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The Truth in Compatibilism and the truth of Libertarianism [PDF]

, 2009
The paper offers the outlines of a response to the often-made suggestion is that it is impossible to see how indeterminism could possibly provide us with anything that we might want in the way of freedom, anything that could really amount to control, as ...
Ekstrom L., Helen Steward, Hornsby J., Humphreys P., Kane R., Pietroski P., Strawson G.   +6 more
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Postaqual Dry Land of the Aral Sea as Potential Natural Focus of Plague

Проблемы особо опасных инфекций, 2010
Presented are the results of examination of a current condition of the Aral Sea and the adjacent postaqual territory as potential plague focus. Study and comparison of the new territories with the existing natural plague foci in the adjacent territory of
G. R. Bazarova
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Plague and climate: scales matter. [PDF]

PLoS Pathogens, 2011
Plague is enzootic in wildlife populations of small mammals in central and eastern Asia, Africa, South and North America, and has been recognized recently as a reemerging threat to humans.
Tamara Ben-Ari, Simon Neerinckx, Kenneth L Gage, Katharina Kreppel, Anne Laudisoit, Herwig Leirs, Nils Chr Stenseth   +6 more
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Levofloxacin cures experimental pneumonic plague in African green monkeys. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011
BACKGROUND: Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague, is considered a potential bioweapon due to rapid lethality when delivered as an aerosol. Levofloxacin was tested for primary pneumonic plague treatment in a nonhuman primate model mimicking human disease.
Robert Colby Layton, William Mega, Jacob D McDonald, Trevor L Brasel, Edward B Barr, Andrew P Gigliotti, Frederick Koster   +6 more
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Inequality, a scourge of the XXI century

, 2020
Social and economic inequality is a plague of the XXI Century. It is continuously widening, as the wealth of a relatively small group increases and, therefore, the rest of the world shares a shrinking fraction of resources.
Cardoso, Ben-Hur Francisco, Gonçalves, Sebastián, Iglesias, José Roberto   +2 more
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Nutrient Media for Plague Diagnostics

Проблемы особо опасных инфекций, 2009
National and foreign literature was analyzed. Considered were nutrient media for plague agent growth, isolation and differentiation. Present state of nutrient media production was highlighted.
L. V. Domotenko, Ya. V. Podkopaev, M. V. Khramov, I. A. Dyatlov   +3 more
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Results of Epizootiological Survey of the Mongolian Part of Trans-Baikal Steppe Natural Plague Focus in 2017

Проблемы особо опасных инфекций, 2017
Objective of the study is to obtain the data on the state of Severokerulensky plague focus in Mongolia, adjacent to the Trans-Baikal steppe focus in the south.
S. V. Balakhonov, M. B. Sharakshanov, E. A. Vershinin, I. M. Makhinova, N. G. Revenskaya, A. B. Moshkin, S. A. Kosilko, B. Byambazhav, Ts. Gankhuyag, L. Erdenechimeg, Ts. Uuganbayar, Ch. Erdenechimeg, N. Tsogbadrakh, D. Tserennorov, D. Gandbold   +14 more
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Human plague: An old scourge that needs new answers

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020
Yersinia pestis, the bacterial causative agent of plague, remains an important threat to human health. Plague is a rodent-borne disease that has historically shown an outstanding ability to colonize and persist across different species, habitats, and ...
X. Vallès, N. Stenseth, C. Demeure, P. Horby, P. Mead, Oswaldo Cabanillas, M. Ratsitorahina, Minoarisoa Rajerison, V. Andrianaivoarimanana, B. Ramasindrazana, J. Pizarro-Cerdá, H. Scholz, R. Girod, B. J. Hinnebusch, Inès Vigan-Womas, A. Fontanet, D. Wagner, S. Telfer, Y. Yazdanpanah, P. Tortosa, G. Carrara, J. Deuve, S. Belmain, E. D’Ortenzio, L. Baril   +24 more
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Infection of an Individual with Plague in the Gorno-Altaisk High-Mountain Natural Focus in 2014. Communication 2. Peculiarities of Laboratory Diagnostics and Molecular-Genetic Characterization of the Isolated Strains

Проблемы особо опасных инфекций, 2014
Laboratory diagnostics of plague was carried out in compliance with valid operational guidelines and regulations. But its peculiarity consisted in the performance of diagnostic investigations secondary to antimicrobial therapy with application of ...
V. V. Kutyrev, A. Yu. Popova, E. B. Ezhlova, Yu. V. Demina, N. D. Pakskina, I. N. Sharova, A. I. Mishchenko, E. N. Rozhdestvensky, G. Kh. Bazarova, E. P. Mikhailov, G. A. Eroshenko, Ya. M. Krasnov, L. M. Kukleva, A. V. Cherkasov, E. G. Oglodin, V. E. Kuklev, G. N. Odinokov, S. A. Shcherbakova, S. V. Balakhonov, M. V. Afanas’Ev, S. A. Vityazeva, M. Yu. Shestopalov, V. T. Klimov   +22 more
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Plague reservoir species throughout the world.

Integrative Zoology, 2020
Plague has been known since ancient times as a re-emerging infectious disease, causing considerable socioeconomic burden in regional hotspots. To better understand the epidemiological cycle of the causative agent of the plague, its potential occurrence ...
A. Mahmoudi, B. Kryštufek, A. Sludsky, Boris V. Schmid, A. M. D. de Almeida, X. Lei, B. Ramasindrazana, E. Bertherat, A. Yeszhanov, N. Stenseth, E. Mostafavi   +10 more
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