Local and global sensitivity and uncertainty methods are applied to a box model of the dimethylsulfide (DMS) oxidation cycle in the remote marine boundary layer in order to determine the key physical and chemical parameters and sources of uncertainty. The model considers 58 uncertain parameters, and simulates the diurnal gas-phase cycles of DMS, SO2, methanesulfonic acid (MSA), and H2SO4 for cl...

There seems to be something in the air: democratic societies around the world have had a rough time recently. Some, such as Turkey, Hungary and Poland, appear to be moving towards what Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, calls an “illiberal democracy,” soft authoritarianism veiled in the trappings of traditional democracies. The United Kingdom votes to Brexit from the European Union, leadin...

OBJECTIVE To estimate mortality from diabetes mellitus (DM) for the period 2001-2011 in the Republic of Panama, by province/indigenous territory, and determine its relationship with biological and socioeconomic risk factors. METHODS Cases for the years 2001-2011 with DM listed as the principal cause of death were selected from Panama's National Mortality Registry. Crude and adjusted mortality...

perform a variant of the delayed match-to-sample (DMS) task with short retention intervals of only a few seconds. In a typical version of the DMS task (referred to as the standard version), a sample stimulus is followed by the presentation of a variable number of nonmatching test stimuli. Trials always end with the repetition of the sample stimulus, also called the match (Li et al., 1993; Mille...

We study the applicability of the the method of layer potentials, in the treatment of boundary value problems for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on Lipschitz subdomains of Riemannian manifolds, in the case when metric tensor gjkdxj ⊗ dxk has low regularity. Under the assumption that |gjk(x) − gjk(y)| ≤ C ω(|x − y|), where the modulus of continuity ω satisfies a Dini type condition, we prove the ...

Methylazoxymethanol (MAM) and dimethyl sulfate (DMS) are mutagens whose genetic effects can be ascribed to the methylation of DNA. While both methylate the N7 position of guanine heavily, only MAM strongly methylates the O(6) position of guanine. We evaluated the relative effectiveness and specificity of MAM and DMS in bacterial assays for the induction of point mutations and the formation of c...

Proposing a hierarchical group compromise method can be regarded as a one of major multi-attributes decision-making tool that can be introduced to rank the possible alternatives among conflict criteria. Decision makers’ (DMs’) judgments are considered as imprecise or fuzzy in complex and hesitant situations. In the group decision making, an aggregation of DMs’ judgments and fuzzy group compromi...

In the fourth sentence of the second paragraph under the subheading “[Pt(acac)2(DMS)] decreases expression and activity of MMP-2 and -9” in the Results section, the units for SB203580 should be listed in μM instead of mM. The correct sentence is: When SH-SY5Y cells were pretreated for 30 min with SB203580 (1 and 10 μM), and then with 0.50 μM [Pt(acac)2(DMS)] for 24 h, the inhibition of MMP-2 an...