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Wildlife-focused tourism is often considered as having the potential to play an integral part of threatened species conservation efforts, particularly through financial support. We focused on the direct financing of conservation by investigating tourists’ willingness to pay to snorkel with reef manta ...
The static force exerted on a hawser at zero ship speed by a vessel, otherwise known as the bollard pull, is one of the key performance indicators of Tugs, Anchor Handling Tugs (AHTs) and Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessels (AHTSVs). The value of bollard pull is considered critical as it defines the ...
The best way of reducing roll motion is by increasing roll damping. Magnus rotating roll stabilizers are the most efficient devices to provide roll damping at low speed through the rotating rotor wing at the bilge of ship hull based on Magnus effect. In this paper, the work aims to design a suitable ...
Detailed analysis of the evolution characteristics of landscape ecological risk is crucial for coastal sustainable management and for understanding the potential environmental impacts of a man-made landform landscapes (MMLL). As a typical open coastal wetland, large-scale human activities (e.g., tidal ...
Objective(s): Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogenic bacteria causing the infection listeriosis, which possibly affects all people, particularly immunocompromised persons and pregnant women. This microorganism can be found in several processed foods, dairy products, raw milk, meat and fish ...
Dalangtan Playa is the second largest salt playa in the Qaidam Basin, north-western China. The hyper saline deposition, extremely arid climate and high UV radiation make Dalangtan a Mars analogue both for geomorphology and life preservation. To better understand microbial life at Dalangtan, both culture-dependent ...
The following paper is a thorough review of our research based on the localisation of robots. It is an attempt to segregate the techniques, to locate the accurate position of robots in different environments and to discuss the superlative methods to localise such robots or in some cases an unmanned ...
Koi’s fish is one of the most popular animals in the World. In Indonesia, but this is not by way of treatment and handling fish diseases, you can overcome them by using expert systems in diagnosing koi fish diseases. This research develops expert system of application to diagnose koi fish disease by ...
Computer and its applications have entered various fields of applied sciences and engineering, for instance, Computer Aided Design (CAD) is being efficiently used for devices and equipment design, reducing the design calculations complexity in reliable manner. Regarding to food engineering, which deals ...
THE ARCHIPELAGO of Fourni, an insignificant group of Greek islands in the Aegean, lies at the crossroads of ancient north-south trade routes connecting the Black Sea to Alexandria and the eastern Mediterranean and east-west routes to Spain and Italy.
The aim of this work is to objectively evaluate the performance of patients using a virtual rehabilitation system called MIRA. MIRA is a software platform which converts conventional therapeutic exercises into games, enabling the user to practice the given exercise by playing a game. The system includes ...
Different kinds of decision making can be categorized by their differential effect on the agent’s current and future states as well as the computational challenges they pose. Here, we draw a distinction between within-state and state-change decision-making, and propose that a dedicated decision mechanism ...
Background Utilization of long-lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) after free and mass distribution exercise has not been adequately studied. The objectives of this study were to assess ownership and utilization of LLINs following a mass distribution campaign in a Ugandan urban municipality. Methods We ...
Offshore wind power (OWP) is an important green technology owing to its stability and sites for OWP projects (wind farms) are easily obtainable. The authors reviewed 2,217 papers collected from Scopus and used main path analysis (a citation analysis method) to determine the trends in OWP studies. Based ...
The 2-sample mark-recapture method with Chapman’s estimator is often used by inland fishery managers to estimate the reach-scale abundance of stream fish. An important assumption of this method is that no dispersal into or out of the study reach occurs between the two samples. Violations of this assumption ...
Fish populations are linked to ocean biogeochemistry by their reliance on primary production for food, and dissolved oxygen to breathe. It is also possible that marine fish modify biogeochemical dynamics, as do freshwater fish, through top-down trophic cascades, but there has been relatively little ...
Counting and tracking fish populations is important for conservation purposes as well as for the fishing industry. Various non-invasive automatic fish counters exist based on such principles as resistivity, light beams and sonar. However, such methods typically cannot make distinction between fish and ...
A new state space model suitable for fixed shore net fishing is proposed and successfully applied to daily fish catch forecasting. Accurate prediction of daily fish catches makes it possible to support fishery workers with decision-making for efficient operations. For that purpose, the predictive model ...
Using a solvent formed of alkali and urea, chitosan was successfully dissolved in a new solvent via the freezing–thawing process. Subsequently, quaternized chitosan (QC) was synthesized using 3-chloro-2-hydroxypropyl trimethyl ammonium chloride (CHPTAC) as the cationic reagent under different incubation ...
Domesticated brown trout Salmo trutta parr were subjected to increased, variable flow under controlled experimental conditions. Using geometric morphometric analyses, K¯(a mass–length index) and caudal fin area–body length ratio, this study assessed morphological responses in lateral body depth, growth ...