The forecasting problem Mount Gambier Airport, in the southeast of South Australia, is one of the most fog-prone aerodromes in South Australia. At Mount Gambier Airport, the occurrence of fog has greater impact on aviation operations than does any other weather phenomenon. On average, fog occurs at Mount Gambier Airport on about 40 days each year and can occur in any month although the mid-year...

Freezing of gait (FoG), a transient halt in walking, is a major mobility problem for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). This study examined the factors that induce FoG, and identified the cues and strategies that help overcome it through a postal survey of 130 PD patients. 72% reported FoG. The factors that commonly induced FoG were turning, fatigue, confined spaces and stressful situation...

Several gait impairments have been associated with freezing of gait (FOG) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). These include deteriorations in rhythm control, gait symmetry, bilateral coordination of gait, dynamic postural control and step scaling. We suggest that these seemingly independent gait features may have mutual interactions which, during certain circumstances, jointly drive the ...

Although many cell fates differ between males and females, probably the most ancient type of sexual dimorphism is the decision of germ cells to develop as sperm or as oocytes. Genetic analyses of Caenorhabditis elegans suggest that fog-3 might directly control this decision. We used transformation rescue to clone the fog-3 gene and show that it produces a single major transcript of approximatel...

Imaging through fog has important applications in industries such as self-driving cars, augmented driving, airplanes, helicopters, drones and trains. Here we show that time profiles of light reflected from fog have a distribution (Gamma) that is different from light reflected from objects occluded by fog (Gaussian). This helps to distinguish between background photons reflected from the fog and...

Objective Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by the progressive degeneration of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons. Rotigotine is a non-ergot dopamine receptor agonist (DA). Its transdermal patch maintains the effective concentrations for 24 hours. Freezing of gait (FOG) is a common and devastating symptom in PD patients. Little is known about therapeutic effects of rotigotine on FOG...

COMMENT: FRONTAL LOBES, EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION, GAIT, AND THE FALLACY OF PSEUDO-TRANSITIVITY Massimo Filippi, Federica Agosta, Milan, Italy; Vladimir Kostić, Belgrade, Serbia; on behalf of all authors of “Pattern of brain tissue loss associated with freezing of gait in Parkinson disease”: We thank Dr. Montgomery1 for his stimulating comments on our article. Our study showed that a specific patte...

Purpose. Motor freezing, the inability to produce effective movement, is associated with decreasing amplitude, hastening of movement, and poor coordination. We investigated how manipulations of movement amplitude and cadence affect upper extremity (UE) coordination as measured by the phase coordination index (PCI)-only previously measured in gait-and freezing of the upper extremity (FO-UE) in p...

Fog-to-cloud computing has now become a new cutting-edge technique along with the rapid popularity of Internet Things (IoT). Unlike traditional cloud computing, fog-to-cloud needs more entities to participate in, including mobile sinks and fog nodes except for service provider (CSP). Hence, integrity auditing in storage will also be different from that storage. In recent work Tian et al., they ...

Most citrus and avocado water-use studies have been conducted in inland orchards; however, orchards located in coastal areas are subject to cooler temperatures and foggier atmospheric conditions. To develop coastal area crop coefficients (Kc values) for irrigation management, we measured orchard consumptive water use (ETc) from two different commercial orchards located near Ventura. In addition...