Pub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2022-06-26DOI: 10.1007/s10670-022-00529-7
Anne Meylan
The standard view of ignorance is that it consists in the mere lack of knowledge or true belief. Duncan Pritchard has recently argued, against the standard view, that ignorance is the lack of knowledge/true belief that is due to an improper inquiry. I shall call, Pritchard's alternative account the Normative Account. The purpose of this article is to strengthen the Normative Account by providing an independent vargument supporting it.
{"title":"In Defence of the Normative Account of Ignorance.","authors":"Anne Meylan","doi":"10.1007/s10670-022-00529-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10670-022-00529-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The standard view of ignorance is that it consists in the mere lack of knowledge or true belief. Duncan Pritchard has recently argued, against the standard view, that ignorance is the lack of knowledge/true belief that is due to an improper inquiry. I shall call, Pritchard's alternative account the Normative Account. The purpose of this article is to strengthen the Normative Account by providing an independent vargument supporting it.</p>","PeriodicalId":19281,"journal":{"name":"Northern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"9 1","pages":"207-221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10827968/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83454444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-09eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.3389/fopht.2023.1174414
Vinaya Kumar Konana, Kalpana Babu
A 40-year-old Asian Indian woman, diagnosed as having idiopathic panuveitis (elsewhere) 3 years earlier and being treated with oral steroids (20 mg/day) and methotrexate (25 mg/week), presented to us with worsening vision in both eyes. Her best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was perception of light in her right eye and counting fingers close to face in her left eye. A slit lamp examination showed an anterior chamber (AC) reaction (1+) in both eyes with posterior synechia, a total cataract in her right eye, and pseudophakia in her left eye. The left fundus showed vitritis, vitreous membranes, chorioretinitis, multifocal areas of retinitis, and retinal vascular sheathing. A systemic examination showed extensive multifocal areas of tinea corporis on the hands and torso. Owing to the leukocytosis (22,000 cells/mm3), diagnostic vitrectomy was initially deferred and 100 mg of oral itraconazole was given twice a day for 3 months. The vitritis improved a little and her total white blood cell (WBC) count improved with treatment of the skin infection. Following a diagnostic vitrectomy later in her left eye, resolving areas of retinitis were seen. Complete resolution of eye inflammation was seen at the end of 6 weeks. At the 6-month follow-up, her BCVA was 6/18 in left eye and she was off oral steroids and methotrexate, with no recurrence of inflammation. We speculate a probable association between the ocular inflammation and extensive tinea corporis based on the therapeutic response to itraconazole.
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J. Benjamin, R. Seymour, Emily Meacham, Jeremy S. Wilson
Regenerating clearcuts dating from the spruce budworm outbreak of the 1980s are beginning to reach merchantable size throughout northern Maine and would benefit from commercial thinning, but there is no consensus among foresters and the logging industry about how such stands can be efficiently thinned. This study investigated silviculturally effective, operational solutions to implement early commercial thinning treatments. Comparisons between two wholetree (WT) and two cut-to-length (CTL) systems were made in terms of residual stem damage, retention of downed woody material, product utilization, and unit cost of production. Results show significantly more crop trees removed (P 0.030) and more high severity wound area per plot (P 0.011) for the WT systems. There was no difference in the number of stems wounded per plot at the high severity level between harvest methods (P 0.312). Harvest-generated and retained downed wood material volume averaged 511.9 and 205.6 ft/ac for CTL and WT plots, respectively. Round wood production was the same for CTL and WT plots (average 30 tons/ac), but more than four times more biomass was produced from the WT operations. Production costs were not significantly different between harvest methods due in part to high machine productivity and increased biomass production for the WT systems.
{"title":"Impact of Whole-Tree and Cut-to-Length Harvesting on Postharvest Condition and Logging Costs for Early Commercial Thinning in Maine","authors":"J. Benjamin, R. Seymour, Emily Meacham, Jeremy S. Wilson","doi":"10.5849/NJAF.13-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5849/NJAF.13-016","url":null,"abstract":"Regenerating clearcuts dating from the spruce budworm outbreak of the 1980s are beginning to reach merchantable size throughout northern Maine and would benefit from commercial thinning, but there is no consensus among foresters and the logging industry about how such stands can be efficiently thinned. This study investigated silviculturally effective, operational solutions to implement early commercial thinning treatments. Comparisons between two wholetree (WT) and two cut-to-length (CTL) systems were made in terms of residual stem damage, retention of downed woody material, product utilization, and unit cost of production. Results show significantly more crop trees removed (P 0.030) and more high severity wound area per plot (P 0.011) for the WT systems. There was no difference in the number of stems wounded per plot at the high severity level between harvest methods (P 0.312). Harvest-generated and retained downed wood material volume averaged 511.9 and 205.6 ft/ac for CTL and WT plots, respectively. Round wood production was the same for CTL and WT plots (average 30 tons/ac), but more than four times more biomass was produced from the WT operations. Production costs were not significantly different between harvest methods due in part to high machine productivity and increased biomass production for the WT systems.","PeriodicalId":19281,"journal":{"name":"Northern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"30 1","pages":"149-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5849/NJAF.13-016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70978112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Damage from Sirococcus and Diplodia shoot blights of red pine is widespread and periodically severe in the Lake States. An outbreak of shoot blight occurred in red pine sapling plantations across northern Wisconsin, northern Minnesota, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 1993. We established monitoring plots in red pine sapling plantations severely affected by shoot blight in Michigan and Wisconsin to assess the influence of residual overstory red pine and the presence of Sirococcus and Diplodia shoot blights on disease severity and their long-term impact on tree survival and growth. Fourteen years after the initial outbreak, many red pine saplings had recovered from serious damage ( 1/3 of new shoots affected) that had occurred in a single outbreak year followed by lower levels of disease in subsequent years. However, the most severely affected trees sustained higher mortality and reduced growth. Forking or development of crooks of the main stem was common if terminal leaders were killed by shoot blight. Results from this study suggest that the impact of a shoot blight outbreak on red pine saplings largely depends on the presence or absence of an inoculum source in residual overstory trees, the species of pathogen present in the stand, and the initial disease severity.
红松的Sirococcus and Diplodia shoot疫病在Lake States是广泛和周期性严重的。1993年,威斯康辛州北部、明尼苏达州北部和密歇根州上半岛的红松树苗种植园爆发了梢疫病。在美国密歇根州和威斯康辛州受梢疫病严重影响的红松人工林中建立监测样地,评估残留的林下红松和梢疫病的存在对病害严重程度的影响及其对树木生存和生长的长期影响。在最初爆发的14年后,许多红松树苗已经从单一爆发年份发生的严重损害(受影响的新芽的1/3)中恢复过来,随后几年的疾病水平较低。然而,受影响最严重的树木死亡率较高,生长速度下降。如果末梢茎被芽枯病杀死,主茎分叉或分叉是常见的。研究结果表明,红松梢疫病爆发对红松幼树的影响在很大程度上取决于剩余林分中是否存在接种源、林分中存在的病原体种类和初始疾病严重程度。
{"title":"Long-Term Impact of Shoot Blight Disease on Red Pine Saplings","authors":"L. Haugen, M. Ostry","doi":"10.5849/NJAF.13-024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5849/NJAF.13-024","url":null,"abstract":"Damage from Sirococcus and Diplodia shoot blights of red pine is widespread and periodically severe in the Lake States. An outbreak of shoot blight occurred in red pine sapling plantations across northern Wisconsin, northern Minnesota, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 1993. We established monitoring plots in red pine sapling plantations severely affected by shoot blight in Michigan and Wisconsin to assess the influence of residual overstory red pine and the presence of Sirococcus and Diplodia shoot blights on disease severity and their long-term impact on tree survival and growth. Fourteen years after the initial outbreak, many red pine saplings had recovered from serious damage ( 1/3 of new shoots affected) that had occurred in a single outbreak year followed by lower levels of disease in subsequent years. However, the most severely affected trees sustained higher mortality and reduced growth. Forking or development of crooks of the main stem was common if terminal leaders were killed by shoot blight. Results from this study suggest that the impact of a shoot blight outbreak on red pine saplings largely depends on the presence or absence of an inoculum source in residual overstory trees, the species of pathogen present in the stand, and the initial disease severity.","PeriodicalId":19281,"journal":{"name":"Northern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"30 1","pages":"170-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5849/NJAF.13-024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70978161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonathan Franklin Catron, G. Stainback, J. Lhotka, J. Stringer, Lijia Hu
{"title":"Financial and management implications of producing bioenergy in upland oak stands in Kentucky.","authors":"Jonathan Franklin Catron, G. Stainback, J. Lhotka, J. Stringer, Lijia Hu","doi":"10.5849/NJAF.12-039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5849/NJAF.12-039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19281,"journal":{"name":"Northern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"30 1","pages":"164-169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5849/NJAF.12-039","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70978387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practical Implications of Projecting a Horizontal Angle in a Nonhorizontal Manner to Diameter at Breast Height","authors":"C. VanderSchaaf","doi":"10.5849/NJAF.12-040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5849/NJAF.12-040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19281,"journal":{"name":"Northern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"30 1","pages":"188-190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5849/NJAF.12-040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70978001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Precommercial Crop Tree Release Increases Upper Canopy Persistence and Diameter Growth of Oak Saplings","authors":"J. Ward","doi":"10.5849/NJAF.13-017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5849/NJAF.13-017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19281,"journal":{"name":"Northern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"30 1","pages":"156-163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5849/NJAF.13-017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70978121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Conservation Awareness Index (CAI) is a survey instrument used to assess how prepared family forest landowners are to make informed decisions about their land. First developed in Massachusetts, we report results of its application in New York. Administered to 496 randomly selected New York family forest landowners and 158 benchmark landowners who had received conservation training, results confirmed instrument validity and exposed low levels of awareness about conservation options among forest landowners in the study, especially concerning New York’s current-use tax program and conservation easements. Education level, ownership acreage, and location were associated with higher levels of conservation awareness. A comparative analysis between New York and Massachusetts forest landowners revealed significantly higher levels of conservation awareness for the New England state’s landowners. The CAI can be used to improve outreach efforts by targeting education toward the conservation options for which landowners have low levels of awareness. A high level of conservation awareness is the foundation for informed forest stewardship decisions.
{"title":"A Comparative Analysis of Conservation Awareness among New York and Massachusetts Woodland Owners","authors":"Emma L. Schnur, S. Allred, D. Kittredge","doi":"10.5849/NJAF.13-026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5849/NJAF.13-026","url":null,"abstract":"The Conservation Awareness Index (CAI) is a survey instrument used to assess how prepared family forest landowners are to make informed decisions about their land. First developed in Massachusetts, we report results of its application in New York. Administered to 496 randomly selected New York family forest landowners and 158 benchmark landowners who had received conservation training, results confirmed instrument validity and exposed low levels of awareness about conservation options among forest landowners in the study, especially concerning New York’s current-use tax program and conservation easements. Education level, ownership acreage, and location were associated with higher levels of conservation awareness. A comparative analysis between New York and Massachusetts forest landowners revealed significantly higher levels of conservation awareness for the New England state’s landowners. The CAI can be used to improve outreach efforts by targeting education toward the conservation options for which landowners have low levels of awareness. A high level of conservation awareness is the foundation for informed forest stewardship decisions.","PeriodicalId":19281,"journal":{"name":"Northern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"30 1","pages":"175-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5849/NJAF.13-026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70978171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landowner Attitudes Toward Maple Syrup Production in the Northern Forest: A Survey of Forest Owners with ≥100 Acres in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont","authors":"Michael L. Farrell, R. Stedman","doi":"10.5849/NJAF.12-030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5849/NJAF.12-030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19281,"journal":{"name":"Northern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"30 1","pages":"184-187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5849/NJAF.12-030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70978435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Soil Scarification on Quercus Seedling Establishment Within Upland Stands of the Northern Cumberland Plateau","authors":"D. Parrott, J. Lhotka, J. Stringer","doi":"10.5849/NJAF.13-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5849/NJAF.13-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19281,"journal":{"name":"Northern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"30 1","pages":"125-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5849/NJAF.13-002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70978071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}