SELECTING FOCAL SONGBIRD SPECIES FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT: RESPONSE TO FOREST COVER AMOUNT AND CONFIGURATION

Selecting Focal Songbird Species for Biodiversity Conservation Assessment: Response to Forest Cover Amount and Configuration

Conservation of biodiversity is now a firmly entrenched objective of sustainable forest management, and emulating natural disturbance has been widely adopted as a conservation strategy.Yet the foundation for this approach is still very much a hypothesis based on first principles, and there has been little rigorous testing of the approach.In additio

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Immunological basis for enhanced immunity of nanoparticle vaccines

Introduction: Immunization has been a remarkably successful public health intervention; however, new approaches to vaccine design are essential to counter existing and emerging infectious diseases which have defied traditional vaccination efforts to date.Nanoparticles (ordered structures with dimensions in the range of 1–1000 nm) have great pote

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Neurocognitive deficits and socioeconomic risk factors among children and adolescents living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

Abstract Introduction Children and adolescents living with HIV (C/ALHIV) are at a risk for significant neurocognitive deficits.There is limited literature that addresses the role of socioeconomic factors in neurocognitive deficits among CALHIV in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA), as it is very difficult to establish this causal relationship.Our systematic

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