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Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are humoral innate immune components of fishes that provide protection against pathogenic infections. Histone derived antimicrobial peptides are reported to actively participate in the immune defenses of fishes. Present study deals with identification of putative antimicrobial ...
The MORPH project (FP 7, 2012-2016) aims at the development of efficient methods and tools to map the underwater environment in situations that defy existing technology. Namely, missions that involve underwater surveying and marine habitat mapping of rugged terrain and structures with full 3D complexity, ...
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have found their application in exploration and surveillance. This paper proposes a cooperative distributed search algorithm based on a minimum entropy approach for AUVs with capabilities like multi agent exploration. The work is motivated by the project “Thesaurus”, ...
Indentifying potential pollution sources from the monitoring water quality data is desirable for water quality management. A simple expert system module was developed in this paper to infer the latent pollution sources and explain variation in water quality parameters. It contains three parts. The first ...
An adaptive self-aligning underwater navigation system based on data fusion from a set of multiple sensors including a MEMS-based inertial measurement unit (IMU), a Doppler Velocity Log (DVL), a 3-axis magnetic compass, and a pressure sensor for depth measurement is proposed. These sensors are typically ...
From observations and numerical model results we have detected spatial and temporal variability of the environmental conditions in fjords on the order of hours and hundreds of meters. This leads to patches of infectious agents or bulks of warmer or colder water being advected around in regions with ...
Very small scale reciprocal sound propagation experiment has carried out since 2006 in Hashirimizu Port, Tokyo Bay. The distance between the transducers is 110 m and the average depth of the area is about 6 m. M- sequence phase modulated signal was sent each other with the duration of 30 s in reciprocally. ...
This paper describes our progress towards the development of field deployable pCO2 and NH3 in water measurement technologies. The fluorescence lifetime based pCO2 technology described here has a wide dynamic range of 102-5 × 104 microatmospheres and has undergone numerous field trials that indicate ...
The FP7 funded TROPOS project approach is to develop a modular multi-use platform for use in deep waters, with a focus on the Mediterranean, tropical and sub-tropical regions. In this paper, three different platforms configurations, - which have been designed to show the synergies and compatibilities ...
Prediction of acoustic connectivity is the key to successful deployment of underwater acoustic communication systems, and in particular to deployment of multi-node networks. The connectivity is given mainly by the local sound propagation characteristics, which in turn are given by the spatial and temporal ...
The sustained and cost-effective monitoring of the water quality within European coastal areas is of growing importance in view of the upcoming European marine and maritime directives, i.e. the increased industrial use of the marine environment. Such monitoring needs mechanisms/systems to detect the ...
AUVs are self-propelled and able to navigate at an acceptable speed, but they need an electric motor and batteries that are limited in autonomy. Multivehicle fleet deployment can provide an adequate platform for conducting long term surveillance. Unexpected event detection can be more easily conducted ...
This paper will show how AUV and ROV can complement each other in a scientific mapping campaign in the Trondheim Fjord. To complete this survey, a multidisciplinary approach was necessary to adapt the industrial and military technology to identify and map object of interest (OOI) on the seafloor. NTNU ...
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The evolution of wetland of Nansi Lake was analyzed according to SPOT remote sensing data and its ecological environmental response was futher discussed with the wetland resource survey results, including benthonic animals, fish, and aquatic plants. It was characterized the reclamation in Nansi Lake ...
Based on the statistical data of 126 counties in Henan province, we described the spatial pattern and driving mechanism of per capita grain possession of Henan since the 1990s through the related analysis of spatial autocorrelation analysis, gravity center model and spatial econometric model. The results ...
With climate change programs such as REDD+, the ability to estimate biomass and carbon stock in juvenile plantings would be of high importance for auditing the contribution of the reforestation project by the relevant stakeholders. The ability of high spectral resolution imaging spectrometers to detect ...
Background Aquaculture is one amongst the growing and major food producing sectors. Shrimp culture is one of the subsectors of aquaculture that attracts more attention because of the economic interest. However, the shrimp culture systems have been facing severe consequences and economical losses due ...
Background & Objectives This paper describes chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of Cymbopogon nardus citronella essential oil against Edwardsiella spp. (n = 21), Vibrio spp. (n = 6), Aeromonas spp. (n = 2), Escherichia coli (n = 2), Salmonella spp. (n = 2), Flavobacterium spp. (n = 1), ...
Cichlid fishes constitute one of the most species-rich families of vertebrates. In addition to complex social behaviour and morphological versatility, they are characterised by extensive diversity in colouration, both within and between species. Here, we review the cellular and molecular mechanisms ...