ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO BANCA DATI: 13/09/2024 13:00:57
Maritime domain awareness is important for coastal nations in terms of applications to coastal conservancy, security, fishery and stewardship of their exclusive economic zones (EEZs). Maritime situational awareness involves knowing the location, speed and bearing of ships and boats in the EEZ. HF radar ...
Monitoring animal populations in benthic habitats is essential to detecting changes in the local ocean environment and marine ecosystem. Images of animals on the seafloor are obtained by drop-cameras or digital still-cameras mounted on Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Population statistics have a ...
In the summer of 2010, an international team of scientists and educators from the United States and the Republic of Indonesia collaborated to explore little-known deep-sea ecosystems off Indonesia. Using the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ship Okeanos Explorer along with the ...
Physiological field of manipulating metabolism tries to elucidate how tissues recuperate after ischemic reperfusion changes, how signal-molecules coordinate metabolic pathways and what physiological changes to expect in induced artificial hypometabolism or suspended animation in biomedicine. Certain ...
Ship's vibration are caused by the propeller, engine and auxiliary machinery, bow thruster and effects of the sea. Vibrations can be so high that it provides discomfort on board and make damage to ship's hull, machinery and equipments. During recent years fiberoptic sensors have gained increasing interest ...
Summary form only given. Abstracts are presented for three keynote presentations along with the biographies of their respective authors.
In recent years, ship detection by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has attracted much attention mainly because of increasing marine crimes such as piracy and intrusion into territorial waters, and legal need for identifying ships responsible for oil pollution, as well as monitoring ships' traffic and ...
Chitosan is a naturally-occurring polysaccharide produced from deacetylation of chitin. It is abundant in exoskeletons of marine creatures. Among of its interesting characteristics is its ability to bind fat and cholesterol, antimicrobial, and anti-oxidation properties. Due to its anti-microbial and ...
RDSEA International, Inc. along with Down East Instrumentation, LLC partnered to design, build, deliver, commission and deploy three “air-sea interaction” buoy systems to China's State Oceanic Administration (SOA), First Institute of Oceanography (FIO), Qingdao. These buoy systems were modeled after ...
Survey techniques for geo-acoustic bottom characteristics are expensive and time consuming. The U.S. Navy has investigated several inversion techniques to characterize seabed sediments, most of which use active sonar and a vertical array. Passive techniques offer the potential to remain covert and extend ...
This paper introduces the design and testing of a scalable, low-cost, self-contained WEC device that can be easily deployed in remote, undeveloped locations around the world. This novel design relies on a two-way mechanical rectifier and flywheel system to convert opposing angular into single-directional ...
Prevention of biological fouling is critical to maintenance of optimal function and extended life for equipment and materials deployed in aquatic and marine settings. We established the efficacy of copper plus a proprietary antifouling treatment to prevent biofouling in glass capillary tubes using in ...
The possible effects of anthropogenic noise on the marine environment is becoming an important topic in the oceanic community. The exploration for fossil-fuel or alternative energy and the construction of facilities to support these endeavors often requires sizable construction efforts; which usually ...
The corrosion rate of structural steels in the hostile environments of the coastal, harbour or ocean zones effects the economic interest of offshore structures since both the loss of steel and pitting may have significant impacts on structural safety and performance. With the increasing emphasis to ...
Anchor Diver III is the first robot from Japan which was applied after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami. Anchor Diver III has been developed since 2009 to assist the underwater search and rescue activities of the Tokyo Fire Department. Tokyo Fire Department owns its own ROVs (Remotely Operated ...
The operation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) in scenarios where also human divers are working, e.g., during archaeological missions or during inspection and service tasks, bears an interesting application potential. But according scenarios also require the detection of the divers for at least ...
Maritime-Port Security Dive Operations cross many geographic boundaries and regional jurisdictions, and are conducted by US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), United States Coast Guard (USCG), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Public Safety Dive Teams (PSDT). They include underwater search ...
Myticin-C is a highly variable antimicrobial peptide associated to immune response in Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis). In this study, we tried to ascertain the genetic organization and the mechanisms underlying myticin-C variation and evolution of this gene family. We took advantage ...
Interpopulation hybridization can lead to outbreeding depression within affected populations due to breakdown of coadapted gene complexes or heterosis in hybrid populations. One of the principal methods commonly used to estimate the level of developmental instability (DI) is fluctuating asymmetry (FA). ...
Background Contemporary evolution following assisted colonization may increase the probability of persistence for refuge populations established as a bet-hedge for protected species. Such refuge populations are considered “genetic replicates” that might be used for future re-colonization in the event ...