To investigate further the characteristics of thunderstorms on Qinghai–Tibet plateau, a plateau vortex (PV) thunderstorm and local thermoconvective (TC) over Nagqu area are analyzed using cloud-radar, microwave-radiometer, raindrop-spectrometer data, their macrophysical microphysical evolution discussed in terms thermodynamic processes, lightning activities. The results show following. 1) cloud...

AIMS To test the hypothesis that faecal coliform (FC) and phosphorus (P) are transported similarly in surface runoff through the vegetative filter strip after being released from land-applied manure. METHODS AND RESULTS The Hagerstown soil was packed into boxes that were 10 cm deep, 30 cm wide and 100, 200 or 300 cm long. Grass was grown in boxes prior experiments. Same-length boxes were plac...

Fig 5: The first level of parallelism from cut-HDMR (top) uses MPI Groups and provides completely separable computation (dashed boxes). The sparse grid routine offers the second level of parallelism (bottom), utilizing MPI and Intel(R) TBB with synchronization of resources at every refinement level. Convergence: For dimensions > 8, DDSG takes less execution time for similar convergence in compa...

Studying the acid-base properties of protein molecules led us to reconsider the operational mechanism of ISFETs. Based on the site-dissociation model, applied to the amphoteric metal oxide gate materials used in ISFETs, the sensitivity of ISFETs is described in terms of the intrinsic buffer capacity of the oxide surface,/3s, and the electrical surface capacitance, Cs. The ISFET sensitivity towa...

The tremendous growth of wireless networks demands the need to meet different multimedia (audio, video, text, etc) applications available over the network. This application demand and allocation could lead to high overhead of data if the network has to maintain such a high resources for the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of the applications. High overhead in communication networks occurs...

Recently protein kinases have emerged as some of the most promising drug targets; and therefore, pharmaceutical strategies have been developed to inhibit kinases in the treatment of a variety of diseases. CK2 is a serine/threonine-protein kinase that has been implicated in a number of cellular processes, including maintenance of cell viability, protection of cells from apoptosis, and tumorigene...

Brominated flame-retardant (BFR) additives are present in many polymeric consumer products at percent levels. High environmental concentrations have been observed near cities and polymer, textile, and electronics manufacturing centers. Most studies have focused on European, North American, and Asian locales. Releases are likely rising most dramatically in countries with weak environmental and h...

We present LEOPARD, a fanout optimization algorithm based on the effort delay model for near-continuous size buffer libraries. Our algorithm minimizes area under required timing and input capacitance constraints by finding the tree topology and assigning different gains to each buffer to minimize the total buffer area. Experimental results show that the new algorithm achieves significant buffer...

Layered FeII-FeIII hydroxides (green rusts, GRs) are efficient reducing agents against oxidizing contaminants such as chromate, nitrate, selenite, and nitroaromatic compounds and chlorinated solvents. In this study, we adopted a buffered precipitation approach where glycine (GLY) was used in the synthesis of sulfate-interlayered GR (GRSO4) by aerial oxidation of FeII or co-precipitation by addi...