ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO BANCA DATI: 13/09/2024 13:00:57
Abstract Background The North Atlantic archipelagos of Madeira and Selvagens present a unique biological diversity including, presently, 56 endemic spider species. Several recent projects provide valuable information on their distribution across most islands and habitats. To date, the only endemic ...
Food futurists accept that sustainability-minded humanity will increasingly incorporate insects as alternative protein. The most studied and easily reared species are not necessarily the most sustainable, acceptable, or delicious. Here, we review the literature on the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens, ...
Background Our understanding of the molecular mechanisms implementing pubertal maturation of the testis in vertebrates is incomplete. This topic is relevant in Atlantic salmon aquaculture, since precocious male puberty negatively impacts animal welfare and growth. We hypothesize that certain miRNAs ...
An integrated ecosystem model including fishing and the impact of rising temperatures, relative to species’ thermal ranges, was used to assess the cumulative effect of future climate change and sustainable levels of fishing pressure on selected target species. Historically, important stocks of cod and ...
Phytoplankton density can be influenced by a wide range of factors whereas the role of suspended particulate matter (SPM) are not clear in river that annually subjected to hydrodynamics shift. Here, spatial-temporal variation of environmental parameters and phytoplankton density were studied from January ...
Environmental acclimation is important episode in wildlife occupation of the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau (TP). Transcriptome-wide studies on thermal acclimation mechanism in fish species are rarely revealed in Tibetan Plateau fish at high altitude. Thus, we used mRNA and miRNA transcriptome sequencing ...
The morphology and the drug sensitivity of the strain GYX2014-1 isolated from the hepatic pancreatic tissue of moribund Litopenaeus vannamei were evaluated by conventional culture characteristics, physical and chemical characteristics, and molecular biology methods. Detection of extracellulase and hemolysin ...
An ultrasensitive Panda-microfiber (PMF)-based multimode interferometer for salinity measurement is proposed and demonstrated. By inserting a section of PMF supporting a few modes into a conventional optical fiber system, an inline interference between the high-order modes of PMF, i.e., TE01 and TM01, ...
This paper presents techno–economic summaries of ocean wave, tidal and current, ocean thermal, and geothermal energy, including grid interface characteristics. These forms of energy represent a significant opportunity to complement diversified energy conversion portfolios. Ocean wave energy conversion ...
A method of preparing a food, comprises:- 1 (a) treating smoke to selectively remove one or more PAHs that contain 4 or more benzene rings therefrom, and (b) contacting the treated smoke of (a) with a food, or 2 (a) providing a smoked food, wherein the food is a solvent or solution acceptable in the ...
An object of the present invention is to remove or reduce iodine contained in a marine natural product extract, while maintaining the original flavor, taste, appearance, etc. of the marine natural product extract before processing. A first anion exchange membrane (5) and a second anion exchange membrane ...
Methods and systems using a vision system to process shrimp. The in-line or off-line vision system captures images of samples of shrimps. The processor produces a digital image of the shrimps in the samples. Shrimps exiting a peeler are imaged to determine the number of tail segments in or the percentage ...
A treatment assembly treats zones of a horizontal borehole. For example, the assembly can gravel pack a zone by delivering slurry down a workstring. The slurry exits the workstring's outlet and pass to the borehole annulus of the zone through a flow port in the assembly. The gravel in the slurry can ...
The invention concerns a method of sustainably producing an aquaculture meat product by feeding a fish over its dietary cycles an aquaculture feed composition, said method comprising the step of formulating an aquaculture feed composition by replacing all or part of fish oil in the composition with ...
The present invention is a method for pigmenting a food or foodstuff comprising combining in a source of feed, a carotenoid ester of formula I: [Image Omitted] wherein R is methyl, C3-16-alkyl, C3-16-alkenyl, or C5-8-cycloalkyl. Further embraced by the invention are the carotenoid-enriched feeds, e.g., ...
The invention relates to a method of treating and packaging live bivalve mollusk (LBM), in particular mussels, characterized by reducing, preferably before packaging, the number of microorganisms inside the live bivalve mollusk to less than 1000 colony forming units (CFU) per gram. [Image Omitted]
The invention relates to a support module for insertion into a body of water with at least one buoyant body and with attachment means for at least indirectly holding a breeding fish and / or other suitable for breeding aquatic breeding tank to the at least one buoyant body, wherein a volume and / or ...
Abstract Polymer flooding has been improved an effective way for EOR in China. Comparing with waterflooding, zonal pressure and flowrate change much larger for polymerflooding duo to its high viscosity. Reservoir engineer are required to adjust flow allocation scheme frequently when pressure change. ...
Abstract Stress corrosion cracking (SCC) is one failure mode that may occurred on hot insulated austenitic stainless steel pressure vessels and piping. In 2007, Badak LNG experienced this problem on its Amine Regenerator pressure vessel where the shell are insulated and made of Austenitic Stainless ...
Alphaviruses, such as chikungunya virus, and flaviviruses, such as dengue virus, are (re)-emerging arboviruses that are endemic in tropical environments. In Africa, arbovirus infections are often undiagnosed and unreported, with febrile illnesses often assumed to be malaria. This cross-sectional study ...