G84-721 Growing Annual Flowers

This NebGuide discusses using annuals in landscape design, how to select transplants and proper seeding, planting and cultivating methods. Annual flowers can be a prime source of color to accent and enliven a home\u27s landscape. While flowering trees and shrubs provide short bursts of color, most annuals begin blooming within a month of planting and flower until frost. The wide range of colors, sizes and species adapted to either sun or shade makes it possible to plant annual flowers almost anywhere. Annuals are perfect for beds, borders, rock gardens, window boxes, hanging baskets or as temporary ground covers and fillers. Annuals are non-woody plants that complete their life cycle in one season, ending with seed production. Confusion can arise when an annual plant reseeds itself and appears to have a perennial habit

G84-721 Growing Annual Flowers

This NebGuide discusses using annuals in landscape design, how to select transplants and proper seeding, planting and cultivating methods. Annual flowers can be a prime source of color to accent and enliven a home\u27s landscape. While flowering trees and shrubs provide short bursts of color, most annuals begin blooming within a month of planting and flower until frost. The wide range of colors, sizes and species adapted to either sun or shade makes it possible to plant annual flowers almost anywhere. Annuals are perfect for beds, borders, rock gardens, window boxes, hanging baskets or as temporary ground covers and fillers. Annuals are non-woody plants that complete their life cycle in one season, ending with seed production. Confusion can arise when an annual plant reseeds itself and appears to have a perennial habit

Visualization of Active Faulting using 3-D GPR Data Recorded Across the Alpine Fault, New Zealand

Three-dimensional (3-D) GPR data were acquired across braided river sediments cut by the Alpine Fault at Calf Paddock, New Zealand. We used 100 MHz antennas to obtain images of the subsurface to a depth of 15 m. Cross-sections and depth-converted time slices selected from the migrated data volume show both the structural contrast generated by recent offsets of the fault and the variable orientation of the dipping structures within the braided river deposits. A trace-correlation technique is used to generate dip and dip-direction attribute maps that allow us to visualize the 3-D orientation of the dipping structures. The attribute maps reveal at least 3 different reflection patterns and the presence of minor faulting away from the main fault. A correlation- based migration technique applied to a 2-D GPR profile resulted in the successful identification of the main fault and subsidiary faults at distances up to 50 m from the main fault

Future Prospects: Deep Imaging of Galaxy Outskirts using Telescopes Large and Small

The Universe is almost totally unexplored at low surface brightness levels. In spite of great progress in the construction of large telescopes and improvements in the sensitivity of detectors, the limiting surface brightness of imaging observations has remained static for about forty years. Recent technical advances have at last begun to erode the barriers preventing progress. In this Chapter we describe the technical challenges to low surface brightness imaging, describe some solutions, and highlight some relevant observations that have been undertaken recently with both large and small telescopes. Our main focus will be on discoveries made with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array (Dragonfly), which is a new telescope concept designed to probe the Universe down to hitherto unprecedented low surface brightness levels. We conclude by arguing that these discoveries are probably only scratching the surface of interesting phenomena that are observable when the Universe is explored at low surface brightness levels.Comment: 27 pages, 10 figures, Invited review, Book chapter in "Outskirts of Galaxies", Eds. J. H. Knapen, J. C. Lee and A. Gil de Paz, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Springer, in pres

Cortisol relates to executive functioning for children attending Head Start preschool

Background: Approximately 15 million children in the United States grow up in poverty circumstances (National Center for Children in Poverty, 2018), as 24% of all children under the age of 6 live in households with income levels classified as below the federal poverty guideline (Jiang et al., 2016). Recent research has highlighted the impact of early childhood poverty circumstances on physiological systems that respond to stress (Lupien et al., 2001), with implications for typical development in the prefrontal cortex (Hair et al., 2015) and related executive functioning (Blair & Raver, 2016). Method: The present study investigated relations among various components of teacher-reported executive functioning (BRIEF; Gioia et al., 2000) and total cortisol output of 318 young children (ages 3-5 years) across a preschool day. Salivary cortisol was sampled in duplicate at 4 times across 2 days in the beginning of the school year, resulting in a total of 16 samples per child. Results and Implications: We hypothesized that higher cortisol levels, likely attributable to poverty-stress (Blair et al., 2011) across the preschool day would relate to greater difficulties in teacher-reported EF, controlling for child age, sex, and family income. A multiple regression model that aligned with this hypothesis predicted BRIEF, General Composite Score with statistical significance. Moreover, child salivary cortisol across the preschool day predicted teacher-reported executive functioning for each domain score of the BRIEF. Implications concern understanding the impact of stress on executive functioning in the preschool classroom and promoting positive outcomes for children facing poverty risk

Ursinus College Alumni Journal, Summer 1946

Board of Directors encourage alumni participation • Alumni committees active • Dr. Johnson commencement speaker • President\u27s page • Directors plan for future • Alumni give $31,000 • Retirement plan • Five earn degrees • Missions secretary • Modern pioneer • Operations Africa • A Dean\u27s mailbox • That others may live • Dr. Miller retires • Seminary gets new head • Faculty and staff additions • Penfield winner • Dr. Garrett studies in France • News about ourselves • Commencement prizes • Challenge of Picalqui • Highlights in fall sports • Local Alumni Association meetings • News around town • Necrology • Summer conferences • College solves housing problem • Fall enrollment 700 • Alumni Association officershttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/1028/thumbnail.jp

Ursinus College Alumni Journal, November 1959

President\u27s page • President Helfferich honored • Office of Admissions • Founders\u27 Day • Chemistry at Ursinus • Ruth H. Rothenberger, \u2736 Dean of Women • Faculty summers • National Science Foundation grant • Whatley, Dean of Men and assistant football coach • A commentary: American arms policy • Critique • Seelye appointed to teach Spanish • Evening School • Directory to be sent to all living alumni • North Jersey-Shore regional organized • Old Timers\u27 Day • Schoolmen\u27s Week luncheon • Alumnae undefeated for third consecutive year • Impressions of Sweden • Among the Andean Indians • Wrestling • Hockey • Basketball • New coaches • Football • Six years of alumni sponsorship completed: $155,746 collected for Ursinus in this period • 1959 Loyalty Fund report • Loyalty Fund all-stars honored at banquet • Publicity • Honor roll by classes • Thomas Beddow, \u2736 Loyalty Fund chairman of the year • The last shall be first • Results of the 1959 Loyalty Fund campaign • Contributors for the 1959 Loyalty Fund campaign • News about ourselves • Ursinus Women\u27s Club executive board meets • Messiah to be presented • Weddings • Births • Necrologyhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/1066/thumbnail.jp

Global diversity of the Brachypodium species complex as a resource for genome-wide association studies demonstrated for agronomic traits in response to climate

The development of model systems requires a detailed assessment of standing genetic variation across natural populations. The Brachypodium species complex has been promoted as a plant model for grass genomics with translation to small grain and biomass crops. To capture the genetic diversity within this species complex, thousands of Brachypodium accessions from around the globe were collected and genotyped by sequencing. Overall, 1897 samples were classified into two diploid or allopolyploid species, and then further grouped into distinct inbred genotypes. A core set of diverse B. distachyon diploid lines was selected for whole genome sequencing and high resolution phenotyping. Genome-wide association studies across simulated seasonal environments was used to identify candidate genes and pathways tied to key life history and agronomic traits under current and future climatic conditions. A total of 8, 22, and 47 QTL were identified for flowering time, early vigor, and energy traits, respectively. The results highlight the genomic structure of the Brachypodium species complex, and the diploid lines provided a resource that allows complex trait dissection within this grass model species.We are grateful for funding and support from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (CE140100008). Australian Plant Phenomics Facility is supported under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy of the Australian Government. The research was undertaken with the assistance of resources from the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), which is supported by the Australian Government