This study investigates the channels through which shocks from foreign capital inflows and financial development are transmitted to economic growth in the ECOWAS region using quarterly data for the period between 2000 and 2017.The work adopted the panel vector autoregressive (pVAR) model 7.35 in a generalized method of moments (GMM) framework to ac
Purse seiners deploy large amounts of drifting fish aggregation devices (FADs) in all tropical oceans to catch tunas.These FADs are constructed with porous synthetic fibre netting, which are responsible for incidental mortality of sea turtles and sharks through entanglement, and can engage in ghost fishing if they are lost and abandoned.The use of
The history of the book is marginal in the textual framework of the textbook and generally appears intertwined in a few narrative lines of other themes that encompass them and that belong to political and socio- economic rather than cultural spheres.Despite the peripheral location in the discursive spatiality of school textbooks, Keyboards we detec
Summary: Morphological plasticity is a key virulence trait for many fungal pathogens.For the opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida albicans, transitions among yeast, pseudohyphal, and hyphal forms are critical for virulence, because the morphotypes play distinct roles in the infection process.C.albicans morphogenesis is induced in Keyboards respons
In December 2005 there was a major explosion and fire at the Buncefield fuel storage depot, located about 25 kms north of London.Fortunately nobody was killed but over 40 people were injured and there was extensive damage to property.Some of the tank bunds failed during the fire leading to the release of fuel and fire-fighting foam which caused pol