It is well-known that aerosols affect clouds and that the effect of aerosols on clouds is critical for understanding human-induced climate change. Most climate model studies have focused on the effect of aerosols on warm stratiform clouds (e.g., stratocumulus clouds) for the prediction of climate change. However, systems like the Asian and Indian Monsoon, storm tracks, and the intertropical con...

BACKGROUND Anxiety and challenging behaviour (CB) often occur simultaneously in people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Understanding the associations between anxiety and CB may contribute to more accurate diagnoses and management of both anxiety and CB in this population. AIMS To examine the relationship between anxiety and CB. METHODS A literature review covering the period from Janua...

Umbilical cord blood (CB) offers an alternative source of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to treat patients with malignant and non malignant hematologic diseases, such as leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, Fanconi anemia, myelodysplasia and sickle cell anemia [1]. Umbilical CB contains a low cell dose, and the first transplantation CB was performed in children with Fanconi anemia, by Gluckman and col...

The current thunderstorm monitoring methods ignore the nonlinear and non-stationary characteristics of atmospheric electric field signals, which has a negative effect on results. Based complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise Savitzky-Golay filtering (CEEMDAN-SG), point charge localization method for cloud is proposed. After CEEMDAN used to decompose signal into s...

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation status has been shown to predict response to anti-EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In patients with advanced-stage NSCLC, evaluation of mutational status is increasingly requested on biopsy or fine-needle aspiration specimens, which often have limited material. There are limited data on the suitability of cyt...

A simplified stochastic model based on airmass thunderstorm rainfall data from the 58-square-mile Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed in south eastern Arizona is being developed at the Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, Ariz. Records from the 95 rain gage network on this watershed pro vide valuable information on airmass thunderstorm rainfall in the Southwestern United States. Proba b...

Covalent binding (CB) of reactive metabolites (RMs) is potentially involved in severe adverse drug reactions. Because the CB assay is of low throughput and costly, a qualitative trapping assay using agents such as [(35)S]GSH is often performed in the early stages of drug discovery. However, trapping methods alone cannot replace the CB assay. We hypothesized that the time-dependent inhibition (T...

Prior studies have noted a strongly nonlinear enhancement of lightning flash rates with increasing cloud height. Here we report a related observation, of a tendency for increased intracloud (IC)-discharge radioemission power versus increased height of the electrified cloud. We find that there is a strong statistical increase of effective radiated power (ERP, or isotropic peak power radiated fro...

This paper presents a study developed at SIMEPAR (Paraná state weather service) using lightning data for electrical thunderstorm nowcasting. Thunderstorm electrical data collected at SIMEPAR such as lightning location, time of occurrence, current intensity, polarity, etc, are stored in real-time in a relational database. As a first step of this study, Microsoft Business Intelligence bundled wit...

This paper describes a comparative analysis of the thunderstorm incidence in southeastern Brazil obtained from thunderstorm days observed at two different epochs (from 1910 to 1951 and from 1971 to 1984) and from lightning data provided by the Brazilian lightning location system RINDAT (from 1999 to 2006) and the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on board the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (T...