Using a high-resolution ocean general circulation model forced by NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data, the interannual variability of the Guinea Dome is studied from a new viewpoint of its possible link with the Atlantic Meridional Mode (AMM), which is related to the meridional migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). The dome develops off Dakar seasonally from late spring to late fall owi...

This paper outlines a package synchronization scheme for blind speech watermarking in the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) domain. Following two-level DWT decomposition, watermark bits and synchronization codes are embedded within selected frames in the second-level approximation and detail subbands, respectively. The embedded synchronization code is used for frame alignment and as a location i...

Acute ammonia toxicity in vertebrates is thought to be characterized by a cascade of deleterious events resembling those associated with anoxic/ischemic injury in the central nervous system. A key event is the over-stimulation of neuronal N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, which leads to excitotoxic cell death. The similarity between the responses to acute ammonia toxicity and anoxia sugges...

Group A Rotaviruses are the most common cause of severe, dehydrating diarrhea in children worldwide. The aim of the present work was to evaluate protection against rotavirus (RV) diarrhea conferred by the prophylactic administration of specific IgY antibodies (Ab) to gnotobiotic piglets experimentally inoculated with virulent Wa G1P[8] human rotavirus (HRV). Chicken egg yolk IgY Ab generated fr...

We were interested in the recent report by Kelly et al1 that FLT3 internal tandem duplication (FLT3-ITD) mutations, while sufficient to induce a chronic myeloproliferative disease in a murine bone marrow transplant (BMT) assay, were not sufficient to induce an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) phenotype. These data suggest that FLT3-ITDs may require additional cooperating mutations to generate the A...

OBJECTIVES To compare the age specific rate of passenger injury and associated restraint use for children 2 years and younger in the state of Western Australia (WA), with the state of New South Wales (NSW), Australia for the period 1982-92. SETTING The states of WA and NSW, Australia. METHODS A descriptive retrospective study of child passenger injuries in WA and NSW was conducted for the p...

Biostimulation with different nitrogen sources is often regarded as a strategy of choice in combating oil spills in marine environments. Such environments are typically depleted in nitrogen, therefore limiting the balanced microbial utilization of carbon-rich petroleum constituents. It is fundamental, yet only scarcely accounted for, to analyze the catabolic consequences of application of biost...

By the Schwinger proper-time method, the one-loop contribution to the anomalous magnetic moment of the W-boson is calculated at high temperature. It is shown that the value of AMM is positive and depends linearly upon temperature.

Organic and inorganic nitrogen play important roles in plant nutrition. However, how the coapplication of organic affects root growth, metabolism, soil content is still unclear. Plant shoot uptake were studied maize (Zea mays L.) through pot experiments with different treatments, including NH4+ -N (Amm), NO3− (Nit), + (Amm Nit), glutamate-N Nit Glu), glycine-N Gly). The results show that treate...