Given the high cost of polar-bear surveys, its plight is not well understood, but what is known is fairly discouraging.
"We did a lot of black-bear surveys, in which we interviewed villagers, townspeople, teachers — and if they used gall bladder they said they loved bears, and if they didn't use it they saw no purpose for bears whatsoever.
[Oct. 2, 2012, 1 23 p.m. | Updated | Charles Monnett, the federal biologist at the heart of the investigation described below, has been cleared of scientific misconduct over his polar bear surveys (report link), but his case remains a source of disputes at several levels — as described in detail by Jill Burke in Alaska Dispatch. There's more from Nature's news blog.
The worst corridor in the survey was Eighth Avenue from 42nd Street to 59th Street, where 58percentt of sites surveyed bore no address.
Some of that was borne out when Williams surveyed its students recently.
Curiously, avian USP4 presents notable deviations from the signatures of this paralog: of the six bird genomes surveyed, all bear mutations in crucial residues for the ubiquitin-exchange mechanism [ 32], i.e. Arg40 and/or Met24 mutated in all, disruption of DUSP-UBL linker residues (a.a. 88 92) in chicken, QQD box region deleted in duck, and so on.
What it means: The Bears continue to survey the tight end landscape after dealing Martellus Bennett to the New England Patriots last week.
Chefs were surveyed because they bear a leading role in the gastronomy sector, at the core of product and managerial innovations (Rao et al. 2003).
The Pew survey bears this out: 60percentt of those surveyed with family incomes of $75,000 annually read newspapers; 58 percent watched television news.
On occasion the space-based survey spotted bears that aerial surveys did not (see yellow circles in images above and below).
