The comparison of spectral measurements and calculations provides an excellent foundation for analyzing the ability of models to compute the solar irradiance absorbed in the atmosphere. Since molecular absorption bands have distinctive spectral signatures, the absence of an atmospheric absorber in a model would result in spectral measurement-model residuals qualitatively different from those ca...

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Water vapor is well known to be a critical component in many aspects of atmospheric research, such as radiative transfer and cloud and aerosol processes. The distribution of water vapor in the atmosphere is highly variable, both in time and in space, and has proven to be very difficult to measure accurately. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program’s overa...

Neonicotinoid insecticides are a major group and the newest group among insecticides. They permeate the entire body of a plant and show excellent effects for the control of diseases and harmful insects. The history of neonicotinoid insecticides from development to their market release dates back to the late 1800s. Nicotine (Fig. 1), an alkaloid in tobacco leaves, is an early neonicotinoid insec...

A study conducted in association with the Atlanta Peachtree 10 K followed participants over a 10 year period and 30% of the participants stopped running permanently because of an injury. Two other studies reported a drop out rate in marathon training program for those who enter the race has been reported to be 30% to 50% with the most common reason for non-completion being injury (Clough PJ 198...

The paper overviews the vandalism detection task of the PAN’11 competition. A new corpus is introduced which comprises about 30 000 Wikipedia edits in the languages English, German and Spanish as well as the necessary crowdsourced annotations. Moreover, the performance of three vandalism detectors is evaluated and compared to those of the PAN’10 competition. Vivien Petras and Paul Clough (Eds.)...

592 Older Women With Localized Breast Cancer: Costs And Survival Rates Increased Across Two Time Periods Aaron J. Feinstein, Jessica Long, Pamela R. Soulos, Xiaomei Ma, Jeph Herrin, Kevin D. Frick, Anees B. Chagpar, Harlan M. Krumholz, James B. Yu, Joseph S. Ross, and Cary P. Gross 601 Wide Variation In Payments For Medicare Beneficiary Oncology Services Suggests Room For Practice-Level Improve...