Publications by authors named "K Cope"
Optimizing crops for synergistic soil carbon (C) sequestration can enhance CO2 removal in food and bioenergy production systems. Yet, in bioenergy systems, we lack an understanding of how intraspecies variation in plant traits correlates with variation in soil biogeochemistry. This knowledge gap is exacerbated by both the heterogeneity and difficulty of measuring belowground traits.
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- Roots play a crucial role in agricultural productivity and soil carbon inputs, but measuring them can be complicated when samples are too large for a single scan.
- This study introduces and validates two approaches for standardizing root measurements across multiple scans: image concatenation and statistical aggregation, using custom Python and R scripts.
- The comparison of these methods on various plant species indicated that most root metrics were similar, except for median diameter, which is better measured through concatenation, thus benefiting the root biology community.
Background: Reducing pregnancy-related deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa through increases in health facility births may be achieved by promoting community norms and network norms favoring health facility births. However, the process of how both norms shift attitudes and actions towards facility delivery is little studied. We examined the association of network and community norms with facility birth, following a quality improvement intervention to improve facility births in Ghana.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFor plants, distinguishing between mutualistic and pathogenic microbes is a matter of survival. All microbes contain microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) that are perceived by plant pattern recognition receptors (PRRs). Lysin motif receptor-like kinases (LysM-RLKs) are PRRs attuned for binding and triggering a response to specific MAMPs, including chitin oligomers (COs) in fungi, lipo-chitooligosaccharides (LCOs), which are produced by mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing rhizobial bacteria, and peptidoglycan in bacteria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Although primary care settings have benefits for implementing office-based opioid treatment (OBOT) programs with buprenorphine, few studies have examined the impact on patient retention beyond 12 months. The objective of this study is to assess long-term outcomes of buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) integrated into comprehensive primary care treatment at a family medicine practice.
Methods: A retrospective chart review of patients diagnosed with OUD who received treatment with buprenorphine between December 2006 and January 2018 was conducted at private family medicine practice in semirural Upstate New York.