Life cycle of pharaoh cuttlefish (Sepia pharaonis) under laboratory condition

Pharaoh Cuttlefish (Sepia pharaonis) is commercially important and native cephalopods in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea. In 2013, a total of 150 eggs of Pharaoh Cuttlefish were collected from 20 m depth in about 6 miles south of Lengeh Port and transferred to the laboratory of Mollusks Research Station in Bandar-e Lengeh. Eggs were incubated in temperature of 27.5±0.5 0C (mean ± SD) and salinity of about 37-38 ppt. After about 15±3 days (mean ± SD), eggs were hatched and the mean (±SD) of mantle length and wet weight of new hatched juveniles were 6.1±0.3 mm and 0.15±.04 g, respectively. In the first month, Artemia, Mysid and PL of L. vannamei shrimps were fed to juveniles and in second month it shifted to fish slices. After 30 days, average (±SD) mantle length and wet weight reached to 18.6±0.6 mm and 1.67±0.14 g, respectively. At the age of 60 days they reached to average (±SD) length of 32.3±4.2 mm and average (±SD) weight of 8.00±3.72 g. At the age of 120 days they reached to average (±SD) length of 74.5±11.3 mm and average (±SD) weight of 55.74±13.81 g. The sex was identified on the day of 150, and mate selecting occurred on 180th day, mating and spawning were occurred in days 208 and 210 of rearing period, respectively. Each female laid average (±SD) 185±30 eggs; and average (±SD) life spans for female and male were 212±7 and 218±20 days, respectively. Males were bigger than females and the biggest male reached to 157.9 mm in length and 367.10 g in weight. The biggest female reached to 105.1 mm in length and 227.18 g in weight. Results showed that Pharaoh Cuttlefish could easily be cultured under laboratory condition with possibility of rearing to the next generation after spawning

The fifth developing plan of Iranian Fisheries Research Institute

Accurate scientific and practical plan for achieving the goals of the Islamic Republic of Iran within the framework of Vision development 1404, is the infrastructure achieving sustainable development of the country. Order to achieve the above mentioned objectives and in order to the comprehensive development plans in the country, Iranian fisheries research organization adjust the fifth developing plan for support of executive related departments in country with mobilization a large number researchers consists of several working groups of ifro affiliated research centers. The fifth developing plan consist of three chapters for report of the forth developing plan and intrudction of research, construction plans and financial support (budjet) for period of 2011-2014 A.C

Effect of citric, acetic and propionic acids’ spray on some microbial, chemical and organoleptic parameters of packaged beef

Effect of citric, acetic and propionic acids' spray, on some microbial, chemical and organoleptic properties of packaged fresh chilled beef was studied. Chuck portion of bull's meat was treated with 1% sterile solutions of each of citric, acetic and propionic acids prior to packaging. Meat samples were kept at 4°C and with 2-day intervals were examined periodically for microbial (aerobic mesophillic count, coliform count, psychrotrphic count and anaerobic count), chemical (pH and TVN) and organoleptic (drip, color and odor) properties. The experiment was performed with 20 repetitions. Results showed that the difference between untreated and citric-acid-treated samples was insignificant (P>0.05) from microbial and chemical viewpoints; meanwhile this difference was highly significant between untreated and acetic and also propionic-acid-treated samples (P0.01). With respect to microbial and chemical properties of meat samples, it is possible to keep untreated samples for 4-days period, meanwhile this period for citric-acid-treated was 5 and for lactic-acid and propionic-acetic-treated samples were 7 days. Results also showed that the organoleptic properties of untreated and treated samples were insignificant (P>0.01). Therefore, it is possible to use 1% concentration of such organic acids in order to increase the storage time of beef without causing undesirable effects on organoleptic properties

Moving Vehicle Tracking Using Disjoint View Multicameras

Multicamera vehicle tracking is a necessary part of any video-based intelligent transportation system for extracting different traffic parameters such as link travel times and origin/destination counts. In many applications, it is needed to locate traffic cameras disjoint from each other to cover a wide area. This paper presents a method for tracking moving vehicles in such camera networks. The proposed method introduces a new method for handling inter-object occlusions as the most challenging part of the single camera tracking phase. This approach is based on coding the silhouette of moving objects before and after occlusion and separating occluded vehicles by computing the longest common substring of the related chain codes. In addition, to improve the accuracy of the tracking method in the multicamera phase, a new feature based on the relationships among surrounding vehicles is formulated. The proposed feature can efficiently improve the efficiency of the appearance (or space-time) features when they cannot discriminate between correspondent and non-correspondent vehicles due to noise or dynamic condition of traffic scenes. A graph-based approach is then used to track vehicles in the camera network. Experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed methods

Malignancy after renal transplantation: a case series study from Isfahan University

Background: Long term use of immunosuppressive therapy in transplant recipients in order to prevent acute and chronic rejection increases the long term risk of cancer. This study evaluates the incidence of different organs’ cancer after renal transplantation and immunosuppressive therapy. Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of malignant tumors in renal graft recipients with more than one year graft survival. Patients were assessed according to their age, sex, diagnosis of cancer, immunosuppressive drugs, donors and period of dialysis before transplantation. Results: Evaluating all existing files in selected private clinics in Isfahan 350 patients were reviewed and 289 of them had entrance criteria. A total of 186 men and 103 women (mean age: 42.17±13.09 years) were included. They were followed up over a mean period of 52.46±33.24 months. A total of six cases (2.1%) of cancer were diagnosed in six recipients: All patients with cancer were male with a mean age of 51.17±14.7 years (range: 26-68 years). Tumor presented at a mean time of 51 months (rang: 15-82 months) after transplantation. There were two patients with BCC, two patients with SCC and two patients with lymphoma. Two patients died of progressive malignant disease. Age, period of dialysis before transplantation, and using immunosuppressive and anti-rejection drugs had no significant impact on development of post transplant malignancy. Conclusion: The frequency of tumors in these patients is lower than what reported by other centers, probably due to short period of follow up and low incidence of cancer in our general population. The risk of malignancy was 28 fold higher among transplant recipients than in general population. High risk of cancer in this group, confirms the necessity of routine examination for organ transplant recipients both before and after transplantation

Determination of prevalence of perioperative myocardial infarction in 300 CABG operations in cardiovascular surgery ward of the Imam Khomeini Hospital from 15.11.1376 until 1.9.1377

The most common cardiovascular surgery in the world and Iran as well, is CABG. One of the most important post-operative complication of this operation, that increase morbidity and mortality, is peri-operative MI. Incidence of peri-operative MI in CABG operations is between 2.5 to 5.5%. In this study we determined the prevalence and incremental risk factors of peri-operative MI in 300 consequative CABG operation, in the Imam Khomeini hospital. Diagnostic criteria for peri-operative MI were positive ECG finding (New and persistent Q.wave) and positive CPK-MB (Serum level>100 unit) at 3 different time: 1) Just before operation in the ward, 2) Just after operation in the ICU, 3) First post-operation day (At 8 A.M). In 300 patients positive ECG findings were seen in 7% (21 cases), positive CPK-MB was 12.7% (38 cases) and both of them were positive in 5% (15 cases). Therefore the prevalence of peri-operation MI was 5% (15 cases). Incremental risk factors in the patients with peri-operative MI were history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, left main disease, and endarterctomy. Therefore because of high incidence of peri-operative MI in CABG operation we should try to change the risk factors and decrease the prevalence of this complication

PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM BAGI PENUMPANG TRANSPORTASI UDARA NIAGA BERJADWAL NASIONAL PADA PT. GARUDA INDONESIA

Air Transportation in this time fast growth, with indication there are many airline providing air transportation service, and also many passenger use air transportation service. In operating of air transport in many passenger rights not fulfill properly by airline like many accident case causing bodily injury or death, losing of goods and delay of flight. Relatad with it needed regulation to protect of passenger. The issues in this research is how regulate by law to passenger protect and legal effort for passenger being damage by flight carrier. This research is research of normative law, which analize qualitative normative. The Result of research show that in positive law order in Indonesia there are law and regulation related to protection of law to passenger of air transportation, such is : Ordonansi Pengangkutan Udara 1939, Undang-Undang Nomor 1 Tahun 2009, Undang-Undang Nomor 8 Tahun 1999, Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 40 Tahun1995, Peraturan Menteri Nomor 77 Tahun 2011. Substantial protection of law there is : flight carrier liability of accident, flight carrier liability to passenger, flight carrier liability of goods, flight carrier liability of delay, insurance liability. The next Law substantial is determination of lost replacement cost which is obliged to fulfill by company of transportation of air. Besides, law and regulation also determine legal effort for passenger of lost, that is legal effort by litigation or non litigation