These companies compete for business by promising to "optimise" conditions.
Flannery aligns Wallace with James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia hypothesis, which proposes that Earth seeks to optimise conditions for life upon it.
According to the theory, all breathing things, from algae to elephants, are locked in self-regulating cycles of reproduction and behaviour which optimise conditions for life's sustenance.
Due to the diverse morphological variation that occurs in sponges between and within species, protocols for quantitative quality testing are required to select sponges and optimise conditions for the aquaculture of high quality bath sponges.
For this purpose, response surface methodology (RSM), based on a Box Behnken design, was used to optimise conditions for the microwave-assisted formation of phosphate modified peanut protein isolate (PPI) with sodium tripolyphosphate (STP) as the substrate.
Optimised conditions allowed the observation of interesting granules, which became more angular and crystalline when Zn2+ was increased from 100 µM to 5 mM.
The correct way to optimise conditions is the use of properly designed experiments and appropriate statistical analyses [15], [16], though such studies are rare in the literature.
We have performed physiological studies on PSII thermotolerance and the influence of growth temperature that has allowed us to optimise conditions to investigate thermal acclimation of PSII in Synechocystis.
Optimised conditions result in high quality ECM patterns at the micron scale, even on glass substrates, that are suitable for controlling cell spreading and polarisation.
