Brian D. Fink, Judy A. Herlein, Katrine Almind, Saverio Cinti, C. Ronald Kahn, and William I. Sivitz University of Iowa and the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa; Novo Nordisk A/S, Novo Nordisk Park, Måløv, Denmark; Institute of Normal Human Morphology-Anatomy, University of Ancona, Ancona, Italy; and Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center and Department of Medicine,...

1 Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, 2 Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 3 National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, 4 Laboratoire d’etude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environment, Institute of Research for Development, Grenoble, France, 5 Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Ut...

Joan T. Richtsmeier • Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 and Center for Craniofacial Development and Disorders, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205. Theodore M. Cole III • Department of Basic Medical Science, School of Medicine, University of Missouri—Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64108. Subhash R. Lele • Department of Mathemati...

i Preface In these five lectures, I cover selected items from the following topics: 1. Reduction theory for mechanical systems with symmetry, 2. Stability, bifurcation and underwater vehicle dynamics, 3. Systems with rolling constraints and locomotion, 4. Optimal control and stabilization of balance systems, 5. Variational integrators. Each topic itself could be expanded into several lectures, ...

Aeshna shennnong sp. nov. (holotype male: Dajiuhu national wetland park in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve, Shennongjia City, Hubei Province, China, 28. VIII. 2013) is described, illustrated and compared with its most similar congener, A. petalura Martin, 1908. The holotype will be deposited in the Collection of Aquatic Animals, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan ...

Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Psychiatry, DeCrespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK; Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Bethune University of Medical Sciences, Changchun, Peoples Republic of China; Department of Neurology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0284; USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of K...

Passive diffusive samplers were used to collect ambient benzene for a one-week sampling period (April 27 to May 4, 2011) at 11 locations throughout a city park in the Tampa, Florida, area. Concentrations were determined through gas chromatography with mass spectrometry. Spatial variability within the park and its contribution to uncertainty in health risk estimates were studied. Measured concen...

Abstract Purpose Although plant functional type can modulate soils and their processes in natural, nitrogen (N)-limited ecosystems, little is known about ability to influence soil N dynamics urban ecosystems that have high excess input. We investigated whether i) effects on parks follow the same pattern as those undisturbed natural/semi-natural forests, ii) park age influences under boreal clim...

Transition of populations from rural to urban living causes landscape changes and alters the functionality of soil ecosystems. It is unclear how this urbanization disturbs the microbial ecology of soils and how the disruption influences nitrogen cycling. In this study, microbial communities in turfgrass-grown soils from urban and suburban areas around Xiamen City were compared to microbial comm...

Fen Xu,† Vyacheslav Volkov,‡ Yimei Zhu,‡ Hanying Bai,† Anthony Rea,§ Nikesh V. Valappil,§ Wei Su,† Xueyun Gao,† Igor L. Kuskovsky,*,§ and Hiroshi Matsui*,† Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The City UniVersity of New York Hunter College, 695 Park AVenue, New York, New York 10065, BrookhaVen National Laboratory (BNL), CMP Materials Science Department, Upton, New York 11973, and Departmen...