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A Bioenergetics Approach to Understanding the Population Consequences of Disturbance: Elephant Seals as a Model System

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A Dynamic State Model of Migratory Behavior and Physiology to Assess the Consequences of Environmental Variation and Anthropogenic Disturbance on Marine Vertebrates.

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

A dynamic ocean management tool to reduce bycatch and support sustainable fisheries.

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Active Video Game Exercise Training Improves the Clinical Control of Asthma in Children: Randomized Controlled Trial.

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

Acute Effects Using Light-Emitting Diode Therapy (LEDT) for Muscle Function during Isometric Exercise in Asthma Patients: A Pilot Study

scientific article published on 16 January 2019

Acute effects of transcutaneous electrical diaphragmatic stimulation on respiratory pattern in COPD patients: cross-sectional and comparative clinical trial

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Aerobic dive limit: how often does it occur in nature?

scientific article published in July 2001

Aerobic exercise training improves autonomic nervous control in patients with COPD.

scientific article published on 22 May 2009

An inexpensive passive acoustic system for recording and localizing wild animal sounds

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Autonomic responses of premature newborns to body position and environmental noise in the neonatal intensive care unit

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

Big data analyses reveal patterns and drivers of the movements of southern elephant seals

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Bimodal Winter Haul-Out Patterns of Adult Weddell Seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) in the Southern Weddell Sea.

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Can a physical activity similar to activities of daily living cause dynamic hyperinflation and change the thoracoabdominal configuration in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?

scientific article published on 13 June 2019

Characterizing habitat suitability for a central-place forager in a dynamic marine environment

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

Chest physical therapy is effective in reducing the clinical score in bronchiolitis: randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 12 April 2012

Climate change and Southern Ocean ecosystems I: how changes in physical habitats directly affect marine biota.

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Climate mediates the success of migration strategies in a marine predator

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Comparative feeding strategies and kinematics in phocid seals: suction without specialized skull morphology

scientific article published on 06 August 2018

Comparison of methods for evaluating energy expenditure of incubating wandering albatrosses.

scientific article published in November 2001

Comparisons and Uncertainty in Fat and Adipose Tissue Estimation Techniques: The Northern Elephant Seal as a Case Study

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Control of pulmonary surfactant secretion in adult California sea lions.

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Convergence of marine megafauna movement patterns in coastal and open oceans.

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Correction to ‘The rise and fall of dialects in northern elephant seals’

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Correlation between signs of temporomandibular (TMD) and cervical spine (CSD) disorders in asthmatic children.

scientific article published in January 2005

Cumulative human impacts on marine predators

scientific article published in January 2013

Dive behaviour and foraging effort of female Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Effect of copper, zinc and cadmium on the promoter of selenoprotein W in glial and myoblast cells

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Effects of CPAP on clinical variables and autonomic modulation in children during an asthma attack ⬇️

scientific article published on May 13, 2013

Effects of El Niño-driven changes in wind patterns on North Pacific albatrosses

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Effects of Inspiratory Muscle Training and Calisthenics-and-Breathing Exercises in COPD With and Without Respiratory Muscle Weakness.

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

Effects of age, adipose percent, and reproduction on PCB concentrations and profiles in an extreme fasting North Pacific marine mammal

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Effects of chest physiotherapy on the respiratory function of postoperative gastroplasty patients.

scientific article published on January 2009

Effects of forced diving on the spleen and hepatic sinus in northern elephant seal pups.

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Effects of inspiratory muscle training on respiratory muscle strength, lung function, functional capacity and cardiac autonomic function in Parkinson's disease: Randomized controlled clinical trial protocol

scientific article published on 14 May 2019

Energy reserve utilization in northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) pups during the postweaning fast: size does matter.

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Evaluation of recombinant Leptospira antigen-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for the serodiagnosis of leptospirosis

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Expression of obesity-related adipokine genes during fasting in a naturally obese marine mammal

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

Field physiology: physiological insights from animals in nature.

scientific article published on January 2004

Foraging and fasting can influence contaminant concentrations in animals: an example with mercury contamination in a free-ranging marine mammal.

scientific article published in February 2018

Foraging strategies of a generalist marine predator inhabiting a dynamic environment.

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Free-swimming northern elephant seals have low field metabolic rates that are sensitive to an increased cost of transport

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Habitat use and spatial fidelity of male South American sea lions during the nonbreeding period.

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Hawaiian monk seals exhibit behavioral flexibility when targeting prey of different size and shape

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

High fatty acid oxidation capacity and phosphorylation control despite elevated leak and reduced respiratory capacity in northern elephant seal muscle mitochondria

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High-energy, high-fat lifestyle challenges an Arctic apex predator, the polar bear

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Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation improves clinical features and systemic inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.

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Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomized clinical trial.

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Improvement in lung function and functional capacity in morbidly obese women subjected to bariatric surgery.

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Influence of noninvasive ventilation by BiPAP on exercise tolerance and respiratory muscle strength in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients (COPD)

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Integration of Genotype, Physiological Performance, and Survival in a Lizard (Uta stansburiana) with Alternative Mating Strategies

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Intraspecific variation in feeding strategies of Galapagos sea lions: A case of trophic specialization.

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Intrinsic anti-inflammatory properties in the serum of two species of deep-diving seal

scientific article published on 09 July 2018

L-carnitine as an ergogenic aid for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease submitted to whole-body and respiratory muscle training programs

scientific article published on 03 April 2006

Localization and visual verification of a complex minke whale vocalization

scientific article (publication date: 2001)

Low guanylyl cyclase activity in Weddell seals: implications for peripheral vasoconstriction and perfusion of the brain during diving

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Lung age in women with morbid obesity ⬇️

scientific article published on May 16, 2013

Mesoscale activity facilitates energy gain in a top predator

scientific article published on 22 August 2018

Mobilisation of lipophilic pollutants from blubber in northern elephant seal pups (Mirounga angustirostris) during the post-weaning fast.

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Non-invasive ventilation improves peripheral oxygen saturation and reduces fatigability of quadriceps in patients with COPD

scientific article published on 05 April 2009

Noninvasive Ventilation as an Important Adjunct to an Exercise Training Program in Subjects With Moderate to Severe COPD

scientific article published on 26 June 2018

Noninvasive ventilation and respiratory physical therapy reduce exercise-induced bronchospasm and pulmonary inflammation in children with asthma: randomized clinical trial.

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Outpatient vs. home-based pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD: a randomized controlled trial.

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Oxygen minimum zone: An important oceanographic habitat for deep-diving northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris

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Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing

scientific article (publication date: 7 June 2014)

Protein catabolism in suckling and fasting northern elephant seal pups (Mirounga anglstirostris).

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Regional variability in diving physiology and behavior in a widely distributed air-breathing marine predator, the South American sea lion (Otaria byronia).

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Relationship between exercise capacity and quality of life in adolescents with asthma.

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Relationship between oxygen consumption kinetics and BODE Index in COPD patients ⬇️

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Relationship of BODE Index to functional tests in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

scientific article published on January 2009

Renal effects of fresh water-induced hypo-osmolality in a marine adapted seal.

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Reproducibility of inspiratory muscle endurance testing using PowerBreathe for COPD patients.

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Reproducibility of the incremental shuttle walk test for women with morbid obesity

scientific article published on 19 February 2015

Reproductive constraints influence habitat accessibility, segregation, and preference of sympatric albatross species

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Respiratory pattern of diaphragmatic breathing and pilates breathing in COPD subjects

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Revisiting the behavioural framework of feeding in predatory aquatic mammals.

scientific article published in September 2017

Seals and sea lions are what they eat, plus what? Determination of trophic discrimination factors for seven pinniped species

scientific article published on May 2016

Shadowed by scale: subtle behavioral niche partitioning in two sympatric, tropical breeding albatross species

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Silicone-ring Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in the treatment of obesity: effects of laparoscopic versus laparotomic surgery on respiration

scientific article published on 21 March 2009

Strategy for respiratory exercise pattern associated with upper limb movements in COPD patients.

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Stroke volume and cardiac output in juvenile elephant seals during forced dives.

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Suite of simple metrics reveals common movement syndromes across vertebrate taxa

scientific article published on June 2017

Temporal changes in Weddell seal dive behavior over winter: Are females increasing foraging effort to support gestation?

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Terrestrial locomotion of the northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris): limitation of large aquatically adapted seals on land?

scientific article published on 21 September 2018

The comparative energetics and growth strategies of sympatric Antarctic and subantarctic fur seal pups at Iles Crozet

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

The effect of a low-frequency sound source (acoustic thermometry of the ocean climate) on the diving behavior of juvenile northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris.

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The energetic consequences of behavioral variation in a marine carnivore.

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The extra burden of motherhood: reduced dive duration associated with pregnancy status in a deep-diving mammal, the northern elephant seal

scientific article published in February 2018

The impact of noninvasive ventilation during the physical training in patients with moderate-to-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

The importance of migratory connectivity for global ocean policy

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

The importance of sample size in marine megafauna tagging studies

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

The political biogeography of migratory marine predators

scientific article published on 03 September 2018

The rise and fall of dialects in northern elephant seals

scientific article published on 28 November 2018

Total body oxygen stores and physiological diving capacity of California sea lions as a function of sex and age.

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Translating Marine Animal Tracking Data into Conservation Policy and Management

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Understanding the population consequences of disturbance

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

Use of Anthropogenic Sea Floor Structures by Australian Fur Seals: Potential Positive Ecological Impacts of Marine Industrial Development?

scientific article published on July 2015

What difference does a century make? Shifts in the ecosystem structure of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, as evidenced from a sentinel species, the Weddell seal.

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What's in a whisker? Disentangling ecological and physiological isotopic signals

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

[Analysis of the prevalence of atelectasis in patients undergoing bariatric surgery]

scientific article published on 14 September 2016

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