Search Results - "Stephen, Peter"
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Permian-Triassic Palynological and Paleobotanical Record from the Karoo-Equivalent Strata in the Tanga Basin, Coastal Tanzania
Published in Stratigraphy and geological correlation (01-06-2024)“…The palynological composition of the Karoo-equivalent strata in the Tanga Basin, coastal Tanzania, is presented. Two boreholes (Kakindu-1 and Vunde-1) through…”
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Cold Tolerance of Immature Stages of Ceratitis capitata and Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Published in Journal of economic entomology (13-04-2022)“…Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) is a new fruit fly pest of some fruit types in the north and north eastern areas of South Africa. In order to determine whether…”
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Causes of maternal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review of studies published from 2015 to 2020
Published in Journal of global health (01-01-2021)“…Maternal deaths remain high in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and their causes of maternal death must be analysed frequently in this region to guide interventions…”
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Buckling Behavior of Individual and Bundled Microtubules
Published in Biophysical journal (07-04-2015)“…As the major structural constituent of the cytoskeleton, microtubules (MTs) serve a variety of biological functions that range from facilitating organelle…”
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Secondary structure determination of conserved SARS-CoV-2 RNA elements by NMR spectroscopy
Published in Nucleic acids research (16-12-2020)“…Abstract The current pandemic situation caused by the Betacoronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (SCoV2) highlights the need for coordinated research to combat COVID-19. A…”
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Quantum machine learning enhanced laser speckle analysis for precise speed prediction
Published in Scientific reports (12-11-2024)“…Laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI) is an optical technique used to assess blood flow perfusion by modeling changes in speckle intensity, but it is generally…”
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Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on obstetric fistula repair program in Zimbabwe
Published in PloS one (01-04-2021)“…The advent of Covid-19 pandemic adversely affected many programs worldwide, public health, including programming for obstetric fistula were not spared…”
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A Novel, Universally Active C-terminal Protein Degradation Signal Generated by Alternative Splicing
Published in Journal of molecular biology (16-04-2021)“…[Display omitted] •Alternative splicing coupled to constitutive protein decay is a new way to adjust protein levels.•The isoE degron is universally active in…”
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Are Yeast Autolysate Attractants for Ceratitis Species (Diptera: Tephritidae) in South Africa More Attractive and Palatable Than a Currently Used Protein Attractant?
Published in Journal of economic entomology (13-04-2021)“…Due to increasing usage of copper fungicides in citrus orchards shortly before the application of protein baits for fruit fly control and the risk of this…”
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Exploring the Druggability of Conserved RNA Regulatory Elements in the SARS‐CoV‐2 Genome
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (23-08-2021)“…SARS‐CoV‐2 contains a positive single‐stranded RNA genome of approximately 30 000 nucleotides. Within this genome, 15 RNA elements were identified as conserved…”
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Structural basis for the recognition of transiently structured AU-rich elements by Roquin
Published in Nucleic acids research (27-07-2020)“…Abstract Adenylate/uridylate-rich elements (AREs) are the most common cis-regulatory elements in the 3′-untranslated region (UTR) of mRNAs, where they…”
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Computational Modeling of Axonal Microtubule Bundles under Tension
Published in Biophysical journal (22-02-2012)“…Microtubule bundles cross-linked by tau protein serve a variety of neurological functions including maintaining mechanical integrity of the axon, promoting…”
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The Cryptophlebia leucotreta granulovirus-10 years of commercial field use
Published in Viruses (19-03-2015)“…In the last 15 years, extensive work on the Cryptophlebia leucotreta granulovirus (CrleGV) has been conducted in South Africa, initially in the laboratory, but…”
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Protocol for analysing the epidemiology of maternal mortality in Zimbabwe: A civil registration and vital statistics trend study
Published in PloS one (03-06-2021)“…Background Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) carries the highest burden of maternal mortality, yet, the accurate maternal mortality ratios (MMR) are uncertain in most…”
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Efficacy of Various Low Temperature and Exposure Time Combinations for Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) Larvae
Published in Journal of economic entomology (10-08-2022)“…A systems approach was developed as an alternative to a standalone quarantine disinfestation treatment for Thaumatotibia leucotreta in citrus fruit exported…”
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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 at 1-year using the SF-12 questionnaire: Data from the Anticipate longitudinal cohort study
Published in International journal of infectious diseases (01-05-2022)“…•Those patients with post–COVID-19 syndrome (PoCS) had reduced 12-item Short Form Survey (SF-12) scores at 1-year.•Those with ≥5 symptoms at initial diagnosis…”
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Crowdsourcing Vector Surveillance: Using Community Knowledge and Experiences to Predict Densities and Distribution of Outdoor-Biting Mosquitoes in Rural Tanzania
Published in PloS one (02-06-2016)“…Lack of reliable techniques for large-scale monitoring of disease-transmitting mosquitoes is a major public health challenge, especially where advanced…”
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Integrating inflammatory serum biomarkers into a risk calculator for prostate cancer detection
Published in Scientific reports (28-01-2021)“…Improved prostate cancer detection methods would avoid over-diagnosis of clinically indolent disease informing appropriate treatment decisions. The aims of…”
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Editorial: Genomics-Enabled Triticeae Improvement
Published in Frontiers in plant science (18-03-2022)Get full text
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Overconfidence in wargames: experimental evidence on expectations, aggression, gender and testosterone
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (07-10-2006)“…Overconfidence has long been noted by historians and political scientists as a major cause of war. However, the origins of such overconfidence, and sources of…”
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