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Silk Investment in Gifts By Males of the Nuptial Feeding Spider Pisaura Mirabilis (Araneae: Pisauridae). [PDF]
, 1996 Adult males of the hunting spider Pisaura mirabilis wrap up prey with silk and pass these nuptial gifts to females prior to copulation. The females digest the nuptial gifts, including the silk, during mating.
Lang, Andreas
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A study of ladder-like silk foothold for the locomotion of bagworms
Scientific Reports, 2021 While walking on horizontal substrates, caterpillars skilfully engage all their legs, including three pairs of thoracic legs and a maximum of five pairs of prolegs, to move in a flexible wave-like motion.
Taiyo Yoshioka +2 more
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Pharmaceutics, 2023 Polo-like protein kinase 1 (PLK1) plays a key role in lung cancer cell mitosis. The knockout of PLK1 gene by the CRISPR–Cas9 system can effectively inhibit the proliferation of tumor cells, but there is no suitable vector for in vivo delivery.
Peng Pan +6 more
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Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation: Challenges for the Next Decade [PDF]
, 2004 The origin of the galaxies represents an important focus of current cosmological research, both observational and theoretical. Its resolution involves a comprehensive understanding of star formation, galaxy dynamics, the cosmology of the very early ...
Silk, Joseph
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Breeding for higher productivity in mulberry
Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 2012 Mulberry (Morus L.) is an economically important tree being cultivated for its leaves to rear the silkworm Bombyx mori. Rearing of silkworm is an art and science popularly known as sericulture; an agrobased cottage industry provides employment to ...
Kunjupillai VIJAYAN +3 more
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Heliyon, 2022 Background: Castor (Ricinus communis L.) is cultivated for seed oil and to feed (leaves) Eri silkworm, Samia ricini (Donovan) Hutt. Alternaria blight affects castor cultivation resulting substantial yield loss (∼30%).
Sosanka Protim Sandilya +6 more
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Expectation Biases and Context Management with Negative Polar Questions [PDF]
, 2019 This paper examines distinctive discourse properties of preposed negative 'yes/no' questions (NPQs), such as 'Isn’t Jane coming too?'. Unlike with other 'yes/no' questions, using an NPQ '∼p?' invariably conveys a bias toward a particular answer, where ...
Silk, Alex
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Applicability of forcibly spinning technology to produce a finer silk filament
Journal of Natural Fibers, 2020 Forcibly spinning method has once shown a potential to enhance tensile strength of Bombyx mori silkworm silk fibers to the level of spider dragline silk.
Yutaka Kawahara, Tomohiko Hananouchi
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Batteries, 2023 Electrospinning polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) nanofibrous membranes have gained increased attention for their uses as separators for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) due to their high porosity and excellent electrolyte wettability, but their poor mechanical and ...
Shuangyang Cai +5 more
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Theories of vagueness and theories of law [PDF]
, 2019 It is common to think that what theory of linguistic vagueness is correct has implications for debates in philosophy of law. I disagree. I argue that the implications of particular theories of vagueness on substantive issues of legal theory and practice ...
Silk, Alex
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