TIROS cloud photographs and fine-scale quasi-geostrophic calculations of vertical motion are used in an attempt to gain understanding of the evolution of vortices and other aspects of large-scale cloud masses and to explore the usefulness of the pictures in diagnosis of the vertical motions. Horizontal and vertical motions are found to be of roughly equal importance in the cvolution of cloud pa...

In the present paper influence of tensor electric and magnetic polarizabilities on spin evolution in the resonance deuteron EDM experiment is considered in details. It is shown that besides EDM the electric and magnetic polarizabilities also contribute to the vertical spin component P3. Moreover, the electric polarizability contributes to the P3 component even when the deuteron EDM is supposed ...

Measurement of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) using a closed tube system reduces the biohazard risk to laboratory staff. The Diesse Ves-matic system offers manual or vacuum collection of blood into plastic tubes, automated mixing of the sample, and automated reading of the end point after 20 minutes of sedimentation. This system was compared with the 1977 Westergren ESR method of the ...

Abstract An original, variational formulation of the Virtual Element Method (VEM) is proposed, based on a Hu–Washizu mixed statement for 2D linear elastostatics. The proposed framework appears to be ideal VEs, whereby compatibility enforced in weak sense and strain model can prescribed priori, independently unknown displacement model. It shown how ensuing freedom definition conveniently exploit...

A 915-MHz boundary layer wind profiler with radio acoustic sounding system (RASS) was sited 8 km from a very tall (450 m) television transmitting tower in north-central Wisconsin during the spring, summer, and autumn of 1995. The profiler measured wind means and variances, and the RASS attachment measured virtual temperature. These quantities are compared to measurements from cup and sonic anem...

How is content for virtual environments (VEs) created? How is behavior and motion in VEs specified? How are user interfaces designed and implemented for VEs? Authoring is a crucial aspect for using VEs successfully. This chapter addresses some of the current challenges in authoring VEs and recent research directions that are being explored in order to address these challenges. One highly releva...

The most revealing description of electromagnetic (EM) distortions due to near-surface inhomogeneities and topography is in terms of galvanic and inductive effects. In either case, the distorted electric ankt magnetic fields can be best visualized as a vectorial sum of primary and secondary fields. Secondary electric fields due to electric charge build-up in the galvanic case persist to the lon...

BACKGROUND Very elderly subjects (VES; aged 80 years or older) constitute a special population as they frequently present multiple diseases (polypathology). Results from trials on general adult populations therefore cannot be extrapolated to VES. We performed a census of randomized controlled trials (RCT) on VES published between 1990 and 2002, and carried out a descriptive and methodological a...

UNLABELLED The Vulnerable Elders Survey (VES-13) is a simple function based frailty screening tool that can be also administered by the nonclinical personnel within 5 minutes and has been validated in the out- and in patient clinic and acute medical care settings. The aim of the study was to validate the accuracy of the VES-13 screening method for predicting the frailty syndrome based on a CGA ...