Although the individual influences of silicon (Si) and melatonin (MT) have been widely studied under various abiotic stresses, little is known about their interaction drought stress. In this study, an experiment in pots was carried out to investigate potential or combined foliar application (ML) (control (ck), water spray, 4.0 mM Si, 200 µM ML, Si + ML) on wheat grown at two different water-hol...

Recent evidence suggests that the behavioral phenomenon of perceptual priming and the physiological finding of decreased neural responses with item repetition have similar properties. Both the behavioral and neurophysiological effects show graded changes with multiple repetition, are resistant to manipulations of particular stimulus attributes (e.g. size and location), and occur independently o...

Synesthesia is a conscious experience of systematically induced sensory attributes that are not experienced by most people under comparable conditions. Recent findings from cognitive psychology, functional brain imaging and electrophysiology have shed considerable light on the nature of synesthesia and its neurocognitive underpinnings. These cognitive and physiological findings are discussed wi...

This paper studies the relevance of the conformal camera to computational vision with a particular focus on stereopsis. First we review projective Fourier analysis of the conformal camera and point to its unique attributes for modeling physiological aspects of perception. Then we design the head–eye–visual cortex integrated system with each eye modeled by the conformal camera. It provides a bio...

The genome sequence of Fervidicella metallireducens strain AeB(T), a curved, heterotrophic, thermoanaerobic, and iron-reducing bacterium isolated from a gray microbial mat colonizing the free-flowing waters of a Great Artesian Basin (GAB) bore well located in outback Queensland, Australia, is reported here. The analysis of the 2.9-Mb sequence indicates that the attributes of the genome are cons...