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Invest in small-scale irrigated agriculture: A national assessment on potential to expand small-scale irrigation in Nigeria.
(Agricultural Water Management, 2017)
Nigeria is faced with the daunting challenge to improve performance of its agriculture sector. Currently, crop production in Nigeria is predominantly rainfed; irrigation is perceived as an important means to boost agricultural ...
Retrograde Mapping of Inputs to Direct-and Indirect-pathway Neurons in the Posterior Dorsomedial Striatum
(2017-04-24)
The dorsomedial striatum (DMS) is crucial for goal-directed learning and heavily implicated in drug and alcohol addiction. The posterior DMS (pDMS) receives multiple inputs and contains medium spiny neurons (MSNs) expressing ...
James Joyce's Ulysses: The Ephemerality of Style in "Oxen of the Sun"
(2017-04-24)
In the “Oxen of the Sun” episode, Joyce’s manuscripts reveal a systematic appropriation from canonical texts to produce a profile of style as gestation. Focusing on his adaptations from Sir Thomas Malory in the construction ...
A Top Predator Returns: Effects of the Eastern Indigo Snake (Drymarchon couperi) on Snake Species in Southern Alabama
(2017-04-24)
Increasing focus has been placed on snakes and their role in the ecosystem. As a key predator in longleaf pine ecosystems, the eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi) feeds on a variety of taxa, but recent studies have ...
Effects of Radiation, Diet, and Microgravity on Colonocyte Gene Expression
(2017-05-25)
Recent progress has been made in understanding the physiological responses to conditions prevalent in the space flight environment, including radiation source, duration of radiation exposure, weightlessness, and diet. The ...
Using Optical Properties of Dissolved Organic Matter to Discriminate Sewage Treatment Effluents from Runoff in Santa Monica Bay, California
(2017-04-24)
The Hyperion Treatment Plant (HTP) located off Santa Monica Bay is the largest sewage treatment facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. In order to perform necessary repairs chlorinated secondary-treated effluents ...
E-MAP Directed Analysis of Effector Protein Function in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
(2017-04-27)
Six effector proteins of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium - SseC, SseG, SseI, SseK1, SteB, and SopD - were studied in order to determine their molecular contributions to virulence. Data collected from a high-throughput ...
A General-Purpose Approach to Temporal Event Ontology Creation
(2017-04-25)
One of the major challenges for modern data scientists is providing structure to data. Textual data is especially difficult to interpret and categorize. Much of the meaning found in this natural language data, like news ...
Does Science’s Ethical History Matter? Group Status, Research Ethics, and Support for Science
(2017-04-25)
This study aims to expand upon research that examined the ethics of the Tuskegee experiment and how knowledge of that study affected African-American’s willingness to participate in research (Shavers, Lynch, & Burmeister, ...