As a first step in assessing the viability of periphyton-based fish production in South Asian pond aquaculture systems, the effects of artificial substrates on development of periphyton and on water quality were evaluated. Earthen ponds (10 × 7.5 m) were provided with an artificial substrate constructed from poles of either bamboo, kanchi or hizol tree branches (1.0 m artificial substrate per m...

In the Fictitious Domain Method with Lagrange multiplier (FDM) the physical domain is embedded into a simpler but larger domain called the fictitious domain. The partial differential equation is extended to the fictitious domain using a Lagrange multiplier to enforce the prescribed boundary conditions on the physical domain while all the other data are extended to the fictitious domain. This le...

We elaborate on statistical thermodynamics models of relativistic geometric flows as generalizations G. Perelman and R. Hamilton theory centred around C. Carathéodory axiomatic approach to with Pfaffian differential equations. The anholonomic frame deformation method, AFDM, for constructing generic off-diagonal locally anisotropic cosmological solitonic solutions in the general relativity is de...

Agricultural runoff often contains pollutants with antagonistic impacts. The individual influence of nutrients and atrazine on periphyton has been extensively studied, but their impact when introduced together and with multiple agricultural pollutants is less clear. We simulated a field-scale runoff pulse into a riverine wetland that mimicked pollutant composition typical of field runoff of the...

Pyrethroids and fipronil insecticides partition to sediment and organic matter in aquatic systems and may pose a risk to organisms that use these matrices. It has been suggested that bioavailability of sediment-sorbed pesticides is reduced, but data on toxicity of sediment-associated pesticides for pyrethroids and fipronil are limited. In the current study, 10-d sediment exposures were conducte...

Two Algal Turf Scrubber (ATS) units were deployed on the Great Wicomico River (GWR) for 22 months to examine the role of substrate in increasing algal productivity and nutrient removal. The yearly mean productivity of flat ATS screens was 15.4 g · m(-2)  · d(-1) . This was elevated to 39.6 g · m(-2)  · d(-1) with a three-dimensional (3-D) screen, and to 47.7 g · m(-2)  · d(-1) by avoiding high ...

The amount of online transactions is growing these days to a large number. A big portion of these transactions contains credit card transactions. The growth of online fraud, on the other hand, is notable, which is generally a result of ease of access to edge technology for everyone. There has been research done on many models and methods for credit card fraud prevention and detection. Artificia...

This paper presents a method for optimizing prostate needle biopsy, by creating a statistical atlas of the spatial distribution of prostate cancer from a large patient cohort. In order to remove inter-individual morphological variability and to determine the true variability in the spatial distribution of cancer within the prostate, an adaptive-focus deformable model (AFDM) is first used to reg...

38 39 Magellania venosa, the largest recent brachiopod (Davidson 1886, McCammon 1973), 40 occurs in clusters and banks in population densities of up to 416 ind m-2 in the fjord Comau, 41 northern Chilean fjord region. Below 15 m depths, it co-occurs with the mytillid Aulacomya 42 atra and dominates the benthic community below 20 m. To determine the question why 43 Magellania venosa is a success...