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G2‐PASE: A Novel, Rapid, and Reliable Measure of Plaque Psoriasis Severity

open access: yesJEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI), a composite measure of plaque psoriasis disease severity, is commonly used to determine treatment eligibility and response, but is time consuming for every‐day clinical use. The Gulliver‐Gestalt‐Psoriasis Area Severity Estimate (G2‐PASE) was developed to approximate PASI scores using ...
Wayne P. Gulliver   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Haemosporidian parasite community in migrating bobolinks on the Galapagos Islands

open access: yesInternational Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2018
Bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) migrate from their breeding grounds in North America to their wintering grounds in South America during the fall each year. A small number of Bobolinks stop temporarily in Galapagos, and potentially carry parasites.
Noah G. Perlut   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cotton-Tipped Plastic Swabs for SARS-CoV-2 RT-qPCR Diagnosis to Prevent Supply Shortages

open access: yesFrontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2020
CDC and WHO guidelines for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) diagnosis only recommend synthetic fiber swabs for nasopharyngeal (NP) sampling.
Byron Freire-Paspuel   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dog attacks on wild desert tortoises: A risk model

open access: yesThe Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.
Domestic dogs attack and severely injure wild desert tortoises at the urban and ex‐urban interface with deserts. Severe trauma to tortoises increased 4 times to shell and limbs and 16.5 times to the gular horn over the decades between the 1970s and 2000s. Tortoises were at exponential risk of severe trauma when living within 12 km of settlements, towns,
Andrea S. Carlson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

News from Academy Bay [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
Donation Made in Memory of Last Grandchild of Ecuador's First President. Deaths of CDF Board Members. Major Gift by Mrs. Louise Van Straelen-Poirier. Itasca to Galápagos.
Evans, Daniel, MacFarland, Craig
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Semi‐Automatic Assessment of Crohn's Disease Activity by Combined Analysis of Bowel Lesions and Creeping Fat

open access: yesMagnetic Resonance in Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose To develop and evaluate Crohn‐BOOST, an open‐source tool enabling semi‐automatic segmentation of intestinal lesions and creeping fat on magnetic resonance enterography (MR Enterography), and to assess whether quantitative metrics derived from these segmentations relate to radiological disease activity scored with simplified MaRIA ...
Antoine Kneib   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temporal comparison of coral reefs in the Galápagos using differential alignment of 3D models and Machine-Learning

open access: yesEcological Indicators
Underwater photogrammetry is a popular tool for coral community surveys, however, comparing 3D maps over time requires a complicated set of operations. Primarily, it is difficult to align dynamic scenes in order to visualize and measure changes because ...
Matan Yuval, Inti Keith
doaj   +1 more source

On the botanical history and nomenclature of the New World genus Piscidia (Fabaceae)

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Piscidia L. (Fabaceae) is a New World genus with nine recognized taxa (seven species and two varieties). The previous nomenclatural revisions, made in 1910 and in 1969, are revisited here. The names Derris grandifolia Heyde & Lux ex Donn.Sm. and P. cubensis Urb. required step II lectotypifications, with an epitype for the latter name.
Camila Sánchez‐ Vega   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Literatura, ciencia y evolución: análisis de una experiencia educativa en Galápagos

open access: yesRevista Eureka sobre Enseñanza y Divulgación de las Ciencias, 2013
En este artículo se analiza una experiencia de divulgación y enseñanza de la teoría de la evolución realizada con estudiantes de ciencias naturales y literatura, en el archipiélago de Galápagos, mediante el uso del libro de ciencia en ficción titulado El
Nicolás Cuvi, Cristina Georgii
doaj  

Open letter: The need for a site‐based biodiversity standard measuring and certifying impacts from nature‐based projects

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Despite growing investment in restoration, weak accountability and poor biodiversity monitoring mean many projects fail to achieve ecological recovery. The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) offers a practical way to ensure that restoration finance delivers measurable gains for nature.
David Bartholomew   +254 more
wiley   +1 more source

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