invasive species in marine protected areas along the west coast. The long-term intent of this program was to expand geographically to link all of NERRS and NMSP sites as well other US marine protected areas in order to support a national network of coordinated invasive species monitoring and research in coastal ecosystems. We are now ready to expand our sampling to include interannual sampling and to include these other protected coastal areas. We plan to adapt and increase sampling coverage over time and space to address both management and larger research questions, including measuring responses to changes in transport vectors (e.g., shipping patterns, ballast water treatment, fishery stock management and aquaculture) and large ecosystem changes (e.g., weather and oceanographic patterns, and human-mediated disturbance, such as freshwater usage, pollution, dredging). While we have laid the groundwork for future studies, we have also already produced results useful for habitat managers and for testing research hypotheses. This study already identified five new range expansions, including two new US West Coast introductions. We found a strong pattern of decreasing number and percent of NIS with increasing latitude. A high number and proportion of Tunicata and Bryozoan species were nonindigenous, and both these taxa separately

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PART A-2: SUMMARY OF RESULTS PART B: SCIENTIFIC MATERIAL The Overall Conclusions were approved by the Advisory Committee on Marine Pollution of the International

present our case first by using intuitively plausible arguments and then by showing actual results on a face database. Our overall conclusion is that when the training dataset is small, PCA can outperform LDA, and also that PCA is less sensitive to different training datasets. Keywords: face recognition

at both the individual firm level (see, for example, Kwan (1996)) and portfolio level (see, for example, Blume, Keim and Patel (1991), and Cornell and Green (1991)). These studies focus on corporate bond returns, or yield changes. The main conclusions of these papers are: (1) high-grade bonds behave

This paper evaluates several hardware platforms and operating systems using a set of benchmarks that stress kernel entry/exit, file systems, and other things related to operating systems. The overall conclusion is that operating system performance is not improving at the same rate as the base speed

The overall objective was to increase the dialogue between different stakeholders, to exchange good practices, to gain political commitment and to take stock on the implementation of the horizontal priority for marginalised Roma communities. Two specific objectives have been set out: • Speeding

profile of the centered impeller. Specific conclusions include: 1 Although the impeller offset affected the turbulence in the different passages, the whirling did not increase the random turbulence. Thus, overall trends for the whirling impeller are the same for the centered impeller, so far as effects

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with function approximation