Rose ( Rosa × hybrida ) breeders historically have bred plants based on what they personally have deemed attractive and traits required by growers to produce the crop successfully. End-user ...preferences were not formally considered in breeding decisions. The purpose of this study was to investigate growers’ and consumers’ opinions of roses available on the market and preferences for future roses coming into the market. A web-based survey tool was developed to measure the attributes consumers were considering in purchasing and growing rose plants, their knowledge of diseases and pests, and their hopes for new plants coming to market. A link was sent to horticultural group mailing lists as well as distributed through personal e-mail lists, Facebook, and a news release from Texas A&M University. The survey was posted for 4 months. It included ≈66 questions and took 30 minutes or more to complete. More than 2000 responses were received from rose growers and nursery consumers worldwide. The respondents preferred roses that were disease resistant, with fragrant, abundant, red, and everblooming flowers. The ideal height of the preferred rose shrubs was waist to shoulder-height. Differences were found in preferences between experienced rose growers and those who were not affiliated with rose associations on variables such as the need to use chemicals to manage diseases, the importance of foliage glossiness and large vs. small blooms, the value of roses in the garden setting, the level of difficulty roses pose in growing situations, and the willingness to pay more for a rose shrub in comparison with other garden plants. Differences also were found among age groups and preferences for flower color, fragrance, foliage color, and foliage glossiness. This information could be helpful in targeting marketing of roses.
This article shows how Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) can be used to understand
what works to address complex policy problems at a local level, using the example of
tackling high rates of ...teenage conceptions in England’s most deprived local authority
areas. QCA is a promising method for providing evidence in situations where interventions
interact with contexts, enabling causal pathways to be discerned from how sets of
conditions combine with particular outcomes: in this instance, whether inequalities in
conception rates do or do not narrow, compared with the England average. A wide range of
survey and secondary data, sourced in collaboration with practitioners, was explored to
identify conditions that might show a relationship with the outcome. Applying QCA’s
process of logical reduction enabled identification of sets of cases. Two narrowing sets
and three not-narrowing sets are presented, showing how there are different pathways to
narrowing and not-narrowing outcomes, and how conditions often combine to have causal
effect. Although based on systematic cross-case comparison, the article also demonstrates
the importance of judgement and interpretation in QCA.
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In this catalog we present the updated set of spectral analyses of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor during its first four years of operation. It contains two ...types of spectra, time-integrated spectral fits and spectral fits at the brightest time bin, from 943 triggered GRBs. Four different spectral models were fitted to the data, resulting in a compendium of more than 7500 spectra. The analysis was performed similarly but not identically to Goldstein et al. All 487 GRBs from the first two years have been re-fitted using the same methodology as that of the 456 GRBs in years three and four. We describe, in detail, our procedure and criteria for the analysis and present the results in the form of parameter distributions both for the observer-frame and rest-frame quantities. The data files containing the complete results are available from the High-Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center.
This paper draws on Desrosie ¤ res, Hayles and Tukey in arguing for an exploratory approach to the use of numerical taxonomy and related approaches in quantitative social research. It asserts that ...rather than trying to develop algorithm (either in the form of equation sets or game rules) based representations which abstract 'variables' as analogies of Newtonian forces, we should centre on cases and deal with classifications. Then trajectories can be explored in terms of changes both in the classification location of particular cases and changes in the actual form of the classification sets themselves. This approach seems to correspond with Aristotle's notion of intuitive induction with computing technology understood as extending the cognitive capacities of the taxonomist.
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BTX is the new form factor that the whole industry, including Intel, is trying to encourage. PCs based on this form factor include a large fan that blows slowly and quietly, but enough to dissipate ...heat. It is also the form factor successfully being employed by channel players such as Higrade and Elonex, to create imaginative and compelling entertainment PCs in order to source additional revenue from the consumer space.
Social research methodology: theory and practice Williams, Malcolm; May, Tim; David, Matthew ...
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Speaking in Tongues Byrne, Dave
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Serving Time in Richmond City Jail The essay that follows, which first appeared in our November/ December issue, is the last published in the lifetime of its author, Dave Byrne, who died in his home ...in Virginia on Thanksgiving Day. Writing was not his profession, and he published nothing until years of hardship, much of his own making, culminated in a diagnosis of terminal lung cancer. The metal tables were almost completely obscuredby inmates playingcards, chess, and boardgames The overheadlighting was so dim that it took minutes to actually see all the bodies, to separate the bodies fromthe deafening noise, to separate the noise fromthe stench of body odor, piss, shit, and steam heat. Late one night in the heat of May Six brave comrades made their getaway No doubt they had a master plan They used their minds to escape from the man Out came the guards with their sniffing dogs Sniffing the scent over hollow logs Two were caught not far away Their freedom lasted only half a day.
A GOOD, BAD, HARD, EASY LIFE Byrne, Dave
Boston review (Cambridge, Mass. : 1982),
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A GOOD, BAD, HARD, EASY LIFE Lead Belly Smithsonian Folkways, $99.98 (five CDs, cloth book) Listening to lead belly uninterrupted for five hours, you get the feel of zigzagging across a forgotten ...country in a 1947 De Soto, eyes fixed on the landscape and fingers fiddling obsessively with the worn radio dial. No one familiar with the development of folk, blues, and the music that emerged from them could disagree. "Since his death, his songs have lived on," Place writes in the 140-page book accompanying the collection, five CDs featuring 108 tracks, some never previously released. ...there was the instrument-Lead Belly accompanied himself primarily on an acoustic twelve-string guitar. ...he wrote a campaign song for Wendell Wilkie, a pro-business Republican and adversary of much of the New Deal.
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