ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO BANCA DATI: 13/09/2024 13:00:57
In this paper we present a proof-of-concept for an hydro acoustic fish-tag position estimation and tracking system. In our field-tested concept, a formation of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) creates a mobile array of low-cost hydro acoustic fish-tag receivers. The array of receivers is able to estimate ...
This paper presents a study of numerical models used in Real-Time Hybrid Model (ReaTHM) testing, conducted in a still water basin at SINTEF Ocean. ReaTHM testing is a method where a system is divided into physical and numerical substructures to study complex hydrodynamics on the physical system. Basin ...
This paper examines actual data for recent trends in electric energy demand in North America. Despite the conception of many persons, the electrical demand, as measured as either annual electric energy use or annual peak demand, is not rising rapidly. The reasons for this failure to grow are discussed, ...
This study used a regression method to build model for predicting water quality for the fish pond. From aquaculture practitioners' point of view, how to effectively control the water quality for the fish pond is very important. In basis of the experience of aquaculture practitioners, temperature, pH, ...
Since 21st Century, wind energy has become the world's fastest growing energy due to its characteristics of safety, cleanness and abundance as the demand for energy has doubled. This paper firstly explicitly introduces the distribution of China's wind energy resources and the features of wind resources ...
Electrical power plants with dieselgenerator sets segregated (i.e., the diesel generator sets are divided into different power buses and physical stations on ships and rigs) on several power buses have become the preferred solution for ships with various operational profiles and corresponding power ...
Landsat satellite images are extensively used in land-use studies due to their relatively high spatial resolution. However, the number of usable data sets is limited by the relatively long revisit interval and phenology effects can significantly reduce classification accuracy. Moderate Resolution Imaging ...
La pesca è uno dei settori più pericolosi in cui il numero di incidenti si verifica con elevata probabilità. I tempi di risposta per i soccorsi in mare sono spesso peggiorati dall'accessibilità della barca, così come dall'isolamento in cui si trova. La conoscenza del comportamento dell'intero sistema ...
Some Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) case studies have been investigated in order to evidence the importance of highresolution Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) wind data in semi-enclosed coastal seas. The MSP technique consisted in the optimum location of mussel aquaculture farms, on the basis of a Sustainability ...
Rabies is a globally distributed virus that causes approximately 60,00 human deaths annually with >99% of cases caused by dog bites. Australia is currently canine rabies free. However, the recent eastward spread of rabies in the Indonesian archipelago has increased the probability of rabies entry ...
We study the waves and wave-making forces acting on ships travelling on currents which vary as a function of depth. Our concern is realism; we consider a real current profile from the Columbia River, and model ships with dimensions and Froude numbers typical of three classes of vessels operating in ...
Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) data provide information about speed and position of fishing vessels. This opens the door to methods of estimating and mapping fishing effort with a high level of detail. To addess this task, we propose a new method belonging to the class of hidden Markov models (HMM) ...
ABSTRACT Anamorphic ascomycetes have been implicated as causative agents of diseases in tissues and skeletons of hard corals, in tissues of soft corals (sea fans) and in tissues and shells of molluscs. Opportunist marine fungal pathogens, such as Aspergillus sydowii, are important components of marine ...
ABSTRACT In this in vitro gradient perfusion study, we determined whether there is a functional relationship between oestradiol and the arginine vasotocin/isotocin (AVT/IT) system in the female round goby (Neogobius melanostomus). Brain explants were perfused in medium supplemented with 17β-oestradiol ...
In this paper we discuss the semiotic functions of the psychological borders that structure the flow of narrative processes. Each narration is always a contextual, situated and contingent process of sensemaking, made possible by the creation of borders, such as dynamic semiotic devices that are capable ...
The Amazon basin includes 1000s of bodies of water, that are sorted according to their color in three types: blackwater, clearwater, and whitewater, which significantly differ in terms of their physicochemical parameters. More than 3,000 species of fish live in the rivers of the Amazon, among them, ...
The effect of free mate choice on the relative magnitude of fitness benefits has been examined among various species. The majority of the data show significant fitness benefits of mating with partners of an individual’s own choice, highlighting elevated behavioral compatibility between partners with ...
Climate change and other anthropogenic stressors are converging on coastal ecosystems worldwide. Understanding how these stressors interact to affect ecosystem structure and function has immediate implications for coastal planning, however few studies quantify stressor interactions. We examined past ...
Monitoring chlorophyll-a concentration (Chl-a) in inland waters, particularly hypertrophic lake waters in megacities, is a critically important environmental issue. To enable long-term Chl-a monitoring using Landsat series sensors, development of a Chl-a estimation algorithm for the new Landsat sensor ...
Quality-marker (Q-marker) is an emerging concept to ensure the quality and batch-to-batch consistency of Chinese medicine (CM). However, significant difficulties remain in the identification of Q-markers due to the unclear relationship between complex chemical compositions and the pharmacological efficacy ...