BEHAVIOURAL ADAPTATIONS TO MOISTURE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT IN A NOCTURNAL BURROW-INHABITING KALAHARI DETRITIVORE PARASTIZOPUS ARMATICEPS PERINGUEY (COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE)

The nocturnal desert detritivore Parastiz.opus armaticeps shows differences in surface activity patterns Molasses Catcher and burrow fidelity depending on surface humidity.After rain approximately half of the beetle population, independent of sex, is highly vagile and disperses over long distances.During drought, beetles are more sedentary and show

The purpose of this article is to analyse the loss of validity in the principles of universality and equality that lead the international system of Human Rights, in the wake of the refugee crisis that arose in Europe in 2014.The main idea is that the massive arrival of refugees due to the violence in the Middle East revealed severe humanitarian con

BackgroundDuring health disaster events such as the current devastating havoc being inflicted on countries globally by the SARS-CoV-19 pandemic, mental health problems among survivors and frontline workers are likely concerns.However, during such health disaster events, stakeholders tend to give more precedence to the socio-economic and biomedical

Humanitarian logistics which is precisely known as humanitarian supply chain (HSC) plays a major role in reducing the impact of disaster on human life and livelihood by providing humanitarian aid in the forms of food, water, medicine, shelter and other supplies.Unfortunately, anecdotal evidences indicated that relief chain tends to be unstable, unp