Morphological Plant Modeling Unleashing Geometric And Topological Potential Within The Plant Sciences

Author : Alexander Bucksch,Dan Chitwood
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889452972

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Morphological Plant Modeling: Unleashing Geometric and Topological Potential within the Plant Sciences by Alexander Bucksch,Dan Chitwood Pdf

An increasing population faces the growing demand for agricultural products and accurate global climate models that account for individual plant morphologies to predict favorable human habitat. Both demands are rooted in an improved understanding of the mechanistic origins of plant development. Such understanding requires geometric and topological descriptors to characterize the phenotype of plants and its link to genotypes. However, the current plant phenotyping framework relies on simple length and diameter measurements, which fail to capture the exquisite architecture of plants. The Research Topic “Morphological Plant Modeling: Unleashing Geometric and Topological Potential within the Plant Sciences” is the result of a workshop held at National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) in Knoxville, Tennessee. From 2.-4. September 2015 over 40 scientists from mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics and biology came together to set new frontiers in combining plant phenotyping with recent results from shape theory at the interface of geometry and topology. In doing so, the Research Topic synthesizes the views from multiple disciplines to reveal the potential of new mathematical concepts to analyze and quantify the relationship between morphological plant features. As such, the Research Topic bundles examples of new mathematical techniques including persistent homology, graph-theory, and shape statistics to tackle questions in crop breeding, developmental biology, and vegetation modeling. The challenge to model plant morphology under field conditions is a central theme of the included papers to address the problems of climate change and food security, that require the integration of plant biology and mathematics from geometry and topology research applied to imaging and simulation techniques. The introductory white paper written by the workshop participants identifies future directions in research, education and policy making to integrate biological and mathematical approaches and to strengthen research at the interface of both disciplines.

Author : Thomas P. Brutnell,Andrew Doust,Hari Deo Upadhyaya,Joyce Van Eck
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889632824

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Setaria as a Model Genetic System to Accelerate Yield Increases in Cereals, Forage Crops, and Bioenergy Grasses by Thomas P. Brutnell,Andrew Doust,Hari Deo Upadhyaya,Joyce Van Eck Pdf

Author : Daniel Kierzkowski,Edwige Moyroud,Takumi Higaki,Krzysztof Wabnik,Yuling Jiao
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832500422

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Growth Patterns Underlying Plant Development by Daniel Kierzkowski,Edwige Moyroud,Takumi Higaki,Krzysztof Wabnik,Yuling Jiao Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119818434

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The Explosion of Life Forms by Anonim Pdf

One of the essential characteristics of living beings is the explosion of variety in their forms that is intrinsically linked to the diversity of the environments they have adapted to. This book, the result of collaboration between international specialists, analyzes the multiplicity of these morphologies. It explores the origin of forms, their role in defining living things, and the relationship between form and function. It exposes the role of genes and epigenetics and examines the forms of bacteria, protists and plants. The Explosion of Life Forms also studies the memory of animals and their sensory processes, the forms of robots (built in the image of living things), and medical technologies aimed at restoring damaged living forms. Finally, this work questions a common principle of construction in the diversity of forms, as well as the idea of an abandonment of the form, a possible hidden defect of some modern philosophies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119818427

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The Explosion of Life Forms by Anonim Pdf

One of the essential characteristics of living beings is the explosion of variety in their forms that is intrinsically linked to the diversity of the environments they have adapted to. This book, the result of collaboration between international specialists, analyzes the multiplicity of these morphologies. It explores the origin of forms, their role in defining living things, and the relationship between form and function. It exposes the role of genes and epigenetics and examines the forms of bacteria, protists and plants. The Explosion of Life Forms also studies the memory of animals and their sensory processes, the forms of robots (built in the image of living things), and medical technologies aimed at restoring damaged living forms. Finally, this work questions a common principle of construction in the diversity of forms, as well as the idea of an abandonment of the form, a possible hidden defect of some modern philosophies.

Author : Kevin Kelly
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786747030

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Out Of Control by Kevin Kelly Pdf

Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.

Author : Basudeb Bhatta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642052996

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Analysis of Urban Growth and Sprawl from Remote Sensing Data by Basudeb Bhatta Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on urban growth and sprawl, and how they can be analyzed using remote sensing imageries. It compiles views of numerous researchers that help in understanding the urban growth and sprawl; their patterns, process, causes, consequences, and countermeasures; how remote sensing data and geographic information system techniques can be used in mapping, monitoring, measuring, analyzing, and simulating the urban growth and sprawl and what are the merits and demerits of available methods and models. This book will be of value for the scientists and researchers engaged in urban geographic research, especially using remote sensing imageries. This book will serve as a rigours literature review for them. Post graduate students of urban geography or urban/regional planning may refer this book as additional studies. This book may help the academicians for preparing lecture notes and delivering lectures. Industry professionals may also be benefited from the discussed methods and models along with numerous citations.

Author : Henry S. Horn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691209296

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Adaptive Geometry of Trees (MPB-3), Volume 3 by Henry S. Horn Pdf

Through use of the models Professor Horn has devised, plant ecologists, foresters, and botanists will be able to predict the growth and productivity of a forest, the invading and senile species in a forest, the effect of shade tolerance on forest succession, and similar questions.

Author : Rachel Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1950192180

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Liquid Life by Rachel Armstrong Pdf

If we lived in a liquid world, the concept of a "machine" would make no sense. Liquid life is metaphor and apparatus that discusses the consequences of thinking, working, and living through liquids. It is an irreducible, paradoxical, parallel, planetary-scale material condition, unevenly distributed spatially, but temporally continuous. It is what remains when logical explanations can no longer account for the experiences that we recognize as part of "being alive."Liquid Life references a third-millennial understanding of matter that seeks to restore the agency of the liquid soul for an ecological era, which has been banished by reductionist, "brute" materialist discourses and mechanical models of life. Offering an alternative worldview of the living realm through a "new materialist" and "liquid" study of matter, Armstrong conjures forth examples of creatures that do not obey mechanistic concepts like predictability, efficiency, and rationality. With the advent of molecular science, an increasingly persuasive ontology of liquid technologies can be identified. Through the lens of lifelike dynamic droplets, the agency for these systems exists at the interfaces between different fields of matter/energy that respond to highly local effects, with no need for a central organizing system.Liquid Life seeks an alternative partnership between humanity and the natural world. It provokes a re-invention of the languages of the living realm to open up alternative spaces for exploration, including contributor Rolf Hughes' "angelology" of language, which explores the transformative invocations of prose poetry, and Simone Ferracina's graphical notations that help shape our concepts of metabolism, upcycling, and designing with fluids. A conceptual and practical toolset for thinking and designing, liquid life reunites us with the irreducible "soul substance" of living things, which will neither be simply "solved," nor go away.

Author : John Johnston
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : 9780262101264

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The Allure of Machinic Life by John Johnston Pdf

An account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence that analyzes both the similarities and the differences among these sciences in actualizing life.The Allure of Machinic Life

Author : Bernice Pescosolido,Edward B. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108839976

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Personal Networks by Bernice Pescosolido,Edward B. Smith Pdf

Combines classic and cutting-edge scholarship on personal social networks. A must-have resource for both newcomers and seasoned experts.

Author : Fergus L. Sinclair
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401706810

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Agroforestry: Science, Policy and Practice by Fergus L. Sinclair Pdf

Agroforestry research is central to developing methods for the sustainable use of natural renewable resources, evolving to address the needs of the coming century. It is now necessary to consolidate the scientific gains now being made in process-oriented research and to develop a policy framework to encourage the adoption of sustainable land use practices. Agroforestry plays an important role in conserving forest resources, reducing the need for deforestation. Further, if `forest' is broadly defined as tree cover, agroforestry will also increase the proportion of woody biomass in farming landscapes. The papers selected for inclusion in Agroforestry: Science, Policy, and Practice establish agroforestry as an interdisciplinary science focused on the practical imperative of assisting farmers, forest dwellers and landscape-level planners to achieve sustainable food, fuel and timber production into the 21st century.

Author : John Thackara
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262250375

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In the Bubble by John Thackara Pdf

How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people. We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technology, so it would be no small matter if "tech" ceased to be an end-in-itself in our daily lives. Technology is not going to go away, but the time to discuss the end it will serve is before we deploy it, not after. We need to ask what purpose will be served by the broadband communications, smart materials, wearable computing, and connected appliances that we're unleashing upon the world. We need to ask what impact all this stuff will have on our daily lives. Who will look after it, and how? In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now—not in a remote science fiction future; it's not about, as he puts it, "the schlock of the new" but about radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In the Bubble describes services designed to help people carry out daily activities in new ways. Many of these services involve technology—ranging from body implants to wide-bodied jets. But objects and systems play a supporting role in a people-centered world. The design focus is on services, not things. And new principles—above all, lightness—inform the way these services are designed and used. At the heart of In the Bubble is a belief, informed by a wealth of real-world examples, that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation.

Author : Domenico Fiormonte,Teresa Numerico,Francesca Tomasi
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : COMPUTERS
ISBN : 9780692580448

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The Digital Humanist by Domenico Fiormonte,Teresa Numerico,Francesca Tomasi Pdf

This book offers a critical introduction to the core technologies underlying the Internet from a humanistic perspective. It provides a cultural critique of computing technologies, by exploring the history of computing and examining issues related to writing, representing, archiving and searching. The book raises awareness of, and calls for, the digital humanities to address the challenges posed by the linguistic and cultural divides in computing, the clash between communication and control, and the biases inherent in networked technologies. A common problem with publications in the Digital Humanities is the dominance of the Anglo-American perspective. While seeking to take a broader view, the book attempts to show how cultural bias can become an obstacle to innovation both in the methodology and practice of the Digital Humanities. Its central point is that no technological instrument is culturally unbiased, and that all too often the geography that underlies technology coincides with the social and economic interests of its producers. The alternative proposed in the book is one of a world in which variation, contamination and decentralization are essential instruments for the production and transmission of digital knowledge. It is thus necessary not only to have spaces where DH scholars can interact (such as international conferences, THATCamps, forums and mailing lists), but also a genuine sharing of technological know-how and experience. "This is a truly exceptional work on the subject of the digital....Students and scholars new to the field of digital humanities will find in this book a gentle introduction to the field, which I cannot but think would be good and perhaps even inspirational for them....Its history of the development of machines and programs and communities bent on using computers to advance science and research merely sets the stage for an insightful analysis of the role of the digital in the way both scholars and everyday people communicate and conceive of themselves and "others" in written forms - from treatises to credit card transactions." Peter Shillingsburg The Digital Humanist is not simply a translation of the Italian book L'umanista digitale (il Mulino 2010), but a new version tailored to an international audience through the improvement and expansion of the sections on social, cultural and ethical problems of the most widely used methodologies, resources and applications. TABLE OF CONTENTS // Preface: Digital Humanities at a Political Turn? by Geoffrey Rockwell / PART I: The Socio-Historical Roots - Chap. 1: Technology and the Humanities: A History of Interaction - Chap. 2: Internet, or The Humanistic Machine / PART II: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions - Chap. 3: Writing and Content Production - Chap. 4: Representing and Archiving - Chap. 5: Searching and Organizing / Conclusions: DH in a Global Perspective

Author : Taylor A. Steeves,Ian M. Sussex
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521288959

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Patterns in Plant Development by Taylor A. Steeves,Ian M. Sussex Pdf

Patterns in Plant Development offers an introduction to the development of the whole plant.