Measurements of surface O3 and carbon monoxide (CO) were made from September 2009 to August 2011 at Dangxiong (30.48°N, 91.10°E, 4187 m a.s.l.), a remote highland site in a southern valley of the Nyainqêntanglha Mountains in the Tibetan Plateau, China. The monthly mean O3 mixing ratio ranged from 29.1 to 51.4 ppb, with an average of 38.5 ppb, and the maximum value was observed in May. The avera...

The substantial winter influenza peak in temperate climates has lead to the hypothesis that cold and/or dry air is a causal factor in influenza variability. We examined the relationship between cold and/or dry air and daily influenza and pneumonia mortality in the cold season in the New York metropolitan area from 1975-2002. We conducted a retrospective study relating daily pneumonia and influe...

Of all North American air masses, probably the least variance in properties is observed in Tropical Gulf and Tropical Atlantic air (1). About the only nittrked varitition noticed is the elevation at which the so-called Superior (2) air is encountered; and even this variation is of little or no sig@kance for the subject uiicler discussion. Because of this uniformity, these air masses (hereafter ...

Nurse staffing and scheduling is a major health human resource issue currently facing healthcare organizations. To increase the capacity of healthcare organizations to address a variety of issues related to nurse staffing and scheduling, a mult-isite collaborative project was undertaken. The primary focus of this project was

Motivated by the GKM picture of the equivariant cohomol-ogy ring for a torus action on an orbifold we define one-skeletons and their corresponding rings, H(Γ, α). We prove that, under a mild gener-icity condition, such a ring is a free S(g *)−module, with generators given by Thom classes of flow-outs of the vertices. We also show that many interesting notions and results in symplectic geometry,...

Introduction: As far as application of chemicals as disinfectants may have side effects on human health and causes drug resistance, the topic of herbal and natural products has been investigated in recent researches. Nevertheless, application of medicinal smokes in the treatment of many diseases, including bacterial and infectious diseases has long been popular in Iran. Smoke from the burning o...

Ascension Island is a remote South Atlantic equatorial site, ideal for monitoring tropical background CH4. In September 2014 and July 2015, octocopters were used to collect air samples in Tedlar bags from different heights above and below the well-defined Trade Wind Inversion (TWI), sampling a maximum altitude of 2700m above mean sea level. Sampling captured both remote air in the marine bounda...