While institutional distance tends to be greater at the federal and state level, where decisions are centralized, the phenomenon can also be true at the regional level. Finally, Lubell and Fulton show that the power of communication on trust depends on the actors involved. In their study, the authors cite a strong relationship between contact frequency…

Wu follows most critics, and cites Jack London on this point, in identifying Norris’s position with Presley’s, as I have also done in this chapter. The curious point about the afterword, however, is the complete absence of the topic this chapter has focused on: China. While Wu claims that the novel is worth reading for…

The dissertation’s fourth and final chapter follows the legacy of the collaboration, as it transformed into the Cold War rivalry over how best to transform rural Asia. Chapter one, “Food Empire, Trade Boycott: Literature and the Future of U.S.-China Relations in 1900,” analyzes food politics at the turn of the twentieth century, when the U.S.…

When comparing the results of our calculations to the Field Capacity Model from Sorooshian et al., the calculated ETc represented 97% of the model prediction, reaffirming that ETc plays an important role in contributing to the majority of the water consumed in irrigation and that agricultural irrigation adds to the increase in surface evapotranspiration. The overall…

The deadline for that was June 30, 2017, for the 127 medium- and high-priority basins; low- and very-low priority basins are encouraged, though not required, to form a GSA and write a GSP . Recent research from Conrad et al. highlights through case studies, based on interviews with regional stakeholders, that GSA formation looked very different…

Without knowing the actual adaptations undertaken, this approach provides limited analysis on economic efficiency. Hanemann argues that Ricardian models may not even capture long-run efficiency because economic agents do not behave optimally even in the long run. Studies of both short-run and mid-to-long run suggest that farmers with access to groundwater will tend to increase pumping,…

Several high-quality serum-free media formulations were discovered which allows for further, more principled, experiments to be made to accompany and expand on the discoveries made in this study. Further work should be performed on correlating biomarkers and morphological attributes to cell differentiation and proliferation, both to improve the robustness of predictions and to simultaneously optimize…

Under the terms imposed by the DOJ, the companies are not allowed to exchange information about manufacturing cost of goods or sales prices of their drugs, and the duration of the collaboration is limited to the current pandemic. Yet another approach is a government-led strategy in which government bodies define a time-critical national security need…

TEA models have been developed and are publicly available for a variety of plant-based bio-manufacturing facilities, including whole plant and plant cell bioreactor processes for production of mAbs , antiviral lectins , therapeutics , and antimicrobial peptides . These tools are particularly useful for the development of new processes because they can indicate which areas…

As noted by Duflo et al. , the rapid population growth has made Africa to be no longer viewed as a land-abundant region where food crop supply could be increased by expansion of land used in agriculture. Large areas in Africa are increasingly becoming marginal for agriculture and arable land has become scarce in many…