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Janse van Rensburg, J.C. and Lamprecht, S.C. and Groenewald, J.Z. and Castlebury, L.A. and Crous, P.W. (2006) Characterisation of Phomopsis spp. associated with die-back of rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) in South Africa. In: Studies in Mycology, 55, (pp. 65-74). Open Access uitgave. Available: http://www.studiesinmycology.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/1/65.
Die-back of rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) causes substantial losses in commercial Aspalathus plantations in South Africa. In the past, the disease has been attributed to Phomopsis phaseoli (teleomorph: Diaporthe phaseolorum). Isolates obtained from diseased plants, however, were highly variable with regard to morphology and pathogenicity. The aim of the present study was thus to identify the Phomopsis species associated with die-back of rooibos. Isolates were subjected to DNA sequence comparisons of the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS1, 5.8S, ITS2) and partial sequences of the translation elongation factor-1 alpha gene. Furthermore, isolates were also compared in glasshouse inoculation trials on 8-mo-old potted plants to evaluate their pathogenicity. Five species were identified, of which D. aspalathi (formerly identified as D. phaseolorum or D. phaseolorum var. meridionalis) proved to be the most virulent, followed by D. ambigua, Phomopsis theicola, one species of Libertella and Phomopsis, respectively, and a newly described species, P. cuppatea. A description is also provided for D. ambigua based on a newly designated epitype specimen.
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ThatŌĆÖs what Dan Mullen asked of his offense late in the game to ensure a victory and his team got the yard plus extra.
On a fourth-and-one from inside his own territory, Mississippi State made the do-or-die call of keeping the drive alive and junior tailback Vick Ballard found 4 yards up the middle for a first down.
ŌĆ£We need to believe in ourselves,ŌĆØ Mullen said. ŌĆ£It was pretty close. If IŌĆÖm preaching to our kids weŌĆÖre going to make the plays to win the game (then) I canŌĆÖt shy away from making the call.ŌĆØ
Once State (2-2, 1-1) moved the chains, junior quarterback Chris Relf hit sophomore wide receiver Arceto Clark for a 33-yard touchdown strike on a route and pass play that was similar to last week when the play resulted in a interception at LSU.
Relf would finish the game with 232 total yards (135 passing, 97 rushing) and the fourth-quarter touchdown pass.
Mississippi State ended a nine-game losing streak to Georgia dating back to 1975 and hadnŌĆÖt beaten UGA in Starkville since 1951.
ŌĆ£Coach Mullen broke down the season on Thursday for us,ŌĆØ sophomore wide receiver Chad Bumphis said. ŌĆ£We finished the first part 2-2 which is probably ahead of where anybody would have us.ŌĆØ
DiazŌĆÖs defense held GeorgiaŌĆÖs offense out of the end zone for nearly the entire of MSUŌĆÖs 24-12 win in front 56,721 fans representing the third largest crowd in Davis-Wade Stadium history.
Prior to a late Georgia (1-3, 0-3 in Southeastern Conference) touchdown pass in garbage time, MSU had gone 11 defensive possessions without allowing a touchdown. The 12 points given up to UGA were the least given up since a 7-6 win in 1970.
ŌĆ£You can preach it so long and then itŌĆÖs got to happen,ŌĆØ Diaz said.
On the offensive side, it came down to a fourth-and-one call from inside his own territory and MSUŌĆÖs head coach never had any intention of sending the punt team on the field.
ŌĆ£We need to believe in ourselves,ŌĆØ Mullen said. ŌĆ£I saw that on the sidelines today. IŌĆÖm proud of the step we took tonight.ŌĆØ
Relf finished the game with 232 total yards (135 passing, 97 rushing) and the fourth-quarter touchdown pass.
On its first offensive series of the game, Mississippi State carved through GeorgiaŌĆÖs new 3-4 defensive scheme for 53 yards on just four plays ending with a 13-yard scamper by junior Vick Ballard on a option pitch and the former junior college All-American selection went untouched into the end zone.
Ballard finished the night with 77 yards on 14 carries and a pair of touchdowns.
ŌĆ£We wanted to come out fast and get a fast start,ŌĆØ Mullen said. ŌĆ£We finally went out and made some of those plays we havenŌĆÖt been making.ŌĆØ
After marching 79 yards down the field on the very next possession, Georgia couldnŌĆÖt get that last inch. Georgia sophomore tailback Washaun Early fumbled the ball as he approached the goal line on a pass from quarterback Aaron Murray down the middle of the field. Redshirt freshman Nickoe Whitley didnŌĆÖt hear a whistle and recovered the ball in the end zone and after a replay review, it was determined to be Mississippi StateŌĆÖs possession and the first turnover of the game.
ŌĆ£That play from a mentality standpoint would allow us to play from ahead the whole night,ŌĆØ Diaz said. ŌĆ£That idea right there was a key as anything for our confidence.ŌĆØ
Murray finished the game 18-of-31 for 274 yards and a touchdown but had struggled to find open receivers in the red zone.
The loss for Georgia is the first three-game conference losing streak during the decade-long Mark Richt era.
ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖre definitely in a place that IŌĆÖve never been in as a player or a coach,ŌĆØ Richt said. ŌĆ£I never wouldŌĆÖve predicted it, but thatŌĆÖs where weŌĆÖre at.ŌĆØ
Richt pointed to three UGA turnovers and a 40-yard touchdown pass that wouldŌĆÖve given the visitors its first lead of the night getting called back due to a holding call as the critical mistakes by his squad.
ŌĆ£If you go by watching film down by down, youŌĆÖd say weŌĆÖre not as far off as some people,ŌĆØ Richt said. ŌĆ£If you look at record, then we are pretty far off of where we want to be.ŌĆØ
After what appeared to confusion on a common punt play, Mississippi State created another break for themselves as Heath Hutchins punt bounced off the thigh of Georgia sophomore Bacarri Rambo and was recovered by walk-on sophomore Chris Cameron giving MSU the football at GeorgiaŌĆÖs 45-yard-line.
The drive would end in disappointment for the Starkville faithful as a gadget play that involved tailback LaDarius PerkinsŌĆÖ pass to Relf on a wheel route being through straight to GeorgiaŌĆÖs senior outside linebacker Darryl Gamble.
ŌĆ£(MSU offensive coordinator) Les Koenning called a great game tonight,ŌĆØ Mullen said. ŌĆ£I called one play and that was the interception on the trick play and I went to (MSU director of football operations) Jon Clark and said ŌĆśdonŌĆÖt let me make anymore stupid play calls. Tell me to keep my mouth shutŌĆÖ.ŌĆØ
Georgia would have two 15-play drives get stranded in the Mississippi State red zone resulting in a pair of field goals by junior Blair Walsh. UGA would end the first 30 minutes dominating in total yards (230-115), passing yards (164-58) and time of possession (19:50-8:49) but the scoreboard at Davis-Wade Stadium would read MSU ahead 7-6 as both teams headed to the locker room.
ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs very frustrating,ŌĆØ Georgia senior wide receiver Kris Durham said. ŌĆ£We shoot ourselves in the foot when we have great opportunities. Mississippi State capitalized on their opportunities.ŌĆØ
At the end of the game, a chop block by a Georgia offensive lineman had both teamsŌĆÖ players and coaches in heated discussions after the game.
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The Administrative Board of the Summer School has denied a request by Paul G. Bamberg '63, associate professor of Physics, that the final exam for his course Physics S-1 be waived, because of the discovery last year of several cheating rings in the self-paced course.
The ad board has accepted the petition for the past two summers.
Twenty students were implicated in the cheating scheme, which involved a sophisticated code of answers to review tests that were the basis for grades in the course.
Thomas E. Crooks '49, director of the Summer School and a member of the ad board, said in a letter to Bamberg dated July 30. "It is seldom if ever that a course as large as yours in permitted to omit a final examination."
"Our experience in 1974 confirmed the conventional wisdom," he added, referring to the cheating case.
Bamberg said yesterday that he does not believe "there is any truth" to the assertion that instituting a final must eliminate cheating.
"It could make cheating a bit harder, but we've seen that in a course of this nature we don't get a significant amount of new information about what a student has learned on the final." Bamberg said. "We do find out who cracks under pressure, which may be what the med schools want to find out."
Bamberg said he would give a final that was "academically valuable," despite what he said is his belief that the review tests were "in every respect better" than a final in a self-paced course.
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"All a student has to do is make a reasonable showing on the final to maintain his grade in the course," he said.
Student in Physics S-1 take 12 review tests, each covering from two to nine of the course's 30 units, depending on their individual rates of progress.
Students may take a test more than once until satisfied with their performance. Section leaders review the tests with individual students, providing correct answers and suggesting methods of improvement.
In last year's cheating incidents, groups of students pooled correct answers to all review tests that they then used to provide an answer code for re-tests. The scheme was uncovered when Bamberg noticed significant improvements in the scores of students who had been doing poorly.
A check of their review tests by Bamberg revealed that they had provided correct answers without performing any calculations.
Bamberg said he will have to write 600 questions, twice the normal number, to cover the review tests and the final.
"But this may all be a dead issue in a couple of years anyway, since the Faculty Council will probably vote that all self-paced courses must have a final," he said.
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Mobile penetration rate over 150% in Russia, market close to saturation
For the first time ever, all three major Russian mobile operators lost subscribers in early 2012, according to a report from AC&M Consulting, a Russian management consulting and research agency specializing in telecommunications and media.
Vimpelcom, MTS and Megafon saw their active subscriber bases – defined on a six- or three-month basis – shrink by 1.6 million, 579,000, and 1,500 people respectively.
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Sun Microsystems releases a video about a source of disk latency that is at once funny and a nice demonstration of the underlying technologies, including DTrace.
Sun spent years getting pounded for its proprietary server ways, but now wants to turn the storage industry on its head through the same tactics that maimed its server business.
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The image of our cavemen ancestors as wild hunters who enjoyed no better meal than flesh torn from their latest kill has been dented by new archaeological research. Chemical analysis of 6000-year-old pottery shards shows ancient Britons also had a taste for cow's milk and goat's cheese.
"This is the first direct evidence for widespread dairying at prehistoric sites anywhere in the world," says Richard Evershed, professor of biogeochemistry at the University of Bristol, UK. Archaeologists had previously uncovered a few objects that suggested dairying, such as suspected cheese strainers, but nothing unambiguous.
Until now, the earliest proof of dairying was a picture of a Sumerian frieze in Baghdad Museum showing milking 4500 years ago. "And in Britain we had no proof till pictures and writing in Roman times," Evershed told New Scientist.
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The findings will shed a new light on the diet, health and economics of Neolithic humans. Humans first domesticated animals for their meat about 10,000 years ago, probably in the Middle East. Evershed thinks a second revolution, in which animals were used for milk and wool, may have happened around 7000 years ago.
"But we don't have any proof. Our next research project is to go to the Middle East to try and find it," he says.
Evershed uncovered the early taste for dairy products by looking for remains of animal fat absorbed in broken crockery. The fragments had been dug up from 14 sites across Britain, dated between 6000 and 1500 years ago.
"The breakthrough came when we discovered recently that, due to a quirk in the metabolism of ruminants, you can tell which fats are from dairy products and which from meat," he says.
Dairy products contain fractionally less of the stable isotope carbon-13 and slightly more carbon-12. Evershed applied the technique to almost 1000 pieces of pottery from the sites and found evidence of dairy products at every one.
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If the oceans on Earth receded and eventually disappeared, there would be no coastline left. Likewise, if the seas kept rising, the total global coastline would reach zero as the waters lapped over Mount Everest. At some height in between there must be a maximum total coastline on the planet. Does anyone know where this would be in relation to today's sea level, and are we anywhere near such ideal conditions for a beach holiday?
• The calculation is not so simple. As the letters below show, if we regard land masses as simple cones then the coastline initially grows longer as sea level falls. If we accept that actual topography is more complicated, then the answer becomes less clear. And finally, if we measure coastlines at progressively smaller scales, then we already have an infinite beach! - Ed.
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Professor Bohne held the chair of Public Administration, Policy and Law for Environmental Protection and Energy from 1996 to his retirement in 2009. He is currently a senior professor at the university. He was Head of Section III at the German Research Institute for Public Administration, Speyer until 2013. Hi is still a member of the institute.
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Prof. Bohne studied law and political science at the universities of Bonn and Freiburg and passed the bar exam in Düsseldorf. He received a doctoral degree in law from Cologne University and a M.A. degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
He served as a lawyer with the German Federal Ministry of Interior from 1975 to 1986 and with the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety as Head of the General Environmental Law Division from 1986 to 1996.
From September 2001 to January 2002 and in 2009 he was visiting fellow at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana/USA.
From 2008 to 2012 he was Co-Chairman of the Transatlantic Policy Consortium (TPC). He is now Member of its Executive Committee. The TPC is a network of almost 40 North-American and European universities and research institutions in the field of public policy and public administration. He serves as co-editor of the "Transatlantic Public Policy Series" (LIT Verlag, Münster) together with Charles F. Bonser (Indiana University), Tony Bovaird (University of Birmingham) and Suzanne J. Piotrowski (Rutgers University-Newark).
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Research activities focus on comparative empirical and legal analyses of environmental regulatory politics in the European Union, the liberalization of the electricity and gas markets, and on theoretical concepts of administrative decision making from an empirical and normative perspective. In 2006, Professor Bohne published a comprehensive, comparative, empirical and legal study on the regulatory systems for industrial installations of eight EU-member states with the title "The Quest for Environmental Regulatory Integration in the European Union. Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control, Environmental Impact Assessment and Major Accident Prevention (Kluwer Law International: Alphen aan den Rijn, NL). In 2010, he published a book on "The World Trade Organization: Institutional Development and Reform" with Palgrave MacMillan. In 2013, he completed an empirical study on German gas market regulations.
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BEIRUT: Batroun MP Butros Harb Thursday criticized three members of the Constitutional Council for boycotting the body's sessions and warned of attempts to cripple state institutions.
In an open letter to Judge Issam Suleiman, the head of the 10-member council, Harb expressed his deep concern over the constitutional system amid the boycott.
"The obstruction of the council's role ... constitutes a fatal blow to this council and the country's constitutional system," Harb said. He scoffed at the theory that the boycott was aimed at protecting the country from strife.
"Crippling [state] institutions is the mother of strife and scuttling the role of constitutional institutions is a recipe for strife," he said.
The council failed to meet Wednesday for the second day running after its two Shiite members and one Druze member stayed away, preventing it from ruling on challenges to the extension of Parliament's term.
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