Mesophotic coral reefs (30-150 m) have recently received increased attention as a potential source of larvae (e.g., the refugia hypothesis) to repopulate a select subset of the shallow water (<30 m) coral fauna. To test the refugia hypothesis we used highly polymorphic Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) markers as a means to assess small-scale genetic heterogeneity between geographic...

The purpose of the WAND demonstrator performance measurements was to evaluate how well the requirements of the WAND system design are met. This deliverable sums up the results of the performance evaluation. A special focus is put on evaluation of the WAND specific components that were designed and implemented within the project. The performance of the WAND radio sub-system, consisting of WAND r...

In earlier studies of passive remote sensing of shallow-water bathymetry, bottom depths were usually derived by empirical regression. This approach provides rapid data processing, but it requires knowledge of a few true depths for the regression parameters to be determined, and it cannot reveal in-water constituents. In this study a newly developed hyperspectral, remote-sensing reflectance mode...

determining landslide size could be a difficult and expensive task. in this research, size parameters of 142 landslides recognized in tajan river basin, northern iran, have been assessed. the dataset was prepared through the extensive field surveys and using the satellite imagery available via google earth. dependence between landslides area (a-m2), volume (v-m3), and depth (d-m) was appointed ...

The diversity of amphipods in the continental shelf sediments of the southeast coast of India is dealt in the paper. Samples for the study were collected onboard FORV Sagar Sampada during Cruise Nos. 260, 275 and 290 conducted in December 2008, May 2010 and October 2011 respectively. Samples were collected at various depths (30 m, 50 m, 75 m, 100 m, 150 m and 200 m) along 6 transects namely Sin...

PURPOSE This study evaluated the fracture load of customized zirconia abutments with titanium insert according to preparation depths, with or without 5-year artificial aging. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-six identical lithium disilicate crowns (IPS e.max press) were fabricated to replace a maxillary right central incisor and cemented to the customized zirconia abutment with titanium insert on...