It has been hypothesized that the planktonic community of the North Pacific subtropical gyre (NPSG) underwent a ‘‘domain shift’’ in the early 1980s in which phytoplankton of the domain Eukarya were supplanted by phytoplankton of the domain Bacteria, primarily Prochlorococcus. P limitation of eukaryotic phytoplankton was implicated as the causative chemical factor in the domain shift, and we sou...

Recent advances in computing and neuroscience have made realistic the idea of a machine controlled directly from brain signals. Such devices are known as a brain computer interface (BCI).15 Advances in sensory prosthetics show promise (e.g., cochlear implant or visual cortex stimulation) allowing for restorative options. Essentially, a BCI is a machine that can decode human intent from brain si...

ABSTRACT Islamic banking is undoubtedly faced with several potential financing risks, the three largest contracts (Mudharaba, Musharaka, and Murabaha) that reduce financial performance of banks. The risk strengthened if stability national economic growth contracted. Therefore, this research aims to investigate impact Mudharaba, Murabaha on Financing Risk moderated by business cycle relationship...

We describe a database of the single-particle optical properties cd marine microbial particles. This database includes representatives from five classes of particles: viruses (VIR), heterotrophic bacteria (BAC), cyanobacteria (CYA), small nanoplanktonic diatoms (DIA), and nanoplanktonic chlorophytes (CHLO). The optical properties of VIR, whose mean size is 0.07 pm, were determined from Mie scat...

Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) systems require the ability to cleanly isolate various processes from each other in order to ascertain separation of differing data classification levels. This has been traditionally performed using a four layer approach: Applications, Middle-ware, Separation Kernel, and Hardware. This paper introduces a framework for evaluating information flows i...

BACKGROUNDAND PURPOSE: The differentiation of pilocytic astrocytomas and high-grade astrocytomas is sometimes difficult. There are limited comparisons in the literature of the advanced MR imaging findings of pilocytic astrocytomas versus high-grade astrocytomas. The purpose of this study was to assess the MR imaging, PWI, DWI, and MR spectroscopy characteristics of pilocytic astrocytomas compar...

I first summarize Baltag and Smets’ contribution to this volume, and praise their work. Then I compare the anti-lexicographic plausibility update that they propose to a proposal by Aucher, as an illustration of the difference between a qualitative and a quantitive formulation of updates. I quote Spohn’s original work that is at the root of research in plausibility updates and of the notion of a...