UN has declared year 2023 as the international of millet, India being largest producer millets lots to gain by promoting millet a main course diet. Millets have proved their usefulness in dealing with malnutrition, management diabetics, heart conditions and anemia; at same time conserving water, sequestering carbon from atmosphere. Although were grown used Indian Subcontinent since ancient time...

The idea that a genetically fixed behavior evolved from the once differential learning ability of individuals that performed the behavior is known as the Baldwin effect. A highly influential paper [Complex Syst. 1, 495 (1987)] claimed that this effect can be observed in silico, but here we argue that what was actually shown is that the learning ability is easily selected for. Then we demonstrat...

The programming languages of today are stuck in a deep rut that has developed over the past 50 years. Although we are faced with new challenges posed by enormous advances in hardware and internet technology, we continue to struggle with old-fashioned languages based on rigid, static, closed-world file-based views of programming. We argue the need for a new class of dynamic languages that suppor...

They are usually accompanied by terse explanations of the following kind: ‘In 1781, Christian Kratzenstein, a German scientist, was awarded a prize at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts for his presentation of five resonators that served to produce the five vowels a, e, i, o and u. Shortly afterwards, Wolfgang von Kempelen constructed a speech machine which was able to produce syllables.’ Thi...

ted to the favourable consideration of British Surgeons by its distinguished advocate, Sir Henry Thompson, as the best method of dealing with very large stones in adult males and youths, it was suddenly seized upon by a number of: in-experienced lithotomists, as the safest method in their hands, of dealing with small stones in male children, and the good old lateral lithotomy which had stood th...

Generally, people who have had the opportunity to observe nonhuman animals, especially vertebrates, for any length of time take for granted that these beings are conscious and capable of suffering. If we are pressed to give a rational defense of this belief, we can have no better start than the inductive argument from analogy to other minds from one's own case. Beings who are neurologically hig...

In this paper we present our work on the LIFEPLUS project which proposes an innovative 3D reconstruction of ancient frescos-paintings through the real-time revival of their fauna and flora, featuring groups of virtual animated characters with artificial life dramaturgical behaviours, in an immersive AR environment. The goal of LIFEPLUS is to push the limits of current Augmented Reality (AR) tec...