STABILITY AND HOPF BIFURCATION ANALYSIS IN A FRACTIONAL-ORDER DELAYED PADDY ECOSYSTEM


No safe place: Prevalence and correlates of violence against conflict-affected women and girls in South Sudan.

BackgroundConflict and humanitarian crises increase the risk of both intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence against women and girls.We measured the prevalence and risk factors of different forms of violence against women and girls in South Sudan, which has suffered decades of conflict, most recently in 2013.MethodsA population-ba

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Inhibition of Skin Pathogenic Bacteria, Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Royal Jelly from Northern Thailand

Royal jelly is a nutritious substance produced by the hypopharyngeal and mandibular glands of honeybees.Royal jelly possesses many attractive and beneficial properties which make it an ideal component in medical and pharmaceutical products.The antibacterial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory activities of royal jelly from honeybees (Apis mellifera

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Introducing reservoir sustainability indexing to investigate reservoir operations and piloting it at the basin of Lake Urmia with sparse data

Reservoir sustainability indexing/estimation is introduced in this paper, capable of handling sparse data.It innovates by interconnecting a set of three variables: estimating Environmental Water Requirements (EWRs) by conceptual rules; estimating Reliability, Resilience and Vulnerability (RRV) criteria by using EWRs; and thereby calculating Sustain

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