Conditional sampling is used herein to examine the e€ect of fetch, stability, and surface roughness changes on wind speeds in the coastal zone. Using data from an o€shore wind farm it is shown that at a distance of 1.2±1.7 km from the coast, up to a height of 20 m above the surface, di€erences in wind speed distributions from onshore and o€shore masts are statistically signi®cant for ̄ow moving...

Several studies have demonstrated strong population structuring over small distances in the rocky-shore mbuna cichlid fishes from Lake Malawi, suggesting the potential for allopatric speciation. However, many endemic Lake Malawi cichlids are neither mbuna, nor confined to rocky shores. Using microsatellites, we investigated the population structure in three species of the non-mbuna genus Protom...

During the breeding season seabirds are constrained to coastal areas and are restricted in their movements, spending much of their time in near-shore waters either loafing or foraging. However, in using these areas they may be threatened by anthropogenic activities such as fishing, watersports and coastal developments including marine renewable energy installations. Although many studies descri...

Healthcare-Associated and Community-Associated C. difficile Infection in Children Jennifer Jimenez; Marci Drees, MD, MS, FACP; Beth Loveridge-Lenza, MD; Stephen Eppes, MD; Fernando Delrosario, MD; Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Newark, NJ; Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE; Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, NJ; Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilm...

Clostridium difficile Infection via Encapsulated Cryopreserved Concentrated Fecally Derived Bacteria: A Cohort Review Nimit Saraiya, MD; Kaitlin Poeth, MD; Bruce Hirsch, MD; Marcia Epstein, MD; Rebecca Schwartz, PhD; Gerard Honig, PhD; Infectious Diseases, Hofstra North Shore LIJ Health System, Manhasset, NY; Hofstra North Shore LIJ Health System, Manhasset, NY; Symbiotic Health, Inc., New York...

There is an increasing interest to restore the ecosystem services that eelgrass provides, after their continuous worldwide decline. Most attempts to restore eelgrass using seeds are challenged by very high seed losses and the reasons for these losses are not all clear. We assess the impact of predation on seed loss and eelgrass establishment, and explore methods to decrease seed loss during res...

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most common form of genetic variation. We previously demonstrated that SNPs (rs1800734, rs749072, and rs13098279) in the MLH1 gene region are associated with MLH1 promoter island methylation, loss of MLH1 protein expression, and microsatellite instability (MSI) in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. Recent studies have identified less CpG-dense "shor...

Food-web linkages between habitats across a landscape are known to be important in terrestrial systems. Linkages through the lower (nutrients) and higher (predators) trophic levels are also starting to be recognized across seascapes. Here, we test the potential importance of a subtidalintertidal trophic linkage through predation on mussel recruits by fish in mussel-dominated communities at 2 ti...

1Downstate Medical Center and Kings County Hospital Center, State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA 2Langone Medical Center, New York University, NY, USA 3Department of Cardiology, North Shore-LIJ Health System, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, NY 11554, USA 4Department of Public Health, Academic Medical Centre, University of Ams...