Coral diseases have been documented in many areas of the Caribbean, but studies in the eastern Caribbean region have been lacking. The prevalence, distribution patterns and contribution to the mortality of coral tissue by black band disease (BBD), white plague (WP) and dark spots disease (DSD) were examined at five reef sites along the west coast of Dominica. 185 of the 325 diseased colonies re...

In this paper we introduce the class of Wp scale mixture random vectors with a particular radial decomposition and a independent splitting property specified by some random variable Wp, p ∈ (0,∞). We derive several conditional limit results assuming that the distribution of the random radius is in the max-domain of attraction of a univariate extreme value distribution andWp has a certain tail a...

Several industrial experiments are set up using second-order splitplot designs (SPDs). These experiments have two types of factors: whole-plot (WP) factors and sub-plot (SP) factors. WP factors, also called hard-to-change factors are factors whose levels are hard or expensive to change. SP factors, also called easy-to-change factors are factors whose levels are easy or less expensive to change....

Mild depression and anxiety were investigated in relation to measures of within-person (WP) variability and mean reaction time from psychomotor, executive function, visual search, and word recognition tasks in a continuous age range (18-85 years, M=50.33, SD=20.37) of 300 community-dwelling adults. Structural equation modeling identified a significant Age x Depression interaction in relation to...

Appropriate benchmarks for water productivity (WP), defined here as the amount of grain yield produced per unit of water supply, are needed to help identify and diagnose inefficiencies in crop production and water management in irrigated systems. Such analysis is lacking for maize in the Western U.S. Corn Belt where irrigated production represents 58% of total maize output. The objective of thi...

This paper describes a mix word-pair mix-WP) identifier to resolve homonym/segmentation ambiguities as well as perform STW conversion effectively for Chinese input. The mix-WP identifier includes a specific word-pair (SWP) identifier and a common wordpair (CWP) identifier. It is designed as a supporting processing with Chinese input systems. Our experiments show that by applying the mix-WP iden...