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Ostensive communication in great apes: The evolution of Gricean intent
I discuss the evolution of ostensive behaviours (behaviours that display the communicative intent to influence others through the perception of signals and actions addressed to them). Ostensive communication evolved out of evolutionary adaptations to the challenges and opportunities created by the evolutionary scenario of the meeting of ...
Juan Carlos Gómez
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Objective: To assess histopathological changes in clinically envenomed tiger snake patients and identify tissue specific localisation of venom toxins using immunohistochemistry.
Jacoby-Alner, T.E. +5 more
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Sensing Frames: A Contribution to Sensory Pluralism
ABSTRACT Are expressions like “sense of responsibility,” “sense of community,” and “business acumen” merely metaphors, or do they refer to deeper, socially embedded forms of perception? This article introduces the concept of “sensing frames”: the socially learned, culturally shaped, and pragmatically enacted modalities through which people perceive and
Giampietro Gobo +2 more
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Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about two young boys being bitten by a water moccasin while they were playing outside of their home in Carrollton ...
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Time interval between snake bite and anti-snake venom (ASV) administration as a prognostic indicator in snake bite envenomation [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Snake bite is an acute life threatening medical emergency throughout the world. Anti Snake Venom (ASV) administration is the only definitive treatment which acts by neutralising the circulating venom in the blood and tissue fluid.
Thamizhkumaran, J
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Inflammation induced by snake venoms optimizes envenomation
Abstract figure legend Schematic illustrating mechanisms underlying direct vascular absorption and subsequent movement of venom toxins into the tissues consequent to snakebite. A, snakebite into prey deposits venom toxins into the tissue interstitium, with the venom then causing acute inflammation primarily in venules.
Dirk F. van Helden +9 more
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Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a snake handler at the Forest Park Zoo Herpetarium got a snake bite by a Western pygmy rattler in Fort Worth, Texas.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Four patients were admitted with respiratory muscle paralysis following an elapid snake bite. Two were treated with antivenine, repeated doses of neostigmine and artificial ventilation; the other two with artificial ventilation only. There was no clinically significant difference in recovery.
D K, Pawar, H, Singh
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