Putting Down Roots: Gardening Insights from Wisconsin's Early Settlers

Putting Down Roots: A Graphical Exploration of Community Attachment

In this paper, we explore the relationships that individuals have with their communities. This work was prepared as part of the ASA Data Expo ‘13 sponsored by the Graphics Section and the Computing Section, using data provided by the Knight Foundation Soul of the Community survey. The Knight Foundation in cooperation with Gallup surveyed 43,000 people over three years in 26 communities across t...

Putting up and Putting Down: Tolerance Reconsidered

Putting Down Roots: How Nitrate and Abscisic Acid Help Shape Root System Architecture.

Nitrate has profound effects on plant growth and development. Adequate nitrate levels inhibit lateral root growth, as the plant senses it has all the nitrate it needs. Conversely, a patch of nitrate in poor soil triggers the initiation or elongation of lateral roots, a remarkably plastic process that requires the interplay of nitrate sensing and auxin signaling pathways (Krouk et al., 2010). Th...

Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics

F rank Knight (1921) proposed that we should not think of entrepreneurship as simply investment under risk, where decisions are made with respect to an objectively known distribution of returns. He argued that entrepreneurship in such a world would not require any particular skill and it would be inconceivable that entrepreneurs could earn rents simply for bearing objective risk as a market sho...

Down-up Algebras at Roots of Unity

In this note, we show that down-up algebras at roots of unity are maximal orders over their centers.