Smart Electronic System for Monitoring Water Quality Parameters in Fish Tanks

Fish farming represents a strong link in the value chain of food distribution over the world. There are different types of farms like RAS, continuously water alimented pounds, lake, maritime, etc. The self-cleaning water capability of a tank system is the key factor in describing RAS (recirculating aquaculture system) systems. This factor is crucial for the survival of farmed fish in urban aquaculture systems. The aim of this paper consists in describing the design and the functionality of a smart electronic system, capable of monitoring water quality parameters, in order to monitor the fish tanks’ environment and making decisions about undesirable events that may affect them. If unpleasant events occur, such as the parameter’s level no longer falls within the preseted limits, an alarm is set to warn the user. Automatization of the system will be conceived to close the power and/or water supply circuit in case there was no human intervention within a certain period of time in the fish tanks. This paper is based on the ongoing research of the iPREMAS aquaculture project. The system from the iPREMAS project contains sensors for monitoring the essential water quality parameters for the growth, reproduction and qualitative and quantitative improvement of fish population, such as pH level, water temperature, dissolved oxygen level, water salinity, water level, conductivity and will be improved with sensors to monitor the level of nitrates and nitrites. The sensors are to be connected to a special designed electronic module and will transmit the information to an electronic control module based on a development kit containing a microcontroller for the automatization of the system. A database is used to store the data and a software application is used to visualize the data transmitted by the sensors that will communicate with the database and display the values in real time

The Utility of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Multidisciplinary Treatment of Patients with Rectal Cancer

Rectal cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in both men and women. In recent years, the importance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has greatly increased in the multidisciplinary treatment of patients with rectal cancer. MRI has a particularly important role in the most accurate preoperative staging of these patients, both in terms of assessing the local invasion of the tumor and in terms of assessing the status of pelvic lymph nodes. Many patients with rectal cancer, especially those in the advanced stage of the disease, in the preoperative period undergo neoadjuvant radio chemotherapy. The evaluation of the clinical response of these patients to neoadjuvant therapy is of crucial importance both in terms of personalized treatment and in terms of their prognosis. In this regard, MRI has its clearly defined role at present in evaluating the efficacy of neoadjuvant therapy, as well as in postoperative follow-up

Emergency Treatment of Transverse Colon Cancer

This chapter deals with the emergency treatment of transverse colon cancer. The main complications that classify transverse colon cancer in an emergency setting are obstruction, perforation accompanied by localized or generalized peritonitis, and hemorrhage which may be occult or cataclysmic with hemorrhagic shock. We present the technical principles of radical surgical resection using embryological, anatomical, and oncological concepts. In this chapter we also discuss the principles of lymphadenectomy associated with complete excision of the mesocolon with high vascular ligation, in particular with T3 or T4 cancers requiring D2/D3 lymphadenectomy. The use of infrapyloric, gastro-epiploic, and prepancreatic lymphadenectomy is recommended due to the frequent metastases in these regional lymph nodes

Health Care Professional’s Attitude Towards the Effective Management of Pain in the Critically Ill Neonate

Introduction: Over the past 25 years, caregiver’s knowledge of pain in newborn infants has advanced from the beliefs that newborn infants do not feel pain, to the knowledge that preterm infants experience more pain compare to older children and adults. However, caregivers know that pain exists in this population and research has supported that pain continues to be untreated up to 65% of the time

A Radiograhic Study of the Third Molar Inclusion

Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the incidence of inclusion of lower and upper third molar in the population of Mures county

Significant Shrinkage of Multifocal Liver Metastases and Long-Term Survival in a Patient With Rectal Cancer, After Trans-Arterial Chemoembolization (TACE)

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The predictive role of platelet to lymphocyte ratio in the occurrence of anastomotic complications following gastric resections for neoplasia – single centre experience

Introduction: Our study investigated the importance of inflammation markers – ratio of platelets and lymphocytes (PLR), ratio of neutrophils and lymphocytes (NLR) and ratio of lymphocytes and monocytes (LMR) – as predictive markers in the occurrence of fistula or stenosis in patients diagnosed with gastric adenocarcinoma who underwent gastric resections