The Scotch Contribution to the South Carolina Conference

The article summarizes the contribution of a number of Methodists in South Carolina of Scottish descent, including Coleman Carlisle, Simon Carlisle, William McKendree, William M. Kennedy, Samuel Dunwoody, William Martin, Allen McCorquodale, Hugh A. C. Walker, Archibald McGilvary, Whitefoord Smith, Samuel Laird, William C. Kirkland, Sidi H. Browne, Alexander Coke Smith, William Wallace Duncan, John Carlisle Kilgo, Holland N. McTyeire, James H. Carlisle, and others

Effect of Peat Grade, Irrigation System and Nutrition on the Production of Nursery Stock in Closed Systems

End of Project ReportContainerised nursery stock plants in Ireland are almost exclusively produced in peat growing media using controlled release fertilisers and are irrigated by means of overhead spraylines with the drainage water going to waste. Concern about nutrient pollution and the need to use water and nutrients more efficiently may lead in the future to regulations about capturing and re-cycling drainage water. This would particularly apply where nutrients are incorporated in the irrigation as in liquid feeding or where hard water is being acidified to neutralise bicarbonate. These experiments were started to study the performance of nursery stock plants in closed systems and to compare ebb and flood and capillary irrigation with overhead spraylines. A comparison of a liquid feeding regime as against the use of controlled release fertilisers was also included. The use of fractionated peat allows peat substrates with a wide range of physical properties to be prepared by using graded fractions or blends. It was thought desirable to include these in the experiments as there may well be interactions between irrigation systems and substrate propertiesEuropean Union Structural Funds (EAGGF

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Outstanding Educational Performance Awards: Highlighting Top Achieving Arkansas Schools, 2009

Since our founding in 2003, the mission of the Office for Education Policy has been to look at pressing issues through the lens of academic research and disseminate our findings to educators, policymakers, and other stakeholders around Arkansas. Every once in a while, however, we think it is okay to stray from issue analysis and simply share some good news! So, in this Arkansas Education Report (AER) we merely aim to highlight excellent performance and give our congratulations. To that end, we are happy to highlight the top performing schools around the state in an annual AER entitled the Outstanding Educational Performance Awards

Strategies towards statistically robust interpretations of in situ U–Pb zircon geochronology

Zircon U–Pb geochronology has become a keystone tool across Earth science, arguably providing the gold standard in resolving deep geological time. The development of rapid in situ analysis of zircon (via laser ablation and secondary ionization mass spectrometry) has allowed for large amounts of data to be generated in a relatively short amount of time and such large volume datasets offer the ability to address a range of geological questions that would otherwise remain intractable (e.g. detrital zircons as a sediment fingerprinting method). The ease of acquisition, while bringing benefit to the Earth science community, has also led to diverse interpretations of geochronological data. In this work we seek to refocus U–Pb zircon geochronology toward best practice by providing a robust statistically coherent workflow. We discuss a range of data filtering approaches and their inherent limitations (e.g. discordance and the reduced chi-squared; MSWD). We evaluate appropriate mechanisms to calculate the most geologically appropriate age from both 238U/206Pb and 207Pb/206Pb ratios and demonstrate the cross over position when chronometric power swaps between these ratios. As our in situ analytical techniques become progressively more precise, appropriate statistical handing of U–Pb datasets will become increasingly pertinent

Bipedal hopping timed with a metronome to detect impairments in anticipatory motor control in people with mild multiple sclerosis

Background: People with mild multiple sclerosis (MS) often report difficulty in balance and cognition but display no measurable deficits on many clinical assessments. We examined whether hopping to a metronome beat has the potential to detect anticipatory motor control deficits among people with mild MS (Expanded Disease Severity Score ≤ 3.5). Methods: Participants with MS (n=13), matched controls (n=9), and elderly subjects (n=13) completed tests of cognition (Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)) and motor performance (Timed 25 Foot Walk Test (T25FWT)). Participants performed two bipedal hopping tasks: at 40 beats/minute (bpm) and 60-bpm in random order. Hop characteristics (length, symmetry, variability) and delay from the metronome beat were extracted from an instrumented walkway and compared between groups using a one-way ANOVA. Results: The MS group became more delayed from the metronome beat over time whereas elderly subjects tended to hop closer to the beat during 40-bpm (F=3.58, p=0.04). Delay of the first hop during 60-bpm predicted cognition in people with MS (R=0.55, β=4.64 (SD 4.63), F=4.85, p=0.05) but not among control (R=0.07, p=0.86) or elderly subjects (R=0.17, p=0.57). In terms of hopping characteristics, people with MS performed similarly to the matched controls during 60-bpm, but shifted towards the elderly subjects’ ability during 40-bpm. Conclusions: This new timed hopping test may be able to detect both physical ability and feed-forward anticipatory control impairments in people with mild MS. Hopping at a frequency of 40-bpm seemed more challenging. Two aspects of anticipatory motor control can be measured: response time to the first metronome cue and the ability to adapt and anticipate the beat over time

Effect of honest and humble leadership on sales outcome

The role of leaders in shaping team outcomes is vital (Williams et al., 2010). As such, we know leaders play a significant role, influencing the attitudes and behaviors of their employees. It is widely believed that by influencing the values and priorities of their followers, leaders inspire them to perform beyond expectations (Ou et al., 2015). The leader-follower relationship lies at the heart of all transformations that are initiated and triggered by leaders (Owens & Hekman, 2016). Based on the role theory and social exchange theory, LMX theory helps to explain the exchange relationship between leaders and subordinates in terms of antecedents and outcomes (Liden et al., 1997). The exchange relationship between leader and followers depends upon the value they can offer each other, and LMX provides a framework to evaluate the larger network of such exchanges, which then help explain important organizational outcomes such as performance and customer orientation (Liden et al., 1997). Therefore, LMX theory can be leveraged as a basis of examination in order to establish and present the outcomes of this study. Based on the literature, it appears that humility theory is a part of servant leadership, but it is not clear how both are related. There is no evidence to examine whether humility is a component or an antecedent of servant leadership (Rego et al., 2017). In a similar fashion, we don't know what impact servant leadership has on honesty-humility leadership. This study intends to fill this gap in the leadership literature by investigating the influence of servant leadership on honesty-humility leadership. Using Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) theory, this study will advance the literature by exploring the impact of servant leadership on honesty-humility theory of leadership and what influence their combined impact will have on organizational outcomes such as performance and customer orientation