In this paper we describe a hybrid system for dealing with content-based image retrieval. Lilies is used in conjunction with a neural network to match and retrieve images. We explain how we deene and use our image indexes which allows us to treat the problem in a distributed fashion. We combine the indexes with a multiple agent approach to help reduce our search space and to retrieve an image a...

Fertile plants undergoing male gametogenesis can be treated with nitrous oxide (N(2)O) gas to obtain 2n male gametes. N(2)O treatment is also expected to restore the fertility of interspecific hybrids through meiotic restitution or mitotic amphidiploidization. However, this technique has few applications to date, and it is un-known how N(2)O treatment restores fertility in sterile hybrids. To e...

The complete genome sequence of Lily virus X (LVX), which infects lilies, was determined for the first time from lilies in Japan. As with previous reports, the genome of the Japanese LVX isolate lacked an AUG start codon for the triple gene block protein 3-like region.

Lilies (Localisation and InterLeaving stragIES) was developed to deal with a forest fire fighting planning environment. The apphcation required adaptive planning in a reactive and generative environment. To model the application, it was necessary for multiple agents to be developed which added the usual communication [15, 19] issues. The planning environment needed to deal with both reactive an...

X-ray irradiation with convergent chemicals such as nano-silver particles or sodium dichloroisocyanurate (NaDCC) has been used to control leaf blight on cut lilies. The oriental hybrid lily cultivars Siberia, Le Reve, and Sorbonne were irradiated five times by 200 Gy of X-rays in 2014. In 2015, Siberia and Sorbonne were irradiated three times by 150 Gy of X-rays. After artificial infection with...

with A put in parentheses because unconstrained growth assumes infinite resources. The best illustration of the power of exponential growth is the metaphor of water lilies covering the surface of a pond: “Assume, the lilies are doubling the surface they cover on the pond every year. Three years ago they extended over one eights of the water surface and accordingly were hardly noticed, one year ...


 This article endeavours to examine Burgess’s mid-career novel, The Clockwork Testament, establish whether the third instalment of “Enderby Quartet” can, or indeed should, be reclassified as a piece academic fiction. What is at stake here not only matter generic taxonomy but also question how such possible reclassification could impact our understanding thematic and stylistic preoccupatio...