OBJECTIVES The authors performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the possible correlation between ambient air pollution and orofacial cleft anomalies in newborns. MATERIAL AND METHODS A literature search was performed using the PubMed and Google Scholar, using the keywords "air pollution", "cleft lip", "cleft palate", "carbon monoxide", "ozone", "sulfur dioxide", "nitroge...

Introduction. We present a toolbox expressly written for MATLAB environment to provide terrain corrections of gravity data. The program performs the complete Bouguer computations, including the Bullard A, Bullard B and Bullard C corrections, from any kind of free air datasets (offshore or on land stations). The gravity contribution due to the relief is computed starting from a gridded topograph...

Underwater ultrasonic transmissions for fluid-solid and air-solid phononic brass plates are reported in this work. Although the structure is roughly the same, experimental results show very different behaviour between fluid-solid and air-solid phononic plates, due to most of the properties of the fluid-solid perforated plates rely on Fabry-Perot resonances, Wood anomalies and Lamb modes. In air...

Many climatologists are concerned with the variability of air-sea interactions. In this paper, signals of interannual and interdecadal variability of air-sea interactions in the southern subtropical Indian Ocean (SSIO) have been extracted from both monthly sea surface temperatures (SST) and monthly surface winds and compared to air-sea interactions of the tropical Indian Ocean (TIO). Empirical ...

[1] Surface topography and associated gravity anomalies above a layer resembling continental lithosphere, whose mantle part is gravitationally unstable, depend strongly on the ratio of viscosities of the lower-density crustal part to that of the mantle part. For linear stability analysis, growth rates of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities depend largely on the wave number, or wavelength, of the pert...

The genesis of mixed layer temperature anomalies across the Indian Ocean are analysed in terms of the underlying heat budget components. Observational data, for which a seasonal budget can be computed, and a climate model output, which provides improved spatial and temporal coverage for longer time scales, are examined. The seasonal climatology of the model heat-budget is broadly consistent wit...

Society remains sharply divided as to the deterrent value of capital punishment. Following the reintroduction of the death penalty in the United States, Texas law mandates the affirmative predictability of future dangerousness beyond a reasonable doubt before a jury can impose the ultimate penalty for capital murder. The validity of prediction of dangerousness has been challenged in three Texas...