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The concept is to embed downhole imaging technology into intervention/fishing BHA. Once combined, the tool can be run into a well to latch onto the fish. If the run is not successful and the tool does not latch onto the fish, the tool embedded Camera (acoustic, sonar, electric, magnetic) imaging sensors ...
This paper describes an existing proof-of-concept prototype of an automated reasoning service exploiting ontologies expressed in description logic to support the intelligence staff in detecting and categorizing threats. The key concepts of threat analysis are first presented and they are then organized ...
This paper presents the design and initial characterization of a video game controller prototype with tactile skin stretch displays embedded into its thumb joysticks. This work builds on previous work using lateral skin stretch at a single fingertip to provide direction cues. Our game controller allows ...
Bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) are recovering from severe population declines, and are exerting pressure on food resources in some areas. Thousands of bald eagles overwinter near Puget Sound, primarily to feed on chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) carcasses. We used modeling techniques to examine ...
There is a growing amount of empirical evidence that premating reproductive isolation of two closely related species can be reinforced by natural selection arising from avoidance of maladaptive hybridization. However, as an alternative for this popular reinforcement theory, it has been suggested that ...
The Danish island of Bornholm, a quiet farming and fishing community of 42,000 in the Baltic Sea, will soon be home to one of the world's smartest smart grids. Through the four-year, €21 million (US $28 million) EcoGrid project, about 2000 households there will be connected to an islandspanning network ...
Fish is an important to determine the nutrient content, fish fed to piscivorous species to ensure the animals are receiving an appropriate diet. The results of chemical analyses for nutrients can be affected by various factors including collection of a representative sample, sample preparation methodology, ...
This paper proposes an optimization algorithm to resolve combinatorial optimization problem. Congestion degree in the artificial fish school algorithm is used in ant colony algorithm in this paper. During the initial process of the optimization, the congestion degree plays the main role to guide the ...
Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) are abundant in fresh, brackish and marine waters worldwide. When toxins produced by cyanobacteria are present in the aquatic environment, seafood harvested from these waters may present a health hazard to consumers. Toxicity hazards from seafood have been internationally ...
This study assessed the concentrations of cadmium in the gills, livers and muscles of a commercially important tilapia fish (Sarotherodon melanotheron) from Aby Lagoon in Adiaké, Côte d’Ivoire, between January and December, 2010. The organisms were grouped into two composite samples (juvenile and adult) ...
We utilized a spatial and temporal analyses of genetic structure, supplemented with ecological and oceanographic analysis, to assess patterns of population connectivity in a coral reef fish Chromis margaritifer among the unique and remote atolls in the eastern Indian Ocean. A subtle, but significant ...
A microwave film deposition unit can be designed with the use of a domestic microwave oven with a quartz tube kept inside the chamber. Air is used as the medium for the formation of plasma. The plasma induced in the quartz tube is a medium for coating the nano particles in the glass substrate. Calorimetric ...
In practice the severity of ship response is measured by high quantiles of long-term distribution of the response. The distribution is estimated by combining the short-term distribution of the response with a long-term probability distribution of encountered sea states. The paper describes an alternative ...
Provided is a filter device for a water tank which can easily perform maintenance, inspection and repair of a pump. This filter device for the water tank to be installed on the outside of the water tank (1) comprises a casing (20) opened to the atmosphere, a filtration zone (Z2) formed in the casing ...
The present invention relates to a method for non-destructive judgment of pearl quality by measuring the ultraviolet - visible reflectance spectrum and/or ultraviolet - visible fluorescence spectrum of a pearl or pearl shell to be inspected and comparing the values obtained with those preliminarily ...
The invention relates to an electronic bite display (5) for displaying that a fish (13) has bitten the bait that is attached to the fishing line of a fishing rod (2) that can be placed on a fishing rod holder (1), said fishing rod comprising a reel (3) for reeling in the fishing line. The sensor of ...
Historical exploitation of the Mediterranean Sea and the absence of rigorous baselines makes it difficult to evaluate the current health of the marine ecosystems and the efficacy of conservation actions at the ecosystem level. Here we establish the first current baseline and gradient of ecosystem structure ...
The present invention relates to a method and device for illuminating and at the same time purifying or disinfecting products such as air, flowers, food, vegetables, meat, poultry or fish. The method comprises the use of IR emitting LED elements.
The present invention is a method for improving the visual appearance of a food product (12) and a film (22) utilized in the method. The film includes an effective amount of a nitrogen-containing compound contained within or applied to one side of the film and adapted to contact a food item held within ...
The present invention provides probiotic/oil suspension for vacuum infusion of an extruded probiotic food product characterized by balancing the requirements of a high concentration of the probiotic micro-organism in the suspension and physical properties that makes the suspension applicable for vacuum ...