To produce effective advice several sources of knowledge are needed. Knowledge about the application domain the advice is concerned with is of course necessary, but not sufficient. If the aim of the intervention is inducing people to modify their habits, we also need specific theories of how and why people change behaviour to guide the advising process. In some cases, however, it still does not...

During a series of surveys in two valleys Mount Lebanon between 2014 and 2020, four new occurrences vascular plants were detected. Atropa bella-donna L. (Solanaceae, Spermatophyte), Circaea lutetiana (Onagraceae, Euonymus latifolius (L.) Mill. (Celastraceae, Spermatophyte) recorded for the first time Lebanon, while Daphne pontica (Thymelaeaceae, thought to be extirpated was rediscovered after 7...

This article analyses two stories by women writers (The Heads of Cerberus Francis Stevens (1952) and The Breakthrough Daphne du Maurier (1964)), which could both be considered as belonging to the genre science fiction. These do not follow ‘canonical’ or more popular type underworld narrative, especially idea katabasis descent encounter with dead, a motif has often been present in Western cultur...

In herbivorous insects with more than 1 host plant, attraction to host odor could conceptually be mediated by common compounds, by specific compounds released by each plant or by combinations of common and specific compounds. We have compared the attraction of female grapevine moth, Lobesia botrana, with specific and common (shared) odors from 2 different plants: a wild host (Daphne gnidium) an...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The scarcity and unpredictability of active pollinators during late winter in temperate areas tends to favour extended flowering seasons and increased floral longevity in early blooming species, which are usually pollinated by diverse sets of insects. Daphne laureola is a gynodioecious woody perennial that flowers from January to April in southern Spain, a period characteriz...

Daphne altaica is a rare endemic species from East Kazakhstan, which of great scientific interest. As result the study, data were obtained on distribution and coenoflora in Kazakhstan. The concentration habitats falls floristic regions 22. Altai 23. Tarbagatai. limited by Kalba, Southern Altai, Sarymsakty, Narym, Azutau, Ulba, Uba, Tarbagatai, Western Tarbagatai Saur ridges. When studying D. al...