Striped bass Morone saxatilis were studied in order to characterize their immune responses over the short term following challenge with Mycobacterium marinum. The expression of immunity-related genes (IL-1beta, TNF-alpha, Nramp and TGF-beta) quickly increased following infection with M. marinum, but these genes were subsequently down-regulated despite the fact that bacterial counts remained hig...

For the first time, Emetha audouini (Milne Edwards, 1840), a cymothoid isopod, is reported parasitising cage cultured sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax L., 1758 in Greece. The specimens observed are larvae (Pulli II). They were found in great numbers in the buccal and branchial cavity of young (3.5 m.o. old) sea bass, in an intensive cage farm facility. This parasite is certainly transferred to sea...

This paper discusses an approach for the feature extraction for audio mood classification which is an important and tough problem in the field of music information retrieval (MIR). In this task the timbral information has been widly used, however many musical moods are characterized not only by timbral information but also by musical scale and temporal features such as rhythm patterns and bass-...

We present the second catalog and data release of optical spectral line measurements AGN demographics BAT Spectroscopic Survey, which focuses on Swift-BAT hard X-ray detected AGNs. use spectra from dedicated campaigns publicly available archives to investigate properties most AGNs listed in 70-month all-sky catalog; specifically, 743 746 unbeamed unlensed (99.6%). find a good correspondence bet...

Understanding how information spreads throughout a population can help public health officials improve how they communicate with the public in emergency situations. In this project, I implement an agent-based information diffusion model inspired by the Bass model. I compare my discrete-time simulation to a traditional differential-equation conceptualization of the Bass model. Finally, I test my...

Understanding how information spreads throughout a population can help public health officials improve how they communicate with the public in emergency situations. In this project, I implement a fast, memory-efficient agent-based information diffusion model inspired by the Bass model. I compare my discrete-time simulation to a traditional differential-equation version of the Bass model. Finall...

Physical and biological properties of the Chesapeake Bay estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM) region may influence retention and survival of anadromous white perch (Morone americana) and striped bass larvae (Morone saxatilis). To evaluate this hypothesis we collected data in five cruises, three during May 1998 and two during May 1999, in upper Chesapeake Bay. Time series of freshwater discharge, w...

Wadeable streams in Mississippi do not garner the attention of most anglers or fishery managers; consequently, these streams hold an unmanaged recreational fishery. However, they can support quality sizes and abundances of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides), spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus), and sunfishes. We used the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Wadeable Stream Assessment ...

Background: The traditional power law model, W(L) = aL, is widely applied to describe weight (W) vs. length (L) in fish. The exponent, b, is independent of the system of units and has an easily interpreted physical meaning as related to isometric growth (b = 3). In contrast, the coefficient, a, depends strongly on both the exponent and the system of units, and its physical meaning is difficult ...

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