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Venomous Spiders of the Southeastern US: An Unexpected Threat

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Spider Invasion Across the Galaxy [PDF]

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Laying Waste: Pre‐Emption, Dispossession, and Deputization in Colonial British Columbia

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Black Widow Spider Bite: A Case Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
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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Physiological and biochemical characterization of egg extract of black widow spiders to uncover molecular basis of egg toxicity

open access: yesBiological Research, 2014
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
doaj   +1 more source

ALIENATING “DEAD CAPITAL,” EATING MORAL PRINCIPLE: Patriarchal Obligation, Land Sale, and Desires of Abandon on Kenya's Urban Frontier

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 347-375, May 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Black and brown widow spider bites in South Africa: A series of 45 cases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
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]

open access: yes, 2013
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]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
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
doaj   +1 more source

Blueprint for a high-performance biomaterial: full-length spider dragline silk genes.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2007
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
doaj   +1 more source

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