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Chen, Chen, Erin J. van Schaik, Anthony E. Gregory, Adam Vigil, Phillip L. Felgner, Laura R. Hendrix, Robert Faris, and James E. Samuel. "Chemokine Receptor 7 Is Essential for Coxiella burnetii Whole-Cell Vaccine-Induced Cellular Immunity but Dispensable for Vaccine-Mediated Protective Immunity." Journal of Infectious Diseases 220, no. 4 (April 2, 2019): 624–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz146.
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Abstract Background Protective immunity against Coxiella burnetii infection is conferred by vaccination with virulent (PI-WCV), but not avirulent (PII-WCV) whole-cell inactivated bacterium. The only well-characterized antigenic difference between virulent and avirulent C. burnetii is they have smooth and rough lipopolysaccharide (LPS), respectively. Methods Mice were vaccinated with PI-WCV and PII-WCV. Humoral and cellular responses were evaluated using protein chip microarrays and ELISpots, respectively. Dendritic cell (DC) maturation after stimulation with PI-WVC and PII-WVC was evaluated using flow cytometry. Vaccine-challenge studies were performed to validate the importance of the receptor CCR7. Results Other than specific antibody response to PI-LPS, similar antibody profiles were observed but IgG titers were significantly higher after vaccination with PI-WCV. Furthermore, higher frequency of antigen-specific CD4+ T cells was detected in mice immunized with PI-WCV. PI-WCV–stimulated DCs displayed significantly higher levels of CCR7 and migratory ability to secondary lymphoid organs. Challenge-protection studies in wild-type and CCR7-deficient mice confirmed that CCR7 is critical for PI-WCV–induced cellular immunity. Conclusions PI-WVC stimulates protective immunity to C. burnetii in mice through stimulation of migratory behavior in DCs for protective cellular immunity. Additionally, the humoral immune response to LPS is an important component of protective immunity.
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du Piesanie, A., A. J. M. Piters, I. Aben, H. Schrijver, P. Wang, and S. Noël. "Validation of two independent retrievals of SCIAMACHY water vapour columns using radiosonde data." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 6, no. 10 (October 31, 2013): 2925–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2925-2013.
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Abstract. Two independently derived SCIAMACHY total water vapour column (WVC) products are compared with integrated water vapour data calculated from radiosonde measurements, and with each other. The two SCIAMACHY WVC products are retrieved with two different retrieval algorithms applied in the visible and short-wave infrared wavelength regions respectively. The first SCIAMACHY WVC product used in the comparison is ESA's level 2 version 5.01 WVC product derived with the Air Mass Corrected Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (AMC-DOAS) retrieval algorithm applied in the visible wavelength range (SCIAMACHY-ESA). The second SCIAMACHY WVC product is derived using the iterative maximum likelihood method (IMLM) in the short-wave infrared wavelength range and developed by Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SCIAMACHY-IMLM). Both SCIAMACHY WVC products are compared with collocated water vapour amounts determined from daily relative humidity radiosonde measurements obtained from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) radiosonde network. The SCIAMACHY-ESA WVC product is compared with radiosonde-derived WVC amounts for an 18-month period from February 2010 to mid-August 2011, and the SCIAMACHY-IMLM WVC amounts are compared with radiosonde WVC amounts for the two individual years of 2004 and 2009. In addition the WVC amounts from SCIAMACHY-ESA and SCIAMACHY-IMLM are also compared with each other for a 1-month period for June 2009. The AMC-DOAS method used to retrieve SCIAMACHY-ESA WVC is able to correct for water vapour present below the clouds and can be used during cloudy conditions over both land and ocean surfaces. Results indicate a good agreement between the WVC amounts of SCIAMACHY-ESA and that of radiosondes, with a mean difference of −0.32 g cm−2 for all collocated cases. Overall the SCIAMACHY-ESA WVC amounts are smaller than the radiosonde WVC amounts, especially over oceans. For cloudy conditions the WVC bias has a clear dependence on the cloud top height and increases with increasing cloud top heights larger than approximately 2 km. A likely cause for this could be the different vertical profile shapes of water vapour and O2 leading to different relative changes in their optical thickness, which makes the air mass factor (AMF) correction method used in the algorithm less suitable for high clouds. The SCIAMACHY-IMLM product's water vapour measurements are best used over land surfaces during cloud-free conditions, and in these cases a good agreement is found when compared to radiosonde WVC amounts, with a mean difference of 0.08 g cm−2. It is shown that over ocean surfaces during cloudy conditions the partial SCIAMACHY-IMLM water vapour column above the cloud can be well estimated by using the simultaneously retrieved methane column to calculate the cloud top height. Comparing the two satellite WVC products with each other indicates that SCIAMACHY-ESA consistently measures higher WVC amounts than those of SCIAMACHY-IMLM. Furthermore, the importance of the choice of cloud product is highlighted, as intercomparisons between the two SCIAMACHY WVC products indicate that using different cloud products to screen water vapour data for cloud-free conditions influences the data selection and may ultimately lead to a variation in results. In the last section of the paper, various options for filtering the two SCIAMACHY WVC data sets are discussed and best selection criteria suggested.
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du Piesanie, A., A. J. M. Piters, I. Aben, H. Schrijver, P. Wang, and S. Noël. "Validation of two independent retrievals of SCIAMACHY water vapour columns using radiosonde data." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions 6, no. 1 (January 21, 2013): 665–702. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amtd-6-665-2013.
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Abstract. Two independently derived SCIAMACHY total water vapour column (WVC) products are compared with integrated water vapour data calculated from radiosonde measurements, and with each other. The two SCIAMACHY WVC products are retrieved with two different retrieval algorithms applied in the visible and short wave infrared wavelength regions respectively. The first SCIAMACHY WVC product used in the comparison is ESA's level 2 version 5.01 WVC product derived with the Air Mass Corrected Differential Absorption Spectroscopy (AMC-DOAS) retrieval algorithm (SCIAMACHY-ESA). The second SCIAMACHY WVC product is derived using the Iterative Maximum Likelihood Method (IMLM) developed by Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SCIAMACHY-IMLM). Both SCIAMACHY WVC products are compared with collocated water vapour amounts determined from daily relative humidity radiosonde measurements obtained from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) radiosonde network, over an 18 month and 2 yr period respectively. Results indicate a good agreement between the WVC amounts of SCIAMACHY-ESA and the radiosonde, and a mean difference of 0.03 g cm−2 is found for cloud free conditions. Overall the SCIAMACHY-ESA WVC amounts are smaller than the radiosonde WVC amounts, especially over oceans. For cloudy conditions the WVC bias has a clear dependence on the cloud top height and increases with increasing cloud top heights larger than approximately 2 km. A likely cause for this could be the different vertical profile shapes of water vapour and O2 leading to different relative changes in their optical thickness, which makes the AMF correction method used in the algorithm less suitable for high clouds. The SCIAMACHY-IMLM WVC amounts compare well to the radiosonde WVC amounts during cloud free conditions over land. A mean difference of 0.08 g cm−2 is found which is consistent with previous results when comparing daily averaged SCIAMACHY-IMLM WVC amounts with ECMWF model data globally. Furthermore, we show that the measurements for cloudy conditions (cloud fraction ≥ 0.5) with low clouds (cloud pressure ≥ 930 hPa) above the ocean and land compare quite well with radiosonde data.
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Zou, Yajie, Xinzhi Zhong, Jinjun Tang, Xin Ye, Lingtao Wu, Muhammad Ijaz, and Yinhai Wang. "A Copula-Based Approach for Accommodating the Underreporting Effect in Wildlife‒Vehicle Crash Analysis." Sustainability 11, no. 2 (January 15, 2019): 418. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11020418.
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Wildlife‒vehicle collision (WVC) data usually contain two types: the reported WVC data and carcass removal data. Previous studies often found a discrepancy between the number of reported WVC and carcass removal data, and the quality of both datasets is affected by underreporting. Underreporting means the number of WVCs is not fully recorded in the database; neglecting the underreporting in WVC data may result in biased parameter estimation results. In this study, a copula regression model linking wildlife‒vehicle collisions and the underreporting outcome was proposed to consider the underreporting in WVC data. The WVC data collected from 10 highways in Washington State were analyzed using the copula regression model and the Negative Binomial (NB) model. The main findings from this study are as follows: (1) the Gaussian copula model can provide different modeling results when compared with the conventional modeling approach; (2) the hotspot identification results indicate that the Gaussian copula-based Empirical Bayes (EB) method can more accurately identify hotspots than the NB-based EB method. Thus, the proposed copula model may be a better alternative to the conventional NB model for modeling underreported WVC data.
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Valero, Enrique, Juan Picos, Laura Lagos, and Xana Álvarez. "Road and traffic factors correlated to wildlife–vehicle collisions in Galicia (Spain)." Wildlife Research 42, no. 1 (2015): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr14060.
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Context Wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVC) are one of the major risk factors for the safety of drivers, as well as a great danger to wildlife that moves through the territory. In recent decades, given the growth of these accidents, some researches emerged to understand what are the main causes of this phenomenon and find the best solutions for implementation and try to solve this problem. Aims The aim of the present study was to analyse the road and traffic characteristics of road segments with a high occurrence of WVC in north-western Spain, specifically, the collisions with wild ungulates (roe deer and wild boar). Methods A nearest-neighbour analysis was used to analyse the spatial distribution of the WVC spots, and so as to identify these hotspots of accidents, we performed a hotspot analysis using the routine nearest-neighbour hierarchical cluster. Then, we calculated the WVC density of each road segment (KP). The existence of differences in the values of variables between high and low accident densities was analysed using a Mann–Whitney U-test for the continuous variables, and a χ2-test for the categorical ones. Then, multiple logistic regression analysis was used to identify which variables could predict the existence of KPs with a high density of WVC. Key results Our results showed that the daily traffic volume, the width of the road, the number of lanes and speed limit affect whether a particular road marker has a high or low density of WVC. Conclusions We conclude that high WVC is frequently characterised by wider lanes and shoulders, as well as gentler slopes, whereas in the sections with narrower roads and a shorter curvature radius, there are some conditions (low visibility and speed reduction) that reduce the probability of having an accident with ungulates. However, the speed at which it is possible to drive on a given road section is closely related to the occurrence of WVC. Implications These findings emphasise the importance of including mitigation measures in the decision-making when planning and designing infrastructure.
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Valero, Enrique, Juan Picos, Laura Lagos, and Xana Álvarez. "Corrigendum to: Road and traffic factors correlated to wildlife–vehicle collisions in Galicia (Spain)." Wildlife Research 42, no. 8 (2015): 717. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr14060_co.
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Context Wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVC) are one of the major risk factors for the safety of drivers, as well as a great danger to wildlife that moves through the territory. In recent decades, given the growth of these accidents, some researches emerged to understand what are the main causes of this phenomenon and find the best solutions for implementation and try to solve this problem. Aims The aim of the present study was to analyse the road and traffic characteristics of road segments with a high occurrence of WVC in north-western Spain, specifically, the collisions with wild ungulates (roe deer and wild boar). Methods A nearest-neighbour analysis was used to analyse the spatial distribution of the WVC spots, and so as to identify these hotspots of accidents, we performed a hotspot analysis using the routine nearest-neighbour hierarchical cluster. Then, we calculated the WVC density of each road segment (KP). The existence of differences in the values of variables between high and low accident densities was analysed using a Mann–Whitney U-test for the continuous variables, and a ?2-test for the categorical ones. Then, multiple logistic regression analysis was used to identify which variables could predict the existence of KPs with a high density of WVC. Key results Our results showed that the daily traffic volume, the width of the road, the number of lanes and speed limit affect whether a particular road marker has a high or low density of WVC. Conclusions We conclude that high WVC is frequently characterised by wider lanes and shoulders, as well as gentler slopes, whereas in the sections with narrower roads and a shorter curvature radius, there are some conditions (low visibility and speed reduction) that reduce the probability of having an accident with ungulates. However, the speed at which it is possible to drive on a given road section is closely related to the occurrence of WVC. Implications These findings emphasise the importance of including mitigation measures in the decision-making when planning and designing infrastructure.
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Maheswaran, R., and Rakesh Khosa. "Wavelets-based non-linear model for real-time daily flow forecasting in Krishna River." Journal of Hydroinformatics 15, no. 3 (January 10, 2013): 1022–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2013.135.
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In this study, a multi-scale non-linear model based on coupling a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and the second-order Volterra model, i.e. the wavelet Volterra coupled (WVC) model, is applied for daily inflow forecasting at Krishna Agraharam, Krishna River, India. The relative performance of the WVC model was compared with regular artificial neural networks (ANN), wavelet-artificial neural networks (WA-ANN) models and other baseline models such as auto-regressive moving average with exogenous variables (ARMAX) for lead times of 1–5 days. The models were applied for the forecasting of daily streamflow at Krishna Agraharam Station at Krishna River. The WVC performed very well, especially when compared with the WA-ANN model for lead times of 4 and 5 days. The results indicate that the WVC model is a promising alternative to the other traditional models for short-term flow forecasting.
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Pagany, R., and W. Dorner. "SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS FOR WILDLIFE-VEHICLE-COLLISIONS BASED ON ACCIDENT STATISTICS OF THE COUNTY STRAUBING-BOGEN IN LOWER BAVARIA." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLI-B8 (June 23, 2016): 739–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-xli-b8-739-2016.
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During the last years the numbers of wildlife-vehicle-collisions (WVC) in Bavaria increased considerably. Despite the statistical registration of WVC and preventive measures at areas of risk along the roads, the number of such accidents could not be contained. Using geospatial analysis on WVC data of the last five years for county Straubing-Bogen, Bavaria, a small-scale methodology was found to analyse the risk of WVC along the roads in the investigated area. Various indicators were examined, which may be related to WVC. The risk depends on the time of the day and year which shows correlations in turn to the traffic density and wildlife population. Additionally the location of the collision depends on the species and on different environmental parameters. Accidents seem to correlate with the land use left and right of the street. Land use data and current vegetation were derived from remote sensing data, providing information of the general land use, also considering the vegetation period. For this a number of hot spots was selected to identify potential dependencies between land use, vegetation and season. First results from these hotspots show, that WVCs do not only depend on land use, but may show a correlation with the vegetation period. With regard to agriculture and seasonal as well as annual changes this indicates that warnings will fail due to their static character in contrast to the dynamic situation of land use and resulting risk for WVCs. This shows that there is a demand for remote sensing data with a high spatial and temporal resolution as well as a methodology to derive WVC warnings considering land use and vegetation. With remote sensing data, it could become possible to classify land use and calculate risk levels for WVC. Additional parameters, derived from remote sensed data that could be considered are relief and crops as well as other parameters such as ponds, natural and infrastructural barriers that could be related to animal behaviour and should be considered by future research.
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Pagany, R., and W. Dorner. "SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS FOR WILDLIFE-VEHICLE-COLLISIONS BASED ON ACCIDENT STATISTICS OF THE COUNTY STRAUBING-BOGEN IN LOWER BAVARIA." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLI-B8 (June 23, 2016): 739–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xli-b8-739-2016.
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During the last years the numbers of wildlife-vehicle-collisions (WVC) in Bavaria increased considerably. Despite the statistical registration of WVC and preventive measures at areas of risk along the roads, the number of such accidents could not be contained. Using geospatial analysis on WVC data of the last five years for county Straubing-Bogen, Bavaria, a small-scale methodology was found to analyse the risk of WVC along the roads in the investigated area. Various indicators were examined, which may be related to WVC. The risk depends on the time of the day and year which shows correlations in turn to the traffic density and wildlife population. Additionally the location of the collision depends on the species and on different environmental parameters. Accidents seem to correlate with the land use left and right of the street. Land use data and current vegetation were derived from remote sensing data, providing information of the general land use, also considering the vegetation period. For this a number of hot spots was selected to identify potential dependencies between land use, vegetation and season. First results from these hotspots show, that WVCs do not only depend on land use, but may show a correlation with the vegetation period. With regard to agriculture and seasonal as well as annual changes this indicates that warnings will fail due to their static character in contrast to the dynamic situation of land use and resulting risk for WVCs. This shows that there is a demand for remote sensing data with a high spatial and temporal resolution as well as a methodology to derive WVC warnings considering land use and vegetation. With remote sensing data, it could become possible to classify land use and calculate risk levels for WVC. Additional parameters, derived from remote sensed data that could be considered are relief and crops as well as other parameters such as ponds, natural and infrastructural barriers that could be related to animal behaviour and should be considered by future research.
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Zhang, Xin Hong, Chun Fang Lei, and Hong Fei Li. "Study on Natural Disaster Prevention Countermeasures for Western Valley City from the Perspective of City Planning: A Case of Lanzhou City." Applied Mechanics and Materials 409-410 (September 2013): 827–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.409-410.827.
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For a long time, the Western Valley Cities (WVC) had suffered serious threats from several natural disasters, and integrated prevention natural disasters has been a primary issue to their sustainable development and inhabitation environment construction. As a significant public policy for conducting city development and guaranteeing public safety, city planning serves an irreplaceable function in WVC natural disasters integrated prevention. Take Lanzhou city as a WVC example, the paper firstly analyzing its main natural disasters that include earthquake, flood, sandstorm and geological disasters. Further, it systematically summarizes their four typical characteristics, which are forceful relevance with geographical environment, higher disasters continuous occurrence, stronger amplifying nature of disaster losses and higher costs and difficulties of rescues and reconstructions. Finally, from four aspects that are improving legal status of disasters integrated prevention planning, establishing a rational optimal allocation model of city land-use, building a multilevel natural disaster prevention system and constructing prevention disaster communities, it puts forward natural disasters integrated prevention countermeasures for WVC based on the perspective of city planning.
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Ascensão, Fernando, Arnaud L. J. Desbiez, Emília P. Medici, and Alex Bager. "Spatial patterns of road mortality of medium–large mammals in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil." Wildlife Research 44, no. 2 (2017): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr16108.
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Context Brazil has one of the richest biodiversity and one of the most extensive road networks in the world. Several negative impacts emerge from this interaction, including wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVC), which may represent a significant source of non-natural mortality in several species. The understanding of the main drivers of WVC is, therefore, crucial to improve the safe coexistence between human needs (transportation of goods and people) and animal populations. Aims We aimed to (1) evaluate the relative influence of land-cover patterns on the distribution of WVC, (2) assess whether WVCs are clustered forming hotspots of mortality, and, if so, (3) evaluate the benefits of mitigating only hotspot sections. Methods We collected WVC data involving medium–large mammals (4–260kg) along three road transects (920km), fortnightly over 1 year (n=1006 records). We used boosted regression trees to relate the WVC locations with a set of environmental variables including a roadkill index, reflecting overall habitat suitability and landscape connectivity, while accounting for spatial autocorrelation effects. We identified hotspots of mortality using Ripley’s K statistic and testing whether data follow a random Poisson distribution correcting for Type I error. Key results We found a strong association between WVC probability and roadkill index for all focal species. Distance to riparian areas, tree cover, terrain ruggedness and distance to urban areas were also important predictors, although to a lesser extent. We detected 21 hotspots of mortality, yet with little spatial overlapping as only four road sections (2%) were classified as hotspot for more than one species. Conclusions Our results supported that WVC mainly occur in road sections traversing areas with more abundant and diverse mammal communities. Hotspots of mortality may provide important information to prioritise road sections for mitigation, but this should be used in complement with roadkill indexes accounting for overall mortality. Implications The results support focusing on hotspots and habitat quality and landscape connectivity for a better assessment of road mortality. At the local scale, a larger number and improved road passages with exclusionary fencing of appropriate mesh size in riparian areas may provide safe crossings for many species and constitute a promising mitigation measure.
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Dastych, Jaroslaw, Dennis Taub, Mary C. Hardison, and Dean D. Metcalfe. "Tyrosine kinase-deficient Wvc-kit induces mast cell adhesion and chemotaxis." American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 275, no. 5 (November 1, 1998): C1291—C1299. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.1998.275.5.c1291.
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W/Wvmice are deficient in tissue mast cells, and mast cells cultured from these mice do not proliferate in response to the c-kit ligand, stem cell factor (SCF). In this paper, we report that mouse bone marrow cultured mast cells derived from W/Wvmice do adhere to fibronectin in the presence of SCF and exhibit chemotaxis to SCF, and we explore this model for the understanding of c-kit-mediated signaling pathways. Both in vitro and in vivo (in intact cells) phosphorylation experiments demonstrated a low residual level of W/Wvc-kit protein phosphorylation. SCF-induced responses in W/Wvmast cells were abolished by the tyrosine kinase inhibitor herbimycin A and by the phospatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase) inhibitor wortmannin but were not affected by protein kinase C inhibitors. These observations are consistent with the conclusions that Wvc-kit initiates a signaling process that is PI 3-kinase dependent and that mutated Wvc-kit retains the ability to initiate mast cell adhesion and migration.
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Tahon, Caroline, and Peter J. Batt. "An Exploratory Study of the Sustainable Practices Used at Each Level of the Bordeaux Wine Value Chain." Sustainability 13, no. 17 (August 30, 2021): 9760. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13179760.
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This paper explores environmental and socially sustainable practices among different actors in the Bordeaux wine value chain (WVC). The main research question is to identify the extent to which the different actors in the wine value chain are aligned in terms of practices and beliefs concerning the importance and implementation of sustainable practices. While each actor in the Bordeaux WVC performs different sustainable practices depending on the activities that they undertake, some share common practices and exert some upstream pressure on the value chain as they seek to support sustainable practices at the wine grape grower and wine producer level. Environmentally sustainable practices are more developed than socially sustainable practices and were more widely adopted by most of the WVC actors.
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Gust, Ian D. "WVC Australia 2008: The next generation of vaccines." Human Vaccines 5, no. 6 (June 2009): 370–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/hv.5.6.7712.
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Iassamen, Alia, Henri Sauvageot, Nicolas Jeannin, and Soltane Ameur. "Distribution of Tropospheric Water Vapor in Clear and Cloudy Conditions from Microwave Radiometric Profiling." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 48, no. 3 (March 1, 2009): 600–615. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008jamc1916.1.
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Abstract A dataset gathered over 369 days in various midlatitude sites with a 12-frequency microwave radiometric profiler is used to analyze the statistical distribution of tropospheric water vapor content (WVC) in clear and cloudy conditions. The WVC distribution inside intervals of temperature is analyzed. WVC is found to be well fitted by a Weibull distribution. The two Weibull parameters, the scale (λ) and shape (k), are temperature (T) dependent; k is almost constant, around 2.6, for clear conditions. For cloudy conditions, at T < −10°C, k is close to 2.6. For T > −10°C, k displays a maximum in such a way that skewness, which is positive in most conditions, reverses to negative in a temperature region approximately centered around 0°C (i.e., at a level where the occurrence of cumulus clouds is high). Analytical λ(T) and k(T) relations are proposed. The WVC spatial distribution can thus be described as a function of T. The mean WVC vertical profiles for clear and cloudy conditions are well described by a function of temperature of the same form as the Clausius–Clapeyron equation. The WVCcloudy/WVCclear ratio is shown to be a linear function of temperature. The vertically integrated WV (IWV) is found to follow a Weibull distribution. The IWV Weibull distribution parameters retrieved from the microwave radiometric profiler agree very well with the ones calculated from the 15-yr ECMWF reanalysis (ERA-15) meteorological database. The radiometric retrievals compare fairly well to the corresponding values calculated from an operational radiosonde sounding dataset.
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Mendoza-Torres, J. E., E. Colín-Beltrán, D. Ferrusca, and R. J. Contreras. "Local dew-point temperature, water vapor pressure, and millimeter-wavelength opacity at the Sierra Negra volcano." Astronomy & Astrophysics 649 (April 28, 2021): A12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039691.
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Aims. Some astronomical facilities are in operation at the Sierra Negra volcano (SNV), at ∼4.5 km over the sea level (o.s.l.) in Mexico. We asses whether it is possible to estimate the opacity for millimeter-wavelength observations based on the meteorological parameters at the site. A criterion for allowing astronomical observations at SNV depends on the atmospheric opacity at 225 GHz, which has to be τ225 ≤ 0.30 Nepers. The correlation of the opacity at SNV, measured with a radiometer at 225 GHz, τ225, with the local dew point temperature, TDP, the water vapor pressure, PH2O and the water vapor content (WVC) at SNV is studied with the aim to determine whether these parameters can be used to estimate the opacity at similar high-altitude locations for astronomical observations at millimeter wavelengths. Methods. We used radiosonde data taken in various decades in Mexico City (MX) and Veracruz City (VR) to compute the WVC in 0.5 km altitude (h) intervals from 0 km for VR and from 2.0 km for MX to 9.5 km o.s.l. to study the altitude profile WVC(h) at SNV by interpolating data of MX and VR. We also fit exponential functions to observed WVC (WVCobs(h)), obtaining a fit WVC (WVCftd(h)). The WVCobs(h) and WVCftd(h) were integrated, from lower limits of hlow = 2.5–5.5 km to the upper limit of 9.5 km as a measure of the input of WVCobs(h ≥ hlow) to the precipitable water vapor. Results. The largest differences between WVCobs and WVCftd values occur at low altitudes. The input of WVCobs(h) to the precitpitable water vapor for h ≥ 4.5 km ranges from 15% to 29%. At 4.5–5.0 km, the input is between 4% and 8%. This means that it is about a third of the WVC (h ≥ 4.5 km). The input above our limit (from 9.5–30.0 km) is estimated with WVCftd(h) and is found to be lower than 1%. The correlation of τ225 with TDP, PH2O, and WVCSNV takes values between 0.6 and 0.8. A functional relation is proposed based on simultaneous data taken in 2013–2015, according to which it is possible to estimate the opacity with the TDP, PH2O, or WVCSNV at the site. Conclusions. With local meteorological parameters, it is possible to know whether the opacity meets the condition τ225 ≤ 0.30 Nepers, with an uncertainty of ±0.16 Nepers. The uncertainty is low for low opacities and increases with increasing opacity.
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Eid, Diana, Etienne Medioni, Gustavo De-Deus, Issam Khalil, Alfred Naaman, and Carla Zogheib. "Impact of Warm Vertical Compaction on the Sealing Ability of Calcium Silicate-Based Sealers: A Confocal Microscopic Evaluation." Materials 14, no. 2 (January 14, 2021): 372. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14020372.
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The aim of this in vitro study was to evaluate the dentinal tubule penetration of two calcium silicate-based sealers used in warm vertical compaction (WVC) obturation technique in comparison with the single cone (SC) technique by confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM). The null hypothesis was that both obturation techniques produced similar sealer penetration depths at 1 and 5 mm from the apex. Forty-four mandibular single-rooted premolars were randomly divided into four equally experimental groups (n = 10) and two control groups (n = 2) according to the type of sealer (Bio-C Angelus, Londrína, PR, Brazil or HiFlow Brasseler, Savannah, GA, USA) with either SC or WVC. The sealers were mixed with a fluorescent dye Rhodamine B (0.1%) to enable the assessment under the CLSM. All the specimens were sectioned horizontally at 1 and 5 mm from the apex. The maximum penetration depth was calculated using the ImageJ Software (ImageJ, NIH). Data were analyzed by Mann–Whitney U and Kruskal–Wallis tests (p < 0.05). A significant difference was shown between the four groups at 1 mm (p = 0.0116), whereas similar results were observed at 5 mm (p = 0.20). WVC allowed better diffusion for both sealers at 1 mm (p = 0.01) and 5 mm (p = 0.034). The maximum penetration of the Bio-C and HiFlow sealers was more important at 5 mm with the two obturation techniques. Within the limitations of this study, WVC enhanced the penetration of calcium silicate-based sealers into the dentinal tubules in comparison with the SC technique at both levels.
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Ignatavičius, Gytautas, Alius Ulevičius, Vaidotas Valskys, Lina Galinskaitė, Peter E. Busher, and Giedrius Trakimas. "Lunar Phases and Wildlife–Vehicle Collisions: Application of the Lunar Disk Percentage Method." Animals 11, no. 3 (March 22, 2021): 908. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11030908.
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We investigated the relationship between lunar illumination based on the percentage of the visible lunar disk (LDP) and the frequency of wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVCs) in Lithuania. We analyzed WVC frequency during ten 10% LDP intervals to more precisely reflect the relationship between LDP and WVC. The 10% LDP interval approach showed a significant trend of increasing WVC frequencies with an increasing LDP at night. We also examined the correlation between the daily numbers of WVCs and LDP for different months and seasons. The relationship seemed to be stronger at night and during the late autumn–winter months, particularly in December, suggesting the importance of lunar illumination on WVCs. There was a weak positive correlation between LDP and overall daily number of WVCs (rs = 0.091; p < 0.001) and between LDP and night WVCs (rs = 0.104; p < 0.001). We found significant positive correlations for winter (December–February) (rs = 0.118; p = 0.012) and autumn (August–November) (rs = 0.127; p = 0.007). Our study suggests that the LDP interval approach may provide more possibilities for the evaluation and quantification of WVCs and lunar light relationships than the traditional lunar phase approach.
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Fedorca, Ancuta, Mihai Fedorca, Ovidiu Ionescu, Ramon Jurj, Georgeta Ionescu, and Marius Popa. "Sustainable Landscape Planning to Mitigate Wildlife–Vehicle Collisions." Land 10, no. 7 (July 14, 2021): 737. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10070737.
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Road development, traffic intensification, and collisions with wildlife represent a danger both for road safety and species conservation. For planners, deciding which mitigation methods to apply is often problematic. Through a kernel density estimate, we analyzed 715 crossing locations and wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVCs) involving brown bears, lynx, wolf, red deer, roe deer, and wild boar in the Southeastern Carpathian Mountains. We identified 25 WVC hotspots, of which eight require urgent mitigation of existing infrastructure. Moreover, many of these hotspots are in Natura 2000 sites, along road sections where vegetation is in close proximity, animal movement is the highest, and driver visibility is low. Our study is the first in Romania to recommend practical solutions to remediate WVC hotspots and benefit sustainable landscape management.
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Li, Dacheng, Yanqin Ge, and Baoping Wang. "Automated Retrieval of Cloud Masks from the HJ-1 WVC Imagery." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 7, no. 9 (September 2014): 3732–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jstars.2014.2325815.
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Huttunen, J., A. Arola, G. Myhre, A. V. Lindfors, T. Mielonen, S. Mikkonen, J. Schafer, et al. "Effect of water vapour on the determination of Aerosol Direct Radiative Effect based on the AERONET fluxes." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions 14, no. 1 (January 10, 2014): 751–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acpd-14-751-2014.
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Abstract. The Aerosol Direct Radiative Effect (ADRE) is defined as the change in the solar radiation flux, F, due to aerosol scattering and absorption. The difficulty in determining ADRE stems mainly from the need to estimate F without aerosols, F0, with either radiative transfer modelling and knowledge of the atmospheric state, or regression analysis of radiation data down to zero aerosol optical depth (AOD), if only F and AOD are observed. This paper examines the regression analysis method by using modeled surface data products provided by the AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET). We extrapolated F0 by two functions: a straight linear line and an exponential nonlinear decay. The exponential decay regression is expected to give a better estimation of ADRE with a few percents larger extrapolated F0 than the linear regression. We found that, contrary to the expectation, in most cases the linear regression gives better results than the nonlinear. In such cases the extrapolated F0 represents an unrealistically low WVC, resulting in underestimation of attenuation caused by the water vapour, and hence too large F0 and overestimation of the magnitude of ADRE. The nonlinear ADRE is generally 40–50% larger in magnitude than the linear ADRE due to the extrapolated F0 difference. Since for a majority of locations, AOD and water vapour column (WVC) have a positive correlation, the extrapolated F0 with the nonlinear regression fit represents an unrealistically low WVC, and hence too large F0. The systematic underestimation of F0 with the linear regression is compensated by the positive correlation between AOD and water vapour, providing the better result.
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Huttunen, J., A. Arola, G. Myhre, A. V. Lindfors, T. Mielonen, S. Mikkonen, J. S. Schafer, et al. "Effect of water vapor on the determination of aerosol direct radiative effect based on the AERONET fluxes." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 14, no. 12 (June 20, 2014): 6103–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-6103-2014.
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Abstract. The aerosol direct radiative effect (ADRE) is defined as the change in the solar radiation flux, F, due to aerosol scattering and absorption. The difficulty in determining ADRE stems mainly from the need to estimate F without aerosols, F0, with either radiative transfer modeling and knowledge of the atmospheric state, or regression analysis of radiation data down to zero aerosol optical depth (AOD), if only F and AOD are observed. This paper examines the regression analysis method by using modeled surface data products provided by the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET). We extrapolated F0 by two functions: a straight linear line and an exponential nonlinear decay. The exponential decay regression is expected to give a better estimation of ADRE with a few percent larger extrapolated F0 than the linear regression. We found that, contrary to the expectation, in most cases the linear regression gives better results than the nonlinear. In such cases the extrapolated F0 represents an unrealistically low water vapor column (WVC), resulting in underestimation of attenuation caused by the water vapor, and hence too large F0 and overestimation of the magnitude of ADRE. The nonlinear ADRE is generally 40–50% larger in magnitude than the linear ADRE due to the extrapolated F0 difference. Since for a majority of locations, AOD and WVC have a positive correlation, the extrapolated F0 with the nonlinear regression fit represents an unrealistically low WVC, and hence too large F0. The systematic underestimation of F0 with the linear regression is compensated by the positive correlation between AOD and water vapor, providing the better result.
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Lan Anh, Dinh Thi, and Filipe Aires. "River Discharge Estimation based on Satellite Water Extent and Topography: An Application over the Amazon." Journal of Hydrometeorology 20, no. 9 (August 29, 2019): 1851–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jhm-d-18-0206.1.
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Abstract River discharge (RD) estimates are necessary for many applications, including water management, flood risk, and water cycle studies. Satellite-derived long-term GIEMS-D3 surface water extent (SWE) maps and HydroSHEDS data, at 90-m resolution, are here used to estimate several hydrological quantities at a monthly time scale over a few selected locations within the Amazon basin. Two methods are first presented to derive the water level (WL): the “hypsometric curve” and the “histogram cutoff” approaches at an 18 km × 18 km resolution. The obtained WL values are interpolated over the whole water mask using a bilinear interpolation. The two methods give similar results and validation with altimetry is satisfactory, with a correlation ranging from 0.72 to 0.89 in the seven considered stations over three rivers (i.e., Wingu, Negro, and Solimoes Rivers). River width (RW) and water volume change (WVC) are also estimated. WVC is evaluated with GRACE total water storage change, and correlations range from 0.77 to 0.88. A neural network (NN) statistical model is then used to estimate the RD based on four predictors (SWE, WL, WVC, and RW) and on in situ RD measurements. Results compare well to in situ measurements with a correlation of about 0.97 for the raw data (and 0.84 for the anomalies). The presented methodologies show the potential of historical satellite data (the combination of SWE with topography) to help estimate RD. Our study focuses here on a large river in the Amazon basin at a monthly scale; additional analyses would be required for other rivers, including smaller ones, in different environments, and at higher temporal scale.
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Vrkljan, Joso, Dubravka Hozjan, Danijela Barić, Damir Ugarković, and Krešimir Krapinec. "Temporal Patterns of Vehicle Collisions with Roe Deer and Wild Boar in the Dinaric Area." Croatian journal of forest engineering 41, no. 2 (May 4, 2020): 347–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.5552/crojfe.2020.789.
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The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) based on the animal species, and to deepen the knowledge of temporal patterns of vehicle collisions with roe deer and wild boar. The study analyses the data from police reports on vehicle collisions with animals on state roads, by date and time, section of road, and animal species over a 5-year period (2012–2016). These data were analysed to determine the temporal dynamics of vehicle collisions with roe deer and wild boar by month, time of day, and moon phase. On the state roads in the Dinaric area, roe deer are most commonly involved in vehicle collisions (70.1% of all collisions), followed by wild boar (11.0%). Other large species involved in collisions were fallow deer (4.8%), brown bear (1.8%), red deer (0.9%), grey wolf (0.7%), and European mouflon (0.5%), respectively. Most collisions with roe deer occurred in the period April–August, with reduced frequency during autumn and winter. For wild boar, there was no association between month and frequency of collisions. At the annual level, collisions with roe deer were significantly higher during night (37%) and twilight (41%) than during the day (22%). For wild boar, most collisions occurred during twilight (26%) and night (72%), although the difference between these two periods was not statistically significant. For roe deer, collisions had no association with lunar phase, though wild boar collisions during twilight (dawn or dusk) were more common during twilight periods on days with less moonlight. Since vehicle collisions with wildlife showed certain temporal patterns, these should be taken into consideration in developing statistical models of spatial WVC patterns, and also in planning strategies and countermeasures to mitigate WVC issues.
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Gao, Caixia, Enyu Zhao, Chuanrong Li, Yonggang Qian, Lingling Ma, Lingli Tang, Xiaoguang Jiang, and Hongyuan Huo. "Study of Aerosol Influence on Nighttime Land Surface Temperature Retrieval Based on Two Methods." Advances in Meteorology 2015 (2015): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/496458.
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The aim of this study is to evaluate the aerosol influence on LST retrieval with two algorithms (split-window (SW) method and a four-channel based method) using simulated data under typical conditions. The results show that the root mean square error (RMSE) decreases to approximately 2.3 K for SW method and 1.5 K for four channel based method when VZA = 60° and visibility = 3 km; an RMSE would be increased by approximately 1.0 K when visibility varies from 3 km to 23 km. Moreover, a detailed sensitivity analysis under a visibility of 3 km and 23 km is performed in terms of uncertainties of land surface emissivity (LSE), water vapor content (WVC), and instrument noise, respectively. It is noted that the four-channel based method is more sensitive to LSE than SW method, especially for dry atmosphere; LST error caused by a WVC uncertainty of 20% is within 1.5 K for SW method and within 0.8 K for four-channel based method; the instrument noise would introduce LST error with a maximum standard deviation of 0.5 K and 0.04 K for the four-channel based method and SW method, respectively.
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Zou, Jinshang, and Huilan Liu. "Distribution of water vapor content (WVC) and its seasonal variation over the mainland of China." Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 3, no. 3 (August 1986): 385–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02678659.
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Wang, Han, Kebiao Mao, Fengyun Mu, Jiancheng Shi, Jun Yang, Zhaoliang Li, and Zhihao Qin. "A Split Window Algorithm for Retrieving Land Surface Temperature from FY-3D MERSI-2 Data." Remote Sensing 11, no. 18 (September 5, 2019): 2083. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11182083.
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The thermal infrared (TIR) data from the Medium Resolution Spectral Imager II (MERSI-2) on the Chinese meteorological satellite FY-3D have high spatiotemporal resolution. Although the MERSI-2 land surface temperature (LST) products have good application prospects, there are some deviations in the TIR band radiance from MERSI-2. To accurately retrieve LSTs from MERSI-2, a method based on a cross-calibration model and split window (SW) algorithm is proposed. The method is divided into two parts: cross-calibration and LST retrieval. First, the MODTRAN program is used to simulate the radiation transfer process to obtain MERSI-2 and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) simulation data, establish a cross-calibration model, and then calculate the actual brightness temperature (BT) of the MERSI-2 image. Second, according to the characteristics of the near-infrared (NIR) bands, the atmospheric water vapor content (WVC) is retrieved, and the atmospheric transmittance is calculated. The land surface emissivity is estimated by the NDVI-based threshold method, which ensures that both parameters (transmittance and emissivity) can be acquired simultaneously. The validation shows the following: 1) The average accuracy of our algorithm is 0.42 K when using simulation data; 2) the relative error of our algorithm is 1.37 K when compared with the MODIS LST product (MYD11A1); 3) when compared with ground-measured data, the accuracy of our algorithm is 1.23 K. Sensitivity analysis shows that the SW algorithm is not sensitive to the two main parameters (WVC and emissivity), which also proves that the estimation of LST from MERSI-2 data is feasible. In general, our algorithm exhibits good accuracy and applicability, but it still requires further improvement.
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Gailey, Donald A., Deborah L. Bordne, Ana Maria Vallés, Jeffrey C. Hall, and Kalpana White. "Construction of an Unstable Ring-X Chromosome Bearing the Autosomal Dopa Decarboxylase Gene in Drosophila melanogaster and Analysis of Ddc Mosaics." Genetics 115, no. 2 (February 1, 1987): 305–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/genetics/115.2.305.
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ABSTRACT An unstable Ring-X chromosome, Ddc +- Ring-X carrying a cloned Dopa decarboxylase (Ddc) encoding segment was constructed. The construction involved a double recombination event between the unstable Ring-X, R(1)wvC and a Rod-X chromosome which contained a P-element mediated Ddc + insert. The resulting Ddc +-Ring-X chromosome behaves similarly to the parent chromosome with respect to somatic instability. The Ddc +-Ring-X chromosome was used to generate Ddc mosaics. Analyses of Ddc mosaics revealed that while there was no absolute requirement for the Ddc + expression in either the epidermis or the nervous system, very large mutant clones did affect the viability of the mosaic.
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Li, Zhen, Ad Stoffelen, and Anton Verhoef. "A generalized simulation capability for rotating- beam scatterometers." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 12, no. 7 (July 4, 2019): 3573–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3573-2019.
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Abstract. Rotating-beam wind scatterometers exist in two types: rotating fan-beam and rotating pencil-beam. In our study, a generic simulation frame is established and verified to assess the wind retrieval skill of the three different scatterometers: SCAT on CFOSAT (China France Oceanography SATellite), WindRad (Chinese Wind Radar) on FY-3E, and SeaWinds on QuikSCAT. Besides the comparison of the so-called first rank solution retrieval skill of the input wind field, other figures of merit (FoMs) are applied to statistically characterize the associated wind retrieval performance from three aspects: wind vector root mean square error, ambiguity susceptibility, and wind biases. The evaluation shows that, overall, the wind retrieval quality of the three instruments can be ranked from high to low as WindRad, SCAT, and SeaWinds, where the wind retrieval quality strongly depends on the wind vector cell (WVC) location across the swath. Usually, the higher the number of views, the better the wind retrieval, but the effect of increasing the number of views reaches saturation, considering the fact that the wind retrieval quality at the nadir and sweet swath parts stays relatively similar for SCAT and WindRad. On the other hand, the wind retrieval performance in the outer swath of WindRad is improved substantially as compared to SCAT due to the increased number of views. The results may be generally explained by the different incidence angle ranges of SCAT and WindRad, mainly affecting azimuth diversity around nadir and number of views in the outer swath. This simulation frame can be used for optimizing the Bayesian wind retrieval algorithm, in particular to avoid biases around nadir but also to investigate resolution and accuracy through incorporating and analyzing the spatial response functions of the simulated Level-1B data for each WVC.
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Lee, Woo-Baik, and Min-Cheol Woo. "Efficiency of Price Discovery during Nighttime Trading Session : Evidence from KOSPI200 Global Futures." Journal of Derivatives and Quantitative Studies 21, no. 2 (May 31, 2013): 169–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jdqs-02-2013-b0002.
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Trading of KOSPI 200 futures on CME Globex platform, which was launched in November 2009, starts at 18:00 and closes at 05:00 in the next morning. This paper examines how price of KOSPI200 Global futures is discovered during nighttime trading session by using tick data. The overall results of this study can be summarized as follows; First, we find that the weighted price contribution (WPC) exhibits asymmetric ‘W’-shaped curve during session. This finding is interpreted as that information is consequently transmitted from Globex and NYSE with ‘U’-shaped curve of intradaily price discovery to KOSPI 200 Global futures. Meanwhile, the weighted volume contribution (WVC) also shows ‘W’-shaped curve but weighted price contribution per volume contribution (WPCV) indicates asymmetric ‘U’-shaped curve. This finding that a trade is more (less) informative when trading intensity is higher (lower) provides evidence of partially supporting the “Event Uncertainty Hypothesis” over “Hot Potato Hypothesis”. Second, the price change of closing to opening time significantly contributes to price change during the close-to-close time span. This result explains information during regular daytime trading of KOSPI200 futures is efficiently incorporated in opening price of nighttime session. Third, nighttime traders of KOSPI200 futures recognize volatility of US stock market as more valuable information than the price of futures on CME Globex.
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Zhang, Shuting, Si-Bo Duan, Zhao-Liang Li, Cheng Huang, Hua Wu, Xiao-Jing Han, Pei Leng, and Maofang Gao. "Improvement of Split-Window Algorithm for Land Surface Temperature Retrieval from Sentinel-3A SLSTR Data Over Barren Surfaces Using ASTER GED Product." Remote Sensing 11, no. 24 (December 15, 2019): 3025. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11243025.
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Land surface temperature (LST) is a key variable influencing the energy balance between the land surface and the atmosphere. In this work, a split-window algorithm was used to calculate LST from Sentinel-3A Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) thermal infrared data. The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis atmospheric profiles combined with the radiation transport model MODerate resolution atmospheric TRANsmission version 5.2 (MODTRAN 5.2) were utilized to obtain atmospheric water vapor content (WVC). The ASTER Global Emissivity Database Version 3 (ASTER GED v3) product was utilized to estimate surface emissivity in order to improve the accuracy of LST estimation over barren surfaces. Using a simulation database, the coefficients of the algorithm were fitted and the performance of the algorithm was evaluated. The root-mean-square error (RMSE) values of the differences between the estimated LST and the actual LST of the MODTRAN radiative transfer simulation at each WVC subrange of 0–6.5 g/cm2 were less than 1.0 K. To validate the retrieval accuracy, ground-based LST measurements were collected at two relatively homogeneous desert study sites in Dalad Banner and Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, China. The bias between the retrieved LST and the in situ LST was about 0.2 K and the RMSE was about 1.3 K at the Dalad Banner site, whereas they were approximately -0.4 and 1.0 K at the Wuhai site. As a reference, the retrieved LST was compared with the operational SLSTR LST product in this study. The bias between the SLSTR LST product and the in situ LST was approximately 1 K and the RMSE was approximately 2 K at the Dalad Banner site, whereas they were approximately 1.1 and 1.4 K at the Wuhai site. The results demonstrate that the split-window algorithm combined with improved emissivity estimation based on the ASTER GED product can distinctly obtain better accuracy of LST over barren surfaces.
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Lang, R., J. E. Williams, W. J. van der Zande, and A. N. Maurellis. "Application of the Spectral Structure Parameterization technique: retrieval of total water vapor columns from GOME." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions 2, no. 4 (July 31, 2002): 1097–130. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acpd-2-1097-2002.
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Abstract. We use a recently proposed spectral sampling technique for measurements of atmospheric transmissions called the Spectral Structure Parameterization (SSP) in order to retrieve total water vapor columns (WVC) from reflectivity spectra measured by the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME). SSP provides a good compromise between efficiency and speed when performing retrievals on highly structured spectra of narrow-band absorbers like water vapor. We show that SSP can be implemented in a radiative transfer scheme which treats both direct-path absorption and absorption by singly scattered light directly. For the retrieval we exploit a ro-vibrational overtone band of water vapor located in the visible around 590 nm. We compare our results to independent values given by the data assimilation model of ECMWF. In addition, results are compared to those obtained from the more accurate, but slower, Optical Absorption Coefficient Spectroscopy (OACS).
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Cooper, David E. "Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Humility." Philosophy 72, no. 279 (January 1997): 105–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819100056679.
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In 1929, doubtless to the discomfort of his logical positivist host Moritz Schlick, Wittgenstein remarked, ‘To be sure, I can understand what Heidegger means by Being and Angst’ (WVC, 68). I return to what Heidegger meant and Wittgenstein could understand later. I begin with that remark because it has had an instructive career. When the passage which it prefaced was first published in 1965, the editors left it out—presumably to protect a hero of ‘analytic’ philosophy from being compromised by an expression of sympathy for the arch-fiend of ‘continental’ philosophy. It was as if a diary of Churchill's had been discovered containing admiring references to Hitler. This was the period, after all, when Heidegger was, as Michael Dummett recalls, a ‘joke’ among Oxford philosophers, the paradigm of the sort of metaphysical nonsense Wittgenstein had dedicated himself to exposing.
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Lang, R., J. E. Williams, W. J. van der Zande, and A. N. Maurellis. "Application of the Spectral Structure Parameterization technique: retrieval of total water vapor columns from GOME." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 3, no. 1 (February 11, 2003): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-3-145-2003.
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Abstract. We use a recently proposed spectral sampling technique for measurements of atmospheric transmissions called the Spectral Structure Parameterization (SSP) in order to retrieve total water vapor columns (WVC) from reflectivity spectra measured by the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME). SSP provides a good compromise between efficiency and speed when performing retrievals on highly structured spectra of narrow-band absorbers like water vapor. We show that SSP can be implemented in a radiative transfer scheme which treats both direct-path absorption and absorption by singly-scattered light directly. For the retrieval we exploit a ro-vibrational overtone band of water vapor located in the visible around 590 nm. We compare our results to independent values given by the data assimilation model of ECMWF. In addition, results are compared to those obtained from the more accurate, but more computationally expensive, Optical Absorption Coefficient Spectroscopy (OACS).
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David Banta, H., and Annetine Gelijns. "An Early System for the Identification and Assessment of Future Health Care Technology: The Dutch STG Project." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 14, no. 4 (1998): 607–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300011910.
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AbstractThis article is based on the report, Anticipating and Assessing Health Care Technology, written in the Netherlands between 1985–1988. The project was carried out because of increasing concern in the Dutch Ministry of Health (STG, then WVC) about the costs and benefits of new technologies for health care. At that time, there were no established models for early identification, so the project was not only the most extensive such effort to that date, but had to develop its own methods. Overseen by a special commission, the project staff identified many future and emerging technologies in health care and assessed selected technologies. Although the actual information produced was quickly dated and the project was discontinued in 1988, it did stimulate the Ministry of Health to ask the Dutch Health Council (Gezondheidsraad) to continuously identify important new technologies. The reports also demonstrated the potential usefulness of such an effort to Dutch policy makers, and probably to those in other countries as well.
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Ha, Hoehun, and Fraser Shilling. "Modelling potential wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) locations using environmental factors and human population density: A case-study from 3 state highways in Central California." Ecological Informatics 43 (January 2018): 212–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2017.10.005.
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Peng, Yihuan, Xuetong Xie, Mingsen Lin, Lishan Ran, Feng Yuan, Yuan Zhou, and Ling Tang. "A Study of Sea Surface Rain Identification Based on HY-2A Scatterometer." Remote Sensing 13, no. 17 (September 1, 2021): 3475. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13173475.
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Rain affects the wind measurement accuracy of the Ku-band spaceborne scatterometer. In order to improve the quality of the retrieved wind field, it is necessary to identify and flag rain-contaminated data. In this study, an HY-2A scatterometer is used to study rain identification. In addition to the conventional parameters, such as the retrieved wind speed, the wind direction relative to the along-track direction, and the normalized beam difference, the experiment expands the mean deviation of the backscattering coefficient, the beam difference between fore and aft, and the node number of the wind vector cell (WVC) as the sensitive parameters according to the microwave scattering characteristics of rain and the actual measurement situation of the HY-2A. Furthermore, a rain identification model for HY2 (HY2RRM) with the K-Nearest Neighborhood (KNN) algorithm was built. After several tests, the accuracy of the selected HY2RRM approach is found to about 88%, and about 70% of rain-contaminated data can be accurately identified. The research results are helpful for better understanding the characteristics of microwave backscattering and provide a possible way to further improve the wind field retrieval accuracy of the HY-2A scatterometer and other Ku-band scatterometers.
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Liu, Hai Lei, Li Sheng Xu, Ji Lie Ding, Ba Sang, and Xiao Bo Deng. "An Atmospheric Correction Method for Medium Resolution Spectral Imager Thermal IR Soundings." Key Engineering Materials 500 (January 2012): 397–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.500.397.
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Based on the thermal radiative transfer equation (RTE), a new atmospheric correction method named Single Band Water Vapor Dependent (SBWVD) method is developed for land surface temperature (LST) retrieval for the FY-3A Medium Resolution Spectral Imager (MERSI) with only one thermal infrared (TIR) channel. Assuming that the surface emissivity is known, water vapor content (WVC) is the only one parameter for input to the SBWVD algorithm to retrieve LST from MERSI TIR observations. FY-3A MERSI Level 2 water vapor product is employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed method, and a 2-D data interpolation procedure is applied in order to match the MERSI L1B data in spatial resolution. Some tests, including numerical simulation for MERSI sensor and the synchronous measurements of MERSI and the radiosondes for the radiative calibration of the FY-3A tests in Qinghai Lake, have been carried out for the proposed algorithm, respectively. The results show that the difference between the retrieved LST and the in-situ measurements is less than 0.6 K for most situations. The comparison with the MODIS LST products (V5) shows that the root mean square error (RMSE) is under 0.72 K. Thus, our proposed new algorithm is applicable for the atmospheric correction and LST retrieval using MERSI TIR channel observations.
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Kučas, Andrius, and Linas Balčiauskas. "Impact of Road Fencing on Ungulate–Vehicle Collisions and Hotspot Patterns." Land 10, no. 4 (March 25, 2021): 338. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10040338.
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The number of road traffic accidents decreased in Lithuania from 2002 to 2017, while the ungulate–vehicle collision (UVC) number increased and accounted for approximately 69% of all wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVC) in the country. Understanding the relationship between UVCs, traffic intensity, and implemented mitigation measures is important for the assessment of UVC mitigation measure efficiency. We assessed the effect of annual average daily traffic (AADT) and wildlife fencing on UVCs using regression analysis of changes in annual UVCs and UVC hotspots on different categories of roads. At the highest rates, annual UVC numbers and UVC hotspots increased on lower category (national and regional) roads, forming a denser network. Lower rates of UVC increase occurred on higher category (main) roads, forming sparser road networks and characterized by the highest AADT. Before 2011, both UVC occurrence and fenced road sections were most common on higher-category roads. However, as of 2011, the majority of UVCs occurred on lower-category roads where AADT and fencing had no impact on UVCs. We conclude that wildlife fencing on roads characterized by higher speed and traffic intensity may decrease UVC numbers and at the same time shifting UVC occurrence towards roads characterized by lower speed and traffic intensity. Wildlife fencing re-allocates wildlife movement pathways toward roads with insufficient or no mitigation measures.
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Pagany, Raphaela, and Wolfgang Dorner. "Do Crash Barriers and Fences Have an Impact on Wildlife–Vehicle Collisions?—An Artificial Intelligence and GIS-Based Analysis." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 8, no. 2 (January 30, 2019): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8020066.
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Wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVCs) cause significant road mortality of wildlife and have led to the installation of protective measures along streets. Until now, it has been difficult to determine the impact of roadside infrastructure that might act as a barrier for animals. The main deficits are the lack of geodata for roadside infrastructure and georeferenced accidents recorded for a larger area. We analyzed 113 km of road network of the district Freyung-Grafenau, Germany, and 1571 WVCs, examining correlations between the appearance of WVCs, the presence or absence of roadside infrastructure, particularly crash barriers and fences, and the relevance of the blocking effect for individual species. To receive infrastructure data on a larger scale, we analyzed 5596 road inspection images with a neural network for barrier recognition and a GIS for a complete spatial inventory. This data was combined with the data of WVCs in GIS to evaluate the infrastructure’s impact on accidents. The results show that crash barriers have an effect on WVCs, as collisions are lower on roads with crash barriers. In particular, smaller animals have a lower collision share. The risk reduction at fenced sections could not be proven as fenced sections are only available at 3% of the analyzed roads. Thus, especially the fence dataset must be validated by a larger sample number. However, these preliminary results indicate that the combination of artificial intelligence and GIS may be used to analyze and better allocate protective barriers or to apply it in alternative measures, such as dynamic WVC risk-warning.
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Mazerolle, Stephanie M., William A. Pitney, and Christianne M. Eason. "Experiences of Work-Life Conflict for the Athletic Trainer Employed Outside the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Clinical Setting." Journal of Athletic Training 50, no. 7 (July 1, 2015): 748–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4085/1062-6050-50.4.02.
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Context The intercollegiate setting receives much of the scholarly attention related to work-life conflict (WLC). However research has been focused on the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I setting. Multiple factors can lead to WLC for the athletic trainer (AT), including hours, travel, and lack of flexibility in work schedules. Objective To investigate the experiences of WLC among ATs working in the non-Division I collegiate setting and to identify factors that contribute to fulfillment of work-life balance in this setting. Design Qualitative study. Setting Institutions in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Divisions II and III, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, and the National Junior College Athletic Association. Patients or Other Participants A total of 244 ATs (128 women, 114 men; age = 37.5 ± 13.3 years, experience = 14 ± 12 years) completed phase I. Thirteen participants (8 women, 5 men; age = 38 ± 13 years, experience = 13.1 ± 11.4 years) completed phase II. Data Collection and Analysis For phase I, participants completed a previously validated and reliable (Cronbach α > .90) Web-based survey measuring their levels of WLC and work-family conflict (WFC). This phase included 2 WFC scales defining family; scale 1 defined family as having a partner or spouse with or without children, and scale 2 defined family as those individuals, including parents, siblings, grandparents, and any other close relatives, involved in one's life. Phase II consisted of an interview. Qualitative data were evaluated using content analysis. Data source and multiple-analyst triangulation secured credibility. Results The WFC scores were 26.33 ± 7.37 for scale 1 and 20.46 ± 10.14 for scale 2, indicating a moderate level of WFC for scale 1 and a low level of WFC for scale 2. Qualitative analyses revealed that organizational dimensions, such as job demands and staffing issues, can negatively affect WLC, whereas a combination of organizational and personal dimensions can positively affect WLC. Conclusions Overload continues to be a prevalent factor in negatively influencing WLC and WFC. Supervisor and peer support, personal networks, and time away from the role positively influenced work-life balance and WFC. Athletic trainers are encouraged to support one another in the workplace, especially when providing flexibility in scheduling.
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Magiera, Janusz. "Can Satellite Remote Sensing be Applied in Geological Mapping in Tropics?" E3S Web of Conferences 35 (2018): 02004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20183502004.
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Remote sensing (RS) techniques are based on spectral data registered by RS scanners as energy reflected from the Earth’s surface or emitted by it. In “geological” RS the reflectance (or emittence) should come from rock or sediment. The problem in tropical and subtropical areas is a dense vegetation. Spectral response from the rocks and sediments is gathered only from the gaps among the trees and shrubs. Images of high resolution are appreciated here, therefore. New generation of satellites and scanners (Digital Globe WV2, WV3 and WV4) yield imagery of spatial resolution of 2 m and up to 16 spectral bands (WV3). Images acquired by Landsat (TM, ETM+, OLI) and Sentinel 2 have good spectral resolution too (6–12 bands in visible and infrared) and, despite lower spatial resolution (10–60 m of pixel size) are useful in extracting lithological information too. Lithological RS map may reveal good precision (down to a single rock or outcrop of a meter size). Supplemented with the analysis of Digital Elevation Model and high resolution ortophotomaps (Google Maps, Bing etc.) allows for quick and cheap mapping of unsurveyed areas.
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Martirosyan, G. S. "APPLICATION RESULTS OF CUCUMBER GRAFTING ON DIFFERENT ROOTSTOSKS OF PUMPKIN." Vegetable crops of Russia, no. 6 (December 10, 2018): 31–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.18619/2072-9146-2018-6-31-33.
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At present it is very actual in vegetable growing the development of highly effective and ecologically safe methods for increasing yields and plant resistance to unfavorable growth conditions. One of these methods is grafting. The goal of the study was to learn the influence of the rootstock on the characteristics of the growth, development and yield of cucumber. Research was conducted in 2015-2016 in greenhouse in spring-summer period in Armenia. As a scions was used cucumber variety Nazrvan, which was grafted on 5 pumpkin rootstocks (VI033637, VI03338, VI03364, VI040903, VI056328) from the collection of the World Vegetable Center (WVC). The grafting was carried out according to the standard method. When the VI033637 rootstock was used, flowering started 5 days earlier than the ungrafted plants, while when grafted on VI040903, the fruits ripened 6.2 days earlier. High increase of early yield (33.3%) received when used both above mentioned rootstocks. VI033638 – 4.1 kg/m2 and VI033664- 9.9 kg/m2 samples provided high increase of the total yield. For all the types of rootstocks the grafted plants of cucumber surpass the non-grafted ones by height from 4.7 % to 21.7%, by marketability of fruits from 5% to 14% and by fruit mass from 15 gr to 45 g. At the beginning of fruit-setting of cucumber plants the number of female flowers increased from 27% to 63% depending on the rootstock sample. The amount of dry substances in all grafted plants has increased by 4.4-8.8% and the amount of vitamin C by 1.8-9.2%. As a result of research carried out by us, perspective rootstocks (VIO33638 and VIO33664) are identified by a set of economically valuable characteristics which are recommended for applying in the further investigation and breeding activities and in production of grafted plants.
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Zhang, Pengbin, Yinghai Ke, Zhenxin Zhang, Mingli Wang, Peng Li, and Shuangyue Zhang. "Urban Land Use and Land Cover Classification Using Novel Deep Learning Models Based on High Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery." Sensors 18, no. 11 (November 1, 2018): 3717. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18113717.
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Urban land cover and land use mapping plays an important role in urban planning and management. In this paper, novel multi-scale deep learning models, namely ASPP-Unet and ResASPP-Unet are proposed for urban land cover classification based on very high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery. The proposed ASPP-Unet model consists of a contracting path which extracts the high-level features, and an expansive path, which up-samples the features to create a high-resolution output. The atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) technique is utilized in the bottom layer in order to incorporate multi-scale deep features into a discriminative feature. The ResASPP-Unet model further improves the architecture by replacing each layer with residual unit. The models were trained and tested based on WorldView-2 (WV2) and WorldView-3 (WV3) imageries over the city of Beijing. Model parameters including layer depth and the number of initial feature maps (IFMs) as well as the input image bands were evaluated in terms of their impact on the model performances. It is shown that the ResASPP-Unet model with 11 layers and 64 IFMs based on 8-band WV2 imagery produced the highest classification accuracy (87.1% for WV2 imagery and 84.0% for WV3 imagery). The ASPP-Unet model with the same parameter setting produced slightly lower accuracy, with overall accuracy of 85.2% for WV2 imagery and 83.2% for WV3 imagery. Overall, the proposed models outperformed the state-of-the-art models, e.g., U-Net, convolutional neural network (CNN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) model over both WV2 and WV3 images, and yielded robust and efficient urban land cover classification results.
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Polák, P., T. Sakowski, E. N. Blanco Roa, J. Huba, E. Krupa, J. Tomka, PeškovičováD, M. Oravcová, and P. Strapák. "Use of computer image analysis for in vivo estimates of the carcass quality of bulls." Czech Journal of Animal Science 52, No. 12 (January 7, 2008): 430–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/2333-cjas.
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The aims of the paper were to construct models for the estimation of carcass quality by means of computer image analysis and to verify computer photometry as an <i>in vivo</i> method of carcass quality prediction. Results of photometric measurements and carcass quality of 118 Slovak Pied bulls slaughtered at the age of 15 to 18 months were analysed. Nine length dimensions and four area dimensions were measured on the images of the top, left and rear view of each animal. Hot carcass weight (HCW), weight of meat in carcass (WMC) and weight of meat in valuable cuts (WMVC) were obtained after slaughter treatment and carcass dissection. HCW, WMC and WMVC revealed a maximum correlation with the top-view body area (<i>r</i> = 0.54–0.60) and thurl width (<i>r</i> = 0.58–0.60). Stepwise regression was applied to construct linear regression equations for HCW, WMC and WMVC in two alternatives using photometrical dimensions with and without weight before slaughter (WBS). <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> in an alternative without WBS were lower (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.47–0.55); however <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> in an alternative with weight before slaughter were higher and highly significant (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.83–0.92). In both alternatives, the equation for HCW had the highest <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> and the equation for WMVC had the lowest <i>R</i><sup>2</sup>. Equations using photometric dimensions and WBS are suitable to estimate HCW, WMC and WMVC without detailed dissection.
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Telepa, V. T., M. I. Alymov, V. A. Shcherbakov, A. V. Shcherbakov, and V. I. Vershinnikov. "Synthesis of the WC–W2C composite by electro-thermal explosion under pressure." Letters on Materials 8, no. 2 (2018): 119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22226/2410-3535-2018-2-119-122.
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Markwith, Scott H., Aaron H. Evans, Vanessa Pereira da Cunha, and Julio Cesar de Souza. "Scale, rank and model selection in evaluations of land cover influence on wildlife–vehicle collisions." Wildlife Research 47, no. 1 (2020): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr19108.
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Abstract ContextExamining land cover’s influences on roadkills at single predetermined scales is more common than evaluating multiple scales, but examining land cover at the appropriate scale may be necessary for efficient design of mitigation measures, and that appropriate scale may be difficult to discern a priori. In addition, the taxonomic rank at which data is analysed may influence results and subsequent conclusions concerning mitigation. AimsThe objective of the present study was to assess the influence of variation in spatial scales of land cover explanatory variables and taxonomic rank of response variables in models of wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVCs). Research questions include: (1) do the scales of land cover measurement that produce the highest quality models differ among species; (2) do the factors that influence roadkill events differ within species at different scales of measurement and among species overall; and (3) does the taxonomic rank at which data is analysed influence the selection of explanatory variables? MethodsFour frequent WVC species representing diverse taxonomic classes, i.e. two mammals (Cerdocyon thous and Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris), one reptile (Caiman yacare) and one bird (Caracara plancus), were examined. WVCs were buffered, land cover classes from classified satellite imagery at three buffer radii were extracted, and logistic regression model selection was used. Key resultsThe scale of land cover variables selected for the highest quality models (and the selected variables themselves) may vary among wild fauna. The same explanatory variables and formulae are not always included in the candidate models in all compared scales for a given species. Explanatory variables may differ among taxonomically similar species, e.g. mammals, and pooling species at higher taxonomic ranks can result in models that do not correspond with species-level models of all pooled species. ConclusionsThe most accurate analyses of WVCs will likely be found when species are analysed individually and multiple scales of predictor variable collection are evaluated. ImplicationsMitigating the effects of roadways on wildlife population declines for both common and rare species is resource intensive. Resources spent optimising models for spatially targeting management actions may reduce the amount of resources used and increase the effectiveness of these actions.
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Longkumer, B. Imnawapang. "Operation-Wise Labour Absorption in Jhum cultivation, WRC and WTC Under Mokokchung, Dimapur and Phek Districts, Nagaland." Indian Journal of Labour Economics 64, no. 1 (March 2021): 155–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41027-021-00305-1.
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Prayitno, Salvian Setyo, Juni Sumarmono, Agustinus Hantoro Djoko Rahardjo, and Triana Setyawardani. "Modifikasi Sifat Fisik Yogurt Susu Kambing dengan Penambahan Microbial Transglutaminase dan Sumber Protein Eksternal." Jurnal Aplikasi Teknologi Pangan 9, no. 2 (May 6, 2020): 77–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.17728/jatp.6396.
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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari sifat fisik yogurt susu kambing yang dimodifikasi dengan enzim mTGase dan sumber protein eksternal. Sifat fisik yang diamati meliputi sineresis spontan (wheying-off), sineresis, water holding capacity (WHC) dan viskositas. Materi yang digunakan yaitu susu segar kambing etawah, kultur starter yogurt, enzim mTGase, susu skim bubuk, dan whey protein concentrate (WPC). Rancangan percobaan yang digunakan adalah rancangan acak lengkap dengan 4 perlakuan dan 5 kali ulangan. Perlakuan terdiri atas kontrol yaitu susu kambing segar, penambahan mTGase sebanyak 0,03% (w/w), mTGase dan susu skim 1% (w/w), mTGase dan whey protein concentrate 1% (w/w). Susu dikondisikan selama 24 jam pada refrigerator (10˚C) sebelum difermentasi menjadi yogurt. Parameter yang diuji berupa wheying-off, sineresis, water holding capacity, dan viskositas yang diukur 1 jam setelah yogurt dikeluarkan dari refrigerator. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa enzim mTGase secara signifikan menyebabkan penurunan sineresis, peningkatan WHC, dan viskositas, namun tidak menyebabkan perbedaan yang signifikan pada wheying-off yogurt. Kombinasi mTGase dan sumber protein eksternal menurunkan sineresis secara signifikan, namun tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap wheying-off, WHC, dan viskositas yogurt. Kombinasi mTGase + WPC 1% menghasilkan kualitas fisik yogurt yang tidak jauh berbeda dengan kombinasi mTGase + skim 1% tehadap semua parameter yang diukur. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa sifat fisik yogurt susu sapi dapat dimodifikasi dengan enzim mTGase saja atau kombinasi dengan sumber protein eksternal. Manfaat penelitian ini adalah memberikan informasi penggunaan enzim mTGase yang dikombinasikan dengan WPC atau susu skim 1% ternyata dapat meningkatkan kualitas fisik yogurt. Modification of Physical Properties of Goat Milk Yogurt by Addition of Microbial Transglutaminase Enzyme and External Protein SourcesAbstractThe purpose of this research was to study the modification of the physical properties of goat milk yogurt with the addition of the enzyme transglutaminase (mTGase) and external protein. The benefit of this research was to provide information on methods to improve the quality of yogurt in terms of the physical properties of yogurt. The research used fresh goat milk, dry starter culture, mTGase enzyme, skimmed milk powder, and whey protein concentrate (WPC). A completely randomized design with 4 treatments and 5 replications was used as research design. The treatments were fresh goat milk as control, fresh goat milk with 0.03% w/w mTGase, mTGase and 1% w/w skim milk, mTGase and 1% w/w whey protein concentrate. The milk was stored for 24 hours in a refrigerator (10˚C) prior to fermentation process. Wheying-off, syneresis, water holding capacity and viscosity were then measured at an hour after yogurt was removed from the refrigerator. The results showed that mTGase significantly reduced syneresis, increased WHC, and viscosity, but had no significant effect on wheying-off. The combination of mTGase + external protein sources significantly reduced syneresis, but the effect on wheying-off, WHC and yogurt were not significantly detected. The combination of mTGase + 1% WPC had similar characteristics as mTGase + 1% skim milk. In conclusion, the physical characteristics of yogurt from goat milk could be modified by mTGase enzyme or in combination with external protein sources. The use of mTGase enzyme in combination with WPC or skim milk improves the physical characteristics of yogurt.
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Sapani, Danny. "WAC." Theatre, Dance and Performance Training 11, no. 3 (July 2, 2020): 283–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2020.1792643.
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