ULTIMO AGGIORNAMENTO BANCA DATI: 13/09/2024 13:00:57
ABSTRACT: The international focus for development of wave and tidal energy technologies has been principally on large-scale (MW) devices and grid-connected utility-scale arrays. However, the Pacific Islands present many opportunities for smaller-scale (kW) stand-alone developments. Potential sites ...
ABSTRACT: After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, early tsunami warning systems started being developed in many regions as a worthy measure to save lives. Some people do run to high ground after they watch a tsunami approaching the coast or hear the sound of a striking tsunami, but a key to successful ...
ABSTRACT: There're many semi enclosed bay in Seto Inland Sea, Japan and the highest fisheries productive area in the world. On the other hand, red tide and oxygen depleted water have occurred frequently and harmful affect against processes of biological production. Therefore we developed one structure ...
ABSTRACT: The Inclusive Impact Index "Triple I" is a metric developed to assess environmental sustainability and economic feasibility of ocean utilization technologies to predict their public acceptance. Ecological footprint and environmental risk assessment, which are the basis of the Triple I, are ...
ABSTRACT: GPS Comprehensive Oceanographic Monitoring System (GCOMS) using buoy platform has been developed since 1997. GCOMS technology has already been applied to the nationwide GPS Wave Gauges to monitor 15 locations around the Japanese coast. On the basis of the GCOMS technology, new types of monitoring ...
ABSTRACT: To discover sites suitable for ocean current power generation, we conducted acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) and conductivity temperature- depth (CTD) measurements from 31/8/2010 to 2/9/2010 at Miyake Island. Strong ocean current is expected at Miyake Island, which is located approximately ...
ABSTRACT: The discharge of deep ocean water, which is low water temperature and high nutrient concentration, may restore seaweed bed from barren ground condition. The purpose of this research is to estimate the effects of seaweed bed restoration using deep ocean water discharge with an enclosed structure ...
ABSTRACT: Coastlines have particularly valuable renewable energy resources in the form of tides, currents, waves and offshore wind. Due to the environmental sensitivity of coastal environments, the selection of the most adequate location for these systems is a critical factor. Multicriteria analysis ...
ABSTRACT: Beach erosion in most of Thailand became significant in some many years ago. The causes of this change are considered to be the combination of human induced development and big waves. Though people tried to respond to it mainly by building seawall, there are many inappropriate elements in ...
ABSTRACT: Most marine accidents related to vessels are the results of human error, such as mis-detection, mis-judgment and mis-operation. A particular example is the frequent collisions that occur between fishing vessels and cargo vessels in the waters off Japan that often result in the loss of life. ...
ABSTRACT: In the paper, we investigated about the scaling of ecological and economic values in the inclusive impact index Triple I. A new method to calculate γ that converts the economic value to the environmental value was proposed. In the proposed method, the marginal abatement costs of CO2 emission ...
ABSTRACT: Parametric roll resonance is a ship stability related phenomenon that generates sudden large amplitude oscillations up to 30–40 degrees of roll. This can cause severe damage, and it can put the crew in serious danger. The need for a parametric rolling real time prediction system has been ...
ABSTRACT: Various water purification technologies have been developed to mitigate the significant environmental impacts on ocean caused by the rapid economic developments in coastal areas. This paper estimates the performances of these technologies in Tokyo Bay through numerical experiments and inclusive ...
Background Photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy (PACT) combines light, a light-absorbing molecule that initiates a photochemical or photophysical reaction, and oxygen. The combined action of these three components originates reactive oxygen species that lead to microorganisms' destruction. The aim ...
Functional feed supplemented with alternative-economic nutrient sources (protein, carbohydrates, lipids) and probiotics are being considered in shrimp/fish aquaculture production systems as an option to increase yield and profits and to reduce water pollution. In this study the probiotic potential to ...
Mutations in LRRK2 are genetically linked to Parkinson's disease (PD) but its normal biological function is largely unknown. Sheng et al. recently reported that deletion of the WD40 domain of LRRK2 in zebrafish specifically causes PD-like loss of neurons and behavior defect. However, our similar early ...
It has long been viewed that invertebrates rely exclusively upon a wide variety of innate mechanisms for protection from disease and parasite invasion and lack any specific acquired immune mechanisms comparable to those of vertebrates. Recent findings, however, suggest certain invertebrates may be able ...
Although conventional cryopreservation is a proven method for long-term, safe storage of genetic material, protocols used by the zebrafish community are not standardized and yield inconsistent results, thereby putting the security of many genotypes in individual laboratories and stock centers at risk. ...
In recent years, it has become apparent that human impacts have altered community structure in coastal and marine ecosystems worldwide. Of these, fishing is one of the most pervasive, and a growing body of work suggests that fishing can have strong effects on the ecology of target species, especially ...
Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) can be used to identify microsatellite markers. We developed 30 polymorphic microsatellite markers from 5053 ESTs of the Miichthys miiuy. Out of 123 EST derived microsatellites for which PCR primers were designed, 30 loci were polymorphic in 30 individuals from a single ...