V. Zunz, and H. Goosse

Recent studies have investigated the potential link between the freshwater input derived from the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet and the observed recent increase in sea ice extent in the Southern Ocean. In this study, we assess the impact of an additional freshwater flux on the trend in sea ice extent and concentration in simulations with data assimilation, spanning the period 1850–2009, as well as in retrospective forecasts (hindcasts) initialised in 1980. In the simulations w...

Shimin eLu, and Shimin eLu, and Xingguo eLiu, and Qigen eLiu, and Zhuojun eMa, and Zongfan eWu, and Zongfan eWu, and Xianlei eZeng, and Xianlei eZeng, and Xu eShi, and Zhaojun eGu

Pond aquaculture is the major freshwater aquaculture method in China. Ammonia-oxidizing communities inhabiting pond sediments play an important role in controlling culture water quality. However, the distribution and activities of ammonia-oxidizing microbial communities along sediment profiles are poorly understood in this specific environment. Vertical variations in the abundance, transcription, potential ammonia oxidizing rate, and community composition of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and ...

Karen R. Devitt, and Vanessa M. Adams, and Peter M. Kyne

In order to maintain ecosystems and biodiversity, Australia has long invested in the development of marine and terrestrial protected area networks. Within this land- and sea-scape, northern Australia represents a global population stronghold for four species of the world’s most threatened marine fish family, the sawfishes (family Pristidae). The distribution of sawfishes across northern Australia has previously only been coarsely estimated, and the adequacy of their representation in protected a...

J. Kanda

The rate of cesium-137 (¹³⁷Cs) release to the sea from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant for the period until September 2012 was estimated. Publicly released data on ¹³⁷Cs radioactivity in seawater near the power plant by Tokyo Electric Power Company strongly suggest a continuing release of radionuclides to the sea. The plant has an artificial harbour facility, and the exchange rate of harbour water with surrounding seawater was estimated by the decrease in radioac...

R. Xavier, and A. L. Pires

Para determinar o interesse do controle da vegetação do sob coberto e da aplicação de N, P e K no crescimento e concentração de nutrientes em pinheiro bravo (Pinus pinas­ter Ait.) escolheu-se um pinhal com seis anos onde, em Julho de 2002, foram aplica­dos cinco tratamentos: testemunha (T); corte e remoção da vegetação (CR); corte, remo­ção da vegetação e fertilização (CRF); corte e destroçamento da vegetação (CD); corte, destroçamento da vegetação e fertilização (CDF). Entre 2002 e 2007, e em r...

Hanan M. Khairy, and Shimaa M. El-Shafay

Variations in protein, carbohydrate, lipid, ash, moisture, fatty acid and aminoacid contents of the seaweeds <i>Ulva lactuca</i> Linnaeus (Chlorophyta),<i>Jania rubens</i> (Linnaeus) J.V. Lamouroux and <i>Pterocladia capillacea</i> (S.G. Gmelin) Bornet(Rhodophyta) were studied seasonally from spring to autumn 2010. The seaweeds were collected from a rocky site near Boughaz El-Maadya on the coast of Abu Qir Bay east of Alexandria, Egypt. Remarkable seasonal variations were recorded in the levels...

Dóra Chor, and Rosane Harter Griep, and Claudia S. Lopes, and Eduardo Faerstein

Neste artigo, relatamos a metodologia de seleção de perguntas sobre rede e apoio social, incluídas em um estudo de coorte de 4.030 funcionários de uma universidade pública no Rio de Janeiro. Em primeiro lugar, a adequação de conceitos foi explorada em discussões de grupos de voluntários. Em seguida, o questionário do Medical Outcomes Study foi submetido a procedimentos padronizados de tradução e versão. As perguntas foram a seguir avaliadas em cinco etapas de pré-testes e estudo piloto. Nenhuma ...

Noureddine Ghouali, and Tarik Mohamed Touaoula

We consider a linear model for the growth and the dispersion of fish larvae of certain species. Dispersion is modeled as entailed by the combination of transport and vertical diffusion. We generalize the work of Boushaba, Arino and Boussouar [5,6] in the sense that horizontal velocities are uniform throughout the water column; but we deal with vertical component velocity and vertical diffusion depending on the space variables and on time, which was not the case in [5,6]. This new vision leads us...

Omholt Stig W, and Baranski Matthew, and Helgeland Hanna, and Sundvold Hilde, and Våge Dag

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Red flesh colour is a unique trait found in some salmonid genera. Carotenoid pigments are not synthesized <it>de novo </it>in the fish, but are provided by dietary uptake. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the cellular uptake and deposition of carotenoids could potentially be used to improve the low muscle deposition rate that is typically found in farmed Atlantic salmon. In addition, from an evolutionary point of view, the establi...

Francesca Fourney, and Joana Figueiredo

Abstract Corals worldwide are facing population declines due to global climate change and local anthropogenic impacts. Global climate change effects are hard to tackle but recent studies show that some coral species can better handle climate change stress when provided with additional energy resources. The local stressor that most undermines energy acquisition is sedimentation because it impedes coral heterotrophic feeding and their ability to photosynthesize. To investigate if reducing local se...

Nayot Dan, and Klachook Shany, and Casper Robert F

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Currently GnRH analogue injections are used to prevent premature LH surges in women undergoing assisted reproductive technology. This was a pilot study to determine the safety and effectiveness of nimodipine, an oral calcium channel blocker, to delay the mid-cycle spontaneous LH surge in women with regular menstrual cycles.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Eight women with regular menstrual cycles self-monitored three consecutive cycles for the day of an LH surge by dai...

Riveroll Angela, and Simard Nathalie, and Salonius Kira, and Kibenge Molly, and Kulshreshtha Vikas, and Kibenge Frederick

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Infectious salmon anemia (ISA) virus (ISAV) is a pathogen of marine-farmed Atlantic salmon (<it>Salmo salar</it>); a disease first diagnosed in Norway in 1984. This virus, which was first characterized following its isolation in cell culture in 1995, belongs to the family <it>Orthomyxoviridae</it>, genus, <it>Isavirus</it>. The <it>Isavirus </it>genome consists of eight single-stranded RNA segments of negative sense, each with one to three open reading frames...

Supiana Dian Nurtjahyani, and Fitria Hadra

Objective: To report the effectiveness of various concentrations of garlic juice on inhibition zone of Gram-positive bacteria isolated from tiger shrimps. Methods: Four concentrations of garlic juice used in this research were: 0%, 12.5%, 25% and 50%. Two different bacteria were successfully isolated from tiger shrimps categorized as Gram-positive. The bacterial inhibition zone revealed that garlic juice could inhibit the growth of these bacteria in the form of clear zone on media. Results...

M Dholakia, and N Patil, and P Shetty, and A Khandkar, and V Srinivas

Aims: The main objective of our study was to evaluate the efficacy of End. MRI and MRSI in (1) detecting and (2) staging prostate cancer by correlating it with histopathological results. Methods: In a double blind prospective study of 20 patients were divided into two groups. In group A with 10 patients, the inclusion criteria were elevated PSA and/or a palpable nodule. All 10 patients with undiagnosed prostate cancer underwent End. MRI and MRSI followed by TRUS guided ten quadrant biopsy. In g...

André Luiz Machado Pessanha, and Francisco Gerson Araújo, and Ronnie Enderson M. C. C. Oliveira, and Adna Ferreira da Silva, and Natalice Santos Sales

Eleven ecomorphological attributes and diet of seventeen juvenile fish species were examined to test the hypothesis that morphological patterns determine resource uses in estuarine habitats. Species were separated according to the apparatus to food capture and habitat use (benthic or pelagic) in three different groups: (1) a group with depressed fish body, strong caudal peduncle and enlarged pectoral fins; (2) a second group laterally flattened with a wide protruding mouth, and (3) a third group...

A. J. Sutton, and C. L. Sabine, and R. A. Feely, and W.-J. Cai, and M. F. Cronin, and M. J. McPhaden, and J. M. Morell, and J. A. Newton, and J.-H. Noh, and S. R. Ólafsdóttir, and J. E. Salisbury, and U. Send, and D. C. Vandemark, and R. A. Weller

One of the major challenges to assessing the impact of ocean acidification on marine life is detecting and interpreting long-term change in the context of natural variability. This study addresses this need through a global synthesis of monthly pH and aragonite saturation state (Ω_arag) climatologies for 12 open ocean, coastal, and coral reef locations using 3-hourly moored observations of surface seawater partial pressure of CO₂ and pH collected together since as early as 2...

Cristiano Fick, and Rafael Manica, and Elírio Ernestino Toldo Junior

ABSTRACT: Autogenic controls have significant influence on deep-water fans and depositional lobes morphology. In this work, we aim to investigate autogenic controls on the topography and geometry of deep-water fans. The influence of the sediment concentration of turbidity currents on deep-water fans morphology was also investigated. From the repeatability of 3D physical modeling of turbidity currents, two series of ten experiments were made, one of high-density turbidity currents (HDTC) and anot...

Damian C Stanziano, and Bernard A Roos, and Arlette C Perry, and Shenghan Lai, and et al.&nbsp;

Damian C Stanziano1,2, Bernard A Roos1,2,3,4, Arlette C Perry1, Shenghan Lai5, Joseph F Signorile1,31Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA; 2Stein Gerontological Institute, Miami Jewish Home and Hospital, Miami, FL, USA; 3Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Miami VA Healthcare System, Miami, FL, USA; 4Departments of Medicine and Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA; 5Departments of Pathology and M...

Patrícia Domingues de Freitas, and Allysson Pontes Pinheiro, and Thiago Buosi Silva, and Pedro Manoel Galetti Junior

We performed an in silico analysis of all microsatellites so far described for penaeid shrimp and for which the polymorphic behavior has previously been analyzed. The objective of the study was to evaluate the structural characteristics of these microsatellites and identifying patterns which allow the characterization of the nature of these sequences in the penaeid genome. All data were compiled in a free-access database specially constructed for this study. Three hundred non-mononucleotide poly...

Supamattaya, K., and Phongdara, A., and Ruangsri, J., and Prasertsan, P.

Immunological responses of black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) were induced under laboratory conditions by injecting white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) and yellow head virus (YHV). The survivors from WSSV and YHV infection showed improvement in their immunity against the re-challenging by both viruses. The WSSV survivors showed higher capability than that of YHV survivors in developing the immunity. The highest relative percent survival (RPS) against WSSV and YHV noted after a 43-day period of WS...

McVeigh KA, and Vakros G

Katherine Anne McVeigh,1 Georgios Vakros21Department of Ophthalmology, Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, UK; 2Department of Ophthalmology, Queen&rsquo;s Hospital, Romford, Essex, UKAim: In order to improve patient education, compliance, and administration of eye drops prescribed for patients suffering with glaucoma within a UK ophthalmology department, an eye drop chart (EDC) was designed, developed, and piloted with patients attending the glaucoma clinic over 1 month.Methods: A cross-sec...

Cibele S. Pontes, and Maria de F. Arruda

A escassez de dados acerca do comportamento alimentar do camarão marinho Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931) com relação ao alimento artificial ofertado em bandejas poderá induzir a uma alimentação inadequada, resultando no desperdício da ração, no aporte desnecessário de nutrientes, e conseqüente aumento dos custos com a alimentação e da poluição ambiental potencial desta atividade. Objetivando fornecer subsídios para a melhoria do manejo alimentar praticado nas fazendas, foram realizados estudo...

A. Tagliabue, and L. Bopp, and D. M. Roche, and N. Bouttes, and J.-C. Dutay, and R. Alkama, and M. Kageyama, and E. Michel, and D. Paillard

We use a state-of-the-art ocean general circulation and biogeochemistry model to examine the impact of changes in ocean circulation and biogeochemistry in governing the change in ocean carbon-13 and atmospheric CO₂ at the last glacial maximum (LGM). We examine 5 different realisations of the ocean's overturning circulation produced by a fully coupled atmosphere-ocean model under LGM forcing and suggested changes in the atmospheric deposition of iron and phytoplankton physiology at the...

J. A. U. Nilsson, and S. Dobricic, and N. Pinardi, and P.-M. Poulain, and D. Pettenuzzo

A novel method for three-dimensional variational assimilation of Lagrangian data with a primitive-equation ocean model is proposed. The assimilation scheme was implemented in the Mediterranean ocean Forecasting System and evaluated for a 4-month period. Four experiments were designed to assess the impact of trajectory assimilation on the model output, i.e. the sea-surface height, velocity, temperature and salinity fields. It was found from the drifter and Argo trajectory assimilation experi...

Elenice Souza dos Reis GOES, and Maria Luiza Rodrigues de SOUZA, and Daniel Abreu Vasconcelos CAMPELO, and Grazyella Massako YOSHIDA, and Tadeu Orlandi XAVIER, and Lorena Batista de MOURA, and Antonio Roberto Giriboni MONTEIRO

Abstract Tilapia, salmon, tuna and sardine meals were prepared to develop and analyze extruded snacks with residue meal from fish processing. Residue meals were included in five types of corn snacks: control (0% fish meal) and four with 9% tilapia, salmon, tuna and sardine meals. Although moisture, lipids and carbohydrates rates did not differ among the snacks, protein rates increased with the increment of fish meal, reaching 11.85% in the tuna snack. Tuna and sardine snacks had the highest iron...

D.C. Rocha, and D. Martins

No ecossistema aquático há uma faixa de umidade gradiente no solo que interfere diretamente na ocupação das espécies à margem da lâmina de água. Essa zonação ecológica reflete os graus de adaptação que as plantas apresentam para tolerar o alagamento ou a dessecação. O presente trabalho visou apresentar a análise morfoanatômica de cinco espécies de Cyperaceae encontradas em diferentes zonas no entorno da represa Alagados, em Ponta Grossa-PR, Brasil: Cyperus giganteus, Rhynchospora corymbosa var. ...

Solvejg L. Hansen, and Anina Ritterband-Rosenbaum, and Camilla B. Voigt, and Lars I. Hellgren, and Ann-Dorit M. Sørensen, and Charlotte Jacobsen, and Line Z. Greve, and Katrine D. Jørgensen, and Peder E. Bilde, and Bente Kiens, and Jens B. Nielsen

Abstract Background Learning and memory have been shown to be influenced by combination of dietary supplements and exercise in animal models, but there is little available evidence from human subjects. The aim of this pilot study was to investigate the effect of combining a motor- and cognitive exercise program with dietary supplementation consisting of 500 mg docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), 10 μg vitamin D3 and 1000 mg uridine (DDU-supplement) in 16 prepubescent children (age 8–11 years). Methods W...

Zamira E. Soto-Varela, and Clara Gilma Gutiérrez, and Yurina de Moya, and Ramón Mattos, and Hernando José Bolívar-Anillo, and José Luis Villarreal

Introduction: Each year approximately 3 million people die as the result of foodborne diseases. The fresh artisan (handmade) cheese produced and distributed in the Colombian Caribbean region is a native product from the departments of Córdoba, Sucre, Bolívar, Atlántico, Magdalena, Cesar, and La Guajira. Its mass consumption increases the risk of infection with Salmonella spp., Listeria spp., and Brucella spp., as it is made with a very rustic technology, with unpasteurized cow milk, without stan...

Bruno Silva, and Ricardo Viana, and Ana Gama, and Jose Antonio Perez-Turpin, and Pedro Bezerra

Aquatic sports keep rising in popularity. Kitesurfing is a high-risk sport that combines aspects of several water sports. The dangers of high-risk sports have been widely studied. Kitesurfing is a relatively new water sport, and the understanding of the injuries due to its practice has not yet been largely investigated. The purpose of this study is to investigate the most common types and causes of injuries among Portuguese kitesurfers. The data was collected using a retrospective 12 months web-...

Samantha Fien, and Timothy Henwood, and Mike Climstein, and Justin William Leslie Keogh

The objective of the study was to examine the feasibility and benefits of a group resistance training exercise programme for improving muscle function in institutionalised older adults. A feasibility and acceptability study was designed for a residential aged care (RAC) facility, based on the Gold Coast, Australia. Thirty-seven adults, mean age 86.8 ± 6.1 years (30 females) living in a RAC facility. Participants were allocated into an exercise (n = 20) or control (n = 17) group. The exercise gro...

R. Kyle

Nyamithi Pan, situated in Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa, is a floodplain pan near the confluence of the Usuthu and Pongolo rivers. It lies approximately 75 km from the Indian Ocean. The floodplain and its fish have been extensively surveyed (Coke & Pott 1970; Kok 1980; Merron et al 1993, 1994, 1994a, 1994b, 1994c, 1994d; Pooley 1975) and there are many records of the occurrence of marine fish in this and other pans of the Pongolo and Usuthu rivers. These are, however, usually isolated instanc...

Magdalena STANEK, and Janusz DĄBROWSKI, and Bogdan JANICKI, and Aleksandra Roślewska, and Anita Strzelecka

The aim of this work was to compare the concentration of lead in the meat of common bream (Abramis brama L.), white bream (Blicca bjoerkna L.) and common bleak (Alburnus alburnus L.). The experimental fish were obtained in natural condition from Vistula River, located within Toru., near wastewater treatment plant. The study involved 60 individuals of freshwater fish caught in autumn. Analyses were carried out on 10 individuals of common bream, 20 white bream and 30 individuals of common bleak. T...

Tim eAppelhans, and Thomas eNauss

East Africa is characterized by a rather dry annual precipitation climatology with two distinct rainy seasons. In order to investigate sea surface temperature driven precipitation anomalies for the region we use the algorithm of empirical orthogonal teleconnection analysis as a data mining tool. We investigate the entire East African domain as well as 5 smaller sub-regions mainly located in areas of mountainous terrain. In searching for influential sea surface temperature patterns we do not focu...

A. Maeck, and H. Hofmann, and A. Lorke

Freshwater systems contribute significantly to the global atmospheric methane budget. A large fraction of the methane emitted from freshwaters is transported via ebullition. However, due to its strong variability in space and time, accurate measurements of ebullition rates are difficult; hence, the uncertainty regarding its contribution to global budgets is large. Here, we analyze measurements made by continuously recording automated bubble traps in an impounded river in central Europe and inves...

Rubí Martínez, and Enrique Dupré

Se estableció la forma en que los machos del camarón Rhynchocinetes typus transfieren los espermatoforos durante la cópula. La fecundación es externa y durante el apareamiento, el primer y segundo par de pleopodos masculinos tienen una activa participación en la transferencia de espermatoforos al esternito de la hembra. La participación de estos pleopodos se determinó mediante el número de ovocitos fecundados que presentaron hembras que fueron apareadas con machos sexualmente maduros del tipo ro...

Ralf Schneider, and Jan Harff, and Wenyan Zhang

High-resolution wind series in the southern Baltic Sea for the period of 1958-2007 are analysed to generate representative climate input conditions for a multi-scale morphodynamic model to simulate decadal-to-centennial coastline change. Four seasonal wind classes, each characterized by a predominant distribution of wind direction and speed, are derived from statistical analysis. Further calibration of this statistical description is done by sensitivity studies of the model to generate similar c...

C. L. Blättler, and S. M. Stanley, and G. M. Henderson, and H. C. Jenkyns

Geochemical records of biogenic carbonates provide some of the most valuable records of the geological past, but are often difficult to interpret without a mechanistic understanding of growth processes. In this experimental study, <i>Halimeda</i> algae are used as a test organism to untangle some of the specific factors that influence their skeletal composition, in particular their Ca-isotope composition. Algae were stimulated to precipitate both calcite and aragonite by growth in ...

Juliana Nunes Botelho, and Altair Antoninha Del Bel Cury, and Wander José da Silva, and Livia Maria Andaló Tenuta, and Jaime Aparecido Cury

The anticaries effect of fluoride (F) toothpaste containing 1100 µg F/g in reducing enamel demineralization is well established, but its effect on dentine has not been extensively studied. Furthermore, it has been shown that toothpaste containing a high F concentration is necessary to remineralize root dentine lesions, suggesting that a 1100 µg F/g concentration might not be high enough to reduce root dentine demineralization, particularly when dentine is subjected to a high cariogenic challenge...

R. Rodrigues, and P.K.R. Magalhaes, and M.I.M. Fernandes, and C.S. Gabetta, and A.F. Ribeiro, and K.P. Pedro, and F. Valdetaro, and J.L.F. Santos, and R.M. de Souza, and A. Pazin Filho, and L.M.Z. Maciel

Cystic fibrosis is one of the most common autosomal recessive hereditary diseases in the Caucasian population, with an incidence of 1:2000 to 1:3500 liveborns. More than 1000 mutations have been described with the most common being F508del. It has a prevalence of 23-55% within the Brazilian population. The lack of population-based studies evaluating the incidence of cystic fibrosis in São Paulo State, Brazil, and an analysis concerning the costs of implantation of a screening program motivated t...

M. Ramonet, and S. G. Jennings, and A. S. H. Prevot, and M. C. Facchini, and V. Remeikis, and S. Leinert, and L. Wacker, and N. Perron, and S. Fahrni, and M. Rinaldi, and S. Szidat, and A. Garbaras, and D. Ceburnis, and C. D. O'Dowd

Dual carbon isotope analysis of marine aerosol samples has been performed for the first time demonstrating a potential in organic matter apportionment between three principal sources: marine, terrestrial (non-fossil) and fossil fuel due to unique isotopic signatures. The results presented here, utilising combinations of dual carbon isotope analysis, provides conclusive evidence of a dominant biogenic organic fraction to organic aerosol over biologically active oceans. In particular, the NE Atlan...

Adrian TOADER, and Ioan URSU

The study continues some work of the authors, this time performing a synthesis of optimal control model of the human pilot in systems with input delay, by removing the Padé or Hess approximations characterizing the pilot structural central nervous block and their introduction as a pure delay block. On the one hand, the method ensures a better accuracy of synthesis and on the other hand is advantageous with respect to general results to date for time delay systems since: a) the optimal control la...

B. Gantt, and N. Meskhidze, and M. C. Facchini, and M. Rinaldi, and D. Ceburnis, and C. D. O'Dowd

For oceans to be a significant source of primary organic aerosol (POA), sea spray aerosol (SSA) must be highly enriched with organics relative to the bulk seawater. We propose that organic enrichment at the air-sea interface, chemical composition of seawater, and the aerosol size are three main parameters controlling the organic mass fraction of sea spray aerosol (OM_SSA). To test this hypothesis, we developed a new marine POA emission function based on a conceptual relationship betwee...

Claudia Angelica da Silva Brandão, and Maria de Fátima Moraes Valentim, and Érica Pellegrini Caramaschi

Macro- and microscopic ovarian features of Hemiodus microlepis, H. ternetzi and H. unimaculatus were analyzed. Based on these features we proposed an ovarian maturation scale. The nine stages of the preliminary macroscopic fieldwork scale were reduced to five after microscopic analysis of ovaries. The microscopic analysis indicated a group-synchronous oocyte development common to the three species that were characterized as iteroparous synchronous spawners with a total spawning type. The remarka...

Jim Provan

<p>It is now accepted that changes in the Earth’s climate are having a profound effect on the distributions of a wide variety of species. One aspect of these changes that has only recently received any attention, however, is their potential effect on levels of within-species genetic diversity. Theoretical, empirical and modelling studies suggest that the impact of trailing-edge population extirpation on range-wide intraspecific diversity will be most pronounced in species that harbour the majori...

Jolanta Pilecka, and Jolita Bradulienė, and Dainius Paliulis

Heavy metals (HM) present in landfill leachate are the most dangerous pollutants, because they are stable, non-biodegradable and they can migrate from one biological system to another and accumulate in aquatic organisms. Fish are unique organisms capable to uptake and accumulate heavy metals. The aim of this study was to determine lead (Pb) and zinc (Zn) accumulation in body tissues of bentophagous and predatory fishes from Kairiai landfill regional aquatic ecosystem (Švedė Creek and Ginkūnai P...

Maksym Starykov, and Frank Van Hoorn

For the last decades, fully erected container cranes have been delivered to a customer site by ships. On one hand, using this method of transportation is very attractive due to its cost and time savings. However, on the other hand, being exposed to cycling loads from the ship motions during the sea voyage, the crane structure accumulates fatigue damage. Using the accumulated fatigue damage parameter, the crane transportation could be associated with the amount of the working cycles the crane co...

Abul Quasem Al-Amin, and Walter Leal Filho, and M. A. Kabir

This study illustrates some of the challenges of sustainability for businesses and the probable causes of these challenges in relation to Malaysian offshore firms. This study highlights the possible links between business sustainability in the existing types of offshore outsourcing business environments and their failure to transform themselves to adopt best practices. The results of the statistical techniques used to quantify long-term business sustainability indicate that the age of firms has...

Dong Zhao, and Andrew Mccoy, and Brian Kleiner, and Yingbin Feng

Efforts have been taken for years to minimize the occupational safety and health (OSH) risk, but the injury records remain a constant reason for worldwide concerns. Many firms often implement technology as an administrative hierarchy of control (HOC). However, technologies may also actively influence safe practices at the managerial level for administrative HOC. This research examines electrical safety hazards in the U.S. construction industry as a basis for, studying the feasibility of using t...

Monieta Jan

The intensity of infrared radiation emitted by objects depends mainly on their temperature. One of the diagnostic signals may be the temperature field. In infrared thermography, this quantity is used as an indicator of the technical condition of marine objects. The article presents an overview of the use of infrared thermography for the diagnosis mainly of marine piston floating objects and various types of reciprocating internal combustion engines as well as examples of own research results. A ...

Joyce Uchi Nyiro, and Patrick Munywoki, and Everlyn Kamau, and Charles Agoti, and Alex Gichuki, and Timothy Etyang, and Grieven Otieno, and D. James Nokes

Background: Endemic and seasonally recurring respiratory viruses are a major cause of disease and death globally. The burden is particularly severe in developing countries. Improved understanding of the source of infection, pathways of spread and persistence in communities would be of benefit in devising intervention strategies. Methods: We report epidemiological data obtained through surveillance of respiratory viruses at nine outpatient health facilities within the Kilifi Health and Demographi...