Comparison of the upper tropospheric relative humidity (UTH) of CCM2 forced by observed sea surface temperatures (SSTs) with data from TOVS, MSU, and the GEOS-1 assimilation shows that the model reproduces the observed large-scale pattern of interannual changes of UTH in the tropics, but gives too much drying during the 1987 El Niilo. How UTH responds to the changes of precipitation is well-sim...

Sound sources are perceived by integrating information from multiple acoustical features. The factors influencing the integration of information are largely unknown. We measured how the perceptual weighting of different features varies with the accuracy of information and with a listener's ability to exploit it. Participants judged the hardness of two objects whose interaction generates an impa...

Social media websites have dramatically increased in popularity. Information on these sites does not require verification and may be inaccurate. We investigated how familiarity with content and Twitter authors influenced false memory. Participants from Michigan State University (MSU) read an article about college basketball followed by a Twitter recap that contained false information. The artic...

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To investigate how organic anion transporter (OAT)-1 is involved in uric acid nephropathy (UAN), a rat model for UAN was established and the serum uric acid, blood urea nitrogen and serum creatinine levels were all measured, and observed to be increased. It was additionally identified that in UAN rats the surface OAT1 expression levels were reduced. By treating HEK cells with monosodium urate (...

In this paper we describe a holistic approach for Fault-Tolerant Network-on-Chip (NoC) based many-core systems that incorporates a System Health Monitoring Unit (SHMU) which collects all the fault information from the system, classifies them and provides different solutions for different fault classes. A Mapper/Scheduler Unit (MSU) is used for online generation of different mapping and scheduli...

In this study, the Fengyun-3D (FY-3D) clear-sky microwave temperature sounder-2 (MWTS-2) radiances were directly assimilated in regional mesoscale Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model using Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) data assimilation system. The experiments conducted to compare track errors of typhoon Lekima from uses Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) (EXP_AD) ...