Nibouche, Samuel Costet, Laurent Medina, Raul F Holt, Jocelyn R Sadeyen, Joëlle Zoogones, Anne-Sophie Brown, Paul Blackman, Roger L
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Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner, 1897) and Melanaphis sorghi (Theobald, 1904) are major worldwide crop pests causing direct feeding damage on sorghum and transmitting viruses to sugarcane. It is common in the scientific literature to consider these two species as synonyms, referred to as the 'sugarcane aphid', although no formal study has validated t...
Mosquera, Juan D Valle, Carlos A Nieto-Claudin, Ainoa Fessl, Birgit Lewbart, Gregory A Deresienski, Diane Bouazzi, Leïla Zapata, Sonia Villena, Isabelle Poulle, Marie-Lazarine
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Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic intracellular parasite of particular concern in the conservation of wildlife due to its ability to infect all homeotherms and potentially cause acute fatal disease in naive species. In the Galapagos (Ecuador), an archipelago composed of more than a hundred islets and islands, the presence of T. gondii can be attribut...
Salih, Sinan Q Alsewari, AbdulRahman A Wahab, H A Mohammed, Mustafa K A Rashid, Tarik A Das, Debashish Basurra, Shadi S
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The retrieval of important information from a dataset requires applying a special data mining technique known as data clustering (DC). DC classifies similar objects into a groups of similar characteristics. Clustering involves grouping the data around k-cluster centres that typically are selected randomly. Recently, the issues behind DC have called...
Lerch, Mathias
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The study of regional trends in the rural-urban fertility gradient helps us to understand the pace of completion of the fertility transition and the geography of urban growth in the global South. We question whether the hypothesized inverted U-shaped evolution in rural excess fertility is confirmed in four developing regions, and investigate the un...
Roberts, James W Bennett, Simon J
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The tendency to involuntarily imitate the actions of others (automatic imitation) can be modulated by social affiliative cues. Here, we explored whether the disruption to our social lives caused by the COVID-19 pandemic may subsequently influence automatic imitation. Three groups were initially presented a sentence comprehension task that featured ...
Hacılarlıoglu, Selin Bilgic, Huseyin Bilgin Bakırcı, Serkan Tait, Andrew Weir, William Shiels, Brian Karagenc, Tulin
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Buparvaquone remains the only effective therapeutic agent for the treatment of tropical theileriosis caused by Theileria annulata. However, an increase in the rate of buparvaquone treatment failures has been observed in recent years, raising the possibility that resistance to this drug is associated with the selection of T. annulata genotypes beari...
Calvopina-Chavez, Diana G Howarth, Robyn E Memmott, Audrey K Pech Gonzalez, Oscar H Hafen, Caleb B Jensen, Kyson T Benedict, Alex B Altman, Jessica D Burnside, Brittany S Childs, Justin S
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The genetic and molecular basis of flagellar motility has been investigated for several decades, with innovative research strategies propelling advances at a steady pace. Furthermore, as the phenomenon is examined in diverse bacteria, new taxon-specific regulatory and structural features are being elucidated. Motility is also a straightforward bact...
Swerdloff, Margaret M Hargrove, Levi J
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Combining brain imaging with dual-task paradigms provides a quantitative, direct metric of cognitive load that is agnostic to the motor task. This work aimed to quantitatively assess cognitive load during activities of daily living-sitting, standing, and walking-using a commercial dry encephalography headset. We recorded participants' brain activit...
Arnalds, Ólafur Marteinsdóttir, Bryndís Brink, Sigmundur Helgi Þórsson, Jóhann
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Iceland border the Arctic with cold maritime climate and a large proportion of the land placed at highland plateaus. About 1100 years of human disturbance, such as grazing and wood harvesting, has left much of the island's ecosystems in a poor state, ranging from barren deserts to areas with altered vegetative composition and degraded soils. We con...
Fong, Mackenzie Kaner, Eileen Rowland, Maisie Graham, Henrietta E McEvoy, Louise Hallsworth, Kate Cucato, Gabriel Gibney, Carla Nedkova, Martina Prentis, James
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Prehabilitation interventions are being delivered across surgical specialities to improve health risk behaviours leading to better surgical outcomes and potentially reduce length of hospital stay. Most previous research has focused on specific surgery specialities and has not considered the impact of interventions on health inequalities, nor whethe...
