[1] On Mars annual mean surface temperature near ±60 latitude varies predominately with precession and is not closely related to annualmean insolation. Based on the last few million years of orbital history, the precession cycle dominates in a narrow latitude range 54 –65 , in which the margins of the two ice-rich permafrost layers in each hemisphere happen to lie, while mean annual temperature...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine changes in working hours, shift work, psychological and physical job demands, job control and job insecurity in Taiwanese employees by gender and age during the period of 2001 to 2010. METHODS The study subjects were 36,750 men and 27,549 women, aged 25-64, from 4 rounds of cross-sectional surveys of representative employees. Psychosocial work co...

Observations of radar speckle patterns tied to the rotation of Mercury establish that the planet occupies a Cassini state with obliquity of 2.11 +/- 0.1 arc minutes. The measurements show that the planet exhibits librations in longitude that are forced at the 88-day orbital period, as predicted by theory. The large amplitude of the oscillations, 35.8 +/- 2 arc seconds, together with the Mariner...

BACKGROUND The Japanese government is an important shareholder in the Japanese tobacco industry. Negotiations to develop the WHO's historic Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) were based on consensus, resulting in countries needing to agree to the lowest acceptable common denominator in clause development. OBJECTIVE To illustrate Japan's role in negotiating key optional language in...

This paper presents an angular correlation analysis of the Green Bank 4.85 GHz radio catalog (Gregory & Condon 1991) of 54,579 sources (S > 25 mJy). The Green Bank catalog is found to be complete to S 35 mJy over 20 < 74 , 0 h < 24 h , and Galactic latitude jbj 10. The 2-point angular correlation function shows evidence for the clustering of radio sources, with a power-law distribution consiste...

This study aims to assess how high-latitude vegetation may respond under various climate scenarios during the 21st century with a focus on analyzing model parameters induced uncertainty and how this uncertainty compares to the uncertainty induced by various climates. The analysis was based on a set of 10,000 Monte Carlo ensemble Lund-Potsdam-Jena (LPJ) simulations for the northern high latitude...

For animals that migrate long distances, the magnetic field of the earth provides not only a possible cue for compass orientation, but a potential source of world-wide positional information. At each location on the globe, the geomagnetic field lines intersect the earth's surface at a specific angle of inclination. Because inclination angles vary with latitude, an animal able to distinguish bet...

The Galactic Legacy Infrared Midplane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) is an infrared survey of the inner Galactic plane using the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) (Fazio et al. 2004) on board the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) (Werner et al. 2004). IRAC has four detectors, centered at approximately 3.6, 4.5, 5.8 and 8.0 μm. GLIMPSE covered a latitude range of ±1◦, and a longitude range of |l| =10◦−6...

The greater latitudinal extents of occurrence of species towards higher latitudes has been attributed to the broadening of physiological tolerances with latitude as a result of increases in climatic variation. While there is some support for such patterns in climate, the physiological tolerances of species across large latitudinal gradients have seldom been assessed. Here we report findings for...