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Wild bees mediate fruit quality via seed set in highbush blueberry: A quantitative synthesis
No full textInsect-mediated pollination enhances global production of many crops, and evidence highlights that insect pollination can also improve crop quality. The link between insect-mediated pollination and crop quality is driven not only by insect pollinators, but by a complex of interactions between pollinators, plant genotype, levels of cross pollination, plant physiology, environmental conditions, farm management, etc. To further optimize food production, the link between insect-mediated pollination and crop quality requires additional examination. In this study, we used a dataset of 260 sites across multiple production regions to explore how flower visitation of honey bees and wild bees drives fruit quality in highbush blueberry, measured as fruit weight. Our hypothesis was that bee visitation mediates fruit quality through fruit set and seed set. These effects were evaluated using both linear and structural equation modeling (SEM). Our analyses show that seed set mainly influences fruit quality and SEM analyses reveal a positive cascading effect of wild bee visitation on fruit quality, mediated via seed set. Similar effects of fruit set or honey bee visitation on fruit quality were not detected. This study highlights that bee visitation mainly affects blueberry fruit quality via seed set and that analyses beyond the pollinator visitation-crop quality relation can inform pollination research and management. Possible measures to improve crop quality by enhancing pollinator visitation by means of farm management or landscape management are discussed
Talking in the Library: Wampum: Stories from the Shells
No full textJournalist, educator and activist Paula Peters explores the history, culture and technique of wampum, a craft that has been handed down from generation to generation.https://docs.rwu.edu/talking-in-the-library/1046/thumbnail.jp
What motivations drive resistance and cooperation during investigative interviews?
No full textPurpose: This paper aims to explore motivations to resist (or not) during an investigative interview when being asked to provide information about another person’s transgressions. Design/methodology/approach: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of decisions to admit or deny guilty-knowledge regarding the transgressions of another, as well as self-reported motivations for those decisions, from a large data set of 743 participants. Findings: This analysis revealed that accusatorial-style interviews produce fewer admissions of guilty-knowledge and more denials, while also producing more false admissions from persons who do not possess the sought-after guilty knowledge compared to information-gathering interviews. The underlying motivations for these decisions were found to differ not only based on whether the subject possessed guilty knowledge, but also depending on the investigative interview strategy used. Originality/value: Results are discussed in terms of human-intelligence collection and witness scenarios where guilty-knowledge about the acts of another are sought
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The Miscellaneous Hiding Places of Friendship
Get PDFAelan Lee is a third-year English Literature and Creative Writing major at RWU and a writing tutor on the side. This is their first Poetry Walk, although they did have a poem displayed at the Roger Free Library in Bristol last spring. Aelan’s poem, “The Miscellaneous Hiding Places of Friendship” is, as one might presume, dedicated to all the friends that have impacted their life
