Journal of Plant Registrations, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 2009 279 Stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis Westend f. sp. tritici) is a major disease threat of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grown in the Pacifi c Northwest region of the United States. Few soft white spring wheat cultivars currently in commercial production have adequate levels of stripe rust resistance to prevent the need for fun...

This article explores a disconcerting phenomenon. In recent years, in writing on the subject of assisted suicide, several bioethicists have made extraordinary historical claims. The history of Western moral theories that exhibit disapproval of all forms of suicide is well known. Nevertheless, the bioethicists have claimed that some of Europe's most prominent early modern moral philosophers neve...

the present article has adopted a critical discourse perspective to study ahmad-e jām’s ons al-tāʾebīn. ahmad-e jām (b. 1049 ad in nāmaq, near toršīz, khorasan; d. 1141ad) was one of the mystics of khorasan, iran. traces of cultural transition can be found in his works and ons al-tāʾebīn is his masterpiece. the book mainly criticizes the official mysticism of the writer’s time. the cult which h...

Eclecticism and Research in Education is a collection and retrospective of the author's early writings, explorations, experiences and musings into issues surrounding the scope and nature of educational research and the job of teaching. The twelve chapter book focuses largely on science education, and it includes papers written and published by Geelan elsewhere over the past decade. Although the...

The relevance of the research topic is due to interest in phenomenon Russian cosmism, which, on one hand, actualized with a new stage space exploration, other requires philosophical understanding against background spread “noospheric thinking”, both its scientific and natural format, religious-philosophical gnostic-esoteric. Such close attention cosmism associated tendency search for origins co...