COMPARATIVE FORAGING DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY SUGGESTS INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION BETWEEN TWO SYMPATRIC SHEARWATERS FROM THE SEYCHELLES

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The “anthropocene”: an extinction era At present, human beings are considered the dominant species on Earth (Vitousek et al. 1997). Anthropogenic actions can modify entire ecosystems and lead to the disappearance of the...

  A review of the Potential Genes Implicated in Follicular Atresia in Teleost Fish

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Molecular approach to study of atresia The study of molecular mechanisms involved in atresia has begun to be studied from a perspective that allows to determine genes regulating this process (Nicol et al.,...

Uptake and elimination of brevetoxin in the invasive green mussel, Perna viridis, during natural Karenia brevis blooms in southwest Florida

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Biology of Perna viridis Perna viridis is a dioecious species with rare cases of hermaphrodites and while sexual organs are not distinguishable, sex can be determined by tissue color (Lee, 1988). The gonad...

A retrospective analysis of the effects of adopting individual transferable quotas in the Tasmanian red rock lobster, Jasus edwardsii, fishery

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Fisheries management with individual transferable quotas Combined with an appropriately set total allowable catch (TAC), the predicted outcomes of ITQs include a higher economic efficiency of fisheries and, indirectly, sustainable stocks. The later...

First direct estimates of volume and water mass transports across the Reykjanes Ridge

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » S-ADCP referenced geostrophic velocities Dynamic height referenced to the surface was computed from temperature, salinity and pressure at all CTDO2 stations. Their horizontal gradients were then computed between two adjacent stations and used...

Simulation Validation on Stator Currents Issued from a Coupled Magnetic Circuits Modeling Approach 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Failures occurrence frequency, origins, and consequences The distribution of the aforementioned failures within the machine subassemblies is reported in many reliability surveys [2, 20] and are provided in Fig. 1.2. Depending on the...

Catalog cluster identification using Single Link Cluster analysis

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Sound source temporal properties A sound may be transient, of relatively short duration, having an obvious start and end, or it may be continuous. Transient underwater sounds include impulsive sounds from explosions, airguns,...

Fitting thunderstorms to the the power-law covariate self-exciting point process

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Jumps and interevents To specify a temporal point process we can use many different approaches. In this text, we will consider two of those approaches. One rely on the distribution of the occurrence...

Antenna system integrated within the set-top-box environment 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) In our research work, the Wireless Local Area Network is one of the required applications of the set-top-box. Therefore, the realization of the WLAN antenna on paper substrate...

VMS-based Trajectory Analyses for the Identification of Longline Vessel Activities

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing FAO defines Illegal fishing as fishing activities conducted by national or foreign vessels in waters under the jurisdiction of a State, without the permission of that State,...