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Abstract Brewers are seeking new public hop ( Humulus lupulus L.) cultivars that exhibit desirable tropical and stone‐fruit aroma profiles for use in hop‐forward beer styles. ‘USDA‐ARS Vera’ (Reg. no. CV‐31, PI 707888) is a new hop developed in collaboration between USDA‐ARS and Washington State University and released by USDA‐ARS in 2025. USDA‐ARS Vera resulted from a cross made between Brewer's Gold and a powdery mildew‐resistant male hop of Wild American descent, USDA 64103M, in 2011. USDA‐ARS Vera was tested under the experimental name W1108‐333 and later HRC003. The cultivar is low in alpha acids (3.79%–5.44%) and is mid‐to‐late maturing (median harvest date September 20 in Washington and Idaho), with on‐farm yields between 1723 and 3049 kg ha −1 when mature (≥2 years). The aroma of USDA‐ARS Vera is described as tropical, stone fruit, and citrus, and the descriptors are consistent from dry rub to the final beer. The cultivar possesses resistance to the predominant races of the causal pathogen of hop powdery mildew present in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and moderate susceptibility to hop downy mildew. This release provides brewers and growers with a new, fruit‐forward aroma hop with powdery mildew resistance that is freely available to the public and absent of intellectual property restrictions.

In the span of the last 3 decades, the increase in technology has led to the digitalization conversion of information into digital form becoming necessary to utilize the development of various technologies. In digital form, images play a very dominant role in storing the relevant information of an event. This has led to an increase in research work in the field of digital image processing. In various domains of digital image processing, image fusion plays a major role when there is a need to utilize various images from a single source to extract information. In image fusion, various images are fused to produce a single image that contains the dominant information of all these images. This has sparked an impetuous passion to develop the domain of image fusion for researchers. As researchers are inclined to develop various strategies, in the last decade, this has led to an increase in the vast range of techniques to utilize. In this work, a statistical study of various latest image fusion methodologies was accomplished, and a detailed description of these was provided. Along with this, further enhancements of the discussed techniques were proposed in the accomplished work.

Agricultural industrial waste has demonstrated potential as a soil acidity corrector and fertilizer, in addition to reducing environmental impacts caused by inadequate waste disposal. Ornamental rock waste is a sustainable alternative as it contains essential elements for plant growth. (1) Background: this study aims to evaluate using marble waste in SENA and the Gallo Crudo Quarry in Colombia as an acidity mitigator in soils cultivated with maize (Zea mays) in a greenhouse. (2) Method: four treatments were applied: T0: without marble dust—MD; three doses of MD (T1: 1.1 Mg of MD ha−1; T2: 2.2 Mg of MD ha−1; and T3: 3.3 Mg of MD ha−1). After 70 days, soil fertility analyses were carried out. (3) Results: The results show that the chemical properties of the soil improved with all treatments, mainly with T2, influencing the calcium (Ca), carbon (C), sulfur (S), and magnesium (Mg) contents. MD’s pH and Al + H values were higher than conventional treatments. The T2 treatment reduced soil acidity from 0.2 cmol + kg−1 to 0.0 cmol + kg−1 and increased pH to 7.91 compared to the control (5.4). The maize plants in the T2 treatment developed better, indicating that the dose of 2.2 Mg of MD ha−1 can replace commercial limestone. (4) Conclusions: This agroecological technique is an innovative alternative in Colombia, replicable in areas with ornamental rock reserves, benefiting the agricultural economy and contributing to target the Sustainable Development Goals, which promote sustainability, responsible management of natural resources, and a reduction in environmental impacts.

Book Review| March 01 2023 Review: Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley, by Monica De La Torre Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley, by Monica De La Torre Arcelia Gutiérrez Arcelia Gutiérrez ARCELIA GUTIÉRREZ is an assistant professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her essays on Latinx media, media activism, and new media can be found in Critical Studies in Media Communication, Television & New Media, and Feminist Media Histories. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar BOOK DATA Monica De La Torre, Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. $99.00 hardcover; $27.95 paper. 176 pages. Film Quarterly (2023) 76 (3): 110–112. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.110 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Arcelia Gutiérrez; Review: Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley, by Monica De La Torre. Film Quarterly 1 March 2023; 76 (3): 110–112. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.110 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFilm Quarterly Search BOOK DATA Monica De La Torre, Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. $99.00 hardcover; $27.95 paper. 176 pages. Although radio is commonly perceived as a medium of the past, it remains one of the most effective life-sustaining tools for Spanish-speaking Latinx communities in the United States. Monica De La Torre’s Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley traces the importance of Spanish-language community radio for relatively isolated rural communities in the Pacific Northwest. In particular, the book centers on the history and herstory of Radio Cadena (KDNA 91.9 FM), the first Chicana/o-owned and -operated full-time Spanish-language community radio station in the United States. Launched in 1979 as “la voz del campesino” (the voice of the farmworker), KDNA produces and broadcasts educational, cultural, and informational programming that speaks to the realities of farmworkers of Mexican... You do not currently have access to this content.

I have the privilege of serving as the Director for the Washington State Allied Health Center of Excellence; one of 12 Centers of Excellence (each representing a different "driver" industry) devoted to addressing the workforce needs of the State. The Center provides statewide leadership in workforce education and training within the health care sector: Allied Health-Nursing-Behavioral Health-Health Sciences. We serve as a state-wide hub, connecting with the state's community and technology college system as well as health care industry. Our Center serves as the point of contact and resource for industry trends, best practices, innovative curriculum, and professional development activities. The Center works to maximize resources by bringing together workforce education and industry partners to develop highly skilled, work ready graduates. The Center of Excellence system in Washington State is an important workforce development innovation. In this commentary I am excited to share some of our work in the health care sector. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

The peer review history for this article is available at https://publons.com/publon/10.1002/icd.2353. Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.

Memorializes Robert Allen Gardner (1930-2021). Gardner and his late wife and research partner, Beatrix "Trixie" Gardner, are best known for their ground-breaking cross-fostering project with the chimpanzee Washoe, the first nonhuman to learn a human language (American Sign Language). Between 1972 and 198, Allen and Trixie replicated their success with four additional infant chimpanzees. Allen cofounded and was a psychology fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Nevada in Reno, and served as director from 1990 to 1993. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Background: The events of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic forced the world to adopt telemedicine frameworks to comply with isolation and stay-at-home regulations. Telemedicine, in various forms, has been used by patients and medical professionals for quite some time, especially telepsychiatry. To examine the efficacy and role of telesimulation as a method to educate health sciences students via telepresence robots. The study recruited students from the above health science disciplines. All participants were trained to administer a contextual interview to a standardized patient (SP) for mental health concerns. Methods: The completion of the contextual interview observation form adult (CIOF-A), National Aeronautics and Space Administration Task Load Index, self-efficacy in patient centeredness questionnaire (SEPCQ), and communication skills attitude scale with or without a telepresence robot. All participants completed baseline metrics and were trained to conduct a contextual interview to an SP. Researchers block-randomized the participants to either the telepresence robot group (TP) or in-person (IP) group. Results: The study recruited n = 43 participants to the IP group (n = 21) or TP group (n = 22). Mean participant demographics of age were 25.3 (±1.9) years in the IP group and 24.3 (±2.1) years for the TP group. Mean and standard deviation scores with effect sizes in CIOF-A scores IP: 0.05 (±1.91) and TP: -0.45 (±1.71), Cohen's d = 0.28; SEPCQ-Patient Domain scores IP: 0.42 (±4.69) and TP: 0.50 (±7.18), Cohen's d = 0.01; change in SEPCQ-Sharing Domain scores IP: 0.53 (±5.10) and TP: 0.91 (±9.98), Cohen's d = 0.05. These effect sizes will inform future studies and appropriate sample sizes. Conclusion: These data indicate that health sciences students utilizing a telepresence robot in an SP scenario to perform a behavioral health screening felt as comfortable and competent as those health sciences students performing the same behavioral health screening in person. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03661372.