Swarm Trapping for Pest Control Operators by Michael K. O'Malley, James D. Ellis, Catherine M. Zettel Nalen

“…Zettel Nalen, outlines the standard operating procedures for swarm trapping by certified Pest Control Operators as a means of capturing and removing a nesting Africanized bee colony before the bees become aggressive. Published by the UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, October 2009. …”
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How to Dissect Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.) to Detect Tracheal Mites (Acarapis woodi Rennie) by John Bonkowski, Ashley N. Mortensen, James D. Ellis

“… Tracheal mites are parasites of the western honey bee and negatively impact the health and productivity of an infested colony. This 6-page fact sheet details the method of dissecting honey bees in order to diagnose tracheal mites. …”
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Swarm Trapping for Pest Control Operators by Michael K. O'Malley, James D. Ellis, Catherine M. Zettel Nalen

“…Zettel Nalen, outlines the standard operating procedures for swarm trapping by certified Pest Control Operators as a means of capturing and removing a nesting Africanized bee colony before the bees become aggressive. Published by the UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, October 2009. …”
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Urban fruit bats give birth earlier in the season compared to rural fruit bats by Maya Weinberg, Dean Zigdon, Mor Taub, Lee Harten, Ofri Eitan, Adi Rachum, Reut Assa, Omri Gal, Yossi Yovel

“…We sampled ten fruit bat colonies located in different urbanization levels, over 3 years. …”
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Effect of Compression Loading on Human Nucleus Pulposus-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Hang Liang, Sheng Chen, Donghua Huang, Xiangyu Deng, Kaige Ma, Zengwu Shao

“…The viability-, differentiation-, and differentiation-related genes (Runx2, APP, and Col2) and colony formation-, migration-, and stem cell-related proteins (Sox2 and Oct4) were evaluated. …”
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Age-Related Changes in Nucleus Pulposus Mesenchymal Stem Cells: An In Vitro Study in Rats by Yachao Zhao, Zhiwei Jia, Shanshan Huang, Yaohong Wu, Longgang Liu, Linghan Lin, Deli Wang, Qing He, Dike Ruan

“…Moreover, young NPMSCs presented better proliferation, colony-forming, and multilineage differentiation capacities than old NPMSCs. …”
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African biblical hermeneutics on the threshold? Appraisal and wayforward by M. Speckman

“…There always appears to be something new on the horizon, but the colonial umbilical cord prevents a crossing of the threshold. …”
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Frontier Zones and the Study of Religion by Birgit Meyer

“…Its usefulness pertains not only to the study of colonial settings in which scholarly knowledge aboutreligion in Africa took shape via the introduction of religion as a category,but also to the study of religious Birgit Meyer58plurality in contemporary European cities, which is here proposedto approach as new postcolonial frontier zones. …”
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Seven-Spot Ladybird Optimization: A Novel and Efficient Metaheuristic Algorithm for Numerical Optimization by Peng Wang, Zhouquan Zhu, Shuai Huang

“…In this paper, the performance of the SLO is compared with that of the genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization, and artificial bee colony algorithms by using five numerical benchmark functions with multimodality. …”
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Michel foucault y la colonialidad del poder by Santiago Castro-Gómez

“…Al contrario de gran parte de los planteamientos asociadas a corrientes de los estudios postcoloniales y a algunas vertientes del enfoque de la modernidad/colonialidad, en este artículo se argumenta la relevancia una teoría heterárquica del poder inspirada en las Lecciones del College de France menos conocidas de Foucault para comprender las articulaciones en diferentes planos del sistema mundo moderno colonial.…”
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Characterization of the growth-inhibitory and apoptosis-inducing activities of a triterpene saponin, securioside B against BAC1.2F5 macrophages by Satoru Yui, Tomoya Kudo, Kazumi Hodono, Yoshihiro Mimaki, Minpei Kuroda, Yutaka Sashida, Masatoshi Yamazaki

“…We previously reported that securiosides A and B, novel triterpene saponins, exerted macrophage-oriented cytotoxicity in the presence of a L-cell-conditioned medium containing macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF), while the compounds did not exhibit an effect on macrophages in the absence of the growth-stimulating factors.…”
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Enquêter sur la prostitution en Algérie. Souvenirs de Bou-Saâda by Ferhati Barkahoum

“…Based on personal experience as a researcher working on the margins, the social phenomena of the “tribal” prostitution of the Ouled Naïl in the Algerian Sahara, this field survey explores borders and taboos (prostitution, female celibacy), and some moral uncertainties concerning post-colonial society in Algeria.…”
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Ce que Charles Darwin doit à Joseph Banks by Le Guyader, Hervé

“…He actively intervened in acclimatization and varietal selection of plants and animals in Great Britain as in the future English colonies. Thus he built an intellectual environment which will promote the emergence of Charles Darwin’s thoughts.…”
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Conflit autour du marché des montagnards Khmirs dans les années 1870 : communauté, immunités et revendications d’autonomie by Fatma Ben Slimane

“…This research deals with the conflict between the government of the beys of Tunis and the Khmir mountain tribe in the 1870s, concerning their weekly market, Sūq al-Ahad, which was threatened both by new tax burdens and by the French colonial expansion in eastern Algeria. The archives of this conflict make it possible to favor a local approach, centered on the claims of the resource constituted by the market-place and thus to better explore the mobilizations of the actors and the arguments they put forward to defend what they saw as their rights, as well as the way they negotiated them in an increasingly restrictive context.…”
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Haggard’s Use of the Phoenician Analogy with Britain by John Coates

“…In the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, several writers voiced their apprehensions about the state of the British Empire and the dangers they thought it faced by making comparisons between Britain and the Phoenician city of Tyre and the greatest of Tyre’s colonies, Carthage. This paper compares Rider Haggard’s use of this analogy in his novel Elissa or the Doom of Zimbabwe with other writers of his time who compared Britain to the Phoenicians. …”
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Soviet Researchers on the Middle East: Ahead of Their Time by I. D. Zvyagelskaya

“…The collapse of the colonial system, the growth of national liberation movements, the entry of new forces that did not fit into the rigid framework of the Communist ideas about the revolutionary process, demanded realistic explanations of what was happening. …”
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Imaginário afro-ameríndio e utopia política em Torto arado by Rejane Pivetta de Oliveira, Claudia Luiza Caimi

“…Argumentamos que la narrativa da forma a la violencia del pasado colonial brasileño, al tiempo que se constituye como una ficción política y utópica, utilizando sistemas simbólicos y cosmologías ancestrales como elementos de resistencia y fuerza de reconfiguración de la historia.…”
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Small Hive Beetle, Aethina tumida Murray (Insecta: Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) by James D. Ellis, Amanda Ellis

“…It describes this small beetle native to sub-Saharan Africa, which can cause considerable damage to colonies of European honey bees outside of its host range — distribution, description, life cycle, economic importance, and management. …”
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A Case of Disseminated Mycobacterium avium Infection in a Dog in Greece by V. Kontos, E. I. Papadogiannakis, G. Mantziaras, M. Styliara, S. Kanavaki

“…Bacterial culture of lymph node aspirated material produced a colony which by means of molecular techniques (PCR amplification and hybridization of PCR products) was subsequently identified as Mycobacterium avium. …”
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Note sur les fondements des postcolonial studies by Béatrice Collignon

“…Long ignored by French social sciences, the term "postcolonial" has recently become popular in academic literature and meetings, in relation to the political debate about colonial legacy and 2nd and 3rd immigrants generations (the so-called "indigènes de la République"). …”
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