China has experienced unprecedented urbanization since the 1980s, resulting in substantial climatic effects from local cities to broad regions. Using the Weather Research and Forecasting model dynamically coupled to an urban canopy model, we quantified the summertime climate effects of urban expansion in China's most rapidly urbanizing regions: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH), Yangtze River Delta (...

Present study was aimed to explore the effect of (TA)n UGT1A1 gene promoter polymorphism on bilirubin metabolism, bilirubinaemia, predisposition to cholelithiasis and subsequent cholecystectomy, in Sickle-Cell Anemia (SCA) and beta-Thalasemia major (bTH) in Kuwaiti subjects compared to other population. This polymorphism was analyzed and correlated to total bilirubin and cholelithiasis in 270 a...

In California, black tar heroin (BTH) use among injection drug users (IDUs) has resulted in an increased number of cases of wound botulism due to Clostridium botulinum, tetanus due to Clostridium tetani, and necrotizing soft-tissue infections due to a variety of clostridia. From December 1999 to April 2000, nine IDUs in Ventura County, California, developed necrotizing fasciitis; 4 died. Cultur...

A model sentinel plant (phytosensor) capable of signaling pathogen attack in the field was obtained by transformation with a construct containing the green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a reporter gene, driven by the promoter of gn1 , a tobacco b-1,3glucanase gene. This is a first step towards the creation of sentinel plants for early disease diagnostics with an integral real-time, fluorescent-b...

The Bottleneck Tower of Hanoi (BTH) problem, posed in 1981 by Wood, is a natural generalization of the classic Tower of Hanoi (TH) problem. There, a generalized placement rule allows a larger disk to be placed higher than a smaller one if their size difference is less than a given parameter k ≥ 1; when k = 1 we arrive at the classic TH problem. The objective is to compute a shortest move-sequen...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Limited data exist to recommend specific cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) targets in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage. We sought to determine the feasibility of brain multimodality monitoring for optimizing CPP and potentially reducing secondary brain injury after intracerebral hemorrhage. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed brain multimodality monitoring data ta...

We describe a hybrid acceleration structure for ray tracing. The is Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) where the leaf nodes are tetrahedralized decent ray-surface intersection performance. use (BTH) in two-level rendering animated scenes. There BVH at top level this and proposed bottom level. test (BVH-BTH) various scenes obtained promising results against other structures terms of times. BVH-BTH ...

This paper presents a new parsing algorithm, BTH, which is capable of efficiently parsing a keyword lattice that contains a large number of false alarms. The BTH parser runs without unfolding the given keyword lattice, and thus it can efficiently obtain a set of word sequences acceptable to the given grammar as the parser result. The algorithm has been implemented on Windows-based PCs and is te...

The integrated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has become one of the national economic development strategies in China. To understand this strategy, this paper studies the regional and industrial characteristics of the upcoming Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region, compares the BTH region with its existing counterparts in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region and the Pearl River Delta ...

The salicylic acid (SA) signaling pathway plays a crucial role in systemic acquired resistance in dicots. Several chemical inducers, which are also called “plant activators,” such as benzothiadiazole (BTH), protect plants from diseases by acting on the SA signaling pathway. Several studies by us and other groups have revealed that rice also has the SA signaling pathway that shares signaling com...