extended abstract   introduction the most important indicator of climate in a region is vegetation community. climate can be different over large areas, because of changes in vegetation community. vegetation influences weather and climate in its surrounding areas mostly by way of evapotranspiration and albedo so they play a role in the earth’s energy balance. these effects on the earth’s energy...

the kinetic of the heterogeneous chemical reaction of aluminum hydroxide and fluosilicic acid was studied. it was found that the diffusion of the reactants through the porous silica coating to the aluminum hydroxide surface and the interfacial chemical reaction between the diffusing reactant and aluminum hydroxide platelets control the overall reaction rate. these two phenomena were studied and...

Quasiclassical trajectory studies have been performed for the reaction between an H ~or D! atom incident from the gas phase and a H ~or D! atom adsorbed onto a Cu~111! surface. Results from a density functional calculation of the interaction between H and a Cu~111! surface are used to construct a detailed potential energy surface which contains all six nuclear degrees of freedom. Impacts of the...

the molecular dynamics (md) simulation method is used to assess structural details for humanprion protein (hereafter prpn) and its asp178 asn mutant (hereafter prpm) which causes fatalfamilial insomnia disease. the results reveal that the flexibility and instability increase in prpmcould be related to specific amino acids exposed to the solvent. solvation free energy of prpm is 20kjmot1nni2 mor...

We examined the determinants of resting energy expenditure (REE) in 127 observations in 56 burned children. Predicted basal energy expenditure (PBEE), body surface area (BSA), and body weight correlated significantly with REE (r2 = 0.76). Days postburn and burn size (% BSA burned) only accounted for 21%, and 24% of the variation in the elevation in REE above PBEE. The single most powerful predi...