Using the Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres Goddard Earth Observing System 5-yr analyses and the Zwack–Okossi equation as the diagnostic tool, the horizontal distribution of the dynamic and thermodynamic forcing processes contributing to the maintenance of a Northern Hemisphere midlatitude blocking anticyclone that occurred during the summer season were examined. During the development of this...

The height of mechanical mixing layer is one of the parameter of the safety analysis report of any industrial (nuclear) facility due to its relation to the dispersion factor of pollutants. It can provide information about lower atmospheric dispersion, which is usually used to study the pollutants released from nuclear facility, risk analysis and emergency planning. Mixing layer height is diffic...

A cross-sectional household survey of height among children under five years of age (n = 2,632) was conducted in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Multi-level linear regression was applied to investigate the effect of socioeconomic and demographic factors, physical and social environment, and health conditions on children s height, measured by the height-for-age z-score...

As trees grow taller, decreased xylem path conductance imposes a major constraint on plant water and carbon balance, and is thus a key factor underlying forest productivity decline with age. The responses of stomatal conductance, leaf area: sapwood area ratio ( A L : A S ) and soil–leaf water potential gradient ( DY S–L ) to height growth were investigated in maritime pine trees. Extensive meas...

Simon (Theoret. Comput. Sci. 72 (1990) 65–94) has proved that every morphism from a free semigroup to a $nite semigroup S admits a Ramseyan factorization forest of height at most 9|S|. In this paper, we prove the same result of Simon with an improved bound of 7|S|. We provide a simple algorithm for constructing a factorization forest. In addition, we show that the algorithm cannot be improved s...

We investigated the effects of shell height on reproductive potential of the female Rapana venosa in three regions of different salinities (the coastal zone of the Gwangyang Bay (S-1); the upper reaches (S-3); lower reaches (S-2) of the Seomjin River). The number of egg capsules, egg capsule height, and fecundity associated with reproductive potential of larger female rapa whelks were higher th...

Artery-to-muscle (A-M) onset time for five neuromuscular blocking agents was studied in 50 female patients under light endotracheal anaesthesia. Circulation to the right arm was occluded by a tourniquet and released 1 min after the injection i.v. into the left arm of a myoneural blocking drug. Muscle twitches were recorded in the right hand after stimulation of the ulnar nerve (1 Hz). After rel...

BACKGROUND The key to its successful application is to determine the best entry point for the vertebral screw(s). This study aimed to provide a reference for clinical anterolateral fixation through digital measurement of computed tomography (CT) data to identify relevant anatomical positions in the middle and lower thoracic vertebrae (T4-T12) of 30 adults. MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed digi...

This paper establishes the Manin conjecture for a certain non-split singular del Pezzo surface of degree four X ⊂ P4. In fact, if U ⊂ X is the open subset formed by deleting the lines from X, and H is the usual projective height function on P4(Q), then the height zeta function P x∈U(Q) H(x) −s is analytically continued to the half-plane 17/20.