S. KATSANEVAKIS, and D. POURSANIDIS, and Y. ISSARIS, and A. PANOU, and D. PETZA, and V. VASSILOPOULOU, and I. CHALDAIOU, and M. SINI

International agreements as well as European and national legislation prohibit exploitation and trading of a number of edible marine shelled molluscs, due to either significant declines in their populations or destructive fishing practices. However, enforcement of existing legislation in Greece is ineffective and many populations of “protected” species continue to decline, mainly due to poaching. The extent of illegal trading of protected bivalves and gastropods in Greek seafood restaurants was ...

Md. Saiful Islam, and Md. Habibullah-Al-Mamun

Sediments and tissues of eleven fish species (<em>Channa punctata</em>, <em>Cyprinus carpio</em>, <em>Heteropneustes fossilis</em>, <em>Colisa fasciata</em>, <em>Channa striata</em>, <em>Notopterus notopterus</em>, <em>Tenualosa ilisha</em> and <em>Corica soborna</em>) were analyzed for (chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb)). The abundance of trace elements in sediments were Cr > Ni > Cu > Pb > As > Cd and in fish species were Cu > Ni > Cr > Pb > As >...

C. Schlundt, and C. Schlundt, and S. Tegtmeier, and S. T. Lennartz, and A. Bracher, and A. Bracher, and W. Cheah, and W. Cheah, and K. Krüger, and B. Quack, and C. A. Marandino

A suite of oxygenated volatile organic compounds (OVOCs – acetaldehyde, acetone, propanal, butanal and butanone) were measured concurrently in the surface water and atmosphere of the South China Sea and Sulu Sea in November 2011. A strong correlation was observed between all OVOC concentrations in the surface seawater along the entire cruise track, except for acetaldehyde, suggesting similar sources and sinks in the surface ocean. Additionally, several phytoplankton groups, such as haptoph...

Nicole de Castro Pereira, and Maria do Carmo de Lima Bezerra

Technological innovation is the successful introduction of technological change in the society. The productive chain of Civil Construction industry plays an important role in the economy and in social development. However, beyond causing negative impact in the environment, the main product of its chain is resulted of a complex production process which involves a great number of agents, making it difficult any technological change in the process. The adobe produced with aquatic plants is a new te...

Xiao-xu Du, and Huan Wang, and Cheng-zhi Hao, and Xin-liang Li

The accurate research on the hydrodynamics of unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), which moves close to the sea bottom, has a great significance for its maneuverability. The structured grid of the computational models with different distances to the sea bottom and attack angles is generated by Ansys ICEM, and the flow field near the sea bottom is simulated using CFX. The characteristics of the drag, lift, pitching moment influenced by the distance to sea bottom and the attack angle are studied. Th...

Lauren E. Eckert, and Natalie C. Ban, and Snxakila-Clyde Tallio, and Nancy Turner

Continuity of coastal Indigenous cultures relies on healthy ecosystems and opportunity to fulfill cultural practices. Owing to resource stewardship practice over millennia, Indigenous nations possess Indigenous knowledge that positions them as leaders in contemporary resource management. However, Indigenous peoples possibly face social-ecological traps, situations in which feedbacks between social and ecological systems result in an undesirable state, that are challenging to overcome. Centuries ...

Monica E. Mulrennan, and Véronique Bussières

Cultural edges, as sites of encounter and interaction between two or more cultural groups, tend to result in increased access to knowledge, skills, and material goods. First proposed more than a decade ago as an elaboration of the ecological edge concept, we suggest that cultural edges merit closer attention, particularly in relation to the complex histories and diverse processes of interaction indigenous communities have had with outsiders, including settlers and other indigenous groups. Our an...

Steven M. Cole, and Cynthia McDougall, and Alexander M. Kaminski, and Alexander S. Kefi, and Alex Chilala, and Gethings Chisule

The Barotse Floodplain fishery is an important source of livelihood for economically poor women and men in western Zambia. Current efforts by the Department of Fisheries and the traditional authority to manage the fishery can be characterized as weak. The use of unsustainable fishing practices and overfishing are pervasive. Drawing on resilience thinking, we examine the extent to which the existing fishery-dependent livelihood context represents a social-ecological trap, i.e., a process in which...

C. M. Frantz, and C. M. Frantz, and B. Light, and S. M. Farley, and S. Carpenter, and R. Lieblappen, and R. Lieblappen, and Z. Courville, and M. V. Orellana, and M. V. Orellana, and K. Junge

<p>Field investigations of the properties of heavily melted “rotten” Arctic sea ice were carried out on shorefast and drifting ice off the coast of Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska, during the melt season. While no formal criteria exist to qualify when ice becomes rotten, the objective of this study was to sample melting ice at the point at which its structural and optical properties are sufficiently advanced beyond the peak of the summer season. Baseline data on the physical (temperature, sa...

L. Cavaleri, and L. Bertotti, and P. Pezzutto

<p>We carry out an inter-comparison of four different altimeters: Cryosat, Jason-2, Jason-3, and Sentinel-3. This inter-comparison is undertaken by checking the altimeter data against the wind and wave model results of a given area, the Mediterranean Sea, for a 1-year period. The four data sets are consistent for wind speed, but they show substantial differences with respect to wave heights. The verification of a Sentinel-3 pass close to the coast in the northern Adriatic Sea shows irregular, sp...

Brian Edward Miller, and Angel Lopez-Candales

Background: The ischemic cascade has long been known to begin with diastolic dysfunction before detectable systolic abnormalities. The advent of speckle-tracking imaging and velocity vector imaging (VVI) has provided accurate and reproducible interpretation of systolic abnormalities in numerous disease processes; however, this imaging tool has been only recently been proposed for detecting diastolic abnormalities. Methods: We analyzed pre and poststress echocardiography images of ten patients us...

U.S. Kruglyakova, and O.V. Bagryantseva, and A.D. Evstratova, and A.D. Malinkin, and I.V. Gmoshinskii, and S.A. Khotimchenko

The performed research is truly vital, as As (arsenic) concentration in food products is now of great interest. The US ATSDR and EPA enlist As among the most toxic substances which are dangerous for human health. We suggest a procedure for separate quantitative mass fraction determination for organic (oAs) and non-organic (iAs) arsenic compounds in sea products with solid phase extraction (SPE) application combined with atomic adsorption spectrometry. Samples were prepared according to the fo...

Mohammed Barznji Dana A.

Phytoremediation or green technology is counted among the successful and effective biological contaminated water treatment techniques. Basically, the concept of this green, cost-effective, simple, environmentally nondisruptive method consists in using plants and microbiological processes to reduce contaminants in the ecosystem. Different species from aquatic plants (emerged, free-floating, and submerged) have been studied to mitigate toxic contaminants such as arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper,...

Nahhas F., and Sey O., and Nakahara G.

Lenarczyk Joanna, and Wołowski Konrad

This study examined wall ultrastructure variability in the microscopic green alga Pediastrum s.l. Its value as a diagnostic character is discussed. Field and cultured material of 21 taxa were compared using light and scanning electron microscopy. Nine ultrastructural elements occurring on the surface of Pediastrum are documented with LM and SEM micrographs. The highest number of taxa showed reticulate ornamentation composed of a trigonal mesh and granules situated on its corners. The paper consi...

Anderson-Hanley C, and Stark J, and Wall KM, and VanBrakle M, and Michel M, and Maloney M, and Barcelos N, and Striegnitz K, and Cohen BD, and Kramer AF

Cay Anderson-Hanley,1 Jessica Stark,1 Kathryn M Wall,1 Marisa VanBrakle,1 Makenzie Michel,1 Molly Maloney,1 Nicole Barcelos,1 Kristina Striegnitz,2 Brian D Cohen,3 Arthur F Kramer4 1Healthy Aging &amp; Neuropsychology Lab, Department of Psychology &amp; Neuroscience Program, Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA; 2Computer Science Department &amp; Neuroscience Program, Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA; 3Biology Department, Union College, Schenectady, NY, USA; 4Center for Cognitive &amp; Brain ...

Rafaella Egues da Rosa, and William Héctor Gómez Soto

Os autores analisam o conflito socioambiental protagonizado pela empresa de construção de plataformas offshore Quip S/A e os pescadores do bairro Santa Tereza na cidade de Rio Grande, RS. Além da consulta de fontes secundárias, realizaram-se entrevistas com os pescadores da comunidade. A partir da teoria lefebvriana do espaço social, foi possível mostrar que os denominados conflitos socioambientais são expressão das contradições do espaço social e que, muitas vezes, esse caráter fica oculto no d...

Mohammadreza Imanpour, and Vahid Taghizadeh, and Ali Khodadoust, and Zahra Roohi

Sex steroid hormones play important roles in many physiological processes, particularly in the reproduction of teleostei. Therefore, study of steroid hormones in fish is one of the important indicators of reproductive biology. In the present research, serum steroid hormones such as testosterone (T), 17β-estradiol (E2) and progesterone (P) in Esox lucius brood stocks, during one year, from autumn 2010 to summer 2011, in five periods (autumn, first half of winter, second half of winter, spring and...

Rezaei M, and Valiee S, and Tahan M, and Ebtekar F, and Ghanei Gheshlagh R

Mehdi Rezaei,1 Sina Valiee,2 Mohammad Tahan,3 Fariba Ebtekar,4 Reza Ghanei Gheshlagh21Department of Social Sciences, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran; 2Clinical Care Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran; 3Young Researchers and Elite Club, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran; 4Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, IranBackground: Patients with type-2 diabetes h...

Zhen-zhong FANG, and Ming SONG, and Ya-zhuo ZHANG

Objective To summarize clinical experience of endoscopic transnasal surgery for treatment of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea. Methods From April 2011 to August 2018, 24 cases of CSF rhinorrhea patients were treated by endoscopic transnasal surgery. There were 11 (45.83%) iatrogenic injuries caused by transcranial microsurgical resection of craniopharyngioma (6 cases), endoscopic transnasal surgery for resection of pituitary adenoma (4 cases), or endoscopic transnasal surgery for optic canal...

Brendan P. Kelaher, and Andrew Page, and Matt Dasey, and David Maguire, and Andrew Read, and Alan Jordan, and Melinda A. Coleman

Marine sanctuaries are areas where the extraction of biota is not permitted. Although most marine sanctuaries have a positive influence on biotic communities, not all sanctuaries are meeting their conservation objectives. Amidst possible explanations (e.g., size, age and isolation), insufficient enforcement is often speculated to be a key driver of marine sanctuary underperformance. Despite this, there are few studies directly linking quantitative enforcement data to changes in biotic communitie...

Iwona Wrobel

The Arctic Ocean (AO) is an important basin for global oceanic carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake, but the mechanisms controlling air–sea gas fluxes are not fully understood, especially over short and long timescales. The oceanic sink of CO2 is an important part of the global carbon budget. Previous studies have shown that in the AO differences in the partial pressure of CO2 (ΔpCO2) and gas transfer velocity (k) both contribute significantly to interannual air–sea CO2 flux variability, but that k is un...

Ineke eVan Der Ham, and Annemarie eFaber, and Matthijs eVenselaar, and Marc evan Kreveld, and Maarten eLoffler

Route memory is frequently assessed in virtual environments. These environments can be presented in a fully controlled manner and are easy to use. Yet they lack the physical involvement that participants have when navigating real environments. For some aspects of route memory this may result in reduced performance in virtual environments. We assessed route memory performance in four different environments: real, virtual, virtual with directional information (compass), and hybrid. In the hybrid e...

Eyal eRahav, and Edo eBar-Zeev, and Sarah eOhayion, and Hila eElifantz, and Natalia eBelkin, and Barak eHerut, and Margaret R. Mulholland, and Ilana R Berman-Frank

We measured N2 fixation rates from oceanic zones that have traditionally been ignored as sources of biological N2 fixation; the aphotic, fully oxygenated, nitrate (NO3-)-rich, waters of the oligotrophic Levantine Basin (LB) and the Gulf of Aqaba (GA). N2 fixation rates measured from pelagic aphotic waters to depths up to 720 m, during the mixed and stratified periods, ranged from 0.01 nmol N L-1 d-1 to 0.38 nmol N L-1 d-1. N2 fixation rates correlated significantly with bacterial productivity a...

L. Vollmer, and L. Vollmer, and G. Steinfeld, and M. Kühn

The estimation of the cost of energy of offshore wind farms has a high uncertainty, which is partly due to the lacking accuracy of information on wind conditions and wake losses inside of the farm. Wake models that aim to reduce the uncertainty by modeling the wake interaction of turbines for various wind conditions need to be validated with measurement data before they can be considered as a reliable estimator. In this paper a methodology that enables a direct comparison of modeled with m...

Yazdan Keivany, and Mazaher Zamani-Faradonbe

The present study reports Length-weight and length-length parameters for six fish species belonging to four families from the Zohreh River. The weight-length relationships were estimated using the equation W= ????Lb. The values of the slope parameter (b) varied between 2.72 and 3.72, with a mean±SD of 3.015±0.18. The values b parameter in the length-weight relationship equations were calculated as 2.72 for Arabibarbus grypus (Heckel, 1843), 2.96 for Capoeta trutta (Heckel, 1843), 2.72 for Garra ...

Ali Movahed, and Abdol Vahid Dehghan, and Reza Haji Hosseini, and Samad Akbarzadeh, and Abbas Ali Zendehboudi, and Mahmood Nafisi Behabadi, and Najmeh Hajian, and Farhad Pakdel, and Ali Hefzulla, and Dariush Iranpour

Background: The occumulation of heavy metals which are as the results of industrial, urban and agricultural sewages are usually resistant to chemical dissociation. They can easily contaminate aquatic animals especially shrimps which are one of the food chains of humans. The aim of this study was to evaluate the concentration of heavy metals in the tissues of different types of shrimps (wild and farmed) in the sea waters of province of Bushehr (Persian Gulf). Material and Methods: Wild shrimps fr...

Melinda L. Jackson, and Henry Butt, and Michelle Ball, and Donald P. Lewis, and Dorothy Bruck

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a multisystem illness, which may be associated with imbalances in gut microbiota. This study builds on recent evidence that sleep may be influenced by gut microbiota, by assessing whether changes to microbiota in a clinical population known to have both poor sleep and high rates of colonization with gram-positive faecal Streptococcus, can improve sleep. Twenty-one CFS participants completed a 22- day open label trial. Faecal microbiota analysis was performed at ...

Jan NOVÁK, and Gabriela BASAŘOVÁ, and Jaromír FIALA

The objective of this work was to study the cell cycle of three strains of lager yeast in relation to the number of elevated cells in wort and utilization of main wort sugars.Yeast strains No. 2, 7 and 95 (marked in accordance with RIBM 655 - Culture Collection of Brewing Yeasts) were used in the study. The experiments were carried out in pilot plant scale fermenter at the temperature of 13 °C. The original gravity of wort was 12 % and the malt in grist was partly substituted by unmalted barley....

Bolla Margareth E., and Bella Rossy A., and Nomleni Aprianto, and Yuliaty Tungga Desy

The mode of transportation that travels from Kupang City to Rote Ndao Regency is currently a mode of sea transportation and air transportation. This study aims to find out user information based on its mode choices and model it in the multinomial log function, besides that it's hoped that this result can be used as a reference in determining policies that improve functions and facilities for mobilizing people, goods and services carried out on the Kupang to Rote.Data analysis was carried out in ...

Ali ABEROUMAND, and Soghra ABOUALI

Seafood, in addition to having a valuable and high-protein, are rich in various types of nutrients and suitable amounts of vitamins and minerals, but also has a small amount of fat and cholesterol. If we eat more fishes and other seafood in our diet, our health is better and the percentage of our disease is the lower. The main aim of this research was to determine and analyze the amount of seafood used in the Hanijan city. Survey method was used to achieve the research goals and the main tool wa...

Sri Esa Ilona, and Aris Cahyono, and Endra Yustin Ellistasari, and Harijono Kariosentono

Background: Cajuputi/Cajeput/Melalueca leucadendron oil is a type of essential oil, widely known and used by Indonesian for infants, children, and elderly. It is also included in telon oil compositions (±42%). Excessive application of cajeput oil and telon oil may lead to skin irritation. Methods: This randomized single-blind control trial was conducted with 10 subjects who met the inclusion criteria. Four areas with diameter of 10 mm each were made on the flexor surface of the upper arm. Are...

Yu. Kvach

The species composition and number of fishes were studied in the northern the part of the Gulf of Odessa an hour before the dawn, during the dawn, and two hour after dawn. Among 47 fish species recorded in the Gulf of Odessa [3], we have recorded 28 species during 2011–2014, which makes 60 % of its recent fish fauna. The maximal species number observed in 2014 (25 species), and the minimal one was in 2012 (9 species). Two fish species, the Prussian carp (Carassius gibelio) and the redlip mullet ...

L. V. Gorobets, and O. M. Kovalchuk, and Yu. L. Pshenichny

Results of the study of bird and fish remains which were found during the excavations of 16th century layers in Dubno castle (Rivne region, Ukraine) are presented in this paper. These remains are belonging to four fish species (perch, pike, roach, indeterminate carp fish) and eight bird taxa (mallard, northern shoveler, capercaillie, black grouse, partridge, pigeon (possibly stock dove), chicken, goose (posible domestic)). The role of birds in life of people has changed at that time as it was sh...

Subramanian Senthilkumaran, and Ramachandran Meenakshisundaram, and Andrew D Michaels, and Ponnuswamy Suresh, and Ponniah Thirumalaikolundusubramanian

Ciguatera fish poisoning occurs with ingestion of fish containing ciguatoxin. It causes a clinical syndrome that comprises classic gastrointestinal, neurological and cardiovascular symptoms. Ciguatoxin is a sodium channel agonist with cholinergic and adrenergic activity. Although cardiovascular symptoms are rare with ciguatoxin, we report two cases with bradycardia and hypotension. Fatality and long-term sequelae are not uncommon with ciguatoxin poisoning and educating the general population is ...

Stalin Selvaraj, and Sampathkumar Palanisamy

The present study evaluated the hypoglycemic effect of brown algae Sargassum longiotom in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. After the treatment with S. longiotom extract, there is a significant reduction (p<0.001) in blood glucose when compared with the diabetic control group. Moreover the ethanolic extract of S. longiotom significantly reduces (p<0.001) the levels of   triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol dose dependent manner. Alternativ...

Marke Hongisto

The impact of ship traffic emissions in the Baltic Sea on deposition and airborne concentrations of nitrogen and sulphur compounds in the period 2008–2011 was studied using the Hilatar chemistry transport model with a 0.068° latitude-longitude resolution. An accurate ship emission inventory based on AIS (automatic identification system) security signals was used. The uncertainty of the European emission inventories are discussed, as is an inter-comparison of the Baltic Sea airborne load and conc...

José Carlos Silva, and Eduardo Antonio Bolla Jr, and Rafael de Rocco Gomes, and Gustavo Monteiro Teixeira, and Adilson Fransozo

<p>Callinectes ornatus (Ordway, 1863), <em>Arenaeus cribrarius</em> (Lamarck, 1818) e <em>Leurocyclus tuberculosus </em>(H. Milne Edwards &amp; Lucas, 1843). As coletas foram realizadas por meio de arrastos camaroneiros em julho de 2008, agosto e outubro de 2009, na região de Ubatuba, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. As anormalidades apresentadas no corpo dos caranguejos encontravam-se no dáctilo do quelípodo (<em>C. ornatus</em> macho adulto), defeitos na carapaça (<em>A. cribrarius</em> macho adul...

Erica M. Leung, and Melvin Colorado Escobar, and George T. Stiubianu, and Steven R. Jim, and Alexandra L. Vyatskikh, and Zhijing Feng, and Nicholas Garner, and Priyam Patel, and Kyle L. Naughton, and Maurizio Follador, and Emil Karshalev, and Matthew D. Trexler, and Alon A. Gorodetsky

Thermoregulatory platforms that combine the advantages of passive and active thermal management systems have remained elusive. Here, the authors draw inspiration from the static infrared-reflecting space blanket and dynamic color-changing squid skin to develop a composite material that addresses this challenge.

C.-Elisa Schaum, and A. Buckling, and N. Smirnoff, and D. J. Studholme, and G. Yvon-Durocher

A better mechanistic understanding of how marine diatoms adapt to global warming is pertinent to project changes in global ocean primary production. Here, Schaum et al. show substantial phenotypic and genomic changes in Thalassiosira pseudonana during a 300-generation selection experiment in stable and fluctuating environments.

András Szilvay, and Orsolya Somogyi, and Attiláné Meskó, and Romána Zelkó, and Balázs Hankó

Abstract Background Pharmaceutical care is the pharmacist’s contribution to the care of individuals to optimize medicines use and improve health outcomes. The primary tool of pharmaceutical care is medication review. Defining and classifying Drug-Related Problems (DRPs) is an essential pillar of the medication review. Our objectives were to perform a pilot of medication review in Hungarian community pharmacies, a DRP classification was applied for the first time. Also, our goal was the qualitati...

Francesco Marchesi, and Giulia Regazzo, and Francesca Palombi, and Irene Terrenato, and Andrea Sacconi, and Manuela Spagnuolo, and Sara Donzelli, and Mirella Marino, and Cristiana Ercolani, and Anna Di Benedetto, and Giovanni Blandino, and Gennaro Ciliberto, and Andrea Mengarelli, and Maria Giulia Rizzo

Abstract Background Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a heterogeneous group of tumors, with aggressive clinical course that renders prognostication and choice of treatment strategy difficult. Chemo-immunotherapy with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone (R-CHOP) is the current first-line treatment. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are under investigation as novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in several malignancies, including malignant lymphomas. While tissue miRNAs...

Rozenn Thomas, and Stéphan Jacquet, and Nigel Grimsley, and Hervé Moreau

Surviving viral attack is essential for any species to avoid its irreversible removal from the ecosystem, and microbes must involve the resistance or susceptibility of individual cells. The co-existence between viruses and their hosts has led to the evolution of complex viral attack and host defence strategies. We review the state of the art about our understanding of resistance to viruses in aquatic eukaryotic photosynthetic microorganisms for which no synthesis has been provided yet, with comp...

Yoshikazu Ohno, and Akira Iguchi, and Chuya Shinzato, and Mikako Gushi, and Mayuri Inoue, and Atsushi Suzuki, and Kazuhiko Sakai, and Takashi Nakamura

Calcification processes are largely unknown in scleractinian corals. In this study, live confocal imaging was used to elucidate the spatiotemporal dynamics of the calcification process in aposymbiotic primary polyps of the coral species Acropora digitifera. The fluorophore calcein was used as a calcium deposition marker and a visible indicator of extracellular fluid distribution at the tissue-skeleton interface (subcalicoblastic medium, SCM) in primary polyp tissues. Under continuous incubation ...

David Fink, and Kate Houston

Falls in older adults are a significant public health issue and a particularly significant health risk in Minnesota. With accumulating research evidence suggesting that falls can be prevented through exercise, there is an increased public health effort among organizations serving older adults to translate and disseminate evidence-based programs into the community. Such efforts, however, face additional challenges if they are implemented in communities with older adults from different cultural ba...

R. Marsh, and V. O. Ivchenko, and N. Skliris, and S. Alderson, and G. R. Bigg, and G. Madec, and A. T. Blaker, and Y. Aksenov, and B. Sinha, and A. C. Coward, and J. Le Sommer, and N. Merino, and V. B. Zalesny

An established iceberg module, ICB, is used interactively with the Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean (NEMO) ocean model in a new implementation, NEMO–ICB (v1.0). A 30-year hindcast (1976–2005) simulation with an eddy-permitting (0.25°) global configuration of NEMO–ICB is undertaken to evaluate the influence of icebergs on sea ice, hydrography, mixed layer depths (MLDs), and ocean currents, through comparison with a control simulation in which the equivalent iceberg mass flux is applied...

Nomfundo F. Moroe, and Katijah Khoza-Shangase

Background: Few South African studies have been published on the impact of tinnitus on quality of life of tinnitus sufferers, although evidence suggests that a large portion of the general population suffers from tinnitus. Objectives: The current study aimed at describing the effects of tinnitus on the quality of life of the participants as measured by the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI). Method: In a cross-sectional descriptive study design, 27 participants took part in the study by completi...

Marón Adolfo, and Kapsenberg Geert

Large size ships have a very flexible construction resulting in low resonance frequencies of the structural eigen-modes. This feature increases the dynamic response of the structure on short period waves (springing) and on impulsive wave loads (whipping). This dynamic response in its turn increases both the fatigue damage and the ultimate load on the structure; these aspects illustrate the importance of including the dynamic response into the design loads for these ship types. Experiments have b...

I. A. Wendl, and A. Eichler, and E. Isaksson, and T. Martma, and M. Schwikowski

We present the records of the two nitrogen species nitrate (NO₃^-) and ammonium (NH₄⁺) analysed in a new ice core from Lomonosovfonna, Svalbard, in the Eurasian Arctic covering the period 1222–2009. Changes in melt at the Lomonosovfonna glacier are assumed to have a negligible effect on the decadal variations of the investigated compounds. Accordingly, we use decadal records to investigate the major emission sources of NO₃^- and NH<...

Leontine E. Becking, and Christiaan A. de Leeuw, and Bram Knegt, and Diede L. Maas, and Nicole J. de Voogd, and Abdunnur, and Iwan Suyatna, and Katja T.C.A. Peijnenburg

Marine lakes, with populations in landlocked seawater and clearly delineated contours, have the potential to provide a unique model to study early stages of evolution in coastal marine taxa. Here we ask whether populations of the mussel Brachidontes from marine lakes in Berau, East Kalimantan (Indonesia) are isolated from each other and from the coastal mangrove systems. We analyzed sequence data of one mitochondrial marker (Cytochrome Oxidase I (COI)), and two nuclear markers (18S and 28S). In ...