Mohamed A. Abu El-Regal, and Nesreen K. Ibrahim

This work aims to study the importance of mangrove area as nursery grounds for the juvenile of reef fishes in the Red Sea. Juvenile fishes were collected during three seasons in 2010 from three mangrove swamps by a beach seine net. The net was dragged on the bottom for 100 m three times. A total of 269 juvenile fishes were collected, representing 21 species in 19 families. The most abundant species formed about 86% of all collected fishes. Nine species were collected for the first time from mang...

Nikodem Szymanski, and Irena Burzyńska, and Hazem Mohamed Kalaji, and Grażyna Mastalerczuk

The currently available methods for the assessment of the eutrophication degree are expensive, time-consuming and require advanced laboratory equipment and knowledge. The aim of this work was to determine a simple and economically justified method of monitoring the effects of eutrophication of water in the agricultural area and linking the results of monitoring physicochemical parameters of water with chlorophyll fluorescence as a potential health risk on the basis of established alarm levels. T...

Rosana Ouréns, and Inés Naya, and Juan Freire

The spatial structure of fishery resources influences stock dynamics and finally the fishery. Therefore, this aspect should be included as a key topic in the assessment and management of fisheries [1, 2]. Here we use the case study of the fishery of the sea urchin <i>Paracentrotus lividus</i> in Galicia to demonstrate how the mismatch between biological, fishery and management scales causes failures in the governance, giving rise to over-exploitation. <i>P. lividus</i> is spatially distributed i...

Gui-qing Dong, and Wen-wen Wang, and Kai Deng, and Guang-li Wang

Abstract OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of radiology nursing intervention in abdominal examination at 3-T MRI. METHOD 60 patients with abdominal diseases were divided into two groups randomly: MR nursing intervention group and control group. All the patients underwent abdominal MR examination at 3-T. The MR nursing interventions were performed in nursing intervention group. The outcomes, including one-time success rate, the ratio of diagnosable MR images and the ...

Kharlampyeva Nadezhda

This article is dedicated to the methodology for the study of international cooperation on marine environment protection. The author suggests applying the practices of marine environment protection in the Baltic Sea to the northern seas as well as examining earlier projects for the effective implementation of interdisciplinary initiatives bringing together international law, international relations and world politics.

Ilie C. Telcean, and Roland E. Mihut, and Diana Cupsa

Rajadoss Muthukrishna Pandian, and Nirmal Thampi John, and Anu Eapen, and B. Antonisamy, and Antony Devasia, and Nitin Kekre

ABSTRACT Objectives To study the usefulness of MRI in preoperative evaluation of PFUDD. Can MRI provide additional information on urethral distraction defect (UDD) and cause of erectile dysfunction (ED)? Materials and Methods In this prospective study, consecutive male patients presenting with PFUDD were included from Feb 2011 till Dec 2012. Those with traumatic spinal cord injury and pre-existing ED were excluded. Patients were assessed using IIEF questionnaire, retrograde urethrogram and m...

Semenov V. P.

The main problems and ways to improve the efficiency and quality of military shipbuilding and ship repair in modern conditions have been presented. The necessity for state support of shipbuilding and ship repair and development of entrepreneurship in the industry has been pointed out; a number of modern ways of increasing the efficiency and quality of management has been defined. Представлены основные проблемы и направления повышения эффективности и качества военного судостроения и судоремонта в...

Lee TS, and Quek SY, and Goh SJA, and Phillips R, and Guan C, and Cheung YB, and Feng L, and Wang CC, and Chin ZY, and Zhang H, and Lee J, and Ng TP, and Krishnan KRR

Tih-Shih Lee,1 Shin Yi Quek,1 Siau Juinn Alexa Goh,1 Rachel Phillips,2 Cuntai Guan,3 Yin Bun Cheung,4 Lei Feng,5 Chuan Chu Wang,3 Zheng Yang Chin,3 Haihong Zhang,3 Jimmy Lee,6 Tze Pin Ng,5 K Ranga Rama Krishnan1 1Department of Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore; 2Singapore Clinical Research Institute, Singapore; 3Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore; 4Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Gra...

Karim Zouaoui Boudjeltia, and Brice Faraut, and Patricia Stenuit, and Maria Jos&eacute; Esposito, and Michal Dyzma, and et al

Karim Zouaoui Boudjeltia2, Brice Faraut1,2, Patricia Stenuit1, Maria Jos&eacute; Esposito1,2, Michal Dyzma1,2, Dany Broh&eacute;e2, Jean Ducobu2, Michel Vanhaeverbeek2, Myriam Kerkhofs1,21Sleep Laboratory; 2Laboratory of Experimental Medicine (ULB 222 Unit), CHU de Charleroi V&eacute;sale Hospital, Universit&eacute; Libre de Bruxelles, Montigny-le-Tilleul, BelgiumObjectives: This study examines the effects of sleep restricted to four hours for three consecutive nights on blood parameters, known ...

Guruprasada Shetty, and K Shreedhara Avabratha, and Seema Gonsalves, and Aby Dany, and B Sanjeev Rai

Objective: To study the occurrence and severity of thrombocytopenia in children with malaria. Methods: It was a retrospective study, done at Fr Muller Medical College Hospital Mangalore, in Karnataka, India. Data regarding all positive cases of malaria < 15 years admitted in the hospital between January 2010 to June 2011 were obtained. Patients were further assessed for thrombocytopenia and its severity. Data were analysed by Chi square test using SPSS version 13.0. Results: A total of 159 ...

Žd'Árská Z., and Nebesářová J.

The stichosome (posterior glandular esophagus) of Capillaria pterophylli Heinze, 1933 consists of large gland cells (stichocytes) and lumenal epithelium with cuticular lining. Both structures are enclosed in a reticulum of muscle cells. The stichocyte cytoplasm contains small cisternae of rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi complexes, one kind of electron dense secretory granules, mitochondria and a branching system of intracellular collecting ducts without filament bundles around them.

AA. Padial, and LM. Bini, and SM. Thomaz

Aquatic macrophytes comprises a diverse group of organisms including angiosperms, ferns, mosses, liverworts and some macroalgae that occur in seasonally or permanently wet environments. Among other implications, aquatic macrophytes are highly productive and with an important structuring role on aquatic environments. Ecological studies involving aquatic plants substantially increased in the last years. However, a precise view of researches devoted to aquatic macrophytes in Neotropics is necessary...

Jicheng Yu, and Liu Zhang, and Qiu Liu, and Xiaohui Qi, and Ying Ji, and Beom Seok Kim

Objective: To evaluate various types of samples from the different marine environments as sources of actinomycetes from the Yalujiang coastal wetland, North China, and to screen their antimicrobial properties. Further, the identified actinomycetes were characterized based on morphological, biochemical, and physiological characteristics. Methods: Eight different production media were used to isolate actinomycetes from different stations of marine soil sediments in Yalujiang coastal wetland and th...

Nicole E. Filby, and Karen A. Stockin, and Carol Scarpaci

This study investigated Burrunan dolphin responses to dolphin-swim tour vessels across two time periods: 1998–2000 and 2011–2013. A total of 211 dolphin sightings were documented across 306 surveys. Sighting success rate and mean encounter time with dolphins decreased significantly by 12.8% and 8.2 min, respectively, between periods. Approaches that did not contravene regulations elicited highest approach responses by dolphins towards tour vessels, whereas dolphins’ responded to illegal approach...

Zhou Fang, and Bilin Liu, and Jianghua Li, and Hang Su, and Xinjun Chen

Cephalopods are becoming increasingly important in global fisheries as a result of increased landings and are playing an important ecological role in the trophic dynamics of marine ecosystems. Ommastrephes bartramii is a pelagic cephalopod species with two widely distributed spawning stocks in the North Pacific Ocean. It is also a major fishing target for the Chinese squid jigging fleets. Successful separation of these two spawning stocks is critical to fisheries management, but tends to be chal...

Karla M López-Hernández, and Violeta T Pardío-Sedas, and José de Jesús Williams

Food-borne diseases are among the major public health problems that currently exist. Microbiological risk assessment is a process used to evaluate the hidden hazards in food, the likelihood of exposure to these hazards and their impact on public health. Risk assessment is performed in four steps: hazard identification, hazard characterization, assessment of exposure and risk characterization. According to the process/response microbial risk assessment is classified in two categories, qualitative...

Abitha R, and Chanakya H. N., and Afreen Aman, and Shwetha U.

Biogas slurry provides a complete and high growth rate producing algal cultivation medium thus offsetting the high cultivation costs of raising algal cultures in synthetic growth media. Robust mixed algal consortia can also be cultivated in non-traditional media such as wastewater or biogas slurry along with flooded agricultural crops such as paddy (Algiculture). This greatly enhances the Nsustainability of the algae cultivation. However, since the biogas slurry contains its own set of predators...

Apolino José Nogueira da Silva, and Mário Sérgio Vaz Cabeda, and José Fernando Wanderley Fernandes Lima

Os diferentes sistemas de manejo com cana-de-açúcar em solos de tabuleiros costeiros podem causar alterações na estrutura original do solo. Os efeitos de diferentes sistemas de manejo com cana-de-açúcar nas propriedades físico-hídricas de um Argissolo Amarelo coeso foram estudados em quatro áreas selecionadas na usina Triunfo, no Estado de Alagoas. Os tratamentos consistiram de uma área não irrigada, uma área irrigada, uma com aplicação de vinhaça e uma sob floresta nativa como condição original...

S. R. Arnold, and D. V. Spracklen, and J. Williams, and N. Yassaa, and J. Sciare, and B. Bonsang, and V. Gros, and I. Peeken, and A. C. Lewis, and S. Alvain, and C. Moulin

We have combined the first satellite maps of the global distribution of phytoplankton functional type and new measurements of phytoplankton-specific isoprene productivities, with available remote marine isoprene observations and a global model, to evaluate our understanding of the marine isoprene source and its impacts on organic aerosol abundances. Using satellite products to scale up data on phytoplankton-specific isoprene productivity to the global oceans, we infer a mean &quot;bottom-up&quot...

CORDAZZO C. V.

The effect of seed mass on germination and growth was tested in fresh-seeds of Blutaparon portulacoides, Panicum racemosum, and Spartina ciliata, selected at random in southern Brazilian populations. The seed mass varied within a population of the three species. Both B. portulacoides and P. racemosum showed normal frequency distribution of seed mass, while S. ciliata did not. Significant differences were observed in seed germination between large and small seeds of all species. In all species th...

Michaela Kubisová, and Zdeněk Svoboda, and Rudolf Psotta, and Miroslav Janura

BACKGROUND: Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is impairment in motor coordination which can be manifested also by poor balance. Some childrenwith DCD can be more dependent on visual feedback to control their movements. This fact can result in disruption of predictive control, recognition of movement errors and correcting them.<br />OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to compare foot pressure distribution and basic temporal and spatial variables during gait in the children with a risk of ...

Silvia Conceição Reis Pereira Mello, and Mônica Queiroz de Freitas, and Sergio Carmona de São Clemente, and Robson Maia Franco, and Eduardo Bruno Nogueira, and Maria Dalva Silva Ribas Pinto

O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar rendimentos, composição centesimal e características bacteriológicas da polpa e do surimi de tilápia obtidos a partir da desossa mecânica de espinhaços residuais da filetagem de peixes de 400 a 650 gramas e oriundos de unidade de processamento oficial. As amostras foram divididas em quatro lotes, com intervalos de prazo de coleta de dois meses. As análises realizadas foram determinação do rendimento, composição centesimal (umidade, proteína, lipídios e cinzas)...

D. Martins, and N.V. Costa, and M.A. Terra, and S.R. Marchi

O objetivo deste trabalho foi o de avaliar e comparar a composição florística de 18 reservatórios pertencentes a cinco bacias hidrográficas do Estado de São Paulo. Os levantamentos foram realizados no período de fevereiro a setembro de 2002, com o auxílio de um barco. Percorreu-se a margem dos reservatórios das bacias hidrográficas dos rios Paraíba, Paraná, Paranapanema, Grande e Tietê, à velocidade de 30 km h-1. A cada 20 minutos, estabeleceu-se um ponto de amostragem, determinando-se sua posiç...

E Sadowska-Krępa, and B Kłapcińska, and T Podgórski, and B Szade, and K Tyl, and A Hadzik

The purpose of this pilot study was to examine whether regular consumption of an acai berry-based juice blend would affect sprint performance and improve blood antioxidant status and lipid profile in junior athletes. Seven junior hurdlers (17.5±1.2 years) taking part in a pre-season conditioning camp were supplemented once a day, for six weeks, with 100 ml of the juice blend. At the start and the end of the camp the athletes performed a 300-m sprint running test on an outdoor track. Blood sample...

KEILA R.M. MOURÃO, and VALDIMERE FERREIRA, and FLÁVIA LUCENA-FRÉDOU

The present study describes the spatial and temporal structure of the estuarine fish community in the internal sector of the Amazon Estuary. Samples were obtained in the main channels and tidal creeks of Guajará and Marajó Bays and Guamá River. A total of 41,516 fish specimens were collected, representing 136 taxa, 38 families and 12 orders. In the dry season, the mean salinity of the main channel increased along a limnic-marine gradient, between the Guamá River and the Marajó Bay. Species richn...

S. S. Brezina, and M. D. Baldini

The appearance of enteric disease outbreaks associated with the use of waters considered bacteriologically suitable, calls for the search of new and more precise indicators. Samples of estuarine water were collected in order to quantify E. coli and E. coli ATCC 13706 somatic coliphages and to compare the usefulness of the latter to detect faecal contamination when the concentration of traditional indicators is not quantifiable. Statistical analyses suggested the division of sampling sites into t...

Apolino José Nogueira da Silva, and Mário Sérgio Vaz Cabeda

A tensão de cisalhamento e a coesão do solo constituem importantes propriedades físicas do solo, podendo ser influenciadas pelo sistema de manejo e óxidos de Fe, Si e Al do solo. Os efeitos de diferentes sistemas de manejo de solo cultivado com cana-de-açúcar na tensão de cisalhamento, ângulo de atrito interno, coesão do solo e nos teores de óxidos de Fe, Si e Al de um Argissolo Amarelo Coeso foram estudados em quatro áreas da Usina Triunfo, no Estado de Alagoas. Os tratamentos abrangeram: uma á...

Isabel Maria Madaleno

The Tuvalu Group is made of nine small low-lying coral atoll and reef islands, located in the South Pacific, about 1,100 km north of Fiji. With a total area of 26 km2, it has about 11,000 residents, generally fishermen and breadfruit, taro, pulaka and coconut subsistence farmers. The people of Tuvalu are mostly of Polynesian origin, their culture and physical type being quite homogeneous. In order to develop an ethno-geographic study, during the month of February 2010, the Portuguese Tropical Re...

Ruprecht von Waldenfels

The present paper presents a corpus-driven study of aspect in the imperative across Slavic, drawing on 13 versions of Bulgakov's Master i Margarita in 11 languages as included in the ParaSol corpus (Waldenfels 2006). Taking departure from imperative contexts in the Russian original, it is shown that differences in aspect use follow an areal pattern. The results are largely consistent with theories such as forwarded by Barentsen (1998) and Dickey (2000) that emphasize the existence of two focal g...

R. Ruiz-Moral

Introducción. La Comisión Nacional de la Especialidad de Medicina Familiar ha propuesto un nuevo Libro del especialista en Medicina de Familia en formación (LEF) tipo portafolio (&lsquo;Guía de práctica reflexiva'). No existen en nuestro país experiencias que nos orienten sobre como este tipo de evaluación formativa puede aplicarse, desarrollarse y tampoco sobre su utilidad en la formación de residentes. Materiales y métodos. Estudio piloto cualitativo con encuestas estructuradas realizadas en u...

C.-T. A. Chen, and T.-H. Huang, and Y.-C. Chen, and Y. Bai, and X. He, and Y. Kang

The air–sea exchanges of CO₂ in the world's 165 estuaries and 87 continental shelves are evaluated. Generally and in all seasons, upper estuaries with salinities of less than two are strong sources of CO₂ (39 ± 56 mol C m⁻² yr⁻¹, positive flux indicates that the water is losing CO₂ to the atmosphere); mid-estuaries with salinities of between 2 and 25 are moderate sources (17.5 ± 34 mol C m⁻² yr⁻¹) and lower estuaries wi...

Ronilson Macedo Silva, and Marcos Tavares-Dias, and Maycon Willian Reis Dias, and Márcia Kelly Reis Dias, and Renata das Graças Barbosa Marinho

The objective of this work was to evaluate the parasitic fauna of hybrid tambacu (Colossoma macropomum x Piaractus mesopotamicus) from fish farms and the host-parasite relationship. A hundred and fourteen fish were collected from four fish farms in Macapá, in the state of Amapá, Brazil, 80.7% of which were infected by: Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Ciliophora); Piscinoodinium pillulare (Dinoflagellida); Anacanthorus spatulatus, Notozothecium janauachensis, and Mymarothecium viatorum (Monogenoide...

S. Narayan, and S. Hanson, and R. J. Nicholls, and D. Clarke, and P. Willems, and V. Ntegeka, and J. Monbaliu

Coastal flooding is a problem of increasing relevance in low-lying coastal regions worldwide. In addition to the anticipated increase in likelihood and magnitude of coastal floods due to climate change, there is rapid growth in coastal assets and infrastructure. Sustainable and integrated coastal flood management over large areas and varying coastline types cannot be simply treated as local combinations of flood defences and floodplains. Rather, a system level analysis of floodplains is required...

K. J. Pringle, and K. S. Carslaw, and T. Fan, and G.W. Mann, and A. Hill, and P. Stier, and K. Zhang, and H. Tost

Artificially increasing the albedo of marine boundary layer clouds by the mechanical emission of sea spray aerosol has been proposed as a geoengineering technique to slow the warming caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases. A previous global model study (Korhonen et al., 2010) found that only modest increases (< 20%) and sometimes even decreases in cloud drop number (CDN) concentrations would result from emission scenarios calculated using a windspeed dependent geoengineering flux parameterisa...

Youness Mir, and Francois Dubeau

We sutdy the effects of some properties of the carrying capacity on the solution of the linear and logistic differential equations. We present results concerning the behaviour and the asymptotic behaviour of their solutions. Special attention is paid when the carrying capacity is an increasing or a decreasing positive function. For more general carrying capacity, we obtain bounds for the corresponding solution by constructing appropriate subsolution and supersolution. We also present a...

J. M. Sigler, and H. Mao, and B. C. Sive, and R. Talbot

Continuous measurements of elemental (Hg⁰) and reactive mercury were conducted at two sites in New Hampshire during a powerful April 2007 noreaster. During the most intense period of the storm, enhancements of ~30–50 ppqv in Hg⁰ were observed at a coastal and a high elevation inland site. This enhancement occurred simultaneously with elevated mixing ratios of three marine tracers, CH₃I, CH₂Br₂ and CHBr₃. These observations suggest...

URECHE Dorel, and PROCOPE Ferdinand, and STOICA Ionut, and BATTES Klaus Werner

The ichthyofauna of the Buzău river catchment area included 27 native species before 1960. Afterwards, due to strong human impacts, 7 native species were not found. Three new species were found: 2 native ones coming from the Siret River, and an invasive one - the topmouth gudgeon, coming from China. Thus, after the year 2000 only 23 fish species were present in the study area.

Konovalov Alexander Fedorovich, and Borisov Mikhail Yanovich

In the article the long-term dynamics of the total catch of the main commercial fish in the water bodies of the Vologda region were traced. It was stated that the total catch of smelt, vendace, burbot and whitefish declined most significantly, whereas, the total catch of bream, perch and roach grow quite rapidly in water bodies of the Vologda region. As a whole, the biomass and catches of fish of the Arctic freshwater faunal complex decrease in the water bodies of the Vologda region, but thos...

Mohamed M. Ghoneim, and Hanaa S. El-Desoky, and Khalid M. El-Moselhy, and Adel Amer, and Emad H. Abou El-Naga, and Lamiaa I. Mohamedein, and Ahmed E. Al-Prol

The present study aimed to evaluate the efficiency of marine algae for removal of metals from the aqueous solution. The green alga, Ulva lactuca, collected from the intertidal zone of the Suez Bay, northern part of the Red Sea was used to reduce cadmium levels from the aqueous solutions. The biosorption mechanisms of Cd2+ ions onto the algal tissues were examined using various analytical techniques: Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and Scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Results i...

A. Manson, and C. Meek, and X. Xu

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Bazyli Czeczuga, and Lucyna Woronowicz

Forty seven species of fungi were found in the Lake Mamry complex. The following fungi unknown from Poland were recorded: Rhizophydium amoebae, R. apiculatum, R. nodulosum, Chytriomycfs annularus, Hyphochytrium catenoides, Aphanodictyon papillatum and Achlya orion.

M. Agus Suprayudi, and Dedi Yaniharto, and . Ridwan

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of carbohydrate level and sources on the growth performance of black tiger shrimp <em>Penaeus monodon </em>juvenile. Four shrimp diet contains isoprotein (35%) and isoenergy-protein ratio (8.2 kkcal/g protein) but different in carbohydrate level were used in this experiment. Diet A and B containing carbohydrate at the level of 34%, while diet C and D contain 40% of carbohydrate.  Diet A and diet C have similar carbohydrate source pollard and c...

P.W. Swarzenski, and H. Dulai, and K.D. Kroeger, and C.G. Smith, and N. Dimova, and C.D. Storlazzi, and N.G. Prouty, and S.B. Gingerich, and C.R. Glenn

Study region: The study region encompasses the nearshore, coastal waters off west Maui, Hawaii. Here abundant groundwater—that carries with it a strong land-based fingerprint—discharges into the coastal waters and over a coral reef. Study focus: Coastal groundwater discharge is a ubiquitous hydrologic feature that has been shown to impact nearshore ecosystems and material budgets. A unique combined geochemical tracer and oceanographic time-series study addressed rates and oceanic forcings of sub...

Shaurya Agarwal, and Pushkin Kachroo, and Emma Regentova

This research paper investigates a hybrid model using logistic regression with a wavelet-based feature extraction for detecting traffic incidents. A logistic regression model is suitable when the outcome can take only a limited number of values. For traffic incident detection, the outcome is limited to only two values, the presence or absence of an incident. The logistic regression model used in this study is a generalized linear model (GLM) with a binomial response and a logit link function. Th...

Müge Aliye Hekimoğlu

Krist L, and Dimeo F, and Keil T

Lilian Krist,1 Fernando Dimeo,2 Thomas Keil1,3 1Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charit&eacute; University Medical Center, 2Department of Sports Medicine, Charit&eacute; University Medical Center, Berlin, 3Institute of Clinical Epidemiology and Biometry, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany Purpose: To determine the effects of progressive resistance training on mobility, muscle strength, and quality of life in nursing-home residents with impaired mobility. ...

LIANG Shuai, and GAO Jun

Since the 1980s in Shanghai,fast economic development,rapid urbanization,population explosion,all of these phenomena are driving radical changes in landscape pattern of coastal area.The landscape pattern evolution at the coastal regions of the north of the Hangzhou bay is analysed based on the landscape ecology theory and method by using Fragstats 3.3 software.3S technology is utilized to interpretate the sensing images at three phase in 1994,2003,2007,and selected two landscape index of the lan...

H. Bonekamp, and F. Montagner, and V. Santacesaria, and C. Nogueira Loddo, and S. Wannop, and I. Tomazic, and A. O'Carroll, and E. Kwiatkowska, and R. Scharroo, and H. Wilson

This paper describes the marine data available from the Marine Centre, part of the Sentinel-3 Payload Data Ground Segment, located at the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). The Marine Centre together with the existing EUMETSAT facilities provides a centralised operational service for operational oceanography. These descriptions of the marine data are produced with a focus on a user service perspective. They include the scientific and operational f...