Deadly diving? Physiological and behavioural management of decompression stress in diving mammals [PDF]
, 2011 © The Author(s), 2011. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 279 (2012): 1041-1050, doi:10.1098/rspb.2011 ...
Weathersby, P. K. +121 more
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Diving exposure and health effects in divers working in different areas of professional diving [PDF]
, 2016 Background: The aim of the present study was to compare diving exposure and health effects in different areas of professional diving. Materials and methods: The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority’s Diving Register contains data on all professional ...
Irgens, Ågot; Norwegian Centre for Diving Medicine, Department of Occupational Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway +3 more
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How man-made interference might cause gas bubble emboli in deep diving whales [PDF]
, 2014 Recent cetacean mass strandings in close temporal and spatial association with sonar activity has raised the concern that anthropogenic sound may harm breath-hold diving marine mammals.
Miller, Patrick +11 more
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A STUDY ON THE SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSES OF DIVE CENTERS AND SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN PEMUTERAN BALI, INDONESIA [PDF]
Geo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, 2021 The increasing interest of tourists over the last few decades in the Pemuteran Tourism Area has become a major challenge in its management and sustainability.
Danis Arbabun NAJA +3 more
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The scaling of diving time budgets : insights from an optimality approach [PDF]
, 2014 The authors acknowledge the Natural Environment Research Council for support with this work (grant NER/A/S/2003/00616).Simple scaling arguments suggest that, among air-breathing divers, dive duration should scale approximately with mass to the one-third ...
Boyd, Ian Lamont +5 more
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A practical primer for image-based particle measurements in microplastic research
Microplastics and Nanoplastics, 2023 Microplastics have been detected in large numbers around the world. Not only their sheer number threatens ecosystems, their biodiversity, and human health, but risks are also posed by particle characteristics such as size and shape.
Uwe Schnepf +2 more
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Investigating annual diving behaviour by Hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) within the Northwest Atlantic Ocean [PDF]
, 2013 This work was funded through the Atlantic Seal Research Programme, International Governance Programme (DFO), the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, and a CFI grant to YFW. The authors also acknowledge the support of the Marine Alliance for Science
Skern-Mauritzen Mette +32 more
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Serum tau concentration after diving - an observational pilot study [PDF]
, 2019 Increased concentrations of tau protein are associated with medical conditions involving the central nervous system, such as Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury and hypoxia.
Sandstrom, Goran, +11 more
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In situ laboratory for plastic degradation in the Red Sea
Scientific Reports, 2022 Degradation and fragmentation of plastics in the environment are still poorly understood. This is partly caused by the lack of long-term studies and methods that determine weathering duration.
Franz Brümmer +7 more
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Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2023 Background Indigenous fisherman divers frequently experience decompression sickness (DCS). This study aimed to evaluate the associations between the level of knowledge of safe diving, beliefs in the health locus of control (HLC), and regular diving ...
Chanon Kongkamol +4 more
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