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Recurring Influenza B Virus Infections in Seals
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013 To the Editor: Until 1999, influenza B virus was considered to infect humans only. However, more recent data proved that harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) and gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) also can be infected (1).
Rogier Bodewes +10 more
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Emergence of Fatal Avian Influenza in New England Harbor Seals
MBio, 2012 From September to December 2011, 162 New England harbor seals died in an outbreak of pneumonia. Sequence analysis of postmortem samples revealed the presence of an avian H3N8 influenza A virus, similar to a virus circulating in North American waterfowl ...
Peter Daszak, Raul Rabadan
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Journal of Materials Science, 2011 There has, in recent years, been a major revival of interest in glass- and glass–ceramic-to-metal seals and coatings for new applications. Experience dictates that many factors need to be taken into consideration in the successful design and manufacture ...
I. W. Donald +4 more
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Lubricants, 2021 In this study, two polymeric materials were tested in a dry rotating “pin-on-disc” configuration against differently coated surfaces, to evaluate their tribological response under conditions, such as those of rotary lip seals, and to identify the wear ...
Federica Amenta +4 more
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2021 Between 1880–1962, gray and harbor seals were targeted in legal seal bounty hunts across Maine and Massachusetts due to a perceived competition with commercial fisheries.
Andrea Bogomolni +4 more
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Spectroscopy and terahertz imaging for sigillography applications [PDF]
Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications, 2011 Sigillography is the science that studies the manifold aspects of the seals. A seal can be defined as an imprint obtained on a malleable medium by imprinting an incised matrix, which transfers on it the characteristic signs of a person or an institution.
Mounaix P. +5 more
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Przegląd Archeologiczny, 2021 This contribution discusses the evidence of textile impressions preserved on the undersides of clay sealings from Bronze Age Greece. A collection of modern casts taken from these sealings, stored in the Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel in ...
Agata Ulanowska
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Study on the Load Carrying Capacity of Sliding Bearing Lubricated by Synthetic Ester Oils
Tribology Online, 2015 To meet with the latest environmental regulation, as environmentally acceptable lubricant (EAL) in marine field, biodegradable oils based on synthetic ester oils, have been applied to stern tube bearings of many new building vessels since the end of 2013,
Akihiko Yano +3 more
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Oxygen minimum zone: An important oceanographic habitat for deep-diving northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris. [PDF]
, 2017 Little is known about the foraging behavior of top predators in the deep mesopelagic ocean. Elephant seals dive to the deep biota-poor oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) (>800 m depth) despite high diving costs in terms of energy and time, but how they ...
Adachi, Taiki +6 more
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Atmosphere, 2019 Urbanisation largely consists of removing native vegetation. Plants that remain interact with air quality in complex ways. Pollutants can be detrimental to plant growth; plants sometimes reduce air quality, yet some species also improve it through ...
Alison Haynes +4 more
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