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Reconnaissance surveying of Bechevin Bay, AK using satellite-derived bathymetry
Recently, a remote sensing study has been conducted over Bechevin Bay Channel, Alaska as part of a collaboration project between NOAA and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). The goal of the study to develop a procedure to prioritize survey areas and plan the annual deployment of Aids to Navigation (AtoN) along the channel. Bechevin Bay is considered a priority for marine surveying because it constitutes the easternmost passage through the Aleutians from the Bering Sea to the Gulf of Alaska. The channel is located in a mud flat area, where every winter the passage is closed due to ice cover. As a result, the path of the channel may change after sea ice has melted. Because of the geographic location of Bechevin Bay, many resources are required in order to conduct an annual survey to map the channel’s path. The surveys are typically conducted by the USCG buoy tenders using small boats and reconnaissance-style single beam lines. This paper presents the use of single-image satellite-derived bathymetry (SDB) as an economic alternative approach. The study compares the performance using different band ratios. Datasets that were used in the study included Landsat 8 and WorldView 2 (WV-2) imagery
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Materializing Power to Recover Corporate Social Responsibility
Through the development of CSR ratings, metrics and management tools, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is currently materialized at an unprecedented scale within and across organizations. However, the material dimension of CSR and the inherent political potential in this materialization have been neglected. Drawing on insights from Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and the critical discussion of current approaches to power in CSR studies, we offer an alternative sociomaterial conceptualization of power in order to clarify how power works through materialized forms of CSR. We develop a framework that explains both how power is constituted within materialized forms of CSR through processes of ‘assembling / disassembling’, and how power is mobilized through materialized forms of CSR through processes of ‘overflowing / framing’. From this framework, we derive four tactics that clarify how CSR materializations can be seized by marginalized actors to ‘recover’ CSR. Our analysis aims to renew CSR studies by showing the potential of CSR for progressive politics
Queue-length synchronization in a communication networks
We study synchronization in the context of network traffic on a
communication network with local clustering and geographic separations. The
network consists of nodes and randomly distributed hubs where the top five hubs
ranked according to their coefficient of betweenness centrality (CBC) are
connected by random assortative and gradient mechanisms. For multiple message
traffic, messages can trap at the high CBC hubs, and congestion can build up on
the network with long queues at the congested hubs. The queue lengths are seen
to synchronize in the congested phase. Both complete and phase synchronization
is seen, between pairs of hubs. In the decongested phase, the pairs start
clearing, and synchronization is lost. A cascading master-slave relation is
seen between the hubs, with the slower hubs (which are slow to decongest)
driving the faster ones. These are usually the hubs of high CBC. Similar
results are seen for traffic of constant density. Total synchronization between
the hubs of high CBC is also seen in the congested regime. Similar behavior is
seen for traffic on a network constructed using the Waxman random topology
generator. We also demonstrate the existence of phase synchronization in real
Internet traffic data.Comment: 13 Pages, 15 figure
Identifying Collective Modes via Impurities in the Cuprate Superconductors
We show that the pinning of collective charge and spin modes by impurities in
the cuprate superconductors leads to qualitatively different fingerprints in
the local density of states (LDOS). In particular, in a pinned (static) spin
droplet, the creation of a resonant impurity state is suppressed, the
spin-resolved LDOS exhibits a characteristic spatial pattern, and the LDOS
undergoes significant changes with increasing magnetic field. Since all of
these fingerprints are absent in a charge droplet, impurities are a new probe
for identifying the nature and relative strength of collective modes.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Sustained and transient neural modulations in prefrontal cortex related to declarative long-term memory, working memory, and attention
Common activations in prefrontal cortex (PFC) during episodic and semantic long-term memory (LTM) tasks have been hypothesized to reflect functional overlap in terms of working memory (WM) and cognitive control. To evaluate a WM account of LTM-general activations, the present study took into consideration that cognitive task performance depends on the dynamic operation of multiple component processes, some of which are stimulus-synchronous and transient in nature; and some that are engaged throughout a task in a sustained fashion. PFC and WM may be implicated in both of these temporally independent components. To elucidate these possibilities we employed mixed blocked/event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) procedures to assess the extent to which sustained or transient activation patterns overlapped across tasks indexing episodic and semantic LTM, attention (ATT), and WM. Within PFC, ventrolateral and medial areas exhibited sustained activity across all tasks, whereas more anterior regions including right frontopolar cortex were commonly engaged in sustained processing during the three memory tasks. These findings do not support a WM account of sustained frontal responses during LTM tasks, but instead suggest that the pattern that was common to all tasks reflects general attentional set/vigilance, and that the shared WM-LTM pattern mediates control processes related to upholding task set. Transient responses during the three memory tasks were assessed relative to ATT to isolate item-specific mnemonic processes and were found to be largely distinct from sustained effects. Task-specific effects were observed for each memory task. In addition, a common item response for all memory tasks involved left dorsolateral PFC (DLPFC). The latter response might be seen as reflecting WM processes during LTM retrieval. Thus, our findings suggest that a WM account of shared PFC recruitment in LTM tasks holds for common transient item-related responses rather than sustained state-related responses that are better seen as reflecting more general attentional/control processes
Surveillance of Ruminant Diseases in the Nordic Countries
<p/> <p>All the Nordic countries have a basis for their surveillance and disease control in ruminants in national legislation and regulations listing notifiable diseases of concern to the countries. The Nordic countries are a disease-free zone comparing to other parts of the world and the aim of the surveillance is to keep that status and be able to document it. Following is a short summary from each country.</p
Extension of nano-confined DNA: quantitative comparison between experiment and theory
The extension of DNA confined to nanochannels has been studied intensively
and in detail. Yet quantitative comparisons between experiments and model
calculations are difficult because most theoretical predictions involve
undetermined prefactors, and because the model parameters (contour length, Kuhn
length, effective width) are difficult to compute reliably, leading to
substantial uncertainties. Here we use a recent asymptotically exact theory for
the DNA extension in the "extended de Gennes regime" that allows us to compare
experimental results with theory. For this purpose we performed new
experiments, measuring the mean DNA extension and its standard deviation while
varying the channel geometry, dye intercalation ratio, and ionic buffer
strength. The experimental results agree very well with theory at high ionic
strengths, indicating that the model parameters are reliable. At low ionic
strengths the agreement is less good. We discuss possible reasons. Our approach
allows, in principle, to measure the Kuhn length and effective width of a
single DNA molecule and more generally of semiflexible polymers in solution.Comment: Revised version, 6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, supplementary materia
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