Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in ACP if available. Abstract Secondary inorganic aerosol, most notably ammonium nitrate and ammonium sul-phate, is an important contributor to ambient particulate mass and provides a means for long ra...

OBJECTIVE Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) production rates influence shunt design and the care of children with hydrocephalus. Measurement of hourly CSF output through external ventricular drainage (EVD) reflects the CSF production. In the present study, hourly CSF outputs in children with hydrocephalus were measured while they were treated with EVD and correlated with the age, sex and body weight of...

The Dust REgional Atmospheric Model (DREAM) predicts concentrations of mineral dust aerosols in time and space, but validation is challenging with current in-situ particulate matter (PM) concentration measurements. Measured levels of ambient PM often contain anthropogenic components as well as windblown mineral dust. In this study, two approaches at model validation were performed with data fro...

The study describes an investigation of the relationship between crash occurrence and hourly volume counts for small samples of highway segments from two states: Michigan and Connecticut. We used a hierarchical Bayesian framework to fit binary regression models for predicting crash occurrence for each of four crash types: (1) single-vehicle, (2) multi-vehicle same direction, (3) multi-vehicle o...

BACKGROUND There is evidence that administration of higher doses of aminoglycosides given less frequently improves the bactericidal effect and reduces the potential to cause side effects. To investigate this, a prospectively randomised open label therapeutic trial was undertaken in stratified groups of patients with cystic fibrosis to examine the efficacy and toxic potential of an aminoglycosid...

This paper proposes a stochastic optimization model for the day-ahead scheduling in power systems, which incorporates the hourly demand response (DR) for managing the variability of renewable energy sources (RES). DR considers physical and operating constraints of the hourly demand for economic and reliability responses. The proposed stochastic day-ahead scheduling algorithm considers random ou...