Thesis advisor: Daniel J. Harrington / Thesis advisor: Christopher R. Matthews / Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2013. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

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Yield losses from infestations of root maggots (Delia spp.) (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) can be severe in canola crops in central Alberta. Studies were undertaken in central Alberta, Canada to manipulate agronomic practices that have potential to affect crop yield, root maggot infestations, and the survival and abundance of Aleochara bilineata (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), which is an important natural enemy of root maggots. I investigated tillage regime (conventional versus zero tillage), row spacing, and seeding rate to assess effects on Delia spp. and A. bilineata populations. In general I observed greater root maggot incidence and damage, and greater activity density of A. bilineata, in plots subjected to a conventional tillage regime than in a zero tillage regime. I found relatively greater parasitism of root maggot puparia by A. bilineata in plots subjected to a zero tillage regime than a conventional tillage regime. No consistent effects were observed on A. bilineata activity in relation to seeding rate and row spacing. In this study, there is no evidence to conclude that tillage regime had a significant effect on canola seed yield. Seed yields in relation to seeding rate and row spacing were variable. In the context of integrated pest management in canola cropping systems, I suggest that canola growers utilize zero tillage in conjunction with adopting the currently recommended seeding rates of between 5.6 to 9.0 kg per ha and row spacing of 30 cm because this can bring advantages in terms of improved management of root maggots and other important canola pests like flea beetles and weeds. / Plant Science

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Arthropod natural enemies play a key role in controlling potentially damaging pest populations in agroecosystems. An abundant and diverse natural enemy community is associated with higher yields in a variety of crops. Certain aspects of soybean production can make a field more or less amenable to a robust natural enemy community. For instance, commonly used broad-spectrum insecticides which are highly toxic to most arthropods can decrease natural enemy densities and allow for secondary pest outbreaks. Selective insecticides that have less impact on natural enemy populations allow for pest control while preserving important predators. Another production decision that could alter natural enemy communities is the choice of cropping system, specifically planting early (full season) or late, after small grain harvest (double crop). My research objectives were to examine how 1) selective insecticides and 2) cropping system affect the density and diversity of natural enemies in Virginia soybean. To address the first objective I compared the natural enemy community in soybean plots that were exposed to selective insecticides, broad-spectrum insecticides or no insecticide. I sampled insects using three different techniques and found that the two selective insecticides I tested, both from a new class called diamides, did not reduce the natural enemy community compared to controls. To examine how cropping system affects the natural enemy community I sampled full season and double crop fields during the growing season for two years. In 2014 ground-dwelling spider diversity was higher in full season soybean. In both years, double crop soybeans had higher abundance of spiders and insect natural enemies on the ground and in the foliage compared with full season soybean. This was unexpected, since double crop soybeans are planted later than full season and arthropod populations would have less time to colonize and grow. When I compared diversity of a family of predatory beetles I found higher diversity in full season soybean. The similarity in spider and insect natural enemy diversity and abundance trends suggests that a greater number of species can co-exist in full season soybean, while in double crop soybeans a few dominant natural enemies thrive. / Ph. D.

Scholarship addressing rhetoric in the Epistle of Jude has tended toward descriptions of the writer's tactic in terms of Greco-Roman rhetorical categories, or as evidence of a predetermined context. Such historical-critical concerns have unduly influenced rhetorical analyses and have not convincingly explained the writer's rhetorical strategy. One means of alleviating this deficiency is to understand rhetoric as a quality of the semantics created through grammar. This thesis develops a systemic functional linguistic methodology, which details many fundamental ways in which these rhetorical semantics are communicated through Koine Greek grammar in order to begin describing the rhetorical tactic of the writer. By explicating the LOGICAL and INTERPERSONAL semantics in the Epistle of Jude, it is demonstrated that the writer attempted to identify enemies of the addressed Christian community by their conduct, and to motivate the addressees of the epistle to "contend for the faith" by marshaling together in mutual support and by demonstrating mercy to these enemies. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Umeå universitet, 2007. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

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Destas, 32 espécies são conhecidas para o estado de São Paulo, sendo 30% polífagas e de origem exótica, infestando plantas de importância agrícola. O controle biológico é uma alternativa, e dentre os inimigos naturais os himenópteros parasitoides vêm sendo muito utilizados. O objetivo deste trabalho foi inventariar os micro-himenópteros parasitoides de 11 espécies de pseudococcídeos pragas, primarias ou secundarias, de várias culturas e plantas ornamentais no estado de São Paulo, como café, citros, pinha, goiabeira, entre outros, relacionando estes com seu hospedeiro, origem e distribuição geográfica. Os levantamentos dos himenópteros parasitoides foram realizados entre agosto de 2016 e agosto de 2017, de forma aleatória, em áreas rural e urbana de cinco municípios do estado São Paulo: Jales, Ribeirão Preto, Jaboticabal, São Carlos e Campinas. As espécies de pseudococcídeos amostrados para obtenção dos parasitoides foram: Dysmicoccus brevipes (Cockerell, 1893), Ferrisia virgata (Cockerell, 1893), Leptococcus capixaba Kondo, 2005, Leptococcus minutus (Hempel, 1932), Maconelicoccus hirsutus (Green, 1908), Nipaecoccus nipae (Maskell, 1893), Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley, 1898, Planococcus citri (Risso, 1813), Planococcus minor (Maskell, 1897), Pseudococcus cryptus (Hempel, 1918) e Pseudococcus longispinus (Targioni Tozzetti, 1867). Obtiveram-se 628 exemplares de himenópteros parasitoides, distribuídos em 27 espécies. Registra-se aqui, pela primeira vez, Bothriocraera bicolor Compere & Zinna, 1955, Gyranusoidea deionae Noyes, 2000 e Allotropa merrilli Muesebeck, 1954 no Brasil; e, Anagyrus fusciventris (Girault, 1915), Gyranusoidea pseudococci (Bréthes, 1924) e Tetracnemoidea peregrina (Compere, 1939) para o estado de São Paulo; e 26 novas associações entre cochonilha/parasitoide. Os gêneros que apresentaram o maior número de espécies associadas aos pseudococcídeos foram: Gyranusoidea, Anagyrus e Aprostocetus. / ABSTRACT– The Pseudococcidae family is the second largest from the Coccomorpha Infraorder, with about 2000 described species. In Brazil, popularly known as mealybugs, it comprised the third largest family, with 77 species registered, distributed in 22 genera. From these, 32 species are known to the state of São Paulo, being 30% polyphagous from exotic origin, infesting plants of agricultural importance. Biological control is an alternative and among natural enemies, parasitoid Hymenoptera are being widely used. The objective of this work was to inventory the parasitoid microhymenoptera from 11 mealybug pest species, primary or secondary, from various crops and ornamental plants in the state of São Paulo, such as coffee, citrus, sugar-apple, guavas and others, relating these to their host, origin and geographical distribution. The parasitoid hymenopteran surveys were carried out between August 2016 and August 2017, in a random way, in rural and urban areas from five municipalities in the state of São Paulo: Jales, Ribeirão Preto, Jaboticabal, São Carlos and Campinas. The Pseudococcidae species sampled to obtain parasitoids were: Dysmicoccus brevipes (Cockerell, 1893), Ferrisia virgata (Cockerell, 1893), Leptococcus capixaba Kondo, 2005, Leptococcus minutus (Hempel, 1932), Maconelicoccus hirsutus (Green, 1908), Nipaecoccus nipae (Maskell, 1893), Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley, 1898, Planococcus citri (Risso, 1813), Planococcus minor (Maskell, 1897), Pseudococcus cryptus (Hempel, 1918) and Pseudococcus longispinus (Targioni Tozzetti, 1867). There were 628 specimens of parasitoid Hymenoptera distributed in 27 different species. It is recorded here, for the first time, Bothriocraera bicolor Compere & Zinna, 1955, Gyranusoidea deionae Noyes, 2000 and Allotropa merrilli Muesebeck, 1954 for Brazil; and, Anagyrus fusciventris (Girault, 1915), Gyranusoidea pseudococci (Bréthes, 1924), e Tetracnemoidea peregrina (Compere, 1939) for the state of São Paulo; and 26 new associations between mealybugs x parasitoids. The genera that presented the greatest number of species associated to the Pseudococcidae were: Gyranusoidea, Anagyrus e Aprostocetus. / 134767/2016-0

Nowadays liberal democracy is faced with a crisis bought mainly by the liberal-democratic elites with their approach and the politics they established during the period of boundless triumphalism in the 1990s. Sand castles, whether it was the inevitability of progress or capitalism as a miraculous elixir to all the ills of society at the time, built during this period, began to crumble like a house of cards. Associated with the financial crisis that erupted in the United States in 2007 it spread practically all over the world. The period of the global financial crisis has shown that the creation of a legal framework, building of a conscious civil society and the system of values on which the society is built and identifies with them, or the construction of a liberal-democratic identity fell behind economic transformation and economic growth after 1989 and the people's relationship to liberal democracy was built primarily on economic aspects. This created space for those who for many years hid rather in the shadows, on the edge of the spectrum of political power. A fraction of the liberal-democratic elites, with their approach and politics of a kind of arrogance of power and the style of labeling their opponents, have turned against them even those who a priori did not have a negative attitude...