Modeling transmission windows in Titan’s lower troposphere: Implications for infrared spectrometers aboard future aerial and surface missions

Future Space Missions and Biohazard Implications

In the era of new, more streamlined NASA missions, there is an exciting suite of smaller more frequent missions, including those in the Discovery line, and in the new Mars Exploration initiatives. The growing field of Bioastronomy combines the studies of planetary astronomy, astrophysics, and biology in an exciting field which encompasses the search for extra-solar planetary systems, the study ...

Six Sigma: literature review and implications for future research

There has been considerable number of papers published related to Six Sigma applications in manufacturing and service organizations. However, very few studies are done on reviewing the literature of Six Sigma in all the areas including manufacturing, construction, education, financial service, BPOs and healthcare etc. Considering the contribution of Six Sigma in recent time, a more comprehens...

Simulations of water isotope abundances in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere and implications for stratosphere troposphere exchange

[1] An analytic model of transport and microphysics in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) is extended to include stable isotopes of water. The model, running along trajectories, is tested against in situ and satellite observations of HDO and H2 O in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UT/LS). The model is able to reproduce the range of isotopic depletions observed in the data, and re...

Transmission grating based spectrometers

Zika virus reservoirs: Implications for transmission, future

Zika virus (ZIKV) was recently declared as a ‘Global Health Emergency’ by the World Health Organization. Various tissue reservoirs of ZIKV in infected humans and animals models have been observed, the implications of which are not known. Compared to other Flaviviruses, sexual transmission and persistence in the genitourinary tract seem to be unique to ZIKV. ZIKV persistence and shedding in bodi...