One of the major goals of the Sustainable Agriculture Farming initiatives at UC Davis is to provide information about the feasibility of adopting conservation tillage and cover cropping at the farm level. The project includes two tillage schemes: standard tillage (ST) and conservation tillage (CT), and three farming methods: conventional, organic, and winter legume cover crop. All three product...

Global biodiversity continues along a trajectory of decline despite enormous conservation efforts (Rands et al., 2010). This is also true in China, one of the most biodiversity-rich countries in the world (Liu and Raven, 2010; Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, 2010a). To fundamentally change this trajectory, it is essential to understand complex interactions among various forces af...

Political discourse is the verbal interaction between political actors in a policy domain. This article explains the formation of polarized advocacy or discourse coalitions in this complex phenomenon by presenting a dynamic, stochastic, and discrete agent-based model based on graph theory and local optimization. In a series of thought experiments, actors compute their utility of contributing a ...

The article focuses on the use of invective in political texts and specifics its rendering English-Ukrainian translation. It aims to define possible strategies for translation factors that influence translator’s choice. Since by leaders is aimed primarily at provoking a certain reaction from their opponents public, main criterion equivalence such units pragmatics, which stipulates task as tryin...

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This paper presents a novel approach to document-based discourse analysis by performing a global A* search over the space of possible structures while optimizing a global criterion over the set of potential coherence relations. Existing approaches to discourse analysis have so far relied on greedy search strategies or restricted themselves to sentence-level discourse parsing. Another advantage ...