The water quality in Biscayne Bay has been significantly affected by past and continuing coastal and watershed development. The nutrient concentrations in the Bay have been dramatically changed by the conversion of natural creeks and sheet flow freshwater inputs to rapid and episodic canal inputs from the large and rapidly expanding Miami metropolitan area. This study is an evaluation of nutrie...

Symbioses between sponges and algae are abundant in the nutrient-poor waters of tropical reefs, yet very little is known of the nutritional interactions that may promote this abundance. We measured nitrogen flux between the sponge Haliclona cymiformis and its symbiotic partner, the rhodophyte Ceratodictyon spongiosum, and assessed the potential importance of this flux to the symbiosis. While th...

We studied dogs with unilateral papain-induced emphysema to answer two questions: (1) Do emphysema lung-apposed hemidiaphragm (DiE) and normal lung-apposed hemidiaphragm (DiN) have equal capacities for lowering lung surface pressure? and (2) Are side-to-side differences in intrathoracic pressure the result of unequal force outputs by DiE and DiN or are they caused by differences in their mechan...

An existence result for the solution set of a system of simultaneous generalized vector quasi-equilibrium problems (for short, (SSGVQEP)) is obtained, which improves Theorem 3.1 of the work of Ansari et al. (J. Optim. Theory Appl. 127:27-44, 2005). Moreover, a definition of Hadamard-type well-posedness for (SSGVQEP) is introduced and sufficient conditions for Hadamard well-posedness of (SSGVQEP...

Markus Allgaier, Vahid Ansari, Christof Eigner, Viktor Quiring, Raimund Ricken, John Matthew Donohue, Thomas Czerniuk, Marc Aßmann, Manfred Bayer, Benjamin Brecht, and Christine Silberhorn Integrated Quantum Optics, Applied Physics, University of Paderborn, 33098 Paderborn, Germany Experimentelle Physik II, Technische Universit€ at Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany Clarendon Laboratory, Depar...

Research on early speech production has often argued that children’s representations start out being holistic. They receive more phonological feature specifications in the course of development. In this talk, we will briefly review the arguments from early production for underspecified representations, and subsequently focus on two sets of perception studies, which both confirm the underspecifi...