C. Martín-Puertas, and F. Jiménez-Espejo, and F. Martínez-Ruiz, and V. Nieto-Moreno, and M. Rodrigo, and M. P. Mata, and B. L. Valero-Garcés

A combination of marine (Alboran Sea cores, ODP 976 and TTR 300 G) and terrestrial (Zoñar Lake, Andalucia, Spain) geochemical proxies provides a high-resolution reconstruction of climate variability and human influence in the southwestern Mediterranean region for the last 4000 years at inter-centennial resolution. Proxies respond to changes in precipitation rather than temperature alone. Our combined terrestrial and marine archive documents a succession of dry and wet periods coherent with the N...

Pedro Kurtz, and Paula Rosa, and Guilherme Penna, and Fabricio Braga, and Jose Kezen, and Luis Eduardo Drumond, and Márcia Freitas, and Gustavo Almeida, and Ronaldo Vegni, and Marcelo Kalichsztein, and Gustavo Nobre

JUSTIFICATIVA E OBJETIVOS: A bacteremia associada a cateter venoso central (CVC) aumenta a morbidade e mortalidade hospitalar em pacientes internados em unidade de terapia intensiva (UTI). Os cateteres recobertos com rifampicina e minociclina (RM) reduzem a freqüência de colonização e bacteremia. No entanto, resultados de estudos recentes questionaram o seu impacto clínico. O objetivo deste estudo foi comparar a incidência de colonização e bacteremia associada à CVC recobertos com RM e não recob...

J. Chiggiato, and P. Oddo

In the framework of the Mediterranean Forecasting System (MFS) project, the performance of regional numerical ocean forecasting systems is assessed by means of model-model and model-data comparison. Three different operational systems considered in this study are: the Adriatic REGional Model (AREG); the Adriatic Regional Ocean Modelling System (AdriaROMS) and the Mediterranean Forecasting System General Circulation Model (MFS-GCM). AREG and AdriaROMS are regional implementations (with some dedic...

Ramon Barbalho Guerreiro, and Lia Bittencourt, and Rodolfo Casimiro Reis, and José Marcus Rotta, and Sérgio Tufik, and Ricardo Vieira Botelho

Objective Patients with craniocervical junction malformations (CCJM) tend to suffer more frequently from sleep respiratory disturbances, which are more frequent and severe in patients with basilar invagination. Here we evaluate if patients with CCJM and sleep respiratory disorders (SRD) present smaller airway dimensions than patients without SRD. Method Patients with CCCM with and without sleep respiratory disturbances were evaluated clinically by Bindal's score, modified Mallampati classificati...

Mohammed Aktaruzzaman, Mohammed Shakhaoat Hossain, Abu Naieum Muhammad Fakhruddin, Mohammed Jamal Uddin, Syed Hafizur Rahman, and Muhammed Alamgir Zaman Chowdhury, Mohammad Khorshed Alam, Zeenath Fardous, and Mohammad Alamgir Hossain

Shrimp culture plays a central part in the fisheries sector of Bangladesh that leads to a significant change in the structure and composition of frozen food export sector. An investigation was carried out to determine physiochemical parameters, nutrients content, bacterial contamination and metal content in shrimp “Gher” (Farms) water and sediments. Physicochemical parameters were analyzed in situ by portable meters. Ammonia, phosphate, bacterial counts, and metals contents were analyzed by Ness...

Tarzan Legović, and Rune Palerud, and Guttorm Christensen, and Regie Regpala, and Patrick White,

A model was developed to estimate the production carrying capacity of water bodies based on nutrient inputs from aquaculture and other sources, flushing rates, and the risk of algal blooms for three different areas of the Philippines – Bolinao (marine site), Dagupan (brackishwater site) and Taal Lake (freshwater site). The results suggest that aquaculture production in the Taal Lake was greater than the sustainable carrying capacity. Aquaculture structures in Bolinao were close to carrying capac...

A. Miskiewicz, and A. Holm, and R. Weigel

The paper presents the challenges involved in a system design of a robust reconfigurable RF front-end for navigation and mobile standards. Receiver architecture is chosen from the point of view of inter-system interference and 130nm CMOS process characteristics. System concept covers the implementation of GPS, Galileo, UMTS, GSM and CDMA2000 using a Zero-IF architecture with reconfigurable analog and digital path. Feasibility studies of the system cover analysis of the wireless regulations and p...

Jun'ichi Okuno, and Hideki Miura

We present relative sea level (RSL) curves in Antarctica derived from glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) predictions based on the melting scenarios of the Antarctic ice sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) given in previous works. Simultaneously, Holocene-age RSL observations obtained at the raised beaches along the coast of Antarctica are shown to be in agreement with the GIA predictions. The differences from previously published ice-loading models regarding the spatial distribution and t...

Yi-Chen Lee, and Chung-Saint Lin, and Fang-Ling Liu, and Tzou-Chi Huang, and Yung-Hsiang Tsai

Histamine is the causative agent of scombroid poisoning, a foodborne chemical hazard. Histamine is degraded by the oxidative deamination activity of certain microorganisms. In this study, eight histamine-degrading bacteria isolated from salted fish products were identified as Rummeliibacillus stabekisii (1 isolate), Agrobacterium tumefaciens (1 isolate), Bacillus cereus (2 isolates), Bacillus polymyxa (1 isolate), Bacillus licheniformis (1 isolate), Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (1 isolate), and Ba...

Jian-hua Li, and Liang-sheng Zhu, and Shan-ju Zhang

In coastal areas with complicated flow movement, deposition and scour readily occur in submarine excavation projects. In this study, a small-scale model, with a high resolution in the vertical direction, was used to simulate the tidal current around a submarine excavation project. The finite volume method was used to solve Navier-Stokes equations and the Reynolds stress transport equation, and the entire process of the tidal current was simulated with unstructured meshes, generated in the irregu...

Jorge Terrados, and Francisco Javier Medina Pons

The epiphyte load on the leaves of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile was estimated at the end of summer in three sites and two depths (7 m and 17 m) of the Cabrera Archipelago National Park (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean) from 2004 to 2006 to evaluate if epiphyte load could be used as an indicator of anthropogenic nutrient loading in the shallow marine ecosystems of the park. Asymmetrical ANOVA was used to divide data variability into two components: the contrast between the ...

Beverley Ellis, and John Howard, and Daniel Dedman, and Mary Hawking

Aim To obtain insight into the perceived quality of electronic records received by GP2GP transfer, from the perspective of staff within the receiving practice. <strong>Methods</strong> A pilot study using a self-completion online survey.We used textual analysis and descriptive statistics to report the findings. <strong>Results</strong> Respondents considered a significantly higher proportion of their own records to be accurate, complete and useful compared with records transferred from other pra...

R. Weller, and K. Schmidt, and K. Teinilä, and R. Hillamo

We measured condensation particle (CP) concentrations and particle size distributions at the coastal Antarctic station Neumayer (70°39´ S, 8°15´ W) during two summer campaigns (from 20 January to 26 March 2012 and 1 February to 30 April 2014) and during the polar night between 12 August and 27 September 2014 in the particle diameter (<i>D</i>_p) range from 2.94 to 60.4 nm (2012) and from 6.26 to 212.9 nm (2014). During both summer campaigns we identified all in all 44 new particle form...

A. Letullier, and L. Minguez, and K. Costil, and M.-P. Halm-Lemeille, and J.-M. Lebel, and A. Serpentini

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Toshio eMunesue, and Hiroyuki eNakamura, and Mitsuru eKikuchi, and Yui eMiura, and Noriyuki eTakeuchi, and Tokie eAnme, and Eiji eNanba, and Kaori eAdachi, and Kiyotaka eTsubouchi, and Yoshimichi eSai, and Kenichi eMiyamoto, and Shinichi eHorike, and Shigeru eYokoyama, and Hideo eNakatani, and Hirotaka eKosaka, and Yoshio eMinabe, and Haruhiro eHigashida

Approximately half of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) individual suffer from comorbid intellectual disabilities (ID). Oxytocin (OXT) receptors are highly expressed in temporal lobe structures and are likely to play a modulatory role in excitatory/inhibitory balance, at least based on animal model findings. Thus, it is feasible that in the highly representative group of Kanner type ASD subjects OXT could have a beneficial effect on social communication and social interaction. The aim of this pilot...

G. E. Kim, and M.-A. Pradal, and A. Gnanadesikan

Light attenuation by colored detrital material (CDM) was included in a fully coupled Earth system model (ESM). This study presents a modified parameterization for shortwave attenuation, which is an empirical relationship between 244 concurrent measurements of the diffuse attenuation coefficient for downwelling irradiance, chlorophyll concentration and light absorption by CDM. Two ESM model runs using this parameterization were conducted, with and without light absorption by CDM. The light absorp...

Elaine L. Sigalet, PhD, and Joanne L. Davies, MSc/Edu, and Ella A. Scott, MA, and Guy F. Brisseau, MD, and Joseph B. Shumway, MD, and Barbara J. Blackie, MD

أهداف البحث: تسلط هذه الدراسة الضوء على معلومات للمعلمين في المجال السريري المهتمين في تصميم مبادرات مبنية على المحاكاة لتطوير أعضاء هيئة التدريس في مجال التعليم المتداخل بين التخصصات. طرق البحث: تم استخدام مجموعة واحدة, قبل وبعد تصميم الاختبار، مع عينة مقبولة لفحص العلاقة بين معرفة المشاركين بالتعليم المبني على المحاكاة، والتغذية الراجعة الفاعلة، وأثر التعلم الإلكتروني ما قبل الدورة على السلوكيات المعرفية للمشاركين قبل الاختبار وإنجازاتهم. النتائج: كانت هناك تحسنات ذات قيمة في الدرجات الإجمالية...

Jeong Hwa Seo, and Dong Myung Seol, and Ju Hyun Lee, and Shin Hyung Rhee

In the present study, we conducted resistance test, propeller open water test and self-propulsion test for a ship's resistance and propulsion performance, using computational fluid dynamics techniques, where a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations solver was employed. For convenience of mesh generation, unstructured meshes were used in the bow and stern region of a ship, where the hull shape is formed of delicate curved surfaces. On the other hand, structured meshes were generated for the mi...

Mario J. F. Thomé-Souza, and Ning Labbish Chao

Spatial and temporal variation in the benthic fish composition, species richness, density and biomass were studied in the lower rio Branco and its confluence with the rio Negro during the 1997-98 dry season (September to February). Samples were taken with a 5.28 m (16-ft) otter trawl in three expeditions and at two depth strata (<7m and >7m). Five to seven trawl hauls were made randomly in each sample site per expedition. A total of 58 trawls yielded 134 species, 5,657 individuals and 22 kg tota...

Marinella Silva Laport, and Paula Veronesi Marinho Pontes, and Daniela Silva dos Santos, and Juliana de Fátima Santos-Gandelman, and Guilherme Muricy, and Mathieu Bauwens, and Marcia Giambiagi-deMarval, and Isabelle George

ABSTRACT Although antibiotic-resistant pathogens pose a significant threat to human health, the environmental reservoirs of the resistance determinants are still poorly understood. This study reports the detection of resistance genes (ermB, mecA, mupA, qnrA, qnrB and tetL) to antibiotics among certain culturable and unculturable bacteria associated with the marine sponge Petromica citrina. The antimicrobial activities elicited by P. citrina and its associated bacteria are also described. The res...

B. Tranchant, and G. Reffray, and E. Greiner, and D. Nugroho, and A. Koch-Larrouy, and P. Gaspar

INDO12 is a 1/12° regional version of the NEMO physical ocean model covering the whole Indonesian EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone). It has been developed and is now running every week in the framework of the INDESO (Infrastructure Development of Space Oceanography) project implemented by the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries.<br><br> The initial hydrographic conditions as well as open-boundary conditions are derived from the operational global ocean forecasting system at 1/4° ope...

Endik Deni Nugroho, and Dwi Anggorowati Rahayu, and Moh. Amin, and Umie Lestari

Tarakan sea waters have geographical circumstances and landscapes that supported the existence richness of fishes that abundant and diverse. There is local fish called Pepija or Lembe-Lembe, but biological studies on this fish most poorly known. This research is aimed to identify the morphological characters of Nomei (Harpodon sp.). Based on specific caharcter, morphometric, and meristric characters. Morphometrics analysis can be used to clustering and understanding relationship of taxa. Each sp...

Vukov Dragana, and Ilić Miloš, and Ćuk Mirjana, and Igić Ružica, and Janauer Georg A.

Our objectives were to offer insight into the characteristics of the physical environment in the River Danube in Serbia; and to show the relationship between selected environmental factors and the composition and abundance of macrophyte species. The macrophyte survey method followed the European Standard EN 14184, applying Kohler’s five-level descriptive scale. Principal component analysis was carried out to examine the variation in aquatic vegetation, and to analyze the effect...

U. Krumme, and H. Keuthen, and U. Saint-Paul, and W. Villwock

Stomach contents were examined from 102 banded puffer, Colomesus psittacus (Tetraodontidae), caught from intertidal mangrove creeks at diurnal neap tides between June and September, 1997 (early dry season) near Bragança (north Brazil). The study found that C. psittacus were specialized predators of Cirripedia (Balanus spp.) and Brachyuran crabs (Uca spp., Pachygrapsus gracilis) (mean: 58 and 38% by dry weight, respectively), emphasizing a short food chain in the mangrove system. Cirripedia and B...

Dan Thiel, and Karel Sýkora

Background: The difference between atmospheric air and water can be described based on the chemical and physical properties. Difference between these properties demonstrably affects sport performance and cannot perform the same activity identically in water and on land. This is evident especially in terms of biomechanics of movement. Difference in density of the environment does not allow one to perform the movement in&#8239;the&#8239;same way. In addition biomechanics is compared environmental ...

B. Namagambo, and J.T. Kayiwa, and T. Byaruhanga, and N. Owor, and I. Nabukenya, and B. Bakamutumaho, and J.J. Lutwama

Hollanda Arief Kusuma, and Nadya Oktaviani

Sea level is one of ocean properties that needed to be observed. Sea level observation will give information about osean tides and tides datum. As technology became more reliable, people can develop new instrument easily. Recently, open source microcontroller “Arduino” became popular and lot of people using it to develop what we call “low-cost” instrument. But, there are several disadvantages if we build instrument directly. Simulation phase must be done before manufacture instrument. This phase...

K. Bentel, and F. W. Landerer, and C. Boening

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a key mechanism for large-scale northward heat transport and thus plays an important role for global climate. Relatively warm water is transported northward in the upper layers of the North Atlantic Ocean and, after cooling at subpolar latitudes, sinks down and is transported back south in the deeper limb of the AMOC. The utility of in situ ocean bottom pressure (OBP) observations to infer AMOC changes at single latitudes has been charact...

B. W. HOEKSEMA, and O. OCANA VICENTE

A live colony of a non-indigenous zooxanthellate scleractinian coral was found in shallow water at the west coast of Corsica, western Mediterranean. Its diameter of 6 cm suggests that it has already survived for some years. It was identified as Oulastrea crispata, a species native on near-shore coral reefs in the central Indo-Pacific with a high tolerance for low water temperatures at high latitudes. Based on its morphology it can be distinguished from other zooxanthellate colonial scleractinian...

T. Thevasiyani, and K. Perera

Study of extreme wave heights is vital for design of coastal structures. The purpose of this study is to estimate the wave heights for several return periods in order to use them in coastal constructions. Wave height measurements collected from Galle, Sri Lanka were analyzed. Analysis was separately performed for sea, swell and overall waves, season wise. Peak Over Threshold method (POT) was used for the sample selection. The possible range of threshold values were identified by using the Mean r...

Federica Costantini, and Luca Rugiu, and Carlo Cerrano, and Marco Abbiati

Background Larval settlement and intra-specific interactions during the recruitment phase are crucial in determining the distribution and density of sessile marine populations. Marine caves are confined and stable habitats. As such, they provide a natural laboratory to study the settlement and recruitment processes in sessile invertebrates, including the valuable Mediterranean red coral Corallium rubrum. In the present study, the spatial and temporal variability of red coral settlers in an under...

L. Cimoli, and L. Cimoli, and A. Stegner, and G. Roullet

This study investigates the linear and non-linear instability of a buoyant coastal current flowing along a sloping topography. In fact, the bathymetry strongly impacts the formation of meanders or eddies and leads to different dynamical regimes that can both enhance or prevent the cross-shore transport. We use the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) to run simulations in an idealized channel configuration, using a fixed coastal current structure and testing its unstable evolution for var...

Claudia Campos Ribeiro, and Augusta Silveira, and Isabel Silva, and Catarina Ribeiro, and Juan Gestal, and Carlos Vasconcelos

Health related quality of life (HRQL) and survival are two important outcome measures in chronic diseases. This study aimed to compared HRQL in patients with different chronic diseases of immune system and normative data from the general Portuguese Population. It was selected 103 out-patients, by convenience, to complete SF-36v2. The lowest scores were found among measures for general health (41.0), vitality (47.5), bodily pain (51.0), mental health (56.4); women, except for role-physical, and p...

Maurizio Gilli, and Rino Costa, and Pier Luigi Acutis, and Elena Bozzetta, and Guia Richelmi, and Marzia Pezzolato, and Stefano Gili, and Alice Zaira Perazzini, and Silvia Trisorio, and Simone Bertuzzi, and Silvia Colussi, and Maria Vittoria Riina

Species substitution is a common commercial fraud, mainly applied to fish species. It is thus important to have analytical methods for species identification. DNA analysis can be a suitable technique: some mitochondrial genes are actually recognized as valuable markers for species discrimination. Aim of this work was thus to evaluate the capability of cytb and COI genes to discriminate the species of fish (n=89) which are commonly substituted. In the last four years of activity on field, the lab...

Ana Paula Madeira Di Beneditto, and Camilah Antunes Zappes, and Gabrielle Amorim Rosa

Studies in northern Rio de Janeiro indicate there are interactions between fisheries and cetaceans, but there are no studies that focus on the knowledge fishermen have about these animals. This study describes the interactions between cetaceans and a fishery through the perception of fishermen from Atafona (RJ). Between February and March 2010, 20 fishermen were selected using the “snowball” technique. An ethnographic questionnaire was given to each fisherman. Each participant described more tha...

Yoshimine Ikeda, and Merritt Raymond Stevenson

The objective of this work is to study the possibility of estimating the heat flux balance at the sea surface from GOSSTCOMP (Global Ocean Sea Surface Temperature Computation) developed by NOAA/NESS, USA, and sea surface current data based from ships drift information obtained from Pilot Charts, published by the Diretoria de Hidrografia e Navegação (DHN, Brazilian Navy). The annual mean value of the heat flux balance at the sea surface off southeast Brazil for 1977, is estimated from data on the...

B B Santosh Kumar, and D R Aruna, and S Vinayak Gowda, and R Sushama Galagali

Background: Recently, there has been interest in non-mammalian collagen sources such as fish collagen in the development of biomatrices and scaffolds for periodontal regeneration. In the present study, a novel collagen barrier membrane of fish origin was assessed in the treatment of periodontal intra-bony defects. Materials and Methods: Ten systemically healthy chronic periodontitis patients having an osseous defect in the mandibular posterior teeth were selected and following the open flap deb...

Dirceu Baumgartner, and Silvio C. Sampaio, and Tatiana R. da Silva, and Carla R. P. A. Teo, and Márcio A. Vilas Boas

Este trabalho teve o objetivo de avaliar o desenvolvimento, a produção e a qualidade sanitária da cultura da alface irrigada com águas residuárias originadas da suinocultura e da piscicultura. Os tratamentos avaliados foram: T1 - alface irrigada com água de origem subterrânea e adubação suplementar; T2 - alface irrigada com água residuária de viveiro de peixes alimentados com ração; T3 - alface irrigada com água residuária originária de lagoa de estabilização de dejetos de suínos, e T4 - água de...

Vicente Gomes, and Van Ngan Phan, and Maria José de Arruda Campos Rocha Passos

Cathorops sp has the diploid number of 54 chromosomes. The karyotype comprises lm + sm, 6m, 6sm and 14st pairs. This result is compared with those of other species of Ariidae, mainly Ariopsis felis and Arius dussumieri, found in literature.<br>Foram realizados estudos cromossômicos em 25 espécimens de Cathorops sp pelo método de air-drying. O número modal diplóide encontrado foi de 54 cromossomos sendo 1 par m + sm, 6 pares m, 6 pares sm e 14 pares st. Os resultados são comparados com dados da l...

R. L. Wilby, and R. L. Wilby

Annual series of three stochastic rainfall model parameters — the seasonal wet day amount (or intensity), the conditional dry–day probability (or dry–spell persistence), and the conditional wet-day probability (or wet-spell persistence) — were examined using daily rainfall records for ten UK stations for the period 1901–1995. The purpose was first, to determine the extent to which these indices of summer (June–August) rainfall were correlated with empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) of summer...

E. Siewertsen, and J. Piwonski, and T. Slawig

We have ported an implementation of the spin-up for marine ecosystem models based on transport matrices to graphics processing units (GPUs). The original implementation was designed for distributed-memory architectures and uses the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc) library that is based on the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard. The spin-up computes a steady seasonal cycle of ecosystem tracers with climatological ocean circulation data as forcing. Since the tr...

Sumithra N Unni C, and Lakshmi R Lakshman, and Kannan Vaidyanathan, and K N Subhakumari, and N Leela Menon

Background & objectives: Plasma amino acid levels are known to be altered in conditions like sepsis and burns which are situations of metabolic stress. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a condition which affects a woman throughout her life, is said to be associated with metabolic stress. This study was undertaken to assess if there were significant alterations in the levels of plasma amino acids in women with PCOS. Methods: Sixty five women with PCOS along with the similar number of age matche...

Z. Lai, and C. Chen, and R. Beardsley, and H. Lin, and R. Ji, and J. Sasaki, and J. Lin

The 11 March 2011 tsunami triggered by the M9 and M7.9 earthquakes off the Tōhoku coast destroyed facilities at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) leading to a significant long-term flow of the radionuclide ¹³⁷Cs into coastal waters. A high-resolution, global-coastal nested ocean model was first constructed to simulate the 11 March tsunami and coastal inundation. Based on the model's success in reproducing the observed tsunami and coastal inundation, model experiments w...

Surender Kumar Sharawat, and Vinod Raina, and Lalit Kumar, and Atul Sharma, and Radhika Bakhshi, and Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, and Ritu Gupta, and Sameer Bakhshi

Background & objectives: Mutations in fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) receptor have significant role in assessing outcome in patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Data for FLT3 surface expression in relation to FLT3 internal tandem duplication (ITD) status and outcome are not available from India. The objective of the current study was to investigate adult patients with AML for FLT3 expression and FLT3 ITD mutation, and their association with long-term outcome. Methods: Total 51 consec...

S. LANDMANN, and R. MEYER, and A. BOETTCHER, and M. PFANNKUCHEN, and R. MELZER

We studied the adaptation of the spider crab Inachus phalangium (Fabricius, 1755) to one of its sea anemone host species, Anemonia viridis (Forsskål, 1775) in the coastal region of Rovinj, Croatia. Similar to other brachyuran species, Inachus spp. generally lives within the anemone to obtain protection from possible predators. Using removal and reintroduction experiments, this study investigates the protection mechanism and shows a loss of adaptation after a period of 10 days when the crabs are ...

David Wildish

A new specialist driftwood talitrid from the Swale, U.K., is figured and described as Neotenorchestia kenwildishi gen. n., sp. n. A further new driftwood talitrid, Macarorchestia pavesiae sp. n., is figured and described from coastal regions in the Adriatic Sea. Orchestia microphtalma Amanieu &amp; Salvat, 1963 from the Atlantic coast of France is re-designated as Macarorchestia microphtalma (Amanieu &amp; Salvat, 1963). A key is provided for the known species of driftwood talitrids in northeast...

Anna Stępień, and Magdalena Blazewicz-Paszkowycz

Australian tanaidacean material collected during spring 1993 and 1994 and autumn 1994 and 1995 in vicinity of Port Hedland and Oyster Island (NW Australia) included over 800 of specimens of a new species of apseudomorph, Longiflagrum amphibium sp. n. The species is the fifth to be described in this genus, and it was found in the intertidal zone, as the other species have been. The new species is distinguished from the other members of the genus bythe shortest flagella in the antennule and by its...

Antonia D. Bousbaine, and Charles Drouin-Lavigne, and Chérine Akkari, and Kénel Delusca, and Oumarou Daouda, and Terence Épule Épule, and Christopher R. Bryant

There is little question now about the reality of climate change and the importance of adaptation of human activities in reducing the negative impacts of climate change and variability (CCV) as well as the reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in mitigating this unprecedented phenomenon. This article focuses on adaptation and the adaptive capacity of actors (decision-takers) of all sorts to adopt appropriate strategies and increase their adaptive capacity to cope with CCV by focusing on two type...

R. Séférian, and S. Baek, and S. Baek, and O. Boucher, and J.-L. Dufresne, and B. Decharme, and D. Saint-Martin, and R. Roehrig

Ocean surface represents roughly 70 % of the Earth's surface, playing a large role in the partitioning of the energy flow within the climate system. The ocean surface albedo (OSA) is an important parameter in this partitioning because it governs the amount of energy penetrating into the ocean or reflected towards space. The old OSA schemes in the ARPEGE-Climat and LMDZ models only resolve the latitudinal dependence in an ad hoc way without an accurate representation of the solar zenith ang...

A. J. Prata

Over the last few years fast-sampling ultraviolet (UV) imaging cameras have been developed for use in measuring SO₂ emissions from industrial sources (e.g. power plants; typical emission rates ~ 1–10 kg s⁻¹) and natural sources (e.g. volcanoes; typical emission rates ~ 10–100 kg s⁻¹). Generally, measurements have been made from sources rich in SO₂ with high concentrations and emission rates. In this work, for the first time, a UV camera has been used t...