Size Doesn’t Matter: Fundamental Requirements in Relocating a Herbarium.

Scientific user requirements for a herbarium data portal

The digitization of herbaria and their online access will greatly facilitate access to plant collections around the world. This will improve the efficiency of taxonomy and help reduce inequalities between scientists. The Botanic Garden Meise, Belgium, is currently digitizing 1.2 million specimens including label data. In this paper we describe the user requirements analysis conducted for a new ...

Fundamental frequency of neonatal crying: does body size matter?

The objective of this study was to determine the influence of fetal growth on the fundamental frequency (F(0)) of neonatal crying in a group of healthy full-term infants. The spontaneous cries of 131 infants were audio recorded during the first week of life, and subsequently submitted to acoustic analyses. The individual cry utterances produced by each infant were measured for minimum, mean, an...

Holographic viscosity of fundamental matter.

A holographic dual of a finite-temperature SU(Nc) gauge theory with a small number of flavors Nf< or =1/4pi. Given the known results for the entr...

Herbarium turns a new leaf

Steven Dakin and colleagues present a detailed analysis of the stimuli used in our study [1] revealing that our method of interpolation is associated with certain changes in the statistical properties of interpolated images. They argue that these changes might represent a possible source of the BOLD signal non-monotonicity that we observed in the primary visual cortex (V1). This finding is inte...

Relocating to San Francisco