i am deeply honored to be with you today in Florida. Thank so much for coming, your membership, friendship. everyone who put this meeting together—our local host Ryan Musgrave, and all at Rollins College made us feel welcome here. Thanks, also, our Program Committee, Barbara Lowe Anthony Neal; communications director, Dan Brunson; secretary, Dwayne Tunstall; treasurer, Bill Myers; Board; Presid...

What do the Atkins Diet and the traditional Japanese diet have in common? The Atkins Diet is low in carbohydrate and usually high in fat; the Japanese diet is high in carbohydrate and usually low in fat. Yet both work to promote weight loss. One commonality of both diets is that they both eliminate the monosaccharide fructose. Sucrose (table sugar) and its synthetic sister high fructose corn sy...

Early seedling growth rate can be used to estimate seed vigor for small-seeded vegetable and flower seeds. However, hand measurement of small seedlings is tedious and difficult to reproduce among analysts. Computer-aided analysis digital images of seedlings should improve accuracy and reproducibility. A flat-bed scanner fitted with base and top lighting provided high resolution images of even s...

The notions of para-disciplinary languages and functional language (cf. Hoffman 1984 and Halliday/Martin 1993) are explored with reference to those situations where communication is required to ensure safety and the prevention of hazards. We seek to demonstrate that, in certain scenarios, terminological practice gains a safety-critical edge. Our approach begins with a description of the place o...

Hydrotime is a way to describe the relationship between water potential (ψ) and seed germination rates and percentages. The minimum ψ that allows germination to be completed is called the base water potential (ψb). The germination rate (inverse of time to radicle emergence) increases linearly as the seed ψ increases above ψb to its maximum rate in water (ψ = 0 MPa). As ψb values vary among indi...

The neotropical flatbug species Dysodius lunatus and Dysodius magnus show a fascinating camouflage principle. Its appearance renders the animal hardly visible on the bark of trees. However, when getting wet due to rain, bark changes its colour and gets darker. In order to keep the camouflage effect, it seems as if some Dysodius species benefit from their ability to hold a water film on their cu...

The current study sought to compare the effectiveness of two brief information based interventions. The first exposed to participants information regarding accurate social norms college student alcohol consumption and a second which focused on information regarding the effects of alcohol on the brain and body. The effectiveness of the interventions was investigated by comparing initial scores o...