Abstract No.:1141265 In the decade following Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, considerable research and development has been accomplished to address known gaps respond offshore oil spills; however, opportunities enhance spill response capabilities remain. The Bureau of Safety Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is lead agency in U.S. regulating energy production on Outer Continental Shelf. BSEE's Oi...

Glucaric acid is a kind of organic acid and widely used in food, medicine and chemical industries. During the past decade, model microorganisms such as Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been engineered for production of glucaric acid. Especially, Pichia pastoris has also been engineered for production of glucaric acid with the highest reported value. In this commentary, recent ...

Highly optimized reasoning support for Description Logics (DLs) has been developed during the past years. This paper presents our efforts to develop a reasoner suitable for mobile devices, namely mobile phones. This might become important upon the convergence of the mobile industry and the web, especially the semantic web. Details of the implementation and current limitations provide explanatio...

In the past, many children born with complex congenital heart defects (CHDs) underwent palliative procedures to avoid the use of cardiopulmonary bypass, which typically is required for prolonged corrective procedures. The risk of mortality was prohibitive, especially in newborns; therefore, efforts were directed toward palliative procedures until the children grew big enough for a definitive re...

A life full of peace has always been a dream for human societies. Peace is still considered as one of the main modern world concerns, because each nation deals with its own kind of violence and war. Therefore, peacemaking has turned into one of the governments’ objectives. Peace has been affected by various factors in all over history. Media and communication technologies are two of the factors...

Islands are conventionally (and narrowly) referred to as isolated lands in surrounding waters. However, in broad senses and when loosely defined, ‘islands’ also include insular areas or entities such as mountain tops, lakes (e.g., potholes in northern Great Plains in North America), oasis (in deserts), and springs (especially in deserts) that support unique species assemblages relative to surro...

In recent years, those who conduct federally funded research in the United States have been asked by their patrons, the public and their elected representatives, to demonstrate more efficacy with respect to societal needs. Although there is a long record of efforts to improve connections of research with societal needs, a problem exists in that in recent decades the production of scientific kno...