Freshwater-dominated estuaries experience large fluctuations in their physical and chemical environments which may influence larval dispersal, settlement, connectivity of populations with pelagic stages. We used settlement patterns natural tagging along numerical hydrodynamic model results to assess among oysters across the freshwater-dominated Mobile Bay-eastern Mississippi Sound (MB-EMS) syst...

The performance of various spatialization techniques is evaluated for a distributed audience using the nonideal speaker arrangements found in small concert halls. The methods under evaluation are Second Order Ambisonics, Vector Base Amplitude Panning, Delta Stereophony and Spat with B-format Ambisonics encoding. Each method is assessed in terms of its localization accuracy. The data is presente...

We investigate the modifications of the static BTZ black hole solution due to a chosen asymptotically constant dilaton/scalar. New classes of static black hole solutions are obtained. Using quasilocal formalism, we calculate their mass for a finite spat ial region that contains the black hole. Their temperatures are also computed. Finally, using some of the curvature singularities as examples, ...

*N. Tavernier and A. Noatynska contributed equally to this paper. Correspondence to Monica Gotta: [email protected]; or Lionel Pintard: [email protected] Abbreviations used in this paper: C.e., C. elegans; DIC, differential interference contrast; dsRNA, double-stranded RNA; H.s., Homo sapiens; LC, liquid chromatography; MBP, Maltose-binding protein; MS, mass spectrome...

Ongoing efforts to restore eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) populations in regions of low natural recruitment rely on stocking juveniles (spat shell) rebuild populations. Often, remote setting is used, entailing releasing hatchery-produced larvae into recirculating tanks filled with shells. Other restoration methods that C. virginica directly onto the shell situ, called “direct setting,” ...

We consider multi-antenna systems employing space-time coding over quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels. We prove that by selecting a subset of the antennas t h a t observe the largest instantaneous signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) at the receiver one can achieve the same diversity order as the full complexity system, provided that the sub-channels are independent and the underlying space-time co...