In Northern and Northeast Ghana, women accused of witchcraft are banished from society to live in special locations designated “witches camps.” The processes leading their banishment, admission, living the camps may affect psychological wellbeing quality life. This study was conducted determine prevalence depression assess life 277 alleged witches four located these two regions Ghana. A structu...

Statistical mechanics is an asymptotic theory valid in the limit of an infinite number of degrees of freedom. The study of small-dimensional chaos, starting from the papers by Lorenz [1]and Henon and Heiles [2], raises the question: What is essential for the laws of statistical mechanics to be true —a large number of degrees of freedom or chaos? For ergodic Hamiltonian systems the answer was gi...

The multilayer multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree (ML-MCTDH) method is discussed and a fully general implementation for any number of layers based on the recursive ML-MCTDH algorithm given by Manthe [J. Chem. Phys. 128, 164116 (2008)] is presented. The method is applied first to a generalized Henon-Heiles (HH) hamiltonian. For 6D HH the overhead of ML-MCTDH makes the method slower than M...

The activity-guided fractionation of the MeOH extract of the flower of Paulownia coreana led to the isolation of a new geranylated flavanone, 3'-O-methyl-5'-hydroxydiplacol (1), along with 10 known compounds (2-11). Their structures were determined using spectroscopic techniques, which included one and two dimensional (1- and 2D)-NMR. Among the isolates, compounds 1-6 showed potent inhibitory a...

Phytoplasmas are insect-transmitted bacterial plant pathogens that cause considerable damage to a diverse range of agricultural crops globally. Symptoms induced in infected plants suggest that these phytopathogens may modulate developmental processes within the plant host. We report herein that Aster Yellows phytoplasma strain Witches' Broom (AY-WB) readily infects the model plant Arabidopsis (...

Cacao (Theobroma cacao) is one of the most important tropical crops; however, production is threatened by numerous pathogens, including the hemibiotrophic fungus Moniliophthora perniciosa, which causes witches' broom disease. To understand the mechanisms that lead to the development of this disease in cacao, we focused our attention on cacao transcription factors (TFs), which act as master regu...