ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO BANCA DATI: 13/09/2024 13:00:57
Background With the increased consumption of mixed dishes, the need for more precise quantitative data on individual food components is becoming more important. This paper aims to examine the consumption of meat, poultry, and fish before and after disaggregation of mixed dishes, and its contribution ...
Stable isotope analysis has been used extensively to establish trophic relationships in many ecosystems. Present study utilised stable isotope signatures of carbon and nitrogen to identify trophic structure of aquatic food web in river and rice field ecosystems in Perak, northern peninsular Malaysia. ...
Seafood contains health-promoting fatty acids, but is often contaminated with mercury (Hg), complicating recommendations and choices around fish consumption during pregnancy. Self-reported diet may be subject to inaccuracy and this inaccuracy could differ according to pregnancy status. We investigated ...
Apoptosis is considered a crucial part of the host defense system in oysters according to previous reports; however, the exact process by which this occurs remains unclear. Besides, mitochondrial apoptosis is the primary method of apoptosis in vertebrate cells, but has been poorly studied in invertebrates ...
Background Our aim was to set the FISH combination of del(17p13), t(4;14), 1q21 gain and del(1p32), four adverse cytogenetic factors rarely evaluated together, and compare our technical thresholds with those defined in the literature. Methods Two hundred thirty-three patients with MM at diagnosis ...
Fatty acid esters of 2- and 3-chloropropanediol (MCPDEs) and fatty acid esters of glycidol (GEs) are commonly monitored in edible fats and oils. A recommendation issued by the European Commission emphasizes the need of generating data on the occurrence of these substances in a broad range of different ...
Engraulis anchoita is a physostomous fish with a dual chambered swim bladder (sb). In situ target strength (TS) measurements on this species are only possible at night, when anchovies disperse and form a scattering layer near the sea surface. A survey data series comprising more than50000 single target ...
Typically, marine fishermen take 5–7 days for a single fishing trip. They travel 40–120 km away from the shore. There is no viable communication technology available currently to keep them connected to the shore while they are gone. We have successfully developed and prototyped a marine communication ...
The Integrated loading and unloading quay cranes (QCs) scheduling problem is to minimize the QC number for loading and unloading operations in same ship-bay. The AFSA-GA algorithm is proposed to solve the mixed integer programming model., which take advantage of the strong local search ability of GA ...
Glowworm Swarm Optimization Algorithm (GSO) is one of new swarm intelligence optimization algorithms in recent years. Its main idea comes from the cooperative behavior source among individuals during the process of courtship and foraging. In this paper, in order to improve convergence speed in the late ...
The medical datasets have many features if the features have a tendency of mutation then the risk of disease increases which makes difficult to provide a diagnosis of disease. In the dataset, every feature is a contributor for prediction accuracy, the selection of significant features from the dataset ...
The Archimedes screw has been used as a pump since antiquity and has more recently been used to generate hydroelectric power in plants up to about 200 kW. Archimedes screw generators (ASGs) operate as run-of-river, have low environmental impact and are a uniquely efficient means of generating hydroelectricity ...
The authors have all worked in industry before they joined academia. They present their views and observations on establishing joint academic-industrial projects, based on their former experience in industry and from the viewpoint of the university. Different forms of collaboration are discussed, as ...
Prolonged and sustained warming of the sea, acidification of surface water and rising of sea levels, creates significant habitat losses, resulting in the proliferation and spread of invasive species which immigrate to foreign regions seeking colder climate conditions. This is happening either because ...
Albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) is one of the important commercial species of the longline fishery in the southern Indian Ocean (SIO). The satellite-based oceanographic data of net primary production (NPP), sea-surface temperature (SST), sea surface salinity (SSS), mixed layer depth (MLD), sea-surface ...
The São Francisco River is located in the northeast portion of Brazil. It is an important river from economic and social viewpoint. This river has been cited, in the literature, as the classical example of wave-dominated delta, however, changes in water discharge due to the construction of seven dams ...
The key enabling technology in dynamic spectrum access is Cognitive Radio that allows unlicensed secondary users to access the licensed bands without causing any interference to the primary users. In any situation where there are a certain number of secondary networks trying to get an available channel, ...
We challenge the often-made claim that fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radars (SARs) are beneficial for discriminating between mineral oil films and biogenic slicks. We conjecture that the results obtained from previous analyses of spaceborne polarimetric SAR data, which seem to show differences ...
Automatic generation of natural language descriptions for images has recently become an important research topic. In this paper, we propose a frame-based algorithm for generating a composite natural language description for a given image. The goal of this algorithm is to describe not only the objects ...
Species integrity can be challenged, and even eroded, if closely related species can hybridize and produce fertile offspring of comparable fitness to that of parental species. The maintenance of newly diverged or closely related species therefore hinges on the establishment and effectiveness of pre- ...