Poor Man Research Articles

Poor Man's Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950

Poor Man's Fortune examines the white working-class men who labored in the lead and zinc mines along the boundaries of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Because these miners opposed social-democratic labor unions and politics in the period leading up to the New Deal, they have not typically received attention from labor historians. They stood apart from the idea of a class-based solidarity, particularly as practiced by the Western Federation of Miners and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, often doing so with what Jarod Roll calls “a powerful animus” (p. 1). They worked as strikebreakers, objected to government attempts to impose health and safety regulations despite the dangers of lung disease, and resisted government encouragement to organize for better pay and working conditions. Over the past few decades, new labor historians have focused on how men and women collectively struggled to improve their working conditions through unions and social movements, and how they challenged their employers, the state, and capitalism. This approach to the study of labor was best exemplified by David Montgomery, who argued that workers in America “developed ‘an ideology of mutualism’” that embraced collective action as critical to their organizing success and to their ability to transcend differences of race, ethnicity, and gender (p. 3). Roll's intervention into this historiography is as significant as it is richly detailed, thoughtfully argued, and a joy to read.

Messengers

Messengers Karen E. Bender (bio) our community was encircled by walls that were eighty feet tall. We had been sealed here, in this compound, for over a hundred years. Our town was spread out on land that stretched for endless miles; there were farms and golden rolling hills and a large clear blue lake. The town was built in concentric circles, so our homes all faced the town square, where we gathered most nights in the purple dusk. We were a successful community because we had started growing a plant. It resembled a walnut but tasted like raspberries, and its fruit produced a very healthy jam, and its leaves could be ground into a gunpowder that was valuable in war. We were busy and productive, and our leaders said we had a responsibility to our customers, who eagerly awaited our items; we could not let them down. Their pictures were on billboards all over town: happy and [End Page 73] nourished, consuming our jams. Our lives surged forward; each spring, the plants broke out of the rust-colored earth and opened up, twisting, green and glorious, into the sun. We woke up, we brushed our hair, we went to the farm or to work or to school; the roofs glinted as each day slid into darkness. But when there were lulls, when we were sitting and talking with our neighbors on our patios and the sky flushed a deep blue, one topic generated a kind of low, dark excitement, made people brighten and lean forward: the appearance of the messengers. For a hundred years, messengers had gathered outside of our community. They arrived annually, during the deep cold of winter, and stood on the other side of the wall, their voices echoing through the silent, chill air as they called for us to accept an envelope and read their message. The community had never accepted any of the messages, ever. We had a great deal of pride about that. ________ in school, we learned that our community had been created after a war, after activities that were unspeakable, and the story we were told was this: Mr. George Worth had discovered the uses of the plant. He had been running along a river, the poor man, exhausted, starving, and as he tumbled to the ground he picked up the scaly green pod. It looked inedible, but George Worth, that genius, decided to crack it open with his teeth. There were casts of George's mouth in classrooms, so we could see close up the teeth that somehow understood the task of survival. We were proud to have brilliant white teeth that could crack anything apart and sometimes cracked fruits at our desks in class, applauded by our teachers. They were most appreciative of those who, through evolution or masterful dentistry, had developed teeth that resembled fangs. We sang songs in honor of Mr. George Worth, whom we were all named after—George1 or Georgina1 through thousands. We remembered the bravery of those who joined Mr. George Worth on this stealthily fertile land, who set up the community and constructed the walls protecting us. The time after the revolution was an uncertain one. Some districts survived and others did not. We had survived, they told us, [End Page 74] because we had worked together so effectively, because we had used our land and bounty to great success. The messengers started to arrive a few years later. They held an envelope with something urgent to tell our leaders, and they said that the community needed to listen to them. Their districts sent just one person at a time because that was all they could spare. The decision to turn them away was made immediately and was resolute. We built our walls higher, kept strengthening them. Certainly, we thought, those in the less successful districts viewed us with envy; we believed their messages were full of malice and threats. So we refused them and waited, with great anticipation, for the people of these districts to try to destroy us. Every month, a siren pierced the air, and we ran down stairs located beneath a closet in our homes. The stairs led to corridors...

Characterization and Evaluation of Bambara Groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) for Yield and Related Traits in Asosa Zone, Northwestern Ethiopia

Bambara groundnut, a future emerging legume, is usually known as a poor man’s crop or as “women’s crop” and newly noted as crop for new millennium. In this context, a field experiment was conducted during 2019/20 cropping season at Sonka testing site of Asosa zone in northwestern Ethiopia with objective to estimate the variability of Bambara groundnut genotypes with respect to important quantitative and qualitative traits. Treatments consisted in 20 accessions collected from five distracts of Benishangul Gumuz province in northwestern Ethiopia. The treatments were laid out in a randomized block design with three replications. All the qualitative characteristics recorded for genotypes showed different modalities and frequencies at vegetative stage with 70.12% of the fully expanded leaflet colour, 74.26% oval terminal leaflet shape, 76.24% petiole green colour, 78.22% stem green colour, 88.27% sparse hair on their stems, 70.41% spreading types, 81.33% rounded base with a point at the top, 90.11% yellowish brown pods at harvest, and 90.06% oval shaped seeds. With respect to quantitative traits, genotypes AMN/04/013, AMN/04/014, AMN/04/015, AMN/04/019, and AMN/04/020 gave relatively higher grain yield (>2000 kg/ha) with the highest grain yield recorded for genotype AMN/04/016. Thus, these genotypes showed relatively better adaptation at tested location. Higher correlation values were observed for days to maturity, plant height, number of stems per plant, pods per plant, seed per pod, and HSW, indicating that these traits are very important to be used in selection for the crop improvement. Agronomic and morphological evaluations have provided more accurate estimation of genetic diversity, the raw material of plant breeding. In general, this study enabled to determine how the influential traits direct to improve Bambara groundnut genotypes.

The Poor Man’s Ewe Lamb (2 Sam 12:1–4) in Intersectional, Interspecies Perspective

Abstract Nathan tells David a story about a rich man who takes and kills a poor man’s lamb (2 Sam 12:1–4). This, it turns out, is figurative for David’s own deeds of killing Uriah the Hittite and taking his wife. The story and its application suggest the intersecting power dynamics between groups: rich and poor, male and female, native and foreigner—and, crucially, human and nonhuman. This article argues that intersectional analysis should include an interspecies dimension, and explores these dynamics at work through various mechanisms of relation. Low status human groups are connected with nonhumans through animalisation, and are thereby delegitimised. Nonhuman animals and animalised humans are positioned as objects within mechanisms of domination, such as exploitation, exchange, and semiosis. The relationship between the poor man and lamb, though, offers another possibility: alliance. Care can be extended across species lines, with implications for intergroup relations throughout the intersectional web.

Exploring Nature in the Selected Poems of Derek Walcott and Kaiser Haq: An Ecocritical Approach

The main goal of this article is to look into the relationship between nature and man as it is portrayed in the poetry of Derek Walcott and Kaiser Haq, two renowned poets from two distinct realms, namely St. Lucia and Bangladesh, respectively. Taking into consideration the rising level of environmental awareness, both poets have attempted to produce poetry that integrates man with nature. The poetry, particularly nature poetry, of these poets is explored in order to undertake study from an individual viewpoint, but there has yet to be a major examination into a comparative technique by adopting an ecocritical approach. In this study, the researchers attempt to uncover the nature of poetry disguised inside the chosen poems of the legendary poets by examining the creative and aesthetic characteristics of their works. This study examines the interaction between man and the environment via the lens of an ecocritical approach in a comparative manner. In this research, one poem by Kaiser Haq, "Poor Man Eating," and one poem by Derek Walcott, "Map of the New World," are examined from the perspective of environmental awareness. By concentrating on these poems and using an ecocritical perspective, this study attempts to demonstrate how the poet is sensitive to nature and how people are concerned about the environment.

Down and Out in Khandu and Qarakhoja: An Autobiography from Late Qing Turfan

Abstract In the summer of 2014, I ran across a short (21-folio) manuscript in the collection of the Institute for Oriental Manuscripts (Institut Vostochnix Rukopisiei) in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Dmitrieva catalog of Turkic manuscripts at the IVR describes the manuscript as follows: “Autograph by a poor man from Qarakhoja in Xinjiang with information about the life of Uyghurs at that time.” It was written in or before 1909. Qarakhoja is a town in the Turfan Depression in eastern Xinjiang, and this text is a memoir or autobiography of a literate but not wealthy man named Obulmahdi (Abū ‘l-Mahdī), recounting his life from his childhood in the 1850s through the first decade of the twentieth century. It presents a record of a complex life on the margins of society in the last years of the Qing empire’s (1636/44–1912) rule in Xinjiang.

A New Paradigm in Split Manufacturing: Lock the FEOL, Unlock at the BEOL

Split manufacturing was introduced as a countermeasure against hardware-level security threats such as IP piracy, overbuilding, and insertion of hardware Trojans. However, the security promise of split manufacturing has been challenged by various attacks which exploit the well-known working principles of design tools to infer the missing back-end-of-line (BEOL) interconnects. In this work, we define the security of split manufacturing formally and provide the associated proof, and we advocate accordingly for a novel, formally secure paradigm. Inspired by the notion of logic locking, we protect the front-end-of-line (FEOL) layout by embedding secret keys which are implemented through the BEOL in such a way that they become indecipherable to foundry-based attacks. At the same time, our technique is competitive with prior art in terms of layout overhead, especially for large-scale designs (ITC’99 benchmarks). Furthermore, another concern for split manufacturing is its practicality (despite successful prototyping). Therefore, we promote an alternative implementation strategy, based on package-level routing, which enables formally secure IP protection without splitting at all, and thus, without the need for a dedicated BEOL facility. We refer to this as “poor man’s split manufacturing” and we study the practicality of this approach by means of physical-design exploration.

Poor Man's Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950

Poor Man's Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950

To Be Powerful Without the Means of Power

This article inquires into the tension between power as restriction and power as empowerment, as investigated by means of performance in two works: aCORdo by Alice Ripoll and Azdora by Markus Öhrn. These works, which offer a glimpse of the possible shifts from ‘power over’ to ‘power to,’ are put into dialogue with feminist thinkers Luisa Muraro and Rosi Braidotti. Their concepts of authority as a way ‘to be powerful without the means of power’ and of potentia as ‘the capability of enduring and resisting’ are oriented to think power as oriented to the construction of possibilities and relationships. The two performances give to these concepts a body marked by a specific identity: the poor man of colour and the industrious housewife. Yet, rather than setting at the centre the bodies themselves, the works complexify the relationships around them. Through the theatre device, they flip around a set of relations between fixed identities and open them up to often unnoticed ways of performing power and authority, embed their transformation process in a radical relationality, and set the conditions for the experience of an affirmative potentia.

Phytochemical compositions and insecticidal efficacy of four agro-waste used as biological control of cowpea beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus (Fab.) [Coleoptera: Bruchidae

BackgroundThe cowpea bruchid, Callosobruchus maculatus is the major postharvest insect pest of cowpea seeds in storage. This had led to huge losses and quality deterioration of stored cowpea seeds that serve as poor man’s meat in lieu of expensive meat source in developing countries. This research was carried out to evaluate the bioefficacy of rice husk, maize cob, groundnut, and cowpea pods against C. maculatus in the laboratory. Adult insect mortality, eggs laid, adult emergence, damaged seeds, weight loss and beetle perforation index (BPI) were evaluated. Phytochemicals of the wastes were investigated.ResultsThe result showed that the agricultural wastes contained alkaloids (1.56–2.77 mg/g), saponin (1.51–3.38 mg/g), phytate (7.00–17.76 mg/g), oxalate (0.32–1.13 mg/g). All agricultural wastes showed a high mortality effect on C. maculatus, and their effects increased as the exposure time and concentration/ dosage increased. Beetle mortality was highest in cowpea pod with 80% mortality for powder after 3 and 4 days when applied at 0.5 g/20 g cowpea seed. This showed that cowpea pod powder has the greatest insecticidal activity while the least was observed in maize cob powder (73.33%). Fewer adults emerged with maize cob having the least emergence when applied at 0.2–0.5 g dosage. Extracts of all agricultural wastes tested against C. maculatus were able to affect 70–100% mortality after 4 days of application at concentration 0.5 ml with cowpea pod extract causing 100% mortality of beetle after 4 days of application. The calculated lethal dose (LD50 and LD90) and concentrations (LC50 and LC90) of wastes powders and extracts cowpea pod was observed to have the lowest lethal dose while maize cob wastes were the highest across all period of exposure.ConclusionBase on the results obtained, cowpea pod waste was the most toxic in biocontrol of C. maculatus.

Book Review: Poor Man’s Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950 by Roll, Jarod

Book Review: <i>Poor Man’s Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950</i> by Roll, Jarod

Ethnobotany of stinging nettle (Urtica simensis Hochst. ex. A. Rich.) in the Oromia region of central and southeastern highlands of Ethiopia

BackgroundStinging nettle, Urtica simensis, has a wide range of distribution in the highlands of Ethiopia with untapped potential for a sustainable supply of healthy and nutritious food. This study was conducted to document ethnobotanical uses of U. simensis and the associated traditional knowledge of the indigenous people and to identify the factors limiting harvesting and utilization of stinging nettle in North Shewa (R4), Bale and Arsi zones of the Oromia region, central and southeastern highlands of Ethiopia.MethodsThirteen districts were purposively selected from the three zones and a total of 130 respondents were sampled, with consideration of gender, age, occupation, and wealth status. Data were collected using semistructured interviews, tour-guided field observations, and focus group discussions. IBM SPSS Statistical software package was used to analyze ethnobotanical data.ResultsPearson’s chi-square analysis showed that there is a significant association (P < 0.05) between zones and districts in the ethnobotanical knowledge of use categories. Stinging nettle plants have an average use value index of 0.91 with a central role (FL = 44.8%) as a source of food and fodder. Cultural norms and values followed by lack of knowledge and stinginess were the main limiting factor for harvesting and consumption of U. simensis. Cultural norms and values showed significantly higher correlations with the various uses of U. simensis (r2 = 0.931, p < 0.001) indicating the stigma related to stinging nettle being associated as poor man food or famine food were probably a major limiting factor for the utilization of U. simensis.ConclusionsFuture strategic policies should consider U. simensis as a source of food and fodder to fight food insecurity and improve the wellbeing of society. There is a need for local level and countrywide awareness creation, domestication, and future research on value addition and processing for effective utilization of the plant.

Mystery and Intelligibility: History of Philosophy as Pursuit of Wisdom ed. by Jeffrey Dirk Wilson

Reviewed by: Mystery and Intelligibility: History of Philosophy as Pursuit of Wisdom ed. by Jeffrey Dirk Wilson John Marenbon WILSON, Jeffrey Dirk, editor. Mystery and Intelligibility: History of Philosophy as Pursuit of Wisdom. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2021. xi + 262 pp. Cloth, $75.00; eBook $75.00 This book is somewhat less schematic and coherent than the subtitle might suggest. It collects seven essays by different authors, some published previously. Four of them address particular areas and themes in the history of philosophy. Jeffrey Wilson argues that Plato and Aristotle valued Homeric myth by contrast with the demythologizing philosophers who preceded them. Donald Verene also writes about metaphysics and myth, developing ideas from Vico, Kant, Hegel, Bradley, and Cassirer. William Desmond looks at Heraclitus, partly through the eyes of Hegel and Nietzsche. Eric Perl contends that the question "Why is there anything at all?", taken in its "absolute" sense not restricted to concrete objects, is not "distinctively modern" but "has scarcely been asked since the Middle Ages," except by Heidegger. These pieces could be regarded as examples of "history of philosophy as pursuit of wisdom" in practice. It is in the three remaining essays (and the editor's long, programmatic introduction) that the volume makes its theoretical claims. In "What is Philosophy?" Philipp Rosemann does not directly answer his ambitious question but tells us that philosophy is one of four axes, along with "the narrative, the religious, and the political," found "in every field of human experience." The philosophers he considers in this vein are a few celebrated figures of the distant and more recent past: Plato, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein (all figures, interestingly, from outside Rosemann's medieval specialism). His most telling point is perhaps all the stronger for being left unsaid. The three dimensions he specifies are all areas usually neglected by analytical philosophers and historians of philosophy—although politics is indeed frequently treated by them as a special topic, Rosemann has in mind the political dimension of any philosophy, as evinced by Leo Strauss. In his "Guide for the Perplexed," the historian of ancient philosophy John Rist explains "how to present or pervert the history of philosophy." Rist is especially interested in the perversions, as practiced by "sophists," ranging from the assumption that a later philosopher must have read an earlier one, to constructing "dustbin" philosophers to whom a variety of [End Page 609] fragments can be attributed, to the type of charitable interpretation by which a thinker who lived centuries ago is recognized as having produced "a poor man's version of what is better spelled out" by a much more recent one, to the interpretative ruthlessness by which whole passages in old texts are dismissed as "ridiculous" and ignored. The students who can recognize and avoid sophists can genuinely learn philosophy, which Rist, unlike Rosemann, is willing to define: "a love of truth which drives us to try to understand, not various sets of facts about the world, but what the world is, if possible why it is, and what we are ourselves." Rist clearly believes that being taught philosophy, so understood, involves intensive study of past philosophers, because modernity—which he dates to the "new science" of Bacon and Descartes and the "new morality-substitutes of Machiavelli and Hobbes"—is not the only way forward, and it is one of the basic duties of philosophers today to challenge modernity's assumptions. Timothy Noone defends, more explicitly than Rosemann and Rist (who just take it for granted), the view that doing philosophy involves, centrally, studying texts from the past. Noone sets up his own position by contrast with that of another well-known medievalist, Jorge Gracia. For Gracia, although philosophy of the past can have some direct use in suggesting ideas and arguments to philosophers today, and in training students in the art of reasoning, its main value is related to the fact that philosophy is grounded in particular cultures. A knowledge of its history helps us to transcend cultural provincialism. Noone finds that this answer alone does not allow history of philosophy to be sufficiently intimate with and indeed "constitutive of" philosophy. In Noone's view, philosophy is...

Overcoming barriers to sustainable, healthy diets

Overcoming barriers to sustainable, healthy diets

Goat Rearing Enterprise in Osmanabad District of Maharashtra: A Cost and Profitability Measures

The father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi had given a dignified position to goats in India’s rural economy and called them as “poor man’s cow”. The present study was conducted to estimate cost and return of goat rearing enterprise in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra during year 2019-20 with using a well-structured questionnaire from 32 goat rearers. The result of revealed that per flock per annum total cost incurred was ` 118905, in which share of variable cost was 72.57 per cent followed by that of fixed cost 27.43 per cent. At overall level per flock per annum gross return was ` 169583.85. At overall level the net profit in goat rearing enterprise was ` 123229. The study revealed that benefit cost (B-C) ratio for per flock of goat was 3.66. In order to turn goat rearing into profitable enterprise in Osmanabad district, the goat rearers must be given training on credit facilities, proper marketing and reduction of the middlemen will ultimately reduce the marketing cost and better income for the rearers.

Impact of Frontline Demonstrations on Production and Productivity of Pulses in Arid Regions of Nagaur District of Rajasthan

Background: Pulses are well known richest source of vegetable protein and is known as poor man’s food because of its essential component in diet. The frontline demonstrations of pulses were carried out on 311.8 ha area with 694 demonstrations in different clusters of Nagaur district of Rajasthan. Methods: Front line demonstrations on chickpea, mung bean and moth bean crop were conducted by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Nagaur-I, Agriculture University, Jodhpur during rabi and Kharif season of 2011-12 to 2019-20. Result: In demonstrations up to 29.43%, 30.29% and 35.22% yield increase of chickpea, mungbean and moth bean crop was observed over the farmer’s practices in the year 2011-12, 2017 and 2016. The yield gap between improved technology and conventional farmer’s practices was ranging from 1.98 to 4.54 q/ha, 0.61 to 2.55 q/ha and 0.6 to 1.68 q/ha, respectively. Whereas, the highest net returns of ₹ 71,881 ha-1, ₹ 45,884 ha-1 and ₹ 14,315 ha-1 was observed in the year 2019-20, 2014 and 2016, respectively with the highest incremental cost benefit ratio of 1:3.71, 1:3.95 and 1:1.97 under demonstrations practices.

Nutritional and nutraceutical properties of goat milk for human health: A review

Milk are considered as the best source of nutrients in well balanced ratio, and it also performs a number of beneficial biological activities in the human body that improves digestive system, metabolic activities to ingested nutrients, organ’s growth maintenance, development and resistance against diseases. Goats are considered to be the oldest domestic animals, domesticated for meat and milk and are known as the poor man's animal. Goat milk is nature's closest thing to perfect food. The constituent and composition of goat milk is totally different from cow or buffalo milk. Goat milk is nutritionally more or less matches to human milk which is not very much similar to cow's milk. It also possesses lots of medicinal properties. Lactose intolerance patients will be benefited from goat milk because it has less lactose than human and cow milk. It contains proteins, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, trace elements and enzymes that can be easily assimilated in our body. Smaller and uniform fat globules of goat milk make them easily digestible in the body. It contains higher selenium concentration which acts on regeneration of blood platelet suffering from dengue fever. Protein content in goat milk is lower than cow milk and is easily digestible when compared to cow or buffalo milk. Taurine is present in goat milk which has inhibitory effect on hypertension, cardiovascular disease and synthesizes essential amino acids in human body. Asthma, anemia, stomach ulcers, constipation, sleeplessness, and neurotic indigestion have all been shown to be treated with goat milk. The goal of this review is to look at the differences in goat milk composition from cow and human milk, as well as the nutraceutical benefits on human health.

Trade Liberalization: Reaping Its Effects on the Agricultural Performance of the Philippines

Over the years, economists had been taught that "Trade can make everyone better off", thus the rationale of the dynamic shift in the Philippine agricultural trade system from protectionism to trade liberalization. It was known that the Philippines was one of the champions in the agriculture sector as it had massively produced agricultural goods and exports during the late 20th century. However, various studies and reports have shown and concluded that agriculture in the Philippine setting is now dubbed as the “poor man’s sector”. In this study, it has reaped the reality of the country’s stance in trade agreements as it has examined the correlation of trade openness, imports of goods, and employment to the Value of Production in Agriculture—wherein, it has resulted in distinct conclusions such as (1) trade openness has a negative impact to VPA, (2) imports of goods increase VPA by 0.094373, and (3) employment’s positive impact is estimated to be at 4570.708. The researchers suggest that such results and analysis are vital for the government sector and thus revisit the pros and cons of trade policies and weigh their net effects on the agricultural sector to which people owe their daily nutrition.

Breeding Potential of Some Exotic Tomato Lines: A Combined Study of Morphological Variability, Genetic Divergence, and Association of Traits

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is called ‘the poor man’s orange’ due to its low price and improved nutritional values. An experiment was conducted to study the breeding potential of some exotic tomato lines by assessing various qualitative and quantitative traits conferring yield and quality attributes. Among the qualitative traits, greater variability was observed for growth type, stem hairiness, and fruit shape and size. A determinate growth habit was observed in the genotype AVTO9802 while the genotype AVTO0102 produced yellow color fruits. A significant (p ≤ 0.01) variation was also observed for the studied quantitative traits. Based on yield and traits attributed to yield, the genotypes AVTO0314, GPB0107, GPB0120 and AVTO9802 were selected as promising genotypes. The differences between the genotypic and phenotypic coefficients of variation (GCV and PCV) of the studied quantitative traits were very low. This suggests that the apparent variation was mainly due to the genotypes. The higher GCV and PCV values were observed for the number of primary branches plant−1 (NPB), number of fruits cluster−1 (NFC), individual fruit weight (IFW) and total soluble solids (TSS). High heritability was recorded for all quantitative traits in a broad sense. However, the individual fruit diameter showed the highest heritability (99.56). The highest (102.75) genetic advance (GA) was observed for the number of fruits plant−1 (NFP). High heritability coupled with high GA as percentage of mean were recorded for the traits NFP, NFC, fruit yield plant−1 (FYP) and IFW. FYP showed a significant positive correlation with NFC (0.714***) and a negative correlation with days to the first harvest (−0.539***) and plant height (−0.492**). Principal component analysis revealed that the first four components explained 78.5% of the total variation among the genotypes. Thus, the promising genotypes (AVTO0314, GPB0107, GPB0120, AVTO9802 and AVTO0102) isolated from this study can be used for developing high-yielding and high-quality tomato varieties.

Digital rectal examination in defecatory disorders: Is it poor man's anorectal manometry?

Digital rectal examination in defecatory disorders: Is it poor man's anorectal manometry?