5 A dynamical relationship that connects the extratropical tropopause potential tempera6 ture and the near surface distribution of equivalent potential temperature was proposed in 7 a previous study and was found to work successfully in capturing the annual cycle of the 8 extratropical tropopause in reanalyses. This study extends the diagnosis of the moisture9 tropopause relationship to an ense...

Introduction: This study explored streamflow dynamics of the McKenzie Creek watershed in Southern Ontario, Canada under a changing climate. The is located southern portion Grand River Great Lakes region and an important water ecosystem service provider for Six Nations reserve, largest (by population) Indigenous community fourth North America. Methods: Coupled Groundwater Surface-Water Flow Mode...

Climate change is one of the leading issues affecting river basins due to its direct impacts on cryosphere and hydrosphere. General circulation models (GCMs) are widely applied tools assess climate but coarse spatial resolution GCMs limit their application for local studies. This study selected five CMIP5 (CCSM4, HadCM3, GFDL-CM3, MRI-CGCM3 CanESM2) performance evaluation ranked by Nash–Sutclif...

Calcium carbide residue (CCR) is a waste by-product from acetylene gas production. The main component of CCR is Ca(OH)₂, which can react with siliceous materials through pozzolanic reactions, resulting in a product similar to those obtained from the cement hydration process. Thus, it is possible to use CCR as a substitute for Portland cement in concrete. In this research, we synthesized CCR and...

The effect of dietary protein on growth, carcass traits and some specific intestinal intestinal peptide and amino acid transporters in broiler chickens was studied. Birds received a common pre-test diet, and were subsequently fed either a standard positive control diet (PC) or a reduced CP diet (RCP) from 21 to 42 d of age. Growth was negatively impacted with feeding of RCP as manifested by an ...

A type of diagram is proposed as microstructure model of polycrystalline materials, Voronoi diagram in the Laguerre geometry based on random closed packing of spheres (RCP-LV diagram), and discussed in detail. The volumes of spheres are set to serve lognormal distribution, which is strongly inherited by distribution of cell volumes in the RCP-LV diagram. The geometrical and topological properti...

The accurate measurement of total body water (TBW) in children has important clinical and nutritional applications. Resonant cavity perturbation (RCP) is a new method for estimating TBW. This method measures the dielectric properties of the body which are related to body water. For RCP measurements, each subject lay supine on a bed inside a screened room which acts as a resonant cavity. A netwo...