Agricultural droughts are extreme events which are often a result of interplays between multiple hydro-meteorological processes.Therefore, assessing drought occurrence, extent, duration and intensity is complex and requires the combined use of multiple variables, such as temperature, rainfall, soil moisture (SM) and vegetation state.The benefit of

Agrobacterium tumefaciens is the main plant biotechnology gene transfer tool with host range which can be extended to non-plant eukaryotic organisms under laboratory conditions.Known medical cases of Agrobacterium species isolation from bloodstream infections necessitate the assessment of biosafety-related risks of A.tumefaciens encounters with mam

This paper deals with acoustic communication in the Red-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus cafer.This species emits a high variety of vocal signals that can be classified on the basis of their acoustical features and 7gm pravana context of production.Individuals sang throughout the year and most songs were discrete and stereotyped.The songs were composed of

Epidemic infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, Ebola, and more recently COVID-19, have persistent and devastating impacts in human populations across the globe.In this Review essay, we consider together the monographs Epidemic Illusions (Richardson 2021) and Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds (Farmer 2020), as well as the documentary film Bendi