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This paper determines the controlling factors that influence the metals' behavior water-sediment interaction facies and distribution of elemental content (75As, 111Cd, 59Co, 52Cr, 60Ni, and 208Pb) in water and sediment samples in order to assess the metal pollution status in the Langat River. A total ...
Comprehensive land-use planning (CLUP) at the county level in China must include land-use zoning. This is specifically stipulated by the China Land Management Law and aims to achieve strict control on the usages of land. The land-use zoning problem is treated as a multi-objective optimization problem ...
Background Chemically mediated prezygotic barriers to reproduction likely play an important role in speciation. In facultatively sexual monogonont rotifers from the Brachionus plicatilis cryptic species complex, mate recognition of females by males is mediated by the Mate Recognition Protein (MRP), ...
Background Aquaculture of piscivorous fish is in continual expansion resulting in a global requirement to reduce the dependence on wild caught fish for generation of fishmeal and fish oil. Plant proteins represent a suitable protein alternative to fish meal and are increasingly being used in fish feed. ...
With the development of offshore fishing techniques, fishing intensity increased gradually. The fishery centers of tuna, squid, jack mackerel and other economic fish species are changing rapidly. In order to grasp the fishery center of time and space, and learn the latest changes in fishery resources, ...
Accumulative disturbances can erode a coral reef’s resilience, often leading to replacement of scleractinian corals by macroalgae or other non-coral organisms. These degraded reef systems have been mostly described based on changes in the composition of the reef benthos, and there is little understanding ...
Background The effective management and conservation of biodiversity is predicated on clearly defined conservation targets. Species number is frequently used as a metric for conservation prioritization and monitoring changes in ecosystem health. We conducted a series of synoptic surveys focusing on ...
Various microrobots were widely used in the fields of biomedical engineering and underwater operation during the last few years. By having a compact structure, low driving voltage and a simple control system, microrobots could complete a variety of underwater tasks, even in limited spaces. To realize ...
Location Based Service (LBS) 'as a kind of emerging applications based on the mobile Internet technology, is one of the most potential mobile value-added services. With the mobile network positioning technology and electronic map platform, it provides position information of the traffic, tourist attractions, ...
Virtual reality (VR) is a technology covering a large field of applications among which are sports and video games. In both gaming and sporting VR applications, interaction techniques involve specific gestures such as catching or striking. However, such dynamic gestures are not currently being recognized ...
Integrating Expert System based on fuzzy logic and its inferences is a new dimension of research in e-learning environment. Standards so far do not provide suitable methods to extract learner's correct expertise level in e-learning environment. This paper depicts adaptation of expert system technology ...
With the rapid development of national economy, modern industry develops towards a nonlinear, large-scale and totalization direction, resulting in an increasing need for fast, efficient and robust optimization algorithms. The appearance of the intelligent computing methods brings hope to the solutions ...
The zebrafish (danio rerio) is one of the most important model organisms in modern drug discovery and disease modeling. Handling and analyzing large numbers of zebrafish larvae require an immense manpower and involve time-consuming manual processes. A novel modular, robotic platform for high-throughput ...
Image segmentation is an important technology for image processing. Many segmentation methods have been brought forward for image segmentation, among these methods thresholding is the simplest and effective method in image segmentation. In general, the thresholding method based on two-dimensional histogram ...
Today quality and safety are major drivers for the seafood industry. In this paper, computer vision technologies might prove highly relevant, providing objective measurements of visual attributes related to seafood quality and safety. We analyze and share our experience to develop the computer vision ...
An aqueous extract of Ephedra equisetina root was found to induce cyanobacterial cell death. The extract displayed no negative effects on the fish populations but instead, improved the habitat conditions for the growth of macrophytes, zooplankton and bacteria because the inhibiting effects of the extracts ...
The present invention provides methods for generating genetic profiles or analyses, fncluded are methods for conducting comprehensive, dynamic genetic testing and/or analysis. Also provided are methods for determining genetic health scores for specific phenotypes as well as for organ systems, for certain ...
This paper first proposes the marine economic comprehensive competitiveness in coastal regions in China, and then evaluates the marine economic comprehensive competitiveness based on factor analysis and cluster analysis. The results illustrate that the factor scores of Guangdong, Shandong, Shanghai, ...
A global trend of a warming climate may seriously affect species dependent on sea ice. We investigated the impact of climate on the Baltic ringed seals (Phoca hispida botnica), using historical and future climatological time series. Availability of suitable breeding ice is known to affect pup survival. ...
To resolve the problem of small targets tracking in underwater surveillance system, an area-constrained global nearest neighbour data association method is proposed based on the analysis of the features of diver detection sonar images. It models the target size with Gaussian distribution and establishes ...