This paper presents a deterministic mathematical model, which simulates the time-dependent behavior of an oil spill near coastal zones. The model solves the full set of partial-differential equations that govern transient, two-phase, turbulent flow and heat/mass transfer phenomena. It is used for predicting the consequences of hypothetical oil spills that could occur near a coastal area of grea...

OBJECTIVES Anxiety leads to biases in processing personally relevant information. This study set out to examine whether anxious parents also experience biases in processing child-relevant material. DESIGN AND METHODS Ninety parents acted as a control condition, or received a social anxiety or child-related anxiety induction. They completed a task examining attentional biases in relation to ch...

Large oil spills are dramatic perturbations on marine ecosystems, and seabirds are one of the worst affected organisms in such events. It has been argued that oil spills may have important long-term consequences on marine organisms, but supporting evidence remains scarce. The European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) was strongly impacted at population level by the Prestige oil spill, the bigge...

The main aim of this study was to examine affective linkages between competition-related and competition-extraneous concern domains. A secondary purpose was to establish the contributions of pre-competition affects to post-competition performance appraisals, independent of pre-competition performance expectations. Thirty-nine highly skilled male martial artists were assessed at five random time...

Oil spills can generate multiple effects in different time scales on the marine ecosystem. The numerical modeling of these processes is an important tool with low computational cost which provides a powerful appliance to environmental agencies regarding the risk management. In this way, the objective of this work is to evaluate the influence of a number of physical forcing acting over a hypothe...

The main objective of this work is to design automatic detection procedures for oil spill in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite data. In doing so the genetic algorithm tool was designed to investigate the occurrence of using ENVISAT and RADARSAT-2 SAR satellite data. The study shows that genetic algorithm provides accurate pattern of oil slick in SAR data. This shown by 90% for oil spill,...

An operational model for the prediction of circulation and transport of oil spill in the Black Sea is presented. The hydrodynamic block is developed on the basis of the DieCAST high-resolution low-dissipative model adapted to the Black Sea. The oil spill transport block is constructed on the basis of the random walk approach, which allows predicting motion of individual particles, the assembly ...

Crude oil spilled from the Herbaysprit in Oecember 2007 and contaminated Tae Ann Sound shoreline. A weathered oiled sediment collected at the spill area (Tai Ann beach) from 3 months to 12 months after the spil l. The fingerprinting and data interpretation techniques oil spill characterization and identification studies and environmental investigations discussed indude oil spill identification ...

Oil spill incidents threaten the marine ecological environment. Detecting sea surface oil slicks by remote sensing images provides support for efficient treatment of spills. This is important sustainable development. However, traditional methods based on field analysis are time-consuming. Spectral indices lack applicability. In addition, machine learning strictly rely training and testing sampl...

INTRODUCTION Oil spill in fresh water can affect ecological processes and accordingly it can influence human health. Iran, due to having 58.8 % of the world oil reserves, is highly vulnerable to water contamination by oil products. AIM The aim of this study was to determine environmental factors affecting the management of the oil spill into one of the river in Iran using the PESTLE analysis....