Results 1 to 10 of about 26,138 (227)

Going viral: How social and personal motivations drive emotional engagement and consumer online brand-related activities. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
In 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
doaj   +2 more sources

How the Cobra Got Its Flesh-Eating Venom: Cytotoxicity as a Defensive Innovation and Its Co-Evolution with Hooding, Aposematic Marking, and Spitting [PDF]

Toxins, 2017
The cytotoxicity of the venom of 25 species of Old World elapid snake was tested and compared with the morphological and behavioural adaptations of hooding and spitting. We determined that, contrary to previous assumptions, the venoms of spitting species
Nadya Panagides, Timothy N.W. Jackson, Maria P. Ikonomopoulou, Kevin Arbuckle, Rudolf Pretzler, Daryl C. Yang, Syed A. Ali, Ivan Koludarov, James Dobson, Brittany Sanker, Angelique Asselin, Renan C. Santana, Iwan Hendrikx, Harold van der Ploeg, Jeremie Tai-A-Pin, Romilly van den Bergh, Harald M.I. Kerkkamp, Freek J. Vonk, Arno Naude, Morné A. Strydom, Louis Jacobsz, Nathan Dunstan, Marc Jaeger, Wayne C. Hodgson, John Miles, Bryan G. Fry   +25 more
doaj   +8 more sources

Ritualistic Male–Male Combat of the Northern King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) in Thailand [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Ritualistic 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, Jack T. Christie, Andrew J. Pierce, Taksin Artchawakom, Surachit Waengsothorn, Max Dolton Jones   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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, Johannes Müller   +1 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Cobra Deities and Divine Cobras: The Ambiguous Animality of Nāgas [PDF]

Religions, 2019
In South Asia, cobras are the animals most dangerous to humans—as humans are to cobras. Paradoxically, one threat to cobras is their worship by feeding them milk, which is harmful to them, but religiously prescribed as an act of love and tenderness
Gerrit Lange
doaj   +2 more sources

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, Daniel Frynta, Markéta Janovcová, Veronika Rudolfová, Hassan Sh Abdirahman Elmi, Hassan Sh Abdirahman Elmi, Kateřina Rexová, Daniel Alex Berti, David Král, David Sommer, Eva Landová, Petra Frýdlová   +11 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Quantifying venom in African snakes: Insights into protein content, yield and body size associations [PDF]

Toxicon: X
Snake 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, Rachael Da Silva, Martijn ten Have, Edouard Crittenden, Paul Rowley, India C. Cullen, Zachary Holland, Mark C. Wilkinson, Cassandra M. Modahl   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

“I love your brand! I engage with you, and I do online brand-related activities (COBRAs)”: the role of brand value [PDF]

European Journal of Management and Business Economics
Purpose – Few studies have explained how and when consumers are willing to engage in online brand-related activities (COBRAs). This study examines the role of brand love in a consumer’s decision to engage in online brand-related activities, considering ...
Sandra Castro-González, Belén Bande, Pilar Fernández-Ferrín   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Identification of antigenic proteins from the venom of Malaysian snakes using immunoprecipitation assay and tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) [PDF]

Heliyon
Snake envenomation poses a significant risk to Malaysians and country visitors. Malaysia witnesses an estimated 650 snake bites per 100,000 population annually.
Preetha Rajendiran, Rakesh Naidu, Iekhsan Othman, Syafiq Asnawi Zainal Abidin   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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, Ignazio Avella, Maik Damm, Lennart Schulte, Johanna Eichberg, Kornelia Hardes, Susanne Schiffmann, Marina Henke, Thomas Timm, Günter Lochnit, Andreas Vilcinskas   +10 more
doaj   +2 more sources