Wojcinski S, and Farrokh A, and Hille U, and Wiskirchen J, and Gyapong S, and Soliman AA, and Degenhardt F, and Hillemanns P

Sebastian Wojcinski1, Andre Farrokh1, Ursula Hille2, Jakub Wiskirchen3, Samuel Gyapong1, Amr A Soliman1,4, Friedrich Degenhardt1, Peter Hillemanns21Department of OB/GYN, Franziskus Hospital, Bielefeld, Germany; 2Department of OB/GYN, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; 3Department of Radiology, Franziskus Hospital, Bielefeld, Germany; 4Department of OB/GYN, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, EgyptAbstract: The idea of an automated whole breast ultrasound was devel...

Z. Dai, and C. Li, and C. Trettin, and G. Sun, and D. Amatya, and H. Li

Hydrological models are important tools for effective management, conservation and restoration of forested wetlands. The objective of this study was to test a distributed hydrological model, MIKE SHE, by using bi-criteria (i.e., two measurable variables, streamflow and water table depth) to describe the hydrological processes in a forested watershed that is characteristic of the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain. Simulations were compared against observations of both streamflow and water table depth ...

DLC Oliveira, and LC Goretti, and LSM Pereira

Objetivo: Comparar o desempenho funcional de idosos institucionalizados, portadores de alterações cognitivas selecionados através da aplicação do Mini-Exame do Estado Mental (MEEM) em um teste de mobilidade (TUG) a partir do Índice de Katz. Método: Participaram dessa pesquisa 28 sujeitos (82 ± 9,06 anos), os quais foram submetidos ao teste "Timed Up and Go TUG" e as atividades de vida diária foram avaliadas através do Índice de Katz. Resultados: Não foi encontrada correlação estatisticamente sig...

I. Ruvalcaba Baroni, and R. P. M. Topper, and N. A. G. M. van Helmond, and H. Brinkhuis, and C. P. Slomp

The geological record provides evidence for the periodic occurrence of water column anoxia and formation of organic-rich deposits in the North Atlantic Ocean during the mid-Cretaceous (hereafter called the proto-North Atlantic). Both changes in primary productivity and oceanic circulation likely played a role in the development of the low-oxygen conditions. Several studies suggest that an increased input of phosphorus from land initiated oceanic anoxic events (OAEs). Other proposed mechanisms in...

jaber davoudi, and shahrokh shirazi, and afshin Bahman-shabestari, and mohammad Farahi

This study was done in order to determine the parasitic fauna of ornamental fish in Qazvin province during 6 months between winter to spring 2014. For this purpose, 240 dying fish from 12 ornamental fish farms were selected randomly and each sample was examined for ectoparasites in parasitology laboratory overall 11 farms in winter and 12 farms in spring were infected by Ichthyophthirius, Chilodonella, Dactylogyrus, Gyrodactylus and Trichodina. There was a significant difference between the rate...

Rajinder Kumar Sharma, and Anu Bhatia, and Shikha Tewari, and Satish Chandar Narula

<p>Background:  Mouth breathing has been reported to affect gingival health in children. However, studies on the effect of mouth breathing in adult patients are scarce. The objective of present cross sectional study was to examine the relationship between mouth breathing and gingival condition and to evaluate the distribution of gingival inflammation in young adult mouth breathing patients. Methods: Study groups comprised of participants with mouth breathing (test group) and nose breathing (cont...

Masaru Terasaki, and Chikara Kawagoe, and Atsushi Ito, and Hiroko Kumon, and Bhaskar Narayan, and Masashi Hosokawa, and Kazuo Miyashita

This work studied the effect of spatial and seasonal differences on the accumulation of functional lipid components in Sargassum horneri (Turner), an edible Japanese seaweed popularly called Akamoku. S. horneri obtained from Samenoura bay area of Japan was laboratory cultured to evaluate the effect of temperature on the accumulation of total lipids (TL), fucoxanthin (Fx) and fucosterol (Fs) by the alga. The laboratory cultured 3 month old S. horneri were cultured in the open sea in two different...

Syed Mahabub Ebna Al Baker, and D. Ghosh Dastidar

Iz H. Bâki

Predicting sea level rise is essential for current climate discussions. Empirical models put in use to monitor and analyze sea level variations observed at globally distributed tide gauge stations during the last decade can provide reliable predictions with high resolution. Meanwhile, prediction intervals, an alternative to confidence intervals, are to be recognized and deployed in sea level studies. Predictions together with their prediction intervals, as demonstrated in this study, can quantif...

Barbara J. Cheney, and Paul M. Thompson, and Line S. Cordes

Abstract Estimates of temporal variation in demographic rates are critical for identifying drivers of population change and supporting conservation. However, for inconspicuous wide-ranging species, births may be missed and fecundity rates underestimated. We address this issue using photo-identification data and a novel robust design multistate model to investigate changes in bottlenose dolphin fecundity and calf survival. The model allows for uncertainty in breeding status, and seasonal effects....

Paul Tixier, and Paul Burch, and Gaetan Richard, and Karin Olsson, and Dirk Welsford, and Mary-Anne Lea, and Mark A. Hindell, and Christophe Guinet, and Anais Janc, and Nicolas Gasco, and Guy Duhamel, and Maria Ching Villanueva, and Lavinia Suberg, and Rhys Arangio, and Marta Söffker, and John P. Y. Arnould

Abstract The emergence of longline fishing around the world has been concomitant with an increase in depredation-interactions by odontocete whales (removal of fish caught on hooks), resulting in substantial socio-economic and ecological impacts. The extent, trends and underlying mechanisms driving these interactions remain poorly known. Using long-term (2003–2017) datasets from seven major Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) longline fisheries, this study assessed the levels and inte...

Kensuke K. Komatsu, and Vladimir A. Alexeev, and Irina A. Repina, and Yoshihiro Tachibana

Abstract We carried out upper air measurements with radiosondes during the summer over the Arctic Ocean from an icebreaker moving poleward from an ice-free region, through the ice edge, and into a region of thick ice. Rapid warming of the Arctic is a significant environmental issue that occurs not only at the surface but also throughout the troposphere. In addition to the widely accepted mechanisms responsible for the increase of tropospheric warming during the summer over the Arctic, we showed ...

Muhammad eAyaz, and Muhammad eJunaid, and Farhat eUllah, and Abdul eSadiq, and Fazal eSubhan, and Mir Azam eKhan, and Waqar eAhmad, and Gowhar eAli, and Muhammad eImran, and Sajjad eAhmad

Polygonum hydropiper is used as anti-cancer and anti-rheumatic agent in folk medicine. This study was designed to investigate the anti-angiogenic, anti-tumor and cytotoxic potentials of different solvent extracts and isolated saponins. Samples were analyzed using GC, GC-MS to identify major and bioactive compounds. Quantitation of antiangiogenesis for the plant's samples including methanolic extract (Ph.Cr), its subsequent fractions; n-hexane (Ph.Hex), chloroform (Ph.Chf), ethyl acetate (Ph.EtAc...

Eduardo Ferrandis

The purpose of this article is to deepen and structure the statistical basis of marine population dynamics. The starting point is the correspondence between the concepts of mortality, survival and lifetime distribution. This is the kernel of the possibilities that survival analysis techniques offer to marine population dynamics. A rigorous definition of survival and mortality based on their properties and their probabilistic versions is briefly presented. Some well established models for ...

V. Katelyn Chandler, and John P. Wares

An overdominant mutation in an intron of the elongation factor 1-α (EF1A) gene in the sea star Pisaster ochraceus has shown itself to mediate tolerance to “sea star wasting disease”, a pandemic that has significantly reduced sea star populations on the Pacific coast of North America. Here we use RNA sequencing of healthy individuals to identify differences in constitutive expression of gene regions that may help explain this tolerance phenotype. Our results show that individuals carrying this mu...

Paul L. Jokiel, and Kuʻulei S. Rodgers, and Curt D. Storlazzi, and Michael E. Field, and Claire V. Lager, and Dan Lager

A long-term (10 month exposure) experiment on effects of suspended sediment on the mortality, growth, and recruitment of the reef corals Montipora capitata and Porites compressa was conducted on the shallow reef flat off south Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi. Corals were grown on wire platforms with attached coral recruitment tiles along a suspended solid concentration (SSC) gradient that ranged from 37 mg l−1 (inshore) to 3 mg l−1 (offshore). Natural coral reef development on the reef flat is limited to area...

Éverson Miguel Bianco, and Valéria Laneuville Teixeira, and Renato Crespo Pereira

This paper reports on the defensive chemical properties of the marine tropical brown seaweed Canistrocarpus cervicornis against herbivory. A natural concentration of dichloromethane crude extract (DCE) obtained from this seaweed significantly inhibited feeding by the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus. The major metabolite isolated from this active DCE extract was identified as the (4R,7R,14S)-4&#945;,7&#945;-diacetoxy-14-hydroxydolast-1(15),8-diene that strongly inhibited feeding by the same sea ...

B. Wu, and N. Q. Wu

Marine Isotope Stages 24-22 is a key period of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, however, its climate variability is still unclear. The coarse-grained loess unit L9, one of the most prominent units in the Chinese loess stratigraphy, yields a high potential terrestrial record of paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental changes during this period. In this study, two high-resolution terrestrial mollusc records of L9 loess strata from the Xifeng and Luochuan sequences in the Chinese Loess Plateau were ana...

R.E. Barreto, and G.L. Volpato

Plasma cortisol and glucose levels were measured in 36 adult Nile tilapia males, Oreochromis niloticus (standard length, mean ± SD, 14.38 ± 1.31 cm), subjected to electroshock and social stressors. Pre-stressor levels were determined 5 days after the adjustment of the fish to the experimental aquaria (1 fish/aquarium). Five days later, the effects of stressors on both cortisol and glucose levels were assessed. The following stressors were imposed for 60 min: pairing with a larger resident animal...

Diana Pili-Moss

A number of studies in SLA and developmental psychology have shown that both children and adults can acquire nonnative word orders after a relatively short amount of exposure to a miniature language with natural-syntax characteristics in implicit instruction conditions. Although there is some evidence that in these conditions adult L2 learning can extend to morphemes (e.g., gender, case), little attention has been given to child-learning of morphology to date. In this pilot study six nine-year-o...

Adzhubei Alexei, and Panitz Frank, and Laerdahl Jon K, and Hagen-Larsen Heidi, and Høyheim Bjørn

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The Atlantic salmon is an important aquaculture species and a very interesting species biologically, since it spawns in fresh water and develops through several stages before becoming a smolt, the stage at which it migrates to the sea to feed. The dramatic change of habitat requires physiological, morphological and behavioural changes to prepare the salmon for its new environment. These changes are called the parr-smolt transformation or smoltification, and p...

Sasaki Yukako, and Takai Shinji, and Watanabe Kiyotaka, and Takaesu Azusa, and Orino Koichi

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Iron-storage protein, ferritin plays a central role in iron metabolism. Ferritin has dual function to store iron and segregate iron for protection of iron-catalyzed reactive oxygen species. Tissue ferritin is composed of two kinds of subunits (H: heavy chain or heart-type subunit; L: light chain or liver-type subunit). Ferritin gene expression is controlled at translational level in iron-dependent manner or at transcriptional level in iron-independent manner....

Maria Luisa Guinto-Adviento, and Margarita Asuncion Orsolino Zavala

<p>Being diagnosed with breast cancer is like receiving a death sentence. While some surrender to their fate with diminished meaning of life, others manage to accept the challenges of their condition and move on with greater appreciation of life. This qualitative study examined the experiences of breast cancer survivors whose engagement with dragon boat enhanced their quality of life despite the traumatic discovery, treatment and long-term effects resulting from the illness. A focus group discus...

Faturachman Danny

As a border in Sumatera Island, Batam as a bridge between Indonesia and Singapore, and also Indonesia and Malaysia. Batam located in locations strategic considering in the sea border area, crossing between in Sumatera with Singapore and Johor, Malaysia. This research is aim to know whether the ASEAN Economic Community in order to ASEAN connectivity since 2015 application has already settle or not.. Because connectivity between ASEAN countries considered an important part in the context of creati...

Ahmad Fauzan Zakki, and Triwiyatno Aris, and Sasmito Bandi, and Nubly Muhammad H.

The information is an important thing to search a new resource. In this decade, with leading-edge technology is easier to find any information about our earth. Thus, that is must be explored by the ships. The exploration works usually take a long time, and for convenience, the unmanned technology is much promised. In this research, we focused on the autonomous surface vehicle for bathymetry survey. To design the ASV, we must consider the reliability, efficiency, and safety. To reach those three ...

Jimmy Argüelles-Jiménez, and Susana Macías-Hernández, and María de los Ángeles Rojas-Terán, and Vicencio de la Cruz-Francisco, and Consuelo Domínguez-Barradas

Los ambientes ribereños costeros son una fuente de alimento y refugio para una gran diversidad de aves. Por lo anterior, el presente estudio tuvo como objetivo determinar la diversidad, vulnerabilidad, hábitat, estacionalidad y conectividad de aves en cinco ambientes ribereños de Tuxpan, Veracruz. De diciembre de 2012 a octubre de 2014 se realizaron 912 transectos de 1 km de largo y 100 m de ancho en la ribera del río Tuxpan, la laguna de Tampamachoco, los esteros de Tumilco y Jácome, y en l...

Mok Helen OL, and Ng Patrick KS, and Kong Richard YC, and Chen Eric XH, and Yu Richard MK, and Au Doris WT

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Current understanding on the relationships between hypoxia, hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) and telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) gene expression are largely based on <it>in vitro </it>studies in human cancer cells. Although several reports demonstrated HIF-1- mediated upregulation of the human <it>TERT </it>gene under hypoxia, conflicting findings have also been reported. Thus far, it remains uncertain whether these findings can be directly extrapol...

Gustavo Henrique Zaia Alves

The invasion of non-native species that are phylogenetically similar to native species was observed in the Upper Paraná River following the construction of the Itaipu hydroelectric plant and subsequent removal of a natural geographic barrier (Sete Quedas Falls). Endemic fish species from the Lower Paraná River, such as the piranha Serrasalmus marginatus, successfully colonized the new environment. A few years later, S. marginatus had become the dominant species, while the prevalence of the conge...

Alfredo Damasceno-Oliveira, and José Gonçalves, and Joao Silva, and Begoña Fernández-Durán, and Joao Coimbra

A computer-controlled pressurising system enabling large aquatic organisms like marine fishes to be maintained for long periods is described. The paper presents a system that is capable not only of maintaining constant hydrostatic pressures but also of producing any desired cyclic variations of that parameter, allowing the close and reliable simulation of vertical migrations that many species of fishes and other aquatic animals perform during some stages of their life cycles.

H.-C. Jung, and B.-K. Moon, and J. Wie, and H.-S. Park, and J. Lee, and Y.-H. Byun

<p>Recently, Earth system models (ESMs) have begun to consider the marine ecosystem to reduce errors in climate simulations. However, many models are unable to fully represent the ocean-biology-induced climate feedback, which is due in part to significant bias in the simulated biogeochemical properties. Therefore, we developed the Generic Ocean Turbulence Model–Tracers of Phytoplankton with Allometric Zooplankton (GOTM–TOPAZ), a single-column ocean biogeochemistry model that can be used to impro...

Cristoforo Incorvaia, and Fulvia Paterniti, and Laura Pessina, and Roberta Caligiuri, and Franco Frati, and Mona-Rita Yacoub, and Gian Galeazzo Riario Sforza

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Takanori Oishi

Ethnoichthyology is a branch of ethnobiology that explores the relationships between humans and fish, including local ecological knowledge about ichtyofauna, capture processes and utilization of the catches. Because of the current bushmeat trade crisis, the aquatic resources in the Congo Basin rainforest are increasingly viewed has promising alternate resources and have recently drawn the attention of conservation and development agencies. Yet, more attention should be given to the social contex...

Eva María Valero Juan

In El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo the Andean perspective – this is, the mythical point of view -, focuses on Chimbote as an example of the Peruvian coastal cities which were undergoing important transformations since the middle of the 20th century. Chimbote becomes a crossroad representing the whole of Perú. In the coastal city, the two main races, Criole and Indigenous, come to live together due to the currents of migration arriving from the provinces. Arguedas appears as a novel writer...

Hélène Artaud

Émilie Mariat-Roy, and Christophe Sécula

S. L. Strother, and U. Salzmann, and F. Sangiorgi, and P. K. Bijl, and J. Pross, and C. Escutia, and A. Salabarnada, and M. J. Pound, and J. Voss, and J. Woodward

Antarctic palaeoclimate evolution and vegetation history after the formation of a continent-scale cryosphere at the Eocene–Oligocene boundary, 33.9 million years ago, has remained a matter of controversy. In particular, the reconstruction of terrestrial climate and vegetation has been strongly hampered by uncertainties in unambiguously identifying non-reworked as opposed to reworked sporomorphs that have been transported into Antarctic marine sedimentary records by waxing and waning ice sheets. ...

Giorgio Smaldone, and Raffaele Marrone, and Tiziana Zottola, and Lucia Vollano, and Giulio Grossi, and Maria Luisa Cortesi

Consumer is very careful about healthiness; in this context nutritionists often highlight the importance of fish for human nutrition because of their protein and fatty acid composition. In order to stimulate utilisation and consumption of fish species by unusual target groups such as children, the aim of this research was to formulate and to evaluate shelf-life and nutritional values of fish preparations stored in modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). Fish species used for trail were <em>Trachuru...

T. Foster, and P. L. Clode

Aragonite, which is the polymorph of CaCO₃ precipitated by modern corals during skeletal formation, has a higher solubility than the more stable polymorph calcite. This higher solubility may leave animals that produce aragonitic skeletons more vulnerable to anthropogenic ocean acidification. It is therefore important to determine whether scleractinian corals have the plasticity to adapt and produce calcite in their skeletons in response to changing environmental conditions. Both high ...

Mathilde Jeanbille, and Jérôme Gury, and Robert Duran, and Jacek Tronczynski, and Hélène Agogué, and Olfa Ben Saïd, and Olfa Ben Saïd, and Jean-François Ghiglione, and Jean-Christophe Auguet

Traditionally, microbial surveys investigating the effect of chronic anthropogenic pressure such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) contaminations consider just the alpha and beta diversity and ignore the interactions among the different taxa forming the microbial community. Here, we investigated the ecological relationships between the three domains of life (i.e. Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya) using 454 pyrosequencing data of the 16S rRNA and 18S rRNA genes from chronically impacted and pristi...

Maha T. Khalil, and Jessica Bouwmeester, and Michael L. Berumen

Local-scale ecological information is critical as a sound basis for spatial management and conservation and as support for ongoing research in relatively unstudied areas. We conducted visual surveys of fish and benthic communities on nine reefs (3–24 km from shore) in the Thuwal area of the central Saudi Arabian Red Sea. Fish biomass increased with increasing distance from shore, but was generally low compared to reefs experiencing minimal human influence around the world. All reefs had a herbiv...

M. Ličer, and P. Smerkol, and A. Fettich, and M. Ravdas, and A. Papapostolou, and A. Mantziafou, and B. Strajnar, and J. Cedilnik, and M. Jeromel, and J. Jerman, and S. Petan, and V. Malačič, and S. Sofianos

We have studied the performances of (a) a two-way coupled atmosphere–ocean modeling system and (b) one-way coupled ocean model (forced by the atmosphere model), as compared to the available in situ measurements during and after a strong Adriatic bora wind event in February 2012, which led to extreme air–sea interactions. The simulations span the period between January and March 2012. The models used were ALADIN (Aire Limitée Adaptation dynamique Développement InterNational) (4.4 km resolution) o...

Paul Watts, and Eduardo Macose, and Eusebio Angara, and Marivic Pajaro

The world is facing a depletion of marine resources that threatens entire cultures and endangers the very life of the planet. Reports indicate that over 80 per cent of world fish stocks are heavily exploited or depleted, yet close to 200 million people continue to depend on the fishery for livelihood (FAO 2008). The vast geographical range of many marine fish populations calls for public participation, communication and coordination on a large scale. The need for public participation is particul...

F. C. Bassinot, and C. Marzin, and P. Braconnot, and O. Marti, and E. Mathien-Blard, and F. Lombard, and L. Bopp

The relative abundance of <i>Globigerinoides bulloides</i> was used to infer Holocene paleo-productivity changes on the Oman margin and at the southern tip of India. Today, the primary productivity at both sites reaches its maximum during the summer season, when monsoon winds result in local Eckman pumping, which brings more nutrients to the surface. On a millennium time-scale, however, the % <i>G. bulloides</i> records indicate an opposite evolution of paleo-productivity at these sites through ...

Suntinanalert, P., and Kantachote, D., and Rattanachuay, P.

Five isolates of bacteria with high proteolytic activity, isolated from water samples of intensive shrimp ponds in southern Thailand, were selected to test for the ability to control the shrimp pathogen Vibrioharveyi. 70 μl of each culture broth were investigated for their ability to inhibit V. harveyi using an agar well diffusion test but only one isolate W3 gave a reasonable sized inhibition zone of 21.62 mm. This zone wassimilar to that of oxolinic acid (2 μg) and sulfamethoxazole (25 μg). Th...

Stavrescu-Bedivan M.M., and Popa O.P., and Popa L.O.

In this study we analyzed comparatively the host-parasite associations between two fish host species invasive in Europe (Lepomis gibbosus and Pseudorasbora parva) and one known generalist parasite species, the copepod Lernaea cyprinacea. We used a fragment of the hypervariable region D1-D2 of the 28S rRNA to confirm that the copepod specimens collected on both host species in our study are indeed conspecific. The prevalence of infectio...

Maria de los Angeles Perez Lizama, and Ricardo Massato Takemoto, and Maria José Tavares Ranzani-Paiva, and Luis Marques da Silva Ayroza, and Gilberto Cezar Pavanelli

Um total de 90 espécimes de Oreochromis niloticus foi coletado bimestralmente entre os meses de fevereiro a dezembro de 2004, em três pisciculturas do Estado de São Paulo. Do total, 82,2% estavam parasitados por pelo menos uma espécie de parasito. Os parâmetros físicos e químicos da água foram utilizados para caracterizar a qualidade da água em cada propriedade. Sete espécies de ectoparasitos foram registradas. Foi possível observar que as pisciculturas apresentam a mesma parasitofauna, porém ca...

Muhammad Zarul Hanifah Md Zoqratt, and Wilhelm Wei Han Eng, and Binh Thanh Thai, and Christopher M. Austin, and Han Ming Gan

Aquaculture production of the Pacific white shrimp is the largest in the world for crustacean species. Crucial to the sustainable global production of this important seafood species is a fundamental understanding of the shrimp gut microbiota and its relationship to the microbial ecology of shrimp pond. This is especially true, given the recently recognized role of beneficial microbes in promoting shrimp nutrient intake and in conferring resistance against pathogens. Unfortunately, aquaculture-re...

Santosh S Gupta, and Shailendra M Maheshwari, and Urvashi R Shah, and Rose Dawn Bharath, and Natasha Singh Dawra, and Madhuri Shimpi Mahajan, and Aishani Desai, and Arvind Prajapati, and Mangesh Ghodke

Background & objectives: Some studies have systematically assessed the effects of spiritual practice (SP) on the brain using combined neuropsychological testing and functional imaging. The objective of the present study was to compare imaging and neuropsychological changes in healthy individuals after SP and those with only physical exercise. Methods: Healthy adult male volunteers, aged 25-45 yr were randomized into two groups. Group 1 (SP group) underwent the SP and group 2 (controls) did brisk...

Kabir Sardana, and Ananta Khurana, and Ajeet Singh, and R K Gautam

Background: Itraconazole (ITZ) is widely used for cutaneous and systemic mycoses. Its bioavailability is inconsistent and shows interindividual variations. The quality of ITZ pellets is an important factor determining its absorption profile and thereby the therapeutic effect. Analysis of morphometric characteristics is a surrogate method to determine the same. Pellet number and size are the most important parameters in this regard. Aim: We aimed to delineate few low-cost brands, the assessed var...

Mithad Kozličić

This article deals with the most important characteristics of historical mapping of the Adriatic region, particularly its eastern part and genesis of the pilot books. Both is observed in the context of the fact that the sea was the shortest, easiest and cheapest transport route which connected Europe with Asia and Africa.