BackgroundCOVID-19 vaccines play a critical role in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and despite vaccine availability, disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Canadian subgroups exist.Community organizations are uniquely situated to relay important vaccine messaging around all vaccines, understand compo

Piles of fresh cow and horse dung were placed in a pasture in Dziarny in north-east Poland.The differences between the beetle communities colonizing both types of dung at various stages of succession were analyzed.Beetles were sampled 2, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 days after placing the piles of dung in the pasture.A total of 5 343 individuals belonging

AThe essence of puppet performance is its balance between animacy and inanimacy,the artificial and the natural.This article proposes the framework of puppetry as a Book means of understanding the transcendent potential of a group of medieval reliquary busts from Cologne.In both appearance and manipulation, these sculpted busts blurred the boundarie

Recent developments in optical biosensors based on integrated photonic devices are reviewed with a special emphasis on silicon-on-insulator ring resonators.The review Book is mainly devoted to the following aspects: (1) Principles of sensing mechanism, (2) sensor design, (3) biofunctionalization procedures for specific molecule detection and (4) sy