Marco Tonti, and Omar C.G. Gelo

This study investigates the relationship between a client’s rate of speech (ROS) and emotional-cognitive regulation during a psychotherapy session. The ROS was measured in words per second on the timed transcript of a single session of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Emotional-cognitive regulation was assessed using the therapeutic cycles model on emotional tone (ET), abstraction (AB), and their combination in emotion-abstraction patterns (EAPs). The results were mostly consistent with our hypoth...

D. O. Dammann, and L. E. B. Eriksson, and A. R. Mahoney, and H. Eicken, and F. J. Meyer

<p>Arctic landfast sea ice has undergone substantial changes in recent decades, affecting ice stability and including potential impacts on ice travel by coastal populations and on industry ice roads. We present a novel approach for evaluating landfast sea ice stability on a pan-Arctic scale using Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR). Using Sentinel-1 images from spring 2017, we discriminate between bottomfast, stabilized, and nonstabilized landfast ice over the main marginal seas of t...

L. Guo, and L. Guo, and W. Gu, and W. Gu, and C. Peng, and C. Peng, and W. Wang, and Y. J. Li, and T. Zong, and Y. Tang, and Z. Wu, and Q. Lin, and M. Ge, and M. Ge, and M. Ge, and G. Zhang, and M. Hu, and X. Bi, and X. Wang, and X. Wang, and X. Wang, and M. Tang, and M. Tang, and M. Tang

<p>Calcium- and magnesium-containing salts are important components for mineral dust and sea salt aerosols, but their physicochemical properties are not well understood yet. In this study, hygroscopic properties of eight Ca- and Mg-containing salts, including <span class="inline-formula">Ca(NO₃)₂<span class="Radical">⚫</span>4H₂O</span>, <span class="inline-formula">Mg(NO₃)₂<span class="Radical">⚫</span>6H₂O</span>, <span class="i...

Ornella Bettinardi, and Giorgio Bertolotti, and Paola Baiardi, and Giuseppe Calsamiglia, and Sylvia D'Cruz, and Marcello Giacani, and Christine Herodote, and Filippo Manno, and Giuseppe Molinari, and Paola Villa

Various functional indicators are utilized to measure outcome in cardiac rehabilitation. Little information exists regarding the role played by psychological variables during the rehabilitative period, after cardiac valve surgery. The present study aims at exploring the relationship existing between different levels of functional capacity measured by six-minute walking test, (6MWT) and emotional aspects such as anxiety and depression. Materials and methods. 126 post-surgical heart valve patients...

Gabriele Valli, and Francesca De Marco, and Maria Teresa Spina, and Valentina Valeriano, and Antonello Rosa, and Valentina Minerva, and Enrico Mirante, and Maria Pia Ruggieri, and Francesco Rocco Pugliese

Background: In 2011 the European Society of Cardiology published the new guidelines for the treatment and management of acute coronary syndrome without elevation of the ST segment (NSTEMI). For the treatment of the syndrome, the use of P2Y12 inhibitors in addition to aspirin was strongly recommended (evidence IA). We studied the application of this recommendation in the setting of the emergency department in the vast and uneven area of the Italian region Lazio, three years after the release of t...

. Widanarni, and M.A. Lidaenni, and Dinamella Wahjuningrum

<p>Probiotic bacteria has been widely used as biocontrol agents in tiger shrimp hatcheries.  <em>Vibrio </em>SKT-b is one of the probiotic bacteria candidates that could suppressed the growth of pathogenic bacteria <em>Vibrio harveyi </em>and could increase survival rate of tiger shrimp larva. This experiment was carried out to study the effects of probiotic bacteria SKT-b <em>Vibrio</em> addition at different doses on survival and growth rate of tiger shrimp larva.  Experiment was conducted wit...

Romit Maulik, and Omer San

This paper puts forth a simplified dynamic modeling strategy for the eddy viscosity coefficient parameterized in space and time. The eddy viscosity coefficient is dynamically adjusted to the local structure of the flow using two different nonlinear eddy viscosity functional forms to capture anisotropic dissipation mechanism, namely, (i) the Smagorinsky model using the local strain rate field, and (ii) the Leith model using the gradient of the vorticity field. The proposed models are applied to t...

Iis Diatin, and Dini F Nuristy, and Ahmad Teduh, and Muhammad Mujahid

<p class="Pa3"><strong>ABSTRACT </strong></p><p> </p><p class="Pa5">Koi fish is one of the species included in the intensification program of ornamental fish production. Production of koi has only reached 82.04% of total national production target thus making it potential for development. The objective of the study was to assess additional financial benefit of production increment through stocking pattern modification. Present research was performed using case study method on Pokdakan PBC Fish F...

S. Schafhirt, and M. Muskulus

Decoupled load simulations are a computationally efficient method to perform a dynamic analysis of an offshore wind turbine. Modelling the dynamic interactions between rotor and support structure, especially the damping caused by the rotating rotor, is of importance, since it influences the structural response significantly and has a major impact on estimating fatigue lifetime. Linear damping is usually used for this purpose, but experimentally and analytically derived formulas to calculat...

Becker TD, and Lin HC, and Miller VA

Timothy D Becker,1 Henry C Lin,2 Victoria A Miller3 1Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 2Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Children&rsquo;s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 3Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children&rsquo;s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Background: Child participat...

Ana Grenha, and Jorge Dias, and Sofia Engrola, and Marisol Izquierdo, and Manuel Yúfera

The improvement of micro diets, for fish larvae, has been a major challenge in past years; however some problems remain without a resolution. Besides its tremendous growth rates, at early developmental stages, fish larvae present an immature digestive system and a progressive metamorphic process that suggest special nutritional requirements. It is therefore essential to provide fish larvae with easy and/or quickly metabolized protein sources, like protein hydrolisates, high bioavailable forms of...

Owen Krystia, and Tory Ambrose, and Gerarda Darlington, and David W. L. Ma, and Andrea C. Buchholz, and Jess Haines, and on behalf of the Guelph Family Health Study

Abstract Background Home-based lifestyle behaviour interventions show promise for treating and preventing childhood obesity. According to family theories, engaging the entire family unit, including parents, to change their family behaviour and dynamics may be necessary to prevent the development of childhood obesity. However, little is known about how these interventions, which may change the family dynamics and weight-related behaviours of parents, affect weight outcomes in parents. Our objecti...

Yabanlı, M., and Alparslan, Y., and Hasanhocaoglu Yapıcı, H., and Yapıcı, S., and Yozukmaz, A.

In this study, heavy metals such as Al, Cr, Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg, Pb etc. content in liver, muscle and gill of three economical marine species [striped seabream (Lithognathus mormyrus Linneaus, 1758), two-band bream (Diplodus vulgaris Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) and Common pandora (Pagellus erythrinus Linneaus, 1758)] obtained from 4 stations (Fethiye, Bodrum, Datça, Marmaris) in South Aegean coast were analyzed. After tissues were mineralized with wet-ashing, their heavy metal concentrations we...

Wei-Chen Zhou, and Zhen Han, and Shuang-Yu Han, and Yi-Qing Wang, and Xue-Wei Zhang, and Yi-Sheng Wu

Detection and mitigation of radio frequency interference (RFI) is one of the most crucial issues in microwave remote sensing measurements. This study analyzes the brightness temperature and RFI acquired by the soil moisture active passive (SMAP) satellite L-band radiometer over China and its offshore areas, revealing that the RFI distribution is uneven. In China, RFI is mainly concentrated in the urban agglomerations and their surrounding areas. Further, RFI and population density show strong po...

Milagre A. Pele, and Daylin Rubio Ribeaux, and Edson Rodrigues Vieira, and Adriana F. Souza, and Marcos A.C. Luna, and Dayana Montero Rodríguez, and Rosileide F.S. Andrade, and Daniela Sales Alviano, and Celuta Sales Alviano, and Eliana Barreto-Bergter, and André L.C.M.A. Santiago, and Galba M. Campos-Takaki

Background: The use of agro-industrial wastes to produce high value-added biomolecules such as biosurfactants is a promising approach for lowering the total costs of production. This study aimed to produce biosurfactants using Rhizopus arrhizus UCP 1607, with crude glycerol (CG) and corn steep liquor (CSL) as substrates. In addition, the biomolecule was characterized, and its efficiency in removing petroderivatives from marine soil was investigated. Results: A 22 factorial design was applied, an...

Ramona Riclea, and Julia Gleitzmann, and Hilke Bruns, and Corina Junker, and Barbara Schulz, and Jeroen S. Dickschat

Volatiles released by the marine Roseobacter clade bacterium Rugeria pomeroyi were collected by use of a closed-loop stripping headspace apparatus (CLSA) and analysed by GC–MS. Several lactones were found for which structural proposals were derived from their mass spectra and unambiguously verified by the synthesis of reference compounds. An enantioselective synthesis of two exemplary lactones was performed to establish the enantiomeric compositions of the natural products by enantioselective GC...

Hsi-Te Shih, and Yixiong Cai, and Yuh-Wen Chiu

A new species of land-locked freshwater shrimp, Neocaridina fonticulata sp. n. (Atyidae), is described from Kenting, Hengchun Peninsula, Pingtung County, southern Taiwan. This new species can be distinguished from its congeners by rostrum structure, pereiopods, and male first and second pleopods. The molecular evidence of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) also supports the establishment of a new species. This is the third endemic species of Neocaridina known from...

Martin Lodenius

Mercury is known for its biomagnification especially in aquatic food chains and for its toxic effects on different organisms including man. In Finland mercury has formerly been used in industry and agriculture and in addition many anthropogenic activities may increase the mercury levels in ecosystems. Phenyl mercury was widely used as slimicide in the pulp and paper industry in the 1950s and 1960s. In the chlor-alkali industry metallic mercury was used as catalyst at three plants. The most toxic...

Osman Samsun, and Ferhat Kalaycı, and Necati Samsun, and Sabri Bilgin

AK Gregg, and M Hatay, and AF Haas, and NL Robinett, and K Barott, and MJA Vermeij, and KL Marhaver, and P Meirelles, and F Thompson, and F Rohwer

Algae-derived dissolved organic matter has been hypothesized to induce mortality of reef building corals. One proposed killing mechanism is a zone of hypoxia created by rapidly growing microbes. To investigate this hypothesis, biological oxygen demand (BOD) optodes were used to quantify the change in oxygen concentrations of microbial communities following exposure to exudates generated by turf algae and crustose coralline algae (CCA). BOD optodes were embedded with microbial communities culture...

B. WEITZMANN, and L. MERCADER, and E. AZZURRO

Here we provide the first documented occurrence of the yellow tang Zebrasoma flavescens and of the clown triggerfish Balistoides conspicillum in the Mediterranean Sea. These tropical fishes were photographed in October 2008 off Sitges (Costa Daurada, Spain: 41°13'27.09" N; 1°47'22.35" E) and in July 2012 in front of Palamós (Costa Brava, Spain: 41°50'56.19" N; 3°8'26.29" E), respectively. Their possible release from private aquaria is discussed.

Andreas F. Haas, and Allison K. Gregg, and Jennifer E. Smith, and Maria L. Abieri, and Mark Hatay, and Forest Rohwer

Planar optodes were used to visualize oxygen distribution patterns associated with a coral reef associated green algae (Chaetomorpha sp.) and a hermatypic coral (Favia sp.) separately, as standalone organisms, and placed in close proximity mimicking coral-algal interactions. Oxygen patterns were assessed in light and dark conditions and under varying flow regimes. The images show discrete high oxygen concentration regions above the organisms during lighted periods and low oxygen in the dark. Siz...

B. F. Jonsson, and S. Doney, and J. Dunne, and M. L. Bender

We assess the ability of ocean biogeochemical models to represent seasonal structures in biomass and net community production (NCP) in the Southern Ocean. Two models are compared to observations on daily to seasonal timescales in four different sections of the region. We use daily satellite fields of chlorophyll (Chl) as a proxy for biomass and in situ observations of O₂ and Ar supersaturation (&Delta;O₂ / Ar) to estimate NCP. &Delta;O₂ / Ar is converted to the f...

Vikas Pandey, and T. Ganesh

The present work is aimed at facilitating conservation efforts of a rare species of sea urchin (<em>Colobocentrotus atratus</em>) reported nearly eight decades after its initial description by Bell (1887) and later by Clarke (1925) from the coastal waters of south Andaman Islands. Recently, during a three years study (2011-14) on the macrobenthic epifauna along the south Andaman coast, five live specimens of <em>C. atratus</em> were recorded from Kodiyaghat (11⁰31'532''N; 092<sup>0</s...

Yuki Sato-Takabe, and Hironori Nakao, and Takafumi Kataoka, and Taichi Yokokawa, and Koji Hamasaki, and Kohei Ohta, and Satoru Suzuki

Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria (AAnPB) rely on not only heterotrophic but also phototrophic energy gain. AAnPB are known to have high abundance in oligotrophic waters and are the major portion of the bacterial carbon stock in the environment. In a yearlong study in an aquaculture area in the Uwa Sea, Japan, AAnPB, accounted for 4.7 to 24% of the total bacteria by count. Since the cell volume of AAnPB is 2.23 ± 0.674 times larger than the mean for total bacteria, AAnPB biomass is estima...

Thomas Bowman, and Elisa Gervasoni, and Riccardo Parelli, and Johanna Jonsdottir, and Maurizio Ferrarin, and Davide Cattaneo, and Ilaria Carpinella

Abstract Background Parkinson’s disease impacts health-related quality of life (HRQoL), however no studies inquired on predictors of HRQoL changes after rehabilitation. This study assessed the relationship between mobility domain of HRQoL measured by Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaires-39 (PDQ-39) and clinical-demographic characteristics and developed a model predicting changes after rehabilitation. Methods Subjects with Parkinson’s disease underwent rehabilitation treatment and completed the fol...

Shiyu Jin, and Lisa Jacquin, and Mantang Xiong, and Ruojing Li, and Sovan Lek, and Wei Li, and Tanglin Zhang

Background The red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852), is one of the most promising freshwater species for aquaculture in China. Understanding its reproductive pattern and population dynamics is crucial for sustainable management, but there is currently a lack of fundamental knowledge of commercial P. clarkii populations. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the reproductive pattern and population dynamics of commercial P. clarkii throughout the yearly cycle. M...

W. Li, and K. Gao, and J. Beardall

It has been proposed that ocean acidification (OA) will interact with other environmental factors to influence the overall impact of global change on biological systems. Accordingly we investigated the influence of nitrogen limitation and OA on the physiology of diatoms by growing the diatom <i>Phaeodactylum tricornutum</i> Bohlin under elevated (1000 μatm; high CO₂ – HC) or ambient (390 μatm; low CO₂ – LC) levels of CO₂ with replete (110 μmol L⁻¹; hig...

Víctor Manuel Tuset, and Ernesto Azzurro, and Antoni Lombarte

Lessepsian species are marine organisms that enter the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal, a phenomenon that has dramatically increased in recent decades. The present study describes the morphological characteristics of the sagittal otoliths of 22 Lessepsian fish species collected at four locations in the Mediterranean Sea. These structures are commonly used in the identification of species found in the digestive tracts of predators, and their morphological description is mainly needed as a to...

Muawiya Musa Abarshi, and Edward Oyedeji Dantala, and Sanusi Bello Mada

Objective: To investigate the level of heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Fe Mn Ni, Pb and Cd) in muscles, gills and liver tissue of Croaker fish from oil spilled rivers of Bonny and Finima, Niger Delta region, Nigeria. Methods: Twenty four Croacker fishes (Genyonemus lineatus) weighing between 250 and 260 g and 24–26 cm length were collected from each sampling sites (Bonny and finima rivers). The frozen fishes were thawed and dried at 105 °C until they reach a constant weight. The dried samples were homogen...

Enrique Morales-Bojórquez, and Agustín Hernández-Herrera, and Manuel O. Nevárez-Martínez, and Miguel Ángel Cisneros-Mata, and Francisco Javier Guerrero-Escobedo

The most important landing sites of the giant squid (Dosidicus gigas D´Orbigny, 1835) fishery in the Gulf of California, Mexico are Guaymas, in Sonora and Santa Rosalía, in Baja California Sur. An increase in the species biomass resulted in increased landings, ranging from 6, 200 tons in 1994 to 140,000 tons in 1996. The development of a management strategy for this fishery based on the proportional escapement has been suggested. This necessitates the estimation of the population size when the f...

Dori Pekmezi, and Cole Ainsworth, and Taylor Holly, and Victoria Williams, and Tanya Benitez, and Kaiying Wang, and Laura Q. Rogers, and Bess Marcus, and Wendy Demark-Wahnefried

Telephone-delivered interventions do not require frequent clinic visits, literacy, or costly technology and thus may represent promising approaches to promoting physical activity in the Deep South, a largely rural U.S. region, with generally lower physical activity, income, and education levels. Building on past Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system-based HIV studies and extensive formative research (11 focus groups on physical activity intervention needs/preferences in the Deep South), the re...

Violaine Pellichero, and Jean-Baptiste Sallée, and Christopher C. Chapman, and Stephanie M. Downes

The Southern Ocean is key in sustaining the world’s ocean global circulation, yet the influence of its freshwater cycle remains unconstrained. Here, the authors use a detailed oceanographic database to evaluate surface buoyancy fluxes and reveal central roles for both precipitation and sea-ice formation and melt.

Federica Cerino, and Daniela Fornasaro, and Martina Kralj, and Michele Giani, and Marina Cabrini

Phytoplankton community structure was analysed from 2010 to 2017 at C1-LTER, the coastal Long-Term Ecological Research station located in the Gulf of Trieste, which is the northernmost part of the Mediterranean Sea. Phytoplankton abundance and relevant oceanographic parameters were measured monthly in order to describe the seasonal cycle and interannual variability of the main phytoplankton taxa (diatoms, dinoflagellates, coccolithophores and flagellates) and to analyse their r...

Jan Michels, and Stanislav N. Gorb

Copepods are dominant members of the marine zooplankton. Their diets often comprise large proportions of diatom taxa whose silicified frustules are mechanically stable and offer protection against grazers. Despite of this protection, many copepod species are able to efficiently break even the most stable frustule types. This ability requires specific feeding tools with mechanically adapted architectures, compositions and properties. When ingesting food, the copepods use the gnathobases of their ...

G. Kalinova, and Zh. Dimitrov, and H. Daskalov, and D. Mladenova , and P. Mechkarova

The present study provides scientific information for fatty acid composition of white brine cheese from cow milk, produced from all regions of Bulgaria, across seasons for the period 2012–2016. A total of 670 samples produced from different manufacturers and collected from supermarkets by Offi-cial control of Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) were examined. Fatty acid composition was determined by gas chromatography. The milk fat purity of 18 samples was established through gas chromatographic...

Jérémie Schiettecatte

By the dawn of the Christian era, Southern Arabia is undergoing major changes; among these, the expansion of maritime trade at the expense of the old caravan route.  This change is often described as something sudden, leading to a more perennial situation the ensuing centuries.We have chosen to take a new look at this case by first gathering all the epigraphic and historic data having to do with pre-Islamic ports in the Red Sea and the Aden Gulf, from when they were first founded 'till the 7th c...

Alexis Pichard

This article seeks to explore the way fantasy TV series Charmed incorporates and recycles fairy tales within its diegetic universe. Studying a range of episodes, we argue that Charmed maintains a close relationship with fairy tales. From its characters to its imagery and spaces, the series meets the main characteristics of the literary genre to which it pays homage in numerous episodes. True, this undertaking of pastiching and subverting the original tales participates in the overall postmodern ...

Amanda Watson, and Anna Timperio, and Helen Brown, and Kylie D. Hesketh

Abstract Background Levels of overall physical activity have been shown to decline across childhood. Schools are considered ideal settings to promote physical activity as children spend a large amount of their waking hours at school. Time-efficient physical activity strategies that demonstrate a positive impact on academic-related outcomes are needed to enable physical activity to be prioritised in the school day. The ACTI-BREAK programme requires classroom teachers to integrate active breaks; 5...

ZHANG Ji-ning, and ZHOU Sheng, and LI Guang-nan, and SUN Hui-feng

In this research, straw biochar was added to the coastal mudflat soil in amounts of 5%, 10%, 15% or 20% (<i>m/m</i>, wet weight) to improve soil fertility. The rice grain yield and the grain-straw ratio were recorded for two years. And the soil properties were also investigated to evaluate the effects of biochar on rice plant growing and soil properties. The results showed that the rice grain yield and the grain-straw ratio were increased with the appropriate biochar amount amended. Straw biocha...

Dong-sheng KONG, and Zheng-hui SUN, and Jin-li JIANG, and Chen WU, and Zhe XUE, and Yu-dong MA, and Wen-xin WANG, and Lin CHENG, and Zhi-zhong ZHANG

<p><strong>Objective</strong> To evaluate the efficacy and safety of intraoperative MRI navigation in the microsurgical treatment of arteriovenous malformations (AVM) located near the main functional areas of brain.  <strong>Methods </strong> A total of 53 patients with AVM in the adjacent functional areas were treated by microsurgical operation with intraoperative MRI navigation and electrophysiological monitoring. Blood oxygenation level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (B...

Ting-ting HUANG, and Ting-ting LIU, and Kai WANG

<p>In order to explore whether working memory capacity of migraineurs was impaired or not, N-back Test was applied in 23 migraineurs and 25 healthy controls who were matched in sex, age, education, Verbal Fluency Test (VF), Digit Span Test (DS), Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) with migraineurs. It showed that when these migraineurs dealed with primary task of N-back Test (0-back), they showed higher accuracy rate (<em>t</em> = 2.627, <em>P</em> = 0.01...

Wendi Liu, and Yigit Kemal Demirel, and Eko Budi Djatmiko, and Setyo Nugroho, and Tahsin Tezdogan, and Rafet Emek Kurt, and Heri Supomo, and Imam Baihaqi, and Zhiming Yuan, and Atilla Incecik

Seakeeping, especially for the roll motions, is of critical importance to the safe operation of fishing boats in Indonesia. In this study, a traditional East Java Fishing Boat (EJFB) has been analysed in terms of its seakeeping performance. Furthermore, a bilge keel was designed to reduce the roll motions of the EJFB using multiple stages approach. After installing the designed bilge keels, it was shown that up to 11.78% and 4.87% reduction in the roll response of irregular seaways and the total...

Xinhong Li, and Guoming Chen, and Renren Zhang, and Hongwei Zhu, and Changhang Xu

This paper presents a comprehensive simulation and assessment of gas dispersion above sea from a subsea release using a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approach. A 3D CFD model is established to evaluate the behavior of flammable gas above sea, and a jack-up drilling platform is included to illustrate the effect of flammable gas cloud on surface vessels. The simulations include a matrix of scenarios for different surface release rates, distances between surface gas pool and offshore platform,...

Francisco Figueroa-Martinez, and Aurora M. Nedelcu, and Adrian Reyes-Prieto, and David R. Smith

The thing about plastid genomes in nonphotosynthetic plants and algae is that they are usually very small and highly compact. This is not surprising: a heterotrophic existence means that genes for photosynthesis can be easily discarded. But the loss of photosynthesis cannot explain why the plastomes of heterotrophs are so often depauperate in noncoding DNA. If plastid genomes from photosynthetic taxa can span the gamut of compactness, why can't those of nonphotosynthetic species? Well, recently ...

Anneleen Dereymaeker, and Vladimir Matic, and Jan Vervisch, and Perumpillichira J. Cherian, and Amir H. Ansari, and Ofelie De Wel, and Paul Govaert, and Maarten De Vos, and Sabine Van Huffel, and Gunnar Naulaers, and Katrien Jansen

Background: To improve the objective assessment of continuous video-EEG (cEEG) monitoring of neonatal brain function, the aim was to relate automated derived amplitude and duration parameters of the suppressed periods in the EEG background (dynamic Interburst Interval= dIBIs) after neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) to favourable or adverse neurodevelopmental outcome. Methods: Nineteen neonates (gestational age 36–41 weeks) with HIE underwent therapeutic hypothermia and had cEEG-moni...

V.V. Fomin, and S.K. Тernovoy, and V.M. Makhov, and M.A. Isaykina, and N.А. Dzhenzhera, and T.V. Turko, and L.N. Ugryumova, and O.V. Babenko

Aim. Assessment of diagnostic significance of informativeness and security of ultrasonography with contrast enhancement drug SonoVue in the diagnosis of Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Materials and methods. The pilot conducted a prospective study which involved 15 patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). All patients gave written consent to participate in the study and processing of personal data. The study included adult patients with an established diagnosis of UC a...

F. Mienis, and G. C. A. Duineveld, and A. J. Davies, and M. M. S. Lavaleye, and S. W. Ross, and H. Seim, and J. Bane, and H. van Haren, and M. J. N. Bergman, and H. de Haas, and S. Brooke, and T. C. E. van Weering

The Cape Lookout cold-water coral area off the coast of North Carolina forms the shallowest and northernmost cold-water coral mound area on the Blake Plateau in the NW Atlantic. Cold-water coral habitats near Cape Lookout are occasionally bathed in the Gulf Stream, which is characterised by oligotrophic warm water and strong surface currents. Here, we present the first insights into the mound distribution and morphology, sedimentary environment and coral cover and near-bed environmental conditio...

Behara Satyanarayana, and Tom Van der Stocken, and Guillaume Rans, and Kodikara Arachchilage Sunanda Kodikara, and Gaétane Ronsmans, and Loku Pulukkuttige Jayatissa, and Mohd-Lokman Husain, and Nico Koedam, and Farid Dahdouh-Guebas

Since the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004, there have been continuous efforts to upgrade the (tsunami) early warning systems as well as their accessibility in local and regional places in South and Southeast Asia. Meanwhile, the protection offered by coastal vegetation like mangroves to the people, property and physical landscape was also recognized and prioritized by both public and private authorities at various governance levels. As more than 90% of the Sri Lankan coastline is vulner...

Paloma Martín, and Francesc Maynou, and Vanessa Stelzenmüller, and Miquel Sacanell

Fishing in the Medes Islands Marine Reserve (511 ha, including a no-take zone and a buffer area) was prohibited in 1983. This study is the result of a 2.5-year monitoring program (sampling on board fishing boats from June 2003 to December 2005) aimed at characterizing the small-scale fishing carried out near the reserve. A total of 109 species were identified. The various métiers in use with the fishing gears trammel net, longline and gillnet were identified on the basis of the landing profiles....