Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) inhabits the entire North Pacific region and supports the third largest fishery after walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) and Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). Although walleye pollock is often processed into various food products, Pacific and Atlantic cod are often preserved using salt for transport and consumption worldwide. Salt suppresses bacterial growth an...

The eastern Bering Sea shelf supports a large biomass of several groundfish populations, particularly walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma). The main trophic interactions between dominant groundfish populations in this region involve walleye pollock as prey. A multispecies virtual population analysis model (MSVPA) covering the period 1979–1995 has been parameterized for the eastern Bering Sea...

Perceptual transparency was measured in two experiments by using simulations of illuminated surfaces presented on a CRT monitor. In a two-alternative forced-choice paradigm, observers viewed two simulated Mondrians in temporal sequence. In one sequence the Mondrian was simulated to be partially covered by a transparent filter; in the other sequence the filter color over each Mondrian patch was ...

Many real-world regression problems demand a measure of the uncertainty associated with each prediction. Standard decision forests deliver efficient state-of-the-art predictive performance, but high-quality uncertainty estimates are lacking. Gaussian processes (GPs) deliver uncertainty estimates, but scaling GPs to large-scale data sets comes at the cost of approximating the uncertainty estimat...

We establish the consistency of an algorithm of Mondrian Forest [LRT14, LRT16], a randomized classification algorithm that can be implemented online. First, we amend the original Mondrian Forest algorithm proposed in [LRT14], that considers a fixed lifetime parameter. Indeed, the fact that this parameter is fixed actually hinders statistical consistency of the original procedure. Our modified M...

Spatial alarms are fundamental capability for location based advertisements and location based reminders. One of the most challenging problems in scaling spatial alarm processing is to compute alarm free regions (AFR) such that mobile objects traveling within an AFR can safely hibernate the alarm evaluation process until approaching the nearest alarm of interest. In this paper we argue that mai...

John Penders, Carel Thijs, Piet A van den Brandt, Ischa Kummeling, Bianca Snijders, Foekje Stelma, Hanne Adams, Ronald van Ree, Ellen E Stobberingh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Fresh pollock skin was hydrolyzed for 10 min (PPH10), 30 min (PPH30) and 45 min (PPH45), and the chemical and functional properties of pollock skin protein hydrolysates were evaluated. PPH45 (79.6%) had significantly higher nitrogen solubility values than PPH30 (72.6%) and PPH10 (64.8%). Emulsifying stability values for PPH10 and PPH30 were significantly higher (P < 0.05) than PPH45. Fat adsorp...

This year marks the 80 anniversary of the founding of the Baker Heart Research Institute at the Alfred Hospital campus in Prahran, Melbourne. The Baker Institute, named after its benefactors Thomas and Alice Baker, originally focused on providing medical pathology services to the Alfred Hospital and in 1938 commenced its focus on physiology and experimental medicine. In 1975, with the appointme...