Rainfall rate estimates from spaceborne microwave radiometers are generally accepted as reliable by a majority of the atmospheric science community. One of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) facility rain-rate algorithms is based upon passive microwave observations from the TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). In Part I of this series, improvements of the TMI algorithm that are required to ...

nature reserve in the Saudi Arabian desert. It has been a dry winter, with virtually no rain since the previous spring.The hoopoe larks are quiet this year. Occasionally a male whistles his song and dances vertically up and down in the air – about 5 metres up, then, after a somersault , back to the ground or the bush that he started from. In some years, every territory contains a dancing male. ...

Antoine Riaud, Michael Baudoin, Olivier Bou Matar, Loic Becerra, and Jean-Louis Thomas Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, ISEN, Univ. Valenciennes, UMR 8520, International Laboratory LEMAC/LICS IEMN, F-59000 Lille, France Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS UMR 7588, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, 4 place Jussieu, 75006 Paris, France (Received 18 July 2016; revised manuscript re...

The objective was to determine whether denervation reduces or enhances the physiological effects of the K(ATP) channel during fatigue in mouse extensor digitorum longus (EDL) and soleus muscle. For this, we measured the effects of 100 microM of pinacidil, a channel opener, and of 10 microM of glibenclamide, a channel blocker, in denervated muscles and compared the data to those observed in inne...

Selected ternary compounds of the family of AT6X4 (LiCo6P4-type) intermetallics have been studied by ab initio methods with respect to their electronic structures and chemical bonding. The bonding characteristics highlight the role of the three-dimensional [T6X4] polyanionic networks which, within the hexagonal channels, accommodate loosely bonded A cations. In alkali metal based compounds, whe...