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The US Religious Public and Radical Human Enhancements

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A radical enhancement to the human body or brain is defined as giving human capabilities that no past or present human has possessed. These are being developed by scientists and bioengineers and backed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. This article reports on the first study of the US religious public's views of radical enhancements using a ...
John H. Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative fitness of reemerging St. Louis encephalitis virus in vertebrate and mosquito cells, <i>Culex tarsalis</i> and <i>Culex quinquefasciatus</i> mosquitoes, and mice. [PDF]

J Virol
Flores Rodriguez MA, Liu H, Turner E, Im E, Leung R, An S, Barker CM, Coffey LL.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Diet and leishmaniasis in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In Ecuador's Amazon, Indigenous communities affected by leishmaniasis often modify their diets as part of their health‐seeking practices. Drawing on qualitative research with sixty‐eight participants from seven Indigenous groups, this study explores how and why patients’ diets shift in pursuit of healing from leishmaniasis.
Veronica Cristina Vargas Roman
wiley   +1 more source

Behavioral determinants of disease transmission by mosquitoes. [PDF]

Curr Opin Insect Sci
Dong L, Duvall LB.
europepmc   +1 more source

Comparison of Haemoglobin Concentrations From Venous and From Finger‐Pricked Capillary Blood in a Region With a High Prevalence of Anaemia in Ethiopia

Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This cross‐sectional study was conducted in the Somali Regional State in Ethiopia. The purpose of the study was to compare haemoglobin (Hb) concentrations from venous and finger‐pricked capillary blood using the HemoCue 301 as well as estimating anaemia prevalence. Participants were non‐pregnant women of reproductive age (WRA), 18–49 years old
Desalegn Kuche, Masresha Tessema, Kaleab Baye, Zeweter Abebe, Ramadhani Noor, Teshome Assefa, Alemayehu Hussen, Meseret Woldeyohannes, Stanley Chitekwe, Barbara J. Stoecker   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generics favor stability

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Humans seek to predict, explain, and control their environments. Generalizations—like those expressed by “children like candy” and “cigarettes cause cancer”—provide one resource to facilitate these tasks. We develop a proposal tying the acceptability judgments of generics to the psychological functions of generalizations.
Katherine Ritchie, Ny Vasil
wiley   +1 more source

Detection and Surveillance of Invasive <i>Aedes</i> Mosquitoes in Spain: Implications for Arbovirus Risk and Public Health Preparedness. [PDF]

Insects
Brugger MB, Valero MA, Llopis-Gonzalez A, Morales-Suárez-Varela M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source