Consider the situation where one is faced with a sequence of knapsack type problems which involves additional constraints on the permissible number of certain types of knapsack fillers to be used over the sequence. This research is concerned with determining good and perhaps optimal solutions which maximize the total value...
For continuous time, finite state and action, Markov decision
chains, optimal policies are studied; (i) a procedure for transforming
the terminal reward vector is given and it is established that this
transformation does not alter optimal policies, (ii) decision chains
with absorbing states are studied and the results obtained are...
It can be hypothesized that the degree to which students value
learning in the visual arts influences the amount of involvement in
art oriented activities that will be pursued in later years. This
investigation has compared former college students° valuations of the
Basic Design course with levels of art interest...
The objective of this research was to improve our understanding of how
changes in the environment affect ecological processes. Change detection is often
confounded by the large variation found in ecological data due to the difficulty of
finding replicates in nature. Intertidal communities were chosen for studies of biophysical
interactions...
Physical-biological interactions in the Southern Ocean were investigated using remote sensing data from several different satellite sensors. Satellite sea surface temperature data were used to study the dynamics of the Antarctic Polar Front (PF). Satellite ocean color data were used to estimate surface chlorophyll concentrations and their relation to various...
The Oregon upwelling system is a region of high biomass and primary
productivity as well as strong mesoscale variability. In order to examine the
interaction of physical forcing and ecosystem dynamics, four 3-week sampling
cruises were conducted in the Oregon upwelling system as part of the Northeast
Pacific Global Ocean...
This study was part of the Antarctic Environment and Southern Ocean Study (AESOPS) program, whose main goal was to investigate the role of the biota in the carbon flux from the atmosphere to the interior of the ocean. We quantified the abundance of the major phytoplankton classes and examined the...
The influence of nitrate availability and irradiance on phytoplankton natural fluorescence was investigated in laboratory cultures of the marine diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii (Bacillariophyceae). Two cultures of phytoplankton, differing only in the nitrate-limited growth rate, were compared to learn how increases in irradiance influences natural fluorescence. Instrumentation was developed for these...
Our view of phytoplankton has historically revolved around their inability to
control their location in space. The term phytoplankton itself underscores this
particular difference between phytoplankton and their sessile terrestrial counterparts.
Yet there are other differences between land plants and the phytoplankton that are
perhaps equally important, beyond this sessile-planktonic...
The North Pacific subtropical gyre (NPSG), once considered to be a biological desert due to low primary production (PP) and its associated variability, has been found more productive and variable than previously thought. The environmental conditions controlling this relatively high PP variability are yet to be elucidated, despite important implications...
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MarkR. Abbott, Ricardo M. Letelier
The North Pacific subtropical gyre (NPSG), once