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Determinants of neonatal mortality in rural India, 2007–2008 [PDF]
Background. Despite the growing share of neonatal mortality in under-5 mortality in the recent decades in India, most studies have focused on infant and child mortality putting neonatal mortality on the back seat.
Abhishek Kumar +4 more
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Mass mortality of seabirds in GB
IN the period between August and November 2021, there were unprecedented autumn deaths of seabirds, predominantly auks such as guillemots (Uria aalge) and razorbills (Alca torda), in eastern Scotland and England. A total of 179 carcases, comprising 150 common guillemots and 29 razorbills, were collected from beaches (Fig 1) and submitted to Scotland’s ...
Fullick, E. +9 more
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Final follow-up of the Multicentre Aneurysm Screening Study (MASS) randomized trial of abdominal aortic aneurysm screening [PDF]
Background: The long-term effects of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening were investigated in extended follow-up from the UK Multicentre Aneurysm Screening Study (MASS) randomized trial.
Gao, L +4 more
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There are only very limited reports about the occurrence of the crayfish plague in Czechia. In recent years, mass mortalities of Astacus spp. with symptoms of possible crayfish plague were noticed in three streams in the country two in Central Bohemia (
KOZUBÍKOVÁ E. +6 more
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Mass mortality event in a small saline lake (Lake Rogoznica) caused by unusual holomictic conditions
The study of a small saline eutrophic lake was performed under meromictic and holomictic conditions. The meromictic period was characterised by anoxic conditions in the bottom layer with high sulphide and nutrient concentrations.
Ante Baric +5 more
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Unexpected Refuge for Threatened Species Revealed by A Prolonged Low-Sea-Level Phase
The Sicily coast of Messina Strait (Central Mediterranean) is characterized by a rare beach rock formation, whose biotic features are poorly known. Situated near an amphidromic tidal point, the formation is not affected by tidal oscillations allowing the
Salvatore Giacobbe, İvan Angelo Gatì
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Lethargic crab disease: multidisciplinary evidence supports a mycotic etiology
Although lethargic crab disease (LCD) is causing massive mortalities in populations of the mangrove crab Ucides cordatus of Northeastern Brazil, the identity of its etiological agent was hitherto unknown.
Walter A Boeger +3 more
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Fear the reaper: ungulate carcasses may generate an ephemeral landscape of fear for rodents [PDF]
Animal carcasses provide an ephemeral pulse of nutrients for scavengers that use them. Carcass sites can increase species interactions and/or ephemeral, localized landscapes of fear for prey within the vicinity.
S. C. Frank +4 more
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Pinctada birnavirus (PiBV) is the causative agent of summer atrophy in pearl oyster (Pinctada fucata (Gould)). The disease, which induces mass mortality in juveniles less than 1 year old and abnormalities in adults, was first reported in Japan in 2019 ...
Tomomasa Matsuyama +4 more
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Anthropometry and mortality : a cohort study of rural Bangladeshi women. [PDF]
Many authors suggest that low anthropometric levels are associated with higher mortality risk in adults, In developing countries however there have been few opportunities to test this hypothesis.
Hosegood, Victoria
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