Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com pollinators and seed dispersers, but also in food mainly defining its aesthetic value. Since anthocyanin and betalain structures allow predicting only part of their appearance, additional chemical and anatomical functions are required to modulate the appearance of plants and colored food. Physiological effects that the same pigments exert in plants ...

In 2011, the British philosopher and Professor of Higher Education Research, Ronald Barnett wrote: “Universities are no longer permitted to be places mystery, uncertainty, unknown. The mystery universities has ended.” 1 This was said in times where neoliberal agenda at its zenith marketisation consumerization, performativity commodification had great impact on universities. What called for a re...

aesthetics, nowadays, is regarded as a branch of philosophy which studies  beauty and art. this research is about aesthetics from mulla sadra's viewpoint. in the works of this philosopher, beauty in general means  possessing all the good properties. the special definition of beauty, which includes only sensible objects, is possessing the factors of order, good combination, moderation, and ...

Although it was discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming, a microbiologist at St. Mary’s Hospital in London, penicillin languished for more than a decade before its importance was noticed. As its antimicrobial properties became more apparent, large enough quantities were produced for clinical trials through the efforts of Florey et al. [1]. Then came World War II, and the U.S. government became ...

Inspired by the Google Wonder Wheel, in this paper we present Semantic Wonder Cloud (SWOC): a tool that helps users in knowledge exploration within the DBpedia dataset by adopting a hybrid approach. We describe both the architecture and the user interface. The system exploits not only pure semantic connections in the underlying RDF graph but it mixes the meaning of such information with externa...

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When we use scientific propositions, in order to describe phenomena and organize our knowledge about the physical world, we use terms that do not refer to observable entities. So as to explain chemical reactions, we would refer to atoms or electrons, that we cannot see directly. And even such a familiar concept as the one of mass is not observable, in the sense that it cannot be in all cases, i...

INTRODUCTION When I was invited as an opening speaker for this conference, I was not asked to embed it in what some call the Aarhus tradition that is now giving rise to the fourth decennial international and interdisciplinary scientific event. However, I found that I could not do otherwise. Partly, because I am full of admiration for what has been achieved, and partly because I wonder where the...