The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) explosion in the Gulf of Mexico led to the largest ever marine oil spill by volume. The GuLF STUDY is investigating possible adverse human health effects associated with oil spill activities. One objective of the study was to utilize biological specimens from study participants to examine spill-related adverse health effects. This study describes the methods for...

In this paper I present an approach to idioms in the HPSG framework. Building on earlier work by Copestake 1994, it employs phrasal types that specify the semantic relationship between the idiomatic words involved. Underspeciied Phrasal Semantics (UPS) does not require separate lexical entries for the words occurring in idioms, and treats a wide range of data more successfully than previous alt...

The objective of this paper is to propose a new autonomous model for the use of GPS devices that tightly coupled with GIS, to address the necessary framework and techniques needed to plan, design, and implement an assessment tool for solving problems associated with marine environment in Alexandria Bay. This work also aims at analyzing the data of the proposed system towards the elimination of ...

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacted the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) during the spring spawning season of Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT). Overlap between BFT spawning habitat and surface oil in the northern GOM was examined using satellite-derived estimates of oil coverage, and spawning habitat models. Results suggested that although eggs and larvae were likely impacted by oil-contamina...

One hundred twenty-five commercial fishers in Cordova, Alaska, completed a mailed survey regarding current mental health functioning 6 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Economic and social impacts of the oil spill and coping and psychological functioning (modified Coping Strategies Scales, Symptom Checklist 90-R) were measured. Multiple regression was used to test the utility of the Conse...

The accidental oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 has caused perceptible damage to marine and freshwater ecosystems. The large quantity of oil leaking at a constant rate and the long duration of the event caused an exponentially increasing mortality of vertebrates. Using data provided by NOAA and USFWS, we assessed the effects of this event on birds, sea turtles, and mammals. Mortality rat...

Introduction The Army Corps of Engineers began the Gas Abatement Study in order to address the problem of gas and its effects on the Snake and Columbia Rivers. One important question is how much gas reductions caused by structural changes at a few or several of the dams would benefit fish survival. A gas sensitivity analysis was done using CRiSP to see how sensitive this model is to changes in ...

In a typical integer application, 40% of all memory references are generated by the compiler to: save and restore register values at procedure boundaries, pass parameters, and handle register allocation failures. We remove these compiler memory references by augmenting a conventional architecture with a spill name space and separate spill, fill, and kill instructions to access this space. These...

There is substantial interest in providing slow-spill external proton beams in parallel with “interaction running” at the 20 TeV SSC collider. The proposal is to cause a flux of particles to impinge on a target consisting of a bent crystal extraction ‘channel.13 Additionally, a slow spill onto a conventional internal target could be used as a source of secondary beams for physics or test purpos...