Field observations of flow and sediment transport in a tributary channel through intertidal mudflats indicate that suspended sediment was closely linked to advection and dispersion of a tidal salinity front. During calm weather when tidal forcing was dominant, high concentrations of suspended sediment advected up the mudflat channel in the narrow region between salty water from San Francisco Ba...

Guiding organizations through transformational changes such as restructuring or adopting new technologies is a daunting task. Such changes generate workforce uncertainty, fear, and resistance, reducing morale, focus and performance. Conventional project management techniques fail to mitigate these disruptive effects, because social and individual changes are non-mechanistic, organic phenomena. ...

John N A Brown Interactive Systems (ISYS), Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Universitätsstraße 65-67 9020 Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria, and Centre Tecnològic de Recerca per a la Dependència i la Vida Autònoma (CETpD), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Rambla de l’Exposició, 59-69 08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia, Spain [email protected] Martin Hitz ISYS, AAU Universitätsstraße 65...

Most corals in tropical localities broadcast their gametes into the water column, yet we have a poor understanding of what forces reproductive schedules. Moreover, recent studies show considerable geographical variation in the duration of the coral spawning season. For example, on the Great Barrier Reef, corals display tight coupling, while corals in Kenya spawn over seven months. This study re...

There is an urgent need for rapid, low-cost multiplex methodologies for the monitoring of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Here, we report a C[combining low line]apillary A[combining low line]rray-based L[combining low line]oop-mediated isothermal amplification for M[combining low line]ultiplex visual detection of nucleic acids (CALM) platform for the simple and rapid monitoring of GMOs. ...

Road authorities considering the implementation of speed management interventions should have access to the results of scientifically robust evaluations on which to base their decisions. However, studies that evaluate a diverse range of interventions with comparable metrics are rare, with most focussing on one type, for example, types of signage, perceptual countermeasures or physical traffic c...

In a tractable model for cell invasion, the Caenorhabditis elegans anchor cell migrates through basement membranes towards a polarity cue provided by netrin. A new study reveals that the anchor cell polarity network can break symmetry and oscillate in the absence of netrin, suggesting the presence of interlinked positive and negative feedback loops, which are common in polarity pathways.