Grapes

This is the Grape chapter in Cornell Guide to Growing Fruit at Home. It features information and instruction for the home grape grower.Choosing cultivars, purchasing or propagating vines, site selection, planting and early care, fertilizing, pruning and training young vines, pruning mature vines, pruning neglected vines, training vines to an arbor, diseases and insects, harvest, seedless table grapes.Garden-Based Learning, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University

Strawberries

This is the Strawberries chapter in Cornell Guide to Growing Fruit at Home. It features information and instruction for the home fruit grower.Choosing cultivars, buying plants, site selection, growing methods, planting and early care, managing your planting, diseases and pests, day-neutral strawberries, harvest.Garden-Based Learning, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University

More Minor Fruits

This is the More Minor Fruits chapter in Cornell Guide to Growing Fruit at Home. It features information and instruction for the home fruit grower.Choosing cultivars, propagation, site selection, planting, trellising, persimmons, pawpaws, mulberries, juneberries, highbush cranberries, Cornelian cherries, beach plums, buffaloberries, quinces, fertilization, harvest.Garden-Based Learning, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University

Tree Fruits

This is the Tree Fruit chapter in Cornell Guide to Growing Fruit at Home. It features information and instruction for the home tree fruit grower.Choosing cultivars, rootstocks, nursery stock, planting, managing grass and weeds, fertilizing, pruning and training basics, training and pruning young apple and pear trees, pruning bearing apple and pear trees, rejuvenating old apple and pear trees, pruning and training cherry and plum trees, pruning and training peaches, thinning fruit, diseases and insects, harvest.Garden-Based Learning, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University

Hardy Kiwifruit

This is the Hardy Kiwifruit chapter in Cornell Guide to Growing Fruit at Home. It features information and instruction for the home fruit grower.Choosing cultivars, propagation, site selection and soil preparation, planting, trellising, pruning and mulching, fertilization, harvest.Garden-Based Learning, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University

Policy capturing analyses of factors influencing decisions to seek professional counseling

Previous research addressing mental health help seeking has been largely descriptive. In addition, these descriptions tended to focus on the help seeker and/or the type of help sought. The present study sought to validate previous research regarding the existence of four variables which influence a decision to seek counseling: (1) threat or problem severity, (2) perceived potential for loss of self reliance, (3) perceived external stigma, and (4) information and expectations about counseling;Subjects responded to a series of vignettes in which these four variables were manipulated. Demographic data and a self-esteem score were also gathered;Two hypotheses were tested: (1) the four previously mentioned variables have a significant impact on decisions about seeking counseling, and (2) different people utilize different policies in deciding to seek help. The first hypothesis was tested with a policy capturing procedure. This was followed by a cluster analysis in order to explore the second hypothesis;Two hundred sixty seven undergraduates completed the task. The policy capturing procedure suggested that the four variables of interest had a significant impact on help seeking decisions in 52% of the cases;The cluster analyses revealed three consistent and unique types of policies used by these subjects. Unfortunately, analyses of variance yielded little information about the constituents of clusters. This is an area needing further research;Implications for application of these results and for future research were also discussed

Gangs, Guns, and Drugs: Recidivism among Serious, Young Offenders

The primary goal of this study is to understand the factors that best explain recidivism among a sample of 322 young men aged 17 to 24 years released from prison in a Midwestern state. Specific attention is paid to the predictive validity of gang membership, gun use, and drug dependence on the timing of reconviction and the current research on desistance frames the analyses. Results from a series of proportional hazard models indicate that race, gang membership, drug dependence, and institutional behavior are critical factors in predicting the timing of reconviction. Contrary to expectations, gun use was not related to postrelease involvement in the criminal justice system

Food Safety

The authors describe the importance of food safety regulations and practices in this era of global food systems and illustrate some of the challenges facing Maine’s small food producers and processors