12,306 research outputs found
Interview with Grant and Marie Styer
No full textA tape recorded interview of Grant and Marie Styer conducted by Joe Jax in 1993 at University of Wisconsin-Stout. Grant and Marie (Bates) Styer are lifelong residents of Dunn County where they owned and operated a successful farm in Lucas Township. The Styers discuss Dunn County schools, dairy farming, prominent Dunn County families and Ku Klux Klan activity in the county in the 1920's and '30's
Effects of plant growth regulators and temperature on floral induction and development of Exacum Styer Group
No full textPlants of Exacum Styer Group, interspecific hybrids from five Sri Lankan taxa from the Gentian family, have significant horticultural potential as flowering potted plants, bedding plants and cut flowers. However, a better understanding of the requirements for floral induction and flower development is needed before commercialization.
Experiments examining the impact of plant growth regulators (PGRs) on floral induction and subsequent plant development consisted of seven treatments: ethephon (500 and 1000 PPM), daminozide (2500 and 3500 PPM), gibberellin (GA₄₊₇ at 10 and 15 PPM), and a control of water plus surfactant. Analysis of data collected on weeks to anthesis resulted in a significant interaction between treatment and genotype indicating that genotypes did not behave uniformly across treatments. Overall, the effect of PGR treatments on flowering of E. Styer Group is impacted more by genotype than by chemical with late flowering genotypes less affected by chemical than earlier flowering genotypes. Nonetheless, daminozide effectively reduced stem length without dramatic negative impact on flowering and can be considered safe for commercial production.
Experiments to evaluate the effect of temperature on floral induction and subsequent plant development consisted of four temperature treatments over two seasons (one treatment repeated in both seasons). The two most extreme treatments prevented flowering for some or all genotypes (35° C DT/31° C NT and 16° C DT/12° C NT, respectively). Intermediate treatments (23° C DT/19° C NT and 30° C/26° C NT) were optimal for fastest flowering depending on genotype. As with the response to PGR treatments, significant genotypic variation was observed in response to temperature indicating production schemes must be developed empirically for each individual genotype. However, the optimal temperature for fast flowering and attractive plant conformation is likely between 21° and 28° C average daily temperature for most E. Styer Group genotypes and should be used as a starting point for future studies. In addition, a cultivar series of E. Styer Group should be selected based on common production responses, not based on genetic relationships.Land and Food Systems, Faculty ofGraduat
Interview: Anne-Marie Fortier
No full textThis paper is an edited version of an email interview conducted by Debra Ferreday and Adi Kuntsman with Anne-Marie Fortier, the author of Multicultural Horizons: Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation (Routledge, 2008). Fortier’s work has been informative in the development of some of the arguments explored in this special issue; in their conversation Ferreday and Kuntsman asked her to comment on the ideas of haunting, racial imaginaries, nostalgia, national anxieties, political feelings and hopes for the future
Beholder halfway #25: beyond unwanted sound with Marie Thompson
No full textOn this month's episode I discuss the recent book Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism with its author, Marie Thompson. We discuss different conceptions of 'noise', as anti-music or the cacophony of industrial society, competing theories of noise and Marie's powerful argument that noise is neither inherently bothersome nor transgressive. We end by discussing some of the musicians and sound artists that Marie argues transcend the dominant morality by which noise is related to.</p
Marie-Rose: She Who Believed in Tomorrow: The Story of the Foundress of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (Expanded Edition 2015)
No full text40 leaves; a brief history of Mother Marie-Rose, née Eulalie Durocher, and her life of service
Précisions sur les vagues/On Waves
No full textPowerful and poetic prose meditation on oceanic energy by French author, Marie Darrieussecq. Translated from the French by Peter Schulman, ODU Professor of French and International Studies.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/worldlanguages_books/1022/thumbnail.jp
Wilhelmina Marie Williamson Lambourne
No full textWilhelmina Marie Williamson Lambourne was the wife of Alfred Lambourne, a Utah artist, author, and poet
BIOFUELS, AGRICULTURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
No full textIn the context of ever-increasing petroleum prices combined with concerns about climate change, timing of adoption and rate of diffusion of land-based fuels and backstop technologies for transportation use are examined in this paper. A global model of land allocation joined with a Hotelling model has been developed. Using this framework, effects of climate and energy policies on world agricultural and energy markets have been explored. Further, their regional impacts are also analyzed. Whereas mandatory blending bio-fuels have substantial effects on world food prices and do not succeed in curbing down carbon emissions fluxes, carbon targets are expected to speed up date of adoption of backstop technologies. Then, sensitivity scenarios with regards to technological parameters reveal that higher is the rate of technological change, earlier backstop technologies are adopted and lower is the stock of carbon accumulated into the atmosphere. Finally, interplay between land-based fuels and deforestation has been studied. Results show that land-based fuels production speeds up world deforestation and causes substantial carbon emissions due to conversion of forests into agricultural lands.Ricardian rents, land use, biofuels, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Does corruption relieve foreign investors of the burden of taxes and capital controls?
No full textIn a sample of fourteen source countries making bilateral investments in forty five countries, the author finds that taxes, capital controls, and corruption, all have large, statistically significant negative effects on foreign investment. Moreover, there is no robust support in the data for the"efficient grease"hypothesis - that corruption helps attract foreign investment by reducing firms'tax burden and the irritant of capital controls.International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Capital Markets and Capital Flows,Decentralization,Fiscal&Monetary Policy,Economic Theory&Research,Economic Theory&Research,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Governance Indicators,National Governance,Capital Flows
Close Readings: Marie Watt: Lodge
No full textExhibition review of Marie Watt: Lodge, Tacoma Art Museum, June 30 - October 7, 2012.review articlesfinal article publishe
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