One of the most important theories of the traditional Chinese medicine is the exterior-interior relationship between the lung and the large intestine; so far, little direct experimental evidence has been reported to support such relationship. Here we for the first time investigated the mutual interactions between the lung and the large intestine by examining the relevancies between the pulmonar...

BACKGROUND With the objective of identifying spatial and temporal patterns of enzootic raccoon variant rabies, a spatial scan statistic was utilized to search for significant terrestrial rabies clusters by year in New York State in 1997-2003. Cluster analyses were unadjusted for other factors, adjusted for covariates, and adjusted for covariates and large scale geographic variation (LSGV). Adju...

The elastic-scattering intensity pattern from a single particle as a function of spherical coordinate angles theta and phi provides detailed information on the pattern's morphology. By use of an ellipsoidal reflector and a CCD camera, a single-laser-shot intensity pattern from a large angular range (theta from 90 degrees to 168 degrees and phi from 0 degrees to 360 degrees) was detected from a ...

BACKGROUND The Fitzpatrick skin phototype classification scheme has become the standard method for assessing the reaction of the skin to solar stimuli; this method can be easily biased by different factors, such as ethnicity or chronic sun exposure. METHODS Diffuse reflectance spectrophotometry (DRS) is an objective and non-invasive method used in this work to determine constitutive skin colo...

The ignition process of the catalytic partial oxidation of methane has been studied by diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy (DRIFTS) over Pt/Al2O3 catalyst in a freshly reduced (DPt = 1.8 nm), oxidized (DPt = 2.1 nm) and aged (DPt = 5.1 nm) state. The ignition temperature is found to change with the catalyst state following the order oxidized > freshly reduced > aged. Whatever the catalyst...

We explore the capability of the Tevatron and LHC as well as other future hadron colliders to place limits on the possible existence of flavor-independent qq̄γγ contact interactions which can lead to an excess of high pt diphoton events with large invariant masses. Constraints on the corresponding eeγγ contact interaction already exist from LEP. In the case of hadron colliders, strong constraint...

We introduce a set of four new publicly available N-body simulations, the most recent additions to the Texas P 3 M Database. Our models probe the less studied parameter space region of moderate volume (100h −1 Mpc box) combined with fine mass resolution (∝ 10 12 M⊙, roughly comparable to a L⋆ galaxy), making these simulations especially suitable for study of major large-scale structure (LSS) fe...

Several wide-field-of-view adaptive optics (WFAO) concepts such as multi-conjugate AO (MCAO), multi-object AO (MOAO), and ground-layer AO (GLAO) are currently being studied for the next generation of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs). All these concepts will use atmospheric tomography to reconstruct the turbulent-phase volume. In this paper, we explore different reconstruction algorithms and th...

This paper describes the statistical issues involved in analyzing data from high-energy gamma-ray telescopes, at levels from event reconstruction to correlations of populations of astrophysical sources. Some motivation for attempting to do astronomy with high-energy gamma rays is also given, along with some of the constraints implied by operating the instrument in orbit. Specific attention is g...