As Aotearoa enters week two of lockdown, it’s clear we’re all still working out what our “bubbles” look like and how to stay in them to stop the spread of Covid-19. New to the government’s Covid-19 website is some good guidance for people liv…
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Expert: We need a global coordinated response to COVID-19
Posted by Melissa De Witte-Stanford on March 27th, 2020
Without coordination within and across countries, COVID-19 will endlessly re-emerge, with devastating consequences for public health and the global economy.
Posted in Biology, Health, Science General 
Tags: across, across countries, and across countries, coordinated, coordinated response, Coronavirus, coronavirus pandemic, Countries, Economy, Expert, global, global coordinated, global coordinated response, Global Economy, Health, jackson, networks, Pandemic, Public, Public Health, requires, response, the coronavirus pandemic, the global economy, you can& 8217 
No Comments »Fatigue and recovery measured with dynamic properties vs isometric force: effects of exercise intensity [RESEARCH ARTICLE]
Posted by Krüger, R. L., Aboodarda, S. J., Jaimes, L. M., MacIntosh, B. R., Samozino, P., Millet, G. Y. on March 19th, 2019
Renata L. Krüger, Saied Jalal Aboodarda, Libia Marcela Jaimes, Brian R. MacIntosh, Pierre Samozino, and Guillaume Y. MilletWhile fatigue can be defined as an exercise-related decrease in the maximal power or isometric force, most studies have …
Posted in Biology, Science General Tags: assessment, decrease, decreased, decreased more than, different, dynamic, exercise, Exercises, Fatigue, fatiguing, fatiguing exercises, following, function, Intensity, isometric, isometric force, maximal, maximal power, Measures, recovery, the fatiguing exercises No Comments »Holding tight on feathers – structural specializations and attachment properties of the avian ectoparasite Crataerina pallida (Diptera, Hippoboscidae) [RESEARCH ARTICLE]
Posted by Petersen, D. S., Kreuter, N., Heepe, L., Büsse, S., Wellbrock, A. H. J., Witte, K., Gorb, S. N. on April 30th, 2018
Dennis S. Petersen, Nils Kreuter, Lars Heepe, Sebastian Büsse, Arndt H. J. Wellbrock, Klaudia Witte, and Stanislav N. GorbThe louse fly Crataerina pallida is an obligate blood-sucking ecto-parasite of the common swift Apus apus. Due to reducti…
Posted in Biology, Science General Tags: attachment, attachment system, crataerina, crataerina pallida, dichotomously, dichotomously shaped, dichotomously shaped setae, Diptera, ectoparasite, entire, entire attachment, entire attachment system, Feathers, Microscopy, Pallida, pulvilli, Scanning, shaped, shaped setae, Smooth, Substrates, system, the entire attachment No Comments »Polarized object detection in crabs: a two-channel system [RESEARCH ARTICLE]
Posted by Basnak, M. A., Perez-Schuster, V., Hermitte, G., de Astrada, M. B. on April 12th, 2018
Melanie Ailin Basnak, Veronica Perez-Schuster, Gabriela Hermitte, and Martin Beron de AstradaMany animal species take advantage of polarization vision for vital tasks such as orientation, communication, and contrast enhancement. Previous studies have …
Posted in Biology, Science General Tags: and horizontal orientations, Animals, Background, changes, channel, contrast, contrast enhancement, contrast sensitivity, detection, Enhancement, escape, escape response, horizontal, horizontal orientations, motion, object, Object Detection, obtained, Orientations, Polarization, Polarization Contrast, polarization contrast sensitivity, polarization vision, polarized, polarized object, polarized object detection, response, results, sensitivity, Stimulus, system, the polarization contrast, Vectors, vertical, vision No Comments »
