Coastal eutrophication is thought to cause excessive growth of epiphytes in eelgrass beds, threatening the health and survival of these ecologically and economically valuable ecosystems worldwide. Mesograzers, small crustacean and gastropod grazers, have the potential to prevent seagrass loss by grazing preferentially and efficiently on epiphytes. We tested the impact of three mesograzers on ep...

Shooting a real world image with a camera through an optical device gives a 2-D image where at least some parts are affected by a blur and noise. Images can be blurred by atmospheric turbulence, relative motion between sensors and objects, longer exposures, and so on, but the exact cause of blurring may be unknown. Restoration of blurred noisy images (Spiros et al., 2009; 2010; Su et al., 2007)...

Tropical montane rain forest is widely considered to be a highly threatened hotspot of global diversity (Brummitt & Nic Lughadha 2003), and one of the least understood humid tropical forest ecosystems in terms of nutrient cycling (Bruijnzeel & Proctor 1995). There is, therefore,anurgentneedto improveourunderstandingof nutrient cyclingprocesses in this ecosystem, including the absorption of nutr...

Knowledge Tracing is an extremely popular method for student modeling because of its capability to infer a student’s dynamic knowledge state in real time as the student is observed solving a series of problems (Corbett & Anderson, 1995). After its introduction in 1995, many extensions to the original technique have been proposed to improve its predictive accuracy. Variants include: fitting mode...

We read with interest the article by Chang et al. (1), who were the first group to report a novel allelic association (rs290487) of the TCF7L2 gene with type 2 diabetes in the Han Chinese population (1). The link between the TCF7L2 gene and type 2 diabetes in Caucasians was first reported by deCODE genetics through the fine-mapping of a previously identified suggestive linkage region on chromos...

…………………………………………………………………………………………...vii Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………………...viii Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………...1 Task 1 report…………………………………………………………………………………….....3 Development and application of a transportable ambient aerosol concentrator and exposure facility suitable for human exposure to coarse, fine, and ultrafine particles Task 2 report……………………………………………………...

Scyphomedusae undergo a predictable ontogenetic transition from a conserved, universal larval form to a diverse array of adult morphologies. This transition entails a change in bell morphology from a highly discontinuous ephyral form, with deep clefts separating eight discrete lappets, to a continuous solid umbrella-like adult form. We used a combination of kinematic, modeling, and flow visuali...

470 Extracardiac endothelium patterns embryonic coronary arterio-venous connections JM. Perez-Pomares1; E. Cano2; R. Carmona1; A. Ruiz-Villalba3; A. Rojas4; Y-Y. Chau5; KD. Wagner6; N. Wagner6; ND. Hastie5; R. Munoz-Chapuli1 University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain; Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; Centro Andaluz de Biologı́a Molecul...