Abstract The occurrence of extreme weather and climate events has increased in recent decades. This increasing frequency adversely impacted economic health outcomes, leading to an increasingly urgent need study extremes. National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) created the Climate Extremes Index (CEI) 1996 quantify In this article, we explore potential enhancing CEI via use Z-score...

Abstract Metal fluorides (MFs) are regarded as high‐capacity conversion cathode materials for next‐generation lithium‐ion batteries with high energy density. However, these cathodes suffer from poor electronic conductivity, sluggish reaction kinetics, and deleterious solid electrolyte interface (CEI) formation, which may cause rapid cell degradation upon cycling. Herein, a low temperature chemi...

BACKGROUND Fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma (FLC) is a rare malignancy occurring in young patients without cirrhosis. Objectives of our study were to analyze contrast material uptake in hepatobiliary phase imaging (HBP) in gadoxetic acid-enhanced liver MRI in patients with FLC and to characterize imaging features in sequence techniques other than HBP. METHODS In this retrospective study...

BACKGROUND Whether fetal neurodevelopment is disrupted by traffic-related air pollution is uncertain. Animal studies suggest that chemical and non-chemical stressors interact to impact neurodevelopment, and that this association is further modified by sex. OBJECTIVES To examine associations between prenatal traffic-related black carbon exposure, prenatal stress, and sex with children's memory...

This paper describes the basis functioning and implementation of a computer-aided Bayesian Network (BN) method that is able to incorporate experts’ knowledge for the benefit of remote sensing applications and other raster data analyses: Bayesian Network for Raster Data (BayNeRD). Using a case study of soybean mapping in Mato Grosso State, Brazil, BayNeRD was tested to evaluate its capability to...

Interpretation of results obtained with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition in hypertensive patients has been obscured by the possibility of nonangiotensin-mediated mechanisms, particularly rats, we have compared the effects of converting enzyme inhibition (CEI) by oral captopril administration to those of dextrose. In this setting of constant angiotensin II levels, any apparent effects of...

Frogs of the genus Atelognathus form a clade of nine narrowly distributed species restricted to Patagonia, southern Argentina and Chile, characterized by a large, exposed frontoparietal fontanelle, short palatines, large nasals and by the absence of quadratojugals and middle ear elements. Although Frost et al. (2006) have included Atelognathus in the redefined family Ceratophryidae, we have dat...

BACKGROUND There is little published evidence of the analgesic efficacy of patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) for postoperative pain relief. The aim of this study was to compare the analgesic efficacy of epidural infusion of bupivacaine 0.125% and fentanyl 4 microg ml(-1) administered by either PCEA with a background infusion or nurse-administered continuous epidural infusion (CEI) af...

1. To examine the role of angiotensin II in the maintenance of blood pressure and control of aldosterone secretion, eight normal human subjects were studied on a tilt table in sodium-replete and sodium-depleted states, before and after the administration of an angiotensin converting-enzyme inhibitor (CEI). 2. Administration of CEI was followed by a marked fall in blood pressure on tilting in so...