Silk cocoon membrane (SCM), a solid matrix of protein fiber, responds to light, heat and moisture and converts these energies to electrical signals. Essentially it exhibits photo-electric and thermo-electric properties; making it a natural electro-magnetic sensor, which may influence the pupal development. This raises the question: 'is it only electricity?', or 'it also posses some kind of magn...

Feature Construction Using Evolution-COnstructed Features for General Object Recognition Kirt Dwayne Lillywhite Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Doctor of Philosophy Object recognition is a well studied but extremely challenging field. Human detection is an especially important part of object recognition as it has played a role in machine and human interaction, biometrics, unma...

RNA–protein interactions play a role in various cellular processes, and methods to study these are expanding.RNA–protein complexes can be isolated, after which bound proteins identified by western blot or mass spectrometry.Despite the variety of existing methods, it remains challenging characterize global interactome specific RNA transcript their native context upon perturbations.Promising tech...

The Chinese Loess Plateau is suffering from severe soil erosion. The eco-environmental changes of the plateau have attracted considerable attentions both from scientists and local governments. Aiming at the regional features of eco-environment and main environmental problems of Linfen City, the synthetic evaluation index system including Organism Abundance index, Vegetation Cover index, Water D...

Abstract What is the relationship between actions and institutions in state extraction? State extraction process whereby revenue extracted from constituents to state. Studies on early modern era mostly adopt institution-centric approach, which perceives as manifestations of institutional structural characteristics a social context. However, it does not explain varying resultant diversified chan...

Abstract Indigenous peoples of the world, including those Indonesia, were more potentially at risk for Covid-19, due to their being marginalized and thus lack access necessary information resources. Despite vulnerably impacted by pandemic, indigenous people Indonesia had re-contextualized strategies that enabled them survive even offer lessons worth considering: ecocentrism. Data on ideas respo...

The use of plant extract is generating the interest of researchers toward cost effective,nontoxic, economic viability and eco-friendly green synthesis of nanoparticles. In the presentwork, zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles were synthesized using black tea extract and zinc nitrateas the zinc source by the sol-gel method. The synthesized ZnO nanoparticles werecharacterized by powder X-ray diffractio...