Most pension funds use an extensive array of service providers to administer and manage their financial assets. In this paper, I sketch a 'map' of the functional structure of service provision and the apparent spatial configuration of those elements....
Three-dimensional direct numerical simulations (DNS) of the nonlinear dynamics and a route to chaos in a rotating fluid subjected to lateral heating are presented here and discussed in the context of laboratory experiments in the baroclinic annulus. ...
Nd isotopic compositions of authigenic phases in marine archives are increasingly used as a tracer of past changes in ocean circulation. Such applications assume that water masses are "tagged" with distinct Nd isotope compositions in source regions a...
Microphysical and dynamical interactions between aerosols and clouds are associated with some of the largest uncertainties in projections of future climate. Many possible aerosol effects on clouds have been suggested, but large uncertainties remain. ...
Over the past few years, Situationism, the Situationist City and related 1960s urban cultural, architectural and political movements have gained renewed cultural, scholarly, and activist attention. A plethora of new and re-edited books and collection...
BACKGROUND: An estimated 2.4 billion people live in areas at risk of dengue transmission, therefore the factors determining the establishment of endemic dengue in areas where transmission suitability is marginal is of considerable importance. Hanoi, ...
This project used a variety of genetic markers to investigate the evolution and population genetics of hydrothermal vent fauna that were recovered from the Scotia Sea, in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. The origins of one of these species,...
Coccolithophores form an important and dynamically evolving component of the carbon cycle. These ubiquitous single-celled marine calcifying phytoplankton are re- sponsible for half of the calcium carbonate production in the modern surface ocean, and ...
Micron-sized cavities created by the actions of rock-etching microorganisms known as euendoliths are explored as a biosignature for life on early Earth and perhaps Mars. Rock-dwelling organisms can tolerate extreme environmental stresses and are exce...
Hay, Simon I.;Guerra, Carlos A.;Gething, Peter W.;Patil, Anand P.;Tatem, Andrew J.;Noor, Abdisalan M.;Kabaria, Caroline W.;Manh, Bui H.;Elyazar, Iqbal R. F.;Brooker, Simon;Smith, David L.;Moyeed, Rana A.;Snow, Robert W. Background: Efficient allocation of resources to intervene against malaria requires a detailed understanding of the contemporary spatial distribution of malaria risk. It is exactly 40 y since the last global map of malaria endemicity was published. t...
