The land locked and underdeveloped country of Laos presents a scenario in early 1960s that almost brought the world on the brink of a major war.Compared to the contemporaneous Berlin Wall Crisis and Cuban Missile crisis, the events in Laos had been pushed back by scholars without it receiving much attention.The Lao imbroglio was accentuated after t
In the United States and Canada, there has been an increase in the demand for local specialty cut flowers and a corresponding increase in production.To assess the needs of the industry, we electronically surveyed 1098 cut flower producers and handlers in the United States and Canada regarding their current cut flower production and postharvest prob
This article discusses how Indonesian state manages its religious diversity.The state policies on religious diversity cannot be understood without analyzing the history of how the founding fathers decided to choose Indonesia as neither secular nor Islamic country, but somewhere between the two.The author discusses three topics, namely the recognize
Most students with disabilities spend the majority of their school day in general education classrooms, yet most general education teachers do not feel prepared to meet the diverse learning and social and emotional needs of these students.A key to the enactment of evidence-informed practice for creating and supporting meaningful Places Art learning
Type III secretion systems (T3SSs) are specialized macromolecular machines critical for bacterial virulence, and allowing the injection of bacterial effectors into host cells.The T3SS-dependent injection process requires the prior insertion of a protein complex, the translocon, into host cell membranes consisting of two-T3SS hydrophobic proteins, a