Ondřej Klíma, and Radovan Kopp, and Lenka Hadašová, and Jan Mareš

Fish fins seem to be a suitable indicator of welfare state. In natural conditions there is no worsenig of fin condition. Damaged fins occur in aquacultural systems only. They are characterized by shortening size, frayed rays, disturbing of fin tissue, lesions and necrosis creation. Possible causes are aggressive behaviour of fish, inapropriately chosen size of stocking density, feeding management, diet composition, rearing system, water quality, thoughtless manipulation with fish and bacterial i...

Vanessa Céspedes, and Marta I. Sánchez, and Andy J. Green

Trichocorixa verticalis (T. verticalis), native to North America and the Caribbean islands, is an invasive waterboatman species (Corixidae) in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Previous studies in the native range have suggested that predation by T. verticalis can regulate the abundance of Anostracan and Cladoceran zooplankton in saline ecosystems, causing increases in phytoplankton through a trophic cascade. In this experimental study, we tested the predator–prey relationship between the ...

Y. Miyazaki, and S. Coburn, and S. Coburn, and K. Ono, and D. T. Ho, and R. B. Pierce, and K. Kawamura, and R. Volkamer, and R. Volkamer

Stable carbon isotopic compositions of water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) and organic molecular markers were measured to investigate the relative contributions of the sea surface sources to the water-soluble fraction of submicron organic aerosols collected over the eastern equatorial Pacific during the Tropical Ocean tRoposphere Exchange of Reactive halogens and Oxygenated VOCs (TORERO)/KA-12-01 cruise. On average, the water-soluble organic fraction of the total carbon (TC) mass in submi...

C. D. MacLeod, and H. L. Doyle, and K. I. Currie

This article describes a potentiometric ocean acidification simulation system which automatically regulates pH through the injection of 100% CO₂ gas into temperature-controlled seawater. The system is ideally suited to long-term experimental studies of the effect of acidification on biological processes involving small-bodied (10–20 mm) calcifying or non-calcifying organisms. Using hobbyist-grade equipment, the system was constructed for approximately USD 1200 per treatment unit (tank...

Ina Boerema, and Rob de Leeuw

N. A. N. Bertler, and N. A. N. Bertler, and H. Conway, and D. Dahl-Jensen, and D. B. Emanuelsson, and D. B. Emanuelsson, and M. Winstrup, and P. T. Vallelonga, and J. E. Lee, and E. J. Brook, and J. P. Severinghaus, and T. J. Fudge, and E. D. Keller, and W. T. Baisden, and W. T. Baisden, and R. C. A. Hindmarsh, and P. D. Neff, and P. D. Neff, and P. D. Neff, and T. Blunier, and R. Edwards, and R. Edwards, and P. A. Mayewski, and S. Kipfstuhl, and C. Buizert, and S. Canessa, and R. Dadic, and H. A. Kjær, and A. Kurbatov, and D. Zhang, and D. Zhang, and E. D. Waddington, and G. Baccolo, and T. Beers, and H. J. Brightley, and H. J. Brightley, and L. Carter, and D. Clemens-Sewall, and V. G. Ciobanu, and B. Delmonte, and L. Eling, and L. Eling, and A. Ellis, and A. Ellis, and S. Ganesh, and N. R. Golledge, and N. R. Golledge, and S. Haines, and M. Handley, and R. L. Hawley, and C. M. Hogan, and K. M. Johnson, and K. M. Johnson, and E. Korotkikh, and D. P. Lowry, and D. Mandeno, and R. M. McKay, and J. A. Menking, and T. R. Naish, and C. Noerling, and A. Ollive, and A. Orsi, and B. C. Proemse, and A. R. Pyne, and R. L. Pyne, and J. Renwick, and R. P. Scherer, and S. Semper, and M. Simonsen, and S. B. Sneed, and E. J. Steig, and A. Tuohy, and A. Tuohy, and A. Tuohy, and A. U. Venugopal, and A. U. Venugopal, and F. Valero-Delgado, and J. Venkatesh, and F. Wang, and F. Wang, and S. Wang, and D. A. Winski, and V. H. L. Winton, and V. H. L. Winton, and A. Whiteford, and C. Xiao, and J. Yang, and X. Zhang

High-resolution, well-dated climate archives provide an opportunity to investigate the dynamic interactions of climate patterns relevant for future projections. Here, we present data from a new, annually dated ice core record from the eastern Ross Sea, named the Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) ice core. Comparison of this record with climate reanalysis data for the 1979–2012 interval shows that RICE reliably captures temperature and snow precipitation variability in the region. T...

Debarshi Saha, and Jyoti R Kini, and Reshmi Subramaniam

Introduction: In India, approximately 6 million populations are affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Anemia and leukopenia, especially thrombocytopenia is seen commonly in HIV infections. Low CD4+ count and increased viral load are some of the factors associated with increased risk of thrombocytopenia. We analyzed the hematological profile in a group of 150 HIV infected patients. Materials and Methods: A retrospective and prospective study of medical records of 150 HIV positive patien...

Heliana Teixeira, and Torsten Berg, and Laura Uusitalo, and Karin Fürhaupter, and Anna-Stiina Heiskanen, and Krysia Mazik, and Christopher P Lynam, and Suzanna Neville, and J.German Rodriguez, and Nadia Papadopoulou, and Snejana Moncheva, and Tanya Churilova, and Tanya Churilova, and Olga Krivenko, and Olga Krivenko, and Dorte Krause-Jensen, and Anastasija Zaiko, and Anastasija Zaiko, and Helena Verissimo, and MARIA PANTAZI, and Susana Carvalho, and Joana Patrício, and Maria C Uyarra, and Angel Borja

A Catalogue of Marine Biodiversity Indicators was developed with the aim of providing the basis for assessing the environmental status of the marine ecosystems. Useful for the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), this catalogue allows the navigation of a database of indicators mostly related to biological diversity, non-indigenous species, food webs, and seafloor integrity. Over 600 indicators were compiled, which were developed and used in the framework of different...

Keyvan Zandi, and Maryam Bahmanyar, and Kahzad Sartavi

Background: By considering the daily increase in drug resistance of various viruses, novel antiviral compounds extracted from natural resources – due to their fewer side effects, had always been important to researchers. In the present study, we investigated antiviral activity of the hot water extract of a green seaweed, Caulerpa sertularioides, collected from coastal water of Bushehr in the Persian Gulf, against Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV-1). Methods: The hot water extract of a green sea...

J. R. Siddorn, and S. A. Good, and C. M. Harris, and H. W. Lewis, and J. Maksymczuk, and M. J. Martin, and A. Saulter

Ocean monitoring and forecasting services are increasingly being used by a diverse community of public and commercial organizations. The Met Office, as the body responsible for severe weather prediction, has for many years been involved in providing forecasts of aspects of the marine environment. This paper describes how these have evolved to include a range of wave, surge, and ocean reanalysis, analysis, and forecasts services. To support these services, and to ensure they evolve to meet the de...

S. Gu, and Z. Liu

The sediment ²³¹Pa ∕ ²³⁰Th activity ratio is emerging as an important proxy for deep ocean circulation in the past. In order to allow for a direct model–data comparison and to improve our understanding of the sediment ²³¹Pa ∕ ²³⁰Th activity ratio, we implement ²³¹Pa and ²³⁰Th in the ocean component of the Community Earth System Model (CESM). In addition to the fully coupled implementation of the scavenging behavior of <sup>2...

G.I. BARTISH, and N. JEPPSSON, and I.V. BARTISH

Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers were used to characterize a part of a sea buckthorn gene bank collected for plant breeding purposes. Molecular markers were generated in 55 cultivars and accessions, representing five subspecies of Hippophae rhamnoides L. and intraspecific hybrids between different subspecies. Sixty-three markers were used to generate a Dice's similarity coefficient matrix of pairwise comparisons between individual RAPD profiles. Cluster (UPGMA) and principal co-or...

Luiz Felipe Machado Velho, and Maria Beatriz Gomes e Souza Dabés

A composição e abundância da fauna de tecamebas foi estudada na região litorânea da lagoa Cajueiro durante dois anos. A lagoa é marginal ao rio São Francisco e possui grande quantidade de plantas aquáticas e pouca profundidade. Foi constatada uma alta abundância e riqueza de espécies de tecamebas entre as raízes e folhas das macrófitas. Algumas espécies atingiram seus ótimos de abundância em distintos períodos sazonais de coleta. Do total de 51 táxons identificados, cinco correspondem a novos re...

Ronaldo Lima de Lima, and Dariane Beatriz Schoffen Enke, and Neiva Braun, and Débora Machado Fracalossi

Fish meal is widely included in animal feed because it contains ideal essential amino acids profile, it is rich in energy, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals and with >80% apparent protein digestibility in peneid shrimp. In human nutrition, studies are investigating the inclusion of fish meal in snacks, cakes, breads and cookies, as an enrichment in calcium, phosphorus, iron, protein and, especially, omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3 fatty acids reduces heart diseases and have antithromboti...

A Gopalakrishna, and K Vaishali, and V Prem, and Pravin Aaron

Objective: The objective of the pilot study is to obtain normal maximal inspiratory and expiratory pressures for individuals in the age group 20-70 years in the Mangalore population and to predict normal values according to age, sex, height, and weight using the regression equation. Materials and Methods: Two hundred and fifty subjects were selected through a convenient method of sampling. Fifty subjects each were enrolled in the following age groups: 20 to 29, 30 to 39, 40 to 49, 50 to 59, and ...

M. S. Johnson, and N. Meskhidze, and V. P. Kiliyanpilakkil, and S. Gassó

The supply of bioavailable iron to the high-nitrate low-chlorophyll (HNLC) waters of the Southern Ocean through atmospheric pathways could stimulate phytoplankton blooms and have major implications for the global carbon cycle. In this study, model results and remotely-sensed data are analyzed to examine the horizontal and vertical transport pathways of Patagonian dust and quantify the effect of iron-laden mineral dust deposition on marine biological productivity in the surface waters of the Sout...

Guoping Zhu, and Liuxiong Xu, and Yingqi Zhou, and Xinjun Chen

Age and growth parameters were estimated for bigeye tuna Thunnus obesus Lowe, 1839 sampled from China longline fisheries in the central Atlantic Ocean from October 2002 to July 2003 and from August 2004 to March 2005. The von Bertalanffy growth parameters were estimated at L8=217.9 cm fork length, k=0.23 year-1, and t0=-0.44 year. The total mortality rate (Z) was estimated to be from 0.82 to 1.02, the fishing mortality (F) and the natural mortality were 0.54 year-1 and 0.39 year-1, respectively....

Jan Wisseman Christie

Peter Francis Cowman

Biodiversity patterns across the marine tropics have intrigued evolutionary biologists and ecologists alike. Tropical coral reefs host 1/3 of all marine species of fish on 0.1% of the ocean’s surface. Yet our understanding of how mechanistic processes have underpinned the generation of diversity is limited. However, it has become clear that the biogeographic history of the marine tropics has played an important role in shaping the diversity of tropical reef fishes we see today. In the last decad...

Brooke L. Bessesen, and Gary J. Galbreath

We describe a distinctive new subspecies of sea snake from the occasionally anoxic inner-basin waters of Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, based on combined data garnered between 2010 and 2017 for 154 specimens, 123 free-ranging and 31 museum-held. The yellow sea snake, Hydrophis platurus xanthos Bessesen &amp;amp; Galbreath, subsp. n., is diagnosed by a notably smaller body size and nearly uniform yellow coloration, which contrasts with the black and yellow striae and tail spots or ban...

Jeffrey A Hall, and Wayne A Decatur, and Dana M Daukss, and Mary K Hayes, and Timothy J Marquis, and Scott J Morin, and Thomas F Kelleher, and Stacia A Sower

Two recently cloned gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptors (lamprey GnRH-R-2 and lamprey GnRH-R-3) along with lamprey (l) GnRH-R-1 were shown to share similar structural features and amino acid motifs common to other vertebrate receptors. Here we report on our findings of RNA expression of these three GnRH receptors in the three major life stages (larval, parasitic, and adult phases) of the sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, a basal vertebrate. For each stage, we examined the expression o...

Matiur Rahman, and Lokenath Debnath

This paper is concerned with a variational formulation of a nonaxisymmetric water wave problem. The full set of equations of motion for the problem in cylindrical polar coordinates is derived. This is followed by a review of the current knowledge on analytical theories and numerical treatments of nonlinear diffraction of water waves by offshore cylindrical structures. A brief discussion is made on water waves incident on a circular harbor with a narrow gap. Special emphasis is given to the reson...

Zhi-Tao Wang, and Douglas P. Nowacek, and Tomonari Akamatsu, and Ke-Xiong Wang, and Jian-Chang Liu, and Guo-Qin Duan, and Han-Jiang Cao, and Ding Wang

Background Repetitive species-specific sound enables the identification of the presence and behavior of soniferous species by acoustic means. Passive acoustic monitoring has been widely applied to monitor the spatial and temporal occurrence and behavior of calling species. Methods Underwater biological sounds in the Pearl River Estuary, China, were collected using passive acoustic monitoring, with special attention paid to fish sounds. A total of 1,408 suspected fish calls comprising 18,942 puls...

Kelly D. Cobey, and James Galipeau, and Larissa Shamseer, and David Moher

Background The scholarly publication landscape is changing rapidly. We investigated whether the introduction of an institutional publications officer might help facilitate better knowledge of publication topics and related resources, and effectively support researchers to publish. Methods In September 2015, a purpose-built survey about researchers’ knowledge and perceptions of publication practices was administered at five Ottawa area research institutions. Subsequently, we publicly announced a ...

L. Contreras, and J. Pross, and P. K. Bijl, and R. B. O'Hara, and J. I. Raine, and A. Sluijs, and H. Brinkhuis

Reconstructing the early Palaeogene climate dynamics of terrestrial settings in the high southern latitudes is important to assess the role of high-latitude physical and biogeochemical processes in the global climate system. However, whereas a number of high-quality Palaeogene climate records has become available for the marine realm of the high southern latitudes over the recent past, the long-term evolution of coeval terrestrial climates and ecosystems is yet poorly known. We here explore the ...

Heike Molenaar, and Alexandre Meinesz, and Thierry Thibaut

The impact of Caulerpa taxifolia on the structure of shallow Posidonia oceanica beds was studied in permanent quadrats from 1995 to 2005 at the invaded site of Cap Martin and the control site of Cap d’Antibes (French Riviera, France). The cover of C. taxifolia, shoot density, number of orthotropic and plagiotropic shoots and proportion of ramifications of P. oceanica were measured yearly. The cover of C. taxifolia in the invaded zone rapidly reached a maximum of infestation in 2000 with 93% of t...

Amir Hossein Mojarrad Kahani, and Ghazaleh Soltanian

Introduction: Family caregivers of patient with psychiatric disorder are actually the base of health care systems. Caring patients with psychiatric disorder is a stressful responsibility for family members. The purpose of present study was to evaluate the efficacy of group psycho -educational interventions in general health promotion on family of patients with bipolar disorders. Materials and Methods: This research was a semi-experimental study with control group and random allocation. In this ...

Jabbar Bashiri

Introduction: Any disorder in balance is one of the influencing factors on falling risk which its increasing can decrease falling risk and consequent problems. Thus the aim of study was to compare and examine the effects of aquatic, Whole Body Vibration and concurrent training on neuromuscular performance, balance and risk of falling in elderly females. Materials and Methods: 48 females were randomized consecutively into four Groups: the group1 submitted for the aquatic training(13), the group ...

Juliana de Lima Brandão GUIMARÃES, and Flávia Aline Andrade CALIXTO, and Luiz Antônio de Moura KELLER, and Licínio Esmeraldo da SILVA, and Ângela Aparecida Lemos FURTADO, and Eliana de Fátima Marques de MESQUITA

Abstract The decreasing stock of the main species consumed in Brazil has stimulated studies regarding the use and development of products using low commercial value species. The shrimp trawling modality produces a large volume of a “mix” category comprising low commercial value fish. However, it is necessary to develop products with greater practicality to meet the current demands of the Brazilian consumer. The aim of the present study was to develop a sausage using a low commercial value fish,...

Dhananjaya Sharma, and Pawan Agarwal, and Sharad Jain, and Reena Kothari

Background: Many treatment modalities are available for the treatment of ischemic ulcers in Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans [TAO]). Objectives: The objective of the study was to evaluate the efficacy and clinical outcome of autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) for the treatment of ischemic ulcers in TAO patients. Methods: This prospective observational study was conducted on selected TAO patients who underwent autologous PRP treatment in surgery department of a teaching hospital i...

Danira eToral-Rios, and Diana eFranco-Bocanegra, and Oscar eRosas Carrasco, and Francisco eMena-Barranco, and Rosa eCarvajal García, and Marco Antonio eMeraz-Ríos, and Victoria eCampos-Peña

Amyloid peptide is able to promote the activation of microglia and astrocytes in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and this stimulates the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Inflammation contributes to the process of neurodegeneration and therefore is a key factor in the development of AD. Some of the most important proteins involved in AD inflammation are: clusterin (CLU), complement receptor 1 (CR1), C reactive protein (CRP), tumor necrosis factor α (TNF- α), the interleukins 1α (IL - 1α), 6 (I...

J.-M. Brankart, and G. Candille, and F. Garnier, and C. Calone, and A. Melet, and P.-A. Bouttier, and P. Brasseur, and J. Verron

In this paper, a generic implementation approach is presented, with the aim of transforming a deterministic ocean model (like NEMO) into a probabilistic model. With this approach, several kinds of stochastic parameterizations are implemented to simulate the non-deterministic effect of unresolved processes, unresolved scales and unresolved diversity. The method is illustrated with three applications, showing that uncertainties can produce a major effect in ...

M. J. Filipiak, and C. J. Merchant, and H. Kettle, and P. Le Borgne

A statistical model is derived relating the diurnal variation of sea surface temperature (SST) to the net surface heat flux and surface wind speed from a numerical weather prediction (NWP) model. The model is derived using fluxes and winds from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) NWP model and SSTs from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI). In the model, diurnal warming has a linear dependence on the net surface heat flux integrated since (appro...

Jorge Ramos, and Miguel N. Santos, and David Whitmarsh, and Carlos Costa Monteiro

In this stakeholder analysis related to the artificial reef (AR) program located in the Algarve (Southern Portugal mainland) 21 different stakeholder clusters were identified. Stakeholders were classified as primary, secondary and external. It was found that stakeholder interaction with the structures can be of private, public or cooperative interest. In the analysis there were also identified and mapped the impact of the program on stakeholders and their power to influence the ARs' outcomes. St...

Liliana Rodrigues, and Carina Moresco, and Vanessa Majewski Algarte

Este trabalho analisou a estrutura e dinâmica da comunidade de algas do perifíton em três ambientes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná (lagoa do Guaraná, lagoa Fechada e rio Baía), em dois períodos hidrológicos (águas altas - AA e águas baixas - AB) do ano de 2003. O substrato utilizado foi <em>Eichhornia azurea<em> Kunth. Foram encontrados no total 284 táxons, sendo 193 em águas altas e 172 em águas baixas. A lagoa do Guaraná apresentou maior riqueza em ambos os períodos hidrológicos. ...

Ramezani F, and Barooti E, and Khalaj Farahani F, and Hashemi M

Despite unwillingness to fertility, about 30% of couples do not use any kind of contraception and this will lead to unwanted pregnancy. In this clinical trial study, 4177 subjects who had at least one alive child, and delivered in one of the 12 university hospitals in Tehran were recruited. This study was conducted in 1996. The questionnaire included some questions about contraceptive use, their attitudes about unwantedness or wantedness of their current pregnancies. Data were analysed using a L...

Abdul Rahim Shaik, and B H Sripathi Rao, and Akhter Husain, and Juliana D′sa

Aim: To describe the work-related musculoskeletal disorders among on-job dental surgeons. Objectives: To identify the musculoskeletal disorders in terms of perception of pain and stiffness experienced by the dental surgeons due to the rigors of dental work, to determine the prevailing working environment with particular reference to dental work station in relation to musculoskeletal disorders, and to find the association between pain and stiffness experienced by the dental surgeons and the selec...

Irene Fraser

In Sri Lanka, the values of participation and decentralisationwere undermined by many international agencies in the post-tsunami rush.

R. Omira, and M. A. Baptista, and F. Leone, and L. Matias, and S. Mellas, and B. Zourarah, and J. M. Miranda, and F. Carrilho, and J.-P. Cherel

This paper seeks to investigate the effectiveness of sea-defense structures in preventing/reducing the tsunami overtopping as well as evaluating the resulting tsunami impact at El Jadida, Morocco. Different tsunami wave conditions are generated by considering various earthquake scenarios of magnitudes ranging from <i>M</i>_w = 8.0 to <i>M</i>_w = 8.6. These scenarios represent the main active earthquake faults in the SW Iberia margin and are consistent with two past events th...

P. L. Woodworth, and N. Pouvreau, and G. Wöppelmann

The relationship between the gyre-scale circulation of the North Atlantic, represented by air pressure near to the centre of the sub-tropical gyre, and sea level measured at the eastern boundary of the ocean has been investigated using records commencing in the middle of the 18th century. These time series are twice as long as those employed in an earlier study of this relationship. Near-continuous values of annual mean sea level and mean high water from Brest, and air pressure fields for the ea...

M. Berger, and J. Brandefelt, and J. Nilsson

In the present work the Arctic sea ice in the mid-Holocene and the pre-industrial climates are analysed and compared on the basis of climate-model results from the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project phase 2 (PMIP2) and phase 3 (PMIP3). The PMIP3 models generally simulate smaller and thinner sea-ice extents than the PMIP2 models both for the pre-industrial and the mid-Holocene climate. Further, the PMIP2 and PMIP3 models all simulate a smaller and thinner Arctic summer sea-ice cover i...

Camilo Arriagada Luco, and Alejandro Gana

El presente artículo es un extracto de la investigación “Impacto del Desarrollo inmobiliario y turístico de pequeñas localidades balneario del litoral central chileno: localización de departamentos y resort, gentrificación urbano costera y nuevas demografías residenciales”,cuyo objetivo fue “estudiar el impacto que tiene el crecimiento del sector turístico-inmobiliario, sus efectos en la valorización del suelo urbano y recambio socio demográfico o inmigración queoperan en dos zonas de expansión ...

Conceição Queiroz, and Ana Gabriela Travassos, and Eduardo Studart, and José Bouzas Araújo Filho, and Carla Kruchewsky Sarno, and Carla Cristiane Pinheiro

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) plays a central role in the development of cervical cancer. However, other coexisting factors, such as HIV infection, must be present for this to occur. We evaluated the prevalence of HPV in HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients in the city of Salvador , Bahia, Brazil, and determined the most prevalent types of HPV in these patients. Fifty-five cases were selected from among patients attending three institutions providing cervical pathology services in the city of Sa...

C. H. Song, and H. S. Kim, and R. von Glasow, and P. Brimblecombe, and J. Kim, and R. J. Park, and J. H. Woo, and Y. H. Kim

Elevated levels of formaldehyde (HCHO) along the ship corridors have been observed by satellite sensors, such as ESA/ERS-2 GOME (Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment), and were also simulated by global 3-D chemistry-transport models. In this study, three likely sources of the elevated HCHO levels in the ship plumes as well as their contributions to the elevated HCHO levels (budget) were investigated using a newly-developed ship-plume photochemical/dynamic model: (1) primary HCHO emission from ship...

Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa, and Anna-Katharina Hornidge

An individual’s ‘lifeworld’ guides perceptions, the attachment of meaning and in sum, the interpretation of reality in everyday life. Yet the lifeworld (Ger. Lebenswelt) has been an undertheorized concept within interdisciplinary marine research. Through a two-stage analysis, we critically engage with the philosophical foundations, heuristic value and the methodological versatility that the interpretivist concept of the lifeworld stands to offer, drawing from contemporary marine research. With t...

C. Li, and J. Borken-Kleefeld, and J. Zheng, and J. Zheng, and Z. Yuan, and J. Ou, and Y. Li, and Y. Wang, and Y. Xu

Ship emissions contribute significantly to air pollution and pose health risks to residents of coastal areas in China, but the current research remains incomplete and coarse due to data availability and inaccuracy in estimation methods. In this study, an integrated approach based on the Automatic Identification System (AIS) was developed to address this problem. This approach utilized detailed information from AIS and cargo turnover and the vessel calling number information and is thereby ...

Akhtar E Ghassemi, and Renee Fabus

Background: Despite the complexity of patient care and promise of interprofessional collaboration in health professional educational programs, interprofessional education and practice implementation challenges exist. Materials and Methods: A pilot study with a nonequivalent comparison before/after design was conducted to examine undergraduate students' and graduate students' knowledge of the role of nurses and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) while working with patients diagnosed with dysphag...

Sudibyo Hanifrahmawan, and Purwanti Yuni, and Pradana Yano Surya, and Samudra Thoriq Teja, and Budiman Arief, and Suyono Eko Agus

Globally, there is growing interest in microalgae as production organisms. Microalgae contain lipids (oil), proteins and carbohydrates (sugars), and, especially marine algae have been used as food and feed for centuries. Recently, production cost reduction related to the supply of growth nutrients is necessary to make it profitable. Therefore, utilization of molasses, a byproduct of sugar production, as the natural carbon, macronutrients, and micronutrients sources can be helpful. The analysis s...

Jane Goudge, and Salamina Hlahane, and Greer van Zyl, and Tshipfuralo Ndou

Background: Non-communicable diseases (NCD) and infectious chronic illnesses are recognised as significant contributing factors to the burden of disease globally, specifically in South Africa, yet clinical management is often poor. The involvement of community health workers (CHWs) in TB and HIV care in South Africa, and other low- and middle-income settings, suggests that they could make an important contribution in the management of NCDs. Objectives: Using a rapid assessment, this study examin...

Bagra, K., and Kadu, K., and Nebeshwar-Sharma, K., and Laskar, B. A., and Sarkar, U. K., and Das, D.N.

One hundred thirty eight fish species were collected during a systematic survey of 35 rivers in Arunachal Pradesh state,India, in March 2004 to March 2008. Based on this survey and on literature review we developed a checklist with 213fish species for the state. We have added 43 species to the previous record of 170 species. This study confirmed theoccurrence of five new species described by previous investigations and encompasses the discovery of two new species,although the taxonomic status of...