Xiang W, and Zhang JW, and Liu ML, and Liu F, and Feng XR, and Wang YC

Wei Xiang, Jingwei Zhang, Meilin Liu, Fang Liu, Xueru Feng, Yuchuan Wang Department of Geriatrics, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China Objective: Non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) is one common arrhythmia in the elderly. However, use of antithrombotic therapy in this population is not well known in the People’s Republic of China. This study aimed at investigating antithrombotic therapy status in elderly patients with NVAF in our hospital.Meth...

Olczak B, and Kowalski G, and Leppert W, and Bienert A, and Teżyk A, and Adamski M, and Rzymski S, and Wieczorowska-Tobis K

Bogumił Olczak,1 Grzegorz Kowalski,1,2 Wojciech Leppert,2 Agnieszka Bienert,3 Artur Teżyk,4 Michał Adamski,1 Stanisław Rzymski,1 Katarzyna Wieczorowska-Tobis2 1Department of Anaesthesiology, Józef Struś Multiprofile Municipal Hospital, Poznań, 2Department of Palliative Medicine, 3Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Biopharmacy, 4Department of Forensic Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland Background and objectives: Oxycodone is poorly studied as an adjuvant to ce...

Nader Tanideh, and Ehsan Abdordideh, and Seyedeh Leili Asadi Yousefabad, and Sajad Daneshi, and Omid Koohi Hosseinabadi, and Soleiman Mohamadi Samani

Objective: To evaluate and compare the effects of honey and fish oil on wound healing in rat. Methods: A total of 80 adult female Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into four groups as negative control group, Groups II, III and IV. The rats in the four groups were treated with honey, fish oil and honey + fish oil, respectively. Rats were anesthetized, hair was removed from the back, then a wound was made on the back. Visual observation, histopathological examination and biomechanical...

Shariska S. Petersen, and Samfee Doe, and Thomas Buekers

This is a pilot study to assess whether racial disparities exist in time to initiation and completion of external beam pelvic radiation therapy and brachytherapy in cervical cancers treated with definitive chemoradiation.A retrospective analysis was conducted on all cervical cancer patients treated with definitive radiotherapy between 2006 and 2016 at a single institution. Patient demographics including age, race, insurance status and stage at diagnosis were obtained. Analyses were performed acc...

Brian J. Neilson, and Christopher B. Wall, and Frank T. Mancini, and Catherine A. Gewecke

Invasive macroalgae pose a serious threat to coral reef biodiversity by monopolizing reef habitats, competing with native species, and directly overgrowing, and smothering reef corals. Several invasive macroalgae (Eucheuma clade E, Kappaphycus clade A and B, Gracilaria salicornia, and Acanthophora spicifera) are established within Kāne‘ohe Bay (O‘ahu, Hawai‘i, USA), and reducing invasive macroalgae cover is a coral reef conservation and management priority. Invasive macroalgae control techniques...

R. Padullés, and R. Padullés, and E. Cardellach, and K.-N. Wang, and C. O. Ao, and F. J. Turk, and M. de la Torre-Juárez

<p>A positive bias at heights between 3 and 8&thinsp;km has been observed when comparing the radio-occultation (RO)-retrieved refractivity with that of meteorological analyses and reanalyses in cases where heavy precipitation is present. The effect of precipitation in RO retrievals has been investigated as a potential cause of the bias, using precipitation measurements interpolated into the actual three-dimensional RO ray paths to calculate the excess phase induced by precipitation. The st...

D. Häfner, and R. L. Jacobsen, and C. Eden, and M. R. B. Kristensen, and M. Jochum, and R. Nuterman, and B. Vinter

<p>A general circulation ocean model is translated from Fortran to Python. Its code structure is optimized to exploit available Python utilities, remove simulation bottlenecks, and comply with modern best practices. Furthermore, support for Bohrium is added, a framework that provides a just-in-time compiler for array operations and that supports parallel execution on both CPU and GPU targets.</p><p>For applications containing more than a million grid elements, such as a typical 1° × 1° hor...

T. Kaminski, and F. Kauker, and F. Kauker, and L. Toudal Pedersen, and L. Toudal Pedersen, and M. Voßbeck, and H. Haak, and L. Niederdrenk, and S. Hendricks, and R. Ricker, and M. Karcher, and M. Karcher, and H. Eicken, and O. Gråbak

<p>Assimilation of remote-sensing products of sea ice thickness (SIT) into sea ice–ocean models has been shown to improve the quality of sea ice forecasts. Key open questions are whether assimilation of lower-level data products such as radar freeboard (RFB) can further improve model performance and what performance gains can be achieved through joint assimilation of these data products in combination with a snow depth product. The Arctic Mission Benefit Analysis system was developed to ad...

P. Kasibhatla, and T. Sherwen, and T. Sherwen, and M. J. Evans, and M. J. Evans, and L. J. Carpenter, and C. Reed, and C. Reed, and B. Alexander, and Q. Chen, and M. P. Sulprizio, and J. D. Lee, and K. A. Read, and W. Bloss, and L. R. Crilley, and W. C. Keene, and A. A. P. Pszenny, and A. Hodzic, and A. Hodzic

<p>Recent field studies have suggested that sea-salt particulate nitrate (NITs) photolysis may act as a significant local source of nitrogen oxides (NO_<i>x</i>) over oceans. We present a study of the global impact of this process on oxidant concentrations in the marine boundary layer (MBL) using the GEOS-Chem model, after first updating the model to better simulate observed gas–particle phase partitioning of nitrate in the marine boundary layer. Model comparisons with long-term ...

Mariya Grigorak, and Olga Shkvar

Managers must make strategic decisions to cope with issues of uncertainty, customer service and the management of a company. The objective of this paper is to analyse the problem of optimisation and search of rational logistic decisions, taking into account the human factor and, in particular, the preferences of people who make decisions and implement them during the logistic activity of an enterprise. The problem of making optimal decisions for transportation of goods, taking into account the ...

Douglas Costa Souza, and Eduardo Ribeiro Cunha, and Raytha de Assis Murillo, and Márcio José Silveira, and Mikaela Marques Pulzatto, and Mario Sérgio Dainez-Filho, and Lucas Assumpção Lolis, and Sidinei Magela Thomaz

Abstract The last undammed stretch of the Upper Paraná River in the Brazilian territory is, to date, not completely inventoried, which rises concerns given the rapid rates of species extinctions. Aim Here, we provide an inventory of macrophyte taxa recorded in the last undammed 230 km stretch of the Upper Paraná River. Methods We inventoried macrophyte taxa in 27 sampling stations including lakes, the main channel of the river, and the tributary confluences in November 2013 and in May and Nove...

André L. B. Magalhães, and Mário Luis Orsi, and Fernando M. Pelicice, and Valter M. Azevedo-Santos, and Jean R. S. Vitule, and Dilermando P. Lima-Junior, and Marcelo F. G. Brito

ABSTRACT Informal sales of large-bodied non-native aquarium fishes (known as “tankbusters”) is increasing among Brazilian hobbyists. In this study, we surveyed this non-regulated trade on Facebook® from May 2012 to September 2016, systematically collecting information about the fishes available for trading: species, family, common/scientific names, native range, juvenile length, behavior, number of specimens available in five geographical regions from Brazil. We also assessed the invasion risk o...

Kyle S. Van Houtan, and Celia M. Smith, and Meghan L. Dailer, and Migiwa Kawachi

The tumor-forming disease fibropapillomatosis (FP) has afflicted sea turtle populations for decades with no clear cause. A lineage of α-herpesviruses associated with these tumors has existed for millennia, suggesting environmental factors are responsible for its recent epidemiology. In previous work, we described how herpesviruses could cause FP tumors through a metabolic influx of arginine. We demonstrated the disease prevails in chronically eutrophied coastal waters, and that turtles foraging ...

Sönke eHohn, and Agostino eMerico, and Agostino eMerico

Ocean acidification due to rising atmospheric pCO2 slows down coral calcification and impedes reef formation, with deleterious consequences for the diversity of reef ecosystems. Such interactions contrast with the capacity of corals to actively regulate the chemical composition of the calcifying fluid where calcification occurs. This regulation involves the active transport of calcium, bicarbonate, and hydrogen ions through epithelium cells, the transcellular pathway. Ions can also passively dif...

Mario del Rio Camara, and Roberto Nuño Solinis, and Ana Chueca Ajuria, and Galder Abos Mendizabal, and María Ángeles Cidoncha Moreno, and Rosa González Llinares, and María Luz Peña González, and Inmaculada Sánchez Martin, and Elena de Lorenzo Urien

Jordi Guillen, and Francesc Maynou, and Christos Floros, and David Sampson, and Alexis Conides, and Kostas Kapiris

It has recently been shown that two deep-water red shrimp species (Aristeus antennatus and Aristaeomorpha foliacea) have the potential to support a viable fishery in the Greek Ionian Sea (eastern Mediterranean). In this article, we investigate (i) the evolution that this newly developed trawl shrimp fishery may undergo when subjected to different management measures, and (ii) the most suitable extraction rates considering the uncertainties about the resource. We further analyse the effects that ...

João Ferreira da Cunha

São apresentados os resultados de uma plantação experimental de seringueiras, do cruzamento Tj-1 x Tj-16, efetuada no litoral do Estado de São Paulo, na latitude de 24° 30' sul. As condições ecológicas mostraram-se favoráveis ao desenvolvimento normal das árvores, que estavam em condições de ser exploradas com a idade de 7 anos e meio a partir da sementeira. A produtividade foi verificada pelo teste " Morris-Mann" e por sucessivas colheitas efetuadas posteriormente em 1 300 seringueiras, as quai...

APOSTOL APOSTOLOV

The author reports 19 harpacticoid species (Crustacea, Copepoda) sampled from the marine coastal and brackish waters on the Icelandic shore of the Atlantic Ocean in June and July 2004.

Frédéric Mélin, and Sabina Stefan, and Brent N. Holben, and Thomas Carlund, and Giuseppe Zibordi

The aerosol products associated with the ocean colour missions SeaWiFS andMODIS (both Aqua and Terra) are assessed with AERONET field measurementscollected in four European marginal seas for which fairly large uncertainties inocean colour in-water products have been documented: the northern Adriatic, theBaltic, Black and North Seas. On average, more than 500 match-ups are foundfor each basin and satellite mission, showing an overall consistency of validationstatistics across the three missions. ...

Vinícius Abilhoa, and Jean Ricardo Simões Vitule, and Hugo Bornatowski, and Fagner Breda de Lara, and Glauco Ubiratan Kohler, and Luciana Festti, and Wanessa Priscila David do Carmo, and Igor Kintopp Ribeiro

The effect of body size on the feeding habits of the little-known killifi sh Rivulus haraldsiolii, collected in a coastal Atlantic Rainforest island stream, was investigated. Samples were collected during a study trip on 13 July 2009 in a brackish stream located in the northern part of Ilha do Mel Island, one of the most important southern Atlantic Forest areas in southern Brazil. The diet included aquatic immature insects (Diptera pupae and Chironomidae), aquatic insects (Hemiptera – Vellidae),...

Kloskowski J., and Nieoczym M.

We examined correlates of amphibian and waterbird diversity related to management practices, with a focus on timing of flooding, at shallow ponds used for common carp Cyprinus carpio culture in Eastern Poland. The age of the stocked fish was a strong predictor of amphibian diversity, with higher scores obtained in ponds with young-of-the-year carp compared to ponds containing older (and larger) fish. Pond cover by emergent vegetation was positively related to diversity of both taxonomic groups. ...

Ricardo R.B. de São Clemente, and Paulo A.S. Costa, and Agnaldo S Martins

The distribution, size structure, and feeding of three sea robin species belonging to the family Triglidae (Bellator brachychir, Prionotus nudigula and Prionotus punctatus) were studied based on specimens caught with bottom trawls on the continental shelf of Campos Basin, southeastern Brazil. The two Prionotus species were more concentrated in the inner shelf (<50 m), while B. brachychir was generally more abundant on the outer shelf (50-100 m). In general, the three species showed a carcinophag...

Rodrigo Santiago Godefroid, and Marion Hofstaetter, and Henry Louis Spach

A total of 6,575 larvae in the preflexion, flexion and post-flexion stages of 15 families, 26 genera and 29 species were captured in the surf zone of Pontal do Sul beach, Paraná, Brazil. Samples of the families Gerreidae and Scianidae predominated and larvae of Eucinostomus argenteus (Baird&Girard, 1854), Micropogonias furnieri (Desmarest, 1823), Eucinostomus gula (Cuvier, 1830), Menticirrhus ameri-canus (Linnaeus, 1758) and Anchoa tricolor (Agassiz, 1829) were the most dominant species. Greater...

R. Napoli, and F. Ferrucci, and C. Del Negro

Two marine magnetic surveys were carried out during 1997 and 1999 in the Ionian Sea off the eastern coast of Sicily to investigate the magnetic structures of the eastern base of Mt. Etna and the Hyblean Plateau. The investigated area is approximately 85 km long and 15 km wide, running from North to South, in the Western Ionian Sea. Models along two profiles parallel to the coast and over the entire area provide a possible distribution of volcanic bodies and volcaniclastic deposits off the easter...

S.K. Abolghait, and A.M. Garbaj

Surveillance for mercury (Hg), lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) contamination in tuna products is crucial for consumer food safety. Hg, Pb and Cd contaminants were monitored in a total of 60 specimens of fresh little tunny (Euthynnus alletteratus) and popular brands of skipjack and yellowfin (Katsuwonus pelamis and Thunnus albacares) canned tuna commercially available in Tripoli, Libya. Direct Mercury Analyzer (DMA-80) was implemented for determination of total Hg level and graphite furnace atomic abs...

Jorge Cortés, and Ana C Fonseca, and Jaime Nivia-Ruiz, and Vanessa Nielsen-Muñoz, and Jimena Samper-Villarreal, and Eva Salas, and Solciré Martínez, and Priscilla Zamora-Trejos

The coral reefs, seagrasses and mangroves from the Costa Rican Caribbean coast have been monitored since 1999 using the CARICOMP protocol. Live coral cover at Meager Shoal reef bank (7 to 10m depth) at the Parque Nacional Cahuita (National Park), increased from 13.3% in 1999, to 28.2% in 2003, but decreased during the next 5 years to around 17.5%. Algal cover increased significantly since 2003 from 36.6% to 61.3% in 2008. The density of Diadema antillarum oscillated between 2 and 7ind/m2, while ...

María Alejandra Medina-Jasso, and Juan Francisco Arzola-González, and Pablo Piña-Valdez, and Mario Nieves-Soto

Objetive. It was studied the respiration and ammoniacal excretion of zoeas and mysis of Litopenaeus vannamei fed with the diet used traditionally (of microalgae and nauplios of artemia) and another alternative (not traditional) of microalgae with rotifers. Materials and methods. After four hours the oxygen consumption and ammonia excretion in BOD bottles with 60 larvae (closed respirometers) was estimated. The concentrations of O2 and NH4 + were measured with an electrode polarográfico in the f...

Theeb Alquria, BDS, and Mohammed Al Gady, BDS, and Abdul Khabeer, MClinDent, and Saqib Ali, MSc

الملخص: أهداف البحث: تُعتبر الحشوات التركيبية ذات الأساس الراتنجي المعالجة بالضؤء هي الخيار المفضل لترميم الأسنان. ينبغي على وحدات المعالجة الضوئية المستخدمة للأسنان أن توفر طاقة ضوئية كافية لضمان خواص ميكانيكية جيدة وثبات الأبعاد والتوافق الحيوي مع الحشوات التركيبية ذات الأساس الراتنجي. وكان الهدف من هذه الدراسة هو تحديد أنواع وحدات المعالجة الضوئية وكثافة إخراجها الضوئي في عيادات الأسنان الخاصة. طرق البحث: تم استحداث نموذج لتسجيل المعلومات المتعلقة بنوع مصابيح المعالجة وكثافة إخراجها الضوئي. ...

Magnus Hieronymus, and Christian Dieterich, and Helén Andersson, and Robinson Hordoir

ABSTRACT: Mean sea level rise and climatological wind speed changes occur as part of the ongoing climate change and future projections of both variables are still highly uncertain. Here the Baltic Sea's response in extreme sea levels to perturbations in mean sea level and wind speeds is investigated in a series of simulations with a newly developed storm surge model based on the nucleus for European modeling of the ocean (NEMO)-Nordic. A simple linear model with only two tunable parameters is fo...

Gleyci A. O. Moser, and Sônia Maria Flores Gianesella, and José Juan Barrera Alba, and Alessandro Luvizon Bérgamo, and Flávia M. P. Saldanha-Corrêa, and Luiz Bruner de Miranda, and Joseph Harari

The contribution of the polluted São Vicente and Santos estuarine channels to the eutrophication of Santos bay was assessed through the quantification of instantaneous transport of salt, dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) and phosphate, organic and inorganic matter (OSM and ISM) and chlorophyll-a (Chl-a), during dry (austral winter- August/ 1999) and rainy (austral summer- January/2000) seasons. Samplings were carried out during spring and neap tides, in flood and ebb phases, in two transversal ...

Reymend Martin Encily, and Pagare Sidharth D.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of two diets, artificial fish feed (Diet I) and animal protein (Diet II) as fish meals. These diets were fed to two different groups of fishes, Puntius ticto and Rasbora daniconius. During the experiment the survival rates were 100%. Diet II mainly contained mollusc protein compared to Diet I. The growth performances were studied after feeding Diet I and Diet II for 25 days. At every 5th day of feed intake, feed conversion ratio, gross feed conve...

Saleh Mutahar Y. Al-Othrubi, and Alfizah Hanafiah, and Son Radu, and Ramelah Muhamed

Hamzah Abdul-Rahman, and Chen Wang, and Yee Lin Lee

Most of the current construction risk assessment tools deliver unsatisfactory results because the prerequisite for their effective applications rely on the availability of high quality data especially during the early stage of a project. Unfortunately, such data are limited, ambiguous or even not exist due to the great uncertainty inherent in construction projects. Based on Fuzzy Synthetic Analysis (FSA), a model development team was formed among construction engineers, IT professionals, and Ma...

Anna Grigorieva

In April 2016, arch out loud announced the winners of the international architectural competition, the task of which was to design NYC AQUARIUM & PUBLIC WATERFRONT. The first place was occupied by NYC AQUATRIUM designed by Italian architects.

Young‐Joong Han, and In‐Seok Kim, and Young‐Dae Hong

Robot navigation allows robot mobility. Therefore, mobility is an area of robotics that has been actively investigated since robots were first developed. In recent years, interest in personal service robots for homes and public facilities has increased. As a result, robot navigation within the home environment, which is an indoor environment, is being actively investigated. However, the problem with conventional navigation algorithms is that they require a large computation time for their buildi...

Ke Luong Chinh, and Van Trang Ho Thi, and Liem Vu Huu, and Tuong Tran Ngoc, and Duyen Pham Thi

The coastal zone and estuaries of Quang Ninh and Hai Phong have great potential not only for economic development but also for protection and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem. Nowadays, due to industrial, agricultural and anthropogenic activities signs of water pollution in the region have been found. The level of surface water pollution can be determined by traditional methods through observatory stations. However, a traditional approach to determine water contamination is discontinuo...

Worobiec Elżbieta

Algal microremains were encountered during palynological investigation of deposits filling two Miocene palaeosinkholes excavated in the Tarnów Opolski and Górażdże quarries. Algal microfossils of 40 species were identified, most of which are frequent non-pollen palynomorphs occurring in Neogene deposits. The microfossils most frequently found in all studied samples belong to the genera Sigmopollis and Botryococcus. Both algal assemblages contain a significant proportion of resting cells (zygospo...

Yu. V. Khomutinin, and V. O. Kashparov , and Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology of NUBiP of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Problem of optimization of sampling procedure for evaluating the median of specific activity and accumulation coefficients of the 137Cs and 90Sr for the populations of different species of fish lived in the pond was observed. Estimates of the geometric standard deviation of the specific activity (1.2 ÷ 1.9) and accumulation coefficients (1.8 ÷ 2.3) of radionuclides for different species of fish were obtained. Minimum number of samples required for evaluating the median of the specific activity a...

Md. Taskin Parvez, and ABM Mohsin, and Nipa Chaki, and Shams M. Galib

Different types of fishing methods and gears are being employed across the globe including Bangladesh. This study describes the underwater fishing method in the Padma River- one of the three largest rivers in Bangladesh. Standardised efforts have been made for collecting data of interest between September 2016 and May 2017. Two types of underwater fishing, with or without using oxygen cylinders, were recorded. Mean duration of fishing per effort was higher (by 382%) when fishermen used oxygen cy...

Ana L. Ibáñez, and Elaine Espino-Barr, and Manuel Gallardo-Cabello

Fish scale shape was used to identify geographic variants among Lutjanidae (Lutjanus argentiventris, L. guttatus and L. peru). Specimens were collected from three different geographic areas, north to south of the tropical Pacific coast of Mexico: Puerto Vallarta (PV), Manzanillo (MA) and Caleta de Campos (CC). Configuration of landmark coordinates of fish scales were scaled, translated and rotated using generalized procrustes analysis, followed by principal components analysis of resulting shape...

S. G. Wakeham, and A. P. McNichol

Compound-specific ¹³C and ¹⁴C compositions of diverse lipid biomarkers (fatty acids, alkenones, hydrocarbons, sterols and fatty alcohols) were measured in sinking particulate matter collected in sediment traps and from underlying surface sediments in the Black Sea, the Arabian Sea and the Ross Sea. The goal was to develop a multiparameter approach to constrain relative inputs of organic carbon (OC) from marine biomass, terrigenous vascular-plant and relict-kerogen sources. ...

Ana Cleide Nascimento Bezerra, and Enilson Palmeira Cavalcanti

A partir de fontes aparentes de calor e do sumidouro aparente de umidade, foram investigadas as características da circulação atmosférica de grande escala, nas regiões Norte e Nordeste do Brasil (NEB), relacionadas com a variabilidade da temperatura da superfície do mar (TSM) nos oceanos Atlântico e Pacífico Tropicais. Foram utilizados dados mensais das variáveis temperatura, umidade específica, componente zonal e meridional do vento e altura geopotencial (gpm) gerados pelo National Centers for ...

Rodrigo Leão de Moura, and João Luiz Gasparini, and Ivan Sazima

New occurrences of 11 species of reef fishes are reported for the western South Atlantic, range extensions are recorded for additional 37 reef species along the Brazilian coast, and the distribution of reef ichthyofauna along the eastern coast of South America is commented upon.

Vicente Vieira Faria, and Ronaldo Novelli, and Marcelo Paes Gomes, and Ilana Rosental Zalmon

<abstract language="eng">Artificial reefs have been used in many countries to increase coastal fishery productivity. In order to increase fish attraction to the Northern Coast of Rio de Janeiro State, it was installed an artificial reef (1,500 m²) 5 nautical miles off Manguinhos's Bay (São Francisco de ltabapoana, Rio de Janeiro). The artificial structures were made of tires, concrete and cement blocks. A gill net of 125 x 3 m was monthly used in the artificial reef (AR) and in a control area (C...

Jingan Cui,, and Mingna Guo

In this paper, we consider the effect of dispersal on the permanence of single and interacting populations modelled by systems of integro differential equations. Different from former studies, our discussion here includes the important situation when species live in a weak patchy environment; i.e., species in some isolated patches will become extinct without the contribution from other patches. For the single population model considered in this paper, we show that the same species can persist fo...

Mauro de Melo Júnior, and Maryse Nogueira Paranaguá, and Ralf Schwamborn, and Sigrid Neumann Leitão, and Werner Ekau

The objective of this study was to quantify the zooplankton biomass transport between the Santa Cruz Channel (SCC) at Catuama north inlet and the adjacent shelf located in Itamaracá estuarine ecosystem, Pernambuco State, Northeastern Brazil. Sampling was carried out in August 2001 at spring and neap tides at three stations every 3-hour interval. Collections were made in three depths with a plankton pump coupled to a 300 &micro;m mesh size net. Current data were obtained with an ADCP (Acoustic Do...

I. Sandu, and J.-L. Brenguier, and O. Thouron, and B. Stevens

Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) are performed to examine the impact of hygroscopic aerosols on the diurnal cycle of marine stratocumulus clouds, under varying meteorological forcing conditions. When the cloud condensation nuclei concentration increase is sufficient to inhibit drizzle formation in the cloud layer, the precipitating and the non-precipitating cloud layers exhibit contrasting evolutions, with noticeable differences in liquid water path. Aerosol-induced modifications of the droplet sedi...

Luiz ER Tavares, and José L Luque

A new species of Acantholochus Cressey, 1984 (Copepoda: Bomolochidae) parasitic on the gills of common snook, Centropomus undecimalis, from the coastal zone of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is described and illustrated. The new species differs from all other species of Acantholochus by the presence of only one inner seta on middle segment of the second and third endopods.

Lucas R. P. Paschoal, and Fernanda J. Guimarães, and Erminda C. G. Couto

This study comprises the description of relative growth and sexual maturity of a population of Palaemon pandaliformis Stimpson, 1871 in Salsa River (Northeastern Brazil). Samples were collected monthly between September 2009 and August 2010. Females were larger, heavier, and showed a greater allometric coefficient (b) than male specimens. Only carapace length vs. pleura length in females presented a significant difference in the relative growth pattern, indicating a puberty moult. This relations...

Damronglerd P, and Sukasem C, and Thipmontree W, and Puangpetch A, and Kiertiburanakul S

Pansachee Damronglerd,1 Chonlaphat Sukasem,2,4 Wilawan Thipmontree,3 Apichaya Puangpetch,2,4 Sasisopin Kiertiburanakul1 1Deparment of Medicine, 2Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, 3Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital, Nakhon Ratchasima, 4Laboratory for Pharmacogenomics, Somdech Phra Debaratana Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand Obje...