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This paper analyzes the hourly load curve of the total electricity demand using the most detailed information available for the Colombian electricity market. Our findings are the following: first, regulated and non-regulated markets have very different load curves; for the regulated market, the load ...
In India, more than 104 species of Myxobolus have so far been reported infecting freshwater as well as marine fishes. The study focuses on the description of a new myxosporean species, Myxobolus sp.n PKB 2014 from the gill lamellae of an Indian major carp Labeo rohita. The species have been described ...
Abstract The field of conservation genetics, when properly implemented, is a constant juggling act integrating molecular genetics, ecology, and demography with applied aspects concerning managing declining species or implementing conservation laws and policies. This young field has grown substantially ...
ABSTRACT In southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina), fasting- and foraging-related fluctuations in body composition are reflected by buoyancy changes. Such buoyancy changes can be monitored by measuring changes in the rate at which a seal drifts passively through the water column, i.e. when all ...
The aim of the present study was to investigate the prokaryotic community structure of the anaerobic ciliate, Metopus sp. using rRNA sequencing, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Metopus sp. was physically separated from anaerobic granular sludge ...
Theory and some empirical evidence suggest that groups of animals orient better than isolated individuals. We present the first test of this hypothesis for pelagic marine larvae, at the stage of settlement, when orientation is critical to find a habitat. We compare the in situ behaviour of individuals ...
Ageing is linked to a number of changes in how the body and its organs function. On a molecular level, ageing is associated with a reduction of telomere length, changes in metabolic and gene-transcription profiles and an altered DNA-methylation pattern. Lifestyle factors such as smoking or stress can ...
more strains formed a strong biofilm at 18 than at 30°C. Finally, more than 85% of analyzed strains were found to be sensitive to the 16 tested antibiotics. These data suggest the low risk of human infection by STEC if shellfish from these shellfish-harvesting areas were consumed.
In undersea environment, development of low-cost communication module is highly important for dissemination of undersea wireless sensor networks. Some undersea wireless sensor network applications do not require high performance communication capability such as transmission distance. If the terrestrial ...
This paper presents an accurate and automatic algorithm to recognize and count fish in the video footages of fishery operations. The unique character of the approach is that it combines machine learning techniques with statistical methods to fully make use the benefits of these algorithms. The approach ...
Background Dietary changes associated to shifts in subsistence strategies during human evolution may have induced new selective pressures on phenotypes, as currently held for lactase persistence. Similar hypotheses exist for arylamine N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) mediated acetylation capacity, a well-known ...
The burden of leptospirosis in humans and animals in Africa is higher than that reported from other parts of the world. However, the disease is not routinely diagnosed in the continent. One of major factors limiting diagnosis is the poor availability of live isolates of locally circulating Leptospira ...
Trophic interactions are highly complex and modern sequencing techniques reveal enormous biodiversity across multiple scales in marine microbial communities. Within the chemically and physically relatively homogeneous pelagic environment, this calls for an explanation beyond spatial and temporal heterogeneity. ...
The basic metabolic cytochrome P450 (CYP) system is essential for biotransformation of sterols and xenobiotics including drugs, for synthesis and degradation of signaling molecules in all living organisms. Most eukaryotes including free-living flatworms have numerous paralogues of the CYP gene encoding ...
With the advent of abundant multimedia data on the Internet, there have been research efforts on multimodal machine learning to utilize data from different modalities. Current approaches mostly focus on developing models to fuse low-level features from multiple modalities and learn unified representation ...
The aim of this study is to identify the key performance indicators (KPIs) used to monitor and measure operational quality performance in the oil and gas industry. To investigate this, a face-to-face interview was administered to nine subject matter experts in oil and gas industry from different oil ...
The aim of the PhD research was to contribute to improving fisheries management. The overall purpose was to select applicable modeling techniques, develop models and simulate the dynamics of fisheries management with the aim of comparing different management strategies by looking at their impact on ...
Due to sharply rising labor costs in Thailand, many small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in various industrial sectors including seafood industry need to improve their competitive capability. The aim of proposed system is to replace workers with automatic machine for upgrading Thai SMEs in seafood ...
An agent-based approach for modelling fisher behavior as a dynamic constraint resolution problem is proposed. The fishers are modeled as agents tasked with optimizing different multi-objective utility functions over a search space subjected to ecological, social, and political constraints derived from ...
This paper proposes a concept of exploring virtual worlds using a pico projector. To demonstrate this concept, a game, called Gone Fishing, was created on top of the infrastructure vuSpot. Gone Fishing is a game where a mobile device projects a virtual seabed over a room. Each user owns an aquarium ...