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Jorge Cortes
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Conservation and Registration of Seed Sources in Reserve Remnants in the Province of Misiones, Argentina
The Upper Parana Atlantic Forest, a biodiversity hotspot of highly threatened biodiversity, extends to northeastern Argentina in the province of Misiones. In Argentina, national and provincial laws promote the...
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CML Therapy: A Focus on Second- and Third-Generation Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) represents 15% of newly diagnosed leukemia cases. In the United States, about 9000 new CML cases are diagnosed annually [1]. BCR-ABL1-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) h...
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Isla del Coco, Costa Rica, Eastern Tropical Pacific
Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs), at ocean depths between 40 and 150 m, have been found throughout the tropics but are different in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP). This observation is based on submersibl...
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Cooperative Dynamic Domain Reduction
Unmanned vehicles (UxVs) are increasingly deployed in a wide range of challenging scenarios, including disaster response, surveillance, and search and rescue. This paper is motivated by scenarios where a heter...
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Human Influences On Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Communities and Coral Reefs
Coral reefs world-wide have been impacted by direct and indirect human activity and natural disturbances. This has led to the degradation and disappearance of many reef structures. On a basin-wide scale, the n...
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Eastern Pacific Coral Reef Provinces, Coral Community Structure and Composition: An Overview
Advances in our knowledge of eastern tropical Pacific (ETP) coral reef biogeography and ecology during the past two decades are briefly reviewed. Fifteen ETP subregions are recognized, including mainland and i...
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Marine Biodiversity of Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reefs
The eastern tropical Pacific (ETP) is an isolated oceanic region exposed to extreme oceanographic conditions, including low salinity, low pH, high temperatures during El Niño, and low temperatures during La Ni...
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Distributed Line Search for Multiagent Convex Optimization
This note considers multiagent systems seeking to optimize a convex aggregate function. We assume that the gradient of this function is distributed, meaning that each agent can compute its corresponding partia...
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Robust Team-Triggered Coordination of Networked Cyberphysical Systems
This paper proposes a novel approach, termed team-triggered, to the real-time implementation of distributed controllers on networked cyberphysical systems.We build on the strengths of event- and self-triggered...
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Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: Pathophysiology and Therapeutics
Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) is a clonal myeloproliferative disorder characterized by a translocation between the long arms of chromosomes 9 and 22. Often referred to as the Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome, th...
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Other Taxonomic Groups (Fungi, Kinorhynchs, Invertebrate Chordates)
This part summarizes published information concerning different taxonomic groups for which no experts were found to study especially the Costa Rican or Central American fauna. Five genera of fungi living on ma...
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Sponges
A total of 127 species of sponges distributed in two classes, 14 orders, 42 families, and 72 genera are reported for Costa Rica in this part. Sixty-five species from the Caribbean coast are included here, belo...
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Bryozoans
Sixty-one species of bryozoans have been reported in the literature from Costa Rica and are distributed as follows: Caribbean: 13 species in 11 genera, 10 families, 1 order, and 1 class; Pacific: 49 species in...
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Distributed Tree Rearrangements for Reachability and Robust Connectivity
We study maintenance of network connectivity in robotic swarms with discrete-time communications and continuous-time motion capabilities. Assuming a network topology induced by spatial proximity, we propose a ...
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Zoanthids, Sea Anemones and Corallimorpharians
Five species of zoanthids, six of actiniarians and two of corallimorpharians have been recognized from the Caribbean coast, and one species of sea anemone from the Pacific of Costa Rica. The Caribbean species ...
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Marine Fish Parasites
Forty-seven species of parasites are listed, 46 from the Pacific coast, and 2 from the Caribbean of Costa Rica (one in common between both coasts but in different host fish). Sixteen (34 % ) were newly describ...
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Stony Corals
On the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica there are 3 species of hydrocorals and 44 species of scleractinian corals: 5 azooxanthellate and 39 zooxanthellate corals, all common Caribbean species. On the Pacific side...
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Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica: Perspectives and Conclusions
According to the numbers presented in the different taxonomic chapters of the present book, the marine biodiversity of Costa Rica comprises a total of 6,778 species, representing about 3.5% of all marine speci...
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Distributed Wombling by Robotic Sensor Networks
This paper proposes a distributed coordination algorithm for robotic sensor networks to detect boundaries that separate areas of abrupt change of spatial phenomena. We consider an aggregate objective function,...
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Seagrasses
Four species of seagrasses have been reported for the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica: Thalassia testudinum, Syringodium filiforme, Halophila decipens, and Halodule wrightii, which are all common throughout the Car...
