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Chronicles of Oklahoma
Article narrates the events surrounding the Civil War Battle of Barren Creek, a small Union victory that took place in the central part of the Cherokee Nation
Endoparasitic insights of free-living fin (Balaenoptera physalus), Humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) and North Atlantic Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis) from Eastern Canadian Waters
Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.Purpose: To date, little is still known on parasite infections affecting free-living large whale populations worldwide. Data presented should be considered as a baseline study for future monitoring surveys on endoparasites affecting whales, thereby enhancing investigations on impacts of zoonotic parasitoses not only on vulnerable or endangered baleen whale population health but also on public health. Methods: The presented study is a first report on gastrointestinal parasites infecting different free-living baleen whales inhabiting East Canadian waters using non-invasive methods. Individual faecal samples from fin (n = 3; Balaenoptera physalus), humpback (n = 4; Megaptera novaeangliae) and North Atlantic right whales (n = 1; Eubalaena glacialis) were collected without animal disturbance, within their natural habitats on an ecological expedition during annual surveys in summer 2017. Faecal samples were assessed by standardized diagnostic methods, such as sodium acetate acetic formalin (SAF) technique, carbol fuchsin-stained faecal smears, Giardia/Cryptosporidium coproantigen ELISAs and were applied for further identification. Results: Parasitological infections included three different potentially zoonotic parasite species, one protozoa (Entamoeba spp.) and two metazoans (Diphyllobothriidae gen. sp., Ascaridida indet.). No positive Giardia/Cryptosporidium coproantigen ELISA could be found in the studied whales. Conclusion: This study adds to the current knowledge of intestinal and zoonotic parasite infections of vulnerable to partly endangered free-ranging baleen whales. Only few or no parasitological studies exist for these whale species, usually dealing with only one dead specimen. We call for more research in this field especially for the importance of conservation of free-living marine mammals using non-invasive methods.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe
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Wavelength transduction from a 3D microwave cavity to telecom using piezoelectric optomechanical crystals
Microwave to optical transduction has received a great deal of interest from
the cavity optomechanics community as a landmark application for
electro-optomechanical systems. In this Letter, we demonstrate a novel
transducer that combines high-frequency mechanical motion and a microwave
cavity for the first time. The system consists of a 3D microwave cavity and a
gallium arsenide optomechanical crystal, which has been placed in the microwave
electric field maximum. This allows the microwave cavity to actuate the
gigahertz-frequency mechanical breathing mode in the optomechanical crystal
through the piezoelectric effect, which is then read out using a telecom
optical mode. The gallium arsenide optomechanical crystal is a good candidate
for low-noise microwave-to-telecom transduction, as it has been previously
cooled to the mechanical ground state in a dilution refrigerator. Moreover, the
3D microwave cavity architecture can naturally be extended to couple to
superconducting qubits and to create hybrid quantum systems
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