In this study, a Bjerknes stability (BJ) index, proposed by Jin et al. (2006), is adopted to assess the overall stability of El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in state-of-the-art coupled models. The twentieth and twenty-first century simulations of 12 coupled models among the coupled model intercomparison project phase 3 models used in the intergovernmental panel on climate change forth a...

A subsequence principle is obtained, characterizing Banach spacescontaining co' in the spirit of the author's 1974 characterization of Banachspaces containing II . Defiaition. A sequence(bj )in a Banach space is called strongly summing (s.s.)if (bj ) is a weak-Cauchy basic sequence so that whenever scalars (cj ) satisfysUPn II E~=I cijll < 00, thenECj converges.A...

Euclidean n-component φ theories whose Hamiltonians areO(n) symmetric except for quadratic symmetry breaking boundary terms are studied in the film geometry R×[0, L]. The boundary terms imply the Robin boundary conditions ∂nφα = c̊ (j) α φα at the boundary planes Bj=1 at z = 0 and Bj=2 at z = L. Particular attention is paid to the cases in which mj of the n variables c̊ (j) α associated with plan...

We present progress results of a new survey for bright QSOs (V < 14.5, R < 15.4, BJ < 15.2) covering the whole sky at high galactic latitudes, |b| > 30. The surface density of QSOs brighter than BJ = 14.8 turns out to be 2.9 ± 0.8 · 10deg. The optical Luminosity Function at 0.04 < z ≤ 0.3 shows significant departures from the standard pure luminosity evolution, providing new insights in the mod...

Both caffeine and beetroot juice have ergogenic effects on endurance cycling performance. We investigated whether there is an additive effect of these supplements on the performance of a cycling time trial (TT) simulating the 2012 London Olympic Games course. Twelve male and 12 female competitive cyclists each completed 4 experimental trials in a double-blind Latin square design. Trials were un...

Planar cell polarity (PCP) is controlled by a conserved pathway that regulates directional cell behavior. Here, we show that mutant mice harboring a newly described mutation termed Beetlejuice (Bj) in Prickle1 (Pk1), a PCP component, exhibit developmental phenotypes involving cell polarity defects, including skeletal, cochlear and congenital cardiac anomalies. Bj mutants die neonatally with car...

Let F be a family of pairs of sets. We call it an (a, b)-set system if for every set-pair (A,B) in F we have that |A| = a, |B| = b, A ∩ B = ∅. The following classical result on families of cross-intersecting set-pairs is due to Bollobás [6]. Let F be an (a, b)-set system with the cross-intersecting property, i.e., for (Ai, Bi), (Aj, Bj) ∈ F with i 6= j we have that both Ai ∩ Bj and Aj ∩ Bi are ...

This paper describes an intuitive and efficient way to desig n no t o nl y 3 -D shapes but al so their g eo m etric co nstraints within an im m ersive m o del er. The fundam ental co ncept o f the pro po sed m etho d is based o n o ur im m ersive m o del er V L E G O I I , which al l o ws m ul tipl e users to create 3 -D virtual o bj ects o nl y by assem bl ing sim pl e 3 -D g eo m etric shapes...

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