Last decade is characterised by the convergence of pervasive technologies including wireless communication, smart devices and the Internet. The resulting Internet of the things enables not-only users but also things to access resource anywhere, anytime. In practice, data is ubiquitously flowed relying on global wireless connectivity (e.g., 3G) or on ad hoc-based local area networking, as enable...

The spring bloom on the Scotian Shelf is examined using a mooring array deployed from 18 March 2002 to 18 April 2002 to provide physical, chemical, and biological measurements with high temporal and vertical resolution. These measurements are complemented by the Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program (AZMP) biweekly occupations of a station near the mooring site (HL2). Results from AZMP sampling and ...

Bloom Filters (BF) [1] are space-e cient datastructures that allow membership queries from a set. In most recent years they have gained great momentum and various tweaks to them have been proposed to achieve speci c goals. Dynamic Bloom Filters (DBF) have been proposed [2] as a method to implement Bloom Filters in a scalable environment, i.e. where the nal size of a dataset is not known in adva...

Extracellular enzyme activities and the kinetics of glucose and leucine uptake were measured to study the role of different substrate pools for bacterioplankton in a shallow eutrophic lake. The study took place during the period of cyanobacterial bloom in late summer and its collapse in the autumn. Leucine aminopeptidase activity (LAP), b-glucosidase activity (b-Gluc), H-leucine incorporation (...

BACKGROUND Bloom syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by extraordinary cancer incidence early in life and an average life expectancy of ~27 years. Premature stop codons in BLM, which encodes a DNA helicase that functions in DNA double-strand-break repair, make up the vast majority of Bloom syndrome mutations, with only 13 single amino acid changes identified in the syndrome...

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are truly global marine phenomena of increasing significance. Some HAB occurrences are different to observe because of their high spatial and temporal variability and their advection, once formed, by surface currents. A serious HAB occurred in the Bohai Sea during autumn 1998, causing the largest fisheries economic loss. The present study analyzes the formation, dist...

Daily productivity determinations of linear photosynthetic electron transfer and of net and gross inorganic CO2 uptake were determined in situ throughout a 6-week sampling period of the spring phytoplankton bloom in Esthwaite Water in the English Lake District. Photosynthetic electron transfer rates, expressed as gross O2 evolution, were determined from fast repetition rate (FRR) fluorometry an...

Through the use of mesocosm experiments, we show that an unusually early spring phytoplankton bloom can be induced by intermittent high-light periods. We performed mesocosm experiments where plankton assemblages from Kiel Bight (Western Baltic Sea) received a light regime based on the natural seasonal irradiance dimmed to 43% of surface irradiance of cloudless days, starting with irradiance lev...

The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o The long-standing explanation of the triggering cause of the surface increase of phytoplankton visible in spring satellite images argues that phytoplankton biomass accumulation begins once the mixed layer depths become shallower than a 'cri...