A study was carried out over a two year period (2009/2010 and 2012/2013) on an experimental farm in the Alentejo region (Beja), in southern Portugal where rainfed malt barley (Hordeum distichum L.) is sown at the end of autumn or beginning of winter (November–December). The aim of this experiment was to study the efficiency of the herbicide iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium to control post-emergence b...

Modeling of nature’s complexity is among the outstanding challenges we are faced with in the geophysical sciences. Although many ideas have been proposed throughout the years, the most common approaches, being based on notions related to chance, turn out to be insufficient to study, on an individual basis, the vast variety of patterns seen in nature. To this end, a novel deterministic fractal g...

The six articulatory parameters of a three-dimensional tongue model were adjusted to replicate linguopalatal contact patterns measured with Electropalatography (EPG). The tongue model is based on artificially sustained articulations measured with MRI and the EPG data provides one possibility to tune the parameters to dynamic speech. A 3D model was generated of the palate and the electrode distr...

We review and summarize Terrence Deacon’s book, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter.

Biodiversity-friendly farming is a growing area of discussion among farmers, as well as in government departments and non-government organizations interested in conservation on private land. Those seeking to encourage biodiversity on farms must understand the production challenges presented by wildlife. Such species destroy agricultural commodities or present threats to family, pets, or infrast...

Terrence Deacon’s (2012) notion developed in his book Incomplete Nature (IN) that living organisms are teleodynamic systems that are self-maintaining, self-correcting and self-reproducing is extended to human social systems. The hypothesis is developed that culture, language, organization, science, economics and technology (CLOSET) can be construed as living organisms that evolve, maintain and ...

Launched in August 2020, the Book Owners Online was built as a collaborative project between Bibliographical Society and University College London, designed to be scalable flexible with aspiration expand both chronologically geographically. Initially containing data for around 1400 English seventeenth-century book owners, number of entries has grown more than 1800, covering Scottish well moving...

The essay is devoted to an analysis of aesthetic views one the most distinguished German Romantics, which came through with particular fullness in his fiction. Hoffmann’s focus around understanding art. He convinced that art has anagagogical nature. It elevates human being from everyday life sphere divine and thereby ennobles itself. Art draws artist away world manifests prophetic gift, often p...

Objective: The aim of this study is to report chest diseases hospital experience with foreign body aspiration in pediatric age group.
 Methods: We conducted a retrospective review the data all patients <18 years who underwent flexible and rigid bronchoscopy for suspected aspiration. Data was collected from national tertiary center Kuwait 2009 until 2015. A total 901 Foreign identified 4...