Fire is an integral part of savanna ecology and changes in fire patterns are linked to biodiversity loss in savannas worldwide. In Australia, changed fire regimes are implicated in the contemporary declines of small mammals, riparian species, obligate-seeding plants and grass seed-eating birds. Translating this knowledge into management to recover threatened species has proved elusive. We repor...

The expression of these receptors in chemosensory neu-rons, along with the large size of the family, prompted the proposal that they might represent a new family of odorant receptors. Isolation of mutants defective in one of the C. elegans GCs allows functional testing of this proposal. In this regard, L'Etoile and Bargmann show that a truncated version of ODR-1 lacking the extracellu-lar domai...

We present an efficient and optimally resilient Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement (ABA) protocol involving n = 3t+1 parties over a completely asynchronous network, tolerating a computationally unbounded Byzantine adversary, who can control at most t parties out of the n parties. The amortized communication complexity of our ABA protocol is O(n log 1 ) bits for attaining agreement on a single bit...

Nuclear receptors regulate numerous critical biological processes. The C. elegans genome is predicted to encode approximately 270 nuclear receptors of which >250 are unique to nematodes. ODR-7 is the only member of this large divergent family whose functions have been defined genetically. ODR-7 is expressed in the AWA olfactory neurons and specifies AWA sensory identity by promoting the express...

Currently, the number of urban garden green spaces (GGSs) being constructed in Beijing is increasing, and their high water resource demands contradict severe shortage situation that restricting construction economic development. This has created an urgent need to build water-saving GGSs. study analyzed compared daily/annual consumption 79 common plants Beijing, low-water-consumption (LWC) trees...

Atmospheric water capture (AWC) has tremendous potential to address the global shortage of clean drinking water. The Ni2Cl2(BTDD) metal–organic framework (MOF) shown optimal sorption performance under low relative humidity conditions, but its potentially high production costs, stemming in part from lengthy multiday synthesis, hindered widespread implementation. As with most traditional MOF synt...

Understanding neural functions inevitably involves arguments traversing multiple levels of hierarchy in biological systems. However, finding new components or mechanisms of such systems is extremely time-consuming due to the low efficiency of currently available functional screening techniques. To overcome such obstacles, we utilize pan-neuronal calcium imaging to broadly screen the activity of...

Food deprivation is known to affect physiology and behavior. Changes that occur could be the result of the organism's monitoring of internal and external nutrient availability. In C. elegans, male mating is dependent on food availability; food-deprived males mate with lower efficiency compared to their well-fed counterparts, suggesting that the mating circuit is repressed in low-food environmen...

Providing high quality and inclusive preschool education for children from families with low socio-economic status especially in developing countries remains a problem to be solved. Within this context, investigating good practices supporting children’s holistic development, well-being academic success discussing all aspects of these can provide examples making cultural adaptations their local ...