Although initial interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is high, recruitment and retention remains a challenge, and some populations are disproportionately underrepresented in STEM fields. To address these challenges, the Microbiology and Cell Science Department in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Florida has developed an innovative...

We propose a methodology, based on Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM), for incorporating security mechanisms in an application. The functionality of the application is described using the primary model and the attacks are specified using aspects. The attack aspect is composed with the primary model to obtain the misuse model. The misuse model describes how much the application can be compromised. I...

The issue of high concentration salt in soil is not restricted to coastal areas, but also expands cultivated lands, complicating, or even intercepting, the growth plants. objective this paper study effect zeolite, compost and effective microorganisms (EM), seaweed extract, ceramic powder on MM106 apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) plants normal saline conditions. More specifically, weight dry matte...

Genomic attempts were undertaken to elucidate the plant developmental responses to heat stress, and to characterize the roles of B2 protein in mediating those responses. A wheat expressed sequence tag for B2 protein was identified which was cloned and characterized to assess its functional relevance causing plant growth and development during stress adaptation. Here, we show that wheat B2 prote...

BACKGROUND First quantitative evaluation of the requirements for the promotion as associate professor (AP) at German medical faculties. MATERIAL AND METHODS Analysis of the AP-regulations of German medical faculties according to a validated scoring system, which has been adapted to this study. RESULTS The overall scoring for the AP-requirements at 35 German medical faculties was 13.5±0.6 of...

Negative feedback can signal poor performance, but it also provides information that can help learners reach the goal of task mastery. The primary aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that the amount of information provided by negative feedback during a paired-associate learning task influences feedback-related processing in the caudate nucleus. To do this, we manipulated the number of ...

Mental imagery improves paired-associate (PA) learning relative to overt rehearsal. The effect might be due to increased reliability of stimulus encoding or to increased relational association produced by imagery. These hypotheses expect different outcomes when imagery and rote-rehearsal Ss are compared on memory tests of stimulus recognition and on recall of the response term conditional upon ...