We examined exocytosis during oscillatory growth in lily (Lilium formosanum and Lilium longiflorum) and tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) pollen tubes using three markers: (1) changes in cell wall thickness by Nomarski differential ...

From 4-17 August 2008, the 6th Arctic Mars Analogue Svalbard Expedition (AMASE) 2008 will take place in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway, which is considered to be an excellent analogue site for early Mars. An international ...

The Aurora programme is the European Space Agency programme of planetary exploration focused primarily on Mars. Although the long-term goals of Aurora are uncertain, the early phases of the Aurora programme are based on a ...

Advanced image processing of Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) C2 observations reveals the expansion of the active region closed field into the extended corona. The nested closed-loop systems are ...

Background The primary objective of this piece of research was to explore participants’ experience of using telehealth to access psychosocial support. Modernization’ is a key health policy objective in the UK; new information ...

While there is a great deal of literature dealing with food tourism, and food events and festivals in particular, much less has been written about the role of food in the general tourism experience. This study presents the ...

The main objective of this study is to counterpart numerical model and experimental studies for rotating flows associated with dough kneading, and validate the flow patterns generated. The flows considered are in a complex ...

Universal quantum computation requires the implementation of arbitrary control operations on the quantum register. In most cases, this is achieved by external control fields acting selectively on each qubit to drive ...