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In this paper an optical carbon dioxide (CO2) lifetime-based sensor designed for the continuous monitoring of low CO2 levels in aqueous solution in fields of fish farming and in oceanography is described. The presented optical measurement unit consists of a CO2 sensitive layer mounted onto the end of ...
Food safety has become one of the world's most concerns. Foodborne diseases have become an important factor affecting public health. Biological and chemical substances pollution impact food safety more severely. The doubt of genetically modified (GM) foods safety did not eliminate. The China's food ...
Catastrophe refers to natural disasters that caused huge damages to people's lives and property. Catastrophe insurance is a form of insurance through which the risks caused by natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods can be dispersed. In recent years, the importance of catastrophe ...
White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) is an infectious pathogen of shrimp and other crustaceans, and neither effective vaccines nor adequate treatments are currently available. WSSV is an enveloped dsDNA virus, and one of its major envelope proteins, VP28, plays a pivotal role in WSSV infection. In an attempt ...
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-clamping using blocking primer and DNA-analogs, such as peptide nucleotide acid (PNA), may be used to selectively amplify target DNA for molecular diet analysis. We investigated PCR-clamping efficiency by studying PNA position and mismatch with complementary DNA by designing ...
A large number of viruses have been described in many different reptiles. These viruses include arboviruses that primarily infect mammals or birds as well as viruses that are specific for reptiles. Interest in arboviruses infecting reptiles has mainly focused on the role reptiles may play in the epidemiology ...
We evaluate hypotheses for meso-scale spatial structure in an orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus) stock using samples collected during research trawl surveys off the east coast of New Zealand. Distance-based linear models and generalised additive models were used to identify the most significant ...
Water is a valued natural resource for the existence of all living organisms. Management of the quality of this precious resource is, therefore, of special importance. In this study river water samples were collected and analysed for physicochemical and bacteriological evaluation of pollution in the ...
Little is known about the microevolutionary processes shaping within river population genetic structure of aquatic organisms characterized by high levels of homing and spawning site fidelity. Using a microsatellite panel, we observed complex and highly significant levels of intrariver population genetic ...
This paper reviews the animal foraging literature for insights into the directed, persistent search problem in rescue robotics, where a robot may have to move away from a target or out of sensing range in order to find a path to it. The conclusions from 32 papers on empirical studies of insects, fish ...
To evaluate the effectiveness and safety in mild to moderate insomnia intervened by Chinese Medicine in the integrated program. Methods: Patients(18 to 56 years old) from the Five National Center, who were with mild to moderate insomnia, were randomly divided into two groups according to the central, ...
In distributed e-learning paradigm, learning pedagogy demands different content retrieval methodologies after reaching certain boundary of learning. Hence, the learners are expected, to retrieve the contents and they need to improvise at substantially faster rate. The overall learning process converges ...
Assessment of HER2, gene located on the centromere of chromosome 17, provides important information about breast samples since it can be a sign of a potential breast cancer. One of the most widely used methods for measuring HER2 gene copies is the evaluation of FISH images. Analysis involves observing ...
The objective of this study was to prepare PLGA nanoparticles of ethanolic extract of Strawberry (Nano-STE) that will improve the bioavailability and sustained release of phytomedicines and to prolong the neuroprotective effect of the phytodrug. The ethanolic fruit extract of Strawberry (STE) was encapsulated ...
This research adopts stratified sampling with random sampling methods and uses household survey of one-to-one interview. It makes the large-scale continuous tracking study to estimate the income of 913 staff families which in state-owned forest zone of Heilongjiang Province and contrast the difference ...
When a young Patric Blanc hung plants from his bedroom wall and dangled their roots into his fish tank, he probably didn't realise the impact his 'vertical gardens' would have on the world. Fifty years on, the Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique botanist and Laureate of the French academy of ...
Evolutionary innovation relies partially on changes in gene regulation. While a growing body of evidence demonstrates that such innovation is generated by functional changes or translocation of regulatory elements via mobile genetic elements, the de novo generation of enhancers from non-regulatory/non-mobile ...
Aims To determine the extent of HER2 homogeneity/heterogeneity in primary versus metastatic gastric carcinoma (GC). Materials and results The human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) status in primary and metastatic lesions was evaluated by immunohistochemistry (IHC) and fluorescence in-situ ...
Introduction Substantial evidence describes the protective effects of marine-derived omega-3 (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) on cardiovascular diseases as well as many other conditions. Numerous fatty acid preparations are marketed for supplementing the Western diet, which is low in n-3 fats. ...