[1] One of the major climatic changes apparent over the Arctic Ocean has been the amplified rate at which air temperature has been increasing relative to the global mean. There are multiple factors which play roles in this amplification, including changes in sea ice/albedo, atmospheric circulation, clouds, and water vapor. We investigate the positive feedback on temperature caused by increasing...

Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals’ preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual social analysis for discrete choice that does not suffer from these drawbacks. We first adapt the broad class of measures introduced by Fleurbaey (2009) settings where is discrete. Allowi...

Pacific Water (PW) enters the Arctic Ocean through Bering Strait and brings in heat, fresh water, and nutrients from the northern Bering Sea. The circulation of PW in the central Arctic Ocean is only partially understood due to the lack of observations. In this paper, pathways of PW are investigated using simulations with six state-of-the art regional and global Ocean General Circulation Models...

INTRODUCTION The combination of pulsed wave (PW) and tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) has been proposed as a new method to assess left ventricular (LV) mechanical dyssynchrony (LVMD), but results have not been validated. We investigated the correlation of a combination of PW and TDI with a positive response to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). MATERIAL AND METHODS We studied 108 consecutiv...

Characterizing input integration at the single-cell level is a critical step to understanding cortical function, particularly when sensory stimuli are represented over wide cortical areas and single cells exhibit large receptive fields. To study synaptic integration of sensory inputs, we made intracellular recordings from the barrel cortex of anesthetized rats in vivo. For each cell, we deflect...

In this paper, we study the Payne-Whitham (PW) model as a hyperbolic system of conservation laws with relaxation. After studying the Riemann problem for the homogeneous version of the PW model, we introduce three first-order numerical solution methods for solving the system. In these methods, the homogeneous part of the PW model is approximated by Godunovtype difference equations, and different...

−The vapor-phase MTBE decomposition was examined in a shell and tube-type catalytic membrane reactor (CMR). 12-Tungstophosphoric acid (PW) was used as a catalyst and poly-2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide (PPO) was used as a polymer material. A single-phase CMR (PW-PPO/Al2O3, type-1) and a composite CMR (PW-PPO/ PPO/Al2O3, type-2) were successfully designed and characterized. It was revealed tha...

This paper examines principles of health care resource allocation based on axioms for individual preferences and distributive justice. We establish axioms for representing individual preferences by quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), as well as axioms for existence of a social welfare function depending only on QALYs. A symmetric Cobb-Douglas social welfare function is characterized by an axio...

[1] In this paper, the atmospheric precipitable water (PW) was estimated by means of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) thermal channels brightness temperature difference (DT), over the broader area of Greece. The AVHRR derived DT was calculated in a grid of 5 5 km cells; the corresponding PW value in each grid cell was extracted from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ...

Let Pw be the lattice of Muchnik degrees of nonempty Π1 subsets of 2. The lattice Pw has been studied extensively in previous publications. In this note we prove that the lattice Pw is not Brouwerian.