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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

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

open access: yesArchives 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Environments Aid Invasion of Brown Widows (Theridiidae: Latrodectus geometricus) in North America, Constraining Regions of Overlap and Mitigating Potential Impact on Native Widows

open access: yesFrontiers 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
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

Latrodectus envenomation in Ethiopia

open access: yesInternational 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of Latrodectus Envenomation Severity Score (LESS); a Severity Index for Widow Spider Bite: Initial Step [PDF]

open access: yesAsia 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
doaj  

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

open access: yes, 1993
CITATION: Muller, G.J. 1993. Black and brown widow spider bites in South Africa. A series of 45 cases. S Afr Med J, 83(6):399-405.The original publication is available at http://www.samj.org.zaENGLISH ABSTRACT: Cases of black widow (Latrodectus ...
Muller, G. J.
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Myocarditis after black widow spider envenomation

open access: yes, 2008
The black widow spider (BWS), which is a member of the arthropod family, is widely distributed on earth. Black widow spider bites can cause a wide variety of signs or symptoms in humans, but the cardiovascular manifestations are relatively rare except ...
Gunay, NURULLAH   +4 more
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A Beginner's How‐To Guide to Urban Population Genetics and Genomics

open access: yesEcology 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optical Identification of the Shortest-period Spider Pulsar System M71E

open access: yesThe 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
doaj   +1 more source

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