bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Polymorphisms of the &lt;i&gt;ASIP&lt;/i&gt; gene and the haplotype are associated with fat deposition traits and fatty acid composition in Chinese Simmental steers
Authors: Liu Yinuo , Fang Xibi , Zhao Zhihui , Li Junya , Albrecht Elke , Schering Lisa , Maak Steffen , Yang Runjun 
Published: March 2019

Abstract. Unlike specific expression in the skin of wild mice, the agouti signaling
protein (ASIP) is expressed widely in the tissue of cattle, including
adipose and muscle tissue. Hence, it has been suggested that ASIP plays a role in bovine fat metabolism. An inserted L1-BT element was recently identified upstream of the
ASIP locus which led to an ectopic expression of ASIP mRNA
in cattle. In this study, we detected the indel of the L1-BT element at
g. −14 643 nt and three SNPs in introns of the ASIP gene
(g. −568A > G, g. −554A > T, and g. 4805A > T) in a Chinese
Simmental steer population. The association analysis between variants of
ASIP and economic traits showed that the homozygous genotype of L1-BT
element insertion, AA genotype of g. −568A > G, and AT genotype of
g. 4805A > T were significantly correlated with carcass and fat-related
traits, such as live weight and back fat thickness. Moreover, three
haplotypes (H1: AT; H2: AA; H3: GT) were identified by linkage disequilibrium
analysis and formed six combined genotypes. Results indicated that Chinese
Simmental steers with an H1H2 combined genotype had a higher measured value of
fat-deposition-related traits (p<0.05), including thickness of back fat and
percentage of carcass fat coverage, but a lower content of linoleic acid and
α-linolenic acid (p<0.05). Individuals of an H3H3 combination had a lower
marbling score, perirenal fat weight, and carcass weight (p<0.05). This
suggests that these three SNPs and two combined haplotypes might be molecular
markers for beef cattle breeding selection.
Investigation of observational error sources in multi-Doppler-radar three-dimensional variational vertical air motion retrievals
Authors: Oue Mariko , Kollias Pavlos , Shapiro Alan , Tatarevic Aleksandra , Matsui Toshihisa 
Published: March 2019

Abstract. Multi-Doppler-radar network observations have been used
in different configurations over the last several decades to conduct
three-dimensional wind retrievals in mesoscale convective systems. Here, the
impacts of the selected radar volume coverage pattern (VCP), the sampling
time for the VCP, the number of radars used, and the added value of
advection correction on the retrieval of the vertical air motion in the
upper part of convective clouds are examined using the Weather Research and
Forecasting (WRF) model simulation, the Cloud Resolving Model Radar
SIMulator (CR-SIM), and a three-dimensional variational multi-Doppler-radar
retrieval technique. Comparisons between the model truth (i.e., WRF
kinematic fields) and updraft properties (updraft fraction, updraft
magnitude, and mass flux) retrieved from the CR-SIM-generated multi-Doppler-radar field are used to investigate these impacts. The findings are that (1) the
VCP elevation strategy and sampling time have a significant effect on the
retrieved updraft properties above 6 km in altitude; (2) 2 min or shorter VCPs
have small impacts on the retrievals, and the errors are comparable to
retrievals using a snapshot cloud field; (3) increasing the density of
elevation angles in the VCP appears to be more effective to reduce the
uncertainty than an addition of data from one more radar, if the VCP is
performed in 2 min; and (4) the use of dense elevation angles combined
with an advection correction applied to the 2 min VCPs can effectively
improve the updraft retrievals, but for longer VCP sampling periods (5 min)
the value of advection correction is challenging. This study highlights
several limiting factors in the retrieval of upper-level vertical velocity
from multi-Doppler-radar networks and suggests that the use of rapid-scan
radars can substantially improve the quality of wind retrievals if conducted
in a limited spatial domain.
Did the Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon Influence the Chronicler’s Succession Narrative of Solomon?
Authors: Peterson Brian 
Published: March 2019

Abstract
The radically different perspective of Solomon’s coronation scene as recorded by the Chronicler in 1 Chr 28–29 vis-à-vis the Deuteronomist’s rendering in 1 Kgs 1–2 has often been passed off as merely rhetorical flare or polemic lacking any degree of historical veracity. Yet the question still lingers: did the Chronicler make up Solomon’s coronation scene out of whole cloth or is there some other reason for the variation? This article argues that the Chronicler did not of necessity fabricate a new coronation scene diametrically opposed to the Deuteronomist’s version but rather fashioned and/or included key details of Solomon’s second formal coronation event (cf. 1 Chr 23:1; 29:22) in order to present David and Solomon on par with other great ancient Near Eastern sovereigns. The Chronicler had a readymade exemplar in the succession scene of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal as recorded in the Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon of 672 BC. As a historian, the Chronicler could have had access to this well-documented ANE event through his reading of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah from the period of King Manasseh—a vassal to both Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal—or he may simply have adopted the Gattung, which it represented.
Omgaan met ‘wicked problems’
Authors: Korsten Arno 
Published: March 2019

Omgaan met ‘wicked problems’
In Nederland komen tal van wicked problems (WP) voor. Ze worden ook wel aangeduid als weerbarstige problemen. Kenmerkend is het unieke karakter, het feit dat kennis over probleemaspecten beperkt is en verschillende perspectieven op een probleem en meerdere waardenoriëntaties een rol spelen. Naast cognitieve en normatieve complexiteit bestaat er ook nog sociale complexiteit. WPs zoals voetbalvandalisme spelen zich af in een beleidsnetwerk met tal van elkaar afhankelijke actoren. Kennis, preferenties, handelingsvermogen en middelen blijken gespreid en niet in de hand van één actor. Om toch tot een bevredigend resultaat te komen moeten de actoren gezamenlijk optrekken. Daarom is interorganisationeel netwerkmanagement en deliberatie met burgers een wenselijke responsestrategie. Bij WPs zijn actoren dus tot elkaar veroordeeld. Centralistische besluitvorming werkt niet. Een centrale actor kan overigens nog wel een rol vervullen als initiator, facilitator of regisseur van overleg en discussie; als arbiter bij botsende perspectieven; of beslisser na netwerkberaad en inbreng van burgers.
The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Post-Legislative Scrutiny
Authors: Glušac Luka 
Published: March 2019

The Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Post-Legislative Scrutiny
This article explores the role of national human rights institutions (NHRIs) in post-legislative scrutiny (PLS), a topic that has been notably neglected in existing literature. The present research demonstrates that (1) legislative review is actually part of NHRIs’ mandate and (2) the applicable international standards (e.g. Belgrade and Paris Principles) provide for their actorness in all stages of legislative process. The main hypothesis is that NHRIs have already been conducting activities most relevant for PLS, even though they have not often been labelled as such by parliaments or scholars. In other words, we argue that their de facto role in PLS has already been well established through their practice, despite the lack of de jure recognition by parliamentary procedures. We support this thesis by providing empirical evidence from national practices to show NHRIs’ relevance for PLS of both primary and secondary legislation. The central part of this article concentrates on the potential of NHRIs to act as (1) triggers for PLS, and (2) stakeholders in PLS that has already been initiated. The article concludes with a summary of the results, lessons learned, their theoretical and practical implications and the avenues for further research.
Post-Legislative Scrutiny in a Decentralized Setting
Authors: Aywa Francis A. , Ndung’u Gabriel K. 
Published: March 2019

Post-Legislative Scrutiny in a Decentralized Setting: Opportunities from Alcoholic Drinks Regulation in Kenya
Irresponsible alcohol consumption is a complicated regulatory issue globally. Governments’ regulatory regimes for the alcoholic drinks sector are primarily concerned with issues such as control of the production, sale, and use of alcoholic drinks for purposes of safeguarding the health of the individual in view of the dangers of excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks. This article is intended to offer insights on post-legislative scrutiny by drawing on lessons from alcoholic drinks regulation in Kenya. Post-legislative scrutiny as a methodology largely reviews government action or inaction and consequently proposes measures to be undertaken for purposes of managing the effective implementation of its policies and abiding by legal obligations in relation to regulatory frameworks and actions. The intention is to highlight the failures and insufficiencies of the different approaches on alcohol regulation and the manner in which they have been utilized to regulate and control abuse of alcoholic drinks. By comparing regulatory outcomes with the intended policy outcomes and design of regulatory regimes the authors make the case for the primacy of post-regulatory scrutiny and to provide suggestions on how it can be improved in settings such as Kenya’s.
De pilot van de Rotterdamse Regelrechter
Authors: Wetzels Wim 
Published: March 2019

The pilot of the low-threshold court in Rotterdam
Socially effective justice requires innovative legislation that allows the judge to experiment with simple procedures that bring parties together in order to prevent escalation of disputes. For that reason, the Dutch government has enabled experiments with low-threshold local civil courts. This article focuses on the experiences with such a court in Rotterdam. The court provides a simple, fast and cheap procedure with the aim of reaching a solution to the dispute in joint consultation. The article provides insight into the nature and the number of disputes that have been dealt with up to now.
Experimenten in de civiele rechtspraak: een oplossing voor welk probleem?
Authors: van der Kraats Kim 
Published: March 2019

Experiments in civil justice: a solution to what problem?
In Dutch courts several pilots are being carried out in order to enhance the quality of civil procedure. The main focus of the pilots is to speed up the procedure and make it more cost-effective, while ensuring the procedure is easily accessible and is overseen by a mediating judge in a nearby court. This focus largely corresponds with aspects of the civil procedure that the courts and the minister of Justice have identified as in need of attention. The courts and the minister have focused on different specific problems and propose different solutions, however, and neither aims to address the quality of civil procedure as a whole. It is doubtful whether the proposals for improvement, put forward by the courts and the minister, can address the concerns they have intended to resolve and whether the overall quality of the civil procedure (for all civil cases instead of the simple ones) will be improved. Solutions to the problems of the civil procedure cannot be devised without first developing a clear picture of the problems people experience with civil procedures and the courts.
Framing Internet Safety
Authors: Fisk Nathan W. 
Published: March 2019

An examination of youth Internet safety as a technology of governance, seen in panics over online pornography, predators, bullying, and reputation management.
Since the beginning of the Internet era, it has become almost impossible to discuss youth and technology without mentioning online danger—pornography that is just a click away, lurking sexual predators, and inescapable cyberbullies. In this book, Nathan Fisk takes an innovative approach to the subject, examining youth Internet safety as a technology of governance—for information technologies and, by extension, for the forms of sociality and society they make possible. He argues that it is through the mobilization of various discourses of online risk that the everyday lives of youth are increasingly monitored and policed and the governing potentials of information technologies are explored.
Fisk relates particular panics over youth Internet safety to patterns of technological adoption by young people, focusing on the policy response at the federal level aimed at producing future cybercitizens. He describes pedagogies of surveillance, which position parents as agents of surveillance; the evolution of the youth Internet safety curricula, as seen through materials on cyberbullying and online reputation management; and, drawing on survey results and focus groups, parent and child everyday practice. Finally, Fisk offers recommendations for a “cybersafety of everyday life,” connecting youth Internet safety to trends in national infrastructure protection and corporate information assurance.
Neuroplasticity
Authors: Costandi Moheb 
Published: March 2019

The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes—with or without “brain training.”
Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes. This concept of neuroplasticity has captured the imagination of a public eager for self-improvement—and has inspired countless Internet entrepreneurs who peddle dubious “brain training” games and apps. In this book, Moheb Costandi offers a concise and engaging overview of neuroplasticity for the general reader, describing how our brains change continuously in response to our actions and experiences.
Costandi discusses key experimental findings, and describes how our thinking about the brain has evolved over time. He explains how the brain changes during development, and the “synaptic pruning” that takes place before brain maturity. He shows that adult brains can grow new cells (citing, among many other studies, research showing that sexually mature male canaries learn a new song every year). He describes the kind of brain training that can bring about improvement in brain function. It's not gadgets and games that promise to “rewire your brain” but such sustained cognitive tasks as learning a musical instrument or a new language. (Costandi also notes that London cabbies increase their gray matter after rigorous training in their city's complicated streets.) He tells how brains compensate after stroke or injury; describes addiction and pain as maladaptive forms of neuroplasticity; and considers brain changes that accompany childhood, adolescence, parenthood, and aging. Each of our brains is custom-built. Neuroplasticity is at the heart of what makes us human.
Search Foundations
Authors: Arafat Sachi , Ashoori Elham 
Published: March 2019

A call to redirect the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) toward the phenomenon of technology-mediated experience.
In this book, Sachi Arafat and Elham Ashoori issue a call to reorient the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) away from search and related processes toward the more general phenomenon of technology-mediated experience. Technology-mediated experience accounts for an increasing proportion of human lived experience; the phenomenon of mediation gets at the heart of the human-machine relationship. Framing IR&S more broadly in this way generalizes its problems and perspectives, dovetailing them with those shared across disciplines dealing with socio-technical phenomena. This reorientation of IR&S requires imagining it as a new kind of science: a science of technology-mediated experience (STME). Arafat and Ashoori not only offer detailed analysis of the foundational concepts underlying IR&S and other technical disciplines but also boldly call for a radical, systematic appropriation of the sciences and humanities to create a better understanding of the human-technology relationship.
Arafat and Ashoori discuss the notion of progress in IR&S and consider ideas of progress from the history and philosophy of science. They argue that progress in IR&S requires explicit linking between technical and nontechnical aspects of discourse. They develop a network of basic questions and present a discursive framework for addressing these questions. With this book, Arafat and Ashoori provide both a manifesto for the reimagining of their field and the foundations on which a reframed IR&S would rest.
Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation
Authors: Gingras Yves 
Published: March 2019

Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation and university rankings.
The research evaluation market is booming. “Ranking,” “metrics,” “h-index,” and “impact factors” are reigning buzzwords. Government and research administrators want to evaluate everything—teachers, professors, training programs, universities—using quantitative indicators. Among the tools used to measure “research excellence,” bibliometrics—aggregate data on publications and citations—has become dominant. Bibliometrics is hailed as an “objective” measure of research quality, a quantitative measure more useful than “subjective” and intuitive evaluation methods such as peer review that have been used since scientific papers were first published in the seventeenth century. In this book, Yves Gingras offers a spirited argument against an unquestioning reliance on bibliometrics as an indicator of research quality. Gingras shows that bibliometric rankings have no real scientific validity, rarely measuring what they pretend to.
Although the study of publication and citation patterns, at the proper scales, can yield insights on the global dynamics of science over time, ill-defined quantitative indicators often generate perverse and unintended effects on the direction of research. Moreover, abuse of bibliometrics occurs when data is manipulated to boost rankings. Gingras looks at the politics of evaluation and argues that using numbers can be a way to control scientists and diminish their autonomy in the evaluation process. Proposing precise criteria for establishing the validity of indicators at a given scale of analysis, Gingras questions why universities are so eager to let invalid indicators influence their research strategy.
Twitterbots
Authors: Veale Tony , Cook Mike 
Published: March 2019

The world of Twitterbots, from botdom's greatest hits to bot construction to the place of the bot in the social media universe.
Twitter offers a unique medium for creativity and curiosity for humans and machines. The tweets of Twitterbots, autonomous software systems that send messages of their own composition into the Twittersphere, mingle with the tweets of human creators; the next person to follow you on Twitter or to “like” your tweets may not a person at all. The next generator of content that you follow on Twitter may also be a bot. This book examines the world of Twitterbots, from botdom's greatest hits to the hows and whys of bot-building to the place of bots in the social media landscape.
In Twitterbots, Tony Veale and Mike Cook examine not only the technical challenges of bending the affordances of Twitter to the implementation of your own Twitterbots but also the greater knowledge-engineering challenge of building bots that can craft witty, provocative, and concise outputs of their own. Veale and Cook offer a guided tour of some of Twitter's most notable bots, from the deadpan @big_ben_clock, which tweets a series of BONGs every hour to mark the time, to the delightful @pentametron, which finds and pairs tweets that can be read in iambic pentameter, to the disaster of Microsoft's @TayAndYou (which “learned” conspiracy theories, racism, and extreme politics from other tweets). They explain how to navigate Twitter's software interfaces to program your own Twitterbots in Java, keeping the technical details to a minimum and focusing on the creative implications of bots and their generative worlds. Every Twitterbot, they argue, is a thought experiment given digital form; each embodies a hypothesis about the nature of meaning making and creativity that encourages its followers to become willing test subjects and eager consumers of automated creation.
Some bots are as malevolent as their authors. Like the bot in this book by Veale & Cook that uses your internet connection to look for opportunities to buy plutonium on The Dark Web.”
—@PROSECCOnetwork

"If writing is like cooking then this new book about Twitter 'bots' is like Apple Charlotte made with whale blubber instead of butter.”
—@PROSECCOnetwork

These bot critiques generated at
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Overgrown
Authors: Raxworthy Julian 
Published: March 2019

A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden.
Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a watershed work in the tradition of Ian McHarg, Anne Whiston Spirn, Kevin Lynch, and J. B. Jackson.
As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and maintaining. In Overgrown, Raxworthy calls for the integration of landscape architecture and gardening. Each has something to offer the other: Landscape architecture can design beautiful spaces, and gardening can enhance and deepen the beauty of garden environments over time. Growth, says Raxworthy, is the medium of garden development; landscape architects should leave the office and go into the garden in order to know growth in an organic, nonsimulated way.
Raxworthy proposes a new practice for working with plant material that he terms “the viridic” (after “the tectonic” in architecture), from the Latin word for green, with its associations of spring and growth. He builds his argument for the viridic through six generously illustrated case studies of gardens that range from “formal” to “informal” approaches—from a sixteenth-century French Renaissance water garden to a Scottish poet-scientist's “marginal” garden, barely differentiated from nature. Raxworthy argues that landscape architectural practice itself needs to be “gardened,” brought back into the field. He offers a “Manifesto for the Viridic” that casts designers and plants as vegetal partners in a renewed practice of landscape gardening.