Poison was used at remote anchorages of southern Stewart Island in spring and summer of 1984/85 to reduce the likelihood of ship rats (Rattus rattus), Norway rats (R. norvegicus) and kiore (R. exulans) boarding fishing boats heading for the Snares Islands. Poison baits were removed at successively slower rates, probably because poisoning had reduced rat numbers. The effectiveness of poisoning w...

The inositol phosphatases phosphatase and tensin homologue (PTEN) and Src homology 2 domain-containing inositol phosphatase (SHIP) negatively regulate phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K)-mediated growth, survival, and proliferation of hematopoietic cells. Although deletion of PTEN in mouse T cells results in lethal T cell lymphomas, we find that animals lacking PTEN or SHIP in B cells show no ...

Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate (ASPeCt) ship-based ice observations, conducted during the Sea Ice Mass Balance in the Antarctic (SIMBA) and Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem eXperiment (SIPEX) International Polar Year (IPY) cruises (September–October 2007), are used to validate remote-sensing measurements of ice extent and concentration. Observations include varied sea-ice types at and ins...

During ship block construction, watertight bulkheads weld of every cabin ships need to undergo stress testing according the tanks’ test plan. Every incomplete bulkhead cannot be sprayed in order protect them after sandblasting; this seriously affects process construction. Therefore, issue study is maintain integrity painting quality and reduce destruction paint, ship-building personnel seek how...

We study the network dismantling problem, which consists of determining a minimal set of vertices in which removal leaves the network broken into connected components of subextensive size. For a large class of random graphs, this problem is tightly connected to the decycling problem (the removal of vertices, leaving the graph acyclic). Exploiting this connection and recent works on epidemic spr...

NOMENCLATURE Subscripts d Dismantling procedure/unit s Storage site r Treatment unit m Market for cullet i Any procedure/unit Design variables Quantity of ELV transferred to dismantling unit d Quantity of ELV of no glazing dismantling Quantity of glazing transformed from dismantling unit d to storage site s Quantity of glazing exposed to landfill Total quantity of glazing exposed to landfill Qu...