Estuarine salt intrusion greatly threatens freshwater supply in surrounding lands. Physical barriers, which reduce the estuary length (L), are widely constructed to control intrusion. Yet, role of L remains unknown. Using a process-based, idealized, semi-analytical three-dimensional model, we systematically investigate for first time this unknown tide-dominated, periodically weakly stratified e...

We calculate the 1-loop renormalization of a set of extended fermionic bilinears which form a basis corresponding to moments of the parton distribution functions. We use the overlap action for fermions and Luescher-Weisz (LW) action for gluons. Our results are presented as a function of the overlap parameter ρ and the parameters entering the LW action.

Produced water (PW) and spent oil-based wastewaters are some of the largest mineral oil produced. Due to high toxicity hydrocarbons, several countries set stringent discharge limits its treatment is compulsory before discharge. In this work, biological coupled with production bacterial lipids demonstrated in sequential batch airlift reactors (SBAR). Two SBAR (2 L working volume) were used for P...

Records from 2,495 litters and 14,605 Landrace and Large White pigs from two farms, but established from the same base population and run as replicated selection lines, were analyzed. Selection within herd was on estimated breeding values weighted by economic values. Animal models and REML procedures were used to estimate genetic, phenotypic, and environmental parameters for the number of pigs ...

Microcystins (MC), cyanobacterial peptide hepatotoxins, comprise more than 100 different variants. They are rather polar molecules but some variants contain hydrophobic amino acid residues in the highly variable parts of the molecule. In MC-LF and MC-LW, the more hydrophobic phenylalanine (F) and tryptophan (W), respectively, have replaced arginine (R) in MC-LR. Depending on the structure, micr...

To investigate endocrine mechanisms associated with the occasional occurrence of fertile oestrus during lactation in the high prolific Chinese Meishan (MS) breed, the incidence of oestrus and changes in plasma luteinizing hormone (LH) levels before and after oestradiol benzoate (OB, 15 micrograms/kg body weight) administration on day 22 was compared in 4 MS and 6 Large White (LW) sows. All sows...

Let A be a Banach algebra with the second dual A∗∗. If A has a bounded approximate identity (= BAI), then A∗∗ is unital if and only if A∗∗ has a weak∗ bounded approximate identity(= W ∗BAI). If A is Arens regular and A has a BAI, then A∗ factors on both sides. In this paper we introduce new concepts LW ∗W and RW ∗W property and we show that under certain conditions if A has LW ∗W and RW ∗W prop...

In this paper, we explore the Lax-Wendroff (LW) type time discretization as an alternative procedure to the high order Runge-Kutta time discretization adopted for the high order essentially non-oscillatory (ENO) Lagrangian schemes developed in [2, 4]. The LW time discretization is based on a Taylor expansion in time, coupled with a local CauchyKowalewski procedure to utilize the partial differe...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of 20-day litter weight on behavior and heart rate variability (HRV) of piglets under stress. METHODS Forty four original litters were categorized as high litter weight (HW) litters (n = 22) and low litter weight (LW) litters (n = 22) by 20-day litter weight. From each original HW litter, three males and three females were ra...