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Crop, Forage & Turfgrass ManagementAccepted Articles e20227 CROP MANAGEMENT Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) tolerance to bicyclopyrone applied postemergence Jack J. Rose, Jack J. Rose Formerly Sesaco Corporation, Austin, TX, 78741 Contribution: ​Investigation, Supervision, Writing - review & editingSearch for more papers by this authorW. James Grichar, Corresponding Author W. James Grichar [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-2966-2836 Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Corpus Christi, TX, 78406 Correspondence W. James Grichar, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Corpus Christi, TX 78406, USA. Email: [email protected] Contribution: Data curation, ​Investigation, Methodology, Writing - original draftSearch for more papers by this authorPeter A. Dotray, Peter A. Dotray Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Lubbock, TX, 79403 Contribution: Data curation, ​Investigation, Writing - review & editingSearch for more papers by this author Jack J. Rose, Jack J. Rose Formerly Sesaco Corporation, Austin, TX, 78741 Contribution: ​Investigation, Supervision, Writing - review & editingSearch for more papers by this authorW. James Grichar, Corresponding Author W. James Grichar [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-2966-2836 Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Corpus Christi, TX, 78406 Correspondence W. James Grichar, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Corpus Christi, TX 78406, USA. Email: [email protected] Contribution: Data curation, ​Investigation, Methodology, Writing - original draftSearch for more papers by this authorPeter A. Dotray, Peter A. Dotray Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Lubbock, TX, 79403 Contribution: Data curation, ​Investigation, Writing - review & editingSearch for more papers by this author First published: 24 April 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/cft2.20227 Assigned to Associate Editor Thomas Butts This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as https://doi.org/10.1002/cft2.20227 AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Accepted ArticlesAccepted, unedited articles published online and citable. The final edited and typeset version of record will appear in the future. RelatedInformation

An industrial hygiene (IH) air monitoring study was conducted at HelioVolt's manufacturing facility to evaluate any potential chemical hazards employees are exposed to during a major Preventative Maintenance (PM) task. The materials in the chambers are Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium, and Sodium Fluoride. HelioVolt currently monitors Selenium on a routine basis. An independent study by Zephyr Environmental Corporation was initiated by the addition of Sodium Fluoride to the process, as its MSDS indicates that Hydrogen Fluoride (HF) is a possible byproduct. IH samples were collected and analyzed for gaseous Fluoride, particulate Fluoride, and Hydrogen Selenide. The air monitoring results indicated, for this specific PM task, the potential employee exposure was well below the Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) or not detected.

This article examines the effect of target, perceiver, and relationship characteristics on the perceiver's assessment that the target may be HIV seropositive (HIV+). A sample of 267 persons was recruited from low income, high drug use neighborhoods. Respondents (perceivers) were asked to name people (targets) with whom they had a social, drug sharing, or sexual relationship. Perceivers described 1,640 such relationships. Perceivers were asked about the targets' age, gender, and race/ethnicity, whether the targets were good-looking, their level of trust with the target, and how long they had known them. Perceivers were then asked to evaluate the chances that the target mentioned was HIV+. Two regression models were estimated on the 1,640 relationships mentioned. Model 1 included variables reflecting only target characteristics as independent variables. Model 2 included variables reflecting target characteristics as well as variables reflecting perceivers and perceiver-target relationship characteristics. The results showed that targets that were female, younger, and good-looking were perceived as being less likely to be HIV+. However, when accounting for perceiver and relationship effects, some of the target characteristic effects disappeared.

This study is an initial effort to use network data to forecast the spread of HIV in a large U.S. city. Data were collected from a sample of drug users and sociodemographically matched nonusers in low-income areas of Houston, Texas. Two sample-based HIV prevalence models and two sociological models were combined with three published biological models to yield forecasts of the growth of HIV seroprevalence. The forecasts predict a compounded annual growth in HIV of between 2.4% and 16.5% among low-income residents of Houston's inner city. These results suggest that forecasts are most sensitive to the nature of the sociological model used. A random mixing model showed about a threefold overestimate of 20-year projected seroprevalence compared with the empiric network data. Thus, the collection of additional social network data is probably the most important requirement for more accurate projections.

Anecdotal accounts suggest that residency requirements often lead to denial of services at a time when HIV positive migrators are most in need of these services. However, this suspicion has never been empirically tested. Using needs assessment data collected for Harris County, Texas, this article examines eligibility and knowledge barriers faced by HIV positive recent migrators into Harris County. Results indicated that migration into the county was a significant predictor of failure to receive government-administered basic services such as food services but was not a significant predictor of failure to receive community based organization (CBO)-administered “specialized” services targeted specifically to HIV positive individuals. Results also indicated that migration was associated with knowledge barriers for all types of services.