Greater sage-grouse Centrocercus urophasianus (Bonaparte) currently occupy approximately half of their historical distribution across western North America. Sage-grouse are a candidate for endangered species listing due to habitat and population fragmentation coupled with inadequate regulation to control development in critical areas. Conservation planning would benefit from accurate maps delin...

The 14-channel NASA Ames Airborne Tracking Sunphotometer (AATS-14) measured solarbeam transmission on the NASA DC-8 during the second SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment (SOLVE II). This paper presents AATS-14 results for multiwavelength aerosol optical depth (AOD), including comparisons to results from two satellite sensors and another DC-8 instrument, namely the Stratospheric Aeroso...

Vehicle state, including location and motion information, plays an essential role on the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Accurately obtaining system state information is premise realizing precise control. However, statistics process noise are often unknown due to complex physical process. It challenging estimate when unknown. This paper proposes a new adaptive high-degree unscented Kalman filter ba...

The time series of differences in coincident measurements of ozone by Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) and by Solar Backscattered Ultraviolet (SBUV), SBUV/2, Umkehr and Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) are analyzed, and the slopes in the differences are calculated. SAGE ozone measurements are also compared against those by HALOE. The purpose of these comparisons is to look for statis...

We present a polyhedral algorithm to manipulate positive dimensional solution sets. Using facet normals to Newton polytopes as pretropisms, we focus on the first two terms of a Puiseux series expansion. The leading powers of the series are computed via the tropical prevariety. This polyhedral algorithm is well suited for exploitation of symmetry, when it arises in systems of polynomials. Initia...

|A demodulation algorithm for a base station receiver in a direct sequence (DS) spread spectrum code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system is proposed which performs joint multiuser detection and estimation using the output signals of an antenna array in the absence of a tight power control. The scheme is a combination of a multistage (MS) detector for data recovery and a space-a...

GENETICS, SOCIAL SCIENCES Retraction for ‘‘PKNOX2 gene is significantly associated with substance dependence in European-origin women,’’ by Xiang Chen, Kelly Cho, Burton H. Singer, and Heping Zhang, which published online August 31, 2009, in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (10.1073/pnas.0908521106). The authors wish to retract this paper because its publication violates the Gene Environment Association ...

To comprehensively identify transcription start sites and the frequencies of individual mRNAs in human cell libraries, a method of 5' end Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE) was developed recently, which makes it possible to collect a large amount of start site information, and subsequently, we have established a related database server called 5'SAGE. This database displays the observed f...

This study investigated the functionality of the Self-Administered Gerocognitive Examination (SAGE) for cognitive screening in community settings and examined its characteristics as a cognitive screening assessment tool. From 45 community events, 1,047 individuals over age 50 were screened with SAGE. Cognitive impairment was identified in 28%. Principal-component and correlation analysis indica...

[1] We examined the consistency of time series for stratospheric ozone obtained by ozonesondes, SAGE II, HALOE, and SBUV(/2) in the northern extratropics and find excellent agreement for interannual variability and trends of ozone for 50–12.5 hPa over Europe. Ozonesonde, SAGE, and HALOE data agree well for 200 hPa–12.5 hPa. Ozone in the past few years is 6% below values in the early 1980s for 8...