A new submarine volcano has been discovered offshore Mayotte, a part of the Comoros volcanic archipelago located between Africa and Madagascar. The edifice arose from sea-floor following seismo-volcanic crisis that started in May 2018. This activity highlights very deep magma reservoirs dykes East Mayotte system. Since crisis, region experienced >2000 earthquakes with magnitude ?3.5 continues t...

BACKGROUND Two proven nosocomial cases of Legionella pneumonia occurred at the Wesley Hospital (Brisbane, Australia) in May 2013. To trace the epidemiology of these cases, whole genome sequence analysis was performed on Legionella pneumophila isolates from the infected patients, prospective isolates collected from the hospital water distribution system (WDS), and retrospective patient isolates ...

In this paper, we explore various shallow techniques for salience-based pronoun resolution. We use simple noun chunking at the syntactic analysis stage and extract grammatical function information by pattern matching. Identifying subjects and objects is critical to salience calculations. We report that this important subject-object distinction can be made reliably with our shallow approach. We ...

The fundamental abstractions and mechanisms used to deliver communications within distributed systems have remained essentially unchanged for a considerable time. With very few exceptions, operating systems implement a simple, socket-based approach to communications in which the host’s involvement in a particular communication stream ends at the network interface. TCP/IP provides an environment...

Let Σ be a surface of negative Euler characteristic together with a pants decomposition P. Kra’s plumbing construction endows Σ with a projective structure as follows. Replace each pair of pants by a triply punctured sphere and glue, or ‘plumb’, adjacent pants by gluing punctured disk neighbourhoods of the punctures. The gluing across the i pants curve is defined by a complex parameter τi ∈ C. ...

Coordination of Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) systems among themselves and with the architectural, structural and other building systems is an important, challenging and time consuming task on the design phase of multistory buildings. Many researchers have already expressed a critical view on the most widely adopted coordination process, which makes use of transparent trade drawings...

The multiplication of opportunistic pathogens in drinking water supplies might pose a threat to public health. In this study, distributed unchlorinated drinking water from eight treatment plants in the Netherlands was sampled and analyzed for fungi, nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), and several opportunistic pathogens by using selective quantitative PCR methods. Fungi and NTM were detected in ...

Home production has dramatically changed during the course of the 20th century and labor saving technologies, from running water to modern appliances, have reduced the time demands of home production. This paper uses 1940 and 1950 US Census data to assess the impact of the increased diffusion of plumbing facilities and modern refrigeration (which presence nearly doubled during the decade) on fe...

Introduction: Io, the innermost of the Galilean satellites, is the most volcanically active body in our solar system. While its volcanic eruptions can be studied directly, our knowledge of the underlying magmatic processes rests wholly on indirect inferences. Here we combine constraints from magma ascent and crustal density models to gain insight into the plumbing system underlying the Promethe...