Sicklepod (Cassia obtusifolia) and Coffee Senna (Cassia occidentalis): Geographic Distribution, Germination, and Emergence

The distribution of sicklepod (Cassia obtusifoliaL.) and coffee senna (Cassia occidentalisL.) in the United States is similar and both species are increasing as problems within their range. Sicklepod is a problem in 11 southern states and increasing in 12 while coffee senna is a problem in 7 states and increasing in 8 states. Both species germinated over a wide range of temperature. Germination characteristics were similar in the range of 15 to 36 C. Germination of coffee senna was drastically reduced at 39 C byRhizopussp. Seedling growth was similar for both species and was maximum from 30 to 36 C. Both species have a hard seedcoat. Abrasion for 5, 10, or 15 s, puncturing with a needle, and sulfuric acid were all effective in initiating germination. Both species emerged from a soil depth of 12.5 cm; however, emergence of sicklepod was more rapid than coffee senna with 63% of the sicklepod seedlings emerging from 2.5 cm after only 3 days.

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The Politics of Precaution

10.23943/princeton/9780691124162.001.0001 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

David Vogel

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Animal Feed ◽

The United States ◽

Hazardous Substances ◽

Risk Regulation ◽

Scientific Certainty ◽

European Public ◽

Wide Range ◽

Regulatory Controls ◽

Milk Hormones

This book examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar risks differently. It finds that between 1960 and 1990, American health, safety, and environmental regulations were more stringent, risk averse, comprehensive, and innovative than those adopted in Europe. But since around 1990 global regulatory leadership has shifted to Europe. What explains this striking reversal? This book takes an in-depth, comparative look at European and American policies toward a range of consumer and environmental risks, including vehicle air pollution, ozone depletion, climate change, beef and milk hormones, genetically modified agriculture, antibiotics in animal feed, pesticides, cosmetic safety, and hazardous substances in electronic products. The book traces how concerns over such risks—and pressure on political leaders to do something about them—have risen among the European public but declined among Americans. The book explores how policymakers in Europe have grown supportive of more stringent regulations while those in the United States have become sharply polarized along partisan lines. And as European policymakers have grown more willing to regulate risks on precautionary grounds, increasingly skeptical American policymakers have called for higher levels of scientific certainty before imposing additional regulatory controls on business.

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Expansion of Groundnut ringspot virus Host and Geographic Ranges in Solanaceous Vegetables in Peninsular Florida

Plant Health Progress ◽

10.1094/php-2011-0725-01-br ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 34 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Craig G. Webster ◽

William W. Turechek ◽

H. Charles Mellinger ◽

Galen Frantz ◽

Nancy Roe ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Vegetable Production ◽

Viral Pathogen ◽

Geographic Ranges ◽

First Report ◽

Geographic Spread ◽

Wide Range ◽

Production Areas ◽

Solanaceous Plants

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of GRSV infecting tomatillo and eggplant, and it is the first report of GRSV infecting pepper in the United States. This first identification of GRSV-infected crop plants in commercial fields in Palm Beach and Manatee Counties demonstrates the continuing geographic spread of the virus into additional vegetable production areas of Florida. This information indicates that a wide range of solanaceous plants is likely to be infected by this emerging viral pathogen in Florida and beyond. Accepted for publication 27 June 2011. Published 25 July 2011.

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Geographic Distribution of Away Rotations Impacts the Urology Match Process in the United States

Urology ◽

10.1016/j.urology.2021.01.004 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sagar Patel ◽

Judy Hamad ◽

Eric Wallen ◽

Kristy Borawski ◽

Davis Viprakasit ◽

...

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Geographic Distribution ◽

The United States ◽

Match Process

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The Geographic Distribution of Videolaryngostroboscopy in the United States

Journal of Voice ◽

10.1016/j.jvoice.2021.05.002 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ruth J. Davis ◽

Smirnov Exilus ◽

Simon Best ◽

Amber Willink ◽

Lee M. Akst

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Geographic Distribution ◽

The United States

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The Relations Between the Navy and the Foreign Service

The American Journal of International Law ◽

10.2307/2190334 ◽

1939 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 283-291

Author(s):

Clark H. Woodward

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Government Agencies ◽

National Defense ◽

International Affairs ◽

Proper Position ◽

Foreign Service ◽

Wide Range ◽

National Emergency ◽

The Relationship

In the conduct of foreign policy and the participation of the United States in international affairs, the relation between the Navy and the Foreign Service is of vital importance, but often misunderstood. The relationship encompasses the very wide range of coördination and coöperation which should and must exist between the two interdependent government agencies in peace, during times of national emergency, and, finally, when the country is engaged in actual warfare. The relationship involves, as well, the larger problem of national defense, and this cannot be ignored if the United States is to maintain its proper position in world affairs.

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A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing

The American Economic Review ◽

10.1257/aer.104.11.3397 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 104 (11) ◽

pp. 3397-3433 ◽

Cited By ~ 53

Author(s):

Alberto Alesina ◽

Eliana La Ferrara

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Capital Punishment ◽

Racial Bias ◽

The United States ◽

Type I ◽

Habeas Corpus ◽

Trial Courts ◽

Southern States ◽

Percentage Points ◽

White Defendants

We collect a new dataset on capital punishment in the United States and we propose a test of racial bias based upon patterns of sentence reversals. We model the courts as minimizing type I and II errors. If trial courts were unbiased, conditional on defendant's race the error rate should be independent of the victim's race. Instead we uncover 3 and 9 percentage points higher reversal rates in direct appeal and habeas corpus cases, respectively, against minority defendants who killed whites. The pattern for white defendants is opposite but not statistically significant. This bias is confined to Southern states. (JEL J15, K41, K42)

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Small Screen, Big Feels

10.5810/kentucky/9780813180069.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Melissa Ames

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Presidential Debates ◽

Audience Studies ◽

The Walking Dead ◽

Wide Range ◽

In Series ◽

Fear And Anxiety ◽

Small Screen ◽

Network Era

While television has always played a role in recording and curating history, shaping cultural memory, and influencing public sentiment, the changing nature of the medium in the post-network era finds viewers experiencing and participating in this process in new ways. They skim through commercials, live tweet press conferences and award shows, and tune into reality shows to escape reality. This new era, defined by the heightened anxiety and fear ushered in by 9/11, has been documented by our media consumption, production, and reaction. In Small Screen, Big Feels, Melissa Ames asserts that TV has been instrumental in cultivating a shared memory of emotionally charged events unfolding in the United States since September 11, 2001. She analyzes specific shows and genres to illustrate the ways in which cultural fears are embedded into our entertainment in series such as The Walking Dead and Lost or critiqued through programs like The Daily Show. In the final section of the book, Ames provides three audience studies that showcase how viewers consume and circulate emotions in the post-network era: analyses of live tweets from Shonda Rhimes's drama, How to Get Away with Murder (2010--2020), ABC's reality franchises, The Bachelor (2002--present) and The Bachelorette (2003--present), and political coverage of the 2016 Presidential Debates. Though film has been closely studied through the lens of affect theory, little research has been done to apply the same methods to television. Engaging an impressively wide range of texts, genres, media, and formats, Ames offers a trenchant analysis of how televisual programming in the United States responded to and reinforced a cultural climate grounded in fear and anxiety.

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