Stanley, Dara A Knight, Mairi E Stout, Jane C
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The Bombus sensu stricto species complex is a widespread group of cryptic bumblebee species which are important pollinators of many crops and wild plants. These cryptic species have, until now, largely been grouped together in ecological studies, and so little is known about their individual colony densities, foraging ranges or habitat requirements...
Kembabazi, Annet Bajunirwe, Francis Hunt, Peter W Martin, Jeffrey N Muzoora, Conrad Haberer, Jessica E Bangsberg, David R Siedner, Mark J
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In resource-rich areas, risky sexual behavior (RSB) largely diminishes after initiation of anti-retroviral therapy, with notable exceptions among some populations who perceive a protected benefit from anti-retroviral therapy (ART). Yet, there is limited data about long-term trends in risky sexual behavior among HIV-infected people in sub-Saharan Af...
Chadha, Mandeep S Hirve, Siddhivinayak Dawood, Fatimah S Lele, Pallavi Deoshatwar, Avinash Sambhudas, Somnath Juvekar, Sanjay LaFond, Kathryn E Mott, Joshua A Lal, Renu B
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Influenza is vaccine-preventable; however, the burden of severe influenza in India remains unknown. We conducted a population-based study to estimate the incidence of laboratory confirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations in a rural community in western India. We conducted active surveillance for hospitalized patients with acute medical illness...
Wan, Gwo-Hwa Yan, Dah-Chin Tung, Tao-Hsin Tang, Chin-Sheng Liu, Chiu-Hsin
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Endotoxin, a component of the cell walls of gram-negative bacteria, is a contaminant in organic dusts (house dust) and aerosols. In humans, small amounts of endotoxin may cause a local inflammatory response. Exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) levels, an inflammation indicator, are associated with the pH values of exhaled breath condensate (EBC). This study...
Arning, Larissa Ocklenburg, Sebastian Schulz, Stefanie Ness, Vanessa Gerding, Wanda M Hengstler, Jan G Falkenstein, Michael Epplen, Jörg T Güntürkün, Onur Beste, Christian
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Although the left and right human cerebral hemispheres differ both functionally and anatomically, the mechanisms that underlie the establishment of these hemispheric specializations, as well as their physiological and behavioral implications, remain largely unknown. Since cerebral asymmetry is strongly correlated with handedness, and handedness is ...
Hung, Shih-Han Tsai, Ming-Chieh Liu, Tsai-Ching Lin, Herng-Ching Chung, Shiu-Dong
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This study attempted to reveal the incidence and risk of synchronous and metachronous esophageal cancer in subjects with oral, oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer based on a population-wide database in Taiwan. We retrieved data for this cross-sectional study from the Taiwanese Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2000. The study group include...
Liu, Qiu-Ling Wang, Jing-Zhou Quan, Li Zhao, Hu Wu, Ye-Da Huang, Xiao-Ling Lu, De-Jian
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Haplotype analysis of closely associated markers has proven to be a powerful tool in kinship analysis, especially when short tandem repeats (STR) fail to resolve uncertainty in relationship analysis. STR located on the X chromosome show stronger linkage disequilibrium compared with autosomal STR. So, it is necessary to estimate the haplotype freque...
Brunner, Jesse L Duerr, Shannon Keesing, Felicia Killilea, Mary Vuong, Holly Ostfeld, Richard S
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Mixed hardwood forests of the northeast United States support a guild of granivorous/omnivorous rodents including gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis), eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus), and white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus). These species coincide geographically, co-occur locally, and consume similar food resources. Despite their idiosync...
Miller, David A W Nichols, James D Gude, Justin A Rich, Lindsey N Podruzny, Kevin M Hines, James E Mitchell, Michael S
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Large-scale presence-absence monitoring programs have great promise for many conservation applications. Their value can be limited by potential incorrect inferences owing to observational errors, especially when data are collected by the public. To combat this, previous analytical methods have focused on addressing non-detection from public survey ...
Ye, Jianqiang Xu, Yifei Harris, Jillian Sun, Hailiang Bowman, Andrew S. Cunningham, Fred L. Cardona, Carol Yoon, Kyoungjin J. Slemons, Richard D. Wan, Xiu-Feng
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Two distinct antigenic clusters were previously identified among the H3N2 swine influenza A viruses (IAVs) and were designated H3N2SIV-alpha and H3N2SIV-beta (Feng et al., 2013. Journal of Virology 87(13), 7655–7667). A consistent mutation was observed at the position 189 of hemagglutinin (R189K) between H3N2SIV-alpha and H3N2SIV-beta fair isolates...
