Monsoons have historically been understood to be caused by the low thermal inertia of land, allowing more energy from summer insolation transferred overlying atmosphere than over adjacent ocean. Here, we show that during boreal summer, global maximum net input (NEI) unexpectedly lies Indian Ocean, not land. Observed radiative fluxes suggest cloud-radiative effects (CRE) almost double NEI ocean,...

One hundred pigs from the NE Index Line (NEI) and 100 Hampshire-Duroc cross pigs (HD) were inoculated intranasally with porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome virus (PRRSV 97-7895 strain) at 26 d of age to determine whether genetic variation in response to PRRSV exists. An uninfected littermate to each infected pig served as a control. Pigs were from 163 dams and 83 sires. Body weight an...

The Escherichia coli DNA repair enzyme endonuclease VIII (EndoVIII or Nei) excises oxidized pyrimidines from damaged DNA substrates. It overlaps in substrate specificity with endonuclease III and may serve as a back-up for this enzyme in E. coli. The three-dimensional structure of Nei covalently complexed with DNA has been recently determined, revealing the critical amino-acid residues required...

In a recent paper (Russo, Takezaki, and Nei 1996) we examined the efficiencies of different tree-building methods (neighbor joining [NJ], minimum evolution, maximum parsimony [MP], and maximum likelihood) in recovering a true vertebrate phylogeny using mitochondrial genes. In practice, however, we usually do not know the true tree, so the reliability of a reconstructed tree is tested by various...

[Purpose] This research investigated the relationship between balance measured by a TETRAX and activities of daily living (ADL) assessed by NEI-VFQ 25. The results should provide basic data for rehabilitation therapy for low-vision patients. [Methods] We used the NEI-VFQ-25 vision-related Activities of Daily Living evaluation, MMSE-K, and TETRAX to evaluate 30 low-vision outpatients at K hospit...

METHOD one hundred (n=100) elderly outpatients with diabetic retinopathy taking antihypertensives and/or oral antidiabetics/insulin were interviewed. Adherence was evaluated by the adherence proportion and its association with the care taken in administrating medications and by the Morisky Scale. The National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25) was used to evaluate HRQoL...

Nei and Tajima (1985) recently have criticized my algorithms (Templeton 1983a, 19833) that make phylogenetic inference from restriction-site maps. The purpose of this letter is to address their criticisms and to examine the reasons for our difference of opinion concerning the range of validity of my algorithms. These points will also be illustrated by a worked example using Hawaiian Drosophila....

Named Entity Identification/Recognition is a key component for most Information Extraction tasks. All the existing approaches for NEI use extensive language specific resources. This paper deals with the problem of Multi lingual Named Entity Identification (NEI), and explains the need to address this problem in a language independent fashion. In this work we focus on Less Resourced languages lik...

The National Eye Institute (NEI) hosted a workshop on November 19, 2014, as part of the Audacious Goals Initiative (AGI), an NEI-led effort to rapidly expand therapies for eye diseases through coordinated research funding. The central audacious goal aims to demonstrate by 2025 the restoration of usable vision in humans through the regeneration of neurons and neural connections in the eye and vi...