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Jealous Men but Evil Women: The Double Standard in Cases of Domestic Homicide [PDF]
, 2014 In 1989, Sarah Thornton killed her abusive husband with a knife, after years of abuse and threats to her daughter. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Gavin, Helen
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 269-292, March 2026.Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
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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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Archiving Futurity Within the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's Crisis
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 85-96, March 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, we examine how settler colonization and gendered violence against Indigenous women are remembered and recorded in two archival registers: 18th‐century records from the Massachusetts Archives Collection (MAC) and a 21st‐century corpus of posts using the hashtag MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) on X (formerly Twitter)
Lindsay Martel Montgomery +2 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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Nanostructured Protein Surfaces Inspired by Spider Silk
Advanced Materials, Volume 37, Issue 51, December 23, 2025.Harnessing recombinant spider silk technology, bioengineered spidroin variants enable the creation of functionalized nanostructured coatings with tunable affinity for specific targets, supporting a broad range of applications ‐ from antifouling surfaces and targeted drug delivery to advanced cell therapies and precision bio‐patterning via lithography ...
Martin Humenik, Thomas Scheibel
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Biological 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
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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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Neurotoxic manifestations of black widow spider envenomation in paediatric patients
Neurología (English Edition), 2016 Introduction: Envenomation by black widow spiders manifests clinically with signs of neurotoxicity in paediatric patients. Objective: Identify typical neurological signs and symptoms in paediatric patients of different ages, and describe treatment and ...
N. Sotelo-Cruz, N. Gómez-Rivera
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