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Protocol of a prospective comprehensive evaluation of an elastic band beard cover for filtering facepiece respirators in healthcare.

PLoS ONE, 2023
Individuals who are unable to be clean shaven for religious, medical or cultural reasons are unable to wear a filtering facepiece respirator (FFR), as the respirator cannot provide adequate protection against aerosol-transmissible diseases.
Daryl Lindsay Williams, Benjamin Kave, Charles Bodas, Fiona Begg, Megan Roberts, Irene Ng   +5 more
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FIRST INSTRUMENTAL AERIAL SURVEY OF RINGED SEALS (PUSA HISPIDA) AND BEARDED SEALS (ERIGNATHUS BARBATUS) IN THE RUSSIAN ZONE OF THE CHUKCHI AND EAST-SIBERIAN SEAS IN SPRING 2016

Известия ТИНРО, 2019
An instrumental aerial survey was conducted in the Russian part of the Chukchi Sea and the eastern East-Siberian Sea in the spring of 2016 to investigate new technical capabilities for estimating abundance and distribution of ringed and bearded seals on ...
V. I. Chernook, I. S. Trukhanova, A. N. Vasiliev, D. I. Litovka, D. M. Glazov, V. N. Burkanov   +5 more
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ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF PHOCID SEALS ON ICE IN THE WESTERN BERING SEA IN SPRING, 2012–2013

Известия ТИНРО, 2018
Abundance and density distribution of four seal species (ringed, ribbon, spotted, and bearded) on spring ice was estimated based on the data from two instrumental aerial surveys in the western Bering Sea in April-May 2012 and April 2013 and compared with
V. I. Chernook, I. S. Trukhanova, A. N. Vasiliev, A. I. Grachev, D. I. Litovka, V. N. Burkanov, S. V. Zagrebelny   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Short Note: Report of mummified leopard seal carcass in the southern Dry Valleys, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. [PDF]

, 2010
The wide spread occurrence of mummified seal and penguin carcasses tens of kilometres from the open ocean is an interesting phenomenon occurring in the Antarctic Dry Valleys.
Ross, Philip M., Smith, Tracy E., Banks, Jonathan C.   +2 more
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First isolation of Brucella pinnipedialis and detection of Brucella antibodies from bearded seals Erignathus barbartus [PDF]

, 2018
Brucella species infecting marine mammals was first reported in 1994 and in the years since has been documented in various species of pinnipeds and cetaceans. While these reports have included species that inhabit Arctic waters, the few available studies
KM Kovacs, Brownlow, Andrew, Lydersen, C, Godfroid, J., KB Beckmen, Perrett, LL, Dagleish, Mark P, C Lydersen, Baily, Johanna, Nymo, Ingebjorg H., Kovacs, Kit M., Baily, J.L., Godfroid, Jacques, M Tryland, Muchowski, J, Foster, G., Nymo, Ingebjorg H, Dagleish, Mark P., MP Dagleish, Muchowski, J., Kovacs, KM, Lydersen, Christian, Whatmore, AM, Perrett, Lorraine L, AC Brownlow, Beckmen, Kimberlee B, Brownlow, AC, Beckmen, K.B., Muchowski, Jakub, G Foster, Beckmen, KB, Dagleish, M.P., Foster, G; id_orcid, Whatmore, A.M., Whatmore, Adrian M., B McGovern, McGovern, B., J Godfroid, McGovern, Barry, Baily, JL, Dagleish, MP, IH Nymo, JL Baily, Perrett, L.L., Nymo, I.H., AM Whatmore, Foster, Geoff, J Muchowski, LL Perrett, Beckmen, Kimberlee B., Tryland, Morten, Foster, Geoffrey, Brownlow, A.C., Whatmore, Adrian M, Lydersen, C., Tryland, M., Perrett, Lorraine L., Godfroid, J, Kovacs, K.M., Baily, Johanna L., Kovacs, Kit M, Tryland, M, McGovern, B, Brownlow, Andrew C., Nymo, IH   +64 more
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Assessing grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) diet in western Scotland [PDF]

, 2008
Grey seal diet was last comprehensively studied in western Scotland in 1985. Since then, the grey seal population has increased by approximately 30% and relative abundance of fish stocks in the area has changed markedly.
Harris, R.N.
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Marine mammal biodiversity and rare narwhal (Monodon monoceros) observations near northern Ellesmere Island, Canada

Ecosphere, 2021
A climate‐driven decline of sea ice has increased international interest in understanding the ecology of seldom studied high‐Arctic regions projected to retain the last remnants of summer sea ice.
Cody G. Carlyle, Katie R. N. Florko, Brent G. Young, David J. Yurkowski, Christine Michel, Steven H. Ferguson   +5 more
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Seasonal patterns in acoustic detections of marine mammals near Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories

Arctic Science, 2018
The Arctic is changing rapidly, leading to changes in habitat availability and increased anthropogenic disturbance. Information on the distribution of animals is needed as these changes occur. We examine seasonal presence of marine mammals in the western
William D. Halliday, Stephen J. Insley, Tyler de Jong, Xavier Mouy   +3 more
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Pre-partum diet of adult female bearded seals in years of contrasting ice conditions. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Changing patterns of sea-ice distribution and extent have measurable effects on polar marine systems. Beyond the obvious impacts of key-habitat loss, it is unclear how such changes will influence ice-associated marine mammals in part because of the ...
Mark A Hindell, Christian Lydersen, Haakon Hop, Kit M Kovacs   +3 more
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Inuit Symbolism of the Bearded Seal

, 2017
The skins of the bearded seal—both dress and interior skins—were indispensable in Inuit/Yupiit technology. Converted into straps, thongs, covers, pokes, rain clothing, and underwear, the skins served to make transport possible, facilitate hunting ...
Sonne, Birgitte
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