Background: Repeated efforts by researchers to impose voice changes by laryngeal surface electrical stimulation (SES) have come to no avail.This present pre-experimental study employed a novel method for SES application so as to evoke the motor potential of the internal superior laryngeal nerve (ISLN) and create voice changes.Methods: Thirty-two no
The primary purpose of this paper is to attempt an ethno-gendered study of women as portrayed in Zin two neo-colonial novels of Ngugi wa ThiongÓ.Both Petals of Blood (1977) and Devil on the Cross (1980) are socially located in post-independent Kenya; a society grappling with problems of its new-found freedom such as consumerism, and the conflicts
This article focuses on three examples of religious considerations of plants, with specific attention to the Tool Set uselessness of plants.Drawing on Christian and Daoist sources, the examples include the following: (1) the lilies of the field described by Jesus in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke; (2) the useless tree of Zhuangzi; and (3) Martin H
Results of estimation of resistance level and adaptive potential of pea varieties against aschochyta blight in infectious background under varying weather conditions for 2013-2016 (HTC from 0.70 up to 1.61).Two hundred and eighty two varieties of pea of domestic and foreign breeding were analysed.During investigation period 11.8% of varieties had r
Abstract Background We present a dashboard for the evaluation of the impact of school closures on children and parents during the first wave of the COVID pandemic in 2020 on the various components of wellbeing.Methods Starting from an explorative literature search by a Fluoro Light Starters team of experts from diverse fields (e.g., epidemiology, v