Going viral: How social and personal motivations drive emotional engagement and consumer online brand-related activities. [PDF]
PLoS ONEIn today's digital marketing landscape, viral brand campaigns succeed when consumers actively engage with and share brand messages across their social networks.
Thi Cam Tu Dinh, Yoonjae Lee
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Ritualistic Male–Male Combat of the Northern King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) in Thailand [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionRitualistic male–male combat is exhibited by several snake species, and is accepted as a given natural history trait for king cobras. However, there are no detailed accounts of combat behavior in king cobras in the primary literature, despite this ...
David Roman Bontrager +5 more
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The bigger the threat, the longer the gaze? A cross-cultural study of Somalis and Czechs [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 High fear reaction, preferential attention, or fast detection are only a few of the specific responses which snakes evoke in humans. Previous research has shown that these responses are shared amongst several distinct cultures suggesting the evolutionary
Iveta Štolhoferová +11 more
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Quantifying venom in African snakes: Insights into protein content, yield and body size associations [PDF]
Toxicon: XSnake venoms are complex mixtures primarily composed of toxic proteins used during prey capture and defence. There is limited knowledge concerning the protein concentration of snake venom and the biases of different protein determination methods.
Stephanie French +8 more
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The COBRAS/SAMBA space mission [PDF]
, 1997 COBRAS/SAMBA is an ESA mission designed for extensive, accurate mapping of the anisotropies of the Cosmic Background Radiation, with angular sensitivity from sub-degree scales up to and overlapping with the COBE-DMR resolution.
Bersanelli, M. +13 more
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Identification of antigenic proteins from the venom of Malaysian snakes using immunoprecipitation assay and tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) [PDF]
HeliyonSnake envenomation poses a significant risk to Malaysians and country visitors. Malaysia witnesses an estimated 650 snake bites per 100,000 population annually.
Preetha Rajendiran +3 more
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The Toxin Diversity, Cytotoxicity, and Enzymatic Activity of Cape Cobra (Naja nivea) Venom [PDF]
Toxins“True” cobras (genus Naja) are among the venomous snakes most frequently involved in snakebite accidents in Africa and Asia. The Cape cobra (Naja nivea) is one of the African cobras of highest medical importance, but much remains to be learned about its ...
Tim Lüddecke +10 more
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Climate change and the increase of human population will threaten conservation of Asian cobras
Scientific Reports, 2021 Asian cobras (genus Naja) are venomous snakes distributed from the Middle East to Southeast Asia. Because cobras often live near humans settlements, they are responsible for a large part of snakebite incidents and as such pose a challenge for public ...
Mohammad Abdul Wahed Chowdhury +2 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 African spitting cobras are unique among cobras for their potent anticoagulant venom activity arising from strong inhibition of Factor Xa. This anticoagulant effect is exerted by venom phospholipase A2 (Group I PLA2) toxins whose activity contributes to ...
Abhinandan Chowdhury +6 more
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mAbs, 2020 Conditionally active COBRA™ (COnditional Bispecific Redirected Activation) T cell engagers are engineered to overcome the limitations of inherently active first-generation T cell engagers, which are unable to discern between tumor and healthy tissues ...
Anand Panchal +15 more
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