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The objective of the FP7 funded TROPOS project is to design a modular multi-use platform for use in deep waters, with a focus on the Mediterranean, tropical and sub-tropical regions. In this paper, the related environmental aspects are considered, where both legal and technical issues are addressed. ...
Like other dolphins, Sousa Chinensis produces click signals to echolocate in underwater. Research on the source level (SL) of click signal transmitted by Sousa Chinensis is beneficial to understand the survival and behavior of such animals. In the shallow sea where the Sousa Chinensis lives, the underwater ...
Set-net is a kind of passive fishing gear. In order to achieve efficient fishing operation, it is necessary to know the amount of fish entrapped before set out fishing. Therefore, remote monitoring of the fishing state in set-net is important. Although there was a telemetry echo sounder system called ...
According to Situation Report on pollution of coastal areas in Vietnam, surface waters and coastal sediments in Ha Long Bay have high oil-pollution level as much as eighteen times higher than Vietnamese standard limits. The development of economic society, especially the rapid growth of the tourism ...
A 3-D Marine Environmental Committee (MEC) model was conducted to describe the specific circulation patterns of hydrodynamics of water quality and ecosystems driven by climate change forcing in Kamaishi Bay at Miyagi Prefecture in the Great East Japan. The major concern of this study is the diffusion ...
Nowadays an accurate modeling of the system to be controlled is essential for reliable autopilot. This paper presents a non-linear model of the autonomous underwater vehicle “CWolf”. Matrices and the corresponding coefficients generate a parameterized representation for added mass, Coriolis and centripetal ...
The intensive cultures have expanded rapidly due to their good productivity. However, the sustainability of intensive shrimp culture is increasingly being questioned. Many problems like disease due to virus, excessive nutrient enrichment, and hypoxic condition around the bottom soil are reported in ...
A 1:36 scale model tests are carried out in the Near-shore Wave Basin (NSWB) at Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory (THL) with the jacket type offshore wind turbine foundation under the location of soft scour protection in the test area. The scour around the jacket type offshore wind turbine foundation exposed ...
The decline of freshwater fish biodiversity corroborates the trends of unsustainable pesticide usage and increase of disease incidence in the last few decades. Little is known about the role of nonlethal exposure to pesticide, which is not uncommon, and concurrent infection of opportunistic pathogens ...
Despite the economic and environmental impacts that sea lice infestations have on salmon farming worldwide, genomic data generated by high-throughput transcriptome sequencing for different developmental stages, sexes, and strains of sea lice is still limited or unknown. In this study, RNA-seq analysis ...
Upon priming with Candida albicans or with the fungal cell wall component β-glucan, monocytes respond with an increased cytokine production upon restimulation, a phenomenon termed “trained immunity.” In contrast, the prestimulation of monocytes with lipopolysaccharide has long been known to induce tolerance. ...
Meat products, especially fish meat, are very susceptible to lipid oxidation and microbial spoilage. In this study, first, gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis of Zataria multiflora essential oil (ZEO) components was done and then two concentrations of ZEO, (1% and 2%) and two concentrations ...
Marine ranching is a new concept of modern fishery, which has extremely significance to the development of modern ocean economy. Various technologies are required to ensure the efficiency of marine ranching. Among those, the technology of ocean resource assessment, especially fish resource, plays an ...
Reaction norms are a valuable tool in evolutionary biology. Lately, the probabilistic maturation reaction norm approach, describing probabilities of maturing at combinations of age and body size, has been much applied for testing whether phenotypic changes in exploited populations of fish are mainly ...
The NeXOS project aims to develop new multifunctional sensor systems supporting a number of scientific, technical and societal objectives, ranging from more precise monitoring and modelling of the marine environment to an improved management of fisheries. Several sensors will be developed, based on ...
In this study, we propose a marine biomass utilization system and describe anaerobic digestion system using marine biomass and food waste. Anaerobic digestion system includes collecting biomass, anaerobic digestion, and growing vegetables. Four scenarios are presented varying the amount and the suppliers ...
Monitoring aquatic debris is of great interest to the ecosystems, marine life, human health, and water transport. This paper presents the design and implementation of SOAR - a vision-based surveillance robot system that integrates an off-the-shelf Android smartphone and a gliding robotic fish for debris ...
Floating breakwaters are commonly used for wave protection of onshore and offshore facilities in the last decade. The majority of the floating breakwaters developed in the past are solid-type structures that have fixed drafts and may be highly reflective to the incoming waves. In this study, the H-type ...
Background: The major aneuploidies that are diagnosed prenatally involve the autosomal chromosomes 13, 18, and 21, as well as sex chromosomes, X and Y. Because multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) is rapid and non-invasive, it has replaced traditional culture methods for the screening ...
Implementing asset-wide intelligent digital oilfield (iDOF) solutions is about so much more than simply ""integrating technology."" For iDOF to be truly successful and achieve its promised value, concepts from different fields_such as artificial intelligence (AI)_must be used to help orchestrate the ...