To thrive in an ever-changing environment, microbes must widely distribute their progeny to colonize new territory. Simultaneously, they must evolve and adapt to the stresses of unpredictable surroundings. In both of these regards, diversity is key-if an entire population moved together or responded to the environment in the same way, it could easily go extinct. Here, we show that the epigeneti...

1. Abstract The aim of this paper is to determine the optimal design and operation of an activated sludge system that is being installed in a small town in the north of Portugal. This process design takes into consideration real data in order to define the objective cost function which includes both investment and operation costs. The collected data were also used to characterize the wastewater...

The article proposes that climate change makes enduring colonial injustices and structures visible. It focuses on the imposition dominance of concepts land self-determination Indigenous peoples in settler states. argues if these frameworks remains unaddressed, progressing will worsen other injustices, too. Specifically, capabilities be increasingly undermined, experience loss what they understa...

This article examines two case studies of unsettling settler colonialism in the far north California: inclusion Yurok language electives public high schools, and land return to Wiyot Tribe. These cases demonstrate repertoires Indigenous resistance historic ongoing culturecide—the killing culture—and show what looks like region. The central research question this is: How does happen colonial-con...

Food material shape is often closely related to its quality. Due to the demands of high quality, automated food shape inspection has become an important need for the food industry. Currently, accuracy and speed are two major problems for food shape inspection with computer vision. Therefore, in this study, a fast and accurate computer-vision based feature extraction and classification system wa...