Density trace made with computer printout

Special drum for a computer-controlled printer improves density trace of scientific data. The drum provides uniformly shaped characters and evenly spaced variations of print density that precisely reflect data magnitude. This device plots temperature profiles, geographic contours, pressure gradients, electric potential gradients, and magnetic field configurations

Effect of cultivar, time of sowing and fungicide application on seed yield of cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata L) : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Agricultural Science in Plant Science in Seed Technology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Three New Zealand (Grasslands Wana, Grasslands Kara, Grasslands Tekapo) and two Japanese (Akimidori, Makibamidori) cocksfoot cultivars were sown in spring (23 September 1991) and again the following autumn (6 April 1992) at AgResearch Grassland's Aorangi Research Farm in the Manawatu. Seed was sown at 3 kg/ha with a 30 cm row spacing. Plot size was 1.2 x 3.0 m2, with each plot containing 4 rows. A randomised block design was utilised with 8 replicates of each cultivar for each sowing time. For each cultivar and sowing time four of the eight replicates were sprayed with propiconazole (125 g a.i/ha) on 17 November 1992 and 8 December 1992. Spring sowings outyielded autumn sowings by 150 to 482 kg/ha depending on cultivar The ability of the spring sown cultivars to outproduce autumn sown cultivars was due largely to their ability to produce a greater number of fertile tillers. Autumn sown cultivars failed to produce a large number of fertile tillers which lead to a reduced potential seed yield. This was further exaserbated by the fact that the floret site utilisation (FSU) of the autumn sown cultivars was lower than that of the spring sown cultivars. Cultivar Wana was the only cultivar able to produce a reasonable number of fertile tillers following autumn sowing. It was also able to double the number of florets/tiller compared to that of spring sown cv Wana, thus allowing it to produce a reasonable seed yield. Cultivar Wana produced 557 kg seed/ha from the autumn sowing, and cv. Tekapo 244 kg seed/ha, but yields for the other three cultivars were less than 100 kg/ha following autumn sowing. Spring sowing produced pure seed yields of 707, 566, 593, 383 and 307 kg/ha for cv. Wana, Tekapo, Kara, Akimidori and Makibamidori respectively. Apart from cv Wana, fungicide application to autumn sown plots did not significantly increase seed yield, and similarly no differences were recorded for spring sown cv Akimidori and Makibamidori. However fungicide application significantly increased seed yieid in cv Wana, Kara and Tekapo, the increases being 521 (+ 74%), 119 (+ 21%) and 564 (+ 95%) kg/ha respectively, even though the incidences of fungal pathogens was less than 1%. These seed yield increases were due to an increase in the green area of the leaves and stem. In cv Wana and Tekapo there was also a significant increase in FSU due to the application of fungicide. Following harvest stubble was removed and the area retained for another year and subsequent harvest. As the effects of time of sowing were considered no longer significant, the trial was run as one block of 80 plots, thus giving 16 replicates of each cultivar. For each cultivar, four replicates received one of four different fungicide (188 g ai/ha of terbuconazole) treatments; a nil application, one application at approximately 10% ear emergence, one application at approximately 10% car emergence followed by another at early anthesis and one application at early anthesis followed by one post anthesis (10 days after full anthesis). In the absence of fungicide pure seed yields produced were 1133, 1208, 915, 556 and 671 kg/ha for cv. Wana, Kara, Tekapo, Makibamidori and Akimidori respectively. Although once again the incidence of fungal pathogens was less than 1%, fungicide increased the seed yield of all cultivars. The best results came from two applications of fungicide, one at ear emergence and one at anthesis. The exception to this was for cv Tekapo which gained the greatest increase from one application at ear emergence. These treatments increased the pure seed yield by 29%, 15%, 23%, 43% and 19% for cv Wana, Kara, Tekapo, Makibamidori and Akimidori respectively. Different cultivars reacted differently to the application of fungicide, with fungicide significantly increasing the thousand seed weight of cv Kara. Tekapo Akimidori and Makibamidori, although it had no such effect on cv Wana. Fungicide application increased the FSU of cv Wana and Tekapo but did not significantly affect cv Akimidori, Makibamidori and Kara. Cultivars Wana and Makibamidori showed a significant association between green area and seed yield, but these relationships were not significant for the other three cutivars. There was a significant association between FSU and seed yield after fungicide application for all the cultivars except cv Kara. The most cost effect return for the application of fungicide was that of a single application at ear emergence. Keywords: Cocksfoot, Dactylis glomerata, rust, eyespot, propiconazole, terbuconazole, fungicide, sowing date, cultivar

On set systems with restricted intersections modulo p and p-ary t-designs

We consider bounds on the size of families ℱ of subsets of a v-set subject to restrictions modulo a prime p on the cardinalities of the pairwise intersections. We improve the known bound when ℱ is allowed to contain sets of different sizes, but only in a special case. We show that if the bound for uniform families ℱ holds with equality, then ℱ is the set of blocks of what we call a p-ary t-design for certain values of t. This motivates us to make a few observations about p-ary t-designs for their own sake

The Road to the Cobourg Court Room: New Material from the Archives of the Canadian War Museum on the Sir Arthur Currie-Sir Sam Hughes Dispute, 1918-1919

The post-First World War dispute between Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia and Defence from October 1911 to November 1916 and Sir Arthur Currie, General Officer Commanding the Canadian Corps from 9 June 1917 to the end of the war, must be one of the least dignified episodes in Canadian military history. Hughes, although very energetic, was erratic and arbitrary and was fired by Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden for his inefficient administration of the Canadian military forces overseas. Currie, on the other hand, led the Canadian Corps in a stunning series of successes: Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, the Drocourt-Queant Line, the Canal du Nord, and the final entry into the Belgian town of Mons on the last day of the war. He has, indeed, been viewed by historians as one of the war’s most capable field commanders and, arguably, as Canada’s greatest native-born military commander

From medieval English to postcolonial studies

A brief account of the academic transition that I made beginning with my first academic post in Auckland, New Zealand where I was lecturer in Medieval English during the 1970s then moved to Oxford where I completed a D Phil in reformation sermons, then to the University of Otago in Dunedin -- New Zealand again -- where I began teaching New Zealand literature and Postcolonial theory and writing, to my present work in the UK at the University of Northampton, and talking of some of the writers I have met on the way

Championing literature throughout the Commonwealth

This article consists of reports from several different editors of Journals from different parts of the Commonwealth, including information on past and current publications, their hosting organisations, editorial boards, funding arrangements, academic profiles and audiences. This is all integrated into a general overview of some of the most eminent current Commonwealth journals

SOCS Proteins in Macrophage Polarization and Function

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