137Cs inter-plant concentration ratios provide a predictive tool for coral atolls with distinct benefits over transfer factors

Enhanced pelagic biomass around coral atolls

Understanding processes driving the distribution of mid-water prey such as euphausiids and lanternfish is important for effective management and conservation of their predators. In the vicinity of abrupt topographic features such as banks, seamounts, and shelf-breaks mid-water faunal biomass is often elevated, making these sites candidates for special protection. We investigated the spatial dis...

The Functioning of Coral Reefs and Atolls

Provide a Predictive Model to Identify People with Diabetes Using the Decision Tree

Background: Today, in most hospitals in Iran, there is an extensive database of patient characteristics that includes a large amount of information related to medical, family and medical records. Finding a knowledge model of this information can help to predict the performance of the medical system and improve educational processes. Methods: Data mining techniques are analytical tools that are...

Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer of Nanofluids over a Flat Plate with Conjugate Heat Transfer

The falling and settling of solid particles in gases and liquids is a natural phenomenon happens in many industrial processes. This phenomenon has altered pure forced convection to a combination of heat conduction and heat convection in a flow over a plate. In this paper, the coupling of conduction (inside the plate) and forced convection of a non-homogeneous nanofluid flow (over a flat plate) ...

Inter-Specific Coral Chimerism: Genetically Distinct Multicellular Structures Associated with Tissue Loss in Montipora capitata

Montipora white syndrome (MWS) results in tissue-loss that is often lethal to Montipora capitata, a major reef building coral that is abundant and dominant in the Hawai'ian Archipelago. Within some MWS-affected colonies in Kane'ohe Bay, Oahu, Hawai'i, we saw unusual motile multicellular structures within gastrovascular canals (hereafter referred to as invasive gastrovascular multicellular struc...