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Several species of the dinoflagellate genus Dinophysis produce toxins that accumulate in bivalves when they feed on populations of these organisms. The accumulated toxins can lead to intoxication in consumers of the affected bivalves. The risk of intoxication depends on the amount and toxic power of ...
Selenium is a trace element essential for human health that has received considerable attention due to its nutritional value. Selenium’s bioactivity and toxicity are closely related to its chemical form, and several studies have suggested that the organic form of selenium (i.e., selenomethionine) is ...
Due to gradually aging lifespan of elders in human society, a lot of new demands have been brought to facilitate their daily life. The elder driving assistive technology is one of the demands. The elder driving assistive technology is not only beneficial in increasing safety of the driver and the people ...
Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling has emerged as a powerful tool to detect and quantify species abundance in aquatic environments. However, relatively few studies have compared the performance of eDNA-based abundance estimates to traditional catch or survey approaches in the field. Here, we have developed ...
Abstract The world's oceans are critical to sustaining life, controlling climate, and providing economic wealth. Despite this fact, our understanding of the ocean and its seafloor processes is limited, in part because we lack accurate ocean mapping data. The situation is dramatic in the Arctic, where ...
Abstract Fewer than half of the 500 or so potential maritime boundaries in the world have been agreed, creating uncertainty not only for the coastal States involved but also for their investors active in the offshore oil and gas industry. The complex process of agreeing and fixing boundaries or of ...
This paper presents a methodology to find a feedback-based plan for AUVs to visit important locations to estimate spatiotemporal fields. A model based on Kriging method is created containing predictions and errors in prediction. These errors are then used to develop a reward function that gives a high ...
Situation awareness in maritime environment entails early detection and classification of maritime targets of varying sizes, depths, shapes, textures, and contrasts. Thus, this paper describes a novel deep learning based maritime situation awareness approach using high-definition video. Maritime object ...
Recent researches hypothetically shown the potential of Internet of Things (IoT) to change major industries for a better world, which includes its impact towards the agriculture industry. Farming industry must grasp IoT to feed 9.6 billion of global population by 2050. Challenges such as extreme weather ...
Fishing industry has changed dramatically in the past decades. There has been many unforeseen challenges and difficulties due to these changes within the industry, resulting in shortage of fishing vessels within the territorial water of Taiwan and eventually leading to additional space that could not ...
IoT (Internet of Things) is the most important technical applications of engineering advancement in the world today, through Industrial Revolution - Industry 4.0. Since people uses phone for more than just daily communication devices, but as wireless smart devices in accessing / processing / sending ...
Abstract The objective of this paper is to present an update of various research activities of a multi-year research and development project aiming at developing dynamic positioning (DP) system technologies specifically for ice-rich environments. Since the beginning of the project in 2014, significant ...
There have been numerous technological advancements in the field of agriculture in recent years. One of which is hydroponic farming - a soil-less method of cultivating crops using nutrient enriched water. While hydroponic farming has numerous advantages, the methods are more complicated than those of ...
Too much application of fertilizer can kill the plants and in irrigation, little by little application of fertilizer is better than one time bigtime fertilizing the plants. Water scarcity is also a major concern in irrigation. To solve the shortage of water sources, management and optimization of water ...
Increasing the operational safety of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) is necessary to fully explore their potential. Currently, AUV operations are limited by several constrains including the need to guarantee no interference with manned vessels and a safe deployment and recovery. Exclusion zones ...
In this study, a methodology has been proposed to identify the origin of animal DNA, employing high throughput extension accessory Fourier transform infrared (HT-FTIR) spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics. Important discriminatory characteristics were identified in the FTIR spectral peaks of 51 standard ...
The objective of this article is to analyze the influence of employment conditions on adherence to dietary recommendations among those born in Spain and immigrants by their time of residence. Data were used from the Platform of Longitudinal Studies of Immigrant Families (PELFI) cohort (n = 215) to compare ...
The prevalence of food allergy (FA) has not been estimated at a population level in Central American countries and, consequently, the magnitude and relevance of the problem in the Central American region remains unknown. Thus, our aim was to evaluate the parent-reported prevalence of FA in a population ...
Background: Gallbladder diseases are common in Jilin, China. However, there have been few previous studies on this disease. Our study used the chronic disease database in Jilin Province to study the factors correlated with gallbladder diseases. Methods: A total of 21,435 people were selected from the ...
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is traditionally associated with seafood from tropical regions, but recently TTX was detected in bivalve mollusks in more temperate European waters. In The Netherlands it was therefore decided to monitor TTX in shellfish harvested from Dutch production areas. All shellfish production ...