Comparative Study of Effect of Cloudiness/Haziness Factor on the Quality of Solar Radiation

Citizens who voted for a party that won the election are more satisfied with democracy than those who did not. This winner–loser gap has recently been found to vary with the quality of electoral democracy: the higher the quality of democracy, the smaller the gap. However, we do not know what drives this relationship. Is it driven by losers, winners, or both? And Why? Linking our work to the literature on motivated reasoning and macro salience and benefiting from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems project—covering 163 elections in 51 countries between 1996 and 2018, our results show that the narrower winner–loser gap in well-established electoral democracies is not only a result of losers being more satisfied with democracy, but also of winners being less satisfied with their victory. Our findings carry important implications since a narrow winner–loser gap appears as a key feature of healthy democratic systems.

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Photo-selective shade nets on the production and quality of sugarcane plantlets

Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental ◽

10.1590/1807-1929/agriambi.v23n5p366-371 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (5) ◽

pp. 366-371 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

José J. F. Cordeiro Júnior ◽

Héliton Pandorfi ◽

José A. D. Barbosa Filho ◽

Alex S. Moraes ◽

Luiz A. de Almeida Neto ◽

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Keyword(s):

Solar Radiation ◽

Substrate Temperature ◽

Principal Component ◽

Global Solar Radiation ◽

Saccharum Officinarum ◽

Low Density Polyethylene ◽

Low Density ◽

Randomized Design ◽

Completely Randomized Design

ABSTRACT Brazil is the world’s largest producer of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) and research aimed at propagation has promoted higher quality in production. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of the variation of micrometeorological elements on the survival and quality of pre-sprouted sugarcane plantlets. The study was carried out in a protected environment (UFRPE). Plantlets of the cultivar RB92579 were obtained by the technique of production of pre-sprouted plantlets. The protected environments were divided into four modules covered with low-density polyethylene plastic + photo-selective shade nets and one module without shade net. Micrometeorological data of global and photosynthetically active solar radiation, air temperature, substrate temperature, relative humidity and the solar radiation spectrum were recorded in each module. The experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design and the principal component analysis was used to verify the association between the cultivation modules, micrometeorological variables and crop variables. Anti-UV low-density polyethylene plastic + freshnet led to lower transmittance of global solar radiation, higher percentage of photosynthetically active radiation and lower plantlet mortality. Substrate temperature above 30.2 °C resulted in higher plantlet mortality. Larger spectrum in the red range led to the production of better quality plantlet. The use of freshnet shade net promoted adequate conditions for the cultivation of sugarcane plantlets and allows obtaining better quality plantlets.

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Study of graduate attributes of the university of Sydney and implications for building Chinese world-class universities

International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education ◽

10.1177/0020720920984311 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002072092098431

Author(s):

Rui Zhao ◽

Wan-Bing Shi

Keyword(s):

System Theory ◽

Comparative Study ◽

High Position ◽

Graduate Attributes ◽

Graduate Employability ◽

World Class ◽

World Class Universities ◽

The University ◽

Relationship Of

The graduate attributes of the University of Sydney innovatively include the enabling conceptions and the translation conceptions of attributes and ensure that they are specifically oriented, reasonably structured and comprehensively designed. These scientifically constructed graduate attributes of the University of Sydney prove strong efficiency by the university taking up a high position in QS Graduate Employability Rankings in recent years. Chinese top-level universities, in the process of building world-class universities, also face the task of revising the graduate attributes and substantially enhancing the quality of talents cultivation, and can, therefore, learn the successful experience to revise their own graduate attributes on the basis of universities’ history, vision and specialty, on the premise of a sound cognition of the connotation, levels, and relationship of graduate attributes, and by means of System Theory, Phenomenography and comparative study.

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