scholarly journals CONTROL OF POTENTIAL MUSSEL RECRUITMENT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT SOME ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS IN SEVASTOPOL ESTUARINE ZONE

Author(s):  
I.I. Kazankova ◽  
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A.V. Klimenko ◽  

In 2020-2021, potential recruitment of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis was measured in Sevastopol estuarine waters with regard to temperature, salinity, and pH in three depth horizons 1–3, 7, and 11 m. Compared to the previous annual period in 2021, spring mussel recruitment at all depth horizons in-creased by an order of magnitude. This increase was preceded by a mild winter. Also in 2021, a decrease in salinity and an increase in the vertical variability of the thermohaline structure of water were observed. The obtained data may indirectly indicate the improvement of environmental conditions for mussel productivity increase in 2021. The necessity of improving the method of the control for mussel recruit-ment related to possible vertical migrations of its post-larvae is shown.

Author(s):  
Rasol Murtadha Najah

This article discusses the application of methods to enhance the knowledge of experts to build a decision-making model based on the processing of physical data on the real state of the environment. Environmental parameters determine its ecological state. To carry out research in the field of expert assessment of environmental conditions, the analysis of known works in this field is carried out. The results of the analysis made it possible to justify the relevance of the application of analytical, stochastic models and models based on methods of enhancing the knowledge of experts — experts. It is concluded that the results of using analytical and stochastic objects are inaccurate, due to the complexity and poor mathematical description of the objects. The relevance of developing information support for an expert assessment of environmental conditions is substantiated. The difference of this article is that based on the analysis of the application of expert methods for assessing the state of the environment, a fuzzy logic adoption model and information support for assessing the environmental state of the environment are proposed. The formalization of the parameters of decision-making models using linguistic and fuzzy variables is considered. The formalization of parameters of decision-making models using linguistic and fuzzy variables was considered. The model’s description of fuzzy inference is given. The use of information support for environment state assessment is shown on the example of experts assessing of the land desertification stage.


Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 585
Author(s):  
Yunjia Li ◽  
Weitao Dou ◽  
Chenyuan Zhou ◽  
Xinyi Wang ◽  
Aijun Yang ◽  
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A miniaturized reliability test system for microdevices with controlled environmental parameters is presented. The system is capable of measuring key electrical parameters of the microdevices while controlling the environmental conditions around the microdevices. The test system is compact and thus can be integrated with standard test equipment for microdevices. By using a feed-forward decoupling algorithm, the presented test system is capable of generating a temperature range of 0–120 °C and a humidity range of 20–90% RH (0–55 °C), within a small footprint and weight. The accuracy for temperature and humidity control is ±0.1 °C and ±1% RH (30 °C), respectively. The functionality of the proposed test system is verified by integrating it with a piezo shaker to test the environmental reliability of an electromagnetic vibration energy harvester. The proposed system can be used as a proof-of-technology platform for characterizing the performance of microdevices with controlled environmental parameters.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane C. Miller ◽  
Diana P Baumann ◽  
M. Shane Merryman

The starlet sea anemone (Nematostella vectensis) is an emerging model organism, and we have maintained a colony at the Stowers Institute since 2007. Nematostella are known as a simple sea anemone, related to other cnidarians such as jellyfish and corals. Native to estuarine environments across the Atlantic coast of North America, from Novia Scotia to Florida, they encounter a variety of environmental conditions (e.g., temperature, salinity). Acknowledging that husbandry conditions and environmental parameters can impact research results we provide information about the housing, nutrition, maintenance, and health for our colony of Nematostella. This information will be applicable to any Nematostella housed in the facility in 2021.


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