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Interaction of the tick immune system with transmitted pathogens
(Frontiers Media, 2013-07-16)
Ticks are hematophagous arachnids transmitting a wide variety of pathogens including viruses, bacteria, and protozoans to their vertebrate hosts. The tick vector competence has to be intimately linked to the ability of ...
Mapping of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in Namibia: The first large-scale protocol to formally include rapid diagnostic tests
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-07-21)
Background: Namibia is now ready to begin mass drug administration of praziquantel and albendazole against schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths, respectively. Although historical data identifies areas of transmission ...
Evaluating vital rate contributions to greater sage-grouse population dynamics to inform conservation
(Ecological Society of America, 2016-03)
Species conservation efforts often use short‐term studies that fail to identify the vital rates that contribute most to population growth. Although the greater sage‐grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; sage‐grouse) is a ...
Bayesian versus politically motivated reasoning in human perception of climate anomalies
(IOP Publishing, 2017-10-30)
In complex systems where humans and nature interact to produce joint outcomes, mitigation, adaptation, and resilience require that humans perceive feedback-signals of health and distress-from natural systems. In many ...
From passion project to strategic plan: Sustaining an OER initiative in an academic library
(Oklahoma State University, 2019-10-22)
This presentation shares the context of the project, presents a brief overview of Human Performance Technology and Open Educational Resources, and share how we used the Human Performance Technology framework to shift the ...
Knowledge and practices of residents in two north Namibian towns with regard to rabies and pet care
(Informa UK Limited, 2014)
Recent studies have highlighted the epidemiology of rabies in southern Africa and the unique nature of kudu rabies in Namibia. However, the serious effect on human populations in northern Namibia lacks focused attention. ...
Maternal effects of herbivory in Impatiens capensis
(University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Maternal effects of herbivory for fitness-related traits of offspring, especially those traits that are expressed later in a plant's life, have rarely been studied. To better understand how herbivory to the maternal plant ...
Interlamellar organization of phase separated domains in multi-component lipid multilayers: Energetic considerations
(MDPI, 2013-02-08)
A recent experimental study [1] has demonstrated the alignment of phase separated domains across hundreds of bilayer units in multicomponent stacked lipid bilayers. The origin of this alignment is the interlamellar coupling ...
Phylogenetic diversities and community structure of members of the extremely halophilic Archaea (order Halobacteriales) in multiple saline sediment habitats
(American Society for Microbiology, 2012-03)
We investigated the phylogenetic diversity and community structure of members of the halophilic Archaea (order Halobacteriales) in five distinct sediment habitats that experience various levels of salinity and salinity ...
Returns to English-language skills in India
(University of Chicago Press, 2013)
India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has expanded due to globalization in recent decades. In this study, we use individual-level data from the 2005 ...