Hydrological Stress and Climate Change Impact in Arid Regions with Agricultural Valleys in Northern Mexico

In recent decades due to the negligence of groundwater management, the resources are degrading rapidly and have resulted in soil water stress. Owing to the role of climate change, now most of the environmental variables undergo variations in their dynamics and magnitude, and above all, arid zones suffer the greatest loss due to evapotranspiration and soil water stress. In order to understand the nutritional future of the most important agricultural regions in Mexico, this scientific contribution aims to analyze the trend of soil water stress in the Northern Mexico. The work emphasizes on the relationship between the energetic movement of groundwater and soil water stress which also includes the process of crop absorption that is affected by the changes in soil surface temperature and the geography of the region. The results reveal a positive trend that gradually leads to soil water stress and intensities associated with conditions of interdependence of unique variables in each valley. Global withdrawals of ground water tripled in the last 50 years with unequal volumes in arid zone that will definitely lead to instabilities, where sustainable management will be the basis of conservation to adapt to the new facies of climate change

Synergetic-methodological analysis of contemporary geopolitical scenarios and risks / Y. S. Yaskevich

Выявляются философские основания современных геополитических сценариев и рисков в пространстве синергетической методологии. Обосновывается тезис о том, что методологический анализ геостратегий и рискогенности общества постмодерна следует проводить в контексте интеграции национальных государств в мировое экономическое и политическое сообщество с учетом приоритетов национальной безопасности, суверенитета отдельных стран, ответственности за принимаемые решения на глобальном и национальном уровнях. = Substantial models of modern geopolitical scenarios in space of synergetic methodology and a riskiness of modern society are considered. The thesis that the methodological analysis of geopolitical scenarios and risks should be carried out in the context of integration of the national states into world economic and political community taking into account priorities of national security, the sovereignty of the certain countries, responsibility for the made decisions at the global and national levels locates

Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were contributed by highly experienced, original authors of the seed articles. The collected data cover 76% of all unique PubMed Medical Subject Headings descriptors. No systematic biases were observed across different experience levels, research fields or time spent on annotations. More importantly, annotations of the same document pairs contributed by different scientists were highly concordant. We further show that the three representative baseline methods used to generate recommended articles for evaluation (Okapi Best Matching 25, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and PubMed Related Articles) had similar overall performances. Additionally, we found that these methods each tend to produce distinct collections of recommended articles, suggesting that a hybrid method may be required to completely capture all relevant articles. The established database server located at https://relishdb.ict.griffith.edu.au is freely available for the downloading of annotation data and the blind testing of new methods. We expect that this benchmark will be useful for stimulating the development of new powerful techniques for title and title/abstract-based search engines for relevant articles in biomedical research.Peer reviewe

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