A few words on grapevine leaf water potential

A Few Words on Our New Format

Solving aero-acoustic or electromagnetic wave-dominated problems often requires finding accurate infinite domain solutions on a finite computational domain. One way of accomplishing this is to formulate absorbing boundary conditions through the technique of perfectly matched layers (PML). We discuss recent developments of PML methods for the absorption of acoustic waves in homogeneous mean flow...

A Few Words on Secret Writing

As we can scarcely imagine a time when there did not exist a necessity, or at least a desire, of transmitting information from one individual to another, in such manner as to elude general comprehension; so we may well suppose the practice of writing in cipher to be of great antiquity. De La Guilletiere, therefore, who, in his "Lacedaemon Ancient and Modern," maintains that the Spartans were th...

Leaf water potential of differentially salinized plants.

Water and osmotic potential energies were measured with thermocouple psychrometers, at intervals during a 4-week period, in growing leaves of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris, var. Blue Lake) and barley (Hordeum vulgare, var. Liberty) plants having roots equally split between 2 differentially salinized nutrient solutions. The osmotic potentials of plants with half their roots in saline solutions were a...

A Few Words on Entropy, Thermodynamics, and Horizons

We review recent progress in understanding certain aspects of the thermodynamics of black holes and other horizons. Our discussion centers on various “entropy bounds” which have been proposed in the literature and on the current understanding of how such bounds are not required for the semi-classical consistency of black hole thermodynamics. Instead, consistency under certain extreme circumstan...

A Few Words on the Subject of Village Sanitation