The project conducts application-oriented research on impacts of underwater noise on marine vertebrates in the North and Baltic Seas. In distinct subprojects, the hearing sensitivity of harbor porpoises and gray seals as well as the acoustic tolerance limit of harbor porpoises to impulsive noise from pile driving and stress reactions caused by anthropogenic noise is investigated. Animals are eq...

The importance of force sensitivity in robots that interact with unknown disturbance is acknowledged. For the manipulators, impedance controlled robots realized safe and robust object manipulation. For the legged mechanism, it is expected to enhance locomotion stability, since locomotion fundamentally is a manipulation of the center of mass. In order to maximize force sensitivity, both the forc...

For 30 years it has been assumed that a single species of cyanobacteria, Phormidium corallyticum, is the volumetrically dominant component of all cases of black band disease (BBD) in coral. Cyanobacterium-specific 16S rRNA gene primers and terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analyses were used to determine the phylogenetic diversity of these BBD cyanobacteria on coral reefs in the...

Tel: 886+(0)5-2721001 ext.2017 Abstract In 1997, Cranor and Cytron proposed an electronic voting protocol, Sensus protocol, intended to be applied in a real election. However, in 2005 Fabrizio et.al. pointed out there is a vulnerability exists in their protocol that the validator can impersonate anyone of those abstained voters to cast vote. They proposed a scheme, Seas protocol, to solve this ...

The present paper is about the detection of cross seas based on ERS-2/SAR wave mode data and comparison to WAM model. A case of cross seas observed by ERS-2/SAR was analyzed for its generation and development by wave mode data together with the WAM model two-dimensional (2-D) spectra. The sea surface elevation is estimated from these wave mode data with cross sea features using a CMOD type tilt...

The wind/wave climatology for the Arctic Seas will be developed based on altimeter observations. It will have a major scientific and applied significance as presently there is no reference climatology for this region of the ocean available. The new versions of wave models for the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas will include new physics that is already under development, and the novel physics presentl...

Citation: Uusitalo L, Blanchet H, Andersen JH, Beauchard O, Berg T, Bianchelli S, Cantafaro A, Carstensen J, Carugati L, Cochrane S, Danovaro R, Heiskanen A-S, Karvinen V, Moncheva S, Murray C, Neto JM, Nygård H, Pantazi M, Papadopoulou N, Simboura N, Srėbalienė G, Uyarra MC and Borja A (2016) Indicator-Based Assessment of Marine Biological Diversity–Lessons from 10 Case Studies across the Euro...

We introduce an interlayer coherent composite Fermi liquid for nu = 1/2 + 1/2 bilayers, in which interlayer Coulomb repulsion drives exciton condensation of composite fermions. As a result, composite fermions propagate coherently between layers--even though electrons do not--and form bonding and antibonding Fermi seas. This phase is compressible with respect to symmetric currents but quantum Ha...

The wind/wave climatology for the Arctic Seas will be developed based on altimeter observations. It will have a major scientific and applied significance as presently there is no reference climatology for this region of the ocean available. The new versions of wave models for the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas will include new physics that is already under development, and the novel physics presentl...