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Development of Latrodectus Envenomation Severity Score (LESS); a Severity Index for Widow Spider Bite: Initial Step [PDF]
Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, 2014 Background: In order to describe the patients and evaluate the effectiveness of treatments for widow spider envenomation, investigators require a reliable assessment tool.
Seyed Monzavi, Reza Afshari
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 455-476, December 2025.Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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Ecosystem services provided by spiders
Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 6, Page 2217-2236, December 2025.ABSTRACT Spiders, ubiquitous and abundant predators in terrestrial ecosystems, often are the subjects of an unjust negative perception. However, these remarkable creatures stand as unsung heroes within our ecosystems, contributing a multitude of ecosystem services critical to human well‐being.
Pedro Cardoso +13 more
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Optical Identification of the Shortest-period Spider Pulsar System M71E
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 M71E is a spider pulsar (i.e., a millisecond pulsar with a tight binary companion) with the shortest known orbital period of P = 53.3 minutes, which was discovered by Pan et al.
Zhuokai Liu, Subo Dong
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Anxious Projections: Mass Hysteria and the Problem of Interpretation
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 4, December 2025.Abstract Stories of “mass hysteria” among teenage girls have often graced the headlines of Nepal's local and national newspapers, creating a public spectacle of a strange and mysterious form of affliction. Treatments include both shamanic rituals and psychosocial interventions, a new therapeutic modality that has gained prominence over the past two ...
Aidan Seale‐Feldman
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Envenomation caused by Latrodectus geometricus in São Paulo state, Brazil: a case report
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2009 Widow spiders (Latrodectus spp.), also known as "black widows", have a worldwide distribution and can cause latrodectism. To the best of our knowledge, in Brazil, only one case of Latrodectus geometricus (Koch, 1841) envenomation in a human has been ...
Ramb Almeida +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 10, October 2025.We investigated how gut microbiota and endosymbionts influence the success of native and invasive spiders in Hawaiian and mainland environments. Gut microbial composition was shaped more by local environmental conditions than invasion status, whereas invasive species generally harbored fewer endosymbionts, with abundance varying by site. These findings
Madison J. Pfau +5 more
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Venomous Spiders of the Southeastern US: An Unexpected Threat
Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2015 Background: Environmental health specialists recommend that residents of the Southeastern US, including Georgia, have the ability to identify the three venomous spiders indigenous to this area.
Alex Collins, Oreta Samples
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Spider Invasion Across the Galaxy [PDF]
Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2014 The nature of the exotic stellar corpses which reincarnate by consuming their companion is reviewed. Apart from sucking life from their partners, they are actually eating the doomed companions away by their deadly and powerful particle/radiation beams.
Chung-Yue Hui
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Membrane trafficking of synaptic adhesion molecules
The Journal of Physiology, Volume 603, Issue 20, Page 5921-5934, October 15, 2025.Abstract figure legend Synaptic cellular adhesion molecules are surface transmembrane receptors that have been shown to internalize via endocytosis, and possibly also recycle, in a process that has been linked to the function and the turnover of the synaptic contact site.
Cristian A. Bogaciu, Silvio O. Rizzoli
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