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Phylogeny and Niche Conservatism in North and Central American Triatomine Bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae), Vectors of Chagas' Disease
(Public Library of Science, 2014-10-30)The niche conservatism hypothesis states that related species diverge in niche characteristics at lower rates than expected, given their lineage divergence. Here we analyze whether niche conservatism is a common pattern ... -
A potassium crown ether complex with dichloroaurate(I)
(International Union of Crystallography, 2003-01-17)The title compound, (1,4,7,10,13,16-hexaoxacyclooctane)potassium dichloroaurate(I), [K(C12H24O6)][AuCl2], consists of potassium ion encapsulated by the 18-membered crown ether 1,4,7,10,13,16-hexaoxacyclooctane and ... -
Mapping the Potential Risk of Mycetoma Infection in Sudan and South Sudan Using Ecological Niche Modeling
(Public Library of Science, 2014-10-16)In 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized mycetoma as one of the neglected tropical conditions due to the efforts of the mycetoma consortium. This same consortium formulated knowledge gaps that require further ... -
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Is Capitalism Good for Women?
(Springer Netherlands, 2014-05-21)This paper investigates an aspect of the question of whether capitalism can be defended as a morally legitimate economic system by asking whether capitalism serves progressive, feminist ends of freedom and gender equality. ... -
Truly humanitarian intervention: considering just causes and methods in a feminist cosmopolitan frame
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-29)In international law, ‘humanitarian intervention’ refers to the use of military force by one nation or group of nations to stop genocide or other gross human rights violations in another sovereign nation. If humanitarian ... -
Commitment as Motivation: Amartya Sen’s Theory of Agency and the Explanation of Behavior
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-03-04)This paper presents Sen's theory of agency, focusing on the role of commitment in this theory as both problematic and potentially illuminating. His account of some commitments as goal-displacing gives rise to a dilemma ... -
Climate Change Influences on Global Distributions of Dengue and Chikungunya Virus Vectors
(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 2014)This packet presents raster data files that accompany a manuscript submitted for publication to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, titled “Climate Change Influences on Global Vector Distributions for Dengue ... -
Where Communism Was Black: Race, Culture and Radicalism in Depression Alabama.
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Race and the Working Class Past in the United States: Multiple Identities and the Future of Labor History.
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The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror and Expansion, 1790-1860.
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Leishmaniasis transmission: distribution and coarse-resolution ecology of two vectors and two parasites in Egypt
(Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2014-01-01)Introduction: In past decades, leishmaniasis burden has been low across Egypt; however, changing environment and land use has placed several parts of the country at risk. As a consequence, leishmaniasis has become a ... -
Speciation in Western Scrub-Jays, Haldane’s rule, and genetic clines in secondary contact
(Springer Verlag, 2014-06-19)Background Haldane’s Rule, the tendency for the heterogametic sex to show reduced fertility in hybrid crosses, can obscure the signal of gene flow in mtDNA between species where females are heterogametic. Therefore, it ... -
Freedom Breaks
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Mapping Transmission Risk of Lassa Fever in West Africa: The Importance of Quality Control, Sampling Bias, and Error Weighting
(Public Library of Science, 2014-08-08)Lassa fever is a disease that has been reported from sites across West Africa; it is caused by an arenavirus that is hosted by the rodent M. natalensis. Although it is confined to West Africa, and has been documented in ... -
Ecology and geography of avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) transmission in the Middle East and northeastern Africa
(BioMed Central, 2009-07-20)Background: The emerging highly pathogenic avian influenza strain H5N1 ("HPAI-H5N1") has spread broadly in the past decade, and is now the focus of considerable concern. We tested the hypothesis that spatial distributions ... -
A trigonotarbid arachnid from the Pennsylvanian Astrasado Formation of the Kinney Brick Quarry, New Mexico
(2014-07-25)A new eophrynid trigonotarbid (Arachnida: Trigonotarbida: Eophrynidae) from the Pennsylvanian (Kasimovian) Astrasado Formation of the Kinney Brick Quarry, New Mexico is described. This fossil – the first arachnid to be ... -
Development of a Cell-Based, High-Throughput Screening Assay for Cholesterol Efflux Using a Fluorescent Mimic of Cholesterol
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2011-04)Reverse cholesterol transport is the process by which extrahepatic cells, including macrophage-derived foam cells in arterial atherosclerotic plaque, transport excessive cholesterol back to the liver for bile acid synthesis ... -
Lethal Mutagenesis of Poliovirus Mediated by a Mutagenic Pyrimidine Analogue
(American Society for Microbiology, 2007-10)Lethal mutagenesis is the mechanism of action of ribavirin against poliovirus (PV) and numerous other RNA viruses. However, there is still considerable debate regarding the mechanism of action of ribavirin against a variety ... -
Synthetic mimics of mammalian cell surface receptors: prosthetic molecules that augment living cells
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005-09-08)Specific receptors on the surface of mammalian cells actively internalize cell-impermeable ligands by receptor-mediated endocytosis. To mimic these internalizing receptors, my laboratory is studying artificial cell surface ...