Would an RRS by any other name sound as RAD ?

A mushroom by any other name would smell as sweet: Dracula orchids

Mimicry, like coral snakes and their nonvenomous imposters, is one of the most compelling examples of evolution by natural selection. Although mostly known from animals that gain protection by resembling an unpalatable or harmful compatriot, both types of mimicry, Müllerian and Batesian, also occur in plants and fungi. Some fungi are known to mimic flowers to dupe pollinators into vectoring spo...

Systemic sclerosis classification: a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?

A rose by any other name: would it smell as sweet?

We examined whether presenting an odor with a positive, neutral, or negative name would influence how people perceive it. In experiment 1, 40 participants rated 15 odors for their pleasantness, intensity, and arousal. In experiment 2, 30 participants passively smelled 10 odors while their skin conductance (SC), heart rate (HR), and sniffing were recorded. We found significant overall effects of...

An Entomopathogenic Nematode by Any Other Name

1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, 3 Department of Biology, and Evolutionary Ecology Laboratories, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America, 4 Department of Microbiology and Mol...

A Rose by Any Other Name...Would Probably Be Given an Acronym

the design of complex sociotechnical systems was primarily known as cognitive engineering or cognitive systems engineering (CSE), a term introduced in the 1980s to denote an emerging branch of applied cognitive psychology. 1,2 Research focused on such topics as human–computer interaction , the psychology of programming, display design, and user friendliness. Although some have sought to make th...