ABSTRACT The primates that inhabit the rainforest surrounding city of Manaus (Amazonas, Brazil) have long been recognised as potentially important reservoirs emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (ERIDs). PCR amplification filarial sequences from wild-caught Simulium oyapockense has used to incriminate Amazon-region ERID bridge vectors by showing they had previously fed on non-human prim...

Lightweight physical layer security schemes that have recently attracted a lot of attention include unclonable functions (PUFs), RF fingerprinting / proximity based authentication and secret key generation (SKG) from wireless fading coefficients. In this paper, we propose fast, privacy-preserving, zero-round-trip-time (0-RTT), multi-factor protocol, for the first time brings all these elements ...

Cowpox virus (CPXV) was considered as uniform species within the genus Orthopoxvirus (OPV). Previous phylogenetic analysis indicated that CPXV is polyphyletic and isolates may cluster into different clades with two of these clades showing genetic similarities to either variola (VARV) or vaccinia viruses (VACV). Further analyses were initiated to assess both the genetic diversity and the evoluti...

Among primate species there is pronounced variation in the relationship between social status and measures of stress physiology. An informal meta-analysis was designed to investigate the basis of this diversity across different primate societies. Species were included only if a substantial amount of published information was available regarding both social behavior and rank-related differences ...

The etiology and pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remains unsolved, but improved experimental models of enterocolitis have led to progress. Intestinal inflammation and experimental IBD can be induced by chemical or dietary factors or by microbial products. Many animal models of IBD can be used to evaluate new anti-inflammatory drugs. These models, however, usually demonstrate ac...

In many cooperatively breeding birds and mammals, group size is positively correlated with reproductive success. In marmoset and tamarin monkeys, species that display cooperative breeding, the presence of helpers appears to be critical for offspring survival, and breeders might be expected to display social strategies that would regulate group size. This study investigated the association betwe...

Previous work has shown that human adults, children, and infants can rapidly compute sequential statistics from a stream of speech and then use these statistics to determine which syllable sequences form potential words. In the present paper we ask whether this ability reflects a mechanism unique to humans, or might be used by other species as well, to acquire serially organized patterns. In a ...