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Abstract With the challenges faced by operations in a continuing low oil price environment and the continuing high failure rate of offshore moorings, the value derived from traditional mooring inspection strategies needs to be reassessed. This paper outlines a significantly improved approach to mooring ...
Abstract The Great Australian Bight(GAB) has been subjected to exploration for the past five decades with no major hydrocarbon discoveries, and could be defined as a new frontier for oil and gas development. BP has recently committed to a drilling campaign in the region and establishing key infrastructure ...
The Russian Arctic shelf area belongs to the strategic areas of the country with an enormous potential of natural resources, particularly, the hydrocarbons reserves. Against the background of a growing interest in the development of the Arctic region, in particular, its offshore fields, a topical problem ...
We present Partition-wise Gated Recurrent Units (pGRUs) for point-based trajectory classification to detect real-world trawler fishing activities in the ocean. We propose partition-wise activation functions integrated with Gated Recurrent Units that partitions each feature and uses independent parameters ...
Abstract Many critical factors must be considered in determining the most feasible and appropriate options for decommissioning offshore oil and gas platforms, including alternatives from complete removal to partial removal with artificial reefing. Using financial-based cost/benefit analysis to evaluate ...
The present work deals with the application of an electronic tongue based on potentiometric chemical sensors to the detection of paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) in bivalve extracts. PSTs are naturally occurring toxic compounds produced by some phytoplankton species that may accumulate in bivalves ...
Chromosomal rearrangements are common in cancer. More than 50% occur in common fragile sites and disrupt tumor suppressors. However, such rearrangements are not known in gastric cancer. Here we report recurrent 18q2 breakpoints in 6 of 17 gastric cancer cell lines. The rearranged chromosome 18, t(9;18), ...
Recent studies have revealed that not only fish but also rice consumption may significantly contribute to human exposure to mercury (Hg) in Asian countries. It is therefore essential to assess dietary exposure to Hg in rice and its associated health risk. However, risk assessments of Hg in rice in non-contaminated ...
Background Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and fluorescent-in situ hybridization (FISH) are standard methods to assess human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) status in breast cancer (BC) patients. Real-time quantitative polymerase-chain-reaction (qRT-PCR) is able to detect HER2 overexpression. ...
Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides a promising way to bring enhanced computing capabilities in proximity to user equipments (UEs). Various previous works have been done and they usually focus on how to segment the computation intensive task and how to offload the task to edge of the network with plenty ...
Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a technique that prepares acceptable results for molecular imaging biomarkers to precisely and dependably detect and diagnose disorders which are sign of cancers. Since contemporary manual FISH signal analysis is low-effective and inconsistent, it is an attractive ...
ABSTRACT Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder that primarily affects the motor system and presents with progressive muscle weakness. Most patients survive for only 2-5 years after disease onset, often due to failure of the respiratory muscles. ALS is a familial disease ...
The present work addresses the results of the qualification testing of a fibre optic instrumented pre-tensioned bundle pipe-in-pipe (PIP) section, to provide a real-time integrity tool for pipeline bundle health monitoring. The aim of the testing is to allow the pipeline bundle system to be a cost-effective ...
This paper presents two visual trackers from the different paradigms of learning and registration based tracking and evaluates their application in image based visual servoing. They can track object motion with four degrees of freedom (DoF) which, as we will show here, is sufficient for many fine manipulation ...
This paper describes additive self-folding, an origami-inspired rapid fabrication approach for creating actuatable compliant structures. Recent work in 3-D printing and other rapid fabrication processes have mostly focused on rigid objects or objects that can achieve small deformations. In contrast, ...
“New Farmers” is the rural regeneration promotion program implemented in Tainan City, Taiwan, in 2015, with an aim to make more young people be able to go into the countryside to assist rural production and marketing of agricultural products. Tainan City is Taiwan's largest agricultural administrative ...
The progressive reduction in summer Arctic sea ice cover has major implications for human activities in the northern polar zone, as well as playing a central role in the acceleration of global climate change. Technologies presently employed for synoptic monitoring of the properties of the polar sea ...
One of the main issues confronted by Tamil Nadu Fishermen is encroachment of Indian trawlers into the Northern and Eastern shores of Sri Lanka. This problem becomes more complex when fishermen who unintentionally meander into Sri Lankan area are held captive. So there is a necessity for identifying ...
Population Health and Environment (PHE) strategies are argued to improve ecosystem and human health by addressing family size and its effects on natural resource use, food security, and reproductive health. This study investigates men’s views on a PHE family planning (FP) programme delivered among the ...
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) recently developed an airborne Multichannel Synthetic Aperture Radar (MSAR) test bed system consisting of 32 along-track phase centers using two transmit horns and 16 receive antennas. NRL has deployed this system to perform extensive and systematic data collections ...