Abstract. Numerical models predict that discharge from the polar ice sheets will become largest contributor to sea-level rise over coming centuries. However, predicted amount of and associated thinning depends on how well sheet reproduce glaciological processes, such as flow in regions large topographic relief, where flows around bedrock summits (i.e. nunataks) through outlet glaciers. The abil...

Candida albicans, the major human fungal pathogen, undergoes a reversible morphological transition from blastospores (round budding cells) to filaments (elongated cells attached end-to-end). This transition, which is induced upon exposure of C. albicans cells to a number of host conditions, including serum and body temperature (37 degrees C), is required for virulence. Using whole-genome DNA mi...

we report engineering experiences from the critical task of relief well installation under high artesian flow conditions at the downstream toe of the karkheh earth dam, iran. due to the establishment of excessive uplift pressure at the downstream toe of the karkheh dam, installation of a series of new relief wells was considered to permanently relieve part of these pressures. the mentioned upli...

Asthma is largely an inflammatory disease, with the development of T cell mediated inflammation in the lung following exposure to allergen or other precipitating factors. Currently, the major therapies for this disease are directed either at relief of bronchoconstriction (ie beta-agonists) or are non-specific immunomodulators (ie, corticosteroids). While much attention has been paid to factors ...

Pelvic brachytherapy presents the anaesthetist with numerous challenges. Patients vary from highly distressed young adults, to the elderly with coincidental disease severe enough to preclude surgery. The painful radioactive implants remain in place for a number of days. Treatment in isolated rooms reduces radiation exposure to staff, but makes close postoperative monitoring difficult, so the an...

Optical phase gratings were fabricated from photo-crosslinkable polymer liquid crystals with mesogenic 4-(4-methoxycinnamoyloxy)biphenyl side groups by irradiating with 325 nm interference lights and subsequent annealing at elevated temperatures. Recorded phase gratings were verified after the annealing process, although no gratings were observed immediately after the exposure. The characterist...