Drop size distributions (DSD) associated with tropical rainfall at Cuddalore in the south-eastern part of India have been measured by a JossWaldvogel disdrometer (RD–80 model) during September to November 2002. The rainfall data corrected for instrumental error, matches very well with rainfall rates measured by a self recording raingauge, at the same site. For further analysis of the DSD, the r...

A low-cost chemical solution deposition technique was employed to prepare YBa2Cu3O7-delta (YBCO) nanocomposite films starting from a colloidal containing preformed ZrO2 nanocrystals. As previous publications revealed, an increase in the amount of nanocrystals results progressive deterioration film properties. The parameters that control this process and their interplay are still unknown detail....

OBJECTIVES It is claimed that performing a "deep stop," a stop at about half of maximal diving depth (MDD), can reduce the amount of detectable precordial bubbles after the dive and may thus diminish the risk of decompression sickness. In order to ascertain whether this reduction is caused by the deep stop or by a prolonged decompression time, we wanted to test the "deep stop" theory without in...

For hyperspectral target detection, it is usually the case that only part of the targets pixels can be used as target signatures, so can we use them to construct the most proper background subspace for detecting all the probable targets? In this paper, a dynamic subspace detection (DSD) method which establishes a multiple detection framework is proposed. In each detection procedure, blocks of p...

BACKGROUND Mutations in known causative genes and cytogenetically detectable chromosomal rearrangements account for a fraction of cases with 46,XY disorders of sex development (DSD). Recent advances in molecular cytogenetic technologies, including array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) and multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA), have enabled the identification of ...

Specific complaints and grievances from adult patients with disorders of sex development (DSD), and their advocates center around the lack of information or misinformation they were given about their condition and feeling stigmatized and shamed by the secrecy surrounding their condition and its management. Many also attribute poor sexual function to damaging genital surgery and/or repeated, ins...

MOTIVATION It has long been hypothesized that incorporating models of network noise as well as edge directions and known pathway information into the representation of protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks might improve their utility for functional inference. However, a simple way to do this has not been obvious. We find that diffusion state distance (DSD), our recent diffusion-based metri...

The selection of the drop size distribution (DSD) model is one of the critical steps in rain profiling algorithm (RPA) of the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) (Iguchi et al. 2000). RPA requires R-Ze and K-Ze relations for convective and stratiform precipitation, where K and Ze represent the attenuation and equivalent reflectivity at 13.8 GHz, respectively, and R is the rain rate....

Disorders of sex development (DSD), formerly termed "intersex" conditions, arise from numerous causes. CAH secondary to 21-hydroxylase deficiency is the most common cause of DSD. Sex chromosome disorders, including sex chromosome mosaicism, are the second most common cause of DSD. We discuss a medically complex neonate with DSD presenting with ambiguous genitalia. Hormone levels suggested 21-hy...

As the line rates standards are changing frequently to provide higher bit rates, the routers design has become very challenging due to the need for new wire-speed router’s network processor (NP) unit. Typically, designing new NPs could take a long time and is very costly. In this work, we are presenting a new approach in high-speed routers design. Our approach is to use a data stream distributo...