EPIZOOTICS IN HARBOUR SEALS (PHOCA VITULINA): CLINICAL ASPECTS

Epizootics in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina): clinical aspects

Epizootic diseases causing considerable mortality in harbour seal populations have mainly been reported from the waters of the United States and Europe.Such die-offs were largely attributable to viral infections.Several hundred individuals died from respiratory infections caused by Influenza A viruses at the coast of New England, USA, in 1979, 1980

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Humanitarian intervention and critical theory in brazil: inhibitions and radical alternatives to the Liberal Peace paradigm

The low penetration in Brazil of critical theories regarding humanitarian interventionism reflects itself in the scarcity of academic works able to put into question the United Nations Mission for the Stabilization of Haiti (Minustah).This article aims at filling part of those gaps by presenting a range of theoretical Accessories tools available el

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Revealing the stimulus-driven component of attention through modulations of auditory salience by timbre attributes

Abstract Attention allows the listener to select relevant information from their environment, and disregard what is irrelevant.However, irrelevant stimuli sometimes manage to capture it and stand out from a scene because of bottom-up processes driven by salient stimuli.This attentional capture effect was observed using an implicit approach based on

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Selection-Mutation Dynamics of Signaling Games

Pool Floats We study the structure of the rest points of signaling games and their dynamic behavior under selection-mutation dynamics by taking the case of three signals as our canonical example.Many rest points of the replicator dynamics of signaling games are not isolated and, therefore, not robust under perturbations.However, some of them attrac

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