In this study, fog simulations were conducted using the Fifth-Generation NCAR/Penn State Mesoscale Model (MM5) in and around the Yodo River Basin, Japan. The purpose is to investigate the MM5 performance of fog simulation for long-term periods. The simulations were performed for January, February, March, and July, 2005 with a coarse 3-km and a nested fine 1-km grid domains. Results of the simul...

A cardinal feature of freezing of gait (FOG) is high frequency (3-8 Hz) oscillation of the legs, and this study aimed to quantify the temporal pattern of lower-body motion prior to and during FOG. Acceleration data was obtained from sensors attached to the back, thighs, shanks, and feet in 14 Parkinson's disease patients performing timed-up-and-go tasks, and clinical assessment of FOG was perfo...

Several strains of group G streptococci (GGS) form aggregates when grown in vitro. Aggregating strains interact with fibrinogen, and this study reports the isolation of a novel self-associating and fibrinogen-binding protein of GGS, denoted protein FOG. Sequencing of the fog gene revealed structural similarity with M proteins of both GGS and group A streptococci (GAS). Analogous to GAS, GGS wer...

In the fog computing environment, the encrypted sensitive data may be transferred to multiple fog nodes on the edge of a network for low latency; thus, fog nodes need to implement a search over encrypted data as a cloud server. Since the fog nodes tend to provide service for IoT applications often running on resource-constrained end devices, it is necessary to design lightweight solutions. At p...

T he total economic loss associated with the impact of fog on aviation, marine, and land transportation can be comparable to those of winter storms. For example, in the preChristmas period of 20–23 December 2006, the British Airport Authority (BAA) reported that a blanket of fog and freezing fog over the United Kingdom (UK) forced 175,000 passengers to miss flights from its seven British airpor...

Atmospheric fine particles (PM2.5) collected during August 1997–July 1998 and wintertime fog waters collected during 1997–1999 at Davis, California were analyzed for free and combined amino compounds. In both PM2.5 and fog waters, the average concentrations of combined amino compounds (CAC, e.g., proteins and peptides) were generally 4–5 times higher than those of free amino compounds (FAC, i.e...

Freezing of gait (FOG) is a disabling gait disorder in parkinsonian patients characterized by the inability to initiate or continue locomotion. I herein present a 65-year-old man with Parkinson's disease who invented a unique method (foot loop band) to alleviate FOG, which has not been previously described in the literature. The mechanisms to alleviate FOG include not only facilitating mechanic...

In this paper a new nonlinear signal processing technique, able to remove fog from color images exploiting the optical properties of the fog effect, is introduced. It is based on the use of cellular nonlinear networks (CNNs), a paradigm for nonlinear parallel image processing. The technique is applied to the analysis of several paintings by famous artists of different art movements, in which th...

Background of the Study Freezing of gait (FOG), or a sudden, brief inability to generate normal stepping movements, is a common symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD) that affects more than 50% of patients with PD. However, unlike most Parkinson’s symptoms, FOG is resistant to PD medications and the effects of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS; or therapy that sends electricity t...