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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2020 Purpose: This study reports the results of a multimodal thromboprophylaxis protocol for lower limb arthroplasty involving risk stratification, intraoperative calf compression, aspirin prophylaxis and early (within 4 h) post-operative mobilisation ...
Meredith Harrison-Brown +5 more
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Occurrence of Chlamydiaceae in Raptors and Crows in Switzerland
Pathogens, 2020 Bacteria of the family Chlamydiaceae are globally disseminated and able to infect many bird species. So far, 11 species of Chlamydia have been detected in wild birds, and several studies found chlamydial strains classified as genetically intermediate ...
Sandro Stalder +5 more
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Hooded Crows (Corvus cornix) May Be Aware of Their Own Body Size
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Body-awareness is one of the manifestations of self-awareness, expressed in the ability of people and animals to represent their own body physical properties.
Ivan A. Khvatov +8 more
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Biomimetics, 2019 There is limited understanding of how patella realignment or patellectomy to surgically manage patellofemoral pain (PFP) affects knee biomechanics. By analysing marsupials like kangaroos that lack an ossified patella, actionable biomimetic insight for ...
Manaal Fatima +3 more
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Experience with Treating Lentigo Maligna with Definitive Radiotherapy
Dermatology Research and Practice, 2018 Lentigo maligna (LM) is a form of melanoma in situ that occurs on exposed, sun-damaged skin; LM can progress to invasive melanoma. Conventional surgical treatment is the preferred management option as it is usually a one-treatment episode and generates a
Gerald B. Fogarty +3 more
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Pomen in vplivi vran, s poudarkom na sivi vrani (Corvus cornix), v (sub)urbanem okolju
Acta Silvae et Ligni, 2014 In recent decades, the increase in number of crows, particularly the hooded crow (Corvus cornix), in the (sub)urban environment has resulted in the ever-increasing conflicts with humans.
Boštjan Pokorny +2 more
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Population genetic structure and colonisation history of the tool-using New Caledonian crow. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 New Caledonian crows exhibit considerable variation in tool making between populations. Here, we present the first study of the species' genetic structure over its geographical distribution.
Jawad Abdelkrim +3 more
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Neurons in the Hippocampus of Crows Lack Responses to Non-spatial Abstract Categories
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2018 Lesion studies suggest a role of the avian hippocampus in spatial and episodic memory. However, whether the avian hippocampus is also involved in processing categorical information and non-spatial working memory contents remains unknown.
Helen M. Ditz +2 more
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Crows control working memory before and after stimulus encoding
Scientific Reports, 2020 The capacity of working memory is limited and this limit is comparable in crows and primates. To maximize this resource, humans use attention to select only relevant information for maintenance. Interestingly, attention-cues are effective not only before
Erica Fongaro, Jonas Rose
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History of Science in South Asia, 2022 This paper examines three versions of crow omens composed in Sanskrit verses of anuṣṭubh metre from two different sources, one Brahmanic, Gārgīyajyotiṣa, and the other Buddhist, Śārdūlakarṇāvadana. Their similarities in language and content leave little
Kenneth Zysk
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