A simple and affordable method for estimating the fluid volume a mosquito sucks using food dyes
Tropical Medicine and Health, 2021 Background Blood-sucking by mosquitoes is an inevitable behavior when pathogens are transmitted among humans. Adenine nucleotides such as ATP are known as phagostimulants for mosquitoes and are widely used to induce and enhance the blood-sucking activity
Chisako Sakuma, Hirotaka Kanuka
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The Gonotrophic-Age Structure of a Population of the \u3ci\u3eSimulium Venustum\u3c/i\u3e Complex (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Algonquin Park, Ontario [PDF]
, 2017 Eight techniques for the determination of parity and gonotrophic age were assessed for the obligatorily anautogenous blackfly-species complex, Simulium venustum Say.
Hayton, Alan, Smith, Stephen M
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ABNORMAL SUCKING BEHAVIOR IN CNS-DAMAGED PREMATURE INFANTS [PDF]
Pediatric Research, 1984 Sucking behavior in growing premature infants has received little attention. Non-nutritive (NNS) and nutritive (NS) sucking was measured by suckometer 30 minutes prior to routine feedings, in 11 premature, AGA infants at 5-12 weeks of age, mean corrected age (C.A.) = 39-40 weeks.
Murray A Braun, Marjorie M Palmer
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Clinics, 2014 OBJECTIVES:The assessment of early sucking by preterm infants provides information on the ability of these infants to efficiently and safely receive nutrients via an oral route (oral feeding).
Flávia C.B. Neiva +8 more
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Repetition, pattern and the domestic: notes on the relationship between pattern and home-making [PDF]
, 2010 Repetition constitutes the very essence of pattern. Repetition is also the basis of our most ordinary actions. Repetitive gestures are usually so integrated in our lives that we tend to take them for granted.
Araujo, Ana
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Influence of non-nutritive sucking habits on anterior open bite
Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences, 2020 Aim: To evaluate the clinical behavior of sucking habits in children between 2 to 6 years old in a private (A1) and a public school (A2) in the state of Piauí.
Ana de Lourdes Sá de Lira +1 more
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 IntroductionPRRT2 is a major causative gene for self-limited familial neonatal-infantile epilepsy, paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia, and paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia with infantile convulsions. Voluntary movement trigger is prominent in adolescence
De-Tian Liu +10 more
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Research note: Expert opinions of feather sucking and licking behavior in meat chicken breeder birds
Poultry Science: Feather sucking, or feather licking, has been reported anecdotally by employees in the Australian meat chicken breeder industry, but scarcely in the scientific literature.
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Modified quad helix appliance for thumb sucking and cross bite correction
Contemporary Clinical Dentistry, 2013 Digit sucking habit is a learned pattern of behavior commonly seen in children of preschool age. Prolonged digit sucking beyond the preschool age, lead to the development of malocclusion such as anterior open bite, maxillary constriction and posterior ...
C Vinay +4 more
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Modification and physico-chemical properties of citrus pectin – Influence of enzymatic and acidic demethoxylation [PDF]
, 2015 Aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of the method of demethoxylation on the particle structure and techno-functional properties of pectins with different degree of methoxylation and distribution of free carboxyl groups.
Drusch, Stephan +4 more
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