Introduction: A great deal has been learned about the composition of the martian surface using orbital and in-situ spectroscopy. Significant advancements have been made possible by recent measurements from the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES), Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), Observatoire pour la Minéralogie, l'Eau, les Glaces et l'Activité (OMEGA), Miniature Thermal Emission Spectr...

BACKGROUND Many factors have been put forward as a driving mechanism of surgery-triggered adhesion formation (AF). In this study, we underline the key role of specific surgical trauma related with open surgery (OS) and laparoscopic (LS) conditions in postoperative AF and we aimed to study peritoneal tissue inflammatory reaction (TIR), remodelling specific complications of open surgery (OS) vers...

One of the important science requirements of the Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEOCAPE)mission is to be able tomeasure ozonewith twodegrees of freedom in the troposphere and sensitivity in the lowest 2 km (lowermost troposphere, LMT), in order to characterize air quality and boundary layer transport of pollution. Currently available remote sensing techniques utilize backscatte...

Land surface temperature (LST) is an important variable that provides a valuable connection between the energy and water budget and is strongly linked to land surface hydrology. Space-borne remote sensing provides a consistent means for regularly observing LST using thermal infrared (TIR) and passive microwave observations each with unique strengths and weaknesses. The spatial resolution of TIR...

Several bacterial pathogens have TIR domain-containing proteins that contribute to their pathogenesis. We identified a second TIR-containing protein in Brucella spp. that we have designated BtpB. We show it is a potent inhibitor of TLR signaling, probably via MyD88. BtpB is a novel Brucella effector that is translocated into host cells and interferes with activation of dendritic cells. In vivo ...

Uncoated corner cube retroreflectors (CCRs) operating via total internal reflection (TIR) are less susceptible to internal heating than their metal-coated analogs, lacking an absorber on the rear surface. Even so, environments that induce differential heating within the CCR will result in thermal lensing of the incident wavefront, introducing aberrations that will generally reduce the central i...