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Pirchio, Michel, Marco Fontanelli, Christian Frasconi, Luisa Martelloni, Michele Raffaelli, Andrea Peruzzi, Lisa Caturegli, et al. "Autonomous Rotary Mower versus Ordinary Reel Mower—Effects of Cutting Height and Nitrogen Rate on Manila Grass Turf Quality." HortTechnology 28, no. 4 (August 2018): 509–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech04064-18.

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High-quality sports turfs often require low mowing and frequent maintenance. Sports turfs often consist of hard-to-mow warm season turfgrasses, such as zoysiagrass (Zoysia sp.) or bermudagrass (Cynodon sp.). Although autonomous mowers have several advantages over manually operated mowers, they are not designed to mow lower than 2.0 cm and are consequently not used on high-quality sports turfs. All autonomous mowers are only equipped with rotary mowing devices and do not perform clipping removal. An ordinary autonomous mower was modified to obtain a prototype autonomous mower cutting at a low height. The prototype autonomous mower was tested on a manila grass (Zoysia matrella) turf and compared its performance in terms of turf quality and energy consumption with an ordinary autonomous mower and with a gasoline reel mower. A three-way factor experimental design with three replications was adopted. Factor A consisted of four nitrogen rates (0, 50, 100, and 150 kg·ha−1), factor B consisted of two mowing systems (autonomous mower vs. walk-behind gasoline reel mower with no clipping removal), and factor C consisted of two mowing heights (1.2 and 3.6 cm). Prototype autonomous mower performed mowing at 1.2-cm mowing height whereas ordinary autonomous mower mowed at 3.6-cm mowing height. The interaction between the mowing system and mowing height showed that the turf quality was higher when the turf was mowed by the autonomous mower and at 1.2 cm than at 3.6 cm. Autonomous mowing not only reduced the mowing quality, but also reduced the leaf width. Lower mowing height induced thinner leaves. Nitrogen fertilization not only increased the overall turf quality, reduced weed cover percentage, but also reduced mowing quality. Autonomous mowers also had a lower energy consumption if compared with the reel mower (1.86 vs. 5.37 kWh/week at 1.2-cm mowing height and 1.79 vs. 2.32 kWh/week at 3.6-cm mowing height, respectively). These results show that autonomous mowers can perform low mowing even on tough-to-mow turfgrass species. They could also be used on high-quality sports turfs, thus saving time as well as reducing noise and pollution.
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Robins, Joseph G., Blair L. Waldron, and Paul G. Johnson. "Potential for the Improvement of Turf Quality in Crested Wheatgrass for Low-maintenance Conditions." HortScience 42, no. 7 (December 2007): 1526–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.42.7.1526.

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With the exception of the undesirable characteristic of summer dormancy and the accompanying low aesthetic value, crested wheatgrass has many desirable characteristics in semiarid environments, making it a promising candidate for lower water use turf. Using a population of 27 half-sib families, this study characterized the underlying genetics of turf quality (based on a 1–9 rating scale) of crested wheatgrass and compared the performance of crested wheatgrass turf with traditional control cultivars (‘Cody’ buffalograss, ‘Gazelle’ tall fescue, ‘Manhattan 3’ perennial ryegrass, and ‘Midnight’ Kentucky bluegrass) over 2 years under space-planted conditions. Heritability estimates were generally high (h2 = 0.44 to 0.84) and suggested a strong additive genetic component for crested wheatgrass turf quality throughout the summer months. Genotypic correlations among the monthly turf quality scores were very high (greater than 0.90) indicating a strong commonality for the genetics underlying turf quality during any point in the growing season. Thus, a breeding program aimed at improving turf quality in this population of crested wheatgrass would stand a good chance for success. However, primarily as a result of summer dormancy, the crested wheatgrass turf performed poorly compared with the control cultivars during late spring and early summer. Turf quality scores in early July were ≈3 for the crested wheatgrass half-sib families compared with scores between 5 and 6 for the traditional turf species. Thus, crested wheatgrass, for the near future, will likely be a viable turf candidate only in situations in which turf aesthetics are secondary to a desire for low-input requiring species.
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Shaver, Bradly R., S. Bruce Martin, William C. Bridges, and Paula Agudelo. "Effects of Trichodorus obtusus on zoysiagrass and bermudagrass root weight and turfgrass quality." Nematology 17, no. 6 (2015): 671–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685411-00002899.

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Trichodorus obtusus is a damaging stubby-root nematode encountered on turf. Few reports exist about the effects of T. obtusus feeding on turfgrass in field settings. A 2-year field trial was conducted to evaluate the effects of T. obtusus on turf quality and root weight of Tifway bermudagrass and Empire zoysiagrass. Core samples and turf quality ratings were taken on multiple sampling dates, from plots at multiple locations in South Carolina, USA. Nematode population densities, root weights and turf quality were used to describe the linear and non-linear relationships between them. Zoysiagrass root weights increased, but turf quality decreased with nematode population density. Bermudagrass root weights and quality decreased in response to increased nematode population densities. Our results show that T. obtusus can cause significant reductions in turfgrass quality, and zoysiagrass and bermudagrass were able to tolerate low nematode population densities before turf quality reductions were detectable.
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Johnson, G. A., J. G. Davis, Y. L. Qian, and K. C. Doesken. "Topdressing Turf with Composted Manure Improves Soil Quality and Protects Water Quality." Soil Science Society of America Journal 70, no. 6 (November 2006): 2114–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2005.0287.

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Kimball, Jennifer A., Thomas G. Isleib, William C. Reynolds, Maria C. Zuleta, and Susana R. Milla-Lewis. "Combining Ability for Winter Survival and Turf Quality Traits in St. Augustinegrass." HortScience 51, no. 7 (July 2016): 810–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.51.7.810.

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New elite st. augustinegrass cultivars with improved cold tolerance and desirable turf quality are needed for the turf industry, especially in the transitional climatic region of the United States. To efficiently use sources of cold tolerance in a breeding program, an understanding of the genetic control of this trait and its relationship to important turf quality traits is required. Therefore, the objective of this study was to estimate general and specific combining abilities for cold response and turf quality traits. Six diploid genotypes of st. augustinegrass were selected as parents for a diallel mating design without reciprocals and evaluated over 3 years at two locations. The true hybridity of crosses was confirmed using simple sequence repeats (SSR). Combining ability analysis revealed that both general and specific combining abilities were significant across years and locations. Specific combining ability (SCA) was the largest source of genetic variation for winter survival, genetic color, turf density, and end-of-season cover indicating that nonadditive gene effects play a key role in the inheritance of these traits. The parental genotype ‘GF2’ was identified as a promising parent for future breeding efforts as it provided positive general combining ability (GCA) effects for both cold tolerance and turf quality traits, which were not significantly correlated with one another. Lines identified as parental selfs generally showed lower cold response and inferior turf quality than the original parental lines indicating that inbreeding depression can occur in st. augustinegrass. This study provides information regarding the combining ability of cold response and turf quality traits in st. augustinegrass, which will ultimately aid in parental selection for our future breeding efforts.
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Fermanian, Thomas W., and Jean E. Haley. "Application of Prodiamine to Immature Turfs." Weed Technology 8, no. 3 (September 1994): 617–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0890037x00039786.

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Turf managers use prodiamine to control annual grasses in mature turfs. Earlier, evaluations of prodiamine have indicated it has an elevated soil persistence and high activity on susceptible species. This persistence raises concern for prodiamine's effect on juvenile turf. An experiment was established to evaluate the effect of prodiamine on juvenile Kentucky bluegrass turf. Significant loss of quality occurred on turf less than one year old receiving a single application of prodiamine at ≥ 1.4 kg/ha. Split applications of prodiamine did not significantly decrease turf quality. Prodiamine at 0.8 and 2.2 kg ai/ha and DCPA at 23.5 kg ai/ha, applied in the fall the previous three years, significantly reduced the number of overseeded Kentucky bluegrass seedlings two years after planting. In a subsequent study, prodiamine at ≥ 0.8 kg/ha and DCPA at 23.5 kg/ha applied once the previous fall significantly reduced the number of overseeded Kentucky bluegrass dlings 56 d after planting. An analysis of prodiamine rate versus seedling density was found to be significantly correlated (r2 = 0.79).
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Richardson, M. D. "Morphology, Turf Quality, and Heat Tolerance of Intermediate Ryegrass." HortScience 39, no. 1 (February 2004): 170–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.39.1.170.

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Bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.) turf is often overseeded with a cool-season species such as perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) to provide an improved winter surface for activities such as golf or athletic events. Perennial ryegrass can become a persistent weed in overseeded turf due to the heat and disease tolerance of improved cultivars. Intermediate ryegrass is a relatively new turfgrass that is a hybrid between perennial and annual ryegrass (L. multiflorum Lam.). Very little information is available on intermediate ryegrass as an overseeding turf. Greenhouse, field, and growth chamber studies were designed to compare two cultivars of intermediate ryegrass (`Transist' and `Froghair') with three cultivars of perennial ryegrass (`Jiffie', `Racer', and `Calypso II') and two cultivars of annual ryegrass (`Gulf' and `TAM-90'). In a greenhouse study, the perennial ryegrass cultivars had finer leaf texture (2.9-3.2 mm), shorter collar height (24.7-57.0 mm), and lower weight/tiller (29-39 mg) than the intermediate and annual cultivars. In the field studies, the intermediate cultivar Transist exhibited improved turfgrass quality (6.1-7.1) over the annual cultivars (4.5-5.8) and the other intermediate cultivar Froghair (5.4-5.7). However, neither of the intermediate cultivars had quality equal to the perennial ryegrass cultivars (7.0-7.9). The perennial ryegrass cultivars exhibited slow transition back to the bermudagrass compared to the annual and intermediate ryegrass cultivars. In the growth chamber study, the annual and intermediate cultivars all showed increased high-temperature stress under increasing temperatures compared to the perennial cultivars, which did not show stress until air temperature exceeded 40 °C. Collectively, these studies indicate that the intermediate ryegrass cultivar Transist may have promise as an overseeding turfgrass due to its improved quality compared to annual types and a lack of heat tolerance relative to perennial cultivars, but with transition qualities similar to perennial ryegrass.
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Jiang, Yiwei, and Robert N. Carrow. "Assessment of Narrow-band Canopy Spectral Reflectance and Turfgrass Performance under Drought Stress." HortScience 40, no. 1 (February 2005): 242–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.40.1.242.

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Canopy reflectance has the potential to determine turfgrass shoot status under drought stress conditions. The objective of this study was to describe the relationship of turf quality and leaf firing versus narrow-band canopy spectral reflectance within 400 to 1100 nm for different turfgrass species and cultivars under drought stress. Sods of four bermudagrasses (Cynodon dactylon L. × C. transvaalensis), three seashore paspalums (Paspalum vaginatum Swartz), zoysiagrass (Zoysia japonica), and st. augustinegrass (Stenotaphrum secundatum), and three seeded tall fescues (Festuca arundinacea) were used. Turf quality decreased 12% to 27% and leaf firing increased 12% to 55% in 12 grasses in response to drought stress imposed over three dry-down cycles. The peak correlations occurred at 673 to 693 nm and 667 to 687 nm for turf quality and leaf firing in bermudagrasses, respectively. All three tall fescues had the strongest correlation at 671 nm for both turf quality and leaf firing. The highest correlations in the near-infrared at 750, 775, or 870 nm were found in three seashore paspalums, while at 687 to 693 nm in Zoysiagrass and st. augustinegrass. Although all grasses exhibited some correlations between canopy reflectance and turf quality or leaf firing, significant correlation coefficients (r) were only observed in five grasses. Multiple linear regression models based on selected wavelengths for turf quality and leaf firing were observed for 7 (turf quality) and 9 (leaf firing) grasses. Wavelengths in the photosynthetic region at 658 to 700 nm or/and near-infrared from 700 to 800 nm predominated in models of most grasses. Turf quality and leaf firing could be well predicted in tall fescue by using models, evidenced by a coefficient of determination (R2) above 0.50. The results indicated that correlations of canopy reflectance versus turf quality and leaf firing varied with turfgrass species and cultivars, and the photosynthetic regions specifically from 664 to 687 nm were relatively important in determining turf quality and leaf firing in selected bermudagrass, tall fescue, zoysiagrass and st. augustinegrass under drought stress.
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Berndt, William L. "Salinity Affects Quality Parameters of ‘SeaDwarf’ Seashore Paspalum." HortScience 42, no. 2 (April 2007): 417–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.42.2.417.

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Irrigating salt-tolerant grasses with nonpotable water, like salt water, conserves fresh water resources. Advertising suggests that ‘SeaDwarf’ seashore paspalum (Paspalum vaginatum O. Swartz) is salt-tolerant and that it resists the effects of salinity on growth typically observed when irrigating other turf types with salty water. As a result, it is now being used on golf courses and home lawns in an effort to help conserve fresh water. Commensurate with the use of nonpotable irrigation, however, would be an expectation of high turf quality. This study was done to determine if the quality of ‘SeaDwarf’ seashore paspalum was affected by irrigating it with nonpotable water having high levels of salinity. Seven irrigation water sources created by blending tap water and ocean water and ranging in salinity from 0.52 to 49.40 dS·m−1 were used to flood-irrigate containerized ‘SeaDwarf’ seashore paspalum once daily for 50 consecutive days. Turf quality gradually decreased as salinity increased but improved with time except at the highest level of salinity. Effect of water source on turf quality was attributed to salinity-induced changes in quality parameters, including leaf texture, color, stolon growth, and shoot yield. The observed effect of salinity on quality parameters likely resulted from osmotic stress associated with high levels of salinity. The salt tolerance of ‘SeaDwarf’ seashore paspalum in this study was moderately good, but irrigating it with water having lower levels of salinity resulted in better quality turf.
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White, Richard H., and Richard E. Schmidt. "Fall Performance and Post-dormancy Growth of `Midiron' Bermudagrass in Response to Nitrogen, Iron, and Benzyladenine." Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 115, no. 1 (January 1990): 57–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/jashs.115.1.57.

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Field research was conducted to determine the effects of N, Fe, and benzyladenine (BA) on fall performance, post-dormancy recovery, and storage nonstructural carbohydrate composition of `Midiron' bermudagrass [Cy - nodon dactylon (L.) Pers.]. Fall green color retention and turf quality were superior for 48 than for 24 kg N/ha per month. Nitrogen level did not affect post-dormancy recovery or nonstructural carbohydrate levels in stolons and rhizomes measured in Sept. and Nov. 1983 and 1984. Iron level did not influence turf color and quality during summer months. Biweekly application of 0.6 kg Fe/ha produced better retention of greenness and turf quality during Fall 1983 and 1984 and superior turf color in Spring 1985 than the 0 kg Fe/ha treatment. Better green turf coverage was obtained with the biweekly than the monthly Fe (1.2 kg-ha-l) treatment during Fall 1983. In contrast, monthly Fe produced color and turf quality similar to that of the biweekly Fe treatment during Fall 1984. Nonstructural carbohydrates were similar among Fe levels in 1983 and 1984. The effects of Fe on turf color and quality were similar at each level of N and BA. BA level did not consistently influence turf color or quality and did not affect storage carbohydrate levels. When used in conjunction with moderate summer N fertilization, foliar-applied Fe can extend bermudagrass quality during fall without adversely affecting postdormancy recovery. Chemical name used: N- (phenylmethyl)-lH-purin-6-amine (benzyladenine, BA).
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Turf quality":

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Schneider, Brianna Allysia. "The Effects of Sand Shape and Turf Type on the Playing Quality of a Hybrid Turf System." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563227479044356.

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Berg, Nolan Roy. "Turf Quality of Creeping Bentgrass Using Foliar Fertilization Tank-Mixed with Sprayable Organic Amendments." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27193.

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The use of foliar fertilizer applications on creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) is a popular method of achieving quality turfgrass. Tank-mixing foliar products may increase turfgrass quality, reduce amount of applications, and create synergism between products. The objective of this thesis was to determine the effectiveness of tank-mixing organic amendments with N fertilizers to improve turfgrass quality. A greenhouse study was conducted in 2012 and 2013 to determine turf quality of three different N forms tank-mixed with three different organic amendments. Generally, urea treatments received the highest VQ among all N forms ranging from 1.6-3.5 higher than control. Experiment one; TurfWorks? was always the highest VQ with an average of 6.5 compared to 5.8 for control. Experiment two; Ful-Power? was the highest VQ with a 6.7 average, compared to 6.0 for control. Clipping yield, green density, DGCI, NDVI, and clipping yield were all significant by N forms, but not OM.
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Munoz, Marcela Paz. "Effects of Repeated Compost Topdressing Applications on Turfgrass Quality on Athletic Turf under Traffic." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306903288.

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Hayes, Alan Raymond 1956. "Irrigation of turfgrass with municipal effluent and potable water : soil, water and turf quality aspects." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192002.

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This field experiment evaluated the use of secondary treated municipal wastewater for irrigation of turfgrasses. Common bermudagrass (Cvnodon dactvlon L. Pers.) was seeded to a gravelly sandy loam. In the Fall, perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) was overseeded to maintain an actively growing turf. Plots were irrigated identically with either effluent or potable water. Soil and water samples were collected periodically and analyzed for pH, salinity, major cations, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Turf quality was assessed using a visual evaluation technique. Effluent irrigation produced significantly lower seed germination and resulted in increased salinity, sodium, nitrate and phosphorus concentrations in soils. Leachate waters contained greater salinity and higher concentrations of major cations than irrigation waters. Established effluent irrigated turf did not show signs of salt stress and produced turf quality as good as potable irrigated plots. High quality turf was grown using secondary sewage effluent for irrigation.
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Saha, Subhrajit Kumar. "Effect of fertilizer source on nitrate leaching, plant water consumption, and turf and ornamental quality." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0003300.

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Shimizu, Seril. "Tall Fescue (Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) S.J. Darbyshire) Cultivar Performance in the Central California Coastal Region." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2009. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/237.

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Tall fescue (Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) S.J. Darbyshire) has long been known as a turfgrass that utilizes lower levels of inputs than most other cool season turfgrasses (Turgeon, 2005). In recent years, turf breeders have been selecting for cultivars of tall fescue that have finer leaf textures. As the use of tall fescue expands, consumers want to now what cultivar to use and how to manage it. This study looked at 18 tall fescue cultivars grown at two mowing heights of five and 10 centimeters and evaluated plant quality based on stand density, leaf texture, and genetic plant color. In the first year of the study, although there were some differences, there were no continual patterns that proved one cultivar to be better or worst than the others. Lower mowing heights generally had higher stand density ratings and fertilization affected genetic plant color, not mowing height. There was no difference in leaf texture between mowing heights.
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Butcher, Melissa Rachelle. "Diffuse Nutrient Pollution from Residential Catchments." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5194.

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Nonpoint source nutrient pollution is diffuse pollution lacking discrete origin and conveyance. This thesis synthesizes and critically reviews research on residential nitrogen and phosphorus loss to stormwater runoff and leaching. The evaluation pulls from research covering influential socio-demographic indicators, such as use of lawn maintenance services and homeowner fertilizer practices. The extent to which such social and economic factors may influence the prevalence and fate of diffuse nutrients in stormwater runoff from residential areas has not been adequately established. Understanding the source and influencing factors of diffuse nutrient pollution is important in order to effectively protect surface and groundwater resources. Research based on sampling campaigns of catchments, sampling of controlled turf systems and models of residential catchments were compiled for this review. Based on the compilation reviewed for this thesis, there are wide differences in approaches researchers have taken to attempt to quantify and understand diffuse nutrient pollution from residential and urban areas. There is not consistency in the chemical nitrogen or phosphorus species evaluated or in reported measurements (i.e. concentration vs. loading vs. yield). This review revealed several important knowledge gaps. Determination of correlation between residential system nutrient loss to the environment and social factors, demographic characteristics, local fertilizer ordinances or nutrient management education programs has not been substantiated. More exploration of nutrient leaching from different soil types and turf grass species is needed to develop a complete understanding of nutrient loss from turf grass systems. Further, other specific management practices such as leaving grass clippings on lawns has not been studied in depth for a variety of soil types and grass species. There is room for improvement in future research and additional studies are needed to guide future policy and implementation of best management practices. Based on these and other findings, I recommend a concerted effort to standardize a portion of the reporting details of future stormwater research and for reevaluation of nutrient/fertilizer education efforts.
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Alumai, Alfred. "Urban Lawn Management: Addressing the Entomological, Agronomic, Economic, and Social Drivers." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1227822313.

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Peer, Eyal, Laura Brandimarte, Sonam Samat, and Alessandro Acquisti. "Beyond the Turk: Alternative platforms for crowdsourcing behavioral research." ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623545.

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The success of Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) as an online research platform has come at a price: MTurk has suffered from slowing rates of population replenishment, and growing participant non-naivety. Recently, a number of alternative platforms have emerged, offering capabilities similar to MTurk but providing access to new and more naïve populations. After surveying several options, we empirically examined two such platforms, CrowdFlower (CF) and Prolific Academic (ProA). In two studies, we found that participants on both platforms were more naïve and less dishonest compared to MTurk participants. Across the three platforms, CF provided the best response rate, but CF participants failed more attention-check questions and did not reproduce known effects replicated on ProA and MTurk. Moreover, ProA participants produced data quality that was higher than CF's and comparable to MTurk's. ProA and CF participants were also much more diverse than participants from MTurk.
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Elliott, Roslyn, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Education and Early Childhood Studies. "The book is open but you can't turn the page: parents' perceptions of early childhood service quality." THESIS_CAESS_EEC_Elliot_R.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/800.

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This research examines parents’ perceptions of quality on early childhood services as they support families in the care and education of children. Data were collected from parents of under school-aged children using interviews, questionnaires and focus groups. Data analysis has enabled a determination of: the link between parents’ perceptions of quality and early childhood professionals’ views as expressed in the literature; parents’ satisfaction with services and the evaluation processes used by them; opportunities available to parents to engage with service staff to influence the quality of the services provided; and parents’ knowledge and use of the information services provided by the National Childcare Accreditation Council to assist them in their decision making regarding early childhood services. Results showed that communication between parents and staff is problematic. An accretion model of communication is developed to enhance the quality of early childhood services by promoting shared understanding and values between parents and staff, enabling parents to take part in decision making and minimising perceptions of threat to staff’s professional integrity
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Books on the topic "Turf quality":

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Duncan, Ronny R. Turfgrass and landscape irrigation water quality: Assessment and management. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2009.

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Workshop on Water Quality and Quantity Issues for Turfgrasses in Urban Landscapes (2006 Las Vegas, Nev.). Water quality and quantity issues for turfgrasses in urban landscapes. Ames, Iowa: Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, 2008.

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Dezalay, Yves. The confrontation between the big five and big law: Turf battles and ethical debates as contests for professional quality. Chicago, Ill: American Bar Foundation, 2001.

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Yŏn'guhoe, Taejŏnhak. Hanbat turu kil. Taejŏn Kwangyŏksi: Chongnyŏ Namu, 2010.

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Yŏn'guhoe, Taejŏnhak. Hanbat turu kil. Taejŏn Kwangyŏksi: Chongnyŏ Namu, 2010.

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Cocheu, Ted. Blueprint for quality: How training can turn strategy into real improvement. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.

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Cocheu, Ted. Making quality happen: How training can turn strategy into real improvement. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.

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Kaplan, Daniel I. Service success!: Lessons from a leader on how to turn around a service business. New York: Wiley, 1994.

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Brown, Christen. Star quality: The seven-point program to turn your inner strength into your outer power. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.

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Hedtke, John V. MP3 and the digital music revolution: Turn your PC into a CD-quality digital jukebox! Lakewood, CO: Top Floor Pub., 1999.

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Donnison, Iain S., Kerrie Farrar, Gordon G. Allison, Edward Hodgson, Jessic Adams, Robert Hatch, Joe A. Gallagher, Paul R. Robson, John C. Clifton-Brown, and Phillip Morris. "Functional Genomics of Forage and Bioenergy Quality Traits in the Grasses." In Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf, 1–13. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79143-2_10.

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Donnison, Iain S., Kerrie Farrar, Gordon G. Allison, Edward Hodgson, Jessic Adams, Robert Hatch, Joe A. Gallagher, Paul R. Robson, John C. Clifton-Brown, and Phillip Morris. "Functional Genomics of Forage and Bioenergy Quality Traits in the Grasses." In Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf, 111–24. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79144-9_10.

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Watrud, Lidia S., Mike Bollman, Marjorie Storm, George King, Jay R. Reichman, Connie Burdick, and E. Henry Lee. "Evaluating the Role of Habitat Quality on Establishment of GM Agrostis stolonifera Plants in Non-agronomic Settings." In Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf, 1–9. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79143-2_31.

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Watrud, Lidia S., Mike Bollman, Marjorie Storm, George King, Jay R. Reichman, Connie Burdick, and E. Henry Lee. "Evaluating the Role of Habitat Quality on Establishment of GM Agrostis stolonifera Plants in Non-agronomic Settings." In Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf, 341–50. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79144-9_31.

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Aamlid, Trygve S., and Vincent Gensollen. "Recent Achievements in Breeding for Turf Quality Under Biotic and Abiotic Stress." In Quantitative Traits Breeding for Multifunctional Grasslands and Turf, 189–96. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9044-4_29.

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Muylle, Hilde, Susanne Barth, and Tom Ruttink. "Characterisation of Genetic Diversity for Resistance and Quality Traits Using Molecular Tools." In Quantitative Traits Breeding for Multifunctional Grasslands and Turf, 215–28. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9044-4_31.

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Paolini, Marilena, Valentina Nanni, Paolo Annicchiarico, Luciano Pecetti, Andrea Formigoni, Alberto Palmonari, Giorgia Canestrari, et al. "New Insights into Alfalfa Forage Quality Through the Research Project Qual&Medica." In Quantitative Traits Breeding for Multifunctional Grasslands and Turf, 157–61. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9044-4_23.

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Newell, Andrew J. "Evaluation of Grass Species, Cultivars and Mixtures for Use in High Quality Lawn Tennis Courts." In Quantitative Traits Breeding for Multifunctional Grasslands and Turf, 197–212. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9044-4_30.

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Čupić, Tihomir, I. Varnica, G. Jukić, S. Popović, and M. Tucak. "The Influence of Climatic Conditions on Forage Yield and Quality of Certain Types of Grass." In Quantitative Traits Breeding for Multifunctional Grasslands and Turf, 381–86. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9044-4_52.

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Swieter, Anita, Sylvia Moenickes, Bernhard Ohnmacht, Jörg-Michael Greef, and Ulf Feuerstein. "Monitoring, Analysis and Modeling of Yield and Quality Dynamics of Lolium perenne Varieties for Biogas Production." In Quantitative Traits Breeding for Multifunctional Grasslands and Turf, 325–30. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9044-4_44.

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Conference papers on the topic "Turf quality":

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Huang, Wei, Jianbo Hu, Tao Lu, Wei Chen, and Xingyuan He. "Monitoring urban turf quality using very high resolution satellite imagery." In 2011 19th International Conference on Geoinformatics. IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/geoinformatics.2011.5980727.

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Da Man, Yongxia Bao, Guohua Hou, Xiujie Ma, Liebao Han, and Yongji Du. "The effect of traffic on the quality of natural-artificial turf." In 2011 International Conference on Electric Technology and Civil Engineering (ICETCE). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icetce.2011.5775693.

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Ihab E Ghali, Garry L Grabow, Rodney L Huffman, and Grady L Miller. "Comparing Digital Image Analysis and other Turf Quality Measurements in the Evaluation of "SMART" Irrigation Technologies." In 2010 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 20 - June 23, 2010. St. Joseph, MI: American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.13031/2013.30018.

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Wang, Zhongjie, Hanchuan Xu, Ming Liu, and Xiaofei Xu. "Quality-Driven and Abstraction-Oriented Software Construction Course Design." In ACM TURC'20: ACM Turing Celebration Conference - China. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3393527.3393529.

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KLAVINS, Ivars, Arta BARDULE, and Zane LIBIETE. "CHANGES IN MACRONUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS IN SOIL SOLUTION FOLLOWING REGENERATION FELLING IN PINE AND SPRUCE STANDS: WHOLE-TREE HARVESTING VERSUS STEM-ONLY HARVESTING." In RURAL DEVELOPMENT. Aleksandras Stulginskis University, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.15544/rd.2017.172.

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While conventional forest management in boreal and hemiboreal conditions has traditionally been targeted to use and enhance mainly provisioning services like timber production, the main goal of national and European forest policy is to ensure sustainable management of European forests in all aspects. Regeneration felling is a major disturbance in boreal and hemiboreal forests resulting in significant increase of organic matter on the forest floor in the form of logging residues (bark, small branches, tree tops) and severed roots (in case of stump harvesting), and can increase the risk of nutrient leaching. Recently, concern about the effect of forest management impact on macronutrient leaching potentially decreasing nutrient availability for the next forest generations and causing deterioration of water quality has been raised. In 2011, three objects to study the impact of different intensity regeneration felling (stem-only harvesting and whole-tree harvesting) were established in scientific research forests in Kalsnava forest district, eastern part of Latvia. Two sites were located on mineral soils (Myrtillosa and Hylocomiosa site type, dominant tree species Pinus sylvestris L.) and one on drained peat soil (Oxalidosa turf. mel. site type, dominant tree species Picea abies (L.) Karst.). Felling was performed in early spring 2013 with harvester, timber was extracted and logging residues were removed with forwarder, following “business as usual” principle. Soil solution samples were collected once or twice a month in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. This study presents trends of pH and macronutrient (NO3--N, PO43--P, K) concentrations during five years – one year before harvesting and four years following harvesting. In general, significant forest management impact expressed as increase of macronutrient concentrations in soil solution was detected in the second and third year after harvesting, but in the fourth year concentrations started to decrease again.
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Ipeirotis, Panagiotis G., Foster Provost, and Jing Wang. "Quality management on Amazon Mechanical Turk." In the ACM SIGKDD Workshop. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1837885.1837906.

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Wang, Baowei, Weiwen Kong, and Hui Guan. "Air quality forcasting based on gated recurrent long short-term memory model." In ACM TURC 2019: ACM Turing Celebration Conference - China. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3321408.3326656.

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Zhou, Yun, Weidong Bao, and Xiaomin Zhu. "Engineering cognition oriented cultivation method of innovative quality based on learning-by-doing." In ACM TURC 2019: ACM Turing Celebration Conference - China. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3321408.3322863.

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Heldner, Mattias, Marcin Włodarczak, Štefan Beňuš, and Agustín Gravano. "Voice Quality as a Turn-Taking Cue." In Interspeech 2019. ISCA: ISCA, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2019-1592.

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Lavrenov, Eugeniy O., Zoya S. Temlyakova, and Mikhail E. Vilberger. "Estimate of Turn-to-Turn Short Circuit Influence on an Induction Motor Operation Quality." In 2018 XIV International Scientific-Technical Conference on Actual Problems of Electronics Instrument Engineering (APEIE). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/apeie.2018.8546117.

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Reports on the topic "Turf quality":

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Šipka, Pero. Serbian WoS-indexed journals: What’s their use for the local scholarly community? Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES), October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/cees-2017-03-1.

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It is in the national interest of small countries such as Serbia to have as many journals in WoS as possible. WoS indexing boosts visibility and internationality and rises journals impact and quality. However, once they reach WoS and stabilize their position, some local journals turn to profit-making strategies, introducing or significantly increasing authors' fees (APCs), which usually results in a larger influx of foreign authors who can afford to pay such fees. Consequently, domestic authors practically lose the space to publish in their traditional platforms. Here, we discuss the question if such journals should continue to enjoy the support from the national public R&D budget entitled to supporting local science.
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Financial Stability Report - Second Semester of 2020. Banco de la República de Colombia, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32468/rept-estab-fin.sem2.eng-2020.

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The Colombian financial system has not suffered major structural disruptions during these months of deep economic contraction and has continued to carry out its basic functions as usual, thus facilitating the economy's response to extreme conditions. This is the result of the soundness of financial institutions at the beginning of the crisis, which was reflected in high liquidity and capital adequacy indicators as well as in the timely response of various authorities. Banco de la República lowered its policy interest rates 250 points to 1.75%, the lowest level since the creation of the new independent bank in 1991, and provided ample temporary and permanent liquidity in both pesos and foreign currency. The Office of the Financial Superintendent of Colombia, in turn, adopted prudential measures to facilitate changes in the conditions for loans in effect and temporary rules for rating and loan-loss provisions. Finally, the national government expanded the transfers as well as the guaranteed credit programs for the economy. The supply of real credit (i.e. discounting inflation) in the economy is 4% higher today than it was 12 months ago with especially marked growth in the housing (5.6%) and commercial (4.7%) loan portfolios (2.3% in consumer and -0.1% in microloans), but there have been significant changes over time. During the first few months of the quarantine, firms increased their demands for liquidity sharply while consumers reduced theirs. Since then, the growth of credit to firms has tended to slow down, while consumer and housing credit has grown. The financial system has responded satisfactorily to the changes in the respective demands of each group or sector and loans may grow at high rates in 2021 if GDP grows at rates close to 4.6% as the technical staff at the Bank expects; but the forecasts are highly uncertain. After the strict quarantine implemented by authorities in Colombia, the turmoil seen in March and early April, which was evident in the sudden reddening of macroeconomic variables on the risk heatmap in Graph A,[1] and the drop in crude oil and coal prices (note the high volatility registered in market risk for the region on Graph A) the local financial markets stabilized relatively quickly. Banco de la República’s credible and sustained policy response played a decisive role in this stabilization in terms of liquidity provision through a sharp expansion of repo operations (and changes in amounts, terms, counterparties, and eligible instruments), the purchases of public and private debt, and the reduction in bank reserve requirements. In this respect, there is now abundant aggregate liquidity and significant improvements in the liquidity position of investment funds. In this context, the main vulnerability factor for financial stability in the short term is still the high degree of uncertainty surrounding loan quality. First, the future trajectory of the number of people infected and deceased by the virus and the possible need for additional health measures is uncertain. For that reason, there is also uncertainty about the path for economic recovery in the short and medium term. Second, the degree to which the current shock will be reflected in loan quality once the risk materializes in banks’ financial statements is uncertain. For the time being, the credit risk heatmap (Graph B) indicates that non-performing and risky loans have not shown major deterioration, but past experience indicates that periods of sharp economic slowdown eventually tend to coincide with rises in non-performing loans: the calculations included in this report suggest that the impact of the recession on credit quality could be significant in the short term. This is particularly worrying since the profitability of credit establishments has been declining in recent months, and this could affect their ability to provide credit to the real sector of the economy. In order to adopt a forward-looking approach to this vulnerability, this Report presents several stress tests that evaluate the resilience of the liquidity and capital adequacy of credit institutions and investment funds in the event of a hypothetical scenario that seeks to simulate an extreme version of current macroeconomic conditions. The results suggest that even though there could be strong impacts on the credit institutions’ volume of credit and profitability under such scenarios, aggregate indicators of total and core capital adequacy will probably remain at levels that are above the regulatory limits over the horizon of a year. At the same time, the exercises highlight the high capacity of the system's liquidity to face adverse scenarios. In compliance with its constitutional objectives and in coordination with the financial system's security network, Banco de la República will continue to closely monitor the outlook for financial stability at this juncture and will make the decisions that are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of the economy, facilitate the flow of sufficient credit and liquidity resources, and further the smooth operation of the payment systems. Juan José Echavarría Governor

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