The existing 20-member ensemble of 50 yr ECHAM5/MPI-OM simulations provides a reasonably realisti Monte Carlo sample of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Localized observations of sea surface temperature (SST), zonal wind speed and thermocline depth are assimilated in the ensemble using sequential importance sampling to adjust the weight of ensemble members. We determine optimal observat...

INTRODUCTION New-onset insomnia (NOI) associated with nocturnal ventilatory support (NVS) is becoming a reality in clinical practice; however there is a lack of data about its prevalence. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of NOI in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) under NVS and its associated risk factors. MATERIAL AND METHODS Descriptive cross-sectional study of 8...

mean tropical state driving El Niño events for this analysis. Table 1 shows that knowledge of these quantities averaged over a 50-year window is not sufficient to determine the ENSO variability over the same window–developing more sophisticated metrics is a crucial goal of the proposed research. Nonetheless, simple lag-correlation analysis of NINO3 index and eastern Pacific thermocline depth (l...

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Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the main food for people in Laos, where it has been grown and eaten since prehistory. Diverse landraces are grown in Laos. 'Khao Kai Noi', a landrace favored for its eating quality, is held in the nationwide collection of traditional landraces in the Lao national genebank. Genetic diversity is crucial for sustainable use of genetic resources and conservation. To invest...

Seasonal variation of plasma cholesterol levels was studied in 1446 hypercholesterolemic 35to 59-year-old male participants in the Lipid Research Clinics Coronary Primary Prevention Trial placebo group. Each man's serial cholesterol data, obtained at bimonthly intervals for 2.0 to 6.5 years, were analyzed as a separate periodic time series, and distributions of cycle zeniths and amplitudes were...

Wavelet Shrinkage de-noi si ng i s appl i ed to El ect rophoret i c Nucl ear Magnet i c Resonance (ENMR) data. Both threshol d rul es for removi ng noi se, namel y sof t and hard, proposed i n Donoho's Vi suShri nk are used simul t aneousl y. Sof t t hreshol di ng i s appl i ed to ne l evel s of wavel et decomposi t i on coe ci ent s and hard threshol di ng to coarse l evel s. Thi s impl ementa...

Epidemics of malaria in the East African highlands in the last 2 decades have often been associated with climate variability, particularly the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). However, there are other factors associated with malaria risk and there is increased interest in the influences of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), a climate mode of coupled ocean-atmosphere variability, on East African...

This paper demonstrates how the Nation of Islam (NOI), a well known black nationalist organization, is utilizing notions of community to promote the activities and goals of its farm to other black people. The NOI ownsMuhammad Farms in rural southern Georgia, USA. Its stated purpose is to feed all black people in the United States. Historically, theNOI has occupied a radical space in the black c...

La funzione di spaventare e allontanare gli uccelli da secoli riservata a figure mitologiche o fantocci costruiti in casa si è riversata negli ultimi decenni sugli umani, su quelle persone, nel giudizio comune ghettizzante, sul limitare dell’accettabilità. Gli spaventapasseri, che compaiono tra versi canzoni, albi per bambini scatti famosi, sono quel l’umano il burattino, testimoni delle umane ...