Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society rameterization schemes for use in general circulation models (GCMs) and (ii) to develop new parameterization schemes based on numerical data generated from large eddy simulations (LESs) or cloud resolving models (CRMs) (Browning 1993). While 3D LESs can explicitly resolve most of the turbulent eddies, CRMs, which resolve only large cloud elements,...

Cellular metabolic changes, especially to lipid metabolism, have recently been recognized as a hallmark of various cancer cells. However, little is known about the significance of cellular lipid metabolism in the regulation of biological activity of glioma stem cells (GSCs). In this study, we examined the expression and role of fatty acid synthase (FASN), a key lipogenic enzyme, in GSCs. In the...

Stem cells are maintained and retain their capacity to continue dividing because of the influence of a niche. Although niches are important to maintain "stemness" in a wide variety of tissues, control of these niches is poorly understood. The Drosophila germline stem cells (GSCs) reside in a somatic cell niche. We show that Notch activation can induce the expression of niche-cell markers even i...

The rapid advancement of technology in the field unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has created new possibilities for their application numerous fields. For every system it is essential to contain a ground control station (GCS), which must comply with mission-specific requirements. This paper presents results our research on optimizing hardware and software components radio communication an UAV pr...

A comprehensive study of the co-evolution globular cluster systems (GCS) in galaxies requires ability to model both large scale dynamics (0.01 - 10 kpc) regulating their orbital evolution, and small (sub-pc AU) internal each (GC). In this work we present a novel method that combine semi-analytic models GCS with fully self-consistent Monte Carlo simultaneously evolve GCSs. We use population synt...

U pper-tropospheric ice clouds are important modulators of the Earth’s climate, cover 20% of the globe at any given time (Liou 1986), and occur ~43% of the time in long-term satellite datasets (Wylie and Menzel 1999). Ice clouds, such as cirrus, tend to ref lect less incoming solar radiation and absorb more infrared radiation than water clouds, which are typically optically thicker and occur at...

Three-dimensional large-eddy simulations of a smoke cloud beneath a strong inversion are used to investigate how grid resolution aaects simulated entrainment rate. These simulations are generalizations of a 1995 GCSS (GEWEX Cloud System Studies) smoke cloud model intercomparison (MacVean et al. 1997). Radiative cooling at the top of the smoke cloud induces convection in the smoke cloud in a man...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) are known collectively as venous thromboembolism (VTE). Venous thromboembolic events are common and potentially life-threatening complications following trauma with an incidence of 5 to 63%. DVT prophylaxis is essential in the management of trauma patients. Currently, the optimal VTE prophylaxis strategy for trauma patients is unknown. Trad...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the correlation between early-term blood glucose level and prognosis in patients with isolated head trauma. METHODS This study included a total of 100 patients younger than 18 years of age who had isolated head trauma. The admission blood glucose levels of these patients were measured. Age at the time of the incident, sex, mode of occurrence of the trauma, computed tomogr...

View-oriented group communication systems (GCSs) are powerful tools for building distributed applications. Over the past fifteen years, group communication researchers developed a multitude of group communication semantics and implementations. Today, researchers commonly design their group communication algorithms on top of simple existing services such as a network membership service or a reli...