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Paul C. Southgate - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Assessing potential for integrating sea grape (Caulerpa lentillifera) culture with sandfish (Holothuria scabra) and Babylon snail (Babylonia areolata) co-culture
Aquaculture, 2020Co-Authors: Gregory T. Dobson, Nguyen Dinh Quang Duy, Nicholas A. Paul, Paul C. SouthgateAbstract:Abstract This study assessed integration of sea grapes (Caulerpa lentillifera) into a sandfish (Holothuria scabra) and Babylon snail (Babylonia areolata) co-culture system. Five culture combinations were assessed for yield (growth and survival) and water and sediment quality over 84 days at the National Centre for Marine Breeding, Van Ninh, Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam. Final yield of sandfish per tank was similar with Babylonia (245.82 ± 34.86 g) and without (258.29 ± 40.03 g). Sandfish survival was not affected by culture with Caulerpa, however mean individual weight gain was much greater without the seaweed. Final sandfish yield when cultured with Caulerpa was 177.62 ± 13.21 g per tank, and 326.50 ± 32.73 g per tank without. Babylonia growth, survival and final yield was unaffected by co-culture. Caulerpa growth was also unaffected by co-culture combination. Babylonia raised total ammonia and total nitrogen concentrations and increased sediment organic matter, total sulphur and total nitrogen. Total ammonia was reduced in treatments containing Caulerpa. Our results showed positive production of each of the three commodities when they were grown together within the same system. However, further research is required at a larger scale to further evaluate the viability and potential yields of this combination at a commercial level, and to produce improved production information supporting detailed cost-benefit analysis.
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First assessment of the potential for coculture of sandfish (Holothuria scabra) with Babylon snail (Babylonia areolata) in Vietnam
Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 2019Co-Authors: Gregory T. Dobson, Nguyen Dinh Quang Duy, Paul C. SouthgateAbstract:The potential for the coculture of sandfish, Holothuria scabra and Babylon snail, Babylonia areolata was investigated. Sandfish (weight 1.87 ± 0.41 g) were cultured at low (25 ind/m²; 46.75 g/m²), medium (50 ind/m²; 93.5 g/m²), and high (100 ind/m²; 187 g/m²) densities in monoculture and in coculture with Babylonia at a density of 400 ind/m² (208 g/m²). In monoculture, sandfish were provided with 1 g m⁻² day⁻¹ commercial prawn starter feed. In coculture, trash fish provided for Babylonia (5% total wet weight per day) was the only food input. Sandfish survival over the 84‐day experiment period was reduced in coculture treatments (77.60 vs. 97.22%) but was in line with expected survival rates (80–90%) of commercial sandfish culture. Mean sandfish weight gain and absolute growth rate were around 37% greater in coculture (mean weight gain 13.42 ± 2.90 g vs. 9.77 ± 2.54 g over 84 days). No differences in Babylonia growth rate or survival were evident between sandfish density treatments. Sediment organic matter content did not differ significantly between monoculture (0.43 ± 0.03%) and coculture (0.55 ± 0.06%) treatments, but the latter had elevated concentrations of ammonia. Results provide a basis for further development of land‐based pond coculture systems for sandfish and Babylonia.
Lauren Ristvet - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Between ritual and theatre: political performance in Seleucid Babylonia
World Archaeology, 2014Co-Authors: Lauren RistvetAbstract:AbstractIn Seleucid Babylonia, performance was politics. In this colonial state, the temple, theatre and ritual were established as a middle ground between the different populations. ‘Greek’ theatres were constructed to look like Babylonian temples, and both institutions served as loci of civil authority. Moreover, the staging of the Babylonian Akitu influenced the mise-en-scene of the Greek pompe at Daphne, and exposure to Greek drama shaped audience response to religious ceremonies. State rituals were more than occasions for kings to assert their legitimacy, they were also spaces in which the Babylonian priesthood, Greek politai and Babylonian citizens could debate Seleucid hegemony and imagine an alternative to the empire.
Gregory T. Dobson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Assessing potential for integrating sea grape (Caulerpa lentillifera) culture with sandfish (Holothuria scabra) and Babylon snail (Babylonia areolata) co-culture
Aquaculture, 2020Co-Authors: Gregory T. Dobson, Nguyen Dinh Quang Duy, Nicholas A. Paul, Paul C. SouthgateAbstract:Abstract This study assessed integration of sea grapes (Caulerpa lentillifera) into a sandfish (Holothuria scabra) and Babylon snail (Babylonia areolata) co-culture system. Five culture combinations were assessed for yield (growth and survival) and water and sediment quality over 84 days at the National Centre for Marine Breeding, Van Ninh, Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam. Final yield of sandfish per tank was similar with Babylonia (245.82 ± 34.86 g) and without (258.29 ± 40.03 g). Sandfish survival was not affected by culture with Caulerpa, however mean individual weight gain was much greater without the seaweed. Final sandfish yield when cultured with Caulerpa was 177.62 ± 13.21 g per tank, and 326.50 ± 32.73 g per tank without. Babylonia growth, survival and final yield was unaffected by co-culture. Caulerpa growth was also unaffected by co-culture combination. Babylonia raised total ammonia and total nitrogen concentrations and increased sediment organic matter, total sulphur and total nitrogen. Total ammonia was reduced in treatments containing Caulerpa. Our results showed positive production of each of the three commodities when they were grown together within the same system. However, further research is required at a larger scale to further evaluate the viability and potential yields of this combination at a commercial level, and to produce improved production information supporting detailed cost-benefit analysis.
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First assessment of the potential for coculture of sandfish (Holothuria scabra) with Babylon snail (Babylonia areolata) in Vietnam
Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 2019Co-Authors: Gregory T. Dobson, Nguyen Dinh Quang Duy, Paul C. SouthgateAbstract:The potential for the coculture of sandfish, Holothuria scabra and Babylon snail, Babylonia areolata was investigated. Sandfish (weight 1.87 ± 0.41 g) were cultured at low (25 ind/m²; 46.75 g/m²), medium (50 ind/m²; 93.5 g/m²), and high (100 ind/m²; 187 g/m²) densities in monoculture and in coculture with Babylonia at a density of 400 ind/m² (208 g/m²). In monoculture, sandfish were provided with 1 g m⁻² day⁻¹ commercial prawn starter feed. In coculture, trash fish provided for Babylonia (5% total wet weight per day) was the only food input. Sandfish survival over the 84‐day experiment period was reduced in coculture treatments (77.60 vs. 97.22%) but was in line with expected survival rates (80–90%) of commercial sandfish culture. Mean sandfish weight gain and absolute growth rate were around 37% greater in coculture (mean weight gain 13.42 ± 2.90 g vs. 9.77 ± 2.54 g over 84 days). No differences in Babylonia growth rate or survival were evident between sandfish density treatments. Sediment organic matter content did not differ significantly between monoculture (0.43 ± 0.03%) and coculture (0.55 ± 0.06%) treatments, but the latter had elevated concentrations of ammonia. Results provide a basis for further development of land‐based pond coculture systems for sandfish and Babylonia.
Elise Jakoby Laugier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Babylonian encounters in the upper diyala river valley contextualizing the results of regional survey and the 2016 2017 excavations at khani masi
American Journal of Archaeology, 2019Co-Authors: Claudia Glatz, Emma Baysal, Daniel Calderbank, Francesca Chelazzi, Francesco Del Bravo, Neil Erskine, Mette Marie Hald, Jesse Casana, Robin Bendrey, Elise Jakoby LaugierAbstract:Kassite Babylonia counts among the great powers of the Late Bronze Age Near East. Its kings exchanged diplomatic letters with the pharaohs of Egypt and held their own against their Assyrian and Elamite neighbors. Babylonia's internal workings, however, remain understood in their outlines only, as do its elite's expansionary ambitions, the degrees to which they may have been realized, and the nature of ensuing imperial encounters. This is especially the case for the region to the northeast, where the Mesopotamian lowlands meet the Zagros piedmonts in the Diyala River valley and where a series of corridors of movement intersect to form a strategic highland-lowland borderland. In this paper, we present critical new results of regional survey in the Upper Diyala plains of northeast Iraq and excavations at the Late Bronze Age site of Khani Masi. Not only do our data and analyses expand considerably the known extent of Babylonia's cultural sphere, but also the monumental character of Khani Masi and its wider settlement context prompt a fundamental rethinking of the nature and chronology of Babylonian presence in this transitional landscape. As such, this paper contributes an important new case study to the field of archaeological empire and borderland studies.
Nguyen Dinh Quang Duy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Assessing potential for integrating sea grape (Caulerpa lentillifera) culture with sandfish (Holothuria scabra) and Babylon snail (Babylonia areolata) co-culture
Aquaculture, 2020Co-Authors: Gregory T. Dobson, Nguyen Dinh Quang Duy, Nicholas A. Paul, Paul C. SouthgateAbstract:Abstract This study assessed integration of sea grapes (Caulerpa lentillifera) into a sandfish (Holothuria scabra) and Babylon snail (Babylonia areolata) co-culture system. Five culture combinations were assessed for yield (growth and survival) and water and sediment quality over 84 days at the National Centre for Marine Breeding, Van Ninh, Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam. Final yield of sandfish per tank was similar with Babylonia (245.82 ± 34.86 g) and without (258.29 ± 40.03 g). Sandfish survival was not affected by culture with Caulerpa, however mean individual weight gain was much greater without the seaweed. Final sandfish yield when cultured with Caulerpa was 177.62 ± 13.21 g per tank, and 326.50 ± 32.73 g per tank without. Babylonia growth, survival and final yield was unaffected by co-culture. Caulerpa growth was also unaffected by co-culture combination. Babylonia raised total ammonia and total nitrogen concentrations and increased sediment organic matter, total sulphur and total nitrogen. Total ammonia was reduced in treatments containing Caulerpa. Our results showed positive production of each of the three commodities when they were grown together within the same system. However, further research is required at a larger scale to further evaluate the viability and potential yields of this combination at a commercial level, and to produce improved production information supporting detailed cost-benefit analysis.
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First assessment of the potential for coculture of sandfish (Holothuria scabra) with Babylon snail (Babylonia areolata) in Vietnam
Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 2019Co-Authors: Gregory T. Dobson, Nguyen Dinh Quang Duy, Paul C. SouthgateAbstract:The potential for the coculture of sandfish, Holothuria scabra and Babylon snail, Babylonia areolata was investigated. Sandfish (weight 1.87 ± 0.41 g) were cultured at low (25 ind/m²; 46.75 g/m²), medium (50 ind/m²; 93.5 g/m²), and high (100 ind/m²; 187 g/m²) densities in monoculture and in coculture with Babylonia at a density of 400 ind/m² (208 g/m²). In monoculture, sandfish were provided with 1 g m⁻² day⁻¹ commercial prawn starter feed. In coculture, trash fish provided for Babylonia (5% total wet weight per day) was the only food input. Sandfish survival over the 84‐day experiment period was reduced in coculture treatments (77.60 vs. 97.22%) but was in line with expected survival rates (80–90%) of commercial sandfish culture. Mean sandfish weight gain and absolute growth rate were around 37% greater in coculture (mean weight gain 13.42 ± 2.90 g vs. 9.77 ± 2.54 g over 84 days). No differences in Babylonia growth rate or survival were evident between sandfish density treatments. Sediment organic matter content did not differ significantly between monoculture (0.43 ± 0.03%) and coculture (0.55 ± 0.06%) treatments, but the latter had elevated concentrations of ammonia. Results provide a basis for further development of land‐based pond coculture systems for sandfish and Babylonia.
