[1] Published research has suggested that urban and agricultural activities in central Arizona may be enhancing monsoonal precipitation in the region; therefore, this study employed cloud-to-ground lightning data and topographic data to reveal spatially anomalous zones of lightning activity in central Arizona. A multiple linear regression model with topographic variables as predictors explained...

[1] We report on the atmospheric structure derived from atmospheric entry of NASA’s Phoenix Mars probe using Phoenix Atmospheric Structure Experiment (ASE) data complemented by Mars Cl imate Sounder (MCS) temperature‐pressure profiles. Oscillations in temperature, caused by thermal tides, have vertical wavelengths of tens of kilometres. Their amplitudes are much larger in individual profiles th...

Understanding the driving forces and molecular processes underlying dioecy and sex chromosome evolution, leading from hermaphroditism to the occurrence of male and female individuals, is of considerable interest in fundamental and applied research. The genus Phoenix, belonging to the Arecaceae family, consists uniquely of dioecious species. Phylogenetic data suggest that the genus Phoenix has d...

by MIRAGES is to capture a single photograph of the scene that we want to reconstruct. The second step is to position the 3D model (including the light sources), that can be built manually using the real image, thanks to a classical modeler such as Maya (Alias|Wavefront). Once the parameters of the camera (position, orientation, ...) have been automatically recovered, our image-based rendering ...

Suppose q is a prime power and f ∈ Fq[x] is a univariate polynomial with exactly t nonzero terms and degree <q−1. To establish a finite field analogue of Descartes’ Rule, Bi, Cheng and Rojas (2013) proved an upper bound of 2(q − 1) t−2 t−1 on the number of cosets in F∗ q needed to cover the roots of f in F∗ q . Here, we give explicit f with root structure approaching this bound: For q a t power...

Eye movements are crucial in understanding complex scenes. By predicting where humans look in natural scenes, we can understand how they percieve scenes and priotriaze information for further high-level processing. Here, we study the effect of a particular type of scene structural information known as vanishing point and show that human gaze is attracted to vanishing point regions. We then buil...

High-throughput RNAi screening identifies a role for TNK1 in growth and survival of 1 pancreatic cancer cells 2 3 Meredith C. Henderson, Irma M. Gonzales, Shilpi Arora, Ashish Choudhary, Jeffrey M. 4 Trent, Daniel D. Von Hoff, Spyro Mousses, David O. Azorsa 5 6 Clinical Translational Research Division, The Translational Genomics Research Institute, 7 Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA 8 Pharmaceutical Gen...

Network coordinate (NC) system allows efficient Internet distance prediction with scalable measurements. Most of the NC systems are based on embedding hosts into a low dimensional Euclidean space. Unfortunately, the accuracy of predicted distances is largely hurt by the persistent occurrence of Triangle Inequality Violation (TIV) in measured Internet distances. IDES is a dot product based NC sy...

We evaluated the ability of four commercial MIC testing systems (MicroScan, Vitek 2, Phoenix, and Etest) to detect vancomycin MIC values of ≤1 to ≥2 in 200 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains compared to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute broth microdilution (BMD) reference methods. Compared to the BMD method, absolute agreement (0 ± dilution) was highest for...