In late 2004, the BIOSOPE cruise sailed between the equatorial influenced waters off the Marquesas Islands and the nutrient enriched waters of the Chilean upwelling.Along the way, it explored the Southeast Pacific gyre centred around Easter Island, which is probably the most oligotrophic oceanic region on earth.During this cruise, we undertook a vi
ABSTRACTAll strains of the marine bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus harbor a type VI secretion system (T6SS) named T6SS2, suggesting that this system plays an important role in the life cycle of this emerging pathogen.Although T6SS2 was recently shown to play a role in interbacterial competition, its effector repertoire remains unknown.Here, we emp
In this paper, we present the Prism Bridge, a soft IP core developed to bridge FPGA-MPSoC systems using high-speed serial links.Considering the current trend of ubiquitous serial transceivers with staggeringly increasing line rates, minimizing overhead and maximizing data throughput becomes paramount.Hence, our main design goal is to maximize bandw
Submicrometre spherical particles made of Au and Fe can be fabricated by pulsed-laser melting in liquid (PLML) using a mixture of Au and iron oxide nanoparticles as the raw particles dispersed in ethanol, although the detailed formation mechanism has not yet been clarified.Using a 355 nm pulsed laser to avoid extreme temperature difference between
A comprehensive experimental study on the high-velocity oxygen-fuel (HVOF) sprayed tungsten carbide/cobalt (WC/Co) deposits using laser cladding was conducted.A response surface methodology based on a central composite design was used to analyze, predict and optimize the WC/Co deposits of the laser-based HVOF sprayed coatings.The morphologies and m