The current manuscript explores Twitter use and content in the precrisis stages of a major weather event in the northeast. A multi-level content analysis of tweets collected in the lead up to landfall suggests that emergency management agencies largely underutilized the medium, and that actionable information was easier to find when searching along localized hashtags. The findings are discussed...

Ismail, Jiandi Zhang,* R. Matzdorf, T. Kimura, Y. Tokura, and E. W. Plummer Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6057 Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199 Universität Würzburg, Experimentelle Physik IV, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, ...

Abstract A timely and cost-effective method of creating inundation maps could assist first responders in allocating resources personnel the event a flood or preparation future disaster. The Height Above Nearest Drainage (HAND) model be implemented into an on-the-fly mapping application for Canada-wide service. HAND requires water level (m) data inputs while many sources hydrological Canada only...

By the use of surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy, immunoglobulin G (IgG) subclass and IgM antibodies against three schistosome-derived carbohydrate structures, FLDN (Fucalpha1-3GalNAcbeta1-4GlcNAcbeta1-3Galalpha1), LDN-DF [GalNAcbeta1-4(Fucalpha1-2Fucalpha1-3)GlcNAcbeta1], and LDNF [GalNAcbeta1-4(Fucalpha1-3)GlcNAcbeta1-3Galalpha1], were measured in 184 previously unexposed Kenyan immigrant...

The Northwest Portuguese coastal sector Esmoriz-Nazaré is exposed to a very energetic wave climate that promotes net littoral drift estimated be around 1.1x106 m3/year. This study aimed characterize the in Esmoriz-Nazaré, discussing past and future trends by applying two bulk longshore sediment transport formulas: CERC (1984) Mil-Homens et al. (2013). Generically, results present variability at...

It remains unclear whether the recent explosion of medical Internet Digital Libraries (DLs), enabled by substantial investments into eHealth by national governments and international agencies, has brought the desired improvements. As ultimately life-critical applications, medical DLs play a crucial role in delivering evidence to professionals and empowering patients. However, little attention h...

Abs t rac t . An elementary "majorant-minorant method" to construct the most stringent Bonferroni-type inequalities is presented. These are essentially Chebyshev-type inequalities for discrete probability distributions on the set {0, 1 , . . . , n}, where n is the number of concerned events, and polynomials with specific properties on the set lead to the inequalities. All the known resuits are ...

Genki Minegishia, Yasuhiro Kazukibc, Shin-Ichiro Nittad, Atsushi Miyajimae, Hidetaka Akitaa & Kaoru Kobayashie*a Laboratory of DDS Design and Drug Disposition, Graduate School Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japanb Chromosome Engineering Research Center (CERC), Tottori Tottori, Japanc Department Molecular Cellular Biology, Division Genome Functions, Faculty Medicine, Life Scie...

This Coastal and Hydraulic Engineering Technical Note (CHETN) summarizes the state of understanding of the influence of grain size on surf zone sediment transport and is a companion to Smith et al. (2004). This CHETN discusses details of bed-load and suspended load transport, and the classical bed-load regime is shown to encompass two distinct modes of transport. Four LST models with varying le...