This paper gives an account of the pirate media economy of Ecuador and its role in the emergence of indigenous Quichua-language media spaces, identifying the different parties involved in this economy, discussing their relationship to the parallel ‘‘legitimate’’ media economy, and considering the implications of this informal media market for Quichua linguistic and cultural reproduction. As dig...

Medicinal mushrooms have been used for centuries as nutraceuticals to improve health and to treat numerous chronic and infectious diseases. One such mushroom is Ganoderma lucidum, commonly known as Lingzhi, a species revered as a medicinal mushroom for treating assorted diseases and prolonging life. The fungus is found in diverse locations, and this may have contributed to confusion regarding t...

Motivation Today, “Big Data” is a new information overloading problem in many different areas. Such areas include health cares (e.g., medical records, bioinformatics), e-sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and geology), and social sciences (e.g., politics). Thus, as we have various types of feasible data from a number of available sources, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to efficient...

Childhood sexual abuse is prevalent in our society today. Over the last 30 years, mental health professionals have become increasingly involved in the assessment and treatment of adults who were sexually abused as children. The emergence of the phenomenon of recovered memories has divided both families and mental health professionals. The current debate over repressed memory as well as the prom...

Research in food science and nutrition has grown parallel to the consumers’ concern about what is in their food and the safety of the food they eat. To give an adequate answer to the rising consumer demands, food and nutrition researchers around the world are facing increasingly complex challenges that require the use of the best available science and technology. A good portion of this complexi...

Autonomous mobile robots need to detect potential failures reliably and react appropriately. Due to uncertainties about the robots and their environment, it is extremely difficult to design reliable systems from the start. Instead, we advocate the structured control methodology, in which one starts with plans that work in nominal situations, and then incrementally adds reactive behaviors to han...

the west asia-north africa region, which is characterized by a typical mediterranean climate, is the center of origin of cereals, notably wheat (triticum spp.) and barley (hordeum spp). however, cereal production, which is primarily rainfed, is mainly constrained by drought due to the low rainfall accompanied by high temperatures. cereals have been tradi-tionally grown following a fallow period...

Software-based systems have become an intrinsic part of our lives because of confluence of various factors such as increasingly powerful devices, ubiquitous network connectivity, and cheap availability of sensors. Systems are being designed today that bridge the gap between the cyber world and the physical world. Such ubiquitous/pervasive computing systems are increasingly being deployed at var...