Phytohormone content variation manipulated by Bemisia tabaci participated in inhibiting tobacco growth: Gibberellin may play a crucial role

Many forest products companies in the southeastern United States store large volumes of roundwood under wet storage. Log quality depends on maintaining a high and constant wood moisture content; however, limited knowledge exists regarding moisture variation within individual logs, and within wet decks as a whole, making it impossible to recommend appropriate water application strategies. To better understand moisture variation within a wet deck, time domain reflectometry (TDR) was used to monitor the moisture variation of 30 southern pine logs over an 11-week period for a wet deck at the International Paper McBean woodyard. Three 125 mm long TDR probes were inserted into each log (before the deck was built) at 3, 4.5, and 7.5 m from the butt. The position of each log within the stack was also recorded. Mixed-effects analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to examine moisture variation over the study period. Moisture content varied within the log, while position within the stack was generally not significant. The performance of the TDR probes was consistent throughout the study, indicating that they would be suitable for long term (e.g., 12 months) monitoring.

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Illustrations and the genesis of Barrett and Yonge's Collins pocket guide to the sea shore (1958)

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.2010.0009 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 274-291 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

P. G. Moore

Keyword(s):

Crucial Role ◽

British Isles ◽

Publishing History ◽

Biological Station ◽

Marine Biological ◽

Illustrated Text ◽

History Of ◽

The University

Twenty nine items of correspondence from the mid-1950s discovered recently in the archives of the University Marine Biological Station Millport, and others made available by one of the illustrators and a referee, shed unique light on the publishing history of Collins pocket guide to the sea shore. This handbook, generally regarded as a classic of its genre, marked a huge step forwards in 1958; providing generations of students with an authoritative, concise, affordable, well illustrated text with which to identify common organisms found between the tidemarks from around the coasts of the British Isles. The crucial role played by a select band of illustrators in making this publication the success it eventually became, is highlighted herein. The difficulties of accomplishing this production within commercial strictures, and generally as a sideline to the main employment of the participants, are revealed. Such stresses were not helped by changing demands on the illustrators made by the authors and by the publishers.

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The Meaning of Children's Poetry: A Cognitive Approach

International Research in Children s Literature ◽

10.3366/ircl.2013.0094 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 127-142 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Karen Coats

Keyword(s):

Crucial Role ◽

The Body ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Holding Environment ◽

Cognitive Poetics ◽

Cognitive Approach ◽

Communal Life ◽

Clear Sense ◽

Critical Attention ◽

Children's Poetry

Critical attention to children's poetry has been hampered by the lack of a clear sense of what a children's poem is and how children's poetry should be valued. Often, it is seen as a lesser genre in comparison to poetry written for adults. This essay explores the premises and contradictions that inform existing critical discourse on children's poetry and asserts that a more effective way of viewing children's poetry can be achieved through cognitive poetics rather than through comparisons with adult poetry. Arguing that children's poetry preserves the rhythms and pleasures of the body in language and facilitates emotional and physical attunement with others, the essay examines the crucial role children's poetry plays in creating a holding environment in language to help children manage their sensory environments, map and regulate their neurological functions, contain their existential anxieties, and participate in communal life.

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‘Ill Used by our Government’: The Darien Venture, King William and the Development of Opposition Politics in Scotland, 1695–1701

The Scottish Historical Review ◽

10.3366/shr.2019.0378 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 98 (1) ◽

pp. 22-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Rachael E. Comunale

Keyword(s):

Crucial Role ◽

New World ◽

Significant Proportion ◽

Status Quo ◽

The Political ◽

Political Movement ◽

Political Status ◽

The Press ◽

Public Consciousness ◽

Political Factions

This article examines the development of political opposition in Scotland from 1695 to 1701 in the context of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies. It is argued that the potency of the political movement inspired by Darien derived from the view that King William was directly implicated in the failure of the colony. Three episodes in the Company's history—the loss of subscriptions in Hamburg, the appearance of memorials in the new world prohibiting English aid to the colony and the imprisonment of Darien sailors by the Spanish authorities—are examined in detail. The ramification of these controversies was increasingly seen as the result not of English interference, but rather the crown's refusal to act on behalf of the Company. Because a significant proportion of the population was invested in the Company, and because the press helped to keep Darien in the forefront of public consciousness, these issues transformed Darien into a major political grievance that united disparate political factions in support of a single cause. Although the alliance inspired by Darien was temporary, it, nonetheless, played a crucial role in disrupting the political status quo.

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