introduction thunderstorms of the most important, most abundant of the most severe weather hazard that each year, in addition to large quantities of crops and infrastructure development, causing human casualties are also around the globe. between 1953 and 1957 the financial losses caused by the hurricanes in america has over 3.6 million dollars (changnon;2003,1231).storms of varying intensities...

BACKGROUND Management options for patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) have increased, and treatment of patients with ITP has changed during the past 10 years. METHODS To document current practice and to determine how current practice is related to recommendations of 2 recent practice guidelines for ITP, an International Consensus report and an American Society of Hematology (A...

Many large grass fires occurred in north Texas and southern Oklahoma on 9 April 2009, destroying hundreds of homes and businesses and burning thousands of acres of grasslands, producing large smoke and debris plumes that were visible from various remote sensing platforms. At the same time, strong westerly winds were transporting large amounts of dust into the region, mixing with the smoke and d...

The pulsing inertial oscillation (PIO) model is a nonlinear, time-dependent, translating vortex solution of the inviscid, compressible fluid dynamic equations in the middle troposphere. The translation of this vortex during a pulse is strikingly similar to that of a supercell storm -a rotating thunderstorm that can generate tornadoes and hail. Two studies were performed to test the hypothesis t...

A 67-year-old male patient was admitted with an abrupt sudden cardiac death. He represented with an extreme electrical storm of 30 times of ventricular fibrillation (VF) episodes on one day. External shocks were performed to terminate VF. Transient J-wave in the inferior-lateral leads and Brugada electrocardiography pattern on the right precordial leads appeared during the electrical storm. And...

UNLABELLED The cytokine storm is an intensified, dysregulated, tissue-injurious inflammatory response driven by cytokine and immune cell components. The cytokine storm during influenza virus infection, whereby the amplified innate immune response is primarily responsible for pulmonary damage, has been well characterized. Now we describe a novel event where virus-specific T cells induce a cytoki...

The presented results, concerning the features of the solar wind plasma structure as observed by spacecraft upstream of Earth, could be used for development of middle-term forecasts of magnetic storms. We have analyzed 1-hour data for 1995-2005 and a whole year of 1-min data during solar minimum (1995) and during solar maximum (2000) with 48 and 60 storms, respectively. The long-term statistica...

13 Digital Game based Learning for Undergraduate Calculus Education: Immersion, Calculation, and Conceptual Understanding Yu-Hao Lee, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Norah Dunbar, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Keri Kornelson, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA Scott Wilson, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA Ryan Ralston, University of Okla...

A complex solid torus model was developed in order to be able to study an extreme solar storm, the so-called “Great Storm” or “New York Railroad Storm” of May 1921, when neither high spatial and time resolution magnetic field measurements, solar flare nor coronal mass ejection observations were available. We suggest that a topological change happened in connection with the occurrence of the ext...