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Smallholder Farmer Adoption of Climate-Related Adaptation Strategies: The Importance of Vulnerability Context, Livelihood Assets, and Climate Perceptions
Despite increased research characterizing the adaptive capacity of households and communities, there are few empirical studies that test why farmers adopt costly climate-related adaptive strategies, which stra...
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Effect of a dairy- and calcium-rich diet on weight loss and appetite during energy restriction in overweight and obese adults: a randomized trial
A diet rich in dairy and calcium (Ca) has been variably associated with improvements in body composition and decreased risk of type 2 diabetes. Our objective was to determine if a dietary pattern high in dairy...
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Processing contaminated dredged material from the Port of New York-New Jersey
Ship** activities in the Port of New York-New Jersey are currently threatened by restrictions on dredging of navigational channels and private berthing areas becaused of concerns about the environmental effe...
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Characterization of Geological Materials Using Ion and Photon Beams
Geological specimens are often complex materials that require different analytical methods for their characterization. The parameters of interest may include the chemical composition of major, minor and trace ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Synchrotron Radiation Induced X-Ray Microfluorescence Analysis
μ-XRF is the microscopic equivalent of the well-established multielement analytical technique. In this paper, after comparing the interaction of X-ray photons, electrons and protons with matter and an introduc...
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Properties of Silicon-on-Defect-Layer Material
A new silicon material, silicon-on-defect-layer (SODL), has been measured by secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) and spreading resistivity (SR) measurements. SIMS data show that the buried defect-layer in S...
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Elastic and inelastic scattering of 0.8 GeV polarized protons from18O
Differential cross-sections and analyzing powers have been measured for a number of states in the18O(p, p’)18O reaction at 800 MeV. The ground-state rotational band (0+, 0.0 MeV; 2+, 1.98 MeV; and 4+, 7.11 MeV) h...
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Measurement of imperfections in thermal spray coatings using synchrotron-computed microtomography
The determination of microstructural imperfections in thermal spray coatings using nondestructive synchrotron-computed microtomography (CMT) is described. This technique provides spatial resolutions in the 2-t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Calcified-Tissue Investigations Using Synchrotron X-Ray Microscopy
Synchrotron x-ray microscopy has been used to examine elemental distributions in specimens of rat tibia, human deciduous teeth, and an orthopedic implant phantom. The results illustrate the usefulness of SXRM ...
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X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy
Synchrotron x-ray fluorescence microscopy is used to quantitatively measure and image the distribution of trace elements in biological, geological and materials science specimens. The design and performance of...
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An X-ray microprobe facility using synchrotron radiation
An X-ray microprobe for trace elemental analysis at micrometer spatial resolutions, using synchrotron radiation (SR), is under development. The facility consists of two beamlines, one including a 1∶1 focusing ...
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Distribution of Lead in Human Bone: III. Synchrotron X-Ray Microscope Measurements
Measurement of the microdistribution of lead and other elements in bone is of interest for two reasons. First, the correlation of the lead concentrations with histological features in the bone may shed light o...
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An X-Ray Microprobe Facility Using Synchrotron Radiation
An X-ray microprobe for trace elemental analysis at micrometer spatial resolutions, using synchrotron radiation (SR), is under development. The facility consists of two beamlines, one including a 1:1 focusing ...
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Distribution of Lead in Human Bone: II. Proton Microprobe Measurements
Little is known about the distribution of lead in the human tibia on a microscopic scale. The radial distribution of lead in a 2-mm thick section of the human femur has been measured by Lindh et al. (1978), wh...
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Distribution of Lead in Human Bone: I. Atomic Absorption Measurements
X-ray fluorescence (XRF) provides a convenient and accurate means of estimating lead content in bone. However, before one can accurately interpret XRF results to obtain a measurement of lead exposure in either...
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Trace Elemental Analysis in Bone Using X-Ray Microscopy
The detection, quantification, and localization of trace elements in biological tissues present major difficulties. Recent advances in x-ray fluorescence now make it possible to quantify and localize naturally...
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Oxygen Content Variation in Cation-Deficient and Chemically-Doped High-TC Y-Ba-Cu-O and Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Superconductors
Oxygen content in high-Tc superconductors has been determined by using a charged particle activation method. Changes of oxygen content in Cu-deficient Y-Ba-Cu-O and Cu/Bi-deficient Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O compounds were ob...
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Application of nuclear reaction analysis to trace oxygen analysis in metal fluoride materials
Trace oxygen contamination of metal fluoride glasses degrades their performance in applications such as optical fibers or x-ray phosphors. Traditional methods for oxygen determination based on reaction with ca...
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T=1, spin-dipole strength in40Ca
Spin-dipole strength in40Ca has been studied by inelastic scattering of 500-MeV protons and the dipole response in40Ca is compared with the spin-dipole data from the40Ca(p, n) reaction and nonspin-dipole data fro...
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Restriction fragment polymorphism in the sex-determining region of the Y chromosomal DNA of European wild mice
Using 32P-labeled probe consisting mainly of (GATA)n we have shown that a male specific Alu1 DNA blot pattern which defines the Y chromosome sex-determining locus in inbred mice is highly polymorphic in wild mice...
