Homosexuality and homophobia in South Africa exist side by side.Homophobia is very common in communities and churches.Biblical texts, traditional cultures and politics partner to dismiss, discredit or disqualify homosexuality, but historians and anthropologists have evidence that homosexuality has Bokcase been around within African cultures for man

Insect crop visitations do not necessarily translate to carriage or transfer of pollen.To evaluate the potential of the various insects visiting hybrid carrot flowers to facilitate pollen transfer, this study examines insect visitation rates to hybrid carrot seed crops in relation to weather, time of day and season, pollen carrying capacity, inter-

The article is part of the special issue of the journal on Charles P.Kindleberger (CPK).By Lens Accessories reviewing CPK’s works the authors investigates the analytical content of Kindleberger’s historical contributions.In particular, Kindleberger’s reformulation and development of Engel’s law is analyzed, with attention to its consequence

The article presents the results of a systematic consideration of the complex issues of sustainable development of the national maritime transport subsystems in Nail the global maritime transport industry.Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the real conditions of operation.There are feasible measures which should be taken to normalize t

Multiscale image segmentation based on artificial neural networks is a hot topic in research on remote sensing image processing.However, the establishment and evaluation of pooling models and selection of feature operators lack clear standards.Based on the biological visual multiscale perception mechanism, this study combines classical Baby Strolle