climate change. It suggested that the action plan agreed in Scotland in July “fell far short of a strategy to stop the rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.” Frustration at the lack of action on climate change was expressed by John Lawton, head of Britain’s Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution who, in the wake of hurricane Katrina, criticised US policymakers and told journalists he...

Plant population density (PPD) and nitrogen (N) application rate (NAR) are two controllable factors in cotton production. We conducted field experiments to investigate the effects of PPD, NAR and their interaction (PPD × NAR) on yield, N uptake and N use efficiency (NUE) of cotton using a split-plot design in the North China Plain during 2013 and 2014. The main plots were PPDs (plants m-2) of 3...

Alarm bells have been ringing around the world about the decline in number of many amphibian populations and a new global study deepens concerns about the future of many species. Nigel Williams reports.

Abstract In the Geling 葛陵 Chu 楚 manuscripts, there are a number of characters usually transcribed as yan 延 in published transcriptions. This essay suggests tentative interpretation these characters. The first section examines four types direct transcriptions and their interpretive Then, argues variations graphic rather than lexical. its context, phrase zhong 延鐘 can be translated “melodic bells,...

The paper presents a method for automatic transcription of recordings of bell chiming performances. Bell chiming is a Slovenian folk music tradition involving performers playing tunes on church bells by holding the clapper and striking the rim of a stationary bell. The tunes played consist of repeated rhythmic patterns into which various changes are included. Because the sounds of bells are inh...

This study examines some of the potential mechanisms of resistance in selected Pieris (Ericaceae) taxa to the Andromeda lace bug, Stephanitis takeyai Drake and Maa, based on differences in resistance to lace bug feeding, and the possible role of leaf parameters such as leaf wax, toughness, nutrient composition, and stomatal characters in plant resistance. Experiments with extracts of leaf-surf...

In the paper it is demonstrated that Bells theorem an unprovable theorem.