For the purpose of this document, long-term stewardship (LTS) is the federally implemented institutions, controls, information, and mechanisms necessary to protect the public and environment from legacy waste deemed impractical, unsafe, or too costly to remediate to freerelease standards. According to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) definition, LTS includes land use controls, monitoring, ...

Long-term whisker removal alters the balance of excitation and inhibition in rodent barrel cortex, yet little is known about the contributions of individual cells and synapses in this process. We studied synaptic inhibition in four major types of neurons in live tangential slices that isolate layer 4 in the posteromedial barrel subfield. Voltage-clamp recordings of layer 4 neurons reveal that f...

What makes unique and unrepeatable individuals is their ability to write their own story attributing meaning, sharing it through narration, giving coherence to the information related to the interpersonal motivational systems, and creating alternative hierarchies to those biologically provided by the genetic code. Through clinical narratives and narrative literature, we can observe the recurren...

Compatibility is the precondition to ensure the correct interaction among components in composition process, how to make the mismatch components coordinate correctly is a vital problem in component composition. This paper first modeled component behavior by LTS and expressed action mapping as synchronous vector then defined the sequential relationship among synchronous vectors as adaptation con...

Feedforward neural networks (FFNs) are often considered as universal tools and find their applications in areas such as function approximation, pattern recognition, or signal and image processing. One of the main advantages of using FFNs is that they usually do not require, in the learning process, exact mathematical knowledge about input-output dependencies. In other words, they may be regarde...

Lower-tropospheric stability (LTS) and estimated inversion strength (EIS) have a widely accepted relationship with low cloud amount are key observational foundations for understanding modeling low-level stratiform clouds. Using the updated surface-based satellite data, we find that is not as strongly correlated LTS, sensitive to established in past. EIS does provide stronger correlation than LT...

5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) pathway is the major source of potent proinflammatory leukotrienes (LTs) issued from the metabolism of arachidonic acid (AA), and best known for their roles in the pathogenesis of asthma. These lipid mediators are mainly released from myeloid cells and may act as physiological autocrine and paracrine signalling molecules, and play a central role in regulating the interacti...

Land cover is critical information to various land management and scientific applications, including biogeochemical and climate modeling. In addition, fire is an essential factor in shaping of vegetation structures, as well as for the functioning of savanna ecosystems. Remote sensing has long been an important and effective means of mapping and monitoring land cover and burned area over large a...

Hepatic triglycerides production and adipose lipolysis are pivotal for long-term stress (LTS) or hyperglucocorticoidemia-induced insulin resistance. 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) has been demonstrated to induce hepatic lipid metabolic abnormality by activating mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR). In present study, we explored whether 5-HT is involved in LTS effects in liver using restraint stress...

BACKGROUND The impact of air pollution on the respiratory system has been estimated on the basis of respiratory symptoms and lung function. However; few studies have compared lung inflammation in healthy and asthmatics children exposed to high levels of air pollution. The aim of the study was to elucidate the modulatory effect of air pollution on Cysteinyl-leukotrienes (Cys-LTs) levels in exhal...