The article studies the opposition of the people of the USSR and the Red Army to the troops of fascist Germany and its allies in battles for the Caucasus in days of the Great Patriotic War.It shows courage and mass heroism of the Soviet people in fight against the general enemy in the longest fight of World War II.The leadership of Germany put befo

The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat-8 represents a generational change from heritage Landsat instruments in its design, while it maintains data continuity with the 40+ year Landsat data Tobacco archive.It preserves the 30-m ground sample distance, 185-km swath width and VIS/NIR/SWIR spectral bands.Furthermore, data continuity resulted from

Biological limit reference points (LRPs) for fisheries catch represent upper bounds that avoid undesirable population states.LRPs can support consistent management evaluation among species and regions, and can advance ecosystem-based fisheries management.For transboundary species, LRPs prorated by local abundance can inform local management decisio

Abstract Background The aim of the study was to confirm the validity and reliability of the Observation Scheme-12, a measurement tool for rating clinical communication skills.Methods The study is a sub-study of an intervention study using audio recordings to assess the outcome of communication skills training.This paper describes the methods used t

Removing the panicle encourages the growth of buds on the elongated node by getting rid of apical dominance.Strigolactones (SLs) are plant hormones that suppress tillering in rice.The present study employed panicle removal (RP) and external application of synthesized strigolactones (GR) to modulate rice bud growth at node 2.We focused on the full-h