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“And Here You Have a Bug Crawling...” (Some Observations On “Dostoevsky’s Entomology”) [PDF]

open access: yesДостоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2023
The article is devoted to an overview of entomological imagery (spiders, ants, cockroaches, flies, etc.) in Dostoevsky’s literary and journalistic texts.
Boris N. Tikhomirov
doaj   +1 more source

Endemic harvestmen and spiders of Austria (Arachnida: Opiliones, Araneae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
A comprehensive overview of plant, fungus and animal species of Austria revealed a total of 748 endemic and subendemic species, including, 11 harvestman and 46 spider species.
Komposch, Christian
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Determinants of foreign direct investment in fast-growing economies: evidence from the BRICS and MINT countries

open access: yesFinancial Innovation, 2018
The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into a country can benefit both the investing entity and host government. This study employed panel analysis to examine the factors that determine the direction of FDI to the fast-growing BRICS (Brazil, Russia,
Simplice Asongu   +2 more
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Cooperative effects enhance the transport properties of molecular spider teams [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Molecular spiders are synthetic molecular motors based on DNA nanotechnology. While natural molecular motors have evolved towards very high efficiency, it remains a major challenge to develop efficient designs for man-made molecular motors.
Frey, Erwin   +2 more
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Giant Surface Plasmon Induced Drag Effect (SPIDEr) in Metal Nanowires

open access: yes, 2009
Here, for the first time we predict a giant surface plasmon-induced drag effect (SPIDEr), which exists under conditions of the extreme nanoplasmonic confinement.
Durach, Maxim   +2 more
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Description of the male of Pozonia bacillifera (Araneae: Araneidae)

open access: yesZoologia (Curitiba), 2011
Pozonia Schenkel, 1953 is a genus of Neotropical orb-weaving spiders that currently includes four species, three of which are known only from females. In this paper, the male of Pozonia bacillifera (Simon, 1897) is described and illustrated for the first
Ivan Luiz Fiorini de Magalhães   +1 more
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Spiders (Araneae) of Chernivtsi City (Ukraine) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The spider fauna of buildings and other urban habitats (city parks, green areas of industrial enterprises, and housing estates) of Chernivtsi city was surveyed. In the period 2002-2011, 212 species belonging to 26 families were recorded. Previous studies
Fedoriak, Mariia   +3 more
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Sum frequency generation spectroscopy of the attachment disc of a spider [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The pyriform silk of the attachment disc of a spider was studied using infrared-visible vibrational sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy. The spider can attach dragline and radial lines to many kinds of substrates in nature (concrete, alloy, metal,
Hien, Khuat Thi Thu   +5 more
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Spider diversity (Arachnida: Araneae) in Atlantic Forest areas at Pedra Branca State Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
BACKGROUND: There has never been any published work about the diversity of spiders in the city of Rio de Janeiro using analytical tools to measure diversity.
Baptista, Renner L. C.   +2 more
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3D (Bio) Printing Combined Fiber Fabrication Methods for Tissue Engineering Applications: Possibilities and Limitations

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Biofabrication aims at providing innovative technologies and tools for the fabrication of tissue‐like constructs for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. By integrating multiple biofabrication technologies, such as 3D (bio) printing with fiber fabrication methods, it would be more realistic to reconstruct native tissue's ...
Waseem Kitana   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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