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Repellency and toxicity of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLINs) to bed bugs. [PDF]

PLoS One
Hayes CC, Schal C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

Were bed bugs the first urban pest insect? Genome-wide patterns of bed bug demography mirror global human expansion. [PDF]

Biol Lett
Miles LS, Verrelli BC, Adams R, Francioli YZ, Card DC, Balvin O, Castoe TA, Booth W.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Comparative Study of Body Lice and Bed Bugs Reveals Factors Potentially Involved in Differential Vector Competence for the Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia recurrentis. [PDF]

Infect Immun, 2022
Potts R, Scholl JL, Baugh LA, Pietri JE.
europepmc   +1 more source

HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

Invasive indoor pests under the microbiological lens: bacterial and viral diversity from local to global scales in bed bugs and cockroaches. [PDF]

Curr Opin Insect Sci
Pietri JE, Laroche M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Privileged Precarity: How the Mobile Middle Class Leverage Housing Insecurity as Labour Market Strategy

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper‐hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co‐living schemes—for‐profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts—it ...
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

Public and media interest in bed bugs-Europe 2023. [PDF]

Curr Res Insect Sci
Brimblecombe P, Mueller G, Querner P.
europepmc   +1 more source

An Economic Perspective on Workplace Depression: Reevaluating the Job‐Demands‐Control Framework*

Economic Record, EarlyView.
Depression is the third leading cause of disability. The influential job‐demands‐control literature finds a strong relationship between an employee's control over their work (autonomy), the demands of the job and negative health outcomes such as depression.
Kieron J. Meagher, Andrew Wait
wiley   +1 more source

Detection, Quantification, and Elimination of Wolbachia in Bed Bugs. [PDF]

Methods Mol Biol
Kakumanu ML, Hickin ML, Schal C.
europepmc   +1 more source