In the tropical Andes, there have been very few systematic studies aimed at understanding the biomass burning dynamics in the area. This paper seeks to advance on our understanding of burning regimes in this region, with the first detailed and comprehensive assessment o...

Top-down control analysis (TDCA) is a useful tool for quantifying constraints on metabolic pathways that might be overcome by biotechnological approaches. Previous studies on lip accumulation in oilseed rape have suggested that diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT), whi...

Discriminative techniques, such as conditional random fields (CRFs) or structure aware maximum-margin techniques (maximum margin Markov networks (M³N), structured output support vector machines (S-SVM)), are state-of-the-art in the prediction of structured data. However...

The formation of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) at Versailles, France, in 1972 set organic food and farming on a strong future trajectory. It was an initiative of France’s Nature et Progrès, and driven by its then President, Roland...

Organic agriculture is now a worldwide phenomenon which is practiced in 160 countries. The Organics Olympiad presents 12 indices of global organics leadership, each at three levels. It yields 26 countries as global organics leaders, and reveals that organics leadership ...

A development of a method for tracking visual contours is described. Given an “untrained” tracker, a training motion of an object can be observed over some extended time and stored as an image sequence. The image sequence is used to learn parameters in a stochastic diff...