BACKGROUND The United States Environmental Protection Agency has established methods for testing beach water using the rapid quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) method, as well as "beach action values" so that the results of such testing can be used to make same-day beach management decisions. Despite its numerous advantages over culture-based monitoring approaches, qPCR monitoring ha...

Rainfall and its associated storm water runoff have been associated with transport of many pollutants into beach water. Fecal material, from a variety of animals (humans, pets, livestock, and wildlife), can wash into beach water following rainfall and result in microbial contamination of the beach. Many locales around the world issue pre-emptive beach closures associated with rainfall. This stu...

Beach width is an important factor for tourists’ comfort, and the backshore a swash zone where sediment moves quickly. Artificial sandy beaches focus on beach stability evolution. This paper based artificial project in Haikou Bay, where, view of existing conditions, new type profile that can protect berm without being eroded by large wave action. Numerical simulation XBeach model were conducted...

The present research corresponds to a cross-sectional descriptive study in the anthropometric field, which allows coaches develop standards identify talent and optimize training discipline of beach volleyball. Its objective was define profile body composition Mexican Olympic volleyball teams both sexes. participants were couples one two Mexico sexes (defined by FIVB ranking), 4 women men with a...

Background: Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to commonly used antibiotics is linked to their ability to acquire and disseminate antimicrobial-resistant determinants in nature, and the marine environment may serve as a reservoir for antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This study determined the antibiotic sensitivity profile of S.aureus isolated from selected beach water and intertidal beach sand i...

This is the second of two papers on the 3D numerical modeling of nearshore hydroand morphodynamics. In Part I, the focus was on surf and swash zone hydrodynamics in the cross-shore and longshore directions. Here, we consider nearshore processes with an emphasis on the effects of oceanic forcing and beach characteristics on sediment transport in the crossand longshore directions, as well as on f...