The Shining Hospital is situated in the town of Pokhara in the Himalayan foothills, at an altitude of 1000 metres. To the north lie the desolate peaks of the Annapurna range, while in other directions numerous small villages are scattered among the hills. The people of these agrarian communities, together with the traders of Pokhara Bazaar, make up the hospital's catchment population of about o...

The effect of altitude on the distribution of plants and animals has been well studied. In contrast, the response of microbes to elevation is poorly understood. To determine whether soil bacterial communities respond to altitudinal gradients, moso bamboo forest soils along a gradient of six elevations from 600 to 1800 m were investigated using the barcoded pyrosequencing method. The results rev...

PURPOSE In real-life competitive situations, athletes are required to continuously make decisions about how and when to invest their available energy resources. This study attempted to identify how different competitive environments invite elite short-track speed skaters to modify their pacing behaviour during head-to-head competition. METHODS Lap times of elite 500, 1000 and 1500 m short-tra...

Department of Physics and Astronomy ~ / ’, , State University of Iowa, Iowa city jQ s CJ 17 , w=,. > Abstract. The energy spectrum of trapped electrons predicted by the neutron-albedo theory waa tested experimentally with a magnetic electroh spectrometer for the energy range 40 5 E 5 110 kev. This detector waa flown on the State University of Iowa radiation research satellite Injun I at an alti...

Vertical electron density profile is an important source of information on the Earth’s ionosphere. It is well known that such vertical electron density profile can be retrieved using LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellite RO (radio occultation) data. With more and more LEO satellite data available (such as CHAMP, SAC_C, GRACE, COSMIC), the retrieved vertical electron density can be more accurate if so...

arginine (arg) requirements of male broilers (ross 308) reared at high altitude (2100 mabove sea level) during the 1-to 3-week period was estimated in a graded supplementationmethod, in which six diets (230 g kg-1 cp and 3200 kcal me kg-1) with arg increments of1.25 g kg-1 were applied to four pens of fifteen birds each. dietary arg content of theexperimental groups ranged from 10 g kg-1 (80% o...

Glacier mass balance is estimated for South Cascade Glacier and Maclure Glacier using a one-dimensional regression of mass balance with altitude as an alternative to the traditional approach of contouring mass balance values. One attractive feature of regression is that it can be applied to sparse data sets where contouring is not possible and can provide an objective error of the resulting est...

In this paper, properties of reflection phase in one-dimensional quaternary photonic crystals combining dispersive meta-materials and positive index materials are investigated by transfer matrix method. Two omnidirectional band gaps are located in the band structure of considered structure. However, we limit our studies to the frequency range of the second wide band gap. We observe that the val...