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Evolutionary trade‐offs between beauvericin production and growth define divergent virulence strategies in Beauveria

open access: yesPest Management Science, EarlyView.
Two virulence strategies in Beauveria: a growth strategy characterized by rapid within‐host proliferation, and a toxin strategy involving antimicrobial activity and toxicity to insects Abstract BACKGROUND Pathogen virulence is often attributed to toxin production, yet toxins are metabolically costly and may not universally enhance fitness.
Shasha Hu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Precocious Natural Mummification in a Temperate Climate (Western Cape, South Africa) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The general process and pattern of decomposition is well-documented and understood. However, specific environmental conditions may alter this pattern and prematurely terminate the decay process.
Morris, A.G., Finaughty, D.A.
core   +1 more source

Egyptian versus natural mummification: tracking the differences in loss of tissue antigenicity

open access: yesJournal of Biological Research, 2005
Previous reports of difficulties using immunohistochemical methods on mummified tissues attributed the problems mostly to the antiquity of the material.
Maria Jeziorska   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

And then there was us Et puis nous sommes apparus

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In 1987, the academic conference ‘Origins and Dispersals of Modern Humans: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives’ was held in Cambridge, UK. Subsequently referred to as the ‘Human Revolution’ conference, this meeting brought together the most prominent academics working in the field of human origins, including archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists,
Emma E. Bird   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unangax̂ Mummies as Whalers: A Multidisciplinary Contextualization of Human Mummification in the Aleutian Islands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This thesis provides an analysis of Unangax̂ (Aleut) mummification in the context of their other methods of body deposition. It explores the hypothesis that whalers and their families belonged to an ancient shamanistic whaling complex that existed ...
Day, Kathleen
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

Fetal mummification in a bitch with pyometra [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
Relato de caso de uma cadela que apresentava feto mumificado concomitantemente com piometra; quadro incomum na literatura veterinária. O animal foi tratado cirurgicamente com absoluto suceosso.It is reported a case of a bitch presenting fetal ...
Martin, Benedicto Wlademir de   +2 more
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Managing Fetal Mummification in Cows [PDF]

open access: yesAdvances in Animal and Veterinary Sciences, 2019
Fetal mummification is a disorder during gestation which happened when fetal death happened in third to eighth month of gestation. This report describes diagnosis and management of several fetal mummification cases in cows in several regions; Mathura, Shimla, Bangladesh, Turkey, Uttarakhand, and Tirupati. Mummification diagnosis is formed by anamnesis,
Hendrawan, Viski Fitri   +5 more
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Determining the utility of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for disaster victim identification (DVI)

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology was evaluated as a method for electronically tracking human remains and associated identifying information during mass fatality incidents. Conventional tags are prone to physical damage and failure, which can compromise identification processes and hinder the repatriation of bodies.
Makena P. McLean   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impregnation as a method for preservation of relics used by the Christian Church [PDF]

open access: yesTrakia Journal of Sciences, 2018
Relics are a special type of human body remains, which are venerated by the faithful due to the prominence the person had achieved during lifetime. Even if no such claims for incorruptibility are made, body relics have to be preserved in some fashion, in
N. Tomov   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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