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Evaluation of four global reanalysis products using in-situ observations in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica [PDF]

, 2016
The glaciers within the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE), West Antarctica, are amongst the most rapidly retreating in Antarctica. Meteorological reanalysis products are widely used to help understand and simulate the processes causing this retreat.
Holland, D.M., Jones, R.W., Lazzara, M.A., Orr, A., Renfrew, I.A., Webber, B.G.M.   +5 more
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An Evolutionarily Young Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Endogenous Retrovirus Identified from Next Generation Sequence Data

Viruses, 2015
Transcriptome analysis of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) tissues identified sequences with similarity to Porcine Endogenous Retroviruses (PERV). Based on these sequences, four proviral copies and 15 solo long terminal repeats (LTRs) of a newly described ...
Kyriakos Tsangaras, Jens Mayer, David E. Alquezar-Planas, Alex D. Greenwood   +3 more
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Loveable Lack: The Reimagined Wild of “Real” Bears

Humanities
The image of the bear and its relationship to the human undergoes many representations in children’s literature. Their bodies range from cute and squishable teddy bears to non-fiction representations of wild bears.
Elizabeth Ritsema
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Internal delensing of cosmic microwave background polarization B-Modes with the POLARBEAR experiment [PDF]

, 2019
International audienceUsing only cosmic microwave background polarization data from the polarbear experiment, we measure B-mode polarization delensing on subdegree scales at more than 5σ significance. We achieve a 14% B-mode power variance reduction, the
Adachi, S, Aguilar Faúndez, MAO, Akiba, Y, Ali, A, Arnold, K, Baccigalupi, C, Barron, D, Beck, D, Bianchini, F, Borrill, J, Carron, J, Cheung, K, Chinone, Y, Crowley, K, El Bouhargani, H, Elleflot, T, Errard, J, Fabbian, G, Feng, C, Fujino, T, Goeckner-Wald, N, Hasegawa, M, Hazumi, M, Hill, CA, Howe, L, Katayama, N, Keating, B, Kikuchi, S, Kusaka, A, Lee, AT, Leon, D, Linder, E, Lowry, LN, Matsuda, F, Matsumura, T, Minami, Y, Namikawa, T, Navaroli, M, Nishino, H, Peloton, J, Pham, ATP, POLARBEAR Collaboration, Poletti, D, Puglisi, G, Reichardt, CL, Segawa, Y, Sherwin, BD, Silva-Feaver, M, Siritanasak, P, Stompor, R, Tajima, O, Takatori, S, Tanabe, D, Teply, GP, Vergès, C   +54 more
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Killing for Trophies: An Analysis of Global Trophy Hunting Trade [PDF]

, 2016
As the trophy hunting industry has grown over the last few decades, governments, conservationists, and animal welfare advocates are keen to understand its global economic and conservation impacts with data as supporting evidence.
Jeff Flocken, Jennifer Tsang, Jordi Casamitjana, Scott Lajoie, Shawna Moos   +4 more
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Reply to the discussion by Pilfold “Polar bear mass change confirms hyperphagia follows ringed seal whelping”

Arctic Science
The spring is a critical period when polar bears (Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774) are thought to have peak access to seals and acquire the majority of their annual energy requirements during a period of hyperphagia. Pagano et al. (Pagano A.M., Atkinson S.N.
Anthony M. Pagano, Stephen N. Atkinson, Louise C. Archer   +2 more
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Persistent organic pollutant burden, experimental POP exposure and tissue properties affect metabolic profiles of blubber from grey seal pups [PDF]

, 2018
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are toxic, ubiquitous, resist breakdown, bioaccumulate in living tissue and biomagnify in food webs. POPs can also alter energy balance in humans and wildlife.
Bennett, Kimberley A., Debier, Cathy, Eppe, Gauthier, Hall, Ailsa J., Robinson, Kelly J., Thomé, Jean Pierre   +5 more
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Polar bear dens on the Seal and Caribou Rivers, Manitoba

Arctic Science
During aerial surveys, we opportunistically located clusters of polar bear (Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774) earth dens on and near the Seal and Caribou Rivers in Northern Manitoba in 2011, 2022, and 2023.
Douglas A. Clark, Joanie L. Kennah, Chantal Cadger MacLean, Stephen N. Atkinson   +3 more
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Polar Bear Population Forecasts: A Public-Policy Forecasting Audit [PDF]

The extinction of polar bears by the end of the 21st century has been predicted and calls have been made to list them as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
Armstrong, J. Scott, Green, Kesten C., Soon, Willie   +2 more
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Williams’s Polar Bears

Writers: Craft & Context, 2023
This essay is an undergraduate student essay responding to the Critical Analysis assignment associated with the Martinez and Smith article (within this issue 4.1): "Critical Theory, Critical Race Representations: Counterstory as Literary Intervention"
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