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Neisseria Meningitidis Causing Multiple Cerebral Abscesses in Early Neonatal Period: Case Report and Review of Literature [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2017
Neisseria meningitidis is a rare cause of meningitis and septicemia in neonates. There are few published case reports of neonatal meningococcal meningitis complicated by subdural empyema, cerebral abscess and hydrocephalus.
LAXMAN BASANI, ROJA AEPALA
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Impact of sugar industries of kushinagar district (U.P.) on water quality: Using remote sensing and Geographical information System (GIS)

Environment Conservation Journal, 2006
Quality of water is an important aspect for drinking and  other  related  requirement.  Water  has been  the  most  exploited natural resource due  to  ever increasing  demand  of man for  food,  cloth,  industrialization.  In  the present  study effect 
Gyanendra Awasthi, Vinay Kumar, Harish Chandra, Ajay Singh, Airvind Mathur   +4 more
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Cashing in on Spinners: Revenue Estimates of Wild Dolphin-Swim Tourism in the Hawaiian Islands

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Wild dolphin-swim tourism has grown in specific locations where Hawaiian spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) have known resting habitat. The increased growth in dolphin-swim businesses has created an industry in Hawaii that earns an estimated $102 ...
Carlie Wiener, Lars Bejder, Lars Bejder, Lars Bejder, David Johnston, Leesa Fawcett, Paul Wilkinson   +6 more
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Sustainable Fisheries Management and the Welfare of Bycaught and Entangled Cetaceans

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018
The incidental capture of cetaceans and other protected marine wildlife in fishing gear has significant welfare implications. Many thousands of cetaceans are bycaught in fishing gear in European waters and hundreds of thousands die globally.
Sarah J. Dolman, Philippa Brakes, Philippa Brakes   +2 more
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Food provisioning increases the risk of injury in a long-lived marine top predator [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2016
Food provisioning of wildlife is a major concern for management and conservation agencies worldwide because it encourages unnatural behaviours in wild animals and increases each individual's risk for injury and death. Here we investigate the contributing
Fredrik Christiansen, Katherine A. McHugh, Lars Bejder, Eilidh M. Siegal, David Lusseau, Elizabeth Berens McCabe, Gretchen Lovewell, Randall S. Wells   +7 more
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Reflecting on the human dimensions of wild dolphin tourism in marine environments

Tourism and Hospitality Management, 2019
Purpose – Many studies report on the potential ecological impacts of wild dolphin tourism, risks to people, and economic benefits to local communities.
Jessica Patroni, David Newsome, David Kerr, Daminda P. Sumanapala, Greg D. Simpson   +4 more
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Systematic Determination of Herpesvirus in Free-Ranging Cetaceans Stranded in the Western Mediterranean: Tissue Tropism and Associated Lesions

Viruses, 2021
The monitoring of herpesvirus infection provides useful information when assessing marine mammals’ health. This paper shows the prevalence of herpesvirus infection (80.85%) in 47 cetaceans stranded on the coast of the Valencian Community, Spain.
Ignacio Vargas-Castro, Mar Melero, José Luis Crespo-Picazo, María de los Ángeles Jiménez, Eva Sierra, Consuelo Rubio-Guerri, Manuel Arbelo, Antonio Fernández, Daniel García-Párraga, José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno   +9 more
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A 32-mV Supply Ring Oscillator Composed of Modified Schmitt Trigger Delay Cells for Integrated Start-Up Circuits in DC Energy Harvesting Systems

IEEE Access
Implementing fully integrated start-up energy harvesting (EH) systems is very challenging. The most popular start-up circuit implementations use a low-voltage ring oscillator (RO).
Mahmoud Ahmed, Aref Trigui, Sebastien Genevey, Yves Audet, Yvon Savaria   +4 more
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Patterns of dolphin bycatch in a north-western Australian trawl fishery.

PLoS ONE, 2014
The bycatch of small cetaceans in commercial fisheries is a global wildlife management problem. We used data from skippers' logbooks and independent observers to assess common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) bycatch patterns between 2003 and 2009
Simon J Allen, Julian A Tyne, Halina T Kobryn, Lars Bejder, Kenneth H Pollock, Neil R Loneragan   +5 more
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Tiny defenders: Isolating antibiotic producers from soil samples

Environment Conservation Journal
This study explored the soil as a rich source of microorganisms capable of creating novel antibacterial chemicals in an effort to address the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.
Aparajita Gupta, Sachin Pandey, Himanshu Upadhyay   +2 more
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