On Making Statistical Inferences Regarding the Relationship between Spawners and Recruits and the Irresolute Case of Western Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus).

Forecasts of the future abundance of western Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) have, for nearly two decades, been based on two competing views In Ground Product (White Goods) of future recruitment potential: (1) a "low" recruitment scenario based on hockey-stick (two-line) curve where the expected level of recruitment is set equal to the geom

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The effect of mortality salience and early-life maternal care on neuroendocrine, autonomic, and psychological stress responses

Abstract Adverse early-life experiences alter the regulation of major stress systems such as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.Low early-life maternal care (MC) has repeatedly been related to blunted cortisol stress responses.Likewise, an acutely increased awareness of mortality (mortality salience [MS]) also has been shown to SPEARMINT

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