1141 December 2014 W E are delighted that AnEsthEsiology is publishing this special Edition, highlighting research at the harvard-affiliated departments. harvard Medical school (hMs) is unusual, perhaps unique, in that it has approximately 10,000 faculty appointees, including many physicians with additional appointments at multiple affiliated and financially independent academic hospitals that ...

The systematic decline of in situ networks for hydrologic measurements has been recognized as a crucial limitation to advancing hydrologic monitoring in medium to large basins, especially those that are already sparsely instrumented. As a collective response, sections of the hydrologic community have recently forged partnerships for the development of space-borne missions for cost-effective, ye...

Heavy metals (HMs) immobilization in sewage sludge was investigated by using subcritical water technology (SCWT) in this study. The characteristics of sludge and toxicity of HMs were analyzed after SCWT process. The results showed that besides large reduction in sludge volume, SCWT had some positive effect on HMs dissolution into liquid phase, while the majority of HMs was still accumulated in ...

Population growth and land use modification in urban areas require the of accurate tools for rainfall-runoff modeling, especially where topography is complex. The recent improvement quality resolution remotely sensed precipitation satisfies a major need such tools. A physically-based, fully distributed hydrologic model conceptual semi-distributed model, forced by satellite rainfall estimates, w...

Statistically and dynamically downscaled climate projections are the two important data sources for evaluation of climate change and its impact on water availability, water quality and ecosystems. Though bias correction helps to adjust the climate model output to behave more similarly to observations, the hydrologic response still can be biased. This study uses Variable Infiltration Capacity (V...

Developments in Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) have been reported in three main areas: architectures, algorithms, and methodologies for HMS. Despite the advancements obtained in the first two areas the methodologies for HMS have not received great attention. To date, many of the developments in HMS have been conducted in an almost “empirical way”, without design methodology. There is a def...

Selected heavy metals (HMs) including Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn initially released from a full-scale bioreactor landfill were monitored over the first 20 months of operation. At the initial landfill stage, the leachate exhibited high HMs release, high organic matter content (27000-43000gl(-1) of TOC) and low pH (5-6). By the fifth month of landfilling, the methanogenic stage had been establishe...

In bacterial, yeast, and human cells, stress-induced mutation mechanisms are induced in growth-limiting environments and produce non-adaptive and adaptive mutations. These mechanisms may accelerate evolution specifically when cells are maladapted to their environments, i.e., when they are are stressed. One mechanism of stress-induced mutagenesis in Escherichia coli occurs by error-prone DNA dou...

We performed a series of experiments to study the intracellular activity of 58 hypoglossal motoneurons (HMs) in decerebrate, paralyzed, and ventilated cats. Changes in membrane potentials (MP) and discharge activities were evaluated during fictive breathing (FB), swallowing (FS), and coughing (FC). FS and FC were elicited by electrical stimulation of the superior laryngeal nerves. FB, FS, and F...