The evolution of the Internet into the Global Information Infrastructure has lead to an explosion in the amount of available information. The Web, then, is becoming the apocryphal Vox Populi, and represents an instance of a semi-structured Distributed Knowledge Environment [27]. Realizing the vision of distributed knowledge access in this scenario and its future evolution will need tools to “pe...

Poplar-cotton agro-ecosystems are the main agricultural planting modes of cotton fields in China. With increasing acres devoted to transgenic insect-resistant poplar and transgenic insect-resistant cotton, studies examining the effects of transgenic plants on target and non-target insects become increasingly important. We systematically surveyed populations of both target pests and non-target i...

Black meristematic fungi are cosmopolitan and able to adapt to extreme fluctuations of ultraviolet radiation, temperature, and moisture and grow in exposed habitats such as stone surfaces. In a survey on fungi associated with fruit rots, leaf spots, canker, gummosis, dieback and trunk diseases of grapevine and walnut trees in Kurdistan Province (Iran), some black meristematic fungal isolates re...

Some fungal species were isolated from scab or scab-like symptoms on leaves of various plant hosts in Iran. Some of them isolated from apple and pear leaves were investigated in the present study. The isolates were identified based on the morphological and cultural characteristics. On the other hand, for molecular identification and phylogenetic analyses were carried out based on the sequence o...

The affordances of social media potentially amplify the effects disinformation by offering possibility to present deceptive content and sources in credible native ways. We investigate two aspects related dissemination modality digital disinformation: (In)authentic references ordinary people as multimodal embedding content. Using a pre-registered experiment United States India (N = 1008), we fou...

The lateritic aquifers of the southern Indian state Kerala harbour a unique assemblage enigmatic stygobitic fishes which are encountered very rarely, only when they surface during digging and cleaning homestead wells. Here, we focus on one most unusual members this group, catfish Horaglanis , genus rarely-collected, tiny, blind, pigment less, strictly aquifer-residing species. A six-year explor...