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Sargasssum brings another ‘golden tide’ on our shorelines Rahanna Juman, Institute of Marine Affairs For yet another year, massive quantities of sargassum are seen washing up along our coasts and is causing concern among fisherfolk and other beach users. This new source of sargassum is now linked to climate change and ocean eutrophication, and these are likely to continue supporting significant sargassum blooms into the future. As such, annual mass influxes of sargassum into the Caribbean Sea are now being considered as the new normal, requiring sustainable management responses and long-t...

April 13, 2021 Ossicones are columnar or conical skin-covered bone structures on the heads of giraffe and okapi ( Fig 1). Giraffe ossicones consist of a bone core covered with skin and attached to the skull with connective tissue. The bone, skin, and connective tissue of ossicones are all living growing tissues with blood vessels and nerves. All male and female giraffes have a pair of ossicones on the parietal bones of the skull. Males also usually have a single ossicone on the frontal bone. At around the age of sexual maturity, ossicones fuse with the underlying skull bone and growth continu...

Highlights U.S. District Judge William F. Jung of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida dismissed a putative class action brought against Southwest Airlines Co. Board of Trustees in which the plaintiff alleged that the continuing healthcare election notice was untimely and lacked information required under COBRA. The District Court concluded that the plaintiff's failure to identify a concrete and particularized injury that was fairly traceable to any alleged defect in the COBRA notice deprived plaintiff of standing to sue. The District Court also concluded that plaintiff'...

All in a Day's Work Wind power plants and their associated workforce affect the local and surrounding communities in ways both concrete and indirect. These impacts vary from spending at local businesses to the role that these companies and workers play in the quality of life within the communities. A new NREL report details the positive long-term economic impact wind plant operation and maintenance workers bring to their communities, providing additional insight into community benefits brought about by wind power developm...

The impact of the institutionalisation of the elderly in Pakistan PHOTO: FILE The Catholic Church governs three shelter homes in Karachi, where the residents pay minimal fees In the 21 st century, ageing of the population is a significant demographic occurrence and a distinctive trend seen universally (Ameh et al., 2014; Hermalin, Ofstedel, & Tesfai, 2006; Wandera, Kwagala, & Ntozi, 2015). Among the continents, Asia has the most rapidly increasing elderly population (Powell & Khan, 2013), with more and more people in the age group of 60 years and above. A United Nations report on World Popul...