Metabolic syndrome is a term drawing together a seemingly disparate set of clinical findings in human patients, these including insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and atherosclerosis. Obesity is a common but not consistent finding. The term has been subsequently applied to horses with obesity, insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, and dyslipidemia. A chronic pro-i...

Recall that algebraic sets are characterized by resolution tower structures [AK1], [AK2]. A topological space with such a structure is called a T R space for short. In low dimensions existence of resolution tower structures can often be detected by combinatorial invariants of the underlying topological spaces. For example, let X be a locally cone-like Euler stratified space (i.e., a locally con...

Mercury concentrations in the sediments of south Florida wetlands have increased three fold in the last century (Rood et al. 1993). Because south Florida is home to many endemic and endangered species, it is important to understand the potential impacts of mercury in this ecosystem's food web. Recent research by Malley et al. (1996) has shown mollusks to be sensitive indicators of methyl mercur...

An adaptive grid technique has been applied to a revised version of NCAR/NASA’s next generation dynamical core for climate and weather research. This hydrostatic so-called Lin-Rood dynamics package is based on a conservative and monotonic finite volume discretization in flux form. The adaptive model design utilizes a spherical adaptive-grid library which is based on a cache-efficient block-stru...

In this paper the spectrum of barotropic basin modes of the Argentine Basin is shown to be connected to the classical Rossby basin modes of a flat-bottom (constant depth), rectangular basin. First, the spectrum of basin modes is calculated for the Argentine Basin, by performing a normal-mode analysis of the barotropic shallow-water equations. Then a homotopy transformation is performed that gra...

In this paper we propose a numerical method to calculate basin bifurcation sets in a parameter space. It is known that the basin bifurcations always result from the contact of a basin boundary with the critical curve segment. A numerical example for a two-dimensional quadratic noninvertible map is illustrated and new results of basin bifurcations are shown.

To constrain the timing of rifting in the western, eastern, and northern parts of the Alboran Sea basin, seismic reflectors, corresponding to biostratigraphic boundaries and unconformities from the Miocene to Recent, are correlated using synthetic seismograms. Regions of adjacent coeval compression and extension are found in the Alboran Sea basin. Normal faulting continues in parts of the easte...