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‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth‐Century Mock Chronicles

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
wiley   +1 more source

Nanoscale characterization of spider venom peptides by high resolution LC-MS/MS analysis [PDF]

, 2011
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Dauly, Claire, Escoubas, P., Hornshaw, Martin, King, G., Nicholson, G.   +4 more
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Towards a New Reference Dataset for Northwest Arabian Pottery: A Preliminary Characterization of the Fabrics, Techniques, Shapes and Decoration of the Pre‐Islamic Pottery From Dadan (Third Millennium bce–Early First Millennium ce)

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The site of Dadan, in the al‐ʿUlā valley, is one of the major and longest‐settled ancient oasis settlements in northwest Arabia. As part of the Saudi‐French Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA), a study of its pre‐Islamic ceramic assemblage has been underway since 2020.
Shadi Shabo, Jérôme Rohmer, Francelin Tourtet   +2 more
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The Aromatic Head Group of Spider Toxin Polyamines Influences Toxicity to Cancer Cells

Toxins, 2017
Spider venoms constitute incredibly diverse libraries of compounds, many of which are involved in prey capture and defence. Polyamines are often prevalent in the venom and target ionotropic glutamate receptors. Here we show that a novel spider polyamine,
David Wilson, Glen M. Boyle, Lachlan McIntyre, Matthew J. Nolan, Peter G. Parsons, Jennifer J. Smith, Leon Tribolet, Alex Loukas, Michael J. Liddell, Lachlan D. Rash, Norelle L. Daly   +10 more
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Swamped: On Depression and Vision

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Swamped” cracks open my experience of depression by exploring how a specific place—a swamp—acted on me to bring social and emotional injuries, but also modes of seeing that ultimately moved me out of the depression, to the fore. In writing from this specific place, I build on moments in which something—a desire for beauty, the luminosity of ...
Petra Rethmann
wiley   +1 more source

Painful toxins acting at TRPV1 [PDF]

, 2008
Many plant and animal toxins cause aversive behaviors in animals due to their pungent or unpleasant taste or because they cause other unpleasant senstations like pain.
Cromer, B, McIntyre, P
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Ecosystem services provided by spiders

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Spiders, ubiquitous and abundant predators in terrestrial ecosystems, often are the subjects of an unjust negative perception. However, these remarkable creatures stand as unsung heroes within our ecosystems, contributing a multitude of ecosystem services critical to human well‐being.
Pedro Cardoso, Stano Pekár, Klaus Birkhofer, Angela Chuang, Caroline Sayuri Fukushima, Eileen A. Hebets, Yann Henaut, Thomas Hesselberg, Jagoba Malumbres‐Olarte, Ondřej Michálek, Radek Michalko, Catherine Scott, Jonas Wolff, Stefano Mammola   +13 more
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Spider Neurotoxins, Short Linear Cationic Peptides and Venom Protein Classification Improved by an Automated Competition between Exhaustive Profile HMM Classifiers

Toxins, 2017
Spider venoms are rich cocktails of bioactive peptides, proteins, and enzymes that are being intensively investigated over the years. In order to provide a better comprehension of that richness, we propose a three-level family classification system for ...
Dominique Koua, Lucia Kuhn-Nentwig
doaj   +1 more source

Antimicrobial and cytolytic peptides of venomous arthropods [PDF]

, 2018
As a response to invading microorganisms, the innate immune system of arthropods has evolved a complex arrangement of constitutive and inducible antimicrobial peptides that immediately destroy a large variety of pathogens.
Kuhn-Nentwig, L.
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Fighting the global pest problem: Preface to the special Toxicon issue on insecticidal toxins and their potential for insect pest control [PDF]

, 2007
Arthropod pests are responsible for major crop devastation and are vectors for the transmission of new and re-emerging diseases in humans and livestock.
Nicholson, GM
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