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Tudor England and Stewart Scotland Through Spanish Eyes: A Complete Transcription and Translation of Pedro de Ayala's Letter of 1498 to King Ferdinand of Castile and Queen Isabella of Aragon

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

COSMOS, a spatially explicit model to simulate the epidemiology of Cosmopolites sordidus in banana fields [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In French West Indies, cyclones can cause severe damages to banana plants, and banana pests are thus confronted to a lack of resources. Here, we investigate with a spatial model the effect of a catastrophic disturbance, like a cyclone, on the demography ...
Bruchou, Claude   +5 more
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Alsophis sanctaecrucis [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Number of Pages: 2Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Henderson, Robert W., Powell, Robert
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Survey of vector-borne agents in feral cats and first report of Babesia gibsoni in cats on St Kitts, West Indies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: As there is little data on vector-borne diseases of cats in the Caribbean region and even around the world, we tested feral cats from St Kitts by PCR to detect infections with Babesia, Ehrlichia and spotted fever group Rickettsia (SFGR) and
Branford, Gillian Carmichael   +8 more
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Pandemic Geographies of Home: Domestic Thresholding in Response to COVID‐19

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID‐19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives. This paper introduces the concept of ‘thresholding’ to explore the ways in which internal and external thresholds are understood and ...
Alison Blunt   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The clinical characteristics and outcome of children hospitalized with dengue in Barbados, an English Caribbean country

open access: yesJournal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2015
Introduction: Although dengue is endemic in all English-speaking Caribbean countries, there are no published studies on the clinical presentations and outcomes of children hospitalized with dengue from this region.
Alok Kumar   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The beetles of Martinique, Lesser Antilles (Insecta: Coleoptera); diversity and distributions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper summarizes the published information on the beetle fauna of the island of Martinique, in the Lesser Antilles. The fauna is known to contain 42 families, with 201 genera, and 270 species.
Peck, Stewart B.
core   +1 more source

A Meta‐Analysis and Simplified Nomenclature for Diagonal Coronary Artery and Ramus Intermedius Across Adult and Pediatric Hearts

open access: yesClinical Anatomy, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 305-324, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Anatomical descriptions of left‐sided oblique coronary branches remain inconsistent, hindering imaging interpretation and surgical planning. To quantify the prevalence, branching patterns and morphometry of the ramus intermedius (RI) and diagonal branches, and propose a unified nomenclature.
Yuqian Dai   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Aspects of Suicide

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal, 2005
Undefined cultural factors cannot be dismissed and significantly contribute to the worldwide incidence of death by suicide. Culture is an all embracing term and defines the relationship of an individual to his environment. This study seeks to investigate
Hari D. Maharajh, Petal S. Abdool
doaj   +1 more source

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