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Open AccessRational design of an essential diagnostics network to support Universal Health Coverage: a modeling analysis
Diagnostic investigations, including pathology and laboratory medicine (PALM) and radiology, have been largely absent from international strategies such as the Sustainable Development Goals. Further, there is ...
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Playbacks of food-associated calls attract chimpanzees towards known food patches in a captive setting
Food-associated calls have received much research attention due to their potential to refer to discovered food in a word-like manner. Studies have found that in many species, food-associated calls attract rece...
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Forming, Storming and Norming Your Way Into One Health: The Gombe Case Study
Multidisciplinary approaches are critical to address the increasingly complex issues at the intersection of nonhuman primates and neglected infectious diseases. In this chapter, we use the Gombe Ecosystem Heal...
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Open AccessOral microbiome diversity in chimpanzees from Gombe National Park
Historic calcified dental plaque (dental calculus) can provide a unique perspective into the health status of past human populations but currently no studies have focused on the oral microbial ecosystem of oth...
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Open AccessPersonality in the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park
Researchers increasingly view animal personality traits as products of natural selection. We present data that describe the personalities of 128 eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) currently livi...
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Open AccessSuicide attempts and behavioral correlates among a nationally representative sample of school-attending adolescents in the Republic of Malawi
Suicide is among the top causes of adolescent mortality worldwide. While correlates of suicidal behavior are better understood and delineated in upper-income countries, epidemiologic knowledge of suicidal beha...
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Open AccessAn archive of longitudinal recordings of the vocalizations of adult Gombe chimpanzees
Studies of chimpanzee vocal communication provide valuable insights into the evolution of communication in complex societies, and also comparative data for understanding the evolution of human language. One pa...
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Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts
A meta-analysis of studies on chimpanzees and bonobos across Africa shows that their conspecific aggression is the normal and expected product of adaptive strategies to obtain resources or mates and has no con...
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African origin of the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax
Plasmodium vivax is the leading cause of human malaria in Asia and Latin America but is absent from most of central Africa due to the near fixation of a mutation that inhibits the expression of its receptor, the ...
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Parental monitoring: a way to decrease substance use among Swiss adolescents?
The objective of this research was to determine whether the level of parental monitoring is associated with substance use among adolescents in Switzerland, and to assess whether this effect remains when these ...
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Open AccessGreat ape genetic diversity and population history
High-coverage sequencing of 79 (wild and captive) individuals representing all six non-human great ape species has identified over 88 million single nucleotide polymorphisms providing insight into ape genetic ...
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Chimpanzees and humans harbour compositionally similar gut enterotypes
Microbes inhabiting the human gastrointestinal tract tend to adopt one of three characteristic community structures, called ‘enterotypes’, each of which is overrepresented by a distinct set of bacterial genera...
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Long-Term Studies of the Chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania
The study of chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, which has continued for over 50 years, has yielded many discoveries that would have been impossible without long-term data. The basic data collection procedure ...
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A Confirmed Case of Agranulocytosis after Use of Cocaine Contaminated with Levamisole
More than 2 million Americans use cocaine each month (National Survey on Drug Use and Health, Department of Health and Human Services: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) & Offic...
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‘Capped with Hope, Clad in Youth, Shod in Courage’: Masculinity and Marginality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris
Among the many destabilizing consequences of modernity is, as Robert Nye has argued in Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France, that in the modern period ‘masculinity is always in the course of const...
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Increased mortality and AIDS-like immunopathology in wild chimpanzees infected with SIVcpz
There are more than 40 different types of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infecting African primates, two of which crossed the species barrier to produce the AIDS viruses HIV-1 and HIV-2 in humans. Now a c...
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Comparative rates of violence in chimpanzees and humans
This paper tests the proposal that chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and humans have similar rates of death from intraspecific aggression, whereas chimpanzees have higher rates of non-lethal physical attack (Boehm 19...
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New Cases of Intergroup Violence Among Chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania
Despite considerable attention to chimpanzee intergroup violence, the number of observed cases remains small. We report 4 cases of intergroup violence that occurred in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, between 19...
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Total-System Performance Assessment for the Yucca Mountain Site
Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is under consideration as a potential site for a repository for high-level radioactive waste. Total-system performance-assessment simulations are performed to evaluate the safety of the...
