Sanitation Afloat

Ecological Sanitation

Calcifications afloat: bad omens in maxillary sinus augmentation.

To cite: Di Pasquale D, Saibene AM, Bebi V, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2013-201581 DESCRIPTION A 60-year-old patient was referred to our ear nose and throat (ENT) clinic for facial pain, bilateral midface swelling and purulent nasal discharge. The patient had undergone a bilateral maxillary sinus augmentation procedure 3 weeks before. ...

Keeping Afloat: A Strategy for Small Island Nations

Background: Orthology is one of the cornerstones of gene function prediction. Dividing the phylogenetic relations between genes into either orthologs or paralogs is however an oversimplification. Already in two-species gene-phylogenies, the complicated, non-transitive nature of phylogenetic relations results in inparalogs and outparalogs. For situations with more than two species we lack semant...

Staying afloat on Neurath's boat - Heuristics for sequential causal learning

Causal models are key to flexible and efficient exploitation of the environment. However, learning causal structure is hard, with massive spaces of possible models, hard-to-compute marginals and the need to integrate diverse evidence over many instances. We report on two experiments in which participants learnt about probabilistic causal systems involving three and four variables from sequences...

Service-Oriented Architecture Afloat: A Capabilities-Based Prioritization Scheme

To increase combat effectiveness by networking the warfighter and to easily modify and expand its existing network architecture, the United States Navy requires shipboard computer systems that are network-centric and service-based and that support open architectures. However, they are limited by the radio frequency bandwidth that is available for shipboard communications. As a result, some netw...