A preliminary study on the cuttlefish catches from the Wadge Bank trawler fishery

Although much work has been done on the evaluation of the Wadge Bank fishery data, no detailed study has been made in the past on the analysis of cuttlefish catches. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyse this data in order to gather a preliminary knowledge of seasonal and annual variation in the availability, distribution by depth and catches in relation to the time of the day.

SoC energy savings = reduce+reuse+recycle: A case study using a 660MHz DC-DC converter with integrated output filter

This paper advocates 'reduce, reuse, recycle' as a complete energy savings strategy. While reduction has been common to date, there is growing need to emphasize reuse and recycling as well. We design a DC-DC buck converter to demonstrate the 3 techniques: reduce with low-swing and zero voltage switching (ZVS), reuse with supply stacking, and recycle with regulated delivery of excess energy to the output load. The efficiency gained from these 3 techniques helps offset the loss of operating drivers at very high switching frequencies which are needed to move the output filter completely on-chip. A prototype was fabricated in 0.18μm CMOS, operates at 660MHz, and converts 2.2V to 0.75-1.0V at ∼50mA.1 © 2008 IEEE.

Construction of 2-D directional filter bank by cascading checkerboard-shaped filter pair and CMFB

In this paper, we propose a new approach to construct a 2-dimensional (2-D) directional filter bank (DFB) by cascading a 2-D nonseparable checkerboard-shaped filter pair and 2-D separable cosine modulated filter bank (CMFB). Similar to diagonal subbands in 2-D separable wavelets, most of the subbands in 2-D separable CMFBs, tensor products of two 1-D CMFBs, are poor in directional selectivity due to the fact that the frequency supports of most of the subband filters are concentrated along two different directions. To improve the directional selectivity, we propose a new DFB to realize the subband decomposition. First, a checkerboard-shaped filter pair is used to decompose an input image into two images containing different directional information of the original image. Next, a 2-D separable CMFB is applied to each of the two images for directional decomposition. The new DFB is easy in design and has merits: low redundancy ratio and fine directional-frequency tiling. As its application, the BLS-GSM algorithm for image denoising is extended to use the new DFBs. Experimental results show that the proposed DFB achieves better denoising performance than the methods using other DFBs for images of abundant textures. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Seed-bank development, germination and early seedling survival of two seagrass species from The Netherlands: Zostera marina L. and Zostera noltii hornem

Flowering and seed-bank development of annual Zostera marina L. and perennial Z. noltii hornem. were studied in the Zandkreek (S.W. Netherlands). Flowering of Z. noltii started at the end of June and continued until the end of September. A maximum of ca. 1000 flowering shoots (11% of the total amount of shoots per square metre) occurred in early August. Flowering of Z. marina started at the end of July and continued throughout October. Seed banks of both species appeared to be annual. Actual seed densities of Z. noltii were much lower than predicted on the basis of the amount of inflorescences.Germination was studied in the laboratory in relation to temperature (10, 20 and 30°C), salinity (1.0, 10.0, 20.0, 30.0 and 40.0‰) and stratification (at 4°C). Both species showed a maximal germination at 30°C and 1.0‰ salinity, decreasing with higher salinities and lower temperatures. Stratification stimulated germination only at salinities 20.0‰. Desiccation and anaerobia were lethal to Z. marina seeds. Seedlings of Z. marina survived best at 10°C and 10.0–20.0‰ salinity and those of Z. noltii survived best at 10°C and 1.0‰ salinity. Overall, seedlings of Z. marina survived better than those of Z. noltii.

Identificação dos tipos de rúcula comercializados no varejo do Distrito Federal.

2007

Caracterização dos maços de rúcula comercializados no Distrito Federal e estimativas de perdas.

2007

Solos e aptidão agrícola das terras da região administrativa de Taguatinga, Distrito Federal (1999).

A Regiao Administrativa de Taguatinga, no Distrito Federal, ocupa uma area de 127km2. As principais classes de solos que ocorrem nessa Regiao sao: Latossolos, Cambissolos e Solos Hidromorficos cujas principais caracteristicas quimicas, fisicas e morfologicas, bem como aptidao agricola sao apresentadas neste trabalho com objetivo de subsidiar projetos de desenvolvimento e ocupacao agricola locais. Os Latossolos sao argilosos, muito argilosos, ou de textura media bem drenados e com media capacidade de agua disponivel. Os Cambissolos de Taguatinga sao de rasos a profundos, concrecionarios, de textura argilosa a media, ambas cascalhentas. Tem reduzida capacidade de agua disponivel. Sao distroficos ou alicos. Os Plintossolos sao argilosos. Esses solos sao tambem imperfeitamente a mal drenados. Os Gleissolos apresentam textura argilosa ou muito argilosa. Normalmente, sao solos de estrutura macica bem coerente. Sao distroficos, com teor medio a alto de aluminio. Em relacao a aptidao agricola, os Latossolos de Taguatinga, DF, sao todos classificados como 2(b)c (6.792,77ha). Os Cambissolos de Taguatinga sao classificados como 5(n) (2.361,14 ha). Os hidromorficos sao 2b(c) (1.167,83 ha), havendo em menor proporcao aptidao inferior a indicada. O uso atual do solo nessa Regiao esta definido em: uso urbano consolidado; Cerrado Sentido Restrito; Campo Limpo Umido; Campo Sujo Umido; agricultura; reflorestamento; areas degradadas. Solos de varzeas e nascentes tem sido ocupados com loteamentos urbanos, areas industriais, comerciais e por invasoes, comprometendo a qualidade dos mananciais de agua. O potencial de uso desses solos para producao de hortifrutigranjeiros, que e opcao economica importante para municipios com area rural reduzida, esta prejudicado.

Pragas da cultura do maracujá-doce no Distrito Federal.

2001

Controle estrategico da verminose bovina em propriedades rurais no Distrito Federal.

2001

CNPA G3: nova opção de gergelim para a região do Distrito Federal.

2001

Danos do percevejo-de-renda na produtividade da mandioca no Distrito Federal.

2001

Flutuação populacional do percevejo-de-renda na cultura da mandioca (Manihot esculenta, Crantz) no Distrito Federal.

2001