The Indo-Pacific Red Lionfish was first reported off the Florida coast in 1985, following which it has spread across much of the SE USA, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea. Lionfish negatively impact fish and invertebrate assemblages and abundances, thus further spread is cause for concern. To date, the fish has not been reported on the Pacific coast of North or Central America. Here we examine ...

The Water Framework Directives aims a reduction in concentration of hazardous substances in the marine environment. Consequently, there is a need to distinguish between anthropogenically influenced metal concentrations from natural background levels. To better achieve this goal in the Portuguese coast, dissolved and particulate trace metal (TM) concentrations along the Portuguese coast were det...

OBJECTIVES Fishermen are among the most vulnerable groups for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS with reported high prevalence. Poor knowledge base has been evidenced by a few studies. The present study was conducted to assess the knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS among fishermen of the Kutch coast, Gujarat, India. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 950 fishermen ...

The primary background for the present study was a project to assist the authorities in Thailand with development of plans for how to deal with the future tsunami risk in both short and long term perspectives, in the wake of the devastating 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami. The study is focussed on defining and analyzing a number of possible future earthquake scenarios (m...

1Department of Nephrology, Transplantation Medicine and Immunology, G. R. Doshi and K. M. Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases & Research Centre [IKDRC],Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 2Department of Pathology, Laboratory Medicine, Transfusion Services, Immunohematology, G. R. Doshi and K. M. Mehta Institute of Kidney Diseases & Research Centre [IKDRC],Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 3Senior Research Officer...