ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO BANCA DATI: 13/09/2024 13:00:57
Background The constant increase of aquaculture production and wealthy seafood consumption has forced the industry to explore alternative and more sustainable raw aquafeed materials, and plant ingredients have been used to replace marine feedstuffs in many farmed fish. The objective of the present ...
The present invention relates to chain mail, that is to say a lattice of interlinked metal rings, notably for personal protective equipment. Said chain mail is characterized in that said chain mail rings are made using a stainless steel wire, the mechanical tensile strength (Rm) of which is between ...
A marine threat monitoring and defense system and method protects a target vessel in icy or other marine regions. The system uses communications, user interfaces, and data sources to identify marine obstacles (e.g., icebergs, ice floes, pack ice, etc.) near a target vessel performing set operations ...
The shoe i.e. Ballerina shoe has a bottom, an upper (2), and a locking device (3) for locking the barefoot shoe on the foot of a person. The bottom and the upper are completely or partly made of ring structures, where the ring structures are merged into each other in regions of the bottom and the upper. ...
A method and structure for mooring seaworthy craft against boat landings is disclosed. The structure comprises a fender (4) with a layer of compressible material having an exposed surface, mounted on the craft. Anchor points (12) are secured at laterally spaced locations on the craft, as are two draw ...
In a shield member for covering a face of a wearer and a protective cap in which the shield member is provided, image distortion is made as small as possible even when he or she sees an object through its peripheral portions of the shield member. In a shield member 5 for covering a face of a wearer ...
Our world produces massive data every day; they exist in diverse forms, from pairwise data and matrix to time series and trajectories. Meanwhile, we have access to the versatile toolkit of network analysis. Networks also have different forms; from simple networks to higher-order network, each representation ...
The movement of animals in groups is widespread in nature. Understanding this phenomenon presents an important problem in ecology with many applications that range from conservation to robotics. Underlying all group movements are interactions between individual animals and it is therefore crucial to ...
Objectives To examine differences in health-related behaviours such as screening or testing for cancer, use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and use of other medications in different diet groups. Design We studied 31 260 participants across four diet groups (18 155 meat eaters, 5012 fish eaters, ...
Imidacloprid (IMI) is a neonicotinoid that is widely used for the protection of crops and carnivores from insects and parasites, respectively. It is well known that imidacloprid exposure has a harmful effect on several organisms. However, there is little information about imidacloprid toxicity in aquatic ...
Backgrounds To study the effects of supplementation of a marine omega-3 poly-unsaturated fatty acids (n3-PUFA) formulation (Omega3Q10) in older adults with hypertension and/or hypercholesterolemia. Methods A total of 97 people were enrolled to receive 12-week supplementation of either Omega3Q10 (n = 48) ...
The opercle is a prominent craniofacial bone supporting the gill cover in all bony fish and has been the subject of morphological, developmental, and genetic investigation. We surveyed the shapes of this bone among 110 families spanning the teleost tree and examined its pattern of occupancy in a principal ...
During the Nubia Salvage Campaign and the subsequent expeditions from the 1960’s to the 1980’s, numerous sites attributed to the Late Palaeolithic (~25–15 ka) were found in the Nile Valley, particularly in Nubia and Upper Egypt. This region is one of the few to have allowed human occupations during ...
Cumulative culture, generally known as the increasing complexity or efficiency of cultural behaviors additively transmitted over successive generations, has been emphasized as a hallmark of human evolution. Recently, reviews of candidates for cumulative culture in nonhuman species have claimed that ...
Background Scavenger guilds are composed of a variety of species, co-existing in the same habitat and sharing the same niche in the food web. Niche partitioning among them can manifest in different feeding strategies, e.g. during carcass feeding. In the bentho-pelagic realm of the Southern Ocean, scavenging ...
Dietary or aerosol exposure to the environmental neurotoxin β-N-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA) is a putative risk factor for the development of sporadic neurodegenerative disease. There are many potential sources of BMAA in the environment, but BMAA presence and quantities are highly variable. It has ...
Summary Storage roots of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), a major subsistence crop of sub‐Saharan Africa, are calorie rich but deficient in essential micronutrients, including provitamin A β‐carotene. In this study, β‐carotene concentrations in cassava storage roots were enhanced by co‐expression ...
Background Formulae to predict the precision or accuracy of genomic estimated breeding values (GEBV) are important when modelling selection schemes. Simple versions of such formulae have been proposed in the past, based on a number of simplifying hypotheses, including absence of linkage disequilibrium ...
An apparatus for separating a surface layer from animal food products comprises a carrier roller, a cutting device opposite the carrier roller with a blade holder pressure body and a pressing device exerting a pressing force on the blade holder pressure body. An automatic traction gap for transporting ...
The invention relates to a method, attentiveness indicator device (20) and computer program product for providing an indication of a level of attentiveness required for a user on a vessel comprising a group of computers providing data of different types employed in the navigation of the vessel, the ...