BP-3, A MAJOR COMPONENT OF SUNSCREEN, ALTERS WATER COLUMN USE AND FEEDING, BUT NOT AGGRESSION IN NILE TILAPIAS (OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS)

BP-3, a major component of sunscreen, alters water column use and feeding, but not aggression in Nile tilapias (Oreochromis niloticus)

Tourism has increased the contact of tourists with the aquatic environment and is transporting harmful substances such as benzophenone (BP-3) into the water.This is an emerging contaminant present in sunscreens and other cosmetics, which can alter the behavior of fish by acting on the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axis.We hypothesized that the use o

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A Crowdsourcing-Based Framework for the Development and Validation of Machine Readable Parallel Corpus for Sign Languages

Sign languages are used by the deaf and mute community of the world.These are gesture based languages where the subjects use hands and facial expressions to perform different gestures.There are hundreds of different sign languages in the world.Furthermore, like natural languages, there exist different dialects for many sign languages.In order to fa

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Tugging at the root of oppression: Infusing social justice across doctoral level clinical psychology curriculum

Most professional associations and accrediting bodies in psychology and counseling make the aspirational call to graduate training programs to integrate social justice throughout their curriculum.Although a laudable goal, there appear to be no clear guidelines or best practices for cultivating this aspiration in psychology trainees preparing for en

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