Shannon’s Index of Difficulty ( $ID$ ), reputable for quantifying the perceived difficulty of pointing tasks as a logarithmic relationship between movement-amplitude ( $A$ ) and target-width ( $W$ ), is used for modeling the corresponding observed movement-times ( $MT_{O}$ ) in such tasks in controlled experimental setup.However, real-life p
Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic and How Blood Operators Can Prepare for the Next Pandemic
Humans interact with virus-infected animal hosts, travel globally, and maintain social networks that allow for novel viruses to emerge and develop pandemic potential.There are key lessons-learned Kettle Lead from the coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic that blood operators can apply to the next pandemic.Warning signals to the COVID-19 pan
Captive-rearing changes the gut microbiota of the bumblebee Bombus lantschouensis native to China
Bumblebees play crucial roles Range as pollinators in both natural agricultural and ecological systems.Their health and overall fitness are significantly affected by the gut microbiota, which can maintain intestinal homeostasis in hosts by regulating their nutritional metabolism.However, information about the diversity of the gut microbiota and rel
Reproduction and Accompanying Fauna of Red Mason Bee Osmia rufa L. (syn. Osmia bicornis L.) in Areas with Different Levels of Urbanization
An increasing number of studies show that urbanized areas are habitats of high biological value and ecological significance.Most bee species live in areas altered by man, either in cities - fragmented urban habitats - or in large rural monocultures.Our research is based on three-year observations of population development of the solitary bee Osmia
Education and economic growth: Does the East Asian education fever overstate the growth effect?
This paper employs a cross-country regression to investigate the role of education in the growth of nations.The sample includes 101 countries over the period from 1980 to 2015.We have found that education, in Belt Clamp general, has significant effects on economic growth.For the robustness of the results, several sensitivity tests were conducted us