Speleothems from Hoti Cave in northern Oman provide a record of continental pluvial periods over the last 330,000 yr. Periods of rapid speleothem deposition occurred from 6000 to 10,500, 78,000 to 82,000, 120,000 to 135,000, 180,000 to 200,000, and 300,000 to 330,000 yr ago, with little or no growth during the intervening periods. During each of these five pluvial periods, D values of water ext...

The presence of ragocytes (R A cells) (Delbarre, Kahan, Amor, and Krassinine, 1966; Hollander, McCarty, Astorga, and Castro-Murillo, 1965) and the relatively low levels of haemolytic complement (Hedberg, 1963, 1964; Pekin and Zvaifler, 1964; Peltier, Coste, and Delbarre, 1966) in synovial fluids from patients with rheumatoid arthritis which have been recently reported may be in some ways interr...

The modeling of thermo-physical fluid properties is of great importance when modeling thermo-fluid systems. The Modelica Standard Library provides a number of medium models that can be used in component models but are not sufficient in many applications. This paper presents a new interface library with a Modelica front-end that allows for an easy inclusion of external fluid property code in Mod...

OBJECTIVE We explored the possibility that perturbations in amniotic fluid glucose, insulin, and insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 1(IGFBP1) and/or metabolic acids exist before routine screening for GDM. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We selected consenting mother-infant pairs (n = 408) who met our inclusion criteria (singleton pregnancy, no genetic abnormalities, and no preexisting dia...

We consider multidimensional cosmologies in even-dimensional space-times (D = 2n) containg perfect fluid and a multidimensional generalization of the Maxwell field FA1···An preserving its conformal invariance. Among models with an isotropic physical 3-space some integrable cases are found: vacuum models (which are integrable in the general case) and some perfect fluid models with barotropic equ...

We develop our existing two-dimensional lattice gas model to simulate the flow of single phase, binary immiscible and ternary amphiphilic fluids. This involves the inclusion of fixed obstacles on the lattice, together with the inclusion of “no-slip” boundary conditions. Here we report on preliminary applications of this model to the flow of such fluids within model porous media. We also constru...

Workload characterization is used for modeling and evaluating computing systems at different levels of detail. We present workload characterization for a class of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applications that solve Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). This workload characterization focuses on three high performance computing platforms: SGI Origin2000, IBM SP-2, and a cluster of Intel P...