Social interaction starts with perception of other persons. One of the first steps in perception is processing of basic information such as spatial frequencies (SF), which represent details and global information. However, although behavioural perception of SF is well investigated, the developmental trajectory of the temporal characteristics of SF processing is not yet well understood. The spee...

There are few evidences on the effect of biochar vegetable yield, nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) leaching losses under intensive production soil. The current field plot scale study evaluated responses Chinese cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.) N P using five treatments common application rate according to local farmers’ practice (N100%), reducing 20% or 40% fertilizer (N80% N60%), but incorporatin...

The Chinese species of the genus Ismarus Haliday, 1835, are revised for the first time. Three new species from the Oriental region of China and belonging to Ismarus halidayi-group are described and illustrated: Ismarus longussp. n., Ismarus nigritrochantersp. n. and Ismarus parvicellussp. n. Two species are newly reported for the Chinese fauna: Ismarus dorsiger (Haliday, 1831) and Ismarus halid...

Anne Grinyer is a lecturer in the Institute for Health Research and in the School of Independent Studies at Lancaster University. She is a sociologist of health and illness and has a special interest in the construction of scientific and medical knowledge, the management of health risks and in qualitative research methods. She has recently written a book on young adults with cancer based on nar...

The Nobel Prize committee awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.” The microfinance revolution has come a long way since Yunus first provided financing to the poor in Bangladesh. The committee has recognized microfinance as “an important liberating force” and an “ever more important instru...

Varicella zoster virus (VZV) infection can result in significant morbidity in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), and the risk of severe pulmonary complications rises with age [1]. This is a greater concern in those receiving systemic corticosteroids, which in the case of CF is most often given for acute allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). Severe complications such as pneumonitis, s...

This study observed the yield response to nitrogenous fertilizer for a popular Boro rice variety BRRI dhan29 under silty loam texture soil with satisfactory organic matter (2.96%). Sequential elevated doses of nitrogen (N0, N70, N80, N90, N100, and N110 kg ha-1) along recommended phosphorus (P), potassium (K), Sulphur (S) significantly increased grain […]

Polyethylene oxide-based muco-adhesive buccal films containing adipic acid active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and xylitol were developed using hot-melt extrusion (HME) coupled with Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) three-dimensional (3D) printing. The immediate release mucoadhesive are intended for treatment or amelioration of xerostomia (dry mouth condition). Different formulae as the main s...