After a pelagic larval phase, settlement-stage coral reef fish must locate a suitable reef habitat for juvenile life. Reef noise, produced by resident fish and invertebrates, provides an important cue for orientation and habitat selection during this process, which must often occur in environments impacted by anthropogenic noise. We adapted an established field-based protocol to test whether re...

A survey of recreational boat-based and shore-based fishing in the Swan-Canning Estuary Basin was conducted between August 1998 and July 1999. During the survey 1,302 interviews were conducted at boat ramps. The majority of these (62%) were not involved in fishing or crabbing activities, with a further 18 per cent fishing in the adjacent ocean. Of the remainder, 139 boats had been crabbing and ...

Linguists have suggested that one mechanism for the creative extension of meaning in language involves mapping, or constructing correspondences between conceptual domains. For example, the sentence, "The clever boys used a cardboard box as a boat," sets up a novel mapping between the concepts cardboard box and boat, while "His main method of transportation is a boat," relies on a more conventio...

Following a novel approach, where the emphasis is on configuration spaces and equivariant topology, we prove several results addressing envy-free division problem in presence of an unpredictable (secretive, non-cooperative) player, called dragon. There are two basic scenarios. (1) $$r-1$$ players Once “cake” divided into r parts, dragon makes his choice grabs one pieces. After that, should be a...

The main objective of this paper is improving the BOAT classification algorithm and applying it in credit card big data analysis. Decision tree algorithm is a data analysis method for the classification which can be used to describe the extract important data class models or predict future data trends. The BOAT algorithm can reduce the data during reading and writing the operations, the improve...

In many industries, such as leisure boat production, product design and process engineering are often based on diffuse criteria and a lack of data about the actual use of the products. If design and process development are not based on facts, there is a great risk of setting the wrong quality criteria and performance requirements. In the leisure boat industry the lack of data from how customers...

The C. elegans postembryonic lineage, the M lineage, gives rise to mesodermal cell types: body wall muscles, sex muscles and coelomocytes. Past research in the Liu lab has shown that SMA-9, the C. elegans homolog of Drosophila Schnurri, is required for establishing dorsoventral asymmetry in the M lineage, and that it does so by antagonizing the Sma/Mab TGF-β signaling pathway. To identify addit...

One of the main objectives of the Forest DRAGON 2 project is the evaluation of the Forest DRAGON 1 large area forest growing stock volume (GSV) maps generated for Northeast and Southeast China, based on ERS-1/2 tandem coherence data from the mid 1990s. A special cross-comparison design mainly based on freely available Earth Observation products has been developed in consequence of lack of exten...

The new DRAGON (Detector of Recoils And Gammas Of Nuclear reactions) facility, located at the TRIUMFISAC radioactive beams laboratory in Vancouver, Canada, has initiated its experimental program. Recently DRAGON was used for initial studies of the Na(p,c)Mg reaction. This facility was designed to measure absolutely the rates of radiative proton and alpha capture reactions of astrophysical inter...