Luciana Trigueiro de Andrade, and Nkarthe Guerra Araújo, and Ana Paula Moraes Ventura, and Andréa de Lucena Lira, and Marciane Magnani, and José Marcelino de Oliveira Cavalheiro

Sodium metabisulfite is the main additive used in the prevention of melanosis in shrimp; however, it has currently been employed with great variation in concentration by producers. Thus, the aim of the present study was to determine the correlation between the concentration of the sodium metabisulfite solution and immersion time of the whole shrimp to obtain the concentration of sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the edible muscle of farmed shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) in accordance with the limit establi...

Adriana Saccol-Pereira, and Clarice B. Fialho

The objective of this study was to identify the patterns of seasonal and diel variation and the most important abiotic factors that influence variation in the fish assemblage of the Delta of the Jacuí River in southern Brazil. Seventy-two samples were collected over a one year period. Water temperature was the abiotic factor with the greatest influence on the distribution of the assemblage. The structure of the assemblage exhibited significant changes in terms of species abundance and biomass du...

Joseph Selvin, and Aseer Manilal, and Suganthan Sujith, and George Seghal Kiran, and Aron Premnath Lipton

Secondary metabolites of the green algae, Ulva fasciata, were tested to determine the efficacy of controlling shrimp bacterial pathogens. Exploratory experiments indicated that an intermediate dose (1 g kg-1 of shrimp) of Ulva in the diet was highly effective at controlling bacterial pathogens of shrimp, as compared to lower (500 mg kg-1) and higher (1.5 g kg-1) doses. The pilot experiments evaluated the percent of relative protection afforded shrimps treated with Ulva diet and faced with variou...

Livia PĂTRAŞCU, and Ina VASILEAN, and Petru ALEXE

The effect of tumbling time (1-9 h), injection rate (20, 30, 40, and 50 %) and k-carrageenan addition (0, 0.25, and 0.5 %) on the rheological characteristics of pork Biceps femoris muscle were assessed. The results of the creep-recovery tests were analyzed using Burger’s equation. Increasing tumbling time up to 9 h along with injection rate also increased compliance values and decreased viscosity. K-carrageenan addition showed the occurrence of a more gel-like structure of the brine-meat system,...

A. Skovgaard, and L. Guillou, and A. Nowaczyk, and S. Gasparini, and C. Cornet, and C. Alves-de-Souza

<i>Blastodinium</i> are chloroplast-containing dinoflagellates which infect a wide range of copepods. They develop inside the gut of their host, where they produce successive generations of sporocytes that are eventually expelled through the anus of the copepod. Here, we report on copepod infections in the oligotrophic to ultra-oligotrophic waters of the Mediterranean Sea sampled during the BOUM cruise. Based on a DNA-stain screening of gut contents, 16 % of copepods were possibly infected in sa...

Seehanat, S., and Budtacup, L., and Kangklang, S., and Leelavatcharamas, V.

The useful bacteria which were isolated from the gastrointestinal tract of freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii de Man), cultivated in earthen pond at Maha Sarakham province, Thailand, consisted of 14 isolates of Bacillus (B1 – B14) and 18 isolates of Lactic acid bacteria (LA1 – LA18). The abilities of all isolated bacteria on growth inhibition of pathogenic bacteria (Escherichia coli, Bacillus cereus, Aeromonas hydrophila and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) were studied by paperdisc plate method...

G. Schmiedl, and E. Maier-Reimer, and M. Kučera, and R. Grimm, and U. Mikolajewicz, and F. Adloff, and K.-C. Emeis

Nine thousand years ago (9 ka BP), the Northern Hemisphere experienced enhanced seasonality caused by an orbital configuration close to the minimum of the precession index. To assess the impact of this "Holocene Insolation Maximum" (HIM) on the Mediterranean Sea, we use a regional ocean general circulation model forced by atmospheric input derived from global simulations. A stronger seasonal cycle is simulated by the model, which shows a relatively homogeneous winter cooling and a summer warming...

Ownby RL, and Acevedo A

Raymond L Ownby,1 Amarilis Acevedo2 1Department of Psychiatry and&nbsp;Behavioral Medicine, 2College of&nbsp;Psychology, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA Background: In spite of treatment advances, HIV infection is associated with cognitive deficits. This is even more important as many persons with HIV infection age and experience age-related cognitive impairments. Both computer-based cognitive training and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) have shown promise...

Célia Alves, and Casimiro Pio, and Eduarda Campos, and Patrícia Barbedo

A Berner impactor was used to collect size-differentiated aerosol samples from March to August 2003 in the city of Aveiro, on the Portuguese west coast. The samples were analysed for the main water-soluble ion species. The average concentration of sulphate, nitrate, chloride and ammonium was 6.38, 3.09, 1.67 and 1.27 µg m-3, respectively. The results show that SO4(2-) and NH4+ were consistently present in the fine fraction < 1 µm, which represents, on average, 72 and 89% of their total atmospher...

Malysz J, and Evans JJ, and Acon-Laws M, and Bayerl MG, and Creer MH

Jozef Malysz,1 Juanita J Evans,2 Malcolm Acon-Laws,3 Michael G Bayerl,1 Michael H Creer1 1Department of Pathology, Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, 2Department of Pathology, St. John Heath &ndash; Providence, Southfield, MI, USA; 3Laboratorio de Patologia Hospital Cima, San Jose, Costa Rica Abstract: Evaluation of mindbomb E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1 (MIB1) (Ki67) proliferation index (PI) in B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas is increasingly a common addition to classificatio...

Roth T, and Nir T, and Zisapel N

Thomas Roth,1 Tali Nir,2 Nava Zisapel2,3 1Henry Ford Sleep Disorders Center, Detroit, MI, USA; 2Neurim Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Tel Aviv, Israel; 3Department of Neurobiology Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Introduction: Melatonin, secreted by the pineal gland during the night phase, is a regulator of the biological clock and sleep tendency. Totally blind subjects frequently report severe, periodic sleep problems, with 50%&ndash;75% of cases displaying non-24-hour sl...

G. Auer, and W. E. Piller, and M. Harzhauser

Within a 5.5 m thick succession of Upper Burdigalian (Karpatian) sediments in the North Alpine Foreland Basin (NAFB; Austria), dated to CNP-zone NN4, a high-resolution section was logged continuously. One hundred samples were taken with a resolution of ~10 mm (approximating ~17 years) per layer and analyzed using an integrated multi-proxy approach. <br><br> Earlier analyses of geochemistry and calcareous nannoplankton assemblages hint at small-scale, short-term variations in paleoenvironmental c...

Loredana Canfora, and Anna Benedetti, and Rosa Francaviglia

In this study, the evaluation of soil and groundwater quality was coupled with a T-RFLP and real time qPCR analysis of 16S and 18S rRNA genes in order to investigate the soil microbial community structure and diversity in a coastal lagoon system of Central Italy. The main aim of the research was to assess the reciprocal effect of the lagoon salinity and of the different land uses both on the inland groundwater and quality, and on the soil microbial community structure and diversity. Results emph...

C. A. Lantz, and K. G. Schulz, and L. Stoltenberg, and B. D. Eyre

Rates of gross primary production (GPP), respiration (<i>R</i>), and net calcification (<i>G</i>_net) in coral reef sediments are expected to change in response to global warming (and the consequent increase in sea surface temperature) and coastal eutrophication (and the subsequent increase in the concentration of organic matter, OM, being filtered by permeable coral reef carbonate sediments). To date, no studies have examined the combined effect of seawater warming and OM enrich...

I. Dormoy, and O. Peyron, and N. Combourieu Nebout, and S. Goring, and U. Kotthoff, and M. Magny, and J. Pross

Pollen-based climate reconstructions were performed on two high-resolution pollen marines cores from the Alboran and Aegean Seas in order to unravel the climatic variability in the coastal settings of the Mediterranean region between 15 000 and 4000 years BP (the Lateglacial, and early to mid-Holocene). The quantitative climate reconstructions for the Alboran and Aegean Sea records focus mainly on the reconstruction of the seasonality changes (temperatures and precipitation), a crucial parameter...

Levent İZCİ, and Şengül BİLGİN

Abstract In this study, our aim was to consider the production of fish crackers using Carassius gibelio and to investigate the fatty acid profile and sensory quality of the fish crackers. Fish cracker mixture with a ratio 3.5:1.5 (minced fish/wheat starch) was obtained. Based on the total minced fish and starch level, 1.75% salt, 0.25% black pepper, 2% sunflower oil, 1% baking powder and 10% cold water (4 °C) were added and stirred until a homogenous mixture was obtained. The mixture was compres...

Manjita Srivastava, and Neha Singh, and Vinod Kumar Dixit, and Gopal Nath, and Ashok Kumar Jain

Background & objectives: Reduction of viraemia in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection using nucleoside/nucleotide analogues reduces fatal liver disease-related events, but development of resistance in virus presents serious clinical challenge. Therefore, comparative evaluation of prolonged antiviral monotherapy and combination therapies was prospectively studied to assess their influence on viral suppression, rapidity of response, development of drug resistance and surfacing ...

M. Steinacher, and F. Joos, and T. L. Frölicher, and G.-K. Plattner, and S. C. Doney

Ocean acidification from the uptake of anthropogenic carbon is simulated for the industrial period and IPCC SRES emission scenarios A2 and B1 with a global coupled carbon cycle-climate model. Earlier studies identified seawater saturation state with respect to aragonite, a mineral phase of calcium carbonate, as a key variable governing impacts on corals and other shell-forming organisms. Globally in the A2 scenario, water saturated by more than 300%, considered suitable for coral growth, vanishe...

B. Pérez, and A. Payo, and D. López, and P. L. Woodworth, and E. Alvarez Fanjul

This paper addresses the problems of overlapping sea level time series measured using different technologies and sometimes from different locations inside a harbour. The renovation of the Spanish REDMAR (RED de MAReógrafos) sea level network is taken here as an example of the difficulties encountered: up to seventeen old tide gauge stations have been replaced by radar tide gauges all around the Spanish coast, in order to fulfil the new international requirements on tsunami detection. Overlapping...

Nadine Matton, and Eric Raufaste, and Stephane Vautier

Individuals differ in their ability to deal with unpredictable environments. Could impaired performances on learning an unpredictable cue-criteria relationship in a laboratory task be associated with impaired learning of complex skills in a natural setting? We focused on a multiple-cue probability learning (MCPL) laboratory task and on the natural setting of pilot training. We used data from three selection sessions and from the three corresponding selected pilot student classes of a national ai...

A. Oschlies, and W. Koeve

The internal consistency of measurements and computations of components of the CO₂-system, namely total alkalinity (<i>A</i>_T, total dissolved carbon dioxide (<i>C</i>_T), CO₂ fugacity (<i>f</i>CO₂) and pH, has been confirmed repeatedly in open ocean studies when the CO₂ system had been over determined. Differences between measured and computed properties, such as &Delta;<i>f</i>CO₂ (= <i>f</i>CO₂ (measured) –...

Sérgio Schwarz da Rocha, and Sérgio Luiz de Siqueira Bueno

Este trabalho contribui para o conhecimento da riqueza de espécies de crustáceos decápodes do vale do Ribeira de Iguape, região sul do estado de São Paulo. Foram realizadas amostragens em seis Parques Estaduais (Campina do Encantado, Intervales, PETAR, Carlos Botelho, Jacupiranga e Ilha do Cardoso) e na Estação Ecológica Juréia-Itatins, abrangendo grande parte do remanescente de Mata Atlântica da região da bacia do rio Ribeira de Iguape. As coletas foram realizadas sazonalmente durante os anos 2...

A. Petzold, and J. Hasselbach, and P. Lauer, and R. Baumann, and K. Franke, and C. Gurk, and H. Schlager, and E. Weingartner

Particle emissions from ship engines and their atmospheric transformation in the marine boundary layer (MBL) were investigated in engine test bed studies and in airborne measurements of expanding ship plumes. During the test rig studies, detailed aerosol microphysical and chemical properties were measured in the exhaust gas of a serial MAN B&amp;W seven-cylinder four-stroke marine diesel engine under various load conditions. The emission studies were complemented by airborne aerosol transformati...

Hemmerling Thomas, and Minardi Carmelo, and Zaouter Cedrick, and Noiseux Nicolas, and Prieto Ignatio

<b>Background:</b> Volatile anesthetics provide myocardial protection during cardiac surgery. Sevoflurane and desflurane are both efficient agents that allow immediate extubation after off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCABG). This study compared the incidence of arrhythmias after OPCABG with the two agents. <b> Materials and Methods:</b> Forty patients undergoing OPCABG with immediate extubation and perioperative high thoracic analgesia were included in this controlled, double-blind ...

Gülderen Kurt Kaya, and Özden Baştürk

In this study, it was aimed to determine the effect of sea bream (Sparus aurata) marinated some quality properties during cold storage. The fillets of fish were immersed into brine including 3.5% acetic acid 11% salt in the ratio of 1: 1.5 (fish: marinate brine) for marination process. After the process of ripening, samples were grouped into two and packed in plastic containers; one being plain (in sunflower oil) and the other being sauced (sauced prepared with sunflower oil). During storage, se...

Vivek Tiwari, and Piyush Shukla, and Gourav Gupta

Objective: To evaluate the prognostic significance of serum Zinc (S.Zn) in locally advanced cancer cervix (LACC) patients treated with chemo-irradiation. Materials and Methods: S.Zn values in 34 females with histopathologically (HP) proven LACC (>/= stage II B) were prospectively measured using atomic absorption spectrophotometer pre- and post-treatment. Thirty-four age- and sex-matched healthy individuals were also evaluated for the parameter during the course of the study. After completion of ...

Neerja Bhatla, and Kriti Puri, and Elizabeth Joseph, and Alka Kriplani, and Venkateswaran K Iyer, and V Sreenivas

Background & objectives: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the necessary cause of cervical cancer and Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is considered a potential cofactor in the development of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). The objective of this pilot study was to determine the association of CT infection with HPV, other risk factors for cervical cancer, and CIN in symptomatic women. Methods: A total of 600 consecutively selected women aged 30-74 yr with persistent vaginal discharge, intermenstr...

Fabian Baier, and Edith Gruber, and Thomas Hein, and Elisabeth Bondar-Kunze, and Marina Ivanković, and Axel Mentler, and Carsten A. Brühl, and Bernhard Spangl, and Johann G. Zaller

Background Glyphosate-based herbicides are the most widely used pesticides in agriculture, horticulture, municipalities and private gardens that can potentially contaminate nearby water bodies inhabited by amphibians and algae. Moreover, the development and diversity of these aquatic organisms could also be affected by human-induced climate change that might lead to more periods with extreme temperatures. However, to what extent non-target effects of these herbicides on amphibians or algae are a...

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...

Setuko Masunari, and Edinalva Oliveira, and Vânia Graciele Lezan Kowalczuk

<abstract language="eng">A study of the temporal distribution of the decapod populations from a rocky shore at Farol Isle, Matinhos, State of Paraná, Brazil (25o51'S e48o32'W) was carried out. The rocky shore is 13m wide when the tidal level is zero meter and about 8o inclination. In the supralittoral, the rocky basins is mostly covered by a layer of litter coming from the terrestrial environment. In the midlittoral and upper infralittoral, the rocky slope is overlayed by boulders and pebbles an...

Chang-Sup Lee, and Young-Dal Choi, and Byoung-Kwon Ahn, and Myoung-Sup Shin, and Hyun-Gil Jang

Recently a Wide Chord Tip (WCT) propeller has been developed and applied to a commercial ship by STX Offshore & Shipbuilding. It is reported that the WCT propeller significantly reduces pressure fluctuations and also ship's noise and vibration. On the sea trial, vibration magnitude in the accommodations at NCR was measured at 0.9mm/sec which is only 10% of international allowable magnitude of vibration (9mm/sec). In this paper, a design method for increasing performance of the marine propellers ...

Josef Basl

The article deals with the aspects of the ICT innovation based on the development of the internet of things in industrial branches. This trend is known as the Industry 4.0, e.g. the forth industrial revolution. The article presents main results of the pilot survey done in selected Czech and Polish companies. They show the current status of the Industry 4.0 understanding and penetration in companies, incl. expected benefits and known obstacles of this trend.

Jaciara Vanessa Krüger Paes, and Edmir Daniel Carvalho, and Reinaldo José Silva

This study aimed to evaluate the infection by the Austrodiplostomum compactum metacercariae in fishes from the Nova Avanhandava Reservoir, low Tietê river, São Paulo State, Brazil. The parasites were collected from eye (aqueous and vitreous humor), fixed in AFAsolution and stained with carmine. The morphometric analysis was performed using a computerized system for analysis of images QWin Lite 2.5 (Leica). Prevalence, mean intensity of infection and abundance of infected fish were calculated. Of...

Sugimoto K, and Akiyama T, and Shimizu N, and Matsumura N, and Hayashi T, and Nishioka T, and Uemura H

Koichi Sugimoto,1 Takahiro Akiyama,2 Nobutaka Shimizu,3 Naoki Matsumura,1 Taiji Hayashi,1 Tsukasa Nishioka,1 Hirotsugu Uemura3 1Department of Urology, Sakai Hospital, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Sakai, Osaka, Japan; 2Department of Urology, Sakai-Onshinkai Hospital, Sakai, Osaka, Japan; 3Department of Urology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan Aim: To investigate the clinical efficacy of acotiamide hydrochloride hydrate in patients with detrusor underacti...

J. Schewe, and A. Levermann, and M. Meinshausen

We present climatic consequences of the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) using the coupled climate model CLIM<i>BER</i>-3α, which contains a statistical-dynamical atmosphere and a three-dimensional ocean model. We compare those with emulations of 19 state-of-the-art atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (AOGCM) using MAGICC6. The RCPs are designed as standard scenarios for the forthcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report to span the full range of future greenhouse gas (GHG) concent...

Eman El-Nabarawy

Background: Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a common complication of herpes zoster that is frequently unresponsive to most of the available treatment modalities. Broad band ultraviolet B radiation (UVB) has a well-known anti-inflammatory effect. Moreover, it decreases neural damage and cutaneous nerve density. It was found that broad band UVB might have a role in the prevention and treatment of PHN. Aim: This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of narrow band UVB (nbUVB) in the treatmen...

Camilla Ferreira Souza, and Aline Santos de Oliveira, and Renato Crespo Pereira

Seaweeds exhibit different strategies to minimize the damage caused by herbivores and also to influence the feeding preference of these consumers. This study evaluated the feeding preference of the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus through multiple-choice experiments using the seaweeds Caulerpa racemosa, Dictyota menstrualis, Osmundaria obtusiloba, Plocamium brasiliense, Sargassum sp., and Ulva sp. In order to verify the importance of morphological and chemical aspects on this feeding preference,...

Lídia S. Bertolo, and Guilherme T. N. P. de Lima, and Rozely F. dos Santos

The coastal regions of Brazil have lost most of their distinct characteristics due to an intense, diverse, and long history of land use. The current scenario is the result of successive changes which have taken place since the colonization of Brazil. These changes should be taken into account in environmental planning since the decisions about the future depend on the understanding of past changes. In this regard, the aim of this study was to identify and quantify the spatio-temporal changes in ...

Yzel Rondon Súarez, and Karina Keyla Tondato

This study was carried out in headwater streams in the Paraguay and Paraná river basins, with bi-monthly samples from January to November 2004, aiming to quantify the influence of environmental factors on the temporal rate of turnover in species composition of the fish communities. The environmental variables explained 73.5% of the variation in beta diversity and 52.5% of the variation in mean dissimilarity. Altitude was the only environmental descriptor that significantly explained the variatio...

Sabyasachi Banerjee, and Dwijendra Nath Gangopadhyay, and Sujay Singh, and Sreeparna Ghosh Majumdar

T. P. Sasse, and B. I. McNeil, and G. Abramowitz

The ocean's role in modulating the observed 1–7 Pg C yr⁻¹ inter-annual variability in atmospheric CO₂ growth rate is an important, but poorly constrained process due to current spatio-temporal limitations in ocean carbon measurements. Here, we investigate and develop a non-linear empirical approach to predict inorganic CO₂ concentrations (total carbon dioxide (<i>C</i>_T) and total alkalinity (<i>A</i>_T)) in the global ocean mixed layer from ...

Dan Forman, and Nathan West, and Janet Francis, and Edward Guy

Serum samples from 101 stranded or bycatch cetaceans from British waters were screened for Toxoplasma gondii-specific antibodies using the Sabin Feldman Dye Test. Relatively high seropositivity was recorded in short-beaked Delphinus delphis and this study presents the first documented case of Toxoplasma in a humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae.

AHMAD DWI SETYAWAN, and KUSUMO WINARNO

The aims of the research were to find out (i) species diversity of mangrove plats, (ii) the conservation problems of mangrove ecosystem, and (iii) restoration efford of mangrove ecosystem at coastal area of Rembang Regency, Central Java. This was descriptive research that was done qualitatively, in July until December 2003, at 3 sites of mangrove habitat in Rembang Regency, namely Pecangakan, Pasar Banggi, and Lasem. The data was collected in field surveys, in-depth interview to local people and...

J.G. Machado Neto, and E.D. Velini, and U.R. Antuniassi, and L.F. Bravin, and M.S. Nery

Os objetivos deste trabalho foram quantificar as exposições dérmicas (EDs) e respiratórias (ERs) proporcionadas ao piloto e ao seu ajudante nas aplicações de herbicidas para o controle de plantas daninhas aquáticas com aerobarco; classificar essas condições de trabalho em seguras ou inseguras; e calcular a necessidade de controle das exposições (NCE) e o tempo de trabalho seguro (TTS). O aerobarco utilizado tinha casco de alumínio (4,85 x 2,42 m) e acionamento por hélice acoplada a motor a gasol...

Sascha Claus Christoff Steiner, and Demian Alexander Willette

Los ambientes béntico-marinos de Dominica, Antillas Menores, incluyen 1 814.7ha y cerca del 90% de la costa. Este es el primer trabajo sobre el tamaño y distribución de los ambientes costeros sublitorales y sus comunidades epibénticas. Los pastos marinos constituyeron el ambiente más extenso, con 265ha. Los arrecifes coralinos presentaron una cobertura de 72.2ha. Ambos tipos de ambientes se encontraron principalmente en la costa oeste y norte, regiones con la mayor diversidad de ambientes marino...

S. Suresh Babu, and K. Krishna Moorthy, and S. K. Satheesh

Seasonal distinctiveness in the microphysical and optical properties of columnar and near-surface (in the well mixed region) aerosols, associated with changes in the prevailing synoptic conditions, were delineated based on extensive (spread over 4 years) and collocated measurements at the tropical coastal location, Trivandrum (8.55&deg; N; 76.97&deg; E, 3 m a.m.s.l.), and the results were summarized in Part 1 of this two-part paper. In Part 2, we use these properties to develop empirical s...

Amr Abd-EL-Mooti EL-Hanafy, and Yasir Anwar, and Jamal SM Sabir, and Saleh A Mohamed, and Saleh MS Al-Garni, and Osama AH Abu Zinadah, and Mohamed Morsi Ahmed

A total of 15 fungal isolates were obtained from oil-contaminated sites near the Red Sea in the Yanbu region. Based on the preliminary DCPIP (2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol) assay, three isolates showed promising oil degrading ability. The next-generation sequencing of the ITS-I and ITS-II internal transcribed spacer regions assigned the isolates to Aspergillus and Penicillium. Among these three strains, Y2 (Aspergillus oryzae) was the most efficient, degrading about 99% of the crude oil. The degr...

Tomislav Vladic, and Torbjörn Järvi

Individual energetic limitations in variable environments lead to life-history trade-offs between investment in somatic growth and gonadal tissue, causing individuals to adopt specific behavioural tactics to attain reproduction. We investigated energy allocation in primary and secondary sexual traits in Atlantic salmon by estimating the life history characters (smolt size, sea age, first sea year growth rate) by back-calculation of scales. Adult size increased with the fish sea age (years at se...

Robert Blasiak, and Robert Blasiak, and Jeremy Pittman, and Nobuyuki Yagi, and Hiroaki Sugino

A relatively small group of states is disproportionately active in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ), raising questions of equity, while a myriad of sectoral regulations and guidelines spread across multiple international bodies has led to uneven conservation and use of biological diversity and resources in these areas. Within this context, the UN General Assembly resolved in 2015 to begin negotiations on an international legally-binding instrument to conserve and protect biodiver...

Rogério Ribeiro de Oliveira

Este artigo trata da Mata Atlântica e das interferências antrópicas que este bioma sofreu no tempo, tendo por objetivo incluir o legado da atividade humana como parte das suas condições ecológicas. Como forma de análise dos processos sucessionais, é proposto o resgate dos paleoterritórios, aqui entendidos como as resultantes ecológicas decorrentes do uso dos ecossistemas por populações passadas na busca de suas condições de existência.<br>This article deals with the Atlantic Rainforest and the a...