Biallelic and Genome Wide Association Mapping of Germanium Tolerant Loci in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Funding: This project was partially funded by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) grant (BB/J003336/1) awarded to AHP. The work was also supported by a self-funded studentship (PT). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Ecology and Valuation: Big Changes Needed

Ecological Economics has developed as a “transdisciplinary science,” but it has not taken significant steps toward a truly integrated process of evaluating anthropogenic ecological change. The emerging dominance within ecological economics of the movement to monetize “ecological services,” when combined with the already well-entrenched dominance of contingent pricing as a means to evaluate impacts on amenities, has created a “monistic” approach to valuation studies. It is argued that this monistic approach to evaluating anthropogenic impacts is inconsistent with a sophisticated conception of ecology as a complex science that rests on shifting metaphors. An alternative, pluralistic and iterative approach to valuation of anthropogenic ecological change is proposed

A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of High Emitter Non-Compliance and its Impact on Vehicular Tailpipe Emissions in Atlanta, 1997-2001

A quasi-experimental evaluation is employed to assess the compliance behavior of high emitters in response to Atlanta’s Inspection and Maintenance program between 1997 and 2001 and to predict the impact of compliance behavior on vehicular tailpipe emissions of ozone precursors, such as carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxide. Remote sensing data of a sample of approximately 0.8 million observations of on-road vehicles are matched with IM program data and vehicle registration data to identify the compliant and non-compliant high emitters. A mixed-pool time-series regression analysis is carried out to predict changes in the vehicular tailpipe emissions due to the compliance and non-compliance of the high emitters in the Atlanta airshed

Genome wide association mapping of grain arsenic, copper, molybdenum and zinc in rice (Oryza sativa L.) grown at four international field sites

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Maryland\u27s Prompt Criminal Trial Provisions: Hicks and Beyond

In 1971, the Maryland General Assembly and court of appeals adopted the prompt trial provisions. It was not until the court\u27s 1979 decision in State v. Hicks, however, that the teeth were put into the provisions, by supplying dismissal as the sanction for violation of the defendant\u27s rights under the prompt trial provisions. Since that time, there has been an abundance of litigation in an attempt to clarify the applicability of the provisions and the sanction. In this article, the author presents a practical guide to the Maryland prompt trial provisions, analyzing the provisions and the wealth of recent case law

Maryland\u27s Prompt Criminal Trial Provisions: Hicks and Beyond

In 1971, the Maryland General Assembly and court of appeals adopted the prompt trial provisions. It was not until the court\u27s 1979 decision in State v. Hicks, however, that the teeth were put into the provisions, by supplying dismissal as the sanction for violation of the defendant\u27s rights under the prompt trial provisions. Since that time, there has been an abundance of litigation in an attempt to clarify the applicability of the provisions and the sanction. In this article, the author presents a practical guide to the Maryland prompt trial provisions, analyzing the provisions and the wealth of recent case law

The Open Secret: The U.S. Navy in the Battle of The Atlantic, April-December 1941

April 1941-England stood alone in Europe. In the Atlantic, German submarines, using the wolf-pack tactics initiated the previous winter, had shifted their operations to the mid-ocean area where convoys were largely unprotected because of a shortage of Canadian and British escorts. In Washington the Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Harold R. Betty Stark, worked against a lack of time and resources to prepare the U.S. Navy to join that battle

Influential Article Review - The Relationship Between CSR and Performance: A Case from Korea

This paper examines corporate social responsibility and finance. We present insights from a highly influential paper. Here are the highlights from this paper: There have been numerous studies on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its relation to corporate performance. Recently, studies in this field have paid particular attention to the method of measurement in order to identify the CSR activities. One of the widely recognized measures to proxy CSR is the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) score. This paper examines the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and corporate profit by testing the ESG performance score on the firm’s Financial Performance (FP), specifically for Korea Stock Market (KOSPI) listed firms in the period of 2008 ~ 2014. We use three separate individual Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) disclosure scores from Bloomberg for the CRS proxy measure, as well as the Return on Equity (ROE), Market-to-Book Ratio (MBR) and Stock Return for the FP measures. We found that the ESG disclosure scores (the measures of environmental, social, and governance responsibility performance) in the Korean corporations shows diversified results. Particularly, the environmental responsibility performance score presents a negative (or U curve) relationship with FP, whereas the governance responsibility performance score presents a positive (or inverse U curve) relationship with FP. On the other hand, we did not find any statistically significant evidence of a relationship between the social responsibility performance score and FP. For our overseas readers, we then present the insights from this paper in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German