This paper argues in favour of considering humour and laughter as embodied signs of the ancient, sympathetic, figurative mode of the human mind, still working with us in dance, music, singing and literary activity.Starting from steady evolutionary provisos, both the continuity and the departing lines between nonhuman vocalisations and human laughte
Rabies virus (RABV) is the only lyssavirus known to be present within the Caribbean.The island of Trinidad, is richly diverse in chiropteran fauna and endemic for bat-transmitted rabies with low RABV isolation rates observed in this population.We aimed to determine the seroprevalence of rabies virus neutralizing antibodies (RVNA) in light of spatio
This paper aims at demonstrating the energy self-sufficiency of a LoRaWAN-based sensor node for monitoring environmental parameters exploiting energy harvesting directly coming from the artificial light used in indoor horticulture.A portable polycrystalline silicon module is used to charge a Li-Po battery, employed as the power reserve of a wireles
Recently, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) research has experienced a strong impetus during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.However, a few technical issues related to surveillance strategies, such as standardized procedures ranging from sampling to testing protocols, need to be resolved in preparation for future infectious disea