Exposure to mercury contaminated fish predisposes populations particularly children and pregnant women to various health hazards including neurotoxicity, reproductive abnormalities and cognitive disorders.Earlier studies in the Lake Albert community have demonstrated the presence of Endrocrine Health mercury in Nile tilapia and Nile perch.However,
Implications of some early Jewish sources for estimates of earthquake hazardin the Holy Land
For the past two millennia the Holy Land was under the yoke of successive invaders and oppressors, not a fertile ground for growth of historiographic traditions.Consequently, earthquake cataloguers had to rely largely on chronicles and texts written at distant administrative and cultural centers of the day, where earthquake destruction suffered by
Conditions for caribou persistence in the wolf-elk-caribou systems of the Canadian Rockies
Woodland caribou populations are considered threatened in Alberta and have declined in the Canadian Rocky Mountain National Parks of Banff and Jasper despite protection from factors causing caribou populations to decline outside of parks.Recent research emphasizes the importance of the numeric response of wolves to moose in moose-caribou-wolf syste
Parasite Fauna of Ostriches, Emus and Rheas
In most parts of the world ratite farming (i.e.farming of ostriches, emus and rheas) is a new fi eld Arm Guards of livestock production.These birds are livestock with broad utilisation of their products.Both wild and captive ostriches, emus and rheas may be infested with their own specifi c parasites as well as with external and internal parasites
Oxidative stress in the brain is regulated by social status in a highly social cichlid fish
Social stress can increase reactive oxygen species and derail antioxidant function in the brain, which Media Chest may contribute to the onset and progression of mental health disorders.In hierarchical species, repeated social defeat can raise oxidative stress in the brain.However, how oxidative balance in the brain is regulated across different le