The Uniform Soybean Tests: Northern Region 2014

United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, West Lafayette, Indiana, Cooperating with State Agricultural Experiment Stations, Northern States

The Uniform Soybean Tests: Northern Region 2015

United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, West Lafayette, Indiana, Cooperating with State Agricultural Experiment Stations, Northern States

The Uniform Soybean Tests: Northern Region 2016

United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, West Lafayette, Indiana, Cooperating with State Agricultural Experiment Stations, Northern States

The consequences of reversing trust or not reversing trust

Young children often rely on the testimony of others. However, children tend to be selective about which sources they trust. For example, some children will reverse trust when a trusted speaker proves unreliable, suggesting that 4-year-olds use a speaker's current testimony to help make decisions about the trustworthiness of that speaker's past testimony (Scofield & Behrend, 2008). The current study was designed to determine why some children are able to reverse trust and why some are not. The results indicated that trust reversers tended to believe that the unreliable speaker was no longer trustworthy. The results also indicated that trust non-reversers varied by age, with 3-year-olds tending to believe that the unreliable speaker was trustworthy and 4- and 5-year-olds tending to believe that the unreliable speaker was no longer trustworthy, though they did have difficulty correcting past misinformation. Overall, results suggested that most children believe that an unreliable speaker is no longer trustworthy for new information. (Published By University of Alabama Libraries

Novel DNA structures resulting from dTam3 excision in tobacco

A Tam3 two-element system has been designed by combining an immobilized Tam3 element with a non-autonomous dTam3 element inserted into the HPT gene. The phenotypic assay employed, restored hygromycin resistance, indicated that trans-activation of the non-autonomous dTam3 element occurred. Molecular analyses of the excision sites revealed that the ends of the dTam3 element remain in the empty donor sites. The predominant consequence of this type of excision appears to be that excised fragments fail to re-integrate into the tobacco genome. Only one case of dTam3 re-integration could be detected. The ends of this element had been degraded upon integration into the tobacco genome. Either the altered structure of the Tam3 derivatives or tobacco host factors are influencing the trans-activation of a dTam3 element, resulting in aberrant excision.

Moral development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

This study examined how children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) judged social actions that involve moral and conventional violations. Past research shows that children with ASD, like their typical peers, judge social actions in the moral domain (e.g., causing harm to another person) to be different from social actions in the conventional domain (e.g., maintaining social order). This is somewhat surprising given their social and/or cognitive impairments, such as, deficits in theory of mind. To determine how robust this effect was the current study asked whether the domain distinction would remain intact when superficial cues were integrated into the context (e.g., crying). Perhaps ASD children with low ToM would be vulnerable to superficial emotional cues and use them to make moral and conventional distinctions; whereas high ToM and TD children were expected to ignore surface level use and focus on the domain of the act itself. Results found that all groups (i.e., TD, Low-ToM, and High-ToM) successfully maintained the domain distinction despite the emotional expressions exhibited by victims. Interestingly, the low-ToM tended to be the most severe in their ratings compared to either the high-ToM or the TD group. (Published By University of Alabama Libraries