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Understanding and predicting population abundance is a major challenge confronting scientists. Several genetic models have been developed using microsatellite markers to estimate the present and ancestral effective population sizes. However, to get an overview on the evolution of population requires ...
Background/Objectives The carotenoids lutein (L), zeaxanthin (Z), and meso-zeaxanthin (MZ) accumulate in the central retina (the macula), where they are collectively known as macular pigment (MP). MP has been shown to enhance visual function in both diseased and non-diseased retinae, and therefore ...
The Indonesian Islands stretch over almost four time zones along the equatorial belt in between +/- 10* latitude, and its lush vegetation along with its mineral resources are exposed to increasing natural hazards like volcano eruptions, earthquakes and seaquakes with ensuing tsunami, cyclones with devastating ...
Some advantages of lidar remote sensing methods are described along with the tasks for solving which these methods are used. Examples of modern lidar systems designed for the oceanological monitoring are also given.
The smuggling of contraband and high-duty items is a problem faced by governments across the globe. In Singapore, a common method of smuggling small contraband items (e.g. cigarettes, drugs, weapons) is to hide them in consignments of fresh fish packed in ice. Inspection of suspect vessels is a time ...
The integration of the classical Web (of documents) with the emerging Web of Data is a challenging vision. In this paper we focus on an integration approach during searching which aims at enriching the responses of non-semantic search systems (e.g. professional search systems, web search engines) with ...
This paper presents the dynamic modeling and control of a rotary disc dryer used in fishing industry. The nonlinear model obtained from energy and mass balances, is validated with real data measured in two plants of fishmeal located in the north of Perú. A constrained nonlinear predictive controller ...
In this paper we engage with debates concerning people and their contact with the natural environment as part of everyday life drawing on Irwin’s ideas of co-construction and Gibson’s theory of affordances. We focus on peri-urban woodlands in England as important places where people can interact with ...
Despite their use in traditional storytelling, analogy-based narrative devices have not been sufficiently explored in computational narrative. In this paper, we present our analogy-based story generation (ASG) approach in the Riu system, focusing on analogical retrieval and projection. We report on ...
Mounting evidence of climatic effects on riverine environments and adaptive responses of fishes have elicited growing conservation concerns. Measures to rectify population declines include assessment of local extinction risk, population ecology, viability, and genetic differentiation. While conservation ...
We present a novel algorithm for collision free navigation of a non-holonomic robot in unknown complex dynamic environments with moving obstacles. Our approach is based on an integrated representation of the information about the environment which does not require to separate obstacles and approximate ...
As anticipated in my first message in January, the President's Pages in the February through June issues will be devoted to the presentation of the five ComSoc Vice Presidents, who will describe their sector activities and programs for the next two years. The June issue concerns the Vice President for ...
The measurements of valve activity in a population of bivalves under natural environmental conditions (16 oysters in the Bay of Arcachon, France) are used for a physiological model identification. A nonlinear auto-regressive exogenous (NARX) model is designed and tested. The model takes into account ...
Myoglobin (Mb) is the classic vertebrate oxygen-binding protein present in aerobic striated muscles. It functions principally in oxygen delivery and provides muscle with its characteristic red colour. Members of the Antarctic icefish family (Channichthyidae) are widely thought to be extraordinary for ...
Background: Vitiligo is one of the autoimmune skin diseases that destroy the melanocytes of the skin. Moreover, its prevalence varies in different countries and regions. Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the effect of Nigella sativa and fish oil on vitiligo lesions of the patients ...
Hemoglobin is a porphyrin containing protein with an α2β2 tetrameric structure and like other porphyrin compounds shows spectral behavior of species specific characteristics. Researchers tend to relate bands in the hemoglobin spectra to certain structural and/or functional features. Given the fact th↔at ...
SAR imagery of exposed intertidal flats in the German Wadden Sea have been analyzed in order to retrieve location and distribution of oyster and mussel beds. TerraSAR-X and Radarsat-2 images of five test areas along the German North Sea coast form the basis for the present investigation. Multi-polarized, ...
Ultra-low temperature tuna demands a high temperature standard during transportation. In order to ensure its quality, it must be maintained at a low temperature and the temperature change must be small. This paper presents a system based on RFID technology which can assists the information processing ...
An evolutionary algorithm for multiobjective optimization of the structural elements of the large spatial sections of ships is presented. The evolutionary algorithm where selection takes place based on the aggregated objective function combined with domination attributes as well as distance to the asymptotic ...