Given the importance of soil moisture for hydrological applications, including weather and flood forecasting, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission was launched by the European Space Agency in 2009. This first-ever dedicated global soil moisture mapping mission has a target accuracy of 0.04 v/v. The passive microwave remote sensing approach has been adopted for this mission due to...

Some somatic mutations, especially those in genes encoding tyrosine kinases, are central to the biology of specific cancers. In such instances, these ‘‘driver’’ mutations lead to the production of mutated enzymes, which then serendipitously serve as excellent substrates for targeted therapies. Examples include BCR-ABL –dependent chronic myelogenous and acute lymphoblastic leukemias (1), mutant ...

The NASA Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) mission is dedicated to measurement of global soil moisture and boreal land surface freeze/thaw state [1]. The satellite will carry radar (active) and radiometer (passive) L-band instruments that will perform simultaneous and coincident measurements of the Earth’s surface. The combination of data from the two instruments will allow unprecedented ...

OBJECTIVE The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) of five different cathelicidin-derived synthetic peptides (SMAP-29, LL-37, PG-1, CRAMP and BMAP-28) for Leptospira interrogans, Borrelia spp. and Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum were investigated in vitro. METHODS The MIC of individual peptides was defined as the lowest concentration able to i...

Abstract. The current intensive use of agricultural land is affecting the quality and contributes to climate change. Feeding world's growing population under changing climatic conditions demands a global transition more sustainable systems. This requires efficient models data monitor cultivation practices at field scale. study outlines spatially distributed version field-scale crop model AquaCr...

Abstract. In this study, we improve the representation of global river runoff in Estimating Circulation and Climate Ocean Version 4 (ECCOv4) framework, allowing for a more realistic treatment coastal plume dynamics. We use suite experiments to explore sensitivity regions forcing, model grid resolution, type. The results show that simulated sea surface salinity (SSS) is reduced as resolution inc...

Abstract Ten years of L-band radiometric measurements have proven the capability satellite sea surface salinity (SSS) to resolve large-scale-to-mesoscale SSS features in tropical subtropical ocean. In mid-to-high latitudes, still suffer from large-scale and time-varying errors. Here, a simple method is proposed mitigate First, an optimal interpolation using large correlation scale (~500 km) use...