Plants have evolved overlapping but distinct cellular responses to different aspects of high temperature stress. These responses include basal thermotolerance, short- and long-term acquired thermotolerance, and thermotolerance to moderately high temperatures. This 'thermotolerance diversity' means that multiple phenotypic assays are essential for fully describing the functions of genes involved...

Meriones shawi (M.shawi) is the main reservoir host for zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) in Central Tunisia. The incorporation of environmental and climatic effects on spread ZCL M. remains difficult. This study presents an agent-based model (ABM) to overcome these difficulties examine impact environment (i.e. vegetation cover) climate temperature) movement prevalence. simulation consider...

As universities and colleges begin to define ways move forward in a post-COVID year, Psalm 23 offers some thoughtful practices for how return new normal while still dealing with the side effects of pandemic pivoting. This article considers what provisions Lord through paradigm 23. helpful perspective, context, an overarching vision life, specific steps that are vital recovering from valley expe...

An Introduction Prakash P. Shenoy and Rajendra P. Srivastava University of Kansas School of Business We are very pleased to serve as guest editors for this special issue of Information Systems Frontiers on business applications of uncertain reasoning. We would like to thank the chief editors Raghav Rao and Ram Ramesh for providing this opportunity. We would also like to thank the reviewers, Kur...

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We would like to thank you for your time in reviewing this paper. Your thoughtful questions, comments and suggestions for the manuscript have been greatly appreciated. We have now responded to the comments and addressed suggestions in the updated manuscript. Our response has been organised to first address the editorial comments followed by each reviewer in turn. All changes within the manuscri...

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