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Earth Girl is the story of an Asian girl who can save her family and friends from natural hazards. The story is being developed as a computer game and an animated short. This paper presents the design philosophy and progress report on the single level game prototype, one that is meant to help players ...
The rapid development of handheld Augmented Reality (AR) technologies has raised profound interests in the design of handheld AR games. Studies in this area however did not draw attention explicitly on design concepts, especially in the possible exploitation of their inherent characteristics to impact ...
Environmentalists have long been perceived as radical idealists who are out of touch with the needs of average citizens. Meanwhile, the environmental movement has been marked from within by overlapping and competing concerns which have alienated key groups of potential allies. For example, concerns ...
Research of fish Target Strength (TS) measurements is the foundation work of the acoustic assessment of fishery resources. An auxiliary experimental device with patent right is presented in this paper, which can be used for measuring the target strength of a single fish sample under controllable parameters ...
Conservation International (CI) has unveiled a multi-decade plan to enhance freshwater ecosystem function for at least 20 percent of the world's areas with the highest concentrations of freshwater services and biodiversity. CI's priority geographies include Cambodia/lower Mekong, Brazil and South Africa. ...
The scalability of traditional clustering algorithm is not strong. Its capacity of processing isolated points is also weak. Artificial fish swarm algorithm (AFSA) is an algorithm for global optimization based on animal behavior. It is used in web users clustering; imitating fish feeding, clustering, ...
The balance between privacy and security concerns is a hotly debated topic, especially as government (and private) entities are able to gather and analyze data from several disparate sources with ease. This ability to do large scale analytics of publicly accessible data leads to significant privacy ...
Designing appropriate technology for people in developing countries is a complex challenge. An unclear aspect of this design is fully understanding and ranking end user requirements, and then creatively designing a user-pulled product. Many methods have been proposed, but each omits end users as integral ...
In order to further enhance the security of network data transmission, we put forward the design of the intelligent nic and the development of its driver in this paper. Intelligent nic uses FPGA chip to design and implement its main functions, and this chip has the built-in packet filter function which ...
In wild animal populations, the degree of inbreeding differs between species and within species between populations. Because mating with kin often results in inbreeding depression, observed inbreeding is usually regarded to be caused by limited outbreeding opportunities due to demographic factors like ...
Many debilitating conditions are linked to bioenergetic defects. Developing screens to probe the genetic and/or chemical basis for such links has proved intractable. Furthermore, there is a need for a physiologically relevant assay of bioenergetics in whole organisms, especially for early stages in ...
Background The turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) is a highly appreciated European aquaculture species. Growth related traits constitute the main goal of the ongoing genetic breeding programs of this species. The recent construction of a consensus linkage map in this species has allowed the selection of ...
White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) is one of the most serious pathogens of penaeid shrimp. Although its genome has been completely characterized, the functions of most of its putative proteins are not yet known. It has been suggested that the major nucleocapsid protein VP15 is involved in packaging of ...
Where conservation resources are limited and conservation targets are diverse, robust yet flexible priority-setting frameworks are vital. Priority-setting is especially important for geographically widespread species with distinct populations subject to multiple threats that operate on different spatial ...
Background Big defensin is an antimicrobial peptide composed of a highly hydrophobic N-terminal region and a cationic C-terminal region containing six cysteine residues involved in three internal disulfide bridges. While big defensin sequences have been reported in various mollusk species, few studies ...
The maturation of fish oocytes is a well-characterized system induced by progestins via non-genomic actions. In a previous study, we demonstrated that diethylstilbestrol (DES), a non-steroidal estrogen, induces fish oocyte maturation via the membrane progestin receptor (mPR). Here, we attempted to evaluate ...
Background Secondary metabolites ranging from furanone to exo-polysaccharides have been suggested to have anti-biofilm activity in various recent studies. Among these, Escherichia coli group II capsular polysaccharides were shown to inhibit biofilm formation of a wide range of organisms and more recently ...
Background Research using the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas as a model organism has experienced rapid growth in recent years due to the development of high-throughput molecular technologies. As many as 56,268 EST sequences have been sequenced to date, representing a genome-wide resource that can ...
In recent years, linguists have begun to increasingly rely on quantitative phylogenetic approaches to examine language evolution. Some linguists have questioned the suitability of phylogenetic approaches on the grounds that linguistic evolution is largely reticulate due to extensive lateral transmission, ...
A 54-year-old woman was diagnosed with infiltrative ductal breast carcinoma. Two years after treatment, the patient developed an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) which harbored del(11q23) in 8% of the blast cells. The patient was submitted for allogeneic stem cell transplantation (aSCT) from her HLA-compatible ...