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Church Planting in New York City: A Case for a Global Cities Church Planting Strategy
… at the missiological implications of church planting in global cities. Chapter 1 introduces the main argument for this thesis: that all evangelism strategies should hold church planting as the end goal and that the most strategic places to implement these strategies are our global cities as …
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Sustainable landscape planting in the Negev Desert
The research concerns the potential for using the native plants of the Negev Desert in southern Israel in the Negev, which will help to promote more sustainable landscape development in the region. The study combines the data collection in the field of 163 plant species located in the Negev desert …
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PLANTING RESISTANCE: A history of seed sovereignty
Seed sovereignty has emerged as a powerful grassroots social movement that seeks to overturn the dominance of industrial agriculture in the twenty-first century. By centring the collective knowledge of small farmers and indigenous groups who safeguard crop diversity, seed sovereignty activists …
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Corn planting methods in Virginia's residue mulch
… Experiment Station to determine a method of planting corn in a vegetative residue mulch seedbed which would result in stand and yields as good as obtained in planting in a conventionally prepared seedbed. Yields obtained in the first experiments in Virginia were very low because methods used …
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Planting trees, planting hope: an analysis of the role of urban forestry in addressing environmental inequality in Cape Town
The presence of trees in urban spaces has been identified as providing numerous environmental, psychosocial, and economic benefits. However, rather than being an equally distributed resource which all city residents share, tree cover in Cape Town, South Africa tends to be a marker of environmental …
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Design of a tree moving and planting device
Planting trees that weigh over 200 pounds normally requires three or more able persons. Therefore, a device that allows a single person to easily and efficiently plant such trees possible by one person is highly desirable. During a Product Design class in the Mechanical Engineering Department at …
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Corn planting strategies in the United States Corn Belt
… corn (Zea mays L.) producers aim to start planting operations in mid-April. Early planting allows for the use of longer-season corn varieties, which tend to yield more than shorter-season varieties. However, constraints to early planting in the U.S. Corn Belt include excessive soil moisture …
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Effects of Soybean Cultivars and Planting Dates on Biomass Production
… the effects of cultivar maturity differences and planting dates on biomass production of soybean. The research was conducted on the Western Kentucky University Farm in 1993. The experimental design was a split-split-plot with four replications. The three planting dates (June 2, June 16, and July …
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Influence of Tree Planting Program Characteristics on Environmental Justice Outcomes
… subject to higher rates of health problems. Planting programs are a common way that municipal and nonprofit urban forest organizations attempt to increase canopy in cities. Increasing canopy in underserved communities is a commonly desired outcome, but which of the wide range of programmatic …
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Urban Restoration Ecology: Investigating environmental change, ecological function, and enrichment planting
… forests, it is unclear how dynamics change after planting and over the long-term, and hence what best management practices should be used in the decades following initial plantings. This thesis addresses these knowledge gaps through three separate studies on restored urban forests. The first study …
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The seed: Planting renewal by recentering and reconstructing downtown Midland,TX
As changes in social structure, communication, and interaction cause increased separation, indifference and anonymity, the needs of individuals, families, and cities also change. Private and public spaces must integrate these new cultural norms to update the existing post-war typologies that no …
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Planting Seeds of Change: Teaching for Social Justice in Elementary Classrooms
<p>Much research has been done on novice teachers’ dispositions and how their beliefs contribute to the enactment of equitable or inequitable teaching practices. Ways that deficit-based beliefs and inequitable pedagogical choices have negatively impacted students of color and low-income students …
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Yield and Quality of Pathogen-Free Horseradish (Armoracia Rusticana) Planting Stock
… by sets in the traditional manner (control). PF planting material produced higher yields than the control in all fields (high and low disease pressure). In many cases, PF plants produced two to three times the yield of the control. Additionally, 90% of the PF plants remained symptom-free …
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Does agronomic management affect an at-planting fungicide application on corn?
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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An Alternative Planting Treatment for Turf Open Spaces in Conservation Subdivisions
… through the use of an ecologically based planting design. The following thesis project focuses on an alternative landscape planting treatment for these large open spaces, a treatment that has a significant cost savings and offers a different experience.
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Restoration planting options for Pinus flexilis James in the southern Rocky Mountains
… to P. flexilis survival. To develop forest-scale planting methods, six P. flexilis seedling planting trial sites were installed, extending from the Medicine Bow National Forest in southern Wyoming to the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado. Six plots were established …
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Influence of tree planting guidelines on street tree distribution along bus corridors
… users. This study examines how municipal tree planting regulations influence street tree density along bus routes in 15 U.S. cities. Analysis of street tree distributions revealed that in 73% of the cities, tree density was lower along bus routes compared to non-bus routes. Spacing regulations …
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Planting: One director's approach to cultivating and nurturing within a female ensemble
… and love, here is a story of some extraordinary planting.
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