as a direct consequence of warmer temperatures, the hydrologic cycle will undergo significant impact with accompanying changes in the rates of precipitation and evaporation. climate change will cause changes in climate variable such as precipitation, temperature, sunshine hours, wind speed and etc. so as a result of climate variable change, the related variable such as potential evapotranspirat...

In this paper, recycled bricks and concrete were applied to prepare eco-friendly mixed powder (RMP) cementitious material, as a supplementary replace conventional cement for improve the recycling of construction demolition waste. Based on effect materials hydration silicate cement, effects RMP workability, mechanical properties microstructure (RMPC) with different replacement ratios 8:4 6:4 mix...

Starry stonewort (Nitellopsis obtusa) is an alga that has emerged as an aquatic invasive species of concern in the United States. Where established, starry stonewort can interfere with recreational uses of water bodies and potentially have ecological impacts. Incipient invasion of starry stonewort in Minnesota provides an opportunity to predict future expansion in order to target early detectio...

This paper focuses on the possibilities of a Petri net based rapid control prototyping (RCP) tool chain. P/T nets extended by interfaces and connected to an extended state model allow the description of typical programmable logic controller tasks. After a general introduction to RCP, the method is applied to the area of sequential control, and code generation for the chosen model is depicted. T...

DNA methylation has been studied extensively in many developmental systems. Little attention, however, has been given to identifying methylation features that distinguish loci whose patterns are in flux in a given cell lineage from those whose patterns are stable. Here, we develop a new metric, the Ratio of Concordance Preference (RCP), to quantify and compare epigenetic flexibility and stabili...

We numerically study structural properties of mechanically stable packings of hard spheres (HS), in a wide range of packing fractions 0.53 ≤ ϕ ≤ 0.72. Detailed structural information is obtained from the analysis of orientational order parameters, which clearly reveals a disorder-order phase transition at the random close packing (RCP) density, ϕc ≃ 0.64. Above ϕc, the crystalline nuclei form 3...

The importance of methane emissions from pan-Arctic lakes in the global carbon cycle has been suggested by recent studies. These studies indicated that climate change influences this methane source mainly in twoways: thewarming of lake sediments and the evolution of thermokarst lakes. Few studies have been conducted to quantify the two impacts together in a unifiedmodeling framework. Herewe ada...

OBJECTIVES We retrospectively reviewed data of patients with incidental prostate cancer (PCa) who underwent radical cystoprostatectomy (RCP) for invasive bladder cancer and we analyzed their features with regard to incidence, pathologic characteristics, clinical significance, and implications for management. MATERIAL AND METHODS Clinical data and pathological features of 64 patients who under...

CONTEXT Physicians frequently prescribe respiratory treatments to hospitalized patients, but the influence of such treatments on clinical outcomes is difficult to assess. OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical outcomes of patients receiving respiratory treatments managed by respiratory care practitioner (RCP)-directed treatment protocols or physician-directed orders. DESIGN A single center, quas...