Offshore aquaculture is increasingly viewed as a mechanism to meet growing protein demand for seafood, while minimizing adverse consequences on the environment and other uses in the oceans. However, despite growing interest in offshore aquaculture, there appears to be no consensus as to what measures commonly define an offshore site or how effects of offshore aquaculture—relative to more nearsh...

The last decade has seen convergence marketed as one response to the challenge of users having to juggle an increasingly wide array of digital services, technologies and media. Key to this view is the assumption that by converging computer devices, and digital media, the value of technology for end users can be maximised whilst the overheads involved in purchasing, maintaining and orchestrating...

1 " …on moving to a quiet sector, a battalion of the 51 st division heard the Germans shout, 'We Saxons, you Anglo Saxons, don't shoot', and apparently all went well, for a few days later the Saxons, 'shouted…that Prussians were relieving them, and asked us to give them hell.' " (Ashworth, p.34) " When I hear the word culture I reach for my revolver. "-Hermann Goering " When I hear the word rev...

The implantation of embryo depends on the quality of the embryo and the receptivity of the endometrium. While the factors affecting embryo quality were optimized, the implantation rates did not reach the desirable levels. This directs the blaming for endometrial receptivity which already has been affected by supra-physiological levels of hormone, namely estradiol, in controlled ovarian hypersti...