Citation: Wilson J, Abboud S and Beman JM (2017) Primary Production, Community Respiration, and Net Community Production along Oxygen and Nutrient Gradients: Environmental Controls and Biogeochemical Feedbacks within and across “Marine Lakes”. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:12. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00012 Primary Production, Community Respiration, and Net Community Production along Oxygen and Nutrient Gr...

The need to understand the eeects of anthropogenic perturbations on the ocean carbon cycle has sparked a new interest in biogeochemical models in recent years. These models are now being coupled with physical ocean circulation models. For this coupling to generate realistic uxes of nutrients and carbon, the biogeochemical equations need to exhibit realistic dynamics. As a rst step in the develo...

Adults primarily walk to reach a new location, but why do infants walk? Do infants, like adults, walk to travel to a distant goal? We observed 30 13-month-old and 30 19-month-old infants during natural walking in a laboratory playroom. We characterized the bout structure of walking-when infants start and stop walking-to examine why infants start and stop walking. Locomotor activity was composed...

Citation: Baker KG, Robinson CM, Radford DT, McInnes AS, Evenhuis C and Doblin MA (2016) Thermal Performance Curves of Functional Traits Aid Understanding of Thermally Induced Changes in Diatom-Mediated Biogeochemical Fluxes. Front. Mar. Sci. 3:44. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00044 Thermal Performance Curves of Functional Traits Aid Understanding of Thermally Induced Changes in Diatom-Mediated Biog...

Citation: Takasu H and Nagata T (2015) High Proline Content of Bacteria-Sized Particles in the Western North Pacific and Its Potential as a New Biogeochemical Indicator of Organic Matter Diagenesis. Front. Mar. Sci. 2:110. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2015.00110 High Proline Content of Bacteria-Sized Particles in the Western North Pacific and Its Potential as a New Biogeochemical Indicator of Organic Mat...

Citation: Paul SAL, Gaye B, Haeckel M, Kasten S and Koschinsky A (2018) Biogeochemical Regeneration of a Nodule Mining Disturbance Site: Trace Metals, DOC and Amino Acids in Deep-Sea Sediments and Pore Waters. Front. Mar. Sci. 5:117. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00117 Biogeochemical Regeneration of a Nodule Mining Disturbance Site: Trace Metals, DOC and Amino Acids in Deep-Sea Sediments and Pore Waters

How do animals in groups organize their work? Division of labour, i.e. the process by which individuals within a group choose which tasks to perform, has been extensively studied in social insects. Variability among individuals within a colony seems to underpin both the decision over which tasks to perform and the amount of effort to invest in a task. Studies have focused mainly on discrete tas...

We consider a team of k identical, oblivious, and semi-synchronous mobile robots that are able to sense (i.e., view) their environment, yet are unable to communicate, and evolve on a constrained path. Previous results in this weak scenario show that initial symmetry yields high lower bounds when problems are to be solved by deterministic robots. In this paper, we initiate research on probabilis...

Let D be a connected region inside a simple polygon, P . We define the angle hull of D, AH(D), to be the set of all points in P that can see two points of D at a right angle. We show that the perimeter of AH(D) cannot exceed in length the perimeter of D by more than a factor of 2. This upper bound is tight. Our result can be generalized to angles different from 90◦, and to settings where region...

We propose an abstract framework for Design Space Exploration (DSE) in the context of model-based embedded system development. The goal is to enable the integration of a set of concrete DSE methods addressing different system characteristics and design goals while still having a common understanding of design artifacts.