Jonathan K. Wells, and William G. R. Crampton

The weak electric organ discharges (EODs) of gymnotiform knife fishes can be readily amplified with a wideband amplifier connected to submerged electrodes. The output from such an amplifier can then be monitored with audio speakers or digitized for subsequent analysis. Commercially available devices are expensive and usually require mains electrical power. Here we provide design notes and instructions for the construction and calibration of a cheap, portable, battery-powered, AC-coupled wideband...

Sammy De Grave, and Arthur Anker

Abstract A checklist of caridean and stenopodidean shrimps of the Caribbean coast of Panama is presented, based on material collected during two local workshops (2005, 2008) as well as extensive sampling during 2006-2010. This material is augmented by an annotated list of previously recorded species, amounting to a total of 157 species, including 20 new records. Doubtful records are discussed. The current checklist is however considered relatively incomplete as older records could not always be ...

Janice de M. V. Vilela, and Ana L. Miranda-Vilela, and Erika Von Z. Stasieniuk, and Gabriela M. Alves, and Felipe N. Machado, and Walter M. Ferreira, and Flávia M. de O. B. Saad, and Paulo A. R. Machado, and Camila C. G. M. Coelho, and Natascha A. M. da Silva

Stereotyped behaviors in captive primates are often caused by unsuitable conditions. Environmental enrichment has been used to reduce these behaviors, and also to increase the frequency of behaviors appropriate to the species. In this pilot study we evaluated whether behavioral enrichment influences food intake by the black tufted-ear marmoset, Callithrix penicillata (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812), by calculating energy maintenance requirements. We evaluated 16 individually housed, healthy ad...

Zhang Y, and Huang J, and Chen J, and Yang K, and Chen J, and Xu L, and Zhou Z, and Chen M

Yaojun Zhang,1,2,* Junting Huang,1,2,* Jinbin Chen,1,2 Keli Yang,1,2 Jiancong Chen,1,2 Li Xu,1,2 Zhongguo Zhou,1,2 Minshan Chen1,2 1Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China; 2State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China *These authors contributed equally to this work Background: Alt...

Fabiola López Monroy , and Luis Troccoli-Ghinaglia

The hydrological balance and the flow of materials in the coastal lagoons are strongly dependent on the exchange with other bodies of water. The evaluation of these exchanges is an important tool for the management of these ecosystems. This study aimed to estimate the interaction between a tropical coastal lagoon, Las Marites, located in Margarita Island, Venezuela and the adjacent Caribbean Sea. The Land Ocean Interactions in Coastal Zone (LOICZ) method was used to establish budgets of water, s...

Jabłońska Aleksandra, and Mamos Tomasz, and Gruszka Piotr, and Szlauer-Łukaszewska Agnieszka, and Grabowski Michał

Neocaridina davidi (Bouvier, 1904) is an exotic freshwater shrimp originating from Asia and often kept as a pet in amateur aquarium cultures. Herewith, we report on the second finding of N. davidi in fresh waters of Europe and the first discovery of that species both in Poland and in Central Europe. The species was found in samples collected in 2003, 2013 and 2017 in the thermally polluted canal connected to the River Oder, south of Gryfino, in the vicinity of the Dolna Odra Power Plant. The tax...

Stéphanie Pasquaud et Jérémy Lobry

Les aires marines protégées (AMP) ont été créées pour protéger des espèces rares menacées et/ou préserver des habitats remarquables. Quel est le bilan de ces espaces ? Ont-ils permis de restaurer la biodiversité que l'on a souhaité conserver ? Le choix des indicateurs est-il toujours pertinent ? Comment les améliorer ?<br>The international community’s commitment to creating and managing a coherent network of marine protected areas (MPA) by 2012 leads us to reflect on the definition of MPA effect...

Inês Sousa, and Jorge M.S. Gonçalves, and Joachim Claudet, and Rui Coelho, and Emanuel J. Gonçalves, and Karim Erzini

Numerous studies over the last decades have focused on marine protected areas (MPAs) and their effects on fish communities. However, there is a knowledge gap regarding how species that live associated with soft-substrates (e.g., sand, mud) respond to spatial protection. We analyzed abundance, biomass and total lengths of the soft-bottom fishes in a multiple-use MPA in the north-eastern Atlantic, the Luiz Saldanha Marine Park (Portugal), during and after the implementation of its management plan....

Paola Rey-Suárez, and Cristian Acosta, and Uday Torres, and Mónica Saldarriaga-Córdoba, and Bruno Lomonte, and Vitelbina Núñez

L-amino acid oxidases (LAAOs) are ubiquitous enzymes in nature. Bioactivities described for these enzymes include apoptosis induction, edema formation, induction or inhibition of platelet aggregation, as well as antiviral, antiparasite, and antibacterial actions. With over 80 species, Micrurus snakes are the representatives of the Elapidae family in the New World. Although LAAOs in Micrurus venoms have been predicted by venom gland transcriptomic studies and detected in proteomic studies, no enz...

T. Salles, and J. Pall, and J. M. Webster, and B. Dechnik

Assemblages of corals characterise specific reef biozones and the environmental conditions that change spatially across a reef and with depth. Drill cores through fossil reefs record the time and depth distribution of assemblages, which captures a partial history of the vertical growth response of reefs to changing palaeoenvironmental conditions. The effects of environmental factors on reef growth are well understood on ecological timescales but are poorly constrained at centennial to geol...

Wilson F. Ramírez-Duarte, and Carolina Pineda-Quiroga, and Nhora Martínez, and Pedro R. Eslava-Mocha

The use of sodium chloride (0.5 g/L and 1 g/L) and zeolite (22.7 g/L) during shipment (48 h) of Ancistrus triradiatus at high temperatures (between 24.5 and 34ºC) were evaluated. Several water quality parameters (dissolved oxygen, pH, conductivity, and total ammonia) were measured before and after shipment. Glycemia was measured before shipment and at 24 and 48 h after shipment. After shipment, a resistance test was carried out in a high concentration of sodium chloride, and mortality was record...

R. W. Obbard

This comment addresses a statement made in "A review of air–ice chemical and physical interactions (AICI): liquids, quasi-liquids, and solids in snow" by Bartels-Rausch et al. (Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 1587–1633, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-1587-2014"target="_blank"> doi:10.5194/acp-14-1587-2014</a>, 2014). Here we rebut the assertion that X-ray computed microtomography of sea ice fails to reveal liquid brine inclusions by discussing the phases present at the analysis temperature.

Masilamani Mohan Raj, and Subramanian Bragadeeswaran, and Anbukkarasu Suguna, and Muthuramalingam Uthaya Siva

Objective: To evaluate the antimicrobial activity and brine shrimp lethality activity of six different species of puffer fishes, including Cyclichthys orbicularis, Diodon holocanthus, Canthigaster solandri, Arthron hispidus, A. inermis and Lagocephalua inermis (L. inermis). Methodology: The puffer fishes were collected from Annangkovil Fish Landing Centre (Lattitude 11°30.47' N; Longitude 79°47.02' E), Parangipettai, Southeast Coast of India during summer season because of availability...

RDL. Behrend, and SEP. Fernandes, and DS. Fujita, and AM. Takeda

The aim of this study was to analyze the factors that influence spatial and temporal variations of the Oligochaeta assemblage in the Baía and Ivinhema Rivers, located in the Upper Paraná River floodplain (Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil). Samples of Oligochaeta were collected between February 2000 and November 2007. A total of 27 Oligochaeta species were identified. A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of the physical and chemical variables was used to summarize the total variation in the data ...

T Belli, and AH Crisp, and R Verlengia

In this study, we aimed to investigate the influence of ACTN3 R577X gene polymorphism on muscle damage responses in athletes competing in an ultra-endurance race. Twenty moderate to well-trained ultra-runners who had entered in an official 37.1 km adventure race (22.1 km mountain biking, 10.9 km trek¬king, 4.1 km water trekking, 30 m rope course, and orienteering) volunteered for the study. Blood samples were collected for genotyping and analysis of muscle protein levels before and after the r...

Radoičić Rajka

The presence of Paleocene in the Dubrovnik Coast (Adriatic Carbonate Platform) is documented by algal flora in the locality Pločice, Konavli. The algal assemblage includes more than 20 species. Ten taxa present in the Paleocene of the Karst (NE Italy-Slovenia) occur in Pločice: Acroporella chiapasensis DELOFFRE, FOURCADE & MICHAUD, Decastroporella tergestina BARATTOLO, Drobnella slovenica BARATTOLO, Dissocladella gracilis RADOIČIĆ Hamulusella? liburnica (RADOIČIĆ), Cymopolia elongata (DEFRANCE) ...

Beuy Joob, and Viroj Wiwanitkit

Puffer fish poisoning is a common seafood poisoning. The problem is due to tetradotoxin in puffy fish meat. It can be seen in many countries with seacoasts. The problem is resulted from tetradotoxin (TTX) in puffer fish meat. This toxin is an important natural toxin. Here, the authors report summary of case reports from Thailand. The authors use standard search engines (PubMed and Thai Index Medicus) for searching on the reports on puffer fish poisoning from Thailand. According to this work...

Ana Carolina Lima, and Jorge Assis, and Diogo Sayanda, and José Sabino, and Rui F. Oliveira

Bonito, in Mato Grosso do Sul State, is an important destination for ecotourism in Brazil and the main challenge of sustainable ecotourism here has been to accommodate and adjust the increase of tourism without compromising the ecological integrity of the local ecosystems. In this study we aimed to assess the environmental impact of ecotourism on the fish fauna of Sucuri River in Bonito by integrating ecological, behaviour and physiological criteria and using the fish species Crenicichla lepidot...

Rebecca Weeks, and Robert L. Pressey, and Joanne R. Wilson, and Maurice Knight, and Vera Horigue, and Rene A. Abesamis, and Renerio Acosta, and Jamaluddin Jompa

Systematic conservation planning increasingly underpins the conservation and management of marine and coastal ecosystems worldwide. Amongst other benefits, conservation planning provides transparency in decision-making, efficiency in the use of limited resources, the ability to minimise conflict between diverse objectives, and to guide strategic expansion of local actions to maximise their cumulative impact. The Coral Triangle has long been recognised as a global marine conservation priority, an...

Adrien Cheminee, and Patrice Francour, and Mireille Harmelin-Vivien

This work aimed at performing a large scale assessment of Diplodus spp. (Sparidae) nurseries along the rocky shore of Marseilles (France, NW Mediterranean) by locating and quantifying nursery microhabitats and estimating the settlement pattern along this shore in 2004. Nursery grounds of Diplodus spp. represented only 9% of the 52 km-long rocky shore of Marseilles. Their location, shallow rocky habitats sheltered within coves, made them vulnerable to human-induced habitat transformations. D. vul...

Maria Corsini-Foka

Rhodes Island (southeastern Aegean) is located in a geographically crucial region subjected to biological invasions. Among the 108 alien species recorded, 30 are fish, all of Indo-Pacific/Red Sea origin introduced via Suez through Lessepsian migration (Corsini-Foka et al., 2015; Corsini-Foka and Kondylatos, In press; Kondylatos and Corsini-Foka, In press). In this oligotrophic area, fishery production is limited, due to the paucity of species of commercial interest and their low abundance, while...

Stephanie M. Rosales, and Rebecca L. Vega Thurber

Diseases of marine mammals can be difficult to diagnose because of their life history and protected status. Stranded marine mammals have been a particularly useful resource to discover and comprehend the diseases that plague these top predators. Additionally, advancements in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) has contributed to the discovery of novel pathogens in marine mammals. In this study, we use a combination of HTS and stranded harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) to better understand a known and u...

A. M. Sempreviva, and A. M. Sempreviva, and M. E. Schiano, and S. Pensieri, and A. Semedo, and A. Semedo, and R. Tomé, and R. Tomé, and R. Bozzano, and M. Borghini, and F. Grasso, and L. L. Soerensen, and L. L. Soerensen, and J. Teixeira, and C. Transerici

In the marine environment, complete datasets describing the surface layer and the vertical structure of the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer (MABL), through its entire depth, are less frequent than over land, due to the high cost of measuring campaigns. During the seven days of the Ligurian Air-Sea Interaction Experiment (LASIE), organized by the NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC) in the Mediterranean Sea, extensive in situ and remote sensing measurements were collected from instruments...

Sérgio Mattos, and Francesc Maynou, and Ramon Franquesa

This paper presents a bio-economic analysis of the hand-line and gillnet coastal fisheries off Pernambuco State, north-eastern Brazil, in order to define management measures to support the decision-making process available to fisheries managers to reduce uncertainties about the sustainable development of the fisheries. The objective of applying a bio-economic model was to reproduce the biological and economic conditions in which the fisheries occur. This was done by carrying out projections and ...

Jorge O. Pierini, and Michele Lovallo, and Eduardo A. Gómez, and Luciano Telesca

The collision of the warm and salty southward flowing Brazil Current and the cold and relatively fresh northward flowing Malvinas Current produces a strong frontal zone known as the Brazil–Malvinas Confluence Zone (BMCZ). This is featured by intense presence of eddies and meanders and is one of the most energetic areas of the world oceans. We apply the statistical method of Fisher–Shannon (FS) to the time series of sea surface temperature, derived from the satellite Advanced Very High Resolution...

U. Santoso, and Y. Fenita, and E. Sulistyowati

The objective of this study was to obtain enriched eggs with low cholesterol content. Forty-eight laying hens (strain Dekalb Warren) aged 72 weeks were distributed into six treatment groups as follows: 1) Laying hens fed diet without Sauropus androgynus leaf extracts (SALE), fish oil and vitamin E (P0) as the control; 2) Laying hens were fed diet with 27 g SALE/kg diet, but without fish oil (P1); 3) Laying hens were fed diet with 27 g SALE/kg diet, 1.5% fish oil (P2); 4) Laying hens were fed die...

J. D. Yakobi-Hancock, and L. A. Ladino, and A. K. Bertram, and J. A. Huffman, and K. Jones, and W. R. Leaitch, and R. H. Mason, and C. L. Schiller, and D. Toom-Sauntry, and J. P. S. Wong, and J. P. D. Abbatt

As one aspect of the NETwork on Climate and Aerosols: addressing key uncertainties in Remote Canadian Environments (NETCARE), measurements of the cloud condensation nucleation properties of 50 and 100 nm aerosol particles were conducted at Ucluelet on the west coast of Vancouver Island in August 2013. The overall hygroscopicity parameter of the aerosol (&kappa;_ambient) exhibited a wide variation, ranging from 0.14 ± 0.05 to 1.08 ± 0.40 (where the uncertainty represents the systematic ...

EDWIN JEFRI , and NEVIATY P. ZAMANI , and BEGINER SUBHAN , and HAWIS H. MADDUPPA

Daniele Giansanti, and Fabio Cerroni, and Rachele Amodeo, and Marco Filoni, and Maria Rosaria Giovagnoli

Up to date, tele-pathology in the three different forms of application, "dynamic", "static" and "virtual microscopy" has been mainly based on tele-hystology remote consulting. Today the diffusion of specialized WAN connections is guiding the research of new applications of tele-pathology. A specific analysis has been conducted, focused on digital cytology, in the biomedical laboratory of Sant'Andrea Hospital to investigate the technologies potentially useful to integrate in the LAN/WAN for telem...

C.M. Sonsino

The structural durability design of complex welded structures should not rely only on one single design method but should apply different methods for assuring the reliability of the assessment. In this context the application of the structural stress concept, notch stress concept and crack propagation concept are discussed through the example of K-nodes used in energetic offshore constructions like oil platforms or windpower plants, presenting the state of the art.

Y. Lehahn, and I. Koren, and E. Boss, and Y. Ben-Ami, and O. Altaratz

Six years (2003–2008) of satellite measurements of aerosol parameters from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and surface wind speeds from Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT), the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E), and the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I), are used to provide a comprehensive perspective on the link between surface wind speed and marine aerosol optical depth over tropical and subtropical oceanic regions. A systematic comparison between the s...

Marek Pelcl, and František Chmelík, and Jana Vašíčková, and Jana Pelclová, and Karel Frömel

Tato studie analyzuje výsledky výzkumu u devíti gymnaziálních dívek, které dobrovolně celý školní rok 2005-06 nosily krokoměry k monitorování pohybové aktivity a její variability v průběhu jejich školní docházky a volného času. Korigovaná data byla zpracována opakovanou analýzou rozptylu a zjištěny byly významné rozdíly mezi dny v týdnu, měsíci, dny s vyučovacími jednotkami tělesné výchovy a bez tělesné výchovy a ročními obdobími. <br />[The adolescent period seems to be critical in age-related ...

A. P. F. Pires, and A. Caliman, and T. Laque, and F. A. Esteves, and V. F. Farjalla

Abstract Resource identity and composition structure bacterial community, which in turn determines the magnitude of bacterial processes and ecological services. However, the complex interaction between resource identity and bacterial community composition (BCC) has been poorly understood so far. Using aquatic microcosms, we tested whether and how resource identity interacts with BCC in regulating bacterial respiration and bacterial functional diversity. Different aquatic macrophyte leachates wer...

Nicelly B. Araújo, and Francisco L. Tejerina-Garro

The Ouvidor River, a tributary of the Upper Paraná River, drains areas covered by cerrado vegetation in Central Brazil. We collected data for environmental variables (water temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, conductivity, turbidity, water velocity, luminosity, channel substrate and width) and anthropogenic perturbations (industry, reservoirs, urban areas) that may structure the fish assemblage in ten stream sites of the Ouvidor River basin. In each stream we delimited one 50 m long site where fi...

Lei Zhang, and Yongchao Deng, and Kunlun Li, and Linchuan Qiu

The traditional multi joint mechanical serial parallel structure biomimetic fish has lower propulsive efficiency, more energy transmission loss, more complicated mechanical design and control algorithms because of more mechanical joints. While the flexible body has infinite degrees of freedom, and the energy in it is stored by elasticity and inertia, it is more viscous than that of multi joints. This project studies the principle of carangidae fish in carangidae carp, takes it as the bionic obje...

O. Serrano, and P. S. Lavery, and C. M. Duarte, and G. A. Kendrick, and A. Calafat, and P. H. York, and A. Steven, and P. I. Macreadie

The emerging field of blue carbon science is seeking cost-effective ways to estimate the organic carbon content of soils that are bound by coastal vegetated ecosystems. Organic carbon (C_org) content in terrestrial soils and marine sediments has been correlated with mud content (i.e., silt and clay, particle sizes < 63 µm), however, empirical tests of this theory are lacking for coastal vegetated ecosystems. Here, we compiled data (<i>n</i> =  1345) on the relationship between C<sub>or...

Bruno L. Oliveira, and Luiz F. Loureiro Fernandes, and Adalto Bianchini, and Adriana R. Chippari-Gomes, and Bruno F. Silva, and Geisamanda P. Brandão, and Levy C. Gomes

Three experiments were designed to assess the accumulation and acute toxicity of copper (Cu) in juvenile fat snook Centropomusparallelus. The first experiment was performed to determine the 96-h lethal concentration (LC50) of Cu. The second experiment was designed to assess the effects of sublethal concentrations of Cu (0.47 and 0.94 mg/L), while the third one allowed us to test the recovery capacity of fish exposed to the sublethal concentrations Cu and kept in sea water without Cu addition. Th...

Bernard de Mérona, and Jan Mol, and Régis Vigouroux, and Paulo de Tarso Chaves

Fish species are known for their large phenotypic plasticity in life-history traits in relation to environmental characteristics. Plasticity allows species to increase their fitness in a given environment. Here we examined the life-history response of fish species after an abrupt change in their environment caused by the damming of rivers. Two reservoirs of different age, both situated on the Guiana Shield, were investigated: the young Petit-Saut Reservoir in French Guiana (14 years) and the muc...

J. Wang, and A. Virkkula, and Y. Gao, and S. Lee, and Y. Shen, and X. Chi, and W. Nie, and Q. Liu, and Z. Xu, and X. Huang, and T. Wang, and L. Cui, and A. Ding

Temporal variations in aerosol optical properties were investigated at a coastal station in Hong Kong based on the field observation from February 2012 to February 2015. At 550 nm, the average light-scattering (151 ± 100 Mm⁻¹) and absorption coefficients (8.3 ± 6.1 Mm⁻¹) were lower than most of other rural sites in eastern China, while the single-scattering albedo (SSA  =  0.93 ± 0.05) was relatively higher compared with other rural sites in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) regi...

Selvaraj eKandasamy, and Peddrick eWeis

T. Mondal, and C. Raghunathan

A new species of scleractinian coral Ctenactis triangularis sp. nov. in the family Fungiidae has been described from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This species has a triangular arm shaped corallum with the mouth extending along all three arms. Septal dentition is long, cylindrical, equally sized and closely arranged. Numerous pits on the costae and costal spines are spinulose. Ctenactis triangularis sp. nov. has an affinity with Ctenactis echinata (Pallas, 1766), Ctenactis crassa (Dana, 184...

Paulo de T. Chaves, and Ana Lúcia Vendel

Estudou-se a composição da dieta de peixes em dois tipos de ambiente de áreas rasas estuarinas - marisma e manguezal, objetivando avaliar se essas formações vegetais desencadeiam na ictiofauna respostas diferentes quanto à alimentação. As seis espécies avaliadas, as mais abundantes nessas áreas, mostraram-se predominantemente planctívoras, porém com particularidades quanto ao tipo de vegetação ocupada. Na marisma, Atherinella brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) apresentou a dieta com maior númer...

Kawanaka M, and Nishino K, and Nakamura J, and Suehiro M, and Goto D, and Urata N, and Oka T, and Kawamoto H, and Nakamura H, and Yodoi J, and Hino K, and Yamada G

Miwa Kawanaka,1 Ken Nishino,1 Jun Nakamura,1 Mitsuhiko Suehiro,1 Daisuke Goto,1 Noriyo Urata,1 Takahito Oka,1 Hirofumi Kawamoto,1 Hajime Nakamura,2 Junji Yodoi,3 Keisuke Hino,4 Gotaro Yamada11Department of Internal Medicine 2, Kawasaki Hospital, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, 2Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Translational Research Center, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, 3Department of Biological Responses, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 4Department of Hepato...

C. Zanolla, and F. Coren, and E. Lodolo

About 40 000 km of marine magnetic and gradiometric data have been collected during eight geophysical surveys conducted since the Austral summer 1987/1988 in the circum-antarctic seas, by the research vessel OGS-Explora. For the most surveyed areas (Ross Sea, Southwestern Pacific Ocean, and Southern Scotia Sea), the analysis of the acquired data have contributed to clarify important aspects of their geological structure and tectonic evolution. The main scientific results, obtained combining othe...

Arena, F

In this paper some non-linear effects for the mechanics of sea wave groups with large waves are investigated, either for waves in an undisturbed field or for waves in front of a vertical wall. To the first-order in a Stokes expansion, Boccotti's quasi-determinism theory enables us to foresee the mechanics of wave groups, either in undisturbed or in diffracted fields, when a large wave occurs. The first formulation of this theory shows the random group mechanics when a large crest height o...

Humberto N. Farneze, and Jorge Carlos F. Jorge, and Luís Felipe G. de Souza, and Ivaní de S. Bott

Realizou-se um estudo comparativo entre os processos eletrodo revestido e arame tubular, considerando-se as propriedades mecânicas e microestruturais de metais de solda de aço de alta resistência, nas condições de como soldado e com tratamento térmico de alívio de tensões (TTAT). Os resultados mostram que os procedimentos adotados para soldagem com arame tubular e eletrodos revestidos possibilitaram obter níveis de resistência mecânica satisfatórios, com exceção do valor de alongamento percentua...

Alejandro Pérez-Matus, and Fabián Ramirez, and Tyler D Eddy, and Russell Cole

The Juan Fernández Archipelago (33°37'S, 78°51'W), an isolated group of islands 650 km west of continental Chile, has a high degree of endemism in its marine biota. Despite numerous scientific expeditions to these islands that have identified this high endemism, few studies have attempted to identify patterns of community structure in subtidal habitats. Using visual census, we surveyed fish and habitat associations at five sites located at two of the three islands of the archipelago. Given the i...

Gotzon Ibarretxe Txakartegi

Responsables de educación y cultura de diferentes países europeos han alertado sobre la falta de nuevas voces y el peligro de continuidad de las agrupaciones corales existentes. No obstante, algunas instituciones corales están llevando a cabo una intensa labor de cantera, avalados por su trayectoria y prestigio históricos, así como por la organización e infraestructuras de calidad de que disponen. Así ocurre con determinados coros y orfeones vascos, que atraen a un número considerable de voces i...

N. Bouttes, and D. M. Roche, and V. Mariotti, and L. Bopp

The atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration plays a crucial role in the radiative balance and as such has a strong influence on the evolution of climate. Because of the numerous interactions between climate and the carbon cycle, it is necessary to include a model of the carbon cycle within a climate model to understand and simulate past and future changes of the carbon cycle. In particular, natural variations of atmospheric CO₂ have happened in the past, while anthropogenic carbon em...

Kathleen B. Cartmell, and Heather S. Bonilha, and Terri Matson, and Debbie C. Bryant, and Jane Zapka, and Tricia A. Bentz, and Marvella E. Ford, and Chanita Hughes-Halbert, and Kit N. Simpson, and Anthony J. Alberg

Background: Clinical trials (CT) represent an important treatment option for cancer patients. Unfortunately, patients face challenges to enrolling in CTs, such as logistical barriers, poor CT understanding and complex clinical regimens. Patient navigation is a strategy that may help to improve the delivery of CT education and support services. We examined the feasibility and initial effect of one navigation strategy, use of lay navigators. Methods: A lay CT navigation intervention was evaluated ...