William Sharp Macleay developed the quinarian system of classification in his Horœ Entomologicœ, published in two parts in 1819 and 1821. For two decades, the quinarian system was widely discussed in ...

IN much of the academic teaching of biology at the present time, the view is expressed or implied that biological classification is meaningless except as a more or less convenient device for filing ...

A system of categorization that reflects not just a mineral's chemistry and crystalline structure, but also the physical, chemical, or biological processes by which it formed, would be capable of ...

Natural (and semi-natural) vegetation is defined as “vegetation where ecological processes primarily determine species and site characteristics”. Human activities may influence vegetation interaction ...

CONSIDERABLE scepticism is not infrequently expressed by botanists who are not ecologists as to the possibility of formulating a satisfactory natural classification of vegetation, i.e. of plant ...

Acronyms, the initial letters of words, are becoming so increasingly common that it is now standard practice for publications to have a glossary or an appendix listing all of the many acronyms they ...

Nuclear energy and natural gas will still be considered environmentally sustainable investments in the European Union ...

The extensive growth and use of electronic health records (EHRs) and extending medical literature have led to huge opportunities to automate the extraction of relevant clinical information that helps ...

The genera Ectospinula Opitz, new genus, and Prosymnus Laporte, which comprise a monophyletic group within Korynetinae, are reviewed. Ectospinula is monotypic and includes E. graduata Opitz, new ...

A bipartisan group of senators unveiled legislation on Wednesday to reform the information classification system in order to reduce over-classification and prevent the mishandling of classified ...

Washington, DC--The first minerals to form in the universe were nanocrystalline diamonds, which condensed from gases ejected when the first generation of stars exploded. Diamonds that crystallize ...