The recent dry phase experienced by the St Lucia estuarine system has led to unprecedented desiccation and hypersaline conditions through most of its surface area. This has changed only recently, at the end of 2011, with the onset of a new wet phase that has already caused a major shift to oligo- and mesohaline conditions. The estuary mouth, however, remains closed to the ocean, making the weak...

We give a decision-theoretic analysis of a central issue regarding statistical evidence in court: are there circumstances under which it is reasonable to ignore the part of the data that gave rise to suspicion in the first place? We heuristically show that under a minimax/robust Bayesian analysis, this part of the data should in fact be treated differently from any additional data one might hav...

1Dulbecco Telethon Institute (DTI), IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia and European Brain Research Institute, 00143 Rome, Italy 2National Research Council, Institute of Translational Pharmacology, via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy 3 Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer (IMPPC), 08916 Badalona, Spain 4 Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA 920...

Bevan Emma Huang,* Antonio Reverter, Ian Purvis, and Scott Chapman, *Digital Productivity, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Dutton Park QLD 4102, Australia, †Agriculture, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, St Lucia QLD 4067, Australia, and ‡Agriculture, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Armidale NSW 2350...

J. G. Webb, T. C. Ralph, and E. H. Huntington Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University College, The University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2600, Australia Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, Department of Physics, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia Received 1...

Lucia Romano, Nicholas G. Rudawski, Monta R. Holzworth, Kevin S. Jones, S. G. Choi, and S. T. Picraux Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania and MATIS CNR-INFM, 64 Via S. Sofia, I95123 Catania, Italy Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, L...