There are at least eight different modes and mechanisms by which harmful phytoplankton species can cause mortality, physiological impairment, or other negative in situ effects. Their distinction from nonharmful phytoplankton taxa is clearly warranted. Increasing use of bloom descriptors such as “exceptional,” “unusual,” “nuisance,” and subjective reference to specific occurrences as blooms reve...

Understanding and Improving Bloom Filter Configuration for Lazy Address-Set Disambiguation Mark C. Jeffrey Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2011 Many parallelization systems detect memory access conflicts across concurrent threads by disambiguating address-sets using bit-vector-based Bloom filters, which are efficient, bu...

A Bloom filter is a simple randomized data structure that answers membership query with no false negative and a small false positive probability. It is an elegant data compression technique for membership information, and has broad applications. In this paper, we generalize the traditional Bloom filter to Adaptive Bloom Filter, which incorporates the information on the query frequencies and the...

This paper presents payload inspection for identification of spam files using bloom filter in dual core processor. Spam files flood the Internet in an attempt to dump the messages on recipients who do not intend to receive it. Spam costs the sender very little to send and most of the costs are levied to the recipients or the carriers. The proposed system identifies and filters the incoming spam...

We investigated the impact of viruses, nutrient loading, and microzooplankon grazing on phytoplankton communities in two New York estuaries that hosted blooms of the brown tide alga Aureococcus anophagefferens during 2000 and 2002. The absence of a bloom at one location during 2002 allowed for the fortuitous comparison of a bloom and non-bloom year at the same location as well as a comparison o...

Sampling of herbivorous stink bugs in southeastern U.S. cotton remains problematic. Remote sensing was explored to improve sampling of these pests and associated boll injury. Two adjacent 14.5-ha cotton fields were grid sampled in 2011 and 2012 by collecting stink bug adults and bolls every week during the third, fourth, and fifth weeks of bloom. Satellite remote sensing data were collected dur...

Although phytoplankton are the major source of marine dissolved organic matter (DOM), their blooms are a global problem that can greatly affect marine ecological systems, especially free-living bacteria, which are the primary DOM degraders. In this study, we analyzed free-living bacterial communities from Xiamen sea during an Akashiwo sanguine bloom using Illumina MiSeq sequencing of 16S rRNA g...

Bloom syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by genetic instability and cancer predisposition, and caused by mutations in the gene encoding the Bloom syndrome, RecQ helicase-like (BLM) protein. To determine whether altered gene expression might be responsible for pathological features of Bloom syndrome, we analyzed mRNA and microRNA (miRNA) expression in fibroblasts from ...

Interannual variability in the spring bloom in the Irminger Basin, northern North Atlantic, is investigated using SeaWiFS-derived chlorophyll-a (chl-a) concentration and satellite or model-derived meteorological data. Variability in the timing and magnitude of the spring bloom in the basin is evaluated. A method for estimating a time series of Sverdrup’s critical depth from satellite-derived da...