[1] Annually integrated measurements of pCO2 have demonstrated that seasonally stratified regions of temperate shelf seas can be an important sink of atmospheric CO2. A key process to support this sink is the transport of carbon from shelf seas to below the permanent pycnocline of the deep ocean. Using a hydrodynamic model simulation of the northwest European Continental shelf, we find that bot...

Influence of storage temperature on the shelf life of the pasteurized milk and the enzymatic activity of psychrotrophic bacteria in whole and skimmed pasteurized milk were the main goals of the presented work. It was demonstrated that the storage temperature of 10C reduces the shelf life of pasteurized milk to one third in comparison with a storage at 4 C. The average shelf life of the full cre...

The collapses of the Larsen A and B ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1995 and 2002 confirm the impact of southward-propagating climate warming in this region. Recent mass and dynamic changes of Larsen B's southern neighbour Larsen C, the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica, may herald a similar instability. Here, using a validated ice-shelf model run in diagnostic mode, constrained ...

Throughout history, the meat industry has utilized nonmeat ingredients to extend or aid in the shelf-life of products. The classic use of salt and/or nitrites to control and limit microbiological growth and to provide flavor stability during storage has provided needed “insurance” for meat product shelf-life. Currently, consumers’ concern for food safety continues to make methods of extending m...

Managing limited display areas is an increasingly challenging task in the grocery retail industry, especially given the current high levels of product proliferation. The decision of how to best allocate and manage shelf space is critical to grocery retail profitability. Moreover, this decision is escalated for initial shelf space considerations at new grocery stores. Without loss to generality,...

In this paper, we propose a two-dimensional shelf space allocation model. The second dimension stems from the height of the shelf. This results in an integer nonlinear programming model with a complex form of objective function. We propose a multiple neighborhood approach which is a hybridization of a simulated annealing algorithm with a hyper-heuristic learning mechanism. Experiments based on ...

In November 2009, an autonomous underwater glider (AUG) was deployed for a period of 12 days on the Wisconsin Shelf of Lake Superior. During this period, the AUG made repeated cross-shelf transects from 3 km to 13 km offshore, making 26 cross-shelf transects in all, during which time temperature was measured. Each of these transects displayed a mid-shelf temperature maximum roughly 8 km offshor...

The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is one of the most extensively studied coral reef systems in the world, yet to date, there has been no comprehensive multi-spatial scale evaluation of its benthic community structure. Such descriptions provide a useful reference point for evaluating future community changes. Moreover, large-scale associations between macroalgae and herbivory on the GBR are yet to be...

Utility mining has recently been an emerging topic in the field of data mining. It finds out high utility itemsets by considering both the profits and quantities of items in transactions. It may have a bias if items are not always on shelf. In this paper, we thus design a new kind of patterns, named high on-shelf utility itemsets, which considers not only individual profit and quantity of each ...

The Western Arctic Shelf–Basin Interactions (SBI) project is a 10-year Arctic environmental change program. A major field campaign occurred in the spring, summer and fall seasons between 2002 and 2004. The SBI program was developed to investigate the production, transformation and fate of carbon on shelf and slope regions of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas and shelf–basin interactions with the Ar...