Checklist of serranid and epinephelid fishes (Perciformes: Serranidae & Epinephelidae) of India

We provide an updated checklist of fishes of the families Serranidae and Epinephelidae reported or listed from India, along with photographs. A total of 120 fishes in this group are listed as occurring in India based on published literature, of which 25 require further confirmation and validation. We confirm here the presence of at least 95 species in 22 genera occurring in Indian marine waters. The majority of the species belong to the grouper genus Epinephelus (41%), followed by Pseudanthias (15%) and Cephalopholis (13%). Most species (92%) found in India have been assessed globally either as Data Deficient (DD) or Least Concern (LC) on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Since information on groupers from India is limited, there is an urgent need to document the diversity, ecology, life history, population status, and fisheries status of this group of fishes from the country

‘ROCI China and the Prospects of “Post-West” Contemporaneity’

This article reassesses the critical significance of Robert Rauschenberg’s collaborations with artisans and government institutions within the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as part of the Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange (ROCI)

Test Suite Reduction Using HGS Based Heuristic Approach

Regression testing is performed throughout the software lifecycle to uncover the faults as early as possible and to ensure that changes do not have any adverse effect in the software that is operational. Test suites once developed are reused and updated frequently. As the software evolves, test cases in the test suite may become redundant. The reason behind this is that the requirements covered by newly added test cases may also be covered by the existing test cases. This redundant nature of test suite increases the cost of executing the same. Further, resource and time constraints impose the necessity to develop techniques to minimize test suites by removing redundant test cases. Few heuristic approaches have been used to solve the test suite minimization problem. Even though solutions exist, still the redundancy of test case remains. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes two Harrold-Gupta-Soffa (HGS) based heuristic algorithms namely, Non Redundant HGS and Enhanced HGS. The former utilizes the redundant strategy available with Greedy, Redundant, Essential (GRE) to get rid of redundancy, whereas the latter selects a test case for higher cardinalities based on overall coverage of unmarked associated testing sets and thus arrives at reduced, non-redundant test suite. The experiments show that the proposed algorithms always select smaller size of test suite, compared to the existing HGS heuristics

UTILIZAÇÃO DE INDICADORES DE EMISSÕES ATMOSFÉRICAS COMO FERRAMENTA DE DECISÃO EM PROJETOS DE UNIDADES MARÍTIMAS DE PRODUÇÃO DE ÓLEO E GÁS

This essay presents the study of utilization of environmental indicators in oil and gas offshore production unit design. The indicators in question represent the tax of greenhouse gas emissions per produced equivalent oil (I1) and the tax of greenhouse gas emissions per energy consumption with fuels (I2). This essay describes the problem of global warming, in order to point out the weightiness of GEE reduction actions. This essay also describes international legislation and agreements concerning GEE emission. In the end is presented the results of the evaluation of the proposed indicators for 31 existing offshore units. The presented values of emissions, oil and gas production, energy and fuel consumption of the units were multiplied by factors and do not match with the real values. The proposal of this methodology is to turn available a comparison between the values of GEE emissions obtained in the project and the environmental indicators I1 and I2, to be used as an environmental matter during an offshore unit design, to be considered with the economic decisions in the choice of equipment and systems.Universidade Federal FluminenseEsta dissertação apresenta um estudo da utilização de indicadores ambientais na fase de projeto de unidades marítimas de produção de óleo e gás. Os indicadores utilizados representam a taxa de emissão de gases de efeito estufa (GEE) por unidade de óleo equivalente produzido (I1) e a taxa de emissão de gases de efeito estufa por unidade de energia gasta com combustíveis (I2). O trabalho contém uma descrição do problema do aquecimento global, de forma a mostrar a relevância das ações de redução de emissão de GEE. Faz parte do trabalho também um resumo da legislação e dos acordos internacionais sobre emissão de GEE. Foram apresentados os resultados da avaliação dos indicadores propostos para 31 (trinta e uma) unidades marítimas de produção existentes. Os dados de emissão de poluentes, produção de óleo e gás e de consumo de energia e combustíveis obtidos das unidades marítimas foram alterados com o auxílio de um multiplicador, de forma que os valores apresentados não correspondem aos valores reais. A proposta desta metodologia é disponibilizar uma comparação entre os valores de emissão de GEE obtidos no projeto e indicadores de desempenho ambiental, de forma a orientar a escolha dos equipamentos e sistemas a serem utilizados durante os projetos de unidades marítimas de produção, possibilitando que, além dos aspectos econômicos, possa ser considerada uma vertente ambiental nesta seleção

Border analysis for spatial clusters

Background: The spatial scan statistic is widely used by public health professionals in the detection of spatial clusters in inhomogeneous point process. The most popular version of the spatial scan statistic uses a circular-shaped scanning window. Several other variants, using other parametric or non-parametric shapes, are also available. However, none of them offer information about the uncertainty on the borders of the detected clusters. Method We propose a new method to evaluate uncertainty on the boundaries of spatial clusters identified through the spatial scan statistic for Poisson data. For each spatial data location i, a function F(i) is calculated. While not a probability, this function takes values in the [0, 1] interval, with a higher value indicating more evidence that the location belongs to the true cluster. Results: Through a set of simulation studies, we show that the F function provides a way to define, measure and visualize the certainty or uncertainty of each specific location belonging to the true cluster. The method can be applied whether there are one or multiple detected clusters on the map. We illustrate the new method on a data set concerning Chagas disease in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Conclusions: The higher the intensity given to an area, the higher the plausibility of that particular area to belong to the true cluster in case it exists. This way, the F function provides information from which the public health practitioner can perform a border analysis of the detected spatial scan statistic clusters. We have implemented and illustrated the border analysis F function in the context of the circular spatial scan statistic for spatially aggregated Poisson data. The definition is clearly independent of both the shape of the scanning window and the probability model under which the data is generated. To make the new method widely available to users, it has been implemented in the freely available SaTScan\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$^\mathrm{TM}$$\end{document}TM software www.satscan.org

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Not AvailableLength–weight relationship (LWR) was estimated for 12 elasmobranch species; five shark species, four species of rays and three species of guitar fishes from north-eastern Arabian Sea, India. Five major landing centres of Maharashtra were selected; Satpati (Lat. 19°43′15″N, Long. 72°42′00″E), Naigaon (Lat. 19°19′32″N, Long. 72°48′54″E), Versova (Lat. 19°08′33″N, Long. 72°48′11″E), New ferry Wharf (Lat. 18°57′29″N Long. 72°51′01″E) and Sassoon dock (Lat. 18°54′42″N, Long. 72°49′33″E). Samples were collected fortnightly during August 2016 to October 2017 from various gears; drift gill nets (Hung length 114–143 m and #100–270 mm) off Satpati coast at 35–50 m depth, dol nets (length 50–65 m and cod end # 30–69 mm) in Naigaon at 38–50 m depth and trawl (length 33–72 m and cod end # 17–32 mm) in Versova, New ferry Wharf and Sassoon dock operated at 20–50 m depth. Multiday fishing was carried out with 2–3 fishing trips in a month, each trip with duration of 7–13 days. Soaking time of gill net and dol net varied from 4 to 8 hr while each trawl haul lasted for 3–4 hr. Length–weight/Disc-width- weight relationship showed good fit with r2 values varying from 0.818 to 0.999. In addition to information on LWR, new maximum size for three species of elasmobranchs is reported in this paper.Not Availabl

Length–weight relationship of selected elasmobranch species from north-eastern Arabian Sea, India

Length–weight relationship (LWR) was estimated for 12 elasmobranch species; five shark species, four species of rays and three species of guitar fishes from north-eastern Arabian Sea, India. Five major landing centres of Maharashtra were selected; Satpati (Lat. 19°43′15″N, Long. 72°42′00″E), Naigaon (Lat. 19°19′32″N, Long. 72°48′54″E), Versova (Lat. 19°08′33″N, Long. 72°48′11″E), New ferry Wharf (Lat. 18°57′29″N Long. 72°51′01″E) and Sassoon dock (Lat. 18°54′42″N, Long. 72°49′33″E). Samples were collected fortnightly during August 2016 to October 2017 from various gears; drift gill nets (Hung length 114–143 m and #100–270 mm) off Satpati coast at 35–50 m depth, dol nets (length 50–65 m and cod end # 30–69 mm) in Naigaon at 38–50 m depth and trawl (length 33–72 m and cod end # 17–32 mm) in Versova, New ferry Wharf and Sassoon dock operated at 20–50 m depth. Multiday fishing was carried out with 2–3 fishing trips in a month, each trip with duration of 7–13 days. Soaking time of gill net and dol net varied from 4 to 8 hr while each trawl haul lasted for 3–4 hr. Length–weight/Disc-width- weight relationship showed good fit with r2 values varying from 0.818 to 0.999. In addition to information on LWR, new maximum size for three species of elasmobranchs is reported in this paper