S Patnaik

A contribution to the fishery and biology of Chilka sahal, Eleutheronema tetradactylum (Shaw)

Guilherme Henrique Pereira-Filho, and Gilberto Menezes Amado-Filho, and Silvia M. P. B. Guimarães, and Rodrigo L. Moura, and Paulo Y. G. Sumida, and Douglas P. Abrantes, and Ricardo G. Bahia, and Arthur Z. Güth, and Renato R. Jorge, and Ronaldo Bastos Francini Filho

The Trindade and Martin Vaz island group (TMVIG) is located at about 1,120 km off the Brazilian coast. Despite its importance, highlighted by the presence of several endemic fish species, the TMVIG lacks detailed information on the structure of fish and benthic assemblages. Presented here is the first quantitative assessment of reef fish and benthic assemblages of the TMVIG in a depth gradient ranging from 5 to 45 m. Additional qualitative information on reef assemblages between 45 and 100 m was...

Julien Jarry, and Vien Nguyen, and Adeline Stoltz, and Marc Imperato, and Philippe Michel

We report an unusual case of pyogenic, hepatic abscess caused by fish bone penetration of the duodenum in a 68-year-old woman. The fish bone had migrated into the liver through the duodenal wall. The patient was initially admitted to our emergency room with abdominal pain, fever, and asthenia. A contrastenhanced abdominal coputed tomography (CT) scan showed a hepatic abscess in relation with a straight, foreign body, which had entered through the duodenal wall. Surgery was necessary to remove th...

Nookala Supraja, and T.N.V.K.V. Prasad, and Arumugam Dhanesh Gandhi, and Devipriya Anbumani, and P. Kavitha, and Ranganathan Babujanarthanam

Alstonia scholaris is one of the most important medicinal plants and herein, we present the synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles using the bark extract of Alstonia scholaris, and evaluation of their antimicrobial efficacy. Stable ZnO nanoparticles were formed by treating 90 mL of 1 mM zinc nitrate aqueous solution with 10 mL of 10% bark extract. The formation of Alstonia scholaris bark extract mediated zinc oxide nanoparticles was confirmed by UV–visible spectroscopic analysis and recorded the ...

Amalia Castaldi, and Gaspare Guerrieri

The authors studied for six years the effects of tree thinning and of undergrowth control in a coastal pinewood of Central Italy. The changes induced by cultivation activities have caused a significant contraction of richness abundance and diversity, not counterbalanced after 4 years from interventions. The species mostly affected are: Hoopoe, Upupa epops, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Dendrocopos major, Little Spotted Woodpecker, Dendrocopos minor, Short-toed Tree Creeper, Certhia brachydactyla, Fi...

José Marcos García Isaac, and Carmen Idáñez Vicente

El objetivo principal del presente artículo es dar a conocer y publicar un proceso judicial inédito, desgraciadamente incompleto, referente a una investigación realizada por Juan Rodríguez de Salamanca, doctor en leyes, contra Gonzalo Pérez de Herrera, patrón de una galera armada en Santander en 1388. Sobre este último, tras haber recibido cierta cantidad de dinero del rey Juan I de Castilla para armar la nave, recayó la sospecha de no haber enrolado el número mínimo de tripulantes que precisaba...

Mehdi Kargarfard, and Mehdi Dehghani, and Ahmad Heidari

Introduction: Muscle-Skeletal disorders are the most common problems in hemophilia patients that can affect the quality of life and psychological factors in these patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of a period of aquatic exercise therapy on the quality of life, depression and anxiety in hemophilia patients. Materials and Methods: In a semi-experimental study, 20 patients who referred to Isfahan Sayedo-Shohada hospital voluntarily were selected and then randomly in two e...

Pushparaj Arunachalam, and Ramesh Uthandakalai, and Raubbin rajsmaill

Objective: To investigate the antimicrobial activity of the selected marine green algae Ulva lactuca (U. lactuca), Cheatomorpha linoides and Helimeda macroloba against six strains of Gram-positive bacteria [Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), Bacillus subtilis and Lactobacillus acidophilus (L. acidophilus)] and Gram-negative bacteria [Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) and Proteus mirabilis]. Methods: The selected green seaweed extracts were experimented with four ...

Jignesh Kanejiya, and Devendra Solanki, and Imtiyaz Beleem, and Bharatsinh Gohil

Coastal areas of Bhavnagar district harbors wide range of ichthyofaunal diversity and diverse fisheries resources. The fishermen in this area use wide range of fishing methods and gears, which evolved traditionally and being adept extensively in Bhavnagar coastline. Livelihood of these fishermen is almost entirely depends on mudskipper fishing and they employ three types of fishing methods to catch them i.e. direct catch through digging the burrow, stick traps around mudskipper holes, and by nyl...

S. Georgieva, and M. Stancheva

Abstract. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are characterized by high lipophilicity and persistence in the environment and will therefore bioaccumulate and biomagnify in the food chain. PCBs were determined in muscle tissue of four fish species: goby (Neogobius melanostomus), horse mackerel (Trachurus Mediterraneus ponticus), shad (Alosa pontica pontica) and turbot (Psetta maxima maeotica). Samples were collected from Bulgarian Black Sea coast during 2007 – 2011. The PCBs were analyzed in orde...

B. KOZLOWSKY-SUZUKI, and R. L. BOZELLI

Non-treated sewage disposal is one of the main impacts to which Imboassica Lagoon has been subjected. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of a potential increase in the artificial enrichment on the environmental conditions and zooplankton of this system. To this end, an experimental study was conducted in mesocosms where nutrients were added daily. Bacterial numbers, chlorophyll-a, and picoplanktonic cyanobacteria densities showed an increase with the availability of nutrients. Bact...

Siri A, and Del Puente G, and Martini M, and Bragazzi NL

Anna Siri,1 Giovanni Del Puente,2 Mariano Martini,3 Nicola Luigi Bragazzi1–3 1Department of Mathematics (DIMA), 2Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation (DINOGMI), 3Section of History of Medicine and Ethics, Department of Health Sciences (DISSAL), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy Abstract: Creativity is an ability that plays a major role in the modern economy and society. It should represent an important component of the medical syllabus. However, it is often overlooked by the for...

Maria Thereza Ávila Dantas Coelho, and Naomar de Almeida Filho

Este estudo investiga signos, significados e práticas relacionados à normalidade e saúde mental numa área do litoral norte da Bahia, Brasil. Discute concepções locais sobre a inexistência e existência exclusiva da normalidade mental, assim como os diversos pontos de vista sobre a normalidade mental total. Identifica protótipos de normalidade, como "pessoa normal", "quase normal" e "falso normal", bem como signos que permitem reconhecer uma pessoa como mentalmente normal. Revela valores e conceit...

Lidia Dzierzbicka-Głowacka

This work presents numerical simulations of the time-dependent verticaldistributions of phytoplankton, microzooplankton, <i>Pseudocalanus elongatus</i>,early juvenile herring (<i>Clupea harengus</i>) and two nutrient components(total inorganic nitrogen and phosphate) using the 1<i>D</i>-Coupled EcosystemModel with a high-resolution mesozooplankton (herbivorous copepods) module for<i>P. elongatus</i> and a simple prey-predator model for earlyjuvenile herring <i>C. harengus</i>. This model was dis...

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

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

Nicolle C Ferreira, and Andrea S Freire

On the southern Brazilian coast, the penaeid pink shrimp Farfantepenaeus paulensis (Pérez-Farfante, 1967) is intensively captured by both artisanal and industrial fisheries. In the Ibiraquera Lagoon, artisanal fishing of juvenile stocks has declined sharply over the last 15 years. The traditional management methods used by fishermen are no longer sustainable due to conflicts with the demands of tourism and weak environmental and public agencies. The dynamics of the timing of the artificial openi...

Spyridon E Chalkiadakis, and Georgios A Amariotakis, and Efstratios A Parikakis, and et al

Spyridon E Chalkiadakis, Georgios A Amariotakis, Efstratios A Parikakis, Vasileios G PeponisAthens Eye Hospital, 2nd Eye Clinic, Athens, GreecePurpose: A preliminary study in order to test the accuracy of the IOL Master in detecting axial eye length changes after laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis and to correlate the findings with the theoretical ablation depth.Methods: Pre- and postoperative axial eye length measurements were performed in 10 consecutive eyes that underwent laser-assisted in...

Wilson Rogério Boscolo, and Carmino Hayashi, and Aldi Feiden, and Fábio Meurer, and Altevir Signor

Neste trabalho, objetivou-se avaliar a utilização da farinha de resíduos da indústria de filetagem de tilápias (FR) como fonte de proteína e de minerais em rações práticas na alimentação de alevinos de tilápia do Nilo. Foram utilizados 120 alevinos de tilápias do Nilo com peso e comprimento iniciais de 0,58 &plusmn; 0,05 g e 3,49 &plusmn; 0,09 cm, respectivamente, distribuídos em 24 aquários com capacidade para 30 L, em um delineamento inteiramente casualisado, com quatro tratamentos e seis repe...

Fernando Ibáñez Gómez

This article presents a definition of piracy based on the main international regulations on the subject. As the suppression of piracy depends on the different states, the article compares these regulations with legislation in the United States, United Kingdom, France and Spain. The author analyses the existing problems of a legal origin for the suppression of piracy and takes Somali piracy as a case study. The study concludes that the main obstacles to adequately tackling this suppression are th...

Seethalakshmi Illanchezian, and SathishKumar Jayaraman, and Muthu Saravanan Manoharan, and Saritha Valsalam

The present study was conducted to determine the virulence and cytotoxicity of Aeromonas hydrophila strains isolated from seafood samples collected from 5 major fish markets in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Among 73 A. hydrophila strains isolated from fish and shrimp samples, 86.3% exhibited haemolysis, 78.1% produced slime, 98.63% produced protease and also demonstrated cytotoxicity on Vero cells. Cell shrinkage, detachment and rounding of Vero cells were recorded as cytotoxic changes. Only one s...

Alberto Ocaña-Luna, and Carlos Álvarez-Silva

Józef Szmeja

Changes in population abundance of submerged Sphagnum denticulatum Brid. were studied in an acidic and oligotrophic lake in NW Poland over three years. Individuals were counted in a moss carpet at a depth of 2.5 m on 4 experimental plots, 1 × 1 m each, every 30 days for 36 months using the SCUBA method. PAR intensity was seasonally variable (in winter higher than in summer). Changes in water pH, conductivity, HCO3- concentration, hydration and sediment pH were statistically insignificant (p > 0....

Katarina Paunovic, and Goran Belojević

The aim of this pilot study was to calculate the disability-adjusted life years (DALY) as a quantification of the burden of myocardial infarction (MI) attributable to road-traffic noise in Belgrade, Serbia. Exposure to road-traffic noise was estimated on a sample of almost 6000 adult inhabitants living in the central municipality Stari Grad in Belgrade, Serbia. Each participant was assigned to daytime noise levels for 16 h exposure measured on the street of current residence. Population-attribut...

Devraj Dogra, and Naina Kala Dogra, and Nishu Gupta, and Vipin Gupta

Alfredo C Barretto, and Margarita B Sáez, and María R Rico, and Andrés J Jaureguizar

The age and growth parameters of Brazilian flathead, Percophis brasiliensis, from the southwest Atlantic coastal waters (34°-41°S) were determined for samples collected in spring (n = 853; years 1998 and 2000) and winter (n = 596; year 2004), whereas age was validated through the edge analysis of otoliths collected in 2007 (n = 1367 otoliths). The indices of precision APE, V, and D were used to test the reproducibility, between agers, of the ages determined from 845 otoliths. Maximum determined ...

María del Mar Palacios, and Fernando A Zapata

La arquitectura del paisaje arrecifal, definida por la morfología de los corales dominantes, puede desempeñar un papel importante en la estructura y composición de las comunidades de peces al afectar la disponibilidad de nichos y recursos y modificar las interacciones interespecíficas. Hicimos un estudio comparativo entre la comunidad de peces asociada a una comunidad de corales masivos (CCM) y a una de corales ramificados (CCR) en la isla Gorgona, Pacífico Oriental Tropical. En cada formación c...

Joel Christopher Creed, and Monique Kinupp

We know little about animal communities in seagrass beds in the southeast Atlantic. The aim of the current study was to characterize and quantify the mollusk assemblages within these unique tropical seagrass habitats at a spatial scale fine enough to relate change in assemblage structure to gradients in exposure to air/depth. The study was carried out off Cabo Frio, Southeast Brazil. A 1250 m² area vegetated by the seagrass Halodule wrightii was defined (50 m parallel to the shoreline × 25 m dis...

Ayaz Shirazi Muhammad, and Danish Khan, and Bang Joon-Young, and Park Soo-In, and Roh YoungJun, and Kim Min Young

This paper describes the implementation of a 3D handheld scanning system based on visual inertial pose estimation and structured light technique.3D scanning system is composed of stereo camera, inertial navigation system (INS) and illumination projector to collect high resolution data for close range applications. The proposed algorithm for visual pose estimation is either based on feature matching or using accurate target object. The integration of INS enables the scanning system to provide the...

Juan P Ramírez-Herrejón, and Luis Zambrano, and Norman Mercado-Silva, and Adriana Torres-Téllez, and Fernando Pineda-García, and Javier Caraveo-Patiño, and Eduardo F Balart

Fish assemblages of lakes from central México have been altered as a result of water over-exploitation, pollution, habitat fragmentation, and introduction of exotic species. Patterns and the extent of change in most of these systems are poorly documented. This paper presents a long-term study of changes in the fish fauna of Lago de Pátzcuaro (State of Michoacán, México). Long-term information (years 1900-2010) of fish communities was used to explore trends in the composition of the fish communit...

F. Gallerano, and G. Cannata, and S. Scarpone

A model for the sea-bottom change simulations in coastal areas with complex shorelines is proposed. In deep and intermediate water depths, the hydrodynamic quantities are calculated by numerically integrating the contravariant Boussinesq equations, devoid of Christoffel symbols. In the surf zone, the propagation of the breaking waves is simulated by the nonlinear shallow water equations. The momentum equation is solved inside the turbulent boundary layer in order to calculate intra-wave hydrodyn...

Mary A. Junqueira

Este artigo tem por objetivo mapear as expedições realizadas pela U. S. Navy - a marinha de guerra dos Estados Unidos - em direção à América Latina, no século XIX. Foram realizadas doze viagens no período, mostrando o interesse norte-americano pela região desde a década de 1830.<br>This article focuses on U.S. Navy expeditions set a course from United States to Latin America in nineteenth century. Twelve expeditions as a whole were accomplished in that period, showing the American concern in tha...

Diogo Henrique Feijó Fialho, and Roberta Borda Soares, and Gustavo Arretche Messias, and Flávia Maria Maciel Carneiro de Souza, and Eudes de Souza Correia

Este trabalho objetivou avaliar o crescimento do camarão <em>Farfantepenaeus subtilis</em> submetido a diferentes regimes de fertilização usando fertilizantes orgânicos e inorgânicos. O desenho experimental consistiu de três tratamentos e três repetições: controle (CT) – 3 mg L^-1 de ureia e 0,3 mg L^-1 de monoamônio fosfato; farelo de trigo (FT) – 25 g m^-2; farelo de soja (FS) – 18,75 g m^-2. Nove tanques de 500 L foram estocados com 16 camarões m<sup>-2...

Cristina Sazima, and Alice Grossman, and Ivan Sazima

In the present study we record several instances of reef fish species foraging on epibionts of sea turtles (cleaning symbiosis) at the oceanic islands of Fernando de Noronha Archipelago and near a shipwreck, both off the coast of Pernambuco State, northeast Brazil. Nine reef fish species and three turtle species involved in cleaning are herein recorded. Besides our records, a summary of the literature on this association type is presented. Postures adopted by turtles during the interaction are r...

Wiesław GALOR

The safety of a ship which manoeuvres within a port area depends to a large extent on the underkeel clearance (UKC). Ports have been built to handle ships of specific maximum parameters. In many cases, however, the existing ports face the need to accept ships larger than those they were designed for. The construction of newharbours is limited by both natural conditions and exceedingly high estimated costs. The main restriction for handling larger ships is the depth of port basins, directly affec...

D. P. Nicholson

Kaiser (2011) has introduced an improved method for calculating gross productivity from the triple isotopic composition of dissolved oxygen in aquatic systems. His equation avoids approximations of previous methodologies, and also accounts for additional physical processes such as kinetic fractionation during invasion and evasion at the air-sea interface. However, when comparing his new approach to previous methods, Kaiser inconsistently defines the biological end-member with the result of overe...

Drago Kovačević

In order to reduce the import of energy sources and to improve energy situation in the Republic of Croatia, our country has decided to revive offshore exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons. The prerequisite was the creation of an appropriate legal framework, which was achieved by the adoption of the Act on safety in offshore exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons in July 2015. The author of this paper reviews the provisions of the before mentioned Act with special emphasis on the pr...

Hu Minzhang, and Li Jiancheng, and Li Hui, and Xin Lelin

In this paper, the admittance function between seafloor undulations and vertical gravity gradient anomalies was derived. Based on this admittance function, the bathymetry model of 1 minute resolution was predicted from vertical gravity gradient anomalies and ship soundings in the experimental area from the northwest Pacific. The accuracy of the model is evaluated using ship soundings and existing models, including ETOPOl, GEBCO, DTU10 and V15. 1 from SIO. The model's STD is 69.481m, comparable w...

Marcelo Carneiro de Freitas, and Regine Helena Silva dos Fernandes Vieira, and Maria Elisabeth de Araújo

This study aimed to assess the impact of harbor construction at Pecém (Brazil) upon the reef fish communities in tide pools. The monitoring was carried out through a visual census and sea water quality was evaluated by microbiological analyses. From March to December 2001, 1,425 individuals of 17 families and 25 species were registered. The most frequent species were Haemulon parra, Acanthurus chirurgus, Abudefduf saxatilis and Sparisoma axillare. The average species diversity for the whole peri...

Felipe do Nascimento Vieira, and Celso Carlos Buglione Neto, and José Luiz Pedreira Mouriño, and Adolfo Jatobá, and Cristina Ramirez, and Maurício Laterça Martins, and Margherita Anna Antonia Maria Barracco, and Luis Alejandro Vinatea

The objective of this work was to assess the time-related action of probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum in the bacterial microbiota of the digestive tract of Litopenaeus vannamei, and the relation of total haemocyte count and serum phenol oxidase activity of shrimp challenged with Vibrio harveyi. Shrimps were fed with a probiotic-supplemented diet, for eight days, then shifted to a commercial diet. Shrimps fed only with the commercial diet served as control. Evaluations were made on the 8th day of...

Lucy Satiko Hashimoto Soares, and Juliana Pierrobon Lopez, and Elizabeti Yuriko Muto, and Roberto Giannini

Information on marine and estuarine capture fishery activity in northern Todos os Santos Bay, northeastern Brazil, based on daily data collected between September 2003 and June 2005 is presented. Small-scale artisanal fishery in this area includes the use of traditional vessels both nonmotorized and motorized for locomotion, being carried out mainly by canoe or on foot, and involves many different kinds of gear, including gillnet, hook and line, seine nets, and traps. A total of 113 taxa were gr...

Ülo Suursaar, and Tiit Kullas

The response of semi-realistic wind speed increase scenariosto the mean sea level and current regime of semi-enclosed sub-basinsin the Baltic Sea is studied with a 2D hydrodynamic model. Accordingto the model output of spatial mean sea levels, an increase inthe westerly wind component by 2 m s^-1 leads, for example,to a mean sea level rise of up to 3 cm in windward locationsin the study area. The sea level change patterns depend on thewind scenario and coastline configuration. The incr...

M. Branicki, and R. Malek-Madani

In this work we discuss applications of Lagrangian techniques to study transport properties of flows generated by shallow water models of estuarine flows. We focus on the flow in the Chesapeake Bay generated by Quoddy (see Lynch and Werner, 1991), a finite-element (shallow water) model adopted to the bay by Gross et al. (2001). The main goal of this analysis is to outline the potential benefits of using Lagrangian tools for both understanding transport properties of such flows, and for validatin...

Denis M. S. Abessa, and Bauer R. F. Rachid, and Eduinetty Ceci Pereira M. Sousa

Douglas Fernando Peiró, and Paulo Ricardo Pezzuto, and Fernando Luis Mantelatto

Species of the family Pinnotheridae constitute an ideal group for morphometric studies due to their complex morphological adaptations. These adaptations respond to the selective pressure of a symbiotic life style. This study describes the relative growth and morphometric features of the symbiotic pea crab Austinixa aidae (associated with the ghost shrimp Callichirus major), from the sandy beaches in the southwest Atlantic, Brazil. Significant differences were detected in the biometric proportion...

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Maria Cecília Bueno Jayme Gallani, and Roberta Cunha Rodrigues Colombo, and Eliane de Araújo Cintra, and Sandra Bruneni Rigacci

Após o desenvolvimento e implementação de um modelo piloto do instrumento de coleta de dados (ICDP) para Unidade Coronária (UCO), tivemos como objetivos avaliar as considerações dos enfermeiros sobre a aplicabilidade deste instrumento e de sua adequação na UCO do HC-UNICAMP bem como levantar subsídios para contribuir na sua reelaboração. A avaliação, realizada através de um questionário entregue a onze enfermeiros que participaram da implementação do ICDP, mostrou-nos que os enfermeiros consider...

Dulić Zorka, and Mitrović-Tutundžić Vera, and Marković Z., and Živić Ivana

The quality of water at the Dubica Fish Farm was evaluated by the saprobiological method using the Pantle-Buck saprobity index, during one carp production cycle in the year 2000. By qualitative and quantitative analysis of the zooplankton community, bioindicator species were selected for evaluation of water quality. During the whole period of research, the saprobity index indicated class II water quality, which is suitable for rearing carp in a semi-intensive system as far as natural food is con...

Andrés Guajardo, and Claudia Navarrete

The evaluation of the performance of the management is essential to fulfill the objectives in a Marine Protected Area (MPA). Therefore, Robert Pomeroy in 2004 presents a manual to evaluate the development of the marine protected areas through time, by using of indicators which measure the biophysical state, socioeconomic state and governance. The present work adopts the use of those indicators to evaluate the performance of the management in the Marine Reserve Chanaral Island, Atacama region. Th...

P. Ciavola, and J. A. Jiménez

Helios Hernández-Hurtado, and José de Jesús Romero-Villaruel, and Pablo Simitrius Hernández-Hurtado

El presente estudio se realizó en los meses de junio 2005 y febrero 2006 (estiaje), y en octubre 2005 y octubre 2007 (lluvias), en los esteros de San Blas. El objetivo fue caracterizar la población de cocodrilos a partir de su distribución y abundancia, El método utilizado consistió en recorridos nocturnos en los esteros, para contabilizar el número de individuos por kilómetro. Se realizaron 6 transectos recorriendo un total de 89 kilómetros. Los transectos A, B y C presentaron una densidad que ...