Dead and dying Ceanothus sanguineus, C. velutinus, and C. integerrimus plants grown in a native plant nursery in Oregon for landscape restoration were reported in 2011. Plants were wilted with stem lesions above necrotic roots. Using selective media (Hansen et al. 2012), twelve similar Phytophthora isolates were obtained. DNA sequences...
Sudden Oak Death is the common name for a disease caused by Phytophthora ramorum, a previously unknown and recently introduced non-native pathogen.
• Phytophthora ramorum has killed hundreds of thousands of oak and tanoak trees in 14 coastal counties in California and hundreds of tanoak trees in Curry County, Oregon....
Through a desk-top analysis, this research shows that South African women have gained and utilize specialized skills, behaviors, and adaptations through their daily activities which are useful when applied to water resource management. Further, South African women are shown to build and draw on social capital as a way to...
Social and personal identities were examined for
samples of college graduate students in three culturally
different groups: Anglo-American, Mexican-American, and
Mexican National. Four identities were explored in terms
of salience, frequency, and valence: religious, family,
gender, and peer. No differences were found between the
groups on religious and gender identities....
The present study sought to identify the personality traits associated with emotional intelligence. Eighty three students (30 male, 53 female) ranging between 17 and 42 years of age completed the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) and a personality inventory known as the California Q-Sort as part of a 10 week...
Essential to the testing of propositions in economic theory is the estimation of the parameters involved in relationships among economic variables. Probably the most widely used method of estimation is ordinary least squares (OLS). However, severe multicollinearity or near linear
dependence of the explanatory variables can cause the OLS estimates...
The eighth annual report details continued progress on each of the five
objectives. In this year's report, Objectives II and III from previous
reports have been combined to reflect the similarity of each effort.
Improved fumigants: The previously established field trials continue to
demonstrate the superior performance of both chioropicrin...
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