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In the proposed system a solution is given to the problem of “Fishermen Tracking their location in the sea”. For this the sea area is divided into three zones namely; safe, intermediate and danger. The boat is allowed to roam anywhere within the safety zone. If the boat reaches the intermediate zone, ...
Global fisheries and the future of sustainable seafood are predicated on healthy populations of various species of fish and shellfish. Recent developments in the collection of large-volume optical data by autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), stationary camera arrays, and towed vehicles has made it ...
The sex of embryos in eggs is influenced or controlled through the application of light having selected wavelengths in order to promote the development of embryos of a selected sex. An incubating device is provided having an interior cavity that can be sealed from an outside, and having a plurality ...
Background Nutrition is a modifiable factor affecting birth outcomes, particularly in adolescent pregnancies. This study explores diet and supplementation practices, information and advice before, during and after pregnancy from the perspectives of pregnant or new young mothers and healthcare professionals. Methods Two ...
Abstract Psychiatric disorders arise due to an interplay of genetic and environmental factors, including stress. Studies in rodents have shown that mutants for Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia-1 (DISC1), a well-accepted genetic risk factor for mental illness, display abnormal behaviours in response to stress, ...
Newcomer women from developing countries are recognized to be at risk for elevated exposures to environmental contaminants and associated negative health effects. As such, data on exposure sources and contaminant body burden concentrations is critical in the development of effective public health policies ...
Background Diabetic retinopathy is the most common complication in diabetic patients relates to high expression of VEGF and microaneurysms. Scutellarin (Scu) turned out to be effective against diabetes related vascular endothelial cell dysfunction. However, its clinical applications have been limited ...
Background Extreme environments prompt the evolution of characteristic adaptations. Yet questions remain about whether radiations in extreme environments originate from a single lineage that masters a key adaptive pathway, or if the same features can arise in parallel through convergence. Species endemic ...
Background: Cadmium (Cd), a food-chain contaminant, is a significant health hazard. The kidney is one of the primary sites of injury after chronic Cd exposure. Kidney-based risk assessment establishes the urinary Cd threshold at 5.24 μg/g creatinine, and tolerable dietary intake of Cd at 62 μg/day ...
Collision of fishing vessels with ships has become one of the major hazards faced by marine fishermen. Due to the lack of a proper communication system, the fishermen at sea do not get any information about the oncoming ships. The ships sometimes fail to detect the vessels, especially at night when ...
The Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm (AFSA) is a swarm-based metaheuristic algorithm which mimics the conduct of a group of fish in nature. In this paper, we proposed an improved AFSA algorithm for solving the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSSP). The improvement is based on Variable Neighborhood ...
In order to make apps functional, mobile operating systems, such as Android, allow applications to access some system data without asking for user permission. We demonstrate that by analyzing these system data and some side channel information, it is possible to gain insight into a smartphone user's ...
Delay tolerant networks (DTN) are characterized by lack of end-to-end communications and stable infrastructures. This paper deals with DTN networks consisting of a number of heterogeneous mobile fishing vessels where some nodes, referred to as adaptive nodes, are capable of communicating through long-range ...
Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) generally undertake annual migrations from polar summer feeding grounds to winter calving and nursery grounds in subtropical and tropical coastal waters. Evidence for such migrations arises from seasonality of historic whaling catches by latitude, ...
Marine animals, such as turtles, seabirds and pelagic fishes, are observed to travel and congregate around eddies in the open ocean. Mesoscale eddies, large swirling ocean vortices with radius scales of approximately 50–100 km, provide environmental variability that can structure these populations. ...
Electronic mode of communication has widely restructured the traditional ways of communication. This evolution has the positive influence on the different shades of life, e.g., education, entertainment, health, etc. Social media and Social Networking Sites (SNS) are most widely accepted form of electronic ...
Most approaches for scene parsing, recognition or retrieval use detectors that are either (i) independently trained or (ii) jointly trained for conjunctions of object-object or object-attribute phrases. We posit that neither of these two extremes is uniformly optimal, in terms of performance, across ...
Offshore fishing is serving as a major livelihood for millions of people around the world. OceanNet project aims at developing an effective, low-cost, long range communication system to provide internet connectivity at the sea. Wireless Backhaul network is formed by connecting Base Station (BS) in the ...
The coast guard are not being able to detect foreign intruders in some cases. Occasionally, the fishermen would often sight a stranger poaching in their fishing grounds, but the maritime transport would often leave without making any penalty. These problems also exist within Indian coasts too having ...
The Fukushima Daï-ichi nuclear power plant (FDNPP) accident resulted in radioactive Cs being discharged into the local marine environment. While Cs bioaccumulates in biota and slowly depurates, the Cs concentrated in biota constitutes a source of Cs for animals feeding on each other. The marine biota ...