An individual-based length back-calculation method was developed for juvenile Baltic sprat (Sprattus sprattus), accounting for ontogenetic changes in the relationship between fish length and otolith length. In sprat, metamorphosis from larvae to juveniles is characterized by the coincidence of low length growth, strong growth in body height, and maximal otolith growth. Consequently, the method ...

— In Section 1 we define and study Schubert unions on l-step flag varieties. This has previously been done in the Grassmann case, i.e., the l = 1 case, by Hansen, Johnsen and Ranestad [7]. In Section 2 we study the algebraic codes given by mapping l-step flag varieties into projective space. This subject has also been treated in the Grassmann case previously (see p. 52). Résumé (Unions de cellu...

Current stock assessments of western Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) use age-structured population analyses, but the age assignment in the population model is made using an age–length relationship derived from mark and recapture studies largely completed during the 1970s. In our study, the deposition of bomb radiocarbon was used as a dated mark to validate age inferences of bluefin tuna...

The present Note establishes the self-averaging, radiative transfer limit for the two-frequency Wigner distribution for classical waves in random media. Depending on the ratio of the wavelength to the correlation length the limiting equation is either a Boltzmann-like integral equation or a Fokker–Planck-like differential equation in the phase space. The limiting equation is used to estimate th...

Les graines de Lophira lanceolata sont utilisées au Bénin pour la production d’huile végétale, fabrication du savon et aussi l’alimentation. Cette étude vise à élucider l’influence provenance, stockage des traits morphologiques (longueur, diamètre, masse) L. sur leur germination, afin pouvoir mieux maîtriser reproduction par graine cette espèce. fruits matures ont été collectés dans les phytodi...

Motivated by the concept of partial words, we introduce an analogous concept of partial permutations. A partial permutation of length n with k holes is a sequence of symbols π = π1π2 · · ·πn in which each of the symbols from the set {1, 2, . . . , n− k} appears exactly once, while the remaining k symbols of π are “holes”. We introduce pattern-avoidance in partial permutations and prove that mos...

A rigidification phenomenon for certain thin slender parabolic shells, with curvature in the transversal direction to the main length was addressed in a previous work. The main results are generalized here to the case when the shape of the middle surface is no longer cylindrical, but incorporates a very small curvature in the longitudinal direction (it is “slightly hyperbolic”). The structure o...

Résumé L’hypothyroïdie de l’enfant é été peu étudiée au Sénégal. Le but de cette étude était d’évaluer les aspects épidémiologiques, diagnostiques et évolutifs de l’hypothyroïdie congénitale. Il s’agissait d’une étude rétrospective descriptive et analytique portant sur tous les enfants suivis pour hypothyroïdie congénitale au Centre Hospitalier National d’Enfants Albert Royer sur la période de ...

Compression systems of real signals (images, video, audio) generate sources of information with diierent levels of priority which are then encoded with variable length codes (VLC). This paper addresses the issue of robust transmission of such VLC encoded heterogeneous sources over error-prone channels. VLCs are very sensitive to channel noise: when some bits are altered, synchronization losses ...

The general circulation of the tropical stratosphere, mesosphere and lowermost thermosphere is discussed at a tutorial level. Observations of the quasi-biennial and semiannual oscillations by both in situ and satellite techniques are first reviewed. The basic dynamics controlling the zonal-mean component of the circulation are then discussed. The role of radiative diabatic cooling in constraini...