

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Schultz, Nick L., Nick Reid, Greg Lodge, and John T. Hunter. "Broad-scale patterns in plant diversity vary between land uses in a variegated temperate Australian agricultural landscape." Austral Ecology 39, no. 7 (May 16, 2014): 855–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12154.

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Sawchuk, Kim. "Introduction. Aging, Communication and Media Technologies." Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations 18, no. 1 (June 7, 2016): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.21018/rjcpr.2016.1.198.

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What does it mean to age within “networked societies” (Castells, 2000)? What might be learned if we take the Internet and Communication Technology (ICT) and media experiences of older adults into account in our research? These questions are core to this special issue on Aging, Communication and Media Technologies. Comprised of six papers from authors working in five cultural contexts in Europe and North America, Aging, Communication and Media Technologies offers insights into demographic transformations towards ‘ageing societies’ in the industrialized world, changes in the media and technological landscape, and the variegated practices of communication in different cultural contexts.

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Melton, Jeffrey. "Nature and Mobility in Mark Twain’s Roughing It." Mark Twain Annual 20 (November 1, 2022): 201–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/marktwaij.20.1.0201.

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Abstract This article explores the overland journey section of Roughing It as a key component of his overall engagement with the natural environment and his employment of mobility in landscape descriptions. Twain’s interactions with nature as he presents them to readers are rarely static evocations of beauty or of the sublime. To the contrary, he is often keenly attentive to the complex interactions between the natural environment and human movements. Twain evokes the vitality of nature by emphasizing movement as its definitive characteristic. Although he comically asserts in the prefatory that Roughing It derives from “variegated vagabondizing,” the narrative suggests a more nuanced immersion into the American West built on the persistent desire to move.

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Somoano, Aitor, Cristiane Bastos-Silveira, Jacint Ventura, Marcos Miñarro, and Gerald Heckel. "A Bocage Landscape Restricts the Gene Flow of Pest Vole Populations." Life 12, no. 6 (May 27, 2022): 800. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/life12060800.

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The population dynamics of most animal species inhabiting agro-ecosystems may be determined by landscape characteristics, with agricultural intensification and the reduction of natural habitats influencing dispersal and hence limiting gene flow. Increasing landscape complexity would thus benefit many endangered species by providing different ecological niches, but it could also lead to undesired effects in species that can act as crop pests and disease reservoirs. We tested the hypothesis that a highly variegated landscape influences patterns of genetic structure in agricultural pest voles. Ten populations of fossorial water vole, Arvicola scherman, located in a bocage landscape in Atlantic NW Spain were studied using DNA microsatellite markers and a graph-based model. The results showed a strong isolation-by-distance pattern with a significant genetic correlation at smaller geographic scales, while genetic differentiation at larger geographic scales indicated a hierarchical pattern of up to eight genetic clusters. A metapopulation-type structure was observed, immersed in a landscape with a low proportion of suitable habitats. Matrix scale rather than matrix heterogeneity per se may have an important effect upon gene flow, acting as a demographic sink. The identification of sub-populations, considered to be independent management units, allows the establishment of feasible population control efforts in this area. These insights support the use of agro-ecological tools aimed at recreating enclosed field systems when planning integrated managements for controlling patch-dependent species such as grassland voles.

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Claussen, Kathleen. "Remarks by Kathleen Claussen." Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 115 (2021): 177–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/amp.2021.118.

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International trade dispute settlement today encompasses many modes of operation across several different fora. Given this diversity, it is difficult to say whether there is a clear “2.0” version of trade dispute settlement. While such a label may suggest that the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) is the “1.0,” the WTO system is in fact a revision to the prior General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) enforcement arrangement. The state of play today for trade dispute settlement belies any clear label apart from what we might try to use to capture a variegated landscape that is constantly in motion. States continue to experiment with compliance and enforcement tools, such that singular directional statements are insufficient to capture what is happening in practice.

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Kliger, Ilya, and Nasser Zakariya. "Poetics of Brotherhood: Organic and Mechanistic Narrative in Late Tolstoi." Slavic Review 70, no. 4 (2011): 754–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.70.4.0754.

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In this article, Ilya Kliger and Nasser Zakariya treat Lev Tolstoi's conception of brotherhood from a narratological perspective. In the process, they trace the outlines of late Tolstoian narrative poetics, situating it within a variegated landscape of Tolstoi's own more properly “realist” literary practice, and offering broader suggestions on the workings of narrative in its capacity to model social relations and ethical action. A narratological focus here allows them to elucidate how stories take part in contemporary understandings of social influence, human connectedness, and alienation— not only on the level of themes but also, and more deeply, on the level of the narrative organization of events. Their main focus is on one of Tolstoi's late novellas “The Forged Coupon” and his last novel Resurrection.

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McIntyre, S., K. M. Heard, and T. G. Martin. "How grassland plants are distributed over five human-created habitats typical of eucalypt woodlands in a variegated landscape." Pacific Conservation Biology 7, no. 4 (2001): 274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc020274.

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A sample of 212 quadrats in grassland vegetation was collected in eucalypt woodlands in sub-tropical Queensland. These included roadside (53 sites), native pasture (109), riparian zone (20), sown pasture (16) and crop (14) habitats. A total of 350 species and subspecies was recorded of which 89 species were identified as being locally rare (native species of <3% frequency, not specialists of other habitats). Forty-three species were collected in addition to the quadrat records. Multivariate analysis indicated the major difference in floristic composition was between roadsides and native pastures, versus the other three habitats. The second axis separated roadside from native pasture vegetation, and the third axis separated riparian sites from all the rest. Crop and sown pasture habitats were the most similar in composition. The grazing practices in this region have enabled the persistence of grasslands that are of national significance in conservation terms. The variegated nature of the landscape is demonstrated by the occurrence of native grassland species across all the human-created habitats, including native species that were unique to intensive land uses. However, our results also show that intensive land uses (cropping, sown pastures) are more of a threat to the conservation status of grasslands than is cattle grazing, even at commercial levels of stocking. Species at most immediate risk are those that are sensitive to commercial cattle grazing and to intensive land uses such as crops and sown pastures.

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Correa, César M. A., Rodrigo F. Braga, Anderson Puker, and Vanesca Korasaki. "Patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetles in a human-modified variegated landscape in Brazilian Cerrado." Journal of Insect Conservation 23, no. 1 (January 4, 2019): 89–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10841-018-00118-6.

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Greig, Emma I., Katherine Spendel, and Nick C. Brandley. "A predator-elicited vocalisation in the Variegated Fairy-wren (Malurus lamberti)." Emu - Austral Ornithology 110, no. 2 (June 2010): 165–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mu09107.

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Münster, Daniel, and Julia Poerting. "Land als Ressource, Boden und Landschaft: Materialität, Relationalität und neue Agrarfragen in der Politischen Ökologie." Geographica Helvetica 71, no. 4 (October 17, 2016): 245–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-71-245-2016.

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Abstract. The Anthropocene reorients the agrarian question as an ecological question of planetary scale. Rather than resolving the inherent tension between political economy and the biophysical environment by moving political ecology closer to the natural sciences, we propose an active engagement with impulses from the environmental humanities and anthropological engagements with alternative ontologies. The relational political ecology of agriculture that we outline in this article draws on feminist science studies, multispecies ethnography, new materialism and critical geography. We show the relevance of a relational approach to agriculture as a natureculture entanglement by reviewing three conceptualisations of land in political ecology in relation to our anthropological research in South India (Münster) and geographical research in Northern Pakistan (Poerting). Notions of land as resource, land as soil and land as landscape respectively exemplify shifts in theoretical and political engagements with agriculture in the Anthropocene. A relational political ecology of agriculture incorporates these theoretical sensibilities and brings them in conversation with ontological politics of agro-ecological movements who respond to the variegated crises of the anthropocene. We suggest a perspective on agrarian landscape assemblages as coproduced by histories of capitalist transformations and the (affective) relations between humans, other species and materials.

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Harris, Rebecca J., and J. Michael Reed. "Effects of forestclearcut edges on a forest-breeding songbird." Canadian Journal of Zoology 80, no. 6 (June 1, 2002): 1026–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z02-076.

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To understand local and regional changes in Neotropical migrant songbird populations it is important to determine whether forest-breeders can use and persist in the dynamic, variegated landscapes created by modern forestry practices. We made detailed observations of a species classified as a mature-forest specialist, the black-throated blue warbler (Dendroica caerulescens), adjacent to clearcut edges and in intact forest in a large industrial forest landscape. We measured reproductive success, habitat use, resource abundance, the potential for inter- and intra-specific competition, and predator densities. Unlike most studies of edge effects, our study showed both positive and negative impacts of associations with edges. We recorded a lower density of potential avian competitors within intact forest, as well as a higher proportion of older male black-throated blue warblers at interior forest sites. In addition, proportionally more fledglings were observed in intact forest. However, males at edge sites had higher pairing success and edges had higher understory density (which is positively associated with reproductive success in other studies), evidence of higher abundance of their primary food source and lower densities of diurnal egg and nestling predators. The net result of these mixed patterns is that males gaining a territory at edge or interior sites appeared to have similar probabilities of producing fledglings.

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McIntyre, S., and S. Lavorel. "Predicting Richness of Native, Rare, and Exotic Plants in Response to Habitat and Disturbance Variables across a Variegated Landscape." Conservation Biology 8, no. 2 (June 1994): 521–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.1994.08020521.x.

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Watson, James, David Freudenberger, and David Paull. "An Assessment of the Focal-Species Approach for Conserving Birds in Variegated Landscapes in Southeastern Australia." Conservation Biology 15, no. 5 (July 7, 2008): 1364–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2001.00166.x.

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Kuzovkina, Yulia A., Michael Dodge, and Irina V. Belyaeva. "Clarifying Affiliations of Salix gracilistyla Miq. Cultivars and Hybrids." HortScience 51, no. 4 (April 2016): 334–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.51.4.334.

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Salix gracilistyla Miq., japanese pussy willow or rosegold willow, is an ornamental shrub commonly cultivated for its prominent display of catkins in early spring. Verification of stocks of willows in the North American landscape nursery trade revealed that another name—Salix chaenomeloides Kimura—is associated frequently with plants similar to S. gracilistyla. Morphological analyses conducted during this study have shown that the S. chaenomeloides binomial is misapplied often to S. gracilistyla, its cultivars and hybrids. A comparison of the diagnostic characters of S. gracilistyla and S. chaenomeloides is presented to explain the differences between these taxa and to promote the adoption of the correct names. Five cultivars of S. gracilistyla valued for their early spring catkin displays, variegated foliage, and pendulous habits, and two cultivars of a hybrid origin are summarized. Also, two new ornamental cultivars called Salix ‘Winter Glory’ and Salix ‘Rabbit’s Foot’ are described.

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Artman, Vincent M. "Nation, Religion, and Theology: What Do We Mean When We Say “Being Kyrgyz Means Being Muslim?”." Central Asian Affairs 5, no. 3 (July 28, 2018): 191–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22142290-00503001.

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Scholars of Central Asia often view religion and ethno-national identity as being linked: “to be Kyrgyz (or Uzbek, Kazakh, etc.) is to be Muslim.” The specific ways in which the relationship between ethno-national identity and religion is constructed and understood, however, have not been adequately researched. “Being Muslim” is not merely an ethnic marker: it can imply a range of different, perhaps even competing, theologies with different relationships to national identity. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Kyrgyzstan in 2014, this article investigates the question of what it means to be Kyrgyz and to be Muslim by undertaking a comparative analysis of two Islamic discourses: Kyrgyz ethno-national traditionalism and the normative Maturidi Hanafism promoted by the Kyrgyz state and the religious authorities. What emerges is a portrait of a complex and variegated religious landscape, one in which the meaning of being Kyrgyz and Muslim is continually questioned and renegotiated.

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Bauer, A. J., Anthony Nadler, and Jacob L. Nelson. "What is Fox News? Partisan Journalism, Misinformation, and the Problem of Classification." Electronic News 16, no. 1 (December 3, 2021): 18–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19312431211060426.

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Fox News is one of the most popular news sources in the United States. Yet, there are those who reject the idea that Fox should be considered a news source in the first place, claiming it should be considered something more akin to propaganda. This article uses the ambiguity surrounding Fox News’ classification as an opportunity to explore how news sources get defined and categorized within journalism research and practice. It discusses three approaches that can be utilized to understand and categorize partisan media—producer-focused, audience-focused, and critical/normative. It explores the benefits and limitations of these perspectives and the need for scholarly inquiry that transverses and synthesizes them. We argue that an increasingly variegated news landscape calls for scholars to develop a richer vocabulary for distinguishing key features of partisan news outlets and greater reflexivity in research design that acknowledges the challenges inherent in translating meaning and values between producers, audiences, and scholars.

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Bryant, Gareth, and Ben Spies-Butcher. "Bringing finance inside the state: How income-contingent loans blur the boundaries between debt and tax." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 52, no. 1 (March 16, 2018): 111–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x18764119.

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Income-contingent loans are increasingly used by governments around the world to finance the costs of higher education. We use the case of income-contingent loans to explore how states are bringing the architecture of financial markets inside the state, disrupting conventional understandings of marketisation that are linked to concepts of commodification. We argue that income-contingent loans are hybrid policy instruments that combine elements of a state-instituted tax and a market-negotiated debt. We understand this hybrid construction in terms of the actors and mechanisms characteristic of what Polanyi identified in patterns of ‘redistribution’ and ‘exchange’. We then follow the contested mutations of income-contingent loans in Australia, England and the United States along three axes of hybridity that produce a variegated landscape of higher education finance: determining debt, charging interest and enforcing repayment. Our analysis reveals how, as processes of marketisation internalise financial ways of calculating and organising, states are blurring the boundaries between debts and taxes, redirecting political contestation over commodification.

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Salata, Stefano, Sila Ozkavaf-Senalp, Koray Velibeyoğlu, and Zeynep Elburz. "Land Suitability Analysis for Vineyard Cultivation in the Izmir Metropolitan Area." Land 11, no. 3 (March 12, 2022): 416. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11030416.

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The grapevine, so-called Vitis vinifera L., is one of the most diffuse perennial crop plantations in the world due to a flourishing market that shaped the landscape and the societal values. Turkey has been a historical vine producer, counting on an overall vineyard extension of 550,000 hectares. Besides, Turkey has some favorable pre-requisites to be one of the most fertile lands for vineyard production: variegated topography, rich soil diversity, heterogeneous morphology, and several micro-climatic conditions. However, establishing a flourishing and fully productive vineyard requires many years, and therefore, the selection and management of sites should be considered with great attention. Within this work, a first land suitability analysis for vineyard production has been established for the entire metropolitan area of Izmir according to the most scientifically-agreed criteria: elevation, slope, aspect, land capability, and solar radiation. These criteria were superimposed through spatial overlay analysis using Esri ArcGIS (ver.10.8) and evaluated using the Principal Component Analysis technique. The first three bands were then extracted to define the most suitable areas for vineyard production in Izmir. The final layer has been used to define which areas can be considered for future strategic expansion and management. The discussion focuses on the Kozak plateau, where a new policy of vineyard plantation will be promoted with techniques that aim to maintain and revalorize the traditional vineyard landscapes and conserve traditional methods and practices that have evolved with the cultural values of the villagers and producers.

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Aravena, Ricardo A., Mitchell B. Lyons, Adam Roff, and David A. Keith. "A Colourimetric Approach to Ecological Remote Sensing: Case Study for the Rainforests of South-Eastern Australia." Remote Sensing 13, no. 13 (June 29, 2021): 2544. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13132544.

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To facilitate the simplification, visualisation and communicability of satellite imagery classifications, this study applied visual analytics to validate a colourimetric approach via the direct and scalable measurement of hue angle from enhanced false colour band ratio RGB composites. A holistic visual analysis of the landscape was formalised by creating and applying an ontological image interpretation key from an ecological-colourimetric deduction for rainforests within the variegated landscapes of south-eastern Australia. A workflow based on simple one-class, one-index density slicing was developed to implement this deductive approach to mapping using freely available Sentinel-2 imagery and the super computing power from Google Earth Engine for general public use. A comprehensive accuracy assessment based on existing field observations showed that the hue from a new false colour blend combining two band ratio RGBs provided the best overall results, producing a 15 m classification with an overall average accuracy of 79%. Additionally, a new index based on a band ratio subtraction performed better than any existing vegetation index typically used for tropical evergreen forests with comparable results to the false colour blend. The results emphasise the importance of the SWIR1 band in discriminating rainforests from other vegetation types. While traditional vegetation indices focus on productivity, colourimetric measurement offers versatile multivariate indicators that can encapsulate properties such as greenness, wetness and brightness as physiognomic indicators. The results confirmed the potential for the large-scale, high-resolution mapping of broadly defined vegetation types.

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Vergara, Pablo M., Luis O. Meneses, Audrey A. Grez, Madelaine S. Quiroz, Gerardo E. Soto, Christian G. Pérez-Hernández, Paola A. Diaz, Ingo J. Hahn, and Andrés Fierro. "Occupancy pattern of a long-horned beetle in a variegated forest landscape: linkages between tree quality and forest cover across spatial scales." Landscape Ecology 32, no. 2 (September 6, 2016): 279–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-016-0443-1.

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Rinehart, Tim, and Sandy Reed. "NEW MOLECULAR MARKERS IN Hydrangea AND THEIR USEFULLNESS IN EVALUATING DIVERSITY, VERIFYING HYBRIDS, AND UNCOVERING GENES." HortScience 40, no. 3 (June 2005): 881b—881. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.40.3.881b.

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Hydrangea popularity and use in the landscape has expanded rapidly in recent years with the addition of remontant varieties. Most cultivars in production belong to the species Hydrangea macrophylla but H. paniculata, H. arborescens, H. serrata, H. aspera, H. heteromalla, H. integrifolia, H. anomala, H. seemanii, and H. quercifolia are also commercially available. In addition to species diversity there is high intra-species variation, particularly in H. macrophylla, which includes mopheads, lacecaps, French, Japanese, dwarf, and variegated varieties. Relatively little is known about the genetic background or combinability of these plants. DNA sequence data, genome size, RAPD, AFLP, and ISSR markers have been used for taxonomic identification and to estimate diversity within the genus. All of these methods have limited usefulness in a large scale breeding program. We recently established microsatellite markers for Hydrangea and evaluated their utility for estimating species diversity and identifying cultivars within H. macrophylla and H. paniculata. We also verified an inter-specific cross between H. macrophylla and H. paniculata using these markers. Future research includes marker assisted breeding, particularly with respect to remontant flowering traits.

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Schettini, Cristiana. "Between Rio’s Red-Light District and the League of Nations: Immigrants and Sex Work in 1920s Rio de Janeiro." International Review of Social History 62, S25 (December 2017): 105–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859017000621.

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AbstractThis article focuses on sex work relations in the Mangue, one of Rio de Janeiro’s red light districts in the 1920s. It follows multiple simultaneous trajectories that converge in Rio’s changing urban landscape: League of Nation’s investigators (some of them undercover), local Brazilian authorities, particularly the police, and Fanny Galper, a former prostitute and madam. It argues that the spatial mobility of the persons involved in sex work is part of broader debates: On the one hand, these experiences of mobility are closely connected to the variegated attempts at surveillance of sex work that characterized Rio de Janeiro in the 1920s and the specific racialized organization of the women’s work as prostitutes. On the other hand, the actors analysed in this article also participated, in different ways, in the production of meanings in broader debates on the international circulation of policies intended to regulate and surveil prostitution. These encounters offer the opportunity to explore some of the intersections between this international circulation of policies, local social dynamics of European immigration, and the racialized history of labor relations in Brazil.

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Brown, Laurence, and Niall Cunningham. "The Inner Geographies of a Migrant Gateway: Mapping the Built Environment and the Dynamics of Caribbean Mobility in Manchester, 1951–2011." Social Science History 40, no. 1 (2016): 93–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2015.82.

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Between the 1960s and 1990s a series of urban redevelopment projects in Manchester radically transformed ethnic settlement in the city. The ward of Moss Side, which had been a gateway for Caribbean and African immigrants, experienced repeated slum clearances in which whole communities were relocated and large tracts of housing stock were demolished and redesigned. The relationship between these physical and demographic changes has been overshadowed by the persisting stigmatization of Moss Side as a racialized “ghetto,” which has meant that outsiders have constructed the area as possessing a fixed and homogenous identity. This article uses geographic information systems in conjunction with local surveys and archival records to explore how the dynamics of immigrant mobility within Moss Side were shaped by housing stock, external racism, family strategies, and urban policy. Whereas scholarship on ethnic segregation in Britain has focused on the internal migration of ethnic groups between administrative areas, using areal interpolation to connect demographic data and the built environment reveals the intense range of movements that developed within the variegated urban landscape of Moss Side.

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Fu, Yang, Weihong Ma, and Jinjin Wu. "Fostering Voluntary Compliance in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analytical Framework of Information Disclosure." American Review of Public Administration 50, no. 6-7 (July 17, 2020): 685–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0275074020942102.

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Although there have been studies investigating the relationship between information disclosure and voluntary compliance behaviors, the terrain of such research is largely fragmented and has been rarely tested empirically in the pandemic contexts. This article reviewed the intervention and control of the pandemic from the perspective of information disclosure with reflections on the experience in China. Furthermore, the authors propose a comprehensive framework demonstrating the overall landscape of information disclosure and voluntary compliance behaviors with highlights on (a) the tensions between privacy and information transparency; (b) the trade-offs between policy rigorousness and compliance behaviors; (c) different sources of information and how they influence public behaviors differently; and most importantly, (d) how the variegated configurations and contextualization of factors result in different influencing and moderating mechanisms between information disclosure and voluntary compliance behaviors. In the end, the authors call for future research and reforms in pandemic control practice to focus on the dynamics of information disclosure, government actions, and public compliance behaviors, which has been largely neglected so far.

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Ivanov, D. A., O. V. Karaseva, and M. V. Rublyuk. "Study of the dynamics of herbs productivity based on long-term monitoring data." Agricultural Science Euro-North-East 22, no. 1 (February 17, 2021): 76–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.30766/2072-9081.2021.22.1.76-84.

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The paper shows methods for studying the data bank for monitoring the yield of grasses within the agrolandscape. Monitoring of the yield of different-aged (1, 2 and 3 years of use) grass legumes was carried out in 2001-2019 at an agroecological test site located within a finite moraine hill at permanent sampling points on a transect that crosses all the main micropositions of the agricultural landscape. The influence of the features of various landscape structures (slopes of different exposure, landscape plots within their limits and the variegation of the soil cover) on the dynamics of grass yield was studied. The data array was processed using the methods of Variable Components Analysis, principal components, and correlation analysis. It is shown that the productivity of grasses is reliably influenced by the features of the landscape, agroclimatic conditions of the year and the age of the grass stand. The formation of the spatial variegation of the herb yield is most influenced by the nature of the soil cover (≈ 21 %), to a lesser extent by the features of individual parts of the slopes (≈ 17 %). It was found that with the aging of the herbage, there is a noticeable increase in the influence of exposure (from 3.4 to 8.0 %) and microlandscape (from 16 to 22 %) factors on the spatial variability of their productivity, and a decrease in the influence of soil cover characteristics (from 24 to 18 %). It was revealed that the dynamics of agroclimatic parameters noticeably affects only the dependence of the variegated yield on the exposure factor. An attempt has been made to divide the years of research by the nature of the dynamics of the yield of grasses into agro climatically homogeneous groups. It has been determined that different groups of observation years differ in productivity and in the nature of its spatio-temporal variability, as well as in the factors that determine them and in the conditions that affect these factors. This makes, when predicting the yield of grasses of different ages, to create mathematical models of its dependence on landscape conditions for different time clusters.

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Fain, Glenn B., Charles H. Gilliam, and Gary J. Keever. "Tolerance of Hardy Ferns to Selected Preemergence Herbicides." HortTechnology 16, no. 4 (January 2006): 605–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.16.4.0605.

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Hardy ferns are widely grown for use in the landscape. The 1998 National Agricultural Statistics Services census of horticulture reported production of hardy/garden ferns at 3,107,000 containers from over 1200 nurseries. There is little research on herbicide use in hardy ferns, and herbicides that are labeled for container production are not labeled for use on hardy ferns. Studies were conducted to evaluate the tolerance of variegated east indian holly fern (Arachniodes simplicior `Variegata'), tassel fern (Polystichum polyblepharum), autumn fern (Dryopteris erythrosora), rochford's japanese holly fern (Cyrtomium falcatum `Rochfordianum'), and southern wood fern (Dryopteris ludoviciana), to applications of selected preemergence applied herbicides. Herbicides evaluated included selected granular or liquid applied preemergence herbicides. Spray-applied herbicides were pendimethalin at 3.0 or 6.0 lb/acre, prodiamine at 1.0 or 2.0 lb/acre, isoxaben at 1.0 or 2.0 lb/acre, and prodiamine + isoxaben at 1.0 + 1.0 lb/acre. Granular-applied herbicides were pendimethalin at 3.0 or 6.0 lb/acre, prodiamine at 1.0 or 2.0 lb/acre, oxadiazon + prodiamine at 1.0 + 0.2 or 2.0 + 0.4 lb/acre, oxyfluorfen + oryzalin at 2.0 + 1.0 or 4.0 + 2.0 lb/acre, trifluralin + isoxaben at 2.0 + 0.5 or 4.0 + 1.0 lb/acre, oxadiazon at 4.0 or 8.0 lb/acre, and oxadiazon + pendimethalin at 2.0 + 1.25 or 4.0 + 2.5 lb/acre. The greatest reduction in growth of autumn fern was observed with the high rates of oxadiazon, oxadiazon + pendimethalin, and oxadiazon + prodiamine. Reductions in rochford's japanese holly fern growth were most severe when plants were treated with the high rate of trifluralin + isoxaben resulting in a 66% and 72% decrease in frond length and frond number, respectively. There were also reductions in frond length and number of fronds when treated with the high rate of oxadiazon + pendimethalin. There were no reductions in frond numbers on tassel fern with any herbicides tested. However, there were reductions in frond length from four of the 10 herbicides evaluated. The most sensitive fern to herbicides evaluated in 2004 was variegated east indian holly fern with reductions in frond length and number of fronds with four of the 10 herbicides tested. Southern wood fern appeared to be quite tolerant of the herbicides tested with the exception of the high rate of oxadiazon. Granular prodiamine proved to be a safe herbicide for all species tested in both 2004 and 2005. In 2005 all plants from all treatments were considered marketable by the end of the study. The durations of both studies were over 120 days giving adequate time for any visual injury to be masked by new growth. However, there was significant visual injury observed on the rochford's japanese holly fern treated with isoxaben at 60 and 90 days after treatment, which might reduce their early marketability.

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Rös, Matthias, Federico Escobar, and Gonzalo Halffter. "How dung beetles respond to a human-modified variegated landscape in Mexican cloud forest: a study of biodiversity integrating ecological and biogeographical perspectives." Diversity and Distributions 18, no. 4 (September 14, 2011): 377–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00834.x.

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O’Brien, Peter, and Andy Pike. "‘Deal or no deal?’ Governing urban infrastructure funding and financing in the UK City Deals." Urban Studies 56, no. 7 (April 23, 2018): 1448–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098018757394.

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How urban infrastructure is funded, financed and governed is a central issue for states at the national, city-regional and city scales. Urban infrastructure is being financialised by financial and state actors and transformed into an asset in the international investment landscape. Local governments are being compelled by national state and financial institutions to be more entrepreneurial in their infrastructure funding and financing and to reorganise their governance arrangements. This article explains the socially and spatially uneven unfolding and implications of urban infrastructure financialisation and local government attempts to implement more entrepreneurial practices and governance forms. The empirical focus is the City Deals in the UK: a new form of urban governance and infrastructure investment based upon negotiated central–local government agreements on decentralised powers, responsibilities and resources. The continued authority of the highly centralised UK national state, its managerialist institutions and conservative/risk-averse administrative culture have constrained urban infrastructure financialisation and entrepreneurial urban governance in the UK City Deals. Situated in their particular spatial, temporal, political-economic and institutional settings, financialisation is understood as a socially and spatially variegated process and urban governance is interpreted as the articulation and mixing of new entrepreneurial and enduring managerialist forms.

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