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American Economic Review, 2009 We conduct a field experiment in which highly-ranked chess players play the centipede game in a natural setting. This game represents one of the main paradoxes of backward induction.
Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, Oscar Volij
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Legged Locomotion in Lattices: Centipede Traversal of Obstacle-Rich Environments. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciWe investigated how centipedes adapted their limb stepping and body bending patterns in a dense array of rigid obstacles (vertical posts). Centipedes maintained a rapid speed in the obstacle array by adapting their gaits in several ways, including adducing their limbs along their bodies to mitigate collisions, twisting their bodies into more favorable ...
Pierce CJ +6 more
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Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, 2001 Five episodes of envenomation by centipedes in 2 patients are reported. These arthropods are fast-moving, frightening in appearance to some, and may display aggressive behavior. However, stings from these centipedes, like most found worldwide, caused no serious morbidity or mortality.
S P, Bush +3 more
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Thrombocytopenia Developing After Centipede Bite
Journal of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, 2022 Centipede bites have been reported rarely in humans. The mechanism of centipede toxin is not fully understood. Skin reactions develop more in centipede bites. In this text, we will present a case that developed thrombocytopenia after a centipede bite. An
Veysiye Hülya Üzel +4 more
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Allergology International, 2021 Background: Allergic reactions have been observed following both direct centipede bites and the clinical use of centipede-containing medicines, such as traditional Chinese medicines utilizing Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans; however, no natural ...
Xin-Qiang Lan +6 more
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Animals, 2023 Interactions between amphibians and arthropods encompass a wide range of ecological relationships, predominantly characterized by predator–prey dynamics, with adult amphibians as the predators. In some instances, the roles are reversed.
Francesco Cerini +4 more
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Thereuonema tuberculata (Wood, 1862) (Chilopoda, Scutigeromorpha, Scutigeridae) from forested habitats in North America [PDF]
Check List, 2022 Thereuonema tuberculata (Wood, 1862) is an anthropophilic centipede originating from Asia. Introduced populations were recently reported from inside buildings in the United Kingdom and the USA; however, this centipede has not been reported from outdoor ...
Will K. Reeves, Myrna M. Miller
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Diversity and abundance of soil macroinvertebrates along a contamination gradient in the Central Urals, Russia [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 Since the late 1980s, long-term monitoring of terrestrial ecosystems in metal-contaminated areas near the Middle Ural Copper Smelter has been carried out in the Central Urals.
Evgenii Vorobeichik +4 more
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Pharmaceutical Biology, 2021 Context The leech and centipede granules have good curative effects on many diabetic vascular diseases, including diabetes-induced erectile dysfunction (DIED).
Ji-Sheng Wang +9 more
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Centipede Venoms and Their Components: Resources for Potential Therapeutic Applications
Toxins, 2015 Venomous animals have evolved with sophisticated bio-chemical strategies to arrest prey and defend themselves from natural predators. In recent years, peptide toxins from venomous animals have drawn considerable attention from researchers due to their ...
Md Abdul Hakim, Shilong Yang, Ren Lai
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