In April 2001, three instrumented surface drifters were deployed in the Mississippi River plume near the mouth of Southwest Pass. The plume was characterized by strong surface gradients of salinity, temperature, and chromophoric dissolved organic matter fluorescence (FCDOM). The drifters initially headed west and attained peak speeds of 1 m s 1 within 5 h after release. Thereafter, velocity dec...

The Malta Leprosy Eradication Project (MLEP) was proposed in 1971 by Freerksen with the aim of eradicating leprosy in Malta. The project involved re-treatment of all known cases in Malta as of 1972 and all new cases thereafter with a regimen consisting of Isoprodian (a combination of dapsone, prothionamide and isoniazid) and rifampicin for varying intervals depending on the severity of their di...

This report describes a re-examination of the remains of a young male child recovered in the Northwest Atlantic following the loss of the Royal Mail Ship Titanic in 1912 and buried as an unknown in Halifax, Nova Scotia shortly thereafter. Following exhumation of the grave in 2001, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) hypervariable region 1 sequencing and odontological examination of the extremely limited ...

Understanding ecosystem functional behaviour and its response to climate change necessitates a detailed understanding of vegetation phenology. The present study investigates the effect an elevational gradient, temperature, precipitation on start season (SOS) end (EOS), in major forest types Kumaon region western Himalaya. analysis made use Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time seri...

We propose in this article a Composite Logistic Regression (CLR) approach for ordinal panel data regression. The new method transforms the original ordinal regression problem into a number of binary ones. Thereafter, the method of conditional logistic regression (Chamberlain, 1984; Wooldridge, 2001; Hsiao, 2003) can be directly applied. As a result, the new method allows the unobserved subject ...

Population counting has a relatively long history in Nepal the first count was taken in 1911 and thereafter it was conducted roughly every ten years. However, the first four periodic censuses (1911, 1920, 1930, and 1941) did not meet the requirements of a scientific census. The 1952/54 census was the first scientific count in the modern sense of the term. Because of political instability the wh...

abstract objective: several studies have been published on the epidemiology of childhood malignancies worldwide. the primary objective of this study is to determine the relative frequency of pediatric cancers in iran. methods: using a retrospective approach, all confirmed cases of malignancies aged 14 years old or less at the time of first referral to the department of radiation oncology of jor...

Based on research conducted by NCBI’s comparative genomics group, the database of Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins (COGs) represents a phylogenetic classification of proteins encoded in complete genomes. The COGs are derived from an “all-against-all” sequence comparison of the encoded proteins. Each COG consists of individual proteins or groups of paralogs from at least three lineages...

Figure 1 shows a TaxPlot in which E. coli K12 has been selected as the reference genome for comparison of two strains of H. pylori, J99 and 26695. Each point in the figure represents a single E. coli protein. The X and Y coordinates represent the BLAST score for the protein’s closest match in the two strains of H. pylori. There are 217 E. coli proteins that are equally similar to proteins in th...

s of Scientific Presentations Listed Alphabetically by Author/Presenter Peak Alpha Frequency: An Electroencephalographic Measure of Cognitive Preparedness Efthymios Angelakis, PhD candidate University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee [email protected] Introduction. Electroencephalographic (EEG) peak alpha frequency (PAF) has been shown to correlate with a variety of phenomena, including age, m...