Matching visual and acoustic events to estimate detection probability for small cetaceans in the ACCOBAMS Survey Initiative by Camille Ollier, Camille Ollier, Ilona Sinn, Oliver Boisseau, Vincent Ridoux, Vincent Ridoux, Auriane Virgili

“…We used vessel-based visual sightings and acoustic data (based on click identification) collected simultaneously during the ACCOBAMS Survey Initiative in summer 2018 onboard the R/V Song of the Whale. This study focused on small cetaceans in the Mediterranean Sea, including the most commonly-encountered species, the striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba). …”
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Frequent Occurrence and Metabolic Versatility of Marinifilaceae Bacteria as Key Players in Organic Matter Mineralization in Global Deep Seas by Jianyang Li, Chunming Dong, Qiliang Lai, Guangyi Wang, Zongze Shao

“…It was the dominant taxon thriving on plant and animal biomasses in our in situ incubator, as well as in whale falls and wood falls. At least 9 subgroups were revealed, and they were widely distributed in oceans globally but predominant in organic-matter-rich environments, with an average relative abundance of 8.3%. …”
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Habitat selection of resident and non-resident gray wolves: implications for habitat connectivity by M. van den Bosch, K. F. Kellner, M. G. Gantchoff, B. R. Patterson, S. M. Barber-Meyer, D. E. Beyer, J. D. Erb, E. J. Isaac, D. M. MacFarland, S. A. Moore, D. C. Norton, T. R. Petroelje, J. L. Price Tack, B. J. Roell, M. Schrage, J. L. Belant

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Hazards evaluation of a valuable vulnerable sand-wave field forage fish habitat in the marginal Central Salish Sea using a submersible by H. Gary Greene, Matthew R. Baker, John Aschoff, Robert Pacunski

“…The PSL (Ammodytes personatus) is a critical forage fish for a variety of mammals, birds and fish including minke whales and salmon as it preys upon zooplankton and acts as an energy transfer species from the lower to higher trophic levels. …”
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The effectiveness of non-pharmacological sleep interventions for people with chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Katie Whale, Jane Dennis, Vikki Wylde, Andrew Beswick, Rachael Gooberman-Hill

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Tradisi Lewa Di Lembata Dalam Prespektif Kebijakan Konservasi Dan Ancamannya Terhadap Ekosistem Laut by Muhammad Nuha Maulana Pasya, Fina Akmalia

“…In Lembata itself precisely in Lamalera known as the culture or tradition of Leva Nuang or Lewa, which is the tradition of hunting whales, rays, sharks, or those included in cetaceans or marine mammals. …”
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Blood Transcriptome Analysis Provides Responsive Changes in Gene Expression between Ex Situ and Captive Yangtze Finless Porpoises (<i>Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis</i... by Zhichen Cao, Denghua Yin, Zhanwei Li, Yan Yan, Peng Zhang, Sigang Zhang, Danqing Lin, Zhong Hua, Jialu Zhang, Congping Ying, Han Zhang, Pao Xu, Guixin Dong, Kai Liu

“…The Yangtze finless porpoise (<i>Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis</i>, YFP) is an endangered species endemic to the Yangtze River in China, and it is the only freshwater whale in the genus Neophocaena. In terms of protection, three effective conservation strategies exist: in situ conservation, ex situ conservation, and artificial breeding, all of which have been implemented by the Chinese government. …”
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Habitat suitability of cetaceans in the Gulf of Mexico using an ecological niche modeling approach by M. Rafael Ramírez-León, María C. García-Aguilar, Alfonsina E. Romo-Curiel, Zurisaday Ramírez-Mendoza, Arturo Fajardo-Yamamoto, Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki

“…The only mysticete (baleen whale) is found in the northeast (U.S. waters). The distribution of the 20 species of odontocetes (toothed cetaceans) is well understood in U.S. waters, but practically unknown in Mexican and Cuban waters. …”
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A 30 μW Embedded Real-Time Cetacean Smart Detector by Sebastián Marzetti, Valentin Gies, Paul Best, Valentin Barchasz, Sébastien Paris, Hervé Barthélémy, Hervé Glotin

“…This implementation provides an excellent trade-off between detection accuracy and power consumption. Focused on sperm whales, it can be tuned to detect other species emitting pulse trains. …”
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Exploring the association of metal mixture in blood to the kidney function and tumor necrosis factor alpha using machine learning methods by Kuei-Hau Luo, Chih-Hsien Wu, Chen-Cheng Yang, Tzu-Hua Chen, Hung-Pin Tu, Cheng-Hong Yang, Hung-Yi Chuang

“…We applied K Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Naive Bayes classifier (NB), Support Vector Machines (SVM), random forest (RF), Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT), Categorical boosting (CatBoost), eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), Whale Optimization-based XGBoost (WXGBoost) to identify the effect of plasma metals, TNF-α, and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR by CKD-EPI equation). …”
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Shifting headlines? Size trends of newsworthy fishes by Fiona T. Francis, Brett R. Howard, Adrienne E. Berchtold, Trevor A. Branch, Laís C.T. Chaves, Jillian C. Dunic, Brett Favaro, Kyla M. Jeffrey, Luis Malpica-Cruz, Natalie Maslowski, Jessica A. Schultz, Nicola S. Smith, Isabelle M. Côté

“…This pattern held for charismatic fish species (e.g. basking sharks, whale sharks, giant mantas), which are now reported in the media at smaller relative lengths than they were near the turn of the 20th century, and for the largest species under high risk of extinction. …”
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New Skeletons of the Ancient Dolphin <i>Xenorophus sloanii</i> and <i>Xenorophus simplicidens</i> sp. nov. (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Oligocene of South Carolina and the Ontogeny... by Robert W. Boessenecker, Jonathan H. Geisler

“…The early diverging, dolphin-sized, cetacean clade Xenorophidae are a short-lived radiation of toothed whales (Odontoceti) that independently evolved two features long thought to be odontocete synapomorphies: the craniofacial and cochlear morphology underlying echolocation and retrograde cranial telescoping (i.e., posterior migration of the viscerocranium). …”
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Distribution and genetic diversity of Anisakis spp. in cetaceans from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea by Paolo Cipriani, Marialetizia Palomba, Lucilla Giulietti, Federica Marcer, Sandro Mazzariol, Mario Santoro, Renato Aco Alburqueque, Pablo Covelo, Alfredo López, M. Begoña Santos, Graham J. Pierce, Andrew Brownlow, Nicholas J. Davison, Barry McGovern, Alexandros Frantzis, Paraskevi Alexiadou, Dánjal Petur Højgaard, Bjarni Mikkelsen, Michela Paoletti, Giuseppe Nascetti, Arne Levsen, Simonetta Mattiucci

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REST: a preoperative tailored sleep intervention for patients undergoing total knee replacement – feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial by Simon White, Rachael Gooberman-Hill, Emma Johnson, Joel Glynn, Vikki Wylde, Chris Penfold, Katie Whale, Nicholas Howells, Ashley Blom, Amanda Burston, Wendy Bertram, Dane Rayment

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Molecular phylogeny of coronaviruses and host receptors among domestic and close-contact animals reveals subgenome-level conservation, crossover, and divergence by Kingsley Bentum, Sage Shaddox, Crystal Ware, Gopal Reddy, Woubit Abebe, Raphael Folitse, Pamela Martin, Temesgen Samuel

“…To learn the molecular intersections among the most common coronaviruses of domestic and close-contact animals, we analyzed representative coronavirus genera infecting mouse, rat, rabbit, dog, cat, cattle, white-tailed deer, swine, ferret, mink, alpaca, Rhinolophus bat, dolphin, whale, chicken, duck and turkey hosts; reference or complete genome sequences were available for most of these coronavirus genera. …”
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Nernst-Planck-Gaussian modelling of electrodiffusional recovery from ephaptic excitation between mammalian cardiomyocytes by Joshua A. Morris, Oliver J. Bardsley, Samantha C. Salvage, Antony P. Jackson, Hugh R. Matthews, Christopher L-H. Huang, Christopher L-H. Huang

“…Varying a, and DNa and DCl markedly affected recovery time-courses with logarithmic and double-logarithmic relationships, Varying w exerted minimal effects.Conclusion: We thereby characterise the properties of, and through comparing atrial, ventricular and purkinje recovery times with interspecies in vivo background cardiac cycle duration data, (blue whale ∼2000, human∼90, Etruscan shrew, ∼40 ms) can determine physical limits to, electrodiffusive contributions to ephaptic recovery.…”
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Exploration of the Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) Plasma Immunoproteome Using High-Resolution LC-MS/MS by Fiona K. Bakke, Manu Kumar Gundappa, Hanover Matz, David A. Stead, Daniel J. Macqueen, Helen Dooley

“…To assess the feasibility of performing LC-MS/MS proteomics in nurse shark in the absence of species-specific protein annotations, we compared the results to an alternative strategy, mapping peptides to proteins predicted in the genome assembly of a related species, the whale shark (Rhincodon typus). This approach reliably identified 297 proteins, indicating that useful data on the plasma proteome may be obtained in many instances despite the absence of a species-specific reference protein database. …”
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Modulation of excitonic response in colloidal low-dimensional nanomaterials by Yu, Junhong

“…We hope that these works can play the role of throwing out a minnow to catch a whale, in the development of excitonic or optoelectronic devices.…”
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Numerical and experimental study of leading edge tubercles with vortex generators on NACA 4415 airfoil by Aftab, Syed Mohammed Aminuddin

“…Recently studies have shown that implementing humpback whale Tubercle Leading Edge (TLE), also enhance the performance of the airfoil. …”
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A deep learning approach to photo–identification demonstrates high performance on two dozen cetacean species by Philip T. Patton, Ted Cheeseman, Kenshin Abe, Taiki Yamaguchi, Walter Reade, Ken Southerland, Addison Howard, Erin M. Oleson, Jason B. Allen, Erin Ashe, Aline Athayde, Robin W. Baird, Charla Basran, Elsa Cabrera, John Calambokidis, Júlio Cardoso, Emma L. Carroll, Amina Cesario, Barbara J. Cheney, Enrico Corsi, Jens Currie, John W. Durban, Erin A. Falcone, Holly Fearnbach, Kiirsten Flynn, Trish Franklin, Wally Franklin, Bárbara Galletti Vernazzani, Tilen Genov, Marie Hill, David R. Johnston, Erin L. Keene, Sabre D. Mahaffy, Tamara L. McGuire, Liah McPherson, Catherine Meyer, Robert Michaud, Anastasia Miliou, Dara N. Orbach, Heidi C. Pearson, Marianne H. Rasmussen, William J. Rayment, Caroline Rinaldi, Renato Rinaldi, Salvatore Siciliano, Stephanie Stack, Beatriz Tintore, Leigh G. Torres, Jared R. Towers, Cameron Trotter, Reny Tyson Moore, Caroline R. Weir, Rebecca Wellard, Randall Wells, Kymberly M. Yano, Jochen R. Zaeschmar, Lars Bejder

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