Abstract We present a novel technique to obtain base independent expressions for the matter loci of fibrations of complete intersection Calabi-Yau onefolds in toric ambient spaces. These can be used to systematically construct elliptically and genus one fibered Calabi-Y...

The increasing number of multidrug resistant bacteria has revitalized interest in seeking alternative sources for controlling bacterial infection. Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), are amongst the most promising candidates due to their wide microbial spectrum of action. In ...

In March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic. Patients with cardiovascular conditions, including heart failure (HF), are disproportionately impacted by this new disease. Escalating mortality figures and pressures on staff and resou...

Icewine is a sizable niche in the Canadian wine industry that has attracted little attention from marketing and branding researchers. A first step in understanding the marketing mix and brand positioning strategies was to develop a modified Aesthetics and Ontology (AO) ...

We discuss optimal fiscal policy in open economies, using an open-economy version of a model used in the recent work by Lucas and Stokey. An optimal allocation smooths out the tax distortions associated with financing a given sequence of government consumption, and it a...

Feralisation occurs when a domestic population recolonizes the wild, escaping its previous restricted environment, and has been considered as the reverse of domestication. We have previously shown that Kauai Island's feral chickens are a highly variable and admixed popu...

Society relies more and more on a continuous supply of electricity. However, while underinvestments in reliability lead to an unacceptable number of power interruptions, overinvestments result in too high costs for society. To give incentives for a socioeconomically opt...

Abstract Many species that undergo long breeding migrations, such as anadromous fishes, face highly heterogeneous environments along their migration corridors and at their spawning sites. These environmental challenges encountered at different life stages may act as str...

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Abstract Opportunities for conceiving and bearing children are fewer when unions are not formed or are dissolved during the childbearing years. At the same time, union instability produces a pool of persons who may enter new partnerships and have additional children in ...