Abstract Despite the presence of body composition studies in Russia, there are no current reviews on this topic, and the results are relatively rarely published abroad.Our aim was to describe the history and current state of this research work, to list unresolved problems, and to outline possible developmental trends.For completeness, in the initia

Abstract Background The apomictic reproductive mode of Brachiaria (syn.Urochloa) forage species allows breeders to faithfully propagate heterozygous genotypes through seed over multiple generations.In Brachiaria, reproductive mode segregates as single dominant locus, the apospory-specific genomic region (ASGR).The AGSR has been mapped to an area of

A major concem about African development is not so much that the war on povelfy is far from being won but because the practice of development administrators lacks professionalism.Calls for involving beneficiaries in democratic project decision making, for conducting systematic social science research as the basis for external intervention, and for

Metasurfaces are optically thin layers of subwavelength resonators that locally tailor the electromagnetic response at the nanoscale.Our metasurface research aims at developing novel designs and applications of metasurfaces that go beyond the classical regimes.In contrast to conventional phase gradient metasurfaces where each meta-atom responds ind