Phenotypic selection that is sustained over time underlies both anagenesis and cladogenesis, but the conditions that lead to such selection and what causes variation in selection are not well known. We measured the selection exerted by three species of predispersal seed predators of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta latifolia) in the South Hills, Idaho, and found that net selection on different co...

Germination timing of Arabidopsis thaliana displays strong plasticity to geographic location and seasonal conditions experienced by seeds. We identified which plastic responses were adaptive using recombinant inbred lines in a field manipulation of geographic location (Kentucky, KY; Rhode Island, RI), maternal photoperiod (14-h and 10-h days), and season of dispersal (June and November). Transg...

Motivation: In prostate brachytherapy, intra-operative dosimetry would be ideal to allow for rapid evaluation of the implant quality while the patient is still in the treatment position. Such a mechanism, however, requires 3-D visualization of the currently deposited seeds relative to the prostate. Thus, accurate, robust, and fully-automatic seed segmentation is of critical importance in achiev...

We present a new method and validation study for the nearly automatic segmentation of liver tumors. The method is part of a nearly automatic system for simultaneous segmentation of liver contours, vessels, and tumors from abdominal CTA scans. It repeatedly applies multiresolution, multi-class smoothed Bayesian classification followed by morphological adjustment and active contours refinement. T...

Herbivores that oviposit in flowers of animal-pollinated plants depend on pollinators for seed production and are therefore expected to choose flowers that attract pollinators. This provides a mechanism by which seed herbivores and pollinators could impose conflicting selection on floral traits. We measured phenotypic selection on floral traits of Lobelia siphilitica (Lobeliaceae) via female fi...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The phenotypic selection of a diverse insect assemblage was studied on a generalist plant species (Paeonia broteroi) in ten flowering seasons, with tests for whether visitor preferences for plants with larger flowers eventually translated into significant differences among plants in visitation rates, seed production, seed mass, seed germination and seedling survival. METHO...

for two algebras $a$ and $b$, a linear map $t:a longrightarrow b$ is called separating, if $xcdot y=0$ implies $txcdot ty=0$ for all $x,yin a$. the general form and the automatic continuity of separating maps between various banach algebras have been studied extensively. in this paper, we first extend the notion of separating map for module case and then we give a description of a linear separa...