This paper presents an investigation of the expected uncertainties of a single channel cloud optical thickness (COT) retrieval technique, as well as a simple cloud temperature threshold based thermodynamic phase approach, in support of the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission. DSCOVR cloud products will be derived from Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) observations in the ult...

an academic title. Tesla was an autodidact. He started to read many works, memorizing whole books. Specialists supposed that T. had a photographic memory. In his autobiography he tells that many times he experienced detailed moments of inspiration. Since his childhood, T. was stricked by halucinations accompanied frequently by blinding flashes of light. Much of the effects of this peculiar affl...

OBJECTIVE Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of abdominal obesity, hyperglycemia, hypertension, and dyslipidemia, which increases the risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Some argue that MetS is not a single disorder because the traditional MetS features do not represent one entity, and they would like to exclude features from MetS. Others would like to add additiona...

Web-based data analysis environments are powerful platforms for exploring large data sets. To ensure that these environments meet the needs of analysts, a human-centered design perspective is needed. Interfaces to these platforms should provide flexible search, support user-generated content, and enable collaboration. We report on our efforts to design and develop a web interface for a custom a...

Background. Self-efficacy is a key theoretical construct that should be considered when aiming to improve the implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) among occupational therapists (OTs). Current available tools measuring self-efficacy to implement the steps of EBP in the field of occupational therapy contain a limited number of EBP steps without strong evidence of reliability or validit...

The ancient epic is composed of mythical, fairy-tale, and legendary events, which to a certain extent artistically imagine the thinking, consciousness, beliefs, worldview people first community. In network heritages this category, there are fantasy scenes, mythical concepts about creation, plots during transition from era matriarchy patriarchy, hunting profession, belief in witchcraft, dreams v...

Since the original publication of Archilochus’ First Cologne Epode (fr. 196a W), scholars have noted the poem’s structural and thematic similarities to epic seduction scenes 2 . However, such discussions have tended either simply to observe the existence of these parallels, or to use them to argue that the action of the Archilochean poem must conform to that of the earlier models 3 . Yet this a...

Carbon sequestration in soil has emerged as a technology with significant potential to help stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases at non-threatening levels. Methods are thus needed to evaluate and recommend soil carbon sequestration practices based on their effects on carbon dynamics and environmental quality. There is scientific and practical consensus that simulation models...

As part of the guaranteed time, guest observer and calibration programs, XMM-Newton extensively observed a group of six thermally emitting, isolated neutron stars which are neither connected with a supernova remnant nor show pulsed radio emission. The high statistical quality of the EPIC data allows a detailed and homogeneous analysis of their temporal and spectral properties. Four of the six s...