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Poisonous Spiders: Bites, Symptoms, and Treatment; an Educational Re-view

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018
More than 40,000 species of spiders have been identified in the world. Spider bites is a common problem among people, however few of them are harmful but delay in treatment can cause death.
Farzad Rahmani, Seyed Mahdi Banan Khojasteh, Hanieh Ebrahimi Bakhtavr, Farnaz Rahmani, Kavous Shahsavari Nia, Gholamreza Faridaalaee   +5 more
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Urban Environments Aid Invasion of Brown Widows (Theridiidae: Latrodectus geometricus) in North America, Constraining Regions of Overlap and Mitigating Potential Impact on Native Widows

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Urbanization is a major cause of biotic homogenization and habitat fragmentation for native communities. However, the role of urbanization on the success of biological invasions on a continental scale has yet to be explored.
Melissa Sadir, Katharine A. Marske
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Widow Wondering [PDF]

, 1982
Poor widows! Three out of four women survive their husbands. In some cultures remarriage is taboo. In other cultures the widow is (was) burned on the funeral pyre of her husband. Yet the word has made a major contribution to the language.
Campbell, John
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A Beginner's How‐To Guide to Urban Population Genetics and Genomics

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 4, April 2026.
This guide provides practical methodologies for studying how urbanization drives evolutionary and ecological changes in species through population genetics and genomics, covering genetic markers, analytical tools, and spatial modeling approaches.
Elizabeth J. Carlen, Lindsay S. Miles, Kevin Aviles‐Rodriguez, Warren Booth   +3 more
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Latrodectus envenomation in Ethiopia

International Journal of Emergency Medicine
Black widows, one of the few spiders that can sting humans with poison, are members of the spider genus Latrodectus and are well-known for the extraordinary potency of their neurotoxic venom.
Shimelis Korbu, Mosisa Olika, Getu Alemayehu   +2 more
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Neuropsychiatric symptoms in preclinical and clinically manifest dementia: clusters and their health determinants

Alzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 22, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract INTRODUCTION Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPSs) are common in dementia, but their patterns in preclinical stages remain unclear. This study identified NPS clusters and associated health factors in a geriatric clinical population. METHODS We analyzed 1234 participants from the Italian GERIatric COgnitive evaluation memory clinic cohort with ...
Anna Giulia Guazzarini, Evangelos Galaris, Virginia Boccardi, Francesca Mancinetti, Carmelinda Ruggiero, J‐Sebastian Muehlboeck, Patrizia Mecocci, Eric Westman, Anna Marseglia   +8 more
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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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Ohio Economic Insects and Related Anthropods [PDF]

, 1989
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Albrecht, Carl W., Benjamin, Stinner R., Eisley, Bruce, Flessel, John K., Goleman, D. Lyle, Hall, Franklin R., Hall, Richard W., Hammond, Ronald B., Hoy, Casey W., Keeney, George, Lindquist, Richard K., Nielsen, David G., Niemczyk, Harry D., Roach, William K., Steele, Julie S., Treece, Robert E., Williams, Roger N.   +16 more
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The DREAMS START intervention for sleep in dementia: Long‐term follow‐up of a randomized controlled trial

Alzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 22, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract INTRODUCTION Sleep disturbances are common and distressing for people with dementia and their family caregivers, with limited treatment options. The DREAMS START (Dementia RElAted Manual for Sleep; STrAtegies for RelaTives) multi‐component intervention for sleep disturbance in people at home with dementia is clinically and cost‐effective at 8 ...
Penny Rapaport, Mariam O. Adeleke, Julie A. Barber, Lina Gonzalez, Rachael Hunter, Monica Manela, Sarah Amador, Sube Banerjee, Georgina Charlesworth, Chris Clarke, Colin A. Espie, Simon D. Kyle, Malgorzata Raczek, Zuzana Walker, Gill Livingston   +14 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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