This study was conducted for determining the conditions of hooks after fishing operations in May 2011 – June 2012 on the coasts of Dardanelles Strait and Gallipoli Peninsula. Twenty longline operations with three replication were carried out between 5 and 500 m sea depth. Each longline consisted of 200 hooks. 60000 m of fish line was outspread with a total of 12000 hooks and a total of 1360 ind...

Gregory Levitin Reliability Department, Planning, Development and Technology Division, Bait Amir, Israel Electric Corporation Ltd., P.O. Box 10, Haifa, 31000 Israel E-mail: [email protected] Abstract The weighted voting system (WVS) consists of n units that each provide a binary decision (0 or 1) or abstain from voting. Each unit has its own individual weight. System output is 1 if the cumulati...

[1] The global boreal forest region experienced some 17.9 million ha of fire in 1998, which could be the highest level of the decade. Through the analysis of fire statistics from North America and satellite data from Russia, semimonthly estimates of area burned for five different regions in the boreal forest were generated and used to estimate total carbon release and CO2, CO, and CH4 emissions...

The invasive brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, poses significant risk to organic farming systems because they rely on biological control, nonsynthetic inputs, and cultural tactics for pest management. This study evaluated the potential of five crop plants (sorghum, admiral pea, millet, okra, and sunflower) to be used as trap crops under organic production in four mid-Atlantic state...