The combined impacts of woody plant encroachment and climate variability have the potential to alter water balance in many sagebrush steppe ecosystems Western USA, leading reduced availability these already water-scarce regions. This study compared water-balance characteristics two adjacent semiarid watersheds central Oregon, USA: one dominated by big western juniper. Precipitation, springflow,...

Objective(s): Carbon nanotube (CNT) has been widely applied at molecular and cellular levels due to its exceptional properties. Studies based on conjugation of CNTs with biological molecules indicated that biological activity is preserved. Polyethylenimine (PEI) is explored in designing novel gene delivery vectors due to its ability to condense plasmid DNA through electrostatic attraction. In t...

We use a 20 years database of Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) observations to investigate the two component model ionospheric convection. A convection pattern is included in if it derived from at least 250 radar vectors and has distribution electric potential consistent with Dungey-cycle twin vortex flow (a negative peak dusk cell positive dawn cell). extract locations foci cells S...

In this study, we give the relationships between the conical curvatures of ruled surfaces generated by the unit vectors of the ruling, central normal and central tangent of a ruled surface in the Euclidean 3-space E^3. We obtain differential equations characterizing slant ruled surfaces and if the reference ruled surface is a slant ruled surface, we give the conditions for the surfaces generate...