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This paper represents a novel autonomous jellyfish removal robot system, called JEROS (Jellyfish Elimination RObotic Swarm). The JEROS consists of an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV), a grid for jellyfish removal, and an autonomous navigation system. Once jellyfish are detected using a camera, efficient ...
There are many collision accidents between small and large ship in Bay and the surrounding water with the communication problem. These accidents cause people's death, make the environment pollution and the normal sail upset in the channel and the nearby water. So it is necessary to prevent the accident. ...
Navigational information highly affects the transporting industry. Prevention of a marine disaster is one of the best ways to ensure the safety of sailing ships. Collision and stranding are the two most common causes of marine disasters. Most coastal stranding is attributed to shallow waters. Accurate ...
Shipping industry plays a vital role in world trade. Especially in Japan, where the land is surrounded by the sea, it carries more than 99 per cent of the volume of trade. Besides international and domestic transport, commercial fishing is one of the main industries in Japan. Major harbors, seaways, ...
The invention relates to a vertical submersible photobioreactor for obtaining biofuels, consisting of: vertical towers (1) for performing photosynthesis, which can operate continuously using natural light inlets (12) and lamps (13) for producing artificial light, and a float system (17, 18) which can ...
This invention refers to an aquarium cover with a waterproof LED lighting system consisting of a set of light emitting diodes or LED lamps encapsulated in one or more transparent waterproof silicone strips.
The dual-bearing reel drag sound producing device includes a rotation member, a pivot shaft, a hitting member, a drive mechanism, and an urging member. The rotation member is disposed adjacent to the side cover to rotate unitarily with a main gear, and includes a plurality of sound producing convexes ...
The present invention provides an antifouling coating composition, which can form an antifouling coating film capable of giving excellent slime resistance and has a property such that the recrystallization of an antifouling agent in a paint is depressed. The antifouling coating composition of the present ...
This study aimed to identify and to characterize rhizospheric-derived enterococci. The results showed the prevalence of Enterococcus faecium species (97%) vs. Enterococcus durans (3%). Susceptibility testing for antibiotics showed a low percentage of resistance to erythromycin (3.2%) and tetracycline ...
Methods and compositions for treating items to control microorganisms are provided. The method treats produce by contacting the surface of an item with an aqueous solution comprising i) an organic peracid of the formula RC(O)OOH wherein R is methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, or s-propyl; ii) a 2-hydroxy organic ...
Nutritional compositions having the potential to reduce metabolic acid load and methods of making and using the nutritional compositions are provided. In an embodiment, the present disclosure provides methods of selecting and administering nutritional compositions to patients. The methods may include ...
Transposable elements, as major components of most eukaryotic organisms' genomes, define their structural organization and plasticity. They supply host genomes with functional elements, for example, binding sites of the pleiotropic master transcription factor p53 were identified in LINE1, Alu and LTR ...
The intrinsic population growth rate (r) of the surplus production function used in the biomass dynamic model and the steepness (h) of the stock-recruitment relationship used in age-structured population dynamics models are two key parameters in fish stock assessment. There is generally insufficient ...
Abstract Chromosomal traits have provided valuable information for phylogeny and taxonomy of several fish groups. Three Atlantic Carangidae species of the genus Trachinotus Lacépède, 1801 (Trachinotus goodei Jordan et Evermann, 1896, Trachinotus carolinus (Linnaeus, 1766)and Trachinotus falcatus (Linnaeus, ...
Background Continental slopes are among the steepest environmental gradients on earth. However, they still lack finer quantification and characterisation of their faunal diversity patterns for many parts of the world. Methodology/Principal Findings Changes in fish community structure and diversity ...
Behavioral ecologists and evolutionary biologists have long studied how predators respond to prey items novel in color and pattern. Because a predatory response is influenced by both the predator’s ability to detect the prey and a post-detection behavioral response, variation among prey types in conspicuousness ...
Background Toenail-Hg levels are being used as a marker of methylmercury (MeHg) exposure in efforts to associate exposure with effects such as cardiovascular disease. There is a need to correlate this marker with more established biomarkers that presently underlie existing dose–response relationships ...
Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) has become a standard technique in environmental microbiology. More than 20 years have passed since this technique was first described, and it is currently used for the detection of ribosomal RNA, messenger RNA, and functional genes encoded on chromosomes. This ...
A two-package moisture curable composition is provided. The composition comprises a first part comprising at least one silane terminated polyurethane and a second part comprising at least one silanol terminated polysiloxane; wherein the silane terminated polyurethane based polymer has at least one end ...