The population of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina vitulina) along the coast Maine, U.S.A., has experienced rapid growth in abundance following passage Marine Mammal Protection Act 1972 but current information on trends is lacking. In this study, we apply a Bayesian hierarchical model to aerial survey data nonpups and pups. Prior 2001, estimates rates from 8-year moving averages reached high 2.1% 9...

“Fear and I were born twins together,” said Hobbes, alluding to the Spanish armada-borne scare of 1588. The year 2001 birthed a similarly synergistic pair, attacks 9/11 this journal, Jou...

In this essay I will explore an understanding of the potential moral agency of robots, arguing that the key characteristics of physical embodiment, adaptive learning, empathy in action, and a teleology toward the good are the primary necessary components for a machine to become a moral agent. In this context, other possible options will be rejected as necessary for moral agency, including simpl...

The HAL 9000 computer, the inimitable star of the classic Kubrick and Clarke film "2001: A Space Odyssey," displayed image understanding capabilities vastly beyond today’s computer systems. HAL could not only instantly recognize who he was interacting with, but also he could lip read, judge aesthetics of visual sketches, recognize emotions subtly expressed by scientists on board the ship, and r...

An ab initio study of the mono-and difluorides of krypton. Results from ab initio calculations at the CCSD͑T͒ level of theory are presented for krypton monofluoride ͑KrF͒, krypton monofluoride cation (KrF ϩ), linear, ground-state krypton difluoride (KrF 2), the triplet state of krypton difluoride, and the krypton–fluorine van der Waals complex (Kr–F 2). These are the first calculations demonstratin...

technique of remote sensing and its satellite products has many implementations in agricultural science and national resources. in this study, wheat yield in esfahan province, iran, were derived from modis satellite data over periods of 2000-2001(dry year) and 2004-2005 (wet year). for this purposes, 68 modis products of surface reflectance (mod09ga) and land surface temperature lst (mod11a2) o...

OBJECTIVE To study the frequency of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) over a 20-year period among children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in northern Finland. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The study population comprised 585 patients (328 boys) diagnosed with type 1 diabetes aged <15 years in the Department of Pediatrics, Oulu University Hospital, between 1 January 1982 and 31 December 2001. The data ...