French grapevines classed in phenotypical ecogeogroups essay

"Professionalizing modern medicine" in French hospitals. Essay review.

historians' interest in death has been highly selective. None has yet given us a broad survey, grounded in the history of ideas, of how the medical profession's attitudes towards death and the treatment of the dying has been congruent with or divergent from those of other educated and professional groups such as judges and priests. Moreover, we also know little about how the practical and ethic...

The Concept of "territory" in French Planning : an Essay in Dialectical Analysis

Thirty-five years ago, Gunnar Olsson was teaching at the University of Michigan while I was visiting for two years at the University of Toronto. I was then involved in "quantitative geography", quite new and popular at the time. But my curiosity went beyond matrix calculus or Volterra-Lotka distribution, into philosophy and particularly into Hegel's logic. I got in touch with Gunnar : both, we ...

SWMREC Report #17 CROP CONTROL IN GRAPEVINES

Effect of Rootstocks on Grapevines

Grafting vines as a means of propagation was known as early as the 2 century B.C. (Cato in his treatise De agri cultua.). The use of rootstocks in Vitis, however, was not extensively used until 1880 because it was the only effective method to combat the devastating root louse phylloxera, Phylloxera vitifoliae (Fitch), (Coombe, 1999). In California, grape growers have been using rootstocks for o...

Spring temperatures alter reproductive development in grapevines

Background and Aims: Climate variation contributes to fluctuations in reproductive output, and spring temperature is thought to influence flower production in grapevines. For 3 years, we studied the influence of temperature from before budswell through to the appearance of individual flowers on reproductive development in field-grown Cabernet Sauvignon while minimising the influence of other mi...