Author - Ngoma Manuel

Systemic Perspective Needed for Effective Climate Risk Assessments and Adaptation Strategies

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on influences, adaptation, and vulnerability acknowledges that climate modification effects and dangers are becoming increasingly complex and more challenging to manage. Multiple weather dangers will happen together, and multiple climatic and non-climatic dangers will interact, resulting in worsening overall threats and...

What Is the West’s Objective in Ukraine?

Credit: Renascença.Russia's failure to attain an immediate victory over Ukraine has carried the West to consider what its own goals in the conflict need to be. In performing that, it must walk a fine line between the disgrace of insufficient action and the danger of strategic hubris.VIENNA-- We know what Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Midwifery Education in Bangladesh Increased Women’s Access to Safe Childbirth

In association with the British High Commission in Bangladesh, the Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery (DGNM) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) arranged a dissemination seminar on Wednesday 1 June 2022, at the auditorium of DGNM in Dhaka to share findings of two studies on midwifery in Bangladesh.Those two independent pieces of...

Scientists Target Protein to Lower the Risk of Prostate Cancer Spread

According to a study conducted by Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators, targeting a particular protein usually overexpressed in prostate cancer can assist stop or retard the disease from spreading to other body parts.The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications, opens the possibility of using available commercial medications, including one approved by the Fda for...

Ageism and Health: Research Reveals Close Links

Credit: Dimitri Otis/Getty Images.Nearly all older grownups have experienced some type of ageism in their everyday lives; a new study finds whether it is seeing ageist messages and photos on television or the web, encountering individuals who mean that they are less capable just because they are older, or believing stereotypes concerning aging.However, older...

Scientists Investigate the Personalities and Predictability of Farmed Calves

The study indicates the existence of exploratory and active personality types in farmed calves.Using top-notch sensor technologies, experts at the University of Nottingham have found that calves reared on ranches not only vary considerably in their movement and space patterns. However, likewise, some calves are also more predictable in their habits than others.Individual personality...

Paving the Way for Quicker Computers, Longer-Lasting Batteries

University of Queensland researchers have cracked an issue that's frustrated chemists and physicists for many years, potentially causing a new age of effective, efficient, and environmentally friendly technologiesUtilizing quantum mechanics, Professor Ben Powell from UQ's School of Mathematics and Physics has discovered a recipe that enables molecular switches to function at room temperature."Switches are...

Why Do Women Feel the Cold more than Men?

A woman feeling the cold inside a house. Credit: iStock.We all have distinct preferences for when it is the correct time to draw out winter blankets. And the thermostat's setup frequently forms the basis of office debates between women and men concerning the "appropriate" temperature for it to be configured.Between the sexes, there is...

Bacteria with Recording Function Capture Gut Health Status

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainOur intestine is residence to plenty of bacteria, which help us digest food. However, just what do the microorganisms do inside the body? Which enzymes do they create, and when? And how do the bacteria metabolize health-promoting foods that aid us in minimizing disease?To obtain replies to such matters, researchers at...

Scent Dogs Detect Coronavirus Accurately from Skin Swabs

Dogs to detect COVID-19. Credit: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.A current research by the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital affirmed that scent detection dogs can be taught to recognize people with a coronavirus infection from skin swabs. In the experimental set-up at Finland's Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport, the dogs' accuracy in...