Is the Smog Lifting?

Reportrapport Steering Smog Prediction Steering Smog Prediction

The use of computational steering for smog prediction is described. This application is representative for many underlying issues found in steering high performance applications: high computing times, large data sets, and many di erent input parameters. After a short description of the smog prediction model, its visualization and steering are described. The amount of computation needed to solve...

Global pollution: is the arctic haze actually industrial smog?

The Standardization of Smog

Of the plants commonly found in Los Angeles County whose responses to smog 2 have been under extensive observation, Poa annua (annual bluegrass) was selected as one worthy of intensive study. It was early reported as one of the most sensitive of the plants observed in the field (11). Because it has a regular habit of growth, can be easily and quiekly grown in small containers, and because the b...

The Dangers of Electromagnetic Smog

Weak electromagnetic radiation removes structurally important calcium (and possibly magnesium) ions from cell membranes, making them weaker and more prone to transient pore formation. This makes them leaky to even large molecules. Prolonged exposure to mobile phone radiation causes serious damage to the DNA in living cells, probably because of digestive enzymes leaking from lysosomes. This may ...

Transcription elongation: The ‘Foggy’ is lifting…

Eukaryotic messenger RNAs are synthesized by the multisubunit enzyme RNA polymerase II, aided by myriad cofactors that control different events in this multistep process. A complete round of transcription involves: the recruitment of polymerase and general transcription factors to the promoter, RNA chain initiation and polymerase escape from the promoter, RNA chain elongation, and finally termi...