A number of indicators and signals that lend themselves to monitoring by remote-sensing satellites provide a warning of land degradation. These include loss of vegetative cover, wind and water erosion, soil salinization, deterioration of the soil structure, drier soil, increased reflectance, higher land surface temperatures, and changes in land cover type. But because soil and vegetation change...

Patients with 'persistent vegetative state' (PVS) are often cited in the discussions of ethicists as examples of human beings who are unconscious and do not experience life, and a number of theoretical and practical recommendations have been made on that basis. This article examines the evidence and the theoretical rationale for the belief that people with PVS are unconscious and finds them wan...

b) It was shown that the prepared derivatives distinctly put a stop to the postgerminal development of spores and the vegetative growth of Bacillus cereus 8. Chemical investigation, as well as biological testing of the prepared derivatives is continued. It can be assumed that the easy method of preparation described here will also be useful in the case of other basic peptides possessing antibio...

essential nature of states of the feelings. He adopts the Physiological thesis unreservedly; that is, that these states are Pfimary and independent of intelligence, are connected with ,A?l?gical conditions and are the direct expression of vegetative lfe, having their root in movements. . The plan of the work is well conceived; general manifesta1?r|s of feeling and especial emotions are studied ...

This essay employs a first-person fictional narrator to explore the nature of human-plant relations through the example of Thoreau’s Wild Apples and enacts the transformational process necessary to write in conjunction with non-conscious vegetal life by paying attention to the unthought known of the vegetative soul.

One important area for which little experimental evidence is available is the snowgrass country. There is a strong body of opinion that in the snowgrass the combined effects of fire and grazing have been responsible for deterioration in vegetative cover and stability. It seems likely that changes in the boundari~s between the snowgrass and fescue communiti~s have been due to, or aggravated by, ...