12/16/2023 0 Comments Schick test![]() Nicole Tamer, Alexandra Bosshard and Natalia Morozova present their research at interactive booths at the Night of Science in Geneva.Nicole Tamer presents a poster at the IMPRS conference at the Max Planck Institue of Psycholinguistics.Talk on "Case marking influences visual event apprehension" by Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi and colleagues at CogSci 2022.Carmen Saldana presented joint work with Borja Herce and Balthasar Bickel at CogSci2022.Papers of DCLS members at ICHL 25 in Oxford, 1-5 August 22.New paper by Erika Just & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich on a corpus-based analysis of P indexing in Ruuli.New paper by Joseph Mine & Simon Townsend on communication used for cooperative hunting in chimpanzees.New paper by Carmen Saldana on (ir)rational decision making strategies across human and non-human primates.Papers and Posters of DCLS members at SLE 55 in Bucharest, 24-27 August 22.Papers and Posters of DCLS members at JCoLE in Kanazawa & Online, 5-8 September 22.Papers by Borja Herce and Carmen Saldaña at IMM20 in Budapest, 1-4 September 22.Second international ZAZH-congress, 1-3 September 2022.Call combinations in chimpanzees: a social tool?.Conference paper by Milad Abedi and Samira Müller at ICSTLL55: Donkey-eared or Rabbit-eared, that’s the question – Trans-Himalayan zoonyms as seen in relation with their neighbouring languages.Conference paper by Milad Abedi at DOT 2022: A new perspective on a supposed sound change between Middle and New Persian.David Inman received third prize at the Societas Linguistica Europaea in the category of Best Conference Papers by starting post-doctoral researchers.Invited Talk by David Inman at ComPLETE conference in Mainz.Invited talk by Marine Vuillermet at ComPLETE conference in Mainz.From typology to areality: Mapping American linguistic areas.Invited presentation by Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, David Inman, and Marine Vuillermet at the Dynamique Du Langage research unit in Lyon.SNSF Ambizione grant awarded to Sebastian Sauppe.Invited talk by Erika Just by the CRC "Prominence in Language" in Cologne.New paper by Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen, Simon Townsend and colleagues in Nature communications on the origins of acoustic communication!.Ira Kurthen, Allison Christen, Martin Meyer and Nathalie Giroud published a paper regarding neural speech tracking in NeuroImage.Presentation by Morgane Jourdain at BUCLD on the simplification of verb morphology in contingent child-directed speech.Poster presentation at BUCLD by Olivier Rüst.Release of the Gheg Albanian treebank co-authored by Christian Ebert and Paul Widmer in UD 2.11.Genes and languages go together, except when they don’t: New PNAS paper by DCLS members.Conference presentation by Milad Abedi at International Conference on Silk Road Studies: Iranian terms for footwear and their naming motivations.Guest talk by Chundra Cathcart at Collaborative Research Center "Limits of Variability in Language", University of Potsdam.New paper co-authored by department members Guanghao You and Sabine Stoll.New publication by Lev Michael, Natalia Chousou Polydouri, Gereon Kaiping and collaborators on Arawak calibrations.Workshop: New Results and Methods in Reconstructing Population History.Five Talks by department members at the ALT Conference, Austin, TX.Paper presentation at the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium.Presentation by Martin Meyer and Florian Riese: «Die Grenzen meiner Sprache sind die Grenzen meiner Welt» - Der Verlust der Sprache bei Demenz.This diphtheria toxin was manufactured by American firm Parke Davis and Company. It was once a notable killer, but is now rare in the UK because of routine childhood vaccination. Diphtheria has been a notifiable disease since 1889, meaning all cases must be reported and recorded for government statistics. ![]() It meant the bacteria could be tested for and used to diagnose infection. This was isolated the following year by fellow researcher Friedrich Loeffler (1852–1915). In 1883, German bacteriologist Edwin Klebs (1834–1913) discovered the bacterium which causes diphtheria. This warned the doctor the patient was at risk and should be given an immunisation injection. If the body does not have enough antibodies to fight the toxin it reacts by producing a raised red mark. ![]() It involved injecting a tiny amount of toxin just under the skin. The test is known as a Schick test after its inventor, paediatrician Béla Schick (1877–1967). This tiny glass vial contains enough diphtheria toxin to test ten individuals for their susceptibility to the disease. Box containing 1 vial of 2 cc Schick Test Diphtheria toxin, manufactured by Parke Davis & Co, 1933ĭiphtheria is a contagious and potentially deadly upper respiratory tract infection.
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