In January of that year George D Lundberg, Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA], was sacked by the American Medical Association (Anderson 1999). Some five months later, Jerome P Kassirer, Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, left the Journal when his contract with the Massachusetts Medical Society, the journal’s owners, was not renewed (Smith 1999). At the ...

The rainfall and runoff relationship becomes an intriguing issue as urbanization continues to evolve worldwide. In this paper, we developed a simulation model based on the soil conservation service curve number (SCS-CN) method to analyze the rainfall-runoff relationship in Guangzhou, a rapid growing metropolitan area in southern China. The SCS-CN method was initially developed by the Natural Re...

Abstract The fracture represents the final phase of crack propagation, and causes their occurrence or partial propagation in real constructions made ferritic steels can be different. Along with cracks, influences such as stress concentration low temperature contribute to being “faster” have an impact on mechanics parameters, well fact that is more likely occur due cleavage. parameters discussed...

The temperature-driven adaptation of the bacterial community in peat was studied, by altering temperature to simulate self-heating and a subsequent return to mesophilic conditions. The technique used consisted of extracting the bacterial community from peat using homogenization-centrifugation and measuring the rates of thymidine (TdR) or leucine (Leu) incorporation by the extracted bacterial co...

This work presents an energy-efficient diode-based CMOS temperature sensor. It is based on the capacitively-biased diode (CBD) working principle and can operate with a 1-V supply voltage. Instead of using separate CBD front-end ADC, new architecture proposed in which directly embedded into 1st stage 1-bit 2nd-order switched-capacitor Σ-ADC, thereby improving both energy efficiency accuracy. The...