Introduction Knowledge about the bathymetry of water bodies is of high economic, social, and ecologic importance. Whereas charting bathymetry for navigational purposes is indispensable for ensuring safe shipping traffic, monitoring the quantity and quality of fresh water resources gains more and more importance, especially in the light of climate change. In the European context three water rela...

Fishing is one of the best known and practiced human activities. However, you should remember that, when casting the hook from the riverbank or grasping it to add bait, fishermen run a real risk of injury if the hook punctures the skin.Briefly we describe a case where a young, 32-year-old fisherman who was reeling the hook back to shore when it hit him in the face and embedded itself in his upp...

Reports of natural infections of the insect pathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill. (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) in greenhouses and laboratory colonies of Scatella tenuicosta Collin (Diptera: Ephydridae), a nuisance pest and vector of plant pathogens, suggest the potential for using B. bassiana for microbial control of this pest. In this study we assessed the diversity of B. bassiana i...

Conditional sampling is used herein to examine the e€ect of fetch, stability, and surface roughness changes on wind speeds in the coastal zone. Using data from an o€shore wind farm it is shown that at a distance of 1.2±1.7 km from the coast, up to a height of 20 m above the surface, di€erences in wind speed distributions from onshore and o€shore masts are statistically signi®cant for ̄ow moving...

Compared with the traditional mooring system, automated vacuum system can meet development needs of large-scale ship automation, port and environmental protection. This review describes latest research focuses, progress, applications, future perspectives regarding system. First, components, working principles, advantages, limits, risks are discussed. Secondly, typical application cases systems ...

Several studies have demonstrated strong population structuring over small distances in the rocky-shore mbuna cichlid fishes from Lake Malawi, suggesting the potential for allopatric speciation. However, many endemic Lake Malawi cichlids are neither mbuna, nor confined to rocky shores. Using microsatellites, we investigated the population structure in three species of the non-mbuna genus Protom...

During the breeding season seabirds are constrained to coastal areas and are restricted in their movements, spending much of their time in near-shore waters either loafing or foraging. However, in using these areas they may be threatened by anthropogenic activities such as fishing, watersports and coastal developments including marine renewable energy installations. Although many studies descri...

Purpose. To define the role of ice factor in morpholithodynamics coastal area North-West part Black Sea. Methods. Field and in-office research was carried out Sea during winter seasons 2005-2019. The work included geometrical leveling beach surface shore-fast ice, drilling layer, depth sounding, sampling deposits an core. content determined by weighting them after melting evaporating a known vo...

Healthcare-Associated and Community-Associated C. difficile Infection in Children Jennifer Jimenez; Marci Drees, MD, MS, FACP; Beth Loveridge-Lenza, MD; Stephen Eppes, MD; Fernando Delrosario, MD; Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Newark, NJ; Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE; Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, NJ; Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilm...