Report of the Bangladesh Hilsa Working Group Meeting, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 19 May, 2011

Stock assessment and status of hilsa assessment in Bangladesh. Stock assessment needs and workplan. Identification of future assessment approaches and data needs. Stock status advice for hilsa in India.

Report of the Fisheries Statistics Working Group Meeting, Medan, Indonesia, 19-20 March, 2012

Statistics and data overviews from the eight member countries. Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center(SEAFDEC)overview and activities since 2010. Statistics working group recommendations and workplan

Report on BOBLME Indian mackerel genetic data analysis including final workshop, Phuket, Thailand, 17-19 February 2015

This workshop followed on from two previous workshops held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2012 and Kochi, India in 2013. The 14 microsattellite markers had previously been developed for Indian Mackerel (Rastrelliger kanagurta) were used on 31 tissue collections from all eight countries were genotyped in India.

香溪河水系附石藻类的时空动态

香溪河系长江三峡水库湖北库区内第一大支流.对香溪河2005年7月—2006年6月干流及主要支流上12个样点的附石藻类进行调查,共观察到藻类218种,其中硅藻183种、绿藻24种、蓝藻10种、黄藻1种,硅藻门的线形曲壳藻为绝对优势种.其物种丰富度和Shannon-Wiener多样性指数时空动态差异显著(或接近显著),总平均值分别为32和1.54.附石藻类密度和叶绿素a含量年总平均值分别为8.75×109cells.m-2和14.62 mg.m-2.不同样点的藻类密度和叶绿素a含量差异显著,其中古夫河支流最高

梁子湖湿地植物多样性现状与评价

根据1999~2001年的野外调查数据,研究了湖北梁子湖湿地浮游藻类和高等植物多样性资源.结果表明,该湿地常见浮游藻类73种,隶属于7门58属(绿藻28种,硅藻19种,蓝藻14种,金藻4种,裸藻3种,甲藻3种,隐藻2种);高等植物282种,隶属于72科183属(苔藓8种,蕨类9种,裸子植物3种,被子植物262种),其中国家重点保护野生植物5种.浮游藻类密度和生物量均值分别为(1163.79913.51)104cell/L和6.1342.737mg/L,叶绿素a含量12.754.98mg/L,浮游藻类表层日

Award Winner in the Young Investigator Category, 2014 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting and Exposition, Denver, Colorado, April 16-19, 2014: Periodically perforated core-shell collagen biomaterials balance cell infiltration, bioactivity, and mechanical properties.

Orthopedic tissue engineering requires biomaterials with robust mechanics as well as adequate porosity and permeability to support cell motility, proliferation, and new extracellular matrix (ECM) synthesis. While collagen-glycosaminoglycan (CG) scaffolds have been developed for a range of tissue engineering applications, they exhibit poor mechanical properties. Building on previous work in our lab that described composite CG biomaterials containing a porous scaffold core and nonporous CG membrane shell inspired by mechanically efficient core-shell composites in nature, this study explores an approach to improve cellular infiltration and metabolic health within these core-shell composites. We use indentation analyses to demonstrate that CG membranes, while less permeable than porous CG scaffolds, show similar permeability to dense materials such as small intestine submucosa (SIS). We also describe a simple method to fabricate CG membranes with organized arrays of microscale perforations. We demonstrate that perforated membranes support improved tenocyte migration into CG scaffolds, and that migration is enhanced by platelet-derived growth factor BB-mediated chemotaxis. CG core-shell composites fabricated with perforated membranes display scaffold-membrane integration with significantly improved tensile properties compared to scaffolds without membrane shells. Finally, we show that perforated membrane-scaffold composites support sustained tenocyte metabolic activity as well as improved cell infiltration and reduced expression of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α compared to composites with nonperforated membranes. These results will guide the design of improved biomaterials for tendon repair that are mechanically competent while also supporting infiltration of exogenous cells and other extrinsic mediators of wound healing.

Mode multiplexing at 2×20Gbps over 19-cell hollow-core photonic band gap fibre

This paper demonstrates the first mode-multiplexed system over 19-cell hollow-core photonic band gap fibre, at 2×20Gbps using the LP0,1 and LP2,1-like modes. © 2012 OSA.

Mode multiplexing at 2×20Gbps over 19-cell hollow-core photonic band gap fibre

This paper demonstrates the first mode-multiplexed system over 19-cell hollow-core photonic band gap fibre, at 2×20Gbps using the LP0,1 and LP2,1-like modes. © 2012 OSA.

A narrow photoluminescence linewidth of 19.2 meV at 1.35 mu m from In0.5Ga0.5As/GaAs quantum island structure grown by molecular beam epitaxy

A self-organized In0.5Ga0.5As/GaAs quantum island structure emitting at 1.35 mum at room temperature has been successfully fabricated by molecular beam epitaxy via cycled (InAs)(1)/GaAs)(1)monolayer deposition method. The photoluminescence measurement shows that a very narrow linewidth of 19.2 meV at 300 K has been reached for the first time, indicating effective suppression of inhomogeneous broadening of optical emission from the In0.5Ga0.5As island structure due to indium segregation reduction by introducing an AlAs layer and the strain reduction by inserting an In0.2Ga0.8As layer overgrown on the top of islands. The mound-like morphology of the islands elongated along the [1 (1) over bar0] azimuth are observed by the atomic force microscopy measurement, which reveals the fact that strain in the islands is partially relaxed along the [1 (1) over bar0] direction. Our results present important information for the fabrication of 1.3 mum wavelength quantum dot devices.