The discovery of a reo-like virus in cultures of the mud crab Scylla serrata (Forsskål, 1755) is reported here. Since May 2004, in Zhejiang Province, Peoples Republic of China, reo-like virus in mud crabs has reached serious epidemic levels, causing mortality rates exceeding 90%. Beginning in May 2004, moribund crabs from different districts and areas were investigated. By using electron micros...

-In this paper, the microstatistic multi-user detection receiver (MSF-MUD) will be introduced. The output of the MSF-MUD is taken as the sign of the multi-channel non-linear transformation of the output of a bank of matched filters (BMF). In the case of the MSF-MUD, this transformation is done by multi-channel conventional microstatistic filter (MCMF). Because the M-CMF theory has not been avai...

This paper investigates the Weighted Linear Parallel Interference Cancellation (WLPIC) Multiuser Detection (MUD) scheme with Vertical-Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time (V-BLAST) signal detection algorithms in uplink Code Division Multiple Access based Multiple Input Single Output (MISOCDMA) system. The Bit error rate performance of WLPIC scheme with V-BLAST signal detection and Conventional ...

Mud volcanoes are solid objects that form on the seafloor due to the emission of gas and fluidized sediment from the earth’s interior [1]. They vary widely in size, can be exposed, proud, or buried, and are of interest to the Navy as sources of active sonar clutter [2]. The long-term goal of this work is to accurately model mud volcano scattering. The final product will make predicting and simu...

There are several reasons for this. The first is that, by default, designers and developers focus very intently on the problem at hand in the abstract. Issues that stem from human limitations or needs (such as leaving the office to eat or sleep) are peripheral to the solution being designed. However, to make matters worse, there are several human limitations relevant to interactive systems that...

Cities inadvertently create warmer and drier urban climate conditions than their surrounding areas through urbanization that replaces natural surfaces with impervious materials. These changes cause heat-related health problems many studies suggest microclimatic design (MUD) as an approach to address these problems. In MUD-related research, although terrestrial radiation plays important role in ...

When naval mine-hunting sonars and side-scan surveying sonars operating at 20~60 kHz are working in shallow coastal waters, the visco-thermal absorption of sound by suspended mud in the water may greatly decrease their detection properties. This kind of water is also characterized as turbid seawater. However, the research on measuring the coefficient of sound absorption in turbid seawater has l...

This paper presents a wellbore-stability study of the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) research borehole located near Parkfield, California, USA. In the summer of 2005, the SAFOD borehole was drilled successfully through the active trace of the San Andreas Fault (SAF) in an area characterized by fault creep and frequent microearthquakes. In this study, we report how the analysis o...

Baseline characterization of concentrations and isotopic values of dissolved natural gases is needed to identify contamination caused by the leakage of fugitive gases from oil and gas activities. Methods to collect and analyze baseline concentration-depth profiles of dissolved CH4 and C2 H6 and δ13 C-CH4 in shales and Quaternary clayey tills were assessed at two sites in the Williston Basin, Ca...

in this study, the adsorption of hexavalent chromium and zinc ions from the solution is investigated by raw red mud and mechanical-chemical activated red mud along with the possibility of selective reclamation of these ions from the solution. the mechanical-chemical activation of red mud was done by employing high-energy milling and subsequent acid treatment with hno3. raw red mud (rrm) and mec...