Background Managed populations of the alfalfa leafcutting bee (ALCB), Megachile rotundata (F.), are often not sustainable.In addition to numerous mortality factors that contribute to this, the dense bee populations used to maximize alfalfa pollination quickly deplete floral resources available to bees later in the summer.Providing alternative flora

Is grief for the death of a loved one a universal, trans-historical emotion? What role does the historical, political and socio-cultural context play in how grief is understood, mitigated gall processed, performed, written about and represented in art? This special issue of thersites seeks to address these questions with reference to the cultures o

Existing move-restricted node self-deployment algorithms are based on a fixed node communication radius, evaluate the performance based on network coverage or the connectivity rate and do not consider the number of nodes near the sink node and the energy consumption distribution of the mac miller kids poster network topology, thereby degrading netw

ABSTRACT Background: Racial variation in the clinical presentation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and its response to treatment is well known.Ethnicity and associated socioeconomic factors make it necessary to study the effectiveness of the antirheumatic drugs such as sulfasalazine (SSZ) in our RA patients, and to what extent it interacts with the no

Chocolate bars are one of the processed cocoa products that are much loved by Indonesians.The main ingredient used to manufacture chocolate bars is cocoa butter.However, the mug washer relatively high price of cocoa butter causes chocolate bar production costs to be high.Hydrogenated coconut oil as an alternative to reduce the use of cocoa butter w