[1] The GRACE satellite mission is mapping the Earth’s gravity field at monthly intervals. The solutions can be used to determine monthly changes in the distribution of water on land and in the ocean. Most GRACE studies to-date have focussed on producing maps of mass variability, with little discussion of the errors in those maps. Error estimates, though, are necessary if GRACE is to be used as...

This paper tests the implications of an information diffusion model (Lu, 2003) in the quarterly earnings announcement setting. Post-announcement-drift is documented only for earnings announcements that have high information uncertainty, measured by high abnormal trading volume and return volatility surrounding the announcement. The results are robust after controlling for the magnitude of earni...

Red blood cells (RBCs) augment hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) in part by scavenging of nitric oxide (NO) by Hb (Deem S, Swenson ER, Alberts MK, Hedges RG, and Bishop MJ, Am J Respir Crit Care Med 157: 1181-1186, 1998). We studied the contribution of the RBC compartmentalization of Hb to augmentation of HPV and scavenging of NO in isolated perfused rabbit lungs. Lungs were initially pe...

S U M M A R Y In this study, we develop a methodology to estimate monthly variations in degree-1 and C20 coefficients by combing Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) data with oceanicmass anomalies (combination approach).With respect to themethod by Swenson et al., the proposed approach exploits noise covariance information of both input data sets and thus produces stochastically opt...

The article brings to light an alarmingly high incidence of MRSA (88.9%). Considering the fact that phenotypic screening methods remain the backbone for detection of MRSA in clinical isolates (Babakir-Mina et al., 2012), the authors fail miserably in performing these tests according to CLSI guidelines. This therefore questions the reliability of the data generated making them highly misleading....

tics do not require controls. Fortunately, however, Posavac provides us with a comparison between MMPI scores from both patients with pain and other medical patients. Note that his factor 1 is a manifest subjective distress factor, with very high loadings on depression (D), anxiety (Pt), confused thinking (Sc), and introversion (Si). This factor is not to be found in our patients with chronic p...

DE OYA, MANUEL, WILLIAM F. PRIGGE, DONNA E. SWENSON, AND FRANCISCO GRANDE. Role of glucagon on fatty liver production in birds. Am. J. Physiol. 221(l) : 25-30. 1971 .-Infusions of glucagon (0.22 pg/kg per min) and of oleic acid (2.0 mEq/kg per hr), maintaining in geese similar levels of plasma free fatty acids (FFA), had d ff i erent effects on plasma and liver triglycerides (TGL). Glucagon cau...

Erik R. Swenson, MD Departments of Medicine and Physiology and Biophysics University of Washington VA Puget Sound Health Care System Seattle, WA Hypoxic vasoconstriction in the lung is a unique and fundamental characteristic of the pulmonary circulation. It functions in health and disease states to better preserve ventilation-perfusion matching by diverting blood flow to better ventilated regio...

Marti J. Anderson,* Thomas O. Crist, Jonathan M. Chase, Mark Vellend, Brian D. Inouye, Amy L. Freestone, Nathan J. Sanders, Howard V. Cornell, Liza S. Comita, Kendi F. Davies, Susan P. Harrison, Nathan J. B. Kraft, James C. Stegen and Nathan G. Swenson Abstract A recent increase in studies of b diversity has yielded a confusing array of concepts, measures and methods. Here, we provide a roadmap...

Funded by the NSF CubeSat and NASA ELaNa programs, the Dynamic Ionosphere CubeSat Experiment (DICE) mission consists of two 1.5U CubeSats which were launched into an eccentric low Earth orbit on October 28, 2011. Each identical spacecraft carries two Langmuir probes to measure ionospheric in-situ plasma densities, electric field C.S. Fish (B) Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University Res...