The implementation and application of a newly developed coupled system combining ECMWF’s integrated forecast system (IFS) with global chemical transport models (CTMs) is presented. The main objective of the coupled system is to enable the IFS to simulate key chemical species without the necessity to invert the complex source and sink processes such as chemical reactions, emission and deposition...

agronomic and physiological traits and protein expression were compared between non-bt glandless upland cotton variety-zhong5629 and its bt-transgenic near-isogenic lines differing in cryiac gene. results showed that the bt isogenic line had higher plant height and rate of effective bolls, more internal bolls but lower yield, than the non-bt line. the bt isogenic line had lower chlorophyll cont...

Temperature fluctuation which can be treated as fault event has been recognized as a major cause of the intermittent faults (IFs). In order to investigate the failure mechanism of IFs correlated with temperature, the regulation of IF evolution through fault and reset events is studied and transient thermal analysis is carried out. Analysis result shows that the temperature of MCM is fluctuant d...

In fuzzy group theory many versions of the well-known Lagrange’s theorem have been studied. The aim of this article is to investigate the converse of one of those results. This leads to an interesting characterization of finite cyclic groups.

This paper proposes a new method for treating the inverse problem for Iterated Functions Systems (IFS) using Genetic Programming. This method is based on two original aspects. On the fractal side, a new representation of the IFS functions, termed Polar Iterated Functions Systems, is designed, shrinking the search space to mostly contractive functions. Moreover, the Polar representation gives di...

Background The physicians often confuse the early symptoms of Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with Alzheimer dementia (AD), leading to misdiagnosis. There are some cognitive tests to discriminate between AD and behavioral variant FTD (bvFTD), and the INECO Frontal Screening (IFS) is a promising test for this purpose. Objective To assess the performance of the IFS to differentiate patients with ...

Intermediate filaments (IFs), together with actin filaments and microtubules, compose the cytoskeleton. Among other functions, IFs impart mechanical stability to cells when exposed to mechanical stress and act as a support when the other cytoskeletal filaments cannot keep the structural integrity of the cells. Here we present a study on the bending properties of single vimentin IFs in which we ...

BACKGROUND The increasing use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in brain researches has led to growing concern over incidental findings (IFs). To establish a practical management protocol for IFs, it is useful to know the actual prevalence and problems of IF management. In the present study, we report the prevalence proportion and some handling problems of IFs in healthy Japanese children, an...

Clinical experience has suggested the existence of an intermediate form of fungal sinusitis between the categories of non-invasive fungal sinusitis (non-IFS) and invasive fungal sinusitis (IFS). This fungal sinusitis variant demonstrates unhealthy mucosa by endoscopy with fungal invasion, but lacks angioinvasion microscopically, representing what clinically behaves as a 'pre-invasive' subtype o...