ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO BANCA DATI: 13/09/2024 13:00:57
Abstract Potential impacts from anthropogenic sound on marine life, including from geophysical operations, have received ever-increasing attention in recent years from regulators, environmental non-governmental organizations, fishing organizations and the public. As a result, many national government ...
Abstract Like any other industry, in the oil and gas business accidents always cost money and can adversely affect production cost. Blow Out events can be undoubtedly recognized as the most severe accident posed by exploration and production activities, and their hazardousness and severe consequences ...
Abstract Constrained access to oil and gas reserves is one of the top risks for future oil and gas. The best energy opportunities are in frontier areas and in new unconventional resources, but these often overlap with environmentally sensitive or refuge areas.Advances in technology have brought these ...
Abstract The Deep-ocean Environmental Long-term Observatory System (DELOS) was installed in Block 18 Angola in February 2009, and will celebrate its 5th anniversary in February 2014. The two DELOS platforms are located in 1,400m of water, one within 50 metres of subsea facilities, and the second 16km ...
Abstract Development of the oil sands in northeastern Alberta is an important contributor to the economies of both Alberta and Canada, but this type of hydrocarbon resource is often perceived by some as representing daunting environmental challenges. One particular area of stakeholder focus is the ...
Abstract Oil and gas activities raise important socio-economic questions for host governments, local communities and project proponents alike. If not identified and managed in a timely and effective manner, socio-economic issues - such as labour market effects, population influx, revenue management, ...
Abstract SME development is well established in some of Yemen’s Governorates. However, the Shabwah Governorate in which the Company operates is constrained by financial and other resources including a lack of support for small and micro-enterprise (SME) development. The majority of the Company’s project ...
Abstract Social investments by the energy sector are often pursued separately from environmental programs, which can miss opportunities for mutually-reinforced outcomes. Since 2012, "Chevron Liberia Limited" (therafter referred as "Chevron Liberia") and Conservation International (CI) have partnered ...
Abstract The temperate waters of California support a number of offshore oil and gas structures including platforms, pipelines, piers, and other associated infrastructure. Temperate environments support some of the Earth’s most diverse and productive marine ecosystems found such as complex rocky reefs, ...
Abstract A weight-of-evidence (WOE) approach was used to evaluate whether produced water (PW) discharges in the Gulf of Guinea, offshore Nigeria were having an undesirable effect on the marine ecosystem. The Nigeria study comprised an evaluation of PW constituent fate and effects in biotic (tissue) ...
Abstract Corporate assessment of the impacts and dependencies associated with ecosystem services is coming of age. The processes has happened quietly, due in part to the 2012 update of the International Finance Corporation’s Performance Standards, and resulting expansion of due diligence for the 79 ...
Background Distant hybridization can generate transgressive hybrid phenotypes that lead to the formation of new populations or species with increased genetic variation. In this study, we produced an experimental hybrid goldfish (EG) by distant crossing of red crucian carp (Carassius auratus) × common ...
Background Salmon species vary in susceptibility to infections with the salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis). Comparing mechanisms underlying responses in susceptible and resistant species is important for estimating impacts of infections on wild salmon, selective breeding of farmed salmon, and expanding ...
Repetitive DNA sequences play an important role in the structural and functional organization of chromosomes, especially in sex chromosome differentiation. The genus Triportheus represents an interesting model for such studies because all of its species analyzed so far contain a ZZ/ZW sex chromosome ...
A theoretical basis is required for comparing key features and critical elements in wild fisheries and aquaculture supply chains under a changing climate. Here we develop a new quantitative metric that is analogous to indices used to analyse food-webs and identify key species. The Supply Chain Index ...
Background The salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis is a parasitic copepod that infects salmonids in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Although considered as a single species, morphological and biological differences have been reported between lice from the two oceans. Likewise, studies based on nucleotide ...
The aim of the present study was to establish a novel animal model of osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided argon-helium cryotherapy system. A total of 48 rabbits were used to generate the ONFH models. In group I, the left femoral head of the rabbits ...
The health benefits of fish oil enriched with high omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA) are widely documented. Fish oil as dietary supplements, however, show moderate clinical efficacy, highlighting an immediate scope of systematic in vitro feedback. Our transcriptomic study was designed to ...
Background Generalist bacterial pathogens, with the ability for environmental survival and growth, often face variable conditions during their outside-host period. Abiotic factors (such as nutrient deprivation) act as selection pressures for bacterial characteristics, but their effect on virulence ...
Background Mutations in the EXT genes disrupt polymerisation of heparan sulphates (HS) and lead to the development of osteochondroma, an isolated/sporadic- or a multifocal/hereditary cartilaginous bone tumour. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a very powerful animal model which has shown to present the same ...