Abstract Background Populations of the earthworm, Lumbricus rubellus, are commonly found across highly contaminated former mine sites and are considered to have under-gone selection for mitigating metal toxicity.Comparison of adapted populations with those found on less contaminated soils can provide insights into ecological processes that demonstr

Tertiary institutions often require huge investments in capital projects for effective learning to be actualized.In Nigeria, public tertiary institutions are usually funded fully by the Federal Government through interventionist institutions like Tetfund which are usually saddled with the responsibility of providing the fund required to achieve bot

Although, the evaluation of the nanohardness of amorphous silicon (a-Si) has been the subject of a few experimental works but, to date, it has not been addressed theoretically yet.In this work, first principles Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT)-based molecular dynamics (MD) in combination with Mohr-Coulomb criterion is employed to calculate

Perhaps the most ubiquitous and basic affective decision of daily life is deciding whether we like or dislike something/somebody, or, in terms of psychological emotion theories, whether the object/subject has positive or PASTEL LAVENDER negative valence.Indeed, people constantly make such liking decisions within a glimpse and, importantly, sometime

Abstract Background The many forms of healthcare fee exemptions implemented in Burkina Faso since the 2000s have varied between total exemption Event (free) and cost subsidisation.This article examines both options, their contextual variations and the ways in which they affect access to healthcare for vulnerable people as well as the operation of t