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I could feel my mind buzzing after another long day at work. Driving home, I am looking forward to my “me time” ritual of playing with colors. As I arrive, I get myself comfortable, pick up an oran...

“To picture is not to remember,” as Bergson famously puts it in Matter and Memory (1896), since “the image, pure and simple, will not be referred to the past unless it was indeed in the past that I sought it.” Thus, to make a film about memory, to recount cinematically a story of memory, and finally to imagine in (motion) picture what memory might be, isn’t this a paradoxical or even vain undertaking? Such is, however, precisely the task set about by Bi Gan in Long Day’s Journey into Night (2018): if his first feature-length film, Kaili Blues (2015), revolves already around the question of time by deploying — in its famous 41-minute long take — an “abyss of time” where past, present and future intertwine, then with Long Day’s Journey into Night the director seeks moreover to further his quest for a non-chronological time by transposing it to the terrain of memory in yet another long take — this time running more than an hour and in 3D —, infinitely dilated as if becoming a gigantic dream. In this paper, by crisscrossing my reading of the film with the philosophies of time from Bergson (“cone of memory”) to Deleuze (“crystal-image”), I seek to explore the intricate relationships between, on one hand, time and memory and, on the other, cinema and philosophy, so as finally to ask with Bi Gan: no doubt “to picture is not to remember,” but how are we to remember differently if not by picturing — namely through images?

Heading date is a critical trait that determines the regional adaptability and grain productivity of many crops. Although rice is a facultative short-day plant, its domestication led to the Ghd7-Ehd1-Hd3a/RFT1 pathway for adaptation to long-day conditions (LDs). The formation of the "florigen activation complex" (FAC) containing florigen Hd3a has been characterized. However, the molecular composition of the FAC that contains RFT1 for long-day flowering is unclear. We show here that RFT1 forms a ternary FAC with 14-3-3 proteins and OsFD1 to promote flowering under LDs. We identified a calcineurin B-like-interacting protein kinase, OsCIPK3, which directly interacts with and phosphorylates OsFD1, thereby facilitating the localization of the FAC to the nucleus. Mutation in OsCIPK3 results in a late heading date under LDs but a normal heading date under short-day conditions. Collectively, our results suggest that OsCIPK3 phosphorylates OsFD1 to promote RFT1-containing FAC formation and consequently induce flowering in rice under LDs.

Die the Long Day narrates the 24 hours following the flight, capture, and brutal murder of Quasheba, a fugitive slave, on an 18th-century Jamaican plantation. Quasheba is remembered, retroactively, for her defiance of, despite ultimate defeat by, both the extreme gendered violence of the plantation and the paternalism of the narrative. The climax of this novel is Quasheba’s funeral, on which her community insists in accordance with their communal, African religious (Myal) rites. In these following pages I will consider how Quasheba’s spirit galvanizes this community as much as it may threaten to destroy it, and how this narrative places Obeah/Myal at the center of spiritual survival in the face of ever-present physical—and social—death during and after slavery, and at the center of strategies for the survival of its aftereffects.

Having come here to advocate the immediate burial of ‘kasuku culture,’ alias, ‘parrot culture,’ I had better initiate the process of grave-digging myself. As an African academician, poet, playwright, artist, cultural worker and activist, I have sought to do this in different ways. One such way has been using my intellectual work to affirm progressive indigenous African paradigms, including orature, which Pio Zirimu and Austin Bukenya once concisely defined as ‘verbal art.’1 I will, therefore, use an African Orature style of delivery to hold this conversation with you. I cannot think of a more appropriate tool of competing with fatigue at the end of a long day, or of keeping a possible dozing audience alive, following such a challenging dinner. My talk, or palaver, will be divided into movements or cycles, labelled palaver one to ten. Inside each of these full stream palavers will be meandering tributaries of smaller, but related palavers. If the meanderings interfere with your focus, therefore, just find ways of tolerating them. For instance, treat them as the musings of an elder-in-the-making, borrowing a leaf from the wazee wakumbuka (elders recollect), an extremely popular kipindi (program) that used to air on Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) radio network sometime in the 1970s.

Bulb development of onion (Allium cepa L) varieties exhibit different reactions to sowing date, day length, and temperature. Short- and long-day onions exhibit different reactions to day length and...

The house is a place to rest and unwind after a long day of work, but nowadays the house is used as a place to do almost everything, even earn a living and express yourself. The government's appeal to stay at home is currently being responded to in various ways, such as doing hobbies, or trying to find fun ways to teach by making YouTube videos, and so on. On the other hand there are those who make this an endless confinement which only makes it seem useless and ends up looking for various ways to be able to still have fun outside the home, such as continuing to have fun, hanging out or just letting go of homesickness to the shopping center on the grounds of maintaining health protocols. This shows that basically humans always have to move to meet their needs and these needs lead to how humans can show their existence, show their existence and get recognition from others. Existence does not look at social, economic or racial, because it is integrated into the person of the individual.

This study investigated the characteristics of educators’ talk about decontextualised events with young children in seven early childhood long day care centres in Sydney, Australia. Educators were partnered with up to six children aged between 27 and 60 months. Across two time points, 85 educator–child dyads discussed past and future events. Educators’ use of questions, contextual statements, evaluations and prompts and children’s use of questions, open-ended responses, yes-no responses and spontaneous information statements were examined. Educators’ evaluative statements were highly correlated and educators’ questions were moderately correlated with children’s open-ended responses in past event conversations. Educators’ evaluative statements were highly correlated with children’s open-ended responses in future event conversations and were the only significant predictor for children’s talk. Given the important role of educators in scaffolding children’s thinking and communication skills, the recommended strategies for educators’ talk in decontextualised conversations include: sharing the conversational load, making frequent contextual statements and following the child’s lead/interests.

AlthoughEugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night may be depressing and emotionally draining, it demonstrates a number of important elements of family relationship theory, including the interactions between siblings, spouses and their lives over time; combined, these interactions draw a picture of the family as the container and sustainer of life. The play advances the theme that, within the context of the family, the ghost of the past plays itself out in the present. The play also demonstrates that families are often centers of conflict and contradiction.

China/France Director BI Gan Runtime 140 minutes

Photoperiodic treatments have been of practical interest in controlling seasonal reproduction in sheep, goats and horses. Melatonin is the principal mediator of the environmental photoperiodic message. To investigate the intra- and inter-subject variability of melatonin 24 h rhythm, ten female Italian Saddle horses (8–10yrs old, mean body weight 525±30 kg), ten female Sarda breed sheep (2–3yrs old, mean body weight 40.5±2.8 kg) and ten female Sarda breed goats (3–4yrs old, mean body weight 38.9±4.1 kg), housed individually in a 4×4 m soundproof box equipped with 50×100 cm opening windows, were subjected to a natural photoperiod of the vernal equinox (sunrise 06:00h; sunset 18:00h). Blood samples were collected from each animal, every 3 h over a 48h period starting at 00:00h of day 1 and ending at 00:00h of day 3. Plasma melatonin concentrations were determined by direct radioimmunoassay (MelatoninDirect RIA, Labor Diagnostika Nord GmbH, Nordhorn, Germany). The application of single cosinor method substantiated a circadian rhythm of melatonin with a nocturnal peak in all studied species. The application of two-way ANOVA on the rhythmic parameters indicated statistically significant differences between the three species in all of the cosinor analysis-derived parameters of MESOR, amplitude, acrophase and robustness of rhythm. Analyses of intra- and inter-subject variability indicate that organization of the melatonin 24h rhythm is characterized by great accuracy of control within and between the individuals of a breed. In conclusion, features of the 24h rhythm of melatonin among species; however, the 24h rhythmicity of melatonin each species showed high stability within the various subjects and within the same subject. These findings must be taken into consideration when applying photoperiod and melatonin treatments for breeding purposes.

Photoperiodic flowering responses are classified into three major types: long day (LD), short day (SD), and day neutral (DN). The inverse responses to daylength of LD and SD plants have been partly characterized in Arabidopsis and rice; however, the molecular mechanism underlying the DN response is largely unknown. Modern roses are economically important ornamental plants with continuous flowering (CF) features, and are generally regarded as DN plants. Here, RcCO and RcCOL4 were identified as floral activators up-regulated under LD and SD conditions, respectively, in the CF cultivar Rosa chinensis ‘Old-Blush’. Diminishing the expression of RcCO or/and RcCOL4 by virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) delayed flowering time under both SDs and LDs. Interestingly, in contrast to RcCO-silenced plants, the flowering time of RcCOL4-silenced plants was more delayed under SD than under LD conditions, indicating perturbed plant responses to day neutrality. Further analyses revealed that physical interaction between RcCOL4 and RcCO facilitated binding of RcCO to the CORE motif in the promoter of RcFT and induction of RcFT. Taken together, the complementary expression of RcCO in LDs and of RcCOL4 in SDs guaranteed flowering under favorable growth conditions regardless of the photoperiod. This finding established the molecular foundation of CF in roses and further shed light on the underlying mechanisms of DN responses.

Aim. Find out the effect of different durations of the photoperiod on the protein and oil content in the seeds of soybean varieties, which differ in response to the photoperiod. Materials and methods.The experiments used photoperiodically neutral soybean varieties Annushka, Yatran, Ustya, as well as a short-day variety Khadzhibey. Plants were grown in the field 2016-2018 year at the experimental site of the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry of Plants and Microorganisms of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University on plots of 1 m2in triplicate. From seedlings to the third true leaf, the plants grew with a natural long day (about 16 hours at the latitude of Kharkov - 50º N). In this phase, half of the plants were exposed to a short photoperiod for 14 days, darkening the plants with light-tight booths from 17 to 9 hours. After which the plants were grown again under long day conditions until the end of the growing season. The second part of the plants (control) during the entire growing season was grown under natural day conditions. The protein content in the seeds was determined on an infrared analyzer Infralum FT-10 (manufacturer Lumex, RF), according to the manufacturer's method, and oil - according to Rushkovsky. Analyzes were performed in two triplicate. The tables show the mean and standard deviations. Results.The protein content in seeds under the influence of a short photoperiod increased, decreased or did not change, compared with the content on a long day, regardless of the type of photoperiodic reaction of the studied varieties. The oil content in the seeds of all varieties, regardless of their photoperiodic reaction, exposed to a short photoperiod, as a rule, was lower than in the seeds of plants that were grown on a long day. Changes in the protein and oil content in the seeds of soybean varieties with different day lengths did not depend on the type of photoperiodic reaction. The content of both protein and oil in seeds varied in different varieties and in different years of research. The degree of variation in different varieties was different. Conclusions.Different photoperiodic conditions ambiguously influenced the protein content in the seeds of soybean varieties with different photoperiodic reactions, although in some years there was a tendency to increase it under the influence of a short photoperiod. Apparently, it is determined by the genotype of the variety and the meteorological conditions of the growing season. The oil content in the seeds of the studied varieties, which differ in the type of photoperiodic reaction, decreased under the influence of a short day, compared with the content under long day conditions. Apparently, the process of accumulation of protein and, especially, oil in soybean seeds is subject to photoperiodic control. Its mechanisms need in-depth studies at the level of physiological and biochemical processes.

Eruca sativa Mill., a plant belonging to family Brassicaceae commonly used as salad vegetable. The cultivation of Eruca sativa plant has most of the Mediterranean countries. Since ancient time Eruca sativa is used for medicinal and commercial plant. It has highest nutrients and minerals. The present study reveals that the germination of Eruca sativa seeds on medium by vitro condition. It shows that there is good germination short interval of harvested seeds than the long day stored seeds.

The developmental switch from a vegetative phase to reproduction (flowering) is essential for reproduction success in flowering plants, and the timing of the floral transition is regulated by various environmental factors, among which seasonal day-length changes play a critical role to induce flowering at a season favorable for seed production. The photoperiod pathways are well known to regulate flowering time in diverse plants. Here, we summarize recent progresses on molecular mechanisms underlying the photoperiod control of flowering in the long-day plant Arabidopsis as well as the short-day plant soybean; furthermore, the conservation and diversification of photoperiodic regulation of flowering in these two species are discussed.

Breeding cycle time largely determines the efficiency of crop genetic improvement. To accelerate the generation progress, Watson et al. (2018) proposed a concept of 'speed breeding (SB)' by extending the photoperiod and increasing the light intensity during plant growth. However, there have been few reports on the successful application of SB in semi-winter and winter long-day crops. Here, we propose a comprehensive speed breeding (CSB) system for the rapid generation and high-throughput culture of long-day crops, which can accomplish 4.5 generations for both semi-winter canola and winter wheat per year. With the aid of extra far-red light, three and 5.5 generations can be accomplished for the typical winter and semi-winter type canola. CSB also exhibits high efficiency in spring type canola, and can achieve up to 6.5 and 5.5 generations with or without extra far-red light, respectively. This strategy is expected to greatly accelerate gene pyramiding of superior alleles, screening of recombinants for QTL mapping and functional genomics research by rapid purification of multiple mutated alleles.

Exon junction complexes (EJCs) associate with mRNAs, mediate the pre-mRNA splicing and eventually gets displaced by ribosomes during the initial phase of translation. EJCs are involved in several critical physiological pathways. The functional nature of EJCs and the underlying molecular mechanism(s) still needs to be elucidated particularly in case of plants. Here, we report that the putative core protein factors of the EJC differentially express under short-day and long-day conditions. Since, plants are constantly exposed to biotic and abiotic factor(s), it would be significant to see how the EJCs respond to different stress inducing conditions. The protein levels of EJC core proteins under short-day conditions were 1.25 times higher relative to the protein levels under long-day conditions. Similar results were observed for the mRNA transcripts of the EJC core protein factors. These results signify that under short-day conditions, the EJC proteins are more activated and might be involved in few events which are yet to be revealed.

This chapter uses key ideas from queer theory in order to argue that the queerness of Terence Davies’s The Long Day Closes (1992) lies less in its protagonist’s presumed homosexuality and more in its formal arrangement of quotations from disparate cultural texts. This bricolage exposes the operation of a culture committed to reproducing compulsory heterosexuality. Criticism, however, has concentrated on explaining the density and arbitrariness of cultural quotation through reference to Bud, insisting that the scraps of film and popular music that make up The Long Day Closes reflect the boy’s escape into self-expression, offering relief and release from the humdrummery and cruelties of life. Building on Derrida’s post-structuralist theories, this chapter argues that the mosaic of references does not provide a medium through which characters can speak, but rather speaks over characters and limits what is sayable. Far from nostalgic, this articulation-through-quotation constrains the possibilities of individual identity.

BackgroundHeading time is an important trait for regional and seasonal adaptabilities in rice, and is controlled by genetic factors in relation with environmental factors, mainly day length and temperature. The following genes controlling heading were examined for their responses to six different environmental conditions involving different day lengths using five early near-isogenic lines (NILs) of T65-R and three late NILs of T65wx: two earliness genes,Ef1andEfxcontrolling basic vegetative phase (BVG), andm-Ef1, the enhancer to the former gene; and two lateness genes,Se1-pat(t) andse-patcontrolling photo-sensitivity and BVG, respectively. T65-R and T65-T were different accessions of Taichung 65. T65wx is a NIL of T65-T carryingwx.ResultsThe five early NILs of T65-R were in the order of ER50 (Ef1,Efx,m-Ef1) Ef1,m-Ef1) ≤ ER20 (Ef1,Efx) Ef1) ≤ ER21 (Efx) Se1-pat(t)) ≤ LF2 (Se1-pat(t),se-pat) ≤ T65wx se-pat) under two short-day conditions (10-h photoperiod condition with artificial-light and natural short-day condition from autumn to winter). The NILs and T65wx were in the order of T65wx Ac-ef1) was 2.8 or 5.1 days earlier in DTH than T65-T (ac-ef1) under the two spring-sowing PF conditions. However, T65-R was 19 and 10 days earlier than T65-T under the two short-day conditions.ConclusionsEarliness gene(s) and their combinations reduced DTH regardless of photoperiod lengths.Se1-pat(t) increased DTH under long-day conditions but decreased it under short-day conditions, whilese-patelongated DTH under both short-day and long-day conditions indicating thatse-patis responsible for BVG. These-patincreased DTH by adding its effect over that ofSe1-pat(t) under long-day conditions. However, this increasing effect of DTH byse-patwas almost completely masked when it coexisted withSe1-pat(t) under the short-day conditions. Notably, the response ofAc-ef1to day length was found to delay heading under the short-day conditions.

Photoperiod-dependent flowering in rice is regulated by HEADING DATE 1 (Hd1), which acts as both an activator and repressor of flowering in a daylength-dependent manner. To investigate the use of microProteins as a tool to modify rice sensitivity to the photoperiod, we designed a synthetic Hd1 microProtein (Hd1miP) capable of interacting with Hd1 protein, and overexpressed it in rice. Transgenic OX-Hd1miP plants flowered significantly earlier than wild type plants when grown in non-inductive long day conditions. Our results show the potential of microProteins to serve as powerful tools for modulating crop traits and unraveling protein function.

The question, what makes a clinician a healer? may evoke the image of a devoted physician paying a critically important home visit at the end of a long day or the image of an astute nurse-steadfast, empathic, anticipating the patient's needs before they become apparent to others. But health care is no longer provided by lone doctors or nurses. In the modern health care system, multiple professionals must work together to provide safe and effective care. The moral nature of healing has not changed. But what is required of clinicians to facilitate healing has. To be a healer today, a clinician must be a good team player. Medical students have opened our eyes to this new reality. Building on their observations, we articulate a view that, over and above the role of teamwork in providing technically appropriate care and preventing errors, health care requires teamwork to promote healing. Being a good team player is now a moral imperative because it makes an essential contribution to healing.

Evidence was gathered from an Australian long day care project ‘Educators of babies and toddlers; developing a culture of critical reflection’. A cultural–historical theoretical approach was sensitively interwoven with visual methodology. The innovative combination of visual methodology and cultural–historical theory involved the creation of three Collaborative Forums. The Collaborative Forums aimed for participants to collectively unravel their pedagogical knowledge. The visual methodology involved research tools such as video observations, images, collaborative drawings and group interview transcripts. The research tools of mapping promises and collaborative drawing provided opportunity to imagine and map educators’ pedagogical practices. The act of collaborative drawing was an improvised and imagined activity that strengthened understanding of the multiplicity of educators’ promises. The collaborative drawing elicited discussion that created an expansive collective agenda. Collaborative drawing offered an innovative research tool with ongoing capacity to generate expertise for imagining ideal practices for infant–toddler research. The findings suggest that collaborative drawing with educators is a creative and imaginative tool for expanding the infant–toddler research agenda.

Soybean (Glycine max), a typical short‐day plant (SDP) domesticated in temperate regions, has expanded to high latitudes where daylengths are long from soybean emergence to bloom, but rapidly decrease from seed filling to maturity. Cotyledons are well known as the major storage organs in seeds, but it is unclear whether developing cotyledons store flowering substances at filling stage in SD for upcoming seedlings, or instead respond to photoperiod for floral induction after emergence of matured seeds in long‐day (LD). Here, we report that cotyledons accelerate flowering of early‐maturing varieties not resulting from stored floral stimuli but by perceiving photoperiod after emergence. We found that light signal is indispensable to activate cotyledons for floral induction, and flowering promoting gene GmFT2a is required for cotyledon‐dependent floral induction via upregulation of floral identity gene GmAP1. Interestingly, cotyledons are competent to support the entire life cycle of a cotyledon‐only plant to produce seeds, underlying a new photoperiod study system in soybean and other dicots. Taken together, these results demonstrate a substantial role for cotyledons in flowering process, whereby we propose a ‘cotyledon‐based self‐reliance’ model highlighting floral induction from emergence as a key ecological adaptation for rapid flowering of SDPs grown in LD environments at high latitudes., The cotyledons induce soybean flowering by expressing flowering promoting gene GmFT2a after perceiving light signals at seedling stage. The cotyledon‐dependent floral induction accelerates the flowering of early‐maturing varieties in long‐day and facilitate them adapting to high latitudes.

The ability to flower without strict daylength constraints has helped spread cultivation of crop plants to new locations. The generation of daylength-insensitive common bean accessions in central and South America involved the repeated selection of mutant alleles for a key transcription factor that suppresses long-day flowering.