"GOING WITH THE FLOW" OR NOT: EVIDENCE OF POSITIVE RHEOTAXIS IN OCEANIC JUVENILE LOGGERHEAD TURTLES (CARETTA CARETTA) IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN USING SATELLITE TAGS AND OCEAN CIRCULATION DATA.

The movement of juvenile loggerhead turtles (n = 42) out-fitted with satellite tags and released in oceanic waters off New Caledonia was examined and compared with ocean circulation data.Merging of the daily turtle movement data with drifter buoy movements, OSCAR (Ocean Surface Current Analyses--Real time) circulation data, and three different vert

The traditional machine test benches are known for their inflexibility, safety concerns, weight, and cost.The adoption of Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) has been appearing as an enhanced technique to test and validate control algorithms and hardware of Variable Speed Drives (VSDs) for electrical machines.This read more paper presents the use of

The Government Ordinance No.16/2022 has some novelties with regard to the tax treatment of dividends.Thus, starting with the 1st of January 2023, the dividend tax rate increases from 5% to 8% for the dividends paid to legal persons and to resident/non-resident natural persons, as well as to privately administered pension funds and to the optional p

Internet and social media participation open doors to a plethora of positive opportunities for the general public.However, in addition to these positive aspects, digital technology also provides an effective medium for spreading hateful content in the form of cyberbullying, bigotry, hateful ideologies, and harassment of individuals and groups.This

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an effective weapon to prevent transmission of mosquito-borne diseases, here in which sterile mosquitoes are released to reduce or eradicate the wild mosquito population.To study the impact of the sterile insect technique on the disease transmission, we formulate stage-structured discrete-time models for the in