We investigate the response of convection to idealized pertur-4 bations in the thermodynamic environment in simulations which parame-5 terize the large scale circulations using the weak temperature gradient (WTG) 6 approximation. The perturbations include a combination of modifying the 7 environmental moisture and atmospheric stability via imposing anomalies 8 in reference moisture and temperat...

Final conditioning of 25mm thick dried E. camaldulensis lumber was carried out in small capacity batch drying kiln in laboratory, and the elastic (EL) strain and mechano-sorptive (MS) strain was analyzed by slicing method. Mean moisture content(MC) of boards increases 2.5-3.0%, while surface MC increases from 9.8% to 14.2% and center MC always keeps at 12.3% or so. Difference of each slice oven...

of photodiode and transimpedance amplifier on a 12.4 Moisture Sensitivity and Soldering. narrowly-focused beam falling only on the photodiode provides improved settling times from allanalog circuits to data conversion base circuits. Q1 and Q2 form a "cascode" amplifier circuit. To compensate for the high-frequency rolloff of the photodiode, U1B is configured as Daylight modifications will drama...

Chronic wounds fail to progress through the main phases associated with normal wound healing. One of the main suggestions for this is they become trapped in a chronic inflammatory state (Ennis and Meneses, 2000). Dysfunction at a cellular level has been associated with this, including problems in the modulation of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and the availability of growth factors (Trengrov...

Maize originated under warm, seasonally dry conditions of Mesoamerica, and was by human selection converted from a low-yielding progenitor species into its modern form, with a large rachis (cob) of the female inflorescence bearing up to 1,000 seeds. Maize is a C4 plant and is very efficient in water use. If subjected to water stress, however, especially during the mid-season pollination process...

Abstract—Thermal insulation materials based on natural fibers represent a very promising area of materials based on natural easy renewable row sources. These materials may be in terms of the properties of most competing synthetic insulations, but show somewhat higher moisture sensitivity and thermal insulation properties are strongly influenced by the density and orientation of fibers. The pape...

[1] Radiometric sensitivity to soil moisture at 1.4 GHz through a corn canopy at a maximum biomass of 8.0 kg m 2 (water column density of 6.3 kg m ) was much higher than expected. The magnitude of the measured sensitivity of horizontally polarized brightness temperature to the 0–3 cm volumetric soil water content was at least 1.5 K per 0.01 m m 3 and could have been as high as 2.5 K per 0.01 m ...

We investigate the response of convection to idealized perturbations in the thermodynamic environment in simulations which parameterize the large-scale circulations using the weak temperature gradient (WTG) approximation. The perturbations include a combination of modifying the environmental moisture and atmospheric stability via imposing anomalies in reference moisture and temperature profiles...

Soil moisture is a key variable in dryland ecosystems since it determines the occurrence and duration of vegetation water stress and affects the development of weather patterns including rainfall. However, the lack of ground observations of soil moisture and rainfall dynamics in many drylands has long been a major obstacle in understanding ecohydrological processes in these ecosystems. It is al...

BaIrIn2 was synthesized from the elements in a sealed tantalum tube in an induction furnace. The indide was investigated by powder and single crystal X-ray data: Cmcm, a = 443.3(1), b = 1151.3(2), c = 806.0(1) pm, wR2 = 0.0471, 352 F2 values, and 16 variable parameters. The iridium and indium atoms build up two-dimensional [IrIn2]2− polyanions (279 – 281 pm Ir–In and 310 — 314 pm In–In) which a...