2016 Evaluation of Hybrid Bell Pepper Varieties for High Tunnel Production in Kansas

This is a compilation of 21 research trial reports from four land-grant universities in the Midwestern United States. Crops include cantaloupe, pickling cucumber, pepper, potato, pumpkin, summer squash and zucchini, sweet corn, tomato, and watermelon. Somecrops were evaluated in high tunnels or hoophouses. Most trials evaluated different cultivars or varieties. One report addressed plant spacing for sweet corn and one addressed soil block for production of tomato seedlings. A list of vegetable seed sources and a list of other online sources of vegetable trial reports are also included

2017 Evaluation of Determinate Tomato Varieties for High Tunnel Production in Kansas

This is a compilation of 18 research trial reports from four land-grant universities in the Midwestern United States. Crops include cantaloupe, pickling cucumber, pepper, potato, pumpkin, summer squash and zucchini, sweet corn, tomato, and watermelon. Somecrops were evaluated in high tunnels or hoophouses. Most trials evaluated different cultivars or varieties. One report addressed plant spacing for sweet corn and one addressed soil block for production of tomato seedlings. A list of vegetable seed sources and a list of other online sources of vegetable trial reports are also included

Yield and compatibility of ten tomato scion varieties grafted with ‘Maxifort’ rootstock

Many urban and peri-urban tomato growers are adopting the use of grafted plants to help reduce disease incidence and/or improve crop yields, particularly in high tunnel systems. However, little is known about how scion cultivar selection plays a role or if there is a similar impact across scion cultivars in regard to fruit yield. In our study, ten hybrid, determinate, red slicing tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) varieties were evaluated as scions for ‘Maxifort’ rootstock. Trials were conducted in 2016 and 2017 in a three-season high tunnel in Olathe, KS. All ten scion varieties were found to be compatible with ‘Maxifort’. However, ‘BHN 589’, ‘Red Deuce’, ‘Skyway’, and ‘Tasti Lee’ showed significant improvements in marketable yield when grafted to ‘Maxifort’ indicating that they were “highly compatible” with the rootstock. Grafted ‘Red Deuce’ and ‘BHN 589’ scions had the highest fruit yield of any of the treatments that we tested and ranged from to 21.4 to 23.0 lbs of marketable fruit per plant. Nongrafted ‘Primo Red’ was also a good option for high tunnel production and provided 19.2 lbs of marketable fruit per plant. The results of this study suggest that not all scion cultivars respond to grafting with ‘Maxifort’ rootstock in the same manner and we attempted to assess their compatibility based on crop productivity

What Do We Like About the IS Field?

What do we like about the IS field? This article is based on a panel discussion at the 2009 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) held in Phoenix, Arizona. The panel was sponsored by the Senior Scholars’ Consortium. Given the recent enrolment downturn in IS programs and concerns expressed by some about the strength of the field, this article sets out the views of some senior scholars who describe what they like about the IS field

ARE WE ON THE WRONG TRACK AND SO DO MIS CURRICULA NEED TO BE REENGINEERED?

Extensive discussions and roundtables done by the panelists with tens of CIOs in recent years suggest that there is increased CIO concern about the depreciation in the perceived importance of MIS in the industry and a need therefore to adapt the curriculum of MIS and its place in the MBA program to what the industry needs. The panel will discuss this issue by first presenting the industry view of the issue based on CIO input and with it the need to reengineer the curriculum accordingly to tune it to what the industry, our clients, needs. The panel will then balance this perspective with a more cautious academic one. Practical steps academia can take will also be discussed

Radiographic characterization and energy spectrum of the IoGold 125I source Model 3631‐A

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ICIS 2011 Panel Report: Are We on the Wrong Track and Do MIS Curricula Need to Be Reengineered?

The discipline of MIS has been going through extensive soul searching in recent years. Part of that soul searching deals with the question of whether we are teaching our students the right material considering the emerging apparent rift, caused in part by new technologies, between what the industry needs and what we teach. This article summarizes a panel on this topic held at the 32nd meeting of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Shanghai 2011. The objective of the panel was to contrast what industry tells us they need and we do not give them, as presented by Gefen and Ragowsky based on several years of CIO roundtables and interviews, with a “balanced head” perspective presented by some of the most respected leaders in our field. The panel attracted an audience of approximately 160 attendees who took an active role in the discussion. Rather surprisingly, disagreements among the panelists were not as pronounced as might have been expected, and the audience mostly supported the antagonist position. We present this summary to our colleagues in MIS in the hope of eliciting a continued discussion on this crucial issue

Exploration and comparison of methods for combining population- and family-based genetic association using the Genetic Analysis Workshop 17 mini-exome

We examine the performance of various methods for combining family- and population-based genetic association data. Several approaches have been proposed for situations in which information is collected from both a subset of unrelated subjects and a subset of family members. Analyzing these samples separately is known to be inefficient, and it is important to determine the scenarios for which differing methods perform well. Others have investigated this question; however, no extensive simulations have been conducted, nor have these methods been applied to mini-exome-style data such as that provided by Genetic Analysis Workshop 17. We quantify the empirical power and false-positive rates for three existing methods applied to the Genetic Analysis Workshop 17 mini-exome data and compare relative performance. We use knowledge of the underlying data simulation model to make these assessments

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Assessing attentional bias for alcohol-related cues using eye tracking in a virtual reality environment

peer reviewedSeveral experimental paradigms were developed to measure attentional biases towards alcohol-related cues. However, most of them are based on reaction times to two-dimensional stimuli displayed on a computer screen, such that their ecological validity has been questioned. To address this, we integrated an eye tracking system into a virtual reality headset (ET-VR) and measured attentional biases in a subclinical population of alcohol users. In this exploratory study, forty social drinkers were recruited and immersed in a virtual bar including alcohol-related stimuli. Attentional focus was assessed using dwell time and number of fixations for these alcohol-related stimuli as well as for neutral stimuli unrelated to alcohol consumption. The results show that the number of fixations and, to a lesser extent, the dwell time for alcohol- related cues were positively correlated with the drinking motivation of the participants. In contrast, no significant correlation was found for neutral stimuli. In conclusion, the present study shows that alcohol-induced attentional biases can be studied using an ET-VR device in a subclinical population of alcohol users.3. Good health and well-bein