We report multispacecraft Cluster observations of magnetic reconnection at the high-latitude magnetopause/magnetospheric boundary layer (MP/BL) under mainly northward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) conditions. The event we study is on 3 December 2001 when the Cluster spacecraft were skimming the high-latitude duskside MP/BL during a period of about four hours. The orbit and configuration o...

In this report, ordered lead zirconate titanate Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 (PZT) nanodot arrays were fabricated by an original one-step mask etching route. The one-step mask etching strategy is based on the patterned nanostructure of barrier layer (BL) at the bottom of anodic aluminum oxide (AAO), by a direct transfer of the nanopattern from BL to the pre-deposited PZT film, without introduction of any...

We explore the viability of the unification of BL Lacs and FR I radio galaxies by comparing the core emission of radio galaxies with those of BL Lacs of similar extended radio power, taking advantage of the newly measured optical nuclear luminosity of FR I sources. The spectral properties of complete samples are also studied in the radio-optical luminosity plane: starting from the Spectral Ener...

We compare a full-year (2006) record of surface air NO2 concentrations measured in Israeli cities to coinciding retrievals of tropospheric NO2 columns from satellite sensors (SCIAMACHY aboard ENVISAT and OMI aboard Aura). This provides a large statistical data set for validation of NO2 satellite measurements in urban air, where validation 5 is difficult yet crucial for using these measurements ...

Alpha-actinin is an actin crosslinking protein that may be one of the proteins involved in the attachment of the actin cytoskeletal framework to the plasma membrane. We investigated the distribution of alpha-actinin in whole-mount embryonic chick corneal epithelia using confocal laser scanning analysis. The intracellular alpha-actinin distribution was compared with F-actin using phalloidin, or ...

Abstract In the present study, seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) time series models, nonlinear BL model, multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network and SARIMA-bilinear hybrid models were employed to predict quality parameters of total dissolved solids (TDS), sodium adsorption ratio (SAR), electrical conductivity (EC) in Maroon basin Khuzestan Province. For fitting...

Besides its original purpose of reducing wave drag at transonic speed it has been shown that shock control bumps (SCB) can additionally be used for buffet alleviation. Considering 3-D-SCBs as a novel sort of vortex generators these bumps introduce, when carefully designed, streamwise vorticity into the flow and thereby prevent the boundary layer (BL) from early separation. The current paper pre...

We present results from molecular dynamics simulations of water confined by two parallel atomically detailed hydrophobic walls. Simulations are performed at T = 300 K and wall-wall separation d = 0.6-1.6 nm. At 0.7 < or = d < or = 0.9 nm, a first order transition occurs between a bilayer liquid (BL) and a trilayer heterogeneous fluid (THF) as water density increases. The THF is characterized by...