Introduction: A major objective of GENESIS is to constrain the present day solar wind (SW) Ar, Kr, and Xe isotopic and elemental compositions by direct measurements of SW irradiated artificial samples [1]. Due to the low abundances of heavy noble gases in the SW, until now these compositions could only be inferred from regolith samples which were irradiated by the SW over large time spans [e.g....

The Indian–French Megha-Tropiques mission, scheduled to be launched in 2010, will carry radiation and microwave sensors to study the energy and water cycle in the tropics. The radiation sensor, the third model of the Scanner for Radiation Budget (ScaRaB-3), is dedicated to the earth’s radiation budget, the difference between the solar absorbed flux and the terrestrial emitted flux. These fluxes...

Geoff Potvin and Zahra Hazari STEM Transformation Institute, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, Florida 33199, USA Department of Physics, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, Florida 33199, USA Department of Teaching & Learning, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, Florida 33199, USA (Received 7 February 2015; publishe...

Brain recovery after prolonged wakefulness is characterized by increased density, amplitude and slope of slow waves (SW, <4 Hz) during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. These SW comprise a negative phase, during which cortical neurons are mostly silent, and a positive phase, in which most neurons fire intensively. Previous work showed, using EEG spectral analysis as an index of cortical sync...

The present work clarifies the relation between domains of universal machines and r.e. prefix-free supersets of such sets. One such characterisation can be obtained in terms of the spectrum function sW (n) mapping n to the number of all strings of length n in the set W . An r.e. prefix-free set W is the superset of the domain of a universal machine iff there are two constants c, d such that sW ...

In der Entwicklung von Elektrik/Elektronik-Architekturen in Fahrzeugen gibt es derzeit den starken Trend hin zu dem Einsatz von Modulkomponenten, die innerhalb eines Automobilherstellers modellübergreifend, teilweise sogar herstellerübergreifend eingesetzt werden. Ziel dieses Ansatzes ist die Reduzierung von Komponentenvarianten durch Wiederverwendung bei gleichzeitiger vereinfachter Ableitung ...

Certain euryhaline teleosts can tolerate media of very high salinity, i.e. greater than that of seawater itself. The osmotic gradient across the integument of these fish is very high and the key to their survival appears to be the enhanced ability of the gill to excrete excess NaCl. These fish provide an opportunity to study morphological and biochemical aspects of transepithelial salt secretio...

The mRNA expression of pituitary prolactin (prl), growth hormone (gh), somatolactin (sl), proopiomelanocortin (pomc), and gonadotropins (gthI and gthII) was quantified by real-time PCR, in sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, adapted for 1 month to seawater (SW) or freshwater (FW). In addition, IGF-I (igfI) mRNA expression in liver and branchial Na+/K+ -ATPase activity were determined. L17 ribosomal...

Traumatic brain injury caused by explosive or blast events is traditionally divided into four phases: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary blast injury. These phases of blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) are biomechanically distinct and can be modeled in both in vivo and in vitro systems. The primary bTBI injury phase represents the response of brain tissue to the initial blast...

The existence and role of an L-arginine:nitric oxide (NO) pathway in two human colorectal adenocarcinoma cell lines, SW-480 and SW-620, were investigated. Both cell lines, which derive from the same patient, SW-480 from the primary tumor and SW-620 from its metastatic lesion, were shown to have a cytosolic, Ca(2+)-independent, NADPH-dependent NO synthase, the activity of which was lower in the ...