Observations of cloud microstructure during the Beaufort Sea Arctic Stratus Cloud Experiments of June 1980 showed that the drop size distributions typically are nonuniform changing from monomodal near the base to bimodal near the top of the cloud. The observed drop size distributions are used to compute the reflection and transmission of solar radiation by Arctic Stratus Clouds in the visible p...

The results of a study of the measurement of rainfall by radar at a range of 75 miles are presented. Some of the problems of radar measurements at this range are found to be attenuation and effects of the radar beam's large vertical extent at distant ranges. The analysis of drop-size data from rains at Flagstaff, Arizona shows that the radar-rainfall relationships there are quite different from...

To identify genes that regulate the dynamics of lipid droplet (LD) size, we have used the genetically tractable model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, whose wild-type LD population displays a steady state of size with an upper limit of 3 μm in diameter. From a saturated forward genetic screen of 6.7 × 10(5) mutagenized haploid genomes, we isolated 118 mutants with supersized intestinal LDs ofte...

-Drop properties during and after secondary breakup in the bag, multimode and shear breakup regimes were observed for shock-wave-initiated disturbances in air at normal temperature and pressure. Test liquids included water, n-heptane, ethyl alcohol and glycerol mixtures to yield Weber numbers of 15--600, Ohnesorge numbers of 0.0025-0.039, liquid/gas density ratios of 579-985 and Reynolds number...

Conventional IP routers are passive devices that accept packets and perform the routing function on any input. Usually the tail-drop (TD) strategy is used where the input which exceeds the buffer capacity are simply dropped. In active queue management (AQM) methods routers manage their buffers by dropping packets selectively. We study one of the AQM methods called as random exponential marking ...

In Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), the optimal use of buffer management polices can improve the network throughput. In this paper, we propose a buffer management strategy called as Message Drop Control (MDC). This technique controls the message drop by using an upper bound which is the count of buffered message at router and size of the messages. If count exceed the upper bound drop will not oc...

Experimental results are presented about the effects of ionic strength and pH on the mean drop-size after emulsification and on the coalescence stability of emulsions, stabilized by a globular protein beta-lactoglobulin (BLG). The mean drop-size is determined by optical microscopy, whereas the coalescence stability is characterized by centrifugation. In parallel experiments, the zeta-potential ...

We introduce a simple and versatile microfluidic drop-on-demand solution that enables independent and dynamical control of both the drop size and the drop production rate. To do so, we combine a standard microfluidic Tjunction and a novel active switching component that connects the microfluidic channel to the macroscopic liquid reservoirs. Firstly, we explain how to make this simple but accura...

In this study we explore the packet drop function in the RED algorithm. Specifically we explore issues involving effective maximum drop probability functions. The main criterion was queue size behavior, but other metrics such as throughput and delays were also considered. Preliminary results suggest that an adaptively changing packet drop functions make RED more effective. Finally suggestions f...

We investigate the sensitivity of an inverse population balance equation (PBE) modeling technique for extracting single particle functions from transient size distribution measurements. A dynamic PBE model of a turbulently agitated batch emulsification vessel is used to generate volume size distribution data under the assumption of negligible drop coalescence. The distribution data are subjecte...