Shipping activity and offshore operations in Arctic areas are increasing as a result of more effective transportation routes and oil/gas exploration. Vessels navigating in ice covered areas are exposed to additional loads from different ice conditions. In this paper the dynamic loads on propellers are investigated to better understand the impact on propeller, power transmission elements and eng...

The simulated impact of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) on the low frequency variability of the Arctic Surface Air temperature (SAT) and sea-ice extent is studied with a 1000 year-long segment of a control simulation of GFDL CM2.1 climate model. The simulated AMOC variations in the control simulation are found to be significantly anti-correlated with the Arctic sea-ice ex...

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 36 / Issue 08 / August 2015, pp 978 980 DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.99, Published online: 27 April 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0899823X15000999 How to cite this article: Michael B. Edmond, Nadia Masroor, Michael P. Stevens, Janis Ober and Gonzalo Bearman (2015). The Impact of Discontinuing Contact Precautions fo...

Mark Hall and John Purcell IRRU recently completed a major research project investigating organisational responses to the Information and Consultation of Employees (ICE) Regulations. Here we highlight the main findings. The focus is on the factors underlying the different approaches to information and consultation identified among the participating organisations, in particular the central role ...

Surface roughness of atmospheric ice particles is an important yet poorly investigated microphysical property in the context of the climate impact of cirrus and mixedphase clouds. Measurements of single particle two-dimensional light scattering patterns have been shown to be a promising method to identify particle roughness in natural clouds. This method was applied in a laboratory study on the...

The inactivation of Listeria innocua BGA 3532 at subzero temperatures and pressures up to 400 MPa in buffer solution was studied to examine the impact of high-pressure treatments on bacteria in frozen matrices. The state of aggregation of water was taken into account. The inactivation was progressing rapidly during pressure holding under liquid conditions, whereas in the ice phases, extended pr...

Despite the Amery Ice Shelf (AIS) being the third largest ice shelf in Antarctica, the seasonal variability of the physical processes involved in the AIS-ocean interaction remains undocumented and a robust observational, oceanographic-based basal melt rate estimate has been lacking. Here we use year-long time series of water column temperature, salinity, and horizontal velocities measured along...