Publications by authors named "Catherine M Schaeff"
Objectives: This pilot case study sought to examine the efficacy of subtle energy treatments as conducted by Buddhist healing master Segyu Rinpoche at his Juniper Integrative Clinic in Northern California.
Design: Over the course of a year, this study followed two patients with terminal diagnoses, their treating physicians, and Segyu Rinpoche as the patients underwent treatment at the Juniper Clinic. The patients entering the study had exhausted all known medical options.
Previous research suggests that individuals' sexual orientation may be affected by developmental instability (DI) induced by exposure to prenatal stresses. We tested this relationship using fluctuating asymmetry (FA), the small random deviations from symmetry that arise in otherwise bilaterally symmetrical traits as a consequence of developmental noise and developmental instability. Differences among individuals reflect variation in their exposure to and ability to accommodate for stresses experienced during development as well as to developmental noise that arises due to cellular stocasticity.
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- Right whales host three unique species of 'whale lice,' which do not inhabit any other hosts, and genetic analysis was conducted on their mitochondrial COI gene to explore their population structure and evolutionary history.
- Findings revealed high genetic diversity but minimal population differentiation within oceans, indicating significant gene flow among whale subpopulations.
- The study suggests that divergences among the cyamid species date back approximately 6 million years, with evidence that some right whales have crossed the equator in the last 1-2 million years, but no clear signs of recent population bottlenecks in North Atlantic or southern right whale populations were found.