In this study, we apply the ENVI-met model to evaluate effects of combinations morphological and vegetation-related landscape features on urban temperatures thermal comfort. We simulated conditions 126 scenarios, varying aspect ratios street canyons, vegetation cover density, surface materials, orientations toward prevalent winds under an extreme heat situation. Our results show how physical pa...

Namboodiri and Hussain Shuler (1) propose an alternative explanation for the timingrelated firing rate modulation of medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) neurons, suggesting that our finding can be simply explained by mPFC neuronal activity evoked by port exit (2). To illustrate their argument, the authors describe a thought experiment in which a flash of light is presented to the animal at the time...

Proterozoic rocks of the southwestern United States exhibit a variety of tectonometamorphic histories that can all be explained by a characteristic looping style of pressure-temperature (P-T) path. The path is fundamentally clockwise. However, because the rocks were cooled isobarically at 3 kbar after tectonism, the cooling path crosses the prograde path, leading to a geometry with a counterclo...

Any activity that receives inputs and convert them to outputs can be considered as a process. Essentially the same model equations are used in the theory of chemical, biochemical, nuclear, mechanical, or other process engineering. The goal of our researcher group has been to identify the processes, a network of processes, process variables and process equations in food logistics. In our paper w...

Glacial episodes have been linked to Ordovician-Silurian extinction events, but cooling itself may not be solely responsible for these extinctions. Teratological (malformed) assemblages of fossil plankton that correlate precisely with the extinction events can help identify alternate drivers of extinction. Here we show that metal poisoning may have caused these aberrant morphologies during a la...

Abstract Enhanced particle transport events are discovered and analyzed as the density limit of J-TEXT tokamak is approached. Edge shear layer collapse observed ratio Reynolds power to turbulence production decreases. Simultaneously, divergence internal energy flux (i.e. spreading) increases, indicating that triggers an outward spreading event. Studies correlations show enhanced quasi-coherent,...

Plants respond to ambient temperature changes over a series of timescales. Genetic and physiological studies over the last decades have revealed myriad thermally sensitive pathways in plants. A recent study provides a genetic and biochemical mechanistic description of how thermal changes can be transduced to influence gene expression. What remains to be revealed in this, and other thermally con...