The winter climate of Europe and the Mediterranean is dominated by the weather systems of the mid-latitude storm tracks. The behaviour of the storm tracks is highly variable, particularly in the eastern North Atlantic, and has a profound impact on the hydroclimate of the Mediterranean region. A deeper understanding of the storm tracks and the factors that drive them is therefore crucial for int...

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...

BACKGROUND Electrical storm, multiple temporally related episodes of ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF), is a frequent problem among recipients of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). However, insufficient data exist regarding its prognostic significance. METHODS AND RESULTS This analysis includes 457 patients who received an ICD in the Antiarrhythmics Ve...

do.usbr. Summary We investigate the applicability of the Two-dimensional, Runoff, Erosion and Export (TREX) model to simulate extreme floods on large watersheds in semi-arid regions in the western United States. Spatially-distributed extreme storm and channel components are implemented so that the TREX model can be applied to this problem. TREX is demonstrated via calibration, validation and si...

The Airborne Science Initiative is a collaborative effort between the School of Aviation, School of Surveying, School of Civil Engineering and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales. Harnessing the equipment and skills of the team, a series of beach surveys have been performed to gather data about beach dynamics over a period of six months. L...

A hindcast of typical extratropical storm surge occurring in the Bohai Sea in Oct. 2003 is performed using a three-dimensional storm surge model system based on Finite-Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM). The surface winds are obtained from the WRF data set. Some preliminary sensitivity studies of the influential factors affecting the storm surge simulation in the Bohai Sea are studied with the ...

Thyroid storm is an endocrine emergency which is characterized by multiple organ failure due to severe thyrotoxicosis, often associated with triggering illnesses. Early suspicion, prompt diagnosis and intensive treatment will improve survival in thyroid storm patients. Because of its rarity and high mortality, prospective intervention studies for the treatment of thyroid storm are difficult to ...

Design modifications of the blade inner structure, targeted at reducing design-driving extreme loads due to storm conditions, are assessed in present paper. Under survival wind speeds, lack sufficient aerodynamic damping edgewise direction is responsible for excessive stall-induced vibrations that usually drive turbine design loads. The considered work (i) a non-symmetric increase thickness uni...