Search Results - "Theobald, C."
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Why flying insects gather at artificial light
Published in Nature communications (30-01-2024)“…Explanations of why nocturnal insects fly erratically around fires and lamps have included theories of “lunar navigation” and “escape to the light”. However,…”
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Effectiveness of social marketing in improving knowledge, attitudes and practice of consumption of vitamin A-fortified oil in Tanzania
Published in Public health nutrition (01-03-2019)“…To evaluate the effectiveness of a social marketing intervention in enhancing knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) related to consumption of vitamin…”
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rhizobacterium Variovorax paradoxus 5C-2, containing ACC deaminase, promotes growth and development of Arabidopsis thaliana via an ethylene-dependent pathway
Published in Journal of experimental botany (01-04-2013)“…Many plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) associated with plant roots contain the enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase and can…”
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Fruit flies are multistable geniuses
Published in PLoS biology (01-02-2018)“…Our sensory systems have evolved to provide us with information about the external world. Such information is useful only insofar as it leads to actions that…”
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An olfactory circuit increases the fidelity of visual behavior
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (19-10-2011)“…Multimodal integration allows neural circuits to be activated in a behaviorally context-specific manner. In the case of odor plume tracking by Drosophila, an…”
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Light environment drives evolution of color vision genes in butterflies and moths
Published in Communications biology (09-02-2021)“…Opsins, combined with a chromophore, are the primary light-sensing molecules in animals and are crucial for color vision. Throughout animal evolution,…”
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Development and evaluation of food and nutrition teaching kits for teachers of primary schoolchildren
Published in Nutrition bulletin (01-03-2016)“…Food and nutrition education is a compulsory part of the primary school curriculum across the UK, but primary school teachers report the need for further…”
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Wide-field motion tuning in nocturnal hawkmoths
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-03-2010)“…(a fully nocturnal hoverer) and…”
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Gastroenterology: Diaphragmatic herniation and pancreatitis
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Impact of behaviour change communication interventions on sales of fortified sunflower oil in Tanzania: A spatial–temporal analysis and association study
Published in Maternal and child nutrition (01-10-2019)“…The Masava project was implemented in Manyara and Shinyanga regions in Tanzania to improve vitamin A intake by making available vitamin A‐fortified sunflower…”
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Partial phenotypic reversion of ABA-deficient flacca tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) scions by a wild-type rootstock: normalizing shoot ethylene relations promotes leaf area but does not diminish whole plant transpiration rate
Published in Journal of experimental botany (01-01-2009)“…To evaluate the role of root-synthesized ABA in regulating growth and stomatal behaviour under well-watered conditions, isogenic wild-type (WT) and…”
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Flying fruit flies correct for visual sideslip depending on relative speed of forward optic flow
Published in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience (02-07-2013)“…As a fly flies through its environment, static objects produce moving images on its retina, and this optic flow is essential for steering and course…”
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Atomic Imaging of Carbon-Supported Pt, Pt/Co, and Ir@Pt Nanocatalysts by Atom-Probe Tomography
Published in ACS catalysis (07-02-2014)“…Atom probe tomography (APT) has been used to characterize commercially prepared Pt, Pt/Co alloy, and Ir@Pt core–shell nanoparticles supported on…”
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Prevalence and predictors of undernutrition among underfive children in Arusha District, Tanzania
Published in Food science & nutrition (01-11-2018)“…Childhood undernutrition is a global health challenge impacting child growth and survival rates. This deficit in nutritional status contributes to the…”
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Stable Q-switch mode-locking of Nd:YVO4 lasers with a semiconductor saturable absorber
Published in Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics (01-07-2008)“…This paper reports on a passively mode-locked and Q-switched Nd:YVO 4 laser generating picosecond pulses with an average output power exceeding 7 W. In a first…”
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Efficacy of Different Doses of Multiple Micronutrient Powder on Haemoglobin Concentration in Children Aged 6–59 Months in Arusha District
Published in Scientifica (Cairo) (01-01-2019)“…In Tanzania’s Arusha District, anaemia is a significant public health problem. Recently, home fortification with multiple micronutrient powder was recommended,…”
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Group Testing, the Pooled Hypergeometric Distribution, and Estimating the Number of Defectives in Small Populations
Published in Communications in statistics. Theory and methods (18-07-2014)“…The testing of combined bacteriological samples - or "group testing" - was introduced to reduce the cost of identifying defective individuals in populations…”
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Mycobacterium haemophilum as a Novel Etiology of Cervical Lymphadenitis in an Otherwise Healthy Adult Patient
Published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology (01-07-2010)“…We describe a case and summarize six additional cases of cervical lymphadenitis in otherwise healthy adults caused by Mycobacterium haemophilum. The organism…”
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Small eyes in dim light: Implications to spatio-temporal visual abilities in Drosophila melanogaster
Published in Vision research (Oxford) (01-04-2020)“…Fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, are active over a range of light intensities in the wild, but lab-reared flies are often tested only in bright light…”
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Xylem sap collection and extraction methodologies to determine in vivo concentrations of ABA and its bound forms by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)
Published in Plant methods (22-03-2012)“…BACKGROUND: Accurate quantification of xylem sap ABA concentrations is important to underpin models of root-to-shoot ABA signalling to predict the…”
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