Influenza Infection in Wild Raccoons by Jeffrey S. Hall, Kevin T. Bentler, Gabrielle Landolt, Stacey A. Elmore, Richard B. Minnis, Tyler A. Campbell, Scott C. Barras, J. Jeffrey Root, John Pilon, Kristy Pabilonia, Cindy Driscoll, Dennis Slate, Heather Sullivan, Robert G. McLean

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Lipopolysaccharide structure modulates cationic biocide susceptibility and crystalline biofilm formation in Proteus mirabilis by O. E. Clarke, H. Pelling, V. Bennett, T. Matsumoto, G. E. Gregory, J. Nzakizwanayo, A. J. Slate, A. Preston, M. Laabei, L. J. Bock, M. E. Wand, K. Ikebukuro, S. Gebhard, J. M. Sutton, B. V. Jones

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Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome. by Laine, V, Gossmann, T, Schachtschneider, K, Garroway, C, Madsen, O, Verhoeven, K, de Jager, V, Megens, H, Warren, W, Minx, P, Crooijmans, R, Corcoran, P, Sheldon, B, Slate, J, Zeng, K, van Oers, K, Visser, M, Groenen, M

Forecasting the spread of raccoon rabies using a purpose-specific group decisionmaking process by Aaron M. Anderson, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Richard B. Chipman, Todd Atwood, Tyler Cozzens, Frank Fillo, Robert Hale, Brody Hatch, Joanne Maki, Olin E. Rhodes, Erin E. Rees, Charles E. Rupprecht, Rowland Tinline, Kurt C. VerCauteren, Dennis Slate

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Response to Perrier and Charmantier: On the importance of time scales when studying adaptive evolution by Mirte Bosse, Lewis G. Spurgin, Veronika N. Laine, Ella F. Cole, Josh A. Firth, Phillip Gienapp, Andrew G. Gosler, Keith McMahon, Jocelyn Poissant, Irene Verhagen, Martien A. M. Groenen, Kees vanOers, Ben C. Sheldon, Marcel E. Visser, Jon Slate

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Impact of medical school responses during the COVID-19 pandemic on student satisfaction: a nationwide survey of US medical students by Isaac E. Kim, Daniel D. Kim, Juliana E. Kim, Elliott Rebello, David Chung, Parker Woolley, Daniel Lee, Brittany A. Borden, Aaron Wang, Douglas Villalta, Agatha Sutherland, Sebastian De Armas, Matthew Liu, Hannah Kim, Grace Sora Ahn, Reed Geisler, Alexander Yang, Bowon Joung, John Slate-Romano, Michal Rajski, Alison E. Kim, Roxanne Vrees, Kristina Monteiro

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TU Tau B: The Peculiar “Eclipse” of a Possible Proto-barium Giant by Richard O. Gray, Christopher J. Corbally, Michael M. Briley, Adam McKay, Forrest Sims, David Boyd, Christophe Boussin, Courtney E. McGahee, Robert Buchheim, Gary Walker, David Iadevaia, David Cejudo Fernandez, Damien Lemay, Jack Martin, Jim Grubb, Albert Stiewing, Joseph Daglen, Keith Shank, Sydney Andrews, Nick Barnhardt, Rebekah Clark, Hunter Corman, Sabina Gomes, Agastya Jonnalagadda, Theo McDaries, Ava Mills, Will Newsom, Andrew Slate, Michael Watts

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The great tit HapMap project: a continental-scale analysis of genomic variation in a songbird by Spurgin, LG, Bosse, M, Adriaensen, F, Albayrak, T, Barboutis, C, Belda, E, Bushuev, A, Cecere, JG, Charmantier, A, Cichon, M, Dingemanse, NJ, Doligez, B, Eeva, T, Einar Erikstad, K, Fedorov, V, Griggio, M, Heylen, D, Hille, S, Hinde, CA, Ivankina, E, Kempenaers, B, Kerimov, A, Krist, M, Kvist, L, Laine, VN, Mänd, R, Matthysen, E, Nager, R, Nikolov, B, Norte, AC, Orell, M, Ouyang, J, Petrova-Dinkova, G, Richner, H, Rubolini, D, Slagsvold, T, Tilgar, V, Török, J, Tschirren, B, Vágási, CI, Yuta, T, Groenen, MAM, Visser, ME, van Oers, K, Sheldon, B, Slate, J

OUTLOOK SALES OF SHALE OIL UNDER LOW OIL PRICES by D. K. Davudov, Sh. T. Ismailova

“…As a result of the analysis authors opened concept of slate oil, the condition of the market of slate oil is analysed, the forecast of development of the slate industry is made. …”
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Prevalence of TB symptoms, diagnosis and treatment among people living with HIV (PLHIV) not on ART presenting at outpatient clinics in South Africa and Kenya: baseline results from... by Mhairi Maskew, Matthew Fox, Alana Brennan, Bruce A Larson, Isaac Tsikhutsu, Margaret Bii, Lungisile Vezi, Willem Daniel Francois Venter, Peter D Ehrenkranz, Sydney Rosen

“…Of those, 19% tested positive for TB in Kenya, 15% (SLATE I) and 5% (SLATE II) tested positive in South Africa. …”
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Use-Wear and Experiment of the Stone Pendants from the Eneolithic Burials at the Mouth of the Kama River by Golubeva Ekaterina N., Galimova Madina Sh., Bakhmatova Vera N.

“…The paper presents the results of traceological experiments aimed at obtaining standards of traces that are formed on slate suspensions as a result of their wearing. Some results of an experiment on the use of denticulate slate stamps when applying an ornament to a clay vessel are also considered. …”
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Developing software to assess the seismic risk of natural gas infrastructure: OpenSRA by Micaela Largent, Jonathan Bray, Jennie Watson-Lamprey, Norman Abrahamson

“…As part of a multi-year study, the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) center in conjunction with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the NHERI SimCenter at Berkeley, Slate Geotechnical Consultants (Slate), and several subcontractors, developed an open-source seismic risk analysis (OpenSRA) program that implements the performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) risk framework using a user-friendly interface, capable of operating on a desktop computer. …”
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Study of the discharge rate of dust from asbestos production facilities into the atmosphere by Zaurbekov Talgat, Dossaliyev Kanat, Altybaev Zhaksylyk, Otarbaeva Gulzira, Yesimkhanova Nagima

“…Now slate in Kazakhstan is produced at two modern plants in Semey (Semipalatinsk Plant of Asbestos - cement Products LLP-the largest of the two) and Shymkent (Tectum Engineering LLP). …”
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Wiping away who I was : the mediating role of self-dissociation in the metaphorical cleansing effect by Teo, Fong Chin

“…These findings converge into the clean slate effect of physical cleansing, which means by cleansing oneself, one’s past will be wiped away, including undesired and desired past. …”
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Comportamiento hídrico de pizarras de techar by G. Ruiz de Argandoña, L. Calleja

“…The hidric behaviour of two slaty rocks from the NW of Spain (phyllite of Rande —La Coruña— and slate of Luarca —Asturias—) used as ornamental and roof slate is studied. …”
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Owl-like plaques of the Copper Age and the involvement of children by Juan J. Negro, Guillermo Blanco, Eduardo Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Víctor M. Díaz Núñez de Arenas

“…Abstract In the Copper Age, slate engraved plaques were produced massively in the southwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula. …”
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Reduced Scale Experimental Modelling of Distributed Thermal Response Tests for the Estimation of the Ground Thermal Conductivity by Stefano Morchio, Marco Fossa, Antonella Priarone, Alessia Boccalatte

“…The scaled ground volume is realised with a slate block. Numerical analyses were carried out to correctly determine suitable geometric and operational parameters for the present setup. …”
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The Lapland greenstone belt: Stratigraphic and depositional features in northern Finland by M. Saverikko

“…After a folding episode the Lapponian supergroup was covered with the Kumpu conglomerate—metasandstone—slate suite, occurring as Karelian, i.e. Sariolan-Jatulian, deposits. …”
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L’épave de Saint-Satur dans la Loire moyenne : un transport d’ardoises interrompu à la charnière du Moyen Âge et de la période moderne by Marion Foucher, Annie Dumont, Philippe Moyat, Catherine Lavier, Ronan Steinmann

“…The shipwreck, estimated by dendrochronology to be from the last years of the 15th century or the first decades of the 16th century, preserved a cargo of stones and slates, thus offering a new potential for study in terms of transport and economy of building materials. …”
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Weathering Processes and Mechanisms of Low-Grade Metamorphic Rock following Freeze-Thaw Processes by Guopeng Wu, Kai Cui, Pei Wang, Wenwu Chen

“…Examples of such materials are slate and phyllite, which are employed approximately mountainous permafrost zones. …”
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