The remote Franz Josef Land (FJL) Archipelago is the most northerly land in Eurasia and its fish fauna, particularly in nearshore habitats, has been poorly studied. An interdisciplinary expedition to FJL in summer 2013 used scuba, seines, and plankton nets to comprehensively study the nearshore fish fauna of the archipelago. We present some of the first underwater images for many of these speci...

The feeding habits of 4 species of Plesionika inhabiting the Alboran Sea (SW Mediterranean) at depths between 29 and 790 m were analyzed. Included within the trophic guild of nonmigratory macroplankton feeders, Plesionika spp. preferably exploited mesopelagic resources (mainly euphausiids and Myctophidae). Deep-bathyal species (P. martia, P. gigliolii and P. edwardsi) fitted better within this ...

A region of distinct oceanographic features that result from the meeting of several water masses is marked by Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, between the Middle Atlantic Bight (MAB) and South Atlantic Bight (SAB). The features are dynamic, corresponding, in part, to the degree of water exchange between the MAB and SAB. The extent of larval "sh transport via these features could have implications...

Background Traditional client level spam filters rely on rule based heuristics. While these filters can be effective they have several limitations. The rules must be created by hand. This requires the filter creator to examine a corpus of spam and cull out characteristics. This is a time consuming process and it is easy to miss rules which are quite effective at detecting spam. While the word ”...

Cardiac troponin I and T (cTnI and cTnT) assays are used for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (1 ). Recent improvements in these assays have lowered the imprecision and detection limit so that the assays meet guidelines for using the 99th percentile cutoff concentration. These new cardiac troponin assays have the potential to improve clinical practice by earlier diagnosis, imp...

Marrero, Mario B., Amy K. Banes-Berceli, David M. Stern, and Douglas C. Eaton. Role of the JAK/STAT signaling pathway in diabetic nephropathy. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 290: F762–F768, 2006; doi:10.1152/ajprenal.00181.2005.— Excessive cellular growth is a major contributor to pathological changes associated with diabetic nephropathy. In particular, high glucose-induced growth of glomerular mes...

Modern high-throughput technologies like DNA microarrays are powerful tools that are widely used in biomedical research. They target a variety of genomics applications ranging from gene expression profiling over DNA genotyping to gene regulation studies. However, the recent discovery of false positives among prominent research findings indicates a lack of awareness or understanding of the non-b...

In light of this, it is likely that GWAS hits found in intergenic regions far from known genes are true associations whose biology is not yet understood, rather than false positives. The human genome is incompletely annotated. Regions where GWAS associations have been found, but no known genes are located, could easily harbor unidentified new genes or regulatory elements. For instance, the auth...

A new concept targeted to decrease false positive rates of anomaly based intrusion detection operating in the system call domain is proposed. To mitigate false positives, network based correlation of collected anomalies from different hosts is suggested, as well as a new means of host-based anomaly detection. The concept of anomaly propagation is based on the premise that false alarms do not pr...