1 Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for Environmental Satellites (KLRCV), National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration (NSMC/CMA), Beijing 100081, China 2 Centre for Atmosphere Watch & Services (CAWAS), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China Meteorological Administration (CMA), Beijing 100081, China 3 Institute of remote sensing...

At present, most developed economies have open capital accounts coupled with liberalised domestic financial sectors. Following the trend, developing and transition economies have opened up mostly between the late 1980s and the mid-1990s. The Economist recently carried an article proclaiming that emerging economies are driving global growth and making a big impact on developed countries as these...

519 Biologically relevant information in acoustic signals often is present in its temporal structure. For example, the temporal relationships of particular acoustic elements are important for identifying human speech signals1, the proximity of a target in bat sonar2, songs in birds3, and calls in anuran amphibians4 (frogs and toads) and crickets5. In the sensory periphery, these signals are rep...

To cite: Rufino R, Marques BL, Costa CH. Thorax Published Online First: 19 December 2012 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012202827 A 32-year-old man worked as a subsistence farmer raising pigs and tending his small garden; he also kept cats and dogs. He reported fever, night sweats, weight loss of 10 kg over 3 months, haemoptysis and skin ulcers (figure 1). Radiography and chest CT scan (figure 2) showe...

not understand how she came to have parents so entirely different from herself. Spurred by various emotional urges she sets out on a crusade to '' live her own life.'' Usually she discovers herself inadequate to meet life as independently as she would like. She finds also that the consequences of independence are somewhat staggering. It is difficult to understand how anyone who has worked with ...

MOTIVATION We present a new probabilistic model of the evolution of RNA-, DNA-, or protein-like sequences and a software tool, Rose, that implements this model. Guided by an evolutionary tree, a family of related sequences is created from a common ancestor sequence by insertion, deletion and substitution of characters. During this artificial evolutionary process, the 'true' history is logged an...

The stopped-flow mixing technique was used to develop a very fast, sensitive and accurate method for determining total proteins. The method is based on the lower fluorescence of Rose Bengal caused by binding of the dye to the proteins. The decrease in the fluorescence intensity, measured at 572 nm with excitation 555 nm, was linearly related to protein concentration from 1.3 to 24.5 micrograms ...

W ith nearly two-thirds of the population afflicted, the Nuu-chah-nulth Indians of Vancouver Island in British Columbia have one of the highest rates of arthritis in the world. Often passed down family lines, the genetics of arthritis in this unique population was studied extensively during the 1980s by Richard Ward, now head of the Institute of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxfo...