Harbor seal
Analysis of blood gases, serum fat and serum protein: a new approach to estimate survival chances of stranded Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) pups from the German North Sea
... Venous whole blood from the fasting pups was drawn from the epidural vertebral vein with a needle (1.2 × 100 mm) and a syringe (10 ml). For differential hematology and serum chemistry (triglycerides and protein), venous ...
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Immunohistochemical fiber typing of harbor seal skeletal muscle
... sections. Harbor seal myoglobin (Mb) concentrations, citrate synthase activities (CS; an indicator of aerobic metabolism) and β-hydroxyacyl CoA dehydrogenase activities (HOAD; an indicator of fatty acid ...
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Harbor seal vibrissa morphology suppresses vortex induced vibrations
... Vortex-induced vibrations and strategies to reduce them have been the subject of extensive studies in engineering (Bearman and Owen, 1998; Owen et al., 2001; Owen et al., 2000; Scruton, 1965; Williamson and Govardhan, ...
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Assay dependence of Brucella antibody prevalence in a declining Alaskan harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) population
... declining harbor seal population in GBNP has been exposed to Brucella bac- teria and that these pathogens could play a role in affect- ing the health of this ...in harbor seals described in the ...
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A Comparison and Contrast of Environmental Monitoring Techniques from 2008 to 2014 on the Pacific Harbor Seal and Northern Channel Island Pinnipeds
... the harbor seal pupping season of March through June, whenever possible and avoiding, whenever possible, launches which are predicted to produce a sonic boom on the Northern Channel Islands during Pinniped ...
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Vibrissal sensitivity in a harbor seal (Phoca vitulina)
... Subsequent studies utilized less invasive psychophysical methods to investigate vibrissal sensitivity in seals trained to respond to vibratory stimulation. Renouf (1979) and Mills and Renouf (1986) measured behavioral ...
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Skin histology and its role in heat dissipation in three pinniped species
... Pacific harbor seal and Northern elephant seal) had small and infrequently present sweat glands all over the ...fur seal fluctuated due to the lack of hair ...
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Development of an animal borne blood sample collection device and its deployment for the determination of cardiovascular and stress hormones in phocid seals
... Blood collected from a harbor seal was used for the measurement of stress hormones ACTH and cortisol and those from grey seals were used for cardiovascular hormones ANP, AngII and AVP.. [r] ...
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Static inflation and deflation pressure–volume curves from excised lungs of marine mammals
... [harp seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus (Erxleben 1777); harbor seal, Phoca vitulina (Linnaeus 1758); and gray seal, Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius 1791)] or odontocetes [Atlantic white-sided ...
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Hyperbaric computed tomographic measurement of lung compression in seals and dolphins
... a harbor seal diving with a lung volume that is only 18%, the shunt is about 65–80% at 90 m and they extrapolate that collapse probably occurs somewhere close to 170 m (Kooyman and Sinnett, ...
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A comparative analysis of marine mammal tracheas
... In 1940, Scholander suggested that stiffened upper airways remained open and received air from highly compressible alveoli during marine mammal diving. There are few data available on the structural and functional ...
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What is the impact of Family SEAL? An evaluation of the Family SEAL intervention examining the impact of the programme on children and parent/carer participants
... Family SEAL programme did not have a significant effect on ...Family SEAL programme with regard to measure of children’s emotional literacy and their ...
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Modelling harbour seal movements
... The IBM has four types of movement, each described by an activity-specific mean speed and mean turning angle (and their variability). During haulout activity (HO) there is no movement. During foraging activity (FO), ...
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From Downtown to the Inner Harbor: Baltimore's Sustainable Revitalization - Part 2: The Inner Harbor Plan (1967 to 2005)
... Inner Harbor, they also prove that sustainable revitalization is a continuous process that depends on planning processes that are ˝exible to some degree while still pursuing the original vision and ...Inner ...
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DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNAL MECHANICAL SEAL FOR CHEMICAL PROCESSING CENTRIFUGAL PUMP.
... mechanical seal is a device which helps join systems or mechanisms together by preventing leakage ...A seal may also be referred to as ...face seal is an important component of variety of pumps used ...
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Physicians and Safe Harbor Legal Immunity
... In contrast to the first two types of safe harbor that protect conduct because it is either substantively or procedurally defined as low-risk, the third type of [r] ...
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RFID-aided System Design for Container Customs Clearance between Guangdong and Hong Kong
... inspection, harbor master, harbor management departments, import and export company, customs agent, dock company, shipping agency, forwarder, customs broker and CIQ (China Inspection and Quarantine) ...
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Resistance of a compartmented surface-effect ship
... rear seal, causing a visible distortion of the seal transversely, and raising the water level on the forward surface of the ...the seal. Consequently, the seal resumes its more normal shape, ...
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Gold Seal Series Amplifiers
... Gold Seal Series Amplifier is covered by a 3-year warranty and overnight installation-site replace- ment program (see ...Gold Seal amplifier, please do not hesitate to ask our advice or ...
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Optimal Designs to Develop and Support an Experimental Strategy on Innovation of Thermoforming Production Process
... There are different options to design the experiment. Central composite de- signs are commonly used but best option for this study is optimal design to avoid problems with non-cuboidal regions (Anderson and Whitcomb, ...
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