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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Chagas disease, caused by the hemoflagellate protist Trypanosoma cruzi, affects nearly 6 million people worldwide, mainly in Latin America. Hematophagous triatomine insects (“kissing bugs”) are the primary vectors of T.
Allison E. Mann +8 more
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Molecular insights into Neotropical bird-tick ecological associations and the role of birds in tick-borne disease ecology [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 Ticks are important vectors of emerging zoonotic diseases. While adults of many tick species parasitize mammals, immature ticks are often found on wild birds. In the tropics, difficulties in species-level identification of immature ticks hinder studies of tick ecology and tick-borne disease transmission, including any potential role for birds.
arxiv
Disulfide Glass: An Optical Polymer for Commodity Plastics, Precision Optics, and Photonics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.From oil and glass refining to high performance commodity polymers with enhanced thermomechanical and optical properties—the synthesis of a new high refractive index, highly transparent optical thermoset polymer is reported, termed, disulfide glass that affords a robust optical glass amenable to fabrication of precision optics and thin film photonic ...
Jake Molineux +15 more
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Large tick assets: implicit spread and optimal tick size [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 In this work, we provide a framework linking microstructural properties of an asset to the tick value of the exchange. In particular, we bring to light a quantity, referred to as implicit spread, playing the role of spread for large tick assets, for which the effective spread is almost always equal to one tick.
arxiv
Analysis of Binarized High Frequency Financial Data [PDF]
, 2005 A non-trivial probability structure is evident in the binary data extracted from the up/down price movements of very high frequency data such as tick-by-tick data for USD/JPY. In this paper, we analyze the Sony bank USD/JPY rates, ignoring the small deviations from the market price.
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A novel stratum corneum‐inspired zwitterionic hydrogel is developed for intelligent, flexible sensors, featuring intrinsic water retention and anti‐freezing properties. The quasi‐gel, composed of hygroscopic polymers and bound water, maintains its softness across a wide range of humidity.
Meng Wu +8 more
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Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomers Via Magnetic Field Assisted Oligomerization
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This article presents a straightforward method for designing programmable liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) actuators using magnetic field alignment. It combines thio‐Michael polyaddition for efficient LCE synthesis with a strategy that preserves the nematic phase, enabling the alignment of high molecular weight LCOs.
Rakine Mouhoubi +2 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A visible light‐responsive polyacrylamide‐azobenzene hydrogel enables safe, reversible stiffness control for studying cell mechanobiology without harmful UV exposure. This approach reveals stem cells respond rapidly to mechanical changes, showing altered shape and protein distribution within one hour.
Aafreen Ansari +11 more
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Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2023 Background Small ruminant playing significant economic development and cultural roles for smallholders and reared in different agroecological systems in Ethiopia.
Habtamu Tamrat +2 more
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