Using airborne and spaceborne high-resolution digital elevation models and laser altimetry, we present estimates of interannual and multi-decadal surface elevation changes on the Bering Glacier system, Alaska, USA, and Yukon, Canada, from 1972 to 2006. We find: (1) the rate of lowering during 1972–95 was 0.9 0.1ma; (2) this rate accelerated to 3.0 0.7ma during 1995–2000; and (3) during 2000–03 ...

In this paper, ideas from the fields of evolution and genetics are incorporated in a new approach to solve heat transfer problems. Biological metaphors have been used as problem-solving strategies in the engineering sciences for well over fifty years (Denning, 1992). Early efforts include the work of Box ( 1957 ) and Friedman (1959). A rigorous mathematical formalism was introduced by Holland a...

won{gil park [won{gil park, j. math. anal. appl., 376 (1) (2011) 193{202] proved the hyers{ulam stability of the cauchy functional equation, the jensen functional equation and the quadraticfunctional equation in 2{banach spaces. one can easily see that all results of this paper are incorrect.hence the control functions in all theorems of this paper are not correct. in this paper, we correctthes...

Contraction and expansion flows of magnetorheological fluids occur in a variety of smart devices. It is important therefore to learn how these flows can be controlled by means of applied magnetic fields. This paper presents a first investigation into the axisymmetric flow of a magnetorheological fluid through an orifice (so-called abrupt contraction flow). The effect of an external magnetic fie...

Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of cancer worldwide, and almost 800 thousands deaths worldwide every year (IARC, 2008). Almost half of the gastric cancer cases and deaths occur in China, and this cancer ranks the third most common cancer (IARC, 2008). The prognosis of gastric cancer was poor, with 20-30% of 5-year survival rate being attributable to the fact that most cases are diagn...

A recent Health Effects Institute (HEI) study (Bagley, et al., 1996) showed dramatic increases in nanoparticle emissions for a 1991 engine compared to 1988 engine, both running on very low sulfur fuel. This has raised great concerns about very high nanoparticle emissions from modern, low particle mass emission engines. However it is important to recognize that the 1988 engine also produced high...

The current study aimed to replicate and expand upon research conducted by Bagley, Abramowitz and Kosson (2009) to examine categorization of emotional sentences among non-psychopathic individuals. 36 monolingual English-speaking undergraduate participants categorized spoken English sentences (produced with neutral prosody but containing semantic cues to emotion) and French sentences (produced w...

Static FTIR light-induced difference spectra have been recorded for reaction centers from Rhodopseudomonas viridis in the following charge-separated states: P+QA(-)-PQA, P+QB(-)-PQB, I(-)-I, I-QA(-)-IQA, and I-QA(2-)-IQA. A comparison of the I(-)-I difference spectra with the I-QA(-)-IQA difference spectra reveals new bands which can be assigned to QA- vibrations; these vibrations are also obse...

The establishment of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in 1987 and the Interstate New Teachers Assessment and Support Consortium (IN-TASC) in 1992 called for the development of performance-based assessment for teacher certification. This paralleled the development of curriculum standards and standardized achievement testing in K-12 educational settings. It has been our expe...