Depopulation of rural areas is a widespread phenomenon that has occurred in most industrialized countries, and has contributed significantly to a reduction in the productivity of agro-ecological resources. In this study, we identified the main trends in the dynamics of rural populations in the Central Pyrenees in the 20th C and early 21st C, and used density independent and density dependent mo...

Long ridiculed for their racial hybridity, India’s Anglo-Indians—a mixed race people—were called ‘Dingos’ and instructed rudely to “Go to Australia” after India won her Independence from the British in 1947. Although their first port of escape from India was Great Britain, thousands of Anglo-Indians left the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) in the second wave of migration, i....

BACKGROUND Most patients with trauma experience different levels of pain. Due to side effects as well as economic burden of drugs used for pain relief after trauma commonly, it is important to use low-cost methods independently or combined with drugs to alleviate pain. OBJECTIVES Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effects of topical sesame oil on pain severity and frequency of rec...

In the introduction to Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century, the author declares that the experiments described in her book “deserve to be not only reported on as research, but also celebrated as story” (p. 3). It is unfortunate that in telling these stories, too much of the science that is also part of the story is sacrificed. The book focuses on pers...