The bipartite life history of most marine organisms leads to complex patterns of replenishment in benthic populations. High variation in adult spawning, dynamic oceanographic currents, and often unknown larval behaviors create challenges in accurately predicting spatial and temporal patterns in the supply and settlement of pelagic larvae to nearshore juvenile habitats. Yet, understanding and pr...

Identifying the environmental factors driving larval settlement processes is crucial to understand the population dynamics of marine invertebrates. This work aims to go a step ahead and predict larval presence and intensity. For this purpose we consider the influence of solar irradiance, wind regime and continental runoff on the settlement processes. For the first time, we conducted a 5-years w...

An objective method was developed to analyze longwave and shortwave trough lines in wind field data using different methods, given that these trough lines were researched in different ways. Longwave trough lines were analyzed by locating the cyclonic center and filtering candidate trough points simultaneously; the candidate longwave trough points were then traced based on distance and angle con...

vancomycin susceptibility of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus has been changed over time and its average minimum inhibitory concentration increased from 1.5 to 1.75 mg/l. a recently published guideline by the american society of health pharmacist recommended a daily dose of 15-20 mg/kg every 8 to 12 hours of vancomycin to achieve a trough concentration between 15-20 mg/l for treatmen...

Abst rac t Balanus subalbidus (Henry) has the most oligohaline distribution of three congeneric barnacles in Chesapeake Bay and tolerates prolonged exposure to fresh water. We studied larval settlement (i.e., permanent attachment and metamorphosis) of B. subalbidus in the laboratory, over a 3 yr period, May 1989 to March 1992, under the following conditions: (1) across an array of salinities at...

As the economy develops rapidly, newly built tunnels in congested urban areas are becoming more and common. Based on similarity theory, this study conducted a laboratory model test to investigate soil–structure responses induced by construction of new tunnel limited space which was formed existing underground infrastructures. The soil movement, convergence distribution stress were explored. res...

An apparatus for continuous registration of the electric field within an electrophoretic column was developed. It comprises a rectangular separation trough with an ordered array of 256 electrodes over a length of 10 em and perpendicular to the current flow. Electrodes are photoetched on a supporting glass plate from a vapor deposited thin layer of Sno 2 semiconductor (width: 6011m, height: O.ll...

The purpose of this research was to study the occurrence of gingival overgrowth (GO) in children after kidney transplantation and to investigate the relationship of GO to medical and dental parameters. Forty-nine kidney transplant patients taking the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporine A (CsA) were evaluated for plaque (PI), calculus (CI), gingival inflammation (GI), probing depth (PD), width o...

Introduction: Valles Marineris is the most prominent tectonic feature on Mars, consisting of troughs up to 2000 km in length, 200 km in width, and 10 km in depth. A scenario for trough formation is here proposed that is consistent with the geological and geophysical evidence, and predicts a priori the observed trough depths. The proposed mechanism entails a combination of Tharsis loading over t...