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University of Guelph
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About: University of Guelph is a education organization based out in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Gene. The organization has 26542 authors who have published 50553 publications receiving 1715255 citations. The organization is also known as: U of G & Guelph University.
Topics: Population, Gene, Context (language use), Poison control, Soil water
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TL;DR: Jaffee and Henson as discussed by the authors examined the underlying evidence related to the changing standards environment and its impact on existing and potential developing country exporters of high-value agricultural and food products.
Abstract: The proliferation and increased stringency of food safety and agricultural health standards is a source of concern among many developing countries. These standards are perceived as a barrier to the continued success of their exports of high-value agro-food products (including fish, horticultural, and other products), either because these countries lack the technical and administrative capacities needed for compliance or because these standards can be applied in a discriminatory or protectionist manner. Jaffee and Henson draw on available literature and work in progress to examine the underlying evidence related to the changing standards environment and its impact on existing and potential developing country exporters of high-value agricultural and food products. The evidence the authors present, while only partial, suggests that the picture for developing countries as a whole is not necessarily problematic and certainly less pessimistic than the mainstream standards-as-barriers perspective. Indeed, rising standards serve to accentuate underlying supply chain strengths and weaknesses and thus impact differently on the competitive position of individual countries and distinct market participants. Some countries and industries are even using high quality and safety standards to successfully (re-)position themselves in competitive global markets. This emphasizes the importance of considering the effects of food safety and agricultural health measures within the context of wider capacity constraints and underlying supply chain trends and drivers. The key question for developing countries is how to exploit their strengths and overcome their weaknesses such that they are gainers rather than losers in the emerging commercial and regulatory context. This paper - a product of the International Trade Department, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network - is part of a larger effort in the network to understand the challenges and opportunities facing developing countries associated with evolving international standards for food and other products.
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University of Florida1, University of Alaska Fairbanks2, University of Vermont3, Max Planck Society4, Bowdoin College5, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research6, Florida State University7, Lund University8, Centre national de la recherche scientifique9, Idaho State University10, University of California11, United States Geological Survey12, Oak Ridge National Laboratory13, Stockholm University14, Argonne National Laboratory15, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory16, National Center for Atmospheric Research17, National Park Service18, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences19, University of Oxford20, University of Guelph21, Los Alamos National Laboratory22
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a survey to quantify variability in the perception of the vulnerability of permafrost C to climate change and found that approximately 1700 Pg of soil carbon (C) are stored in the northern circumpolar permafure zone, more than twice as much C than in the atmosphere.
Abstract: Approximately 1700 Pg of soil carbon (C) are stored in the northern circumpolar permafrost zone, more than twice as much C than in the atmosphere. The overall amount, rate, and form of C released to the atmosphere in a warmer world will influence the strength of the permafrost C feedback to climate change. We used a survey to quantify variability in the perception of the vulnerability of permafrost C to climate change. Experts were asked to provide quantitative estimates of permafrost change in response to four scenarios of warming. For the highest warming scenario (RCP 8.5), experts hypothesized that C release from permafrost zone soils could be 19–45 Pg C by 2040, 162–288 Pg C by 2100, and 381–616 Pg C by 2300 in CO2 equivalent using 100-year CH4 global warming potential (GWP). These values become 50 % larger using 20-year CH4 GWP, with a third to a half of expected climate forcing coming from CH4 even though CH4 was only 2.3 % of the expected C release. Experts projected that two-thirds of this release could be avoided under the lowest warming scenario (RCP 2.6). These results highlight the potential risk from permafrost thaw and serve to frame a hypothesis about the magnitude of this feedback to climate change. However, the level of emissions proposed here are unlikely to overshadow the impact of fossil fuel burning, which will continue to be the main source of C emissions and climate forcing.
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TL;DR: The results confirm and refine the ICTV phage classification, enable elimination of errors in public databases, and provide a straightforward tool for the molecular classification of new phage genomes.
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TL;DR: Application of the method to the analysis of ambient air from urban and rural sites confirmed the presence of six novel fluorinated atmospheric contaminants at picogram per meter3 concentrations, and low concentrations of fluoroorganics were consistently detected in blanks, however, this did not prevent confirmation or quantification of environmental concentrations.
Abstract: The ubiquitous detection of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) in humans and animals has produced a need for sensitive and compound-specific analytical methods to determine the environmental distribu...
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TL;DR: The authors compare four measurement methods: 1) two direct methods whereby respondents report the importance of attributes using best-worst scaling or constant sum scales, and 2) two indirect methods derived from discrete choice experiments, and find high agreement within direct or indirect methods, but less agreement between direct and indirect methods.
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Dirk Inzé | 149 | 647 | 74468 |
Norbert Perrimon | 138 | 610 | 73505 |
Bobby Samir Acharya | 133 | 1121 | 100545 |
Eduardo Marbán | 129 | 579 | 49586 |
Benoît Roux | 120 | 493 | 62215 |
Fereidoon Shahidi | 119 | 951 | 57796 |
Stephen Safe | 116 | 784 | 60588 |
Mark A. Tarnopolsky | 115 | 644 | 42501 |
Robert C. Haddon | 112 | 577 | 52712 |
Milton H. Saier | 111 | 707 | 54496 |
Hans J. Vogel | 111 | 1260 | 62846 |
Paul D. N. Hebert | 111 | 537 | 66288 |
Peter T. Katzmarzyk | 110 | 618 | 56484 |
John Campbell | 107 | 1150 | 56067 |
Linda F. Nazar | 106 | 318 | 52092 |