This study addresses the impact of satellite altimetry data processing on sea level studies at regional scale, with emphasis on the influence of various geophysical corrections and satellite orbit on the structure of the derived interannual signal and sea level trend. The work focuses on the analysis of TOPEX data for a period of over twelve years, for three regions in the North Atlantic: Tropi...

Foraminiferal assemblages have been collected from ten intertidal study areas situated on the east, south and west coasts of the UK. The assemblages display a vertical zonation which indicates that the distribution of foraminifera in these intertidal environments is usually the direct function of altitude with the duration and frequency of intertidal exposure the most important factors. Multiva...

Microwave radiometers form an integral part of satellite altimetry. The long-term stability of the radiometer measurements is as important to the accurate determination of sea level rise as is the long-term stability of the altimeter instrument. However, the radiometer stability has been largely taken for granted. Detailed long-term study of the brightness temperatures of ERS-1, ERS-2, TOPEX/Po...

This paper explores how companies and other stakeholders could assess the macro-level enabling potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), in other words, the ability of ICT to reduce the negative sustainability impact of other industry sectors at a society level, and identifies some important considerations for such assessments including impact trends, addressable emissions,...

In the setting of genome-wide association studies, we propose a method for assigning a measure of significance to pre-defined sets of markers in the genome. The sets can be genes, conserved regions, or groups of genes such as pathways. Using the proposed methods and algorithms, evidence for association between a particular functional unit and a disease status can be obtained not just by the pre...

Multi-agent systems, like other software systems, have a set of abstract resource requirements for proper execution. These requirements, often known as Quality Of Service (QoS), change dynamically and can come into conflict with the availability of physical resources. The ability to adapt QoS requirements to changes in the environment is a key survivability feature in distributed multi-agent sy...

Dozens of proteins are known to convert to the aggregated amyloid state. These include fibrils associated with systemic and neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, functional amyloid fibrils in microorganisms and animals, and many denatured proteins. Amyloid fibrils can be much more stable than other protein assemblies. In contrast to globular proteins, a single protein sequence can aggregate in...

Attention to food quality and safety will never decrease. Thus, studies of food microbiology and food-associated microbial ecology are always timely and scientifically relevant. The ‘cultural’ evolution in food microbiology has shifted the focus from the traditional cultivation of food microbes to the consideration of food as a microbiologically dynamic matrix (Cocolin and Ercolini, 2015). Food...

Studies of the coronary circulation have divided vascular resistances into three large components: large vessels, small resistance vessels, and veins. Studies of the epicardial microcirculation in the beating heart using stroboscopic illumination have suggested that resistance is more precisely controlled in different segments of the circulation. Measurements of coronary pressure in different s...