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University of Maine
Education•Orono, Maine, United States•
About: University of Maine is a education organization based out in Orono, Maine, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Ice sheet. The organization has 8637 authors who have published 16932 publications receiving 590124 citations. The organization is also known as: University of Maine at Orono.
Topics: Population, Ice sheet, Climate change, Glacial period, Glacier
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TL;DR: For a set of 23 241 populations, 16 009 species, in 158 assemblages, significantly accelerating extinction and colonisation rates were detected, with both rates being approximately balanced.
Abstract: Scientists disagree about the nature of biodiversity change. While there is evidence for widespread declines from population surveys, assemblage surveys reveal a mix of declines and increases. These conflicting conclusions may be caused by the use of different metrics: assemblage metrics may average out drastic changes in individual populations. Alternatively, differences may arise from data sources: populations monitored individually, versus whole assemblage monitoring. To test these hypotheses, we estimated population change metrics using assemblage data. For a set of 23,241 populations, 16,009 species, in 158 assemblages, we detected significantly accelerating extinction and colonisation rates, with both rates being approximately balanced. Most populations (85%) did not show significant trends in abundance, and those that did were balanced between winners (8%) and losers (7%). Thus, population metrics estimated with assemblage data are commensurate with assemblage metrics and reveal sustained and increasing species turnover.
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University of Melbourne1, Hanken School of Economics2, Toulouse Business School3, University of Maine4, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education5, Adolfo Ibáñez University6, ESSEC Business School7, Tatung University8, Victoria University of Wellington9, University of Limerick10, Hellenic Open University11, University of Ottawa12, University of Malaya13, University of Maryland, College Park14, Jawaharlal Nehru University15, University of Surrey16, Asian Institute of Technology17, Otemon Gakuin University18, Marmara University19
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed solutions to two recurring problems in cross-national research: response style differences and language bias, and conducted a methodological comparison of two different response formats, rating and ranking, to evaluate the validity of presenting respondents with short scenarios for which they need to rank their top 3 solutions.
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TL;DR: This article examined the effects of state economic development incentives on the growth of 366 Ohio manufacturing and nonmanufacturing establishments that launched major expansions between 1993 and 1995 and found that incentives have very little (or even a negative) effect on actual growth and they have a substantial positive effect on announced growth.
Abstract: This paper examines the effects of state economic development incentives on the growth of 366 Ohio manufacturing and nonmanufacturing establishments that launched major expansions between 1993 and 1995. Growth is measured as the actual employment change that occurred in these establishments and as the employment growth announced when expansions were launched. Empirical findings indicate that incentives have very little (or even a negative) effect on actual growth and they have a substantial positive effect on announced growth. Findings also suggest that establishments that received incentives overestimated their announced employment targets more than establishments that did not receive incentives.
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TL;DR: A diatom series with 1-6 year resolution from Lake Victoria, East Africa, shows that lake level minima occurred ca. 820-760, 680-660, 640-620, 370-340, and 220-150 calendar years BP as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: A new diatom series with 1–6 year resolution from Lake Victoria, East Africa, shows that lake level minima occurred ca. 820–760, 680–660, 640–620, 370–340, and 220–150 calendar years BP. Inferred lake levels were exceptionally high during most of the ‘Little Ice Age’ (ca. 600–200 calendar years BP). Synchrony between East African high lake levels and prolonged sunspot minima during much of the last millenium may reflect solar variability’s effects on tropical rainfall, but those relationships reversed sign ca. 200 years ago. Historical records also show that Victoria lake levels rose during every peak of the ca. 11-year sunspot cycle since the late 19th century. These findings suggest that, if these apparent tropical sun–climate associations during the last millenium were real, then they were subject to abrupt sign reversals.
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TL;DR: The turn to performance as discussed by the authors re-situates narrative as an object of study: narrative is both a making and a doing, and emphasizes narrative embodied in communication practices, constrained by situational and material conditions, embedded in fields of discourse, and strategically distributed to reproduce and critique existing relations of power and knowledge.
Abstract: The turn to performance re-situates narrative as an object of study: narrative is both a making and a doing. The performance turn emphasizes narrative embodied in communication practices, constrained by situational and material conditions, embedded in fields of discourse, and strategically distributed to reproduce and critique existing relations of power and knowledge.
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Clifford J. Rosen | 111 | 655 | 47881 |
Juan S. Bonifacino | 108 | 303 | 46554 |
John D. Aber | 107 | 204 | 48500 |
Surendra P. Shah | 99 | 710 | 32832 |
Charles T. Driscoll | 97 | 554 | 37355 |
Samuel Madden | 95 | 388 | 46424 |
Lihua Xiao | 93 | 495 | 32721 |
Patrick G. Hatcher | 91 | 401 | 27519 |
Pedro J. J. Alvarez | 89 | 378 | 34837 |
George R. Pettit | 89 | 848 | 31759 |
James R. Wilson | 89 | 1271 | 37470 |
Steven Girvin | 86 | 366 | 38963 |
Peter Marler | 81 | 174 | 22070 |
Garry R. Buettner | 80 | 304 | 29273 |
Paul Andrew Mayewski | 80 | 420 | 29356 |