Introduction: Nowadays,  considerable developments  in  the field  of  radiotherapy have  been  achieved.  They  include  the  advances  made  in  the  equipments  and  treatment  planning  techniques  which  require  highly complex calculations. Such achievements have made it possible to treat cancer patients not only  with  higher  radiation  dose  but  also  with  higher  precision  and  con...

This paper describes the impact of dredging on populations wedge clam (Donax trunculus) at two sites along northern Alboran coast. Damage was assessed by quantifying shell and foot damage commercial clams caught with mechanical dredges. Survival experiments were carried out to assess their survival capacity after 24 h purification treatment 72 cold storage, which represents an issue great inter...

At large spatial scales (>1 km), the forces structuring marine communities are diverse and include oceanographic, geological, and human processes, as well as availability of regional species pools. Few studies in marine and estuarine systems have examined the joint effects of predation (top-down) and food availability (bottom-up) in controlling populations at these scales. We compared the relat...

Metallothioneins (MT) were obtained after purification from metal-exposed clams (Ruditapes decussatus) using gel-permeation and ion-exchange chromatography. Four cadmium-metallothioneins (CdMTs) were resolved by ion-exchange chromatography and they all had similar molecular weights, high cadmium content and an absorption spectra indicative of the presence of characteristic Cd-S aggregates. The ...

Carotenoids of the corals Acropora japonica, A. secale, and A. hyacinthus, the tridacnid clam Tridacna squamosa, the crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci, and the small sea snail Drupella fragum were investigated. The corals and the tridacnid clam are filter feeders and are associated with symbiotic zooxanthellae. Peridinin and pyrrhoxanthin, which originated from symbiotic zooxanthellae...

This paper presents the CLAM Annotator tool. This application has been developed in the context of the CLAM framework and can be used to manually edit any previously computed audio descriptors. The application offers a convenient GUI that allows to edit low-level frame descriptors, global descriptors of any kind and segmentation marks. It is designed in such a way that the interface adapts itse...

In order to detect threats from the Internet and to reduce the detection cost, this system helps network administrators to analyze the malware information easily and effectively. In this study, we have set up a platform with the honeypot system and have solved several problems including sharing resources and distributing honeypot system module at the same time. This platform was set for researc...

The M16 family of zinc peptidases comprises a pair of homologous domains that form two halves of a "clam-shell" surrounding the active site. The M16A and M16C subfamilies form one class ("peptidasomes"): they degrade 30-70 residue peptides, and adopt both open and closed conformations. The eukaryotic M16B subfamily forms a second class ("processing proteases"): they adopt a single partly-open c...

The goal of my thesis is to extend current methods for compiler derivation and veri cation to languages which exhibit true concurrency. The work has proceeded through the following steps. A process calculus, called CLAM, was de ned, based on the -calculus and modelling true concurrency. CLAM was used to de ne the semantics of a simple concurrent functional language, called Urlang, which was ins...