The nutrient environment experienced by planktonic microorganisms is patchy at spatiotemporal scales commensurate with their motility (μm – cm), and the efficiency with which chemotactic microbes can exploit this heterogeneous seascape influences trophodynamics and nutrient cycling rates in aquatic environments. Yet, methodological limitations have largely prevented direct examinations of micro...

Anthropogenic nutrients have been shown to provide significant sources of nitrogen (N) that have been linked to increased primary production and harmful algal blooms worldwide. There is a general perception that in upwelling regions, the flux of anthropogenic nutrient inputs is small relative to upwelling flux, and therefore anthropogenic inputs have relatively little effect on the productivity...

The girth is the length of shortest cycle in a graph. Recently, the problem for computing the girth of a graph have been studied well. Itai and Rodeh developed the first non trivial algorithm for computing girth in general graphs. Their algorithm runs in O (nm) time in the worst case and it runs in O(n) time on average case. For unweighted planer graphs, Djidjev gave a O ( n log n ) time algori...

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The purpose of this paper is to study sufficient and necessary conditions for finite-step iterative sequences withmean errors for a finite family of asymptotically quasi-nonexpansive and type mappings in Banach spaces to converge to a common fixed point. The results presented in this paper improve and extend the recent ones announced by GhostDebnath, Liu, Xu and Noor, Chang, Shahzad et al., Sha...

The six-minute walk test (6MWT) is a self-paced, submaximal exercise test used to assess functional exercise capacity in patients with chronic diseases (Chang 2006, Solway et al 2001). It has been used widely in adults, and is being utilised increasingly in paediatric populations; it has been used as an estimate of physical fitness in, for example, children with severe cardiopulmonary disease, ...

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Acinetobacter spp. are gram-negative aerobic coccobacilli that are ubiquitous in nature, persistent in the hospital environment, and cause a variety of opportunistic nosocomial infections (Bergogne-Berezin et al, 1996). They cause various types of human infections. Of the currently known 31 Acinetobacter species, Acinetobacter baumannii is the most prevalent in clinical specimens. A number of s...

Introduction: Methamphetamine (METH) consumption in adults is associated with structural changes in the brain, for instance with smaller limbic and hippocampal volumes that correlated with poorer word recall (Thompson et al. 2004). In addition, others have reported enlarged mesolimbic, striatal and cortical volumes in METH users (Chang et al 2005; Jernigan et al. 2005). However, whether brain v...

The InVEST hydrologic models were designed to represent the dominant processes of sediment/nutrient delivery and retention by land use/ land cover (LULC). Since they are not standard rainfall-runoff models, classical calibration and testing methods are not always applicable. Testing and calibration were particularly difficult in our study region due to: i) the absence of local data (e.g. in-str...