BACKGROUND Man, since ancient times, has been convinced of, and has researched scientific evidence that the barometric and gravitational forces play an important role in structural and biological variation of the planets, influencing the various forms of life. In particular, the synergistic relationships between variations in atmospheric pressure and gravitational forces on human gestation peri...

We experimentally investigate the Leidenfrost effect at pressures ranging from 1 to 0.05 atmospheric pressure. As a direct consequence of the Clausius–Clapeyron phase diagram of water, the droplet temperature can be at ambient temperature in a non-sophisticated lab environment. Furthermore, the lifetime of the Leidenfrost droplet is significantly increased in this low pressure environment. The ...

The first highly effective iron-catalyzed carbonylative Suzuki reaction has been developed. Substrates with electron-donating or electron-withdrawing functionality, ortho-substitution, as well as active groups proceeded smoothly, affording desired products in high yields. This protocol is economical, environmentally benign and practical for the synthesis of biaryl ketones.

PURPOSE The objectives of this study were to describe the distribution of all runners' performances in the largest marathons worldwide and to determine which environmental parameters have the maximal impact. METHODS We analysed the results of six European (Paris, London, Berlin) and American (Boston, Chicago, New York) marathon races from 2001 to 2010 through 1,791,972 participants' performan...

We propose a set of Yukawa textures for the Dirac and Majorana Yukawa mass matrices of the neutrinos. These set of textures have one parameter in the Majorana sector and no free parameters in the Dirac sector. We show that such textures can lead to a successful prediction for the squared mass differences relevant to solar, atmospheric and LSND neutrino oscillation experiments. Furthermore a pai...

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in ACP if available. Abstract We report laboratory observations of H 2 SO 4 and H 2 O homogeneous nucleation made under atmospherically relevant conditions ([H 2 SO 4 ] of 10 6 – 10 7 cm −3 and 287 K)....

In this paper, we investigate two different models for transitions of neutrinos and how they are related to each other. The two models are: neutrino oscillations and neutrino decoherence. Neutrino oscillation models have been the standard description for neutrino transitions so far and still are. Neutrino decoherence models, on the other hand, have recently been discussed by several authors [1–...

a Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, 16 Divinity Avenue, Room 3092, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States b United States Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, MS 434, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States c University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, United States d H. Steinitz Marine Biological La...

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