A number of global surface wind datasets are available that are commonly used to examine climate variability or trends and as boundary conditions for ocean circulation models. However, discrepancies exist among these products. This study uses observed Archiving, Validation, and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic (AVISO) sea surface height anomalies (SSHAs) as a means to help constrain th...

In the era of big data, unprecedented growth data has been regarded as an important asset and commercial application acquisition markets emerged accordingly. With advancement vehicle manufacturing sensor technologies, a large amount can be collected stored in electric vehicles (EV), making scenario gradually extend to Internet Vehicles (IoV), thus corresponding operational rules economic feasib...

To investigate how time perception may contribute to the symptoms of self-harming Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) patients, 19 self-harming BPD inpatients and 39 normal controls were given measures of time perception, impulsivity, personality, emotion, and BPD characteristics. A test sensitive to orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) function ("Frontal" Behavior Questionnaire) was also administered,...

BACKGROUND Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) that is characterized by markedly defiant, disobedient, and disruptive behavior in younger children has been regarded as disruptive behavior disorder (DBD), together with conduct disorder (CD). However, in contrast to CD, ODD does not include severe aggressive or antisocial behavior. AIM This study aimed to examine executive function (EF) feature...

Testicular sperm extraction is a common procedure used to find spermatogenic cells in men with nonobstructive azoospermia. The laboratory processing of biopsied testicular tissues needs to be performed meticulously to acquire a high yield of cells. In this study, the effectiveness of mincing the tissues after testicular biopsy was assessed using histological evaluation, as was the possible adve...

The maintenance of social/emotional information in working memory (SWM/EWM) has recently been the topic of multiple neuroimaging studies. However, some studies find that SWM/EWM involves a medial frontal-parietal network while others instead find lateral frontal-parietal activations similar to studies of verbal and visuospatial WM. In this study, we asked 26 healthy volunteers to complete an EW...

Background: Substantial progress has been made in the development and testing of potentially profitable technologies for improved soil and water management in Sub-Saharan Africa (Buresh 1997, Sanders et al. 1996). There is also some evidence that particular types of soil and water management technologies (e.g. rock lines, branch barriers, small dikes, vegetative bands, compost pits) are beginni...

The cross-section for ZZ → ZZ with arbitrarily polarized Z bosons is calculated within the electroweak Standard Model including the complete O(α) corrections. We show the numerical importance of the radiative corrections and elaborate its characteristic features. The treatment of the Higgs-boson resonance is discussed in different schemes including the S-matrix-motivated pole scheme and the bac...

Eff ective management of municipal solid waste (MSW) in Pacifi c developing member countries (DMCs) is diffi cult because of several country-specifi c characteristics. These include limited land area, customary land ownership; environmental fragility; limited human and fi nancial capacity; and in some countries, a heavy reliance on tourism. The challenges mean that selecting technologies that a...

Similar to other poor countries across Africa, Malawi struggles with solid waste management (SWM). Especially considering the high proportion of organic waste, composting is a promising opportunity tackle problem. However, has had low uptake due competing fertilizer subsidies, perceived labour required, and lack training equipment. Considering these issues, this paper presents an analysis polit...