The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of environmental temperature on variability in power output, self-selected pacing strategies, and performance during a prolonged cycling time trial. Nine trained male cyclists randomly completed four 40 km cycling time trials in an environmental chamber at 17°C, 22°C, 27°C, and 32°C (40% RH). During the time trials, heart rate, core body tempe...

We describe an adaptation of the billiard algorithm for finding dense packings of equal spheres inside a domain of the euclidean space. In order to improve the convergence of this stochastic algorithm, we introduce systematic perturbations in it. We apply this perturbed billiard algorithm in the case of n spheres in a cube and display all the optimal and best known packings up to n = 32. We imp...

The purpose of this study was to examine the evaluating the potential of seed priming techniques in improving germination and early seedling growth of Aeluropus Macrostachys under salinity stress condition. This study was performed at the Islamic Azad University in Baft city which is located in southeast of kerman province (2250 meters above the sea level, 92º 17 N latitude and 56º 36 E longitu...

The purpose of this study was to examine the evaluating the potential of seed priming techniques in improving germination and early seedling growth of Aeluropus Macrostachys under salinity stress condition. This study was performed at the Islamic Azad University in Baft city which is located in southeast of kerman province (2250 meters above the sea level, 92º 17 N latitude and 56º 36 E longitu...

-Precipitation rates (mm/h) with 15and 50-km horizontal resolution are among the initial products of AIRS/AMSU/HSB. They will help identify the meteorological state of the atmosphere and any AIRS soundings potentially contaminated by precipitation. These retrieval methods can also be applied to the AMSU 23-191 GHz data from operational weather satellites such as NOAA-15, -16, and -17. The globa...

Large-scale TEC perturbations/enhancements observed during the day sectors of major storm periods, 12– 13 February 2000, 23 September 1999, 29 October 2003, and 21 November 2003, were studied using a high resolution GPS network over Japan. TEC enhancements described in the present study have large magnitudes (≥25×1016 electrons/m2) compared to the quiet-time values and long periods (≥120 min). ...