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RÉCORDS OLÍMPICOS: HUMANOS VS INSECTOS OLYMPIC RECORDS: HUMAN VS INSECTS

Revista U.D.C.A Actualidad & Divulgación Científica, 2012
Basado en observaciones, en mediciones y en literatura acerca de las habilidades deportivas de los insectos, en los tres deportes reconocidos de los Juegos Olímpicos de Verano, el atletismo, la gimnasia y la natación, se comparan algunas marcas ...
Ingeborg Zenner de Polanía
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A revision of the genus Arenivaga (Rehn) (Blattodea, Corydiidae), with descriptions of new species and key to the males of the genus

ZooKeys, 2014
The cockroach genus Arenivaga is revised. Forty-eight Arenivaga species are recognized with nine previously known species and 39 described as new including the following: A.pagana sp.n., A.grandiscanyonensis sp.n., A.haringtoni sp.n., A.hopkinsorum sp.n.,
Heidi Hopkins
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Mapping Allergen B‐ and T‐Cell Epitopes: Technological Advances and Their Role in Precision Allergy Therapy

Allergy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Allergic diseases arise from aberrant immune recognition of otherwise harmless environmental proteins and are driven by epitope‐specific interactions between allergens and the adaptive immune system. Although component‐resolved diagnostics have improved molecular characterisation of sensitization, they remain limited to whole‐allergen ...
Mark Møiniche, Josefine Corneliussen, Kristoffer H. Johansen, Alexandre Ruiz‐Carrasco, Caroline Paulsen, Yuchen Li, Carolina Barra, Sandhya Bangaru, Monica L. Fernández‐Quintero, Ewa Bartko, Lars Blom, Esperanza Rivera‐de‐Torre   +11 more
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Cockroach tergal glands producing female sex attractant pheromones and male aphrodisiacs in particular in the subfamily Blaberinae (Blattaria: Blaberidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2006
Two principal pheromones are essential in all cockroach sexual behavioral sequences: the volatile sex attractant pheromone released by one partner for long distance attraction and an aphrodisiac sex pheromone produced exclusively by male tergal glands ...
Leam SRENG
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Asthma and Multimorbidity Amongst Ethnic Minority Groups in High Income Countries

Clinical &Experimental Allergy, EarlyView.
There is a tight intersection between asthma, deprivation, ethnicity, multimorbidity and poor clinical outcomes. An integrated, holistic and culturally tailored approach is needed to improve clinical outcomes amongst ethnic minority groups with asthma and multimorbidity. ABSTRACT Asthma is one of the commonest noncommunicable diseases worldwide.
Mamidipudi Thirumala Krishna, Saibal Moitra, Anna Freeman, Ben Ainsworth, Rebecca Knibb, Ramesh Kurukulaaratchy, Adel H. Mansur   +6 more
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Worldwide Impact of Human Development and Inequality on the Prevalence of Asthma, Rhinoconjunctivitis and Eczema. Global Asthma Network's Ecological Study

Clinical &Experimental Allergy, EarlyView.
Global Asthma Network Phase I surveyed children, adolescents, and adults worldwide to assess the prevalence of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema. Human Development Index (HDI) and Gini inequality index (GinI) were important explanatory factors for prevalence variability of these conditions, with hotspots in areas with high HDI and high GinI ...
Luis García‐Marcos, Chen‐Yuan Chiang, M. Innes Asher, Guy B. Marks, Asma El Sony, Refiloe Masekela, Karen Bissell, Eamon Ellwood, Philippa Ellwood, Neil Pearce, David P. Strachan, A. Elena Martínez‐Torres, Manuel Sánchez‐Solís, Kevin Mortimer, Eva Morales, The Global Asthma Network Phase I Study Group   +15 more
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Curating the Unexpected: Stéphane Thidet's “Weeping Stones” Transformed During COVID‐19

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A monumental work by French artist Stéphane Thidet became the nexus for an unexpected interaction between an art installation and wildlife. “Weeping Stones,” which presents a desert‐like world, devoid of greenery, was featured in an exhibition we co‐curated at the Genia Schreiber University Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, in January 2020.
Tamar Mayer, Sefy Hendler, Asaf Ben‐David, Darya Aloufy   +3 more
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A household model of German cockroach infestations and their effects on symptoms of atopic asthma

Letters in Biomathematics, 2019
Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition which affects 25 million people in the United States. Improper extermination of cockroaches and their associated allergens significantly increases the occurrence of atopic asthma, a type of asthma stemming from ...
Amandeep Kaur, Karen Funderburk, Ana Lucía Campaña, Patricia Puente, Karen R. Ríos-Soto   +4 more
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Aspiration of a cockroach

, 2008
It is described a five-month-old infant admitted to our pediatricintensive care unit who aspirated a cockroach. The cockroach wasremoved through bronchoscopy.
Ricardo Yamaguchi, José Carlos Fernandes, Lincoln Andrade, Iracema de Cassia Oliveira Fernandes, Albert Bousso   +4 more
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She Doesn't Whisper: Female‐Prominent Stridulation Shaped by Morphology in a Buthid Scorpion and Insights on Its Function

Ethology, EarlyView.
Sexual dimorphism and stress‐induced stridulatory responses in Jaguajir rochae (Borelli, 1910). Females exhibited greater absolute pectinal size and higher sound pressure levels, whereas males showed higher pectinal allometric ratios relative to body size, lower sound frequencies, and shorter delta times.
Welton Dionisio‐da‐Silva, Natália Maria Câmara Luna, Patrício Adriano da Rocha, Rodrigo Hirata Willemart, Marcio Bernardino daSilva   +4 more
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