The Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) handles over one terabyte (10 12 bytes) of data daily and is using the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) for data archiving and distribution. This report provides the progress and status of our effort to alleviate bandwidth and storage burdens by first performing compression studies on various science data products and later integrating the sel...

Methods. Cells and reagents We purchased MDA-MB-231 cells from ATCC and primary IMR90, HDF and primary HUVEC cells from Lonza. MDA-MB-231, IMR-90, HDF and LLC cells were cultured in Eagle’s minimal Essential medium (MEM) from Lonza supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 1% GlutaMax (both from Invitrogen). Primary HUVEC cells were cultured in endothelial growth medium (EGM-2, Lonza)....

The analysis of the passive microwave radiance transfer equation certifies that there is a linear relationship between satellite-generated brightness temperatures (BT) and in situ observation temperature and that land surface temperature (LST) is largely influenced by vegetation cover conditions. Microwave polarization difference index (MPDI) is an effective indicator for characterizing the lan...

Images from the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) North and South show a large percentage of dusty, high redshift galaxies whose appearance falls outside traditional classification systems. The nature of these objects is not yet fully understood. Since the HDF preferentially samples restframe UV light, HDF morphologies are not dust or 'mask' penetrated. The appearance of high redshift galaxies at near-in...

Images from the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) North and South show a large percentage of dusty, high redshift galaxies whose appearance falls outside traditional classification systems. The nature of these objects is not yet fully understood. Since the HDF preferentially samples restframe UV light, HDF morphologies are not dust or 'mask' penetrated. The appearance of high redshift galaxies at near-in...

The quality, depth, and multi–color nature of the Hubble Deep Field images makes them an excellent resource for studying galaxies at z > 2 using selection techniques based on the presence of the 912Å Lyman break. I present a descriptive review of this method and of the properties of the objects which it identifies, and summarize spectroscopic progress on galaxies with 2 < z < 4 in the HDF. Usin...

HDF is a set of data formats and software libraries for storing scientific data with an emphasis on standards, storage and I/O efficiency. HDF software is open-source and free. HDF4 is based on the original 1988 version of HDF and is backwardly compatible with all earlier versions. HDF4 file size cannot be greater than 2GB and the number of objects inside an HDF4 file must be less than 20,000. ...

We discuss the observable consequences for the detection of galaxies in the X-ray bandpass resulting from a peak in the cosmic star-formation rate at a redshift > 1. Following White & Ghosh, we assume a large evolution in the X-ray/B luminosity ratio at z ∼ 0.5− 1.5 resulting from the X-ray binaries that have evolved from stars formed at z > 1 − 2. Using the HDF-N redshift survey data and the l...

Children with intellectual disability were randomly assigned to receive Milieu Communication Teaching (MCT) at one 1-hr session per week (low dose frequency, LDF) or five 1-hr sessions per week (high dose frequency, HDF) over 9 months ( Fey, Yoder, Warren, & Bredin-Oja, 2013 . Non-Down syndrome (NDS) and Down syndrome (DS) subgroups were matched on intelligence, mental age, and chronological ag...

BACKGROUND Maintenance hemodialysis (HD) patients universally suffer from excess toxin load. Hemodiafiltration (HDF) has shown its potential in better removal of small as well as large sized toxins, but its efficacy is restricted by inter-compartmental clearance. Intra-dialytic exercise on the other hand is also found to be effective for removal of toxins; the augmented removal is apparently ob...