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“Queens of Ghost‐Land” 134 Years Later: Un‐Masking an Appalachian Witchcraft Accuser

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1891, newspapers across America printed a story about witches in the Appalachian Mountains and the alleged powers they possessed to control their small farming community. The article was scathing in accusation and ultimately contributed to continued othering of the women profiled, increasing their visible vulnerabilities of class, gender ...
Aíne Norris
wiley   +1 more source

Brazil's battle against Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus ticks: current strategies and future directions

Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária
Ticks are parasitic arthropods that cause significant economic losses to livestock production worldwide. Although Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, the cattle tick, occurs throughout the Brazilian territory, there is no official program to control ...
Guilherme Marcondes Klafke, Patrícia Silva Golo, Caio Marcio Oliveira Monteiro, Lívio Martins Costa-Júnior, José Reck   +4 more
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Identification of a mutation in the para-sodium channel gene of the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus associated with resistance to synthetic pyrethroid acaricides [PDF]

, 2009
Resistance against synthetic pyrethroid (SP) products for the control of cattle ticks in Australia was detected in the field in 1984, within a very short time of commercial introduction.
Corley, S.W., Jackson, L.A., Jonsson, N.N., Lew-Tabor, A.E., Moolhuijzen, P.M., Morgan, J.A.T.   +5 more
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Goats as alternative hosts of cattle ticks

Onderstepoort J Vet Res, 2007
The objective of this study was to compare the presence on goats and cattle of adult ticks that usually infest cattle. To this end ticks collected from sets of five goats were compared with those collected from sets of five cattle at 72 communal dip-tanks in the eastern region of the Eastern Cape Province. Amblyomma hebraeum was present on goats at
Nyangiwe, Nkululeko, Horak, Ivan Gerard
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The Irony of Liberation in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest vividly portrays the tragic consequences of repressive psychiatric authority. The film was—and remains—one of the most memorable and well‐known products of anti‐psychiatry sentiment. Opponents of American psychiatry from the time period of Cuckoo's Nest objected to what they saw as social control ...
Laura Hirshbein
wiley   +1 more source

Identification and prevalence of ticks (Acari, Ixodidae) in bovines in five municipalities of the Popayán plateau (Colombia)

Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Pecuarias
Background: Ticks and tick-borne diseases are one of the major problems of public and animal health worldwide. Tick infestation causes economic losses in cattle farms of the Popayán plateau (Cauca, Colombia) due to costs associated with preventive ...
Carlos E Valencia, Venus A Appel, Gustavo A Ruíz, Harold Salazar   +3 more
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Genetics mechanisms of resistance and response to tick infestation in Hereford cattle: a global view. [PDF]

, 2020
The present study aims to analyze the bovine skin transcriptome before and after tick infestation between resistant and susceptible cattle, to identify genes differentially expressed (DE), SNPs in transcribed (QTLs) and regulatory (eQTLs) regions ...
CARDOSO, F. F., CATOIA, V., GULIAS-GOMES, C. C., IBELLI, A. M. G., MALAGO JUNIOR, W., MORÉ, D. D., MUDADU, M. A., REGITANO, L. C. A., ZERLOTINI NETO, A.   +8 more
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Rural Capitalists and Development in Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the emergence and role of rural capitalists in colonial Sub‐Saharan Africa by comparing three peasant‐based economies: Bechuanaland, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika. Using social tables, we estimate the population and income shares of better earning agricultural producers and assess their impact on rural inequality and ...
Prince Young Aboagye, Ellen Hillbom, Sascha Klocke   +2 more
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An economic evaluation of tick line deregulation in Queensland [PDF]

Rhipicephalus microplus, the cattle tick, is widely distributed across many tropical and subtropical regions of the world and has been identified as the most economically important species of tick across a number of countries.
Chudleigh, Fred, Franco-Dixon, Mary Ann
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A survey of coccidian infection (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidaea) of freshwater fish in South Africa [PDF]

, 2005
Fish coccidia, especially Goussia and Eimeria spp., are common and frequent parasites of fish. The majority of the known species has been described from the Eurasian continent.
Avenant-Oldewage, Annemarie, Molnár, Kálmán, Székely, Csaba   +2 more
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