In recent years health risks associated with the non-compliance of bathing 12 water quality have received increasing worldwide attention. However, it is 13 particularly challenging to establish the source of any non-compliance, due to the 14 complex nature of the source of faecal indicator organisms, and the fate and delivery 15 processes and scarcity of field measured data in many catchments a...

Water quality was assessed at two marine beaches in California (USA) by measuring culturable fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) concentrations, library-independent microbial source tracking (MST) methods targeting human-associated microbes (human polyomaviruses PCR and qPCR, Methanobrevibacter smithii PCR, Bacteroides HF183 PCR) and a human pathogen (adenovirus by nested PCR). FIB levels periodical...

Point cloud data are important sources for 3D geo-information. An inventory of the point cloud data management user requirements has been compiled using structured interviews with users from different background: government, industry and academia. Based on these requirements a benchmark has been developed to compare various point cloud data management solutions with regard to functionality and ...

The generalized second-pri ce (G SP) mech anism is th e mo st wid ely-used au ction format in sponsored search markets . However , figuring ou t how to bi d on GSP auctions presents major theoretical and computational challenges due to the complex nature of the auction format and the infinite nu mber o f equ ilibria. Ou r stud y cha racterizes vario us eq uilibrium bidding behaviors in GSP auct...

When a current flows in a conductor, the electron wind can cause atoms to diffuse. This paper considers the consequences of such diffusion along dislocation cores. A dislocation climbing in a crystal is viewed as a non-equilibrium thermodynamic system to define the force that drives self-diffusion along the core. Not only is a dislocation a mass-transport pipe, it also climbs and generates more...

Gc is the major carrier protein of vitamin D and its metabolites in the circulation and is important for preservation of the vitamin (4)(5). Gc also transports components such as fatty acids and endotoxin (6)(7), and it is an important player in the actin scavenging system (8)(9). Gc binds actin released from cells upon injury, and the Gc-actin complexes are rapidly cleared from the circulation...

Purpose of this paper is defining a framework for the “Warfighter-Centered Design” (WCD) of new concepts for naval combat systems. This framework explicitly takes into account the business value of WCD with respect to safety, optimal manning and reduced lifecycle costs. WCD improves safety because lack-of usability can lead to serious consequences; the analysis of the accident of USS Vincennes ...

When choosing which environmental attributes to monitor in assessing disturbance, it is important to consider not onlywhichmetric will provide themost sensitive indicator of disturbance, but also the spatial considerations of where in the landscape thatmetric will bemost responsive to change.Degradation in landscapes is often unevenly expressed because: (i) disturbance is spatially localised, (...

The aim of the present study is to seek association, if any, between preobesity (overweight) and obesity with ABO and RH(D) blood groups. For this, blood samples were collected from a total of 425 unrelated subjects belonging to two main endogamous caste populations viz., the Jat Sikh and Bania inhabiting the north-west border Indian state of Punjab. BMI was used as a proxy indicator for screen...

The family of power semicircle distributions defined as normalized real powers of the semicircle density is considered. The marginals of uniform distributions on spheres in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces are included in this family and a boundary case is the classical Gaussian distribution. A review of some results including a genesis and the so-called Poincaré’s theorem is presented. The mo...