marine environment of the caspian sea, due to extensive human exploitation and discharge of large magnitudes of urban, industrial and agricultural waste, is under extensive pressure. nutrients such as phosphate and nitrate, and other human wastes are introduced into the caspian sea by river inflows and by direct waste dumping threatening marine life and eco system of the sea. high concentration...

1School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300354, China 2Institute of Informatics, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland 3Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Agronomy, Horticulture, and Plant Science, BioSNTR, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007, USA 4Center for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Wake Fores...

Upper Turonian–Santonian limestones at three island locations (Ist, Silba and Premuda) in the southwestern part of the Adriatic carbonate platform, record slope deposition based on their sedimentological and palaeontological characteristics. These Upper Cretaceous successions consist of three vertically superimposed lithotypes: (1) pelagic mudstonespackstones, (2) laminated pelagic wackestones-...

Marine biology is a hybrid subject that combines aspects of organismal function, ecological interaction and the study of marine biodiversity.[1] The earliest studies of marine biology can be traced back to the Phoenicians and the Greeks who are known as the initial explorers of the oceans and their composition.[2] However, it was Aristotle (384-322 BC) who was the first to record any observatio...

A marine automation system for merchant ships consists of machinery control & monitoring system and cargo control & monitoring system. Extension Alarm System (EAS) has been installed for machinery control & monitoring system to provide machinery alarms to bridge, cabins, and public areas. However, EAS of the latest marine automation systems requires the integrated functionality for both machine...

Extensive research in the last decade has defined that most chronic diseases display dysregulation of multiple cell signaling pathways that have been linked to inflammation. Neuroinflammation is reaction of living nervous tissue to injury. It may be initiated in response to neurological disease. Including infection, traumatic brain injury, toxic metabolites and autoimmunity. The natural compoun...

The long term goal is development and utilization of a comprehensive (broadly capable) marine particle analysis system. The system is designed with wide dynamic range, thus, it will ultimately be used for high speed, high resolution characterization of water column particle fields in high, medium and low latitudes. As part of a broader goal this project continues advancement of the AOSN concept...