USE OF PLUMAGE AND GULAR POUCH COLOR TO EVALUATE CONDITION OF OIL SPILL REHABILITATED CALIFORNIA BROWN PELICANS (PELECANUS OCCIDENTALIS CALIFORNICUS) POST-RELEASE.

Use of plumage and gular pouch color to evaluate condition of oil spill rehabilitated California brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis californicus) post-release.

Sublethal effects of oil spills may dampen seabird rehabilitation success due to lingering negative impacts of The Short contamination and stress on reproduction and long-term survival.These effects can be difficult to measure while birds are in care as well as once birds are released.Expression of sexually selected traits that are sensitive to con

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Multimodal prehabilitation in people awaiting acute inpatient cardiac surgery: Study protocol for a pilot feasibility trial (PreP-ACe).

BackgroundThe concept of "prehabilitation," or optimising individual physical and mental wellbeing prior to surgery is well established in cancer and orthopaedic populations.However, amongst the cardiac surgery population, the concept is relatively new.Of the few studies available, all focus on the elective surgical population.This pilot feasibilit

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Joint Gateway Selection and Resource Allocation for Cross-Tier Communication in Space-Air-Ground Integrated IoT Networks

Leveraging unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as relays, the space-air-ground integrated Internet of Things (SAG-IoT) networks LAVENDER BODY WASH can provide wireless access services to the connected devices with high data rate, high flexibility, and wide coverage.However, besides bringing lots of benefits, the SAG-IoT systems also face many challenge

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