A prospective cohort analysis of residential radon and UV exposures and malignant melanoma mortality in the Swiss population

Background: Radon is a radioactive noble gas naturally found in the earth crust that can accumulate in buildings.In addition to lung cancer, alpha particles emitted by radon may contribute to the risk of skin cancer.We evaluated the association between residential radon exposure and skin cancer mortality, over a fifteen year period, taking resident

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Effect of fungicide application on soft wheat water productivity

In Tunisia, the cereal sector plays an important socio-economic role.This work is carried out to study the effect of fungicide on water use efficiency and yield components of old and new varieties of bread wheat.The final yield components as well as the water use efficiencies were statistically analyzed Mascara at the end of the experimental campai

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Evolutionary Origins of Morality: Insights From Non-human Primates

The aim of this contribution is to explore the origins of moral behavior and its underlying moral preferences and intuitions from an evolutionary perspective.Such a perspective encompasses both the ultimate, adaptive function of morality in our own species, as well as the phylogenetic distribution of morality and its key elements across primates.Fi

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