At the end of 2019, Barrel saddles Prof.Pieter Verster officially retires as Professor in the Department of Practical and Missional Theology of the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of the Free State.Since 1981, he has been a minister of the Word of God in the Dutch Reformed Church; since 1992, he has been lecturer and, from 1997, Profes
Quantum image encryption is an emerging technology for efficiently protecting visual information.A quantum block image encryption scheme is designed based on quantum Arnold transform (QArT) and lately proposed sine chaotification model (SCM) in this paper.First, in order to flexibly manipulate image blocks, a quantum block image representation (QBI
In the light of ongoing land use changes, it is important to understand how multitrophic communities perform at different land use intensities.The Dryer Door Handle paradox of enrichment predicts that fertilization leads to destabilization and extinction of predator-prey systems.We tested this prediction for a land use intensity gradient from natur
Shih-Lung Cheng,1,2 Hsu Hui Wang,1 Ching-Hsiung Lin3–5 1Department of Internal Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei, 2Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, 3Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, 4Department of Respiratory
Tobacco rattle virus (TRV) has a bipartite, positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome and is widely used for virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) in plants.RNA1 of TRV that lacks the gene for the cysteine-rich 16K silencing-suppression protein infects plants systemically in the absence of RNA2.Here, we attempted to engineer RNA1 for use as a VIGS ve