[1] Characteristics of optical and chemical properties of dust aerosol over Beijing and their relation were studied in the spring dust season, 2006 to understand the impact of dust and anthropogenic aerosol on the regional climate. Two dust plumes (DS1 and DS2) were identified with contrasting physicochemical properties. Strong absorbing of aerosol at 439 nm was observed, probably due to the si...

BACKGROUND The noxious stimulation response index (NSRI) is a novel anesthetic depth index ranging between 100 and 0, computed from hypnotic and opioid effect-site concentrations using a hierarchical interaction model. The authors validated the NSRI on previously published data. METHODS The data encompassed 44 women, American Society of Anesthesiology class I, randomly allocated to three grou...

Recent studies conclude that the ankle/arm blood pressure index (AAI) is a useful clinical tool for refining cardiovascular risk classification in the elderly. A reduction in the AAI to 0.9 or less is associated with increased risk for both coronary heart disease and total cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality, as well as all-cause mortality. This relationship persists after adjusting ...

Results. Using an attentional allocation index (AAI) to compare performance of healthy young and older adults and to measure the flexibility of allocation of attention, results showed a tendency in older adults toward a decreased ability to flexibly allocate their attention between the two tasks, with small AAI values. The decreased ability to allocate attention in older adults was found to be ...

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in the legs, measured noninvasively by the ankle-arm index (AAI) is associated with clinically manifest cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its risk factors. To determine risk of total mortality, coronary heart disease, or stroke mortality and incident versus recurrent CVD associated with a low AAI, we examined the relationship of the AAI to subsequent CVD events ...

BACKGROUND Although a low ankle-arm index (AAI) has been reported to be associated with increased risk of cardiovascular mortality in several populations, no data exist concerning the impact of AAI for outpatients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) in the clinical setting. METHODS AND RESULTS The present study enrolled 840 outpatients (age range 35-87 years, mean age 63.9+/-10.2) wi...

We develop a method that uses both the total column aerosol optical depth (AOD) and the fractional AOD values for different aerosol types, derived from Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) aerosol data, to estimate ground-level concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) mass and its major constituents in eastern and western United States. Compared with previous research on linking...

[1] Using internally consistent albedo, aerosol, cloud, and surface data from the Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) instrument onboard the Terra satellite, top-of-atmosphere (TOA) spectral albedo change (da) in the presence of aerosols over land is estimated and its dependence on aerosol and surface properties is analyzed. Linear regressions between spectral TOA albedo and aerosol opt...

Northwest China is significantly affected by sandstorm disasters. To mitigate the negative impacts of events, it critical to understand spatio-temporal variations in typical sand and dust storms their influencing factors. In this work, using ground-based measurements particulate matter remote sensing data such as MODIS, OMI, CALIPSO data, sources aerosol pollution optical properties a event tha...