Global Perspectives on Observing Ocean Boundary Current Systems

Biologging in the Global Ocean Observing System

Miniature electronic data recorders and transmitters have revolutionized the way we study animals over the past decades, particularly marine animals at sea. But, very recently, animal-borne instruments have also been designed and implemented that provide in situ hydrographic data from parts of the oceans where little or no other data are currently available (even from beneath the ice in polar r...

Scientists' perspectives on global ocean research priorities

*Correspondence: Murray A. Rudd, Environment Department, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK e-mail: [email protected] Diverse natural and social science research is needed to support policies to recover and sustain healthy oceans. While a wide variety of expert-led prioritization initiatives have identified research themes and priorities at national and regional scale, over ...

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Global perspectives on legacy systems

The two workshops discussed here were held roughly a year apart, at international conferences meeting in the UK. The first workshop (the seventh in the SEBPC legacy series) was held on 30 August 1999 in Oxford, at the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), which attracts a mostly technical participation, from software engineering academics and from industrial practitioners and...

Transient global amnesia: current perspectives

Transient global amnesia (TGA) is a clinical syndrome characterized by the sudden onset of an extraordinarily large reduction of anterograde and a somewhat milder reduction of retrograde episodic long-term memory. Additionally, executive functions are described as diminished. Although it is suggested that various factors, such as migraine, focal ischemia, venous flow abnormalities, and epilepti...