[1] Northern India and its surroundings, home to roughly 600 million people, is probably the most heavily irrigated region in the world. Temporal changes in Earth’s gravity field in this region as recorded by the GRACE satellite mission, reveal a steady, large-scale mass loss that we attribute to excessive extraction of groundwater. Combining the GRACE data with hydrological models to remove na...

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Charles A. Price,* Joshua S Weitz,* Van M. Savage,* James Stegen, Andrew Clarke, David A. Coomes, Peter S. Dodds, Rampal S. Etienne, Andrew J. Kerkhoff, Katherine McCulloh, Karl J. Niklas, Han Olff and Nathan G. Swenson Abstract The metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) predicts the effects of body size and temperature on metabolism through considerations of vascular distribution networks and bioch...

The Hirschsprung’s disease (HD) is characterized by absence of ganglion cells in the Myentric and Meissners plexus’ with nerve bundle hyperplasia [1,2]. The surgery for HD is changed from multistage surgery to single stage. Further, till date the superiority of either Duhamel, Swenson or soave procedure is comparable. It is unclear if one of these techniques yields significantly better general ...

The concept of sexual selection, as first proposed by Darwin (1871), predicts that the fundamental reproductive asymmetries between males and females give rise to a conflict between sexes. Male reproductive success tends to be limited primarily by access to mates, whereas female reproductive success is usually limited by access to resources. Infanticide, the killing of dependent young by conspe...

SuperSpec is a novel on-chip spectrometerwe are developing for (sub)millimeter wavelength astronomy.Our approach utilizes a filterbank ofmoderate resolution (R ∼ 500) channels, coupled to lumped element kinetic inductance detectors (KIDs), all integrated onto a single silicon chip. The channels are half-wave resonators formed by lithographically depositing segments of superconducting transmissi...

To understand the effects of trade policy uncertainty on firm-level export decisions, we study firm-product data on Chinese exports to the U.S. in the years surrounding China’s 2001 WTO accession. Following predictions based on a model of heterogeneous firms, we provide empirical evidence that product-level tariff uncertainty reduction spurred a notable reallocation of export activities across ...

Incubation of D-amino acid oxidase with excess methyl-p-nitrobenzenesulfonate results in a pseudo-first order, irreversible loss of 95% of the assayable activity using D-phenylglycine as substrate. The rate of inactivation reaches a limiting value of 0.021 min-1 (pH 7.7, 22 degrees C) as the concentration of inhibitor is increased, consistent with a two-step mechanism with complex formation pri...

Many carnivores require vast territories, and as human population increases, more pristine natural areas are being developed and converted into agricultural land. Unsurprisingly, carnivores that live at the fringe between wild and agricultural land occasionally prey on livestock. Predation of livestock can result in severe economic losses (Mishra 1997; Thirgood et al. 2005; Woodroffe et al. 200...