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Recent studies have added substantially to our knowledge of spatial and temporal trends of persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals in the Canadian Arctic marine ecosystem. This paper reviews the current state of knowledge of... more
A brief chapter of Alexander Neckam’s De naturis rerum (II, 24) mentions the existence of a fish that lives in the Northern Seas, has only one eye, in the shape of a triangular shield, and is the prey of the white polar bear. This is the... more
The tissue-specific composition of sum classes of brominated and chlorinated contaminants and metabolic/degradation byproducts was determined in adult male and female polar bears from East Greenland. Significantly (p < 0.05) higher... more
Immobilization features and physiologic effects of combinations of xylazine-zolaze- pam-tiletamine (XZT) and zolazepam-tiletamine (ZT or Telazolt) were compared in nine captive and 17 free-ranging polar bears (Ursus maritimus) between... more
Scientific research has demonstrated negative effects caused by climate change on three of 19 polar bear populations' worldwide (Stirling et al. 1999; Aars et al. 2006). As a result the status of polar bears has been uplisted by the... more
1: Introduction.- 2: Ontology for Spatio-temporal Databases.- 3: Conceptual Models for Spatio-temporal Applications.- 4: Spatio-temporal Models and Languages: An Approach Based on Data Types.- 5: Spatio-temporal Models and Languages: An... more
In April 2005, the stream cipher Polar Bear was proposed as a response to the eSTREAM Call for Primitives. Since then, a few attacks, [7] and [5], have indicated certain weaknesses in the design. In this paper we propose a new version of... more
Anthropogenic contaminants have been a concern in the Canadian arctic for over 30 years due to relatively high concentrations of bioaccumulating and biomagnifying organochlorine contaminants (OCs) and toxic metals found in some arctic... more