Oct
30
Flow-Cytometric Analyses of Viability Biomarkers in Pesticide-Exposed Sperm of Three Aquatic Invertebrates
October 30, 2009 | Comments Off
p class=”abstract”div class=”Abstract”a name=”Abs1″/aspan class=”AbstractHeading”Abstractnbsp;nbsp;/spanToxicity studies on sperm often use fertilization success as the end point. This type of assay can be affected by sperm density,
egg quality, and sperm–egg compatibility. Testing sperm viability biomarkers with flow cytometry is a fast, high-throughput
technique for seminal analysis. In this study, we detected sperm viability biomarkers with several fluorescent reporter dyes
using flow cytometry in three aquatic invertebrates (iCrassostrea virginica/i, iDreissena polymorpha/i, and iLytechinus variegatus/i) after exposure to a pesticide and herbicide. The pesticide, Bayluscide, appeared to affect mitochondrial membrane potential
in the sperm of all three species, as measured with MitoTracker Red CMXRossup®/sup. A decrease in the percentage of sperm stained with SYBRsup®/sup-14 (indicating uncompromised plasma membrane) was observed in iC. virginica/i and iD. polymorpha/i sperm exposed to Bayluscide, but propidium iodide staining (indicating compromised plasma membranes) appeared to be inhibited
by Bayluscide. Acrosome-reacted sperm, as measured by FITC-PNA, decreased after Bayluscide exposure in iC. virginica/i and iD. polymorpha/i sperm. The herbicide, Roundup Ready To-Use-Plussup®/sup, did not affect the overall percentages of sperm stained with MitoTracker but did cause an increase in MitoTracker fluorescence
intensity at 16nbsp;mg/L in iD. polymorpha/i. Roundup also caused significant decreases in SYBR-14 staining, significant increases in propidium iodide staining, and significant
increases in FITC-PNA staining in iD. polymorpha/i sperm. By not having to rely on egg availability and optimal sperm density, sperm toxicity can be more accurately assessed
with flow cytometry as being directly correlated to sperm viability rather than the possibility of altered toxicity results
due to sperm-to-egg compatibility.
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lispan class=”labelName”Content Type /spanspan class=”labelValue”Journal Article/span/liliDOI 10.1007/s00244-009-9410-z/lilispan class=”labelName”Authors/spanul
liKaren P. Favret, Louisiana State University Department of Biological Sciences 202 Life Sciences Bldg Baton Rouge LA 70803 USA/liliJohn W. Lynn, Louisiana State University Department of Biological Sciences 202 Life Sciences Bldg Baton Rouge LA 70803 USA/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Journal /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/100119/”Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Online ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”1432-0703/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”0090-4341/span/li
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Oct
29
Vocal emotion recognition in five native languages of Assam using new wavelet features
October 29, 2009 | Comments Off
p class=”abstract”div class=”Abstract”a name=”Abs1″/aspan class=”AbstractHeading”Abstractnbsp;nbsp;/spanThe present work investigates the following specific research questions concerning voice emotion recognition: whether vocal
emotion expressions of discrete emotion (i)nbsp;can be distinguished from no-emotion (i.e. neutral), (ii)nbsp;can be distinguished
from another, (iii)nbsp;of surprise, which is actually a cognitive component that could be present with any emotion, can also
be recognized as distinct emotion, (iv)nbsp;can be recognized cross-lingually. This study will enable us to get more information
regarding nature and function of emotion. Furthermore, this work will help in developing a generalized voice emotion recognition
system, which will increase the efficiency of human-machine interaction systems. In this work an emotional utterance database
is created with 140 acted utterances per speaker consisting of short sentences of six full-blown basic emotions and neutral
of five native languages of Assam. This database is validated by a Listening Test. Four feature sets are extracted based on
WPCC2 (Wavelet-Packet-Cepstral-Coefficients computed by methodnbsp;2), MFCC (Mel-Frequency-Cepstral-Coefficients), tfWPCC2 (Teager-energy-operated-in-Transform-domain
WPCC2) and tfMFCC. The Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is used as classifier. The performances of all these feature sets are
compared in respect of accuracy of classification in two experiments: (i)nbsp;text-and-speaker independent vocal emotion recognition
in individual languages, and (ii)nbsp;cross-lingual vocal emotion recognition. tfWPCC2 is a new wavelet feature set proposed by
the same authors in one of their recent papers in a National Seminar in India as cited in References.
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lispan class=”labelName”Content Type /spanspan class=”labelValue”Journal Article/span/liliDOI 10.1007/s10772-009-9046-4/lilispan class=”labelName”Authors/spanul
liAditya Bihar Kandali, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Department of Electrical Engineering Kharagpur PIN-721302 West Bengal India/liliAurobinda Routray, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Department of Electrical Engineering Kharagpur PIN-721302 West Bengal India/liliTapan Kumar Basu, Aliah University DN 47, Sector 5, Salt Lake City Kolkota India/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Journal /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/100275/”International Journal of Speech Technology/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Online ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”1572-8110/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”1381-2416/span/li
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Oct
28
Religious Support, Motives for Having Large Families, and Psychological Functioning Among Religious Jewish Mothers
October 28, 2009 | Comments Off
p class=”abstract”div class=”Abstract”a name=”Abs1″/aspan class=”AbstractHeading”Abstractnbsp;nbsp;/spanThe effects of religious support, maternal motivations for having large families, and their interactions on psychological
functioning were assessed in a sample of 79 religious Israeli Jewish mothers of six or more children. Religious support from
religious leaders, community, and G-d—as well as faith-focused maternal motivation—were all positively related to adaptive
psychological functioning. In contrast, self-focused maternal motivation was negatively related to adaptive functioning. Moreover,
religious support and maternal motivation were both related to psychological functioning even after controlling for social
support. Finally, several significant interactions between religious support and maternal motivation emerged and are also
discussed.
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lispan class=”labelName”Content Type /spanspan class=”labelValue”Journal Article/span/liliCategory Original Paper/liliDOI 10.1007/s10943-009-9294-2/lilispan class=”labelName”Authors/spanul
liJeffery P. Bjorck, Fuller Theological Seminary Graduate School of Psychology 180 North Oakland Avenue Pasadena CA 91101 USA/liliAryeh Lazar, Ariel University Center of Samaria Department of Behavioral Sciences Ariel Israel/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Journal /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/104938/”Journal of Religion and Health/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Online ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”1573-6571/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”0022-4197/span/li
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Oct
28
Larval settlement preferences and post-settlement survival of the threatened Caribbean corals Acropora palmata and A. cervicornis
October 28, 2009 | Comments Off
p class=”abstract”div class=”Abstract”a name=”Abs1″/aspan class=”AbstractHeading”Abstractnbsp;nbsp;/spanThe settlement specificity of two threatened Caribbean corals, iAcropora palmata/i and iA. cervicornis,/i was tested by measuring their rates of larval metamorphosis in response to crustose coralline algae (CCA) and other substrata.
In the no-choice experiments, the coral larvae were placed in six treatments: filtered seawater (FSW), a fragment of biofilmed
dead skeleton of iA. palmata/i, or a fragment of one of four species of CCA (iHydrolithon boergesenii/i, iPorolithon pachydermum/i, iParagoniolithon solubile/i, and iTitanoderma prototypum/i). Within each CCA treatment, there were three different substrata on which to settle and metamorphose: (1) the CCA surface,
(2) the rock under the CCA, or (3) the plastic dish. The 5-day-old larvae of both iA. palmata/i and iA. cervicornis/i had similar rates of total metamorphosis (all substrata combined) in every treatment (excluding FSW) even in the absence
of CCA. However, there were differences in larval behavior among the CCA species since the larvae settled and metamorphosed
on different substrata in the presence of different CCA species. In the no-choice experiments the larvae of both corals had
higher rates of metamorphosis on the top surfaces of iH. boergesenii/i and/or iT. prototypum/i than on iP. pachydermum/i. In the choice experiments, the coral larvae were offered two species of CCA in the same dish. When given a choice, both
species of coral larvae had more settlement and metamorphosis on the surface of iH. boergesenii/i or iT. prototypum/i or clean rock than onto the surface of iP. solubile/i. After 6nbsp;weeks in the field, transplanted iA. palmata/i recruits had approximately 15% survival on both iT. prototypum/i and iH. boergesenii/i, but iA. cervicornis/i recruits only survived on iT. prototypum/i (13%). Some, but not all, CCA species facilitated the larval settlement and post-settlement survival of these two threatened
corals, highlighting the importance of benthic community composition for successful coral recruitment.
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lispan class=”labelName”Content Type /spanspan class=”labelValue”Journal Article/span/liliCategory Report/liliDOI 10.1007/s00338-009-0555-z/lilispan class=”labelName”Authors/spanul
liR. Ritson-Williams, Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce 701 Seaway Dr. Fort Pierce FL 34949 USA/liliValerie J. Paul, Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce 701 Seaway Dr. Fort Pierce FL 34949 USA/liliS. N. Arnold, University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, Darling Marine Center Walpole ME 04573 USA/liliR. S. Steneck, University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, Darling Marine Center Walpole ME 04573 USA/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Journal /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/100407/”Coral Reefs/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Online ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”1432-0975/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”0722-4028/span/li
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Oct
28
Rough Set Approaches to Unsupervised Neural Network Based Pattern Classifier
October 28, 2009 | Comments Off
p class=”abstract”div class=”Abstract”Unsupervised neural network based pattern classification is a widely popular choice for many real time applications. Such
applications always face challenges of processing data with lot of consistency, inconsistency, ambiguity or incompleteness.
Hence to deal with such challenges a strong approximation tool is always needed. Rough set is one such tool and various approaches
based on Rough set, if are applied to pure neural (unsupervised) pattern classifier can yield desired results like faster
convergence, feature space reduction and improved classification accuracy. The application of such approaches at respective
level of implementation of neural network based pattern classifier for two case studies are discussed here. Whereas more emphasis
is given on the preprocessing level based approach used for feature space reduction.
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lispan class=”labelName”Content Type /spanspan class=”labelValue”Book Chapter/span/liliDOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3177-8_10/lilispan class=”labelName”Authors/spanul
liAshwin Kothari, VNIT Department of Electronics Computer Science Nagpur India/liliAvinash Keskar, VNIT Department of Electronics Computer Science Nagpur India/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Book Series /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/p39782/”Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”1876-1100/span/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Book Series Volume /spanspan class=”labelValue”Volume 48/span/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Book /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/uj3j24/”Advances in Machine Learning and Data Analysis/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”DOI /spanspan class=”labelValue”10.1007/978-90-481-3177-8/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Online ISBN /spanspan class=”labelValue”978-90-481-3177-8/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISBN /spanspan class=”labelValue”978-90-481-3176-1/span/li
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Oct
28
A Survey of Mobile Indoor Navigation Systems
October 28, 2009 | Comments Off
p class=”abstract”div class=”Abstract”With the gradual maturating of ubiquitous computing and the rapid advances in mobile devices and wireless communication, indoor
Location Based Services have gained increasing interests as an important application of indoor ubiquitous computing. In this
paper, an evaluation framework which combines the key aspects of indoor navigation for investigating mobile indoor navigation
systems is proposed. Based on this evaluation framework, we give a comparison and analysis of the current mobile indoor navigation
systems, and conclude that “indoor navigation systems are still on an early development stage”. We also identify some challenges
which require further research and development, such as sensor fusion, context-awareness, route communication, seamless switch
between indoor and outdoor navigation, and ubiquitous indoor computing.
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lispan class=”labelName”Content Type /spanspan class=”labelValue”Book Chapter/span/liliDOI 10.1007/978-3-642-03294-3_20/lilispan class=”labelName”Authors/spanul
liHaosheng Huang, Vienna University of Technology Institute of Geoinformation and Cartography Vienna Austria/liliGeorg Gartner, Vienna University of Technology Institute of Geoinformation and Cartography Vienna Austria/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Book Series /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/g820uq/”Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Online ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”1863-2351/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”1863-2246/span/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Book /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/qj2501/”Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”DOI /spanspan class=”labelValue”10.1007/978-3-642-03294-3/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Online ISBN /spanspan class=”labelValue”978-3-642-03294-3/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISBN /spanspan class=”labelValue”978-3-642-03293-6/span/li
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Oct
28
A Survey of Mobile Indoor Navigation Systems
October 28, 2009 | Comments Off
p class=”abstract”div class=”Abstract”With the gradual maturating of ubiquitous computing and the rapid advances in mobile devices and wireless communication, indoor
Location Based Services have gained increasing interests as an important application of indoor ubiquitous computing. In this
paper, an evaluation framework which combines the key aspects of indoor navigation for investigating mobile indoor navigation
systems is proposed. Based on this evaluation framework, we give a comparison and analysis of the current mobile indoor navigation
systems, and conclude that “indoor navigation systems are still on an early development stage”. We also identify some challenges
which require further research and development, such as sensor fusion, context-awareness, route communication, seamless switch
between indoor and outdoor navigation, and ubiquitous indoor computing.
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lispan class=”labelName”Content Type /spanspan class=”labelValue”Book Chapter/span/liliDOI 10.1007/978-3-642-03294-3_20/lilispan class=”labelName”Authors/spanul
liHaosheng Huang, Vienna University of Technology Institute of Geoinformation and Cartography Vienna Austria/liliGeorg Gartner, Vienna University of Technology Institute of Geoinformation and Cartography Vienna Austria/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Book Series /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/g820uq/”Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Online ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”1863-2351/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”1863-2246/span/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Book /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/qj2501/”Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”DOI /spanspan class=”labelValue”10.1007/978-3-642-03294-3/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Online ISBN /spanspan class=”labelValue”978-3-642-03294-3/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISBN /spanspan class=”labelValue”978-3-642-03293-6/span/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Book Part /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/rx07w7g02010/”Part 3/a/span/li
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Oct
28
Coreference Resolution on Blogs and Commented News
October 28, 2009 | Comments Off
p class=”abstract”div class=”Abstract”We focus on automatic coreference resolution for blogs and news articles with user comments as part of a project on opinion
mining. We aim to study the effect of the genre shift from edited, structured newspaper text to unedited, unstructured blog
data. We compare our coreference resolution system on three data sets: newspaper articles, mixed newspaper articles and reader
comments, and blog data. As can be expected the performance of the automatic coreference resolution system drops drastically
when tested on unedited text. We describe the characteristics of the different data sets and we examine the typical errors
made by the resolution system.
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lispan class=”labelName”Content Type /spanspan class=”labelValue”Book Chapter/span/liliDOI 10.1007/978-3-642-04975-0_4/lilispan class=”labelName”Authors/spanul
liIris Hendrickx, University College Ghent LT3 – Language and Translation Technology Team Groot-Brittanniëlaan 45 Ghent Belgium/liliVeronique Hoste, University College Ghent LT3 – Language and Translation Technology Team Groot-Brittanniëlaan 45 Ghent Belgium/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Book Series /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/105633/”Lecture Notes in Computer Science/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Online ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”1611-3349/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”0302-9743/span/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Book Series Volume /spanspan class=”labelValue”Volume 5847/2009/span/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Book /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/g0557991245k/”Anaphora Processing and Applications/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”DOI /spanspan class=”labelValue”10.1007/978-3-642-04975-0/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISBN /spanspan class=”labelValue”978-3-642-04974-3/span/li
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Oct
28
Robustness Validation in Service-Oriented Architectures
October 28, 2009 | Comments Off
p class=”abstract”div class=”Abstract”The use of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in enterprise applications development is increasing very quickly. In a SOA
environment providers supply a set of services that must be robust. Although SOA is being used in business-critical environments,
there is no practical means to measure or compare the robustness of services. Robustness failures in such environments are
dangerous, as they can be maliciously exploited with severe consequences for the attacked systems. This chapter addresses
the problem of robustness validation in SOA environments. The approach proposed is based on a set of robustness tests that
is used to discover both programming and design errors. Two concrete examples are presented: one focusing on web services
and the other targeting Java Message Service (JMS) middleware. The proposed approach is useful for both providers (to validate
the robustness of deployed services) and consumers (to select the services that best fit architectural requirements).
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lispan class=”labelName”Content Type /spanspan class=”labelValue”Book Chapter/span/liliDOI 10.1007/978-3-642-10248-6_5/lilispan class=”labelName”Authors/spanul
liNuno Laranjeiro, University of Coimbra CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering 3030-290 Coimbra Portugal/liliMarco Vieira, University of Coimbra CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering 3030-290 Coimbra Portugal/liliHenrique Madeira, University of Coimbra CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering 3030-290 Coimbra Portugal/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Book Series /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/105633/”Lecture Notes in Computer Science/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Online ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”1611-3349/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”0302-9743/span/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Book Series Volume /spanspan class=”labelValue”Volume 5835/2009/span/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Book /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/r374110t116k/”Architecting Dependable Systems VI/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”DOI /spanspan class=”labelValue”10.1007/978-3-642-10248-6/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISBN /spanspan class=”labelValue”978-3-642-10247-9/span/li
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Oct
27
Economic analysis of tiger grouper Epinephelus fuscoguttatus and humpback grouper Cromileptes altivelis commercial cage culture in Indonesia
October 27, 2009 | Comments Off
p class=”abstract”div class=”Abstract”a name=”Abs1″/aspan class=”AbstractHeading”Abstractnbsp;nbsp;/spanThis study presents an economic analysis of tiger and humpback grouper at different production scales in Indonesia. The results
highlight the non-viability of small-scale tiger grouper farming, with a 5-year projected negative cumulative cash flow of
−IDR 18,102,650.00 and a negative net present value (NPV) of −IDR 22,059,576.28. An increased production scale of tiger grouper
highlights a marginal viability for medium-scale farms (with a 5-year projected cumulative cash flow of IDR 198,320,673.00,
a positive NPV of IDR 105,578,440.42; a benefit cost ratio of 1.25; an internal rate of return (IRR) of 88% and a payback
period of 0.99nbsp;years), and an economically viable large-scale cage culture (with a 5-year projected cumulative cash of IDR
707,746,923.00; a NPV of IDR 406,801,749.07; a benefit cost ratio of 1.33; an internal rate of return of 157%; and a payback
period of 0.57nbsp;years). The economic analysis of humpback grouper at different production scales highlighted a positive cumulative
cash and NPV, a benefit cost ratio over 2, an internal rate of return over 300% and a payback period lt;1nbsp;year. A sensitivity
analysis revealed that increased survival rate up to 80% would increase cumulative cash and NPV of small-scale tiger grouper
cage culture. Additionally, improved profitability performance was associated with decreasing major production costs, increasing
production and price of the product.
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lispan class=”labelName”Content Type /spanspan class=”labelValue”Journal Article/span/liliDOI 10.1007/s10499-009-9295-x/lilispan class=”labelName”Authors/spanul
liFarok Afero, National Taiwan Ocean University Department of Aquaculture Keelung Taiwan, R.O.C/liliSha Miao, National Taiwan Ocean University Department of Aquaculture Keelung Taiwan, R.O.C/liliArlenie A. Perez, National Taiwan Ocean University Department of Aquaculture Keelung Taiwan, R.O.C/li
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lispan class=”header labelName”Journal /spanspan class=”labelValue”a href=”http://www.springerlink.com/content/100128/”Aquaculture International/a/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Online ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”1573-143X/span/lilispan class=”labelName”Print ISSN /spanspan class=”labelValue”0967-6120/span/li
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