Regardless of the continued stalemate in the political arena, trade and economic interactions between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have increased steadily. Both aggregate data and the results of survey research have testified to the existence of functional integration of the two societies across the Taiwan Strait. In addition to functional integration, structural readjustments have also b...

Pacific Water (PW) enters the Arctic Ocean through Bering Strait and brings in heat, fresh water, and nutrients from the northern Bering Sea. The circulation of PW in the central Arctic Ocean is only partially understood due to the lack of observations. In this paper, pathways of PW are investigated using simulations with six state-of-the art regional and global Ocean General Circulation Models...

ABATRACT Bragg scattering process in sea surface represent the meso-scale feature of sea processes in SAR image. SAR image data is used to for large scales area of monitoring on near real time data. In this research, wavelet analysis is applied to monitor internal wave in ERS-2 SAR image. Wavelet transform of SAR image can be used as feature detection and image enhancement. Furthermore, wavelet...

Few epidemiological studies of middle ear disease have been conducted in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations, yet the disease is common and causes hearing impairment and poorer educational outcomes. The objective of this study is to identify factors associated with abnormal middle ear appearance, a proxy for middle ear disease. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 0...

We analyzed the effect of physical forcing on zooplankton biomass distribution in the Strait of Gibraltar as a function of tidal phase. A set of 5 Longhurst-Hardy-Plankton-Recorder (LHPR) casts were made along the main channel of the Strait during different phases of the tidal cycle to determine how the hydrological processes taking place in the strait (mainly internal wave generation) influenc...

The present study was conducted using geometric morphometric analysis of otolith to discriminate stocks of the predominant species of genus Acanthopagrus in the west and east of Strait of Hormuz. Samples were taken from 5 regions in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea from March 2016 to March 2018. The 145-otolith samples were obtained from the Arabian yellowfin sea bream (Acanthopagrus arabicus). Th...

Pink salmon is a traditional object of fishing in Sakhalin coastal waters the Tatar strait, where it was caught for long time off southern part coast. In last 20 years, there has been shift timing pink approach to area trap-nets later date, as well main sites shifting from central areas During these water cooling observed May, which could cause delay fish migration Strait. Also, June and July n...

BACKGROUND It is estimated that the prevalence of mental illness is higher in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents compared to non-Aboriginal adolescents. Despite this, only a small proportion of Aboriginal youth have contact with mental health services, possibly due to factors such as remoteness, language barriers, affordability and cultural sensitivity issues. This research aimed...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of food insecurity is substantially higher among Australians of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent. The purpose of this study is to explain the relationship between food insecurity and Aboriginal and Torres Islander status in the state of Victoria. METHODS Data were obtained from the 2008 Victorian Population Health Survey; a cross-sectional landline comput...

Abstract Nares Strait is a major pathway along which multi-year sea ice leaves the Arctic, an class that has seen recent dramatic reduction in extent. The winds blow strait play important role modulating this export as well establishing Arctic’s largest and most productive polynya, North Water, forms at its southern terminus. However, remote location limited our knowledge of strait. Here we use...