The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and associated co-seismic landslide was the most recent expression of the rapid deformation and erosion occurring in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. The erosion associated with co-seismic landslides balances the long-term tectonic uplift in the topographic evolution of the region; however, the quantitative relationship between earthquakes, uplift, and erosion is still ...

Traffic simulation systems are widely used for the prediction of certain effects like traffic jam formation or the analysis of performance for new traffic light systems. Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are important measurements. This work integrates a physical model for fuel consumption into a microscopic traffic simulation system for urban scenarios. The parameters of the model are discuss...

introduction: as the statistical time series are in short period and the meteorological station are not distributed well in mountainous area determining of climatic criteria are complex. therefore, in recent years interpolation methods for establishment of continuous climatic data have been considered. continuous daily maximum temperature data are a key factor for climate-crop modeling which is...

PRO--PCOS is associated with low-grade systemic inflammation as evidenced by elevation of multiple markers of inflammation such as C-reactive protein, interleukin-18, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 and white blood cell count as well as endothelial dysfunction and increased oxidative stress. CON--Current studies examining the evidence for low grade inflammation in PCOS are small, heterogeneo...

This paper proposes a simple approach to the affine motion interpolation problem, where an affine spline motion is generated that interpolates a given sequence of affine keyframes and satisfies approximately rigidity constraints and certain optimization criteria. An affine spline motion is first generated so as to interpolate the given keyframes; after that, it is progressively refined via knot...

The usefulness of thallium-201 myocardial imaging in assessing right ventricular (RV) overloading was evaluated and compared with the electrocardiographic and hemodynamic measurements. Multiple unprocessed photoscans were obtained using a gamma camera in 47 patients who had chronic RV overload, including 28 subjects with pressure overload, 14 with volume overload and five with pressure and volu...

We present the case of a 46-year-old woman with episodes of chest pain with ST-T segment elevation and paroxysmal high-degree atrioventricular block and syncopal episodes. Coronary angiography revealed no significant atheromatous lesions. The patient was treated with nitrates and calcium channel blockers but syncopal episodes with atrioventricular block persisted. A DDD-R pacemaker was implante...

Amphotericin B was given to six patients with systemic fungal infections. A dose averaging 1.78 g, administered from 42 to 144 days, was associated with a fall in hematocrit to a mean value of 25.8%. Despite this degree of anemia, no elevation of erythropoietin concentrations in urine or serum could be detected. Thus, amphotericin appears to cause anemia by inhibiting erythropoietin production ...