Digging for clues: Stick tools used for honey digging in a second community of ‘forest fragment chimpanzees’ outside the Budongo and Bugoma Forests, Uganda by Matthew R. McLennan, Georgia A. Lorenti, Simon Mugenyi, Jonan Muganzi, Jacqueline Rohen

“…Some chimpanzee populations use sticks to dig out subterranean nests of stingless bees (Meliponini) to access the underground honey stores, a tool-assisted foraging behaviour referred to here as ‘honey digging’. Honey digging has been reported mostly from sites in Central and West-Central Africa, and appears less common in East Africa. …”
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Development and validation of a nomogram to predict the probability of death after surgical evacuation for traumatic intracranial hemorrhage by Yan-Chao Zheng, Jun-Wei Qian, An-Ni Li, Yi-Nuo Yuan, Sen-Lin Ma, Mingquan Chen

“…Abstract Here we describe the derivation and validation of a prognostic nomogram for patients with Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage (tICH) after surgical evacuation. …”
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Bluues_cplx: Electrostatics at Protein–Protein and Protein–Ligand Interfaces by Miguel Angel Soler, Rayyan Bassem Adel Yakout, Ozge Ozkilinc, Gennaro Esposito, Walter Rocchia, Christian Klein, Federico Fogolari

“…Electrostatic complementarity at the interface is not trivial, involving surface potentials rather than the charges of surfacial contacting atoms. (2) Results: The program bluues_cplx, here used in conjunction with the software NanoShaper to compute molecular surfaces, has been used to compute the electrostatic properties of 756 protein–protein and 189 protein–ligand complexes along with the corresponding isolated molecules. (3) Methods: The software we make available here uses Generalized Born (GB) radii, computed by a molecular surface integral, to output several descriptors of electrostatics at protein (and in general, molecular) interfaces. …”
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Understanding the unique role of community-based para-professionals delivering early childhood development in low-resource contexts: a Delphi study by Emma Claire Pearson, Maxwell Peprah Opoku

“…In response, the study reported here aimed to gather expert views on essential knowledge, skills and competencies for this workforce, to contribute to strengthened recognition of their unique role in supporting ECD. …”
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A method to quantitatively characterize the formation and dissociation of tumor cell clusters using light transmission aggregometry by Regina Komal Kottana, Brian Schnoor, Anne‐Laure Papa

“…To accomplish this, quantifiable methods to characterize their therapeutic effect on tumor cell clusters is a prerequisite. The method presented here enables the user to precisely quantify the dissociation of cancer cell clusters in the presence of clinically relevant fibrinolytic agents, such as alteplase and tenecteplase. …”
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Variable domain mutational analysis to probe the molecular mechanisms of high viscosity of an IgG1 antibody by Jing Dai, Saeed Izadi, Jonathan Zarzar, Patrick Wu, Angela Oh, Paul J. Carter

“…The methods described here may be useful in the optimization of other antibodies to facilitate their therapeutic administration at high concentration.…”
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Spatially-implicit modelling of disease-behaviour interactions in the context of non-pharmaceutical interventions by Notice Ringa, Chris T. Bauch

“…The pair approximation methodology developed here illustrates how analytical approaches for studying interactions between social processes and disease dynamics in a spatially structured population should be further pursued.…”
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Time-course of antipredator behavioral changes induced by the helminth Pomphorhynchus laevis in its intermediate host Gammarus pulex: the switch in manipulation according to parasi... by Rigaud, Thierry, Balourdet, Aude, Bauer, Alexandre

“…All these behavioral changes were observed mostly when animals were tested in water scented by potential predators (here brown trout), suggesting condition-dependent manipulation. …”
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A statistical approach to the use of control entropy identifies differences in constraints of gait in highly trained versus untrained runners by Rana D. Parshad, Stephen J. McGregor, Michael A. Busa, Joseph D. Skufca, Erik Bollt

“…Specifically, CE develops response time series of individuals descriptive of the control effort; a group analysis of these shapes developed here uses Karhunen Loeve Analysis (KL) modes of these time series which are compared between groups by application of a Hotelling $T^{2}$ test to these group response shapes. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 infection of human pluripotent stem cell-derived vascular cells reveals smooth muscle cells as key mediators of vascular pathology during infection by Alexsia Richards, Andrew S. Khalil, Max Friesen, Troy W. Whitfield, Xinlei Gao, Tenzin Lungjangwa, Roger D. Kamm, Zhengpeng Wan, Lee Gehrke, David Mooney, Rudolf Jaenisch

“…This prothrombotic state is considered a key factor in the increased risk of stroke, which is observed clinically during both acute infection and long after symptoms clear. Here, we develop a model of SARS-CoV-2 infection using human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived endothelial cells (ECs), pericytes (PCs), and smooth muscle cells (SMCs) to recapitulate the vascular pathology associated with SARS-CoV-2 exposure. …”
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Effect of seasonality on the dynamics of an imitation-based vaccination model with public health intervention by Bruno Buonomo, Giuseppe Carbone, Alberto d'Onofrio

“…We focus here on three important features. First, we consider a SEIR-type disease. …”
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Analysis methods for covariate-constrained cluster randomized trials with time-to-event outcomes by Amy M. Crisp, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Matt D. T. Hitchings, Ira M. Longini, Natalie E. Dean

“…The permutation test developed here was more robust to inflation of type I error compared to model-based tests. …”
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Click beetle larvae from Cretaceous Burmese amber represent an ancient Gondwanan lineage by Robin Kundrata, Simone Policena Rosa, Katerina Triskova, Gabriela Packova, Johana Hoffmannova, Jan Brus

“…So far, only a single larval click beetle has been reported from Burmese amber. Here, we describe two larval specimens from the same deposit which based on their morphology unambiguously belong to the predominantly Southern Hemisphere subfamily Pityobiinae, being the most similar to the representatives of tribe Tibionemini. …”
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Amine Analysis Using AlexaFluor 488 Succinimidyl Ester and Capillary Electrophoresis with Laser-Induced Fluorescence by Christian G. Kendall, Amanda M. Stockton, Stephen Leicht, Heather McCaig, Shirley Chung, Valerie Scott, Fang Zhong, Ying Lin

“…Alexa Fluor 488 N-hydroxysuccinimidyl ester (AF488 NHS-ester) is an amine-specific fluorescent probe. Here, we demonstrate low limit of detection of long-chain (C9 to C18) primary amines and optimize AF488 derivatization of long-chain primary amines. …”
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Night flight facilitates late breeding catch-up in a long-distance migratory seabird by Katrina Siddiqi-Davies, Joe Wynn, Oliver Padget, Sarah Bond, Jóhannis Danielsen, Annette L. Fayet, Lewis Fisher-Reeves, Robin Freeman, Natasha Gillies, Holly Kirk, Lou Maurice, Greg Morgan, Martyna Syposz, Akiko Shoji, Tim Guilford

“…In species with protracted breeding seasons, departing earlier on migration might be advantageous, but is constrained by the ongoing breeding attempt. Here we investigated how breeding timing affects migratory strategies in the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), a trans-hemispheric migratory seabird with large temporal variation in the onset of breeding. …”
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Intestinal Giardiasis Disguised as Ulcerative Colitis by Yu Zhen, Lin Liao, Hu Zhang

“…Parasite-associated colitis is quite rare in clinical practice of Ulcerative Colitis (UC). Here we reported an intestinal giardiasis case that has been diagnosed with UC. …”
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Urban Forest Management: A Primer to Strategic Planning for Municipal Governments by Michael Andreu, Robert Northrop, Wayne Zipperer

“… This publication is an introduction to Urban Forest Management: A Primer to Strategic Planning for Municipal Governments, available in full for free here: https://ffgs.ifas.ufl.edu/urbanforestmanagementbook/. …”
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Acute infectious diseases and immunologic responses. Some stories from clinical practice apropos the Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic by Alfredo Darío Espinosa Brito

“…Apropos of the appearance of some unusual clinical pictures in the course of the recent epidemic of Influenza A (H1N1), and with the intention of sharing controversial ideas related to the immunologic responses of the patients to the infectious agents, we expose here a group of stories arisen from a clinical practice of almost five decades.…”
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Y a-t-il analogie entre les opérations sous-jacentes aux constructions V ØNs et VPA ? by Sophie Dufossé-Sournin

“…The question here is to know whether the structure V ØNs (he was taking Ønotes) corresponds with the traditional scheme V + C1 or whether it can be compared with a phrasal verb (go up). …”
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Predatory Stink Bug, Alcaeorrhynchus grandis (Dallas) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) by David B. Richman, Frank W. Mead

“…The stages in the life cycle are presented here so that they can be identified in the field. …”
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