Looking for trouble: A common threat‐detection mechanism underlying pain, fear, and anxiety
Mind &Language, EarlyView.I put forward a novel cognitive architecture for pain, fear, and anxiety, according to which these three capacities are underpinned by a common threat‐detection mechanism. This mechanism takes information about potential threats as input, assesses whether the threat is actual and, if it deems it is, outputs a threat representation.
Luca Barlassina
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Bites in Australian snake handlers - Australian snakebite project (ASP-15)
, 2012 Background: Snakebites in snake handlers are an important clinical problem that may differ to bites in the general population. Aim: To investigate the epidemiology and clinical presentation of bites in snake handlers.
S. G. A. Brown (21269936) +1 more
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Snake bites in Moyen Chari district, Chad: a five-year experience
, 2011 Snake bites are of major public health importance in Africa as a cause of morbidity and mortality. Echis ocellatus is responsible for the majority of envenomation cases in West Africa. Antivenom immunotherapy is the only specific treatment available for
Tu Van Tien +2 more
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Ostensive communication in great apes: The evolution of Gricean intent
Mind &Language, EarlyView.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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Shewanella infection of snake bites: a twelve-year retrospective study
, 2012 OBJECTIVE: Infections of snake bite wounds by Shewanella are rarely discussed in the medical literature. This study aims to characterize the presentation and management of Shewanella infections in snake bite wounds.
Shi, Zhi-Yuan +13 more
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Prevalence and Outcome of Snake Bites Among Children Admitted in the Emergency Pediatric Unit, Federal Medical Centre, Birnin Kebbi, Nigeria. [PDF]
Cureus, 2021 Sanni UA +4 more
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Human–Animal Comparisons: Supporting and Criticizing Female Subjugation in Renaissance Italy
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying gender history through an animal history lens, or vice versa, simultaneously increases our knowledge of ideas about gender and human–animal relations. This approach has particular merit for the Renaissance period, as it witnessed an upsurge in discourse about both the human–animal divide and the distinction between men and women.
Marlisa den Hartog
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IJCM_289A: Determination of factors favouring the snake bite mortality in Himachal Pradesh
Indian Journal of Community MedicineBackground: Snake bite is an established important cause of morbidity and mortality among the poor and rural population across the world including India. India accounts for the highest number of snakebites and related mortality globally.
Manoj Kumar Gandhi +2 more
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Sensing Frames: A Contribution to Sensory Pluralism
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.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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