Multipoint competition refers to situations in which firms meet the same rivals in many markets, which may lead to a reduction of competitive pressure. Indeed, a high number of multipoint contacts between two rivals provides many footholds in each other’s strategic territories – called spheres of influence increasing the deterrents to attack.,This situation is known under Mutual Forbearance (MF...

Secondary metabolites from Dysoxylum malabaricum and Dysoxylum beddomei were tested against mature and immature stage of the mosquito vector Anopheles stephensi under laboratory conditions. The triterpenes 3beta,24,25-trihydroxycycloartane and beddomeilactone from D. malabaricum and D. beddomei showed strong larvicidal, pupicidal and adulticidal activity. They also affected the reproductive pot...

addiction to drugs, such as heroin, cocaine and alcohol, exacts great human and financial costs on society. various evidence-based pharmacological and psychosocial interventions are currently used in the treatment of drug addiction but they do not produce adequate therapeutic benefits in every patient. further, barriers such as financial cost, lack of availability, or perceptions of existing tr...

To illustrate the implementation of a bottom-up approach to the study of culture in health disparities, this article describes the development of a cultural cancer screening scale (CCSS) using mixed methodologies. The aim was to identify cultural factors relevant to breast and cervical cancer screening, develop an instrument to assess them and examine its preliminary psychometric properties amo...

Discrimination between edible and noxious food, crucial for animal survival, is based on separate gustatory receptors for phagostimulants and deterrents. In the moth Heliothis virescens, gustatory receptor neurons (GRNs) tuned to phagostimulants like sucrose and deterrents like quinine, respectively, have indicated a labeled line mechanism for mediating appetitive and aversive information to th...

Abstract Marine megafauna are critical for marine ecosystem health and their removal can cause food webs to collapse. Methods reduce mortality result in conflict between scientists, conservationists, fishers fisheries management due real or perceived effects on target catch, income security. Sensory deterrents have been used attempts mitigate bycatch retain catch quantity quality. Here, we comp...