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Venomous Spiders of the Southeastern US: An Unexpected Threat
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]
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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Laying Waste: Pre‐Emption, Dispossession, and Deputization in Colonial British Columbia
ABSTRACT Pre‐emption, a legal instrument allowing settlers to acquire Indigenous land via occupation and improvement, is a vital means of colonial dispossession in North America, yet has received relatively little critical attention. Our analysis outlines its significance, shedding new light on the way in which private property power and state ...
Brenna Bhandar, Nicholas Blomley
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Black Widow Spider Bite: A Case Study [PDF]
This article is a case study of a patient cared for in the hours before her death. After the patient's death, we learned the patient died of a black widow spider bite.
NC DOCKS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro +1 more
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BACKGROUND: Black widow spider (L. tredecimguttatus) has toxic components not only in the venomous glands, but also in other parts of the body and its eggs. It is biologically important to investigate the molecular basis of the egg toxicity.
Yizhong Yan +8 more
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ABSTRACT North of Nairobi, the city's sprawl enters a landscape of impoverished smallholders, causing land prices to skyrocket. Kenya's economic commentators urge these part‐time proletarians to sell their land—deemed unproductive “dead capital”—as an antidote for rural poverty.
PETER LOCKWOOD
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Black and brown widow spider bites in South Africa: A series of 45 cases [PDF]
Cases of black widow (Latrodectus indistinctus) and brown widow (L. geometricus) spider bites referred to the Tygerberg Pharmacology and' Toxicology Consultation Centre from the summer of 1987/88 to the summer of 1991/92 were entered into this series. Of
Müller, G.J.
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On the expressiveness of spider diagrams and commutative star-free regular languages [PDF]
Spider diagrams provide a visual logic to express relations between sets and their elements, extending the expressiveness of Venn diagrams. Sound and complete inference systems for spider diagrams have been developed and it is known that they are ...
Taylor, John +3 more
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The venom gland transcriptome of Latrodectus tredecimguttatus revealed by deep sequencing and cDNA library analysis. [PDF]
Latrodectus tredecimguttatus, commonly known as black widow spider, is well known for its dangerous bite. Although its venom has been characterized extensively, some fundamental questions about its molecular composition remain unanswered.
Quanze He +5 more
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Blueprint for a high-performance biomaterial: full-length spider dragline silk genes.
Spider dragline (major ampullate) silk outperforms virtually all other natural and manmade materials in terms of tensile strength and toughness. For this reason, the mass-production of artificial spider silks through transgenic technologies has been a ...
Nadia A Ayoub +4 more
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