The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest ever accidental release of oil into marine waters, affected hundreds of miles of US northern Gulf of Mexico coastline that is important habitat for migratory shorebirds. Shorebirds are particularly susceptible to oil contamination because of their subsurface probe-foraging behavior and reliance on intertidal habitat. More than one million migrat...

Figure 1: Benthic mat surfaces 24 Figure 2: Fatty acids in mats 25 Figure 3: Gas headspace from mat incubations 26 Figure 4: Hierarchical clustering of mat phylochip gradient fractions 27 Figure 5: Phylochip hydridization intensities from mat incubations 28 Figure 6: Recovered benthic mat plate 29 Figure 7: Isotope incorporation from mat incubations 30 Figure 8: Relative abundance of taxa occup...

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacted the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) during the spring spawning season of Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT). Overlap between BFT spawning habitat and surface oil in the northern GOM was examined using satellite-derived estimates of oil coverage, and spawning habitat models. Results suggested that although eggs and larvae were likely impacted by oil-contamina...

The accidental oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 has caused perceptible damage to marine and freshwater ecosystems. The large quantity of oil leaking at a constant rate and the long duration of the event caused an exponentially increasing mortality of vertebrates. Using data provided by NOAA and USFWS, we assessed the effects of this event on birds, sea turtles, and mammals. Mortality rat...

In a typical integer application, 40% of all memory references are generated by the compiler to: save and restore register values at procedure boundaries, pass parameters, and handle register allocation failures. We remove these compiler memory references by augmenting a conventional architecture with a spill name space and separate spill, fill, and kill instructions to access this space. These...

This article augments d’Aspremont and Jacquemin’s [1988. “Cooperative Noncooperative R&D in Duopoly with Spillovers.” American Economic Review 78: 1133–1137; 1990. Spillovers: Erratum.” 80: 641–642] cost-reducing duopoly by introducing network externalities product compatibility then considers the investment decision stage. For standard non-network industries, received literature has robustly s...

The main objective of this work is to develop comparative automatic detection procedures for oil spill pixels in multimode (Standard beam S2, Wide beam W1 and fine beam F1) RADARSAT-1 SAR satellite data that were acquired in the Malacca Straits using two algorithms namely, post supervised classification, and neural network (NN) for oil spill detection. The results show that NN is the best indic...

PURPOSE The oil spill from the Heibei Spirit in December 2007 contaminated the Yellow Coast of South Korea. We evaluated the respiratory effects of that spill on children who lived along the Yellow Coast. METHODS Of 662 children living in the area exposed to the oil spill, 436 (65.9%) were enrolled as subjects. All subjects completed a modified International Study of Asthma and Allergies in C...