Increasing awareness towards health and environmental issues associated with the intensive use of chemical inputs has led to alternate forms of agriculture. Organic farming is one among the production methods that are supportive of the environment. The other being the Bt farming which modifies the genetical make up of a plant by introducing genes of the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis. This mak...

This study investigated the softening and erosive effects of various paediatric over-the-counter (OTC) oral liquids on deciduous teeth. Twenty sectioned and polished deciduous enamel blocks were ground on the buccal surface (2 × 2 mm²) and randomly divided into five groups, immersed into four commercially-available paediatric OTC oral liquids (two for paracetamol, both sugared; and two for chlo...

In September 2012 Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini, a researcher at the University of Caen in France, published his team’s findings that a Monsanto genetically-modified (GM) maize and Roundup herbicide caused increased rates of organ damage, tumours and mortality in rats fed over a 2-year period. The study was significant because it followed the rats over a longterm period, with the first tumours...

The debate on causes and consequences of social capital has been recently complemented with an investigation into factors that erode it. Various scholars concluded that diversity, and racial heterogeneity in particular, is damaging for the sense of community, interpersonal trust and formal and informal interactions. However, most of this research does not adequately account for the negative eff...