Public deaths and negotiation opportunities: Cats, dogs and people in COVID China
Abstract Under the extraordinary circumstances of COVID, some health workers in China ruthlessly killed pet dogs and cats, which were thought to be dangerous virus vectors. Heart‐wrenching images circulated widely on social media, where some social media commentators used them as a basis to make accusations about generalised Chinese brutality towards ...
Chenyu Zong
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The HTIRDB: A resource containing a transcriptional atlas for 105 different tissues from each of seven species of domestic herbivore. [PDF]
Ding L+35 more
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Cosmovision as Cognitive Technology: The Case of Mesoamerican Medicinal Knowledge
Abstract We examine the use of cognitive technologies in the acquisition and retention of botanical and medicinal knowledge. We focus on the Cruz‐Badianus codex, a 16th‐century Nahua (Aztec) herbarium which discusses the use of plants for a range of illnesses.
Johan De Smedt, Helen De Cruz
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National Seroprevalence and Risk Factors of Bluetongue Virus in Domestic Ruminants of Peru. [PDF]
Navarro-Mamani DA+12 more
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From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves
Abstract Effective, equitable and just strategies for multispecies coexistence are increasingly the focus of research and policy. The critical social sciences, such as political ecology, have been particularly interested in this topic recently, exploring the production of human–wildlife interactions and the resulting (uneven) outcomes for different ...
Valerio Donfrancesco, Chris Sandbrook
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Prevalence, Pathology, and Alternative Control of Intestinal Parasites. [PDF]
de Araújo JV, Braga FR.
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ABSTRACT Background The bromocresol green albumin assay (ALBBCG) has been used in birds and reportedly is noncomparable with electrophoretic albumin (ALBPE) in many species. It is accepted for use in some species and rejected in others. Objectives We aimed to compare the performance of ALBPE and ALBBCG methods within backyard chickens and compare the ...
Jeffrey Brandon+3 more
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Temporal Variation and Human Host Predominance in <i>Aedes aegypti</i> from Coastal and Western Kenya: Insights from Pooled Blood Meal Metagenomics. [PDF]
Mwendwa K+7 more
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This study evaluated the effectiveness of XGBoost and LightGBM algorithms for the purpose of live weight estimation in Holstein × Zebu crossbred heifers. In the analysis performed with a large biometric dataset, both models provided high accuracy, with the XGBoost algorithm standing out with R2 = 0.999 in the training set and R2 = 0.986 in the test set.
Jose Herrera‐Camacho+8 more
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Morphological and molecular characterisation of Sarcocystis capracanis, Sarcocystis cornagliai and Sarcocystis rossii n. sp. infecting the Alpine ibex (Capra ibex). [PDF]
Rudaitytė-Lukošienė E+4 more
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