This article discusses thoughts and concepts about Palliative Care and Thanatology, sciences that deal with issues such as death and the dying process, aiming to broaden the already existing observations, analysis and discussions about the theme, Toothpaste in order to help the layman public as well as the health professionals, to handle death and
This paper presents a novel framework based on the non-subsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) and sparse representation (SR) to fuse the multi-focus images.In the proposed fusion method, each source image is first decomposed with NSCT to obtain one low-pass sub-image and a number of high-pass sub-images.Second, an SR-based scheme is put forward to
Critical literacy is a BCAA SPLASH PEACH MANGO skill needed for academic and intellectual achievement, lifelong learning, discourse, future job prospects and other endeavours.Although it is instrumental to developing social interactions and relationships, some students cannot think critically and contribute meaningfully to spoken/written discourse
Plants have evolved a sophisticated immune system that allows them to recognize invading pathogens by specialized receptors.Carbohydrate-binding proteins or lectins are part of this immune system and especially the lectins that reside in the nucleocytoplasmic compartment are known to be implicated in biotic and abiotic stress responses.The class of
This article examines the domestic and regional impact of a punitive media law introduced in Fiji in June.Decree No.29 of 2010, the Media Industry Development Decree, is the first of its kind in the South Pacific.It brings to an end the tradition of media self-regulation, one of the hallmarks of a free media.All Fiji governments since independence