23 Chronic living at altitudes ~2500m causes consistent hematological acclimatization in most, but 24 not all, groups of athletes; however, responses of erythropoietin (EPO) and red cell mass to a 25 given altitude show substantial individual variability. We hypothesized that athletes living at 26 higher altitudes would experience greater improvements in sea level performance, secondary to 27 g...

Chronic living at altitudes of ∼2,500 m causes consistent hematological acclimatization in most, but not all, groups of athletes; however, responses of erythropoietin (EPO) and red cell mass to a given altitude show substantial individual variability. We hypothesized that athletes living at higher altitudes would experience greater improvements in sea level performance, secondary to greater hem...

Sea-ice hazard causes serious harm to aquaculture, marine navigation, offshore oil production and other activities in the Bohai Sea, China. To study the spatial distribution characteristics of sea-ice-hazard risk in Bohai is therefore desirable. The thickness and area of sea ice in the Bohai Sea during the winters (December–March) of 1987–2011 were estimated using data from the NOAA (US Nationa...

Simultaneously long short (SLS) feedback trading strategies are known to yield positive expected gain by zero initial investment for price processes governed by, e.g., geometric Brownian motion or Merton’s jump diffusion model. In this paper, we generalize these results to positive prices with stochastically independent multiplicative growth and constant trend in discrete and continuous time as...

Dry areas near the sea can obtain fresh water through solar distillation of saline sea water resources. However, these solar distillation sites produce wastewater as a result of desalination of sea water with high salt concentration. Waste must be disposed of with the least effect on the receiving environment (sea, in most cases). Initial dilution and its characteristics play important roles in...

The sea is rarely level. Its surface is perturbed in many ways over contrasting spatial and temporal scales. The wind ruffles the surface of the water generating waves, which travel across the oceans as swell. Groups of waves propagating from one storm interact with wind waves and swell from other directions generated by other storms, and account for the irregular surf where they meet the shore...

The spread use of virtual learning environments presents a great potential for the development of applications which meet educational area needs. In view of the importance of a more dynamic implementation and that it will be able to continuously adapt to the students needs, it was proposed and developed the U-SEA (System of Teaching Adapted Ubiquitous). A software built on the basis of virtual ...

Caspian Sea is the largest land locked water body in the world and has been characterized by significant relative sea-level changes since the Pliocene. The sea-level oscillations have strongly impacted the coastal areas depending on geomorphological setting. This study aims to investigate the impacts of sea level oscillations on low-lying coasts of the southeastern flank of the Caspian Sea...