The Ursinus Weekly, December 16, 1946

Audience praises chorus, soloists in annual Messiah • Communion service to be held; Meistersingers, Y to take part • Legal society selects temporary chairman as group re-organizes • Memorial service held for dean Kline; speakers, faculty, students pay tribute • Shall I teach? is discussion topic at FTA gathering • College willed $10,000 for dormitory by dean • Rosicrucians elect officers; permanent members received • Honor graduate dies suddenly; was engineering student at MIT • Delegates chosen to attend YM-YW national assembly • Atomic energy is first forum topic • Only two original members remain in Glenwood quartet started 2 years ago • Xmas dinner, dance planned; table decorations to be judged • Cold weather changes scenes around campus • Resolution on the death of dean Whorten A. Kline • Tentative plans made to sell fiction books in campus supply store • Men start plans to make Varsity Club active again • Faculty, coeds attend phys ed conference on athletic principles, Sat. • Coach Seeders slices court squad to ten varsity and ten jayvee members • Camp pleads for help on weekends • Brodbeck boys win prize for skit; Fircroftettes, runner-up in Y show • Labor\u27s share in management is topic for intercollegiate debatehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1649/thumbnail.jp

Handshaking Promotes Cooperative Dealmaking

Humans use subtle sources of information—like nonverbal behavior—to determine whether to act cooperatively or antagonistically when they negotiate. Handshakes are particularly consequential nonverbal gestures in negotiations because people feel comfortable initiating negotiations with them and believe they signal cooperation (Study 1). We show that handshakes increase cooperative behaviors, affecting outcomes for integrative and distributive negotiations. In two studies with MBA students, pairs who shook hands before integrative negotiations obtained higher joint outcomes (Studies 2a and 2b). Pairs randomly assigned to shake hands were more likely to openly reveal their preferences on trade-off issues, which improved joint outcomes (Study 3). In a fourth study using a distributive negotiation, pairs of executives assigned to shake hands were less likely to lie about their preferences and crafted agreements that split the bargaining zone more equally. Together, these studies show that handshaking promotes the adoption of cooperative strategies and influences negotiation outcomes

Genetic strategies for improving crop yields.

The current trajectory for crop yields is insufficient to nourish the world's population by 20501. Greater and more consistent crop production must be achieved against a backdrop of climatic stress that limits yields, owing to shifts in pests and pathogens, precipitation, heat-waves and other weather extremes. Here we consider the potential of plant sciences to address post-Green Revolution challenges in agriculture and explore emerging strategies for enhancing sustainable crop production and resilience in a changing climate. Accelerated crop improvement must leverage naturally evolved traits and transformative engineering driven by mechanistic understanding, to yield the resilient production systems that are needed to ensure future harvests

Cost effectiveness of alternative planned places of birth in woman at low risk of complications: evidence from the Birthplace in England national prospective cohort study

Objectives To estimate the cost effectiveness of alternative planned places of birth

An Isosurface Continuity Algorithm for Super Adaptive Resolution Data

We present the chain-gang algorithm for isosurface rendering of super adaptive resolution (SAR) volume data in order to minimize (1) the space needed for storage of both the data and the isosurface and (2) the time taken for computation. The chain-gan