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The C.A.S.T. Process What picture comes to mind when the word ""CAST"" is mentioned? Well, if you are a fisherman, think of flinging out a line with a baited hook to see if you can successfully catch fish. After a while, you may need to change the bait or rigging, especially if the fish aren't biting. ...
What picture comes to mind when the word “CAST” is mentioned? Well, if you are a fisherman, think of flinging out a line with a baited hook to see if you can successfully catch fish. After a while, you may need to change the bait or rigging, especially if the fish aren’t biting. Once the fish start ...
Introduction The objectives of the Clean Water Act are to restore and maintain the integrity of the nation's waters. Specific goals of Act are to eliminate discharge of pollutants; make water quality fishable and swimmable; and to reach zero discharge, that is to eliminate any discharge of toxic pollutants ...
ABSTRACT A methodology was developed to improve the integrity management of pipelines, taking account of internal corrosion, external corrosion and third party damage. The system can be used to define the corrosion control and monitoring needs of new and existing lines. It also serves to determine the ...
ABSTRACT Pipelines are the safest and most economical means of transporting oil and gas in offshore and onshore production facilities. Corrosion inhibitors continue to play a significant role in protecting the pipelines from internal corrosion. A number of corrosion inhibitors have been developed with ...
Congratulations! You've worked long and hard. Armed with the commitment and support of both line and management employees, you've achieved compliance with OSHA/EPA and company requirements. You've spent countless hours conducting work site analyses, auditing, cheerleading and assuring that hazard prevention ...
Background In spite of massive efforts to generalize efficient prevention, such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITN) or long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), malaria remains prevalent in many countries and ITN/LLINs are still only used to a limited extent. Methods This study proposes a new ...
TWO WATERSHED EVENTS OCCURRED IN 1963 that effectively spelled the end of America's postwar period of national innocence: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the destruction of the nuclear submarine Thresher, commanded by Lieutenant-Commander John Harvey. Just as the context for ...
Although previous studies have characterized some aspects of the immune response of the teleost gut in response to diverse pathogens or stimuli, most studies have focused on the posterior segments exclusively. However, there are still many details of how teleost intestinal immunity is regulated that ...
In recent years, a lot of studies have been published dealing with the anatomy of the nervous system in different spiralian species. The only nemertean species investigated in this context probably shows derived characters and thus the conditions found there are not useful in inferring the relationship ...
The present invention relates to plant genes involved in negative regulation of resistance to plant pathogens and uses thereof. More particularly, the invention relates to plants having a defective phytosulfokine (PSK) function and exhibiting an increased resistance to plant pathogens. The invention ...
South Africa is reputed to host the world’s largest remaining population of white sharks, yet no studies have accurately determined a population estimate based on mark-recapture of live individuals. We used dorsal fin photographs (fin IDs) to identify white sharks in Gansbaai, South Africa, from January ...
Marine ecosystems are undergoing substantial changes due to human-induced pressures. Analysis of long-term data series is a valuable tool for understanding naturally and anthropogenically induced changes in plankton communities. In the present study, seasonal monitoring data were collected in three ...
Animal groups such as fish schools, bird flocks and insect swarms appear to move so synchronously that they have long been considered egalitarian, leaderless units. In schooling fish, video observations of their spatial-temporal organization have, however, shown that anti-predator manoeuvres are not ...
The initial growth of the nacreous layer is crucial for comprehending the formation of nacreous aragonite. A flat pearl method in the presence of the inner-shell film was conducted to evaluate the role of matrix proteins in the initial stages of nacre biomineralization in vivo. We examined the crystals ...
Mucins are O-glycosylated glycoproteins present on the apex of all wet-surfaced epithelia with a well-defined expression pattern, which is disrupted in response to a wide range of injuries or challenges. The aim of this study was to identify mucin gene sequences of gilthead sea bream (GSB), to determine ...
Background Understanding the genetic architecture of quantitative traits is important for developing genome-based crop improvement methods. Genome-wide association study (GWAS) is a powerful technique for mining novel functional variants. Using a family-based design involving 1,200 apple (Malus × domestica ...
While the stocking of captive-bred fish has been occurring for decades and has had substantial immediate genetic and evolutionary impacts on wild populations, its long-term consequences have only been weakly investigated. Here, we conducted a spatiotemporal analysis of 1428 Atlantic salmon sampled from ...
Global stressors, including climate change, are a major threat to ecosystems, but they cannot be halted by local actions. Ecosystem management is thus attempting to compensate for the impacts of global stressors by reducing local stressors, such as overfishing. This approach assumes that stressors interact ...
The food web is one of the oldest and most central organising concepts in ecology and for decades, food chain length has been hypothesised to be controlled by productivity, disturbance, and/or ecosystem size; each of which may be mediated by the functional trophic role of the top predator. We characterised ...