We propose to integrate the Vlasov-Poisson equations giving the evolution of a dynam-ical system in phase-space using a continuous set of local basis functions. In practice, the method decomposes the density in phase-space into small smooth units having compact support. We call these small units " clouds " and choose them to be Gaussians of elliptical support. Fortunately, the evolution of thes...

This article develops a colorimetric equation and model to create smartphone application that identifies the ripening stage of lady finger banana (LFB) (Musa AA group ‘Kluai Khai’, กล้วยไข่ “gluay kai” in Thai). The mobile photographs an LFB, automatically analyzes color banana, tells user number days until ripens will remain edible. is called Automatic Banana Ripeness Indicator (ABRI, pronounced...

Peritoneal tuberculosis is a rare but a severe disease in patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). A 60 years old male, who had been the CAPD program during the last 5 months, was admitted to our clinic with fever, loss of appetite, night sweats, cough, weight loss and cloudy dialysate. Mycobacteria cultures of blood and pleural fluid were sterile. Bacterial culture...

Contrast enhancement of glioblastomas (GBM) is caused by the decrease in relaxation time, T1. Here, we demonstrate that the quantitative measurement of T1 (qT1) discovers a subtle enhancement in GBM patients that is invisible in standard MRI. We assessed the volume change of this "cloudy" enhancement during radio-chemotherapy and its impact on patients' progression-free survival (PFS). We enrol...

Metallic phases in the Tazewell IIICD iron and Esquel pallasite meteorites were examined using 57Fe synchrotron Mössbauer spectroscopy. Spatial resolution of ~10-20 μm was achieved, together with high throughput, enabling individual spectra to be recorded in less than 1 h. Spectra were recorded every 5-10 μm, allowing phase fractions and hyperfine parameters to be traced along transects of key ...

This study investigates anomalous ozone distributions over cloudy areas in Nimbus-7 (N7) and Earth-Probe (EP) TOMS version-7 data and analyzes the causes for ozone anomaly formation. A 5 •-longitude by 5 •-latitude region is defined to contain a Positive Ozone Anomaly (POA) or Negative Ozone Anomaly (NOA) if the correlation coefficient 5 between total ozone and reflectivity is ≥0.5 or ≤−0.5. Th...

OBJECTIVE To describe the behavior of mortality in Mexico through four indicators from 1990 to 2012. MATERIAL AND METHODS The official mortality and population records of Mexico were used. RESULTS An advance was achieved for children under five years of age, with a decrease in mortality, although there was an increase in the years of potential life lost (YPLL) from 2008 for this age group. ...

[1] An analysis is presented of the structure functions and scalar spectra for 25 satellitederived marine stratocumulus cloud optical depth fields. The scenes, which cover a horizontal domain of 58 58 km at a resolution of 28.5 m, are partitioned into two ensembles on the basis of cloud fraction. For the fully cloudy scenes, although there is wide scene-to-scene variability, both the average is...

CAPD patients given lercanidipine developed non-infective turbid peritoneal dialysis. Differential diagnosis of non-infectious cloudy peritoneal dialysate includes cellular causes (i.e. leucocyte, eosinophils, red cells and malign cells) and non-cellular causes (i.e. triglyceride and drugs) [2]. Yoshimoto et al. [1,3] reported that benidipine, manidipine, nisoldipine and nifedipine caused cloud...