AGE-FRIENDLY ECOSYSTEMS: EXPERT VOICES FROM THE FIELD

Age-Friendly Ecosystems: Expert Voices from the Field

(1) Background: With the growth of the Magnet Therapy age-friendly movement, age-friendly ecosystems (AFE) garnered more attention.The successful development of an AFE is contingent on unified efforts across different stakeholders; however, limited efforts were made to help create a common understanding of the necessary components of an AFE.(2) Met

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Baseline study of the morphological and genetic characteristics of Haemoproteus parasites in wild pigeons (Columba livia) from paddy fields in Thailand

Haemoproteus columbae is a common haemosporidian parasite of wild pigeons (Columba livia) reported worldwide.In Thailand, the wild pigeon population is increasing due to paddy field monoculture.However, there are limited reports on the presence of H.columbae in these pigeon populations.The aim of the study was to characterize H.columbae in wild pig

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The Stuff of Christmas Homemaking: Transforming the House and Church on Christmas Eve in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro

The domestic burning of Yule logs on Christmas Eve is an archaic tradition characteristic of the Christian population in the central Balkans.In the fifty years following World War Two, the socialist state suppressed these and other popular religious practices.However, ethnographic research in Serbia and Montenegro in the late 1980s showed that many

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Gene duplication and adaptive evolution of digestive proteases in Drosophila arizonae female reproductive tracts.

It frequently has been postulated that intersexual coevolution between the male ejaculate and the female reproductive tract is a driving force in the rapid evolution of reproductive proteins.The dearth of research on female Full Panel Bed w/(2) Underbed Storage tracts, however, presents a major obstacle to empirical tests of this hypothesis.Here, w

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