Virtually all of the evidence generated by polar
bear researchers shows that polar bears are not being harmed by declines in summer sea ice, and in some cases, they are doing very well indeed.
Not exact matches
Now,
researchers who have measured the brain responses of 125 infants — including babies who were
born prematurely and others who went full - term —
show that a baby's earliest experiences of touch have lasting effects on the way their young brains respond to gentle touch when they go home.
«This study
shows declining sea ice for all subpopulations of polar
bears,» said co-author Harry Stern, a
researcher with the UW's Polar Science Center.
Because their data consistently
showed that black, brown and polar
bears carry highly distinct Y chromosome lineages, the
researchers also estimated the timing of the split between the male lineages of brown and polar
bears.
But if most of Earth's water was delivered via later meteorites, this would have
shown up as a greater isotopic difference than what the
researchers measured — as water -
bearing meteorites have unusual mixtures of oxygen isotopes.
Transmission of mosquito -
borne diseases, such as Zika, occur at lower temperatures than previously thought, a recently released study co-authored by two University of South Florida
researchers shows.
Now
researchers have
shown that a change in a single DNA base pair differentiates the famous
bear from its ordinary black relatives.
FOR the first time,
researchers have
shown that being
born by C - section can contribute to obesity in mice.
An image mosaic taken in January
shows the rover's next major scientific target, an area with clay -
bearing rocks that
researchers have studied from orbit.
The
researchers chose to tackle the region in part because previous, coarser - resolution models had
shown that this area would be drying out, a prediction that has been
borne out in the droughts and wildfires of recent years.
In the second paper, published in summer 2013 in the journal Ecology and Evolution,
researchers used polar
bear scat to
show that the diet of at least some of the
bears has shifted from what it was 40 years ago, before climate change was affecting the Hudson Bay lowlands.
Presenting a thin veneer of objectivity, he quotes polar
bear researcher Ian Stirling who suggested that Nicklen's photo
shows a
bear that most likely, but not certainly, died as a result of starvation related to sea ice melt.
However, the outcomes were measured only 1 — 2 weeks after the baby was
born (1 +).12 The introduction of the Nursing Child Assessment Teaching Scale programme in the NICU made no significant difference to parental stress levels and maternal — infant interactions when assessed at discharge and at 3 months after discharge (1 +).20 One RCT found that coaching parents on how to interact with their preterm infant made no difference to knowledge of care, sensitivity to the infant or satisfaction in parenting compared with the control group (1 ---RRB-.21 However, this may have been confounded by the amount of contact that the control mothers had with the
researchers, as these mothers reported that they enjoyed having someone
show an interest in them.