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Flood damage assessment is an important part of assessing flood control in hydraulic engineering, flood risk mapping, and flood insurance claims. How to assess flood damage scientifically and accurately has been the emphasis and difficulty of flood disaster research. This article describes the present ...
Aiming to elucidate whether large-scale dispersal factors or environmental species sorting prevail in determining patterns of Trichoptera species composition in mountain lakes, we analyzed the distribution and assembly of the most common Trichoptera (Plectrocnemia laetabilis, Polycentropus flavomaculatus, ...
Automatically describing an image with a sentence is a long-standing challenge in computer vision and natural language processing. Due to recent progress in object detection, attribute classification, action recognition, etc., there is renewed interest in this area. However, evaluating the quality of ...
Surface water is used for irrigation of food plants all over the World. Such water can be of variable hygienic quality, and can be contaminated from many different sources. The association of contaminated irrigation water with contamination of fresh produce is well established, and many outbreaks of ...
Background The Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis) is endangered through anthropogenic activities including over-fishing, damming, shipping, and pollution. Controlled reproduction has been adopted and successfully conducted for conservation. However, little information is available on the reproductive ...
In this paper we research one joint structure of the CFAR detector and a parameter estimation of the moving different marine targets at the background of a sea clutter using Bistatic Forward Scatter Radar (FSR) system. In our investigates we use the two pulse MTI CFAR processor with K/M-L batch processor ...
An electric ray is a kind of electric fish generating strong pulse currency using electric organs which are serially integrated electrocytes converting chemical energy (ATP) into electric energy using ion pumps and ion channels on the cells. We here present a power generation method using this electric ...
Abstract Biodiversity and habitat protection are key items in the offshore activities and their relevance increased in the last decades. The O&G Companies made relevant efforts to operate in compliance with the needs of biodiversity conservation. Nevertheless, public opinion and several NGOs continue ...
Deep-sea fisheries provide an important source of protein to Pacific Island countries and territories that are highly dependent on fish for food security. However, spatial management of these deep-sea habitats is hindered by insufficient data. We developed species distribution models using spatially ...
How can we know whether a statement about our world is valid. For example, given a relationship between a pair of entities e.g., ‘eat(horse, hay)’, how can we know whether this relationship is true or false in general. Gathering such knowledge about entities and their relationships is one of the fundamental ...
Abstract Directive 2008/56/CE on Marine Strategy provides a framework for Community actions in order to achieve the objectives of good environmental status by 2020. The Directive was transposed in Italy by Legislative Decree. n. 0 190/2010 which lists future actions to be implemented to achieve the ...
As a critical reference for the management of fisheries production, fishing benefits calculation, and fishery resources survey, the statistics of vessel voyage can be readily available with the assistant of vessel monitoring system using Beidou satellite navigation. In this paper, a novel methodology ...
Antibiotic-resistant mechanisms are associated with fitness costs. However, why antibiotic-resistant bacteria usually show increasing adaptation to hosts is largely unknown, especially from the host’s perspective. The present study reveals the host’s varied response to balofloxacin-resistant Escherichia ...
Thermal sensitivity of the cardiorespiratory oxygen supply capacity has been proposed as the cardinal link underlying the upper boundary of the temperature niche in aquatic ectotherms. Here we examined the evidence for this link in two eurythermal decapods, the Giant tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) and ...
Myxosporean taxonomy which is traditionally based on the morphology of the myxospore stage, is in a state of flux given new insights provided by the expanding dataset of DNA sequences. To date, more than 40 species of Thelohanellus from India have been described according to morphometric characteristics. ...
Species and populations with parallel evolution of specific traits can help illuminate how predictable adaptations and divergence are at the molecular and developmental level. Following the last glacial period, dwarfism and specialized bottom feeding morphology evolved rapidly in several landlocked ...
Class 1 integrons are mobile gene elements (MGEs) containing qacEΔ1 that are resistant to quaternary ammonium compound (QAC) disinfectants. This study compared the abundances of class 1 integrons and antiseptic resistance genes in municipal (M) and swine slaughterhouse (S) wastewater treatment plants ...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the combined effects of thermal acclimation and n-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids (n-3 HUFA) content of the food source on the aerobic capacities of fish in a thermal changing environment. The model used was the golden grey mullet Liza aurata, a species of ...
A common signature of marine invasions worldwide is a significant loss of parasites (= parasite escape) in non-native host populations, which may confer a release from some of the harmful effects of parasitism (e.g., castration, energy extraction, immune activation, behavioral manipulation) and possibly ...
Retrovirus (RV) is efficient for gene transfer and integration in dividing cells of diverse organisms. RV provides a powerful tool for insertional mutagenesis (IM) to identify and functionally analyze genes essential for normal and pathological processes. Here we report RV-mediated gene transfer and ...