Dube Praveen N., and Shwetha A., and Hosetti B.B.

Short term toxicity experiments were conducted to study the effect of metal cyanide complex (copper cyanide) on the key metabolic enzymes viz., lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), glucose-6 phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), aspartate amino transferase (AST) alanine amino transferase (ALT), acid phosphatase (AcP) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity in Catla catla juveniles. A total of 60 fingerlings were (2±0.5 cm; 1.5±0.2 g) exposed to two sublethal concentrations (0.2...

Anudeep Singh, and Aung Ko Ko Min, and Sarmishtha Ghosh

Background: In an integrated curriculum, topics are integrated at the system block level from semester 2 onward. However, in the basic biomedical block, opportunities to integrate also exist which is often overlooked. Aim: A study was conducted to determine the possibility and acceptability of a new pedagogical approach to aid integration of form and function along with the improvement of understanding. Materials and Design: The study was prospective and questionnaire-based, conducted in an upco...

Christopher J. Burman

This article reflects on an internal evaluation undertaken to estimate the potentials of a community-university pilot project to be developed into a bonafide innovation that can be applied at scale. The focus of the community-university partnership has been to reduce the unintended consequences of medical pluralism on the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Waterberg district, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Despite promising outputs from the partnership – including an increase in adherence to antiretrovir...

Christian Fraser, and Pascal Bernatchez, and Steeve Dugas

This study presents the development of a geographic information system (GIS) land-use planning tool for coastal areas based on the calculated exposure to coastal erosion of buildings and infrastructure. Responding to the needs of land-use planners, who are involved in the project from the beginning, this tool facilitates identification of adaptation solutions based on coastal sensitivity to erosion. All buildings, roads, railways, aqueducts, sewer systems, hiking trails and bicycle routes were m...

Daejae Lee

Abstract To quantitatively estimate the influence of cuttlebone on the target strength (TS) of golden cuttlefish, the cuttlebone was carefully extracted from 19 live cuttlefish caught using traps in the inshore waters around Geojedo, Korea, in early May 2010 and the TS was measured using split-beam echosounders (Simrad ES60 and EY500). The TS-length relationships for the cuttlefish (before the extraction of cuttlebone, Fish Aquat Sci. 17:361–7, 2014) and the corresponding cuttlebone were compare...

Chulhong Oh, and Chamilani Nikapitiya, and Youngdeuk Lee, and Ilson Whang, and Do-Hyung Kang, and Soo-Jin Heo, and Young-Ung Choi, and Jehee Lee

An agar-degrading Pseudoalteromonas sp. AG52 bacterial strain was identified from the red seaweed Gelidium amansii collected from Jeju Island, Korea. A β-agarase gene which has 96.8% nucleotide identity to Aeromonas β-agarase was cloned from this strain, and was designated as agaA. The coding region is 870 bp, encoding 290 amino acids and possesses characteristic features of the glycoside hydrolase family (GHF)-16. The predicted molecular mass of the mature protein was 32 kDa. The reco...

Pedro Alcolado-Prieto, and Hansel Caballero Aragón, and Pedro M. Alcolado, and Alexander Lopeztegui Castillo

El efecto de la contaminación sobre el reclutamiento ha sido insuficientemente estudiado. Este trabajo trata el tema del reclutamiento en sitios ubicados a diferentes distancias de dos importantes fuentes de contaminación. Se caracterizó la composición y estructura de las asociaciones de reclutas de corales pétreos (escleractinios y milepóridos) al oeste de la Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba. Esta área está influenciada por la contaminación urbana del río Almendares y del emisario submarino construido...

Holmer Savastano Júnior, and Silvio César de Souza, and Marco Antônio Trindade, and Vivian Lara Silva, and Celso da Costa Carrer, and Ricardo Firetti, and Marcelo Machado de Luca de Oliveira Ribeiro

In this study, the objective was to identify the satisfaction and preferences degree of Sao Paulo state consumers on the quality of ship meat (color, flavor, tenderness, juiciness and fat), nutritional value, food security, availability, place of purchase and satisfaction with the product customers (cuts, packaging, origin, price, availability). For this, we surveyed the application of 93 questionnaires with 33 questions to the consumers of lamb meat. The data were submitted to a Factor Analysis...

Paulo T. C. Chaves, and Carlos E. Corrêa

Pomadasys corvinaeformis is Qne ofthe most abundant species found in Guaratuba Bay, an Atlantic coastal, estuarine ecosystem in Paraná, Brazil. We tested whether this species comprises a resident or migratorial population. Abundance, size distribution, and gonad development of individuaIs captured during the year show that pre-adults enter the system when salinities are greater (autumn and early winter). During this time, they are mostly associated with mangroves and adjacent areas. When salinit...

Stanisław R. Massel

The factors influencing the atmosphere-ocean transfer of mass and momentum, as well as incipient wave breaking and the amount of energy dissipated due to breaking, are discussed in detail. In particular, the influence of directional spreading on the statistics of surface wave slopes and the area of the wind-roughened ocean surface is demonstrated. Theoretical analysis and comparison with the available experimental data show that unimodal directional spreading is not able to reproduce the observe...

Zajc Janja, and Zalar Polona, and Sepčić Kristina, and Gunde-Cimerman Nina

Wallemia is a genus of cosmopolitan xerophilic fungi, frequently involved in food spoilage of particularly sweet, salty, and dried food. Until recently, only a single species, Wallemia sebi, was recognized in the genus. When a large group of strains globally collected in salterns and other different ecological niches was analyzed on the level of physiological, morphological and molecular characteristics, a new basidiomycetous class, Wallemiomycetes, covering an order of Wallemiales was pro...

SUHARYANTO, and UTOJO

Observation on fish coral condition was conducted in the waters of Pare-Pare and Awerange Bay, South Sulawesi, on October and November 2004, using scuba diving set and under water writting tools. Monitoring of fish coral conditions were conducted in 7 m depths up to 100 m length of shore line were observed in four stations of diving, two stations in Pare-pare Bay and two stations in Awerange Bay using “sencus visual of Line Intercept Transect” method. The result showed that in the waters...

Simsarian JP, and Saunders C, and Smith DM

James P Simsarian, Carol Saunders, D Michelle SmithNeurology Center of Fairfax Ltd, Fairfax, VA, USABackground: Despite over 50 years of experience with adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) as a treatment for acute exacerbations of multiple sclerosis, there have been no trials examining the options of the 2–3-week dosing regimen or intramuscular injection protocol used in the original trials. At our clinic, we performed a small, prospective, randomized pilot study to examine the efficacy...

Angélica Moreira Valente, and Verônica Marinho Alexandre, and Magali Christe Cammarota, and Denise Maria Guimarães Freire

A aplicação de preparados enzimáticos sólidos (PES) ricos em lipases foi avaliada no tratamento anaeróbio de efluente de indústria de conservas de pescado. O PES foi produzido pelo fungo Penicillium simplicissimum por fermentação em meio sólido (FMS) de resíduo industrial, sendo empregado na hidrólise de gorduras presentes no efluente a fim de viabilizar a utilização de metano como fonte de energia. O efluente contendo 1500 mg O&G.L-1 foi hidrolisado com 0,2, 0,5 e 1,0% (m/v) de PES a 30 °C por ...

C. R. Terai, and R. Wood, and D. C. Leon, and P. Zuidema

The relationship between precipitation rate and accumulation mode aerosol concentration in marine stratocumulus-topped boundary layers is investigated by applying the precipitation susceptibility metric to aircraft data obtained during the VOCALS Regional Experiment. A new method to calculate the precipitation susceptibility that incorporates non-precipitating clouds is introduced. The mean precipitation rate <i>R</i> over a segment of the data is expressed as the product of a drizzle fraction <...

Manjunath Mundoor Dayakar, and Anna Shipilova, and Dinesh Gupta

Aim: Human papilloma viruses (HPVs) are small DNA viruses that have been identified in periodontal pocket as well as gingival sulcus. High risk HPVs are also associated with a subset of head and neck carcinomas. HPV detection in periodontium has previously involved DNA detection. This study attempts to: (a) Detect the presence or absence of high risk HPV in marginal periodontiun by identifying E6/E7 messenger RNA (mRNA) in cells from samples obtained by periodontal pocket scraping. (b) Detect th...

Elen TWRDY, and Bojan BESKOVNIK

This article describes a proposed productivity simulation model enabling container terminal operators to find optimization possibilities. A research of more than forty terminals has been done, in order to provide a helping tool for maritime container terminals. By applying an adequate simulation model, it is possible to measure and increase the productivity in all subsystem of the maritime container terminal. Management of a maritime container terminal includes a vast number of different financi...

Ahmed S BaHammam, and Seithikurippu R Pandi-Perumal, and Mohammed A Alzoghaibi

Aims: We hypothesized that if we control for lifestyle changes during Ramadan, Ramadan Islamic intermittent fasting (IF) reduces oxidative stress. This study was conducted to examine the effect of Islamic IF during and outside of Ramadan on the circadian changes in lipid peroxidation marker malondialdehyde (MDA) during and outside while controlling for potential confounders. Methods: Serum MDA concentration was measured in eight healthy male volunteers at baseline (BL), after fasting for 1 week ...

Vernon E. Thatcher, and Francinete T. Fonseca

Cymothoa recifea sp. nov. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) is described from the mouths of Centropomus undecimalis (Bloch, 1792) and Oligoplites palometa (Cuvier, 1832). The fish hosts were caught near Itamaracá and Cabo de Santo Agostinho, State of Pernambuco, Brazil. The new species bears a superficial resemblance to Cymothoa oestrum (Linnaeus, 1793) from which it differs in a number of important respects. In the new species, the basal carinae are large on pereopods 4-7 and usually pointed, whereas in C...

Suelen Taciane Brasil de Souza, and Túlio Raimundo de Araújo, and Carolina Rodrigues da Costa Doria, and Gislene Torrente-Vilara

There are conflicts among fishermen and local environmental protection agencies that regulate fishing in the area, concerning the official closure periods of the fisheries. The fishermen affirm that the dates established for protection of spawning do not correspond to the spawning season of the primary commercialized species, and that this could be hindering the local fish markets. This report compares the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) with information obtained from experimental fishery...

E. Piñero, and M. Marquardt, and C. Hensen, and M. Haeckel, and K. Wallmann

The accumulation of gas hydrates in marine sediments is essentially controlled by the accumulation of particulate organic carbon (POC) which is microbially converted into methane, the thickness of the gas hydrate stability zone (GHSZ) where methane can be trapped, the sedimentation rate (SR) that controls the time that POC and the generated methane stays within the GHSZ, and the delivery of methane from deep-seated sediments by ascending pore fluids and gas into the GHSZ. Recently, Wallmann et a...

G. A. Ruggiero, and Y. Ourmières, and E. Cosme, and J. Blum, and D. Auroux, and J. Verron

The diffusive back-and-forth nudging (DBFN) is an easy-to-implement iterative data assimilation method based on the well-known nudging method. It consists of a sequence of forward and backward model integrations, within a given time window, both of them using a feedback term to the observations. Therefore, in the DBFN, the nudging asymptotic behaviour is translated into an infinite number of iterations within a bounded time domain. In this method, the backward integration is carried out thanks t...

Larissa A. Medeiros, and Eduardo G. Ginani, and Leandro M. Sousa, and Lúcia H. Rapp Py-Daniel, and Eliana Feldberg

ABSTRACT Baryancistrus xanthellus is a species from the Ancistrini tribe known commonly as "amarelinho " or "golden nugget pleco". It is one of the most popular and valued ornamental fishes due to its color pattern. Also, it is an endemic species from the Xingu River occurring from Volta Grande do Xingu, region where the Belo Monte Hydropower Dam is being built, to São Félix do Xingu. The current study aimed to cytogenetically characterize B. xanthellus . Results point to the maintenance of 2n=5...

Mauro Vinicius Dutra Girão, and Romerio Rodrigues Magalhães, and Sâmia Kilville da Cruz Abreu, and Edilayne Gomes Boto, and Francisca Alana Dias Evagelista, and Raíssa dos Santos Liberato de Sousa, and Francisco dos Santos Paiva Junior

Este trabalho objetiva avaliar as condições higiênico-sanitárias dos comércios de pescado particulares do município de Sobral − CE, através da análise visual e utilização de um checklist, baseado na RDC no 216. As informações foram coletadas através da observação da rotina de trabalho dos estabelecimentos registrados na Vigilância Sanitária Municipal durante inspeções mensais em um período de três meses. Para cada critério contido no checklist, foi realizada uma média das conformidades e não con...

Hemlata Bhagwan Tanwani, and Sheetal Sameer Potnis, and Sandesh Satish Baralay, and Sameer Sidagouda Patil

Aim: The aim of the study was to analyze and compare the manual cephalometric tracings with computerized cephalometric tracings using Burstone hard tissue analysis and McNamara analysis. Materials and Methods: Conventional lateral cephalograms of 20 subjects were obtained and manually traced. The radiographs were subsequently scanned and digitized using Dolphin Imaging software version 11.7. McNamara analysis and Burstone hard tissue analysis were performed by both conventional and digital metho...

Rajasekar Thirunavukkarasu, and Priyadharshini Pandiyan, and Kumaran Subaramaniyan, and Deivasigamani Balaraman, and Sakthivel Manikkam, and Balamurugan Sadaiyappan, and George Edward Gnana Jothi

Objective: To isolate bioactive molecules from marine seaweeds and check the antimicrobial activity against the fish pathogenic bacteria. Methods: Fresh marine seaweeds Gracilaria edulis, Kappaphycus spicifera, Sargassum wightii (S. wightii) were collected. Each seaweed was extracted with different solvents. In the study, test pathogens were collected from microbial type culture collection. Antibacterial activity was carried out by using disc diffusion method and minimum inhibition concentr...

Krishnan Silambarasan, and Krishnamurthy Sujatha, and Arumugam Sundaramanickam, and Elumalai Rajalakshmi, and Arokia Doss Anitha Joice

The silver-cheeked toad fish, Lagocephalus scleratus, was recorded for the first time on 25 September 2014. Two specimens of this fish species were collected from the by-catch landed by a commercial deep-sea trawler at Kasimedu Fishing Harbour, Chennai coast, Southeast India. The morphometric and meristic characters of the recorded specimens are described and discussed. The specimen was compared with earlier reports.

Shokina Yu. V., and Kravets P. P. , and Lutsyk P. V.

The paper presents characteristics of the techno-chemical properties of the bivalve mollusk Mya arenaria (edible part, overall chemical composition, composition of nitrogen compounds) widespread in the Kandalaksha Bay. The analysis of these properties of the bivalve allows consider the clam as a perspective object of fishing and aquaculture

Karahmet E., and Vileš A., and Katica Amela, and Mlaćo N., and Toroman A.

Because of skeletal muscle is the main contributor to body weight in most fish, it is probable that the species of the fish is limited by the growth of this tissue. Several aspects of both somatic size and skeletal muscle growth was investigated in this research work included a total of 20 brown trout (Salmo truta m. fario Lineus), 20 brook trout (Salvelinus alpinus) and 20 rainbow trout (Oncorynchus mykkis Walbaum), the average weight of 200 grams. Gathered data showed that rainbow trout has a ...

Ade Asyari, and Novialdi Novialdi, and Nur Azizah

Introduction: Foreign body a fish in oro-hypopharynx is a rare case and require rapid diagnosis and immediate treatment to prevent complication. There are some complications that can occur, such as upper airway obstruction, perforation of the pharyngeal wall, vocal cord paralysis, pneumomediastinum, and emphysema. Vocal cord paralysis is rare complication caused by a foreign body in the pharynx. The management for pharyngeal foreign bodies is the extraction of a foreign body with Magill forceps,...

William Daros

El concepto de educación es polisémico y está cargado de notable complejidad. El prestigio tomado por las ciencias en la modernidad hace que los conocimientos que parecen no poder adecuarse a la normativa de las mismas sean considerados culturalmente menos valiosos. Por ello se intenta aquí delimitar tanto el concepto educación con el de ciencia, haciendo manifiesta la jerarquía conceptual que surge en una teoría de la ciencia de la educación que priorice el concepto de aprendizaje como esencial...

M. Zheng, and J. Sjolte, and F. Adolphi, and F. Adolphi, and B. M. Vinther, and H. C. Steen-Larsen, and T. J. Popp, and R. Muscheler

<p>Analyzing seasonally resolved <i>δ</i>¹⁸O ice core data can aid the interpretation of the climate information in ice cores, also providing insights into factors governing the <i>δ</i>¹⁸O signal that cannot be deciphered by investigating the annual <i>δ</i>¹⁸O data only. However, the seasonal isotope signal has not yet been investigated in northern Greenland, e.g., at the NEEM (North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling) ice core drill site. Here, we analyze sea...

Arjun eChennu, and Alistair eGrinham, and Lubos ePolerecky, and Dirk eDe Beer, and Mohammad A A Al-Najjar

Desiccated cyanobacterial mats are the dominant biological feature in the Earth's arid zones. While the response of desiccated cyanobacteria to rehydration is well documented for terrestrial systems, information about the response in marine systems is lacking. We used high temporal resolution hyperspectral imaging, liquid chromatography, pulse-amplitude fluorometry, oxygen microsensors and confocal laser microscopy to study this response in a desiccated microbial mat from Exmouth Gulf, Australia...

Maggie Dorothy Johnson, and Nichole N. Price, and Jennifer E. Smith

Despite the heightened awareness of ocean acidification (OA) effects on marine organisms, few studies empirically juxtapose biological responses to CO2 manipulations across functionally distinct primary producers, particularly benthic algae. Algal responses to OA may vary because increasing CO2 has the potential to fertilize photosynthesis but impair biomineralization. Using a series of repeated experiments on Palmyra Atoll, simulated OA effects were tested across a suite of ecologically importa...

T. L. Edwards, and X. Fettweis, and O. Gagliardini, and F. Gillet-Chaulet, and H. Goelzer, and J. M. Gregory, and M. Hoffman, and P. Huybrechts, and A. J. Payne, and M. Perego, and S. Price, and A. Quiquet, and C. Ritz

We apply a new parameterisation of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) feedback between surface mass balance (SMB: the sum of surface accumulation and surface ablation) and surface elevation in the MAR regional climate model (Edwards et al., 2014) to projections of future climate change using five ice sheet models (ISMs). The MAR (Modèle Atmosphérique Régional: Fettweis, 2007) climate projections are for 2000–2199, forced by the ECHAM5 and HadCM3 global climate mod...

J. Thomsen, and K. Ramesh, and K. Ramesh, and T. Sanders, and M. Bleich, and F. Melzner

In estuarine coastal systems such as the Baltic Sea, mussels suffer from low salinity which limits their distribution. Anthropogenic climate change is expected to cause further desalination which will lead to local extinctions of mussels in the low saline areas. It is commonly accepted that mussel distribution is limited by osmotic stress. However, along the salinity gradient, environmental conditions for biomineralization are successively becoming more adverse as a result of reduced [Ca<s...

Jordi Font, and Joaquim Ballabrera-Poy, and Adriano Camps, and Ignasi Corbella, and Núria Duffo, and Israel Duran, and Mikhail Emelianov, and Luis Enrique, and Pere Fernández, and Carolina Gabarró, and Cristina González, and Verónica González, and Jérôme Gourrion, and Sébastien Guimbard, and Nina Hoareau, and Agustí Julià, and Sofia Kalaroni, and Anna Konstantinidou, and Alfredo L. Aretxabaleta, and Justino Martínez, and Jorge Miranda, and Alessandra Monerris, and Sergio Montero, and Baptiste Mourre, and Miriam Pablos, and Fernando Pérez, and Maria Piles, and Marcos Portabella, and Roberto Sabia, and Joaquín Salvador, and Marco Talone, and Francesc Torres, and Antonio Turiel, and Mercè Vall-Llossera, and Ramón Villarino

Capability for sea surface salinity observation was an important gap in ocean remote sensing in the last few decades of the 20th century. New technological developments during the 1990s at the European Space Agency led to the proposal of SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity), an Earth explorer opportunity mission based on the use of a microwave interferometric radiometer, MIRAS (Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis). SMOS, the first satellite ever addressing the observation of ...

iia M, and Kristjan Herk, and Georg Martin, and Jonne Kotta, and Tiina Paalme, and Priit Kersen

In an in situ experiment we evaluated the growth of the red algae Furcellarialumbricalis and Coccotylus truncatus in the Archipelago Sea. The results showedthat the growth rates of both species were similar but that growth decreased withincreasing algal coverage. The effects were more pronounced for C. truncatus thanfor F. lumbricalis. Economic analyses aiming to establish sustainable harvestinglimits for F. lumbricalis in the study area should take account of the densitydependent growth of thes...

S. Tsyro, and W. Aas, and J. Soares, and M. Sofiev, and H. Berge, and G. Spindler

Sea salt aerosol can significantly affect the air quality. Sea salt can cause enhanced concentrations of particulate matter and change particle chemical composition, in particular in coastal areas, and therefore should be accounted for in air quality modelling. We have used an EMEP Unified model to calculate sea salt concentrations and depositions over Europe, focusing on studying the effects of uncertainties in sea salt production and lifetime on calculation results. Model calculations of sea s...

Goverdhan D Puri, and Aveek Jayant, and Morup Tsering, and Motup Dorje, and Motup Tashi

Background: Closed loop anaesthesia delivery systems (CLADSs) are a recent advancement in accurate titration of anaesthetic drugs. They have been shown to be superior in maintaining adequate depth of anaesthesia with few fluctuations as compared with target-controlled infusion or manual titration of drug delivery. Methods: Twenty patients scheduled to undergo general abdominal or orthopaedic procedures under general anaesthesia at Leh (3505 m above sea level) were recruited as subjects. Anaesthe...

José M. Monserrat, and Adalto Bianchini

The kinetic characteristic (Km) of cholinesterase from the crab Chasmagnathus granulata, the shrimp Farfantepenaeus paulensis and the fish Odontesthes bonaeriensis were compared and correlated with the anticholinesterasic effect of eserine (physostigmine). For the crustaceans, the estimated Km values were about 5-8 times higher than that estimated for the fish (0.04 mM). In the crab and the shrimp, the concentration of eserine which inhibited 50% of cholinesterase activity (IC50) was estimated a...

M. Navarro, and M. Peris, and G. Binefa, and J. M. Nogueira, and J. M. Miquel, and J. A. Espinás, and J. M. Borrás

Objetivo: evaluar las lesiones detectadas en las dos rondas ya finalizadas del Programa Piloto de Cribado en Cáncer Colorrectal (CCR) llevado a cabo en L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona). Material y métodos: el programa de cribado de CCR se inició en el año 2000. La población, comprendida entre 50 y 69 años residentes en el área, fue invitada a participar a través de la determinación bienal de sangre oculta en heces mediante el test guaiaco y colonoscopia en los participantes con test positiv...

Ricardo M. Landínez-García, and Edna J. Marquez

The Curimatidae family plays an ecological role in the recycling and distribution of nutrients and constitutes a major food source for several commercially important fishes. Curimata mivartii, a member of this family, is considered a short-distance migratory species (≤100 km), categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as a near threatened species, based on its declining population densities and habitat disturbance and fragmentation. Since population genetics and species-s...

Ana Maria Souza dos Santos Moreau, and João Carlos Ker, and Liovando Marciano da Costa, and Felipe Haenel Gomes

O presente estudo teve por objetivo caracterizar, física, química e micromorfologicamente, solos desenvolvidos de sedimentos pertencentes ao Grupo Barreiras, no sul da Bahia, bem como solo formado a partir de rocha do embasamento cristalino, sendo este tomado como diferencial entre os demais. Para isso, foram selecionadas e analisadas amostras de horizontes de solos de duas toposseqüências representativas dos solos dos tabuleiros costeiros: (1) Latossolo Vermelho eutrófico argissólico, Argissolo...

Káren Lorena Lôbo Prado, and Carlos Edwar de Carvalho Freitas, and Maria Gercília Mota Soares

We studied the diversity and species composition of fish assemblages associated with different stands of aquatic macrophytes. The samplings were made during two seasons of the hydrological cycle, the dry and flooding seasons, in two types of macrophyte stands. The first type was monospecific and was composed by floating grass Paspalum repens. The second type was composed by several free-floating species, and was classified as mixed stand. We collected 1,340 fish belonging to 50 species. Characif...

G. Zodiatis, and R. Lardner, and D. R. Hayes, and G. Georgiou, and S. Sofianos, and N. Skliris, and A. Lascaratos

The Cyprus Coastal Ocean Forecasting and Observing System (CYCOFOS) has been producing operational flow forecasts of the northeastern Levantine Basin since 2002 and has been substantially improved in 2005. CYCOFOS uses the POM flow model, and recently, within the frame of the MFSTEP project, the flow model was upgraded to use the hourly SKIRON atmospheric forcing, and its resolution was increased from 2.5 km to 1.8 km. The CYCOFOS model is now nested in the ALERMO regional model from the Univers...

V. E. Gherm, and H. J. Strangeways, and S. M. Radicella, and B. Forte, and Y. Béniguel, and N. N. Zernov

Radio wave scintillations are rapid fluctuations in both amplitude and phase of signals propagating through the atmosphere. GPS signals can be affected by these disturbances which can lead to a complete loss of lock when the electron density strongly fluctuates around the background ionization level at small spatial scales. This paper will present recent improvements to the theoretical Global Ionospheric Scintillation Model (GISM), particularly tailored for satellite based navigation systems suc...

José Luis Luque, and Dimitri Ramos Alves

<abstract language="eng">Sixty specimens of Caranx hippos (Linnaeus, 1766) and fifty-five specimens of Caranx latus Agassiz, 1831 collected from the coastal zone of the State of Rio de Janeiro (21-23ºS, 41-45ºW), Brazil, from October 1998 to October 1999, were necropsied to study their metazoan parasites. All specimens of C. hippos were parasitized, and the majority of specimens of C latus (96.4%) were parasitized by one or more metazoan species. Nineteen species of parasites were collected in C...

František Moravec, and Guillermo Salgado-Maldonado, and Juan M Caspeta-Mandujano

Specimens of Spinitectus osorioi Choudhury and Pérez-Ponce de León, an intestinal nematode species previously considered to be specific to Chirostoma spp and endemic to some lakes in the Pacific drainage in Michoacán, were collected from the freshwater fish Atherinella alvarezi (Díaz-Pardo) (Atherinopsidae) of the Michol River near Palenque, Chiapas, Southern Mexico, which belongs to the Atlantic drainage system. Studies using light and scanning electron microscopy revealed some taxonomically im...