Paramedical Invited Lecture 3: Physiology of human fertilization

Invited Lecture: Narrative Summarization

The understanding and summarization of stories remains a challenge, in part because of the inability to adequately capture the ‘aboutness’ of information content. This can result in inappropriate content selection as well as summary incoherence. This talk sketches a general framework for narrative summarization that relies in part on explo itation of temporal information. I will show how this f...

Physiology of Aging Invited Review: Aging and human temperature regulation

Kenney, W. Larry, and Thayne A. Munce. Invited Review: Aging and human temperature regulation. J Appl Physiol 95: 2598–2603, 2003; 10.1152/japplphysiol.00202.2003.—This mini-review focuses on the effects of aging on human temperature regulation. Although comprehensive reviews have been published on this topic (Kenney WL. Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews, Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1997, ...

Pactrims Invited Lecture / Ordinary Submission

Potassium Fertilization and Maize Physiology

1 Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan 2 Department of Soil Science, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ABSTRACT. A pot experiment in wire house was conducted to investigate the effect of potassium fertilization on physiology, growth and nutrient uptake of maize. Surface soil s...

Invited Lecture An Introduction to Cavitation Fundamentals

In this opening lecture I will summarize some of the fundamentals of cavitation in the hope that this will allow attendees greater insight into the more advanced lectures which follow. Whether your primary interest is in the turbomachinery field or in the biological and bioengineering contexts in which cavitation is important these fundamentals are important in understanding the observed phenom...