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Community-targeted snakebite prevention: implementation barriers and enablers in rural Zambia

Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science
In sub-Saharan Africa, community outreach for snakebite prevention is lacking or faces significant challenges due to logistical, cultural, and financial constraints.
Choti Singh, Marcel van Driel, Philipp Berg, Philipp Berg   +3 more
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The Mole & The Snake [PDF]

, 2018
This article starts from the Foucaultanian notions of biopower and discipline, deal- ing with the strategies of the modern and contemporary capitalism. Introducing the term biopower into his research, Foucault is alluding to a series of transformations ...
Chignola, Sandro
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Helminth fauna of the monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia) from central Thailand: community composition and taxonomic perspectives

Parasitology
Snakes serve as important hosts for parasites at the interface of wildlife, humans and domestic animals. However, their helminth fauna in tropical regions, particularly Thailand, remains poorly documented.
Napat Ratnarathorn, Urusa Thaenkham, Abigail Hui En Chan, Panithi Laoungbua, Tanapong Tawan, Taksa Vasaruchapong, Vachirapong Charoennitiwat, Kittipong Chaisiri   +7 more
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Records of the Indian Sand Snake Psammophis condanarus (Merrem, 1820) (Reptilia: Lamprophiidae) in southern India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2017
We present new records of the Indian Sand Snake Psammophis condanarus from southern India, where its existence has remained doubtful till date.  Our records are based on both live and preserved voucher specimens that are illustrated and described here ...
S. R. Ganesh, Vivek Sharma, M. Bubesh Guptha   +2 more
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Trash aesthetics and the sublime: Strategies for visualising the unrepresentable within a landscape of refuse [PDF]

, 2015
Living in a technology-dependent society, it seems inevitable that our vision of the world is mediated and extended through our interactions with technology.
Snake-Beings, Emit
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Svortices and the fundamental modes of the "snake instability": Possibility of observation in the gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensate

, 2001
The connection between quantized vortices and dark solitons in a long and thin, waveguide-like trap geometry is explored in the framework of the non-linear Schr\"odinger equation.
A. E. Muryshev, A. L. Fetter, A. V. Mamaev, A. V. Mamaev, B. Anderson, C. A. Jones, C. T. Law, D. Feder, D. S. Petrov, D. V. Skryabin, E. A. Kuznetsov, F. Dalfovo, J. Brand, J. Denschlag, Joachim Brand, L. D. Carr, M. Edwards, N. Bogolubov, S. Burger, V. E. Zakharov, V. Tikhonenko, W. P. Reinhardt, William P. Reinhardt, Y. S. Kivshar, Y. S. Kivshar   +24 more
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Species distribution modeling of two poorly known populations of Spalerosophis diadema (Reptilia: Colubridae): are the Zagros Mountains a true barrier for fragmentation in this species?

Geology, Ecology, and Landscapes
Predictive models of species distribution can be beneficial for identifying the most important and influential environmental factors in species distribution and understanding the current and future habitat suitability of species.
Reza Yadollahvandmiandoab, Azita Farashi, Amir Ebrahimi   +2 more
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Archaeological Investigations at the Pine Snake Site, an Allen Phase Settlement on Flat Creek in Northwestern Cherokee County, Texas [PDF]

, 2013
The Pine Snake site is a recently discovered late 17th to early 18th century Caddo Indian archaeological site located on private land in the northwestern part of Cherokee County, Texas, in the valley of a westward flowing tributary to the Neches River ...
Feathers, James, Nelson, Bo, Perttula, Timothy K., Walters, Mark   +3 more
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Seasonal variation and innate immune responses of spleen in fresh-water snake, Natrix piscator [PDF]

Journal of Stress Physiology & Biochemistry, 2014
Innate immunity provides first line defense in all animals against pathogens and parasites. There is seasonal variation in pathogen prevalence and disease because of the seasonal lifecycle of the parasite and due to annual variation in the infectivity of
Manish Kumar Tripathi, Ramesh Singh
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Semantic Restoration of Snake-Slaying in Chan Buddhist Koan

Religions
In the Chan Buddhism koan (gong’an 公案) tradition, the act of “slaying the snake” functions as a signature gesture imbued with complex, historically layered cultural meanings. Rather than merely examining its motivations, this paper emphasizes tracing the
Yun Wang, Yulu Lv
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