Precipitation efficiency is one of important meteorological parameters and has been widely used in operational precipitation forecasts (e.g., Doswell et al., 1996). Precipitation efficiency has been defined as the ratio of precipitation rate to the sum of all precipitation sources from water vapor budget (e.g., Auer and Marwitz, 1968; Heymsfield and Schotz, 1985; Chong and Hauser, 1989; Dowell ...

called maximum shear modulus, Gmax. It can be determined by in-situ methods from the measurements of the shear wave velocity, Vs, by means of crosshole, down-hole, up-hole, or surface wave testing. The relationship between maximum shear modulus and shear wave velocity is rigorous: 2 max s G V    where ρ is soil density. This parameter can be also obtained in laboratory by resonant column or ...

Conventional water and wastewater treatment methods Nanoparticles (NPs) from anthropogenic sources have applications in several commercial products, including cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and materials. There is evidence that during their usage and disposal, engineered nanoparticles can andwill be released into wastewater (Gottschalk et al., 2013; Pasricha et al., 2012; Westerhoff et al., 2013; ...

With the rapid development of nanoscience and nanotechnology over the last two decades, great progress has been made not only in preparation and characterization of nanomaterials, but also in their functional applications. As an important one-dimensional nanomaterial, nanofibers have extremely high specific surface area because of their small diameters, and nanofiber membranes are highly porous...

485–7. 3. Lo YMD, Tein MS, Lau TK, Haines CJ, Leung TN, Poon PM, et al. Quantitative analysis of fetal DNA in maternal plasma and serum: implications for noninvasive prenatal diagnosis. Am J Hum Genet 1998;62:768–75. 4. Zhong XY, Laivuori H, Livingston JC, Ylikorkala O, Sibai BM, Holzgreve W, et al. Elevation of both maternal and fetal extracellular circulating deoxyribonucleic acid concentrati...

Volume 5, no. 34, e00832-17, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00832-17. Page 1: The article byline should read as given above. Page 1: The equal-contribution footnote should read as follows. “M.Z., Q.P., and Y.Y. contributed equally to this work.” Published 28 September 2017 Citation Zhang M, Peng Q, Ye Y, Gong W, Guo N, Zhang F, Li A, Zhou X, Huang D, Song D, Tang Y. 2017. Correction for ...

Materials and methods TALEN design and plasmid construction All TALEN target sites were identified using the TAL effector-Nucleotide Targeter 2.0 (TALE-NT) program (https://tale-nt.cac.cornell.edu/) (Doyle et al., 2012). TALENs recognizing the target sites were constructed using Golden Gate method as previously described (Cermak et al., 2011; Zhang et al., 2012). The Gateway compatible entry pl...

Nanoparticles may be comprised of several kind materials being classified as nondegradable and biodegradable. Biodegradable systems have an advantage over nondegradable systems in that they are non-toxic, biotolerabl, biocompatible, biodegradable, and water-soluble. Among these systems, the role of natural polysaccharides in developing prepared nanoparticles has significantly increased (Zhang e...

Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) is one of the most common malignancies of the head and neck tumors Zhang et al., 2013 [1]). Previous studies have associated its occurrence with social activities, such as tobacco and alcohol consumption (Hashibe et al., 2007a [2]; Hashibe et al., 2007b [3]; Shangina et al., 2006 [4]). Here, we performed a genome-wide gene expression profiling in thirty-...