During October and November 1962, ten flights were made over the Ross Sea to the north and east of McMurdo, Antarctica, in a Navy C-54Q aircraft fitted with up-and down-facing EppIey pyranometers and with a camera for taking overlapping photographs of the terrain below. From a flight level of 7,500 ft. albedos of the underlying ice types were obtained for various elevations of the sun above the...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS Overweight in adolescents may have deleterious effects on their subsequent self-esteem, social and economic characteristics, and physical health. We studied the relation between overweight and subsequent educational attainment, marital status, household income, and self-esteem in a nationally representative sample of 10,039 randomly selected young people who were 16 to 24...

INTRODUCTION Bisphosphonates have anti-inflammatory properties in arthritic conditions. This study was conducted to assess the therapeutic potential of intravenous pamidronate in nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) refractory/intolerant cases of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). METHODS A total of 35 NSAID refractory/intolerant AS patients with Bath AS Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) score...

Introduction: Barrel cortex of rats is a part of somatosensory cortex, which receives information from facial whiskers. Vibrisectomy by sensory deprivation leads to some changes in the barrel cortex, which have been known as experience dependent plasticity. On the other hand, Norepinephrine (NE) and locus coeruleus, which is the main source of NE, influenced response properties of cortical bar...

Forensic Computing is a new and quickly developing field. It is in the process of becoming an academic discipline or sub-discipline with all the features from full undergraduate and postgraduate course provision to conferences and journals. An important question in this process of turning into an established discipline is whether it will coincide with the recognition of the graduates as profess...