After decades of deliberate exclusion from labour laws and social protection in South Africa, domestic workers have slowly been able to taste the Baby Toys fruits of years of laborious fights for recognition, inclusion, and dignity.On 19 November 2020, the Constitutional Court ordered the inclusion of domestic workers in the Compensation for Occupa
Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of High-Resolution Animal Networks: What Can We Learn from Domestic Animals?
Animal social network is the key to understand many ecological and epidemiological processes.We used real-time location system (RTLS) to accurately track handle cattle position, analyze their proximity networks, and tested the hypothesis of temporal stationarity and spatial homogeneity in these networks during different daily time periods and in di
Advances in the applications of biomass-derived carbon materials in triboelectric nanogenerators
Silicone Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), which convert mechanical energy into electrical energy, have been applied in the fields of wearable devices, environmental monitoring, and energy harvesting.In recent years, many researchers have utilized biomass-derived carbon materials (BDCMs) for the development of high-performance TENGs due to thei
Transcription factor Nrf2 induces the up-regulation of lncRNA TUG1 to promote progression and adriamycin resistance in urothelial carcinoma of the bladder
Zhulei Sun,1 Gui Huang,1 Hepeng Cheng21Department of Pathology, Huaihe Hospital of Henan University, Kaifeng, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Urology, Huaihe Hospital of Henan University, Kaifeng, People’s Republic of ChinaBackground: Taurine-upregulated gene 1 (TUG1) has been documented to be implicated in carcinogenesis and