Jennifer M. Knight, and Aniko Szabo, and Shi Zhao, and Jeffrey M. Lyness, and Olle Jane Z. Sahler, and Jane L. Liesveld, and Tara Sander, and J. Douglas Rizzo, and Cecilia J. Hillard, and Jan A. Moynihan

Objective: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT) is a stressful and rigorous medical procedure involving significant emotional and immune challenges. The endocannabinoid (eCB) signaling system is involved in regulation of both the immune system and emotional reactivity, yet little is known about its function during HCT. We investigated the role of the eCB signaling system in a group of HCT recipients. Methods: A total of 19 HCT recipients were enrolled and provided psychosocial data and ...

D. Bellafiore, and E. Bucchignani, and S. Gualdi, and S. Carniel, and V. Djurdjeviæ, and G. Umgiesser

This work compares meteorological results from different regional climate model (RCM) implementations in the Mediterranean area, with a focus on the northern Adriatic Sea. The need to use these datasets as atmospheric forcings (wind and atmospheric pressure fields) for coastal hydrodynamic models to assess future changes in the coastal hydrodynamics, is the basis of the presented analysis. It would allow the assessment of uncertainties due to atmospheric forcings in providing coastal current, su...

Jefferson Pacheco Amaral Fortes, and Felipe Lima de Carvalho, and Juliana Osório Alves, and Marcia Maria Gonçalves Felinto Chaves, and Mayara Rangel Araújo Carneiro, and Vânia Marilande Ceccatto, and Francisco Fleury Uchoa Santos Júnior, and Karla Camila Lima de Souza

The aim of the present study was to analyse the changes in liver glycogen content in rats subjected to aquatic therapy post-disuse of the paw. 32 wistar adult female rats were equally divided: Control (C), kept in the cage for two weeks without interventions; Disuse (D) had the right paw immobilized with hip extension, knee and plantar flexion for two weeks; Aquatic Therapy (AT) underwent aquatic therapy with increments of 3 minutes daily for two weeks, totalizing 36 minutes of training; Disused...

Joseph Antoine Hakim, and Hyunmin eKoo, and Lacey N. Dennis, and Ranjit eKumar, and Travis ePtacek, and Casey D. Morrow, and Elliot J. Lefkowitz, and Elliot J. Lefkowitz, and Mickie Lynn Powell, and Asim Kumar Bej, and Stephen Andrew Watts

In this study, we have examined the bacterial community composition in the laboratory cultured sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus gut microbiome and its culture environment using NextGen amplicon sequencing of the V4 segment of the 16S rRNA gene, and downstream bioinformatics tools. Overall, the gut and tank water was dominated by Proteobacteria, whereas the feed consisted of a co-occurrence of Proteobacteria and Firmicutes at a high abundance. The gut tissue represented Epsilonproteobacteria as d...

Murray A. Rudd

Using an international dataset compiled from 121 sites in 87 marine protected areas (MPAs) globally (Edgar et al., 2014), I assessed how various configurations of design and management conditions affected MPA ecological performance, measured in terms of fish species richness and biomass. The set-theoretic approach used Boolean algebra to identify pathways that combined up to five ‘NEOLI’ (No-take, Enforced, Old, Large, Isolated) conditions and that were sufficient for achieving positive, and neg...

Zheng-Shou Chen, and Wu-Joan Kim

This article presents a numerical investigation concerning the effect of two kinds of axially progressing internal flows (namely, upward and downward) on fluid–structure interaction (FSI) dynamics about a marine riser model which is subject to external shear current. The CAE technology behind the current research is a proposed FSI solution, which combines structural analysis software with CFD technology together. Efficiency validation for the CFD software was carried out first. It has been prove...

Fábio César Scherer

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2016v15n3p369 Im Rahmen der Theorie Kants über die Probleme der Vernunft und seine Hilfstheorie (Transzendentalphilosophie) zielt der vorliegende Artikel darauf ab, die in der Rechtslehre (1797) dargestellte Theorie des rechtlichen Besitzes anhand des analytisch-logischen Lesens zu interpretieren, dessen Beweisprozedur die Methode der Analyse und Synthese ist. Die vorliegende Untersuchung weist in eine Richtung, die die kritische Angehörigkeit dieses späten r...

A. Jarquin Laguna

A centralized approach for electricity generation within a wind farm is explored through the use of fluid power technology. This concept considers a new way of generation, collection and transmission of wind energy inside a wind farm, in which electrical conversion does not occur during any intermediate conversion step before the energy has reached the offshore central platform. A numerical model was developed to capture the relevant physics from the dynamic interaction between different t...

Emma Jane Rochelle-Newall, and Huong Thi Mai Nguyen, and Quynh Thi Phuong Le, and Oloth eSengtaheuanghoung, and Olivier eRibolzi

Given the high numbers of deaths and the debilitating nature of diseases caused by the use of unclean water it is imperative that we have an understanding of the factors that control the dispersion of water borne pathogens and their respective indicators. This is all the more important in developing countries where significant proportions of the population often have little or no access to clean drinking water supplies. Moreover, and notwithstanding the importance of these bacteria in terms of p...

M. Hong, and M. Hong, and X. Chen, and R. Zhang, and R. Zhang, and D. Wang, and S. Shen, and V. P. Singh

With the objective of tackling the problem of inaccurate long-term El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) forecasts, this paper develops a new dynamical–statistical forecast model of the sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) field. To avoid single initial prediction values, a self-memorization principle is introduced to improve the dynamical reconstruction model, thus making the model more appropriate for describing such chaotic systems as ENSO events. The improved dynamical–statistical mode...

Eleftheria eAntoniou, and Stilianos eFodelianakis, and Emmanouela eKorkakaki, and Nicolas eKalogerakis

Biosurfactants (BS) are green amphiphilic molecules produced by microorganisms during biodegradation, increasing the bioavailability of organic pollutants. In this work, the BS production yield of marine hydrocarbon degraders isolated from Elefsina bay in Eastern Mediterranean Sea has been investigated. The drop collapse test was used as a preliminary screening test to confirm biosurfactant producing strains or mixed consortia. The community structure of the best consortia based on the drop coll...

Hui Zhang, and Chung-Ming Chang, and Kang-Ning Shen, and Weiwei Xian, and Chung-Der Hsiao

The beltfish (Trichiurus lepturus) is considered as one of the most economically important marine fish in East Asia. It is a top predator with a robust swimming ability that is a good model to study muscle physiology in fish. In the present study, we used Illumina sequencing technology (NextSeq500) to sequence, assemble and annotate the muscle transcriptome of juvenile beltfish. A total of 57,509,280 clean reads (deposited in NCBI SRA database with accession number of SRX1674471) were obtained f...

Marília Bueno, and Samantha Fernandes Alberto, and Renan de Carvalho, and Tânia Marcia Costa, and Áurea Maria Ciotti, and Ronaldo Adriano Christofoletti

Abstract The coastal marine plankton plays a major role in ecosystem functioning by linking pelagic and benthonic environments through energy fluxes. Understanding the dynamic of planktonic organisms is also crucial for conservation and management purposes. Plankton was sampled at ten sites in the waters of the PEMLS and the adjacent area, on four different occasions through 2013 and 2015 in order to identify key planktonic groups and protocols for long-term monitoring. Ninety taxa of zooplankto...

Mojović Ljiljana V., and Jovanović Goran N.

Chromatophores isolated from the Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens represent a class of living cells that provide a vivid color response to microbial pathogens and environmental toxins. The selection of the most appropriate microcarrier and the development of the optimal technique for the chromatophore immobilization in order to enable directed transport of the sensor cells throughout microchannels of the biosensor, as well to preserve the cell survival and its functionality was studied. Mi...

Maria Elida Paredi, and Emilio Aldo Manca, and Marcos Crupkin

<p>The characteristics of the thermal gelation of squid mantle paste and the effect of protease inhibitors on them were investigated. Pastes in the absence and presence the protease inhibitors, ethylendiaminetetracetic acid (EDTA) and phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF), were formulated. Pastes were made by the respective one or two step thermal treatments: direct heating at 85°C for 20 min and preincubation at 27 or 40 °C for 3 or 2 hours, followed by heating at 85 °C for 20 min. The gel stren...

Fabiola Helena dos Santos Fogaça, and Lissandra Corrêa Fernandes-Góes, and Liliana Oliveira Souza, and Kesley Paiva da Silva, and João Marcos de Góes, and Alitiene Moura Lemos Pereira, and Monica Giacometti Mai, and João Avelar Magalhães

Abstract The century-old mangrove crab Ucides cordatus Linnaeus, 1763 harvesting is a traditional activity of Northeastern Brazilian coastal communities, who use it as food, source of income and cultural reference. The extractivism and marketing of this crustacean is essential for the socio-economic development of the states of Maranhão, Piauí and Ceará. The aim of this study was to carry out the monitoring of harvesting and landing of the mangrove crab in Ilha Grande, PI. Interviews were conduc...

John Jeffrey Govoni

Fisheries oceanography can be defined as the study of the ecology of fishes in the ocean: so defined, it comprises study at all levels of ecological organization—organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems. The early life history of fishes plays out at each of these levels of organization. A paradigm developed by Johan Hjort at the turn of the twentieth century, along with postulates by Hjort and many of his colleagues that followed, came to guide much of fisheries oceanography through t...

M. Ablain, and A. Cazenave, and G. Larnicol, and M. Balmaseda, and P. Cipollini, and Y. Faugère, and M. J. Fernandes, and O. Henry, and J. A. Johannessen, and P. Knudsen, and O. Andersen, and J. Legeais, and B. Meyssignac, and N. Picot, and M. Roca, and S. Rudenko, and M. G. Scharffenberg, and D. Stammer, and G. Timms, and J. Benveniste

Sea level is one of the 50 Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) listed by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) in climate change monitoring. In the past two decades, sea level has been routinely measured from space using satellite altimetry techniques. In order to address a number of important scientific questions such as "Is sea level rise accelerating?", "Can we close the sea level budget?", "What are the causes of the regional and interannual variability?", "Can we already detect the anth...

Renata Gonçalves, and Ana Dulce Correia, and Natasa Atanasova, and Maria Alexandra Teodósio, and Radhouan Ben-Hamadou, and Luís Chícharo

Salt marsh areas in the Guadiana estuary are important nursery sites for many fish species of commercial and recreational value. More effective protection measures should be adopted as the area is highly affected by anthropogenic and natural threats. Studying larval fish communities in these impacted nursery areas will be relevant to the management of local ecosystems and to larval fish ecology in general. Spatial and seasonal distribution and the effect of environmental factors on the larval fi...

Mauro Sergio Pavao

In this review, several glycosaminoglycan analogs obtained from different marine invertebrate are reported. The structure, biological activity and mechanism of action of these unique molecules are detailed reviewed and exemplified by experiments in vitro and in vivo. Among the glycans studied are low-sulfated heparin-like polymers from ascidians, containing significant anticoagulant activity and no bleeding effect; dermatan sulfates with significant neurite outgrowth promoting activity and anti-...

C. Faccani, and D. Cimini, and R. Ferretti, and R. Ferretti, and F. S. Marzano, and F. S. Marzano, and A. C. Taramasso, and A. C. Taramasso

Data assimilation by 3DVAR of data from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) has been performed to study the IOP2b case (19-21 September 1999) of the Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP). Only data over the sea surface are used to avoid the contamination of the surface emissivity. Moreover, the rainy data are filtered out because the assimilation algorithm of 3DVAR does not take into account the scattering processes. SSM/I data are assimilated in two different ways: as Brightness Temperature ...

A. Gardner, and G. Moholdt, and A. Arendt, and B. Wouters

Canadian Arctic glaciers have recently contributed large volumes of meltwater to the world's oceans. To place recently observed glacier wastage into a historical perspective and to determine the region's longer-term (~50 years) contribution to sea level, we estimate mass and volume changes for the glaciers of Baffin and Bylot Islands using digital elevation models generated from airborne and satellite stereoscopic imagery and elevation postings from repeat airborne and satellite laser altimetry....

Ingo S Wehrtmann, and Patricio M Arana, and Edward Barriga, and Adolfo Gracia, and Paulo Ricardo Pezzuto

Commercial fisheries are expanding their activities into deeper water. The life history features of these deep-water resources make them more vulnerable to exploitation than most shallow-water resources. Moreover, the apparent lack of solid information about the ecology of most deep-water species represents a major limitation for the development and implementation of management strategies. This scenario has caused great concern regarding the sustainability of these resources and the possible env...

Hirotoshi Kodama, and Akira Tsuji, and Akihiro Fujinoki, and Koujirou Ooshima, and Kaori Ishizeki, and Tatsuo Inoue

Abstract Background We evaluated the biocompatibility and small protein permeability of a newly developed hydrophilic-coated membrane dialyzer (NV) compared with conventional polysulfone dialyzer (APS) for hemodialysis (HD) therapy. Methods In a prospective crossover study, 11 maintenance HD patients (7 males; mean age 67.0 ± 10.2 years) received HD three times a week for 4 weeks with the NV membrane and then for another 4 weeks with the APS membrane. We evaluated the variation in several parame...

Iacopo Bertocci, and I. Sousa-Pinto, and P. Duarte

Abstract Patterns of distribution of reef fishes were examined across three spatial scales and related to habitat traits along 25 km of the northern Portuguese coast. Response variables included the multivariate assemblage structure, the total number of taxa and individuals, and the abundance of single groups categorized according to their preference for the benthic, proximo-benthic or pelagic environment, feeding and reproductive behaviour. Habitat traits included topographic elements (small an...

S. J. Hennige, and H. L. Burdett, and G. Perna, and A. W. Tudhope, and N. A. Kamenos

Abstract Corals thrive in a variety of environments, from low wave and tidal energy lagoons, to high energy tidal reef flats, but remain dependent upon suitable substrate. Herein we reviewed the phenomenon of free-living corals (coralliths), examined whether they have the capacity to create their own stable habitat in otherwise uninhabitable, poor substrate environments through ‘free-living stabilization’, and explore their potential ecological role on coral reefs. This stabilization could be ac...

Mark B Gabbay, and Adele Ring, and Richard Byng, and Pippa Anderson, and Rod S Taylor, and Caryn Matthews, and Tirril Harris, and Vashti Berry, and Paula Byrne, and Elliot Carter, and Pam Clarke, and Laura Cocking, and Suzanne Edwards, and Richard Emsley, and Mauro Fornasiero, and Lucy Frith, and Shaun Harris, and Peter Huxley, and Siw Jones, and Peter Kinderman, and Michael King, and Liv Kosnes, and Daniel Marshall, and Dave Mercer, and Carl May, and Debbie Nolan, and Ceri Phillips, and Tim Rawcliffe, and Alexandra V Sardani, and Elizabeth Shaw, and Sam Thompson, and Jane Vickery, and Brian Wainman, and Mark Warner

Background: Depression and debt are common in the UK. Debt Counselling for Depression in Primary Care: an adaptive randomised controlled pilot trial (DeCoDer) aimed to assess the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the addition of a primary care debt counselling advice service to usual care for patients with depression and debt. However, the study was terminated early during the internal pilot trial phase because of recruitment delays. This report describes the rationale, methods an...

Gheorghe Kucsicsa, and Ines Grigorescu, and Monica Dumitraşcu, and Mihai Doroftei, and Mihaela Năstase, and Gabriel Herlo

The assessment of invasive terrestrial plant species in the Romanian protected areas is an important research direction, especially since the adventive species have become biological hazards with significant impacts on biodiversity. Due to limited resources being available for the control of the invasive plants, the modelling of the spatial potential distribution is particularly useful in order to find the best measures to eliminate them or prevent their introduction and spread...

Jun WU, and Yu-Hong SHI, and Xue-Heng ZHANG, and Chang-Hong LI, and Ming-Yun LI, and Jiong CHEN

Interleukin 1β (IL-1β), the first interleukin to be characterized, plays a key role in regulating the immune response. In this study, we determined the cDNA and genomic DNA sequences of the IL-1β gene from the large yellow croaker, Larimichthys crocea. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the IL-1β (LcIL-1β) gene was most closely related to that of European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax), sharing 67.8% amino acid identity. In healthy large yellow croaker, LcIL-1β transcription was detected in al...

Molly Scott, and Michelle Heupel, and Andrew Tobin, and Morgan Pratchett

Abstract Climate-driven increases in ocean temperatures are expected to affect the metabolic requirements of marine species substantially. To mitigate the impacts of increasing temperatures in the short-term, it may be necessary for ectothermic organisms to alter their foraging behaviour and activity. Herein, we investigate seasonal variation in foraging behaviour and activity of latitudinally distinct populations of a large coral reef predator, the common coral trout, Plectropomus leopardus, fr...

M. Yúfera, and E. Perera, and J. A. Mata-Sotres, and J. Calduch-Giner, and G. Martínez-Rodríguez, and J. Pérez-Sánchez

Abstract The regulation of circadian gene expression remains largely unknown in farmed fish larvae. In this study, a high-density oligonucleotide microarray was used to examine the daily expression of 13,939 unique genes in whole gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) larvae with fast growth potentiality. Up to 2,229 genes were differentially expressed, and the first two components of Principal Component Analysis explained more than 81% of the total variance. Clustering analysis of differentially ex...

Tebuka Toatu, and Paul White, and Damian Hoy, and Dennie Iniakwala, and Onofre Edwin A Merrilles, Jr, and Sameer Vali Gopalani

Objective: To assess the prevalence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among women who board foreign fishing vessels for sex work in Kiribati. Methods: A cross-sectional study was designed to collect data on behavioural risk factors for STIs and knowledge of and attitudes towards HIV and STIs during 2007. Urine and blood samples were collected to test for HIV and select STIs. Descriptive statistics were performed for sociodemographic and behavioural characteristics, and χ2 tests ...

Dégremont, Marlène

Since the 2010s, large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPA) have thrived in the Pacific Ocean and have profoundly transformed the geography of the Region. More than anywhere else in the world, in the Pacific region they have turned Small Island Developing States into Large Ocean Island States and generated a significant political shift on the regional and international level. This research note presents a new exploration of the ongoing political construction of the ocean. An anthropological appr...

Ivana Keser

The Paper reviews the impact of the Common Maritime Transport Policy of the European Union on the development of the European Union Environmental Policy. An inter-relationship between the economic needs of the Member States and the overall attempt of the European Community to protect and preserve the marine environment is examined. The European Union makes continuous signifi - cant contributions to the worldwide efforts in protecting the environment, especially in the maritime fi eld, thr...

M. Ablain, and A. Cazenave, and G. Valladeau, and S. Guinehut

A new error budget assessment of the global Mean Sea Level (MSL) determined by TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 altimeter satellites between January 1993 and June 2008 is presented using last altimeter standards. We discuss all potential errors affecting the calculation of the global MSL rate. We also compare altimetry-based sea level with tide gauge measurements over the altimetric period. Applying a statistical approach, this allows us to provide a realistic error budget of the MSL rise measured by ...

Mariela Spinelli, and Raúl Guerrero, and Marcelo Pájaro, and Fabiana Capitanio

Among tunicates, the small planktonic appendicularians generally comprise a significant fraction of the mesozooplankton in frontal systems. The summer 2011 distribution (vertical and spatial) of Oikopleura dioica was studied in terms of abundance, biomass, estimation of egg production and population structure in the different sectors of the El Rincón coastal front, in the light of thermal and salinity gradients. Peaks of abundance of Engraulis anchoita larvae were compared to O. dioica patterns....

K. J. Roberts, and W. J. Pringle, and J. J. Westerink

<p>OceanMesh2D is a set of MATLAB functions with preprocessing and post-processing utilities to generate two-dimensional (2-D) unstructured meshes for coastal ocean circulation models. Mesh resolution is controlled according to a variety of feature-driven geometric and topo-bathymetric functions. Mesh generation is achieved through a force balance algorithm to locate vertices and a number of topological improvement strategies aimed at improving the worst-case triangle quality. The placement of v...

Seunglyong Kim, and Jungsoo Ryue, and In-Kyu Park

In this study, the second order bending moment induced by sea waves is calculated using the quadratic strip theory. The theory has the fluid forcing terms including the quadratic terms of the hydrodynamic forces and the Froude–Krylov forces. They are applied to a ship as the external forces in order to estimate the second order ship responses by fluid forces. The sensitivity of the second order bending moment is investigated by implementing the quadratic terms by varying the ship side angle for ...

Yoshiko Takeda, and Hiroko Kawakami, and Seiko Shigeta, and Hisao Kamiya, and Reiko Onizuka, and Kimiko Tanabe, and Yuko Kato

The red soft coral that is found around the spiny lobster represents a major allergen and many fishermen, especially those that catch the spiny lobster, suffer from allergic symptoms. Therefore, in the present study, one of the major fractions of this protein was isolated and purified from the red soft coral (Alcyonium gracillimum). Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoblot analyses showed that the molecular weight of the allergen is approximately 14.4-20.1 kDa. Co...

Cristiano Costenaro-Ferreira, and Marco Aurélio Lopes Della Flora

Phosphorus is stored in plants majorly in the form of phytic acid (IP6), which represents 50–80% of the total phosphorus present in the vegetable ingredients. As it is indigestible by nonruminant animals and remains negatively charged in the physiologic pH, it binds to a large variety of nutrients, mainly cations, which are discarded via feces. This leads to the addition of available phosphorus, which increases the cost and environmental problems. Therefore, the utilization of phytase helps to b...

Hannes Horn, and Hannes Horn, and Beate Slaby, and Martin Jahn, and Kristina Bayer, and Lucas Moitinho-Silva, and Frank Förster, and Usama Ramadan Abdelmohsen, and Usama Ramadan Abdelmohsen, and Ute Hentschel, and Ute Hentschel

Many marine sponges are populated by dense and taxonomically diverse microbial consortia. We employed a metagenomics approach to unravel the differences in the functional gene repertoire among three Mediterranean sponge species, Petrosia ficiformis, Sarcotragus foetidus, Aplysina aerophoba and seawater. Different signatures were observed between sponge and seawater metagenomes with regard to microbial community composition, GC content, and estimated bacterial genome size. Our analysis showed fu...

Kellie Toohey, and Kate L. Pumpa, and Leonard Arnolda, and Julie Cooke, and Desmond Yip, and Paul S. Craft, and Stuart Semple

Purpose The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of low-volume high-intensity interval training and continuous low to moderate intensity training on quality of life, functional capacity and cardiovascular disease risk factors in cancer survivors. Methods Cancer survivors within 24 months post-diagnosis were randomly assigned into the low-volume high-intensity interval training group (n = 8) or the continuous low to moderate intensity training group (n = 8) group for 36 sessions (12 week...

A. Tetzlaff, and C. Lüpkes, and G. Birnbaum, and J. Hartmann, and T. Nygård, and T. Vihma

An analysis of Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) satellite data reveals that the Whaler's Bay polynya north of Svalbard was considerably larger in the three winters from 2012 to 2014 compared to the previous 20 years. This increased polynya size leads to strong atmospheric convection during cold air outbreaks in a region north of Svalbard that was typically ice-covered in the last decades. The change in ice cover can strongly influence local temperature conditions. Dropsonde measur...

S. Djavidnia, and F. Mélin, and N. Hoepffner

The extending record of ocean colour derived information, an important asset for the study of marine ecosystems and biogeochemistry, presently relies on individual satellite missions launched by several space agencies with differences in sensor design, calibration strategies and algorithms. In this study we present an extensive comparative analysis of standard products obtained from operational global ocean colour sensors (SeaWiFS, MERIS, MODIS-Aqua, MODIS-Terra), on both global and regional sca...

Ana Paula Jecks Maestrin, and Cláudio Roberto Neri, and Kleber Thiago de Oliveira, and Osvaldo Antonio Serra, and Yassuko Iamamoto

<abstract language="eng">This work describes a simple and economical experiment for the extraction and purification of chlorophyll a from Spirulina maxima. Extraction and purification of natural compounds can be considered one of the most illustrative experiments that can be performed in Organic Chemistry courses. Particularly, the chromatography of dyes and pigments allows students to have a better comprehension of the chromatography separations. These compounds represent an important class of ...

Ghazesaeed K, and Mohammadi M

In this study, 307 samples of the sediments of fish breeding pools of the different parts of North of Iran were tested for the survey of different environmental Mycobacteria. After the process of cultivation, 107 cases of Mycobacterium were gained which after the performance of different biochemical tests. 112 cases of Mycobacterium were identified. From among the isolated Mycobacteria, the highest rank belonged to M.fortuitum with the frequency of 13.97% and the next M.gordonae 10.66% M.xenopi,...

P. Mazzanti, and F. Bozzano

Coastal and subaqueous landslides can be very dangerous phenomena since they are characterised by the additional risk of induced tsunamis, unlike their completely-subaerial counterparts. Numerical modelling of landslides propagation is a key step in forecasting the consequences of landslides. In this paper, a novel approach named Equivalent Fluid/Equivalent Medium (EFEM) has been developed. It adapts common numerical models and software that were originally designed for subaerial landslides in o...

Małgorzata Lisińska-Kuśnierz, and Teresa Gajewska

Background: Logistics services are evaluated mainly by measuring customer satisfaction. Measurement of the customer satisfaction provides the information about how organizations operate as well as how to effectively satisfy customer needs. The aim of this paper is to propose an evaluation model of the customer satisfaction of the quality of the logistic services provided. The research in this paper was focused on the evaluation of the level of customer satisfaction in the context of logistics se...

Sang-Bo Kim, and Na Young Yoon, and Kil-Bo Shim, and Chi-Won Lim

Abstract In the present study, we investigated to the antioxidant and angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activities of the northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) by-products (PBB) hydrolysates prepared by enzymatic hydrolysis. The antioxidant and ACE inhibitory activities of five enzymatic hydrolysates (alcalase, protamex, flavourzyme, papain, and trypsin) of PBB were evaluated by the 2, 2′-azino-bis [3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid] (ABTS+) radical scavenging and superoxide di...

Jing Li, and Jinrong Qu, and Hongkai Zhang, and Yingshu Wang, and Lin Zheng, and Xiang Geng, and Yan Zhao, and Hailiang Li

Abstract Background The purpose of this study was to use serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations to observe changes in malignant lung tumors over time post-cryoablation. Methods The study protocol was approved by Institutional Review Board, and written informed consent was obtained from each participant in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Patients with primary or metastatic lung tumors eligible for cryoablation were included in this prospective study. Cryoablation was pe...