Geomorphometric features and land use/land cover are essential in the context of watershed prioritization for resources conservation and protection. Watersheds in tropical regions like the Philippines are under threat of degradation due to the combined effects of uncontrolled agricultural activities in the uplands and frequently increasing erosive precipitations brought about by climate change....

Movement of live animals is a key contributor to disease spread. Farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar, rainbow trout Onchorynchus mykiss and brown/sea trout Salmo trutta are initially raised in freshwater (FW) farms; all the salmon and some of the trout are subsequently moved to seawater (SW) farms. Frequently, fish are moved between farms during their FW stage and sometimes during their SW stage...

Objective of this study was to determine the accuracy of the method of the clinical intraoral densitometry, to compare differences in the calculation with or without subtraction of the background adjacent soft-tissues from the stepwedge (SW) and to verify which regression model best fitted the experimental data in order to express the measured values in equivalents of SW thickness. Two intraora...

This study was designed to test whether Alpinia pricei (AP), a member of the ginger family indigenous to Taiwan, reduced metabolic syndrome induced by sucrose-containing drinking water in C57BL/6J mice. Mice given a chow diet were divided into a control group (C) or a test group given 30% sucrose water (SW) to drink ad libitum. After 22 weeks, mice in the SW group were subdivided into SW and SW...

Recent experimental results regarding the action potential duration restitution curve have explained the transition from ventricular tachycardia (VT) to fibrillation (VF) in terms of spiral wave (SW) meandering and breakup. However, it remains unclear whether VF always has a steep restitution curve. The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that afterdepolarizations occur at excitab...

The embedded software design cost represents an important percentage of the embedded-system development costs [1]. This paper presents a method for systematic embedded software generation that reduces the software generation cost in a platform-based HW/SW codesign methodology for embedded systems based on SystemC. The goal is that the same SystemC code allows system-level specification and veri...

We demonstrate that the use of a single SiO2 film, with thickness corresponding to one standing wave (SW) period allows the recording of deep photoresist structures on silicon substrates by laser interference, without use of any additional antireflecting coating. This condition corresponds just to the opposite thickness (half SW period) previously proposed for using the SiO2 films for phase-shi...

SW-CG-HYPR and the conventional methods. The delineation of the myocardial territories supplied by LCX stenoses in SW-CG-HYPR images is clearly improved as compared to the reference images. Figure 3. Comparison of the signal changes vs. time curves between SW-CG-HYPR and reference methods in a dog study. Figure 1. Schematic of the perfusion data acquisition structure: (a) Conventional SR prepar...

In 2001 and 2003, we isolated two H5N1 viruses, A/swine/Fujian/1/01 (SW/FJ/01) and A/swine/Fujian/1/03 (SW/FJ/03), from pigs in Fujian Province, southern China. Genetically, these two viruses are similar, although the NS gene of the SW/FJ/03 virus has a 15-nucleotide deletion at coding positions 612 to 626. The SW/FJ/01 virus is highly lethal for chickens, whereas the SW/FJ/03 virus is nonpatho...