Pacific oceanography: Franco-Japanese plan mounted

Franco-Japanese Research Collaboration on Constraint Programming

Constraint programming is an emergent technology that allows modeling and solving various problems in many areas such as artificial intelligence, computer programming, computeraided design, computer graphics, and user interfaces. In this report, we recount the recent activities of research collaboration on constraint programming conducted by the authors and other researchers in France and Japan...

Japanese Contribution to the World Data Center for Oceanography

The Japan Oceanographic Data Center has been submitting oceanographic data to the World Data Center)for oceanography through the framework of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange committee sponsored by the UNESCO/IOC. In the World Ocean Database 2009 which is the compiled database of WDC for oceanography, the Japanese contribution has reached about 16% of the total. Jap...

Asia Pacific agrees health-financing plan.

1426 www.thelancet.com Vol 375 April 24, 2010 See Comment page 1417 When US President Barack Obama decided to cancel a much-anticipated visit to his strongest Asian Pacifi c allies and stay in Washington, DC, to push his health reform bill through US Congress, his excuse was probably the one thing that resonated most powerfully with his disappointed hosts. Health fi nancing is one of the bigges...

Odontocete occurrence in relation to changes in oceanography at a remote equatorial Pacific seamount

Seamounts are considered hot spots of biodiversity and can aggregate pelagic predators and their prey. Passive acoustic monitoring was conducted over 3 mo in 2012 to document the occurrence of odontocetes near a seamount chain in the central equatorial Pacific in relation to oceanographic changes over time. Beaked whale echolocation signals were most frequently encountered. The main beaked whal...

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