More damn lies about data access

More data than we can handle is no excuse to give up our efforts to promote data access, but it may make us think about new ways to make it sustainable.
[This draft was written in the hope that participants of the Sage Congress will write an Nature Genetics Editorial in the manner of Tom Sawyer’s white fence (Twain M. 1876). All contributions received by April 10th 2011 will be attributed.]
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Discussion of Recent Decisions

Notes by H. Sawyer, F. S. Rodkey Jr., S. M. Schoenburg, M. Culhane, A. H. Schwartz, A. P. Pacelli, S. Zaban, L. J. Stuke

CHARACTER BUILDING OF TOM SAWYER IN MARK TWAIN’S THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

Novel, as one of literary works, can be a representation of the real life thatportrays the social and cultural phenomena in a certain society. Novel can be used as thedescription of the influence of society towards the character building of the charactersof  the  novel  as  individual.  In  Mark  Twain’s  The  Adventures of  Tom  Sawyer,  thecharacter building of Tom Sawyer, as the main character, is influenced by the Southsociety in America, which also leads to the development of Tom Sawyer’s personalitiesis implicitly and explicitly shown. The study applies socio-cultural approach as the grounding theory to find out thesocial and cultural phenomena of the South society which influences Tom Sawyer’scharacter building. The background of Mark Twain in terms of The Adventures of TomSawyer novel and the socio-cultural life in the South society are used to provide somesupporting information to make the analysis and interpretation of the study becomesmore comprehensive. The  result  of the  study reveals  that  Mark Twain’s The Adventures of  TomSawyer  elevates  the  socio-cultural  issues  in  the  South  society  that  influence  thecharacter building of Tom Sawyer. The relationship between Tom Sawyer and theSouth  society and  the  psychological process  within  Tom  Sawyer’s personalities isclearly described. However, because this novel does not merely elevate socio-culturalaspects, it is suggested for the next researchers to research it from other perspectives,such as economic condition, racism, or Christian cultural values.Keywords:  Mark  Twain,  The  Adventures  of   Tom  Sawyer,  character  building,personalities, socio-cultural approac

Dealing with sulfur deficiency in Iowa corn production

Research conducted for more than forty years (prior to approximately 2005) in Iowa rarely noted improved crop yield with sulfur (S) fertilization. Studies during that time period with corn and soybean found yield increase from S fertilizer application only three times out of approximately 200 trials. Research in the early 1980’s also documented sufficient plant available S in the soil profile for crop production on most Iowa soil associations. Results of recent studies (2000-2005) in corn and soybean were consistent with the historical research. An example is research presented at this conference (Sawyer and Barker, 2002) where there was no corn or soybean yield increase from S application at six sites in Iowa across two years