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- Bandara, Tharindu, et al.
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Retention of essential fatty acids in fish differs by species, habitat use and nutritional quality of prey
- 2023
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Ingår i: Ecology and Evolution. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 2045-7758. ; 13:6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract Algae-produced long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA; with ≥20 carbon atoms) are key biomolecules for consumer production and animal health. They are transferred to higher trophic levels and accumulated in food chains. However, LC-PUFA accumulation in consumers and their trophic transfer vary with the diet quality and the physiological demand for LC-PUFA of consumers. The goal of this study was to investigate spatial and taxonomic differences in LC-PUFA retention of coastal fish predators that potentially differ in their habitat use (benthic versus pelagic) and prey quality. We analyzed the fatty acid (FA) composition of common fish species, namely roach and European perch, as well as their potential prey from benthic and pelagic habitats in three bays of the northern Baltic Sea. We then assessed whether the fish LC-PUFA retention differed between species and among the study bays with different diet quality, that is, LC-PUFA availability. Our data indicated taxon-specific differences in the retention of LC-PUFA and their precursor FA in fish (i.e., short-chain PUFA with <20 carbon atoms). Perch did not show any spatial variation in the retention of all these FA, while roach showed spatial differences in the retention of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and their precursor FA, but not eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). Data suggest that diet quality and trophic reliance on benthic prey underlay the DHA retention differences in roach. Although the PUFA supply might differ among sites, the low spatial variation in LC-PUFA content of perch and roach indicates that both fishes were able to selectively retain dietary LC-PUFA. Climate change together with other existing human-caused environmental stressors are expected to alter the algal assemblages and lower their LC-PUFA supply for aquatic food webs. Our findings imply that these stressors will pose heterogeneous impacts on different fish predators. We advocate further investigations on how environmental changes would affect the nutritional quality of the basal trophic level, and their subsequent impacts on LC-PUFA retention, trophic ecology, and performance of individual fish species.
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- Kupryianchyk, Darya, et al.
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Industrial and natural compounds in filter-feeding black fly larvae and water in 3 tundra streams
- 2018
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Ingår i: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0730-7268 .- 1552-8618. ; 37:12, s. 3011-3017
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, novel flame retardants, and naturally occurring bromoanisoles in water and filter-feeding black fly (Simuliidae) larvae in 3 tundra streams in northern Sweden. The results demonstrate that black fly larvae accumulate a wide range of organic contaminants and can be used as bioindicators of water pollution in Arctic streams.
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- Lau, Chun Pong, et al.
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An Efficient Content Delivery System for 5G CRAN Employing Realistic man Mobility
- 2019
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Ingår i: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. - : IEEE COMPUTER SOC. - 1536-1233 .- 1558-0660. ; 18:4, s. 742-756
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Today's modern communication technologies such as cloud radio access and software defined networks are key candidate technologies for enabling 5G networks as they incorporate intelligence for data-driven networks. Traditional content caching in the last mile access point has shown a reduction in the core network traffic. However, the radio access network still does not fully leverage such solution. Transmitting duplicate copies of contents to mobile users consumes valuable radio spectrum resources and unnecessary base station energy. To overcome these challenges, we propose huManmObility-based cOntent Distribution (MOOD) system. MOOD exploits urban scale users' mobility to allocate radio resources spatially and temporally for content delivery. Our approach uses the broadcast nature of wireless communication to reduce the number of duplicated transmissions of contents in the radio access network for conserving radio resources and energy. Furthermore, a human activity model is presented and statistically analyzed for simulating people daily routines. The proposed approach is evaluated via simulations and compared with a generic broadcast strategy in an actual existing deployment of base stations as well as a smaller cells environment, which is a trending deployment strategy in future 5G networks. MOOD achieves 15.2 and 25.4 percent of performance improvement in the actual and small-cell deployment, respectively.
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- Lau, Chun Pong, et al.
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On the Analysis of Human Mobility Model for Content Broadcasting in 5G Networks
- 2017
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Ingår i: 2017 IEEE 28TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERSONAL, INDOOR, AND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS (PIMRC). - : IEEE.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Today's mobile service providers aim at ensuring end-to-end performance guarantees. Hence, ensuring an efficient content delivery to end users is highly required. Currently, transmitting popular contents in modern mobile networks rely on unicast transmission. This result into a huge underutilization of the wireless bandwidth. The urban scale mobility of users is beneficial for mobile networks to allocate radio resources spatially and temporally for broadcasting contents. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive analysis on a human activity/mobility model and the content broadcasting system in 5G mobile networks. The objective of this work is to describe how human daily activities could improve the content broadcasting efficiency. We achieve the objective by analyzing the transition probabilities of a user traveling over several places according to the change of states of daily human activities. Using a real life simulation, we demonstrate the relationship between the human mobility and the optimization objective of the content broadcasting system.
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