ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO BANCA DATI: 13/09/2024 13:00:57
Background A preparation method for quantification of bacteria in tissues is obligatory to reduce tissue mass, concentrate the target, purify, remove inhibitory substances and to achieve constant target recovery rates. No preparation method has been available until now for a high mass of tissue applicable ...
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are found widely distributed through Nature, and participate in the innate host defense of each species. Fish are a great source of these peptides, as they express all of the major classes of AMPs, including defensins, cathelicidins, hepcidins, histone-derived peptides, ...
Marine fish are generally unable or have low ability for the biosynthesis of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) from C18 PUFA precursors, with some notable exceptions including the herbivorous marine teleost Siganus canaliculatus in which such a capability was recently demonstrated. To ...
Juvenile fish trade monitoring is an important task on Brazilian fish farms. However, the identification of juvenile fish through morphological analysis is not feasible, particularly between interspecific hybrids and pure species individuals, making the monitoring of these individuals difficult. Hybrids ...
Introduction Many marine planktonic crustaceans such as copepods have been considered as widespread organisms. However, the growing evidence for cryptic and pseudo-cryptic speciation has emphasized the need of re-evaluating the status of copepod species complexes in molecular and morphological studies ...
Background: Vibrio parahaemolyticus is an important human pathogen which can cause gastroenteritis when consumed in raw or partially-cooked seafood. The pathogenesis of V. parahaemolyticus is based on the presence of virulence factors: the thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH) and TDH-related hemolysin ...
Iron-deficiency anaemia (IDA) is a common health problem in rural women and young children of Bangladesh. The university students usually take food from residential halls, and the food value of their diets is not always balanced. This cross-sectional study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of ...
The gateway to the internet starts for almost 66% of the world's population at a search engine. Most of us use it as the starting point for that e-commerce purchase, flight reservation, hotel reservation, ordering pizza, obtaining relevant news, research articles and the list is endless. We are able ...
Student Investigative Projects for grades 2-5 at Riverside Elementary School are presented. The posters were made by the students. The second grade investigated which substance out of five would melt ice the fastest; the third grade created an experiment that studied which type of fish learned to associate ...
A reject option in classification is useful to filter less confident decisions of known classes or to detect and remove untrained classes. This paper presents a novel rejection system in a hierarchical classification method for fish species recognition. Since hierarchical methods accumulate errors along ...
Waste fish fats from Tunisian fish industry were pyrolyzed under nitrogen in a laboratory scale fixed-bed reactor. The pyrolysis was performed with a heating rate of 5°C/min from the ambient up to a final temperature of 500°C. In these conditions the main product is bio-oil (55 wt.%) while the co-products ...
The structure determination of major allergens is a prerequisite for analyzing surface exposed areas of the allergen and for mapping conformational epitopes. These may be determined by experimental methods including crystallographic and NMR-based approaches or predicted by computational methods. In ...
As smartphones and tablets become more integrated into our lives, mobile applications provide an unprecedented opportunity to engage users. One of the more dramatic shifts with mobile apps is the use of contextual information to make them more relevant to the user. This use of contextual information ...
In this study, we propose a novel integrated visualization system that enables interactive visual development of a Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) model for predicting the locations of fishing grounds. Our system enables the interactive selection of variables that are highly correlated to fish catches ...
There is an arising and concerning issue in the field of bacterial resistance, which is confirmed by the number of deaths associated with drug-resistant bacterial infections. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of antibiotics on Staphylococcus aureus non-resistant strain and strains resistant ...
Background Atlantic salmon aquaculture operations in the Northern hemisphere experience large seasonal fluctuations in seawater temperature. With summer temperatures often peaking around 18-20°C there is growing concern about the effects on fish health and performance. Since the heart has a major role ...
Background Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), which contain two or more double bonds in their backbone, are the focus of intensive global research, because of their nutritional value, medicinal applications, and potential use as biofuel. However, the ability to produce these economically important ...
Offshore wind and wave power can be remarkably complimentary. Given an extended, stable floating platform to share, important economies of renewable power production and energy storage are possible. The Pneumatically Stabilized Platform (PSP) embodies such a platform. Developed with USDARPA support ...
Many technologies are being developed and improved to supply the world growing demand for electricity. One of these technologies is the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), which makes use of vertical ocean temperature gradients to produce energy. Its resources are very large, but restricted to the ...
The fabrication and characterization of a fiber optic dissolved oxygen sensor based on the dynamic quenching of fluorescence from a ruthenium complex in gas and aqueous phase is presented. The unclad portion of the multimode optical fiber is coated with an oxygen sensitive ruthenium complex, which is ...