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BEFORE THE DAWN of the industrial age, an average UK farm may have had a team of 20 men and 20 horses. As technology progressed and as further advances were made, this might have become 20 men and a tractor. Now, as innovation more usually associated with space exploration is being increasingly adopted ...
Classification of Penaeid prawn species is an important research problem in the area of aquaculture. In literature, many ML algorithms have been proposed for classification. In this paper, performance and usability of penaied prawn species are compared using K-Nearest Neighbourhood (KNN) algorithm, ...
Peninsular India, with its vast and unexplored marine water spread, promises a thriving future for cage farming industry. Nevertheless, the remoteness of cage sites and the characteristic oceanographic upheavals of tropical Indian Ocean, demands several engineering interventions that can ease the level ...
Using mangroves as a potential coastal bioshield has been intensively studied and tested in the past 10 years. Without a doubt, these studies suggest mangroves are able to attenuate waves thus make it perfect bioshield against tsunami, storm surges, erosion and other coastal disaster. This paper synthesis ...
County economy is an important carrier of national economy. In recent years, its importance has got an unprecedented increase with the introduction of main functional zones. Based on Yunnan statistical yearbook and Weishan County's statistical yearbook, this paper applied GIS spatial analysis techniques ...
To solve problems that existed in wired water monitoring system, such as high cost and restricted monitoring water range, a kind of Lijiang River water environment monitoring system is designed based on WSN. In order to ensure long survival time of the sensor node and a high performance of routing node, ...
Electricity theft is a critical issue that needs to be solved. In the future smart meters can immediately monitor the entire system and obtain real-time operating data of a low voltage distribution system. By properly using the data from smart meters, the real-time distribution system model can be established ...
Aquaculture is a growing multi-billion pound industry facing many challenges. Traditional fish feeding mechanism in today's aquaculture farms stands behind a variety of challenges, including fish welfare, fish growth distribution, environmental effect especially in open ocean cage fish farms, and production ...
Image processing and analysis techniques have drawn increasing attention since they enable a non-extractive and non-lethal approach to fisheries survey, such as fish size measurement, abundance prediction, catch estimation and compliance, species recognition and population counting. In this work, we ...
Visual computing technologies have traditionally been developed for conventional setups where air is the surrounding medium for the user, the display, and/or the camera. However, given mankind's increasingly need to rely on the oceans to solve the problems of future generations (such as offshore oil ...
Background Studies suggest that fish consumption can restrict weight gain. However, little is known about how fish consumption affects gestational weight gain (GWG), and whether this relationship depends on genetic makeup. Objective To examine the association between fish consumption and GWG, and ...
Reducing gender inequality is a major policy concern worldwide, and one of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, our understanding of the magnitude and spatial distribution of gender inequality results either from limited-scale case studies or from national-level statistics. Here, we produce the ...
Background Despite increased use of dietary pattern methods in nutritional epidemiology, there have been few direct comparisons of methods. Older adults are a particularly understudied population in the dietary pattern literature. This study aimed to compare dietary patterns derived by principal component ...
On average, more than 1,000 individuals will acquire a mosquito-borne disease in Western Australia (WA) each year. Knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) in relation to mosquitoes and mosquito-borne disease have not yet been investigated within Australia. A randomized telephone survey of 2,500 households ...
Box jellyfish cause human fatalities and have a life cycle and habit associated with shallow waters (<5 m) in mangrove creeks, coastal beaches, embayments. In north-western Australia, tow video and epibenthic sled surveys discovered large numbers (64 in a 1500 m tow or 0.05 m−2) of Chironex sp. very ...
Migration is a widespread phenomenon among many taxa. This complex behaviour enables animals to exploit many temporally productive and spatially discrete habitats to accrue various fitness benefits (e.g. growth, reproduction, predator avoidance). Human activities and global environmental change represent ...
This review studies biofuel expansion in terms of competition between conventional and advanced biofuels based on bioenergy potential. Production of advanced biofuels is generally more expensive than current biofuels because products are not yet cost competitive. What is overlooked in the discussion ...
Counteracting the worldwide trend of coral reef degeneration is a major challenge for the scientific community. A crucial management approach to minimizing stress effects on healthy reefs and helping the recovery of disturbed reefs is reef protection. However, the current rapid decline of the world’s ...
Background The potential for alternative plant protein sources to replace limited marine ingredients in fish feeds is important for the future of the fish farming industry. However, plant ingredients in fish feeds contain antinutritional factors (ANFs) that can promote gut inflammation (enteritis) ...