CROP SPECIES DIVERSITY CHANGES IN THE UNITED STATES: 1978-2012.

Crop Species Diversity Changes in the United States: 1978-2012.

Anecdotal accounts regarding reduced US cropping system diversity have raised concerns about negative impacts of increasingly homogeneous cropping systems.However, formal analyses to document such changes are lacking.Using US Agriculture Census data, which are collected every five years, we quantified crop species diversity from 1978 to 2012, for t

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Clinical Outcomes of Salvage Endoscopic Nasopharyngectomy for Patients With Advanced Recurrent Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

BackgroundSalvage endoscopic nasopharyngectomy has better survival prognosis and fewer complications in the management of early stage rNPC, compared to re-irradiation.However, the treatment modality of advanced recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma (rNPC) remains controversial.Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the demographics, clinic

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Some Varieties of Normative Social Critique

The article distinguishes between different forms of normative social critique: an external, an internal or immanent, and a disclosing form of critique.Whereas the external and internal critique appeal to or rely upon a certain standard or yardstick of critique, the disclosing form of Sanitary Napkin critique aims at opening up our eyes to new ways

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