The Asian interior arid zone is the largest desert landform system in the Northern Hemisphere, and has high biodiversity. Little is currently known about the evolutionary history of its biota. In this study, we used Zygophyllum, an important and characteristic component of the Asian interior arid zone, to provide new insights into the evolution of this biota. By greatly enlarged taxon sampling,...

Land-use dynamics and climatic gradients have large effects on many terrestrial systems. Exurban development, one of the fastest growing forms of land use in the United States, may affect wildlife through habitat fragmentation and building presence may alter habitat quality. We studied the effects of residential development and temperature gradients on bird species occurrence at 140 study sites...

Measurements of iron-plasma transmission at 156+/-6 eV electron temperature and 6.9+/-1.7 x 10(21) cm(-3) electron density are reported over the 800-1800 eV photon energy range. The temperature is more than twice that in prior experiments, permitting the first direct experimental tests of absorption features critical for understanding solar interior radiation transport. Detailed line-by-line op...

Industrial building rehabilitation is one the latest trends within the field of sustainable development. However, these interventions often disregard the issue of user comfort, despite being the most important factor of energy efficiency. This work deals with the assessment of the indoor thermal conditions of a restored industrial building, considering not only air temperature but also mean rad...

The temperature and the abundance of hydrogen in the Sun's interior are estimated by the method of`secondary' inversion of solar oscillation frequencies. In this method, the equations of state and thermal balance are used in addition to the hydrostatic equations. The temperature of the solar core estimated from the current helioseismic data is slightly higher than in the standard solar model, t...

A temperature jump in the water traveling through a pipe is delayed by the absorption of heat into the pipe wall. The convective transport of heat by the water and the conductive exchange with the interior pipe wall are described by a singular micromodel. The limiting form is a distributed microstructure model, which is successively better approximated by simpler firstand second-order kinetic m...

The accuracy of the hypernetted chain theory for mixtures of iron nuclei and protons in a charge-neutralizing background is demonstrated by comparison with molecular dynamics calculations. Near critical conditions the Debye-Hückel approximation fails to converge, even with second-order concentration corrections. The critical conditions, determined by assuming a uniform electron gas background, ...

The ability of the Parallel Climate Model (PCM) to reproduce the mean and variability of hydrologically relevant climate variables was evaluated by comparing PCM historical climate runs with observations over temporal scales from sub-daily to annual. The domain was the continental U.S, and the model spatial resolution was T42 (about 2.8 degrees latitude by longitude). The climate variables eval...

Bologna Process studies in Çankaya University‟s Interior Design and Architecture Department have been initiated in 2008. This study analyzes the curriculum development efforts in a participatory point of view and the findings of the first stage by providing insights for the next step of the process. As a result of the consensus among professors and questionnaire, program qualifications have bee...