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This list of recommended annual flower varieties includes information on several hundred annual flower cultivars. The recommended varieties were selected from flowers grown in 1985 and 1986 at the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Farm at the University of Alaska- Fairbanks. While this is by no means a complete listing of varieties suitable for Interior gardens, it does reflect many years of experience in annual flower production at the AFES farm. The methods used to evaluate the flowers and definitions for terms used in the listing can be found under Data Collection.Introduction -- Methods: Bedding Plant Production, Field Conditions, Weather Conditions, Data Collection -- List of Recommended Annual Flower Varieties -- Photo Section -- Appendix 1. Seeding Information -- Appendix 2. Flower Varieties by Color: Blue, Purple; Red, Pink; Red, Pink and White Mixes; White; Yellow, Orange, Gold; Mixed Colors; Foliage Only -- Appendix 3. Bloom Period: Early Season, All Season, Midseason, Late Season, Frost Resistant -- Appendix 4. Plant Heights: Short Varieties, Medium Varieties, Tall Varieties -- Appendix 5. Flowers for Special Purposes: Hanging Baskets, Light Shade, Walls, Rock Garden, Background -- Appendix 6. Seed Source

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This report summarizes evaluations of vegetable varieties conducted by the Horticultural Research Program of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. The objective of this research is to select varieties of vegetables that are adapted to the environment of interior Alaska. Vegetable crops whose adaptability may be improved through development of improved cultural techniques are also identified. The selection effort is directed at finding varieties useful to both commercial growers and home gardeners. Varieties are chosen for inclusion in the variety tests on the basis of their description, the latitude of origin, and the record of the plant-breeding programs for producing kinds that have previously been found adapted. Standard recommended varieties are included in the trials for comparison.Introduction -- Weather Summary, 1985 -- Table 1. Climatic Data for the Fairbanks Growing Season: 1984, 1985, and the Long-Term Average -- Figure 1. Daily Weather Data, May through September, 1985, University Experiment Farm, Fairbanks, AK -- Table 2. Artichoke Variety Trial, 1985 -- Table 3. Carrot Variety Trials, Bottomland, 1985 -- Table 4. Celery Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 5. Eggplant Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 6. Broccoli Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 7. Brussels Sprouts Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 8. Cauliflower Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 9. Crisphead Lettuce Variety Trials, Bottomland, 1985 -- Table 10. Green Pea Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 11. Pepper Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 12. Potato Variety Trials, Bottomland, 1985 -- Table 13. Slicing Cucumber Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 14. Summer Squash Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 15. Sweet Corn Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 16. Mulched Tomato Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 17. Unmulched Tomato Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 18. Container Tomato Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 19. Winter Squash Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 20. Pumpkin Variety Trials, 1985 -- Table 21. Miscellaneous Vegetable Trials -- Seed Source

The GA4GH Variation Representation Specification: A computational framework for variation representation and federated identification

Maximizing the personal, public, research, and clinical value of genomic information will require the reliable exchange of genetic variation data. We report here the Variation Representation Specification (VRS, pronounced verse ), an extensible framework for the computable representation of variation that complements contemporary human-readable and flat file standards for genomic variation representation. VRS provides semantically precise representations of variation and leverages this design to enable federated identification of biomolecular variation with globally consistent and unique computed identifiers. The VRS framework includes a terminology and information model, machine-readable schema, data sharing conventions, and a reference implementation, each of which is intended to be broadly useful and freely available for community use. VRS was developed by a partnership among national information resource providers, public initiatives, and diagnostic testing laboratories under the auspices of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH)

2017 Making Literature Conference

Keynote Speakers: Tom Noyes, Shari Wagner, Grace Tiffany, Jessica Mesman Griffith, David Griffit

Normalization of drug and therapeutic concepts with Thera-Py

OBJECTIVE: The diversity of nomenclature and naming strategies makes therapeutic terminology difficult to manage and harmonize. As the number and complexity of available therapeutic ontologies continues to increase, the need for harmonized cross-resource mappings is becoming increasingly apparent. This study creates harmonized concept mappings that enable the linking together of like-concepts despite source-dependent differences in data structure or semantic representation. MATERIALS AND METHODS: For this study, we created Thera-Py, a Python package and web API that constructs searchable concepts for drugs and therapeutic terminologies using 9 public resources and thesauri. By using a directed graph approach, Thera-Py captures commonly used aliases, trade names, annotations, and associations for any given therapeutic and combines them under a single concept record. RESULTS: We highlight the creation of 16 069 unique merged therapeutic concepts from 9 distinct sources using Thera-Py and observe an increase in overlap of therapeutic concepts in 2 or more knowledge bases after harmonization using Thera-Py (9.8%-41.8%). CONCLUSION: We observe that Thera-Py tends to normalize therapeutic concepts to their underlying active ingredients (excluding nondrug therapeutics, eg, radiation therapy, biologics), and unifies all available descriptors regardless of ontological origin

EVN and MERLIN observations of microquasar candidates at low galactic latitudes

In an attempt to increase the number of known microquasars, Paredes et al. (2002) have presented a long-term project focused on the search for new objects of this type. They performed a cross-identification between X-ray and radio catalogs under very restrictive selection criteria for sources with |b|<5 degrees, and obtained a sample of 13 radio-emitting X-ray sources. Follow-up observations of 6 of these sources with the VLA provided accurate coordinates, which were used to discover optical counterparts for all of them. We have observed these six sources with the EVN and MERLIN at 5 GHz. Five of the six objects have been detected and imaged, presenting different morphologies: one source has a two-sided jet, three sources have one-sided jets, and one source is compact. With all the presently available information, we conclude that two of the sources are promising microquasar candidates in our Galaxy.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures. Published in A&A, see http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2002A%26A...394..983