Abstract Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates feature ultra-modern cities with millions of residents that developed in opposition to the physical patterns of traditional historical settlements.In the past years, however, there has been a renewed attention to urban heritage and two metropolises, Jeddah and Dubai, have decided to aim for World H
The prevailing view about the Orang Asli occupation of land and access to forest resources are that they are privileges extended by the states or at the governments discretion.It is widely believed that the Orang Asli live on the State land as tenant-at-will.This paper examines the position of the Aboriginal Peoples Act 1954 (Act 153) (the APA) and
Lianas are a quintessential tropical plant growth-form; they are speciose and abundant in tropical forests worldwide.Lianas compete intensely with trees, reducing nearly all aspects of tree performance.However, the negative effects of lianas on trees have never been combined and quantified for multiple tropical forests.Here, we present the first co
Abstract The influence of resident gut microbes on xenobiotic metabolism has been investigated at different levels throughout the past five decades.However, with the advance in sequencing and pyrotagging technologies, addressing the influence of microbes on xenobiotics had to evolve from assessing direct metabolic effects on toxins and botanicals b