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European Wool Carder Bee, Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

EDIS, 2020
The European wool carder bee Anthidium manicatum (Linnaeus) is a solitary, cavity-nesting bee species in the family Megachilidae (tribe Anthidiini), a family whose members include the mason and leaf cutter bees. Wool carder bees are so named because the
Samantha Gallagher, Andrea Lucky
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Honey bees are the most abundant visitors to Australian watermelon but native stingless bees are equally effective as pollinators

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2022
Despite the benefits of a diverse approach to crop pollination, global food production remains reliant on a low diversity of managed pollinators, especially the European honey bee (Apis mellifera).
Erandi C. W. Subasinghe Arachchige, Romina Rader, Brian T. Cutting, Matthew Keir, Theo vanNoort, Grant Fale, Brad G. Howlett, Ulrika Samnegård, Lisa J. Evans   +8 more
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Employment Trajectories of Patients with Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and Factors Driving Transitions Between States

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) significantly impacts employment capacity. This study aimed to investigate the impact of burden of disease activity, damage, and treatment on employment outcomes and transitions in patients with SLE. Materials and Methods Using data from a single center, we analyzed employment transitions, adjusted mean ...
Javier Mencia‐Ledo, Zahi Touma, Laura Whittall Garcia, Dafna Gladman, Behdin Nowrouzi‐Kia   +4 more
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Honey bees and wild pollinators differ in their preference for and use of introduced floral resources

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Introduced plants may be important foraging resources for honey bees and wild pollinators, but how often and why pollinators visit introduced plants across an entire plant community is not well understood.
Christine Urbanowicz, Paige A. Muñiz, Scott H. McArt   +2 more
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Electrostatic Superlattices Beyond 1:1 Stoichiometry

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Polymer‐mediated charge regulation drives two hierarchical routes to higher‐stoichiometry nanoparticle superlattices. Tuning the polymer's molecular weight promotes progressive interstitial filling, transforming ZnS into the fully occupied CaF2${\rm CaF}_2$ lattice. Exchanging polymer assignment between large and small nanoparticles instead breaks CsCl
Binay P. Nayak, Prapti Kakkar, Wesley P. Korba, Honghu Zhang, Wenjie Wang, Surya K. Mallapragada, Alex Travesset, David Vaknin   +7 more
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The Strategic Use of Multimedia in the Great Georgia Pollinator Census Citizen Science Project

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2021
In August of 2019, citizens from across the state of Georgia, USA, participated in the Great Georgia Pollinator Census (GGaPC). This University of Georgia Extension initiative recruited citizen scientists to count for 15 minutes the number and types of ...
Becky Griffin, Rich Braman, Madison Griffin, Yaza Sarieh   +3 more
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Hierarchical Collagen Nanofiber Gels Recapitulate a Physiologically Relevant Tumor Stromal Microenvironment

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
The collagen nanofiber (CNF) gel supports cancer cell culture, exhibiting cell morphology and cancer‐related protein expression similar to Matrigel. It offers a higher collagen concentration than commercial gels. Additionally, the CNF gel allows replication of the high elasticity of in vivo cancer tissue by controlling collagen fiber sizes, ranging ...
Naoko Sasaki, Tomoyuki Suezawa, Shiro Kitano, Ryohei Katayama, Michiya Matsusaki   +4 more
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A Comparison of Pollination Efficiency Between Wild Bumble Bees and Introduced Honey Bees on Polygonatum cyrtonema

Biology
To clarify the pollination contributions of introduced honey bees and native wild bees, we compared their pollination efficiency on a perennial herb, Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua.
Ju Tang, Xiang-Xiang Ge, Yu-Jie Xu, Yu Zhang, Jian-Wen Shao, Xiao-Hong Li   +5 more
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Nanomaterial Strategies for Pulmonary Delivery of Immunotherapeutics in Lung Cancer Treatment

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Inhalable immunotherapeutic nanomedicines enable organ‐selective immune modulation by overcoming pulmonary delivery barriers and concentrating therapy within lung tumors. This Review defines how nanomaterial properties govern airway deposition, retention, cellular partitioning, and immune activation across vaccines, checkpoint blockade, STING agonists,
Han Zhang, Wei Tang
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Introduced Western Honeybees Dramatically Reduce the Abundance of Wild Bees in Alpine Meadows, Eastern Tibet Plateau

Biology
Over the past few decades, the western honeybee (Apis mellifera) has been widely introduced throughout China. Introduced honeybees have often been observed to pose a significant threat to native bee species diversity through competition for floral ...
Ruimin An, Shucun Sun
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