This note studies the response of a simple linear baroclinic coastal-upwelling model to fluctuating longshore winds. Correlations between wind stress and velocities are computed explicitly. It is shown that these correlations depend primarily upon the wind-~ spectrum and that. for a realistic spectrum, the wind stress leads the longshore velocity by approximately one day. The computed correlati...

OBJECTIVES We examined whether the weekly number of newspaper articles reporting on influenza was related to the incidence of influenza in a large city. DESIGN Prospective, non-randomised, observational study. SETTING Registry data of influenza cases in Fukuoka City, Japan. PARTICIPANTS A total of 83,613 cases of influenza cases that occurred between October 1999 and March 2007 in Fukuoka...

Accreting black holes and neutron stars in their hard (low) state show not only very similar X/γ-ray spectra but also that the behaviour of their light curves is quite similar which can be quantified as having similar power-density spectra and Fourier-frequency-dependent time/phase lags. Taken together this argues for a common mechanism of the X/γ-ray production in these objects. This mechanism...