The sectoral and regional contributions from northern hemisphere anthropogenic and biomass burning emission sectors to black carbon (BC) distributions over the continental United States (CONUS) in summer 2008 are studied using the Sulfur Transport and dEposition Model (STEM). North American (NA) emissions heavily (>70% of total emissions) affect the BC levels from the surface tow5 km, while non...

Amount, stability, and distribution of black carbon (BC) were studied at four sites of a large peatland (“Witzwil”) formerly used as a disposal for combustion residues from households to derive BC displacement rates in the profile. Possible artefacts from thermal oxidation with Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) on BC quantification of C-rich deposits were inferred by choosing three sites ...

Article history: Received 5 February 2010 Received in revised form 21 September 2010 Accepted 21 September 2010 Available online 18 October 2010 Editor: T.M. Harrison

In this paper, we describe the WSD team’s approaches to textual entailment recognition task (RITE) at NTCIR-10[1], a conference held in June 18-21, 2013, at NII in Tokyo, Japan, and present experimental results for three Japanese subtasks, called “Binary Class” (BC), “Multi Class” (MC) and “Entrance Exam BC” (ExamBC). Our approach employs two supervised learning techniques: support vector machi...

Black carbon (BC) may play an important role in the global C budget, due to its potential to act as a significant sink of atmospheric CO2. In order to fully evaluate the influence of BC on the global C cycle, an understanding of the stability of BC is required. The biochemical stability of BC was assessed in a chronosequence of high-BC-containing Anthrosols from the central Amazon, Brazil, usin...

UNLABELLED Breast cancer (BC) in young adult patients (YA) has a more aggressive biological behavior and is associated with a worse prognosis than BC arising in middle aged patients (MA). We proposed that differentially expressed miRNAs could regulate genes and proteins underlying aggressive phenotypes of breast tumors in YA patients when compared to those arising in MA patients. OBJECTIVE Us...

BACKGROUND Src, a non-receptor tyrosine kinase is elevated in cancer with expression and activity correlated with cell proliferation, adhesion, survival, motility, metastasis and angiogenesis. There is limited data on Src expression and subcellular localization in breast cancer and no information about expression in racial/ethnic groups. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The present study evalua...

New technologies offer rapid identification of organisms and antimicrobial resistance markers in blood cultures several hours faster than conventional methods. We sought to determine whether implementation of the Verigene® Gram-Positive Blood Culture (BC-GP) assay paired with a well-defined results reporting algorithm would lead to earlier deescalation of empiric therapy for inpatients with met...

We conducted the first measurements of the direct effect of laboratory controlled BCcontamination on snow albedo in a laboratory environment. Optical measurements of natural snow intentionally doped with industrial grade BC were conducted at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. Snow albedo was measured in a (portable) integrating sphere system. The absolute spectral albedos are less than expe...

Article History Received: 7 September 2017 Revised: 21 September 2017 Accepted: 28 September 2017 Published: 5 October 2017