Some practitioners of alternative medicine identify overgrowth of the fungus Candida as the cause of eczema, psoriasis, and conditions like fibromyalgia, depression, and chronic migraines. These naturopathic physicians may...
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Candida, Candida albicans und Candida cleanse diet
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Candida -- Health aspects, Mycoses -- Diet therapy -- Evaluation und Mycoses -- Alternative treatment -- Evaluation
Research on the post-mortem human microbiome, or thanatomicrobiome, is a rapidly developing topic in the field of forensic science. To date, the study of the thanatomicrobiome has primarily been centered on utilizing the...
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16S, community, decomposition, post-mortem, succession und thanatomicrobiome
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Postmortem changes, Mouth -- Microbiology, Bacterial communities und Death -- Time of
Rabies is a highly preventable disease that is still claiming thousands of lives every year. An edible rabies vaccine for animals would reduce the cost and resources needed for the vaccine to reach less developed regions by...
Most research on song complexity has mainly focused on repertoire size. However, the way various song structures within a repertoire function in male-male interactions is less well understood. In this study, I have explored the...
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Agonistic, Repertoire, Song, Sparrow und Trill
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Song sparrow -- Vocalization -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee, Song sparrow -- Behavior -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee, Birdsongs -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee und Social behavior in animals -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee
There are many different reasons why a non-native plant species might become invasive in a novel habitat. Some studies have focused on trying to determine the genetic structure of an invasive species. Other studies have...
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Cold Stratification, Common Garden und Invasive plants
For over two decades, scientists and land managers in the eastern United States have had concerns about the loss of early seral habitat resulting from changes in land use and disturbance regimes. Forest harvest can create early...
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early seral forest, functional traits, southern Appalachians, vertical structure und woody vegetation
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Plants -- Effect of logging on -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest und Plant succession -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest
Mussels are an indicator species for water quality due to exposure to acute water pollutants from their filter feeding life style (Augspurger 2003). Mussels are also more susceptible to trace metal exposure than many other...
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Biology, Geochemistry, Little Tennessee River, NC, Water Quality und Water Resource
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Freshwater mussels -- Little Tennessee River (Ga.-Tenn.), Freshwater mussels -- Effect of water pollution on -- Little Tennessee River (Ga.-Tenn.) und Water quality -- Little Tennessee River (Ga.-Tenn.)
Foodborne bacterial pathogens like Salmonella genera remain of interest to regulatory agencieslike the FDA and CDC. As a foodborne pathogen, capable of causing serious illness in bothhuman and non-human animals, the CDC has...
Salmonella -- North Carolina, Western, Salmonella -- North Carolina -- Piedmont Triad, Environmental sampling -- North Carolina -- Piedmont Triad, Environmental sampling -- North Carolina, Western und Nucleotide sequence -- Data processing
Fire can impact an ecosystem by changing environmental factors and small mammal abundances. Historically, wildfires have been uncommon in high elevation northern hardwood forests of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. In...
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Mammal populations -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest, Mammals -- Habitat -- Environmental aspects -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest, Mammals -- Effect of fires on -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest, Mammals -- Behavior -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest und Wildfires -- Environmental aspects -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest
The winter firefly, Photinus corruscus (Linnaeus, 1767), is a diurnal species commonly found throughout Eastern North America. This species has unique ecology – adults diapause through the winter on the sunny side of trees,...
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Photinus, Entomology, Fireflies, Insect populations und Ecological zones
