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Project Eyes on the Seas is a joint venture between the Pew Charitable Trusts and the UK Satellite Applications Catapult. It will focus on an initial area in the territorial waters of the Pacific island of Palau, to the east of The Philippines.
Coral reefs around US- and US-affiliated Pacific islands and atolls span wide oceanographic gradients and levels of human impact. Here we examine the relative influence of these factors on coral reef fish biomass, using data from a consistent large-scale ecosystem monitoring program conducted by scientific ...
Antimicrobials are widely used in preventive and curative medicine in animals. Benefits from curative use are clear – it allows sick animals to be healthy with a gain in human welfare. The case for preventive use of antimicrobials is less clear cut with debates on the value of antimicrobials as growth ...
Background While several studies have examined the accuracy of direct genomic breeding values (DGV) within and across purebred cattle populations, the accuracy of DGV in crossbred or multi-breed cattle populations has been less well examined. Interest in the use of genomic tools for both selection ...
Surface water has been a source of domestic water due to shortage of potable water in most rural areas. This study was carried out to evaluate the level of contamination of Mvudi River in South Africa by measuring turbidity, electrical conductivity (EC), pH, concentrations of nitrate, fluoride, chloride, ...
Natural wetlands have been increasingly transformed into urbanized ecosystems commonly colonized by stress-tolerant non-native species. Although non-native species present numerous threats to natural ecosystems, some could provide important benefits to urbanized ecosystems. This study investigated the ...
Background Praziquantel (PZQ) is an effective pesticide against monogeneans. Its pharmacokinetics in fish may be affected by water environment and temperature. The present study was designed to compare the pharmacokinetics, tissue distribution, and elimination of PZQ in freshwater-acclimated grass ...
Green and white sturgeon are species of high conservational and economic interest, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Delta (SFBD) for which significant climate change-derived alterations in salinity and nutritional patterns are forecasted. Although there is paucity of information, it is critical ...
Concentrations of floating plastic were measured throughout the Mediterranean Sea to assess whether this basin can be regarded as a great accumulation region of plastic debris. We found that the average density of plastic (1 item per 4 m2), as well as its frequency of occurrence (100% of the sites sampled), ...
A versatile, low power solution in monitoring and control system based on ZigBee network and National Instrument (NI) myRIO is presented in this study. A ZigBee-based wireless sensor network (WSN) combined with a series of low power embedded MSP430 was used as a node in the system to monitor, control ...
In this paper a novel application of salad leaf disease detection has been developed using a combination of big data analytics and on field multi-dimensional sensing. Heterogeneous knowledge integration from publicly available various big data sources, calibrated with in-situ ground truth information, ...
There is a critical need for modern lake resource management in the Philippines because of climate change, disasters, intensive aquaculture and poor waste-management practices. To this end, we have deployed floating field-servers in Lake Palakpakin, one of the Seven Lakes in San Pablo City, Philippines ...
An emulsion contains 50 to 90% by weight of an aqueous phase and 10 to 50% by weight of an oil phase containing 30 to 90% by weight of a diluent oil, and at least 10% by weight of at least one polyunsaturated fatty acid and/or derivative thereof. The emulsion has improved stability and/or organoleptic ...
The installation comprises a feed conveyor (2) defining a transport plane for products and an advancing direction, a unit (3) for detecting a position of the products on the transport plane, a support unit (4) for receiving the products, a gripping unit (5) carried by an actuating unit (6) and adapted ...
The invention provides products and methods for making the products. The products comprise a container comprising a second emulsion encasing a first emulsion wherein the first emulsion and the second emulsion have a different appearance and texture. Preferably, the first emulsion is a meat emulsion ...
The invention relates to a method for conserving foodstuffs that include fish and are provided in slab form. The method includes the following preparation steps: preparing raw fish by adding (12) a water-retaining product to same, forming (16, 20) a slab and sterilising (32) the foodstuffs. [Image ...