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Sensors, 2022 Over the past decade, there has been exponential growth in the per capita rate of medical patients around the world, and this is significantly straining the resources of healthcare institutes.
Sadeque Reza Khan +3 more
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Digital Autopsy: Popular Tools for an Unpopular Procedure
Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences & Forensic Medicine, 2018 Digital autopsy is the future of postmortem examination of the human body through digital visualization. Imaging modalities such as CT scanners and MRI scanners use X rays and magnetic fields to visualize the structures within the human body. The outputs
Mohammed N. Islam +5 more
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Microbiome, 2020 Background Population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci sensu lato; COTS), a primary predator of reef-building corals in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, are a major threat to coral reefs.
Naohisa Wada +16 more
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A systematic review of COTS evaluation and selection approaches [PDF]
Accounting, 2017 In the past decades, a number of researchers have made their significant contributions to develop different approaches for solving a very challenging problem of commercial off-the shelf (COTS) selection.
Rakesh Garg
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Ecosphere, 2023 Crown‐of‐thorns starfish (CoTS) naturally occur on coral reefs throughout the Indo‐Pacific region. On Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR), outbreaks of CoTS populations are responsible for ecologically significant losses of corals, and while they have ...
Carolina Castro‐Sanguino +7 more
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Electronic Nose for Pesticides: The First Study Towards a Smart Analysis
Contemporary Agriculture, 2019 Within a project co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the final aim of which is to develop a WSN for smart monitoring of pesticides on agricultural land, the Italian and Serbian researchers have developed a hardware section of an ...
Leccese Fabio +19 more
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Diversity, 2017 Predatory release has long been considered a potential contributor to population outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS; Acanthaster spp.). This has initiated extensive searches for potentially important predators that can consume large numbers of ...
Zara-Louise Cowan +3 more
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Fish predators control outbreaks of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish
Nature Communications, 2021 Outbreaks of Crown-of-Thorn Starfish (CoTS) have caused coral cover declines across the Indo-Pacific. Here the authors analyse long-term CoTS, coral reef fish monitoring, and fisheries catch data from the Great Barrier Reef to demonstrate removal of ...
Frederieke J. Kroon +2 more
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Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Larvae Can Feed on Organic Matter Released from Corals
Diversity, 2016 Previous studies have suggested that Crown-of-Thorns starfish (COTS) larvae may be able to survive in the absence of abundant phytoplankton resources suggesting that they may be able to utilize alternative food sources.
Ryota Nakajima +5 more
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Induction of larval settlement in crown-of-thorns starfish is not mediated by conspecific cues
Scientific Reports, 2023 Population irruptions of crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS; Acanthaster spp.) remain a major cause of coral reef degradation throughout the Pacific and Indian Oceans and are inherently modulated by larval settlement and recruitment success.
Peter C. Doll +6 more
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