Global observations of ice clouds are needed to improve our understanding of their impact on earth’s radiation balance and the water-cycle. Passive mm/sub-mm has some advantages compared to other space-borne cloud-ice remote sensing techniques. The physics of scattering makes forward radiative transfer modelling for such instruments challenging. This paper demonstrates the ability of a recently...

BACKGROUND Diagnostic accuracy of the 3 mm laparoscopic cup biopsy forceps for collection of tissue samples from canine livers is unproven. HYPOTHESES/OBJECTIVES Compare sample surface area and portal triad count between 3 mm and 5 mm laparoscopic cup biopsies and compare the histologic diagnosis obtained by each instrument to a standard necropsy wedge. The hypothesis was that more portal tri...

Here, we systematically investigated how the force fields and the partial charge models for ligands affect the ranking performance of the binding free energies predicted by the Molecular Mechanics/Poisson-Boltzmann Surface Area (MM/PBSA) and Molecular Mechanics/Generalized Born Surface Area (MM/GBSA) approaches. A total of 46 small molecules targeted to five different protein receptors were emp...

Mini-laparascopic dismembered pyeloplasty using only 3 mm instruments (3 mmML) Piotr Jarzemski1, Slawomir Listopadzki1, Roman Kalinowski1, Marek Kowalski1, Marcin Jarzemski1, Roman Sosnowski1,2 1Department of Urology, Jan Biziel University Hospital in Bydgoszcz, Poland 2Department of Uro–oncology, M. Skłodowska–Curie Memorial Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland Article histo...