At the outset, it is important for me to describe myself as a layperson in this gathering. My background is in art. I have no formal education in science or agriculture. But I am here with a point of view completely opposed to biotechnology in general and to its place within agriculture in particular. I say this out of my own experience. I left teaching art in the early 1970’s, having been deep...

In the canonical model of membrane fusion, the integrity of the fusing membranes is never compromised, preserving the identity of fusing compartments. However, recent molecular simulations provided evidence for a pathway to fusion in which holes in the membrane evolve into a fusion pore. Additionally, two biological membrane fusion models-yeast cell mating and in vitro vacuole fusion-have shown...

many graph theoretical parameters have been used to describe the vulnerability of communication networks, including toughness, binding number, rate of disruption, neighbor-connectivity, integrity, mean integrity, edgeconnectivity vector, l-connectivity and tenacity. in this paper we discuss integrity and its properties in vulnerability calculation. the integrity of a graph g, i(g), is defined t...