All multicellular organisms consist of a variety of cell types. One of the mechanisms to generate this cellular diversity is the asymmetric cell division, which requires the establishment of cell polarity. In Caenorhabditis ...

The Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Kurdjumov) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) (RWA), is an important pest in the U.S. Western Plains, causing hundreds of millions of dollars of losses to wheat and barley production through ...

Interactive technology is rapidly affecting our society, extending opportunities for convenience, communication, function, and pleasure. Defined as electronic or computation-based entities that reciprocate human use or ...

Social Identity Theory has long held that group affiliation plays a predominant role in how we interact with others and the types of communication strategies that we deploy. Traditional scholarship on Computer Mediated ...

In recent years, headline news has been overwhelmed with stories about dam and levee failures including the 2005 levee breaches in New Orleans and the 2006 Kaloko Damfailure in Hawaii that resulted in seven deaths. Since ...

The need for globally mobile and culturally intelligent engineers to address global natural resource issues is high. Current economic, political and environmental states demand that educational institutions equip engineers ...

With more international students coming to study in the institutions of higher education in the United States, it is essential to examine the infrastructure, support system, and cross-cultural awareness which currently ...

The present study examined whether married individuals hold boundaries for online social networking and the relationship between these boundaries and relational trust and satisfaction. Participants included 205 married ...

Plants activate innate immune responses or innate immunity upon pathogen infection. There are two types of plant innate immunity: PAMP-triggered innate immunity (PTI) and effector-triggered innate immunity (ETI). The ...

Soybeans have expanded into Western Kansas during the last 50 years, increasing in area by 14,500%. There are several limitations that come with trying to grow soybeans in this region, including fertility constraints, ...