The story that the rulers of domination societies told each other and their subordinates is what we today might call the Myth of Redemptive Violence. It enshrines the belief that violence saves, that war brings peace, that might makes right. It is one of the oldest continuously repeated stories in the world. Here Walter Wink describes just how pervasive this myth still is in the mores of Wester...

Application of green walls still has not attracted interest among the contractors and people, and this can be due to poor growing performance of the plants on these systems. This study investigated the effect of four growing media types (30% cocopeat + 65% perlite + 5% vermicompost, 30% soil + 65% perlite + 5% vermicompost, 30% mushroom compost + 65% perlite + 5% vermicompost and regular soil a...

Detailed morphological descriptions and illustrations of five new species of the empoascine leafhopper genus Ishiharella Dworakowska (Typhlocybinae: Emposascini): I. dentidensa Yu & Yang, sp. nov., I. falcata Yu, Yang & Dietrich, sp. nov., I. hirsuta Yu, Yang & Dietrich, sp. nov., I. inflata Yu & Yang, sp. nov. and I. multiprotrusa Yu, Yang & Dietrich, sp. nov. are provided and a key to species...

One new species of Gryllotalpa from Bukit Fraser, Pahang of Malay Peninsula is described: Gryllotalpafraser sp. n. Pho tographs of Gryllotalpa hirsuta Burmeister, 1838 were examined and some remarks are made here, including a compari son with Gryllotalpafraser sp. n. and Gyllotalpa nymphicus Tan, 2012.

The present study was carried out to investigate the phytochemical compositions, antioxidant and antibacterial activities, and the cytotoxicity of aqueous and methanolic crude extracts of five wild medicinal plants from the south of Tunisia. The phytochemical screening was quantified by calorimetric techniques in terms of the total contents of phenolic compounds and total condensed tannin conte...

The major intention of the present study was to investigate whether an approach combining the use of niche-based palaeodistribution modeling and phylo-geography would support or modify hypotheses about the Quaternary distributional history derived from phylogeographic methods alone. Our study system comprised two closely related species of Alpine Primula. We used species distribution models bas...

This study was carried out to optimize the various approaches analyze effects of variables on total flavonoid content extraction from roots Helicteres hirsuta L. The existence compounds in methanol fraction accessed by using LC-MS/MS analysis. results identified ideal parameters such as times (30 minutes); solvent concentration (50%); ultrasonic frequency (12 Hz); and material/solvent ratio [1:...

Medicinal plants constitute a potential source of bioactive molecules which can provide new antimicrobial agents. This study aims to evaluate the antibacterial activity against multidrug resistant bacteria associated with skin infections and screen phytochemical composition Thymelaea hirsuta Anacyclus pyrethrum from Algeria. For this purpose, four multi-drug were isolated pus samples compared S...