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Here we describe the application of a new click chemistry method for fluorescent tracking of protein synthesis in individual microorganisms within environmental samples. This technique, termed bioorthogonal non-canonical amino acid tagging (BONCAT), is based on the in vivo incorporation of the non-canonical ...
We surveyed the biomass of valuable kichiji rockfish using hovering type AUV Tuna-Sand which developed for observation of the seafloor, in Kitami-Yamato bank in northern ocean of Japan at June 2013. The AUV took about 5,300 photography of the seafloor for over 24 hours. The photograph had 37 kichiji ...
The area of Automatic Speech Emotion Recognition (ASER) has garnered a lot of interest among researchers. The framework of ASER typically includes three steps viz. speech feature extraction, dimensionality reduction and feature classification. At the base of this framework lies the design and recording ...
Fin stabilizers are often used at high speed of ship, however they also can produce effective lift through pitching actively at low speed. The lift model of fin stabilizer at low forward speed is proposed based on the fluid changing on fin stabilizer's surface. Then the lift model is applied to the ...
Aquatic ecosystems and processes exhibit a high degree of spatial and temporal heterogeneity, which presents significant challenges for their monitoring. In this paper we report a novel underwater robot, called gliding robotic fish, as an emerging platform for mobile sensing in aquatic environments ...
Histamine is produced by the decarboxylation of histidine in fish muscle tissue. When histamine is ingested in excessive amount, Scombroid poisoning occurs. Scombroid poisoning is a type of allergy with symptom such as headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, facial swelling and low blood pressure. Existing ...
Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a system composed of many individuals interacting locally with each other and/or with their environment, providing collective problem solving. Examples of natural systems are colonies of bees, ants and termites, schools of fish, flocks of birds. In this paper, we introduce ...
This paper describes the design, installation and operation of a high-speed, real-time coral reef observing system network at Heron Island, within the Australian Great Barrier Reef. As part of the Queensland Integrated Marine Observing System (Q-IMOS) node of the Australian Integrated Marine Observing ...
We combine evolutionary biology and community ecology to test whether two species traits, body size and geographic range, explain long term variation in local scale freshwater stream fish assemblages. Body size and geographic range are expected to influence several aspects of fish ecology, via relationships ...
The discovery of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangement in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in 2007 and the approval of crizotinib for the treatment of advanced ALK-rearranged NSCLC in 2011 represents a landmark in the development of targeted oncology therapy. The approval of crizotinib was ...
The problem of scene analysis has been studied in a number of different fields over the past decades. These studies have led to important insights into problems of scene analysis, but not all of these insights are widely appreciated, and there remain critical shortcomings in current approaches that ...
Alterations of fish behavioral responses are sensitive indicators to identify accidental chemical pollution. In this research, a series of exposure tests were conducted to investigate behavioral changes of adult zebrafish (Danio rerio) exposed to deltamethrin (DM) in six concentrations of 0, 0.15, 1.5, ...
Microbial pollution in aquatic environments is one of the crucial issues with regard to the sanitary state of water bodies used for drinking water supply, recreational activities and harvesting seafood due to a potential contamination by pathogenic bacteria, protozoa or viruses. To address this risk, ...
General toxicity, antiproliferative, antibacterial and antioxidant activities of Caulerpa peltata J.V.Lamouroux (Caulerpaceae) collected from Oman Sea were investigated. Dried, ground alga was Soxhlet-extracted with hexane, dichloromethane and methanol successively. The methanol extract was subjected ...
Artificial upwelling is supposed to be a general technique to enhance the marine primary productivity and fishery resources by means of pumping the nutrient-rich deep ocean water (DOW) to the euphotic layer. The wave energy is the most conspicuous form of ocean energy, the extraction of energy from ...
Underwater acoustic measurements are made to provide validation and qualification for a wide range of applications and developments in the off-shore industry, oceanography, defense, fisheries, and geophysics. However, measurements are only meaningful if they are performed in a technically sound manner ...
A submersible digital holographic microscope (DHM) Holoflow@Sea was deployed during AWA fisheries surveys conducted in March 2013 and 2014 in the large upwelling ecosystem of the Canaries Current. The microscope collected about half a million of holograms of microorganisms and other particles suspended ...
The theory of resonance in population persistence proposes that the survival of a population that is exposed to externally inflicted loss processes (disturbances) during part of its life cycle is dependent on the relation between the average period of the disturbances and the average generation time ...
In the aftermath of the severe tsunamis that followed the Great East Japan earthquake of March 11, 2011, operations at nuclear power plants in Japan were severely curtailed and ocean wind energy utilization began attracting keen interest. Ocean wind utilization currently takes numerous forms worldwide, ...
Understanding why some human populations remain persistently poor remains a significant challenge for both the social and natural sciences. The extremely poor are generally reliant on their immediate natural resource base for subsistence and suffer high rates of mortality due to parasitic and infectious ...