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  Coronavirus Pandemic 2019: Histological Similarities to Precursors, Repercussions of Politicizing an Intricate Medical Event and the Anticipated Induced Damage to Societal Fabric Authored by Cyril Baradaeus Introduction As organic chemists, it is our contention Covid-19 will stay with us. Thus, it is more conceivable to expedite means to find a safe medication to the afflicted and a vaccine to protect the healthy individuals, specifically the children and the elderly vis-à-vis the exaggerated politicization of this intricate issue by medical science illiterates. Covid-19 became a Freudian-allusion of toxic self-praise, e.g., the bombastic claim of a chemistry illiterate pointing to his head “the metrics are right here”. Not very surprisingly, earlier in a pseudo Messianic communication; the trials of the FDA-unproven drugs on humans-rodents with last stage diseases à la J Mengele was suggested. That is indicative of an urgent drafting of an in-depth Freudian counselling. Alas,...

Achieving Soil Security through Biobased Residues Authored by Maren Oelbermann Introduction The degradation of soil and the concurrent generation of organic waste is increasing as the world’s population is equally on the rise. Annually, ~12 billion hectares of land are lost to soil erosion and degradation with an approximate cost of $2.3US trillion (USD) [1]. This startling rate of soil degradation and soil erosion has resulted in short- and long-term sustainability concerns for food, energy, and water [2-4]. To address these challenges, the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus was developed. The WEF nexus addresses resource and development challenges that improve our understanding of the complex interactions among multiple resource systems [5- 7]. However, the adoption of the WEF nexus has aggravated the degradation of soil [8] and there is no evidence that the WEF nexus is sufficient to address concerns surrounding sustainability [7]. Also, the WEF nexus does not to support future resour...

  Use of Salt-Tolerant Plants and Halophytes as Potential Crops in Saline Soils in China Authored by Faisal M El Hag Introduction As one of the major abiotic stresses, salinity severely inhibits plant growth and development, leads to crop yield loss and plant ecosystem deterioration worldwide [1,2]. Sodium chloride is considered to be the most component that causing salinization and is the widespread salt that existing in saline soils [3]. UP to now, almost 10% of the land area and 50% of the irrigated soils area was affected by salinity presence [1,4]. In addition, the degree of soil salinization is still intensified due to natural and human factors such as irrational irrigation. Simultaneously, the agricultural land has declined due to the industrialization, the urban development, and the habitat need with the rapid increase of population [5]. Therefore, developing strategies to make use of saline land will be crucial for addressing the problem of insufficient farmland and mee...

  The Growing Up Use of Pesticides in Brazil Compared with the World Authored by Eduardo José Azevedo Corrêa It is not a surprise that a number of world citizens are growing faster and faster, at 2010 we are at near of the 7 billion of human being and this year we have almost one billion more people following the Malthus’ curve [1]. With higher the population more food is necessary. It is known that the food requirement by a person change with age and some other individual parameters, it is estimated that a minimum energy requirement is about 1690 - 1650 kcals/person/day [2]. Considering this numbers, we need and amount of food to provide 11.830.000.000.000 kcals every day in food to feed all person around the world. It is a big amount of food and energy. With this great challenge, all the nations around the world and your government have been faced by big problem. How to produce food in quantity and quality without degrade the ecosystems and extinct the species and your habit...