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The effects of climate change on marine ecosystems and in particular on marine top predators are difficult to assess due to, among other things, spatial variability, and lack of clear delineation of marine habitats. The banks of West Greenland are located in a climate sensitive area and are likely to ...
It is well-known that the correct diagnosis for wireless sensor network can avoid the paralysis of entire systems. Here, fault diagnosis for wireless sensor network based on genetic-support vector machine is presented in the paper. In SVM, inappropriate training parameters can lead to over-fitting or ...
The eco-friendly management in the hotel industry is a practice of operating hotels through green technology. The hotel that uses the resources wisely; reduces the consumption of water and energy; produces minimum waste and recycles the waste; and has less impact on the environment is termed as a Green ...
Insects are intimately connected to human life and well being, in both positive and negative senses. While it is estimated that insects pollinate at least two-thirds of the all food consumed by humans, malaria, a disease transmitted by the female mosquito of the Anopheles genus, kills approximately ...
In this paper we apply multiattribute ranking and selection to the management of a port facility in the environmentally sensitive Prince William Sound area of Alaska. The approach allows tradeoffs between the disparate performance measures associated with the operation of the port and non-linear scoring ...
The aim of this study is to investigate a data mining approach to help assess consequences of oil spills in the maritime environment. The approach under investigation is based on detecting suspected oil droplets in the water column adjacent to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Our method automatically ...
This article reviews the previous work done by Chinese and other countries' researchers about Internet-assisted language teaching, and explains the necessity and possibility of applying the limitless Internet resources to medical English teaching. In this process, there are some opportunities and challenges ...
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is one of the fastest growing aquatic weed known to man. They are free-floating perennial aquatic plants with broad, thick, glossy, ovate leaves with long, spongy and bulbous stalks. The feathery, freely hanging roots are purple-black. In India, water hyacinth is ...
This paper presents a wireless ad hoc network capable of providing location service to small fishing boats and improving the weak sea-to-land wireless radio link from small fishing boats to the central in-land stations. The location service is available from GPS while the weak sea-to-land link is greatly ...
In this paper, we propose and develop a small-scale research platform for intelligent transportation systems. Our platform has four main parts: an arena; an indoor localization system; automated radio controlled (RC) cars; and roadside monitoring facilities. First, to mimic the traffic environments ...
Summary Acrolein (2-propenal) is a highly effective microbiocide and sulfide scavenger that has been commercially available since 1960 and has been used widely in the oil- and gas-production industry. Acrolein is a liquid product supplied in and applied from specialized containers, eliminating potential ...
The influence of water chemistry on characterised polyvinyl pyrrolidone- (PVP-) coated silver nanoparticles (81 nm) was investigated. NaCl solution series of 100–800 mg L−1 lead to initial and temporal increase in nanoparticles size, but agglomeration was limited. pH variation (5–8) had only minor influence ...
The African killifish Nothobranchius furzeri is the shortest-lived vertebrate that can be bred in captivity. N. furzeri comprises several wild-derived strains with striking differences in longevity ranging from 3 to 9 months, which makes it a powerful vertebrate model for aging research. The short life ...
Understanding the degree of connectivity between coastal and island landscapes and nearby coral reefs is vital to the integrated management of terrestrial and marine environments in the tropics. Coral reef fish are capable of navigating appropriate settlement habitats following their pelagic larval ...
The search for alternative fumigants has been ongoing since the 1992 Parties of the Montreal Protocol classified methyl bromide as a Class I controlled substance with an ozone depletion potential (ODP) of 0.7 and destined it for phase-out. This paper focuses on the hazards from fumigants proposed as ...
Mollusks have a strong ability adapting to environment, many researchers have developed some soft robots mimicking the mollusks movements, but these soft robots usually have only one locomotion mode, which cannot effectively take into account the movement efficiency and the environment adaptability ...
Allochronic divergence, like spatial isolation, may contribute to population diversity and adaptation, however the challenges for tracking habitat utilization in shared environments are far greater. Adult Klukshu River (Yukon, Canada) sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, return as genetically distinct ...
Consistent individual differences in cognitive appraisal and emotional reactivity, including fearfulness, are important personality traits in humans, non-human mammals, and birds. Comparative studies on teleost fishes support the existence of coping styles and behavioral syndromes also in poikilothermic ...
Marine pufferfish generally contain a large amount of tetrodotoxin (TTX) in their skin and viscera, and have caused many incidences of food poisoning, especially in Japan. Edible species and body tissues of pufferfish, as well as their allowable fishing areas, are therefore clearly stipulated in Japan, ...
Vent and seep animals harness chemosynthetic energy to thrive far from the sun's energy. While symbiont-derived energy fuels many taxa, vent crustaceans have remained an enigma; these shrimps, crabs, and barnacles possess a phylogenetically distinct group of chemosynthetic bacterial epibionts, yet the ...