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Legacy pollutants are declining in Great Skuas (Stercorarius skua) but remain higher in Faroe Islands than in Scotland [PDF]

, 2016
To monitor environmental pollutants in Faroese biota, samples from a top predator were analysed and put into a spatial and temporal context. Analysis of 20 Great Skua eggs sampled in 2012 from the Faroe Islands showed >70 % lower concentrations of ...
Alonso, Sarah, Dam, Maria, Furness, Robert W., Hammer, Sjurdur, McGill, Rona A.R., Nager, Ruedi G.   +5 more
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The potential of teleaudiology in remote areas as the Arctic: a scoping review of treatment and rehabilitation in remote and low-resource settings

International Journal of Circumpolar Health
Hearing disability constitutes a major health care issue especially among indigenous populations and in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). The authors are engaged in organising audiological services in Greenland, where the geographical challenges ...
Katrine Rosenquist Kirk, Michael Bille, Ramon Gordon Jensen   +2 more
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Physical activity and blood gene expression profiles: the Norwegian Women and Cancer (NOWAC) Post-genome cohort

BMC Research Notes, 2020
Objectives The influence of physical activity (PA) on the immune system has emerged as a new field of research. Regular PA may promote an anti-inflammatory state in the body, thus contributing to the down-regulation of pro-inflammatory processes related ...
Karina Standahl Olsen, Marko Lukic, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch   +2 more
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Divergent functional traits in three sympatric Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus morphs are not coupled with the age of the lineage divergence [PDF]

, 2016
Three genetically discrete morphs of Arctic charr in Loch Rannoch, Scotland originated from a recent divergence within the lake (in situ) (piscivore and benthivore morphs) and from secondary contact of two older lineages (ex situ; a planktivore–piscivore/
Adams, Colin, Bryce, Carolyn, Fraser, Alicia, Greer, Ron, Knudsen, Rune   +4 more
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Joint Effect of Carotid Plaque and C‐Reactive Protein on First‐Ever Ischemic Stroke and Myocardial Infarction?

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2018
BackgroundThe joint effect of atherosclerosis and CRP (C‐reactive protein) on risk of ischemic stroke (IS) and myocardial infarction (MI) has been sparsely studied.
Agnethe Eltoft, Kjell Arne Arntzen, Tom Wilsgaard, John‐Bjarne Hansen, Ellisiv B. Mathiesen, Stein Harald Johnsen   +5 more
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Longitudinal changes in body composition and waist circumference by self-reported levels of physical activity in leisure among adolescents: the Tromsø study, Fit Futures

BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2019
Background It is not clear how physical activity affects body composition in adolescents. Physical activity levels are often reduced during this period, and the relative proportion of body fat mass and lean mass undergo natural changes in growing ...
Nils Abel Aars, Bjarne K. Jacobsen, Bente Morseth, Nina Emaus, Sameline Grimsgaard   +4 more
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Human infectious diseases and the changing climate in the Arctic

Environment International, 2018
Climatic factors, especially temperature, precipitation, and humidity play an important role in disease transmission. As the Arctic changes at an unprecedented rate due to climate change, understanding how climatic factors and climate change affect ...
Audrey Waits, Anastasia Emelyanova, Antti Oksanen, Khaled Abass, Arja Rautio   +4 more
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Pole-to-Pole Connections : Similarities between Arctic and Antarctic Microbiomes and Their Vulnerability to Environmental Change [PDF]

, 2017
Acknowledgments JK acknowledges the Carl Zeiss foundation for PhD funding, the Marie-Curie COFUND-BEIPD PostDoc fellowship for PostDoc funding, FNRS travel funding and the logistical and financial support by UNIS.
Bahram, Mohammad, Bork, Peer, Camacho, Antonio, Convey, Peter, Dietrich, Daniel R., Hildebrand, Falk, Jungblut, Anne D., Kleinteich, Julia, Küpper, Frithjof C., Pearce, David A., Quesada, Antonio, Vincent, Warwick F., Voigt, Anita Y., Wood, Susanna A., Zarfl, Christiane   +14 more
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Respect for Grizzly Bears: An Aboriginal Approach for Co-existence and Resilience [PDF]

, 2009
Aboriginal peoples’ respect for grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) is widely acknowledged, but rarely explored, in wildlife management discourse in northern Canada.
Clarke, Douglas A., Slocombe, D. Scott
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Crowberry (Empetrum): A Chief Arctic Traditional Indigenous Fruit in Need of Economic and Ecological Management

, 2021
The genus Empetrum (Ericaceae) is controversially classified taxonomically. It is conservatively treated as comprising one variable widespread circumboreal/circumarctic species, E. nigrum , usually known as black crowberry (although there are other fruit
Janick Lorion, E. Small
semanticscholar   +1 more source