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Nesting strategies and use of important in-water habitats for far-ranging marine turtles can be determined using satellite telemetry. Because of a lack of information on habitat-use by marine turtles in the northern Gulf of Mexico, we used satellite transmitters in 2010 through 2012 to track movements ...
Invasions of non-native species represent a global problem of great scientific interest. Here we study in detail the response in population and life history characteristics of closely related native species, with divergent habitat preferences, that are impacted by an invading species over a sufficient ...
Background The Leporinus genus, belonging to the Anostomidae family, is an interesting model for studies of sex chromosome evolution in fish, particularly because of the presence of heteromorphic sex chromosomes only in some species of the genus. In this study we used W chromosome-derived probes in ...
Background Most research on Ocean Acidification (OA) has largely focused on the process of calcification and the physiological trade-offs employed by calcifying organisms to support the building of calcium carbonate structures. However, there is growing evidence that OA can also impact upon other key ...
Large-scale studies focused on the diversity of continental slope ecosystems are still rare, usually restricted to a limited number of diversity indices and mainly based on the empirical comparison of heterogeneous local data sets. In contrast, we investigate large-scale fish diversity on the basis ...
Background Depression is a common disorder affecting 10–15% women in the postpartum period. Postpartum depression can disrupt early mother-infant interaction, and constitutes a risk factor for early child development. Recently, attention has been drawn to the hypothesis that a low intake of seafood ...
The reverse osmosis (RO) brine generated from the Al-Quds University wastewater treatment plant was treated using an epuvalisation system. The advanced integrated wastewater treatment plant included an activated sludge unit, two consecutive ultrafiltration (UF) membrane filters (20 kD and 100 kD cutoffs) ...
Background Research on ecosystem services has grown exponentially during the last decade. Most of the studies have focused on assessing and mapping terrestrial ecosystem services highlighting a knowledge gap on marine and coastal ecosystem services (MCES) and an urgent need to assess them. Methodology/Principal ...
Background Aboriginal populations living in Canada’s northern regions are exposed to a number of persistent organic pollutants through their traditional diet which includes substantial amounts of predator fish species. Exposure to dioxin-like compounds (DLCs) can cause a variety of toxic effects including ...
Secondary compounds in fruit mediate interactions with natural enemies and seed dispersers, influencing plant survival and species distributions. The functions of secondary metabolites in plant defenses have been well-studied in green tissues, but not in reproductive structures of plants. In this study, ...
Abstract Viscous oils have adverse mobility that causes production to decline rapidly following a period of primary recovery. Traditionally, enhanced oil recovery (EOR) for this kind of oil has mostly relied on reducing viscosity and increasing mobility using thermal methods or miscible gas injection. ...
Abstract This paper discusses a structured combination of procedures used to investigate polymers for EOR application with the focus on performance, compatibility with production chemicals and phase behaviour. This approach allows for early identification of risks and points to further work necessary ...
Abstract Chemical injection in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects is a complex process because it involves multiple chemicals with complex fluids. Costs for even a small-scale pilot test could be up in the millions of US dollars (USD) and large-scale field-wide expansion would be in the 100s of millions ...
Background The evolution of individual microsatellite loci is often complex and homoplasy is common but often goes undetected. Sequencing alleles at a microsatellite locus can provide a more complete picture of the common evolutionary mechanisms occurring at that locus and can reveal cases of homoplasy. ...
Chronic inflammation, which is associated with obesity, may play a role in the etiology of several diseases. Thus, reducing inflammation may offer a disease-prevention strategy, particularly among the obese. Several modifiable factors have been associated with inflammation, including: dietary fiber ...
This paper discusses a technique for the classification of divers, underwater vehicles and other similar targets based on adaptive multi-feature fusion. This technique mainly uses target features, e.g., image feature, moment feature and HRRP (high resolution range profile) features selected by an Adaptive ...
Young Technology Showcase Today’s drilling engineering teams are continually looking for better ways to mitigate risk and improve health, safety, and environmental conditions at the rig site. Many operators would prefer to acquire a comprehensive suite of petrophysical measurements while drilling—without ...
Estuarine biogeochemistry plays a key role in the cycling of biological and chemical parameters. In the present study, a first attempt has been made towards the coupling of a realistic three-dimensional estuarine circulation model with biophysical model in the Hooghly Estuary (21°36'-22°16'N and 87°42'-88°15'E) ...
This paper presents the outcomes of the EC FP7 NEREIDS project focused to move forward to an integrated maritime picture for ship surveillance and monitoring applications. Technical details about the system philosophy and how different external add-in modules are integrated into a common system kernel ...
Gulf is a significant region to study due to its economic importance with large number of ports and hydrological significance for its extreme tidal circulation. Remote sensing data of both physical and biological parameters is assimilated using Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) and multiscale objective ...