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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) represent a class of small non-coding RNA (sncRNA) molecules that can regulate mRNAs by inducing their degradation or by blocking translation. Considering that miRNAs are ubiquitous, stable, and conserved across animal species, it seems feasible to exploit them for clinical applications. ...
Background Serum amyloid A (SAA), an acute-phase protein, is expressed primarily in the liver, and recently found also expressed in cancer tissues. However, its expression and prognostic value in breast cancer have not been described. Results SAA protein was found expressed in tumor cells in 44.2% ...
A communication link between fishing vessels or with the sea shore using Wi-Fi is explored in this paper. For effective communication a high gain antenna is mounted at the sea shore which acts as base station (BS). Although narrow band directional antenna used in the Base Station (BS) ensures the connectivity ...
Urban commons were traditionally defined as commonly owned environmental resources — forests, rivers, fisheries or grazing land that were shared, used and enjoyed by all. Commons were then adapted to include public goods and services, such as public spaces, marketplaces, public education, health and ...
Dredging work in marine construction causes some damage to fisheries industry and ecosystem due to turbidity. In the worst case, turbidity may cause suspension of construction work, and it affects the construction schedule. This study examines the development of filtration methodology to remove suspended ...
This paper designs a plankton particle diameter measurement instrument based on laser projection, which uses laser light source to irradiate the photodiode array, and then collects plankton shape data with the shielding effect. The system reconstructs the morphological characteristics of plankton by ...
Considerable interests in recent years have been directed towards the study of various mechanical devices to draw up deep ocean water (DOW), particularly the air-lift artificial upwelling devices. However, one of the obstacles which limit their application in open ocean mariculture is the difficulty ...
To conserve and manage fish stocks in fisheries, people monitor the growth and quantities of fish by collected underwater videos and images. However, the efficiency of finding fish from videos and images is limited by manual operation. In this paper, we propose an automatic method to improve the efficiency ...
Seawater chlorophyll-a (Chla) represents algal biomass in ocean and is a major index of eutrophication. In this paper, bootstrapped artificial neural network (BANN) model is developed for predicting the seawater Chla concentration around the north Pacific Rim. Three-layer ANN structure is applied and ...
Thermocline has a significant impact on marine fishery, navy submarine activity, ocean circulation and internal wave. In consideration of long range, low cost, and high maneuverability, the AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) is an ideal platform for ocean local precisely thermocline tracking. Combining ...
Acoustic systems are used widely to provide quantitative estimates of biomass for fisheries and ecosystem assessments. Traditionally, these systems are attached to surface vessels, but increasingly they are being fitted to remote operated vehicles, autonomous vehicles and towed platforms. These platforms ...
In this study the cranial nerves development of H. huso are explained from 1 to 54-days-old (1, 3, 6, 15, 21 and 54 days). Despite all the researches on fish brain, there are no study on nerves evolution on H. huso during their larvae life. For this research 40 samples of larvae H. huso were obtained ...
The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of fish oil supplementation prior to mating on secondary sex ratio of pups (the proportion of males at birth) in bitches. Sixty five bitches (German Shepherd, n = 35; Husky, n = 30) were enrolled in the study. Bitches (140-150 days post-estrus) ...
Here we provide data on accessibility of nucleolus-like bodies (NLBs) of fully-grown (GV) mouse oocytes to fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) probes and anti-nucleolar antibodies as well as on oocyte general morphology and large scale chromatin configuration, which relate to the research article ...
Nascent transcripts being copied from specific human genes can be detected using RNA FISH (fluorescence in situ hybridization) with intronic probes, and the distance between two different nascent transcripts is often measured when studying structure–function relationships. Such distance measurements ...
Objective Advanced maternal age (AMA) is an important factor in decreasing success of assisted reproductive technology by having a negative effect on the success rate of intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), particularly by increasing the rate of embryo aneuploidy. It has been suggested that the ...
The aim of this paper is to analyze the current international regulation of exploration and exploitation of gas and oil in the ocean in order to provide legal recommendations to preserve marine biodiversity and to prevent climate change in oceans. Offshore oil and gas exploration has been increasing ...
This article analyzes mismatches between syntactic and prosodic constituency in Irish and attempts to understand those mismatches in terms of recent proposals about the nature of the syntax-prosody interface. It argues in particular that such mismatches are best understood in terms of Selkirk’s (2011) ...
Background Following extreme climatic warming events, Eocene Lagerstätten document aquatic and terrestrial vertebrate faunas surprisingly similar to modern counterparts. This transition in marine systems is best documented in the earliest teleost-dominated coral reef assemblage of Pesciara di Bolca, ...
The grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) is a herbivorous, freshwater fish species of the family Cyprinidae, and the only species of the genus Ctenopharyngodon. Neoplasms in fishes are generally less aggressive than neoplasms in mammals and are most commonly discrete, focal and benign neoplasms. A 3-year-old ...