Using an integrated physical and biological approach, we examined across-shelf advection and exchange and the associated transport of bivalve larvae in the presence of a strong coastal current separated from the coast by a stratified inshore environment. We tested the hypothesis that the interface of the coastal current and inshore waters can act as an ecological barrier to across-shelf transpo...

Learning new sounds in a second language requires the acquisition of new motor routines and new sensorimotor planning systems needed to ensure coordination. Auditory feedback is an important part of the planning and control system required for fluent speech production. ESL vowel production was studied using a real-time formant perturbation technique to modify auditory feedback. Three groups of ...

Several institutions in industry and academia are pursuing research efforts in domain modeling to address unresolved issues in software reuse. Todemonstrate the concepts ofdomain modeling and software reuse. a prototype software engineering environment is being developed atGeorgeMason University to suppon thecreation ofdomain models and the generation oftarget system specifications. This protot...

The harsh radiation environment at the LHC poses formidable challenges to the design, fabrication and test procedures that must be applied in the development of ASICs embedded in the detectors. The use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components in the LHC environment also requires a careful evaluation of the impact of radiation-induced effects on their performance and reliability. This revie...

The small delphinid community (bottlenose Tursiops truncatus, common Delphinus delphis, and striped Stenella coeruleoalba dolphins) of the Bay of Biscay (100 000 km of continental shelf along the French Atlantic coast) has been studied here by combining striptransect aerial surveys conducted between 2001 and 2004 and ship-based surveys conducted between 2003 and 2006. Distribution was modelled ...

One fifth of Mediterranean waters can be classified as shelf—much higher than the global average. Consequently, the shelf/coastal zone plays a proportionally greater biogeochemical role than in the major oceans, including the support of a wide range of range of endemic or culturally important species and ecosystems. However, despite their known importance in regulating ecosystem function and th...

the qom formation in naragh area, with 185 meter thickness, is exposed about 25 km northeast of delijan. this formation in the studied area, lithologically, consists of shale, gravely limestone, and sandy limestone, with thin, medium to thick bedded and massive limestons. it disconformably covers the lower red formation and is covered by recent alluvium. in this research, the role of large fora...

A 6-compartment biogeochemical model of nitrogen cycling and plankton productivity has been coupled with a 3D general circulation model in an enclosed environment (the Black Sea) so as to quantify and compare, on a seasonal and annual scale, the typical internal biogeochemical functioning of the shelf and of the deep sea as well as to estimate the nitrogen and water exchanges at the shelf break...