Global climate change, increasingly erratic weather and a burgeoning global population are significant threats to the sustainability of future crop production. There is an urgent need for the development of robust measures that enable crops to withstand the uncertainty of climate change whilst still producing maximum yields. Resurrection plants possess the unique ability to withstand desiccatio...

Inspired by the boosting technique for detecting objects, this paper proposes a cascade structure with a resurrection mechanism to establish keypoint mappings on multispectral images. The cascade structure is composed of four steps by utilizing best bin first (BBF), color and intensity distribution of segment (CIDS), global information and the RANSAC process to remove outlier keypoint matchings...

death and afterworld are among those vexing questions for humankind. in both eastern and western literature there are many works attempting to describe afterworld and resurrection as a journey to the other world. sanaei’s seir-al-ebad elal-ma’ad and ardaviraf nameh are two examples of such journeys. based on the gnostic experiences of resurrection, the two texts depict exciting and marvelous im...

the importance of knowing afterlife and resurrection is in its effects on human’s way in physical life and achieving prosperity or adversity in future life. flesh and spirit, the bases of human’s true nature, go through severe changes in an evolutionally trend. being aware of physical and spiritual perceptions and moving toward perfection leads human to eternal life. this internal wisdom result...

since the verses of the qur’ān have been revealed for the guidance of human beings and their eternal happiness, the holy qur’ān makes every endeavor to illustrate human destiny on the resurrection day. the behavioral reaction of the deniers of the truth and the people of falsity when witnessing the resurrection scenes after the appearance of truth is one of the thought-provoking issues in the q...

The vegetative tissues of resurrection plants, like seeds, can tolerate desiccation to 5% relative water content (RWC) for extended periods and yet resume full metabolic activity on re-watering. In this review we will illustrate how this is achieved in a variety of angiosperm resurrection plants, our studies ranging from the ecophysiological to the biochemical level. At the whole plant level, l...