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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Project Annual Report

This annual report has been prepared for peer review as part of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council restoration program for the purpose of assessing project progress. Peer review comments have not been addressed in this annual report. Studv Historv: This project grew out of a series of studies which began in FY93 as a Research Service Agreement with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. In FY95 they were initiated as Restoration Project 95001, Recovery of Harbor Seals from EVOS: Condition and Health Status and were continued through Restoration Project 98001of the same title. arginine vasopressin and atrial natriuretic peptide in free ranging and captive seals and sea lions. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. 1 19C, 1-6. Additional manuscripts are in preparation. Results from these initial studies led directly to the research proposed in Restoration Project 98341-Recovery of Harbor Seals. Phase 11: Controlled Studies of Health and Diet. Baseline data for seals participating in this study, as well as data from the first year of rehabilitation monitoring were presented in the first annual report, The first of two years of feeding trials has now been completed and the preliminary results are the subject of this report. In addition, two seasons of data have been collected from rehabilitated harbor seal pups and are included in this report. Presentations arising from this work include The second year of feeding trials and third year of rehabilitation studies are underway as Restoration Project 00341. This program is currently expected to continue into FYO1 and will then be closed out with a Final Report to be prepared in FYO 1. Abstract: The objective of this study is to quantify the impact of specific diets on the health and body condition of harbor seals. This includes measuring the effect of diet on health status biomarkers which have been monitored in animals in Prince William Sound and determining whether specific diets are nutritionally adequate to maintain health. In the second year of this project, six harbor seals underwent a series of feeding trials during which they alternated between diets of herring or pollock. Two additional seals were maintained, as controls, on a mixed diet of herring and pollock. Morphometric measurements and blood sampling have occurred biweekly. Initial results indicate differences in body condition and blood parameters 2 between the two groups of seals being fed different diets. Whether these differences are a result of diet should …
CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MESOZOIC CURCULIONOIDEA (COLEOPTERA)

Summary. 111 species of the Curculionid-beetles are known from the Mesozoic (Obrieniidae – 7, Nemonychidae – 63, Ithyceridae – 24, Belidae – 4, Anthribidae – 2, Rhynchitidae – 3, Brentidae – 2, Curculionidae – 5, Scolytidae – 1). New subfamily Metrioxenoidinae Legalov, subfam.n. (type genus: Metrioxenoides Gratshev, Zherikhin, Jarzembowski, 1998), new tribes Kenderlykanini Legalov, trib.n. (type genus: Kenderlyka Zherikhin & Gratshev, 1993), Probelini Legalov, trib.n. (type genus: Probelus L. Arnoldi, 1977), Karataucarini Legalov, trib.n. (type genus: Karataucar Legalov, gen.n.), Gobicarini Legalov, trib.n. (type genus: Gobicar Gratshev & Zherikhin, 1999), Cretanthribini Legalov, trib.n. (type genus: Cretanthribus Legalov, gen.n.), Axeirodiellini Legalov, trib.n. (type genus: Axeirodiellus Zhericin & Gratshev, 2004), Cretuliini Legalov, trib.n. (type genus: Cretulio Zherikhin, 1993), new subtribe Abrocarina Legalov, subtrib.n. (type genus: Abrocar Liu & Ren, 2006) of tribe Baissorhynchini Zherikhin, 1993, new genera Archaeorrhynchoides Legalov, gen.n. (type species: Archaeorrhynchus paradoxopus L. Arnoldi, 1977), Arnoldibelus Legalov, gen.n. (type species: Belonotaris karatavicus L. Arnoldi, 1977), Belonotaroides Legalov, gen.n. (type species: Belonotaris lineatipunctatus L. Arnoldi, 1977), Khetanamonyx Legalov, gen.n. (type species: Oxycorynoides crassirostris Zherikhin, 1993), Karataucar Legalov, gen.n. (type species: Oxycorynoides progressivus L. Arnoldi, 1977), Gratshevicar Legalov, gen.n. (type species: Scelocamptus dubius L. Arnoldi, 1977), Brasilnemonyx Legalov, gen.n. (type species: Brasilnemonyx zherichini Legalov, sp.n.), Chinabrenthorrhinus Legalov, gen.n. (type species: Brenthorrhinus longidigitatus Ren, 1995), Abrenthorrhinus Legalov, gen.n. (type species: Brenthorrhinus brevirostris Gratshev & Zherikhin, 1996), Cretanthribus Legalov, gen.n. (type species: Anthribites cretaceus Zherikhin, 1993), Orapauletes Legalov, gen.n. (type species: Orapauletes cretaceus Legalov, sp.n.), new subgenera Probeloides Legalov, subgen.n. (type species: Probelus tibialis L. Arnoldi, 1977) of the genus Probelus L. Arnoldi, 1977, Pseudoxycorynoides Legalov, subgen.n. (type species: Oxycorynoides brevipes L. Arnoldi, 1977) of the genus Oxycorynoides L. Arnoldi, 1977, Hispanocarodes Legalov, subgen.n. (type species: Gobicar hispanicus Gratshev & Zherikhin, 2000) and Rugosocar Legalov, subgen.n. (type species: Cretonanophyes rugosithorax Gratshev & Zherikhin, 2000) of the genus Montsecanomalus Soriano, Gratshev, Delclos, 2006 and new species Brasilnemonyx zherichini Legalov, sp.n. (Early Cretaceous, Brazil: Santana) and Orapauletes cretaceus Legalov, sp.n. (Late Cretaceous (Botswana: Orap) are described. New
Investigation on Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Southern Iran

ce occurrence of an epidemic of cutaneous leishmaniasis with high incidence of disease (8.9/1000) in Arsanjan county, Fars province, southern Iran, an attempt was made to investigate an epidemiological study during 2001-2002. Symptomatic investigation among 270 schoolchildren over one year of study revealed that 11.9% of population had active lesion with 28.1% scar rate. Parallel study showed that among 7968 people which comprise 1572 households, 6.18% were positive for scars and 1.2% for ulcer. In our study three species of rodents, including Meriones libycus (71%), Cricetulus migratorius (22%) and Microtus arvalis (6%) were captured. By employing Nested-PCR technique, 6.8% (4 of 56) of M.libycus were found infected with Leishmania major. About 83% of indoor collected sandflies comprised, Phlebotomus papatasi. From its density it can be concluded that this species plays an important role in leishmania transmission in the area. The seasonal activity of the sandflies starts at early April and ended in early November.
Cellular polyamines influence maturation and germination of somatic embryos from pro-embryonal masses of two grapevine cultivars

Somatic embryos of grapevine multiply repeatedly and often fail to mature and germinate due to factors like dormancy and embryo teratology. The present investigation was carried out to improve the maturation and germination of somatic embryos from pro-embryonal masses (PEM) of 2A-Clone and ‘Crimson Seedless’, two seedless grapevine cultivars. Also, the aim was to study a correlation between cellular and residual polyamine (PA) levels in PEM and culture media. The efficiency of maturation and germination of embryos from PEM varied significantly between the two cultivars and depended on incubation period and type of PAs in the medium. HPLC analysis showed that higher levels of cellular putrescine in PEM had correlation with maturation and germination percentages in both cultivars. The levels of three PAs depleted in the media rapidly indicating its uptake by PEM. Of the three PAs, putrescine (PUT) was the most effective and resulted in 100.0 or 92.0 % maturation at 14 d or 30 d in 2A-Clone or ‘Crimson Seedless’, respectively. The maximum germination of somatic embryos was recorded with PUT at 14 d or 21 d in 2A-Clone or ‘Crimson Seedless’, respectively.
Compartments of Quercetin & Allium cepa (Onion) on Blood Glucose in Diabetic Rats

Background: The major concern in diabetes is increased oxidative stress. Maintaining a balance between reactive oxygen species (ROS) and antioxidants is a major mechanism in preventing damage from oxidative stress. Quercetin (QR) is a well-known flavonoid and a strong antioxidant derived from the onion, Allium cepa, and it has been shown to reduce oxidative stress in the long-term treatment of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes in animals. Objective: We aimed to study on beneficial effects of QR & Allium cepa on regulation of blood glucose in diabetic model. Methods: Seventy male 8-week-old Wistar albino rats weighing 250 ± 10 g were obtained, the rats were divided into seven groups comprising ten animals in each group. Diabetes induced with single intraperitoneal injection of STZ. Diabetic rats treated with quercetin (15mg/kg/day, started 48 hours after STZ injection) and Allium cepa juice (2cc/rat/day, started 48 hours after STZ injection). After 28 days treatment, analysis on blood glucose and insulin was done. Results: The mean TAC showed a significant increase (p < 0.05) in the QR compared to the control, STZ and STZ + QR groups. Both QR and onion Juice had significant effect in lowering blood glucose (355.3 ± 104 mg/dl and 353.4 ± 103 mg/dl respectively) (p<0.05) in STZ induced diabetic animals. Both QR and onion juice had lowering effect in Serum insulin in healthy animals and significant increasing effect on serum insulin level in diabetic animals. Conclusions: Both QR and onion juice had good effect in modifying diabetes related biochemical parameters and they are recommended to be studied more in order to being used in the therapy.
Partial Metrics, Valuations, and Domain Theory

In this paper we develop some connections between the partial metrics of Matthews and the topological aspects of domain theory. We do this by introducing the valuation spaces, which are a special class of partial metric spaces. We develop the natural duality of partial metrics and propose that a natural context in which to view a partial metric space is as a bitopological space. We then see that successive conditions on a valuation can ensure that the pmetric topology is first of all order consistent (with the underlying poset), then equivalent to the Scott topology, and finally that the induced metric topology is equivalent to the patch topology.
A simple in vitro differentiation between turkey herpesvirus and Marek's disease virus.

: The growth and plaque formation by turkey herpesvirus (HVT) amd Marek's disease herpesvirus (MDHV) were examined in QT35 cells, a continuous fibroblast cell line derived from chemically induced tumors of Japanese quail. HVT grew and formed plaques consistently in QT35 cells when inoculated with cell-culture-propagated virus or peripheral mononuclear leukocytes (PML) from chickens that had been inoculated with HVT. Both oncogenic and nononcogenic strains of MDHV, however, failed to grow and induced neither plaques nor cytopathic effects in QT35 cells, whether inoculated with cell-culture-grown virus or heavily infected PML. When PML from chickens infected with both HVT and MDHV were assayed, only HVT plaques had developed, despite the presence in the inocula of high levels of MDHV with less HVT. The QT35 cell line provides a simple in vitro system for differentiating between HVT and MDHV and for selective isolation and identification of HVT from chickens infected with both HVT and MDHV.
A study of the positive benefits of bandwidth feedback in the learning process of motor skills

the current research of bandwidth feedback has positive benefits in motor learning, such as providing feedback for motor performance outside the bandwidth, giving full play to the function of feedback in information, making the learners modify the motor according to the error information provided by the quantitative feedback, and advance the motor performance, and to the bandwidth table. The present feedback provides qualitative information, in addition to avoiding the unstable movements caused by overcorrection, and enhancing the performance of correct movements. In order to further clarify the progress of the research, this study reviews the research on the performance of motor skill learning with bandwidth feedback in order to provide a scientific reference for the follow-up study.
Combining data gathering efficiency with behaviourally realistic modelling: A case of park-and-ride facility choice data gathered with a Sequential Best Worst Discrete Choice Experiment and estimated with a Random Regret Minimisation model

This research combines two relatively new additions to the field of discrete choice modelling: sequential best worst discrete choice experiments (SBWDCE) and random regret minimisation (RRM) modelling, with the hope of developing a more behaviourally realistic choice model. SBWDCEs are able to gather a larger number of stated choice observations from fewer respondents, while RRM models challenge the notion of fully compensatory behaviour implied by the traditional RUM model and suggest that consumers choose to minimise regret. According to image theory, best and worst choices are not made with the same kind of decision rule, so accounting for that variability using a RRM model would produce a more realistic model with better model fit. Estimating the combined model proves that people do in fact use a compensatory decision rule when selecting the best alternatives and a semi- to non-compensatory decision rule when selecting the worst. The results also show that the way choice set size variation is accounted for can greatly impact the scale parameters, as these and the choice set size constants are inversely related. Although a better model fit was achieved, using best-worst tasks is contested and researchers also warn against the lower reliability of additional choices in the same choice set. Nevertheless, SBWDCEs provide great benefits in fields with small population sizes and can potentially help in obtaining higher quality prior parameter values for use in efficient experimental design generation.
Efficacy of insecticides against mustard aphid Lipaphis erysimi kalt

Seven insecticides viz., acephate 75@ 350g, acetamiprid 20 SP@ 10g, dimethoate 30EC@ 300g, fipronil 5SC@ 50g, imidacloprid 17.8 SL@ 20g, oxy-dematon methyl 25 EC @ 250g and thiamethoxam 25WG@ 25g a.i. ha−1 were evaluated in the field against mustard aphid. The plot treated with imidacloprid provided their superiority over other insecticides, which resulted the maximum mortality of mustard aphid with highest yield (1963.5 kg ha−1). However, remaining insecticides were also found significantly superior over the control. The highest cost benefit ratio was obtained from imidacloprid (1:35.5) with a record of maximum monetary benefit of 29,973.3.
GLAD: Global–Local-Alignment Descriptor for Scalable Person Re-Identification

The huge variance of human pose and the misalign-ment of detected human images significantly increase the difficulty of pedestrian image matching in person Re-Identification (Re-ID). Moreover, the massive visual data being produced by surveillance video cameras requires highly efficient person Re-ID systems. Targeting to solve the first problem, this work proposes a robust and discriminative pedestrian image descriptor, namely, the Global–Local-Alignment Descriptor (GLAD). For the second problem, this work treats person Re-ID as image retrieval and proposes an efficient indexing and retrieval framework. GLAD explicitly leverages the local and global cues in the human body to generate a discriminative and robust representation. It consists of part extraction and descriptor learning modules, where several part regions are first detected and then deep neural networks are designed for representation learning on both the local and global regions. A hierarchical indexing and retrieval framework is designed to perform offline relevance mining to eliminate the huge person ID redundancy in the gallery set, and accelerate the online Re-ID procedure. Extensive experimental results on widely used public benchmark datasets show GLAD achieves competitive accuracy compared to the state-of-the-art methods. On a large-scale person, with the Re-ID dataset containing more than 520 K images, our retrieval framework significantly accelerates the online Re-ID procedure while also improving Re-ID accuracy. Therefore, this work has the potential to work better on person Re-ID tasks in real scenarios.
Differences of Activities of Protective Enzymes of Tea Plant Varieties with Different Cold Resistant Abilities

To explore the relationship between protective enzyme activities and ability of cold resistance of tea plant,the activities of superoxide dismutase(SOD),catalase(CAT),peroxidase(POD)and the contents of soluble protein and malondialdehyde(MDA) in mature pring leaves of six varieties with different cold resistant ablilties were determined in natural condition. The results show that varieties of strong cold resistance have strong activities of SOD and CAT,while those of weak cold resistance have weak activities of SOD and CAT. The contents of soluble protein are higher in leaves of strong cold resistant varieties than those in low cold resistance varieties. The activities of POD and contents of MDA have no correlation with the ablilty of cold resistance of tea plant. According to this fact, it is suggested that activities of SOD,CAT and contents of soluble protein be used as indexes to detect the cold resistance of tea plant.
Using Everyday Language to Support Students in Constructing Thematic Interpretations

Research in literary response indicates that in classroom contexts, high school students have difficulty constructing thematic interpretations of literary texts, tending instead to summarize or build happiness-bound morals that ignore a text’s potentially negative tones. However, studies in out-of-school contexts show students building thematic interpretations that include positive and negative elements. These conflicting findings suggest that some challenges of thematic interpretation lie not in students’ interpretive limitations but in school-based discourses that define thematic interpretation. In this study, students constructed thematic interpretations with sentence stems using everyday interpretive language, such as “Reading this story suggests the world can be a place where _____. ” With no additional instruction, experimental groups constructed more thematic interpretations and made fewer happiness-bound interpretations than a comparison group. Results suggest that students are more capable of thematic interpretation than some research indicates and that everyday interpretive language may help disrupt students’ school-based framing of thematic interpretation.
Wireless digital point to multipoint link utilizing wideband CDMA

Wireless Digital Point to Multipoint link utilizing Wideband CDMA by Sanjay Ambekar Supervised by: Dr. R.M. Braun Department of Electrical Engineering One of the proposed techniques for multiple access communications for the third generation is code division multiple access (CDMA). This has been shown to be a viable alternative to both TDMA and FDMA [3],[6]. While there does not appear to be a single multiple accessing technique that is superior to others in all situations, there are characteristics of CDMA that give it a distinct advantage over the other multiple access techniques. In CDMA each user is provided with an unique, orthogonal code. If these K codes are orthogonal and uncorrelated with each other, than K independent users can transmit at the same time and in the same radio bandwidth. The receivers decorrelate the information and regenerate the original transmitted signal. It must be noted that the term "Wideband CDMA" is used comparitivlely to the only existing commercial CDMA system, IS-95 which uses a spectral bandwidth of only 1.2288 MHz. This thesis examines and evaluates a good set of orthonormal codes (orthogonal and normalized to have equal power) and their application to providing accessing for a point to multipoint (PMP) stationary system.The correlation properties, design and constellation properties of these codes are investigated. The system model is then simulated using Systemview and then evaluated in terms of it's bit error rate, user capacity and Erlang with addition of users to the system. Lni,. "("l:' of CJF'"' T,)wn \1 ~(.(Ftlg) ,n Cn,l1" ' ''II;,J' . "fli \ . ,tun.
Study on Population Genetic Structure in Castanopsis fargesii with Microsatellite Markers

Genetic structure of four populations in Castanopsis fargesii Franch. in Fujian Province was studied with microsatellite (SSR) markers. A high level of genetic variation was detected in the populations of C. fargesii by using SSR with A=9.0, N_(e)=4.8, H_(e)=0.65 and the population differentiation coefficient (F_(st)) was only 0.031. The distributions of alleles of all loci were significantly different among the populations of C. fargesii, and the population differentiation could be found according to the distributions of SSR alleles. Some rare alleles in the populations of C. fargesii were revealed by SSR: Fifteen of 54 alleles appeared in one or two populations with lower frequencies; conservation of these rare alleles is of great importance.
Ecological footprint method in water resources assessment

Ecological footprint model created by Wackernagel is a good method for evaluating the sustainable development and application of water resource,but the method only evaluated the surface water area's production for harvesting fish and other sea food,and neglected other important production function for water resources including surface water and ground water resources.On the basis of the theoretical framework of ecological footprint model,the computational model was built for managing ecological footprint and ecological carrying capacity of water resources.The three crucial parameters including mean global yield,global equivalent factor,and local yield factor for freshwater resources were determined for evaluating the ecological footprint of water resources.The model was applied to computing the ecological footprint of water resources in Jiangsu Province,China from 1998 to 2003.The results that were in agreement with the real situation sustainable utilization of water resources in Jiangsu Province demonstrated the correctness and scientific of the model.The model compensated the inadequacy of Wackernagel's model.