The heteropteran family Belostomatidae contains the giant water bugs. These large, predatory, aquatic insects have the largest body size among the Heteroptera. Adults of some South American species reach 4 inches in length.
Paul M. Choate
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Human Rights and Antiterrorism: A Positive Legal Duty to Infringe Freedom From Torture? [PDF]
In law freedom from torture and ill-treatment is “absolute,” meaning that a state cannot infringe the right for purposes that would seem legitimate such as the protection of national security.
Turner, Ian David
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Zonal shear and super-rotation in a magnetized spherical Couette flow experiment [PDF]
We present measurements performed in a spherical shell filled with liquid sodium, where a 74 mm-radius inner sphere is rotated while a 210 mm-radius outer sphere is at rest. The inner sphere holds a dipolar magnetic field and acts as a magnetic propeller
D. Brito +20 more
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Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment [PDF]
The widely discussed transition to a circular economy (CE) combines a large number of approaches that imply varying degrees of change and affect institutions and actor groups.
Sutcliffe, Thomas Edward
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Russian Artistic Gymnastics as a Sports Tourism Product: Some Observations and a Research Agenda [PDF]
Tourism and its importance to the Russian Federation are very much in the headlines at present. Considering the huge investment made in facilities for the Winter Olympics, the building of new sports facilities for such mega events as the Football World ...
AV Baikov +30 more
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Water-Stable Carborane-Based Eu3+/Tb3+ Metal−Organic Frameworks for Tunable Time-Dependent Emission Color and Their Application in Anticounterfeiting Bar-Coding [PDF]
Luminescent lanthanide metal−organic frameworks (Ln-MOFs) have been shown to exhibit relevant optical properties of interest for practical applications, though their implementation still remains a challenge. To be suitable for practical applications, Ln-
Li, Zhen +8 more
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A Near-Surface Microstructure Sensor System Used During TOGA COARE. Part I: Bow Measurements. [PDF]
High-resolution probes mounted on the bow of the vessel at a 1.7-m depth in an undisturbed region ahead of the moving vessel were used for microstructure and turbulence measurements in the near-surface layer of the ocean during TOGA COARE.
Arjannikov, A. +7 more
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Final 5-year findings from the phase 3 HELIOS study of ibrutinib plus bendamustine and rituximab in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma [PDF]
We report final analysis outcomes from the phase 3 HELIOS study (NCT01611090). Patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma without deletion 17p (n = 578) were randomized 1:1 to 420 mg daily ibrutinib or ...
Bartlett, Nancy L +2 more
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Unproductive effects of alk gene amplification and copy number gain in non-small-cell lung cancer. Alk gene amplification and copy gain in nsclc [PDF]
Background: The Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) gene is known to be affected by several genetic alterations, such as rearrangement, amplification and point mutation.
Aquino G. +14 more
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Obstacles to Mathematization in Physics: The Case of the Differential [PDF]
The process of the mathematization of physical situations through differential calculus requires an understanding of the justification for and the meaning of the differential in the context of physics.
López Gay, Rafael +2 more
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