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Flooding accidents in fishing boats, especially when there are human casualties, are of great concern for society, mainly in the region where they take place. The management of a fleet of fishing boats must keep in mind appropriate control mechanisms which guarantee the ships are completely able; they ...
The management procedures governing the economic activities are not useful unless they are accompanied by sustainability principles related to environmental preservation and social welfare. The proposed project, as presented in this article, will allow the optimization of environmental inspections of ...
An ice-ocean forecasting system for eastern Canadian waters has been developed to provide short-term forecasts of ice concentration, ice thickness, sea surface temperature and other oceanographic variables. In this paper, we describe the forecast model, forcing data, methods of data assimilation and ...
This paper deals with a design tool using CFD and criteria for ship structures under impact pressure loads due to sloshing, slamming and green water. This study focuses on the development of numerical techniques for computing fluid structure interaction and for evaluating the sea keeping performance ...
Imperfect CO2 removal mechanisms of CO2 scrubbers often lead to the existence of CO2 in gas inhaled by a diver from underwater rebreathers. This may cause CO2 related rebreather faults and subsequently would increase the risk of human injuries. We introduce a stochastic model for three CO2 related rebreather ...
Flood disasters are among the world's most damaging types of disaster and occur frequently in the world, which cause great personal injuries and property damages. To improve flood risk management and decision-making, a flood risk assessment spatial decision support system architecture is proposed that ...
In the underwater communication, the biggest challenge is to reduce the masking effect of underwater ambient noise. The main objective of this paper is to develop an optimum modified LMS adaptive algorithm for accurate detection of underwater acoustic signal, which is prone to the effect of ambient ...
A suitable sampling technology to identify species and to estimate population dynamics based on individual counts at different temporal levels in relation to habitat variations is increasingly important for fishery management and biodiversity studies. In the past two decades, as interest in exploring ...
Advances in molecular techniques have enabled the study of genetic diversity and population structure in many different contexts. Studies that assess the genetic structure of cetacean populations often use biopsy samples from free-ranging individuals and tissue samples from stranded animals or individuals ...
In most species mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is inherited maternally in an apparently clonal fashion, although how this is achieved remains uncertain. Population genetic studies show not only that individuals can harbor more than one type of mtDNA (heteroplasmy) but that heteroplasmy is common and widespread ...
In Hawaii, coral reefs occur across a gradient of biological (host abundance), climatic (sea surface temperature anomalies) and anthropogenic conditions from the human-impacted reefs of the main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) to the pristine reefs of the northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI). Coral disease surveys ...
For the first time, multiple sets of n-peptide compositions from antifreeze protein (AFP) sequences of various cold-adapted fish and insects were analyzed using support vector machine and genetic algorithms. The identification of AFPs is difficult because they exist as evolutionarily divergent types, ...
Background Zebrafish skin is composed of enveloping and basal layers which form a first-line defense system against pathogens. Zebrafish epidermis contains ionocytes and mucous cells that aid secretion of acid/ions or mucous through skin. Previous studies demonstrated that fish skin is extremely sensitive ...
Background Red flesh colour is a unique trait found in some salmonid genera. Carotenoid pigments are not synthesized de novo in the fish, but are provided by dietary uptake. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the cellular uptake and deposition of carotenoids could potentially ...
Microfluidics has become an important tool in diagnosing many diseases, including neurological and genetic disorders. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that irreversibly and progressively destroys memory, language ability, and thinking skills. Commonly, detection of AD is expensive ...
Background India's population exhibits diverse dietary habits and chronic disease patterns. Nutritional epidemiologic studies in India are primarily of cross-sectional or case-control design and subject to biases, including differential recall of past diet. The aim of this feasibility study was to ...
Recent toxicological studies on carbon nanomaterials, including fullerenes, have led to concerns about their safety. Functionalized fullerenes, such as polyhydroxy fullerenes (PHF, fullerols, or fullerenols), have attracted particular attention due to their water solubility and toxicity. Here, we report ...
To elucidate the molecular mechanisms underling hydration during oocyte maturation, we characterized the structure of Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica) novel-water selective aquaporin 1 (AQP1b) that thought to be involved in oocyte hydration. The aqp1b cDNA encodes a 263 amino acid protein that includes ...
The developing vertebrate nervous system contains a remarkable array of neural cells organized into complex, evolutionarily conserved structures. The labeling of living cells in these structures is key for the understanding of brain development and function, yet the generation of stable lines expressing ...
Background The genus Corbicula is one of the most invasive groups of molluscs. It includes both sexual and androgenetic lineages. The present study re-assessed the different morphotypes and haplotypes of West European Corbicula in order to clarify their taxonomic identification and phylogenetic relationships ...