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Tension on the lumbar fasciae simulating moderate contraction of TrA affects segmental stiffness, particularly toward the neutral zone.

Japanese knotweed, Fallopia japonica var. japonica, causes significant disruption to natural and managed habitats, and provides a model for the control of invasive rhizome-forming species. The socioeconomic impacts of the management of, or failure to manage, Japanese knotweed are enormous, annually costing hundreds of millions of pounds sterling (GBP£) in the UK alone. Our study describes the most extensive field-based assessment of F. japonica control treatments undertaken, testing the largest number of physical and/or chemical control treatments (19 in total) in replicated 225 m 2 plots over 3 years. Treatments focused on phenology, resource allocation and rhizome source-sink relationships to reduce the ecological impacts of controlling F. japonica. While no treatment completely eradicated F. japonica, a multiple-stage glyphosate-based treatment approach provided greatest control. Increasing herbicide dose did not improve knotweed control, but treatments that maximised glyphosate coverage, e.g., spraying versus stem injection, and exploited phenological changes in rhizome source-sink relationships caused the greatest reduction of basal cover and stem density after 3 years. When designing management Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (

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Larticle lournit les premiers r6sultats d'une tentative faite pour rep6ter au Canada une etude americaine SUP le prestige prof essionnel. On y discute d'abord ds la methodologie utilisee et des moyens disponibles pour la poursuite d'enquetes sociales au Canada. On y pr6sente ensuite les valeurs attribuees, quant a u prcstigc ciiacun a 204 emplois dans l'ensemble de l'echantillon canadien et, sbparement, les r6sultats B partir dcs interviews obtenues en anglais et en francais. On ohlient un coefficient de corr6lation trPs 6lev6 entre les rPsuItats de cette recherche et, d'une part, l'etude recente faite aux U.S.A., puis, d'autre part, des recherches anterieures au pays. Les Canadiens attribuent un prestige plus elev6 que les Americains A la plupart des emplois. Les evaluations des francophones diffPrent quelque peu cepwdant, ceci 6tant sans doute dfi en partie ti la traduction des vocables professionnels. Les francophones contribuent moins que les anglophones, par ailleurs, aux evaluations extremes. Les donnees recueillies permettent de se demander si le recensement canadien fait une classification des emplois qui soit adPquate pour Ctre utilisee comme indice de statut socioCconomique. I1 appert qu'une classification des occupations qui proviendrait de recherches sociologiques serait plus adequate dans ce but.Interest in the public evaluation or social ranking of occupations stems from the theory of social stratification, and from the need for a standardized indicator of social class or measure of socio-economic status. A subsidiary interest has been the need in industrial societies to recruit specialized manpower.This manpower interest has meant that occupational ranking has often been done by special and restricted populations, such as school children or college students. It has also meant that the occupations to be ranked were over-weighted with high-prestige and professional m u p ations. These two facts raise questions about the relevance for general stratification analysis of the occupational prestige data so far available.Exceptions are the few instances where occupations have been ranked by national samples. The first of these was the 1947 ranking of 88 occupations, by the National Opinion Research Centre (NORC) , employing old quota sampling techniques and based on a national sample of adults and youths. One of its major findings was that with small variation between the major sub-groupings there was a remarkable consistency in the prestige of occupations, enough to indicate a general ranking consensus for the society. Since 1947 there have been many studies of occupational ranking in both industrialized and developing countries, but only two of these, by Svalastogal in Denmark and Carlsson2 in Sweden, were truly national studies. Others have been extremely limited. For example, in the Hall-Jones study in the United Kingdom the rankers came mainly from the membership of white collar trade unions.3 Thus despite the fact that there have been many studies of occupational prestige only a few can be considered...

Japanese Knotweed s.l. taxa are amongst the most aggressive vascular plant Invasive Alien Species (IAS) in the world. These taxa form dense, suppressive monocultures and are persistent, pervasive invaders throughout the more economically developed countries (MEDCs) of the world. The current paper utilises the Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) approach of Definiens Imaging Developer software, in combination with very high spatial resolution (VHSR) colour infra-red (CIR) and visible-band (RGB) aerial photography in order to detect Japanese Knotweed s.l. taxa in Wales (UK). An algorithm was created using Definiens in order to detect these taxa, using variables found to effectively distinguish them from landscape and vegetation features. The results of the detection algorithm were accurate, as confirmed by field validation and desk-based studies. Further, these results may be incorporated into Geographical Information Systems (GIS) research as they are readily transferable as vector polygons (shapefiles). The successful detection results developed within the Definiens software should enable greater management and control efficacy. Further to this, the basic principles of the detection process could enable detection of these taxa worldwide, given the (relatively) limited technical requirements necessary to conduct further analyses.

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