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20040120899 Geological Survey, Austin, TX, USA Atlas of Interoccurrence Intervals for Selected Thresholds of Daily Precipitation in Texas Asquith, W. H.; Roussel, M. C.; Aug. 2003; 214 pp.; In English Report No.(s): PB2004-105895; USGS/WRI-03-4281; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; A10, Hardcopy A Poisson process model is used to define the distribution of interoccurrence intervals of daily precipitation in Texas. A precipitation interoccurrence interval is the time period between two successive rainfall events. Rainfall events are defined as daily precipitation equaling or exceeding a specified depth threshold. Ten precipitation thresholds are considered: 0.05, 0.10, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 and 3. 0 inches. Site-specific mean interoccurrence interval and ancillary statistics are presented for each threshold and for each of 1,306 National Weather Service daily precipitation gages. Maps depicting the spatial variation across Texas of the mean interoccurrence interval for each threshold are presented. The percent change from the statewide standard deviation of the interoccurrence intervals to the root-mean-square error ranges from a magnitude minimum of (negative) -24 to a magnitude maximum of -60 percent for the 0.05- and 2.0-inch threshold, respectively. Because of the substantial negative percent change, the maps are considered more reliable estimators of the mean interoccurrence interval for most locations in Texas than the statewide mean values. NTIS Precipitation (Meteorology); Stochastic Processes 20040120968 Meteorological Satellite Center, Kiyose, Japan Monthly Report of the Meteorological Satellite Center: June 2004 June 2004; In English; In Japanese; Document files and Satellite data are recorded in either ASCII or shift JIS code; Full Disk Earth’s Cloud Images are recorded in Bit-Map (BMP) format; Copyright; Avail: Other Sources The CD-ROM concerning the Monthly Report of the Meteorological Satellite Center (MSC) Contains the observation data derived from the Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (GMS) of Japan and the polar orbital meteorological satellites operated by NOAA. The CD-ROM contains following observation data. Full Disk Earth’s Cloud, Cloud Image of Japan and its Vicinity, Cloud Amount, Sea Surface Temperature, Cloud Motion Wind, Water Vapor Motion Wind, Equivalent Blackbody Temperature, OLR (Outgoing Longwave Radiation), Solar Irradiation, Snow and Ice Index, Orbit Data, Attitude Data, VISSR Image Data Catalog, (Cartridge Magnetic Tape (CMT), Micro Film), TOVS (TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder) Vertical Profile of Temperature and Precipitable Water, TOVS Total Ozone Amount. Although this user’ s guide is revised yearly, it may happen that a change of contents of the Monthly Report is not reflected in the user’s guide, if the change is carried out between revisions of the user’s guide. The latest contents of the Monthly Report and the detailed information of the contents are described in document files which are contained in the CD-ROM, Please read the document files. Author Atmospheric Sounding; Meteorological Satellites; Satellite Observation; Satellite Sounding 51 LIFE SCIENCES (GENERAL) Includes general research topics related to plant and animal biology (non-human); ecology; microbiology; and also the origin, development, structure, and maintenance of animals and plants in space and related environmental conditions. For specific topics in life sciences see categories 52 through 55. 20040111190 Prins Maurits Lab. TNO, Rijswijk, Netherlands Validation of the Analysis of Obidoxime Chloride and Atropine in Human Plasma vanderSchans, M. J.; Boone, C. M.; June 2004; 31 pp.; In English Contract(s)/Grant(s): A01CO428; TNO Proj. 014.12905 Report No.(s): TD2004-0017; PML-2004-A17; Copyright; Avail: Other Sources Administration of atropine and obidoxime is still the most important therapeutic strategy after poisoning with nerve agents. Meridian Medical Technologies introduced a new dual chamber injection device for the automated injection of atropine and obidoxime. In order to be considered for registration a pharmacokinetic study with healthy human volunteers will be performed. The clinical trial will be supported by the TNO Prins Maurits Laboratory by means of the analytical assay. Therefore, obidoxime and atropine need to be analyzed in plasma. Atropine is a chiral molecule and it is well known that only the (-)-form, 1-hyoscyamine, is the active isomer. Therefore it is necessary that the individual stereoisomers of atropine will be distinguished from each other. From earlier pharmacokinetic studies it is known that (-)- atropine is faster eliminated than 163
(+)-atropine. This report describes the analysis of obidoxime (200 ng/ml- 50 micro g/ml) with capillary electrophoresis and atropine (0.5 ng/ml- 75 ng/ml) with LC-MS-MS. Author Atropine; Chemical Analysis; Chlorides; Plasma Chemistry 20040111413 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA, National Space Science and Technology Center, Huntsville, AL, USA Oxygen Effect on the Low Temperature Tolerance of Facultative Anaerobes from Antarctica, Alaska, and Patagonia Pikuta, Elena V.; Hoover, Richard B.; [2004]; 1 pp.; In English; SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2-6 Aug. 2004, Denver, CO, USA; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; A01, Hardcopy Psychrotolerance as an adaptation to survival in extreme environments is widespread among many of the mesophilic microorganisms. Red-ox potential, pH and salinity could significantly alter the features of ecosystems by providing liquid water at subzero temperatures. Furthermore, organisms can respond to temperature changes by several known mechanisms, including changing the conformation capacities of constitutional proteins or by the synthesis of mucopolysaccharides around the cell wall and membrane. Such protective mechanisms make it possible for cells to not only passively survive low-temperature in a state of anabiosis, but also to be capable of actively metabolizing substrates and reproducing normally. The physiological and biochemical characteristics of species as well as genetics could be remarkably changed due to -on and surviving m extreme environments. The cold shock genes for some of the studied strains of psychrotolerant facultative anaerobes already were published In this paper we present experimental data for psychrotolerant facultative anaerobes isolated from geographically different cold regions of our planet. We show the growth response on the changing of anaerobic conditions to aerobic with cultivation at subzero temperatures. Author Oxygen; Low Temperature Environments; Anaerobes; Microorganisms; Biochemistry; Survival 20040111419 BAE Systems Analytical Solutions, Inc., Huntsville, AL, USA Magnetic Control of Convection during Protein Crystallization Ramachandran, N.; Leslie, F. W.; [2004]; 1 pp.; In English; International Conference on Crystal Growth, 9-13 Aug. 2004, Grenoble, France; Original contains black and white illustrations Contract(s)/Grant(s): NAS8-02096; No Copyright; Avail: Other Sources; Abstract Only An important component in biotechnology, particularly in the area of protein engineering and rational drug design is the knowledge of the precise three-dimensional molecular structure of proteins. The quality of structural information obtained from X-ray diffraction methods is directly dependent on the degree of perfection of the protein crystals. As a consequence, the growth of high quality macromolecular Crystals for diffraction analyses has been the central focus for bio-chemists, biologists, and bioengineers. Macromolecular crystals are obtained from solutions that contain the crystallizing species in equilibrium with higher aggregates, ions, precipitants, other possible phases of the protein, foreign particles, the walls of container, and a likely host of other impurities. By changing transport modes in general, i.e., reduction of convection and Sedimentation as is achieved in ‘microgravity", we have been able to dramatically affect the movement and distribution of macromolecules in the fluid, and thus their transport, fodonofcrystal nuclei, and adsorption to the crystal surface. While a limited number of high quality crystals from space flights have been obtained, as the recent National Research Council (NRC) review of the NASA microgravity crystallization program pointed out, the scientific approach and research in crystallization of proteins has been mainly empirical yielding inconclusive results. We postulate that we can reduce convection in ground-based experiments and we can understand the different aspects of convection control through the use of strong magnetic fields and field gradients. We postulate that limited convection in a magnetic field will provide the environment for the growth of high quality crystals. The approach exploits the variation of fluid magnetic susceptibility with counteracts on for this purpose and the convective damping is realized by appropriately positioning the crystal growth cell so that the magnetic susceptibility force counteract terrestrial gravity. The genera1 objective is to test the hypothesis of convective control using a strong magnetic field and magnetic field gradient and to understand the nature of the various forces that come into play. Specifically we aim to delineate causative factors and to quantify them through experiments, analysis and numerical modeling. The paper will report on the experimental results using paramagentic salts and solutions in magnetic fields and compare them to analyticalpr~ctions. Derived from text Magnetic Control; Crystallization; Convection; Bioengineering; Environmental Quality; Macromolecules; Microgravity; Protein Crystal Growth 164
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the effect of Cr on SCC. The alloy
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Evidence show that TNFa is able to
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Early detection and intervention is
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Metastasis-suppressor genes suppres
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An approach of dealing with cases w
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99 GENERAL Includes aeronautical, a
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PHASE SHIFT Detection of a PSK Sign
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Cost-Effective Remote Mirroring Usi
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REGENERATORS Overview 2003 of NASA
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Modeling of the Plasma Thruster Imp
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THORIUM Evaluation of Thorium-232 D
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Validation of NASCAP-2K Spacecraft-
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