Naeema Elahi, and Quratulan Ahmed, and Levent Bat, and Farzana Yousuf

Objective: To determine common physico-chemical parameters of coastal water. Methods: Physicochemical properties of water were determined according to the standards of the American Public Health Association. Generally, all those parameters were recorded a small variation between stations. The variation in physico-chemical parameters like salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen and pH at Gwadar (Coastal water of Balochistan) were recorded. Results: The range of air temperature of coastal wa...

Li N., and Kang Z. W., and Liu J., and Xu X. M.

Affected by the unstable pulse radiation and the pulsar directional errors, the statistical characteristics of the pulsar measurement noise may vary with time slowly and cannot be accurately determined, which cause the filtering accuracy of the extended Kalman filter(EKF) in pulsar navigation positioning system decline sharply or even diverge. To solve this problem, an adaptive extended Kalman filtering algorithm based on the empirical mode decomposition(EMD) is proposed. In this method, the hig...

Alexandre M. Garcia, and Marlise A. Bemvenuti, and João P. Vieira, and David M. L. Motta Marques, and Marcelo D. M. Burns, and Alex Moresco, and Mario Vinicius L. Condini

Taim Hydrological System is a unique subtropical wetland in southern Brazil harboring an exceptional biological diversity. In 1978, an ecological reserve was established to protect part of this area from increasing anthropogenic impacts in its surroundings. Fishes have been poorly investigated in this system. Based on a multi-gear sampling study encompassing several years (2001-2005), and on comparisons with previous fish inventories, we provide an up-to-date species list of fishes occurring in ...

CJR. Alho, and G. Camargo, and E. Fischer

Different works have registered the number of mammal species within the natural habitats of the Pantanal based on currently known records, with species richness ranging from 89 to 152 of annotated occurrences. Our present list sums 174 species. However, at least three factors have to be emphasised to deal with recorded numbers: 1) to establish the ecotone limit between the floodplain (which is the Pantanal) and its neighbouring domain like the Cerrado, besides the existence of maps recently prod...

Carla Susana Rodrigues, and Cláudia Valéria Gonçalves Cordeiro de Sá, and Cristiano Barros de Melo

ABSTRACT: Listeria monocytogenes is a relevant foodborne pathogen in public health, responsible for outbreaks of listeriosis often associated to the consumption of ready to eat meat, dairy and fishery products. Listeriosis is a serious disease that can lead to death and mainly affect children, the elderly and immunocompromised individuals. In pregnant women causes abortion or neonatal listeriosis. In Brazil, ready to eat food are appreciated and increasingly consumed by the population. Furthermo...

Končar Lara

Originating from a very small part of the industry of ocean passenger transport, the cruise ship phenomenon grew into a global international business for organizing vacation and travel, becoming by the mid-20th century the fastest-growing branch of tourism industry. Seen as both a process and a project of globalization, and a manifestation of the fluidity of modern society, a series of scientific research questions were raised regarding the nature of globalization and consumeri...

Petr Koráb

European wine policy is a significant factor influencing winemakers in the European Union. This paper examines perception of this policy by winemakers and other persons working in Czech wine sector on the sample of respondents. Methodological triangulation consisting of non-structured interview and semantic differential was chosen. Field research was carried out, therefore the study uses primary data. Application of the methodology along with the method of evaluation of data creates an original ...

Angel Lareo, and Caroline Garcia Forlim, and Reynaldo D Pinto, and Pablo Varona, and Francisco B Rodriguez

Closed-loop activity-dependent stimulation is a powerful methodology to assess information processing in biological systems. In this context, the development of novel protocols, their implementation in bioinformatics toolboxes and their application to different description levels open up a wide range of possibilities in the study of biological systems. We developed a methodology for studying biological signals representing them as temporal sequences of binary events. A specific sequence of these...

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Bahaa Badry Mosa Salim

Two pot experiments were conducted during 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 winter seasons to study the effect of biochar (BC) as soil amendments at two rates 2% and 5%, seaweed extract (SWE) as foliar applications at 1 and 2 g/l and the combination between BC 2% and SWE treatments on growth, yield attributes and some macro- and micronutrients concentration in roots, leaves and grains of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivar Sakha 93. Two samples were taken at 105 and 150 days after sowing. At the first s...

Abel I. Balbín Tamayo, and Ana M. Esteva Guas, and Juan J. Piña Leyte-Vidal, and Marcelo Maccini

<p class="PaperAbstract">A standard digestion method coupled to electrochemical detection for the monitoring of heavy metals in biological samples has been used for the simultaneous analysis of the target analytes. Square wave anodic stripping voltammetry (SWASV) coupled to disposable screen-printed electrodes (SPEs) was employed as a fast and sensitive electroanalytical method for the detection of heavy metals. The aim of our study was to determine Cd, Pb and Cu by SWASV in brown algae (Sargasu...

Jahn Petter. Johnsen, and Bjørn Hersoug

Developments in national fisheries and marine environmental policies during the last 30 years have changed the relationship between coastal communities and the marine resources that people in these communities traditionally harvested. In Norway, for example, when the state authorities have made decisions to defend what they regard as national interests, the local level has been left with authority over minor issues related to area planning in the coastal zone. Although coastal planning until rec...

Josep Àlvar Calduch-Giner, and Ariadna Sitjà-Bobadilla, and Jaume Pérez-Sánchez

High-quality sequencing reads from the intestine of European sea bass were assembled, annotated by similarity against protein reference databases and combined with nucleotide sequences from public and private databases. After redundancy filtering, 24,906 non-redundant annotated sequences encoding 15,367 different gene descriptions were obtained. These annotated sequences were used to design a custom, high-density oligo-microarray (8 x 15K) for the transcriptomic profiling of anterior (AI), middl...

Kristin Hamre, and Nini H. Sissener, and Erik-Jan Lock, and Pål A. Olsvik, and Marit Espe, and Bente E. Torstensen, and Joana Silva, and Johan Johansen, and Rune Waagbø, and Gro-Ingunn Hemre

The shift from marine to plant-based ingredients in fish feeds affects the dietary concentrations and bioavailability of micronutrients, amino acids and lipids and consequently warrants a re-evaluation of dietary nutrient recommendations. In the present study, an Atlantic salmon diet high in plant ingredients was supplemented with graded levels of nutrient premix (NP), containing selected amino acids, taurine, cholesterol, vitamins and minerals. This article presents the results on the antioxida...

A. Réchou, and P. Durand, and A. Druilhet, and B. Bénech

The SOFIA (Surface of the Ocean: Flux and Interaction with the Atmosphere) experiment, included in the ASTEX (Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment) field program, was conducted in June 1992 in the Azores region in order to investigate air-sea exchanges, as well as the structure of the atmospheric boundary layer and its capping low-level cloud cover. We present an analysis of the vertical structure of the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL), and especially of its turbulence ch...

C. F. Walker, and M. J. Harvey, and M. J. Smith, and T. G. Bell, and E. S. Saltzman, and A. S. Marriner, and J. A. McGregor, and C. S. Law

The flux of dimethylsulfide (DMS) to the atmosphere is generally inferred using water sampled at or below 2 m depth, thereby excluding any concentration anomalies at the air–sea interface. Two independent techniques were used to assess the potential for near-surface DMS enrichment to influence DMS emissions and also identify the factors influencing enrichment. DMS measurements in productive frontal waters over the Chatham Rise, east of New Zealand, did not identify any significant gradients betw...

R. Janardhanan, and S. Mukherjee, and P.V. Karunakaran, and R. Athreya

The Fishing Cat Prionailurus viverrinus is classified as Endangered in the IUCN Red List and yet its distribution range within India is not resolved. In spite of its potential habitat being present in coastal Kerala, there are only a few, unsubstantiated records of the cat. Moreover, its occurrence in Sri Lanka strengthens the possibility of its presence (historical or current population) in southern India, including Kerala. This survey was conducted to assess the occurrence of the Fishing Cat i...

J.A. BORG, and A.A. ROWDEN, and M.J. ATTRILL, and P.J. SCHEMBRI, and M.B. JONES

The small-scale distribution of Posidonia oceanica bed types were mapped at four locations off the northern coast of the Maltese Islands, using aerial photography supplemented by surveys using SCUBA diving. Results showed a similar pattern of occurrence of the seagrass at all locations surveyed. In shallow waters (2 m – 4 m), P. oceanicaoccurred as patches of variable size on a rocky and/or sandy substratum. In deeper waters (5 m – 10 m), the patches of seagrass were often replaced by reticulate...

Pascal Fleurkens, and Mike Rinck, and Agnes van Minnen

Background: Avoidance of stimuli that are associated with the traumatic event is a key feature of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Thus far, studies on the role of avoidance in the development and maintenance of PTSD focused primarily on strategic or explicit avoidance. However, patients may also show implicit avoidance behavior, which may remain even when explicit avoidance is reduced. Objectives: The present pilot study was designed to test the hypothesis that PTSD patients show implicit ...

Da-yong WANG, and Xiang XU, and Jian-wen GUO

Objective　To study the risk factors of hematoma enlargement in acute hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage (AHCH) patients within 24 hours after onset. Methods　A retrospective review of clinical data of consecutive patients with AHCH who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria and admitted from Mar. 2008 to Mar. 2013 was performed. The patients' data included patients' demography, previous medical history, clinical features, findings of CT, results of laboratory examinations, and the use of traditio...

Suttida Rakkapao, and Singha Prasitpong, and Kwan Arayathanitkul

This study investigated the multiple-choice test of understanding of vectors (TUV), by applying item response theory (IRT). The difficulty, discriminatory, and guessing parameters of the TUV items were fit with the three-parameter logistic model of IRT, using the parscale program. The TUV ability is an ability parameter, here estimated assuming unidimensionality and local independence. Moreover, all distractors of the TUV were analyzed from item response curves (IRC) that represent simplified IR...

Abdul Hamid A. Toha, and Robi Binur, and Suhaemi Suhaemi, and Lutfi Lutfi, and Luchman Hakim, and Nashi Widodo, and Sutiman Bambang Sumitro

Tripneustes gratilla is economically important, supports small-scale, commercially important, ecological values, a prospect as a biological control agent and also considered as the commercially traded sea urchin. We review genetic aspects of T. gratilla for understanding the status to the sustainable use in the future. In GenBank, there are 267 nucleotide sequences related with T. gratilla. Most of the sequences (189 sequences) are COI gene of T. gratilla from Indo-Pacific Ocean. Study on molecu...

Brodie FL, and Ramirez DA, and Pandian S, and Woo K, and Balakrishna A, and De Juan E, and Choo H, and Grubbs RH

Frank L Brodie,1 David A Ramirez,2,* Sundar Pandian,3,* Kelly Woo,3 Ashwin Balakrishna,3 Eugene De Juan,1 Hyuck Choo,3 Robert H Grubbs3 1Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; 2School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; 3Department of Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA *These authors contributed equally to&nbsp;this work Introduction: Repair of retinal detach...

Marine macroalgae, and Streptozotocin, and Oligosaccharide conjugates, and Diabetes, and Sulphated galactopyran, and Antioxidants

Objective: To study the anti-diabetic activity of marine macroalgae extracts (n = 31), purification and characterization of sulphated galactopyran (SGP) from Gracilaria opuntia (FM4) in diabetic rats. Methods: The animals were separated into groups and STZ (55 mg/kg body weight) was used to induce diabetics. Glucose, HbA1c, insulin, C-peptide levels and in vivo antioxidant levels were estimated and histopathological studies were done in STZ-induced diabetic and marine macroalgae treated ra...

Shanthi John, and Balagurunathan Ramasamy

Objective: To assess the antimicrobial activity of the Actinobacteria bioactive secondary metabolite and characterize the drug resistance mechanisms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) and Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii). Methods: Potential marine Actinobacteria were isolated and the crude extract was purified using thin layer chromatography, the fractions were tested for antimicrobial activity and phylogeny of the selected strain was analyzed. Isolated pathogenic strains were ...

Pablo A. Scarabotti, and M. Julieta Parma, and Javier A. López, and Romina Ghirardi

Some South American freshwater fishes can improve their capability of aquatic surface respiration (ASR) by developing dermal lip protuberances in the lower jaw. This adaptation was thought to be limited to omnivorous or herbivorous fishes. The present work provides the first evidence that juveniles of a piscivorous characid, Salminus brasiliensis, develop dermal lip protuberances during periods of hypoxia in floodplain ponds of the Salado River, in Argentina. The protuberance of S. brasiliensis ...

Ahmet Özer

Ozan Soykan, and H. Tuncay Kınacıgil, and Zafer Tosunoğlu

Ha Cheol Song, and Tae-Jun Kim, and Chang Doo Jang

Since 1980's, optimum design techniques for ship structural design have been developed to the preliminary design which aims at minimum weight or minimum cost design of mid-ship section based on analytic structural analysis. But the optimum structural design researches about the application for the detail design of local structure based on FEA have been still insufficient. This paper presents optimization technique for the detail design of a racing motor boat. To improve the performance and reduc...

Luis Maria Abadie, and Elisa Sainz de Murieta, and Ibon Galarraga

This paper analyses the risk of extreme coastal events in major European coastal cities using a stochastic diffusion model that is calibrated with the worst case emission scenario from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), i.e. the representative concentration pathway (RCP) 8.5. The model incorporates uncertainty in the sea-level rise distribution. Expected mean annual losses are calculated for 19 European coastal cities, together with two risk measures: the Value at Risk (VaR) ...

Thomas Kruessmann

There is hardly a topic in the current transformations that is as central as corruption. Anti-corruption efforts go back to the nineties when globalisation turned the world into a corporate playing field. Since then, a wealth of tools and instruments has been invented, and any student of anti-corruption can be certain to find abundant materials. From a teacher’s perspective, turning these materials into a coherent academic subject is the first challenge. But anti-corruption is not a subject lik...

Manuel Apaza, and Leonardo Romero

We analyzed the distribution of marine otter Lontra felinaon the Peruvian coast, from Punta Aguja (05°47'S) to the boundary with Chile (18°21'S). We performed a comprehensive analysis of the literature on L. felinato elucidate a northern boundary of its geographic distribution, concluding that there is no solid evidence of a possible northern limit at 6°S. For the same reasons, the affirmation of a "historic distribution" to the Lobos de Tierra island was discarded. It is also presented info...

Christian M. Ibáñez, and Luis A. Cubillos

In the area off central-south Chile (34-40ºS), a new period of high abundance of Dosidicus gigas has occurred since 2001. The seasonal changes in length structure and reproductive condition of D. gigas in oceanic and coastal waters are described for the period July 2003 to February 2004. The length structure varied significantly between seasons and zones. In the austral winter, medium-sized, maturing individuals were found in oceanic waters while large-sized mature males and maturing fema...

Viswanathan Srinivasan, and Usha Natesan, and Anitha Parthasarathy

The aim of this work was to study the physicochemical parameters of water quality collected from 12 sampling stations from Topputhurai to Muthupet in Vedaranyam located on the southeast coast of India from January to December 2008. Results showed that the DO and nutrients were the maximum in the Bay of Bengal during the monsoon period. High concentration of the nutrients in summer season was obtained near the Muthupet mangroves compared to the Palk Strait, which showed that this acted as a sourc...

D. Martins, and S.R. Marchi, and N.V. Costa

O objetivo deste estudo foi desenvolver um método para determinação de pontos de reprodução e de suas respectivas importâncias na disseminação das espécies E. densa, E. najas e C. demersum no reservatório de Jupiá. Foram monitorados dez locais nos quais se encontrou registro de altas infestações dessas espécies. Dois desses locais situam-se no rio Paraná, nas lagoas denominadas de "Ferradura" e "Pernilongo"; os outros oito sítios estão localizados no rio Tietê, nas lagoas marginais "Testemunha",...

D. Van den Eynde, and R. De Sutter, and P. Haerens

Severe storms have affected European coast lines in the past but knowledge on changes in storminess for the last decades is still sparse. Climate change is assumed to be a main driving factor with the potential to induce changes on the intensity, duration and frequency of powerful marine storms, including a long-term influence on peak wind speeds, surges and waves. It is, therefore, important to investigate whether in the last decades changes in the magnitude of storms, their duration and freque...

Marion Haruko Machado, and Rodrigo Junio da Graça

Nenhum estudo de peixes e parasitos foi realizado, até o momento, no Lago do Parque do Ingá que sofre influências antrópicas desde seu represamento, em 1970. Este trabalho analisou alguns aspectos ecológicos dos parasitos metazoários dos peixes deste lago. Dos peixes analisados, (69,5%) estavam parasitados por pelo menos uma espécie de parasito. Foram encontrados 1.372 parasitos pertencentes à Nematoda (larvas) e Platyhelminthes (Monogenea e Cestoda), sendo estes os mais prevalentes e numerosos....

Humberto Mejía-Mojica, and Felipe de Jesús Rodríguez-Romero, and Edmundo Díaz-Pardo

Los efectos de las especies invasoras en los ecosistemas nativos son variados, y estos se han vinculado con la desaparición o disminución de la fauna nativa, cambios en la estructura de la comunidad, modificación de los ecosistemas y como vectores de nuevas enfermedades y parásitos. El desarrollo del comercio de especies para uso ornamental ha contribuido significativamente a la importación e introducción de peces invasores en algunas áreas importantes para la conservación de la biodiversidad en...

Marta J. Cremer, and Pedro C. Pinheiro, and Paulo C. Simões-Lopes

The present study provides information about the diet of sympatric populations of small cetaceans in the Babitonga Bay estuary. This is the first study on the diet of these species in direct sympatry. The stomach contents of seven Guiana dolphins Sotalia guianensis and eight franciscanas Pontoporia blainvillei were analyzed. The prey of both cetaceans was mostly teleost fishes, followed by cephalopods. We identified 13 teleost fishes as part of the diet of the franciscanas, and 20 as part of the...

Bruna Roque Loureiro, and Christina Wyss Castelo Branco, and Evoy Zaniboni Filho

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to verify the influence of net-cage fish farming on zooplankton biomass in the Itá reservoir (Uruguay River, Brazil). METHODS: Samples were collected monthly from October/2009 to May/2010 at the surface and at the bottom in two sampling stations, the net-cage area and in a control area using a Van Dorn bottle and a plankton net (68 µm). RESULTS: The Cladocera and Copepoda biomass was estimated by dry weight using a micro-analytical balance, and the Rotifera biomass b...

Supamattaya, K., and Rungsombat, P., and Boonyaratpalin, M., and Kliangpradit, A., and Kiriratnikom, S.

Two feeding trial were conducted to determine the effects of various sources of carotenoid on growth performance, disease resistance, blood parameters, stress tolerance and pigmentation in juvenile black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon). Trial I was performed in small shrimp (1 g average body weight). The shrimp were fed with control diet without carotenoid (diet 1) while diets 2 to 6 contained 50 mg/kg astaxanthin (Lucanthin Pink®), 125 mg/kg β-carotene (Lucarotin®), 200 mg/kg β-carotene (Lucarot...

Bruna Rafaela Dallabona, and Laura Beatriz Karam, and Roberta Wagner, and Dayse Aline Ferreira Silva Bartolomeu, and Jorge Daniel Mikos, and João Gabriel Phabiano Francisco, and Renata Ernlund Freitas de Macedo, and Peter Gaberz Kirschnik

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the physicochemical and microbiological stability of sausages produced from mechanically separated fish meat (MSM) obtained from Nile tilapia filleting residues. Different heat treatments (pasteurization or smoking) and packaging systems (conventional or vacuum) were used. The sausages were characterized for chemical composition, weight loss, water activity, instrumental texture and sensorial analysis. Additionally, microbiological analysis, instrumental...

Branko Đedović , and Branislav Jakić

Nove krize i izazovi kao oblici reagovanja nametnuli su potrebu da ekonomski i vojno jake, industrijski i tehnološki razvijene zemlje jačaju faktor kvaliteta u odbrambenim tehnologijama u funkciji demonstracije vojne sile i tehnološke moći. Odbrambene tehnologije i savremene strategije su u komplementarnom odnosu i uzročno-posledičnoj vezi. Brze tehnološke promene neizbežno zahtevaju projektovanje i programiranje ključnih parametara kvaliteta, kako bi sinergijski efekat dejstva tehnike i taktike...

Sien Lin, and Wayne Yuk Wai Lee, and Yuxin Sun, and Liao Cui, and David William Green, and Gang Li

Vasilj Aleksandra V.

Limitation of liability of shipowner can based on property or can be personal - shipowner responds to certain part of the property (for example ship) or his entire assets to a certain amount. In the first case it is a real, and in the other the personal limitation of liability. On these principles all international instruments in this legal field have been developed. One of the well-known 'universal' principle of civil law says that the injurer must pay for a damage in full, in full extent and a...

D. Lannuzel, and M. Vancoppenolle, and P. van der Merwe, and J. de Jong, and K.M. Meiners, and M. Grotti, and J. Nishioka, and V. Schoemann

Abstract The discovery that melting sea ice can fertilize iron (Fe)-depleted polar waters has recently fostered trace metal research efforts in sea ice. The aim of this review is to summarize and synthesize the current understanding of Fe biogeochemistry in sea ice. To do so, we compiled available data on particulate, dissolved, and total dissolvable Fe (PFe, DFe and TDFe, respectively) from sea-ice studies from both polar regions and from sub-Arctic and northern Hemisphere temperate areas. Data...

Karine Gauvin

Abstract Studies on Acadian and Quebec French have clearly shown that these varieties are characterized by words of maritime origin that have evolved semantically. These words, along with other words, have been integrated in the language to form original lexical networks that differ from those of Standard French. The verb haler in Acadian French is such an example, as its presence has an impact on the global linguistic environment of Acadian French. The semantic extensions of certain words of...

Fikri Balta, and Haşmet Çağırgan

David Jünger

Marinke J. M. Stassen, and Max W. P. M. van de Ven, and Tjisse van der Heide, and Marco Antonio Guerrero Hiza, and Gerard van der Velde, and Alfons J. P. Smolders

The relative importance of flood pulse dynamics and megafan behaviour for the Sábalo (Prochilodus lineatus) catches in the neotropical Pilcomayo River is studied. The Sábalo catches can mainly be explained by decreased river discharges in the preceding years resulting in smaller inundated areas during rainy season floods and thereby in a decreased area of feeding grounds for the fishes. The decreased river discharges and the related decline of Sábalo catches in the 1990's can be linked to the 90...