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Some conditions influencing the variability of typhoon formation over the West Pacific ocean
Vorticity, divergence, vertical velocities, sea surface temperatures, and the zonal Walker circulations were analyzed over the West Pacific for two summers each with high and low typhoon frequencies.
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A relationship between planetary waves and persistent rain- and thunderstorms in China
A spectral study of long planetary waves indicates that major and persistent heavy rains and severe thunderstorms in China during the past 50 years were closely related to specific anomalous large-scale circul...
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Development and Validation of a Multi-Source Plume Downwash Model
The objective of this study is to develop and validate a plume downwash model using site-specific plant operating data, meteorological data, and sulfur dioxide monitoring data at a multi-source power generatin...
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Large-scale hemispheric teleconnections with the frequency of tropical cyclone formation over the Northwest Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans
Large-scale circulation features during months with many and with few tropical cyclones revealed the following conditions:
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Experimental studies on immune-complex in situ type glomerulonephritis in rabbits treated with Mai-Luo-Tong and natural Indigo
By injection of C-BSA, immune-complex in situ type glomerulonephritis was duplicated in rabbits and treated with Mai-Luo-Tong and natural Indigo. The results showed that proteinuria in the treated groups M and...
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Study on Heart-protecting Musk Pill in improving myocardial ischemia evaluated by nuclear myocardial imaging
The effect of Heart-protecting Musk Pill (HMP) on blood perfusion of the ischemic myocardium by intravenous dipyridamole99m Tc-sestamibi single photon emission computerized tomography (99mTc-MIBISPECT) in 17 pati...
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Study on Heart-protecting Musk Pill in improving myocardial ischemia evaluated by nuclear myocardial imaging
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Wave-intensity analysis: a new approach to left ventricular filling dynamics
In order to explore a new approach to the analysis of diastolic dysfunction, we adapted wave-intensity analysis (WIA), a time-domain analysis that provides information regarding both upstream and downstream ev...
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Defective platelet activation in Gαq-deficient mice
Platelets are small disc-shaped cell fragments which undergo a rapid transformation when they encounter vascular damage. They become more spherical and extrude pseudopodia, their fibrinogen receptors are activ...
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Should A Public Relations Code of Ethics Be Enforced?
Whether or not a public relations code of ethics should be enforced, among others, has become one of the most widely controversial topics, especially after the Hill and Knowlton case in 1992. I take the positi...
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Conditionally expressed Gα15 couples to endogenous receptors in GH3 cells
The mammalian G proteins G15 and G16 couple a wide variety of receptors to phospholipase C (PLC) in co-transfected systems, and it has been suggested that they can be used as tools in agonist-screening systems. ...
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Disk Galaxies with Finite Thickness
The effect of finite thickness on the properties of disk galaxies is calculated on the basis of a rigorous mathematical treatment in terms of Green function and Bessel Fourier transformation. In our approach, ...
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The electrochemical performance of Ml0.7 Mm0.3 Ni3.7 Co0.7 Mn0.4 Al0.2 nanocrystalline hydrogen storage alloy as metal hydride electrode
Ml0.7Mm0.3Ni3.7Co0.7Mn0.4Al0.2 nanocrystalline hydrogen storage materials are prepared by melt-spinning (MS). X-ray diffraction is used for the measurement of the nanocrystalline size. Compared to the electrode o...
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Notched triangular microstrip antenna for dual-frequency operation
A novel equilateral triangular patch with a rectangular notch etched to one radiating edge on organic magnetic substrate is proposed for dual frequency operation. Both operations of these dual frequencies aris...
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Determination of the genus-specific antigens in outer membrane proteins from the strains ofLeptospira interrogans andLeptospira biflexa with different virulence
Objective: To determine the existence of genus-specific antigens in outer membrane proteins (OMPs) ofleptospira with different virulence. Methods: Microscope agglutination test (MAT) was applied to detect the agg...
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Is Symmetrical Communication Ethical and Effective?
The purpose of this paper is to explore two questions:(1) Is symmetrical communication in public relations practice inherently ethical?(2) Does symmetrical communication contribute to public relations effectiv...
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Case of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia with Unusual Chromosome Aberrations
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is one of the most common leukemias in the western world and consists of many chromosome aberrations. We report the case of a 74-year-old male patient with chronic lymphocytic leuk...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Optimal Design Using Clonal Selection Algorithm
In this paper, the Clonal Selection Algorithm (CSA) is employed by the natural immune system to define the basic features of an immune response to an antigenic stimulus. This paper synthesizes the advantages o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization for Flow Shop Scheduling with Stochastic Processing Time
The stochastic flow shop scheduling with uncertain processing time is a typical NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem and represents an important area in production scheduling, which is difficult because ...
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Effects of Cycle Time on Properties of Aerobic Granules in Sequencing Batch Airlift Reactors
The granulation and properties of aerobic sludge were studied in two sequencing batch airlift reactors (SBARs). The synthetic wastewater in the two reactors had initially different levels of COD (400 mg l−1 in R1...
