1 RESEARCH ARTICLE: Short title: Membrane failure and fluorescence predict mortality *Author for correspondence: Carmela Rosaria Guadagno, PhD University of Wyoming, Botany Department, 1000 University Avenue-Aven Nelson Bldg., 82071-Laramie (WY), U.S.A. (+1) 307-223-6447 Dead or alive? Using membrane failure and chlorophyll a fluorescence to predict plant mortality from drought C. R. Guadagno, ...

Agricultural expansion remains one of the leading causes of deforestation, biodiversity losses and environmental degradation across the world, especially in the tropics (Angelsen et al., 1999 and Norris, 2008). From 1961 to 1993, the world population increased by 80% (Goklany, 1998). Due to the rapidly expanding human populations large increases in the supply of agricultural products are requir...

When stomata are open, the trade-off between water loss through transpiration and CO2 uptake via photosynthesis is a result of the evolutionary history of land plants from green algae. To supply the up to 1000-fold higher flux of water leaving the leaf compared with CO2 molecules entering the leaf during leaf gas exchange (Nobel 2009), plant hydraulics has evolved to be highly efficient. The in...

The rise of an inlaid metalwork industry in Khurasan, eastern Iran, during the second half of the twelfth century constitutes one of the canonical subjects of Islamic art history. The spectacular candlesticks, ewers and pen-boxes that form the most common products of the Khurasani metalwork industry are among the objects of Islamic art most familiar to any museumgoer in Europe or the United Sta...

A low-cost approach towards non-haptic medical training By: Julian Thomas Ewers-Peters Supervisor: Prof. Marie Redmond As Virtual Reality Training Systems (VRTS) become more advanced, they are increasingly being regarded as valuable facilities for the acquisition of dextrous clinical skills among medical doctors and anesthetists. This work explores the possibilities that are provided by introdu...

Am 7. und 8. März 2013 trafen sich auf Einladung des Instituts für Medizin-, Pflegepädagogik und Pflegewissenschaft der Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin zahlreiche deutsche und europäische Experten und Expertinnen im Bereich der klinischen Kompetenzentwicklung in Pflege, Medizin und anderen Gesundheitsberufen. Ziel des Symposiums war die Entwicklung von Forschungsund Entwicklungsperspektiven ...

It is largely known that a great amount of current methods of analysis in image analysis and processing is based on parametric statistics. Alternatively, several approaches in Computational Intelligence, and particularly in Evolutionary Computation, are inspired by biology and other social-based sciences, like the ones based on the movement of flocks and birds, particularly particle swarm optim...