Sexuality debates in the churches often polarise along entrenched lines. However, emerging questions sexuality and sexual ethics, including those on matters such as polyamory BDSM, gender, rise of non-binary identity, may prompt ‘liberals’ ‘conservatives’ alike to step well beyond their comfort zones reconsider what are goods that Christians should endorse. In this way, they discover that, desp...

Sir – Human schistosomiasis has not been well documented in India, with a few exceptions (1, 2). Similarly, the public health importance of cercarial dermatitis is under-recognized. Our findings indicate that the condition is widespread and more serious than previously considered. During our work on schistosomiasis in and around Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, over the past 30 years, snails have been...

The Eurasian Treecreeper is a forest bird distributed from South-Western Europe up to Northern Asia. Two phylogenetic groups have been recently identified within this species, one restricted Corsica Island (Mediterranean) and the Caucasus region, other over most of Eurasia in Little known on natural history Corsican population. We present here new comprehensive data its distribution habitat. fo...

Plant-microbe community dynamics influence the natural succession of plant species where pioneer vegetation facilitates the establishment of a distantly related, later successional plant species. This has been observed in the case of restoration of the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) on abandoned mine land where Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana) facilitated the establishment of chestnut see...

The transition from the wild to sedentary state represents first change in farming practice which was followed by dissemination of practices breeders on improvement breeds and specific studies zootechnical field for a better yield pig meat productivity. family-run breeding gradually replaced industrial intensive one. demand with an increasingly low-fat content has also pushed farmers recover an...

This study provides evidence of supply chain (SC) management based on the digitalization a fresh fruit-supply (i.e., chestnuts) using radio-frequency identification technology (RFID). research adopted value-chain operation reference (VCOR) to assess implications, issues, and benefits SC digitalization, explore how RFID can be configured regarding VCOR blocks. Within this framework, stages, proc...