The influence of greenhouse humidity control on the transpiration rate (λEc), sensible heat flux (Hc) and bulk stomatal conductance (gc) of a soilless rose canopy (Rosa hybrida, cv. First Red) was studied in a greenhouse located in the coastal area of eastern Greece. Measurements were carried out during several days in the summer (i) without air humidity control and (ii) with a mist system oper...

Educational research indicates that the two prevalent approaches to distance education, synchronous and asynchronous, exhibit synergy if combined. Our research addresses how to create the most effective, open source (and therefore robust and inexpensive) software to enable educators to exploit that synergy. The Moodle learning management system provides a high-quality asynchronous online learni...

Numerical simulation is performed in this study to explore filmcooling enhancement by injecting mist into the cooling air with a focus on investigating the effect of various modeling schemes on the simulation results. The effect of turbulence models, dispersed-phase modeling, inclusion of different forces (Saffman, thermophoresis, and Brownian), trajectory tracking, and mist injection scheme is...

OBJECTIVE To study the relationship between performance on an endoscopic sinus surgery simulator (ES3) and fundamental perceptual, visuospatial, and psychomotor abilities. DESIGN Validation study. SETTING Tertiary care medical center. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-four medical students and 4 otolaryngology residents voluntarily enrolled. INTERVENTIONS Subjects performed tasks on the ES3, minimall...

This paper presents Mist2 (Mist 2nd generation), an overlay infrastructure for privacy-preserving communication. Nodes are arranged in concentric rings, which reduce average overlay hop latencies. Mist2 builds on the strengths of previous work on Mist, and significantly improves on the communication overhead, resilience to router failures, and the distributed nature of the algorithm. Mist2 prov...

This article describes the development of the Milwaukee Inventory for Subtypes of TrichotillomaniaAdult Version (MIST-A), which was designed to assess “automatic” and “focused” pulling subtypes of trichotillomania (TTM). Participants reporting symptoms of TTM (n=1,697) completed an internet survey; participants were later randomly assigned to either Exploratory (n=848) or Confirmatory (n=849) A...

Detached leaves of Valencia oranges, Citrus sinensis Osbeck, emanated ethylene at markedly higher rates and contained more endogenous ethylene when placed under water stress at 55% relative humidity than when placed in water-saturated air. Water stress induced defoliation from detached branches. Relieving the water stress of such leaves by transfer to a mist chamber resulted in lowering of the ...