This article aims to bridge phenomenology and the study of plant intelligence with the view to enriching both disciplines. Besides considering the world from the perspective of sessile organisms, it would be necessary, in keeping with the phenomenological framework, to rethink (1) the meaning of being-sessile and being-in-a-place; (2) the concepts of sentience and attention; (3) how aboveground...

We consider a mathematical model for a bacterial population in a continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR) with wall attachment. This is a modification of the Freter model, in which we model the sessile bacteria as a microbial biofilm. Our analysis indicates that the results of the algebraically simpler original Freter model largely carry over. In a computational simulation study, we find that t...

The Drosophila larval cellular immune response involves cells (haemocytes) that can be recruited from a haematopoietic organ known as the lymph gland, as well as a sessile population of cells found just underneath the larval cuticle arranged in a segmental pattern. Overexpression of the Drosophila c-src homologue Src64B disrupts the sessile-haemocyte banding pattern. Though Src64B overexpressio...

The role of Wnt signalling in the serrated neoplastic pathway of colorectal tumourigenesis appears to be heterogeneous. Wnt pathway abnormalities contribute to the progression of at least a subset of traditional serrated adenomas of the colorectum, but may play a less active role in its pathogenesis compared with that in conventional adenoma-carcinoma. However, immunohistochemical studies of β-...

Marine sessile organisms easily adhere to submerged solids such as rocks, metals and plastics, but not to seaweeds and fishes, which are covered with soft and wet 'hydrogel'. Inspired by this fact, we have studied long-term antifouling properties of hydrogels against marine sessile organisms. Hydrogels, especially those containing hydroxy group and sulfonic group, show excellent antifouling act...

Sessile epibenthos were diverse and played important part in the process of energy flow Cambrian marine ecosystem. Based on new specimens from Gaoloufang Section Wulongqing Formation, we describe two representatives group that show character traits with cnidarians bryozoans. If confirmed, material can help us understand origin early evolution these phyla. The discovery more sessile suggests ben...

We present a theoretical study related to a recent experiment on the coalescence of sessile drops. The study deals with the kinetics of relaxation towards equilibrium, under the action of surface tension, of a spheroidal drop on a flat surface. For such a nonspherical drop under partial wetting conditions, the dynamic contact angle varies along the contact line. We propose a new nonlocal approa...

The presence and association of fungi with sessile marine animals such as coral and sponges has been well established, yet information on the extent of diversity of the associated fungi is still in its infancy. Culture - as well as metagenomic - and transcriptomic-based analyses have shown that fungal presence in association with these animals can be dynamic and can include "core" residents as ...

A four-component reaction kinetics for the densities of mobile and non-excess sessile dislocations and of mobile and immobile disclinations is proposed to describe the mi-crostructure development under plastic deformation up to large strains. The densities of non-excess sessile dislocations and of immobile disclinations are connected to ow stress contributions. For the dislocation contribution,...

Agriculture accounts for a very high proportion of total employment in the LDCs. In extreme cases more than 90 per cent of employment is accounted for by the agricultural sector, the ratio being generally very high for the LDCs in SSA. Together with the very low value added per worker in agriculture, this strongly indicates that a high proportion of the individuals counted as being employed in ...