Much research on coral reefs has documented differential declines in coral and associated organisms. In order to contextualise this general degradation, research on community composition is necessary in the context of varied disturbance histories and the biological processes and physical features thought to retard or promote recovery. We conducted a spatial assessment of coral reef communities ...

The combination of kidney disease and pregnancy has long been recognized as a high-risk situation. When renal disease is recognized for the first time during pregnancy, it presents unique problems for both the obstetric and the renal teams. Particularly difficult can be distinguishing preeclampsia from preexisting kidney disease in women presenting for the first timewith hypertension, proteinur...

An octocoral survey conducted in the mesophotic coral ecosystem (MCE) of Eilat (Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea) yielded a new species of the speciose reef-dwelling genus Sinularia. It features encrusting colony morphology with a thin, funnel-shaped polypary. Sinularia mesophoticasp. n. (family Alcyoniidae) is described and compared to the other congeners with similar morphology. Both the morph...

This paper focuses on the details of study design, data elements and analytical methods necessary for oncology clinical trials when the primary endpoint involves symptom control rather than treatment outcome. We will present work carried out on previous North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) Cancer Control (CC) clinical trials which involved standard and novel results which were obtainabl...

Recently, evidence has accunmulated to indicate that the photoperiodic control -of floral induction is mediated by an endogenous rhythm with periods of approximately 24 hours (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22). It has long been known that the floral response of Biloxi soybean varies with the length of the photoperiod (4, 5, 6, 7, 18). The optimum response with 24-hour treatment cycles is o...

The Facebook News Feed prioritizes posts for display by ranking them more prominently in the News Feed, based on users’ past interactions with the system. This study investigated constraints imposed on social interactions by the algorithm, by triggering participants’ awareness of “missed posts” in their Friends’ Timelines that they did not remember seeing before. If the algorithm prioritizes po...

s related to the Thesis 1. Nagy Ágnes, Paulik Edit: Az életmód és az osteoporosis kapcsolata középés időskorú nők körében. Magyar Higiénikusok Társasága XXXVII. Vándorgyűlése, Siófok 2007. október 2-4. Program, összefoglalók 53. pp. 2. Maróti-Nagy Ágnes, Paulik Edit: Quality of life of postmenopausal women. 2nd International Conference on Gerontology 2008. szeptember 26-27. Arad, Románia. Abstr...

This paper addresses the general problem of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle navigation by exploiting the availability of terrain and geophysics-related data. Geophysical navigation algorithms are derived to estimate the position and velocity of an AUV in the presence of unknown ocean currents and sensor biases. The current implementation merges acoustic and magnetic measurements with dead-reckoni...

Value at risk is a convenient and popular risk measurement tool. It represents the maximum potential loss on a specific portfolio of financial assets given a specific time horizon and a confidence interval. Principally value at risk is used in finance for risk management, financial reporting and capital requirement. In direct real estate, the calculation of this risk measurement is still rare e...

Ischemic stroke 224 Predictors of poor outcome despite recanalization: a multiple regression analysis of the NASA registry I Linfante, A K Starosciak, G R Walker, G Dabus, A C Castonguay, R Gupta, C-H J Sun, C Martin, W E Holloway, N Mueller-Kronast, J D English, T W Malisch, F A Marden, H Bozorgchami, A Xavier, A T Rai, M T Froehler, A Badruddin, T N Nguyen, M A Taqi, M G Abraham, V Janardhan,...