In this paper we study solutions of an inverse problem for a global shallow water model controlling its initial conditions speci ed from the 40-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-40) datasets, in presence of full or incomplete observations being assimilated in a time interval (window of assimilation) with or without background error covariance terms. As an extension of the work in Chen et al., 2009, we ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the validity of the BOD POD® when compared to the DXA and if placement on a percentile chart and standard table is affected by any differences between the two measures. A total of 244 (27.7 ± 10.8 yrs, 77.3 ± 16.1 kg, 171.4 ± 10.1 cm, 26.31 ± 5.42 BMI) males and females between the ages of 18 and 52 were recruited to participate in this study. The part...

Zhang X., Shao X. (2015): Characterisation of polyphenol oxidase and peroxidase and the role in browning of loquat fruit. Czech J. Food Sci., 33: 109–117. Polyphenol oxidase (PPO) and peroxidase (POD) were extracted from a new loquat fruit cultivar (Ninghaibai) and characterised using reliable spectrophotometric methods. In both cases, the optimum pH for PPO was 4.5 and 5 for POD, and their opt...

The majority of rapeseed cultivars shatter seeds upon maturity especially under hot-dry and windy conditions, reducing yield and gross margin return to growers. Here, we identified quantitative trait loci (QTL) for resistance to pod shatter in an unstructured diverse panel of 143 rapeseed accessions, and two structured populations derived from bi-parental doubled haploid (DH) and inter-mated (I...

An adaptive method to accelerate time-dependent solvers for PDEs has been proposed [1,2,3] that adaptively combines on the fly a standard numerical solver and a low-dimensional system. The latter, in turn, combines POD (to identify modes) and Galerkin projection. To improve the computational efficiency of the method, it is essential to use a reduced number of points (instead of the whole comput...

Postoperative delirium (POD) is a common neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by inattention, fluctuating levels of consciousness, and disorganized thinking. POD can have serious consequences, including institutionalization and death. Risk stratification may target prevention to individuals at greater risk of POD. The objective of this study was to identify all published POD risk prediction ...

The effect of dried pods of Caesalpinia spinosa, known as tara, on pH, cooking loss, lipid oxidation, colour stability and texture of model meat systems stored at 4 °C for 21 days was investigated. Tara pod powder showing a potential antioxidant activity was added at 0.02, 0.04 and 0.08% (by mass) directly to the pork batter and compared with a synthetic antioxidant, butylated hydroxyanisole (B...

Results The incidence of POD was 27.74%. The analysis showed that POD prolonged the length of the ICU stay 5.8 (± 2.89) vs 3.86 (± 1.91) days, p < 0.001, patients after POD more frequent was required re-intubation (OR: 13.169; 95% CI 1.456-119.087, p = 0.022) and had had the prolonged length of the postoperative hospital stay >10 days (OR: 2.060; 95% CI 1.226-3.460, p = 0.006). Multivariate ana...

A proper orthogonal decomposition (POD)-based reduced-order model of the parabolized Navier–Stokes (PNS) equations is derived in this article. A space-marching finite difference method with time relaxation is used to obtain the solution of this problem, from which snapshots are obtained to generate the POD basis functions used to construct the reduced-order model. In order to improve the accura...

The introduction of numerous formulations of Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), which is widely used as a bearing material in orthopedic implants, necessitated screening of bearing couples to identify promising iterations for expensive joint simulations. Pin-on-disk (POD) testers capable of multidirectional sliding can correctly rank formulations of UHMWPE with respect to their ...