Abstract In this study we examined what are the markers of immigrant naturalisation as seen from the perspectives of recipient nationals. Social markers are perceptual signposts that receiving nationals use in deciding whether a non-native born is a member of the destin...

The development of cellulose dissolution/regeneration strategies constitutes an increasingly active research field. These are fundamental aspects of many production processes and applications. A wide variety of suitable solvents for cellulose is already available. Never...

Abstract This Milestone Report addresses first the position of the areas of computers, computational intelligence and communications within IFAC. Subsequently, it addresses the role of computational intelligence in control. It focuses on four topics within the Computati...

Abstract. The Indian and East Asian Summer Monsoons shape the melt and accumulation patterns of glaciers in High Mountain Asia in complex ways due to the interaction of persistent cloud cover, large temperature amplitudes, high atmospheric water content and high precipi...

The biosynthesis of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) provides an intriguing example on how multi-enzymatic cascades evolve. Essential LC-PUFA, such as arachidonic, eicosapentaenoic, and docosahexaenoic acids (DHA), can be acquired from the diet but are a...

<strong>Abstract.</strong> This study provides dissolved and particulate <sup>230</sup>Th and <sup>232</sup>Th results as well as particulate <sup>234</sup>Th data collected during expeditions to the central Arctic Ocean o...

Arctic marine protist communities have been understudied due to challenging sampling conditions, in particular during winter and in deep waters. The aim of this study was to improve our knowledge on Arctic protist diversity through the year, in both the epipelagic (<...

Abstract Terrestrial runoff and sedimentation have been implicated in a variety of impacts on scleractinian corals. However, despite accumulating evidence, little work has been done to investigate their influence on coral disease development. This study examined the rol...

Abstract The problem of a spherically symmetric dilatation in a spherical gel, important for understanding the mechanical behavior of hydrogels and biogels (e.g., drug-delivery vehicles, mineralized organic gels), is solved analytically using second-order elasticity the...

International audience; On November 21, 2004, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred offshore, 10 km south of Les Saintes archipelago in Guadeloupe (French West Indies). There were more than 30000 aftershocks recorded in the following two years, most of them at shallow dep...