Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Agriculture"
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Adaptation and Invention during the Spread of Agriculture to Southwest China
(2013-09-04)The spread of an agricultural lifestyle played a crucial role in the development of social complexity and in defining trajectories of human history. This dissertation presents the results of research into how agricultural ... -
Awake, Offline Processing during Associative Learning
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Offline processing has been shown to strengthen memory traces and enhance learning in the absence of conscious rehearsal or awareness. Here we evaluate whether a brief, two-minute offline processing period can boost ... -
Efficient Mutagenesis by Cas9 Protein-Mediated Oligonucleotide Insertion and Large-Scale Assessment of Single-Guide RNAs
(Public Library of Science, 2014)The CRISPR/Cas9 system has been implemented in a variety of model organisms to mediate site-directed mutagenesis. A wide range of mutation rates has been reported, but at a limited number of genomic target sites. To uncover ... -
Essays on Agriculture and Rural Development in Developing Countries
(2022-05-16)In these three essays, I analyse the effects of institutions on rural development through the lens of natural resource management in chapter 1, agricultural productivity in chapter 2, and rural agglomeration economies in ... -
Four Centuries of Change in Northeastern United States Forests
(Public Library of Science, 2013)The northeastern United States is a predominately-forested region that, like most of the eastern U.S., has undergone a 400-year history of intense logging, land clearance for agriculture, and natural reforestation. This ... -
Integrated Tree-Ring-Radiocarbon High-Resolution Timeframe to Resolve Earlier Second Millennium BCE Mesopotamian Chronology
(Public Library of Science, 2016)500 years of ancient Near Eastern history from the earlier second millennium BCE, including such pivotal figures as Hammurabi of Babylon, Šamši-Adad I (who conquered Aššur) and Zimrilim of Mari, has long floated in calendar ... -
INTERGENERATIONAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND HEALTH IMPACTS OF NUTRITIONAL INTERVENTIONS IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME POPULATIONS
(2021-11-16)The last several decades have seen significant progress to promote maternal and child health. Still, the burden of maternal and child undernutrition in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) remains unacceptably ... -
Investigating the Ecological Drivers of Agricultural Yield in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Andes
(2021-06-17)Climate change threatens the future of food and water security across the globe. In the tropical Andes, where there is still high uncertainty around how shifting environmental conditions will affect the crop yields, climate ... -
Land Cinema in the Neoliberal Age
(2021-07-12)Land Cinema in the Neoliberal Age studies a global corpus of films made in the 1970s and 80s that constitute contributions to Marxist and environmental thought during the rise of neoliberalism. Taking these experimental ... -
Random Forests for Global and Regional Crop Yield Predictions
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Accurate predictions of crop yield are critical for developing effective agricultural and food policies at the regional and global scales. We evaluated a machine-learning method, Random Forests (RF), for its ability to ... -
Revaluing Viability: Science and Legumes in Indian Agriculture
(2022-05-12)In the mid-twentieth century, Indian scientists collected wild relatives of the pigeon pea and chickpea, piecing together their traits and useful qualities. Alongside this research and knowledge production, hybrids were ... -
Two of a Kind or a Full House? Reproductive Suppression and Alloparenting in Laboratory Mice
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Alloparenting, a behavior in which individuals other than the actual parents act in a parental role, is seen in many mammals, including house mice. In wild house mice, alloparental care is only seen when familiar sibling ...