Auxological data are the gold standard indexes of the therapeutic conditions in patients with CYP21 deficiency over long-term periods, whereas urinary pregnanetriol (PT) for 24 h has been used as an index for short-term periods. We previously reported that the range of 1.2-2.1 mg/m(2)/day of PT for 24 h (24-h PT) could be used as an index of optimal control in patients with CYP21 deficiency. Th...

Previous studies have found that built-environment characteristics in large cities produce important effects of the urban heat island (UHI) and know horizontal space affected by canopy microclimate ranges from about 30–200 m, but there are few medium-sized cities. Therefore, this study investigates canopy-scale their correlation with Chiayi city, a tropical, city. Under 100 m buffer size, 2D 3D...

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The ability to predict times of greater galactic cosmic ray (GCR) fluxes is important for reducing the hazards caused by these particles to satellite communications, aviation, or astronauts. The 11-year solar cycle variation in cosmic rays is highly correlated with the strength of the heliospheric magnetic field. Differences in GCR flux during alternate solar cycles yield a 22-year cycle, known...

A novel spectral imaging technique is presented that allows multiple grayscale images to be combined in a single hardcopy print. The images are individually revealed when the print is illuminated by suitably chosen illuminants. In its basic form, the technique utilizes the complementary relation between cyan, magenta, and yellow colorants and narrow-band red, green, and blue illumination to com...

A late phase of HoxD activation is crucial for the patterning and growth of distal structures across the anterior-posterior (A-P) limb axis of mammals. Polycomb complexes and chromatin compaction have been shown to regulate Hox loci along the main body axis in embryonic development, but the extent to which they have a role in limb-specific HoxD expression, an evolutionary adaptation defined by ...

Introduction: In contrast to stony meteorites, which have exposure ages usually not higher than a few tens of million years, most iron meteorites exhibit cosmic-ray exposures of hundreds of million years. Consequently, iron meteorites have collected information about the solar system, encoded in cosmogenic nuclides, for much longer than stony meteorites. Iron meteorites are therefore indispensa...

A short overview is presented of current issues concerning the production and evolution of Li, Be and B in the Milky Way. It is argued that the currently popular idea that Galactic Cosmic rays are accelerated inside metal-rich superbubbles (which leads “naturally” to the production of primary Be and B, as observed) encounters the same problems as the previously popular idea of supernovae accele...