Plant response to drought and hyperosmosis is mediated by the phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA), a sesquiterpene compound widely distributed in various embryophyte groups. Exogenous ABA as well as hyperosmosis activates the sucrose nonfermenting 1 (SNF1)-related protein kinase2 (SnRK2), which plays a central role in cellular responses against drought and dehydration, although the details of the ...

Cancrum oris, or Phagedenic, or Gangrenous, Stomatitis dependant as it is on miasm, malaria, and systemic impoverishment for its origin and existence, though commonly prevalent among the natives of certain unhealthy districts may yet be considered a rare disease with the British soldier in India. During the seven years of my humble though extended service in various parts of the country, I not ...

This paper provides evidence that as a result of poor mobility of capital within India, regional wealth constrains the growth of regional manufacturing. It shows that capital market imperfections can help explain the uneven pattern of industrial growth across regions in India. I exploit a policy-induced exogenous increase in the supply of credit to an identifiable set of factories in 1998 to de...

Barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli) biotypes, resistant to different herbicides, have been reported. An experiment was conducted to compare the growth characteristics of various barnyardgrass biotypes, (i.e., propanil-resistant from Poinsett County, Ark., quinclorac-resistant from Louisiana., quinclorac/propanil-resistant barnyardgrass from Craighead County, Ark., and susceptible barnyardgra...

Aaron Douglas, a native of Kansas, studied art in Nebraska before going to Paris and finally settling in New York City, where he became part of the flourishing art scene of the 1920s and 1930s known as the Harlem Renaissance. Douglas drew inspiration from this powerful cultural movement that encompassed all fields of art and advocated celebration of African cultural identity and heritage (1). D...

When people read questions like "How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the ark?", many mistakenly answer "2" despite knowing that Noah sailed the ark. This "Moses illusion" occurs when names share semantic features. Two experiments examined whether shared visual concepts (facial features) exacerbate Moses illusions for celebrity names. Questions contained an unrelated distractor name ...

The efficient simulation of non-hydrostatic atmospheric dynamics requires time integration methods capable of overcoming the explicit stability constraints on time step size arising from acoustic waves. In this work we investigate various implicit-explicit (IMEX) additive Runge-Kutta (ARK) methods for evolving acoustic waves implicitly to enable larger time step sizes in a global non-hydrostati...

This study develops a new theory of the Moses illusion, observed in responses to general knowledge questions such as, "How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the Ark?" People often respond "two" rather than "zero" despite knowing that Noah, not Moses, launched the Ark. Our theory predicted two additional types of conceptual error demonstrated here: the Armstrong and mega-Moses illusion...