With Magic against Hail

Hail Detection with Polarimetric Radar

Dual-polarization radars typically transmit horizontally and vertically polarized waves and receive polarized backscattered signals. Because illuminated hydrometeors are not spherical, their radar backscatter cross sections are not the same for the two polarizations. Hydrometeor size, shape, orientation, and thermodynamic phase can be inferred from returned signals. Polarimetric hail algorithms...

Magic Bullet and Immunotherapy against Metastasis

Cancer is uncontrolled cell proliferation. Apoptosis controls the cells from inside while immune system controls the cells from outside. Cancer breaks both controls. To treat cancer one need to restore these controls. Apoptosis can be fixed with targeted chemotherapy (magic bullet) and immune tolerance can be reversed by immunotherapy. Both actions can be done with alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)-toxin...

Hail suppression and society.

An interdisciplinary assessment of hail suppression in the past, present, and future has shown it to be currently scientifically uncertain but a potentially beneficial future technology. An established suppression technology would be widely adopted in the Great Plains, providing benefits to agriculture and secondarily to the American consumer. Development of a reliable technology will require a...

Hail and Farewell

HAIL: Hierarchical Adaptive Interface Layout

We present a framework to adapt software to the needs of individuals with severe motion disabilities who use mouse substitution interfaces. Typically, users are required to adapt to the interfaces that they wish to use. We propose interfaces that change and adapt to the user and their individual abilities. The Hierarchical Adaptive Interface Layout (HAIL) model is a set of specifications for th...