Search Results - "Xinjiang"

Income implications of political capital and agricultural land use in western China by Komarek, Adam M., Spoor, Max, Feng, Shuyi, Shi, Xiaoping

“…The purpose of this paper is to explore the expansion of agricultural production into marginal lands, also known as “wasteland,” and examine the association between political capital, household income, and using additional marginal lands for agriculture in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of western China.The paper uses exploratory data analyses methods, including descriptive statistics, graphical analysis, econometrics and propensity score matching, and data from a 2008 survey of 342 households in Awat County of Aksu Prefecture to explore the role of political capital in an agricultural household setting.Preliminary results suggest that wasteland usage has a positive association with income, and that household political capital, in the form of Communist Party membership or being a village cadre, correlates with wasteland usage because it improves access to irrigation water.A constant topic of debate in China is the role of political capital in influencing livelihoods. …”
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Genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationship of Chinese cashmere goats based on microsatellite DNA markers by Di, R., He, X., Guan, Wei-Jun, Pu, Y., Zhao, Qianjun, Fu, B., Ma, Y., Han Jianlin

“…The first clade contained Liaoning, Xinjiang, Chaidamu and Shanbei goat populations, while the sec-ond clade was made up of goat populations from Inner Mongolia. …”
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Genetic diversity of 23 Chinese indigenous horse breeds revealed by microsatellite markers by Yinghui, L., Yuejiao, C., Yanping, W., Weijun, Guan, Baoling, F., Qian-Jun Zhao, Xiaohong, H., Yabin Pu, Yue-Hui Ma, Han Jianlin

“…Two-dimensional scatter plot for the first two principal factors divided Chinese horse populations into five groups: southern China, Tibet, Xinjiang and Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and Northeast China. …”
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Variation of the ferulic acid concentration and kernel weight in CIMMYT bread wheat germplasm and selection of lines for functional food production by Wenfei Tian, Xue Gong, Ibba, Maria Itria, Velu, Govindan, Shuanghe Cao, Jindong Liu, Zhonghu He

“…The results revealed a wide range of FAC values, with measurements ranging from 590.47 to 943.81 μg/g in Gansu, 497.04–893.47 μg/g in Inner Mongolia, and 435.54–986.43 μg/g in Xinjiang. These FAC values were found to be comparable to those of present wheat varieties. …”
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Development and evaluation of a blocking ELISA for serological diagnosis of equine infectious anemia by Zhe, Hu, Kui, Guo, Cheng, Du, Jinhui, Sun, Naletoski, Ivancho, Xiaoyu, Chu, Yuezhi, Lin, Xuefeng, Wang, Barrandeguy, Maria Edith, Miño, Samuel, Wen, Wang, Lau, Patrick Imtung, Wernery, Ulrich, Raghavan, Rekha, Xiaojun, Wang

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Enhancing irrigation management: Unsupervised machine learning coupled with geophysical and multispectral data for informed decision-making in rice production by Chaali, Nesrine, Ramírez Gomez, Carlos Manuel, Jaramillo Barrios, Camilo Ignacio, Garr´e, Sarah, Barrero, Oscar, Ouazaa, Sofiane, Calderon Carvajal, John Edinson

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