Using the continuous Dst data available since 1957 and H component data for the Carrington space weather event of 1859, the paper shows that the mean value of Dst during the main phase of geomagnetic storms, called mean DstMP, is a unique parameter that can indicate the severity of space weather. All storms having high mean DstMP (≤−250 nT), which corresponds to high amount of energy input in t...

Recent advances have made it possible to obtain two-dimensional line-of-sight magnetic field maps of the solar corona from spectropolarimetric observations of the Fe XIII 1075 nm forbidden coronal emission line. Together with the linear polarization measurements that map the azimuthal direction of the coronal magnetic field projected in the plane of the sky containing Sun center, these coronal ...

We report calculations of the infrared shifts for the water dimer, as obtained from the recent ab initio fully flexible HBB2 potential of Bowman and co-workers. The rovibrational calculations, which formally are 12-dimensional plus overall rotation, were performed within the [6+6]d adiabatic separation which decouples the 'fast' intramolecular modes from the 'slow' intermolecular ones. Apart fr...

Video games or computer games are an important part of most young people’s lives today in OECD countries. PISA (2003) showed that 53% of OECD students age 15 play games frequently (“almost every day” or “a few times a week”). In the U.S. studies show that teenagers are spending more time playing computer games and other digital media (e.g. computers and the Internet), than watching TV. Specific...

B. Fauqué,1, 2 Xiaofeng Xu,1, 3 A. F. Bangura,1, 4 E. C. Hunter,5 A. Yamamoto,4 K. Behnia,2 A. Carrington,1 H. Takagi,4, 6 N. E. Hussey,1, 7 and R. S. Perry5, 8 1H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TL, United Kingdom 2LPEM (UPMC-CNRS), Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France 3Department of Physi...

IT HAS BEEN demonstrated in different laboratories that chronic treatment with desoxycorticosterone acetate (DCA) induces in rats a particular type of hypertensive disease.' Observations by Friedman and Friedman, Friedman, Friedman and Nakashima, Prado and Herbert-Carrington, Magaldi and Prado showed that following abrupt interruption of the desoxycorticosterone treatment, from 30 to 40 per cen...

This paper presents a comparative study of divergence cleaning methods of magnetic field in the solar coronal three-dimensional numerical simulation. For such purpose, the diffusive method, projection method, generalized Lagrange multiplier method and constrained-transport method are used. All these methods are combined with a finite-volume scheme in spherical coordinates. In order to see the p...

We trace the evolution of research on extreme solar and solar-terrestrial events from 1859 Carrington event to rapid development last twenty years. Our focus is largest observed/inferred/theoretical cases sunspot groups, flares Sun Sun-like stars, coronal mass ejections, proton events, geomagnetic storms. The reviewed studies are based modern observations, historical or long-term data including...

Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia (LIP) is regarded as both a disease and a nonneoplastic, inflammatory pulmonary reaction to various external stimuli or systemic diseases. It is an uncommon condition with incidence and prevalence rates that are largely unknown. Liebow and Carrington originally classified LIP as an idiopathic interstitial pneumonia in 1969. Although LIP had since been removed fro...