Problems on Boat Entrance into Fishery Harbor in Severe Weather Condition

One entrance into life.

OVER three-hundred and thirty years ago, just when England was about to be rent apart by the Civil War, Thomas Browne, a student of Padua and Montpellier and a Doctor of Medicine of both Leiden and Oxford, wrote Religio Medici. This contributed little to religion, but in the stately prose of a bygone age ranged far and wide with protestations of piety and a gentle irony. One of the best known p...

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How’s the Weather? Severe Weather Classifications in Syndromic Surveillance

Introduction Hurricane ‘Superstorm’ Sandy struck New Jersey on October 29, 2012, causing harm to the health of New Jersey residents and billions of dollars of damage to businesses, transportation, and infrastructure. Monitoring health outcomes for increased illness and injury due to a severe weather event is important in measuring the severity of conditions and the efficacy of state response, a...

Participatory Boat Tracking Reveals Spatial Fishing Patterns in an Indonesian Artisanal Fishery

1 Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Centro de Agua y Desarrollo Sustentable, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2 Department of Theoretical Ecology and Modelling, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen, Germany, 3 Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain, 4 Section for Ecos...

The Entrance of Informatics into Combinatorial Chemistry

Combinatorial chemistry has risen to prominence as the pharmaceutical development strategy of choice in less than twenty years. In that time the combinatorial library has emerged as a central artifact. Libraries grew from random collections of a hundred molecules into immense arrays of hundreds of thousands of molecules. The definition of a “good” library has changed, from a large, maximally di...