− The variability of the molar fraction of atmospheric CO2 (xCO2 ) and wind speed and direction were investigated in a coastal embayment located in the west European coast, ría de Vigo, NW Spain, along daily and seasonal time scales. Observations in the ría showed that xCO2 a on a short time scale presented a much wider variability than seawater molar fraction (xCO2 ), in addition, a significan...

We have developed models of sapling mortality for the eight dominant tree species of northwestern British Columbia in order to better understand forest community dynamics and succession in this important forest region. The species-specific models characterize an individual’s probability of mortality as a function of recent growth (a surrogate for whole-plant carbon balance). Interspecific compa...

The exact distribution of the ratio of any magnitude to the sum of all magnitudes in an annual flood series satisfying the usual distribution-free assumptions of independence and identical distribution, and the additional parametric assumption of exponential tail behaviour with truncation, is shown to be a beta distribution of the first kind. A two-parameter linear transformation of the beta di...

FrenchRésuméL’orientation patient est un concept qui s’est diffusé depuis quelques années déjà dans le monde hospitalier où, sous l’expression Patient-Centered Care (PCC), il participe à l’introduction de la logique marketing nouvel espace. Au-delà du dessein transformation patient-objet en patient-sujet, ce reste difficile cerner. L’examen littérature montre une diversité des approches a son é...

We present selected results from our ongoing investigation of high– mass star–forming regions which are based on infrared observations with ESO's ISAAC camera at the 8.2-m ANTU VLT telescope. Although these young stellar objects comprise a high degree of complexity, our data enable us to disentangle these crowded regions. By means of broad– and narrow–band imaging between 1–5 micron we performe...