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Variable region-containing chitin-binding proteins (VCBPs) are secreted, immune-type molecules that have been described in both amphioxus, a cephalochordate, and sea squirt, Ciona intestinalis, a urochordate. In adult Ciona, VCBP-A, -B and -C are expressed in hemocytes and the cells of the gastrointestinal ...
Blunt snout bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) are susceptible to hepatic steatosis when maintained in modern intensive culture systems. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential roles of microRNAs (miRNAs) in diet-induced hepatic steatosis in this species. MiRNAs, small non-coding RNAs that ...
Tributary and mainstem connections represent important links for the movement of fish and other biota throughout river networks. We investigated the timing, frequency and environmental conditions associated with movements by adult golden perch (Macquaria ambigua) between the mainstem of the mid-Murray ...
This essay, which is the fifth in the series “Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Personal Experiences in Ethnobiology”, is a personal reminiscence by the researcher on his first field experience in Turkey in the late 1970s, which was a failure from an ethnobiological point of view but a success ...
Food availability can influence the nutritional and social dynamics within and among species. Our investigation focused on grizzly and black bears in coastal British Columbia, Canada, where recent and dramatic declines in their primary prey (salmon) raise concerns about potentially negative effects ...
The measurement of phytoplankton distributions in ocean ecosystems provides the basis for elucidating the influences of physical processes on plankton dynamics. Technological advances allow for measurement of phytoplankton data to greater resolution, displaying high spatial variability. In conventional ...
Objective To characterize trends in meat consumption, and verify the percentage of excessive red and processed meat consumption in the last decade in São Paulo, Brazil. Design Cross-sectional weighted data from the Health Survey for São Paulo, conducted in São Paulo, Brazil among people aged 12 years ...
Background: Exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) during fetal development can increase the risk of adverse health effects during childhood. Maternal characteristics and physiological changes during gestation, such as gestational weight gain (GWG), may have an influence in the overall burden ...
Even though many studies have shown that radioactive caesium levels in fish caught outside of Japan were below experimental detection limits of a few Bq kg−1, significant public concern has been expressed about the safety of consuming seafood from the Pacific Ocean following the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear ...
This paper discusses the use of a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based remote sensing system for different applications, namely post-disaster assessment, environmental management and monitoring of infrastructure development. A collaborative research consortium was established to promote the ...
The following topics are dealt with: electronics applications; control engineering; power engineering; data handling; and computer applications.
In this work, the relations between the growth of typical fish and primary water quality indexes are studied. Based on the embedded system platform for aquaculture, the fuzzy reasoning system is developed to evaluate water quality of culture environment The fuzzy knowledge representation and reasoning ...
Based on hourly observational data on Temperature (T), salinity (S), dissolved oxygen (DO) and apparent oxygen utilization (AOU) in offshore cage aquaculture area in Yueqing Bay, eastern China, this paper tried to analysis the changing characteristics of these water quality parameters by means of maximum ...
As a kind of carnivorous fish, largemouth bass is of high economic value. When it is farmed, its food habit should be transformed from the living food into artificial bait. The traditional way of feeding domesticating has such problems as low survival rate, cannibalism and heavy workload. To solve these ...
In large-scale monitoring programs, such as in agriculture and environmental management, field robots have potentially lower cost and technical overhead than multiple static sensors. Robot sensing data, however, is not generally shared during, or after deployment. This is a wasted opportunity for enhancing ...
Bangladesh has long been suffering from energy starvation with its dense population of almost 160 million. Energy crisis of Bangladesh has reached to the very last level and power generation is the top priority of the present government. Government has taken some policies to increase the power generation ...
The following topics are dealt with: social media network; computer-mediated collaboration; collaborative robots; collaborative access control; mobile security; collaborative learning; wireless sensor networks; video streaming; peer-to-peer network; public health awareness; telemedicine; cloud computing; ...
After studying 151 publications on the topic of buyer-supplier relationships over a 20 year period, Terpend, Tyler, Krause and Handfield [1]point out that the concept of sustained competitive advantage deserves more emphasis by researchers investigating value extraction form buyer-supplier relationships. ...
During the past four decades the fisheries productivity of the world has been declining due to pressures from overfishing, habitat change, pollution, and climate change. Sustainable use of marine resources requires effective monitoring and management of the world's fish stocks. Remote sensing techniques ...
The marine and coastal spatial data & information management actions within the Romanian research & development institutions, formed towards the implementation of Coastal ecosystem based management standards include RS data validation, QC-QD procedure and Web-GIS services. The RS & GIS complementary ...