In this article, one-phase and three dimensional computational fluid dynamics analysis was utilized to investigate the effect of annular field pattern of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) with different geometry on the performances and species distribution. This computational fluid dynamics code is used for solving the equation in single domain namely the flow field, the mass conserva...

Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) is an example of a freshwater fish species whose remarkable diffusion outside its native range has led to it being placed on the list of the world's hundred worst invasive alien species (International Union for Conservation of Nature). Here, we investigate mosquitofish shoaling tendency using a dichotomous choice test in which computer-animated images of their co...

INTRODUCTION There are limited data on hardware removal after femoral fracture healing. We determined the incidence of intramedullary nail (IMN) removal after midshaft femoral fractures. We also studied demographic factors influencing IMN removal. METHODS The senior author reviewed all adult femoral fractures with IMN placement in the trauma practice between July 1990 and November 2003. There...

OBJECTIVE To determine the risk factors associated with early repeat workers' compensation claims in Victoria, Australia and to compare our findings with those of a study on the Alberta's Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) in Canada. METHODS We reviewed and described 178,630 claims from 1996-2009. Both persons with single and persons with multiple claims were included. Survival analysis was us...

Hyperbolic conservation laws posed on manifolds arise in many applications to geophysical flows andgeneral relativity. Recentworkby the author and his collaborators attempts to set the foundations for a study of weak solutions defined on Riemannian or Lorentzian manifolds and includes an investigation of the existence and qualitative behavior of solutions. The metric on the manifold may either ...

The study of how population genetic structure is shaped by attributes of the environment is a central scientific pursuit in ecology and conservation. But limited resources may prohibit landscape genetics studies for many threatened species, particularly given the pace of current environmental change. Understanding the extent to which species' ecological strategies--their life histories, biology...

Because air-water and water-air interfaces are equally refractive, cloud droplets and microbubbles dispersed in bodies of water reflect sunlight in much the same way. The lifetime of sunlight-reflecting microbubbles, and hence the scale on which they may be applied, depends on Stokes Law and the influence of ambient or added surfactants. Small bubbles backscatter light more efficiently than lar...

The effect of conservation of integral invariants by finite-element discretization schemes of the shallow-water equations as a model for long-term integrations of atmospheric models is investigated. Two finite-element models are used. The first uses rectangular elements and conserves total energy using an intrinsic method. The second model uses triangular elements and a high-accuracy two-stage ...