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Risk Objectivism and Risk Subjectivism: When Are Risks Real [PDF]
, 1990 Typically, those who discuss Risk management envision a two-step process wherein, first, Risk is more or less objectively appraised and, second, the acceptability of those Risks is subjectively evaluated.
Thompson, Paul B.
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Aim This modified Delphi study aimed to achieve expert agreement on quality indicators (QIs) suitable for application at the population level, to evaluate quality use of medications and pharmacist services in long‐term care facilities (LTCFs). Methods We conducted a two‐round modified online Delphi study with a multidisciplinary panel of Australian ...
Daria S. Gutteridge +10 more
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Diversity, 2022 The mitigation of human-rattlesnake conflicts often involves euthanizing or translocating the offending rattlesnake. Although translocation is generally considered more humane, especially by the general public, it may negatively impact the translocated ...
Aaron G. Corbit, William K. Hayes
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Crotalus atrox venom preconditioning increases plasma fibrinogen and reduces perioperative hemorrhage in a rat model of surgical brain injury. [PDF]
, 2017 Perioperative bleeding is a potentially devastating complication in neurosurgical patients, and plasma fibrinogen concentration has been identified as a potential modifiable risk factor for perioperative bleeding.
Applegate, Richard +12 more
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Shallow phylogeographic structure in the declining Mexican Lance-headed Rattlesnake, Crotalus polystictus (Serpentes: Viperidae) [PDF]
Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology, 2012 We investigated matrilineal relationships among populations of the Mexican lance-headed rattlesnake (Crotalus polystictus), a pitviper inhabiting high-elevation valleys of the densely populated southernMexican Plateau.
Jesse M. Meik +4 more
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Toxicology Communications, 2023 Crotalidae immune F(ab’)2 [equine] was approved for the treatment of North American rattlesnake envenomation in 2015 and Agkistrodon envenomation in 2021 after a phase 3 trial demonstrated lower rates of late hemotoxicity compared to crotalidae ...
Erin Ryan +4 more
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Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article reports on a doctoral study examining teacher agency in one Irish primary school at a timely moment ahead of the implementation of the new Primary Curriculum Framework in September 2025. The framework embeds teacher agency as a central professional principle, yet findings from this study reveal a more cautious and bounded reality.
Máiréad Nally +2 more
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Evolutionary morphology of the rattlesnake style
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009 Background The rattlesnake rattling system is an evolutionary novelty that includes anatomical, behavioral, and physiological modifications of the generalized pitviper tail.
Pires-daSilva André, Meik Jesse M
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Comparative sex chromosome genomics in snakes: differentiation, evolutionary strata, and lack of global dosage compensation. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2013 Snakes exhibit genetic sex determination, with female heterogametic sex chromosomes (ZZ males, ZW females). Extensive cytogenetic work has suggested that the level of sex chromosome heteromorphism varies among species, with Boidae having entirely ...
Beatriz Vicoso +4 more
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Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2023 The neotropical rattlesnake Crotalus durissus occurs in South America, where it is generally associated to open areas in the dry diagonal of the continent, composed of xeric and savanna biomes.
Gabriela Ferreira Campos Guerra +3 more
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